Chapter 401 – 401. The Hunter’S Strange World
401. The Hunter’s Strange World
Back in reality, I checked my text messages. Somehow, a newspaper reporter had found out about me and wanted an interview, asking me to contact them when it was convenient.
‘That’s three already today. Annoying.’
Recently, the status of hunters had risen worldwide.
This was due to the monster disaster that occurred in China. Low-grade monsters could be easily subdued with pistols or rifles, but when the monsters’ grade increased, guns were useless.
Bombs and missiles.
They could handle high-grade monsters. However, the world would be severely damaged in the process. What if a high-grade monster appeared in a city? Could bombs and missiles be used indiscriminately then?
‘Hunters can kill monsters relatively cleanly.’
Hunters enter dungeons to hunt monsters, and the spoils they obtain from hunting make the world richer.
More importantly, they can prevent dungeons from collapsing and monsters from pouring out into the world.
Vvvvvvvvv.
My smartphone vibrated. A call was coming in.
‘The Hunter Association?’
It was rare for the association to call first. I answered the call with a bit of tension.
However, the tension soon eased. It wasn’t as serious as I had thought.
“No. I told you, I have no intention of appearing on TV. I need to work as a hunter. I’m not a celebrity.”
The association was asking me to appear on a few TV programs.
Right now, I was one of the rising hunters in South Korea.
I had been dispatched to China for emergency support and returned successfully, becoming a C-grade hunter in less than a year. Moreover, my ability was the natural element of lightning, and I had appeared on TV a few times.
People interested in hunters all knew my name. I had even been asked for autographs on the street.
“Hoo. The life of a popular person is tiring.”
I was about to put my smartphone down when I opened my Play Life app.
[Sung Yu-jin
Level: 57
Strength: 51 Stamina: 51 Agility: 51 Intelligence: 33 Vitality: 54 Mana: 50]
[Available Points: 0]
I had increased my vitality and mana stats and also raised my mental resistance level.
[Mental Resistance Lv.9
You gain resistance to mental abnormalities. You have resistance to mental interference.]
Just one more level, and my mental resistance would reach level 10.
[Use 1,000 points to increase Mental Resistance Lv.9 to the next level?]
The problem was that the points required had suddenly more than doubled.
‘My gut tells me that mental resistance level 10 is likely the master level. Then I won’t have to worry about the Heavenly Demon Divine Art at all.’
1,000 points.
It seemed like a lot, but it wasn’t hard to collect. The quest cooldown would be over soon, and if I spent time in another world, the points would naturally accumulate.
I browsed the Play Life app and chuckled, thinking about an item I had recently obtained from a random draw.
[Cockroach Love Potion.
Inflicts the ‘Cockroach Love’ curse on the target who consumes the cockroach love potion. Cockroaches nearby will stick to the cursed target. Cockroaches can gnaw at the target.
Price: 300 points
※Caution
Lasts for 66 days.]
A dark brown liquid in a thumb-sized bottle.
It was an item that could torment someone I didn’t like for 66 days.
‘It’s useless right now. Hehehe.’
Ding-dong.
The doorbell rang.
I immediately ran to the front door and opened it.
Standing in front of the door was a gyaru with tanned brown skin, blonde dyed hair, and a voluptuous figure. Her outfit was also outrageous. Her blue mini-skirt, barely covering her buttocks, looked like it was about to burst, and her black tank top, barely containing her G-cup breasts, looked like giant balloons with the center parts sticking out.
Yoshikawa Misa.
My fuck toy I made in Japan.
“…As ordered, I came without panties or a bra.”
“Good, you came. Come in.”
Thud.
The front door closed.
•••
It had been a while since I came to the university. I was curious about the new students who were enrolling today.
‘There might be a woman who’s my type among the freshmen.’
Unless they were my type, I had no intention of making a move. This was reality. It wasn’t a special situation like in China. I didn’t want to get caught up in trouble by messing with the female freshmen.
As I entered the Hunter Department, the university students glanced at me, sizing me up, and even came up to greet me first.
“Yu-jin, it’s been a while. You haven’t been to school at all lately… How have you been?”
“Yeah. Tae-jin, I’ve been a bit busy lately.”
“It’s Tae-jun, not Tae-jin.”
“Was it?”
“……”
He blushed, but he didn’t argue or raise his voice at me.
Currently, the most successful people in the Hunter Department were me and Han Ha-rin. We were the only two C-grade hunters. In the hunter world, grade was equivalent to rank.
“Yu-jin sunbae, are you free this weekend? Would you like to go to a dungeon together? I think it would be reassuring if you came along.”
“This weekend? Sorry, but I’m busy then.”
A female junior was flirting with me. She subtly leaned forward to emphasize her chest, and gave me a charming smile. But she wasn’t my style. She was pretty, but I could tell she had plastic surgery on her chin and eyes, and her makeup was too heavy.
“What are you doing this weekend?”
“Things with Ha-rin sunbae?”
“There’s a rumor that you and Ha-rin sunbae are dating… Is it true?”
“We’re friends. Just friends.”
After dealing with them casually, they backed off on their own. Their intentions were obvious. They wanted to get close to me, who would likely become an A-grade hunter without much difficulty. That way, they could get some benefits.
I sat down next to Oh Jun-hyuk, who was sleeping with his head on the desk at the end of the classroom. Oh Jun-hyuk was my closest friend in university. Lately, I had been busy meeting women, so we had grown apart.
“Hey. Are you sleeping? I heard you got dumped.”
“Shut up. Don’t even mention that bitch.”
Oh Jun-hyuk had been dumped by his girlfriend two days ago. Apparently, she had found another man. And that man was a B-grade hunter.
“I have an amazing video, wanna see it? I filmed it yesterday.”
“……Amazing video?”
Oh Jun-hyuk slightly raised his head. I was shocked when I saw his face.
“Oh shit. What happened to your eyes? It’s impossible to have eyes like that unless you’ve been crying all night…”
“I thought she was my last love… My plan was to have a wedding in Jeju Island and go on a honeymoon to Hawaii…”
“Stop being pathetic and watch this.”
I played the video on my smartphone, and Oh Jun-hyuk watched it with a serious expression. It was a video of me and Misa having sex.
“Her chest is no joke. What cup size is that?”
“G-cup. Her ass is amazing too.”
“Where did you meet a woman like this? She doesn’t look Korean…”
“I met her in Japan.”
“Damn it! I’m going to Japan too! I heard Japanese women have big breasts?”
“Big women are just big.”
Oh Jun-hyuk stared at the video with a goofy grin.
“But your body… It looks familiar.”
“It must be your imagination. Did you see the freshmen who came in this year?”
“Yeah. I took a quick look earlier. About 30 of them, and the gender ratio is about half and half? There are about 3 pretty ones. Oh, and there are 2 famous people.”
“Famous people? Did a celebrity enroll?”
“One is the granddaughter of the chairman of Sejin Group. She’s really pretty. But her aura is no joke. It’s like she’s different from birth? I don’t think someone like me could even get close to her.”
I knew about Sejin Group. No hunter in South Korea wouldn’t know about them.
Sejin Group was a company that did business related to hunters, and the most famous thing was the Hunter Shop.
And the chairman of Sejin Group was an S-grade hunter.
“Who’s the other famous person?”
“The hero of Changwon. Don’t you know?”
“What’s that?”
“He’s a junior who became a hero by defeating two orcs in the Changwon dungeon collapse incident that happened recently. His name was Park Su-ho. Damn. I want to be a hero too…!”
“You could have been if you had gone to China for emergency support.”
“What’s the point of being a hero after you die?”
Oh Jun-hyuk took out his smartphone and was searching for something. Looking at it, it seemed like he was really planning to go to Japan.
“We’re having a freshman welcome party today, right?”
“Yeah. In the evening. We’re having it at a barbecue restaurant. Are you coming?”
“I’m curious about the third-generation chaebol.”
“She lives in a different world. She’s not a woman that you or I can get our hands on.”
“I guess so.”
I chuckled. Oh Jun-hyuk looked at me like I was a weirdo.
•••
Freshman welcome party.
I sat with the professors. They had called me over. I, who had been an incompetent, had become a hunter representing the department.
“It’s a shame that Ha-rin didn’t come.”
“She seems to be busy preparing for B-grade.”
“Aren’t you preparing?”
“Being a C-grade, I realized that B-grade isn’t easy.”
“That’s right. Back in my day… It wasn’t easy to even get to D-grade…”
I ate the meat while ignoring the professors’ words.
The atmosphere gradually became more lively, and the professors disappeared, saying they were going to a second round among themselves.
Then the class representative approached me.
“Yu-jin sunbae, you haven’t seen the freshmen yet, have you?”
“Are they over there?”
I got up from my seat. I had no intention of acting like a senior and showing off. I didn’t come to university often anyway. Besides, it would be more annoying if the juniors clung to me.
“Everyone, this is Sung Yu-jin sunbae, who I was talking about. He’s one of the only two C-grade hunters in our department.”
“Nice to meet you. I’m Sung Yu-jin. I was an incompetent in my first year… It brings back memories.”
The freshmen showed interest in my words. Usually, hunters awaken when they become adults, when their bodies have finished growing. It was very rare for someone like me to have potential but awaken late.
I looked over the freshmen while talking about myself.
One woman caught my eye.
A woman with casual yet sophisticated clothes, a calm face, and long black hair.
Her chest was full, and her waist was nicely curved. She was a beauty, more like a work of art, and the word ‘beautiful’ suited her better than ‘pretty.’
Bodyguards in suits were watching her from behind.
The granddaughter of Sejin Group. It had to be Ha Seung-hee.
Unlike the other freshmen, she didn’t show much interest in my words. Instead, she was paying attention to the man sitting across from her.
‘She’s hot. Therefore, I’ll fuck her.’
The problem was how to approach her and how to seduce her. Rape? I shouldn’t forget that this was reality. And it was obvious what kind of situation would occur if I raped the granddaughter of an S-grade hunter.
I shook hands with each of the freshmen.
“Your name is Ha Seung-hee? Nice to meet you.”
“Yes, sunbae. Please take care of me.”
I held hands with Ha Seung-hee. Her hand was soft. She shook hands with me out of obligation. Her gaze was again directed at the man across from her.
‘Does she like him? …When she looks at the man, it seems like he’s uncomfortable with her attention.’
This time, I offered a handshake to the man across from her.
“I’m Park Su-ho. Please take care of me.”
Park Su-ho looked ordinary, but his impression was quite good.
“Ah, the hero of Changwon?”
“…Haha. Yes.”
Park Su-ho smiled awkwardly. As I shook hands with him, I noticed a tattoo on his forearm.
“A tattoo?”
“I didn’t get a tattoo separately, but a tattoo appeared on my body when I awakened. My ability is physical enhancement.”
“Really? But do tattoos move these days?”
“Yes, yes?!”
Park Su-ho was flustered. I had seen it clearly. The sun tattoo on his wrist had moved to the side.
“You must have seen it wrong. How can a tattoo move?”
“……I guess so.”
It was suspicious, but I decided to let it go. If I pressed him here, the atmosphere would just get weird.
But I was intrigued. There must be a reason why Ha Seung-hee was interested in him.
‘If I want to seduce Ha Seung-hee, I need to deal with him first.’
After that, I tried to talk to Ha Seung-hee a few times, but all I got back were emotionless, short answers. She was as aloof as Han Ha-rin.
‘Is there a weakness?’
I hacked into Ha Seung-hee’s smartphone. Her relationships seemed smooth. It seemed like she didn’t get along with her siblings, but overall, she had a harmonious family.
However, there was one thing. There was evidence that she had ordered someone to investigate Park Su-ho.
‘I know from being the chairman of the Vampire Detective world that this isn’t even something to blackmail someone with.’
What was certain was that there was something about Park Su-ho.
