#39. Why is he here?
The pair-match training with Harin went smoothly.
Again, as in her previous life, she showed skills that it would be rude to compare her with other students.
“Wheewoo… You worked hard! Inwook-ah!”
Sweaty, she smiled and handed me an ionic drink.
“What! When did you prepare this?”
Harin said that she not only prepared herself, but she also prepared drinks for me.
“Of course~ Because we are one~”
You say such embarrassing words loud enough that others can hear them.
I felt that Harin was amazing again.
“If it goes like this, I think the first place will be the real winner.”
It was a sincere voice.
Even if I don’t engage in combat excessively. No? To put it bluntly, even if I didn’t participate in the battle at all, Harin seemed to be in first place by herself.
“Of course it could, but…”
Harin answered, wiping her forehead with her sleeve once.
“Isn’t that what we agreed on? Inuk-ah?”
Should I call this an agreement? It’s just what you asked for.
I decided not to vomit at her resolute words.
“But we don’t have much time left, so let’s prepare well.”
All of our strategies were based on Harin’s magic, and I tried to compose them in a way that suits them.
But I also added a section where I can show off my skills in some plans.
I wanted to just quietly bury Harin and lift her up, but it was because the conversation I had with the homeroom teacher before was annoying.
If I didn’t show my skills in the evaluation, it was estimated that he would continue to pressure me to quit the student council.
After all, the student council told me not to say that first-year students do not have to do activities, but I couldn’t stand it for others who were not my ex-wives to touch my life.
And the tone that he, who was far below me, looked down on me was very annoying.
To do that, it would be convenient in many ways to show it properly once in a while.
I thought for a while whether to use the weapon I obtained in the last dungeon because I wanted to give it a little more power, but I concluded that it was overkill.
It was because there were some things that were not yet mastered, and the potential of the weapon was not yet fully satisfied.
It’s a weapon that you can tame gradually after evaluation…
We thought that the upcoming evaluation would go as planned if there were no big variables.
* *
“It’s a mess. Everything.”
I wanted to at least reduce the bitterness, but it was difficult to do so.
“Once you reinforce the timing. If you don’t do it right when you need it, you’re not doing your job properly.”
“…I’m sorry.”
My pair was a man named Park Min-seok.
To be honest, I couldn’t even remember whether I was with the same person I was in my previous life or with a different person.
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Not only that, but among the pairs before Choi In-wook, I hardly remembered the name.I thought that relying on a pair was nothing like rat poison for a hunter.
The ability to solve any unexpected situation by one’s own strength.
I believed that that was the basic attitude of a first-class hunter.
In that context, Park Min-seok wasn’t the worst, but it was a pair I didn’t really like.
Ability regardless of style or compatibility.
He lacked basic skills for a long time than I expected.
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No matter how much I have memories of my past life, Park Min-seok’s movements were so much that even watching Yu Shi-hwa, a first-year student from the previous life, was enough.“I told my sister-in-law that I didn’t expect anything from you.”
Park Min-seok frowned as if his self-esteem was hurt by my words.
“Your task is to assist me. When I need you, I only ask you to strengthen it properly at the right timing.”
As a freshman, there were often people who couldn’t decide on their specialties properly, but after watching him for about a month, the field where he seemed to have the most potential was the field of reinforcement.
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Not all hunters fight at the forefront.There are healer-type hunters who recover damage from allies from the rear, and there are also hunters specializing in strengthening to support people on the front line.
And they were rare and important in the field.
“But…It was just my best…”
“If that’s the truth, you’d better leave the hunter world right now. I’m not just saying this.”
Of course that couldn’t be the best.
The lack of timing was not in the realm of talent. It’s just a lack of training.
And I really hated people who weren’t prepared enough to discuss the best.
I picked up the practice spear and threw it at his toes with a little force.
“Hey!”
Surprised, he managed to turn around and dodge the window.
“And there was one more thing I asked for. Remember?”
He answered with a terrified look.
“I think I told you to develop agility enough to protect yourself…”
“I’m glad I remembered it correctly.”
I never once told him how to defeat an enemy during practice.
Because it was something I could do on my own.
But he didn’t want to fight while he was concerned about his safety.
I hated being held by other people more than anyone else.
That’s why I did most of the hunter jobs solo in my previous life.
To be honest, if he couldn’t accept my request, he didn’t even think he deserved the first place thanks to me.
“The speed at which I just threw the spear. It would be good to train enough to avoid that easily.”
“Yes…”
He answered my cold words in a voice without confidence.
I knew he was never going to feel well, but in the end I believed that these words of mine would help him.
As a top S-class hunter, the advice I gave was not to listen even after paying.
* *
You couldn’t stay helpless forever.
It was not like me, and Choi In-wook’s heart, which was closed by lying face down, would not open.
So I decided to prepare two things.
The first thing is to keep my career steady.
Choi In-wook from a previous life always praised my self-management ability.
[How can a person take care of everything that is supposed to be done so neatly? I think it’s really great. It’s Sihwa I can’t do that.]
At the time, I thought that he was making fun of me because I lost the 1st place, but now it feels like a hint.
So, I started preparing sincerely for the upcoming pair competition.
Of course, I thought it would be easy to get 1st place without much preparation, but I was not careful.
I thought that any number of variables could be created.
I came to the conclusion that taking care of these grades one by one would be helpful for me and for showing him.
The second is…
[Hannam-dong Dajuro Coffee Workshop.]
Here…
Whew…
I took a deep breath and pushed the door into the cafe.
* *
Ah… Why are there so many customers on weekdays?
I could feel my energy draining away from the procession of customers who looked twice as many as usual.
The manager oppa felt the same way, wiping away the sweat and handed me a glass of cold water.
“Do this while drinking. Jena.”
“Thank you, brother.”
Is there no time to comfortably drink even a sip of water?
The next guest came in.
Please… Stop coming… I thought…
A woman with a familiar feeling approached the counter.
Slender limbs.
Slender face like a model.
Blue hair down to the waist.
…Why is he here?
She opened her mouth as she glanced over her menu board, swiping down her sunglasses.
“A glass of iced Americano.”
Last time, Choi In-wook and Yun Ha-rin came together, but this time Yu Shi-hwa?
How did they come all the way to this place?
It was a bit absurd to call it a coincidence, but she was always a guest.
I was a person who had a duty to serve customers with a smile.
“Yes, I understand~ I’ll let you know with a vibrating bell~”
She sat by the window making a sound of shoes and stared at me.
I could tell that she was watching me through the sunglasses.
I had a cup of coffee and she watched me for hours.
The manager’s brother also felt strange, so he spoke to me from the back of the kitchen.
“That sunglasses girl. Are you your friend?”
“…I can’t even call them friends. They’re just like people I know.”
I mean, it’s like my husband’s ex-wife.
“Yeah? If you’re too uncomfortable, I’ll go and tell you. Are you okay?”
“I think I’ll be fine because I’m going to leave work anyway.”
“Yeah? That’s good.”
The manager takes care of these things. He was a very nice person.
9 O’clock.
When it was time to go to work, I changed my uniform and went out into the hall.
I walked towards her as she continued to stare at me openly, and I opened my mouth.
“Do you have anything to say? Mr. Yoo Shihwa?”
She took off her sunglasses and nodded her head.
“…Can you give me some time? Hayena-san?”
The real Choi In-wook and Yoo Shi-hwa, why do you keep coming into my territory?
Really.