The Fighting Dog of a Ruined Organization

Pork soup rice can be considered the soul food of Koreans. It’s hard to find a Korean who dislikes pork soup rice.

Hot and spicy broth with delicious pork, and white rice mixed in – just imagining it makes your mouth water.

I don’t understand why they promote bibimbap abroad instead of soup rice. It seems like even Westerners would love soup rice, going “Mmm” when they eat it.

Moreover, it’s cheap, so there’s no burden in eating it. It’s fortunate that the author who created this world is Korean and a decent person.

If they weren’t Korean, there wouldn’t be soup rice, and if they weren’t decent, they might have made soup rice a noble luxury item.

“Pork soup rice! I never thought I’d have such a luxury again!”

Of course, for our poor Eris, pork soup rice seems to be a luxury item. How pitiful is this person that a common food is a luxury?

“Wow… Pork soup rice is good. It’s been so long, it makes me feel good.”

Yu Jin-ri also smiled cautiously while scooping up the broth to eat. Well, since she was in debt, she probably couldn’t easily buy food. Yu Jin-ri was also a pitiful person.

“Hyeon-woo-nim, does it suit your taste? As you can see, we haven’t frequented soup rice restaurants often, so we don’t know if there are better places.”

“Ah, don’t worry. This is delicious enough.”

I can taste a softness and simplicity that’s not too fishy. The salted shrimp and seasoning paste are not too stimulating, blending well with the soup rice.

And the meat is chewy, the taste is excellent.

“But it’s not the time to be leisurely eating soup rice.”

Yesterday, after recruiting Yu Jin-ri to Fantasia, my title changed.

The word (Ruined) that was always attached to Fantasia like a partner changed to (Reviving), and with that, an ability was added.

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Title: Fighting Dog of Fantasia (Reviving)

Rarity: EX

Description: As a fighting dog of a reviving organization, you are a dog crazy for fighting.

Ability: You get stronger the more you fight. There is no limit.

Additional Ability: The speed of learning Body Energy increases, and the efficiency when using Body Energy increases.

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The problem is that although an ability appeared, I can’t grasp what kind of ability it is. What the hell is Body Energy?

Even if I search out of curiosity, all I find is content about feeling bloated. Yeah, you feel Body Energy when you’re bloated, damn it.

Just in case, I tried shouting secretly.

‘Body Energy! Come out Body Energy! Explode Body Energy!’

I only felt embarrassment.

But even if not me, someone else might know, right? Anyway, it seems we need to address this new ability, so I opened my mouth.

“Does anyone know what Body Energy is?”

At those words, Shizu tilted her head as if hearing it for the first time, and Yu Jin-ri said with sparkling eyes.

“Of course I know! Did you not know that, Hyeon-woo-ssi?”

“Well, I don’t know. If you know, can you tell me?”

“I’m a bit surprised you don’t know such a basic thing.”

Yu Jin-ri pushed up her round glasses and acted like she knew everything. If her face wasn’t pretty, I would have punched her for being obnoxious, but I’m not angry because she’s pretty.

“It’s not difficult to explain, so I’ll tell you.”

Is the genius Yu Jin-ri’s explanation starting? I’m already looking forward to it.

“Body Energy refers to the bloated feeling you get in your stomach when you’re full.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“What? Why are you getting angry when I told you…”

“Would I ask about that kind of Body Energy?”

“If it’s not that Body Energy, what else is there? I don’t know.”

Yu Jin-ri looked at me with wronged eyes as if wondering what she did wrong.

Right, actually this is my fault. I’m the idiot for expecting someone who only knows about mana to know about other things well.

“Body Energy other than feeling bloated? I know what it is!”

“Swallow your soup rice before speaking.”

Eris spoke with her mouth full of soup rice. How does her cheeks get so puffy eating soup rice? It must be hot.

“Munch munch… Gulp! I know about Body Energy other than feeling bloated!”

“How do you know?”

“My mom told me when I was little!”

Eris continued speaking proudly while scooping up soup rice.

“There are five types of energy in this world. Excluding the innate energy of Esper Hunter because it doesn’t apply to all humans.”

“Don’t talk while chewing food. You’re spitting rice.”

“Sheesh, you’re complaining even when I’m telling you.”

Eris pouted and put down her spoon.

“As you know, Hyeonwoo, there’s the internal energy used by Murim Alliance, and the mana used by Fantasia, right? Not just that, there are three more energies.”

“Three more? What are the remaining three?”

“They’re called Body Energy, Mind Energy, and Spirit Energy.”

Body Energy sounds like it’ll make you bloated, and Mind Energy sounds like it’ll make you very uncomfortable. Is the author crazy?

“Among them, Body Energy refers to the energy flowing in the body. The difference from internal energy is that it flows throughout the entire body, not just in the dantian?”

“Then does Murim Alliance use both internal energy and Body Energy?”

“No, internal energy drawn from the dantian and Body Energy flowing in the body are incompatible. The moment they collide, you get ‘horse enters fire’.”

“You mean ‘entering fire delusion’, right?”

“Anyway, it’s the same thing!”

“It’s completely different…”

“Anyway! That’s why Murim Alliance doesn’t learn Body Energy. In fact, there are hardly any people who learn Body Energy.”

Eris took a sip of water from her cup and continued.

“And Mind Energy is the energy of the mind. It’s energy that can materialize images in your mind to fight with, you know? There were people in our Fantasia who used it too. They were a subsidiary organization called the Knights.”

“It sounds amazing just from the explanation, so why did they all lose to Toshin?”

Fantasia, gathering magicians using mana and knights using Mind Energy.

What exactly is Toshin, who single-handedly destroyed that Fantasia? It seems Fantasia used much more powerful energies than inefficient energies like internal energy.

“Well, that’s because Toshin was a user of the legendary Spirit Energy.”

“Is Spirit Energy possibly the energy of the soul?”

“That’s right! To deduce this right away, as expected, Hyeonwoo is amazing!”

Eris continued her explanation with a big smile.

“The energy of the soul was said to exist only in legends. No one knew how to use it. But Toshin knew how to use the energy of the soul, and because the energy of the soul was more powerful than any other energy, we couldn’t match it.”

“I see…”

“That’s all I know! But why did you ask about Body Energy?”

“No, just curious.”

In the end, my knowledge increased, but I’m back to square one. The fact that hardly anyone practices Body Energy means there’s nowhere to learn it.

“Still, thanks for telling me. Have another radish kimchi, Hyungnim Agasshi.”

“Eeek! Take away the radish kimchi! I hate vegetables the most in the world!”

Eris hid her bowl with her body when I tried to give her radish kimchi.

Have you ever seen such a ridiculous boss? Refusing radish kimchi with soup rice, as Kimchi Man, I absolutely cannot accept this situation.

“No, I’m doing this because I’m really grateful, why are you rejecting my sincerity? Hyungnim Agasshi, I’m disappointed, I didn’t think you were like this.”

“W-why are you talking like that? When you say it like that, it makes me feel like I did something wrong.”

“You did do something wrong. Not eating radish kimchi while eating soup rice? That’s weird.”

“Ungh…”

Eris looked back and forth between Shizu and Yu Jin-ri. Shizu and Yu Jin-ri were eating radish kimchi while eating soup rice. In other words, Eris is the only one among the four not eating radish kimchi.

“T-then I’ll eat radish kimchi once.”

Eris pushed her hidden bowl towards me. Seeing that, for some reason she looks cute and I want to tease her.

So I picked up the plate of green onions and poured it into her soup rice.

“Aah! What are you doing?!”

“You should put green onions in soup rice too. What taste are you eating soup rice with if you don’t put green onions?”

“I hate Hyeonwoo! I told you about Body Energy because you were curious, and you put tasteless green grass in my soup rice! I hope you get indigestion eating soup rice!”

Eris looked at me with resentful eyes, shedding big tears. The more she does that, the more I want to tease her, so I added as many as three pieces of radish kimchi.

“Since I’m not a creator of weird food, I’ll specially not add onions. Onions are a side dish to be eaten separately.”

“I won’t eat it. Hyeonwoo, you did something you shouldn’t do to soup rice. It’s disrespectful, disrespectful!”

Clank!

Eris said as she put down her spoon on the table with a sound. It seems she’s seriously upset. Compared to how she was eating deliciously earlier, I feel sorry.

But I didn’t do anything wrong, right? Normally, you eat soup rice by adding green onions and radish kimchi.

I wonder who’s lecturing who about manners. I’m upset too, so I approached Eris and opened her soup rice.

“Come on, try try. If you eat it once, you won’t be able to forget the taste.”

“I said no! No matter how cool and amazing Hyeonwoo is, if you make me eat this kind of thing, I’ll hate… Ahahah!”

I just lightly touched Eris’s side, but she burst into laughter as if ticklish. I put the spoon in her mouth at the point when her laughter ended so she wouldn’t choke.

“Mmph?!”

“You wouldn’t spit out precious food, would you?”

“Sniff sniff…”

Eris chewed the food reluctantly while crying. Watching that scene, Yu Jin-ri muttered quietly.

“Sometimes… Hyeon-woo-ssi seems like a trash person.”

Hearing those words, Shizu answered.

“Eris-nim needs to eat vegetables even like this. And soup rice tastes better eaten like that, so Hyeon-woo-nim isn’t wrong.”

“Hmm, you seem like someone who eats soup rice with chopped green chili peppers floating in it.”

“This is delicious. Would you like to try some?”

“Ah, no… I can’t eat spicy food well, so I’ll pass.”

Right, Shizu’s words weren’t wrong.

Eris’s expression gradually improved. The moment it no longer seemed like she was chewing forcefully, she swallowed the soup rice and smiled brightly.

“Huh, what? Even with vegetables, this is delicious?!”

“See, I told you it’s delicious, right? This is how you’re supposed to eat soup rice.”

“I’m sorry, I thought you were trying to bully me… I thought my status as a boss had hit rock bottom.”

I’m sorry, but your status as a boss has hit rock bottom, and I was trying to bully you.

Let’s just say it’s good. If you want to believe that, Eris, believe it all you want.

“Alright alright, it’s good that you’ve now realized what real delicious soup rice is.”

“You’re so cool to let it go even though I got angry, as expected, Hyeonwoo is amazing! The best!”

Looking at Eris’s bright smiling face, I made a note in my mental notepad.

‘Eris hates vegetables.’

I should use this to tease her again and again. It’s not particularly bad, right? It’s good for health when eaten.

“Then shall we move on to the next topic?”

“Next topic? Are we going to eat jajangmyeon this time?”

Jajangmyeon, if I sprinkle a lot of red pepper powder, I might be able to see another cute reaction.

“No, that would be good too, but we’re full anyway so let’s skip it.”

The conversation we’re about to have is a serious one related to Fantasia’s future.

“Yu Jin-ri, what results have you achieved so far in your mana research? And what do we need to do to help with that research?”

At that question, Yu Jin-ri showed a sharp gaze for the first time and grinned.

“I’ve figured out how to make a wand that helps use basic magic.”

And what I need to do is,

“Would you gather the materials needed to make the wand?”

It was fighting, befitting Fantasia’s fighting dog.