LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 97
Chapter 97 Huh? A Stalker? 5 – Dungeon Chicken (Super Tasty)
-Hilarious, lol.
-Wow, not just a concept, this person is really a C-rank hunter.
-But isn’t it true that fighting a C-rank hunter would be tough?
-There are eight of them, lol.
-Wow, they’re worse than the fighting chickens at grandma’s house.
Up, down, left, right.
There wasn’t a single place that wasn’t pecked.
No place was left unpinched.
[Miracle – Great Healing]
-The host is giving both pain and medicine, lol.
-??? : Kill me….
-Hahahahaha!
-Don’t forget that bastard is a stalker who messed with the host.
-Oh, right, I forgot.
-The bad one is that bastard, not the host!
-Then why does the host seem worse?
-So true, lol.
Though it hurt so badly that I felt like I might die right there, whenever I was about to collapse, Shia would miraculously perform Great Healing and lift me back up.
The insane red chickens kept pecking at me, but she continued to heal, and they became more fixated on me.
Eventually, after getting pecked countless times, I realized something.
“Argh! Damn it!”
[Hypnosis – Confusion]
-Oh?
-Before, only one was affected at a time, but now it’s hitting all of them?
-This time, they won’t be pecked.
[SQUAWK?!]
[COCK-A-DOODLE…!]
“Huff, huff, huh…!”
Just like Shia had said earlier, I thought my ability only activated when I made eye contact.
That’s how it had worked up until now.
That’s what I thought.
But this time, I succeeded in hypnotizing all eight of the insane red chickens at once.
It wasn’t about making direct eye contact; as long as I saw their eyes even once, I could cast the hypnosis.
Don’t ask me how I figured that out.
After going through near-death situations where I got pecked by chickens four times in less than 10 minutes, anyone would figure it out.
The insane red chickens, under the effects of confusion, wandered around like people who had inhaled too much weed.
“Good! That’s how you should be using your ability.”
“Huff, huff… Hyaa!”
Whack!
Smack!
As if to vent all the frustration from being pecked and torn apart, I started smashing the heads of the insane red chickens with the electric baton, a hunter’s exclusive weapon.
The insane red chickens didn’t have strong physical defenses, so even a C-rank hunter like me could easily take down the ones that were standing still.
“Haah, haah… Haah… It’s finally over… I’m alive…”
“Do you get it now?”
“…Huff, huff… A little bit.”
“You were limiting yourself by thinking that you had to make direct eye contact to use hypnosis. How is it now?”
Just like Shia said, the restrictive thought that I needed direct eye contact to hypnotize had been hindering my growth.
To think I only realized this after being pecked multiple times and pushed to the brink of death.
If it hadn’t been for Shia’s Great Healing, I wouldn’t have even understood my own ability.
I had this kind of power…
Of course, I felt happy.
I’ve lived for over 15 years, and it was only when I was close to death that I achieved something…
“You look pleased. But it’s not over yet.”
“What… what do you mean?”
Shia, spotting something on top of a hill, grinned. Her expression looked like the wicked, sly smile of a cunning fox.
Thud!
Thud!
What’s that sound now?
“You only caught the babies. In chicken terms, those were just chicks.”
“What…?”
What?
That was a chick?
I mean, I knew that from the start.
But I forgot because these eight insane red chickens were attacking so crazily.
“But we don’t fry chicks for chicken, do we?”
“Surely, you don’t mean…”
[SCREEEEECH!!]
-Oh my god, lol.
-It’s more intense than a blade centipede, lol.
-It’s huge!
-How many portions of chicken do you think that is?
-More than 100 servings, at least.
I slowly raised my head to look at the gigantic chicken that had emerged from behind the trees.
Three meters? Four meters?
No, calling it house-sized wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
Damn, why is it so big…
“Look at that big one up there. Now, go get it! Fighting!”
I’m doomed.
That’s definitely a B-rank!
“No, I can’t! This is really impossible!! Help me! No, please help me!”
“Me?”
Shia closed her eyes for a moment, rubbing her chin with her index finger, as if contemplating.
“…I’m going to get that huge egg over there. Hehe. That big egg.”
What egg?
“That one has a different taste from wyvern eggs, you know. I’m going to get it.”
While you’re busy fighting that adult chicken~
-Hahahahahaha.
-Lol, she doesn’t care about you, just the egg.
-That egg is more important than you.
-The Egg-Laying Saintess…
-The egg obsession is real, lol.
-Totally possible.
[‘ChickenShopRuined’ has donated 10,000 won!]
ㄴAh, that’s a mad red chicken egg. It lays a lot of eggs at once, so it’s cheaper than a wyvern egg, but the taste isn’t lacking.
What the… I feel like I’m really going to die…
[SCREEEEEECH!!!]
“Arghhhhh!!!!”
At the same time, the three-meter-tall insane red chicken flapped its giant wings and charged toward me.
Bang!
Boom!
Wait, why is it that when it pecks the ground, the bedrock explodes!?
Barely sensing the threat to my life, I twisted my body with all my strength, narrowly dodging the adult chicken’s attack.
No wonder it’s a B-rank.
The mana this thing radiated was overwhelming for me to handle.
Even when I tried to make eye contact and cast hypnosis, its mana and resistance were so strong that confusion didn’t even last a second.
Instead, the adult chicken, thinking I had done something strange, grew even more furious and flapped its wings, smashing through the surrounding trees and bushes as it rushed to crack my skull.
“D-damn it!!!!”
“Damn? Your shout is quite forceful now. Finally putting some spirit into your voice, huh? Good, I’ll see you later~ Hehe.”
“No, save me!! No, please save me….”
Crunch!
“Ahhhh!?”
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Two hours later, Shia and I were sitting by a fire in a small clearing inside the dungeon.
I looked like a complete wreck.
Though the wounds on my body had been healed thanks to Shia’s Great Healing, my clothes were torn to shreds.
However, it wasn’t without results.
Despite being only a C-rank hunter, I had spent over an hour running desperately, losing an arm, and having my stomach and legs pecked by the thing’s beak in a life-or-death struggle.
Actually, it wasn’t much of a struggle—more like a one-sided chase.
But during the time my life was in danger, I figured out how to use my ability, realizing that if I made eye contact even once, I could cast confusion hypnosis.
So, I ran at full speed to the edge of a cliff and, using the hypnosis, I caused the charging adult insane red chicken to dive off the cliff.
It wasn’t much of a fight, but in the end, I survived, and the insane red chicken fell to its death, its head smashed on the rocks below.
“Huff, huff… Huff…”
“Oh, clap, clap, clap.”
“…”
As Shia clapped a few times to acknowledge my efforts, I collapsed onto the ground like I had passed out.
-What a weakling, lol.
-Is that guy really a hunter?
-So true, lol.
-He’s definitely C-rank for a reason.
-No, guys, you’re just used to the host being strong. That’s normal for a C-rank hunter…
-Is that so?
-No idea, lol.
It made sense.
For a C-rank hunter to push past his limits several times over a few hours and hover between life and death—if he wasn’t exhausted, that would be weird.
“Okay, get some rest. I’ll cook.”
Time to butcher the chicken.
The method for dismembering an adult insane red chicken was simple.
First, I split the insane red chicken in half with tentacles, draining all the blood and removing the organs. Then, I used holy power to create fire, burning off all the feathers at once.
The parts that turned black or got dirty from the fire were purified with a cleansing miracle to remove impurities, and the butchering began.
-Wow, it looks so much smaller without feathers.
-That’s like my cat after a bath, when it shrinks to half its size.
[‘LeafFriedSnack’ has donated 5,000 won!]
ㄴLooks delicious!
“Right? Looks tasty? So, the meat weighs… It’s about 100kg, I’d say.”
-Wow, insane.
-So much meat!
-So how many servings is that?
-Even at 1kg per serving, that’s over 100 servings?
100kg of chicken meat.
The taste of insane red chicken meat was very similar to actual chicken.
There shouldn’t be any problems with the flavor.
Hopefully.
Anyway, with all the feathers burned off and only the clean meat left, it was time to start prepping the chicken.
First, I cut off the fatty parts.
According to the recipe, the meat should soak in milk for about 10 minutes.
‘Hmm, we don’t need to eat all of this right now. I’ll save some for the people following behind us later.’
Thankfully, we’d eaten a lot of frozen food back at Si-hoon’s house earlier, so this should be enough for today.
Shia cut about 10kg of the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Then, she operated the floating drone in stealth mode, calling for a transport drone that was waiting back at her house.
Aside from the AI drone camera, Shia also had separate transport drones that stored various cooking tools, seasonings, oil, soy sauce, spices, and pots.
These were transport drones Shia had obtained during her last raid dungeon, provided by the Hunter Association.
The transport drones had been on standby at Shia’s house, and five minutes after receiving the signal from the AI drone, they flew to the dungeon where Shia was.
-Wow, how many drones does she have?
-But isn’t it okay if the stalker finds out now?
-He already found out a while ago, lol.
-True.
-But does it matter? That stalker guy is too tired to do anything now.
“And I need to brine it… Huh? The recipe doesn’t say how to brine it, just to brine it, period…”
-What a stupid recipe, lol.
-She must’ve picked it up from somewhere weird, lol.
-What is the host even making?
-Probably chicken?
-She mentioned making chicken earlier.
-Do you know how to brine?
“Brine? Isn’t it just soaking it in salt?”
-Stoppppppp!
-She’s about to ruin the chicken!
-This is expensiveeeee!
-Hahahahaha!
“Wait… does anyone know how to brine? I’m trying to make chicken…”
[‘ChickenShopRuined’ has donated 18,000 won!]
ㄴUse minced garlic, salt, pepper, cooking wine, and sesame oil to season it, then let it sit for about 30 minutes.
“Oh! Thanks! But does that work for insane red chicken meat, too?”
-No idea.
-No clue.
-Nodex.
-Mol?
-I don’t know.
Well… since the taste is almost identical to chicken, I guess I’ll just make it as usual.
Following the advice from a viewer who donated, Shia began brining the insane red chicken.
So far, things were going well.
Once the seasoning is done, the rest isn’t too difficult.
After finishing the brining, she soaked the chicken in milk for about 10 minutes.
Since there was so much meat, she ended up using three full containers of milk.
Then she started cutting the chicken into pieces.
Shia didn’t know exactly how chickens were cut in restaurants, but she figured it was fine as long as the pieces were easy to eat.
After soaking the chicken in milk for 10 minutes, she cracked open the insane red chicken egg she had brought earlier and mixed it with the milk, kneading the mixture by hand.
-Wow, it already looks delicious.
-That’s going to be amazing.
-What? Share some with us too.
-Where is this? I want to visit.
-Ha, civilians can never enter a dungeon.
Since the ingredients were so abundant, she used a lot of them.
She poured in all the batter she had, mixed it, and then added potato starch to make sure the coating was thorough.
And the most important thing—oil.
Recalling her experience frying the centipede dragon last time, she prepared oil heated to around 150–160 degrees Celsius.
Of course, she didn’t have a thermometer, so she checked the temperature by dropping some batter into the oil.
If it sank and floated up in about 5 seconds, that meant the temperature was just right.
The drone camera probably had a temperature measurement function, but honestly, she still didn’t know how to operate the drone properly, so she just tested the oil the old-fashioned way.
“Alright. Temperature is good.”
-It feels like craftsmanship…
-Our Noona is always so serious when it comes to food.
-She might mess around in everything else, but not with food, lol.
“Alright, let’s fry.”
Sizzle!
The sound of the oil bubbling filled the stream for the viewers, like the sound of rain, but tastier.
This was just the first fry, like a preliminary round, so she had to prepare more oil for a second round.
Once the chicken was fried to a decent level, she then heated oil to around 170 degrees and fried it again until the coating turned a light brown, almost golden color.
Sizzleeee!
“Mmm, good, good.”
The aroma of the oil wafted around, and the combination of the light brown and golden yellow colors blended perfectly.
This was bliss.
-Is this what bliss is?
-When I grow up, I want to experience bliss!
-Hahaha, you guys are nuts, lol.
“Nom!”
Taking a bite of the perfectly fried chicken, the crispy outer layer crumbled with a satisfying crunch.
What surprised her the most was the inside. It looked like regular chicken breast, but it didn’t have the usual dryness at all.
All the meat, even what seemed like breast meat, was tender and moist, similar to thigh or wing meat.
“Mmm! Delicious!”
-Oh wow.
-That’s real bliss.
-But it really does look tasty.
-After seeing all the weird stuff she eats, this is refreshing.
-Noona, from now on, please eat only normal food, okay?
“Eh, no way…”
This one had a bit less malevolent energy.
Anyway, the chicken was complete.
“Alright, alright! Wake up!”
“Uh, uuuh… wha…!?”
-Has he come to his senses?
-Hahaha!
-He’s still dreaming, lol.
-His expression is hilarious!
-He should be thankful he has a filter on, lol.
“Time to eat!”
With that, Shia used her tentacles to forcibly sit up Si-hoon, who looked like a corpse on the verge of collapse, and began serving him chicken.
“Here. Eat!”
“……..”
“Hehe… Chicken. It’s chicken.”
While Si-hoon remained still, Shia picked up a piece of chicken from the plate with both hands and brought it to her mouth.
“Nom! Chew chew… Mmm~”
It’s delicious! So delicious!
Shia smiled happily, stamping her feet with joy.
Even though she made it herself, this chicken was truly amazing.
It couldn’t be compared to frozen Surel chicken.
Maybe it was because she added the insane red chicken egg, but the lightness of the coating was incredible.
“Hey…”
“Mmm?”
“Isn’t it… isn’t it too late to go back now…?”
Si-hoon suddenly switched to speaking formally, and Shia tilted her head in confusion.
“Nom nom… So, you’re saying it’s too late to return?”
His words seemed to carry multiple meanings.
His wasted life, already sinking into a swamp.
And the fact that he had committed crimes like kidnapping and stalking Shia.
Si-hoon started to realize that Shia never believed the flute of the dead was what controlled him.
From the start, it hadn’t worked.
Despite that, Shia hadn’t beaten him or run away. Maybe it was because she truly embodied the word “saintess.”
Chewing, swallowing.
Unlike the grim-faced Si-hoon, Shia shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
“It’s never too late in life. As long as you’re alive, there’s always time.”
“…sniff, sob…”
“The moment you make up your mind is the right time. I made mine too. Even though I’m 84… No, wait, 85? Mentally, I’m 21. But from my experience, that’s how it is. When you think it’s too late, it’s probably true. But if you do nothing because of that, it’s not just late—you’re stuck there forever.”
“Sob, sniff… sob…”
“Now, don’t cry. A grown man crying is the ugliest thing in the world.”
-Heu-eung, Noona, comfort me when I cry too.
-Noona…
-She’s a true saintess, lol.
Sure, a pretty woman crying might be bearable, but a man bawling is a horrible sight.
Saying that, Shia casually stuffed more chicken into her mouth.
“Gulp. If you have the will to move forward, and you’ve made up your mind, I can help.”
“…sniff, sob…”
“It’s also the saintess’ role to help those who’ve lost their way.”
-Wow, damn… she’s gorgeous.
-Why is she suddenly in saintess mode?
-Heu-eung…
-Noona…
As Shia smiled while speaking, her expression seemed to shine like the sun.
Smiling, she gestured toward the drone camera.
[Broadcast over]
That’s all for today.
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“So… what made this timid guy think of kidnapping me?”
“You heard a voice? Is that what you said?”
“A flute that controls the dead, huh? That’s all you know? Alright, I’ll remember that.”
“Huh? Why? Go ahead, say it.”
“I ate both of your legs?”
“Consider it tuition. Got a problem with that?”
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As Si-hoon trudged back home after parting with Shia, a sense of guilt weighed heavily on him… or maybe it was more than just guilt, since he had already strayed down the wrong path once.
From now on, he resolved to live properly.
What he had done to Shia… even if Shia had forgiven him, it was not something that should be forgiven so easily.
Thinking that, Si-hoon straightened his shoulders a little more than before.
-Screech!
“What the…?”
Si-hoon flinched as a black, unmanned vehicle suddenly blocked his path.
What is this? Whose car is this?
As his mind raced with questions, the window of the black car rolled down slightly.
Inside, there was a woman with blue hair that reminded him of a glacier.
The woman scanned Si-hoon from head to toe with a chilling gaze and spoke curtly.
“Get in.”
“W-Who are you…?”
“Get in before I crumple your body, freeze it, and stuff it in the trunk.”
“…What? Ah, eek!?”
Crunch!
“My, my arm…!”
In that instant, Si-hoon realized his left arm had frozen solid.
Without even touching him, just with a glare, his arm had turned to ice, which meant this person’s awakened ability was on a level completely beyond his own.
“Get in. If I have to say it again, your right arm will go next.”
“Y-Yes…!”
Grasping his frozen left arm, Si-hoon climbed into the unmanned vehicle.
For a long time, the woman said nothing.
Just as Si-hoon was about to groan from the strange, numbing sensation in his frozen arm, the woman, Yeonhwa, finally spoke in a low voice.
“This has nothing to do with the fact that Shia unnie decided to forgive and rehabilitate you. It’s unrelated to her. This is my own decision.”
Was she connected to Shia?
Now that he thought about it, her face seemed familiar…
‘Could she be Yeonhwa? The A-rank hunter, Yeonhwa…?’
Yes.
He had seen her.
Si-hoon remembered collecting images of Shia on the Hunter Gallery forum when she was selected as the best hunter of the quarter. In those photos, Yeonhwa, the granddaughter of the renowned hunter Yeonseo, had stood beside her.
Could it be that Shia was close to such an influential figure?!
“If it had been someone else you stalked instead of Shia unnie, it would’ve just been a crime. There would’ve been a victim, suffering at the hands of a creepy, perverted stalker.”
She wasn’t wrong.
What if the flute of the dead had worked on Shia?
What if the anesthetic Si-hoon had used on Shia had fully taken effect?
If everything had gone as planned, Shia could have lost her will and been bound to him, with only horrific consequences to follow.
That’s the kind of crime Yeonhwa was thinking about.
“Do you want me to be honest? I’d really like to shatter you into pieces right now.”
At those words, Si-hoon looked at Yeonhwa with trembling eyes.
He wasn’t sure if this expression was still relevant in the year 2088, but Yeonhwa was practically nobility in this era.
Her family included living legends like the S-rank hunter Yeonseo, her grandmother, and Yeonhwa herself was adored by government officials, the Hunter Association, and high-ranking guild leaders. She was the epitome of modern hunter nobility.
Killing a couple of people and covering it up wouldn’t be an issue at all.
“You don’t know this, but Shia unnie is someone very precious to me. She’s the one who saved me.”
Of course, Yeonhwa had lived quietly on her own until now.
She didn’t rely on Yeonseo’s influence or power but lived by her own talent and effort.
Even before graduating from the academy, her peers hadn’t known she was Yeonseo’s granddaughter.
Yeonhwa could easily wield her noble status in the hunter world if she chose.
She could even make prominent figures in politics and business bow their heads if she wanted.
Like she did with that pervert who pulled a malicious prank on Shia.
“I noticed it last time, but whenever someone pulls disgusting stunts like that on unnie, it really grinds my gears.”
Crack!
“Ah…!”
Si-hoon couldn’t say a word as he faced Yeonhwa’s murderous intent.
That intent had physical weight, pricking his skin and making it feel like he had been thrown into a high-altitude area without oxygen, suffocating him.
“Huff… wheeze…”
“If you had approached out of pure admiration, I could’ve let it go with a warning. If life had really pushed you to the brink, I might have felt some sympathy. But can you really say that’s what happened?”
“…”
“You can’t, can you?”
No, he couldn’t.
Si-hoon had been seduced by the idea of taking the easy way out without putting in any effort.
He had thought this was some lucky break in his otherwise miserable life, like winning the lottery.
In that sense, he had committed a crime that was both dirty and pitiful.
“I… I was wrong…”
All Si-hoon could do was admit his mistake and beg for forgiveness.
Yeonhwa looked down at him, sighed briefly, and waved her hand.
“Then you’ll have to pay the price, won’t you?”
Crunch!
“Gah…!”
Before he could even resist with mana, the ice that had formed on his arm quickly spread up to his shoulder, freezing everything below his neck.
Except for a faint chill around his throat, Si-hoon lost all sensation, including pain.
Was he going to die frozen like this…?
“Can you give me one reason why I should let you live?”
“…I… I don’t have one…”
“…”
Yeah, what a pathetic guy.
Not even realizing his place, yet acting so recklessly—he deserved this ending.
As Si-hoon let go of all resistance and resigned himself to his fate, Yeonhwa stared at him for a moment.
“But Shia unnie said it, didn’t she?”
“…!”
“That death is mercy.”
Snap!
“Ugh!?”
As Yeonhwa snapped her fingers, the ice encasing Si-hoon’s body instantly thawed.
Of course, not all of it melted. Only the ice on his legs was removed so he could walk.
‘Just by staring, she can freeze me solid. And with a snap of her fingers, she can undo it? Is she really not an S-rank…?’
“We’ve arrived. Get out.”
“Ah, yes, sir…!”
At her ice-cold tone, Si-hoon quickly opened the car door and stepped out.
Regardless of his actions, Yeonhwa slowly uncrossed her legs and stepped out of the car as well.
Only then did Si-hoon realize that they were at the headquarters of ‘Yeonpung Guild,’ one of Korea’s top ten major guilds.
“Yeonpung Guild…?”
Could it be Yeonhwa’s guild?
W-What if they have a secret torture facility inside?
Are they going to start seriously torturing me there…
Wait, I heard Yeonhwa was unaffiliated with any guild…?
“Gulp…”
Since he had no idea what would happen to him next, Si-hoon was drenched in cold sweat, trembling in fear.
At that moment, someone quickly rushed out of the guild building.
It seemed like someone who had been waiting for Yeonhwa after receiving her message.
“Go Minjun, senior.”
“Ah, hello, Yeonhwa! What brings you here, asking to meet first…?”
Go Minjun, the vice guild master of Yeonpung Guild and Yeonhwa’s senior from the Hunter Academy, was also someone they had encountered during the previous Goblin Raid.
“Before anything, I should apologize for last time. I made a huge mistake back then. I’m really sorry.”
If it was about last time, it was probably when Minjun had accidentally brought up Yeonhwa’s infamous nickname from her academy days, “Changgwi” (Specter).
“It’s fine. I didn’t care.”
As if it didn’t bother her at all, Yeonhwa shrugged her shoulders and tossed Si-hoon to him like an object.
Of course, since Go Minjun was an experienced hunter, he easily caught Si-hoon, who was frozen stiff except for his legs.
“Ugh!?”
“Hmm? Who is this guy?”
“Please turn this bastard into a proper human.”
“What?”
Go Minjun tilted his head, not quite understanding.
“You offered me a spot in the guild before, right?”
“Uh, well… yeah, I did…”
“If you beat this guy until he becomes human, I’ll consider joining Yeonpung Guild.”
“…!!!”
“Excuse me…?”
At those words, Go Minjun’s eyes lit up.
Yeonhwa was already incredibly valuable as the granddaughter of Yeonseo, but she had also recently made a name for herself as one of the most promising A-rank hunters.
Within months of becoming A-rank, she, along with Shia, had handled the Elf Great Forest incident and was recognized as one of the top hunters by both the government and the association.
Her fame and value had skyrocketed among hunters and guilds alike. And now, she was considering joining a guild, even if it was with conditions?
Go Minjun didn’t need much time to think.
“Alright! There’s no way I’m passing up the golden opportunity Yeonhwa’s giving me.”
“…Um, my opinion…”
“”Shut up!””
“Yes, sir…”
Though he was older than both of them, Si-hoon had no choice but to seal his lips at the sharp rebuke of two A-rank hunters.
“Yeonhwa! Since you’re here, why don’t you stay for a cup of tea or something…”
“No, I’ll be going now. Just remember what I said. I told you, beat the crap out of that guy until he’s human, and I’ll think about joining the guild.”
“Yeah, yeah! Got it!”
With that, Yeonhwa, having no more to say, climbed back into the unmanned vehicle and disappeared into the distance.
Left staring after her in bewilderment, Si-hoon eventually made eye contact with Go Minjun, who was now holding him.
“Phew, alright.”
“Uh, um… I think there’s been a misunderstanding…”
“Misunderstanding? No, there’s none of that.”
In an instant, Go Minjun switched from the friendly guy who was kowtowing to Yeonhwa earlier to the stern, professional hunter he truly was.
“I don’t care what your relationship is with Yeonhwa. I’m not curious, and I won’t ask.”
“…”
“It doesn’t matter. The Yeonpung Guild’s training curriculum, inherited from our founding guild master who was a former marine, is brutal beyond belief. We haven’t had a recruit worthy of putting through that curriculum in a while, but this is a great chance.”
At that moment, Go Minjun was truly the vice guild master of Yeonpung Guild.
“Are you scared? Don’t worry. You won’t die. You’ll just be worked to death! I don’t know what your story is, but I’ll make you human, just like Yeonhwa said!”
“…”
“Welcome to hell, rookie!”
…Damn it.
Si-hoon swallowed a curse that no one could hear.
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After dumping Si-hoon at Yeonpung Guild, Yeonhwa sighed briefly.
Was I always this type of person?
To be honest, I wanted to kill him.
No, I wanted to cut off at least one of his limbs.
But I couldn’t do that to someone whom Shia unnie had forgiven.
Leaving Si-hoon at Yeonpung Guild would at least ensure he would become a somewhat decent human being.
Yeonhwa knew all too well that she lost her composure when it came to matters involving Shia unnie.
Using her powers recklessly on someone like that wasn’t something she would normally do.
“Haa…”
It was all because of that unnie.
Ever since Shia unnie saved her, Yeonhwa had grown too attached.
Despite being far stronger than me, she has this odd vulnerability. And she’s always so gentle and cheerful… I just can’t take my eyes off her.
Yeonhwa sighed again and opened the door of the unmanned vehicle.
Her body wasn’t tired, but strangely, her mind felt drained.
I’ll just go home and relax while watching unnie’s broadcast…
“Welcome back.”
“!?”
The moment she opened the door, Yeonhwa froze as she saw Shia cheerfully waving from inside the car.
When did she get in here?
How did Shia unnie know I was here?
Yeonhwa paused, stunned, as Shia flashed her a sly fox-like grin and patted the seat beside her.
“Hehe, come on, hop in.”
“…”
“Let’s have dinner together, Yeonhwa. Today, it’s on me. Anything you feel like eating?”
“…Pork cutlet.”
“Sure! Pork cutlet sounds good! Uh… But I don’t know any good places. Do you know any?”
Yeah, pork cutlet sounds great.
If it’s with Shia unnie, it’ll taste even better.
Yeonhwa decided not to overthink things.
She wouldn’t worry about when Shia had gotten into the car. Or how she had been following her. Or even how Shia seemed to know that she had just dumped that stalker at Yeonpung Guild.
She wouldn’t care about any of that.
For now… Yeonhwa just felt happy that she could have dinner with Shia unnie.
All the other complicated stuff could wait.