Chapter 142 – Settlement (1)

By the time I somehow got back home, the time was already pointing towards evening.

It was around 3:00 PM when I escaped the island villa I visited for summer vacation and arrived at New Guinea Island, but it took a lot of time to move from there to the Warp Gate Terminal again.

Doshi-hee also had to start working at the Warp Gate Terminal anyway, so he accompanied them for about an hour by car.

Doshi-hee and I sit in the back seat of a rental car, with the combination of Eun-byeol, the driver.

“The reason you go to the Warp Gate Terminal is to gather manpower?”

“It would be more like going to meet rather than collecting. By the time the radio waves started reaching me, I had already reported the photographic material and what had happened to my mother. Perhaps by the time I get to the Warp Gate Terminal, there will be a group of Awakeners and Researchers that the Dokyung Group can gather.

As the number of people increased, I thought it would be much faster to move by boat than by helicopter, so I went to the terminal. It would save a lot of time if I explained while I was moving.”

“Okay.”

“And well, I also have a personal wish to stay with Seong-cheol for a little longer before we break up.”

Saying that, Doshi-hee started fiddling with my knee in the seat next to her, so I also asked while stroking her thigh.

“How many people are going to enter the island, so the boat is faster than the helicopter?”

“First of all, at least four Divine Awakeners to restore the Divine Barrier. And just in case, 1 S-class hunter and 4 A-class hunters capable of underwater combat. The more researchers, the better, so maybe 1-20 will come in, and you’ll need 5 dismantlers. And if Eunbyul and I are included, there must be at least 25 people. It’s a minimum manpower anyway.”

“Are you bringing researchers into the island because the kraken’s corpse is so large?”

“Yes. If you want to transport that big monster outside, you must inevitably cut it and transport it, because then the value of research decreases. It will probably take a month to move everything. In that case, it would be far better to use an island cottage as a makeshift laboratory. Some will be forced to sleep in the garage.”

“It was fortunate that the villa was not destroyed. Instead, Shi-hee and Eun-byeol will have a little uncomfortable sleeping.”

“It’s okay for me to sleep on the yacht.”

“Thanks to Seongcheol, we were able to minimize the damage. In fact, I was prepared that if something like this had happened, it would be much cheaper to abandon the island.”

After saying that, Doshi-hee made eye contact with me and smiled softly.

“There were times when I thought about what I would do if I became stronger than Seong-cheol, since I became an A-class, but I’m glad I realized once again that my worries are insignificant.”

“… Did you think you would stop dating me if you became stronger than me?”

“It could be. Maybe we’ll see each other more often. In that case, I was thinking of letting Seongcheol experience ‘special training’ at the Dokyung Group’s Hunter Training Center until he becomes stronger than me again.”

“… Okay.”

It’s a special training. It was a program with a somewhat unpleasant tone.

In order to satisfy this masochist girl, I must continue to train without rest.

While having such a conversation, the car carrying the three people arrived at the warp gate terminal where we first departed.

I thanked Eunbyul and Sihee for dropping me off in front of the gate terminal heading to Korea.

“Thank you for coming, Mr. Sihee.”

“It’s a pity that we broke up already, but there will be a chance to meet again next time.”

“I think so too, Sihee.”

Having said that, I kissed her lightly in front of her car door.

“See you next time, Sihee.”

“Yes. In the meantime, Mr. Seongcheol, stay healthy as well.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Eunbyeol. Eunbyeol was very helpful in the Kraken subjugation this time, not to mention that she provided various conveniences for the two days.”

“… No. He just did what he had to do as his master’s maid.”

Eunbyeol’s face turned slightly red, probably because she inadvertently recalled what had happened on the yacht in ‘Various Conveniences’.

It was a person who didn’t want to pay much attention as it was Sihee and I’s vacation, but Eunbyul’s performance was quite impressive during this summer vacation.

In particular, it was Eunbyeol’s responsibility to enter and leave the island.

Somehow, in just two days, I was able to ride all of the land, sea and air vehicles driven by one person.

… As a bonus, my stuff also got on her tongue.

“Goodbye, Seongcheol Kim.”

“Yes, Eunbyeol too.”

Finally, after she said goodbye to Eunbyeol, she passed through the Gimpo Warp Gate Terminal with a suitable souvenir, and it was already dinner time when she boarded the train and returned home.

How did summer vacation really turn into a Kraken subjugation?

Helping myself with the ironic reality, I lay down on the bed as it is.

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And the next morning.

“Ah, ugh….”

As soon as I woke up, I groaned as soon as I opened my eyes at the intense muscle pain that overtook me.

Thanks to the recovery skill, I woke up after a night of sleep, and the trauma treatment, such as broken bones and peeling skin, was of course over.

Unfortunately, the muscle pain that remained throughout the body from overexertion was not within the healing range of the recovery skill.

Muscle pain was not a disease or injury, but rather a pain corresponding to growing pains, so of course there was no way to get better with a recovery skill.

Of course, I can’t lie in bed all day because of today’s schedule.

It had been a week since the day she first asked Eun-yeong to teach her swordsmanship, so she had to attend the next class she had promised.

She couldn’t help but get up from the bed with a moan.

“Ugh, I’m going to die.”

Still, after going through the crisis of dying once, the thought that came to my mind was that the muscle pain was better.

Judging by my intuition after training my body for a long time, this kind of muscle pain would probably go away with just an hour or two of stretching, so it probably won’t interfere with my big schedule in the afternoon.

As I got up from the bed and started stretching, a translucent system window opened in front of my eyes.

『Skill unlock (NEW!) 〉〉

Point Shop 〉〉

Achievement 〉〉

Current Sexual Desire Management Hunter Roster (NEW!) 〉〉

Find Nearby Hunters 〉〉

Remaining Awakening Points: 285』

Seeing that the achievements were not shining for some reason, it seemed that the sex they had on the yacht hadn’t unlocked new achievements.

It wasn’t a very important issue. It wasn’t even the sex I was hoping for in the first place.

Things like first achievements are meant to be unlocked someday anyway.

More important than that was the skill unlock menu that was shining separately and the current list of sexual desire management hunters.

I guessed what the contents of both were, but it was still necessary to confirm.

It could have been annoying if I found out later that the content was different from what I expected.

The first thing to check was, of course, the new skill.

『Archery lv. 2 : 0/200』

As expected, the ‘Artemis Archer’ awakening ability seemed to be treated as ‘archery’ in my skill.

Just as Hye-eun’s ‘female warrior of the protective shield’ was replaced with ‘shield technique’.

At this rate, I could roughly predict what form it would change when other women’s favorability rose and it was included as my skill.

In Cha Yu-ri’s case, of course, it would be ‘wind magic’, and in Eun-young’s sister’s case, it would be ‘swordsmanship’.

And in the case of Han Min-ah, it’s ‘wild power’, so if it comes in after being replaced with a skill….

“…… Well?”

When I thought about it, I couldn’t quite figure out what type of skill this would be.

That’s also true, because it’s common for animal-type awakening abilities to have complex abilities that can’t be explained by a single specific skill.

In the case of Han Min-ah, the species is Russian Blue, so she can use her cat’s abilities in many areas including appearance changes.

First of all, it has strong power and nimble movements using higher muscle fiber densities than humans.

They are good at sneaking into narrow places using their flexible bodies, and their sense of smell is much more sensitive than humans.

In addition, the ability to detect danger with animal senses is excellent, so it was really the best suited for a searcher.

Of course, there were other side effects that had nothing to do with combat, such as feeling better when stroking the head or making the tail an erogenous zone.

Anyway, it would be quite difficult to simply replace all of this with one skill.

“… I’m sure I won’t suddenly have cat ears and a tail.”

It’s cute from the point of view, but the moment I ran into something like that, I would be afraid to look in the mirror every morning.

Of course, I didn’t even think about making rice cakes, but it was like I was drinking kimchi soup.

In the end, all of those things were only meaningful when Han Min-ah’s affinity for me rose to 80 or higher.

It was only after carrying out the common goal of subjugating the Kraken that Doshi-hee’s affinity rose to the highest level.

If it was just sharing the body during the heat season without anything special, there was a pretty high possibility that the favorability would not rise above a certain level.

In the first place, the period of being friends was too long, so rather, it might remain as good as a close friend.

Unlike her childhood friend, Hye-eun, I would say that Min-ah is a little more like her ball friend.

Actually, her first meeting was almost like that.

‘Minah, are you also participating in this joint retreat?’

‘Yes? Ask what is obvious It’s a required course, but does anyone miss it?’

‘No, because I am a man, the teacher said that I could not attend the training camp because it could be uncomfortable. Just in case you heard about it.’

‘Well, since you’re a man, it could be…… Yes?’

‘Of course I will participate. Even at joint retreats, it would be awkward if I was alone as a man. But Minah, I’m glad you’re going with me too. It won’t look strange.’

‘…… Hey.’

‘Why, Minah?’

‘Did you think I was a man and have been friendly with you all this time?’

‘…… Wasn’t it?’

‘This, fuck, what kind of idiot is this….’

She was a male hunter like me It was at the point when Mina, who I thought was her aspiring colleague, found out that she was a woman, not long before the second year of middle school retreat.

To be honest, there would have been nothing to say even if we had grown apart at the time, but thanks to Minah’s broad mind, we were somehow forgiven.

Looking back now, it was a very sad memory.

‘Mi, I’m sorry! I really didn’t know what to say!’

‘You bastard! Are her eyes eaten by mice?! There are still things I can’t figure out, oh my god….’

‘Hey, nails! That hurts, so don’t keep your nails up!!’

I was so glad that it ended in memories.