Chapter 115 – Chapter 115: The Lioness of the Academy – Jeong Su-Ryun (12)

I saw Jeong Su-ryun lying on the mattress in a hypnotic state.
She breathes softly, as if asleep.
It meant hypnotized properly.

This is the start.

‘I’m sure I can figure out where it went wrong.’

This hypnosis was not intended to capture Jeong Soo-ryeon.
It’s just a method for treatment.

It doesn’t suit me to hypnotize a student and lie about being cured.
You need real treatment.
If you pretend to fix it with a lie, isn’t that a scammer?

She thought of breaking her hypnosis if her troubles of Jeong Su-ryun were resolved.
Hypnosis should have been used in a more useful way.

“Then let’s go in.”

I mean, where did it go wrong?

I opened my mouth and placed my hand on Jung Soo-ryun’s head as she lay with her eyes closed.

“Your consciousness descends deeper and deeper into the abyss. You fall deeper and deeper to explore the fear of your dungeon.”

At my words, Jung Soo-ryun’s brow twitched.
Sweat started to run down my forehead.
It must mean that you have reached the root of your fear.

“What do you see?”
“I see myself, who won a gold medal in the track and field event.”

As she answered with her eyes closed, her voice sounded young, like that of a high school student.
Her tone of voice was also kind, as if she had possessed her from the past.

“What happened there?”
“What happened… After I won the gold medal, I’m going home with my parents. My father said that he would buy me a union pad as a prize. It’s an expensive device, but since I won the championship, they bought it for me. Mom is happy too. I am the proud daughter of my parents.”

There was a bright smile on her face that I had never seen before.
It was the smile of a girl who loves her family.

“Keep talking.”
“On my way home, I saw it. The gate…”

Her body trembled.
It is the fear of past memories.
When she remembered what she had been through, her body was rejecting it.

“Keep calm. I am by your side calm down. You are not in danger now.”
“But…”
“It is a memory of the past. Have to overcome now. It gets more and more calm. You feel an unknown courage.”

This was the hypnosis I put on her.
Hypnosis that makes my words seem like the truth.

“Look around again. What is going on?”
“Monsters are coming. It’s a safe place, but I turned the car around because of the monsters, but it was late. We, we get out of the car…”

My body is shaking.
Sweat flows.
I breathed mana into her body.
It calmed her anxious and trembling heart as much as possible.

“Are you okay. Please explain slowly. You can escape only by facing your fears. If you bury it, you will never be able to get over it for the rest of your life.”
“Ugh, Dad told me to run away. I was trying to run away, but my mother was caught by a monster… Mom! Oh no! No! Save her mom!!! Don’t eat!! Ohhh dont eat her mom!!!!”

She screamed in pain through tears as she seemed to have a seizure.

“Dad, Dad!!! Daddy…”

She started to cry
He also cried out loud.

“If I, if I were strong. If I was strong because I was an Awakener, I would have been able to protect my parents. No… No…”

But for a moment, fear crept across her face.

“Oh, don’t come!!!”

Is the monster that killed her parents approaching?
Seeing her vision, she lay in place and struggled to escape.

I said putting my hand on her forehead.

“Until there. You don’t have to think about it anymore.”

It was only then that his expression became at ease in an instant, like a TV that had been turned off.

“How long do you remember this scene?”
“Even the fact that my parents were killed by monsters. I don’t remember the scene after that. That’s why I hate monsters. I want to kill It is the object of revenge, and it is the object that I must punish…”

Jung Soo-ryun’s hands trembled.

“Scary. I’m afraid of monsters. I thought it would eat me, so…”

I realized what she was afraid of.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of dungeons.
What she fears are gates and dungeon monsters.

Looking back on her memories, it seemed that she had watched her parents brutally murdered by monsters as well as being eaten by them in real time.
It must have been a very cruel memory for an adolescent girl, especially a girl who followed her parents a lot.

It was clear that her memory had erased most of the scene where her parents were brutally killed by monsters.
What Jeong Su-ryun remembered was that her parents were killed by monsters, and their deaths were expressed as revenge against the monsters.
Maybe that’s why he turned into a tough character.

However, when she encounters a real monster in the dungeon, the fear nestled in her subconscious rears her head.
A memory I forcibly forgot.

“There is no way a child who watched their parents be eaten alive right in front of their eyes could not have been fine.”

If so, what should I do?
In order to get rid of fear while maintaining the vengeance toward the monsters.

Erase your memory?
No, this is too simple.
And on the contrary, it could cause wrong side effects.
For example, losing her target, she quits her hunter.

So I decided to plant a memory.

“If you plant memories, it will be a little different.”

Her parents were killed by monsters, but they were not bitten and eaten right in front of her.
That she gave her life to save her.
And even the fact that her belated arrival, her unknown man rescued her, and brought her to her eventually foster parents.

I’m not going to specify who it is.

Help from an unknown long-legged man.

That’s better
Both to her and to me.

I put my hand on her head to plant such a false memory.

“From now on, keep in mind what I am saying.”

***

Jeong Soo-ryun felt a voice in her head.

“Your parents weren’t eaten by monsters. She sacrificed everything to protect you, and after being killed by her monsters, her one unnamed hunter rescued her.”

And the voice was quickly forgotten in her mind.

Jeong Su-ryun had a dream.
A dream of the day her parents were killed by monsters.
It was a terrible memory.
The reason she decided to become a Hunter.
Why she woke up

“Student! Run away!”

The day her parents gave her life to save her.

Even when Jeong Su-ryun told her to run away together, her father told her to run away.
One reason.

In order to protect Jeong Su-ryun.
They were willing to give their lives for their daughter.

“Cuck!”
“Dad! Mom!”
“Love. Daughter…”

The hunter who came a step late prevented their bodies from being damaged by the monsters.
And they rescued Jeong Su-ryun, whom the two had tried to protect even at the cost of their lives.

“I’m sorry.”

Hunter’s apology for saving him.
Jeong Su-ryun thought while receiving his apology.

She will avenge her by killing all the monsters who killed her parents.

And was it because of her earnest desire?

Tring!

She woke up

I don’t know why I remembered that day.
It was a memory I thought I had forgotten a long time ago, but it was definitely a memory I didn’t want to recall again…

Her sudden flash of memories brought her to tears.

Tears flowed endlessly.

“You are no longer afraid of monsters. It’s not scary.”

Then she heard a man’s voice.
Her teacher’s voice was eerie.
It was Siwoo Kim’s voice.

And Jeong Soo-ryun came to his senses again.
It felt like something was lightening my head.
A feeling of clogged blood.

“How is it?”
“Are you done?”

She asked Siwoo Kim, who was putting her hand on her own head.

“Okay. Now I have to go to the dungeon and check it out. Whether your phobia has been cured or not.”

Kim Si-woo answered with a confident voice.

“Is this the end? Has nothing changed?”

***

“You want me to tell you about a dungeon that Daesung doesn’t know about?”

I nodded towards the Sword Saint sitting across from him.

“Yes, I need to go into a dungeon. I need help. Old man.”
“… What kind of wind did it suddenly blow? Is it because of the students raised at the academy?”
“Yes that’s right. I have to practice.”

After thinking for a long time, the swordsman opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Hmm, that’s troubling. I can help, but not for free.”
“Of course, old man. Call us anytime and we will help you. Aren’t we helping each other?”
“… I see.”

The swordsman told me about the secret dungeon of the Twilight Guild that even Daesung didn’t know about.

“… Are you here? Which dungeon do you want to practice?”

I brought Jung Soo-ryun to that dungeon.

“Okay.”

A dungeon that even Daesung doesn’t know.
It was a dungeon that would not give them any alarm even if I entered it.
In other words, it means that he has been able to enter the dungeon for the first time in a while.

A B-level dungeon opened in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do.

Jeong Su-ryun bit her lip while looking at the dungeon.

It’s a B dungeon.
Are you okay?
If dungeon phobia isn’t better…

But I couldn’t run away in fear.

“Did it really happen?”
“Okay. It’s probably fixed. And if not cured, don’t worry. I will find it and bring it to you.”
“… Okay.”

I took the lead and entered the gate connected to the dungeon.
Jeong Su-ryun followed me.

Whoa!

The feeling of the gate enveloping my body.
A smile came out without my knowledge at the touch that I hadn’t felt in a long time.

The world has changed.

“It’s been a while.”

As soon as I entered, I felt the scent of mana.
The thrilling sensation of mana piercing your nose.

Feeling this unpleasant sensation, I looked at Jeong Su-ryun.

“How is it?”
“I don’t know yet.”
“Then let’s explore a little bit. Check out how it feels when you encounter a monster.”
“Did it really happen?”
“If my calculations are correct, I should have been cured. As I said before, I saw that the fear you feel is not a dungeon, but a monster, and the appropriate care has come to an end. We don’t need a final check.”

I followed her to make sure of her progress.
Entering an ordinary dungeon was risky of being caught by Daesung’s detector, so I asked the swordsman to find a dungeon that wasn’t on Daesung’s list.

“Perhaps if the monster doesn’t respond, it’s correct to assume that it’s cured.”
“This was going to go away so easily… Uh?”
“It wasn’t easy. How hard it was.”

A monster appeared in front of us.
A ghoul with a ferocious appearance.
It was a huge ghoul that was 3 meters tall, probably made from the corpse of a troll.

Kreurreung.

“I-that…”
“How is it? Do you have palpitations or cold sweats? Like dizziness or trembling limbs.”
“There’s no such thing, isn’t it too relaxed in front of monsters?”
“Because the patient’s condition is more important. A blind arrow flying from behind is more dangerous than a monster in front.”
“I-I’m fine.”

She showed no adverse reactions from her.

“Then let’s go hunting.”

I threw a stone at him.

Took.

Kreurreung!

His gaze fell upon us.
Thick sap dripped down, melting the floor.
It was quite acidic.

“I’ll pull you aggro from the front, so try aiming properly.”
“Okay.”

Jeong Su-ryun began to assume a strange posture, and I stood in front of her.

Wow!!

The ghoul brandished huge claws made from evolved bones.

Caang!

But his claws couldn’t pierce my saber.
How dare a B-class dungeon monster?

Even while I held out, Jeong Su-ryun calmly maintained her stance.

Piyung!

Fired a powerful mana arrow.

Fu-wook!

Just like that, the gigantic ghoul burst out.

Cooong!

After all, destructive power is not a joke, is it?

“I got it… I, I caught the monster!”

Jeong Su-ryun admired the fallen ghoul.
Was this the first time this happened?
It was the first monster she hunted after being panicked by monsters every time.

“How is it? Are you scared or anything like that?”
“Oh no! Not at all. Rather feel good. When you just killed a monster, the feeling is like… I even felt like my heart was being ripped open. Refreshing!”
“Let’s catch 10 more and test them. I’ll have to try again.”
“Okay! This really works… It was going to be…”

Jung Soo-ryun clenched her fist.
A glimmer of hope appeared on her face as she bit her lip.
And that moment.

[Jeong Soo-ryun: Strategy – 69%]

At once, Jeong Su-ryun’s attack rate rose to 69%.
The effect is certain.