Chapter 10 – Would You Like to Practice Together?

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I took Shin Hye-yeon and went out of school.
Anyway, she couldn’t go to her school cafeteria to eat her first meal with her.

Even though I had no direct association with her in her previous life, I had a sense of her debt to her.
It wasn’t her intention, but she suffered a lot because of me.

Unrequited love is something anyone can do, and it can also be common for a man and a woman to be in a relationship where they can’t get close due to unavoidable complicated circumstances.
However, Shin Hye-yeon was clearly a victim.

Given all of this, I felt that Seulgi Lee’s approach to me was intentional.
Just as Park Jong-gil approached Lee Seul-gi with an inferiority complex towards me, Lee Seul-gi must have had an inferiority complex with Shin Hye-yeon.
In her previous life, I was blind and couldn’t see, but Shin Hye-yeon was objectively a much better woman than Lee Seul-gi.

Not to mention his appearance, his skills as a hunter, his future prospects, and even his personality.
As Seulgi Lee, who originally had a not-so-bright personality, she must have built up an inferiority complex towards her for a long time.

The wrong and immature mind of the 20-year-old planted the seeds of all these misfortunes.

Shin Hye-yeon just genuinely liked me.
I wanted to compensate in some way for her heart that was hurt because of Seulgi Lee.

The whole time she was speechless, I accompanied her to a restaurant near the back door of her school.
The students of ‘Hunter College’ were basically on the richer side than the students of other schools.

Since the school was created with the intention of actively fostering hunters in the country, more than half of them are receiving scholarships.
Living expenses were also provided to top students.
In addition, ‘Hunter College’ students were able to earn much more even if they worked the same part-time job.

Considering their physical abilities and prospects, they cannot be treated at the same level as ordinary people.

So, there were many high-class restaurants and pubs around the school.
The place I went to today was one of those places.

Not normally a place for students to come for lunch on weekdays, but what about anyone?
In addition, most of the tables were occupied by Hunter College students besides us.

Shin Hye-yeon didn’t say much until I ordered the food.
When I asked if she was okay, all she did was a silent nod of her head.

“Are you okay?”

I asked her who didn’t even think to move her hand when her food came out.

“Yes? Ah yes…”
“Are you embarrassed? Just because I suddenly have something to say.”
“Yeah… More than that, I feel sorry for Seulgi. It looks like you’ve been ignored…”
“Never mind.”
“Yes?”
“Rather than that, let’s start with a meal. I’ve been all over the place, but there’s no place as good as this restaurant.”

I have 20 more years of life experience.
I have been to many places in Seoul and across the country, as well as restaurants around the school.

Even if the profession of a hunter does not want to be extravagant, it is treated with expensive entertainment for one reason or another.
It was unavoidable because that was also part of the job.
Besides, most of the girls I met had extravagant personalities, though I don’t remember them very well.

I lived like others, but I couldn’t always save.
As much as they earn when they earn a lot, and as much as they earn less when they earn less, the women spend it all.

‘How stupid.’

At the time, I took it for granted.
Because I thought it was only natural that if you loved me, you would treat me well.
Sometimes, when I felt like worrying about my household expenses, I said that it was a bad idea, and that I could always make money again.

Come to think of it, the money the women I met didn’t go into the essentials.
It was all for their luxury and vanity.

Although she had a short married life, she never had children.
Because her wife always insisted on birth control.
She joked that having children would ruin her figure, but now that she thinks about it now, it wasn’t a joke.
In the first place, she had no intention of being with me for the rest of my life.
At least half of her mind had gone elsewhere.

‘It’s a curse.’

Was it possessed by an evil spirit that made me want to torment?
Perhaps not.
Only those people were twisted like fate.

It was definitely a blessing in itself to have the opportunity to give back as much as it was, no, more than that.

She has been to many restaurants, but this restaurant is only on the fingertips in terms of value for money.
After graduating, I had a chance to meet the owner of this place on a daily basis, and he was a man with a mindset that he should do anything for the student hunters who will become the pillars of the country in the future.
He was, of course, a wealthy man who owned five high-end restaurants, not just randomly.

“You must have been to a lot of restaurants. Maybe with Seulgi…”

Shin Hye-yeon seemed to have nothing but thoughts about Seul-gi.
She was basically a woman with a strong sense of morality.
It’s because her own worldview makes it wrong to spend private time with her friend’s boyfriend.

“Well, I went here and there with Seulgi, but that’s not important.”
“…”

I ate leisurely.
Having lived in society for a long time, I was somewhat aware of conversations that softened the stiff atmosphere.
I tried to make Shin Hye-yeon as comfortable as possible and joked with her, and her stiff expression gradually loosened up.

“What are you going to say to me?”
“That is…”

I decided not to attend the afternoon lecture.
It wasn’t a subject where absences had an impact on grades, and I didn’t intend to pay much attention to school grades in this life.

Hunters are rated thugs.
What I should focus more on was correcting the wrong relationships in my past life.
You have to do NTL to offset the curse and enjoy the blessing of growth.

That was far more important than doing well in school.

“Seulgi is a bit strange these days.”
“Yes?”

Shin Hye-yeon was surprised.
Her reaction was unusual for anyone to see.
I felt like I knew something.

If it had been me in my previous life, I wouldn’t have been able to catch this part.

But I had already read the ‘Book of Truth’ and ‘Book of Memories’, so I knew everything.

Shin Hye-yeon at this time already knew that Seul-gi Lee was cheating on me.
So, this is what the reaction looks like.
I thought she was basically a woman who couldn’t lie.

“If…”

I pretended to be sad and said.

“Isn’t Seulgi dating another man…”
“Yes?”

Shin Hye-yeon’s pupils widened.
The pupils in the two pretty eyes shook greatly.
She was also a woman who couldn’t lie.

“Hye-yeon is close to Seul-gi, so I was wondering if he knew something. That’s why she set up a place where we can have a conversation like this without any excuses.”
“Then maybe she was cold to Seulgi earlier…”
“Yes, it happened that way without me knowing.”
“Hmm…”

Shin Hye-yeon took her water cup and gulped it down.
A trickle of water ran down her cheeks and collected on her jawline, but she didn’t even notice it.
I wiped the water off her chin with a napkin.

“Ah!”

However, it backfired on her, and Shin Hye-yeon, startled, shook her water cup in her hand.
More water poured and her pants got wet.

“Sorry. She was trying to wipe it off because the water ran out.”
“No. I’m sorry. I’m a bit out of my mind today.”

Her meal was coming to an end, so I asked Shin Hye-yeon.

“What are you planning to do this afternoon?”
“Scheduled… I have reserved a practice room. I need some training…”
“Are you training?”
“Yes, there is something I am clinging to these days.”

Shin Hye-yeon’s speaking style has changed a bit, perhaps because her interest has become a hot topic.

“Are you practicing anything in particular?”
“I went to France after graduating from high school. A friend of my father runs an academy there.”
“You run an academy in France?”
“My father was a close friend when he was studying abroad, but he later became famous after awakening as a hunter. Originally, I went there for the purpose of sightseeing, but after they knew I was a hunter, they taught me a lot.”
“I see~”

I found out why Shin Hye-yeon went to France to study later.
That there was an acquaintance there.

Otherwise, she didn’t have to be in France as the destination of her study abroad.
Perhaps a friend of her father’s helped her establish herself as a hunter in France.

“What’s wrong with that?”
“It’s black.”
“Ah! Really? Are you already at that level?”

There are many hunters who handle swords, but hunters who know how to handle ‘sword skills’ are rare.
It certainly meant some kind of ‘state’.
It was not possible to express ‘geomgi’ simply by having a high grade.

It requires natural talent and hard work.
Perhaps Shin Hye-yeon’s father’s acquaintance in France discovered Shin Hye-yeon’s special talent.
So, she must have thought of passing on ‘sword skills’ to a fledgling hunter who had just graduated from high school.

I was able to use
Not now, of course, but in a previous life.
In the process of rising from Class C to Class B, it was this ability that was obtained through a lot of hard work.

‘Didn’t I say that you can easily learn the skills of an opponent with a favorable rating of over 80%?’

She couldn’t confirm with her own eyes whether Shin Hye-yeon had that much of a crush on me, but she thought it would at least be higher than Lee Seul-gi’s.

“Can I join you too?”
“Yes?”
“I don’t have any plans in the afternoon. If it’s okay with you, I’d like to train with you.”