Chapter 12 – A Lovely Junior Who Works Hard

“Thank you for saying that. But Hyeyeon-ssi, you’ve never seen me use my abilities.”

When I said this with a smile, Shin Hye-yeon lowered her head with her blushing face.

“It is not so.”
“Yes?”
“Saw. Many…”

Where did you see it?
I didn’t understand.

Shin Hye-yeon thinks she’s a combative hunter like me so we’ll take some classes together, but at this point she’s a B-class and I’m a D-class.
Most of the lectures will not overlap with each other.

Moreover, except for what happened today, I was extremely reluctant to step out on my own.
Of course, it was 20 years ago, so I don’t remember everything, but Shin Hye-yeon never showed off her skills in school enough to say that she saw it a lot.

“Where did you see it?”
“Seulgi showed me.”

I was wondering what the big joint was talking about.
How did Seulgi Lee show my ability to Hyeyeon Shin?

“Ah…”

After thinking for a while, I found the answer.
At this time, Seulgi Lee sometimes followed me and filmed when I was training.
He said it was to see him alone when he misses me, but now he doesn’t.
It was to show off to others by taking pictures of myself.
Especially Shin Hye-yeon.

“Ah! Sorry. I didn’t mean to see it.”

I must have.
Seulgi Lee would have made Shin Hye-yeon see through half-forced, and foxy behavior that disguised her naturalness.
Shin Hye-yeon is also interested in me, so she would have naturally accepted it.
In other words, this was the only thing Seulgi was good at.
Manipulating the minds of those around you to your advantage.

“I know. How was it? My appearance.”

I was genuinely curious.
Shin Hye-yeon was a hunter two levels higher than me.
She studied at the French Academy, and she did not neglect her daily training.

I wondered how I would have looked in her eyes at this time.

“Sung-gyu-san…”

Shin Hye-yeon’s expression was that she didn’t know if she could evaluate me on her own.

“Are you okay. Speak comfortably.”
“…It was cool.”
“Yes?”
“Always doing your best. I am also motivated.”

I wanted a technical evaluation rather than words like this.
However, it seemed that there was something else important to Shin Hye-yeon.
Seeing her with a blank expression on her face as if she was thinking of me in the video, it seemed difficult to expect a cold evaluation from her.

Instead, I felt good.
She wasn’t just confirming that she liked me one more time, she was happy to say that she was motivated by my videos.
I thought that the hard training she had made, and that I had played a part in becoming her future God Leah.

‘Seulgi Lee’s purpose was simple bragging, but.’

Those who saw it accepted it in a much more progressive and positive direction.
After all, I felt once again that people themselves are important no matter what they do.

“Then, shall we try our best today?”
“Yes!”

As soon as she started her full-scale training, Shin Hye-yeon’s eyes changed.
At the same time, it was immediately apparent that she was doing the same practice every day.
I also know because I haven’t neglected to practice.

People who practice only occasionally often waste time uselessly because the routine is not ingrained in them.
However, Shin Hye-yeon had a clear goal for her today.
She naturally manifested her mana and continued her practice yesterday in continuity.

According to what she said, what she was doing these days seemed to be learning ‘sword skills’.

I also kept an eye on her as if I was training in swordsmanship.

Learning ‘geomgi’ did not work as an essential factor in the amount of training.
As with many skills, the quality of training, or ‘enlightenment’, was more important than the quantity of training.
So talented hunters could grow faster regardless of their level of awakening.
Of course, it is difficult to break down the grade wall.
The starting line itself is different, and no matter how hard you work, it takes a lot of time, effort, and experience.

However, if you have talent, you can show the maximum performance within the range of your class.
Just like the god Rhea was in the limelight in her previous life.
It was thanks to her talent and hard work that she was able to achieve results and popularity comparable to that of an S-class hunter.

‘But…’

Judging from my experience of having already mastered ‘sword skills’, Shin Hye-yeon’s training method was definitely a bit wrong.
In this way, there was a good chance that she would only waste time going.
Fundamentally, she needed someone to point out her mistakes and correct them.

I thought about how to inform them, but in the end I thought I had no choice but to give advice directly.

In general, it is not correct for D-Class to advise B-Class.
Moreover, didn’t Shin Hye-yeon study ‘Geomgi’ directly at the French Academy?
It was enough to ignore my words.

But when I spoke to her, she immediately stopped her actions and looked at me.

“Hyeyeon-ssi, that…”
“Yes!”

Her white face, which stopped the sword she was swinging, was full of sweat and blushing.

A feeling of love welled up.

Rather than dating psychology, would you say it feels like seeing a junior who works hard?
As much as I had been active in the guild for a long time, I had experienced many juniors.

A junior who has talent but doesn’t work hard.
A junior who only believes in grades and behaves arrogantly.

Compared to those juniors, even if their talents and ratings were lower, the juniors who worked hard with their eyes on were more lovable.
I feel like I want to teach you one more thing.

From that point of view, a warm heart toward Shin Hye-yeon naturally springs up.

“I don’t know if I can say this.”
“Yes! Please speak!”

Shin Hye-yeon had her eyes shining.
It’s a look that’s ready to listen to anyone’s words.

It made it easier for me to speak.

“Of course, I don’t know much about ‘sword skill’.”
“It doesn’t matter. I want to hear your opinion, Mr. Seong-gyu!”

I held my sword in my hand and explained.

“Sword skill is meaningful only when it is activated with a sword. No matter how much mana you have and how strong it is, it’s useless if you can’t reach for the sword. Hyeyeon is putting too much strength on her shoulders and elbows right now. Like this.”

I swung my sword in front of Shin Hye-yeon.
I didn’t give a lot of strength to unleash the sword, it was just a light swing.
But for a moment, my concentration was exerted towards all the muscles used in the movement and towards the sword.
Even though it was 20 years ago, all the memories were the same.

‘Sword Skill’ is a kind of passive skill.
Activated naturally when using a sword.
Depending on whether or not it can radiate ‘sword energy’, its power varies from two to ten to twenty times.
Of course, in order to make a difference of 10 or 20 times, the level of the hunter had to be that high.
When I put the ‘sword skill’ skill on the pass and activate a powerful active skill, the so-called critical would explode.
Like a game.
A monster that I could not easily defeat was cut down in one shot and fell.

After that experience, the chance of hitting a critical later increases.

Because it is an experience you will never forget.

The day I first hit a critical with ‘Sword Skill’.
I was so excited all week after that that I couldn’t sleep.

Boooung-

From the tip of my sword, a force that could not have been evoked by a D-class, and even a freshman in college, exploded.
Of course, it wasn’t that ‘sword skill’ was activated.
The crack in the air caused by the fall of the sword,
It was nothing more than a sharp extension of the mana that moved along the sword in straight and curved lines.

If Aquitas had been in front of me, his torso would have been cut off in one shot.

“Ah…!”

Shin Hye-yeon’s mouth fell open.
The expression of having realized something.

“With a sword, not a shoulder and an elbow…”
“Since it’s not a black body, it would be easier to think of sending it to the wrist.”

Before she knew it, she was talking like a senior teaching her juniors, but Shin Hye-yeon didn’t care about that at all.

“Yes! I’ll try!”

She started swinging her sword again.

Of course, once she heard the explanation, it was difficult to apply it right away.
I have a habit of doing it before.

But the way she wielded her sword quickly improved.
I actively advised her to orient herself quickly.

We forgot the time and immersed ourselves in training.

In the middle of her stay, an employee came and asked if she was going to extend it, but Shin Hye-yeon was so focused that she didn’t even hear the question.
I answered instead and asked for an extension.
Even though Shin Hye-yeon paid for the cost, simply put, no matter how much money she paid, it was absolutely no loss if she could learn ‘sword skills’ today.

From some time ago, I put my sword in my inventory and only watched Shin Hye-yeon’s posture.

“Good job. Faster than that. When the motion is divided into 3 steps, if the speed is 1 in the first motion, 2 in the second motion, and 3 to 5 in the last motion, it is good. Try it as a flow.”

It was a rather difficult explanation.
I don’t know how much I practiced until I realized this.

However, Shin Hye-yeon had accumulated practice for several months after returning from France.
She perfectly understood what I was saying.

And in the end

Boo Woo-

Shin Hye-yeon’s sword cut through the air with a refreshing sound.

Wow!

The pure white black air stretched towards the front in a cool shape.

“Ah!”

Shin Hye-yeon’s mouth widened to the size of a ham.

“Nice!”

I held out her palm, thinking of giving her a high five, but rather Shin Hyeyeon came into my arms.

“That’s Okay! That ‘sword skill’ was a success!”