Chapter 29 – Am I Stalking You?

Shin Hye-yeon stared at me.
It looked like he wanted to hear the story I brought out.

She doesn’t know if it’s the right story to tell her, but anyway, it was hard to end it like this, leaving her wondering.

I told Shin Hye-yeon a story about when I was in high school.
Naturally, I had no choice but to talk about Kim Seo-yul.

When I told others about her past, I felt ashamed.
Why have I only met women like that?

There was a good woman like Shin Hye-yeon nearby.
At least I felt that Park Eun-ha was a better woman than Kim Seo-yul.

Shin Hye-yeon’s face was serious while listening to her story.
With straight wrinkles, she told me that her eyebrows were sympathizing with Park Eun-ha.

“What a relief. Then Seong-gyu appeared.”

It was referring to the fact that I appeared and stopped Kim Seo-yul when he led his gang to lynch Park Eun-ha.

“I heard from a friend. I knew that Kim Seo-yul was just going out, but I thought he had crossed the line. At first, I just wanted to stop fighting. Hunter special class has strong discipline, so if you do something wrong, you may be punished.”

Kim Seo-yul would have been excluded from the disciplinary target.
To be honest, I didn’t worry too much about my girlfriend back then.
I simply wanted to prevent the situation itself.

“When I went there, it was worse than I thought. Several female students were surrounding one and beating him. I couldn’t help but care more about the kid she was being beaten than her girlfriend.”
“At that time, Seong-gyu was no different from now.”

It didn’t match the flow of the story, but a smile appeared on Shin Hye-yeon’s lips.

“I haven’t been to school since. I’ve heard rumors that she joined an underground guild. I wondered if that was the case, but looking at the situation now, I can understand it. I really joined the underground guild at that time.”
“The story is really…”
“It probably wasn’t because of that. She remembers that things were difficult at home. There must have been a bigger reason for that.”
“…”

Anyway, we shared everything we could.

Then I realized that I had something more important to say.

The current situation is markedly different from the previous life.
I also informed Shin Hye-yeon that I no longer had to meet Seul-gi Lee.
My sincerity was that I wanted to get closer to Shin Hye-yeon.

The only thing that bothers me is the quest.
The target of this quest was not Shin Hye-yeon alone.
Park Eun-ha also had to pay attention.

The penalty was a return to the life cursed by NTR.
To put it bluntly, I had no desire to return to such a life.

It was all the more so when she found out that there are good girls like Shin Hye-yeon in the world.

As I pondered, familiar sentences came to mind.

【The sub quest has been opened.】
【You cannot arbitrarily decide whether or not to accept a sub-quest.】

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Title: Take My Heart (One)
Goal: Confess to Shin Hye-yeon and get her approval.
Deadline: 48 hours
Difficulty: E

Success Reward: Free Skill Slot

Failure Penalty: Main Quest Reduction -1 Day

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A sub-quest that suddenly appeared was talking.
Don’t worry and confess.

I was more than happy to check it out.
The success reward, ‘Free Skill Slot’, was already familiar.
However, it was the first time that a failure penalty was applied to a sub-quest.

‘The deadline for the main quest has been shortened by one day…’

It was a very serious penalty according to acceptance.
Moreover, considering the goal of the main quest, the impact of failing this sub-quest was greater.
Because I have to win Shin Hye-yeon’s heart again from the beginning.
It was sure to be harder than the first.

But I wasn’t worried.
It’s not because I’m conceited, it’s because I’ve already confirmed Shin Hye-yeon’s favorability with ‘Scouter’.

90%…

I didn’t have a perfect understanding of the system, but I was sure that Shin Hye-yeon was in love with me.

Before I could speak, I grabbed a glass of water and quenched my thirst.

Since I was subjected to NTR 21 times in my previous life, it means that I have been through this situation 21 times.

‘Isn’t that also…’

Strictly speaking, there were more times when I was confessed than I confessed.
It seems that it was also at an overwhelming rate.

Have you ever liked someone first?

I wasn’t confident in that either.

Someone always approached first, and after that, as a habit, only looked at the other person’s strengths.
So it must have been difficult to ignore that confession.

Once you’re in a relationship, blindly treat that person well.
That was my dating pattern in my previous life.
Twenty-one failed love patterns.

But now it was different.
I knew Shin Hye-yeon’s heart, and I also had the same heart as hers.

All that remained was to confirm it verbally.

“Hyeyeon-san…”
“Yes?”

Shin Hye-yeon was startled as if she had detected something in my serious voice.

“I’m sorry for saying this all of a sudden…”
“Yes?”

Shin Hye-yeon’s face turned red.
In fact, it was a student cafeteria.
It is not appropriate to confess.

The deadline for sub-quests was 48 hours, so there was no need to rush.

But I thought it would be rather difficult to get the timing out of here.
It was clear that if they trained together, they would not be able to concentrate because of the quest.
I thought that now, when I had confessed everything about Lee Seul-gi and Park Eun-ha, it was the perfect time to confess.

“I will break up with Seulgi. No, it’s like we’ve already broken up. You probably know that I haven’t seen you for a few days, and during that time I spent more time with Hyeyeon. The reason I approached Hyeyeon wasn’t simply because I wanted to confirm Seulgi’s betrayal. I’m Hyeyeon…”
“Wait!”

Shin Hye-yeon suddenly spread her palm to block my words.

“Yes?”
“Sorry. I can’t hear that now. I don’t know what you’re talking about, but… I, so now…”

Shin Hye-yeon jumped up from her seat.
She nodded, she said.

“Sorry!”

Then she ran quickly out of the restaurant.
Left alone, I was dazed.

The students in the cafeteria looked this way.
Naturally, my face lit up.

‘Wasn’t the liking rate 90%… ?’

Have you lost interest in Seulgi Lee and Eunha Park?
I thought it wasn’t.

Maybe I thought of the sub-quest too easily.
It’s because I’ve been doing it without difficulty until now.

‘It must have been bad timing.’

As Shin Hye-yeon said, she probably wouldn’t have the time to listen to her confession.
Because she learned of her close friend’s betrayal and also heard the story of an underground guild member she was involved with.

Even if she heard the confession, she thought that she would have liked to hear it later.
You may have to break up with Lee Seul-gi first.

‘But why did the sub-quest appear?’

It was something I couldn’t do even if I resented it.
Because the system clearly gave a 48-hour deadline than previous sub-quests.

‘I was in too much of a hurry.’

I clutched my head.

I don’t know if I can make up for this.
If you confess properly within 48 hours and don’t get approval, the deadline for the main quest will be shortened.

For the first time since returning, I felt a sense of crisis.

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“What the hell are you doing?”

Park Eun-ha, who was sitting in a daze at the cafe, was surprised to see the man sitting across from her.

“Are you even stalking me now?”
“What is stalking?”

Park Jung-gyun, the man sitting across from Park Eun-ha, laughed as if it were absurd.

“Are you getting more and more guts? Isn’t it natural for a team leader to take care of his team? What are you doing not answering me?”
“It’s nothing important. I thought you said let’s go to karaoke anyway.”
“That’s… Well, that’s right, though. Still, there are rules. Aren’t you just ignoring the manager’s call? Report to your brother?”
“Even if I report it, you will take my side, will you not take the team leader’s side?”
“Hmm. I raised a tiger cub.”
“I am no longer a baby. Because you are a full-fledged adult.”

Park Eun-ha smiled for the first time in a while.
Seeing her smiling face, she leaned back on the sofa to see if Park Jeong-gyun felt relieved.

“What really happened? Did you get any orders? It doesn’t matter if it’s calm, but if it’s money, you should report it to the guild. You know that?”
“I know. I was commissioned, but the money was returned.”
“What?”

Park Jeong-gyun made an absurd expression.

“How much was it?”
“Five thousand.”

To be precise, 500 out of 5,500 was not returned, but it was not a big difference.

“You can take that and use your pocket money. Why did you return it? If it’s a daunting task, you can do it together with your teammates.”
“You know I don’t get along well with them.”
“I really can’t say anything as a team leader.”
“I’ll listen to the nagging later. Anyway, it’s not a big deal, so there’s nothing to be curious about.”

Park Eun-ha quickly stood up.
And she left the cafe without saying goodbye.

“With that cheap thing.”

Looking at her from the back, Park Jung-gyun smiled despite her rude behavior.