Chapter 36 – First Quest Accomplished!

Turning the pages meant that the book contained what I was looking for.
The book opened, and I read the contents in it with concentration.

While I confessed to Shin Hye-yeon and was thinking about it, many things were happening behind the scenes.
And at the center was Park Eun-ha.

‘Unbelievable…’

Park Jong-gil eventually became a criminal himself.
Dew Seulgi should have been in the hospital by now.

Truly a tragedy.
I felt the pain I had suffered in my previous life that seemed like it would never be resolved no matter what I did.

‘If this is enough.’

The lives of Park Jong-gil and Lee Seul-gi are not over.
If Seulgi Lee hadn’t ended his life, he would somehow be able to find his old self.
Even if she’s F-rank, she’s a hunter.
The recovery ability of ordinary people and Hunters is completely different.

It will cost a lot of money and time. In any case, she will be able to find her old self.

Park Jong-gil was dragged into an underground guild.
What he will face in the future will be very harsh.
However, there was a minimum Maginot Line.

Because Park Eun-ha asked not to kill him.
And she said to end her suffering as quickly as possible.

I don’t know what kind of person Park Jung-gyun is, but at least I got the impression that he cared for Park Eun-ha.
If Park Eun-ha had asked for it, he would have listened to her request.

After reading ‘The Book of Truth’, my thoughts about Park Eun-ha changed again.

What she did for me
It was impossible without special feelings.

She declared to me at her cafe.
I will love you no matter what

Park Eun-ha and I don’t care.
However, the problem was how Shin Hye-yeon would accept this.

“Haaa…”

Until Shin Hye-yeon accepted my confession, I thought it was the end of my worries and the beginning of happiness.
However, living was not easy.

If I suffered from the curse of NTR in my past life, I wondered if blessings would cause problems in this life.
In the future, I had 20 curses left to correct.
If this happens over and over again…

If dozens of women stay around me…
It was a very difficult thing to think about even if it was easy.

I wondered if this could really be called a blessing.

【Don’t doubt.】
【A blessing is just a blessing.】

The same message I had seen before came to mind.
Yesterday I was able to sleep comfortably thanks to this message, but not now.
Without any explanation, just ‘don’t doubt’.
Are you trying to convince me of this?

【The girls who will have a relationship with you in this life will love you no matter what.】
【As long as they stay by your side, nothing will happen to them.】
【You and the girls will enjoy the same blessings.】

I frowned and looked at the message.
It was difficult to understand exactly what this meant.
Knowing that there are dozens of other women next to me, they can be happy?
It was something that was difficult to understand with my notions.

As if to change the subject, another message suddenly came to mind.

【Quest ‘NTL for Seulgi Lee and Jonggil Park’ has been accomplished.]
【30 EXP has been given as a reward.】
【You have obtained a ‘Random Skill Acquisition Coupon’.】

“Ah…”

Quest Accomplished.

In fact, her mind was complicated after meeting Park Eun-ha, and after learning that she played an active role behind her through ‘The Book of Truth’.
I forgot for a while that I was on a quest.

The most important thing in this life could be this ‘quest’.
I don’t know if it will be the same in the future – I think it will be – but the penalty for failing the quest was a return to NTR’s cursed life and a terrible death.

That’s why no matter what, I had to live with the quest as the center.
No matter what my personal worries are, as long as I do the quest well, I can turn a curse into a blessing as the message says.

I wondered on what criteria the quest was accomplished.
I don’t know exactly what NTL means.
It was only a rough guess.
Of course, I knew the definition of the term I found on the Internet, but it seemed a little different from what this system said.

I had sex with Shin Hye-yeon, but I did not have sex with Park Eun-ha.

At least I could see that it wasn’t the standard.

【Shin Hye-yeon and Park Eun-ha’s affinity for you is 100%.】
【They will not hold negative feelings towards you no matter what.】
【They will never leave you unless you deliberately shake them off.】

“Ah.”

Does that mean?
In fact, if the liking rate is 100%, it won’t matter whether you have sex or not.
If I put my mind to it, the two women will always agree to it.
In other words, this could be called the flexibility of the system.

I am grateful for the system that showed flexibility.

‘Compensation…’

So far I’ve accomplished several sub-quests.
And, according to the result, the reward was obtained.
There is still one reward that has not been used.

‘Free Skill Slots’.

The reason I was able to acquire the ‘sword skill’ skill before was because Shin Hye-yeon, who had a favorable rating of over 80%, acquired it.
Originally, I was only a D-class, so I couldn’t learn the ‘sword skill’.
Above all, it is physically impossible.

Skills can be acquired in the same way.
Unfortunately, Shin Hye-yeon did not have any other skills.

Matter of course.

She will be called ‘Leah Shin’ in the future and become a hunter who will rule Korea, but she is still only a freshman in college.
If you want more than that, you will be greedy.

‘…Park Eun-ha?’

It was clear that she also liked me more than 80%.
Shin Hye-yeon was walking the same path as other college students, except that she studied at a French academy for several months.

But she is different from Park Eun-ha.

When she was in high school, she had already joined an underground guild.
I knew very well what underground guild hunters were like.

They will do anything for their own growth.
They were willing to take even the unsafe means.

Shin Hye-yeon would have walked the same path.
Rather, he must have pursued growth more vigorously in order to play a part in the guild.

‘The next time we meet.’

I figured I’d have to use her ‘scouter’ against her.
Then you can clearly see if she has her skills.

Anyway, using the ‘free skill slot’ is a later task.

For now, I decided to focus more on the rewards I got right away.

“What is experience?”

I’ve heard explanations before.
But to make it clearer, I asked the system.

【Experience points can be used to improve stats and skills.】
【If your stats increase above a certain level, your overall grade will increase.】

‘Also…’

I was able to see my status at a glance.
Of course, as each stat grade goes up, the overall grade will also go up.

‘It’s amazing.’

How can you grow so easily?
It was really like a game.
I was able to perform quests like playing games and grow with the rewards.

For Hunter, it was the greatest blessing.
Even though I am now in Class D, I was able to achieve rapid growth only by breaking the curse of my previous life.

And another reward.

Its name was ‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’.

I could have guessed a bit from the name alone, but I asked the system how to use it.

“How do I use the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Coupon’?”

【Rewards are automatically saved in your inventory.】
【Take out the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Coupon’ and infuse mana.]

It wasn’t difficult to understand.
This was the same as how Hunters use other items, equipment, and weapons.
Because all these actions require mana.

I put my hand in my inventory.
Indeed, there was something new to touch.

It was a thick paper ticket.

Inside the colorful border, it read ‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’.

In a way, it felt a bit like a joke.
If it’s not really a game, there’s no way such an item would exist in reality.

Anyway, I did what the system told me to do.

I took the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Ticket’ and infused mana into it.

A bright light emanated from the ticket.

After a while, the ‘Random Skill Acquisition Voucher’ disappeared and was not seen in the faded light.

【You have acquired the skill ‘Steel Stamina’.]

‘Steel stamina?’

There was nothing I couldn’t understand just by looking at the name, but it was an unfamiliar skill to me.
At least I didn’t know that there was a skill with this name.

“Can you explain the ‘steel stamina’ skill?”

【Skill ‘Steel Stamina’ serves to lower your fatigue. Recovery speed is increased by 10% from the standard of level 1.]
【If there is a person with 80% or higher affinity, the same effect is applied.】