hotmtlnovel Chapter 69
Chapter 69
[ Senior. Come down to the first floor. ]
Hyungseok’s sudden text.
‘What? Why? All of a sudden?’
“What’s going on?”
It was rare for him to ask me to come out like this.
“Ha... I really didn’t want it to come to this...”
He was standing with a hand on his waist, waiting for me, looking quite frustrated.
“You’re so hopeless, Senior.”
He clicked his tongue.
“Why? Me. What?”
“Come here.”
He led me to a café.
There, I found S-Rank Hunter Lee Yeji.
‘Huh? What? Why? What’s going on?’
I didn’t exactly know what abilities she possessed, but I recognized her face well.
I only vaguely knew her name.
She wasn’t exactly a highly active S-Rank Hunter.
Though she was surely an S-Rank Hunter and somewhat well-known, she still gave off an aura of quietly living her life.
“What’s this? Why? What’s going on right now?”
I was completely puzzled as Hyungseok practically dragged me along.
“Ha. Just sit here for a second.”
He continued to look immensely frustrated.
“Okay. You know Hunter Lee Yeji, right?”
“Hello.”
Hunter Lee Yeji bowed slightly as she greeted me.
“Ah... Hello.”
I had no choice but to awkwardly shrink back and greet her.
I could only speak in a whisper.
“Hey, what’s this? You know Hunter Lee Yeji too? Did you bring her here?”
“Yeah.”
“How? An S-Rank Hunter?”
“Oh, I have a bit of a wide network in the Hunter industry.”
“Wow. You can invite an S-Rank Hunter like this, but can’t charm any women?”
“Doing my job well and that is a bit different.”
His expression was quite confident.
“Hey. But seriously, what’s this all about?”
“Ha. I brought her here because you’re being such an idiot.”
“What?”
I couldn’t help but be offended.@@@@
“This is Hunter Lee Yeji; she can remove effects that other Hunters have inflicted.”
“?”
I had no choice but to look back and forth between Lee Yeji and Hyungseok.
“Ha. So, I think the weird way you’ve been acting is likely because of Hunter Chae Suhyeon.”
“Umm...”
“And I wanted to confirm that. Hunter Lee Yeji, could you take a look?”
It seemed she was rummaging through something.
“Um... It looks quite serious, doesn’t it?”
Her expression shifted.
“Yes?”
“How have you been living like this?”
She nodded her head, looking utterly perplexed.
“Why?”
“Severe deterioration of intelligence, severe decline in judgment, and your naivety and gullibility have increased...”
She rattled off the list.
“Are you talking about me?”
“Ha...”
I spoke a bit more stiffly.
“Um...”
Lee Sooah looked flustered.
It seemed she was struggling to adapt to my sudden change.
“Um, Jihoon, is something bothering you? Was I too rude? I’m really sorry.”
Her tone slightly shifted.
It felt like she was becoming increasingly humble.
“Then... I’ll just talk for today...”
“Sure.”
*
“Oh, is it already over? I thought you were going to have a long talk with Hunter Lee Sooah?”
Manager Cha looked confused.
He seemed to be quite perceptive, reacting sensitively to my transformed demeanor.
“Yeah, she didn’t say much.”
*
“What’s going on?”
Lee Sooah sat at her desk with a blank expression.
She had called for Baek Jihoon with cheerful anticipation, but something felt off.
It was as if I had become someone entirely different.
‘Um... Why? Suddenly? Huh?’
She looked quite confused.
‘Was that the real him? Perhaps he was just pretending to be weak all this time...?’
‘Um...’
‘This is actually better!’
Despite tilting her head with an expression that suggested she found something odd, she began to smile cheerfully.
“Later at quitting time~ we should go together~”
Lee Sooah started humming as she focused on her work.
*
“Hmm...”
Chae Suhyeon appeared to be deep in thought.
She kept tapping the desk with her pen, wearing a serious expression.
‘Ha... Jihoon oppa... what should I do? Ha... sigh...’
Then she opened her status window.
‘Hmm... Is there nothing I can do with the remaining enchantment... Did I speak too irritably? Is that why the enchantment doesn’t work...?’
She started fiddling with the status window.
“Wait?????”
Suddenly startled, she jumped up from her chair.
Her chair nearly toppled over.
“What? Why? How come?”
She couldn’t close her mouth.
The status window showed Baek Jihoon’s enchantment level had dropped to zero.
“Why? It was clearly 92%! What? What’s going on? Why? What? What is it? Huh??”
She was in such disbelief that she kept touching and looking around the status window in a frenzy.
“Huh? Did the status window malfunction? Why suddenly drop from the 90s to zero? What’s going on...?”
Her face became rigid with a very perplexed expression.
It seemed she was profoundly shocked that what she thought was her glimmer of hope had vanished.
Thud.
She sat down heavily as if the world had collapsed around her.
‘Ah... What the hell? What is this? Is the status window crazy? Why suddenly?’
Her face contorted seriously.
But there was nothing she could currently do.
‘What should I do?’
‘Jihoon oppa...’
‘This is a big deal...’
Various thoughts about Baek Jihoon began to bubble up inside her.
To be continued.