Chapter 13 - Reunion with a Fallen Ex-Girlfriend
Hunter Association.
A public institution that manages hunters, issuing summons to hunters.
It’s a government department that mediates disputes between hunter guilds. As hunters’ status has risen day by day, the Hunter Association’s power has also become formidable.
It’s said that the current president of the Hunter Association has such enormous power that even the country’s president can’t interfere…
But for ordinary hunters, it’s not really a relatable story.
In fact, ordinary hunters don’t visit the association that often anyway.
Park Jin-soo and I escaped from the gate.
And the first place that Park Jin-soo and I headed to after escaping the gate was the Hunter Association.
After all, people had died, and whenever incidents occur, they must be reported to the Hunter Association.
We were a bit worried that they might not believe our story when we visited the Hunter Association, but fortunately, the Hunter Association believed our testimony.
It helped that both Park Jin-soo and I were innocent hunters with no criminal records.
They did say they might come to investigate later, but I still think things will work out well.
Only then could we take a breather.
Thus, the incident was concluded for now, and after leaving the Hunter Association, we headed straight to a bar.
“Huuuuuk… Brother Si-woo.”
It was a quiet and delicious bar I knew.
Park Jin-soo sobs while drinking here.
I comforted Park Jin-soo while sipping tasteless alcohol.
Apparently, what happened in the gate was quite shocking for Park Jin-soo.
Meeting such a group of robbers on his first raid in his life is definitely not a common experience.
So it’s natural for Park Jin-soo to be like this.
Honestly, even if it were me, I would have been quite scared if I met such people on my first raid.
For ordinary people, it could cause trauma.
“Jin-soo. Aren’t you tired? If you’re tired, you don’t necessarily have to drink.”
“No, Brother Si-woo. My promise with you is more important than my life.”
So I told Park Jin-soo that we could keep the drinking promise for next time and go home first, but Park Jin-soo said he definitely wanted to drink with me, citing the reason of keeping promises.
“Jin-soo. Why are you suddenly calling me brother… Can’t you not do that?”
“Brother Si-woo is truly my brother.”
Well, ultimately, things worked out well, and everything is fine, but Park Jin-soo has become a bit burdensome since the incident.
I knew that Park Jin-soo had a liking for me as a colleague originally, but after today’s incident, it seems he has developed an even greater liking for me.
After all, I saved Park Jin-soo’s life, and the fact that I’m his life savior seems to have had a significant impact on Park Jin-soo.
‘Should I just firmly tell him not to call me brother…? It’s burdensome.’
I thought that briefly, but I decided to just let it be.
It was clear that if I just left it alone, he would get tired of it on his own.
“By the way, is it really okay for me to take all of this?”
“Of course, Brother Si-woo. Essentially, Brother Si-woo did everything. A small portion is enough for me.”
I asked Park Jin-soo, pointing to a significant amount of magic stones.
Park Jin-soo answered willingly.
Originally, the magic stones should have been divided equally among 10 people.
But after those robbers died, their magic stones all became mine.
Somehow, I was able to earn more money than expected.
It was a total of about 900 million won worth of magic stones.
“Brother… I’m really moved. Sob… You looked for me non-stop for 20 hours and saved me like that. Thank you once again, Brother Si-woo.”
Park Jin-soo downed a glass of alcohol.
And he sobs again while sending me sparkling eyes.
It was a phrase I had heard countless times on our way here.
I’m starting to get tired of it now.
“Well… Of course I had to save you. Let’s stop talking about that now.”
“Yes. I understand, Brother.”
After appropriately ending the topic, I also took a sip from my glass.
“Hmm…”
“Brother, what’s wrong? Does the alcohol taste bad?”
“It’s nothing.”
As I drank, I felt a bit disappointed that I still couldn’t taste the alcohol.
Originally, drinking alcohol as a form of self-comfort after completing arduous hunter work was the joy of my life…
Now I have obtained the [Hero] skill and am no longer an ordinary body.
To be honest, everything else is fine, but the fact that I don’t even get tipsy is somewhat sad.
I can adapt to other things, but that still doesn’t adapt, which is difficult.
“By the way, Brother. This place is really delicious? It’s a real gem, how did you come to know it?”
Park Jin-soo briefly looked at me curiously, then immediately drank with the side dishes.
And he started praising these foods, making a pleased “Mmm” sound.
“It’s a place I used to come to a lot with my ex-girlfriend, it was our regular spot.”
I told Park Jin-soo honestly.
This was a place I frequently visited with Yoo Eun-ha.
It’s a restaurant I researched diligently for the fastidious Yoo Eun-ha, so there’s no way it could be bad.
“Oh… ex-girlfriend… I feel sorry, Brother.”
“No. Well. It doesn’t matter.”
Hearing my words, Park Jin-soo immediately bowed his head to apologize to me.
It seemed he felt he had said something disrespectful.
But I didn’t mind at all.
It’s now a thing of the past, and it has nothing to do with anything.
“Then Brother, if it’s not impolite, may I ask what kind of person your ex-girlfriend was?”
At my words, Park Jin-soo raised his head as if relieved.
Then Park Jin-soo gauged my reaction and asked me.
Apparently, he’s quite curious about my ex-girlfriend.
“Yoo Eun-ha.”
“What? Yoo Eun-ha?”
“Yes. Yoo Eun-ha.”
I gave Park Jin-soo a simple answer.
It wasn’t particularly something to hide, and I had no intention of hiding it, so I just told him.
Park Jin-soo’s expression seemed quite shocked upon hearing my words, but it’s a familiar sight I had seen throughout the time I was dating Yoo Eun-ha.
“You mean that Frozen Queen, Yoo Eun-ha?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Park Jin-soo asked me again as if to confirm, and I confirmed it.
Frozen Queen, Yoo Eun-ha.
She was the S-class Rank 1 hunter, and now a fallen hunter, Yoo Eun-ha is my ex-girlfriend.
“Brother… You’re truly an amazing person…”
“Well, I’m not amazing. My ex-girlfriend was the amazing one.”
“No. You’re the amazing one, Brother.”
Park Jin-soo looked at me with his mouth open in surprise. He seemed shocked.
I glumly answered such a Park Jin-soo. Saying it was nothing.
Park Jin-soo denied that statement, but such debates were meaningless.
“Then Brother, could you be the boyfriend who was so coldly dumped by Hunter Yoo Eun-ha?”
“Ah… How do you know that?”
Park Jin-soo asked me once more, and I was surprised.
How do you know that? was my feeling.
“That’s still in YouTube’s popular videos.”
Park Jin-soo turned on his smartphone and showed me a YouTube video.
It was a video titled [Yoo Eun-ha Breaks Up with Boyfriend].
“Let me see.”
I watched the video on Park Jin-soo’s smartphone.
It wasn’t a very long video, but it contained all the conversation when we broke up.
—You ignored all my requests to meet saying you were busy, and now that we’re finally meeting, what are you saying?
—Didn’t you hear me? I said let’s break up.
…
—Oh, by the way, I’ll let the cursing slide once, but if you curse at me again, I’ll blow your head off, so be careful.
—What a fucking bitch.
—W-What? Fucking bitch?
My face didn’t appear, but the man with Yoo Eun-ha was definitely me.
Our breakup was captured in a short video of about 3 minutes.
“Hmm…”
I watched the video.
One thought I had while watching the video was that dating an S-class hunter is troublesome.
Although my face didn’t appear, the thought occurred to me that such things get filmed when you’re with Yoo Eun-ha, who has the world’s attention.
If I were to date again in the future, I should avoid dating an S-class hunter.
“Ah… I’m sorry. To show you a breakup video… I must have been too excited from the alcohol.”
“No. It doesn’t bother me at all.”
Park Jin-soo started apologizing to me as I was watching the video.
It seems I caused a misunderstanding because I had a complicated expression.
It’s been over a month since I broke up with Yoo Eun-ha.
I no longer have any emotions regarding the breakup with Yoo Eun-ha.
Since it wasn’t what Park Jin-soo was thinking at all, I told him it was okay.
“Jin-soo. Let’s go now.”
“Yes, Brother Si-woo.”
As it was about time the side dishes were running out, I spoke to Park Jin-soo, and Park Jin-soo also started gathering his things.
“By the way, it seems there’s a commotion over there? What’s going on?”
Just as I was about to leave after gathering my things, Park Jin-soo pointed to a certain spot.
“I’ll pay it back. If I pay it back, it’s fine, right!”
The place he pointed to had a silver-haired woman and a shady man wearing a floral shirt.
The two were arguing.
“What commotion.”
From the looks of it, the man in the shady shirt was a loan shark, and the woman seemed to have borrowed money from him.
I was going to ignore it.
There’s nothing good about watching such fights.
However, just as I was about to pass by, I saw a face quite familiar to me.
I could recognize her at a glance.
A silver-haired beauty.
Her impression had changed a lot, but fragments of her arrogant and haughty demeanor remained.
Yoo Eun-ha.
It was my ex-girlfriend who had dumped me, whom I was meeting after a month.