Chapter 10: My Ex-Girlfriend’s Public Relationship

Hot new S-class Hunter Joo Hyun.

Just as the world was in an uproar over the appearance of Joo Hyun, Korea’s first S-class Debuffer.

Another uproar began.

[BM Guild Representative Kim Joon Hyuk. S-class Hunter Joo Hyun’s relationship publicly revealed.]

Kim Joon Hyuk, who had announced Joo Hyun’s debut, officially announced days later that he and Joo Hyun were a couple.

[Birth of the S-class Hunter Couple Kim Joon Hyuk ♡ Joo Hyun!]

[New S-class Hunter. Dating a man at the very top!]

[E-class Hunter’s myth Joo Hyun. Another life reversal through her relationship with Kim Joon Hyuk!]

[Protagonist of the greatest Cinderella story! S-class Hunter Joo Hyun!]

Articles about their relationship began pouring out.

[Kwon Geon public execution.]

In the group chat with friends.

One friend left an article link and started teasing.

[Ahhh! The whole world is finding out that his ex-girlfriend is in a relationship!]

[It’s spread all over town that the ex-girlfriend who dumped me is dating an S-class guy!]

Other friends also joined in the teasing.

It wasn’t the first or second day these guys were teasing me, so it wasn’t something to get angry about.

However, even though I had expected it, the situation itself was genuinely uncomfortable for me.

It wasn’t just these friends who knew I was dating Joo Hyun.

Just like their teasing implied, it truly had become public.

[Geon will also meet a better woman, so stop it and focus on your own relationships. Single losers.]

As expected, Dong Geon, whose personality was the opposite of the friends teasing me.

Dong Geon began stopping them with words that were a critical blow to those friends.

[This bich suddenly stabs someone?]

[Ohh. I’m bleeding?]

As expected, they got angry.

But Dong Geon was popular with women.

Because of that, the single friends could only get angry and, unfairly, couldn’t counter Dong Geon.

[Still, Ji Hwan isn’t a single loser. He dated someone once. It’s just that they broke up after 13 days. But dating is dating.]

[But he gave a gift and got dumped after 13 days.]

[bi*chs.]

I occasionally read my friends’ conversation while checking the internet.

The internet was heated with reactions of envy and jealousy towards Joo Hyun.

It made sense.

Joo Hyun wasn’t a civilian, and she was even an E-class Hunter.

[Anyway, Joo Hyun really hit the life lottery. The one who used to be E-class.]

[The one who clung to Geon and lived off him.]

[If it wasn’t for Geon, she wouldn’t even be alive right now.]

[Cheating on someone like that, and speaking badly about him. She doesn’t deserve to succeed.]

[Should we spread what she did on the internet?]

[It’s fine. What can you do when the situation has changed?

And I don’t want revenge in that way either. If you upload something like that needlessly, you’ll just get sued by the BM Guild, so don’t do it. It’s enough for me that you just cheer for me.]

‘I wanted to make Joo Hyun regret it, not attack her.’

‘Of course, even if I did attack, the power difference isn’t something I could make work.’

‘From the start, even if an attack would work, I have no intention of attacking.’

As my friends brought up stories from when Joo Hyun was E-class, I recalled the time we spent together.

That’s right.

Joo Hyun, in the time we lived and loved together, was E-class.

Targeted intensely by monsters, unable to get a job anywhere, having to live under constant threat to her life.

An E-class Hunter living a life far worse than that of a civilian.

I loved Joo Hyun, who was an E-class Hunter like that, so much that I put everything on the line and protected her until now.

And I, who had done that, am now seeing the news of Joo Hyun’s relationship with another man through articles.

Ha.

A sigh escaped me.

That Joo Hyun was seeing another man was something I already knew.

But with official articles about Joo Hyun’s relationship coming out like this, and the whole world talking about the birth of that couple, I felt bad but also strangely mixed.

‘Just two weeks ago, the woman I firmly believed would be my marriage partner, why is she appearing there now?’

“Since when have you two been dating?”

“How did you meet?”

“Which one of you confessed first?”

I turned on the video, curious about what on earth they would babble about.

At the official announcement, a flood of questions from journalists poured out towards Kim Joon Hyuk and Joo Hyun.

Kim Joon Hyuk prattled on and on, talking about how they connected from the moment Joo Hyun came for her S-class assessment, and how he confessed first.

“We heard you were with Hunter Joo Hyun during the cafe incident a few days ago. Was that incident related to Hunter Joo Hyun’s Debuff ability?”

“Yes, that’s right. At that time, Joo Hyun and I were already seeing each other well.

So, it was an accident that occurred during a private meeting at the cafe, caused by Joo Hyun’s power being unleashed while she was still inexperienced at controlling her Hunter abilities.”

Kim Joon Hyuk lied without batting an eye.

Even though he was the one who got hit by me and flew away.

“Is Hunter Joo Hyun’s Debuff ability that strong?”

“Yes, that’s right. If it was enough to make me get hit and fly away, doesn’t that say it all?”

Kim Joon Hyuk, pretending to be witty, threw a joke to the journalists.

The journalists all laughed at once.

“Can we look forward to the active contributions of this couple, made up of the best Hunter and Guild Representative, and the S-class Debuffer?”

“Of course. Our couple intends to work even harder together for world safety going forward.”

The lie that it was Joo Hyun’s power that made him fly away at the cafe.

That false interview by Kim Joon Hyuk was definitely effective.

Thanks to his statement, people around the world started expecting even more from Joo Hyun.

Reflecting people’s anticipation, the stock price of the BM Guild also soared even higher.

[Geon, what happened with your girlfriend?]

[Did you break up?]

Unlike the increasingly successful Kim Joon Hyuk and Joo Hyun, I was in trouble because of their public relationship.

Just as my friends had teased, it was truly revealed to the whole world that my ex-girlfriend was seeing a new man.

This meant that all my acquaintances now knew about Joo Hyun’s new relationship.

Acquaintances who knew the story of my relationship with Joo Hyun, upon seeing the article, as expected, all started contacting me.

What a headache.

My acquaintances also all knew what kind of sacrifices and hardships I had gone through to protect Joo Hyun.

So they started becoming indignant, asking if she dumped me just because she became S-class.

I told them everything Joo Hyun did to me, factually and without exaggeration.

My acquaintances all started cursing Joo Hyun at once.

[Please don’t post anything on the internet or anything like that. I don’t want people around me to be needlessly sued by the BM Guild because of her.]

‘I wanted to end the bad feelings about Joo Hyun here.’

‘I didn’t want to see my acquaintances getting accused of defamation just because they uploaded my story with Joo Hyun online and cursed her as a bich.’

‘Due to the status of an S-class Hunter, defamation against an S-class Hunter is punished much more severely under special laws.’

‘Because of her, I don’t want even the people around me to go through difficult things.’

Looking at the public relationship articles and news continuously, it made me angry.

And so, a few noisy days passed after Joo Hyun’s public relationship announcement.

A single message arrived that made me even more furious.

[Bring my things.]

Surprisingly, the sender of the message was Joo Hyun.

[You told me not to contact you, so why did you contact me?]

‘What is she trying to do?’

I replied annoyedly.

[Ah, I need to get my things out.]

Annoyance could be felt from Joo Hyun’s message too.

‘Who are you to be annoyed?’

‘What did you do right?’

Part of me wanted to just block her.

But I couldn’t just throw away Joo Hyun’s luggage as I pleased.

It was annoying, but handling this was necessary to be completely finished.

Alright, I got it.

I’ll send them one last time.

[Alright. I’ll send them by moving truck. Should I send them to the BM Guild?]

It was the house I had lived in with Joo Hyun for a full three years.

Naturally, there were still many of Joo Hyun’s things left in the house we lived in together.

Because she didn’t take many things when she left the house the day she sent me the message to break up.

[There are many precious things. I can’t trust others. Bring them yourself by car.]

‘What is she saying?’

[Hey. Are you kidding me? Why should I do that? It’s your luggage. You and I are strangers now.]

‘How can a person be this shameless?’

‘She cheated and broke up with me, but she’s asking me to move her things?’

‘Who on earth was I dating for three years?’

‘The more I learned about Joo Hyun’s true nature, the more surprising it was.’

[We were lovers, you can do this much for me as a last favor, can’t you? Is it that hard?]

‘What is she talking about?’

‘Of course it’s hard.’

[Uh. It’s very hard? Then have your guild members move them. That should work.]

[I told you I can’t trust others.]

[And I’m not ‘other people’?]

‘She doesn’t even trust her own guild members?’

I asked dumbfounded.

But Joo Hyun’s reply made me even more dumbfounded.

[Didn’t you say you didn’t want to see me and told me not to ask to meet again? You even threatened to report me for threatening an S-class Hunter if I came to find you.]

[It can’t be helped if I need to get my things, can it? It’s fine if I allow it. I won’t report you, so don’t worry and Oppa, bring them over.]

Oh?

She’s calling me Oppa again.

‘Last time I saw her, she called me Oppa when she was cornered.’

‘Something is suspicious.’

‘No matter what I said, she kept insisting I help her, which was definitely suspicious.’

‘Why is she acting like this?’