Chapter 23: just smiling

I ran.

I don’t know where the destination is.

I just wanted to forget that image in my eyes, running endlessly.

Wiping away the tears that kept flowing for some reason with my hand.

I kept running.

I thought Yeom Haneul had entered the soup restaurant, but she suddenly ran outside.

‘… Wasn’t she crying just now…?’

Was I wrong? Did I see it wrong?

“Uh, unnie?!”
“Uh, where are you going!”

The two women who came with Yeom Haneul were also embarrassed and chased after Yeom Haneul, leaving the blood sausage soup restaurant.

The blood sausage soup restaurant was momentarily enveloped in silence.

“… Let’s quickly eat and go.”
“Yesss…”

It was an atmosphere that made me feel like I would get indigestion if I ate, so I ate moderately and left.

“I-I can buy it for you…”

Yu Ayeon kept trying to pay, so I compromised and we ended up splitting the bill.

“Somehow, we ended up drinking, sleeping, and even having hangover soup.”
“Haaaam… That’s right… But… Because I was with Suhyeon-ssi… It was a good time…”
“Ahaha. What’s that.”

My stomach was full, so we had a casual conversation and took a walk, and I took out Dr. Pepper from the inventory and drank it.

“… Waaa… Is this the Inventory skill…?”
“Yes. It’s amazing, right?”
“Yesss… We’re both special Awakened… But there’s such a difference…”

I revealed the Inventory ability to Yu Ayeon.

We’ll be together in the future, so there was no reason not to reveal it.

Anyway, if we start working on iTube or as hunters, the fact that I have the ability called Inventory will spread quickly.

“Then I’ll contact you when we get a gate next week.”
“Yes…! Please contact me…! I’ll wait forever…!”
“It’s not something to wait forever for…”
“Ehehe…”

We made an appointment to meet next week and returned to our daily lives.

I returned home and looked at the room littered with liquor bottles.

The room, which had a strong scent of a woman, perhaps because Yu Ayeon slept over yesterday, felt strangely unfamiliar.

I cleaned up the liquor bottles and tidied up the house.

While I was spending time in the room, which now looked like a place where a person lived to some extent, the phone suddenly rang.

When I answered the phone, I heard Park Hyena’s voice.

[Ah, is this Suhyeon-ssi? Is this Han Suhyeon-ssi?]
[Ah, yes. It’s me.]
[Haa… That’s a relief… I contacted you several times but you didn’t answer, so I thought it was the wrong number.]
[Ah. I’m sorry. I just checked my phone now. There was something urgent.]

I lied effortlessly and made up an excuse for not answering the phone, and a brief conversation about trivial matters continued.

[Have you seen the video? The video uploaded on our channel.]
[Yes. I saw it well.]
[Ah. I’m glad you saw it well! We thought this video would be a hit, but it was a bigger hit than we imagined!]

Park Hyena brought up the main point.

[So… Would you like to film with us one more time?]

I talked to Park Hyena and Jo Hyeonchan on the phone and made an appointment.

To film another video at a suitable gate next week.

But what was different from before was.

[Ah, right. Hyena-ssi. Hyeonchan-ssi. I’m going to try iTube too.]
[Huh? You’re going to do iTube? Really?! Wow! I think Suhyeon-ssi will become a big company soon!]

I heard a sound of Park Hyena screaming and collapsing, and Jo Hyeonchan hurriedly picked up the phone.

[Ah, hey, put down the phone quickly, you b*tch…! Suhyeon-ssi! Suhyeon-ssi! Have you found a camera person? You haven’t found one yet, right?! Then maybe I…!]

[Ah. I just found one today.]
[Ah… I see…]
[So, can my camera person come with me when we film next week?]
[Huh? Ah, of course! Of course!]

Yu Ayeon also joined the filming of the gate raid video.

The grade of the gate to be filmed was also raised.

The gate we will go to next time is E-rank.

Park Hyena was a D-rank hunter with a lot of practical experience, so I judged that it would be okay to raise the difficulty a little.

I ended the call with them and informed Yu Ayeon of this news.

[B-B-Already…! Is it decided…!]
[Yes. I told you the location and time, so let’s meet up and go together. Rest well in the meantime.]
[Yes, yessss…!]

I hung up the phone after saying only what was necessary without any other conversation.

The scheduled schedule is next week.

In the meantime, I was planning to spend time doing mana cultivation and physical training.

The training continued until the day before filming.

I increased my mana pool with mana cultivation and grew my core.

I trained my body by swinging Cutie♡Angel (Greatsword/Ego Sword/2m/28kg/Virgin), who had gained weight from whatever she did inside the Inventory.

“It’s okay, Cutie♡Angel. You’re beautiful even if you gain weight. No, you become more beautiful as you gain weight.”
Vmm…! Vmmm…!

I also trained my leg strength by dodging and parrying Cutie♡Angel, who was swinging her sword in embarrassment.

The problem is.

Crash!

“Nooooo! My computer!”

I did that in the house.

“What the hell did you do, Cutie♡Angeeeeeeelll!!!”

Vmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Cutie Angel also opened the inventory on her own and hid inside, saying that she was not at fault this time.

There was also an incident where I was frustrated, hugging the main body and monitor that were stabbed two or three times by the sword.

I have to work hard again tomorrow, so I stopped training and rested by rolling around on the bed.

I was playing with my cell phone, wondering if there was anything interesting, when a familiar face appeared on the screen.

I clicked on the internet link as if possessed.

[Yeom Haneul’s recent status… JPG]

Is this b*tch traveling the world?

[A photo taken a week ago of Yeom Haneul’s afterimage, running with her head down on the Han River]
[A photo of Yeom Haneul taken at the Great Wall of China 6 days ago]
[A photo of Yeom Haneul walking through a snowstorm taken in Russia 5 days ago]
[A photo taken in Australia 3 days ago of Yeom Haneul sparring 1v1 with a kangaroo-type monster]
[A video taken from the sky 2 days ago of Yeom Haneul skydiving without any safety equipment]
[A photo of Yeom Haneul found again on the Han River today]

What the hell is this b*tch doing? LOL
No, the photos were taken, but her expression looks like a corpse in all of them LOL
And I heard that the photo taken in Australia was taken when she happened to be nearby when a gate backflow occurred and helped .Lol.

• Is that b*tch really human…? When she skydives, she doesn’t even open her parachute and just falls, but why is she fine? Is this an A-rank hunter…?
  ㄴ Yeom Haneul should be considered practically S-rank. No matter how A-rank a hunter is, they die if they do that kind of thing.
  ㄴ I heard it wasn’t skydiving. I heard she was lying on top of the plane and fell off when it landed?
  ㄴ …? Is that possible?

• Her expression looks like she confessed to her first love and got rejected?
  ㄴ Yeom Haneul? Love? LOL That battle maniac crazy b*tch? LOL
  ㄴ Yeom Haneul is famous for not drinking, smoking, or dating men. There are rumors that she’s a lesbian because there are only women around her.
  ㄴ As expected, lesbian maker Yeom Haneul ….Whoa.

• But is it even possible to go from the Great Wall of China to Russia in one day, and from Russia to Australia in two days?
  ㄴ You can’t do that schedule even if you take a private jet.
  ㄴ I heard she ran there?
  ㄴ ? No way. No matter how much, that’s a bit.
  ㄴ It’s true. Haven’t you seen the video uploaded to iTube? When Yeom Haneul ran, there was a sound of the wind bursting.

What the. She’s fine.

I thought I saw her leaving the soup restaurant crying last time.

I guess I was wrong.

I owed a life debt to Yu Ayeon, but I also received a lot from Yeom Haneul.

If Yeom Haneul hadn’t called the healer party members when I was fighting the Ogre, I wouldn’t be here now.

‘I should thank her sometime.’

There were many other posts in the link I entered, the Hunter Gallery.

[Ah, so who the hell is ‘that hunter’! ]

Why hasn’t it been revealed who it is yet? I’m so sad.

• What are you going to do if you know.
  ㄴ Find them on iTube or whatever and simp for them like crazy.
  ㄴ Who simps for anime these days. Simp for hunters.
  ㄴ A righteous S-rank super pretty boy hunter in the region, who wouldn’t simp?
  ㄴ For real, LOL. I have to suck him dry until he cries that he won’t come out anymore.LOL
  ㄴ ?
  ㄴ What.
  ㄴ I’m also very interested in your taste, sir.

Even after a week, the stories about me were still getting a hot reaction.

It wasn’t that I was trying to hide my identity, but they seemed even more anxious because my whereabouts hadn’t appeared for a week or after.

[What are these b*stards?]

(iTube video titled Rapier Lecture by Handsome Hunter!)
(The man with 20 million views! Telling the story of what happened at the shelter! iTube video titled)

Some crazy guys are impersonating ‘that hunter’?

The first video seems to be the B-rank hunter who was presumed to be ‘that hunter’ before?

• They’re trying to take advantage of the fact that his identity hasn’t been revealed.

• How dare they impersonate our oppa? They’re all dead.

• Let’s show the power of Hunter Gallery, let’s go~

• But wasn’t Park Daesu building up his recognition well, even if he was slow? Why did he make such a blunder?
  ㄴ Park Daesu advocated for Memi and lost all his fans, so he fell to rock bottom. Isn’t he struggling to regain popularity?
  ㄴ Ah, really? Memi is indeed a mental illness.
  ㄴ There are really a lot of Memi throughout the hunter industry. I think it’s over 90% for men? There are quite a few female Memi too.
  ㄴ A honeybee hunter is really not someone else’s story. I think I’ve seen it once every two times I enter a gate.

The video Yu Ayeon and I uploaded to iTube has now reached 20 million views, and the number of subscribers has exceeded 100,000.

People who impersonated me also appeared to steal the pie, but I didn’t care.

The truth will be revealed over time.

I didn’t feel the need to waste time paying attention to and feeding such people.

I closed my phone and closed my eyes.

I was looking forward to tomorrow.