Chapter 41: sucking out the marrow (3)

My hands were trembling, and I couldn’t calm down as I kept breaking out in a cold sweat.

I was already playing Hunter’s World and messing around with other greatswords, and then I went to find maintenance tools to appease Cutie♡Angel’s anger.

If I were to apply this situation to reality…

A husband who, after promising his angry wife that he would wear sexy clothes tonight and wait for her, completely forgets about his wife waiting at home.

A wife watching from behind (Inventory) as her husband, who has completely forgotten what he said, touches and appraises other women (weapons)…

Cutie♡Angel could come in and out of the inventory at will.

The fact that Cutie♡Angel didn’t come out in this situation was a sign that indirectly showed how angry she was.

It wasn’t the time to be looking at artifacts.

I looked at Yeon-daepyo, wiping off my cold sweat with trembling hands.

“D-Do you, by any chance. Do you have weapon maintenance tools here?”

You have to. No, please have them. Please. Please. God… No, those guys aren’t reliable… Ah, anyway, anyone, please…!

“Maintenance tools…? Um… We have one… No, two weapon maintenance tools.”

Yes! Ugh! I did it!

“Q-Quick! Let’s go there quickly!”

“…? Yes…”

I pushed Yeon-daepyo’s back hard and quickly moved.

“A whetstone imbued with the A-rank skill [Sharpen]-“

“That! I’ll take that!”

“… Yes. The second maintenance tool is leather made by processing the magic core and corpse of the A-rank boss Flare Dragon-“

“Give me that too!”

I received two maintenance tools in a hurry.

Anyway, it seemed like it would take a considerable amount of time to find better maintenance tools than these, so I just went for it.

Other S-rank artifacts were a little tempting, but to appease Cutie♡Angel’s anger, I had no choice.

I’ll have to take something like this to get her to accept my apology, right…?

I put the items obtained as compensation for the apology into my inventory and left the treasure vault.

“Then the second reward…”

Yeon-daepyo was talking, but she stopped and looked at me intently.

One item from the treasure vault was scheduled as the first reward.

But even though I took five instead of one, her gaze was asking if I really needed to receive the second reward.

Of course, I was definitely going to receive it.

But just not now.

“C-Can I receive it later? I have something urgent.”

“… Ah. Then I’ll see you off on your way.”

Yeon-daepyo looked puzzled by my sudden change in attitude, but soon she escorted me to the entrance of the building.

“D-Director. Good morning!”

“Oh, yes. Everyone, do your work.”

It was quite some time later, and employees and hunters belonging to Yeonseong Guild also came to work, and they gave a polite bow whenever they encountered the representative.

On the way to the entrance, quite a few people witnessed me and Yeon-daepyo together.

“… What? Isn’t that Han Suhyeon?”

“What? Where?! Wow… It’s really Han Suhyeon?”

“He looks amazing in the camera, but he’s even more amazing in person.”

“What’s he doing at Yeonseong Guild?”

“He’s with Director Yeon?”

“Don’t tell me Director Yeon scouted him herself?”

“Director Yeon herself?! Wow… The only person Director Yeon scouted herself in the last five years was Takanashi.”

“Does Director Yeon think Han Suhyeon is worth as much as an S-rank hunter?”

“Then is Han Suhyeon joining Yeonseong Guild?”

Among them, there were of course people who recognized me.

A promising newcomer who has recently begun to rise rapidly.

Witnessing the promising newcomer at the headquarters of the number one guild in the country.

And next to him stood the representative of the number one guild in the country…

When looking at the circumstantial evidence, the speculation that the representative came out herself to scout the promising newcomer was absolutely not wrong.

I glanced at Yeon-daepyo, and she avoided my gaze, sweating.

People’s mouths are never reliable.

Even if only three people gather, rumors spread throughout the neighborhood, but since so many people witnessed it, the rumor that Yeonseong tried to scout me will spread throughout the country overnight.

Tomorrow, even the neighborhood stray dog will know that Yeonseong Guild has marked Han Suhyeon.

For a moment, I felt like I wanted to get another ‘compensation for apology’, but when I thought about it, it wasn’t such a bad thing for me.

I don’t want to belong to a particular group, but if the rumor spreads that I belong to Yeonseong Guild, a lot of annoying things will disappear.

Things like guild or party invitations, and those who try to tail me like last time will disappear because they think the number one guild in the country is watching my back.

“I’ll let it slide once.”

“…… Thank you.”

As Yeon-daepyo assisted me, I left the guild building, and I saw about ten people standing in front of the building with pickets and banners.

“Ah. Those b*stards are at it again.”

Unfiltered swear words came out of Yeon-daepyo’s mouth, who was maintaining the image of a gentle middle-aged woman.

What kind of group is it that can make Yeon-daepyo, who was calm even in front of the thief who took five artifacts, spit out such curse words?

My curiosity piqued for a moment, and I looked closely at the pickets they were holding.

[Yeonseong Guild, implement the male quota!]

[Guarantee the interests of male hunters!]

[Male hunters change history!]

[In the end, the world will be changed by us!]

“Puhah!”

As soon as I saw the picket, I burst out laughing reflexively.

“Ahahaha! Kukuku! Cough, cough!”

Ah, sh*t. I don’t have time for this.

It’s so funny that I can’t move because I’m struggling to breathe.

Yeon-daepyo muttered as she looked at me, who had fallen to the floor and was laughing out loud after witnessing the memi protest.

“Yeah… A normal person wouldn’t be tainted by that kind of ideology… No. That person isn’t a normal person either…”

“Wow… There really are people like that in the world. I thought it was all fiction.”

“… I really wish it was fiction too. How many weeks has it been… They keep appearing persistently…”

Yeon-daepyo looked at the memi protesters with contempt and expressed her frustration with a deep sigh.

“You must have had a hard time. How can you look at people like that and… Pfft…”

Suddenly, Yeon-daepyo seems a little amazing.

If I saw people like that below the window while I was working, I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on my work all day because I would be laughing.

When I gave her a little lip service, Yeon-daepyo’s expression relaxed a little.

The fact that I, as a man, was not tainted by the ‘ideology’ and even mocked them seemed quite good to Yeon-daepyo, who had been harassed by memi for weeks.

“Hey, you.”

I was trying to calm down and wipe away my tears when a man approached me and spoke to me.

A man wearing a checkered shirt and horn-rimmed glasses was looking at me with a frown.

A body type that looked like it was hard to breathe because of the heavy lumps of fat attached to his body, and rough breaths that he exhaled as if he really couldn’t breathe well.

“Huf… Why are you laughing? Huf… Are we funny?! Huh?!”

The man, who had the appearance of a meminist no matter how you looked at him, suddenly lost his temper and shouted at me, as if he had been hurt by something.

I just thought this situation was so funny that I was going crazy.

“Kuhup… Yes… You really… look like you care a lot about men’s rights… Puhahaha!”

“Huf… Huk…. Don’t laugh!! We are working so hard to guarantee men’s rights! It’s because some men like you, you, you kowtow (kneel and bow down) to Han-yeo(powerful or privileged women ) and suck up to them…!”

The checkered shirt, sweaty memi suddenly started giving a long speech about how hard they had been working to improve men’s rights.

Actually, Yeon-daepyo tried to get rid of them from the middle, but I stopped her.

I was curious about how interesting a story he would tell.

“… Phew. I wasted my time. Let’s go. Yeon-daepyo-nim.”

But soon I had to sigh.

When he lost his temper and got angry, it was funny, but the rest of the content was just him preaching how great his ideology was, so it was neither fun nor nutritious.

There couldn’t be a more appropriate word than a waste of time.

Without hesitation, I tried to turn around.

“Hey!!! I’m explaining because of you!! Where are you going without listening!!!”

The checkered shirt, sweaty memi grabbed my shoulder.

“Wh-What are you doing…?”

Yeon-daepyo tried to pull the man away at his sudden action, but she froze like a stone and stopped.

The sweaty guy who grabbed my shoulder was the same.

Everyone around me suddenly stopped moving.

Originally, when a person faces overwhelming killing intent that is beyond the scope of their perception, their body freezes due to the repulsive action of their survival instinct.

Everyone stopped here, and I was the only one moving, removing the sweaty hand on my shoulder and brushing off my dirty shoulder.

“Haa… My luck is so bad. Hey. F*cker. Do you hate living as a man that much? Do you want to live as a woman?”

“……?”

The sweaty guy couldn’t react.

He just froze with a pale complexion, only accepting the situation he was in with his head.

“If you want to live as a woman that much…”

I took a kicking stance.

“Live without your d*ck!”

Without hesitation, I kicked the sweaty guy’s crotch.

Thud!

Something crushed.

With the sound of the male’s existence value disappearing, the sweaty guy spewed foam from his mouth and collapsed.

He became the woman he wanted to be today.

I dragged the fainted sweaty guy and threw him next to the memi protesters.

The memi protesters, who were trembling and avoiding my gaze, were desperately covering their crotches, and some were looking at the sweaty guy with sad eyes.

The other men were all like f*cking gays, so it seems like this sweaty guy was a kind of action leader.

“You guys should stop too. People are uncomfortable. Do that kind of bullsh*t in your room and on the internet. If there’s anyone else who’s so tainted with ideology that they want to become a woman, apply.”

“Ye-Yes, yes, no…”

They gathered the pickets, banners, and the limp sweaty guy and disappeared obediently.

“It seems like it’s roughly taken care of. If something annoying happens, please take care of it yourself. Then it would be really nice. Right?”

“…… Yes, yes… I understand.”

If they sue for damages, it will be annoying, so I asked Yeon-daepyo to take care of the aftermath.

Later, when I need help with a gate expedition or something, I can give them a money copy.

“Then I’ll be on my way. Oh, right.”

I looked at Yeon-daepyo, no, behind Yeon-daepyo.

I couldn’t see the appearance, but my sharp intuition was telling me that someone with considerable power was there.

“If you keep going around like that, I’ll want another compensation for apology, so please refrain. It’s a shame, since you apologized so nicely.”

Yeon-daepyo’s expression stiffened slightly.

I left them behind and quickly headed home.

I was delayed because I was suddenly caught up with the memis.

But when I arrived in front of the front door, I couldn’t move my feet.

What will happen to me if I open this door?

I’m scared.

But reality was always cruel, and I had to accept it.

I calmed my trembling hands and opened the door.

Immediately after, the inventory opened automatically and Cutie♡Angel stuck out her head.

Woowoong…

“Ah, Ahaha… S-Sorry-“

Woowoowoowoowoowoowoong!!!!!!!!

Thud!

“Kuhuk!”

Cutie♡Angel used flight magic to move on her own and struck my torso with the thick blade.

I fell to the floor helplessly from the impact.

“W-Wait. Let’s talk. Let’s solve this with conversation. Huh?”

Woowoowoowoowoowoowoong!!!!!!!!!!

The crossguard part of Cutie♡Angel momentarily shone with a golden light, and golden chains spewed out.

Wh-What is that?

How can Cutie♡Angel use that technique that was used to seal the Four Heavenly Kings…

But the question was short-lived, and the chains began to bind my arms and legs.

This b*tch. She’s serious.

“W-Wait, Cutie♡Angel. Calm down, calm down…!”

Woowoowoong…♡

After that, I was thoroughly maintained for three days and nights.