42 – 042. Kang Haneul (3)

Kang Ha-neul arrived exactly one hour after the phone call ended.

Kang Ha-neul was a woman with a plain impression. She has dark hair and black eyes, which is common in Korea. She was rather pretty, but she was a woman with no special features, with her plain face, with her strangely pale expression, and with her normal height and normal body shape.

However, her appearance was ordinary, but her atmosphere was not ordinary.

Dark circles and thick eyelines that extend under the two half-closed, sunken eyes. She has her hair strewn here and there, from her messy hairstyle to her sloppy outfit.

From Kang Ha-neul, there was a decadent beauty that was not befitting her age. Clearly, she was a fresh-faced freshman, but judging from the atmosphere she radiated, I could believe that she was a college student who was about to graduate.

“Tell me about your business first.”

Kang Ha-neul, sitting in her seat, didn’t even order a drink, and she immediately asked for her main topic. From that expression on her face, even for a minute and a second, she felt a strong sense of rejection that she didn’t want to be here.

Is it troublesome to be called out like this? She thought so, but she didn’t seem bothered. She seemed more unpleasant than bothersome, and also strangely uneasy.

“Before we get to the point, may I ask you why student Kang Ha-neul decided to drop out of her Green House?”

“…… It’s just that I have something else I want to do other than Hunter.”

An answer that came after a bit of lingering. Instinctively, I felt that the answer was not true. She is now trying to hide her own reasons for dropping out.

It wasn’t particularly strange. Her reason for dropping out, as inferred from the story with Midgyeol, is her fear of battle. She didn’t have a reason to reveal it proudly to strangers.

However, in order for her to stop dropping out, she had to know the reason for her dropout to be sure. Only then can she come up with a plan to convince her.

“It’s something I want to do. What is that?”

“…… Do I have to tell you?”

“No. If it’s hard to say, you don’t have to say it. However, I am a little surprised. Even if you have something else you want to do, you don’t have to drop out, do you?”

I briefly talked about the various career programs prepared in the Green House curriculum. Kang Ha-neul, who was listening to the story, had a helpless expression throughout.

“…… Anyway. It is no exaggeration to say that the Green House curriculum has programs for almost all jobs that superhumans can have as superhumans. It is the best academy in Korea.”

“Why are you telling me that?”

“I don’t know what the new career path that student Kang Ha-neul has chosen is, but if it’s a job that’s even slightly related to the superhuman society, the Green House’s curriculum and diploma will be very useful. In other words… ….”

My eyes met hers. I felt a strong sense of rejection in her gaze as she looked at me.

“It is not necessary to drop out. At least if Kang Ha-neul intends to live in a superhuman society-“

“Hey.”

At that time, Kang Ha-neul cut off my words.

“I understand everything you are saying, but I do not understand this situation. Why does the guard care so much about my dropout?”

“I just want to let you know that dropping out is not the only good thing. As I mentioned earlier, even if you don’t have a desire to be a hunter, there are various paths in the Green House-“

“No, so f*ck, why would you care about that?”

“f*ck?”

At the slang words that came out of Kang Ha-neul’s mouth, Vegetable Yeon, who had been silent until then, raised her head. I pressed his lips together and pressed the shoulder of Chae-yeon, who was about to stand up from her seat.

“…… We apologize if we have offended you. There were no bad intentions. Just thinking about the future of student Kang Ha-neul-“

“No, it’s Mirae and Nabal, and I’m dropping out, but why do you care about that?”

“Let’s see this, so you put a rag in your mouth from earlier!”

“Chae So-yeon, stay still.”

Chae-yeon looked at me with frustrated eyes, but she couldn’t help it. In the current situation, if Jae-Yeon Chee starts an argument with Ha-Neul Kang, she will not be in trouble.

“Ha. The more I think about it, the more absurd it is.”

However, despite my efforts, her river sky was already in an angry state.

“…… Hey. Don’t you think it’s a nuisance to keep coming to someone who’s already made up his mind like this?”

“Continue?”

What do you mean by continuing? I just met Kang Ha-neul for the first time.

“What do you mean by continuing?”

“You must know what the academy is doing. It’s the professor in charge. Even so, an unheard-of inspector often comes to my house, and now even the guards say something about my dropout. No, what the hell is dropping out of one student? It’s such a big deal, aren’t you anxious that you can’t hold on to it that much?”

Kang Ha-neul asked if it was something he knew for sure, but it was the first time he had heard of it. At least since Min Chae-ryeong, she hadn’t said a word about the inspector.

“I will tell you clearly in the sense of asking you to stop looking for me.”

She tried to ask Kang Ha-neul about the inspector, but she didn’t seem to be able to answer my question, as she seemed to be as angry as she was.

“I am not interested in the diploma, the curriculum, the future career, the research scholarship student, or anything else. You’ve already left your mind I’m a superhuman society, and I have no intention of even stepping into anything related to superhumans here, so please let me go on my way. Yes?”

“…… Even if you say that, isn’t Kang Ha-neul a superhuman after all? What is the reason she wants to leave the superhuman society?”

“Why? I know my fountain very well.”

I was taken aback by the words that came out of Kang Ha-neul’s mouth.

I know my fountain well. Originally, she was a word that could never come out considering her personality. The basis of the character Kang Ha-neul was her pride in herself and her strong ego.

“I am very fortunate to have been born with a physical ability that ranks high among superhumans and one of the most powerful supernatural powers among countless supernatural powers.”

But that’s all.

After adding that, Kang Ha-neul suddenly asked me.

“Do you know which one has a higher average life expectancy, a normal person or a superhuman?”

“…… I know that ordinary people are higher.”

“Right. It’s ironic. Originally, due to their strong physical abilities, superhumans, who age slowly, should live much longer. You don’t have to explain why, you know?”

It’s not that there aren’t superhumans in the world who enjoy a thousand lives and die. However, the reality was that not a few superhumans died without living out the lifespan allowed to them.

It was a world where 60% of all superhumans became hunters fighting monsters. And Hunter’s mortality rate was higher than any other occupation.

To the extent that the average lifespan of superhumans, which should have been much longer than normal people, was reduced by more than 10 years.

“I want to live a normal life and die a normal life. I don’t want to die even if I trust only halfway abilities and die on the cold dungeon floor.”

Kang Ha-neul stood up. As if there was nothing more to say.

“So please don’t contact me again.”

With those words, Kang Ha-neul took a step back. Looking at the back, Chae-yeon exclaimed as if it were absurd. Like mid-winter and Kang Ha-neul, they said that freshmen these days are not cheap.

That moment.

– Support positions.

A system message appeared in my field of vision along with a noise that tickled my ears.

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But the condition was a little strange. The letters displayed in my field of vision were broken like errors in a computer program, and a crackling noise reverberated in my ears incessantly.

‘How did this happen?’

After being possessed, I was taken aback by the phenomenon I encountered for the first time, but the broken letters gradually began to return to their original form.

—–

[ Extra Quest ]

[ Stop Kang Ha-neul from dropping out. Make friends with Kang Ha-neul. Keep the river sky by your side. Her presence will definitely benefit you. ]

< Rewards >

1. Expense rate increased by 3% (current expense rate: 8%)

※If the guard ratio reaches 10%, the rank of one ability can be raised by one level by the effect of .

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A type of quest called Extra Quest that I have never seen before. In addition, a message with a strangely different tone than usual.

As soon as I questioned the change, the system message displayed in my field of view disappeared as I was afraid to read it all. As if you are trying to hide a message from someone.

‘What the hell is this…….’

What’s going on? In my confused head, countless words floated up and down in my mind over and over again.

‘Let’s sort things out slowly.’

First of all, it was the order of Chaeryeong Min. As compensation for killing the woman who was the culprit of the succubus incident, Min Chae-ryeong asked me to stop Kang Ha-neul from dropping out.

However, Kang Ha-neul’s dropout was something that never happened in the original work. Besides, the river sky she just met has become a completely different character from the original work. In addition, a person named Wen, a school inspector, approached her separately to reverse her dropout, and when she left, an unfamiliar form of quest called Extra Quest appeared with her suspicious noise.

I was confused. I tried to sort things out, but I couldn’t. Min Chae-ryeong’s intentions, Kang Ha-neul’s change, the mysterious inspector, and even extra quests. It was full of unknowns.

‘It’s a bit annoying.’

I was fed up with the absence of that information. I was annoyed by this situation where I was not able to lead the situation and was only swayed by it because only things I didn’t know about kept popping up.

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Looking back, it has been like this ever since I possessed it. Even though I was possessed by the world of the novel that I knew well, I had no choice but to move passively all the time.

It was inevitable. Ahn Soo-ho, whom I possessed, is an existence that is far from the original story. The characters we encountered, the surrounding environment, and the events we encountered were all things that were not even described in the original work. Where is that? Even the things I knew were often changed like this or that due to the adjustment of the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure or the butterfly effect caused by my actions.

To put the situation of being possessed in the novel to shame, I have been an informational weakling ever since I became possessed. Even now, they do not know anything about Min Chae-ryeong’s intentions, Kang Ha-neul’s inner thoughts, the inspector’s identity, and the extra quest.

‘If it stays like this forever, I’ll end up just playing with the Pleasure Heaven Demon’s will.’

The Heavenly Demon of Pleasure is clearly adjusting the situation around me with malicious intent. From the interview on the first day of Bing to the recent succubus incident. The twisted sequence of events proves this. If you just passively react to that bastard’s tricks, eventually you will end up on a dead end.

He was hoping for my pain and suffering. In order not to play as he intended, I had to abandon my passive attitude and take the initiative in the situation. And to take the initiative, information, information about the situation at hand, was more important than anything else.

There was no way for me to figure out things outside of the novel, like the extra quests. However, the story was different if it was the real reason why Kang Ha-neul decided to drop out, Min Chae-ryeong’s intentions, or the identity of the inspector. If it’s something in the novel, you’ll be able to figure it out by using the device in the novel as well.

‘In the current situation, what I can use as an information source……. I must go meet that character.’

After setting my next goal, I immediately stood up.

“Vegetable smoke. Go back to the office first and report to the manager. Because I have somewhere else to go.”

“Where to go separately? Where?”

“Toilet.”

“Aha.”

At my answer, Chaeyeon nodded her head, and she convinced herself. Of course, I didn’t really intend to go to the bathroom.

“Seeing that you are told to go first, it seems like a big deal. Go slowly and do your business.”

“Yes.”

After answering Chae So-yeon, I went straight to the cafe.

“…… What is it, he said he was going to the bathroom, where is he going?”

Behind my back, Chae-yeon’s absurd murmur echoed faintly.

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