It had bled to death.
Shin Ji-soo felt her body sway as she approached it.
“Huh? Huh?”
“You’ve run out of magic power.”
Siwoo caught her as she was about to fall and supported her.
“Is this the first time you’ve used your magic power until you passed out?”
“Yes, the first time. . . It’s just. . . my body’s. . . .”
Siwoo frowned, as if he found her pathetic.
Then he put his hand on Shin Ji-soo’s body.
Her skin was cold from the sweat and the cold wind.
Shin Ji-soo opened her eyes wide and looked at the hand on her abdomen, fumbling for words.
“Huh? Huh?? Huh???”
“Be quiet, for a bit.”
Complex and colorful shapes formed a magic circle, with letters and magic formulas.
Thud
A flash of light like sunlight shot into Shin Ji-soo’s body.
In the warm light, Shin Ji-soo forgot what she was going to say and just stared blankly.
It was the first time in a long time that she had felt someone’s touch.
It’s warm. . . I’m sleepy.
She looked at Siwoo’s face one last time and
Swish, she closed her eyes.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
𝘢𝐰ᴇʙṡ̇𝙩ᴏ𝘳𝕚𝐞𝕤.𝐜ȯ̇𝘮
“Hyung. . .??”
Min Si-joon couldn’t help but be surprised when he opened the front door.
Siwoo had pressed the bell, and when he wondered what was going on, he saw him carrying Shin Ji-soo with a light expression on his face.
“What the hell happened? Did Hunter Shin Ji-soo get hurt?”
“Would she get hurt if I was there?”
“Ahㅡ That’s true.”
Of course, she had been hurt.
But since he had healed her, in the end, she hadn’t been hurt, that was Siwoo’s calculation.
“I worked her over a bit today. Since it was her first day, I wanted to see what her condition was, and I also wanted to study how to use her skill.”
“Oh, ho. It reminds me of when we first trained.”
Min Si-joon smiled slightly as he remembered the old days.
Training with his hyung was not ‘I wish it would end soon’, but ‘I wish I would die soon’.
Training that pushed people to their limits, cutting off all possibilities, and forcing them to use the remaining 1% of their abilities.
‘𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮.’
Now that it was in the past, he could laugh about it, but in fact, Min Si-joon had cried every day back then.
He had started his life as a Hunter at the young age of 19.
It wasn’t just moderately difficult, every day was a harsh adversity and a war.
He could only respect his hyung, who had started this kind of life at an even younger age.
A man who had become the pinnacle of the 1st generation Hunters in just a few years, starting at the age of 17.
‘𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙅𝙞-𝙨𝙤𝙤, 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙡𝙮. 𝙄𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨, 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙮𝙪𝙣𝙜’𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧.’
During their first training session, Min Si-joon and Xiaolong had their ribs broken, and Kang Yeo-hwa and Jeong Min-jun had their arms and legs broken, respectively.
Of course, Siwoo had healed them.
But the trauma hadn’t gone away.
“Haah.”
Siwoo laid Shin Ji-soo down on his own bed.
Even though she was dirty, she looked like a celebrity in a magazine when she was sleeping soundly. . . What the hell.
‘𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨. 𝙎𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙮. . . 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬. . . 𝙄 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨.’
But apart from that, Shin Ji-soo had participated well in the training.
‘𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙥 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨.’
Siwoo chuckled and covered her with a blanket before going outside.
Min Si-joon was there, looking at him with surprise.
“What.”
“No. . . It’s just that hyung seems a little different.”
That expression made him look unnecessarily cool.
“Stop talking nonsense and sit down here.”
Siwoo sat down on the living room sofa and pointed to the chair next to it.
Min Si-joon took a sip of the coffee in his hand and sat down next to him.
“Do you know what her skill is?”
“Yeah. I checked her skills when we signed the contract. That’s why I asked hyung to train her. It’s hard to learn a skill like that anywhere else.”
“Then do you think I’ll let you form a party with her and go on a raid when my training is over?”
“Of course. That’s why I’m recruiting employees.”
Siwoo leaned back on the sofa.
He thought that Shin Ji-soo’s ability would be more useful than he had thought.
Or rather, to be precise, he even thought it was a dangerous ability, depending on the user’s abilities.
What if Siwoo used this skill?
‘𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢. 𝙊𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙪𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙢.’
It might be a ridiculous story for Shin Ji-soo, who could only control a single goblin, but Siwoo would be able to control even high-level monsters.
He could think of dozens of things he could do with this ability right away.
‘𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬.’
Siwoo had guessed many things just by seeing a glimpse of the skill that Shin Ji-soo had shown in the gate earlier.
“Her ability is too special for her to go around with other Hunters.”
“Really? Since it’s a manipulation skill, I don’t think it would be bad if she teamed up with others. . . But I guess if you think about the potential of the skill, you can’t let her go around with just anyone.”
“Well, it depends on how much she grows. Anyway, I’ll take her with me for a while and train her. And don’t let any other guilds steal her away.”
“Oh. . . I understand.”
Siwoo was not the kind of person to make a fuss over nothing.
Even though he had met countless Hunters in his life, there were only a handful of cases where he had said that their ‘abilities were special’.
“Let’s leave it at that for now. I’m going in first.”
He patted Si-joon on the shoulder and went into the study.
It was a very large house, but there were only two bedrooms.
The rest had been used up by Min Si-joon’s tastes, such as a study, a health room, and a warehouse.
Siwoo entered the study and sat down on a chair.
It was an expensive chair, so his body sank back into it. He didn’t know why a chair could be as comfortable as a bed.
He thought about Shin Ji-soo’s skill and how he should train her.
‘𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙢 𝙄 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙄’𝙢 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙎𝙄𝙐.’
Just then, a very good idea came to him.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
ᴀ𝕨ᴇ𝙗𝔰𝐭𝕠𝔯𝚒𝕖𝘴.𝐜𝘰𝘮
Shin Ji-soo entered the gate with a look of bewilderment.
Besides Siwoo, there were three unfamiliar faces waiting for her.
“Oh. . . . . . Ah, hello?”
Shin Ji-soo unconsciously bowed her head.
She had an extraordinary appearance, and even without seeing her skills, she could feel the difference in rank.
But one of them looked familiar. . . Where had she seen him.
“These are the assistant teachers who will help me teach you from today.”
“Yes??”
“Red Ear, the old man who will teach you magic use and control.”
“Kuk, kuk, nice to meet you.”
“Volk, who will teach you physical enhancement and melee combat.”
“. . .Nice to meet you.”
“And finally, Chu Ha-min, who will teach you skill adjustment and monster combat.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“???”
Shin Ji-soo looked at Siwoo, unable to keep up with the situation.
Her expression was as if she was asking what was going on.
“I need someone to watch over you while I’m working at HSIU.”
“T-That’s true, but I don’t know these people. . . .”
“That’s why I introduced you. Now you know each other.”
“. . . . . . .”
“By the way, Chu Ha-min is in the same situation as you, being taught by me, so get along with her.”
“Yes??”
“Now, let’s get started. Roll up your sleeves.”
At Siwoo’s command, the three nodded.
Shin Ji-soo began to tremble.
