Chapter 7 – Recommendation

The first thing I asked was about my old friend, Song Seong, and her accomplishments before she became a hunter.

Even though we were talking, the ranker neatly cut the pork belly, which had lost all the fat, and even wrapped the ssam into my mouth.

"Ah~."

" Song Seong, really, are you an idiot?"

"I'm just taking care of you after seeing you for a long time. You're acting like you're showing off. No, seeing you throw a fit like that, are you…?"

"Fuck you. Are you crazy?"

"Hey, look at you having a fit. Hey, are you looking at me?"

" Song Seong, just give it to me. I said it's dirty, and I can't eat it."

"Ah, pouting~!"

I knew that if I reacted strongly, it would come back to me, so I just accepted it.

Fuck. It was delicious.

"How much did we talk about?"

"Mum mutter… Are you so talented that after you became a hunter, you formed a guild and took over the Brass Tower?"

"Yes, yes~. I gained a lot of skills and techniques while conquering the Tower of Brass. The skills I gained were from the [Hunter General Complex]. So I left it to the government, and whenever I had time, I traveled around each country and used my skills in places where the food situation was poor and volunteered. I went out to volunteer."

"There was a lot of talk on TV. They said you saved a lot of people so that no one would call you by your first name."

"Yes. I saved a lot. I saved a lot? Furthermore, I'm proud of myself. It was very busy, whether it was conquering the tower or volunteering, but it was worth it."

Meanwhile, people who criticized Seong's behavior often appeared on TV.

Why are you spreading such abilities abroad? Since each country is competing in technology with top technology, such criticism existed everywhere.

"The next thing I tried was the military. Do you know what I did?"

So Seong got to work. And it's very big.

She has achieved a feat that would make any Korean man applaud by silencing such people.

"I am one of the people who directly benefited from your grace, so how could I not know? When Hunter and Top guilds were created, the Kim regime collapsed, and the relationship between North and South Korea barely became friendly with the new administration. North Korea was the one who came to the brink of war due to food shortages. Thanks to that, we concluded a peace treaty between North and South Korea."

The danger of civil war has completely disappeared.

Thanks to this, people like me who had even a little bit of Auror talent were sent back to the reserve force, and a law was enacted so that those who wanted to become hunters could pass the reserve force.

At the time, the regime wanted many hunters to attack the tower, so they took this opportunity to significantly increase the number of hunters to climb the tower.

The internet went crazy with how happy everyone was.

So did I.

"Have you been in the military?"

"Around 23…? Around the time I was assigned to become a private, I received an official letter from the unit. I really asked to go home right away, so I didn't know what all this nonsense was, and even though I was trudging home without a discharge certificate, I thought, "Is this a dream? And then I flew home. It was only after seeing the letter and the internet festival that I felt a sense of reality."

"Because three towers like ours were built, the government people were also in a hurry to find hunters. I was wondering if we, like North Korea, might be experiencing a backwash of monsters."

"Hey, I still suspect that what's happening right now is a dream and that I'm actually dozing off in my classroom. Is this a dream? If not, the girl who did such a crazy thing can't be my childhood friend."

"Luckily, it's reality. You don't have to worry."

"I'm not suddenly being dragged away again, am I?"

"That doesn't happen now because it's a volunteer army system. Hong Chang, you're a 100% pure civilian."

"Really? Right? Wow, even the active-duty soldiers were happy that their salaries had increased. It was perfect."

Nowadays, there are many hunters who go on expeditions to North Korea. Monsters are flowing backwards through the tower over there, so through a treaty made at that time, hunters are called in periodically, and inter-Korean cooperation is established. It hasn't been long since the Kim regime collapsed, and they have repeatedly advertised that they are busy with internal reforms, so there is absolutely no reason to complain.

"South-North Hunter Treaty. Improving the food situation in poor countries. Now we are targeting the Tower of Brass."

"It sucks?"

"It's crazy. How could you, who were so small, do something like that? I'm embarrassed of everything!?"

"Hehe~! I tried really hard? Please praise me!"

She smiled while rubbing the bridge of her nose and thought it was cute, so I stroked her hair until it flew around and enjoyed the drink.

Rather than envying my childhood friend, I was truly proud of her, so this time I gave her a wrap.

"Ah, do it; you are a good bastard. Thank you for protecting my youth. This is a small sign of my sincerity."

"My childhood friend's sincere gift! I'll enjoy it~!"

Yum yum!

When I put the wrap in her mouth, she couldn't help but swallow it and bit the tip of my finger.

"-Jjoob♪"

A thin tongue clearly licked my fingers.

"Hey!"

"It was covered in ssamjang~!"

"What's wrong with this since a while ago?"

When people asked me if I was a pervert, I laughed out loud because my reaction was funny.

She seems like a naughty girl.

If an ordinary man had done this, she would have immediately hit his face with her fist, but for some reason, what this girl was doing felt like cuteness.

Isn't this a dangerous signal?

'Is she really fucking attracted to her?'

I was dumbfounded as to why I was being attracted to something like this, so I took a swig of alcohol.

"Ma'am! Here, please give me two more bottles~!"

"Yes! Two bottles of soju for table number 7!"

Let's go now!

I haven't even eaten a few pieces, and I've already drank it all.

Damn it, this is going to stink. I need to distribute the pace, but I can't because of this girl.

"Anyway, that's all my story. It's not much different from what was shown on TV. Except that I've been moving my base recently to attack the Golden Tower. Isn't that what everyone knows?"

"They said they were controlling internal information at the government level."

"Yes. Brass, silver, and gold... It is the most difficult tower, but it is also the place with the most rewards."

"What is the situation?"

"It's not what I'm going to talk about here. I'm not drinking with you, my childhood friend, just to talk about this."

Instead, she poured me a drink and asked me to tell her my story.

This monster. You're planning to turn me into an idiot.

"Do I have anything to do with it? As soon as I became an adult, my parents started pestering me to work part-time or get a license if I didn't want to go to college, so I said I would become a hunter for now."

"Didn't your parents stop you?"

"They stopped me. They said, Where on earth would a guy who looked so sick from burns go? They told me to shut up and prepare to become a civil servant, so I started to rebel. So, in a fit of anger, I entered the tower and headbutted the second floor with my bare body. Then, if I was lucky, I came back. I learned it and came this far."

"Did you do it all by yourself?"

"It's luck. I learned about aurorism through books and hunting tubes. It's a great world. High-level hunters teach you things like that for free."

"Then, a military warrant was issued, and I went to the military. Thanks to Seong, I came out right away and started working as a hunter again."

"My parents are still very resistant. I don't know where they heard about low-ranking hunters being tough, but they made a fuss about it. When I went down there once during the last holiday, they said that I had been so stubborn for a long time that they even cursed me in front of their ancestors for not listening to what they said. ?"

"That's right. You insisted. Thanks to that, I survived."

She gently swept my hand again.

Fuck you, girly bastard.

Is it because of my mood that I feel a strange, dark spirit in my actions?

"I'm embarrassed. Don't touch me because I'm embarrassed."

"Hmph~♪"

It was a fox-like laugh.

It's not an expression a boy can make.

"I heard there is a tinnitus in Class D. The rumors are not good. What happened to that?"

"It just happened like that."

"Why did it just happen like that? There must be a reason. Don't turn your face and tell me everything."

Even if you look at it so clearly, it's just difficult.

It's not that I'm guilty of original sin or anything like that, but the problem is that it's really my fault.

"I don't know what to expect, but it's just the same as the rumor. I went around the lower levels, picking up corpses. In particular, if I hand over a corpse with an ID to the [Hunter Association], I get a reward, so the reward was pretty good, so I've been picking up bodies excessively for the past year. They immediately gave me that nickname."

"Everyone was on edge today. I wonder if you hurt someone or touched a corpse. I know you're not the type of person to do something like that, but...

"There's nothing wrong with what they said. I didn't harm them, but I often touched things. Furthermore, I wanted to use them if a dead person wouldn't use them."

"…"

"Don't worry. I didn't touch your guild members."

"No, I never doubted that. As you know, if you die in the tower, it is very rare for it to be returned to your bereaved family. Everyone neglects it, but you are actively collecting it, so even if it is for money, I think there will definitely be people who will view it favorably."

That statement is not wrong.

The Hunter Association and the bereaved family were always grateful to me.

So, I live with my head held high.

"Do you have any skills for picking up corpses?"

"Should I call this a skill, or should I say it's a unique skill? Honestly, it's not a skill I can show to others, so...

"What is it?"

"Mmmmm."

I debated whether to say this or not.

My embarrassing skill. A damn skill that must have been given to you by someone in the tower.

Fuck.

"Would you like one more drink?"

"Give me another drink."

I took two sips of the drink Seong poured for me.

She gave me some ssam as a snack, so I naturally took it.

I don't know why she treat me so well when I am not her lover.

"Did you feel like talking?"

"Don't go anywhere and talk."

"I'll see it for myself and think about it."

"Oh really! I'm not telling you where to show this!?"

"It's okay, so show me. What's so embarrassing between us?"

"What is our relationship? It's an awkward relationship, reunited after decades."

"Hey, Hong Chang. I'm a ranker. Maybe I can help you."

"A shameful bastard."

I took another drink, wondering if it was only in times like this that we talked about rankers. I quietly took the wraps that this girl gave me.

… Sweet.

"I don't know. Hey, put your face closer."

"Like this?"

"[Reveal skill information]."

As I chanted lowly, I revealed the skill onto my raised palm.

Beyond the transparent science fiction-style interface, familiar explanations were listed.

[Nectar(Νέκταρ) (E~?)]

[Your semen has the power to attract females.]

[It has a slight cosmetic effect.]

An E-level skill that I don't understand.

Although it is a grand name, it is useless.

"What on earth is this?"

Even Song Seong, a ranker who has experienced many hardships, could not hide her embarrassment at my skills.