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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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What Choi In-wook showed just now was not the movement of a hunter who hadn’t even been properly ranked yet.
The scene In-wook displayed was… abnormal.
Although my skills from my previous life hadn’t fully returned yet, at least my eyes were accurate.
The reason I was able to achieve such high scores in my previous life was also largely due to my eyes.
The ability to accurately grasp the opponent’s movements and respond accordingly.
No matter what kind of attack came flying, I never took my eyes off it even once.
If I hadn’t stayed focused until the end, I would have been dead many times over.
With such eyes, there was no way I could fail to recognize the level of In-wook’s kick just now.
Of course, compared to my previous life, there were still physical limitations, but it was a distance that even I found difficult to handle.
Beast-like agility. And the explosive power concentrated in his leg in an instant.
It was at least an S-rank movement.
I’m not saying In-wook can’t do it.
But the important point was that he was still a newbie who had entered the academy less than a month ago.
According to my memory, I started falling behind In-wook in grades from the second year.
But regardless of being a second-year or third-year, the technique he showed just now was…
…A hypothesis came to mind.
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Si-hwa and the seniors stared at me with blank expressions for a moment.
…Even I thought it was a bit too much force.
It was a performance that I, as a student, could never show.
No. But I couldn’t leave the kid to be hit by a brick either.
Of course, Si-hwa could have somehow saved him, but I had been standing behind her throughout her short battle without lifting a finger.
I thought this was something I had to do as a service.
“You… You’ll all cooperate quietly, right?”
I asked them with an awkward smile as they stared at me.
The seniors silently nodded.
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Ah. It really hurts so much.
As expected, the technique just now was overkill.
No. It was very overkill.
I practiced every day to regain my previous life’s form, but compared to my previous life’s body, my current body was no different from a sheet of paper.
To face monsters, reinforcing the body with mana was a must, but I couldn’t operate it yet.
I tried my best to pretend to be fine in front of Si-hwa and the seniors, but once I was alone after sorting out the incident, I started groaning in pain.
“Wow. Don’t I need to go to the hospital for this?”
I felt a tingling pain with every step I took.
Honestly, it was difficult to even walk properly.
I left the academy to go home, thinking that training after work would be too much for a few days, and had no choice but to limp slowly.
I was limping towards the main road, thinking I should take a taxi, when someone called out to me.
“…What are you doing, Choi In-wook?”
In a corner of the alley, I saw Ye-na with a cigarette in her mouth, looking at me.
“Ah. Ye-na. Hi. I’m on my way home.”
“I’m not really curious about that. Your leg. What happened to it?”
It seemed Ye-na had witnessed me limping.
“I just got hurt a bit.”
“…You?”
One of her eyebrows rose slightly.
I’m human too, you know? Can’t I get hurt too?
She stepped on the cigarette she was smoking and approached me.
“Take off the shoe on your injured foot.”
“…Why?”
“Just take it off if I tell you to.”
Ye-na, who supported me and took me to a bench at the back of the alley, looked at my foot and then looked at me as if it was absurd.
“Hey.”
“Yes?”
“What did you do to make your foot like this?”
Well… you see…
I kicked hard enough to shatter a brick…
“That… I had to kick a rock a bit…”
“…A rock?”
Ye-na looked at me with an even more incomprehensible expression.
“Ah… that’s…”
Actually, it wasn’t something to hide, so I briefly told her the story of what happened during the patrol today.
“You had a hard time. That. Hmm… If that’s the reason.”
A blue light poured out of Ye-na’s hand.
This is…
“It won’t be a complete cure, but you’ll be able to go home comfortably.”
I felt her mana flowing into my body.
At the same time, I began to realize that Ye-na was also a budding S-rank.
In my previous life, she had never directly shown me her skills.
She just explained in passing that she was in a healer position.
I never got hurt, so I never received her help.
But the mana that flowed into my body at this moment felt warmer than any healing magic I had ever received.
Although it seemed impossible to achieve a complete cure because her talent hadn’t fully bloomed yet, I could understand how she achieved the feat of becoming an S-rank in that position.
The purity of her mana was incomparable to other healers.
“I think it’s done.”
Ye-na took her hand off my foot as if she had finished healing.
“Thanks.”
She usually seemed to dislike even talking to me, but she even helped me. I wondered if we had gotten a bit closer.
“No. But what was the person next to you doing to let you get to this state?”
“No. Actually, I didn’t do much and Si-hwa took care of everything.”
“…Si-hwa? Are you talking about Yoo Si-hwa?”
Is it because she’s the top student? Like Ha-rin, everyone knows her.
“Yeah. Why? Do you know her?”
“No.”
Ye-na seemed lost in thought for a moment, then lowered her head and looked at the ground.
“I’ll check if the healing was done properly for a moment.”
Huh? I think it’s fine? Is it not?
I had already put my shoes back on, so I thought I had to take them off again.
But there was no need for that.
“Ow!”
A short scream burst out of my mouth.
It was because Ye-na had stepped on my foot with all her might.
Of course, it wasn’t like Si-hwa stepped on it with force, it just felt like an ordinary girl stepping on it, but it dealt sufficient damage to me in my current state.
“Yeah. Seeing that you’re not shedding tears, it seems to be done well.”
She got up and brushed herself off.
“Still, I recommend resting for a few days. I’m going first.”
She walked away from me without looking back, waving her hand.
No. Why is she being mean at the end after doing a good thing?
The 20-year-old Ye-na was too difficult for me.
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“Eek!”
I kicked off the blanket while looking at my cell phone.
What on earth is this!
Such events didn’t even exist in my previous life.
The mobile articles from the Hunter Academy Newspaper Club stirred up ripples in my heart that had been like a calm lake.
I had made up my mind to start over slowly for once, but…
There wasn’t just one or two articles.
[The dazzling activities of the new student council members!]
[Top student Yoo Si-hwa! Her remarkable moves! And the identity of her partner?]
[Exclusive interviews with the student council president and new students!]
Whatever the student council did, I had no interest in Si-hwa being in the spotlight, both in my previous life and this life.
But what really bothered me now was this photo.
Yoo Si-hwa with one corner of her mouth raised wickedly and the man sitting next to her in an awkward pose.
My future husband. Choi In-wook.
And they’re even close…! Too close…!
No matter how much they were asked to take a photo for the article, their distance seemed excessively close.
Even last time when we met at the cafe, she called him privately after the academy ended…
…She had to be a wicked girl.
For now, I clicked on the article to check the students’ reactions.
I thought there must be a lot of people with nothing to do, with dozens of comments on an article like this, instead of thinking about raising their rank.
But the more I scrolled down, the darker my expression became.
[Yoo Si-hwa. Seriously pretty. The guy is also handsome.]
[Yeah. The guy is in my class. Seems like Yoo Si-hwa picked him. She even gave him banana milk.]
[The picture looks good. Are they a campus couple? Handsome guy, pretty girl.]
[Student council couple special. They’ll definitely get married after graduation.]
[Sigh… I want a girlfriend like Yoo Si-hwa too.]
[Yeah~ You can’t~]
Crunch.
The public opinion was forming in the direction that In-wook and Si-hwa looked good together.
The star couple who would become the handsome guy and pretty girl was me!
Me, Yoon Ha-rin, not Yoo Si-hwa!
Filled with anger, I quickly left a comment anonymously.
[Honestly, the girl looks a bit ugly? Isn’t the guy too good for her?]
Then, before long, several replies started to appear.
[Inferiority complex exploding, lol.]
[If Yoo Si-hwa is ugly, the rest of the girls at the academy aren’t human, lol.]
[Yeah~ Go look in the mirror~]
“These bastards!”
I threw the innocent pillow.
These guys who can’t say a word in front of me!
Talking about inferiority complex, telling me to look in the mirror.
I heard swear words I had never heard in my entire life all at once.
And there’s no way I’m uglier than Yoo Si-hwa!
If she was really pretty, In-wook would have married her!
…But come to think of it, he did marry her after divorcing me.
Only then did I start to feel the seriousness of the situation a little.
Wait a minute… If this continues…
The thought that I might really lose In-wook crossed my mind.
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