CH 6

I looked at the other person who didn’t react like someone who is lost in thought, I was holding my breath and examining the condition of my body. 

My power was gradually returning as my mana restored somewhat thanks to my self-healing abilities. On the one hand, I was embarrassed because I didn’t know that this would happen when Mana reached zero.

Well, it’s been a month now, so what do I know?

It was about time I gradually moved into position, remembering not to use skills until I ran out of Mana. With that sleepy tone, Lee Jehee asked.

“How long has it been?”

I looked down at my watch as I sat in the corner on a cross-legged bench. Fortunately, the watch, which had a small scratch on the top glass after being exposed to rough treatment, seems not to have broken. Still, I’m going to ask for compensation for damages. 

“About an hour and a half.” 

Hearing the answer, Lee Jehee turned his gaze from the ceiling and looked at me. I didn’t feel any emotion in the gaze that was there.

I fixed my gaze on the tip of his chin turned obliquely because his lifeless eyes were burdened by the hardships of life, and I had goosebumps thinking where those eyes came from.

Then Lee Jehee, who had been staring silently, opened his mouth first as if he was curious. 

“Why did you stop using your skills?”

Perhaps because he woke up from sleep, his tone became even slower. I tried to look as indifferent as possible and responded confidently. It came from the belief that the spirit should not be shattered from the start.

“I’m running out of mana.” 

“Ah—. You were level 50.”

It’s not 50, it’s 52. You punk.

How big is the difference between the two levels? I secretly glanced at Lee Jehee, who downgraded someone else’s level by two levels. It was done after calculating that the dark interior would make it difficult for him to see me well.

“It’s 52.” 

“I see. 52.”

Did he laugh? I think he’s laughing at me right? 

While I was looking suspiciously at Lee Jehee, who burst into laughter in the middle of speaking, he slowly raised his upper body. Lee Jehee stood up slowly and glanced at my body before standing up.

When I glanced at him with wary eyes, wondering why he was moving, he approached me and stood in front of me in a few steps. My dry saliva was swallowed by the intimidating expression, maybe because he turned his back on this atmosphere.

But the words from his mouth blew the tension away at once. 

“You seem to like that.”

—Does he mean sitting on the floor? It’s not enough to make fun of people, is he even looking down at them? 

It was then that I realized that anger removes the emotion of fear.

“No, my physical strength is not good enough to stand for an hour and a half. But I couldn’t help it because I couldn’t find a place to sit, and the range of the skill I just used was fixed.”

See it for yourself with your own eyes. Where can I sit here except where you’re sitting? I hope you don’t show your overflowing consideration in useless places and take care of these things.

I pretend to smile like that and turn it into words that contain ashes, but I was stuck with Lee Jehee in a strange place as much as his personality. 

“Range skill? If the skill you just used is a range skill, why did you touch my forehead in the first place?” 

When someone hears that, they would believe I touched him with an evil thought, even if I can do it without touching him. 

And I’m not interested in this jerk’s forehead! 

“Contact with each other is required to begin the skill. The target simply has to be within range after activation. Of course, the contact point did not have to be the forehead, but it’s strange to hold hands or feet, isn’t it?”

It is also strange to grab the cheek or neck of a person lying down. So, despite the fact that I picked the one that best fits Lee Jehee’s position, he’s still a jerk. Really—. 

“What’s the range?”

“Hmm— Just the size of this room.”

The size of this room was within the range of maintaining skill use.

Lee Jehee, who looked around anew at my words, turned his back and left the room first. I got up from my seat and walked along with Lee Jeehee, and the next question naturally followed.

“Are other skills similar?” 

“The range is similar, but the conditions for activation are different depending on the skill—”

Oh, that’s a surprise. Is this bastard trying to rip someone else’s business out of nowhere? 

According to what I learned after coming to this world, the skill-related part is very confidential and important, so I don’t share it except with close friends. The clinic only checked the hunter ID and didn’t even ask the person’s class or the guild he joined. Because that is a sensitive part for Hunter. 

I stopped talking. Lee Jehee, who was walking into the office, burst into a laugh as he noticed the sign. 

“You’re not falling for it.”

“—Yes. Fortunately, it didn’t go over that. Haha.” 

Damn it. Do I have to live like this?

Usually, I would have cursed at him, but I couldn’t do that to Lee Jehee, so I just laughed like a fool. Then, I can feel Chorok staring at me like a fool, who was guarding the office until then. 

What are you looking at? 

“Sit down. If you feel comfortable on the floor, you can sit there.”

This bastard dared to point to the floor next to the sofa and said kindly. Seriously, he’ll die in my hands if he’s just a bit easier to fight.

“Haha. Thank you for your sincerity, but the sofa is better than the floor. I’ll sit here.” 

“I see, sure.”

This jerk allows me very generously. In an instant, I managed to stop my face from frowning at the conversation that went by as if I had asked for permission and smiled forcibly. If you beat me up even after doing this, you’re not even a real human. 

Anyway, the request was completed safely, and it was time to negotiate the table in earnest, so it had to be seen well. It was a time when I was putting strength on the corners of my trembling mouth with that thought. Lee Jehee, who suddenly reached into the air and grabbed something, threw a transparent glass bottle over my lap. 

Did he take it out of his inventory? When I take it bewildered, the liquid inside it glistens inside the glass bottle.

“Drink it.” 

What is it that he wants me to drink first? He looked down at what was held in his left hand, put his right hand over it, and moved as if sweeping the air. 

[Judgment skill activated. Start appraisal of the item.] 

At the same time as the skill was activated, a transparent window with a yellow color suddenly appeared above the fingertips. Even that was the same as in the game. 

[Checks the results] 

[High-quality one-shot mana potion. An expensive production potion that fills all the mana at once. Maker: Yeom Dongmae] 

Expensive mana potions? Do you want me to drink this now? It’s a very unfortunate item to drink to fill my little mana, isn’t it?

“U, uhh, why—”

“You say you’ve run out of mana. It’s a potion made by a member of our guild, so don’t worry and drink it. It’s not poison.” 

“—Yes. Thank you.”

I feel even more uncomfortable hearing that answer. I didn’t think it would be poisoned—. Isn’t it really poisonous? 

I looked at the bottle suspiciously and then raised my head slightly. This is because I felt the burden of them looking at what I was eating in front of them.

If I didn’t eat, I felt pressured to explain why I didn’t eat, so I first removed the cork-like lid and smelled it first. 

It was a bit of a waste to use a high potion for something like this, but the person who gave it said to drink it. In fact, there wasn’t much mana because it was slowly restored when I ran out earlier, so my fingertips were still a bit numb.

Fortunately, it doesn’t smell bad or anything, so maybe I can eat it thankfully. There’s no reason for him to come and kill me now. He would have killed me if he wanted, there was no reason to bother using poison. 

When I put my nose to the tip of the glass bottle, I could smell the light peach scent. I closed my eyes and took a sip at the familiar scent.

Perhaps because it was not a large amount in the first place, it was not difficult to drink it at once. 

Hmm? It doesn’t taste like anything? 

Contrary to my expectation that it might taste like something because it had a light peach scent, what was inside was closer to the taste of water. So much so that I doubt that this is actually water. 

—Isn’t that real water? It was when I looked down at the empty bottle in my hand with suspicion.

[All mana has been restored by the effect of the high-quality one-shot mana potion.]

For a moment, there seemed to be a weak light all over the body, but it quickly disappeared. However, the feeling of being filled with mana that was showing at the bottom was clearly heard. 

The feeling of slowly overflowing with vitality and blood circulating to the fingertips.

“Oh—”

“Then let’s talk about the rest, shall we?”

While curiously examining my body, the words that came out of Lee Jehee’s mouth were the most heart-pounding words I had ever heard. 

How much will he give me? He’s a guild master, so I don’t think he’ll be salty.

Or it wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask to give a line of promotional articles instead of money. Wouldn’t Lee Jeehee be okay with ‘a clinic where a hunter who is praised as a master and hero of a certain guild comes to’ being as well-known as possible?

I only looked at Lee Jehee’s mouth in anticipation of how much compensation he would give. Soon after, the mouth of the smooth line opens slightly, and a huge number of amounts—. 

“Yeon Seonwoo-ssi, I will make a formal scouting offer. Please join the Yeolmu Guild.”

“Phew. I can’t believe I’m receiving so much— What? 

The remarks I was preparing for the unexpected proposal were blocked. 

What is this? Do you want to join the Yeolmu Guild? After looking at me?— Why me?