CH 13

4. Gate Experience (4)

Ye-Hyeon continued to listen to the explanation with one ear in and out with the other ear.

“It seemed that the bloodstains were erased while processing the monster’s corpse for a gate experience.”

“It smells like blood, but it’s safe.”

“It’s just like a walk.”

“It would be hard to mistake that the actual dungeon would be this comfortable!”

Ye-Hyeon gave a pitiful look to the awakened people who are full of expectations for a moment.

It was hard just to adapt to the smell of blood in the beginning. Ye-Hyeon doesn’t know how much he warmed up until his nose adjusted.

There was a time when he almost starved to death in a dungeon because he couldn’t hand eat the food.

” From here, Kim Ji-Yu Hunter will explain. ”

Baek Hae-Won’s order ended while he was spaced out for a while thinking about the old days.

“It’s me. I’m Kim Ji-Yu.”

The hunter, who was scaring the awakened people before entering the gate, raised his hand playfully.

Kim Ji-Yu took over the voice amplifier and looked around the awakened people.

“If you have any questions, please raise your hand like me just now. Or I won’t take your questions.”

Kim Ji-Yu threatens with a stern look.

The atmosphere is quite cordial.

On the outside, Ye-Hyeon pretended to laugh and sympathize with the people around him, but in fact, all his attention was focused on suppressing his yawning.

Ye-Hyeon, who was rubbing his eyes, found Baek Hae-Won walking backward.

Baek Hae-Won is looking around to see if there is somewhere he could sit.

Maybe it was just his feeling, but Ye-Hyeon felt like their eyes met.

‘You’re not going to come to me, are you?’

Ye-Hyeon turned his head to the other side on purpose.

However, Baek Hae-Won stopped right next to Ye-Hyeon, not behind him.

Ye-Hyeon nearly bit his tongue.

Even though Ye-Hyeon is pretending that it is his first dungeon, he felt uncomfortable as he was sitting next to someone with a special presence

It is also uncomfortable for people who had to show only the back of their heads to keep looking back.

The sound of Baek Hae-Won’s light footsteps is especially loud.

“What do you think?” Baek Hae-Won asks.

“What?” Ye-Hyeon replies.

Ye-Hyeon intentionally tries not to look at Baek Hae-Won, but he turns around at Baek Hae-Won’s words.

Ye-Hyeon is a little embarrassed because he didn’t know Baek Hae-Won would talk to him first.

“Amazing, isn’t it?” Baek Hae-Won asks.

“Oh. Yes, yes.” Ye-Hyeon nods his head.

“That’s more interesting.” Baek Hae-Won replies.

Ye-Hyeon couldn’t understand what he was thinking.

Looking closer, he could feel Baek Hae-Won was more than just a pretty one, he has a firm aura unique to a person with a firm focus.

He doesn’t think he’s just a nice person.

Ye-Hyeon had a hunch, Baek Hae-Won should never be taken lightly.

As he met many people while working as a supporter, sometimes he felt as intense as he does now when he first met someone. It’s not always right, but the hit rate was pretty good.

Ye-Hyeon swallowed a dry saliva.

“I’m Baek Hae-Won.”

Baek Hae-Won leans his head and smiles.

It was a smile that was so clear that the alertness that Ye-Hyeon just prepared was relieved.

Ye-Hyeon looks at Baek Hae-Won for a moment and hurriedly turna his eyes to the floor.

“…I’m Choi Ye-Hyeon.”

“That’s a pretty name.” Baek Hae-Won even smiles with his eyes.

Maybe it’s because Baek Hae-Won even took a pictorial in an advertisement, but he seems to know very well how his face was reflected in other people’s eyes.

Ye-Hyeon coughed for no reason.

“Is there anything else you’re curious about, Ye-Hyeon? I’ll answer even if you don’t raise your hand.”

In particular, Baek Hae-Won whispered in a smiling voice.

Ye-Hyeon purses his lips and closes them tightly.

‘Baek Hae-Won really looks like an angel, so he may be taking care of me who follows at the end.’

However, it is not understandable in common sense that a person who is treated at the level of an executive at the Hunter Association would make small talk with an awakening person who had not yet emerged.

As evidence, Baek Hae-Won pretends not to know even if the person in the front row turns halfway.

‘Did he catch me being bored? There’s no way that’s possible’, but the light question did not feel light because he was slightly guilty.

He had an ominous feeling that the uncomfortable conversation would continue.

Ye-Hyeon wanted to avoid him if he could.

Ye-Hyeon rolls his eyes.

Ye-Hyeon opens Baek Hae-Won’s Status Window like a habit.

However, at the bottom of the Status Window, the space where the inner thoughts were supposed to be was empty.

‘I’m frustrated that I can’t read your mind!’

Yoon Seung-Jae was simple and had the same thoughts outside and inside, so he didn’t know it was uncomfortable without it, but now he was so desperate.

Not being able to read everyone’s inner thoughts collectively.

Ye-Hyeon wished he knew when it would happen.

Even in the days when Ye-Hyeon could read their thoughts, there were people who he could read and not read, and there were people who he could only see one or two words, and people who he could see in detail in various sentences.

Even while Ye-Hyeon hesitated, Baek Hae-Won looked at Ye-Hyeon and smiled softly.

‘First of all, it was necessary to turn Baek Hae-Won’s attention to the other side.’

Ye-Hyeon looks around the dungeon looking for questions.

‘I tried to recall the memories of when I first entered the dungeon three years ago, but it was vague. It was inevitable that the perspective of an awakened person who had never experienced a dungeon and a Hunter, who came and went like his own house, was different. If you asked a question poorly for no reason, you could have raised suspicions.’

Ye-Hyeon takes a deep breath.

“But I’m very shy, so, um, I’m a little burdened. I’m sorry…”

Ye-Hyeon pretends to be discouraged and curls his shoulders to blur the end of his speech.

It is a pretty good performance, but it isn’t a complete lie.

No matter how low the sound was, attention was paid to the fact that he was talking to Baek Hae-Won.

It is safe to say that Shin Do-Gyeom is the only one who didn’t look back.

Ye-Hyeon thinks he is going to have an upset stomach.

Ye-Hyeon would act shamelessly by pretending not to see or not to hear, but, apart from that, he didn’t like the gaze of others very much.

Baek Hae-Won, who looks completely fine despite the sharp gaze, looks great.

“Oh, no. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable. I’m sorry.”

Baek Hae-Won gives an apologetic smile but did not leave Ye-Hyeon’s side.

In the end, Ye-Hyeon has to endure the burdensome existence of Baek Hae-Won next to him for about three hours until the gate experience was over.

Whenever he exchanged occasional conversations with Baek Hae-Won, Ye-Hyeon fiddles with his wrist in search of a watch that did not even exist.

It felt like it took three days, not three hours, to see how long the time passed today.

Ye-Hyeon barely passed through the boss room and came out.

He tried to run away before Baek Hae-Won talks to him more, a figure from afar and ran to him.

“Hyung!”

“Yoon Seung-Jae?”

It is Yoon Seung-Jae, who had to go back to the training center.

Ye-Hyeon approaches Yoon Seung-Jae in a daze.

“Why are you still here?”

“I waited to go with you.”

Yoon Seung-Jae pouts and rolls his eyes in response to Ye-Hyeon’s lukewarm response

As Ye-Hyeon was caught by Yoon Seung-Jae and taken away, he was able to naturally move away from Baek Hae-Won.

“You’re only doing good things today.”

Ye-Hyeon held back his laughter and strokes Yoon Seung-Jae’s head.

“Well done, well done.” Ye-Hyeon added teasingly.

“Humph.”

Yoon Seung-Jae snorts and lowers his head.

“Hey, I can reach without you bowing down.”

“You looked tired.”

When Ye-Hyeon got angry, Yoon Seung-Jae shruggs his shoulders.

While exchanging silly stories with Yoon Seung-Jae, the Gate Seeker arrives.

“Thank you for your hard work. See you next time as a Hunter colleague.”

Baek Hae-Won waves his hand lightly as he saw off the awakened people.

His eyes seems to have stayed on Ye-Hyeon for a long time, but Ye-Hyeon is relieved thinking he must have been mistaken.

Ye-Hyeon climbed onto the Gate Seeker alongside Yoon Seung-Jae.

When he took one lump off, he got another lump. Talking to Shin Do-Gyeom today was completely out of the question.

It is a shame, but Ye-Hyeon didn’t care much.

According to Shin Do-Gyeom’s interview, he lived in an archery field when he was in training camp.

There were only three archery fields, so the difficulty was much easier than looking for Yoon Seung-Jae.

“I said I wanted to try it, so I did. That’s why I activated the Boss Room Portal ”

And then…Yoon Seung-Jae is so excited about what he did that he chatted nonstop.

It is funny that he shrank to his neck to lower his voice.

“Oh, really?”

“The boss room was really big. Did you hear that the boss was over 10 meters tall? Isn’t it amazing?”

“Yes. Then?”

“Yes, I see.”

Yoon Seung-Jae, who is excited just by Ye-Hyeon’s moderate response, continued the story smoothly.

It wasn’t 19 years old, it was like a nine-year-old, no, five-year-old kid.

Ye-Hyeon, who is listening quietly, burst into laughter.

“Did you measure it like that? That’s great. As long as it’s Yoon Seung-Jae.”

Without realizing it, Ye-Hyeon spoke in a soft tone as if he was dealing with a child, but belatedly scratched the back of his neck.

“Um, umm.”

Yoon Seung-Jae, who is talking well, suddenly hesitated and pursed his lips.

[system]

The intimacy of Target 4: Yoon Seung-Jae has increased by 2 points.

[system]

Target 4: Yoon Seung-Jae’s affection increased by one point.

“Oh…?”

Ye-Hyeon only blinked.

Out of the blue, intimacy has increased by two points.

It would be nice if the intimacy increased, but the affection also increased.

Even if he forced himself and pretended to be close, he couldn’t figure out when and why it was going up.

<Target 4: Yoon Seung-Jae>

Intimate: 5

Affection: 2

“You’re going to the fitness center in the evening, right?”

No wonder Yoon Seung-Jae seems to stretch his tongue and say,

“Hyung!”

He couldn’t tell if Yoon Seung-Jae had changed or if his eyes and ears had gone bad.

‘Yoon Seung-Jae, no. Don’t be so affectionate.’

Ye-Hyeon hides his inner feelings and nods with a tired look.

Updates would be change to: Thank you for the Ko-Fi I don’t know if it’s for here or GFR so I’ll just give you this extra chapter and another one for RDP.

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