Episode 10
A huge ultra-luxury cruise.
The ship was moving across the sea toward the test site, Jewel Island. The first year students of Gaon Academy forgot their exams in the beautiful scenery. We made friends in a free atmosphere.
And among them, the strongest in class S, the first in the grade ranking. Adela was there too.
‘It’s cool.’
Adela was feeling the cool breeze on the railing of the cruise. The wind blew her beautiful silver hair. Adela, who was cramped in the academy life, felt free at this moment.
“Hey what are you doing? With a cheeky, very worldly face.”
At that time, Kim Eun-ah peeked out from the side and showed her face to Adela. Adela didn’t answer. Eunah Kim spoke directly into Adela’s ear.
“Can’t you hear me? what are you doing?”
Let Adela look at Kim Eun-ah, frown and leave. Eunah Kim clung to Adela like a puppy.
“Hey, stick with me. Is there a sparring ground on the cruise?”
Adela clicked her tongue as if Kim Eun-ah was bothering her.
“It’s only been three days.”
“what?”
“…whether you’ve been defeated.”
Adela continued ignoring Kim Eun-ah’s appeals,
“Where are you going! Join me!”
Then Kim Eun-ah completely blocked Adela.
“ah! please! Just do it once!”
Eunah Kim earnestly asks.
“no, I do not want.”
Adela, of course, passed by again.
“Oh really! only once!”
But let Kim Eun-ah stand in her way again. Adela narrowed her eyes.
“…why are you so persistent?”
“Did you tell me? I can’t live without losing.”
As Kim Eun-ah laughed, Lee Si-woo’s booming voice came from below.
“wow! The sea is so nice!”
However, what caught Adela’s attention was not Lee Si-woo, but Shin Yoo-seong next to him.
“That man…”
Adela showed interest. Kim Eun-ah narrowed her eyes and smiled.
“Oh, is he right?”
Kim Eun-ah deliberately brought in Shin Yoo-seong to stimulate Adela.
“The only disciple of the great King Kwon who defeated your grandfather!”
Shin Yoo-seong, who is in class F, took a test with the CDEF class, which is called the lower class. In other words, there was no contact in the test between Adela, who is in S class, and Kim Eun-ah, who is in A class.
In other words, an opponent who has not yet had a chance to compete. Kim Eun-ah muttered as she looked at Shin Yoo-seong as if she was sorry.
“I want to stick with him too. If you are a disciple of the King of Power, you must be very strong, right?”
“…don’t worry about the test.”
Let Adela try to cut her off. Kim Eun-ah laughed wickedly and provoked Adela.
“why? don’t you know …Will Gaon’s No. 1 change?”
However, Adela did not lose and smiled leisurely.
“Then you will be third.”
After Adela said that, let’s turn around and leave. Eunah Kim glared at the back of Adela’s head and sighed.
“No, that’s for real!”
Whenever Kim Eun-ah got angry, the people around her exploded with a jizz-jizz-spark, as if representing her mood.
“Miss Ha! I’m just in the mood.”
Kim Eun-ah looked at Shin Yoo-seong downstairs with heartache. A man whose rival Adela is interested in. Slowly, a mischievous smile appeared on Kim Eun-ah’s lips.
“…just me intercepting it?”
* * *
After boarding the cruise, Lee Si-woo stayed next to Shin Yoo-seong and chatted non-stop.
“Wow, I am really nervous. Yoosung, aren’t you nervous?”
“I don’t like it.”
“But Yooseong-ah! Your partner is Sumire!”
Siwoo Lee glanced around to see if Sumire was there. He shouted again in an excited voice.
“Last time, I couldn’t tell you until the end… But when I’m next to him, bad things keep happening…”
Lee Si-woo tries to scare Shin Yoo-seong. Sumire murmured with a gloomy air about when he had arrived.
“Oh no…”
“Oh.”
Siwoo Lee suddenly grabbed his stomach at the sudden appearance of Sumire.
“Oh Yoosung. My stomach hurts so bad all of a sudden…”
And Lee Si-woo quickly runs away. A moment of silence passed between Shin Yuseong and Sumire. In such an awkward atmosphere, Sumire quietly sat next to Shin Yoo-seong. He started lamenting in a muttered voice.
“…I’m used to stories like this now. I heard a lot of bad feelings in Japan… Once, I showed a skeleton summoning technique in front of a friend. “Kyaa! Skull with my hair! I feel really bad!” There were times when I said…”
“…Uh, that’s right.”
Let’s listen to Shin Yoo-seong’s story.
Sumire continued to recount her own story as if it were comforting.
“Still… though the skeletons make me feel bad. I’m never cursed or possessed by a ghost! No…”
“Well, there is no such thing.”
“Yes? So… even if Shin Yoo-seong is by my side… I get sick. or get into an accident. Things like being possessed by demons or dying…”
Sumire continued to mutter while sniffling. Shin Yooseong said in a determined voice.
“I don’t care about that.”
As if moved, Sumire opened her eyes wide and looked at Shin Yuseong.
“This is the first time I’ve ever had someone say that to me… In fact, when my parents saw my skull, they said, “This is the first time I’ve seen such an unpleasant trait!” He said he hated it so much. That’s why I…”
Sumire, who was moved, tried to continue talking again. Shin Yooseong covered Sumire’s mouth.
“now stop. Sumire. You just focus on the test from now on.”
Sumire nodded her head up and down saying that she understood while covering her mouth with the palm of Shin Yoo-sung.
“Oops!”
Even though I nodded like that. Sumire carefully asked Shin Yoo-seong if he was not confident.
“Can I really do it?”
Shin Yuseong looked down at Sumire and nodded nonchalantly.
“you can do it.”
Yoosung Shin pulled out some of his own hair. He said while holding Sumire in his hand.
“It’s okay to use my hair freely for the exam.”
Sumire looked at Shin Yoo-seong’s hair as if it were a treasure.
“Wow… Mr. Shin Yooseong’s hair! Even five strands!”
Sumire carefully wrapped Shin Yoo-sung’s hair in a tissue. put in pocket Then, looking at Shin Yoo-seong’s fingers, he carefully asked.
“Next time… can you give me your nails too? It is stronger than hair!”
Yooseong Shin smiled at Sumire, who looked at her nails with her eyes shining.
“…I’ll think about that.”
* * *
Instructor assigned to the lower class of the first year.
Xiao Lin. He looked at the students and shouted out loud.
“The given time is only 2 hours! In the meantime, collect as many jewels as possible on Jewel Island!”
Jewel Island, the site of this test.
The monsters here were diverse, such as Carbuncle Baby Salamander and Jewel Snake. They all had one thing in common: jewels embedded in their bodies.
“The monsters living on the island have different jewel sizes depending on their level! Of course, the higher the grade, the higher the score, right?”
After the explanation, Lin Shao made a final request to the students.
“Although the instructor understands that it gets intense as the exam progresses. Because it’s not sparring! Never fight! If you do, you will be expelled from school!”
After saying that, the students dispersed in an instant. K-Channel staff who came on the cruise together set up a booth for Yuhanna.
Instructor Lin Shao stuck out his tongue at the first sight he saw.
“No, no matter how popular Hunter broadcasts are…. to broadcast student exams.”
Seeing that, Yuhanna shook her head and waved her index finger from side to side.
“Oh~ my god! Absolutely no such outdated and anachronistic thoughts!”
Yuhanna slipped down her sunglasses and smiled.
“This item is the idea of the most competent K-channel representative PD. The broadcast of the test was also allowed by the principal. So absolutely no problem! Do you understand?”
“I see.”
Lin Xiao was dissatisfied, but replied that he would understand. It was because the principal, Jin Byeong-cheol, had asked him not to go against Yuhan-na.
‘No, what kind of English do Koreans speak like that… What a strange woman.’
Yuhanna is already sitting in the booth, befitting her title as the main host. I was checking the preparations for the broadcast one by one.
“Did all the drone cameras float?”
“Do not worry. There are only 50 pilots because there is a lot of support.”
Let the male staff pat your chest and make a joke. Yuhanna looked in the mirror and nodded.
“great. Shin Yooseong is natural. That partner, uh… what’s his name? Anyway, that Japanese girl. Be sure to attach a drone camera to him.”
“Are you Sumire?”
“yes yes. After all, it’s recorded, edited, and broadcast. Take as many pictures as possible. Please cover my comments. Now, if you’re ready, go shoot quickly!”
50 monitors installed outdoors.
K Channel’s preparation for broadcasting was beyond imagination. That meant Shin Yoo-seong was so popular and the broadcasting station had high expectations.
* * *
Wheein!
Yooseong Shin looked at the drone camera floating in the sky.
‘No matter how important recognition is to Hunter…’
Shin Yoo-seong was embarrassed that all of the academy’s exams were broadcast. However, in order to aim for the strongest hunter like the King of Swords, awareness was the basis of the basics.
‘…I’ll have to put up with this much.’
Yoosung Shin awakened his senses and calculated the wind direction with his fingertips.
[Yoo Seong! Monsters in the wild! Especially when it comes to catching weaklings! If you turn your back to the wind, you will always hunt and eat! Whether it’s an animal or a monster, the weaker it is, the more sensitive it is to the smell!]
This was the hunting method that the King of Swords had taught me. Shin Yuseong was blown by the wind from the front and slowly moved forward. At the same time, Shin Yoo-seong did not miss the footsteps of the game left on the ground.
‘…A trace of something gone. It hasn’t been long since it was engraved.’
There were long traces of something in the damp soil typical of forests. Shin Yoo-seong moved along the trail at a rapid pace. And at the end of the trail, Shin Yoo-seong found a huge snake.
‘found.’
The identity of the snake is Gem Snake.
As a level 3 monster, it was absolutely not an opponent that an ordinary F class student could catch alone.
“Whoosh! Hush!”
Gem Snake, who discovered Shin Yoo-seong late, started to check it with his tongue flicking. Gem Snake, who slowly approached to attack Shin Yoo-seong, stood upright.
Then let Gem Snake curl up like a spring with his long body. Shin Yooseong narrowed his eyes.
‘come.’
Chaak!
Jem Snake threw himself away with a ghastly sound. Shin Yoo-seong, who did not take any posture, grabbed Gem Snake’s neck in an instant.
Kwak! Kududeuk!
The sound of muscles being crushed by strong force.
Eventually, Gem Snake’s body sagged. Yooseong Shin puts down the Gem Snake. I casually took off the jewel that was stuck in my head.
Of course, the fighting power that overwhelms the 3rd class.
Even in the moment of battle, there weren’t many freshmen who could face it calmly like this. However, Shin Yoo-seong did it simply.
‘…Is catching a monster like this really a test?’
This is a place where not only Shin Yoo-seong’s Class F, but also the upper class, such as S Class, take exams. However, for Shin Yoo-seong, the level of difficulty was too low.
‘Even though it’s easy, it’s too easy…’
However, the reality was different from Yooseong Shin’s thoughts. It’s not that monsters are weak. Shin Yooseong was strong.
A native of Class F with F-class characteristics.
However, the constitution and body of the innate Shin Yuseong. And the harsh training of Kwon Wang gave birth to Shin Yuseong as an irregular who would threaten the position of the strongest.
