Chapter 178: B-Rank Promotion Test (2)

“The promotion test date has been decided?”

After arriving at work, I immediately walked to the reception desk with the request list recommended by Esila, and the receptionist at the request management counter continued explaining about the promotion test.

“Yes. Coincidentally, an A-rank Hunter active in the Gangdong District branch has agreed to supervise this promotion test. If there are no unusual circumstances, you will be able to take the B-rank promotion test on the morning of the coming Friday.”

The morning of the coming Friday would be approximately a week later, I guess.

I thought it would take about a month until the promotion test date was decided, but just the fact that it could be held in a week was welcome news for me.

“I understand. By any chance, are there any precautions?”

“Regarding the test content, we’ll explain it on the day…. Other than that, you just need to fill out this promotion test consent form.”

I filled out the promotion test document received from the receptionist and immediately handed it back inside the counter.

“Yes, confirmed. If you are late for the test date or are absent, the next promotion test date will be postponed, so please be sure to pay attention.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“And the request registration is complete! Please work hard today too!”

“I’ll see you when I leave work.”

After receiving the Hunter ID tag, even with the request imprint engraved on it, I immediately walked towards the dungeon entrance counter.

In my mind, the thought of having accomplished something caused my emotions to boil up, which I calmed with a shallow sigh.

“…Hoo.”

Get a grip, Sung Taekyung.

Now, just because the promotion test date has been decided, how can I get so excited, acting like I’ve already been promoted?

Even if I get promoted, I’ll only be B-rank. Not an A-rank like Hye-eun or Min-ah, but a B-rank Hunter.

I’ve only reached a level that’s slightly embarrassing even when standing side-by-side with the women I’ve slept with until now.

Although there’s some difference between the visible rank and actual skill, that doesn’t change the fact that my current rank is trying to rise from C-rank to B-rank.

If I get overly excited for no reason and something goes wrong, the moment I fall back to C-rank, my carefully laid plans will also become completely useless.

To prevent that, until the test date, I’ll need to hone my swordsmanship further as much as possible. I don’t want to unnecessarily reveal my other awakened abilities to the examiner.

So, this is just the beginning. Just the beginning.

In that way, comforting myself, even as I tried to calm my pounding heart, my lips curling up on their own was unavoidable.

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Meanwhile, inside the cafeteria of Eun & Ok Co., Ltd.’s Gangdong District branch.

That day, the party members of Sky Blue Shield were facing a somewhat awkward mealtime.

To be precise, it was because one of the four members suddenly started acting strangely, drawing everyone’s awkward gazes in that direction.

“…Min-ah.”

“Yeah?”

“Are you not hungry today? Why did you suddenly get up from your seat mid-meal?”

Party leader Kang Hye-eun pointed out Han Min-ah, who had suddenly kicked her chair and stood up right after getting her meal and sitting down at the table.

“Ah, uh, just because? It just feels more comfortable standing today….”

Han Min-ah couldn’t bring herself to tell her colleagues.

Due to the aftereffects of the sex she had with Sung Taekyung yesterday afternoon, sitting on a hard chair and eating had become difficult.

At home, she had intentionally knelt in a position where her butt didn’t touch the floor, placing a pillow between her thighs and calves to minimize the pain. But in front of a regular dining table, not a low table, she couldn’t possibly eat while kneeling in such a strange posture.

“Usually, you say it’s free food and get seconds, but today, you must really not have an appetite, huh?”

“A, a little…?”

That’s not it. I’m just afraid of sitting down.

Even so, she couldn’t endure the other colleagues’ suspicious gazes directed at her forever, so Han Min-ah had no choice but to endure the pain again and place her butt back down on the hard chair.

The cold, hard cafeteria chair pressed against Han Min-ah’s slightly swollen anus.

“Hieek?!”

As soon as she sat down, Han Min-ah’s sudden groan immediately drew the attention of the other colleagues.

“I-It’s colder than I thought. Haha….”

Shaking off those gazes with an awkward smile, Han Min-ah immediately grabbed her utensils and practically buried her face in her tray to start eating.

Enduring the pain in her rear end, which throbbed from the aftereffects of something non-standard going in and out.

Amidst the feelings of shame and pain, Han Min-ah repeated to herself several times in her heart.

“Next time, I’ll absolutely never let him put it in again.”

“Next time, next time, I will absolutely not permit it!!”

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The day of the promotion test.

As the one-day supervisor for the B-rank Hunter promotion test, Cha Yuri reported back to the Union Guild a week after that day.

At first glance, she might seem like a diligent Hunter who makes work even on her days off, but if you think about it, the current Cha Yuri was approaching this position with mercenary thoughts more than anyone else.

The Union’s Hunter promotion test, moving up from C-rank to B-rank.

To understand the details of that test was the extremely personal reason that motivated her.

Even without that, a few days ago, she had contacted Kim Sungchul thinking of meeting him on her day off, but since she was rejected, it was even more so.

“I’m sorry, Cha Yuri-ssi. I don’t think I can make time until this Friday because of training.”

“Okay. Then I can’t help it.”

“Once this is over, I’ll contact you, Cha Yuri-ssi, first. Please bear with me until then.”

“Do you think I’m some kind of sex fiend like you? I can wait that long, so don’t worry about it.”

No, I couldn’t wait.

Because it was a conversation via KakaoTalk message, where expressions or emotions couldn’t be conveyed, I could say that, but in reality, Cha Yuri was quite deeply hurt by the shock of being rejected.

As she said, Cha Yuri wasn’t a sex monster on Kim Sungchul’s level.

However, her affection deficit was severe enough to be considered the strongest among the women who slept with him.

Cha Yuri, who had neither an attractive body nor personality, had a blunt personality, and had lived a life typically unpopular with men.

Until now, her only solace was her awakened ability, which could clearly show her position within the party.

That’s why, shortly after joining Sky Blue Shield, Cha Yuri focused solely on honing her awakened ability, wind magic.

At least, when she was with her colleagues, she felt like her affection deficit symptoms were slightly alleviated.

The month she lost her awakened ability became a slowly mind-eating hell for Cha Yuri.

“What if I never regain my awakened ability like this? What if I no longer have a place within Sky Blue Shield? I need to regain my awakened ability as soon as possible and return to my original position.”

Dozens of such thoughts tormented her mind endlessly, which is why she became so impatient.

A life without regaining her awakened ability was meaningless anyway, so she desperately clung to the strange hope of risking her life to burn her last flame and manifest it.

Despite being an extremely foolish and irrational judgment, the outcome turned out to be the best imaginable.

Union C-rank Hunter, Kim Sungchul.

It was precisely because of that reckless scheme of hers that her connection with him began.

Back then, she met Kim Sungchul, who was merely a trainee Hunter, had her life saved, slept with him, and even completely regained her awakened ability.

In fact, something more important than regaining her awakened ability was actually separate.

For her now, the meaning of Kim Sungchul was that he had become the only person who could resolve her affection deficit.

Unlike her, who had impulsively tried to shove her pussy in him just because he said he could help her regain her awakened ability, he, from beginning to end, poured all sorts of affection onto her throughout the entire process and held her.

At first, she just thought it was a whim.

For him to put so much effort into a relationship with her, who had no charm as a woman, was practically incomprehensible behavior to her.

However, as that kind of sex happened twice, then thrice, and continued on, even Cha Yuri, who was usually dense about men’s feelings, could sense that the love he was showing her wasn’t false.

She could receive both her lost awakened ability and her lacking affection from him.

Just that alone naturally led to Cha Yuri’s dependence on Kim Sungchul growing.

Therefore, she didn’t hesitate to act in any way that might give him even a slightly good impression.

Especially now, after experiencing rejection once, such factors were even more crucial for Cha Yuri.

She didn’t know if Kim Sungchul’s reason for refusing to meet her was genuinely because he lacked time due to training, or if he was just making excuses because he didn’t want to see her.

She couldn’t even imagine a future where he was gone from her life, so she desperately wanted to create some excuse to meet him somehow.

Kim Sungchul, who wanted to quickly raise his Hunter rank, would surely be interested enough in the details of the Union Hunter promotion test.

The faster the transfer to the company, the more time she would have to meet him, not to mention.

It’s fine even if she’s the fifth among five. It’s fine even if she’s the tenth among ten.

Just, if she could receive just enough affection from him not to wither away, that alone would be enough.

Thinking thus, Cha Yuri walked towards the Union Guild to take on the role of supervisor for the Hunter promotion test.

“……Huh?”

Naturally, she encountered Sung Taekyung and Kim Sungchul, who had come to take the promotion test.