Chapter 19: Academy Life Starting with Personality Excretion (2) [R-18]

“Interested in guns? Ever handled one before?”

You bet. I still remember the serial number of my K2.

So, it was only natural that after passing by daggers, spears, swords, and knuckles, I’d take an interest in firearms.

“Yeah, a gun is definitely better than a sword.”

Yuuna spoke, looking a little pouty.

“Hmph. But if a gun breaks during a dive, you’re finished, aren’t you?”

“You don’t like guns?”

“Ahem. In the Hunter industry, they’re one of the weapons not considered to require ‘pure skill.’ I’m not the type to be so discriminatory, but there’s a tendency to look down on people who use guns, even if they’re high-rank. It’s good to know.”

“Then why are you trying to talk me out of it?”

Was she sulking because I wasn’t interested in the same type of weapon as her?

Yuuna pouted and muttered.

“Swords are better…”

…Cute.

“I think I’ll go with this one.”

I picked up a Glock 19.

Is this the compact version?

It felt a little smaller than the Glock 19 I’d fired at the gun shop, but a full grip was no problem.

Looking at the magazine, I could see it held 15 rounds of 9mm bullets.

“Senior, how much is this?”

“That? 600 Coins.”

“…”

I quietly put the Glock back down.

“That’s too expensive. Maybe I’ll go with these knuckles?”

“Those knuckles are made of a special material. They’re 800 Coins.”

The knuckles are more expensive than the gun? How is that even possible…?!

As I was agonizing over my choice, Yuuna sidled up next to me.

“I’ll buy it for you.”

“No. It’s too expensive.”

“You like the gun, don’t you? I’ll buy it. Just pay me back!”

“…Haha.”

It hadn’t been that long since I’d cleared my last debt, and here I was, getting into another one.

But having a gun did seem like it would be reassuring.

“In that case, I think I’ll need a gun belt and magazines, too…”

“Give me another 200 Coins and I’ll sell it to you as a set. Oh, and since your boyfriend is so handsome, I’ll knock 100 Coins off if you buy it all together.”

“…Boyfriend…”

“Oh? Am I wrong? Having second thoughts? 700 Coins isn’t an amount you just gift a friend for no reason, you know~?”

With a slightly stiff expression, Yuuna held out her student ID.

“P-Please ring it up.”

“Should we really forget it, Yuuna?”

“No! No… It’s fine…”

Even if she was a pro Hunter, this didn’t seem like an amount you could just take from a classmate. Should I refuse?

Yuuna looked back at me, seeing my concern, and forced a smile.

“When I first started as a Hunter, I was at a complete loss, too. I had nothing, and no one to help me.”

“Yuuna…”

“I made a promise to myself back then. That if I ever got to a position where I could help someone, I would.”

So that’s why she was giving such a huge gift to me, someone with no weapon…

“You’re going to become a Hunter and make a lot of money, right?”

“Of course.”

I casually approached the senior who was processing the payment.

“Senior. Just a moment. Could you give me a little more of a discount?”

“What? No way.”

“Is my face only worth a 100-Coin discount? Please, take a closer look.”

“…”

She was a female senior, so it just might work.

I simply moved closer and gazed at her intently, and the senior’s face gradually turned red.

“Ah, alright, I get it. So… don’t stick your face so close.”

Heh.

A face like this gets a discount with just a look.

“200 Coins…?”

“How about another 50 Coins off if I take a picture with you?”

“…Ah, a p-picture? In that case…”

“Another 30 if I put my arm around you.”

“Ah, ahh…!?”

“And I’ll smile like thiiiis, so please give me another 50 Coins off~”

“…Hah… O-Okay…”

I sweet-talked her relentlessly until she was dazed, managing to haggle the Glock full package down to 400 Coins.

After taking a few selfies with my arm around the senior, I returned.

“I put in a little effort. What do you think?”

“…It actually worked.”

The senior was already showing off the pictures we took to her colleagues.

“If they’d been male seniors, you could have done it too, Yuuna?”

“N-No way! I can’t! It’s too embarrassing just thinking about it.”

I was just teasing, I already knew the answer.

A modest woman is the best, after all.

“Kim Sang-hyeok. Is there anyone you like?”

“Hm?”

“I was just wondering if you had a girlfriend, since you’re so handsome.”

“I don’t.”

“You could probably date anyone you set your mind to, though?”

She probably thought that because I had the kind of looks that could get me anyone I wanted…

“I don’t want to date just for the sake of it. Not unless it’s someone I really like.”

“That’s true. It has to be someone you really like…”

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

“Nope, none! Never have!”

Would Yuuna say yes if I asked her out?

As I stared intently into her eyes, the atmosphere somehow became moist and heart-pounding.

“D-Do you like the weapon?”

“Yeah. I think it’ll go well with Personality Excretion.”

“…How is your main skill called Personality Excretion.”

Sadly, the moment the words “Personality Excretion” were spoken, that atmosphere vanished without a trace.

Is this the curse of the eroge?

“Hena’s waiting, let’s go back.”

“R-Right.”

“Thanks for buying me the weapon.”

“Work hard and pay me back! I didn’t give it to you for free.”

I holstered the Glock in the gun holster I bought with it. Five spare magazines.

I decided to store the remaining bullets in my inventory and reload as needed.

Now that I’ve bought it, I’m kind of tempted by things like a compensator.

But I didn’t have the gall to ask her to buy that for me too.

I figured I’d try upgrading it as soon as I paid off my debt.

I’ll have to work hard. This academy life.

We returned to Hena, who was waiting anxiously.

She was already surrounded by male students, which made my steps quicken.

“You’re Hena, right? Come with us.”

“Join our squad and we’ll give you a bigger share of the Coins. Double. How about it?”

“How about a duo with me? I swear I won’t do anything weird…”

“N-No…”

I look away for one second and this happens…

“Hena!”

“S-Sang-hyeok!”

Hena’s face lit up like a puppy hearing its master’s call, and she ran over to me.

She stuck close to my side and gripped my hand tightly.

“I-… I’m in a party with Sang-hyeok… so… I’m sorry…”

“…A D-rank…”

What are you muttering about? If you’ve accepted defeat, then get lost. Shoo.

I’m reminded every time of the enormous advantages a man gets just by being tall and handsome.

Just like the saying goes that handsome guys shouldn’t work out, if my rank were to get higher too, honestly, the sense of deprivation for the other males would be off the charts…

Aren’t I basically a walking harem generator?

“Were you properly telling them ‘N-O’?”

“Yes…! But they kept insisting, and I didn’t know what to do…”

Yuuna was staring at our conversation, dumbfounded.

“Is Hena some little kid?”

“Hena is a little baby.”

“You can’t keep letting her be so coddled. Hena. It’s not ‘N-O.’ It’s ‘Stop bothering me and get lost.’ Repeat after me.”

“…”

As if that kind of input would work on a baby.

While I was at the armory, it seemed like half of the F-class students had already entered the dungeons.

“The remaining students, form groups of three. If you plan to match as a solo or duo, tell the teacher beforehand.”

A group of three. A squad?

I looked back and forth between Yuuna and Hena.

“We’re a team, right?”

“I was originally going solo, but I’ll go with you. I’m worried about you two on your own.”

As for Hena, well, just seeing her clinging to me, it was obvious she planned on going with me.

“Oh my. Yuuna, are you going as a squad? Who’s the leader?”

“That would be me, teacher. Please recommend the tastiest dungeon.”

“As it happens, there’s one C-rank dungeon left for a squad. Go to B-3.”

It seemed that going as a trio allowed us to enter a fairly high-rank dungeon.

The point designated B-3 was a section of the indoor training ground, divided into squares like a chessboard.

Dungeons were generated in each of these squares by a gravity wave induction device, and just like before, a white gravity wave was shimmering.

They all looked similar, but the C-rank dungeon’s gravity wave was subtly different. It felt like it rippled more.

It was hard to explain precisely…

[Activating Insight – Red]

[C- Rank Dungeon]
[#9319. Monsters of the Lake] [Rarity C-] [Reward C-] [Anomaly D]
[Max Participants – 3 (Squad)]

Hmm. Seeing it like this makes it perfectly clear.

Insight – Red is a truly useful skill.

“With the three of us, we should be able to handle most situations. Let’s go!”

Just then.

Dihrit appeared out of nowhere, pushed Yuuna aside, and occupied the dungeon entrance.

“Oops.”

“…Ugh! What the!”

“Sorry, but we already claimed this dungeon.”

“What? No one was here. What do you mean you claimed it?”

“All three of us just happened to need the bathroom at the same time. Now, would you mind moving? We’ll be taking this C-rank dungeon.”

Dihrit was also in a ‘squad.’

On either side of him were a girl smirking obnoxiously and a short-haired male student.

“Don’t cut in line. You know this kind of power play is really childish, right?”

“Power play? Me? When the sum of all three of your scores doesn’t even come close to mine?”

When did he even check our scores?

“If anything, even if I was late, shouldn’t you have moved aside on your own so you wouldn’t hold back an A-rank honor student like me?”

“What kind of logic is that?”

Hena, looking scared, clung to me, gripping my hand tightly.

Our leader didn’t seem to have any intention of backing down. But honestly, if a fight broke out here, wouldn’t both sides lose out?

Dihrit Ade.

He’d hated me from the first day. His cronies didn’t seem to think much of me either.

Was it because I was an onahole collector?

The fact that I, who should have been kicked out of this academy long ago, was still here was an eyesore to him.

Ade’s cold gaze seemed to be saying just that.

“Hey, D. What’s with that pistol? A D-rank couldn’t possibly have the money for that, so, aha. Our pro Hunter must have emptied her poor wallet to buy it for you, huh?”

“…What are you trying to say?”

“It’s fun playing king among the weak, isn’t it? It suits weaklings like you to coddle each other like that.”

“Don’t you talk about my friends like that.”

Yuuna placed her hand on the hilt of her sword.

“Friends? You can only call someone a friend when you’re equals. For your information, my score is 2,500. Atali’s is 1,700, and Wilhelm’s is 2,000. How about that? You need to be at least at this level to be called ‘friends’ for the first time.”

“The way you even consider rank when making friends is just pathetic.”

“Nakamori Yuuna. They say hanging out with a D-rank makes you think like one, and it seems they were right. How about you run a 3D dungeon, one that’s more your speed?”

“You bastard…!”

I was about to tell her not to engage with him, but it seemed I was already too late.

Instead of dealing with Dihrit, I activated Insight[Red] and scanned our surroundings.

My mythical-grade skill, ‘Insight – Red,’ could determine a dungeon’s rank just by glancing at its gravity wave.

I had a feeling there might be a good, hidden dungeon somewhere.

[C(B) Rank Dungeon]
[#7119. Golden Orc Fortress] [Rarity C] [Reward B+] [Anomaly B]
[A demon merchant will appear in this dungeon]
[This dungeon possesses an anomaly level above the standard, and its rank will increase upon meeting certain conditions]
[Reward Multiplier +3]
[Max Participants – 3 (Squad)]

Found it.

A super-sweet dungeon that no one had entered yet.

Now there was no reason to assign any meaning to the dungeon Dihrit was obsessed with.

“That’s it, I’m not holding back anymore! I challenge you to a due—”

“Wait!”

I stepped between Yuuna and Dihrit.

Yuuna was taken aback, and Dihrit’s glare on me grew even fiercer.

“What is it, D-rank?”

“Calm down, Yuuna. He said all three of them really had to use the bathroom.”

“That’s a ridiculous excuse…”

“Dihrit. You guys take it. That dungeon.”

No, actually, I’d rather you guys hurry up and get lost in that dungeon.

So we can reap the rewards in peace.

“A D-rank knows his place, I see. I guess someone who’s crawled on the floor knows how to crawl best?”

“To be honest, I was getting a little scared. It’s a real relief that you’re taking it.”

“…Hahahat! Scared of a C-rank dungeon? Yuuna, what were you even trying to do with a coward like this?”

“…”

“We’ll go to another one, yeah. A 3D dungeon or something. Good luck, Dihrit.”

“Shut up. I don’t need your encouragement. Just check the ranking board later to see how much we earned.”

Dihrit’s gang disappeared into the dungeon, laughing.

Yuuna, left behind, was so agitated her face was flushed red.

“He insulted you and your friend Hena! Are you telling me you’re just going to let him go without even a duel? Kim Sang-hyeok, is that all you are?”

“Calm down. We came here to make money.”

“But now we’ve been kicked out of the dungeon we were going to. What are we going to do now…?”

“We have two choices. One, run a 3D dungeon with a loser’s mindset.”

Yuuna’s gaze sharpened.

Seeing her emotions laid so bare, she looked ready to turn her back on me and walk away.

“I hope you like the second choice more than the first.”

“Second, we go to a quasi-B-rank dungeon that even Dihrit didn’t know about.”

“…What?”

I explained my Insight skill to the two of them.

How I could get a brief overview of a dungeon’s information before entering.

And how I’d already spotted another, better dungeon while Yuuna was arguing with Dihrit.

Once she realized this, Yuuna’s anger subsided completely.

“Y-You should have told me…”

“It was better that I didn’t. If you were fuming and puffing your cheeks, wouldn’t Dihrit have entered that C-rank dungeon with even more satisfaction?”

“…I wasn’t puffing my cheeks!”

“Let’s go. Guys who are obsessed with rank like that just need to be crushed by rank later.”

“Still, that’s amazing… I never knew a skill like that existed.”

“Me too… Sang-hyeok is amazing…”

Hena and Yuuna expressed their awe for my Insight skill in unison.

It was probably a rare skill even in the Hunter industry.

After all, it was a ‘Mythical-grade’ skill bestowed upon me by the goddess, the master of this Onahoaka world.

In terms of value, it was on par with Lucky Pervert, which manipulates reality, and Personality Excretion, which expels personalities.

Gaining an edge in the minor information wars within the academy was a piece of cake.

“The problem is, this dungeon’s rank will rise to B-rank if we meet the conditions after entering. If you don’t think you can do it, Yuuna, we’ll have to back out.”

The clearance of this dungeon would depend entirely on Yuuna’s abilities.

I conveyed that fact clearly.

“Are you okay with that, Yuuna?”

However.

Perhaps the encounter with Dihrit had lit a fire under her. Yuuna was burning with motivation.

“Is that even a question? This is a risk we have to take! Just follow my lead!”

“Alright, let’s go~!”

“W-Wait for me, Sang-hyeok.”

[Entering Dungeon]
[Participants – Nakamori Yuuna, Kim Sang-hyeok, Henna Isis]

The exploration had begun.

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Translated By: Meher (RaidenTL)

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