Chapter 84 An Ex-Girlfriend’s Regret

Even thinking about it again, it’s really absurd.

Introducing my childhood friend’s sister to my childhood friend who visited after a long time.
And the sister saying very, very embarrassing things to that childhood friend.

It was truly absurd no matter how I thought about it.

“Master…♡”

And the cause of this absurd situation was undoubtedly the cat clinging tightly to my side right now.

Na-ri’s sister, Narin.

No matter what anyone says, it’s undoubtedly because of this woman that I had to face such an embarrassing situation.

But.

But why.

Is the embarrassment purely my share?

No matter how I think about it, it feels so unfair I could die.

Bonk!

So I had no choice but to give her a light knock on the head.

If things continued like this, my anger wouldn’t be relieved at all.

“Kyah…!? Ow… that hurts.”

Narin happily hugging my arm.

Getting hit with the light knock, she was startled.

And looked at me.

“Ma-Master. Did… did I do something wrong?”

And while carefully watching my mood, she whimpered.

“Yeah. You f*cking did wrong.”

I gave her another light knock.

“Sigh… anyway, let’s quickly go to the Hunter Association now.”

Though I’d like to vent more.

Anyway, it was time to go to the Hunter Association now.

Since we can’t be any later, I was about to start heading out.

“Ha… what’s this now…”

But I couldn’t help but sigh.

The world suddenly darkened.

Despite it being broad daylight.

“And what’s that…”

And a very out-of-place gate appeared in the middle of Seoul.

A gate of pure white light.

It looked completely different from any gates seen until now.

“Hero-nim…! I’ve been looking for you.”

While I was looking at the gate, someone came running to me.

Reytana rushed over to me as if in a hurry.

“Reytana. Do you know what that is?”

“That’s… a Nephilim gate.”

“Nephilim…?”

And I heard quite shocking words.

A Nephilim gate.

The gate that according to Reytana’s prophecy was supposed to appear a year later.

She was saying that gate had appeared now.

“Didn’t you say it would appear a year later from what you knew?”

“Well… seems someone disturbed the Nephilim. It shouldn’t have been like this originally…”

“Just who disturbed it?”

But why would that gate appear now?

I asked Reytana, and heard quite an absurd answer.

Just what kind of crazy person would disturb a gate that was just sitting there?

“Well… they say it was a hunter called Lee Na-ri.”

“Na-ri? Why would Na-ri disturb that?”

“I don’t know either.”

“This is crazy…”

The culprit was my childhood friend.

Just how bored must she have been to go challenging SSS-class gates?

I can’t understand no matter how I think about it.

“Anyway… we can’t just leave it like that.”

“Hmm… so how many people can enter?”

“Four people.”

Anyway, the fact was we had to conquer this.

In that sense, putting everything else aside, we needed to form a strategy for this.

“Four people…”

Hearing four people, I had to think for a moment.

Me.

Reytana.

And Narin.

With these three people, we need one more…

“Should I recruit the last person?”

“No. I’ll recruit them.”

I do know a suitable person.

Wonder if they’ll come along?

Yoo Eun-ha’s house.

After parting with Si-woo, Eun-ha returned straight home.

And she’s been continuously drinking soju one bottle after another for hours.

Gulp, gulp.

One bottle, two bottles…

The bottles gradually piled up and though she had passed 20 bottles already.

Eun-ha didn’t stop drinking soju.

No, she couldn’t stop.

“Just what… did I do…”

Because her heart hurt.

Because her heart felt empty.

Because she regretted about herself.

“Just what did I do…?”

Eun-ha might have held some hope.

That Si-woo liked her.

She had held such an easy hope that if she seduced him they could date again.

But that wasn’t it.

The day she met Si-woo today.

Eun-ha had no choice but to completely realize.

The emotion felt from Si-woo speaking to her no longer contained any love.

It was just emptiness.

The woman named Yoo Eun-ha no longer held a place in Si-woo’s heart.

“Why… did I make Si-woo sad.”

But though she felt that emptiness.

Actually, Eun-ha also realizes.

That such emptiness appears after tremendous sadness…

How sad must Si-woo have been.

How sad must he have been to become like that.

She was finally starting to realize it.

She had done a terrible thing to Si-woo.

A really terrible thing…

“Only now I realize…”

As she felt that sadness, she seemed to understand how much Si-woo had loved her.

The love Si-woo had given her kept churning in her mind.

As those blades called memories kept wounding her heart…

She couldn’t help but drink.

“There’s no hope anymore now…”

She had no choice but to realize now.

Si-woo was already in a state of complete disappointment with the woman named Yoo Eun-ha.

There was no more hope.

The person named Yoo Eun-ha no longer existed in Si-woo’s mind.

Now the person named Yoo Eun-ha was no longer needed by Si-woo.

“No… I don’t want this…”

And realizing that, the emotion of regret came flooding in.

It was too sad that she could no longer receive Si-woo’s love.

She wanted to have again what she had completely lost, but couldn’t.

“I shouldn’t have put up my pride…”

Why do we only know something is precious after losing it…?

Why do we only feel sad after losing it?

Why do we lose precious things because of such useless things?

Eun-ha couldn’t help but feel sad.

Hating herself.

She couldn’t help but regret.

That thing called pride…

It was nothing compared to what she thought.

If she had known she would be this sad..

If she had known she would regret this much…

She wouldn’t have done that…

Wouldn’t have broken up like that…

She wanted so badly to turn back time.

Gulp, gulp.

Another bottle of soju. And another bottle.

She emptied them.

She tried hard to fill her unfillable heart with soju.

But because it wouldn’t fill, it hurt even more.

Self-loathing and guilt came flooding in.

Living on became too difficult.

“Should I just die…”

In the end, Eun-ha had no choice but to collapse.

Even when she lost her abilities.

Even when she was homeless.

Even when chased by debt collectors.

Eun-ha hadn’t found it difficult.

Such things couldn’t make Eun-ha submit.

But not having Si-woo was too sad.

To the point where she had no will to live anymore…

Gulp, gulp.

She drank another bottle. And another bottle.

And when the alcohol finally ran out.

Eun-ha made a decision.

Eun-ha stood on the railing of her building.

To commit suicide.

“Nice view…”

Come to think of it, it was really the same scenery.

When she had lost her abilities, not wanting to submit to Si-woo’s kindness.

It was the same scenery as when she stood on the railing wanting to die to protect her pride.

“Should have just not given me back my abilities then…”

She had regained her abilities then.

At that time Eun-ha had been so happy, as if she had received a blessing, as if she had been saved.

She thought she could live luxuriously again now.

But that wasn’t a blessing but a curse.

Not salvation but hell.

As if telling her to reflect on her actions…

As if giving punishment to the person named Yoo Eun-ha…

As if saying don’t think you can die so easily…

It was just meant to torment her.

To make her reflect.

“Haah…”

It was painful.

She reflected.

She had already regretted enough.

So now she just needed to die…

As Eun-ha was about to jump.

“Eun-ha…! Are you home?”

Eun-ha was startled by such unexpected words.

Startled, she barely stopped herself from falling off the railing with her ice abilities.

Just what sound had she heard?

Did she hear it because of the alcohol?

Or was it an auditory hallucination?

Many thoughts flashed through her mind, and she racked her heavily drunk brain to grasp the current situation.

Then.

“Not home…?”

Si-woo’s voice was heard again.

Eun-ha had no choice but to realize.

This was definitely reality.

Not a dream, not a hallucination.

It was undoubtedly reality.

“Ye-yeah…! I’m here.. I’m here!!!”

Eun-ha’s body moved reflexively rather than thinking.

In the process she stepped on a bottle and fell, but got up again and opened the front door.

And she could see Si-woo’s face.

“Ugh… alcohol smell… how much did you drink?”

“Ah… but why did you come?”

Si-woo grimacing while looking at her.

Seems he didn’t like the smell of alcohol coming from her.

Eun-ha hurriedly brushed herself off trying to shake off the alcohol smell.

“Well… I was going to ask you to come to a gate but… seems you’re drunk…”

“No no…! I’m not drunk at all!!! Let’s go to the gate…!”

Though Si-woo was about to leave as if giving up seeing such an Eun-ha.

Eun-ha desperately held on.

“Hmm… will this be okay…?”

Si-woo showed a slightly worried expression looking at such an Eun-ha but.

“Look look…!”

Eun-ha scattered ice crystals all around with her ice abilities.

Extremely precise control.

She showed that she was in her right mind.

“Hmm… well, even drunk you’re stronger than most hunters.”

Seeing that ability, Si-woo.

Held out his hand to Eun-ha.

And Eun-ha took that hand.

‘Though I’m a bit worried, it should be fine right?’

I could see Eun-ha extremely drunk.

Honestly, it’s not that I’m not worried seeing that state but…

One way or another, it’s also true that there’s no hunter as excellent as Eun-ha.

‘Whatever.’

Anyway, with this our party seems complete.

Swordsman. Healer. Ice Mage. And me.

A balanced composition is born…!