episode_0034

“Oh, by the way, Eunha. I have something to tell you.”

Lunch hour.

While I was making sweet potato latte while waiting for Bang Bang, who had gone to eat lunch first, Ban Harin, who had been sitting at the table the whole time, approached the kitchen and started talking to me.

She came next to Eunha, who was making coffee, and naturally made her own drink.

Last time, he worked a part-time job for a few days, and now he just comes to the kitchen and makes his own food.

Of course, I pay the bills myself at the checkout counter and take out any missing ingredients from the warehouse.

Is that what happens when a regular customer is close to the owner?

It’s all good, so I wish I could do either customer or employee.

Eunha looked at Ban Harin, who was leaning against the sink like a pictorial.

“What do you have to say?”

“Didn’t I watch Eunha’s movements for the past few days? I continued to ‘observe’ the changes in Eunha’s condition… but sadly, it turned out to be not enough for me.”

“……What if it’s not enough?”

And Ban Harin’s words, delivered in a casual voice, were enough to erase the smile from Eunha’s face.

“I am not capable of helping you with Eunha’s ‘E-Class Hunter Promotion Test in June.’ I am truly sorry.”

… … is it. Is it too much for a C-class hunter?

Well, if Eunha had been able to pass the promotion test by correcting her exercise routine for a few days, she wouldn’t have had to retake the exam 30 times.

Eunha nodded with a calm expression.

Eunha gave up on all the gyms in Euncheon-gu.

Last month, I decided to call a hunter-only trainer, but he raised his hands.

Rather, Ban Harin, who patiently looked after Eunha for several days, is just amazing.

Of course… it’s not that I don’t have any feelings of regret…

Okay. Because I’m used to falling.

“Okay… thank you, Mr. Banharin. You don’t have to help me with the exercise anymore.”

“No. I only told you because I thought I should tell you the results of my observations. I will continue to help Eunha with her exercise. Even if June is not possible right now, she will be with me steadily for about half a year…”

Ban Harin’s words of comfort to Eunha.

But why? It’s hard to hear.

The feeling that your head is so full of thoughts that no other sounds can come in.

It’s quite familiar.

I felt this way every time I received a notification on the 1st of every month that I had failed the promotion test.

The reality that a C-class(?) hunter faces is so cold and dry that it feels like strange words will inadvertently come out of his mouth…

Eunha tried to smile her usual languid smile.

okay. Let’s think positively.

If everything doesn’t work out this time, we’ll just have to move 31.

There is no need to be discouraged.

Eunha picked her deaf ears and roughly agreed, pretending to hear Ban Harin’s words.

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I don’t know what happened after that.

How did you work in the afternoon? After the cafe closed at 5 o’clock, what did you chat about while having coffee time with Bangul…

After that, what kind of exercise did you do with Ban Harin in the park?

… … ah. I remember being hugged and beaten by Ban Harin during exercise.

He must have noticed that Eunha wasn’t in a good mood today, so he clung to her back and patted her arms and stomach while she was stretching to cheer him up.

I couldn’t tell if it was helping me stretch or giving me a massage.

Why are you touching Eunha so much, both Bang-ri and Ban Harin?

Is it because Eunha’s body is soft? Or is skinship between women really like this?

I didn’t hate it. Rather, the lower abdomen becomes warm and strength drains from the body as if immersed in a hot bath.

When I told Ban Harin that fact, he quietly looked at Eunha with a subtle expression. He then said that he was confident in his observation skills and that he would quickly find a pleasant place, so he asked me to let him know if I needed a massage later.

These days, it seems that office workers have to be good at massage to survive at work.

Eunha promised to get a massage from Ban Harin later and finished her workout.

On the way back, I met an employee at the blood donation center and we talked about something, but I don’t really remember.

My ears were deafening, as if I had drowned, and by the time I realized it, I was lying on the living room sofa, staring up at the ceiling blankly.

When did you come home?

“……ha.”

I’m tired.

I can’t even make a smiling face, which I always have a habit of making.

(I am not able to help you with Eunha’s ‘E-Class Hunter Promotion Test in June’. I am truly sorry.)

Know.

No matter how hard she tries, the [Self-Recovery] skill returns Eunha’s muscles to their original state.

There was also no change in her muscle mass during the few days she worked out with Ban Harin.

I’m sick of it now.

“I… why did I want to become a hunter?”

I thought about that as I sat down on the soft sofa.

(In the future, when ■■ grows up healthy and becomes an adult… become a great hunter that everyone looks up to.)

(Becoming a hunter who willingly extends a hand to those in need…)

There was an appointment.

It was the wish of the person who left, and it is a painful memory.

So Eunha decided to become a hunter.

Because it is the only dream for her who lives without dreams or wishes.

Even though it is a dream passed on by someone else,

She wanted to dream.

“…I guess I can sleep.”

When will this dream come true?

Or can I throw it away…

Eunha got up from the sofa helplessly.

I feel bloated for some reason and I haven’t even eaten dinner yet, but I need to sleep.

If you take a nap, you will feel better.

Knock knock…

And, at that time, Eunha, who had stretched herself, was taking off her clothes and heading to the bedroom.

Someone knocked on the front door.

“…….”

Knock knock A steady rhythmic knocking sound.

There is only one person worth knocking on Eunha’s door.

Eunha pouted her lips and headed toward the entrance.

I pressed the entrance intercom with a gloomy face, and sure enough, a woman with an impressive blood-stained dress was smiling beyond the camera.

『I found it~.』

“……sigh… yes, I’ll go to the bathroom quickly.”

『… … ?』

Eunha responded indifferently to the red woman’s creepy laughter, took out a small zipper bag containing salt from her pocket, put it in her mouth, and entered the bathroom.

I recently found out that all you have to do is keep the salt in your mouth, so even if you put the whole zipper bag in your mouth like this, they will accept it.

Previously, the salt kept dissolving in my saliva, so I had to hold it in for 10 minutes every now and then… but it was a good thing.

『Sixteen… Seventeen… Eighteen…』

Lonely Eunha headed to the bathroom and stared at her reflection in the mirror.

A beauty with a languid smile like a mask. She’s definitely prettier than before. I guess she becomes more feminine every time she dies.

I raised one arm and tried to make a bicep somehow. No matter how hard I applied, my forearms were soft.

He’s doing well in the promotion test with a body like this… The comparison is even stronger as it reminds me of Ban Harin doing push-ups in the park without breaking a sweat.

『Forty-one… Forty-two… Forty-three…』

Eunha traced her face in the mirror.

Should I just give up? You worked hard for three years.

Wouldn’t it be okay to just stop now?

I’m quitting being a hunter, which doesn’t work, and making a living as a cafe employee. Eunbangul and Banharin, the three of us, let’s live with a smile and no worries.

Such a life would definitely not be bad.

(『Worrying means hesitation. There are many obstacles to moving forward, our feet feel sore, and we want to move in a different direction… so we worry.』)

A word that suddenly comes to mind.

The words spoken by an old man with turquoise eyes on a park bench in the twilight hours.

(『Someone once said that determination is born from countless efforts.』)

(『Take it down. If you take anything away, you will find the answer in the thin thread that passes by.』)

(『Someone said. Someday, when I stand in front of the mirror of my heart, it will suddenly come to mind. We will tell our story again.』)

Eunha looked at the mirror.

Take it out.

What you have to do to pursue your dreams.

Think again.

The biggest obstacle in the promotion exam.

Push-ups and sit-ups.

[Self-recovery] makes it impossible to increase muscle strength.

Even if C-class Hunter Ban Harin held the correct posture, it was not enough.

So what next?

Is that really the end?

Is this all the galaxy can do?

『100… 100 one… 100 two… 』

Eunha lowered her head and looked down at her body.

A chest that feels heavy, a soft stomach.

And… internal organs that only take up weight.

“If you don’t have enough strength… let’s try reducing the weight.”

It’s about taking it off.

Anything.

I know I won’t die like this.

Even if his limbs were cut off and his entire body was hacked to pieces… he stayed alive until his heart was ripped out.

The person who taught me that is now standing in front of the front door.

“…….”

The hesitation was long.

The worry was short-lived.

After making up her mind, Eunha spit out the salt from her mouth and opened the bathroom door wide.

『One hundred and seventy-nine…. One hundred and eighty.』

Dalkak-.

After 3 minutes, the [Red Woman] opened the front door and came inside.

‘That’, which was looking around the house with a creepy smile, made a subtle expression when it realized that the bathroom door was open.

Clap… Clap…

Just like that, the [Red Woman] came into the bathroom waving a bloody jigsaw,

Eunha, who was lying down on the bathroom floor, asked ‘that’ while ignoring her limbs that were shaking due to fear.

『… … What are you doing?”

“Red Woman, do you take requests for parts to be cut?”

… … .

… … .

“Hehe… Hahahaha…! Hahahahaha!!! It works! It works!”

After a while,

The bathroom that [Red Woman] visited.

In a place covered in bright red blood from floor to ceiling, Eunha was moving her bloody body and doing push-ups.