episode_0045

“Wow, what should I do? It’s been a long time since I’ve been to the gate!”

“I’m so, so nervous. No, my legs are shaking.”

“Wow, Chae-yoon’s legs are really shaking?!”

Su-ah and Chae-yoon were walking into the dormitory, making a lot of fuss.

Na-hyeon, who followed behind her, also saw Chae-yoon’s trembling legs.

“What are you so nervous about?”

Even though they were not going to attack right now, they started talking because they were shaking so badly.

“Well, honestly, it’s a bit like that. I’m so excited and nervous.”

“It’s not something we’re targeting right now.”

“But this is it! Going on a practical field trip means that we don’t have much time left until we get to the gate!”

Chae-yoon’s severe tremors were for a reason.

For about a month, all I did was take practical classes with an instructor or take theory classes.

But now it’s a practical field trip.

As she said, it was like a signal that there were not many days left until they had to go through the gate and attack.

“Ah, but we won’t be alone for a few more months, right?”

Su-ah smiled and answered.

Even though the practical field trip had begun, there were still many concerns about entering the gate by themselves.

First of all, Arin’s trauma condition was not likely to improve in just one month.

Of course, it is true that she has improved noticeably compared to before as she is working hard and trying to move forward, but in reality, Arin has not yet received training to use skills.

“Maybe it will really be possible next year?”

“Ah, it will be sooner than next year.”

Arin, who was still worrying about the person on the other end of the phone, finally came to her senses and participated in the conversation when she heard the story about the gate.

“I was going to start skill training soon.”

“Gasp?! Really?!”

It was clear that going on a practice field trip to the gate was exciting and exciting, but it was even more enjoyable to see that Arin’s condition was improving.

If you look at Suah’s voice, it’s twice as loud as before.

“Yes, you can’t move forward if you don’t even try. I want to move on. I don’t want to rush it, but it’s true that I still want to show my fans a good side.”

Her will, which was already burning, began to burn even more after she started broadcasting.

Even though he couldn’t even use his skills, he came to think that he wanted to show his cool side to those who always came to watch the broadcast and cheered him on.

“Suah is really showing herself as a proper blader now. Honestly, I was jealous when I saw that.”

There were times when only Su-a would turn on the broadcast, and in those cases, Eun-jeong and I would watch Su-a’s broadcast while taking class.

However, Su-ah’s skills, which at first were really limited to swinging a dagger, seemed to improve as time went by.

Arin didn’t just say it out of support.

It really seemed like Su-a could show superior performance than the hunters in the same class if she formed a team right away and went to the gate.

“Oh, I still have a long way to go.”

Su-ah blushed as if she was embarrassed.

However, she also felt that her skills had definitely improved compared to the first time.

“Still, I’m glad if I was of some help to you.”

“Ah, our Sua was always helpful! What are you talking about?”

Arin hugged Su-ah, who spoke so lovingly as if she was embarrassed, and gave her a kiss on her face.

“Kya! What are you doing, sister..!”

“Huh? what. Are you saying you won’t accept my sister’s kisses just because I’m a little older now? I’m sad..”

Arin was a person full of love, and her hobby was casually touching and kissing the other three people.

As such, the hurt look on his face when he saw Su-ah running away in disgust was quite high-quality.

“Wow, you can really be an actress.”

“Wow, you’re an actor! Did I get hurt because of Jjin?!”

Even though they were saying that, everyone knew that Arin was acting.

“Anyway, I’ll be taking a class on how to use skills soon~ It might not take until next year! This is it!”

“But don’t push yourself too hard. Because we can wait even if it takes longer.”

Chae-yoon, who was quietly watching the scene, smiled and spoke.

“But I don’t want to cause any more trouble.”

“A nuisance? Arin has ever caused some kind of trouble?”

Chaeyoon responded with an embarrassed expression to Arin, who said that she was causing trouble.

“So, when has Arin ever caused trouble?”

“There was none.”

Su-a and Na-hyeon also responded with puzzled expressions, as if wondering what that meant.

Of course, none of the three people here ever thought of Arin being a nuisance.

“No, but because of me, I wasn’t even recognized as a proper engineer..”

Although there were high-ranking fire mages, it was true that the reason they were not recognized as engineering students was because Arin could not use skills and because there was a history of accidents at the previous guild.

“Ah, what are you talking about? If it weren’t for Arin, would we have gotten together like this?”

“That’s right, I should have just quit being a hunter.”

“Yes, Su-a and Na-hyeon said the right thing. If it weren’t for Arin, we would have gone back to normal people a long time ago. No matter how much I wanted to do it, the conditions weren’t there.”

Nevertheless, the reason the three were able to endure without quitting was because four people in similar situations came together and tried to move forward by encouraging and comforting each other.

“Arin, you are not a nuisance to us. He’s an amazing person who brought us together so we could get to this point.”

At the words of the three people, Arin felt as if the tip of her nose was twitching.

Since Arin had lived her life thinking that she was only causing trouble to the three people, hearing such honest stories always made her heart sink.

“…No, but because of me…”

“It’s not because of you. Thanks to you, we came together.”

Nahyeon firmly interrupted Arin and spoke.

“Arin, I have low self-esteem… I have such a small voice and I’m so shy. To be honest, if you hadn’t brought me here, I would still have been pessimistic about the world without being able to do anything.”

Before meeting the three, Nahyeon was in a much worse condition than she is now.

My self-esteem was extremely low, I always felt like everything was my fault, and my relationship with my family was not that good.

Her proud older brother always ignored her, and her parents also compared her and Nahyun whenever they had the chance, lowering her self-esteem.

“I have improved a lot since I met you and started living together. My low self-esteem also went up a lot. Well, it’s true that things got better after joining the guild, but if you hadn’t brought us together, we wouldn’t have all joined the guild like this.”

Normally, Nahyun would have kept quiet, but she knew well that she shouldn’t hold back her words at times like this.

“…Nahyun unnie..”

Arin was very touched that Nahyun, who does not like to talk, spoke like this.

“.. Really, everyone.. always impresses people like this.”

“That’s because our Arin is a person who deserves to hear such things.”

“That’s right.”

“I completely agree! Arin is the best!”

Arin said, trying hard to hold back the tears that were about to fall.

“To me, you three are precious treasures and the most precious family.”

The three said that they were here because Arin brought them together, but Arin also seemed to think that they were able to come this far because of the three people.

If it weren’t for the three people, I might have given up on becoming a hunter a long time ago.

Of course, he was about to give up even before joining the guild.

“Actually, I was going to talk about quitting right before I joined the guild. Hunter work.”

“Ah, I was thinking the same thing at the time. I age as I should, so I wonder if it’s okay to be like this.”

“Agree.”

“Eck, really?!”

Su-ah, the youngest, had never thought of such things, but the other three were constantly worrying about whether it was okay to continue like this.

Everyone seemed to be having similar concerns, although they didn’t say it out loud for fear of hurting each other.

“Ha, really. We are still moving forward well, right?”

“Then. Sooner or later we will go to the gate by ourselves.”

“That’s right.”

“That’s right! Arin and my broadcast are going really well!”

The four people held each other’s hands and smiled pleasantly.

It was clearly moving forward.

It was definitely different from before, when no matter how hard I tried to move forward, I was stuck.

The fact that they may soon be able to do what they really want to do.

It made my heart beat faster.