chapter 8
8 – Process for the build-up
Siwoon spoke up with difficulty.
“I want to become a Hunter.”
“What?”
Chun Se-jeong’s eyes widened.
“Hunter? Are you going to be a hunter?”
Siwoon nodded quietly.
“Are you going to go to Hunter University?”
“No. I will prepare for the Hunter Qualification Test right away.”
“……….”
“No, you’re going to prepare for such a difficult exam right away without going to Hunter University?”
That’s right.
Going to Hunter University is harder than going to law school or medical school.
The general route is to receive early education from elementary school, go through middle school and high school, graduate from the university’s hunter department, and take the hunter qualification test.
But even if you go through that route, it’s really hard to become a hunter.
Since the applicant is the number one job, the competition is fierce.
There are two to three times as many things to study as the administrative and bar exams.
How much more Siwoon said he would take the Hunter Qualification Test.
To be honest, it was like a middle school student saying that he would pass the strabismus.
There are two worlds in this world.
A different world that only hunters can enter.
And the current world where Siwoon lives. Divided into
.
In the other world, there is a vast amount of knowledge to know, such as culture and laws, forces, history, etc. That must be followed in that world.
Because it is a hunter who has to earn a living in another world, a world different from this world. It was natural that I had to study about that world.
That’s why it’s hard to become a Hunter.
In exchange for that much hardship, the given honor and wealth follow.
Of course, it was a system in which profit generation varied greatly depending on the rank difference and spawn of the hunter.
And one.
Things to keep in mind.
If you die while working as a hunter, you will leave the world.
There is no such thing as reviving and reviving like the world in the game.
So.
To become a hunter, the qualification test is important, but you have to take the risk and step into that world.
Of course, it can be said that very strong or gold spoon hunters rarely die.
On the other hand, weak hunters are not treated well in that world.
If you make a mistake, you could go to the goal with your guts ripped off by a low-level monster.
That’s the hunter’s world.
“Siun-ah. Do you know how hard it is to be a Hunter? And do you know how dangerous it is?”
“I know everything.”
“There will be more things to study than you can imagine…”
“Sejeong, I know that much.”
Siwoon was serious. More than ever.
On the other hand, Sejeong started to worry.
Sejeong is well aware of Siwoon, who used to build fences saying he didn’t want to study even if he died.
By the way.
There was no mischief in Siwoon’s tone or face.
‘Siwoon, has he finally matured? How hard is that…….’
Drreuk-
Sejeong’s phone vibrated.
Siwoon asked to answer the phone with his chin.
Sejeong put her cell phone up to her ear and started talking about her.
‘Sejeong’s body signal is skeptical. It must be true that modeling is hard work.’
Sejeong, who finished the call before she knew it, said with a slightly stiff face.
“Siun-ah, I think I should go. I can’t buy you dinner tonight. I will definitely buy it next time sorry.”
“Is it urgent?”
At Siwoon’s question, Sejeong nodded her head a couple of times.
“Okay, let’s go.”
“I’ll be in touch.”
Sejeong puts on her rather grim face and she waves her hand at him and she walks out the front door.
‘I will definitely become a Hunter. I want to show Sejeong that I’ve become a decent hunter.’
Shiwoon was unaware of the time passing by her pleasant conversation with her.
After she left, there was nothing to do, and I felt her boredom.
‘Would you like to have a drink with your friends after a long time? Want see. Guys….’
She unplugged the jack on the battery charger and turned on her phone.
Teeing.
Then I looked through her address book.
Then a name suddenly caught my eye.
Seunghun Cho.
Siwoon is an alumni of Seongsu Technical High School.
A guy who is pleasant enough to wear the modifier comedian.
A guy who calls me at any time and asks for a drink right away, asking ‘Where should we meet?’.
‘Cho Seung-hun, you bastard. I miss you once in a while……. In my previous life, this guy had a decent job, then suddenly left the company, said he would take the public recruitment exam for a comedian, and went on a rampage, then completely quit his life.’
I immediately called Seunghun.
Instead of the ringback tone, I hear a coloring ring in my ears.
It was rhythmic and exciting music that matched well with him.
– Hello.
Seunghoon answered the phone with a rather dull voice.
“Seunghun, it’s me. Good luck.”
– Cub. I’ve been calling you for a long time
“Your voice is locked? Were you sleeping?”
– Uh uh… You were sleeping Huaam.
A yawning sound could be heard.
“Would you like a drink today? In a while.”
And Seunghun’s answer.
– Where shall we meet?
“Puhahahahaha!!”
As expected.
Siwoon finally burst into laughter.
– Why are you laughing all of a sudden, bastard?
Siwoon burst into laughter at Seunghun’s answer, ‘Where shall we meet?’ Without hesitation.
I feel like I don’t want to go anywhere in my previous life or this life.
‘I won’t be able to see my friends for a while because I’m studying for the Hunter exam, so I’ll have to watch them now.’
***
A quiet chicken restaurant in downtown.
Siwoon shakes his head and looks around.
On the table,
Freshly fried chicken, fresh chicken radish, and four 500cc draft beer.
And the fork on top of the napkin is neatly placed.
My high school alumni friends are putting their hands on the handle of a beer mug and tearing apart chicken with their mouths.
My high school friends.
Cho Seung-hoon, Lee Hyun-chan, and Kim Tae-hoon are sitting next to him.
Seunghoon lives for the fun of making others laugh.
Hyeon-chan, who is tall with a skinny body, grumbles every day.
And Taehoon, who is small but has deep eyes and subtly exudes a handsome feeling.
Siwoon’s eyes stopped at the face of a friend named Taehun, who was dressed so plainly.
Taehun Kim.
Graduated from the same technical high school as Siwoon.
He is full of extraordinary.
‘There are so many things that come to mind when I see this guy.’
Taehun, who never missed first place in elementary and middle school, could have gone to the humanities, but he went on to go to the same technical high school as Siwoon.
Was he aiming for a special screening in the business world?
No.
In Siwoon’s mind, that fresh time in high school came to mind.
***
Taehun, in his school uniform, was engrossed in something..
Siwoon approached because he had something to ask.
“Taehun. I’ve been curious about you for a long time.”
“What is it?”
“If you are at your level, it is not difficult to get first place in the entire school even if you go to the humanities, so why did you come to our school, which is at the lowest level?”
When asked with a serious look.
Taehun answered very calmly.
“I just wanted to come.”
Strange answer.
No, Shiun couldn’t understand the answer.
‘I want to ask more, but I can’t.’
Taehun’s eyes always seemed to be longing for something.
He
He didn’t talk much, but he always had a sense of weight and strange charm whenever he spoke.
‘Actually, Taehun-ah, I’m jealous of you.’
He doesn’t talk much, but all the girls in his class liked Taehun.
A mysterious charm?
Siwoon once suspected that Taehoon was deliberately pretending to be mystic.
But when I got to know him, it wasn’t like that.
‘Kim Tae-Hoon was not a concept.’
And.
Just when he thought he had gotten close with him, something shocking happened.
Taehun Kim, who was the best scholarship student who took the first place in the entire school.
When you are receiving love from teachers and principal.
Taehun submits a letter of withdrawal to the school.
At the time, all teachers as well as Shiun were shocked by this fact.
‘What was this guy thinking when he made this decision?’
After school, Siwoon went to Taehoon’s house without even changing his uniform.
Thumb!!
As soon as he knocked on the front door, Tae-hoon, who looked more haggard than usual, had a bad luck.
“Are you here?”
“No…. Hey kid What happened to you?”
“What?”
“I mean dropping out.”
“Come in first.”
There was no one at home.
This is Taehun’s first visit.
When I opened Taehun’s door and entered, a strange sight unfolded.
Equipment I’ve never seen before.
The monitor was turned on, and the atmosphere in the room was embroidered with colorful beats.
Shi-woon, bewildered, opened his eyes wide and looked around him before asking Tae-hun.
“What? These are all….”
“Music equipment.”
“No. It’s not that important right now. Why did you drop out? Are you crazy, b*tch?!”
Siwoon screamed out of concern for his friend.
Taehun looked at Siwoon in silence and moved his lips.
“Because I have something I want to do.”
“What do you want to do? Are you going to drop out because of that?”
“Yes.”
“Is this bastard crazy!”
Lee Si-woon took the momentum to run into Tae-hoon.
A soundproof interior installed around it, round-shaped recording equipment, and extravagant speakers were all in place.
‘Are these things you want to do, so you dropped out and behaved so pathetically?’
The swelling was more intense.
He had always been jealous of Taehun in his heart.
At the top of the school while studying hard,
A guy with a charm that attracts women.
In short, a guy who does well in whatever he does and gets attention no matter what he does.
“Let’s go back to school before we get hit. Your homeroom teacher probably hasn’t fixed it yet because you dropped out.”
Taehun shook his head.
In the end, Siwoon grabbed Taehun by the collar.
“I am not kidding. Stop this and listen to me, my friend.”
Then he raised his right hand and sighed with his fist clenched.
With the gesture of going to hit it.
“Thank you for worrying about me, but this is my choice. If you intend to preach more, go back.”
It was so resolute.
After that, Taehun never showed up at school.
And a few years later.
More startling and trembling news came.
The news is,
The news that a famous singer from a large agency, who can be heard by anyone, has risen to the top of the music genre chart.
The song’s composer and lyricist was Kim Tae-hoon.
And then, one after another, the songs he wrote were entered at the top of the music charts.
One of them is,
A song with the heavy title of ‘Love’.
A luxury ballad that shakes your heart.
Taehun, who started sweeping up an annual salary of more than 100 million won with only music copyright fees, took flight without knowing how high the sky was.
‘But what’s more mysterious.’
Taehun never bought a car and never spent extravagant money.
Despite such success at such a young age,
He has never given strength to his shoulders.
Since then, while dating one of the members of a famous girl group, Taehun is on the road to success at the young age of 23.
This is the story of Taehun in Siwoon’s third life.
A story about Kim Tae-hoon from his previous life?
As expected.
At the time when Siwoon, who lived his second life, was anxious about the civil service exam,
Numerous dashes of top actresses toward Taehun.
And Tae-Hoon started a scandal with Korea’s top actress,
Rise up to the position in charge of producing music programs,
Rising to the top of the composer’s income ranking.
This is the second story of Taehun’s life.
Whether in his previous life or now, Taehun is on the road to success.
Every time Siwoon heard the news of Taehoon, he felt both joy and bitterness at the same time.
‘It’s bittersweet. A person who will become a former or future life can do anything.’
Have you heard of the saying, “Become, become, become?”
Kim Tae-hoon was a man who fit this word perfectly.
While living an endless life of eternal life, Siwoon felt both joy and bitter frustration whenever he heard the news about Kim Taehoon’s future.
‘A good guy can do anything. Wouldn’t it be the same no matter how many lives go on for someone like me?’
I shook my head.
‘This life will be different. Because I have unrealistic abilities in my hands.’
It was then.
I heard the sound of a stinging bolmen.