Chapter 23
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 23
Chapter Title: Professor Kim Yun-ji (1)
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At the end of every Gate, a boss and a dungeon core await.
Defeat the boss and destroy the dungeon core, and the Gate collapses and vanishes.
There's no need to worry about the people inside when the Gate collapses. The moment it does, everyone within is automatically ejected back to where they entered from.
On the flip side, if you take down the boss but leave the core intact, the Gate remains. Depending on its rank, it usually takes about two weeks on average for the boss and monsters inside to fully regenerate to their initial state.
Ignore it for another two weeks after that, and inevitably, you'll trigger a dungeon break, where the monsters inside pour out into the world.
And right now, for our practical training, all we had to do was defeat the boss and leave the dungeon core alone.
"Groooaaarhh!!"
We'd finally reached what could be called the final boss, and up to that point, everything had gone exactly according to plan.
Baek Hwa and I held the front line, tanking damage from the massive ghost that served as the boss, while Park A-young and Lee Ji-hyun dished out the DPS from the rear.
"Here, eat this."
You ate hard bread! Defense increases temporarily!
Cha Yu-rin was faithfully fulfilling her role as a buffer, popping bite-sized pieces of bread into our mouths at key moments.
With everyone sticking to their roles so perfectly, it wasn't long before the ghost started crumbling.
"Yaaawn... All done now?"
While we were fighting, Bianca had been napping in midair out of boredom. She floated over with a grin and threw herself into my arms. I gave her a light hug, savoring the feel of those massive breasts for a moment before setting her down again.
With the rest of the team around, anything too overt wouldn't go over well.
"Whoa! Check this out. This mana stone has to be at least E-Rank, right?"
"No kidding!"
Unlike the lower-tier specters and ghosts we'd taken down while navigating this haunted mansion, the giant ghost—as befitting a boss—dropped a mana stone of impressive size.
Mana stones differed wildly in value even with just one rank separating them, so it was no surprise the team was making a fuss over it.
Only Lee Ji-hyun and Baek Hwa, who probably wouldn't bat an eye at pocket change like this, stared at the rest of us with blank expressions, eyeing the stone with mild curiosity.
"Excellent work. Adapting to the Gate's environment on the fly and creating the necessary skills was spot-on. If you ever find yourselves in a pinch like Team 1 here, learn what you need before you go. Even if it's inside a Gate."
The professor's words sent chills down my spine.
Wasn't she basically saying she'd seen everything we did in there?
Right down to my dick sliding between Baek Hwa's thighs like some sumata play!
"P-Professor... you didn't see that, did you?"
Baek Hwa must have realized the same thing, because she immediately directed the question at the professor.
"No need to worry. I haven't shown your training footage to anyone—not me, not any other academy students. Skill instruction is confidential by nature anyway. But..."
"But?"
"Professor Kim Yun-ji has a recording for her research. If you're worried about the training secrets leaking, you should go talk to her."
"...Got it."
I immediately whispered to Baek Hwa.
"I'm on inspection duty today anyway. Want me to ask for the footage?"
"Keh! You bastard, planning to blackmail me with that video?"
Her bitchy retort came right back at me.
But it was fine. She'd helped me out today, so I'd let this slide.
"Fine, fine... I'll tell her to delete it right away."
"Krr. Unbelievable. Just bring it here!"
Baek Hwa's face flushed red as she spoke, while Lee Ji-hyun shot me an irritated glare.
Lee Ji-hyun probably saw me pestering her right-hand woman, Baek Hwa, and was giving me the evil eye for it.
"Rushing in blindly without a skill to help a teammate afflicted by a status effect from a specter, like this team did, is dangerous. Always remember: status effects wear off with time or by taking out the caster. Charging in to 'save' a teammate like that can shatter your formation."
The professor's lectures followed every mistake other teams made in the Gate, but not a single one of my teammates was paying attention.
"Krr. If, if you spread that video, I, I'll...!"
Baek Hwa was lost in her wild imaginations, convinced I might actually blackmail her with it, while Lee Ji-hyun snapped an innocent pen in half, glaring daggers at me.
Cha Yu-rin was sneaking bites of bread on the sly, and Park A-young was dozing off as usual, head bobbing.
As weird as it was to say, my little sister wasn't exactly the studious type, so I was used to seeing her like this.
"That's the lecture for today."
With that, the session wrapped up, and the teams naturally started gathering among themselves. It was still early in the semester, so lineups could change anytime, but huddling up, sharing insights, and training together was invaluable experience.
But I couldn't join my team for training today. We weren't exactly training together in the first place—we did our personal sessions in that absurdly spacious mansion that could hardly be called a "share house."
Still, piling into Lee Ji-hyun's limo together every day to head home was supposed to build team bonds, and as team leader, she saw it as crucial.
According to her, studies showed that the more time you spent together—living under one roof, commuting to and from school—the greater the team synergy.
Of course, the boost wasn't huge, which was why most hunters, like my mom, lived separately. They had families to build and maintain, after all.
'Oh, right. Mom moved into the company dorms.'
Come to think of it, after Park A-young and I started at the academy and moved out, Mom had gone into the company dorms too.
Suddenly, I missed her...
Anyway, as important as team synergy time was, I had something else today.
"You're here."
The woman in white looked at me with eyes brimming with curiosity, like I was some lab specimen.
It was Professor Kim Yun-ji, the academy's infirmary head and a pioneer in hunter research.
Doctor—no, professor. Right...
This wasn't my first time coming to see her. Anyone with abilities that could mess with other people's minds—like me—had to undergo inspections this frequently.
And she was my assigned handler.
"Master, see you later~! Mwah♥!"
Bianca, who'd been trailing behind me, blew me a kiss and slipped into the next room.
A monster researcher worked there—not an academy prof, but someone studying monster ecology through Bianca.
Now that Bianca was recognized as my familiar, she had to cooperate fully with the research.
According to her, it was nothing invasive like blood draws—just chatting about her self-proclaimed "demon race."
'Makes sense...'
She was an SS-Rank monster.
Even the handcuffs suppressing her cost a fortune.
S-Rank suppressor cuffs were already prohibitively expensive, to the point where people argued for the death penalty for S-Rank criminals who committed heinous crimes, since imprisoning them was too costly.
Of course, a few pairs already existed, so S-Rank crooks stayed locked up nice and quiet.
"You're here. Strip, then."
My usual checkup was simple: Professor Kim Yun-ji just verified there were no hidden stats in my status window.
But after I tamed Bianca, it expanded to a full-body exam.
She said it helped spot mana flows that a status window alone couldn't reveal...
"Sure."
I stripped down without a hint of embarrassment by now.
Having bared it all in front of her multiple times dulled the shame. She wasn't lunging at me like that first meeting to "test my stamina limits" out of nowhere—she just examined my body closely, nothing more.
"Professor. I heard Professor Kim Se-yeon has footage of our team's practical training. Could you hand it over?"
"No."
"Thank you...? Huh?"
I'd expected an easy yes, so her flat refusal left me cocking my head.
Footage like that was treated as highly confidential.
Hunters acquired skills in three main ways.
First, job skills gained naturally upon ranking up.
Second, self-taught or learned from a mentor.
Third, the rare skill books dropped by monsters.
Of those, only the second came from effort.
Observing someone train solo was fine, but teaching—especially family secrets or secret techniques—was a no-go.
So I'd figured she'd agree no problem.
"I need it for my research. But don't worry—the impromptu training between you two won't leak. I stake my reputation on it."
She said it reassuringly.
She wasn't combat-focused, but as an S-Rank hunter with the "Hunter Specialist" job, she was optimized for research. The association hadn't rated her S-Rank for nothing.
Ranks reflected combat power, plain and simple.
So the footage was safe with her. But I still had to get it for Baek Hwa and make sure it got deleted.
She'd taught me a skill today, after all.
"I really need it."
"Hmm... It's valuable data. Fine. That'll work."
At my firm tone, she made a reluctant face, then started shoving books and papers off a nearby desk.
I watched, puzzled, as Professor Kim Yun-ji climbed onto the cleared desk.
Without hesitation, she flung her white coat back, hiked up her skirt, and slid her matching white panties aside, revealing a stunning pink pussy.
"P-Professor?"
"I've never done it before. I'll leave it to you, Park A-jun. Hurry up and stick it in—then ejaculate."
Professor Kim Yun-ji was suddenly demanding sex.
What the...?
Had I unknowingly awakened hypnosis or something?
Or was this a setup for a MeToo scandal?
I couldn't make sense of it, but my dick didn't care—staring at her pussy, it shot straight up, hard as steel.
'Fuck if I know.'
I had no clue what was going on, but first things first: fuck, then think.
They say even the ghost that dies eating looks pretty, so I decided to savor the professor's pussy just as she asked.