Chapter 8
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 8
Chapter Title: Team Formation (2)
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As Lee Ji-hyun Young Lady had said, the training we'd undergone over the past week could only be described as hellish.
"Come on, one more!"
"Grrraaah—!!!"
The penthouse was ridiculously spacious, so each of us had our own personal training room on the first floor.
There, with no interruptions from anyone, I was training under my personal instructor—and right now, I just wanted to die.
For a Hunter, lifting a 100kg dumbbell might be a piece of cake, but not for me at the moment.
Status Weakened! All stats reduced!
Before every training session, Lee Ji-hyun Young Lady always cast this debuff on all of us. It made my already weak body even weaker, dropping me down to the level of a normal person. So of course, that 100kg dumbbell felt impossibly heavy to me.
"Come on! Just one more!"
"Arghhh...!! Instructor! How many 'just one more's have we done already?!"
"It's fine! You're fine! This is basic stuff if you want to become a proper Hunter! One more!"
"No...!! Grrraaah...!!"
Sex you pay for doesn't give EXP.
So how the hell was I supposed to raise EXP?
Make a girlfriend and have sex with her?
If that were possible, I wouldn't have been paying for it in the first place. For some reason, I'd never been able to get a girlfriend before.
'Well, I did have one in elementary school...'
Though we broke up when we went to different middle schools...
Anyway, maybe now I could get a girlfriend. But dating takes time, and what kind of lunatic has sex right after starting to date?
So there was only one conclusion.
Work hard at physical training, one of the few ways I could gain EXP right now.
This was the only reliable way for me to earn EXP.
Sex Master values Stamina. EXP gained!
"Huuuh..."
"Alright, that's enough stamina training for now. Time to swing some swords."
At the instructor's words, I set down the dumbbell and picked up a wooden sword. This was the daily routine: stamina training followed by sparring.
"Hyaah—!!"
The moment we took our stances, I lunged forward with a thrust. It might seem cowardly, but I was a total newbie who'd just awakened, while the instructor was a B-Rank Hunter.
Instructor Sin Han-byeol, a B-Rank Swordmaster, effortlessly dodged my sudden attack and swung her wooden sword down at me.
Thwack—!
"Ugh—!"
Sex Master doesn't get hit by bitches. EXP down!
Toughness skill EXP sufficient. Rank up!
The painful sting of the wooden sword hitting my body came with a drop in EXP.
All the EXP I'd painstakingly built up with stamina training vanished in an instant, resetting me to square one.
On the flip side, the new Toughness skill—which reduced incoming damage—had leveled up and was now mitigating even more damage.
"You're definitely a bit faster now... but focus. Skills only provide damage correction. You have to master the techniques yourself. Of course, if you had a rare skill like Counter, it'd be different—but you don't, do you?"
"Haa... Yes!"
Whoosh—whoosh—!!
After answering the instructor, I kept swinging my sword at her relentlessly.
"Good!"
Thwack—!
Sometimes I even managed to block her incoming strikes.
"You're getting good at deflecting the opponent's power now!"
The instructor smiled as if she were enjoying our spar, never once losing her composure.
"Hyaaah—!!"
With my stamina draining away, I thought this was my last shot and swung the sword straight down at her in a vertical chop.
"Hmm... Big swing's a feint, huh."
Thwack—!!
As if she'd seen right through me, she easily parried the vertical strike—just as she'd said. The downward chop was indeed a fake-out.
Using the rebound force, I spun the sword in a wide arc for a horizontal slash.
"You've improved a lot... Hup... Ah!"
Thud—!!
She suddenly lost her balance, leaving her side completely exposed to my blade.
"Woo-hoo—!! I finally hit her!"
Swordsmanship skill rank up.
Luck rank up. Sex Master bonus! Lucky Pervert state for a while!
Thrilled that I'd finally landed a hit on the instructor, I raised both arms in victory—and immediately, messages popped up about skill and stat increases.
"Ow... I got too cocky there. Of all things, my foot got tangled and I lost my stance. You can't let your guard down in practice like this—never in real combat, got it? Your master here just showed you with her own body."
Did something to please the bitch. EXP gained!
Instructor Sin Han-byeol seemed embarrassed about taking a hit from me and started getting up while making excuses.
Because she'd fallen, I caught a glimpse of her alluring brown bra peeking through her simple training clothes, but I pretended not to notice and looked away.
"Alright, that's enough for today. It's getting late."
"Yes."
It was a bit later than usual today, but finishing the grueling training left me with a real sense of accomplishment.
"Time to wash up."
This massive penthouse had a restaurant and training rooms on the first floor, and personal bedrooms, kitchen, and bathrooms on the second. There were three bathrooms in total.
Two were for women only, and one was mine. Without a second thought, I stripped off my clothes, tossed them in the laundry, and opened the bathroom door.
The moment I did, my eyes landed on Baek Hwa—one of my teammates, a woman with blue hair dripping water from her head, her pretty pink nipples perky and erect.
"...!! Kyaaah—!!!"
"S-Sorry...!!"
And then her scream echoed through the place.
I didn't have time to wonder why she was there—I slammed the door shut and apologized.
'That's why the light was on...'
Did something to please the bitch. EXP gained!
Why the hell does this give EXP... Damn it.
Baek Hwa was the daughter of the Star Cloud Guild's Team 1 leader, so she'd naturally crossed paths with Lee Ji-hyun Young Lady and become friends.
Well, Baek Hwa didn't think of her as a friend. To her, she was Lee Ji-hyun Young Lady's knight.
Maybe that's why her class had turned out to be Sword Saint.
"Um, excuse me."
"Get lost."
As a knight, she'd been swatting away the flies buzzing around Young Lady ever since they were kids.
If someone slipped a sneaky love confession into her desk, Baek Hwa would show up and beat the crap out of them.
Fortunately, Lee Ji-hyun didn't show much interest in guys, so she never really stopped Baek Hwa's behavior.
But at some point, that dynamic shifted from Baek Hwa devoting herself to Young Lady... to Young Lady taking advantage of her.
The problem lay with Baek Hwa.
'Blasphemous.'
It started with curiosity.
She'd picked up some ero manga out of curiosity about what guys thought of girls, and the story of a knight protecting a princess only to get captured and ravaged had shocked her to her core.
The issue was how deeply she got hooked on that ero manga.
So hooked that it warped her understanding of men.
"Imagination is just imagination. It's not reality. I'm different."
That's why she doubled down on rejecting every guy who approached her.
All while secretly fantasizing about ending up like those ero manga knight girls.
Baek Hwa had kept suppressing her weird tastes until it was time to enter the academy—and then she was stunned by Young Lady's changed demeanor.
"I met a fun guy today. Academy life won't be boring, huh? Hehe."
The sight of Young Lady giggling about a guy for the first time hit Baek Hwa like a truck.
"No, not right now, but rare classes like his just need the right way to grow strong, and he'll skyrocket."
'G-Get strong...? N-No, Young Lady, I'll protect you!'
At the mention of a rare class, Baek Hwa maxed out her wariness toward Park A-jun.
In her imagination, all men were thugs who used violence to subdue women and force them to bear their kids.
Especially a guy with such a vulgar class name—no way she'd let that slide.
So Baek Hwa couldn't help but look forward to it.
Would she end up like those ero manga knights—guarding her chastity until she finally knelt before a man and acted all coy...?
Lee Ji-hyun Young Lady hadn't said it outright, but Baek Hwa already knew they'd be living under the same roof as that guy.
'Hehehe... Living together, all sorts of things are bound to happen!'
With that, Baek Hwa deliberately wore skin-tight dolphin pants and a loose crop top that showed off her navel.
And the moment Park A-jun walked in, she pounced to subdue him!
'What a letdown...'
But he was way too weak. She took him down without breaking a sweat.
'Can't let my guard down!'
But ero manga had all sorts of ways men overpowered stronger women.
She'd hoped he'd sneak into her bed at night, but that never happened.
Park A-jun was just a normal guy, not some criminal.
"Baek Hwa... A-Are you really gonna shower in there?"
"Yeah! I think us girls need to stand up for our rights! It's ridiculous that out of three bathrooms, one's reserved just for that guy! Two girls sharing one while he hogs his own? That's discrimination!"
"Uh... Y-Yeah."
In the end, to provoke him into making a move, Baek Hwa boldly entered Park A-jun's private bathroom today and started showering.
"He's not coming..."
She showered extra slowly on purpose, but he still didn't show—probably because training ran long. With a resentful sigh, she turned off the water to head out... when suddenly the door started opening.
And what entered her eyes was the massive cock straight out of an ero manga—and Park A-jun looking utterly flustered.
'Th-That's...!'
Even bigger than she'd imagined, Baek Hwa screamed without thinking.
"S-Sorry...!!"
But as he apologized and fled, she realized her mistake and began carefully storing the scene in her memory.
'If I hadn't screamed, he'd have clamped my mouth shut, pinned me against the wall... Hnng...!'
Baek Hwa's fantasies continued until her scream drew everyone else rushing in.