Chapter 115
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 115
Chapter Title: God of Trolling
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"Why the hell am I included!!!"
In response to Kang Hana's shout, I replied calmly.
"You're part of the pregnancy family too."
"....Leave me out."
"Leave you out?"
As I asked back with a lecherous grin, she chucked a pillow at me.
"Ugh, you perv."
Kang Hana sighed, looking at her growing follower count.
"You sure this is okay? It already seems like the damage is done."
"What can we do? Yi Sua struck first."
"Why the hell are you going around calling her your wife?"
"Don't mock my little hobby. It's Yi Sua's fault for falling so hard."
As expected.
As soon as new bait started burning up across Hunter Gallery and other communities, YouTube, and SNS, I jumped right in.
Breaking) That guy of Yi Sua. Now following Im Hyeji and Kang Hana too ㄷㄷ
Even more shocking fact. Yi Sua followed that guy first.
What's Im Hyeji and Kang Hana got to do with it?
Both are hunters.
Why are hunters suddenly involved?
Just randomly dragging in acquaintances to stir shit up?
Both are pretty hot though?
All sorts of stories popped up.
From what the hell is going on, to what their relationship is, to whether an explanation is needed, and so on.
It was pretty lively.
But the trivial gossip wasn't what mattered.
Real Breaking) Yi Sua, double SSS hunter, joins the gallery lol
11th double SSS hunter worldwide, 2nd in Korea lol. She's lost it.
? Double SSS? You think that's a dog's name or something? What double SSS lol. Not double bianko.
Don't bullshit us lol
Misread double F maybe?
For real. Holy shit lol. Hunter Association official YouTube live video just dropped.
In a barrage of breaking news that left no room to breathe.
The Hunter Association's official announcement swept up all the chaotic bait and set it ablaze.
The Hunter Association hereby announces the hunter registration of Yi Sua, Korea's 10th SSS-grade hunter, the 11th worldwide, and Korea's 2nd double SSS-grade hunter. Yi Sua's registration has just been completed, and since proof of her abilities as a practical hunter has been postponed until after adaptation, the bestowal of a title will occur thereafter. The Hunter Association will provide full support for the growth of Flame Mage Yi Sua...
Yi Sua awakened with innate stats at S-rank and is a double SSS-grade hunter.
The Hunter Association doesn't grade hunters solely based on awakened abilities.
Even if someone has the conditions and skills sufficient for S-grade, they confirm whether that person can properly wield that power before assigning the grade.
The reason was undeniably rational, something no one could argue against.
No matter how good the equipment is, it comes down to whether the user can draw out its full power.
The Hunter Association's grading criteria are extremely strict.
Standards can vary per person, and depending on perspective, complaints like "She's S-grade, so why am I only A-grade?" arise.
That's why they adopted the most straightforward and reliable method: a hunter of a given grade must demonstrate sufficient performance in a dungeon of that grade.
For SS-grade and SSS-grade hunters, since there are few SS-grade+ dungeons and they're extremely dangerous, losing talent in tests is avoided by using S-grade dungeons as the benchmark and confirming superior performance.
Thus, even as a double SSS-grade, Yi Sua must pass the test after awakening to be officially registered as an SSS-grade hunter.
However, the exceptional decision to register her as SSS-grade first and test her after adaptation stems from the immense value of a double SSS-grade hunter.
It could feel unfair or discriminatory to lower-grade hunters, but ironically, the Korean Hunter Association announced it without hesitation.
Korea wasn't the first; the US pioneered it.
To secure and treat SSS-grades preemptively and prevent poaching by other countries, the US did it first, so others followed suit. Now, it's standard for double SSS-grades and above.
Thus, a monstrous hybrid was born.
Double SSS-grade hunter who hasn't even entered a dungeon once lol
Legend.
Where does she get real combat experience?
F-grade? Or S-grade?
But people didn't need to worry about such trivialities.
Let's worry about my own life...
Why worry about someone who can live off playing forever without entering a dungeon...
From morning aggro pulls via SNS leading into the awakening announcement, the bait about Yi Sua burned all day without end.
Even reactions like "This has to be intentional" were plentiful.
At this point, maybe she pulled aggro just to brag about her awakening?
For real. That Kang Jik guy she followed seems like nothing special.
Just colluded with one acquaintance lol
Fans are relieved now that the awakening announcement dropped.
The awakening announcement alone would've pulled plenty of aggro, so why did Yi Sua do this?
Such reactions abounded.
In the midst of the chaos, without an official statement from Yi Sua herself, nothing was certain, leaving the atmosphere a bit messy.
"See? No reason for a scrub like me to get attention."
"....It just quieted down for a bit."
"It's fine. What can they do anyway?"
Unless Yi Sua suddenly said at an official event, "Yes, things happened with Mr. Kang Jik, we're together with two kids from pregnancy, I did make him breakfast, and 'honey' was just a joke," SNS would buzz for a while, but it'd fade fast for regular folks.
That's what I thought.
HyeJi__02 followed you.
It was a terribly complacent thought, and the chain reaction from my trolling was far from over.
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Im Hyeji bit her lip.
"Sua unnie..."
Like Yi Sua, Im Hyeji was one of those who only used SNS for casual daily photos.
She wasn't a huge celebrity like Yi Sua, just a regular S-grade hunter, but her pretty, youthful innocence had garnered nearly 2 million followers even before awakening Resurrection, making her a semi-influencer.
Naturally, Im Hyeji didn't follow anyone either.
Too busy with hunter life to scroll through celebrities, and with 2 million followers came constant nitpicking comments. She'd seen too many cases of getting tangled up and causing headaches.
Hunters in particular often tried rubbing shoulders with entertainment once famous, only to get wrecked by other fandoms.
Even as she became an SS-grade healer and her followers grew, she never followed anyone.
The one time she wavered was when she got close to Yi Sua.
Pure fandom and genuine liking made her consider it, but she held back to avoid feeding Yi Sua's few fans or antis.
Then today, she saw it.
Yi Sua following Kang Jik, liking his posts, tossing light jokes, boldly showing their connection.
Of course, she knew.
Better than anyone, thanks to her matchmaking role, that Kang Jik and Yi Sua weren't really dating.
But still, jealousy welled up, somehow.
Not the kind from not wanting to lose something.
It was envy.
Im Hyeji had often pondered following Kang Jik herself.
She saw him often, knew it meant nothing.
Yet sometimes, she wanted to assign special meaning to something trivial.
But she couldn't.
Worried her ballooning followers would scrutinize that one follow.
Worried it'd bother Kang Jik.
Seeing Yi Sua and Kang Jik, though, made her heart race with urgency and envy.
GangJik followed you.
At that moment, she saw Kang Jik's follow notification.
Her heart skipped a beat.
Had Kang Jik dumped Yi Sua and chosen her?
A whirlwind of thoughts flooded her mind.
But she was the first.
Kang Jik's first experience, Im Hyeji's first—they'd said it was each other.
Her heartbeat surged.
She checked carefully.
What the hell, over this.
"Tch."
Kang Jik's following list included her.
But she wasn't the only one.
Im Hyeji. Kang Hana. Yi Sua. All were there.
Her lips pouted.
Following randomly to dodge rumors with Yi Sua?
Yet seeing only the women he'd empowered, faint hope sparked.
"...I wanna do it too."
Confidence bloomed.
Right now, at least.
Kang Jik wouldn't hate it, right? That's why he followed.
Followed GangJik.
Really, nothing big.
She'd lived thinking SNS follows were meaningless.
Yet becoming one of three mutuals with Kang Jik brought a smile.
Like becoming someone special.