Episode 3: Okay! I, I'll take them off, okay!
Episode 3: Okay! I, I'll take them off, okay!
Yoo Ara. Korea Hunter Academy, Class of '22.
She was twenty-one years old due to having been held back a year.
Originally, she should have been taking second-year classes, but because she was held back, she was a senior student who had to take classes alongside the freshmen who entered the academy this year.
She was a student who would be expelled from the academy if she was held back just one more time.
She got nearly perfect scores on written exams, but her practical skills always fell short.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't produce results in sparring, and she failed the monster hunting simulations every time.
Her trait was Psychokinesis.
Psychokinesis—a skill that was ambiguous for combat, healing, or buffs—failed to demonstrate its power in practical exams that focused on combat training and civilian rescue.
So she always received failing grades.
Then, she came across a flyer by pure chance.
It was a tutoring flyer.
An arrogant statement claiming to teach a student of Korea Hunter Academy.
The line about a full refund even if she failed tempted her.
At least, it wouldn't be a loss for her.
If she did nothing and stayed still, she was destined to be expelled.
The tutoring fee was 5 million won.
Not a small amount.
She had already paid 40 million won to study at the academy.
It was her parents' money.
She had thrown herself into it, vowing to repay it if she got a scholarship, but she failed.
She tried once more.
She borrowed money from a savings bank, thinking she only had to pay half because of the repetition. The interest was steep, but she believed she would succeed.
But this time, she also failed.
If she failed here, 30 million won would go down the drain.
She couldn't let that happen.
The six years she spent studying to get into the academy, plus two years at the academy, and 30 million won.
She couldn't afford to lose it.
So she used loan sharks.
'I'll just repay it.'
They said they'd refund 5 million won if she passed the regular exam.
So she could repay it with that money.
It was scary, but she did it.
She poured all her money into this tutoring session.
No, it was a tutoring session that gambled her fate.
But then she heard the most absurd line in her life.
"What did you say?"
Yoo Ara responded in a harsh tone without realizing it.
Take off your clothes now?
What does that have to do with tutoring?
"Are you crazy or something?"
She couldn't understand.
"Didn't you say you'd do anything?"
"W-well, even so, this isn't right! Telling me to take off my clothes! Why should I have to take them off?"
The man brought in by the tutoring representative was calm.
No, should she say he was shameless?
His expression didn't change, making it look like he had done this more than once.
He was supposed to be a skilled tutor, but this wasn't a teacher—wasn't he a pervert?
The claim of graduating top of the class was definitely a lie.
She should have confirmed it properly.
She was an idiot for just letting it slide because it had the academy stamp.
This man—no, this entire company—was full of lies.
Even the first tutor assigned to her was in bad shape.
He yelled and only insisted he was right—an education method that aimed to crush her without any intention of persuading her.
It was inefficient too.
In the monthly evaluation before the regular exam, her score only went up slightly.
Someone might say that's still something, but...
At this rate, it was obvious that she would barely avoid last place, never mind passing the test.
She was scammed.
This was a hundred percent a scam.
She thought paying a lot of money for tutoring would make a difference, but both time and money were wasted.
At least the refund was a small relief.
'I'll talk to the boss right now and get a refund...'
"Looks like you're not desperate enough."
The pervert was rather cocky.
"What did you say?"
"If you fail twice in a year, you repeat. If you repeat for two years, you're expelled. You're in a position where just one more failing grade will get you kicked out of the academy, yet you're acting so high and mighty? Do you want to just do nothing and get expelled?"
"Is that something you have the right to say? Someone who tells me to take off my clothes out of the blue on our first meeting..."
"Did you talk to your previous teacher like this too? You look down on people because your written scores are a bit high, and you failed to grasp their true value by only giving a cursory look."
"What do you know?"
"What do I know?"
The pervert chuckled.
"At the very least, I understand why you applied for tutoring so desperately. Why you paid a lot of money for this tutoring, and why you weren't satisfied with the previous teacher and even called me in."
"That's because you heard my situation from the boss..."
"Then did you ask me why I told you to take off your clothes?"
"Huh?"
She didn't ask.
She just despised him at the mere words "take off your clothes."
"Why? Why did you tell me to take off my clothes out of nowhere?"
"To know everything about you."
"As expected, a pervert..."
Yoo Ara wrapped her arms around her shoulders and looked at the pervert with disgust.
"To find out why you had no choice but to fail, and what the solution is. Not for some dirty purpose like someone with only lewd thoughts."
"Can you do that?"
"Don't underestimate a top graduate."
His gaze wasn't that of a pervert.
"Can you really know that?"
"If you don't want to believe me, fine. I'll just get up from here, say bye-bye to you, and collect my business trip fee."
"......"
After finishing his words, the pervert got up without hesitation.
He was right.
The one in a difficult position now was Yoo Ara herself.
Not this man.
He was just someone who taught.
"Ah, fine! I got it! I'll just... take them off, damn it!"
Yoo Ara closed her eyes tightly.
She had no other choice.
Inside, she wanted to kick out the tutoring boss who scammed her and this pervert spouting absurd rhetoric, but...
'If I kick him out, what about me?'
Should she just let herself fail?
She had no confidence in passing on her own.
She would fail, like always.
There was only one month left until the second exam.
After messing up the monthly evaluation, she didn't have a shred of confidence left.
"Good choice. Take them off quickly."
"H-how much should I take off?"
"As far as your sincerity reaches. Show me your desperation."
That pervert.
This guy really is a pervert.
'Just bear with it. This humiliation only has to happen once.'
Just close my eyes and get through it.
Seureureuk.
I silently watched Yoo Ara take off her clothes in front of me.
I said nothing, only watched.
Taking off clothes was a process to see how far she could let go.
At the same time, it was a process for me to understand her.
There was no other purpose.
Of course, the person involved didn't seem to think so.
'The result will depend on how far you can let go.'
I don't know how far she'll choose.
I'm just watching.
It was May, when spring was slowly ending and the heat of early summer could be felt.
Yoo Ara wore a blue shirt over a white t-shirt on top. Her pants were black cotton pants that went to her knees.
It was a somewhat formal outfit among comfortable clothes she could wear at home.
Yoo Ara first took off the blue shirt without hesitation.
Then she took off the t-shirt underneath.
Seureureuk.
Each time she took something off, her face flushed and she bit her lip, but she obediently undressed.
The reason was simple.
Because she was desperate.
Because she didn't want to be expelled from Korea Hunter Academy.
A light sky-blue bra was struggling to support her chest.
After taking off all her upper garments, she took off her cotton pants.
When she took off the pants, panties of the same color as the bra were revealed.
They were cute panties with a small ribbon on the front.
"Is that all?"
"D-do you want me to take off more?"
"That depends on your will."
She glared at me with tired, hollow eyes.
"It's fine since you've taken everything off."
I got up from my seat and approached Yoo Ara.
"Hold out your hand."
"My... hand?"
"Yes. To diagnose you, I need to see your condition first. Like a doctor taking your pulse to make a diagnosis."
"......"
"If you don't want to, you can stop. Your resolve was good, but it ends here..."
"Fine! Why are you always in such a hurry? I-I need to think too."
Her face flushed red, but she eventually held out her hand.
"You should have done that from the start."
I kneaded Yoo Ara's small hand.
It was the kind of hand that would never have been used for fighting.
The only calluses were on the side of her middle finger, the kind that appear on people who hold a pencil a lot.
"W-wait, how exactly are you touching..."
My hands, holding both of hers, slowly moved up her wrists.
[Contact with target established.]
[Activating Emotion (SS).]
[Name: Yoo Ara]
[Ability: Psychokinesis (B)]
"That's quite a high rank for Psychokinesis."
"W-what did you say?"
"A B-rank Psychokinesis should be fairly efficient. Why aren't you utilizing it properly?"
"W-wait, how do you...?"
Ignoring Yoo Ara's clearly flustered gaze, I now kneaded her forearms and shoulder line.
[Preferred combat style: Rear support]
[Suitability: Low]
[When fighting from the rear, the power of Psychokinesis is not properly transmitted, making efficient combat impossible.]
[Recommended combat style: Get closer to enemies to increase the power of Psychokinesis.]
"It would be better for you to support from the center of the party rather than from the rear."
"W-what does that mean?"
"It's telling you a combat method that suits you. Take notes well."
My hands, kneading her shoulders, moved downward.
"W-wait, that's..."
"Are you going to end up expelled from the academy?"
At that, she kept her mouth shut.
I kneaded Yoo Ara's large breasts.
"Ha-eut!"
Her body wriggled this way and that with my touch.
"W-wait a moment. Your touch is too lewd... H-eueung."
"Focus. Don't think unnecessary thoughts."
[Attribute: ???]
[Affinity Attribute: ???]
Was it because of the bra?
The attribute-related comment was omitted.
I couldn't confirm such important information because of her bra.
I couldn't just take it off right away, so I delicately traced down her waist with my fingertips.
Each time, Yoo Ara flinched, but that wasn't my concern.
[Mental power decreased due to fatigue accumulated from academy life, weakening Psychokinesis output.]
[For short-term improvement, recommend sufficient rest.]
[Yoo Ara]
Other than Intelligence, her stats were terrible.
If forced to grade her, she had the potential to be a B-rank Hunter.
But her other stats were terrible.
There was a high chance she'd get a so-called water grade.
I didn't touch the panties covering her pelvis and groin.
[???]
The omitted information caught my eye, but it didn't matter.
I had collected almost all the crucial information I needed right now.
My fingers went down her thighs, all the way to her calves and toes.
There was no particularly important information.
[No one she currently likes]
[No boyfriend]
[Virgin]
Just a bunch of useless info like that.
But when I saw the final evaluation of the emotion reading, I doubted my eyes.
[Yoo Ara]
[Current Rank: C]
[Potential Rank: S]
[Recommendation: S]
[Recommend accelerated training.]
Her potential rank is S?
This girl?
Why?
Emotion isn't wrong.
So is her potential rank really S?
"It's all done."
Hiding my shaken heart, I spoke to Yoo Ara, who was panting for breath.
She staggered to her feet.
Yoo Ara, glaring at me, clenched her teeth and shouted.
"You pervert bastard!"
She swung her hand.
