Damn Hunter Life Chapter 10
Even though it was just one word. And it came from the drunkard Gyeon Gang-hyeon at that.
Still, Hae Mi-jun bowed his head and expressed his gratitude.
“Thank you so much! Gang, Gang-hyeon-nim?”
What’s with the nim.
“Call me hyung.”
“Yes… Yes! Hyung!”
I avoided his gaze because Hae Mi-jun’s stare was burdensome. Hae Mi-jun didn’t know this and just grinned.
“Then, then it’s the last place alliance? Between us?”
It was a ridiculous thing to say, but he wasn’t being sarcastic. He innocently thought that name was cool and was happy about it.
I let out a light laugh.
“Sure, whatever.”
While I was at it, I extended my right hand to the kid. It seemed like the right timing for a handshake.
Hae Mi-jun brightened up as expected.
He was quite short and his face still had baby fat. But I was surprised that the hand that firmly gripped mine was as big as mine.
As much as his calloused fingertips showed, he must have been training with all his might.
Even in the hopeless darkness where no direction was visible.
“Then we need a place to secretly meet…”
“A secret place?”
A bright face that might as well have ‘I’m excited!’ written on it.
I just nodded roughly at his energy that was hard to keep up with.
“I think it would be good to meet away from others’ eyes?”
“Yes. But how?”
There weren’t many places where we could meet while avoiding the eyes of other Twelve Zodiac members, students, and the world.
But there was one certain thing.
“Hae Mi-jun. I don’t know if it’s an error or what, but even though I haven’t awakened, teleportation to me seems possible?”
The point being that Hae Mi-jun would probably also be able to teleport to me. Just like Ja Hyeong-woo did before.
Good thing. Both Ja Hyeong-woo and Hae Mi-jun are guys who don’t suspect this kind of bullshit…
“You could come to my house. How about it?”
For some reason, Hae Mi-jun stuttered three times when answering that he understood.
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“But I’m tired from working out right now and my eyes are closing? Let me sleep for two hours and after dinner, let’s meet at my house at 7 PM.”
That evening, Hae Mi-jun stood in front of his closet for a long time.
‘I’m going to train. Formal wear won’t do. Comfortable clothes, comfortable clothes. But isn’t there something comfortable that can still show respect—’
He even dried his hair and used hair wax, then was nervous until the appointment time.
‘Should I go 5 minutes early? No, that won’t do. It would be rude if he’s not ready.’
‘Right on time? But what if Gang-hyeon hyung isn’t ready yet?’
‘Should I go 5 minutes late? But then that’s being late!’
After agonizing over this once-in-a-lifetime dilemma, Hae Mi-jun’s choice was 1 minute before the appointment time.
[Moving to Successor Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s location.]
The air of an unfamiliar interior enveloped his body.
Hae Mi-jun looked around and quickly found the homeowner, and was startled.
“Hy, hyung. What is that?”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon, sitting on the sofa, answered nonchalantly.
“Can’t you tell by looking? I removed the oxygen tank from an oxygen breathing apparatus and left only the mask and hose.”
“Yes. But why did you connect masks to both sides?”
Hae Mi-jun wasn’t asking because he didn’t know what the object Gyeon Gang-hyeon was holding with the long hose wrapped around his arm was. As he said, it was a configuration where the manufacturing process could be quickly inferred, but it was still such a strange form he’d never seen before that he asked.
A breathing apparatus is a tool for receiving air supply from an oxygen tank, but if there are masks on both ends of the hose like that, instead of an oxygen tank, would you receive breath from a person… Huh?
Hae Mi-jun froze stiff where he stood.
He came here because Gyeon Gang-hyeon called him. Believing Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s words that he would somehow help raise his abilities.
Then, could that possibly be?
“Yeah. This is the training equipment.”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon calmly confirmed it. Hae Mi-jun’s mouth fell open with a face like he was about to collapse.
“Hyung, hyung and I will then, with that… really?”
“I’m not joking.”
Hae Mi-jun’s face turned red as if he’d heard something he shouldn’t have. Gyeon Gang-hyeon calmly began persuading him.
“You know our abilities follow the five elements, and the five elements are related to the qi and blood flow in the human body, right?”
“Yes, yes.”
“Actually, I don’t know much about traditional medicine either. I need to take classes. Anyway, there’s one thing you can know without knowing that stuff, right? The awakening abilities of successors are imbued in the breath going in and out of the lungs, in the blood flowing through blood vessels.”
If awakening abilities were an area mastered through studying with letters or repeated body movements, Hae Mi-jun should have already surpassed Ja Hyeong-woo, beaten Woo Sae-geon, and even become a leader. Because he worked twice as hard as others.
But the fact that he couldn’t meant.
“I’ll be honest. Hae Mi-jun, you’re just clumsy at operating the energy in your body. You were born lacking control. In terms of dancing, you’re like someone with no sense of rhythm.”
“Yes, I know. That’s why I should have worked harder—”
“It wasn’t something that could be done with effort. Anyway, now do you understand what I’m trying to do?”
Now. Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who had pulled up the corners of his mouth, thrust one side of the breathing apparatus toward Hae Mi-jun.
Hae Mi-jun hesitantly took it. Then the two people’s bodies became connected by the hose linking the breathing apparatus.
“You just need to use this breathing apparatus and try breathing with my breath. My breathing will align the qi in your body. My hypothesis is that you’ll realize something at some point while doing this.”
He was finally notified by Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s mouth of the purpose of this breathing apparatus.
Hae Mi-jun’s hand holding the breathing apparatus trembled. He felt like he was going to die because his face was turning red and his heart was beating too fast, but it was hard to understand how Gang-hyeon hyung could propose this so calmly. His head felt dizzy. He thought he understood what it meant to say someone might faint from embarrassment.
Really, it was difficult to manage his expression. Enough for Gyeon Gang-hyeon to notice his agitation.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon uncrossed his right leg. Resting his elbow on his knee and bringing his upper body closer to Hae Mi-jun, he whispered.
“I brushed my teeth. You did too, right?”
“Gasp!”
It was a joke to try to change Hae Mi-jun’s expression, but it only had the opposite effect. Because Hae Mi-jun started hiccupping.
Only then did Gyeon Gang-hyeon get a sense of why Hae Mi-jun was acting like this. Could it be that this kid, at the height of his vigorous youth, was having improper thoughts? Between the same men, about something close to CPR?
“Hae Mi-jun. Don’t think of this strangely. I’m 5 years older than you. Don’t touch what you shouldn’t.”
“Yes, yes. Hic!”
He answered really well. Gyeon Gang-hyeon looked at him distrustfully then gestured. Hae Mi-jun creakily sat down beside the sofa.
“Let’s do it. Just breathe slowly and deeply. Precisely, you’ll be breathing the air that went in and out of my lungs… We’ll match the rhythm as we go. Don’t keep taking off the mask just because it’s not working well. We’ll suffocate to death.”
It’s a method that never appeared in the original novel, but well, it would be no fun if the characters in the story suddenly grew through such tricks, right?
I even practiced earlier by summoning the Mouse Familiar to human size. The result was ‘effective.’
When Gyeon Gang-hyeon put on the breathing apparatus first and waited, Hae Mi-jun hurriedly put on his own. He was so flustered that he missed the timing to politely ask ‘But hyung isn’t an awakened person and has a different attribute, will it really work?’
Only regular breathing sounds remained in the quiet living room.
“Ah…”
Hae Mi-jun, who had been quietly breathing, naturally closed his eyes. Amazingly, when he did as Gang-hyeon hyung told him, the cool energy in his chest grew stronger.
It was real. Because of the other person’s breathing, his own breath was being interfered with in a way, but he felt good.
‘If I just do this and the energy grows a little more… skill manifestation might be possible too.’
Before he knew it, Hae Mi-jun was breathing deeply inside the breathing apparatus. Forgetting the situation.
“Mmph.”
Suddenly Gyeon Gang-hyeon removed the breathing apparatus and coughed. Hae Mi-jun’s eyes flew open.
“I’m, I’m sorry!”
“It’s fine. Ah, take off your shirt too.”
“What?”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who had stopped coughing, suddenly pointed at Hae Mi-jun’s t-shirt. Hae Mi-jun jumped and unconsciously covered his chest with his hands. His face reddened again.
“I need to touch some bare skin. I think the connection will deepen that way.”
“But, but.”
Hesitation was clearly evident in his words. Gyeon Gang-hyeon narrowed his eyes.
‘This appeared in the original work too, and Ja Hyeong-woo should be doing this right now too?’
Ja Hyeong-woo also, as a teacher, places his hand on Hae Mi-jun’s bare back and helps control his energy. Since there were no immediate effects, Ja Hyeong-woo, for whom his own training was more important, probably put it on hold.
“Hurry up. I said it’s good to do it together with the breathing apparatus.”
Hae Mi-jun hesitantly undressed while watching Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s reaction. Immediately Gyeon Gang-hyeon placed his left palm over his heart.
‘Gasp!’
When the cold hand touched his skin, his body almost jumped up.
His heart was pounding too much. Hyung would feel it all, it was so embarrassing. Hae Mi-jun made a tearful face and used the breathing apparatus again.
‘What’s with this high school freshman.’
Hae Mi-jun’s upper body was quite broad and covered with even muscles. Gyeon Gang-hyeon thought of his own body that was nothing but bones and white skin and felt a deep reality check.
The unknown fluttering was brief, and Hae Mi-jun focused all his nerves on breathing again. Not forgetting this sensation of the power of water resonating within his body, he grasped and grasped the power so he could draw out energy on his own. Beads of sweat even formed on his forehead.
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Hae Mi-jun (Successor)
<Water Attribute Synchronization 67%>
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The status window responded to Hae Mi-jun’s efforts.
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There is a skill available for manifestation.
Would you like to learn it?
[Yes/No]
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“Oh!”
Hae Mi-jun’s eyes went round and he hurriedly removed the mask. He even pushed away Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s hand and placed his palm on his own heart.
It was the moment Hae Mi-jun obtained his first skill.
How much he had wanted to see this message, how much he had sat down in the training ground to catch his breath and hold back tears flashed through his mind like a panorama. Hae Mi-jun’s eyes grew moist.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon smiled crookedly as if he knew all of Hae Mi-jun’s feelings.
“It works, man.”
The movement of vivid red lips even within the foggy breathing apparatus.
Hae Mi-jun’s gaze was captivated by that red color for a while.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
