Heroine Hunter

I looked at the scroll in Choi Ji-yoon’s hand.  

[A Curse Removal Scroll]  

I pretended to be ignorant and asked.

“What’s this?”  

“It’s a scroll that can remove curses.”

Yoo Seol-ha, who had been listening beside me, widened her eyes and grabbed my arm.  

“Ian!”  

“We’ll need to get it appraised to know for sure, but since it came from an abnormal dungeon, it should be able to lift the mana regeneration curse on you.”

Choi Ji-yoon said confidently.  

I scratched my head.  

“How much would this go for?”  

Choi Ji-yoon pursed her lips and tilted her head.  

“Hmm. How much was it again? I think a B-rank scroll sold for around 1 billion won at the last auction.”  

“1, 1 billion?”  

While I blinked in surprise, Choi Ji-yoon stuffed the scroll into my backpack.  

“Let’s use this to remove your curse. Once that’s done, you can join us in the S-rank class.”  

“I’ll have to work hard to repay you both.”  

“Come on, don’t say stuff like that.”

Seol-ha lightly tapped my arm.  

Choi Ji-yoon smiled.  

“You don’t need to give me anything either.”  

I scratched my head again.  

“Still…”  

I had to at least pretend to be modest.  

Seol-ha smacked my backside.  

“Hey, you saved our lives! You’ve gotta let us do at least this much. Otherwise, you’ll spend your whole life saying, ‘I saved them in the dungeon,’ and bragging about it everywhere.”  

Ji-yoon laughed warmly.  

“Yeah, Ian. Hunters shouldn’t owe debts. Just take your fair share. That’s the virtue of a hunter. Otherwise, people will start talking, and you won’t get invited to parties in the future.”  

As expected from S-rank hunters, they’re generous.  

At that moment.

Rumble.

The dungeon exit opened.  

“Wow! It’s the way out!”  

Seol-ha ran out.  

When we stepped outside, we found ourselves in the middle of a mountain.

Choi Ji-yoon quickly pulled out her phone.  

“Guys, we’re back in range. The internet’s working too.”  

After two weeks, we had finally cleared the dungeon and escaped safely.  

As I took a deep breath of fresh air, it finally started to feel real.  

“Wait what?”  

Seol-ha checked her phone and looked confused.  

“We definitely entered the dungeon on Friday afternoon, but it says it’s Sunday. Only two days have passed? Is my phone broken?”  

Choi Ji-yoon shook her head.  

“No, mine says the same.”  

“Yeah. Mine too.”  

I pretended to check my phone as well.  

I’d seen this before in the novel.  

Though rare, there were dungeons where time distorted like this.  

There was even an episode where the protagonist, Kim Seong-hyeok, caught a villainous hunter who used such a dungeon to commit murder and create an alibi.  

Choi Ji-yoon spoke up.  

“Let’s return to the academy first.”  

We checked our location on the satellite map and saw that we weren’t far from the academy.  

After returning to the academy, Choi Ji-yoon tried to contact the professor immediately, but I stopped her.  

“Don’t you think it’s strange? Could the exploration team really have not known that this was an abnormal dungeon? And could the professor have been unaware too? I think we should report it to the Hunter Association first.”  

Kim Seong-hyeok and Jang Soo-hyun hadn’t returned to the academy yet.  

The priority was to send an investigation team into the cleared dungeon to find them.  

“I think you’re right, Ian.”

While she handled the follow-up, Seol-ha and I returned to our respective dorms.  

When I got back to my dorm room, I collapsed onto the bed.  

“I’m so exhausted.”  

As soon as the tension left my body, fatigue hit me all at once.  

I blinked my eyes, and suddenly everything went dark.

——-

When my vision returned, I felt a sense of familiarity.  

I was in the realm of the goddess Lea again.  

Click. Click.

I heard her footsteps as she approached me.

‘Wow! Her sideboob is insane.’

She wore a thin silk dress that barely covered her areolas, tracing down the middle of her chest.  

Her nipples were almost, but not quite, visible.  

Please show… Sharingan!

Nope, can’t see.  

Lea gave me a disappointed look.  

“You did well.”  

“Lea.”  

“Hmm?”  

“Can I… sleep with you now?”  

Her previously neutral expression tightened, and she closed her eyes for a moment.  

“It’s best to joke at the right time and with the right person, Ian.”  

“Why did you call me? I was about to get some rest.”  

“The flow of the story has changed with your escape from the dungeon. The heroines have also developed deep feelings for you.”  

“No way… A reward?”

Lea waved her fingers lightly in the air.  

Suddenly, a button appeared before me.  

[Draw Skill x1]  

[Draw Item x1]  

“A draw?”  

“I’d love to give you exactly the skill or item you need, but that would affect the narrative too much. I’ve already given you Holy Explosion and Mana Absorption, which made it much easier to win over the heroines, didn’t it?”  

“Yeah. It did.”  

“I customized it for you to make the first challenge easier. It was a bit of a stretch, honestly. But going forward, you’ll have to use randomly acquired skills to progress. Drawn skills don’t disrupt the narrative as much.”  

“I see.”  

“Oh. And I’ll be taking back the Mana Regeneration curse and the Mana Absorption skill.”  

‘Oh? She’s only reclaiming those?’

‘That’s good, actually.’

“And Holy Explosion, you’re letting me keep that?”  

“I’ll let you continue using that one. It’ll come in handy.”  

“Yeah. That’s definitely useful.”

So, I wouldn’t even need the curse removal scroll anymore. 

That simplified things.  

“Do you really need the D-rank spearmanship? I only included it to keep the narrative intact.”  

“Will it make things easier for you if you remove it?”  

“Exactly.”  

“Then go ahead and remove it. I don’t mind.”  

“Got it.”  

[Skill Window]  

> Holy Explosion [S+]  

The skill window was now clean.  

There were still some hidden skills though.  

[Mana: 100 / 100]  

My mana remained the same. 

Now that the Mana Regeneration curse was gone, it was perfectly filled to 100.  

“So do you want to spin for a skill or item?”  

“How many times can I spin?”  

“Since you saved Choi Ji-yoon and Yoo Seol-ha and gained their love, I can give you 1 gacha token for each, so you get 2 tokens.”  

“Can I use both spins on either skills or items?”  

“Sure.”  

“Uh, well…”  

“Hm?”  

I scratched my temple.  

“Is there a guaranteed pull for the first spin?”  

“Ian, this isn’t one of those games you used to play.”  

“Sure looks like a game to me.”  

“So what do you want to spin for?”  

“Do you have any probability tables or info on what ranks or rewards might come out…?”  

“I wish I could tell you, but that’s under the jurisdiction of the ‘God of Gacha.’ It changes every time, so even I don’t have that information. Plus, you need to get something random to avoid disrupting the narrative when you enter other worlds.”  

“So it’s truly random?”  

“Exactly.”  

“Any skills or items I get, I can carry over when I move to other worlds, right?”  

Lea nodded.  

“Alright then. Let’s give it a shot.”  

I mentally pressed the [Draw Skill x1] button in front of me.  

Brrrrrr!

The skill names spun quickly, like a slot machine.  

I opened my eyes wide, trying to catch what skills were available.

As the speed gradually slowed down, the skill names started to become clear.  

[Helicopter] [A]  

[Cooking] [C]  

[Health Recovery] [B]  

[Pee Attack] [D]  

[Indestructible Body] [S+]  

What the hell was Helicopter?  

Cooking… Health Recovery… Those were decent.  

‘Whatever ‘Pee Attack’ is, I hope it doesn’t come up.’

‘ If it does, I’m using a skill on Lea right away.’

Oh. Indestructible Body was there too.  

The slot machine slowed down further.  

Ding.

The skill was chosen.  

[Eyes of Lust] [C+]  

I stared blankly at the screen in front of me.  

For a moment, I couldn’t believe it, so I rubbed my temples and opened my eyes again.  

[Eyes of Lust] [C+]  

No mistake.  

I looked at Lea.  

“Lea.”  

“Yes?”  

“Is this for real?”  

“From what I see, it seems like you got a decent skill.”  

“Huh?”  

I checked the skill.  

[Eyes of Lust] [C+]  

[Can rape with just a gaze.]  

Wow. That’s one hell of a description.  

Still… I kind of want to try it out.  

I looked at Lea.  

“What are you looking at?”  

I stared suggestively at her chest and hips.  

Lea crossed her arms and chuckled.  

“You really think a skill like that would work on a goddess like me?”  

“Guess not.”  

“Try another spin—skill or item, your choice.”  

With so little information, I figured it didn’t really matter.  

“I’ll go with another skill.”  

Looking at it, the odds of getting something good didn’t seem high.  

Skills were intangible, so I didn’t mind too much, but if I got a useless item, I’d be frustrated every time I had to carry it around.  

Brrrrrr.

The skill names spun again.  

I squinted to see what was available.  

[Virtual Rape] [D]  

[Astrology] [C+]   

[Persuasion] [B]  

[Immune to All Poisons] [S+]  

[Floor Masturbation Expert] [F]  

Virtual Rape? 

Seriously?

Well. After getting Eyes of Lust, I guess anything’s possible.  

As long as I didn’t get ‘Floor Masturbation Expert,’ I’d be fine.  

Ding.

The slot stopped.  

[Indestructible Body] [S+]  

I widened my eyes in disbelief and looked at Lea.  

“Mm?”  

Even she seemed surprised.  

I fell to my knees in joy.  

“Woohoooo!”  

This was actually fun!

For the first time in a while, it wasn’t sex causing my dopamine rush. 

This was it—this was the game, no, life!  

[Indestructible Body] [S+]  

[A masterful external martial arts skill combining hardness with flexibility and softness. Ah! You know, the Indestructible Body. It’s. Extremely. Hard.]  

I immediately activated [Indestructible Body].  

I looked at Lea using [Eyes of Lust]. 

‘Ah! I want to use my Indestructible Body cock to fuck Lea.’  

Lea sighed and shook her head.  

“Stop wasting your time, it’s pointless.”  

“Lea.”  

“Hmm?”  

“How old are you?”  

“Hmm? …Why? T-Twenty.”  

“What? We’re the same age?”  

“Don’t get too familiar with me. Do you think we’re the same? I’m a goddess.”  

“Hmm. Alright. Got it.”  

“I said, don’t get familiar.”  

“If I use Indestructible Body with Eyes of Lust, would it feel different than just using Eyes of Lust alone?”  

Lea blushed.  

“I wouldn’t know. Go try it on normal humans or something.”  

“Oh.”  

“What now?”  

“This Eyes of Lust skill… Can you hide it like the other skills as a [Hidden] skill? It’s kinda embarrassing. I think it’s C-rank just because of the embarrassment.”  

“I can hide one skill for you.”  

“Not Indestructible Body?”  

“Two would be a bit much. You already have three hidden skills, and adding Eyes of Lust would make four.”  

“Is there no way around it?”  

“If you keep saving heroines and gaining their love, my powers grow stronger. Then I might be able to do it later.”  

“So after saving Seol-ha and Ji-yoon, you’ve grown a bit stronger?”  

“That’s why I’m letting you keep the Holy Explosion skill and adding one more hidden skill.”  

Ding.

[Skill Window]  

> Holy Explosion [S+]  

> Indestructible Body [S+]  

> [Hidden] Eyes of Lust [C+]  

> [Hidden] Addictive Physique  

> [Hidden] Training-Grade Equipment  

> [Hidden] High-Capacity Pleasure Semen  

Two S+ skills! 

I might be pretty strong now.  

Lea spoke.

“The skills without ranks are divine blessings I’ve given you, so they don’t count. But you can only hold five ranked skills at a time. Keep that in mind when you draw new skills.”  

“Can I store the skills I draw and swap them out when needed?”  

“Mm-hmm. By the way, I see you’ve switched to casual speech entirely now. There’s a cooldown when you swap skills. After changing one, you can’t swap any skills for 24 hours.”  

“Okay.”  

“Now, shall we decide what your next novel will be?”  

Lea smiled. It was a bewitching smile that could captivate anyone.  

“There are still two heroines left in the current one, though.”  

“If you want, you can continue with your current novel.”  

“I’ll hear what the options are first.”  

Lea began listing webnovel titles one by one.  

“The Exorcist’s Descent.”

“The Black Knight’s Oath to the Blind Saintess.”

“I Became an Extra in a Magic Academy.”

“The Reincarnated Girl Group Manager.”

“Skill Level-Up Hunter…”  

It felt like she was reading off a list of secret adult videos I’d hidden from a wife I didn’t even have.  

I chuckled awkwardly.  

“I’ve read all of these. Haha.”  

“Then you know why I chose them, right?”  

Sure enough, all of these were novels where the heroines didn’t get treated well.  

“Do I have to pick one now?”  

“It would be nice if you did.”

“You might think you’re the only one making a difference in the novels, but I’m watching over you and helping from behind the scenes. Picking one in advance makes it easier for me to prepare.”  

“The fastest one to clear would probably be the blind saintess. There are only two heroines in that one. I’ll go with that.”  

“Alright. I’ll get things ready. From tomorrow, you can enter whenever you’re ready. Just remember, once you move to another world, there’s a 24-hour cooldown before you can do it again.”  

“When I move, the other world pauses, right?”  

“Yeah. Technically, you’ll be there for just a moment, but if you don’t plan to interact with the heroines, you can skip time if needed.”  

“Got it.”

“Then, off you go.” 

Lea flicked her fingers.  

In an instant, my vision turned pure white.  

———-

Lea sent Kim Ian back to the Soaka world.  

“Hngh.”  

Her legs gave out, and she had to grab the railing for support.  

“This… This is impossible…”  

Clear droplets fell to the floor from beneath her silk dress.