Chapter 81 (Please Teach Me Tutor)
Episode 81: Hypnotist, Han Mina (13)
“It’s been a while”, Lee Kang-san, who arrived at Incheon Airport, let out a sigh as he enjoyed the smell of his hometown that he hadn’t smelled in a long time.
“Whew, I fucking missed you so much.”
It was Lee Kang-san who left Korea for the United States due to a series of conflicts with Shin Seo-ah and the attitude of the Korean Hunter Association toward him.
It was not uncommon for hunters to change guilds.
Of course, it was unusual for an S-class hunter like Lee Kang-san to change guild nationality.
The Hunter Association issued a warning to Lee Kang-san, who was leaving Korea, but that was all.
Before Lee Kang-san left Korea, the number of gates he had defeated in Korea exceeded hundreds.
There was much criticism that a hero who had killed thousands of monsters and saved tens of thousands of citizens was being taken away by an American guild.
The Hunter Association tried to persuade and threaten Lee Kang-san, but Lee Kang-san maintained his original position of leaving Korea.
“All my comrades who fought monsters with me were rendered useless by the monsters. I failed to protect them. I realized my shortcomings and thought I needed to improve my skills. I became complacent and let my guard down. I want to train myself by fighting more diverse monsters in a new place. My successors are also excellent hunters, so I believe they will protect Korea well.”
This was an external reason.
Because of Shin Seo-ah, all of Lee Kang-san’s colleagues became losers, and he left Korea in despair after being betrayed by a colleague he trusted, so he kept it a secret.
That was my last courtesy to his colleagues.
Lee Kang-san couldn’t bear to say that his colleagues were pointing their swords at each other to get a woman.
“I left Korea because of Shin Seo-ah, but I never thought I’d come back to Korea because of that girl.”
Daesung’s Choi Woo-seok, who is considered the next chairman, and his fiancée Shin Seo-ah invited the executives of Saint Guild to Korea as a symbol of reconciliation.
It was an offer Lee Kang-san couldn’t refuse, so he came to Korea with Marcus.
Although Lee Kang-san had often come to Korea unofficially to see Lee Hye-ri, this was his first official visit to Korea.
Of course, there was another real reason why he came to Korea.
‘Hye-ri.’
Lee Kang-san wanted to see the face of the private tutor who was teaching Hye-ri recently. He wanted to know what kind of guy approached his Hye-ri.
He wanted to go right away.
“Hahaha, you must have had a hard time getting here. You came so quickly. Did you miss your hometown?”
But, Lee Kang-san couldn’t do that because of Choi Woo-seok. That annoying face. He doesn’t like it.
“Relax”, Marcus tapped Lee Kang-san on the shoulder and whispered.
“It’s not easy.”
Lee Kang-san saw the people from Daeseong who came with Choi Woo-seok.
“I guess you left your fiancée behind.”
“Oh, I thought you were uncomfortable, so I came alone today. Are you dissatisfied?”
“No. Thanks to you, I’m glad I can have a comfortable seat.”
Lee Kang-san came out of the gate holding hands with Choi Woo-seok. The entrance to the gate was filled with reporters and citizens.
Click! Click!
The flashes flashed without warning.
Citizens gathered in one place showed different reactions. One side held a placard denouncing Lee Kang-san, a traitor to the nation.
“Lee Kang-san, who betrayed his country and left for America, should return to America!”
The other side held a placard praising Lee Kang-san as a hero.
“Welcome hero Lee Kang-san!”
“Wow!”
Marcus, who had been following closely beside him, stuck his head out and whispered, “our hero is popular. When I came to Korea, there were only a few officials.”
“Be quiet.”
“Kekekekeke, if Diana saw this, she would be really surprised. She might have been furious that Lee Kang-san has a female fan.”
“Diana? Why?”
“You wouldn’t……. No. Stop it.”
“…… It’s bland.”
Reporters gathered in front of the gate held out microphones and asked questions.
“Why did you come to Korea?”
“Is it true that Lee Kang-san’s power was great during the process of Saint Guild’s cooperation with Daesung?”
“Did you have any difficulties exploring the San Francisco Dungeon this time?”
“Do you have any plans to negotiate with Daesung to leave Saint Guild and return to Korea?”
Lee Kang-san ignored the reporters’ questions and passed by.
It wasn’t a pre-arranged meeting place.
He had no obligation to answer.
Aren’t there even citizens who are currently filling up the airport?
“I’m sorry. I can’t accept interviews unless they’re prearranged.”
“Mr. Kang-san! Mr. Kang-san!”
He left the airport with Daesung officials. He felt people’s eyes on him, but he didn’t care.
“First, go to our office. We should treat you with some hospitality.”
Choi Woo-seok took the lead, smiling broadly.
***
– Today, Lee Kang-san, an S-rank hunter from the Saint Guild, arrived at Incheon Airport. The airport was packed with people for the return of the world’s number one tanker who had left Korea. There was a fierce confrontation between those who saw him as a betrayer of Korea and fans who supported Lee Kang-san… … .
Lee Hye-ri turned on the TV and opened her eyes wide at the news that her older brother Lee Kang-san had arrived in Korea.
“Huh? Oppa?”
Lee Hye-ri had heard on the news that he was coming to Korea. But she had never heard when he would come.
Lee Kang-san had not contacted her recently.
Even when she called him last, he didn’t say anything about coming to Korea.
She just remembered him persistently asking her what kind of person her private tutor was.
– Hye-ri, I need to know what kind of person that person is…
“I’ll take care of it! You even sent Marcus, so you don’t trust me?”
– Hye-ri…
Lee Hye-ri remembered the voice of her brother Lee Kang-san, who was repeating it blankly as if he was shocked.
‘Is that why you didn’t contact me?’
‘No, right?’
‘He was the one who always told me in advance that he would come to Korea.’
Moreover, he had come to Korea secretly, not by spreading rumors all over the place through the news like this.
Lee Hye-ri heard about him, clearing the Daesung’s San Francisco dungeons last time. She guessed that, maybe related to that.
“He must have forgotten because he was busy.”
Lee Hye-ri would be lying if she said that, she wasn’t disappointed. Every time her elder brother came to Korea, he would always contact her…
“I’ll have to ask him when I meet him.”
‘Why on earth haven’t you contacted me?’
After finishing her thoughts, Lee Hye-ri grabbed the spear to practice again today.
The moment she grabbed the spear and stood in front of the practice robot; her teacher came to mind.
Kim Si-woo.
The benefactor who made Lee Hye-ri who she is today.
The private tutor she admires.
Kang-san Oppa warned her several times that her private tutor was suspicious.
She didn’t know what he was talking about.
She was being cared for with utmost sincerity by Mr. Si-woo.
‘Without knowing anything.’
‘I’m not even a one- or two-year-old child, and yet you still protect me like that. I can decide my own path now.’
Lee Hye-ri, holding the spear, deflected the attack of the practice robot that was swinging a wooden sword at her.
“It’s easy now.”
Deflect the attack through the window and directly attack the practice robot’s vital points.
-Critical hit. Resets the situation.
“I should show it to Kang-san oppa too.”
“I will talk about how great Mr. Si-woo is.”
***
After finishing class with Han Mina, Kim Si-woo returned home and took a look at her condition.
-Han Mina is currently estimated to be in the early stages of skill addiction. It seems that she fell into a state of hypnosis that she used to compensate for her passive personality.
– Her mana adaptability is high, so her growth is expected to be fast.
– The biggest problem is that her skills will run wild and consume her.
It was also because of that addiction that she tried to hypnotize him into taking additional lessons. She probably wanted to hypnotize Si-woo for a longer class.
Han Mina’s mana had grown so much that she was approaching S-class thanks to the effects of [Heartfelt Cheering].
It must have felt like the world had changed. No wonder she asked for another extra lesson very next day.
‘That’s a difficult story.’
Unfortunately, ‘Heartfelt Cheering’ wasn’t a skill he could use very often.
When it comes to ‘Heartfelt Cheering’, Kim Si-woo’s mindset was important. He should have a mindset that truly cheers for the other person.
The problem is that the feeling doesn’t come out often.
‘If I use any more skills than this, she’ll get eaten.’
Since lowering her addiction to self-hypnosis was the most important thing for her, he couldn’t write even if she wanted to.
Doing it once a week was already pushing her to the limit.
‘How to lower Han Mina’s skill addiction?’ Kim Si-woo thought for some time.
Suddenly, he thought of something, ‘it’s simple. Creating a situation where she didn’t have to use self-hypnosis.’
The idea Kim Si-woo come up with, is to reduce the number of hypnosis sessions and increase the number of days she can remain conscious. And to do that…
‘I’ll need someone else to hypnotize.’
That other person was me.
Kim Si-woo was the only one who could raise Han Mina’s strong desire for skill points.
Just by cheering her on sincerely, not only her skill points but also her mana stat would increase little by little.
And once she reached the highest point, it was clear that it would be easier for her to get there than for others.
Han Mina needed Kim Si-woo like that.
She was so rare that she asked him first.
At the same time, Han Mina’s hypnosis didn’t work on Kim Si-woo at all.
‘SS-class charisma’ stat. A stat that nullifies all mental attacks.
She doesn’t know. She still misunderstood that using a lot of points would lead to hypnosis.
Kim Si-woo was going to take advantage of this.
He was going to pretend not to know whenever she said she wanted to do extra lessons.
If that happened, he would have at least need to stack all points for one day to hypnotize him, thus she couldn’t hypnotize herself.
If Kim Si-woo can make it so that Han Mina don’t hypnotize herself for one day like that, he might be able to slow down the progression of her addiction a little bit.
Of course, Han Mina couldn’t overcome her addiction by skipping one day of self-hypnosis that she used for a whole week. So.
‘I have to give them a stimulus so strong that they forget about self-hypnosis. A stimulus that is even stronger than hypnosis.’
The reason why people usually become addicted to skills is because they are intoxicated by the effects of the skill.
In order to overcome skill addiction, two methods had to be used simultaneously.
Reduce the number of times a skill is used, and provide something more powerful than the thrill of the skill.
Treating addiction with stronger stimuli.
‘There is a slight side effect of becoming addicted to the stimulation, but… … .’
Kim Si-woo firmly believed that this was a problem that he could solve by slowly attacking Han Mina.
“Because it’s still getting better little by little.”
It will get much better. In two weeks, he will relieve her addiction symptoms and fill the Favorability bar to 100.
Kim Si-woo watched the news with determination.
It was news that Lee Kang-san had come to Korea.
“I need to take care of that too.”
But what was important now was Han Mina.
***
“Ugh…….”
Han Mina trembled nervously.
It was clear that the hypnosis had worked properly… …
‘Why?’
‘Why on earth?’
Is this bracelet purple?
‘I was under hypnosis just now?’
There were still 70 hypnosis points left. Clearly, clearly, the hypnosis was still working.
‘… … Why? Why on earth?’