GM Ch42

He wasn’t embarrassed because they’d already seen everything of each other when they were naked.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to take a shower.”

Minjun answered without looking at Soohyuk and headed to the bathroom. Watching his back just as he had a week ago, Suhyeok suppressed a smile. Unlike then, he was in a much better mood now that his frustration had been relieved.

Soohyuk touched the corner of his mouth that had risen to its peak. He realized that he had never been this excited. Although he had lived his life as he pleased, he also knew that this was the first time he had put this much effort into his relationships with people.

That it could be considered unusual.

He was intertwined with Minjun in many ways. At first, he was interested in the face that resembled Hunter Kim Minjun. Then he was attracted to his astonishing skills. And unexpectedly, they ended up having to have sex due to an unexpected accident.

Although sex was not by choice, his affection towards Minjun continued to grow. That was what he found most puzzling. To be honest, Minjun’s personality was mild, there were many people like that around him.

“Is it really the sex?”

Soohyuk muttered the answer that came to mind reflexively and immediately agreed. Sex with Minjun was very good. He didn’t even know that he was crazy about having sex since it was the first time in 8 years since becoming a hunter. He had been relentless without any consideration.

Because he really wanted to do it, he ended up doing it three times in a row. Even now, he felt like he could do it even if Minjun asked him to do it a few more times.

Although his conscience pricked him this time as well, Soohyuk ignored it and got up and put on a shower gown. As he tied his belt, he watched the snow drift outside his window. Quite a lot of snow had piled up beyond the window.

“I should tell him to stay the night.”

Putting chains on the car tires and taking him home wouldn’t be difficult. But it was better for him to stay here overnight and move than to drive slowly on the snow-covered road.

Soohyuk went to the bathroom door and knocked first. Then, he opened the door a little without waiting for Minjun’s answer. He deliberately didn’t look inside.

“It looks like you’ll have to stay the night. It’s snowing a lot.”

“Oh really?”

“It’s quite piled up. The subway must have stopped, and the roads are dangerous. Don’t even think about walking home, just stay. Got it?”

“Okay.”

When Minjun agreed quickly, Soohyuk smiled brightly. Maybe it was the power of the pancakes and steak, but unlike the first day, Minjun wasn’t stubborn at all today.

“I’ll leave pajamas and underwear outside. They’ve never been worn and are just washed, so wear those.”

“Thank you.”

Soohyuk closed the bathroom door and prepared underwear and pajamas in his dressing room. They might be a little too big for Minjun, but they would do for a night.

Soohyuk changed the bed sheets in his bedroom and then made sure the bedding in his guest room was neatly organized. Only after he finished preparing the house for his first guest did he head to the bathroom on the second floor.

***

“Mhm…”

Soohyuk blinked his eyes at the blackened bedroom ceiling and made a small sound. Despite lying down to sleep, he couldn’t sleep.

The cause was obvious. It was because of the person sleeping right next to him, emitting regular breathing sounds.

Soohyuk turned his head and looked next to him. He had drawn the blackout curtains and turned off all the sleeping lights, so it was dark inside. Still, the S-class hunter’s excellent eyesight allowed him to clearly see the profile of Minjun’s face silhouette as he lay flat on his back.

Soohyuk wrinkled the bridge of his nose as he looked at Minjun, who was sleeping deeply and motionless.

At first, he planned to let Minjun sleep in the guest room. He checked the cleaning and bedding of the guest room and even placed a bottle of water there.

However, after showering, he found Minjun already half-lying on one side of the bed in the bedroom. Seeing him calmly using his cell phone with a pillow behind his back, it seemed like he had assumed that we were going to sleep together.

Soohyuk failed to tell Minjun that he had prepared a guest room. If it were Minjun, he would have gone to the guest room with no complaints, but it somehow felt like he was kicking him out, so he decided to just sleep together.

When the lights went out, Minjun said good night and quickly fell asleep. But Soohyuk couldn’t do the same. The fact that there was a being next to him who was breathing comfortably and radiating warm body temperature was extremely distracting.

During dungeon raids, hunters often ended up sleeping together on the bare ground. They couldn’t sleep deeply because he didn’t know what would happen. Still, it was the first time he had not been able to sleep at all and his eyes were wide open.

“Ah…”

Soohyuk, who took his gaze away from Minjun and looked at the ceiling again, realized something. Since he grew up, or even before that, he didn’t have any memories of sleeping in the same bed with someone else. Even as a student, he hung out with his friends but never slept together.

As a hunter, going several days without sleep was no problem. Yet, it was strange to him that he could not sleep because the presence of the person lying next to him was unfamiliar.

With the new feeling, Soohyuk turned his body to the side and looked at Minjun. He didn’t know that having just one person around him would do this.

“Well.”

Soohyuk closed his eyes, thinking that this wasn’t such a bad thing.

*

The snow that fell all night stopped before the sun rose. Minjun and Soohyuk woke up early in the morning, each grabbing a shovel and broom to clear the snow.

The labor force of an S-class and a C-class hunter was enormous. It took but an instant to clear the snow that had accumulated on the passage between the gate and entrance, as well as the sidewalk and road in front of the house.

They decided to go to the guild for breakfast. However, since they were a bit hungry, they boiled a few packs of ramen. A pot full of Spam was placed in the middle of the dining table.

There was only bottled water in the refrigerator, but all cooking utensils and dishes were provided. Minjun, who took the plate and spoon, asked Soohyuk before sitting down on the chair.

“Can I turn on the TV? I watch the news while eating breakfast.”

“Uh-huh.”

Minjun habitually watched the news on TV when eating at home, especially breakfast. After he returned to Earth from this world, he watched a lot of news. There was nothing better than the news to check real-time events and accidents.

The first thing on the 7 a.m. news was the heavy snow that fell all night yesterday. It was said that the road to work would be congested due to frozen roads, and that all efforts were being made to remove snow.

The following was news related to the suicide bombing incident that occurred in the United States. The identity of the person who created the large hole in the museum was revealed to be a hunter. The report disclosed his name, rank, past activities, and that he had left no suicide note.

Minjun swallowed the ramen and frowned. In the other world, no matter how much they warned about the dangers of the whispers’ poison, it never ceased. People continued to fall for the sweet promise of becoming stronger than they were.

Minjun himself had also been seriously injured in an explosion. If he hadn’t called Harha, he might have died on the spot. He had not yet found an effective way to inform people about magic stone poisoning. Rather than distributing information indiscriminately, it might have been better to recruit a trustworthy former colleague.

Euiseong, perhaps?

Minjun reflexively thought of Choi Euiseong. Yesterday during the day, he suspected that he was the one who placed the curse. But according to the wind spirit’s information, he had nothing to do with it.

Driving back home himself, Choi Euiseong had hummed a tune, vowing to find Minjun hyung. Minjun didn’t know where he was or what he was doing, but it was only after hearing him shout that he was going to strangle him that he was able to be sure that Euiseong was not the one who had cast the curse.

To make sure until the end, Euiseong went to see the hunter who was making magic tools and listened to him talk about various things. He seemed innocent regarding the curse.

In that case, Choi Euiseong was the best choice. While he was thinking hard about what to do, Soohyuk spoke to him.

“What are you staring at so intently?”

“Ah? That, the hunter explosion. Could it be a bomb? Or skill? Do you know anything?”

Minjun, who was watching TV intently, made up a response on the spot. The news content has already changed. The anchor was now talking about the discovery of illegal mana stone transactions among civilians.

At first he spoke casually, but at the end he asked if Soohyuk might know something. Since he was one of only six S-class hunters in Korea, he would have easy access to high-quality information.

“No details are known. They say it’s not a bomb, but the information is controlled. But things like that are happening all over the world.”

“Even in Korea?”

“No. There are no cases yet in Korea, but there are signs.”

“Signs?”

“Hunters losing their minds and wandering around like zombies have started appearing. The number of hunters found dead suddenly is also increasing. It’s unclear if it’s related to that explosion, though.”

Minjun nodded mechanically. Looking at the symptoms alone, the probability of poison of whispers was very high. In this case, he had to tell Euiseong how to detoxify the magic stone poisoning.

They had almost finished eating the ramen and were drinking the soup when Soohyuk changed the topic.

“Oh, right. Do you have any other plans tomorrow?”

“No. I don’t have any. Why?”

“You have to do 100 dungeon raids. The Spirit King is waiting for you to become stronger, right?”

“Ah… Yes. We can go. However, I have not yet applied to the guild to bid for the dungeon.”

The drop in grade due to the side effects of dimensional travel was Minjun’s biggest concern. He had to participate in dungeon raids and attack bosses, but because he didn’t have a license, he had to sit out for three months.

And heds been incredibly busy since getting his hunter’s license. He joined the June Guild, was put into the grassland dungeon raid, and made it to today.

From now on, he planned to enter the dungeons one by one in earnest.

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