40. Don’t Think About Borrowing, Try

“Why should I help you? You are not even Masked Instructor’s disciples, you are just strangers, aren’t you?”

Kim Si-yeon looked at Park Hye-yeon’s answer with a puzzled expression.

“Why… why? Still, it’s the same person, right?… It’s only natural to help morally.”

“Is it natural to help morally? Whose standard is that?”

“If someone gets hurt, then of course it’s normal to help!”

Kim Si-yeon said something, but Park Hye-yeon didn’t care.

“You seem to be living in a romantic way. Most people pretend not to know when they are in danger. Because I don’t want to lose because I’m swept away. And on the whole, that judgment is reasonable.”

“You… aren’t you a bit harsh?”

“I was just giving you advice because it seems that you are not understanding the reality properly. If it’s dangerous, don’t even think about borrowing from someone else and start trying to solve the situation.”

At that moment, Rekina, a bat-type monster, ran towards Park Hye-yeon.

-tup

Without even looking at it, Park Hye-yeon grabbed Rekina with her hand and squeezed it in that state.

– Parr

The disciples were startled at the sight of the monster dying while trembling.

“Did you see it? If you are in a crisis, you have to deal with it yourself. Until a monster flew right in front of me, no one helped me, right? If I had been attacked by Rekina like a fool, would I have resented you? no. You must have resented yourself for being foolishly attacked.”

“Hey you!”

“Don’t talk any more. Because I don’t want to talk to kids who are passively looking for help.”

From afar, Kang Eun-byul walked towards Park Hye-yeon.

“However, Hyeyeon is a bit harsh…”

Park Hye-yeon whispered coldly to Kang Eun-byul.

“If our camp is messed up because I’m helping them, then unexpected monsters will attack us. So what do you think? We could be at risk by saving someone we never met.”

“This is a C-class gate…there are no monsters that could threaten us…”

“You don’t know the world. Can you guarantee that it will never come out?”

“And, I saw clearly how scared you were before entering the dungeon. Did you even get artifacts from the instructor? If you can’t even protect yourself, and if you’re going to disturb us like this, then just leave. You’re not desperate, and you already have a lot of things, so you can put on a good voice for people. Look at the other kids.”

The other disciples that Kang Eun-byul looked back on, Chan-woo Seo, Se-ah Lim, and Da-yun Min, only looked at Eun-byeol Kang strangely, as if they agreed with Hye-yeon Park.

“…”

Kang Eun-byeol didn’t say anything more. Their eyes looked more desperate than indifferent. It’s like a wild beast after several days of starvation and finding food. They looked like beasts that could do anything to survive.

Park Hye-yeon talked to her colleagues.

“let’s go. Do not delay here.”

Park Hye-yeon, he was feeling the tantrums inside him.

‘Weak people who don’t have their own abilities and only want someone’s help and salvation… I hate people like that the most.’

Suddenly, she remembered things from the past.

Park Hye-yeon, it was very young when I first realized that she was special.

“Hye-yeon, you seem to have a talent for magic, don’t you?”

There was only one reason why she passionately studied magic on her own. Because his father praised him.

“Did you use a fireball this time? To be able to use that level of magic at such a young age, I am very proud to have reached this level without even learning anything.”

Heeyeon Park quickly understood magic thanks to her innate talent. Although the total amount of mana itself was not high, he had a natural understanding, so even if he used the same magic, he could use it faster and more powerfully than others. Not only that, she was able to use higher-level magic than her peers, so she was not lacking in being called a gifted child when she was young.

“Father, can I go to that academy?”

One day, the girl has a dream of an academy. It was because I wanted to go there and learn high-level magic, meet people, develop, work hard, and become a successful person both magically and socially.

“That… the academy?… If my daughter wants to go, of course she has to let her go.”

Park Hye-yeon can’t forget her father’s expression that day. A vaguely distorted expression. An expression of embarrassment and sadness rather than anger. The cause of that expression was known from the conversation between mother and father that evening.

“Honey, Hyeyeon says she wants to go to the academy.”

“you. You didn’t mean to do it, did you?”

“…”

“Are you crazy? Do you know how much an academy costs? How do we spend the academy in the same family as us?”

“…As a father, I haven’t done anything to Hyeyeon so far, but I want to learn as much as I want to learn and let her go…”

“hahaha… You and I are of the same mind. But realistically, it’s impossible. Do you know how much money is left behind just for the monthly rent, water bill, and utility bills? The electricity will go out soon, so what? Academy? I will go and talk to Park Hye-yeon.”

“That… don’t do that. What’s wrong with that kid?”

“Then what are you going to do? As much as I can get a loan already, there is no way I can get any money out of it.”

“I will work as a hunter…”

“Are you crazy? Are you going to enter the dungeon at that age?”

“I have a history of working as a hunter in my past years, so it should be easy to get permission to enter the dungeon. Profits will also be much higher than now when I am just working.”

“That’s too dangerous…!”

The woman who was about to say something stopped when she saw her husband’s determined expression.

“Ha… do what you want.”

– tumbling tumbling

After the conversation, the father walked into Park Hye-yeon’s room.

– bump

Park Hye-yeon hurriedly went into her bed and pretended to sleep with the blanket up to the top of her head.

-tup

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My father sat next to Park Hye-yeon’s bed. Father said.

“Hyeyeon-ah, wait a little bit, this father will allow you to attend the academy. I will let my daughter live a life doing everything she wants to do instead of living like me. Abby promises.”

Park Hye-yeon covered her mouth in a blanket and shed tears. I heard the conversation with my mother right now. I tried to tell my father that I don’t have to go to the academy, but no words came out.

It was because I thought my father would feel a bit sorry and upset if he found out that he had heard the conversation with his mother.

So Park Hye-yeon waited until the next morning. And he spoke carefully to his father.

“Father, thinking about it, I don’t think I need to go to the academy very much. I’m learning magic well by myself…”

Then the father stroked the girl’s hair and said,

“You must not try to deceive our daughter’s father. I don’t know why, but Hyeyeon gets off when she lies. Don’t worry. My father will definitely send me to the academy.”

The next morning, my father packed his sword and other equipment and left the house. Even at first glance, the rusted weapons looked dangerous on their own.

“Yeonah Hye, honey, you are taking good care of the house. I’ll be right back.”

Nevertheless, the father headed to the dungeon with a bright smile.

That was the last appearance Park Hye-yeon saw of her father. The news of his father’s death spread quickly. The cause was said to be due to an accident at the gate.

“Aigoo… Honey…”

the mother screamed. He spent every day drinking alcohol in the sorrow of losing his father.

Park Hye-yeon also fell into despair. The sadness of losing my father in an instant, and the feeling that my father died because I said that I would enter the academy, I spent every day in despair over that guilt.

The relationship between Park Hye-yeon and her mother has changed completely since then.

The two stopped talking to each other, and in the end they didn’t even make eye contact.

“scram. If it weren’t for you, my father wouldn’t have died so in vain. I don’t want to see you, so get out now.”

In the end, her mother expels Park Hye-yeon.

After that, Park Hye-yeon wandered the streets. Avoiding not only the ugly people who tried to take advantage of her, but also the vicious people who approached her because she was a woman, she lived in a ditch.

A life where you have to be self-sufficient with bread to put in your mouth and even a drop of water to swallow. She withered away from her magical talents.

Then one day. I heard stories of homeless people.

“The accident that happened in the dungeon last time. It was not just an accident.”

“What do you mean?”

“Isn’t there a middle-aged hunter named Park Chan-seok who died in an accident this time, and the rumors say that he killed him?”

– twitch

Park Hye-yeon, who was muttering bread in the corner, doubted her ears. She walked towards the homeless. and said

“Tell me more about what you just said.”

Park Chan-seok. It was her father’s name.

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