I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 144

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Chapter 144
144: Leisurely Days (2)
Ever since the Black Gate appeared, it had become common knowledge that intelligent life wasn’t limited to humanity—there were other races. So it made sense that Choe Yunsuk would say such a thing. However, if one thought about how other races could possibly be on Earth, that would be a misconception.
For one, other races could indeed come to Earth. There were generally two methods: dimensional connection or asylum requests that allowed them to cross over to Earth.
First, dimensional connection worked when you got along with other races and could travel through the connection—either from their dimension to Earth or vice versa. Asylum requests, on the other hand, were permanent; once submitted, they’d settle on Earth and could rarely return to their original dimension.
Naturally, both cases made invasion impossible. In other words, if dimensional invasion were allowed, colonization would become feasible.
There were also cases where invasions occurred by finding dimensional coordinates rather than crossing through the Black Gate. Dohyun had only recently learned this classified information, but regardless, Choe Yunsuk’s question about whether Hanalin was an angel wasn’t made without consideration.
He was simply throwing out some clumsy flirtation at Hanalin.
“Stop hitting on her.”
“Ahem.”
True to form for a hopeless romantic, Choe Yunsuk immediately started flirting, and as Dohyun looked at him with disdain, Hanalin also regarded him with a somewhat contemptuous expression. Since he appeared to be Dohyun’s friend, Hanalin tolerated it to some extent, but enduring such shameless behavior wasn’t easy.
A brief flash of contempt crossed her face, but Choe Yunsuk, being the hopeless romantic he was, didn’t notice it. Still, since he was Dohyun’s friend, Hanalin didn’t think too poorly of him.
Dohyun sighed and spoke to Hanalin.
“Sorry, this guy’s a hopeless romantic. Anyway, this is Choe Yunsuk, my friend since elementary school. And this is our party member, Hanalin.”
“…Nice to meet you.”
“Haha, I, I, I’m also pleased to meet you, Hanalin. Your name is quite lovely.”
As the shameless behavior and flirtation resumed, Dohyun couldn’t hold back and his hand rose.
Then.
Thwack——!
“Ugh!”
He brought down the hammer of judgment on the shameless Choe Yunsuk. The blow to his head was quite forceful, enough to send vibrations through the ground, but seeing that Choe Yunsuk—true to his nickname of being thick-skulled—didn’t lose consciousness despite the pain, Dohyun glanced at his own fist.
Seeing heat slightly radiating from it, he’d struck with appropriate restraint considering Choe Yunsuk’s stats, yet even so, it had been quite a powerful blow by Choe Yunsuk’s standards.
“Heh heh heh, this much is nothing.”
Saying so, Choe Yunsuk tried to save face in front of Hanalin, but naturally, as he was overexerting himself, blood dripped from his nose.
Wondering if it was really necessary to go this far, Dohyun looked at Choe Yunsuk with exasperation, and Choe Yunsuk hurriedly pulled out tissues to stop the nosebleed before grinning widely again.
Though the sight was grotesque, Hanalin smiled slightly at it. It was absurd, but seeing him, she realized there was no malice behind it, so she let her guard down a bit. After all, he’d been Dohyun’s friend since elementary school.
Then Hanalin suddenly tilted her head, sensing something odd.
If he’d been Dohyun’s friend since elementary school.
‘Isn’t that person strange too?’
Dohyun was already unusual, and looking at what this person was doing now, he really was strange.
Hanalin regarded both of them with suspicious eyes, but then dismissed the thought—surely this person couldn’t be stranger than Dohyun.
At that moment, Dohyun felt a subtle discomfort, turned to look at Hanalin, and she, caught off guard, turned away to avoid his gaze.
Dohyun looked at Hanalin with a peculiar expression, then shook his head and asked.
“By the way, where are you headed?”
“We were training and were about to head out for a meal.”
At Hanalin’s words, Choe Yunsuk’s eyes lit up and he grinned. Naturally, blood was still flowing from his nose, so he had a tissue stained with blood stuffed in his nostril as he spoke to Hanalin.
“Oh!? We were also heading out to eat. If you don’t mind, would you care to join us? Haha, though it’s embarrassing to say, I promised to treat Dohyun, and I’d be happy to treat you as well, Hanalin.”
“…?” “…?”
He probably didn’t understand what he was saying himself, but the context wasn’t incomprehensible. Essentially, he was asking if they’d like to go eat together since he’d be paying.
“Hmm.”
Hanalin pondered for a moment, then nodded.
Eating with a stranger could have been awkward, but with Dohyun present, she readily agreed. At her consent, Choe Yunsuk grinned and spoke.
“I’ll show you the way!”
Dohyun looked at Choe Yunsuk with a puzzled expression.
No matter how I looked at it, he didn’t seem like the type to know any decent restaurants. Besides, since I’d decided to pay, I figured we’d end up somewhere cheap. But with a lingering sense of doubt, I decided to follow along anyway.
Following Choe Yunsuk’s guidance, Dohyun and Hanalin arrived at a restaurant that served Korean Rice Cake Soup—a beloved national dish of pork and Korean blood sausage in a milky broth bubbling vigorously in a scorching stone pot.
Bubble, bubble, bubble.
“Enjoy your meal!”
As the Korean Rice Cake Soup arrived almost immediately after ordering, Hanalin and Dohyun’s eyes met. Korean Rice Cake Soup was always mentioned as one of the worst foods for a blind date. Of course, this wasn’t a blind date between Hanalin and Choe Yunsuk, but being brought to a rice soup restaurant as a gesture of hospitality made Hanalin blink in surprise.
As Hanalin’s long eyelashes trembled slightly, Dohyun could discern her emotions from that subtle movement.
She’s bewildered.
That made sense.
Having lived as a wealthy man’s daughter, she’d never been taken to a Korean Rice Cake Soup restaurant as a gesture of hospitality. And at this point, Dohyun closed his eyes, feeling sorry for Choe Yunsuk.
He suspected his friend would struggle not just with marriage, but with dating itself.
Choe Yunsuk, oblivious to both their reactions, grinned and spoke to Hanalin from beside Dohyun.
“Haha, I heard women don’t usually come to Korean Rice Cake Soup restaurants! Since it’s a delicacy you probably haven’t tried, I brought you here. Why don’t you give it a taste?”
“Yes…”
Still, appreciating his sincerity, Hanalin picked up her spoon.
True to Choe Yunsuk’s words, this was indeed Hanalin’s first time at such a restaurant, so she hesitated about how to eat it.
She gazed at the milky broth bubbling in the scorching pot and hesitated for a moment before glancing at Dohyun. But Dohyun, eager to just eat, seasoned the broth with spicy condiment and salted shrimp, sprinkled perilla powder, and transformed the milky white broth into a murky reddish hue.
Hanalin discreetly watched what Dohyun did and followed suit. She first added the spicy condiment to redden the broth, adjusted the saltiness gradually with salted shrimp, then added rice and perilla powder to the pot.
As she slowly soaked the rice in the broth, the reddened Korean Rice Cake Soup’s milky coating gradually enveloped each grain of rice.
She scooped a spoonful, blew on it gently, and took a bite. The salty taste of the shrimp combined with the cool, deep flavor unique to the milky broth, and the slightly spicy seasoning from the dissolved condiment slowly slid down her throat. Hanalin made a satisfied sound.
“Mmm!”
Surprised by how delicious it was, she cautiously picked up her spoon again and began eating. Watching her, Dohyun chuckled softly and spoke.
“Not bad?”
“Yes, it’s delicious.”
“Hehe, it’s a restaurant I carefully selected.”
“I see. It’s really good.”
At Hanalin’s response, Choe Yunsuk began eating his Korean Rice Cake Soup with a satisfied expression, while Dohyun shook his head as if exasperated.
Since Hanalin had fallen for it, Choe Yunsuk would definitely bring future blind dates—or any woman he wanted to seduce—to a Korean Rice Cake Soup restaurant. He firmly believed his method would work on other women too, since Hanalin had said it was delicious.
One might think otherwise, but having known Choe Yunsuk since elementary school, Dohyun could say with certainty this would happen.
Still, it wasn’t really my concern, so I didn’t pay it much mind.
Let’s just focus on eating.
Dohyun concentrated on his Korean Rice Cake Soup, while Hanalin and Choe Yunsuk also ate theirs with relish. And naturally enough—
“One more bowl of Korean Rice Cake Soup, please!” “Me too!”
“Yes, yes!”
Dohyun and Hanalin raised their hands to order, and though the Restaurant Owner was somewhat taken aback, he quickly brought fresh bowls. But not long after, both of them ordered another bowl each. As both Dohyun and Hanalin did this, Choe Yunsuk gulped watching them.
Choe Yunsuk, whose abilities hadn’t yet surpassed F-rank, didn’t know, but for high-rank Hunters, this consumption was nothing unusual.
Just as Choe Yunsuk was thinking it fortunate he’d brought them to a Korean Rice Cake Soup restaurant, watching Dohyun and Hanalin eat so voraciously, the two of them accelerated their pace even further.
As the number of bowls kept increasing, Choe Yunsuk let out a sound of distress watching them accumulate.
“What? What?”
The earthenware bowls piled up like a mountain, and even though the Restaurant Owner periodically cleared them away, they filled up again in no time. Choe Yunsuk had eaten two bowls himself, but he couldn’t match their pace, and the result was—
“That comes to 462,800 won.”
“…???”
They’d actually broken through 460,000 won at a Korean Rice Cake Soup Restaurant. It wasn’t that he didn’t have the money to pay, but Choe Yunsuk handed over his card in a daze. When the owner tried to take it for payment, Choe Yunsuk gripped it so tightly the owner couldn’t pull it free.
Only after the owner managed to extract the card with both hands and completed the transaction did he speak to Choe Yunsuk along with the receipt.
“Thank you so much.”
“….”
Still standing dazed at the register, Dohyun let out a snort of laughter looking at Choe Yunsuk. Who told him to insist on treating everyone with such bravado?
Just as Dohyun was about to step forward with a smirk, Hanalin spoke up instead.
“Then I’ll buy dessert.”
“…What?”
At Hanalin’s words, Choe Yunsuk turned his head, and he could see that she was saying this while looking at Dohyun, not at him.
Seeing that, Choe Yunsuk tilted his head for a moment. Of course, he’d never harbored any romantic notions about Hanalin from the start. He knew well that someone so beautiful would never date him, and if she hadn’t been a Party Member of Dohyun’s, they wouldn’t have eaten together in the first place. But watching Hanalin look at Dohyun that way, Choe Yunsuk couldn’t help but grin.
Then he said—
“Well, I don’t know much about desserts. Do you know a good place?”
“Yes, there’s a Cafe nearby that I go to often. Would you like to go there?”
At Choe Yunsuk’s words, Hanalin answered promptly, and Dohyun nodded in agreement, following after Hanalin as she led the way.
But then Choe Yunsuk jabbed Dohyun in the ribs with his elbow and said—
“Lucky bastard.”
“…?”
Seeing Dohyun’s confused expression, Choe Yunsuk trembled slightly as he spoke.
“…Never mind.”
With that, he followed after Hanalin who’d already gone ahead, and as he did, Choe Yunsuk gave Dohyun a thumbs up.
Seeing that, Dohyun thought—
“Is this guy actually insane?”

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