Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 31

Dark room.

Choi Hyun-seok was moaning softly, almost lewdly.

“Ughhh…”

“Lick! Lick!”

“Eek… this is progressing a little too fast…”

Bobo was enthusiastically licking Choi Hyun-seok’s face with his rough tongue.

Choi Hyun-seok squirmed and continued to mumble incoherently.

“Lick!”

“Wait a minute… you’re being a bit too aggressive…”

Choi Hyun-seok’s face was now completely covered in dog saliva.

His face was flushed, and he seemed lost in whatever bizarre dream he was having.

Rachel, who was sitting next to him, looked on with utter disgust.

“Tsk…”

“Ah… not there…!” “What, what are you even saying!? You crazy perverted hero!”

Rachel reflexively flicked Choi Hyun-seok’s nose.

Choi Hyun-seok, jolted awake by the unexpected nose flick, opened his eyes wide.

“Shit!”

Choi Hyun-seok jumped up with a curse.

He blinked, looking around with a bewildered expression.

“Uh… what’s going on?”

“What else could it be? You were having a dream.”

“Dream?”

He still didn’t seem to grasp reality, his face a complete blank.

Rachel frowned and nudged Choi Hyun-seok.

“Hero! What kind of dream were you having!?”

“Uh, that’s…”

Choi Hyun-seok hesitated for a moment and then shook his head.

“It’s nothing.”

There was no way he could tell her he’d been dreaming of Abelson attacking him, not even if his life depended on it.

Not only would he be met with Rachel’s disgusted glare, but he might also be arrested for blasphemy [disrespecting or insulting something sacred].

Choi Hyun-seok decided to change the subject quickly.

“Ahem, anyway, what happened? Why am I suddenly at home?”

His memory was hazy because he’d lost consciousness at the end of the duel.

He thought he had won against Kurken, but even that felt uncertain.

“You won the duel and fainted immediately afterward. Cow Head [likely a character or nickname] moved you here.”

“Really?”

“Yes. There was also a woman called the Saint [a healer or holy figure], but she just left, saying the treatment was over.”

Rachel clicked her tongue as if she didn’t approve.

Choi Hyun-seok tried to ignore Rachel, who was grumbling under her breath, “I can do treatments like that too…”

“Anyway, that means I won, right?” “Yes. You won.”

Only then did Choi Hyun-seok let out a sigh of relief.

“I really thought I was going to die this time…”

Thinking about it now, it was truly absurd.

Kurken’s combat power was over 10,000.

On top of that, he had received Saihan’s enhancement magic from Hemis.

And he had won against such a guy.

It could only be described as a miracle.

“Kurken is dead, right?”

“Yes. His body melted away with his head buried in the ground.”

“I see…”

“Why are you asking that?”

Rachel was worried that Choi Hyun-seok might be feeling guilty about killing someone.

But it was really an unnecessary worry.

“I was just wondering if my level might have gone up.”

“Ah… I see…”

Choi Hyun-seok was simply curious if he had gained experience points.

If it was determined that Choi Hyun-seok had killed him, he would have leveled up quite a bit.

Choi Hyun-seok immediately opened his status window.

▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok

▫Title: Trainee Hero

▫Level: 212

·Strength: 80

·Agility: 77

·Stamina: 82

·Mana: 81

·Charisma: 30

·Bonus Points: 12

▫Hero Points: 450

▫Abilities: Pickaxing (C), Leadership (E), Cooking (F), Mana Manipulation (D)
▫Skills: Raid-Run Style Fighting

Choi Hyun-seok smiled brightly as he looked at the status window.

“It went up after all!”

As he expected, his level had increased.

Not just one or two levels, but a whopping 12 levels.

In addition to leveling up, his mana and stamina each increased by 1, and for some reason, his charisma also increased by 3 points.

However, there was something else that Choi Hyun-seok was most happy about.

“Mana Manipulation… so it wasn’t a delusion after all.”

Mana Manipulation (D) in the ‘Abilities’ section.

It had risen from F grade to D grade before the duel.

So it hadn’t been a dream that it had risen two stages during the battle.

“Huh… is this even possible?”

“What is it?”

“My Mana Manipulation went from F to D grade during the battle. Does it usually go up this easily?” “What!? That can’t be!”

Rachel exclaimed with a surprised expression.

“That’s completely unprecedented! It’s something that should be recorded in the Hero textbook!”

“Is it that big of a deal?”

“Of course! It’s already amazing that you learned Mana Manipulation in just a few days, but you raised it by two grades in one day? If you tell other people, they’ll accuse you of lying!”

“Oh…”

It didn’t feel bad to be praised so enthusiastically.

“As expected of an SSS-class potential hero! But what’s the secret?”

“What secret?”

“I’ve heard that there’s usually a trigger for awakening when you have such explosive growth.”

“Trigger…”

Choi Hyun-seok thought for a moment and shook his head.

“Well, I just really wanted to live.”

He could never bring up the story of Abelson.

The moment he said he awakened because he wanted a date.

Rachel’s admiring gaze would instantly turn into a look of utter disgust.

“Well, anyway, isn’t it enough that I won?”

“That’s right. Haha!”

As a result, he survived and even grew stronger.

“Ah, I should invest my bonus points before I forget. I should raise them evenly, right?”

“That would be a good idea.”

Choi Hyun-seok invested all 12 points, mainly in agility, which was relatively lacking.

The changed stats were as follows.

▫Level: 212

·Strength: 83

·Agility: 83

·Stamina: 83

·Mana: 83

·Charisma: 30

After investing all the bonus points, it coincidentally landed perfectly on 83.

“Nice.”

Looking at the neat stats made me feel good for no reason.

Just as Choi Hyun-seok was getting up from his seat.

Thud.

Something fell to the floor.

“A note?”

Choi Hyun-seok picked up the fallen paper.

After unfolding the neatly folded note, Choi Hyun-seok’s face stiffened.

“This is…”

The paper contained something completely unexpected.

“Meet me in the castle courtyard after dinner tomorrow.”

A date invitation, no less.

Choi Hyun-seok’s stiff face flushed red.

“Heh, heh heh… Heh heh heh…”

He couldn’t help but giggle.

Rachel, who was watching from the side, pouted her lips out.

Rachel, who had been puffing out her cheeks, suddenly shouted.

“Hero!!!”

“Jeez! Why are you yelling like that!? I’m not deaf.”

“You look like you’re grinning from ear to ear. Are you that happy!?”

“Wh, what are you talking about! This is, uh… a duel challenge note!”

“A duel!? Are you going to have a lip-wrestling match!?”

“No, I’m not…!”

“Hmph! I saw everything when you were in dreamland earlier!” [Referring to a dream or vision she had.]

Choi Hyun-seok, who was trying to deny it, wore a defeated expression.

“You should have said that earlier, you little rascal.”

“Anyway, Hero!!!”

“What.”

“Do you like that woman that much?”

At the direct question, Choi Hyun-seok’s cheeks flushed red.

“N, no…”

The sight of the muscular man turning his head with a sulky face was quite disgusting.

“No, you don’t! I saw you talking to that woman even while fighting the orcs!?”

“Ahem! If you know, why are you asking!?”

Since he was caught anyway, Choi Hyun-seok decided to be confident.

‘Why should I back down?’

He is a hero, and Rachel is his exclusive fairy.

What did Rachel say before going to this world in the first place?

“Wait a minute… Didn’t you say that if I go to another world, I can monopolize wealth, fame, and beautiful women?”

He remembered it clearly.

“A great adventure to gain wealth! Fame! And beautiful women!”

“A hero can do anything!”

He couldn’t possibly not remember, since he had fallen for Rachel’s sales pitch.

Choi Hyun-seok felt increasingly wronged.

“What have I monopolized since I came here!?”

The only thing he had monopolized in this world was the love of a cow-headed demon.

“I don’t even want anything grand like that anymore…”

Choi Hyun-seok, who was muttering with a pathetic face, suddenly glared.

“I want to date too!”

“…”

“I’ve been slaving away in this other world, and now I’m finally about to see some light! Huh!? I want to meet a woman! Is that a problem!?”

The gleam in his eyes was ominous.

He was genuinely angry as he spoke.

“Okay, just calm down…”

Rachel cautiously stepped back.

She had no choice but to admit that she had touched a nerve.

‘He’s completely insane…’

The bachelor’s resentment was more powerful than she thought.

“Yaa! I want to see a bunny-like child tooooo!” [Referring to wanting a cute, innocent child.]

“Kyaaa! You’re spitting everywhere!”

“Ptooey ptooey ptooey ptooey!”

Choi Hyun-seok barked all night long.

***

Abelson Marriott was thinking about Choi Hyun-seok.

Her assessment of Choi Hyun-seok could be summarized in one sentence.

‘A strange person.’

The first meeting was definitely the worst.

He suddenly called her an angel and asked for a kiss.

She thought he was the craziest madman she had ever seen.

However, she realized it was a misunderstanding.

And after watching Choi Hyun-seok train, her thoughts gradually changed.

‘He’s not normal in many ways.’

Choi Hyun-seok was more insane than she thought.

He persistently clung on even while getting beaten.

At the same time, his talent was so great that he not only controlled mana in three days but also learned how to use aura.

Abelson knew how absurd that was.

‘It usually takes a formal knight more than a month to learn aura.’

Moreover, Choi Hyun-seok had just awakened his mana in front of her.

For such a man to learn aura right away?

This was like a baby who had just taken its first steps suddenly getting up and doing a backflip.

And Choi Hyun-seok did such a crazy thing.

‘Even if he’s a hero, that’s impossible.’

She had seen many heroes so far.

Some of them were definitely stronger than she could have imagined.

Nevertheless, Abelson was certain.

Choi Hyun-seok’s talent overwhelms all heroes.

‘It’s an interesting thing.’

Abelson had learned too much, so she gave up everything.

To her, Choi Hyun-seok is a completely unexpected variable.

Not in an already established system, but in the extraordinary place called the Demon King’s army.

Because he grew up without anyone knowing, his power can be more valuable.

‘Someday… he might turn everything upside down.’

She knows that the possibility is infinitely close to zero, but it was still the only hope.

That’s why she accepted Choi Hyun-seok’s request the day before the duel.

“Could you pray to the being called God just once?”

“Please just ask that I survive tomorrow without dying.”

Abelson prayed to God for the first time in a long time.

To help that crazy hero.

The results could be seen directly with her own eyes.

Whether God really answered her prayer, or whether the crazy hero simply unleashed his insane potential, she still doesn’t know.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter.

As a result, Choi Hyun-seok overturned an impossible game.

Even Abelson didn’t think Choi Hyun-seok could win while watching the duel.

That alone was reason enough to talk to him.

Creak…

Abelson opened the door.

There stood guards with fierce expressions.

“What’s going on?”

They are Reidrun’s direct subordinates and have very fierce faces.

Their appearance makes it seem like you’ll get beaten just by looking at them, but Abelson knew that wasn’t the case.

The guards don’t treat her more harshly than necessary.

Rather, she could say that she is treated well for a prisoner.

They readily accepted her request to go see the duel.

“I have a request.”

“What is it?”

“I want to go for a walk.”

The date time has finally arrived.