These Lunatics are Obsessed With Me

“I know it’s a little early, but could you apply your auxiliary skill to the Valkyrie members?”

“Of course.”

I nodded obediently and followed Song Cha-hyun. However, Sung Yoo-bin suddenly blocked our path and shouted.

“Then, I’ll be the first…!”

“You’ll be the last, Leader.”

“Why…?!”

Sung Yoo-bin was dragged away by Han Yeo-reum and Cha Min Hee, each holding one of her arms. Seeing her struggling, I was a little confused. Who among the Valkyrie members would I apply my skill to first if not Sung Yoo-bin?

Considering her combat power, I thought Sung Yoo-bin would be the first, but it seemed that this was not the case. Song Cha-hyun who smiled bitterly led me to an unexpected person.

“You exchanged greetings with Hae Song-yeon on the ship, right?”

“Oh, yes..”

“…”

Hae Song-yeon, the tall younger sister of Hae Song-ha, looked at me with an unfriendly look. Then, she slightly bowed her head and spoke.

“Please take care of me.”

“Me as well.”

At first glance, I thought it was a formality to cast a single auxiliary skill, but then I realized that as a combatant, their life also depended on one or two auxiliary skills.

“First of all, you can apply the skill to the combatants with wide-range attack skills. We are planning to get out of Area 1 with a member who’s got an auxiliary skill at the forefront within an hour.”

“Understood.”

Wide-range skills, huh? I wonder what kind of skill it is? In the novel, the spotlight was only focused on the heroine, Sung Yoo-bin, so most of the other members’ abilities were not shown. No, they were almost non-existent in the novel. So I don’t know what kind of area-of-effect skill Hae Song-yeon has.

With a little sparkle in my eyes, I removed my gloves and reached out my hand.

When Hae Song-yeon, who was staring blankly at my hand, realized that it was necessary for me to cast my skill on her, she opened her mouth and let out a small “Ah” exclamation.

“I know it’s a little cumbersome, but I just need you to hold my hand for a moment.”

“Yes.”

Hae Song-yeon nodded her head and held my hand. I quickly cast the Catnip skill. Hae Song-yeon’s hands started to feel a little hotter than before.

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“…!”

“It’s done.”

I let go of her hand because I thought it was enough. However, Hae Song-yeon still had a dazed expression and tightly held my hand. I looked at her with a confused expression.

“Hunter Hae Song-yeon?”

“Ah.”

Only then did Hae Song-yeon come to her senses and quickly let go of my hand. She coughed briefly with a slightly red face.

“Ahem, I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s fine.”

I’m more sorry for the weird skill. I swallowed those words and stepped away from her. Hae Song-yeon looked at me seriously as she opened and closed her hands.

“How do you feel?”

“…”

“Do you feel a sudden boost in power or something?”

Han Yeo-reum asked bluntly as she approached. But Hee Sung-yeon said nothing, she just moved her hands a few times, and answered the question with the same bluntness.

“I’m not sure yet.”

“Hmm, is that so?”

Han Yeo-reum, who had a flat face, shrugged her shoulders. Immediately, I heard Song Cha-hyun’s voice.

“Let’s move on quickly, we’re wasting time. Hunter Han Yi-jin, can you keep up if we speed up?”

“Of course. Maybe?”

I don’t know why she’s trying to speed up the attack, but it should be fine since I have Kang Yoo-hyun and Eden by my side. Eden’s wind ability in particular can increase my speed. I turned my gaze to Eden, he smiled greasily as if he were saying I should believe in him. I looked at Song Cha-hyun awkwardly.

“I’ll follow you well.”

“That’s good.”

Song Cha-hyun nodded and turned her head. The Valkyrie members quickly finished their preparations for the battle under her command. I saw Hae Song-ha approaching Hae Sung-yeon, who was taking the lead, probably to tell her the direction she should go.

Hae Song-yeon nodded slightly at Hae Song-ha’s words. And as she lowered her head, Hae Song-ha raised his hand and gently stroked Hae Song-yeon’s hair.

They looked like very close siblings. Although Hae Song-ha had to stand on his tiptoes to stroke his sister’s head because of the huge height difference. Anyway, it’s nice to see that they get along well.

“Let’s go!”

As Song Cha-hyun’s shout echoed around them, Hae Song-yeon, who was standing at the front, lowered her body and ran at breakneck speed through the sand on the beach. Her long ponytail hair fluttered in the sea breeze.

A member of the raid team, a non-combat unit, seemed to be having a hard time keeping up with her speed. That’s how fast Hae Song-yeon ran. I would have found it hard to keep up too were it not for Eden’s skill.

Before long, a horde of murlocs charged towards them like a pack of wolves. Hae Song-yeon raised a weapon that looked like a long sickle. She held two sickles in her hands. The sickle in her right hand was larger and longer, while the sickle in her left hand was smaller and shorter. Both sickles were connected by a thick chain. I immediately realized what the purpose of the weapon was.

Pajijijik!

Blue electricity flowed around Hae Song-yeon, and electricity gathered around the weapons she was holding. Indeed, Hae Song-yeon had an electric-type ability, and it appeared that the weapon acted as a lightning rod to allow her to use her wide-area skill.

“Kkueeeek!”

“Kkieeeek!”

The murlocs let out a long scream and quickly became electrically roasted murlocs. It looked more painful than being burned by Sung Yoo-bin’s fire because electricity can flow well in water. I can’t help but feel sorry for the murlocs.

“Huk…”

“…?”

The rest of the Valkyrie members and the support unit followed behind Hae Song-yeon, who led the charge at the front. Since the mobs were dying so quickly, the collection team had a hard time keeping up. Normally, when a mob is killed, the items are automatically distributed, but Valkyrie members have so much equipment and so many items that their inventory is full, making it difficult to continue the raid smoothly.

Most large-scale dungeon raid teams lock up the inventories of the combatants and create a separate collection team to retrieve the items that are ejected from defeated monsters. However, with Hae Song-yeon leading the way, the speed of progress was so fast that the item collection team couldn’t keep up with her.

“Hunter Hae Song-yeon… I didn’t expect her to be this strong…”

“As expected, that skill…”

Even amidst the confusion, the collection team glanced at me and whispered amongst themselves. Feeling awkward, I stared at Hae Song-yeon, who was excitedly sweeping away mobs in the distance. Everything in the area was swept away by the current emitted by Hae Song-yeon, as if it were struck by powerful lightning. 

Besides the murlocs, there were water dragon bastards scattered all over the beach, like the one that attacked Sung Yoo-bin earlier. Is Hae Song-yeon really an A-rank hunter? It was certainly an impressive feat for just one person to achieve so much.

After just one hour, the skill wore off, it seemed that they had cleared more than half of Area 1 before the skill’s duration was up. As Hae Song-yeon stopped, the entire raid party also stopped moving.

“After the collection team cleans up everything, everyone can take a break.”

The collection team got very busy very quickly. As a member of the support team, I also wanted to help a little, but first I needed to check on Hae Song-yeon’s condition. Kang Yoo-hyun and Eden were the only targets I used the Catnip skill on before, so I also lacked a lot of data. I needed to have more data if I wanted to use this skill in the future.

“Hunter Hae Song-yeon!”

“…”

“Are you okay?”

Hae Song-yeon, who was standing still in a daze, slowly turned her head. She was very calm and didn’t look like someone who had just fought like crazy.

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“…Hunter Han Yi-jin.”

“Yes?”

“You…”

“…?”

Thud! Thud! 

Hae Song-yeon started to walk towards me. I felt a strange pressure as she, a large woman, suddenly started to approach me. I flinched and stared at her as she approached, she shouted with a flushed face.

“It was amazing!”

“…Yes?”

“I’ve never felt that way before! I mean, it was like riding a roller coaster…!”

“Song-yeon-ah!”

Hae Song-ha ran over to Hae Song-yeon who was excited like a child, and I took the opportunity to step back.

“Song-yeon-ah, are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m okay.”

“Are you hurt? Should we call the healer?”

“No, I’m not really hurt.”

I felt the burdensome gazes of the siblings fall on me, which made me flinch involuntarily.

“Hunter Han Yi-jin-nim! Isn’t that such a great skill? I’ve never heard of such an auxiliary skill!”

“Ha-ha-ha…”

“I was wondering what kind of skill made the Odin Guild so boastful… Oh, I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s fine…”

Well, Hae Song-yeon must have had a bad impression of me at first. Her gaze was already very cold to begin with.

Anyway, that wasn’t important. I opened my mouth to speak to Hae Song-yeon.

“Do you feel a bit tired or something? Suddenly losing the boost in power.”

“I definitely felt like my strength was drained after the skill duration ended, but I feel very refreshed and good. I feel like I just landed after skydiving!”

“Ohh…”

She went skydiving too? She really lived an active life. In any case, there didn’t seem to be many side effects for Hae Song-yeon. It seemed that Kang Yoo-hyun had more severe side effects. Maybe the higher the grade, the greater the recoil? I tilted my head and waited for the raid party to prepare. Who should I cast my skill on next? I had just sat down on the beach and had begun to wait for someone to call for me, when someone came running to me while waving a lot.

“Me next! Me, me, me!”

“Uh… hunter Han Yeo-reum?”

It was Han Yeo-reum, the Valkyrie’s deputy commander. She reached out to me with a big smile on her face.

“I look forward to working with you! Hunter Han Yi-jin!”

“Ah, yes.”

I immediately took off my gloves and held her hand. Her face was full of excitement and joy as she smiled brightly. As soon as I felt her hand getting a little hot like Hae Song-yeon’s did before, I immediately withdrew my hand.

“Hmm…?”

“…?”

Han Yeo-reum, who tilted her head, smiled strangely. As I looked at her in confusion, she turned her body around and shouted loudly.

“Alright! I’ll go farther than Hae Song-yeon!”

“…”

What kind of competition is this…

She soon raised a stick taller than her body and wielded it.