City of Backstreet Nymphs - Chapter 7



7 – 007 – Nymph Oinoi # 7

007 – Nymph Oinoi # 7

Everyone has probably heard this story at least once.

Time doesn’t lie.

As much as I try, I get better.

But I think the above statement was false.

Effort also lies.

No matter how much a rabbit flaps its front legs, can it fly like a crane?

No matter how much an elk holds her breath, can she breathe in the sea like a mackerel?

No matter how hard you try, nothing is impossible.

That’s a fact I’ve come to realize acutely over the past 10 years.

But the world keeps lying to people.

“If you try, you can do anything.”

Only then will the elk and rabbits gain strength and live today.

I wondered if I could be the main character.

So did I.

I wondered if I might be able to rise to the top of the D class.

Someone might say.

“Hey, even if I became a D-class hunter, I wouldn’t starve to death. Isn’t it okay to just be satisfied and live?” Actually, I’ve heard a lot of stories like that.

But no.

This is something I want to do well and be recognized for.

How sad would it be to have no “Talent” For what I really love? In that sense, the Seo Ye-rim I know was similar to me.

Back when I was in D grade and Seo Yerim was still in F grade.

There was a time when I was surprised to learn that Seo Ye-rim is a hard worker, unlike her appearance. By the way, at the time I had preconceived notions about pretty women.

It was because there was a perception that pretty and good-looking people would live up to their taste without putting in any effort.

But Seo Ye-rim didn’t complain, and she silently continued dismantling the disgusting 「Crab Spider」 Or 「Corrosive Snail」.

At the time, the F-class Awakened males said, “Yerim, I will do it. You are going over there to rest.”

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It would have been nice to say that there was “Passion.”

So it must have reached the S rank. It’s funny to say that I’m only a D-class brat, but S-class isn’t a level where you can rise simply by talent and luck.

Someone will tell you.

Now that you’ve risen to such an S rank, isn’t there anything more greedy?

However, Seo Yerim is ranked 29th in the S class.

In other words, she was the tail of a dragon.

And because of the characteristics of her Seo Ye-rim that I had seen before, there was no way she could ever be satisfied with that kind of self.

You must be nervous.

As the number of S-class Awakeners increases, the rankings are getting pushed back.

I know better than anyone if you feel like being overtaken by a latecomer.

So there’s no choice but to do it.

“I know how to improve her skills.”

Seo Ye-rim’s expression changed in an instant.

But she was only for a moment.

“Really?”

She looked calmly inquiring, but her expression was completely devoid of trust. Yeah, it must be funny that a D-class brat knows how to improve her skills.

If there was such a way, I would have had to break through D-class first and go to C-class.

This was an important point.

“Seo Ye-rim, as you know, I stayed in Class D for a long time. Maybe I’ll have to stay as a D-class forever. But i hated it Have you really tried every possible method?”

“… ….”

Seo Ye-rim’s expression became a face that asked me to say more.

Not immediately kicked out.

Even if she just wants to hear the story, it’s as if she’s passed 50 percent.

I added a few words with joy inside.

“You know that, right? The first C-class Awakeners were created through the training of elves. At that time, the drifting elves taught me how to handle mana. It was otherworldly knowledge.”

The standard for achieving D-class was to feel mana.

I was able to strengthen my body a little by feeling the mana.

But one day, the elves who started drifting melted into society and the ‘concept’ of mana changed.

Mana was a tool that had to be handled, not simply permeated into the body. What was born like that was the next-generation Awakener called “Mana User”.

Although it is now called Class C, though. And in my memory, among the names of the next-generation Awakeners, there was Seo Ye-rim.

Therefore, Seo Ye-rim must know what I am talking about.

“That nymph can lead me to a new level?”

“Exactly. Right, oi noi?”

“This oi noi, I don’t know what you mean, but anyway… ! Rather, this water purifier is very strange… ! Clear ditch water gurgling out… !”

Oinoi enjoyed extracting water from the water purifier. Seo Ye-rim looked at Oi Noi and still narrowed her eyes in disbelief.

I decided to jump first before Oinoi started talking nonsense.

“Anyway. In order to break through to new heights, it is necessary to stimulate white blood. Do you know white blood? It’s the acupuncture point located on the top of the head.”

Baekhoehyeol was a magical acupoint that could solve problems related to the head and mind, such as headache, high blood pressure, dizziness, and nervous breakdown.

It was also called the “Eye of the heart” In many ways for the awakened people who were obsessed with oriental medicine. What, there is actually a hidden third eye on the top of the head.

Does it really work?

I don’t know.

At least it didn’t work for me.

But the important thing is that there is white blood on the top of the head.

“First of all, I’ll press the Baekhoehyeol.”

I approached Seo Ye-rim who was sitting on the sofa. I wondered what to do if he said “Don’t touch me!”, But Seo Ye-rim luckily stayed still like a calm subject.

You’re quieter than you think.

My mind was about to change, so I hurriedly positioned myself behind the sofa and looked down at the top of Seo Ye-rim’s head. The top of the head with black, soft hair neatly gathered.

I was surprised when I pressed it with my thumb.

The top of the head was hotter than expected.

Why does your head have so much heat?

Anyway.

I went through the liver to pull out a single hair.

And among the black hair, I was able to capture a strand of hair that shone with an exceptionally red light. It was like a head of hair.

If you pull out your hair and use it as an ingredient for mysterious magic, it definitely seemed to be enough to become a material.

Oops-.

“Ah.”

“No, because I have gray hair.”

“… ….”

When Seo Ye-rim glanced at me, I quickly put her hair in her pocket. Now all you have to do is wrap it up and go home.

I decided to talk moderately.

“Seo Ye-rim, I’ve said this since I was in F grade, but you’re wearing a mask because you think too much. If you think too much, you will bind people like a curse.”

“… ….”

“Sometimes it’s better to go simple. Try to focus on one thing as much as possible. Like this acupoint at the top of the crown.”

“This oinoi is that I really like this water purifier more than the top of my head… ! This Oinoi, this water purifier, he wants to save money and buy it… ! The water comes out infinitely… !”

Suk-.

I gestured towards Oinoi.

I meant to go home.

Now that you’ve got your hair, you must run away before you get caught!

# # #

“What the hell. So, in the end, what was the discipline of nymphs?”

Seo Ye-rim frowned at the office, which had become quiet after the strange visitor had left. She said that guests who came unexpectedly left unexpectedly.

“… To the D-level subject of later years.”

Seo Ye-rim remembered the fact that Ha Il-do had given him a lesson. How many people in the world can give advice to Seo Ye-rim, who is in the S rank?

No matter how many there were, it wasn’t Haildo, a D-class hunter.

However, to Seo Ye-rim, the story of Ha Il-do sounded very plausible.

Ha Il-do has been in D-class for several years.

He must have felt the wall and worked harder than anyone else to overcome it.

“Hey, is this still my senior?”

Seo Ye-rim recalled the time when she heard a lesson from Hail-do in the past. She was talking about how to defeat monsters and take care of the by-products, or how to deal with F-rank monsters.

If you think about it now, Haildo’s teachings were quite good and pointed to the core. It was good to see that the ‘trick’ was good.

You have to make ends meet anyway.

“Focus on one thing?”

Seo Ye-rim’s meditation was a journey to nothingness to erase wandering thoughts.

However, things didn’t go well for her, and it was a few days before Jung-gu heating thoughts came to mind. A lot of thoughts really ate away at Yerim, as if it were a curse.

So this time, instead of erasing her thoughts, Seo Ye-rim focused on the crown of her head. She was thinking only of one thing, and she was clearing away the twigs.

“The top of the head….”

It was easy to focus on the top of the head.

The warmth that felt like a foreign body from when Haildo touched it was still on the top of his head.

‘I never thought I’d come fix the shoes.’

Red shoes were the first luxury item Seo Ye-rim bought with her own money. It was an attachment item because it was meaningful in many ways, but I was angry because it was messy.

That’s why she preferred to clean the original one rather than buy a new one.

‘When you brought a little girl, I wondered what you were trying to say. Are you a nymph? Heterogeneous? Are you living together? I wonder if there’s anything special….’

SSS-.

The mana flowing through his body began to gather in one place. I felt my body temperature rise in an instant. Seo Ye-rim was taken aback by the rapidly condensing heat.

She could feel something in her gut at the same time.

“Now….”

Seo Ye-rim spread her index finger toward the outside of her window.

Focus on one point.

It is not a flame that spreads in all directions, but the essence of flame held at your fingertips.

It was finally ejected with Seo Ye-rim’s will.

Pishun-!

The heat that had accumulated in her calligraphy rim flew like a bullet and shattered her window.

At the same time, the fire extinguishing system, which detected high heat, acted quickly and poured water like heavy rain inside the building.

Wow-.

Seo Ye-rim became like a drowning mouse again.

All of the clothes she wore on her body were burned, and even her inner suit was burnt to ashes.

‘Wasn’t it a specially made suit known to withstand 1500 degrees?’

That word meant only one thing.

“… The temperature has risen! I didn’t even go crazy this time!”

# # #

The Awoken social media has been noisy since morning.

Most of the stories were about Seo Ye-rim.

「Last dawn, the demolition of the giant rift was completed safely.

This is the news that the crack ‘T-557’ in Cheongju Mountain that occurred last Friday was removed thanks to the performance of S-class hunter Seo Ye-rim.”

「Title: Have you seen Seo Yerim’s new technology?

Description: Fireballs were fired from her fingertips like bullets, and the firepower was said to be over 3,000 degrees. It’s almost the size of a small sun lol Is it true?”

└Who said that Yerim lacked one shot?

└All the experts are submerged hahahaha

I raised my eyebrows at Seo Ye-rim’s story that she developed a new technique to deal with the giant fissure. Even if you don’t do that, a powerful S-class hunter gets stronger?

The real world is f*cking unfair. Just as there was a deeper bottom at the bottom, it seems that there was a higher top above.

“No way….”

I was a little curious as to whether the 「Nymph Training Method」 That I clumsily told you about in the past was effective, but I soon denied it.

It’s ridiculous that I, a D-rank hunter, improved my skills after being influenced by a story I roughly told. It’s like a national soccer player listening to a member of the early soccer club.

It was probably the special move that I had been thinking about from the beginning. For hunters, having their own special skill is an important law in many ways.

If you are an S-class hunter, even announcing that new technology may require dramatic production in many ways. Are you like a celebrity?

“So, what about Oinoi? Do you think you can catch that dog squirrel or something?”

I was taking a walk in the park with Oinoi.

It was a park that was said to be frequented by squirrels because it was surrounded by small mountains.

Ohinoi said that we should catch the ‘dog squirrel’, but I still couldn’t figure out what this ‘dog squirrel’ was.

Is Seo Ye-rim’s curse right in the first place?

When I said the word ‘curse’ to Seo Ye-rim, there was no change in expression at all.

Said Oinoi, wearing a red sweatshirt.

“Dog squirrels bark like dogs, so they are called dog squirrels… ! Very small and cute… It’s more ferocious and wild than I thought, so it doesn’t show well to people… !”

“A squirrel that barks like a dog?”

One day, all kinds of monsters lived in the crack that opened.

There are also places with strange vegetation that cannot be seen on Earth.

It seems that the animal Oinoi refers to as the ‘dog squirrel’ is also one of the special animals and plants that cannot be found on Earth.

By the way, the animals that escaped through the rift were sold at a very high price to luxury men or markets.

It is a well-known story that a certain Simmani discovered the “White Samurai” And sold it for 300 million won.

So you and I turned on the light in our eyes and went to the mountains in search of these animals.

Can we easily spot such a rare beast?

“Can you really find something if you wander around like this?”

“Muhh, this oinoi… ! She is a nymph who knows how to repay the favor… ! The owner of the house binds his worries… As you can see, this is just fine… !”

What do you like?

When I felt puzzled, Umm-Oinoi said after clearing his throat.

“Ditch ditch ditch water~, small ditch water. Stream stream stream water~, clear stream water. Squirrel Squirrel~, Little Squirrel~. Little animal friends.”

To be precise, I wasn’t talking, I was singing.

What kind of strange song is this?

Pass-.

Then something appeared from among the bushes.

It was a squirrel with impressive black stripes on its brown hair.

“You look really cute.”

ㅁ Kungkong!