SSS-Class Hunter Goes On Vacation (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 2
Su Ji stared blankly at the door of the 81st floor, which reflected her own image like a mirror.
Even to her own eyes, she looked pitiful.
Inside the mirror stood the hunter ‘Daphne’.
Her long violet hair, tied tightly into a single high ponytail reaching her waist, was splattered haphazardly with dark blood, and visible skin on her hands and face showed signs of poisoning.
Though she had deflected or absorbed most of the damage, the clear traces of intense battle remained untouched.
The fabric portions of her clothing were tattered, her outer armor ripped to shreds, and fresh cuts marred her body in numerous places.
And what about her comrades visible behind her?
None of those companions who had climbed the tower together with her were left unscathed. Those with severe injuries to arms or legs were actually among the luckier ones—alive, yes, but utterly battered.
She had felt foolish for having thought earlier, “If we clear floor 80, we should take a peek at floor 81 ahead of time.”
“I don’t even know why I’m doing this anymore.”
The words slipped out of her mouth—and truly, that was how she felt.
Of course, it would be great if the tower were conquered. Of course, it would be good to contribute to humanity. And if you work hard… well, of course that’s good too. Everyone living in the A.W. (*After Wave*) era thinks that way.
After all, the government’s official motto itself declares, “Let us all run together toward the end of this age.”
So she had always thought positively about it.
Because her own mother had done the same. Because her mother had given her life in the tower. If she didn’t at least believe that the battle and death which took her mother away from her had been honorable, she thought she might lose her mind.
Until now, she hadn’t really cared much about how others saw her.
But today, suddenly, everything felt hollow.
‘…How foolish.’
While others hurriedly stole supplies meant for her before she headed to the tower, busy padding their own pockets.
No matter how much people claimed the age of apocalypse had arrived, humanity hadn’t truly united fearlessly against the endless hordes of monsters. People still schemed for their own benefit.
Su Ji picked up the pad stored in her inventory and skimmed through the latest posts on the Hunter bulletin board.
[Title: Lady Daphne Sets Another Legend TodayLady Daphne’s attempting floor 80 today!
She normally never shows skin, but today her thighs are slightly visible?
└Why are you talking about a real person like that? Reported to the admins.
└Dude, you’re being ridiculously strict.
└Any photo support?
└Isn’t it up to each person to take care of their own angles? Daphne’s an adult now—can’t she handle a little talk like this?
└Maybe Daphne dresses like that because she wants us to admire her?
└Brother Saint speaks wisely.] [Title: They Say If You Join Daphne’s Party, You’ll Use Honorifics Toward Her
〈Party Hunter Info for Tower Clearing〉
Elaine – SS-rank Hunter (23)
Saint – AAA-rank Hunter (29)
Peace – S-rank Hunter (31)
Look at their ages.
Isn’t it ridiculous? Daphne’s only 19, yet full-grown adults bow and scrape before her?
She’s barely graduated high school!
└If flattering her a bit gets her to clear the tower for us, groveling is the smart move, you idiot.
└Everyone hates running the tower, but Daphne’s young and full of energy—let her do it. We’ll just enjoy the feast.
└Honestly, she’s a bit naive. If it were me, I wouldn’t work that hard.
└You ungrateful bastards—don’t you know how lucky you are to have Lady Godfne? Watch your words.
└222 Everyone please watch your language; are you crazy? Instead of typing nonsense on your keyboards, why don’t you go clear the tower yourselves?
└Even if I don’t do it, Lady Daphne will take care of it, right?] [Title: Daphne’s party is running the tower again today—will they clear floor 80?
Praise Godfne!
They say thanks to Godfne, Korea’s national buffs are so insane that immigration applications have skyrocketed—and it’s not even a joke, it’s legit.
After clearing floor 75, they started giving out seasonal gold too. Wonder what we’ll get this time.
└I hope they buff Strength.
└222
└333
└Speed buff is the best.
└Exactly.
└I’d love another buff reducing Korea’s dungeon breach frequency. Civil servants are suffering too much 😭
└That’d be great too. After that buff at floor 70, people really started seeing Korea as safer.
└But aren’t we being shameless, just expecting everything from her?
└We didn’t even pressure her to do it! She’ll handle it anyway—why act so sensitive? Tsk tsk, oversensitive much.]
Su Ji blankly read through the posts appearing on her pad.
She usually made an effort not to visit the bulletin board, and at her top-tier level, the information there had become practically useless anyway.
Even if she occasionally glanced through posts, she’d never paid attention to messages like these before.
She’d always been too busy managing her own team, and the front lines of battle were so fiercely demanding that there was no room to spare for anything else.
But today, oddly, her heart felt troubled.
Although she knew most posts praised her, the ones that rubbed her the wrong way kept catching her eye.
It was strange indeed.
‘…I’ve never thought this way before. But today… I just feel utterly drained.’
Then, as if suddenly remembering a craving or casually suggesting a meal, she turned to her teammates and said lightly,
“Let’s skip floor 81 for now and take a break.”
Her teammates, accustomed to Su Ji’s workaholic devotion solely to tower clearing, exchanged surprised glances at her unprecedented suggestion of rest.
Peace cautiously asked, seeming to sense something off about her,
“How long a break?”
Su Ji turned toward him and gave a playful, teasing smile.
“How about… ten years?”
[This is the timeline separator]Her hunter name was Daphne. Her real name, Seo Su Ji, spent the following week holed up in her room, doing nothing but lazing around.
And it truly was nothing but that—exactly as the words implied.
‘The food of this mortal world is absolutely amazing.’
Su Ji let out joyful screams as she indulged in a generously topped pizza followed by a fizzy drink.
While her inventory could hold nearly anything, food had to be vacuum-sealed and manufactured to standard dimensions to fit inside.
Moreover, since she never carried cooking utensils into the tower, freshly prepared warm meals were practically impossible to come by.
Until now, most of her food intake had consisted of hunter-grade rations or potions designed both to stave off hunger and enhance stats.
Though Daphne was an SSS-rank hunter blessed with supreme talent, she never rested on her gifts—she trained longer and harder than anyone else to refine herself.
She often slept in hunter-exclusive lodging on floor 1, 10, or 20 of the tower or inside Gates, and eating there had practically become routine.
This week of doing absolutely nothing and staying collapsed at home was the first time since she’d received her hunter aptitude certification.
Knock knock.
“Yes, come in.”
Su Ji, leaning back with her feet propped up on her desk, turned around.
Through the crack in the door stood her older sister, brought by her father and stepmother, looking at her.
“What is it?”
Her father began carefully,
“Su Ji… is something wrong?”
“Huh?”
“You kept saying you were too busy to come home, but now you haven’t stepped outside for a whole week. We got curious, that’s all.”
Su Ji gave a faint smile.
Hunters ranked A-class and above could alter their appearances. Even if the changes weren’t drastic from their original looks—shifting hair or eye color, wearing face-concealing gear—it became difficult even for acquaintances to recognize them.
This mechanism was designed to protect hunters’ ordinary civilian lives. Their real names were kept strictly confidential.
Su Ji was no exception.
Ever since she’d chosen the hunter name ‘Daphne’ upon graduating from the Academy’s tutorial phase, she’d always presented a completely different appearance whenever acting as a hunter.
Thanks to that, not a single member of her family knew she was Daphne.
There was a reason she hadn’t told her father.
He was far too fragile to bear the full truth.
Her father, who had divorced her mother when Su Ji was young, had even filed for memory erasure during the divorce.
It seemed he simply couldn’t endure knowing someone he recognized was constantly exposed to danger whenever he heard news of the hunter Pheneios.
He remembered only her mother’s civilian identity, not her role as a hunter.
Unable to clearly comprehend even why he’d divorced her, he’d hurried into remarriage as if fleeing. Su Ji remained content simply knowing her father accepted her as his child.
She had tried hard to acknowledge and accept him as her father solely because he’d been the man her mother loved—but that was the entirety of their relationship.
Upon graduating from the Hunter Academy, one gained the right to wield weapons and was legally regarded as an adult under civil and criminal law.
This special provision, exclusive to hunters, existed to ensure they took full responsibility for their own actions.
In any case, most people couldn’t graduate before reaching adulthood.
Thanks to such systems, Su Ji had successfully concealed her identity as Daphne from her father while actively hunting.
Thus, all her family knew was that she was a hunter and that her income wasn’t too shabby.
They likely guessed her earnings were good from how often she replaced her personal phone or pad at home—with top-tier models every time.
Of course, she could have hidden it perfectly if she’d wanted—but she hadn’t bothered.
“I’m just taking a break. Why, Dad?”
Her father, reading her expression, reluctantly opened his mouth as if nudged in the ribs by someone.
“Do you… have some money?”
It was a familiar question she’d heard many times before.
Anticipating what would follow, Su Ji couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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