VSP 4

Sometimes it looked like those people forgot he was S-rank. Irritated, Sejun dug at his ear and spoke to the system.

“Hey, no matter how I think about it, it makes no sense.”

[What does not?]

“That me and that guy could have something like… flirtation.”

Seo Sejun hadn’t really been in a relationship begore. But he knew that romance wasn’t something you just confess, start dating, and go wild like the subculture portrays it to be.

You flirt, then make the relationship official, and what follows is the confession.

So how do you flirt?

You flirt when a man and a woman like each other!

In Sejun’s head, where dating with men had never been an option, flirtation was only with women.

Flirting with a man was something he could not imagine, and the opponent was who? Cha Dogyeong?

That could never happen. It would probably be easier to romance an inanimate object.

[Ah, did I not tell you? Do not worry about that.]

But the system brushed aside Sejun’s worry in one line.

[To revive a love line that never existed, we are entering an extreme ‘Lucky Love’ mode.]

“…What?”

Lucky, what?

He could tolerate the “lucky” part, but the words “love mode” were ominous and made him anxious.

[It just means you will get tangled up a lot more in that way.]

What the hell was that supposed to mean.

Sejun was about to argue with the system when, he saw a shining aura in the distance.

He had seen it so often that he could recognize who it was just by the shine. He had been thinking of that guy just now.

…Cha Dogyeong.

In the distance, the man shone more brightly than anyone.

His height easily surpassed 190, his face was so flawless it was like God had crafted him by hand, and Sejun had once happened to see his bare body, which was also incredible.

On top of that, he was the world’s only EX-rank hunter, Cha Dogyeong.

Why did this crazy bastard live in a world all by himself? Sejun thought he was the best in the world, but Cha Dogyeong was the one he had to admit.

Even objectively comparing, Sejun’s height was a little, really just a little shorter. As for his face, maybe it depended on taste? But Dogyeong’s face stole attention anywhere. In short, he was perfect, which made it all the more irritating.

Sejun worked out diligently and his body had no shortcomings anywhere, but compared to Cha Dogyeong’s, even that felt lacking.

In the past it drove him crazy with frustration, but after learning the truth of the world, he felt a little less resentful.

Because that guy was the protagonist!

If you thought of it as protagonist buff, it was not even that strange.

In the past, he had snarled, “Shit, how can a person literally shine like that?” but now he understood. It was the protagonist effect.

Sejun clicked his tongue.

To protect this world, he had no choice but to seduce Cha Dogyeong, but since the two-week sub mission period of “Flirt with Cha Dogyeong” still had plenty of time left, he thought he could ignore it for today.

Honestly, even after confirming the penalty existed, he still could not imagine doing anything with Cha Dogyeong. He did not even know clearly what that “flirtation” meant.

And just today the mission had reset, giving him plenty of time… Sejun decided to ignore Cha Dogyeong for now. They would meet at the meeting anyway, so why get close early?

As he ignored him and tried to pass by, suddenly the system window popped up in front of Sejun’s eyes.

[Lucky Love Mode activated!]

What?

The “Lucky Love” mode the system had mentioned just now suddenly activated! Sejun felt an ominous feeling and instinctively went on guard.

After experiencing the penalty once, he knew how serious this damn system was about Cha Dogyeong×Seo Sejun. He had to stay on alert!

But it was useless.

“Oh, isn’t that Seo Sejun?”

A huge hunter suddenly jumped out beside him, happily slapping Sejun on the shoulder. Considering the overflowing strength of hunters, it was practically a traffic accident.

“Ugh!”

Even though he had been on guard, Sejun had not expected to be smacked with such brute force. Unable to withstand it, he was sent flying…and the direction he flew, no, the system’s manipulation ensured, was right where Cha Dogyeong was standing.

Sejun crashed into Cha Dogyeong with a loud noise and toppled.

And when he opened his eyes, he realized he had fallen with his face planted right on Cha Dogyeong’s crotch.

How the hell do you fall at such an angle, in such a direction?

‘It just means you will get tangled up a lot more in that way.’

Remembering the system’s words from moments ago, he knew this had to be the cursed effect of Lucky Love Mode. No wonder the name sounded ominous from the start!

When he lifted his head, Cha Dogyeong’s contemptuous eyes were stabbing into his face. The people around them also murmured.

…Fuck, God.

“Argh!”

Sejun quickly scrambled to his feet. Then he rubbed at the part of his face that had touched Cha Dogyeong’s crotch, scrubbing hard with his hand in disgust.

[Sejun-nim, you will damage your skin.]

“Shut up.”

As Sejun furiously rubbed his face, Cha Dogyeong slowly stood up on his feet.

Looking up at a figure over 190, the pressure was intense. But Sejun acted tough as always. He raised his chin and straightened his shoulders, determined not to lose.

Cha Dogyeong frowned at the sight of Sejun scrubbing his face with genuine disgust. His beautiful face twisted.

“Why the hell are you acting like that when you are the one who shoved yourself at me?”

His tone from the start was ridiculous. Sejun laughed. Who shoved? Anyone could see it was an accident. A very, very unlucky accident.

“You. I told you to call me hyung, didn’t I?”

Anyway, it was true that he had bumped into him out of nowhere, but Sejun absolutely did not want to show weakness in front of Cha Dogyeong, so he puffed himself up. At the very least, he was two years older.

But Dogyeong clearly did not see it that way.

“Only if you act like a hyung do you get called hyung.”

“Unbelievable. Hey, do I look like I am fooling around? Huh? Damn, it’s disgusting.”

When Sejun rubbed his face again, Cha Dogyeong’s expression turned cold. It was the same face as always, even after not seeing it for a while.

A face full of contempt, dislike, and irritation. It was not surprising, since Sejun had bumped into him, and instead of apologizing, he only kept scrubbing his face like he was annoyed. But Dogyeong had always looked at Sejun like that.

From the very first moment they met. They had been natural enemies, fundamentally incompatible.

That was exactly why, from Sejun’s point of view, it was absurd that he was told to somehow do something with Cha Dogyeong.

[Wow, it is nothing new, but it really does look hard…]

Hearing the system sigh like it was none of its business made the back of Sejun’s head ache.

“Damn it, why am I even talking to you?”

Sejun turned his back on Cha Dogyeong and stormed off. In facts, his heart was beating so fast he could not stand still in front of him.

Dogyeong did not bother to stop him. He only let out a deep sigh that stabbed into Sejun’s back, sounding exasperated, like he could not believe him, like he was annoyed.

An unlucky bastard. Someone who gave off pressure for no reason, even when it was not on purpose. Someone two years younger yet unbearably arrogant.

Sejun cursed Dogyeong in his head the whole time he walked away. He still could not believe it.

That, in the mind of the so-called original author, that bastard and he had been a couple.

[Of course, when the genre changed, the setting must have been changed to some degree.]

“Maybe.”

Certainly, if it shifted from BL to hunter fantasy, it would have been such a huge genre change that they probably could not keep the original setting exactly as it was.

Maybe the hunter setting was just decoration and the story had originally been nothing but the two of them in a romance. Then with the genre shift, all sorts of elements were added. Sejun had never read the novel, so he did not know how much had changed.

[But the basic setting would still be the same.]

Sejun’s face soured. Was that supposed to be comforting?

[But Sejun-nim.]

“What.”

[Does avoiding Hunter Cha Dogyeong like this even matter? You will end up facing him in the meeting room anyway.]

At that, Sejun messed up his hair roughly.

“Then should I go all buddy-buddy with him, chatting on the way to the meeting room?”

[That does sound ridiculous.]

Hmph. Sejun scoffed.

The one and only under heaven. Seo Sejun had always suited being alone.

“But damn, where did that guy who smacked me go?”

Come to think of it, he could not see the hunter who had slammed him hard enough to make him crash into Cha Dogyeong’s crotch.

[He ran the moment you two collided.]

“Hah.”

[It probably was not because he was really happy to see you. He was just a sacrifice of Lucky Love Mode. Who would ever be so thrilled to see Sejun-nim?]

Damn it. Annoying, but true. That face had not been familiar, and there were very few people who were ever glad to see Sejun. In fact, there were far more who disliked him.

But thanks to that, he had understood for certain what Lucky Love Mode really was.