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Translator: uly
Chapter: 001
Chapter Title: Ability Awakening
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I lay in bed, staring blankly at the ceiling before checking the time on my smartphone.
11 a.m.
I had woken up way too late, just as I thought I would.
'Today's... Professor Park's lecture, huh. He's gonna bitch at me later again.'
Gukcheon University's Hunter Department.
The university and department I attended. It had a ridiculous name, but surprisingly, it was quite popular.
In modern society, Hunters with special abilities were treated almost like heroes, and their average income put even big corporate employees to shame. If you were skilled enough, you could even become a celebrity-level star.
So to ordinary people, the Hunter Department seemed full of dreams and hope.
But the Hunter Department wasn't a place just anyone could apply to.
There were two conditions.
One was to possess an ability. In this world, only those who could use abilities could become Hunters. Hunters were superpowered individuals, in other words.
The other was to have the potential to awaken that ability. That was me. I was an aspiring Hunter attending the Hunter Department.
'Fuck. When the hell am I gonna awaken?'
I had the potential. The nation had certified it themselves. Just to be sure, I got physical exams at three different hospitals, and they all said the same thing.
But now, at 21 years old, I was the only unawakened student in the entire department.
Naturally, going to school sucked. Seniors looked at me with pity, my peers scorned me, and juniors ignored me.
'Awaken! Awaken! Awaken!'
I writhed around alone.
I wanted to awaken so badly. Everyone else awakened at some point, but why wasn't that moment coming for me?
'Uwaaaaaah!'
I screamed internally.
I knew the soundproofing in this one-room apartment was shitty. I'd confirmed it every Friday night with the moans from the neighbor's girlfriend.
'I wanna awaken too! And make it big! Go to clubs! Have one-night stands!'
Hunters were popular. Just being a Hunter made it easy to pick up girls. I'd actually seen one of my classmates easily seduce a girl by bragging about being a Hunter. And he was F-rank, no less.
'Goddamn it!'
The more I thought about it, the shittier it felt.
That's when it happened, as I thrashed around on the bed cursing up a storm.
My entire body glowed white.
"Awakening!"
I bolted upright. This was the precursor to awakening. It was manifesting in my body right now.
Gulp.
My body glowed for a while longer before fading away.
I immediately closed my eyes.
Awakened individuals naturally learned their abilities in their minds the moment they awakened.
'My ability is...'
Something flooded into my head. It felt like it was being forcibly injected, and it wasn't pleasant even as a compliment. But I endured it. I had to.
'Playful Life! ...A life of fun and games? What the hell is this?!'
Information about the ability kept pouring into my head.
'Check the app for details. ...What? Fuck! What is this?'
I spat out a curse in disbelief but hurriedly checked my smartphone anyway.
There was a new app called 'Playful Life' that hadn't been there before. Its icon was a red heart. What kind of bullshit was this?
'What is this? Do abilities normally awaken like this...? Fuck! No way. Breathing fire! Super strength! X-ray vision! Most abilities are like that! Why am I the only one like this?!'
I grumbled but my hand moved anyway.
I tapped the Playful Life app.
Honestly, it was my ability, but I had no clue what it did exactly. 'Check the app for details' my ass.
Maybe it was actually something amazing. I tapped it with some expectation.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Starting Playful Life.
The screen showed a character that looked exactly like me.
It was a 3D character.
A decently muscled body and an average face. And naked. Even the dick between his legs was identical to mine in real life.
A chill ran down my spine for a moment, but since it was an app made from my ability, I shrugged it off. I knew the world was full of incomprehensible things.
⚔ STATUS ⚔ ⚡ Strength: 4 💨 Agility: 3 ✨ Magic Power: 1 💪 Stamina: 2 🍀 Luck: ? 🛡️ Endurance: 2
"Intelligence 1? You fucker! I'm a bit dumb, sure, but not a 1! And why's my libido at...? I'm average, at least. ...Ah. 2 is average, huh. That makes sense."
I comforted myself.
Deep down, I knew my libido was trash. It wasn't like this before, but lately, even jerking off didn't lead to a satisfying release.
I clicked on the character's chest on the screen.
You can invest points to get a tattoo or change the shape.
I tapped the head.
You can invest points to get a tattoo or change the shape.
Seemed like I could do plastic surgery with points.
With a shady feeling, I touched the dick.
You can invest points to get a tattoo or change the shape.
Clicking the dick again zoomed it in. If it were someone else's, I'd curse, but since it was mine, it felt kinda cute.
"Can I make it bigger, maybe?"
I dragged the dick, and it stretched.
1 point per 1cm to increase or decrease length.
Not just length—thickness too.
I fell into thought.
'Honestly, mine's a bit small. Just a tiny bit below average. A tiny bit.'
Of course, that was just length. I was confident in girth.
After agonizing, I invested 5 points to increase the dick's length.
The reaction was immediate. It tickled down there.
I took off my pajama pants and underwear. The dick had grown.
"Ooooh...!"
Squish squish.
I fondled it a few times, but no erection. So I dumped the remaining 5 points into libido.
⚔ STATUS ⚔ ⚡ Strength: 4 💨 Agility: 3 ✨ Magic Power: 1 💪 Stamina: 2 🍀 Luck: ? 🛡️ Endurance: 7
The reaction came right away this time too. I felt strength surging into the previously limp dick. A little fiddling, and it stood erect magnificently. Roughly 16cm, easy.
A length that one hand couldn't grasp. Far beyond the Korean average.
'Looks like this, and now I wanna invest in girth too... But that'll come later.'
I let go of the dick. What I needed to do now wasn't jerking off—it was figuring out my ability.
I tapped the menu at the bottom of the screen.
[Owned Traits List]
[Owned Skills List]
[Owned Inventory List]
[Random Gacha]
[Character Summon]
[Start Play]
[Play Management]
Seven menu tabs total. I planned to check them one by one.
Traits and skills were empty. No default ones, apparently.
The inventory had three slots, also empty. Staring at them, I tilted my head. A hunch, maybe. Something felt off.
'...No way, that's ridiculous.'
With skepticism, I picked up the water bottle next to the bed. On a whim, I held it to the screen.
The water bottle got sucked into the screen. It appeared in an empty slot.
"Whoa... My ability seems OP as fuck."
Taking it out was easy too. Double-click the bottle on screen, and it popped out naturally.
Grinning, I shoved the water bottle, iron sword, and gym clothes inside.
The Hunter Department had practical training sometimes. Fighting low-level monsters like goblins.
As a non-ability user, carrying this stuff to school was a pain. But I couldn't leave the iron sword at school—it cost over 700,000 won, and someone might steal it.
"Now I can head to school light as a feather."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Random Gacha]
A box with a question mark appeared.
1 point for one pull.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ First-time limited free 3 pulls!
"Gee, thanks a fucking bunch."
I tapped the random box without hesitation and started pulling.
I wasn't good at holding back. When I saw something like this, I just went for it.
The box on screen shook and glowed. Something round came out from inside.
⚔ ITEM ACQUIRED ⚔ Summon Pill All stats +1.
"Is this good? I have no idea what's good or bad since I don't know what comes out."
I tapped the screen.
Inventory full. Auto-materializing.
A round pill popped out of the smartphone. I picked it up and examined it. It looked like a black rabbit dropping.
"Hmm. Just eat it. It's my ability, after all."
I popped it in my mouth. The Summon Pill melted on my tongue.
My body shuddered. It felt refreshing, vitality surging through me. Checking stats, everything was up by 1.
⚔ STATUS ⚔ ⚡ Strength: 5 💨 Agility: 4 ✨ Magic Power: 2 💪 Stamina: 3 🍀 Luck: ? 🛡️ Endurance: 8
"Oh, nice. Next pull then."
⚔ ITEM ACQUIRED ⚔ White Wrist Guard Masturbation feels better.
"Fuck."
Definite dud.
I materialized the wrist guard, looked it over, and chucked it at the wall.
"The Summon Pill was the good one! Please give me more Summon Pills!"
I started the final pull.
⚡ SKILL ACQUIRED ⚡ Complete Recovery Lv.1
Fully recovers. Clears all status ailments and heals wounds.
Cooldown: 24 hours
My eyes widened. Instructions on how to use the skill flooded my mind.
After a brief ponder, my experimental spirit kicked in.
Using it was simple. Just think about activating the skill.
"Complete Recovery!"
I looked at my body. No flashy game-like effects. But changes were there.
"All the scars on my body are gone..."
The small burn mark above my navel. The calf scarred from mosquito bites. Even the acne scars on my face—all vanished.
"And my skin's better too. Ah, fully recovering status ailments means this?"
Probably my internal organs were fixed too. My last physical said my liver was iffy—maybe that got healed.
Because of that, my face looked handsomer. It used to be plain, but now I seemed kinda hot.
Acne scars and bad skin were that vicious.
"This is insane. It's a recovery ability! The rarest kind among Hunters... I'm gonna be nobility too..."
I shut my mouth.
Complete Recovery only worked on myself. And only once every 24 hours. As a Hunter ability, it was pretty pathetic.
I sighed in regret and moved to the next menu.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Character Summon] No summonable characters available.
I skipped it.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Start Play] Currently, one play session available. Number of playable sessions increases every 20 levels. You can enter the world of the selected creation. Available creations limited by level. [Available Creations List] - Sheltering from the Storm (Novel) - One Day in 1999 (Drama) - I Can't See It (Novel) - There Was a Devil (Movie) - Super Libido's Hungbu and Nolbu (Novel) - Snow White (Fairy Tale) - SV-7495 (AV) - Survival Zero (Manga) - Horsewoman 5 (Movie) - I Saw You (Drama) - Women's University Ghost Story (Movie) - Titties Titties Ep. 3 (Animation) - Failed Chronicles (Novel) - Frozen Kingdom (Movie) ....
Dozens of selectable creations.
But only one caught my eye.
A video I'd watched a week ago. I'd been blown away by it.
"...Th-this."
I got a sense of what my ability was. But no certainty. Needed an experiment for that.
And the perfect test subject was right here.
I tapped SV-7495.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Selected SV-7495. Avatar generated. Starting play.
The smartphone emitted intense light, and I felt my mind being sucked into it.
???
A two-story house with white walls stood before me.
I gawked at it from behind a streetlamp, then shuddered. I knew exactly what that house was.
SV-7495 was an AV.
Adult video.
In short, Japanese porn.
I was inside porn right now. That house was proof.
SV-7495's title was 'Intruder Breaks into Married Woman's Home!' starring AV actress Kutomo Ri A.
'C-calm down, Sung Yu-jin! Can't assume this is reality yet!'
I took deep breaths. Otherwise, my heart might explode.
Then the front door opened, and a woman came out holding a trash bag in one hand.
'Holy shit!'
I was stunned.
A married woman in tight jeans, shirt, and apron emerged.
Perky nose, red lips. Snow-white skin. Dark brown hair tied back. Plump ass and tits.
The AV actress I'd only seen on a monitor was right in front of me.
'I-it's really Kutomo Ri A...!'
I looked around frantically. Maybe this was just an AV set.
Then I spotted a man, and my heated head cooled instantly.
The Uncle peeking at the married woman from behind a fence.
'The Uncle from AVs!'
I gritted my teeth.
This setup.
No way I didn't know it.
'In the porn, that Uncle breaks in and... Damn it!'
The married woman dumped the trash and headed back inside.
The plot was obvious. She wouldn't lock the door, and Uncle would invade.
'...Decided.'
I thought deeply in that short time and reached a conclusion.
Uncle started moving.
And I charged at him.
'Thanks for everything, Uncle!'
I launched a dropkick.