Thief and New Companion

Hiljyun holds the memoir and goes back to the start of the dungeon to get out before the space crack closes and destroys the dungeon. Hiljyun arrives at the space crack and enters it to get out of this dungeon. Outside the dungeon, the same guard is still guarding the space crack.

"You made it out alive, I see. Congratulations and thank you for clearing the dungeon." Says the guard.

"Yeah. It was challenging at first but I'm able to clear it really quickly without expecting it." Says Hiljyun.

"That's great to hear. I'm glad you survived." Says the guard

Hiljyun walks away and heads for the nearest mountain to  learn magics with the memoir he bought from the Soul Exchange store.

"I should try learning magic. I need to change the future." Hiljyun says.

As Hiljyun is holding the memoir, someone using the stealth skill stole it from his hand.

"Hey! Give that back!" Hiljyun shouts to the thief who stole the memoir.

"I can't see you but I can sense your mana flow! You better show yourself before something bad happens to you!" Hiljyun shouts

"Or what?" Says the thief as he's laughing at Hiljyun.

"You son of a-!" Hiljyun shouts.

Hiljyun follows the thief's mana flow to catch him. The thief tries to run away but Hiljyun quickly catches him and grabs the thief by the shirt.

"Got you!" Hiljyun says as he successfully catches the thief.

"Dang it!" The thief shouts.

"Why did you try to steal my item?" Ask Hiljyun.

"I steal important stuff for money obviously! What else do you think?" The thief answers Hiljyun's question violently.

"You know there's a better way to earn money, don't you?" Says Hiljyun to the thief.

"Let me guess. That doesn't matter to you?" Ask Hiljyun, frustrated.

"Well, yeah! Stealing other people's stuff is also fun!" Says the thief with a proud tone and he's smirking.

"That's weird. Forget that. What's your name?" Ask Hiljyun to him.

"It's Kurogawa Shirou." Kurogawa answers.

"What is a Japanese hunter doing here in Korea?" Hiljyun asks why a Japanese hunter is in Korea.

"I was trapped in a dungeon three years ago. When I woke up, I found myself in Seoul." Answers Kurogawa to Hiljyun.

"Not to mention, you're good at speaking Korean. Did you learn it three years ago?" Hiljyun asks.

"Yeah, I was pretty crappy at first. I can speak it well now. I learned Korean so I can speak with most of the people." Answers Kurogawa.

"That's great to hear. Still it doesn't change the facts that you're trying to steal my stuff." Says Hiljyun to Kurogawa.

"I'm sorry! I don't know you're that fast!" Says Kurogawa with a mad tone of talking.

"Wait. Am I that fast?" Hiljyun wonders in confusement.

"Yes, you are! Wait. So you don't know?" Kurogawa answers and asks Hiljyun.

"I wasn't expecting myself to be that fast…." Hiljyun says.

"So you're basically implying that you don't know you're this fast?" Kurogawa says, a little bit confused.

"Well yeah, I didn't know I was this fast already…"

Hiljyun implies in a confused tone. He doesn't know that he's already this fast since he didn't test it in the dungeon before. Under the confusement, Hiljyun is impressed by his own speed.

"Anyway, are you going to give back the memoir or not?" Ask Hiljyun to Kurogawa

"I will give it back under one condition." Kurogawa says.

"And what is that 'condition' you're talking about?" Hiljyun asked.

"The condition is you're going to make me your companion and we need to learn magic together. That's the condition." Kurogawa says.

"Alright. It's a deal then." Hiljyun says

Both of them accept the deal and Kurogawa gives back the memoir to Hiljyun. After that, they become friends and start to learn magic together. For Kurogawa, it's easy to learn magic but it's different for Hiljyun since he struggles a lot to learn even the basic spell like "Fireball". This everytime makes Kurogawa feel weird that someone as strong as Hiljyun couldn't  even do basic spells.

"Ugh! Again! I couldn't even do the basic spells! Why can't I learn a single magic spell?!" Says Hiljyun in frustration.

"Just try to focus. You might get it next time." Kuroagawa says while watching, Hiljyun keeps trying but constantly fails every time.

"How can someone as strong as you can't even do basic spells? Isn't it weird?" He says once again.

"I don't even know! I've been trying hard but every time, it always fails! It's like, I was banned from using any magic!" Hiljyun says in frustration

As more days passed, Hiljyun still couldn't even cast a basic spell. It's now to the point that Hljyun is giving up. He was determined to survive but now it's all going to waste.

Two weeks later.

HIljyun is still trying to cast a basic spell but again it's all a failure.

"I still couldn't cast a single basic spell. What I don't have that Kurogawa has to learn magic? What more do I need to have to be able to learn magic?" Hiljyun says in frustration

Hiljyun couldn't take it anymore. He feels like he's just some useless person that can't even cast a basic spell. Everytime Kurogawa sees Hiljyun all aloof and depressed, he knows that Hiljyun fails to even cast a basic spell again.

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