Chapter 299: weather caster

[Defeat Galactic Miners]

[Investigation of the drug den]

[Deep investigation]

[Villain Search]

Of course there was no quest that said "go help Liliana."

That was fine.

"By the way, these all seem like similar missions. Can’t we just do everything as we go deeper anyway?"

There would be miners inside no matter what.

Drug dens... the same. As we pushed deeper we would naturally investigate the deeper areas.

"Let me explain the difference. Will that be all right?"

"It’s okay... it’s okay."

I took in her voice.

Bewitched by the receptionist’s big breasts.

"The route that guides you on each mission is different. ’Defeat the Miners’ will guide you to unstable points where gravitational waves cause many miners to appear.

We are also providing information on the locations of drug dens and deeper zones based on the investigation of the advance party."

’Right...’

There had been an advance party.

Liliana was part of the vanguard, and she was probably not the only one.

Skilled people were now active all over the restricted zone, and based on that information the Hunter Association was distributing quests.

It kind of felt like a proper system.

"Then shall we catch the miners first? To get used to the battle."

"Yeah. I’d rather do that."

"I’ll do whatever Ren wants!"

Good.

That guy had given me a lot of experience points.

First of all, let’s raise the weight class of the Fleshlight Squad. Even against the same opponent, the more skilled we became the easier it would be to take them down.

"Please accept [Destroy the Galactic Miner]."

"Yes, I’ve confirmed it. Are all three of you participating as a squad?"

"That’s right."

"Could you tell me your squad name?"

"..."

"..."

We looked at each other.

Eirin tilted her head.

"Hunter Ren?"

"Ah... Fleshlight Squad..."

"Fleshlight... yes, I checked... yes?"

Eirin’s cheeks suddenly turned red with embarrassment.

"Ah, yes... um... Mr. Hunter. It’s difficult if you use inappropriate terms."

"...Sorry."

It felt exactly like the time I had preoccupied lewd game nicknames such as 「Slime Milky Softy」 and then been reported and forced to change to something like an "unhealthy nickname."

"Is there any reason why you chose this name?"

"This guy’s talent is 『Fleshlight Collector』," Yuna said.

I thought I was already used to it.

Now I was afraid of my talent becoming known not just inside the academy but across the entire hunting industry.

"Yes. I am a Fleshlight Collector."

"..."

Eirin was desperately trying not to laugh.

...

"Pu-pu-up. I’m sorry, Hunter-sama...!"

As she lowered her head I waved my hand, saying it was okay.

"It’s fine. You can laugh as much as you want."

"No, I’m really sorry!"

It really was okay.

Thanks to being possessed with this kind of talent, I got to see a beautiful woman like Eirin struggling to hold back her laughter.

...Complete gain.

"That’s why it’s the Fleshlight Squad."

Eirin’s face turned even redder.

She seemed to be pinching her own thighs to keep from laughing.

She didn’t even have to try that hard.

"Ah, don’t you know that I’m the Fleshlight Man?"

"Ahhh..."

Eirin collapsed on the spot at my ruinous Fleshlight talk.

Beside her, Yuna and even Elle started laughing.

No, why were they laughing so much?

I decided to laugh together.

"Fleshlight Man... he’s famous."

She stood alone and muttered the words.

Perhaps because of her serious face the destructive power was multiplied; Eirin couldn’t raise her head and just shook her shoulders.

So that was it.

She didn’t know about Fleshlight Man.

I had thought there would be no one in the country who didn’t know the name, but that had been my arrogance.

Thanks to that, Eirin — who had zero resistance to Fleshlight-related wording — suddenly found herself dealing with a man whose talent was Fleshlight Collector, belonging to a squad called the Fleshlight Squad, who then introduced himself as Fleshlight Man.

Even a receptionist who had gone through every possible prenatal difficulty would have found that hard to handle.

I waited for Eirin to calm down.

"I-I’ll help you register the squad, Hunter."

"Is the name Fleshlight Squad okay?"

"Yes, because it’s a name related to talent."

Yuna supplemented the explanation from the side.

"It’s against the law to penalize someone for their talent."

...

Was I a single person recognized by the country?

In a nation that, before I was possessed, liked strict control and prohibited real-doll imports — let alone Fleshlights — the only person who could make an official team name "Fleshlight" was me!!

What kind of tremendous power was this?

’...It’s useless.’

Anyway.

Our official squad name for both the academy and the Hunter Association

was decided in that moment: the Fleshlight Squad.

"Hunter Ren of the Fleshlight Squad, I will guide you through the sudden quest."

"Yes."

"[Destroy the Galactic Miners] is an A-rank subjugation mission. Thirteen hunters are currently participating, and the quest is being conducted at points that were deliberately induced to appear."

"What do you mean by induced points?"

On the hologram panel Eirin explained with a satellite-image map what the forbidden area looked like.

Everything was neat.

The receptionist was awesome.

"The locations where monsters suddenly appear due to the mist phenomenon are points designed to make them gather in specific areas."

"Then will there be a lot of them?"

What we had faced earlier had simply leaked out.

I now understood why Angel One Squad had been late, saying they had something to do first.

The situation inside was urgent. Missing one on the outskirts was a problem, but if they couldn’t suppress the ones inside, dozens would pour out.

"If you can’t catch even this much, it won’t help. Everyone."

After Evangeline had threatened them like that, many hunters had left once they understood their own limits. Among them were a number of female hunters who were fans of Fleshlight Man and had come hoping to be "beaten" by me.

I had thought it was a pity I wouldn’t see them again, but looking back it seemed reasonable.

"Miss Eirin. But our average rank is very low. Can we accept A-rank missions?"

As if suddenly remembering, Yuna asked.

"Yes. Those who have come to the danger zone can accept high-difficulty missions without rank restrictions."

"Hmm."

That was good.

I had come this far; if they had told a D-rank to go gather herbs in the back mountains I would have been frustrated and annoyed.

I had a feeling I would be able to raise my ranks cleanly.

"It will also be of great help to Miss Yuna’s A-rank evaluation."

"A-rank screening?"

Yuna looked slightly embarrassed.

"I took it before and failed."

"Why? There’s no reason for Yuna to fail."

"Everything was judged as ’normal.’"

All normal.

Hearing it explained that way, there was a corner that matched Yuna’s abilities.

"I guess all the judges were women."

"...Huh?"

Yuna, carefully thinking about my meaning, hit me while turning red.

"What are you talking about, you fool!"

Why? It was true.

If there had been bonus points for a female hunter’s looks, she would have been S-rank.

I also mentioned Elle, who had been watching quietly.

"Yuna is brave. That kind of thing... you can’t measure it with statistics."

"That’s right. We always jump forward and fight together."

"Th-that...!! If I don’t do it, who among us will?"

Yuna’s face looked ready to burst. She was like a tomato.

Eirin, watching us, smiled happily.

"It’s a really good squad."

"We’ve cleared quite a few dungeons together. Ah, how do we distribute the rewards?"

"If you collect body parts of Galactic Miners as proof of subjugation, we will pay you coins according to what you can confirm. Currently it is 120 coins per animal."

120 coins!

Converted at the old exchange rate that was 150,000 won per kill!!

"Let’s go!"

"I will wait for your safe return, Hunter."

We were sent off with Eirin’s polite goodbye and left the base camp.

Something near a broadcasting vehicle caught my eye; they were filming.

A weathercaster?

"This is the base camp of Area A, which is currently declared a dangerous area. The gravitational waves are currently calm, but they continue to spit out demonic beasts.

Hunters and heroes are urgently being deployed to the scene."

Because I was looking with curious eyes, Yuna asked,

"Why?"

"I wonder if civilians can be in such a dangerous place."

"What kind of civilian is a weathercaster? He’s stronger than most hunters."

"..."

The more I learned about this world, the more frightening it became.

Or was I still not fully accustomed to it?

If it was a world where girl groups could jump into gravitational waves, then it wasn’t strange that weathercasters did the same.

"Anomalous gravitational waves are, in a way, meteorological phenomena."

"..."

Right.

More than talking about whether it would rain or what the weather was like...

It seemed their real job was to run around like semi-combatants and informants reporting the current status of gravitational waves.

"All those cameras are also reinforced with demonic steel. If the fog continues, all the shooting equipment and complicated machinery in here will be paralyzed, just like inside gravitational waves."

"Right."

The basic rules of gravitational waves.

"The more complex the device, the easier it is to break or malfunction."

If the mist phenomenon was the synchronization of the present world and the gravitational wave, then the same rules had to apply in this region.

It might be natural for the broadcasting team to specialize in gravitational waves.

"But why are you coming this way?"

A cute weathercaster with big breasts suddenly jumped at me.

"Hey, would you like an interview for a minute?!"

...Rocking, rocking.

They shook tremendously.

I forced my eyes away from the strange heavy breasts.

The sturdy thighs that peeked out of the beige H-line mini skirt also looked soft and lovely.

She was an older sister in her early twenties who looked like she wanted a boyfriend — hair color halfway between blonde and brown, and a cute puppy-like face.

"You’re the Fleshlight Man, Jellyman Ren, right?"

Again, the information was fast.

"Yes. I’m the Fleshlight Man."

"Would you mind doing a short interview? If you want, I’ll mosaic your face."

"No. I’m trying to brag about being on TV. Show everything."

She giggled.

I had seen a lot of pretty girls laughing because of me today.

"Okay. Isn’t this guy hot these days? Let’s conduct an interview with the Fleshlight Man."

"Hello. I’m Fleshlight Man."

Meanwhile Elle, who didn’t realize this was a live television camera, hid behind Yuna and trembled. Yuna soothed her.

"It’s okay. It’s okay. The camera doesn’t eat people."

"Huh... Hueng. Yuna..."

What about me?

Someone might misunderstand, but it was actually pretty scary to think I was going on a live broadcast.

Before I was possessed I wouldn’t even have dared to think about it.

Why was I still doing this?

It was thanks to having increased my tolerance by experiencing a little bit of celebrity life in advance.

I had just finished grabbing a dangerous beast, and the dopamine kept flowing. I was in high mode.

"Currently this place has been declared an S-Rank Danger Area. Do you think that’s justified?"

"Yes, I think it’s worth it. The demons that appear here are very gross and strong."

"Still, can Fleshlight Man handle them?"

"Yes. Soul Excretion can handle them in one shot."

Trustworthy! Soul Excretion Hero!

As I conducted the interview with that feeling, the cinematographer’s shoulder shook from laughing.

"That’s a lot of confidence! To have the ability to excrete the personality of a demon beast! If there is a hero who can excite the personality like that, the citizens will be relieved."

"I will excrete them all!"

Huh?

Something like a live comment reaction from the camera appeared as a hologram.

I had seen that production somewhere before.

’The NTR streamer Isolde’s phone, strengthened with Demonic Steel.’

It felt the same.

[NTR Mania] D. Ren

[Eueu3394] Who are you? Handsome

[S-Rank Alpha Male] Lim So-hyun’s quirky appearance is nerfed

[D Chu] Isn’t this guy’s rank low? How did he get in there?

"There’s a lot of talk about his looks. He’s really handsome. Do you know him too?"

"Yes. I know."

"I’m being filmed next to them, but I’m afraid I’ll come out looking like a squid."

"Are you frowning?"

When I frowned unnaturally, Lim So-hyun covered her mouth with her hand and giggled.

It was true that women smiled just from looking at a handsome face.

I had thought she would only laugh if I joked around.

Big-breasted Lim So-hyun’s quirky eyes looked at me as if she were possessed.

You didn’t even need a hypnosis app.

"I know you haven’t been active for a while, but how did you come here?"

"Thanks to helping catch Xenovia, I received a request from Her Excellency."

Huh? Was it okay to say even that?

I hadn’t been told it was a secret, so it should be fine.

"I see. Isn’t this a sure chance of success?!"

"Yes, I want to get ahead!"

"Does the Fleshlight Man support the current president?"

"Okay... wait a minute."

Assassination angle detected.

I felt like she was trying to capture more of my embarrassment on camera, so my face went red.

"No, I don’t mean support."

"Then don’t you support her?"

"Why are you doing this to me?!"

Heo Eok.

Don’t ask me that question, you milky bitch!

I felt my heart aching.

It reminded me of my grandfather’s will.

"Never, never answer political questions..."

Actually he had never left a will like that, but it was a crisis serious enough that my grandfather might as well have appeared and made one on the spot.

"What does Fleshlight Man think of the president, who is an S-class hunter? Can he be seen as supporting the mission he received?"

"Um... I think she’s pretty. I accepted it because she’s pretty! Her Excellency Go Eunseo is pretty!"

Avoid the assassination angle!

"It’s a part recognized by all the people. Now, that was an interview with the Fleshlight Man, who came to the dangerous area at the request of Her Excellency Go Eunseo!"

[Our Princess] The face of the President is ??

[Patriot Princess?] I want to marry a Korean princess!!!

[Monomono] Haha, where are Her Excellency’s princesses coming from? Like a ghost;

Phew.

Eunseo-chan: I’m glad I rubbed it with pretty things.

"It was Lim So-hyun."

After filming the broadcast, the quirky weathercaster who came over smiled at me.

"Were you surprised?"

She said that.

"Because this is a concept. Everyone won’t take it seriously. Don’t worry."

"What kind of concept is this? A funny concept?"

"Well, it’s similar. Now, let’s move!"

The broadcasting vehicle started moving at the sound of a strange word.

"See you from the inside, Fleshlight Man."

So-hyun looked at me and smiled.

The sword that the quirky weathercaster first pulled out of her inventory was a masterpiece that looked brutal even at a glance.

’Lustbound... what a scary world...’

The fact that the Meteorological Agency had combatants made me a little dazed.