🔊 TTS Settings
Episode 10
I’m a 19+ Returnee
“Anyway, it’s nice to meet someone from a similar world.”
Han Ian spoke softly, still looking as if he knew nothing.
He had no idea that Min Hye-mi’s world had been… a very explicit 19+ one.
Min Hye-mi rolled her eyes slightly and, to change the topic, asked back instead.
“Was the main male lead black-haired?”
“…Exactly. He was the duke. I was a foreign knight, so it was an impossible love.”
Han Ian’s face turned bitter in an instant. He fell silent, as if drowned in sorrow.
Seizing the opportunity, Min Hye-mi quickly stepped away from him.
Damn, my allergy to romance fantasy male leads is acting up again…
“So, does this mean we can leave work early today?”
Min Hye-mi gestured to herself and Lee Ruri as she asked, and the HR officer nodded.
“Yes. Since this is due to a disaster, it won’t count against your leave days.”
“Thank you.”
Taking a day off wasn’t a bad thing at all. Her expression brightened a little.
At that moment, her eyes met Seon Je-jun’s.
Ah, now that I think about it, I should thank him.
Although she didn’t want to get involved with a ‘male lead’-type man, she was still polite and said a brief word.
“Thank you for saving my teammate today.”
“…It’s nothing.”
He replied slowly.
Now Min Hye-mi understood why he always looked so vacant.
After having his liver grilled for thirty thousand years, it was actually impressive that he could still maintain that much sanity.
“Ah, hey there.”
Then a voice grabbed her attention.
Turning her head, she saw a man with a fierce expression.
From a male-oriented apocalypse world, it was Kang Jin-hyuk.
‘Kang Jin-hyuk, now why…’
She didn’t want to get involved, so why was he speaking to her? Moreover, he looked so menacing that she instinctively felt wary.
Tensing up, she watched as Kang Jin-hyuk continued.
“We’ve met before.”
“Pardon?”
“I found you.”
“Oh.”
Finally, the blurry memory resurfaced.
When she had been attacked in the other world and returned to her original world…
When she had a stunned look seeing the 21st-century landscape and monsters rushing at her…
It had been Kang Jin-hyuk who rescued her and reported to the Disaster Response Safety Headquarters.
She had forgotten it in the chaos back then… but he still remembered her.
“…Yes, that’s right.”
“Well, looks like you’ve adapted, seeing that you’re working here too.”
Kang Jin-hyuk said with his hand crooked in his pocket.
“You came from a romance fantasy world?”
“….”
As expected from someone from a male-oriented world, his tone had no consideration whatsoever.
Min Hye-mi’s expression began to darken, but someone intervened between them.
It was Kwon Anna, the head of Security Team 1. She wasn’t a returnee but had awakened as an S-rank hunter.
She glared at Kang Jin-hyuk reproachfully.
“I told you to speak properly.”
“What, what was wrong with what I just said?”
“It’s rude to ask about someone’s world like that.”
“What’s wrong with romance fantasy?”
He shrugged.
“It’s a safe world, nothing big, so talking about it is fine.”
“….”
Sure, maybe for a regular romance fantasy, that might be true. Those light-hearted ones with child-rearing or refreshing plots.
But unfortunately, she came from a 19+ world…
“Well, if the team leader says so… my bad.”
Kang Jin-hyuk spat the words toward Min Hye-mi.
“I’m not good at talking with women. Men usually follow what I say, so what’s the problem?”
“…Not good at talking with women?”
Min Hye-mi tilted her head, sensing something strange.
In a male-oriented world… there would have been many women relying on him in the apocalypse, maybe even forming a harem.
So-called ‘heroines’ must have existed.
Realizing her thought, Kang Jin-hyuk responded with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“There were only men around. The world I was in was a ‘kill-the-heroine-first’ type.”
“Oh.”
‘Kill-the-heroine-first.’
It wasn’t a nice term, but it was commonly used in male-oriented novels.
It meant that it was better for the heroine not to exist than to be a nuisance character.
Ah, so that’s why he came from a world like that and developed such a blunt and socially inept way of speaking.
Min Hye-mi nodded in understanding.
“Ah, anyway, goodbye…”
“Yes. You’ve worked hard today, so get home safely.”
Among all the grim men, Kwon Anna, like a ray of light, spoke kindly to her.
“Go home and rest well.”
“Th-thank you!”
After saying her goodbyes, she hurried back to where her teammates were. Seeing familiar faces, she finally felt relieved.
“Chan-neul and Yesul, you’re working all day today, right? Thanks for your effort.”
“Don’t worry! We can handle it fine without the team leader!”
“You probably want to see him, though. You wouldn’t know.”
“Yesul, please stop lighting your cigarette from a stranger’s cigarette in the smoking area. You’ll get points deducted for misconduct.”
After leaving advice for Jeong Yesul, Min Hye-mi prepared to leave work with a light heart.
“I’m going home to get some sleep. I’m tired from all the tension.”
“Heh, I’ll practice singing for a while!”
Lee Ruri seemed to have fully recovered her spirit.
Honestly, practicing didn’t always improve her singing, but Min Hye-mi chose not to comment.
Arriving home, Min Hye-mi noticed a message on her phone.
HR Team Leader Kim Mi-sook:
“Please visit the HR office tomorrow.
Nothing bad, it’s just that you saved a teammate in the dungeon, so there’s something to reflect in your evaluation ^^”
Nothing serious.
‘There shouldn’t be any more entanglements…’
Meeting the hunters of Security Team 1 today had thrown her off.
She was always wary of competent people.
But now, hopefully, that won’t happen.
‘By the way, when will the quest reward hint arrive?’
Just then, a system window appeared before her eyes.
[‘Find the Savior’ Mid-Quest Cleared!]
[Hint 1/3 for the ‘Savior’ has arrived!]
“Let’s see…”
Min Hye-mi’s expression darkened as she checked the hint.
[Today you met your ‘Savior’!]
“God…damn it…”
This plot is too predictable.
Think about it.
Are the chaotic corpse-disposal hunters her saviors, or is HR’s Kim Mi-sook her savior?
Clearly, it was referring to the hunters of Security Team 1:
Seon Je-jun from Prometheus, Kang Jin-hyuk from a male-oriented apocalypse, and Han Ian, the sub-male lead from a romance fantasy.
Ah, maybe it’s Kwon Anna’s side… she was actually the only hope.
Her life wouldn’t shift from a high-level romance fantasy to high-level yuri.
No, anyway, let’s conclude this.
‘This system keeps trying to entangle me.’
It felt like her life was being dragged into a romance plot.
Wait… could it be…
Min Hye-mi stared at something.
‘I haven’t become a romance fantasy heroine again, right? This place isn’t a romance fantasy too, right?’
Haha, there’s no way. Her isekai experience was already over.
Min Hye-mi shook her head.
No matter how much the system tries to force her into a romance plot, she had no intention of following.
No matter how forced, she wouldn’t fall in love.
She just needed to finish her quests, become an S-rank hunter, and kill anyone who pestered her.
