A Monster Who Levels Up

Chapter 40

For the following week after the programme had aired, Sae-Jin was overwhelmed with requests to join the Society.

The moment he approached the Monster field, people stuck onto him like glue.

And the identities of each and every one of these folks were just incredible. All of them were some kind of big shots in their chosen field of profession - Mid Tier Knights, upper Mid Tiers, B rank Wizards, etc, etc…

When he refused, there were one or two high-nosed snobs glaring at him with eyes that said, how dare a lowly you refuse me?! But well, that was understandable as they all had status out in the society.

However, Kim Sae-Jin refused them all. He didn’t want to admit those folks with intentions all too clear to see, and muddy the waters of his own Society like that.

Yu Sae-Jung was the same in this regard. But she had her bodyguards to prevent any trouble approaching her beforehand, so she had encountered far less trouble compared to what Sae-Jin had to go through.

Oh, and also, totally out of the blue, he received a lot of requests for investments . Not only from the Knights Orders, but Wizard Towers and private corporations, as well as even from certain politicians.

Some of them strangely went as far as to threaten him with if you don’t take this money, things will become ve~ry difficult for you down the line, capiche? (TL: no, the author didn’t use that word. I just wrangled it in there, cuz, you know, sounds about right.)

Of course, Sae-Jin still refused all of them.

However - there was this one thing that he could not refuse outright as his instincts stopped him from doing so.

And that was making an appearance on TV.

The idea came from the producer of the programme, The Qualities of a Knight , who packaged the scenes of the real Knights hunting Monsters as entertainment and created a huge hit show in the process.

Sae-Jin was unable to cleanly refuse the guy, as not only the programme itself had been a big ratings draw, but as a child watching TV with his mother, he did hold a secret yearning to appear on it. So, he just told the producer guy that he’d think about it and left it there like that.

And now, it was a late afternoon as the sun began to slowly set in the West. Today was also the promised day for the dinner with Kim Yu-Rin, too. Sae-Jin was waiting for Yu Sae-Jung in front of his house after she said she’d come and fetch him.

He was feeling a bit nervous as the memories of the day he had rescued Kim Yu-Rin continued to drift in and out of his head.

So, he tried to distract himself by playing with his phone when, from the distance, a shiny and very black limo glided towards his position.

‘…Could that be hers?’

Sae-Jin fell into a slight dilemma. If he was being escorted to a high-class party, sure, but since it was just a nice little dinner, such a lengthy limo seemed a bit overkill to him. Wouldn’t such a thing become cumbersome, instead?

Unfortunately, the limo did stop in front of Sae-Jin.

"…"

As Sae-Jin stood there and blankly stared at the car, the window for the backseat slid down and the face of Yu Sae-Jung peeped out from the opening.

"What are you doing, Oppa? Get in."

"…Oh. Yeah, sure…"

With a reluctant reply, he opened the back door and climbed inside.

The interior was even more spectacular. The size in here felt like it would not lose o

ut to his old one room apartment. Even the seats were soft and fluffy, as if he was parking his butt over a cloud or something.