I Became the Main Character’s Favorite

Hug Me!

[Hunter Rank Evaluation Test Results]
1st Lee Seo-rin – 1000 points A (perfect score)
2nd Kim Ha-su – 730 points C
3rd Jung In-hye – 589 points D
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In this world, hunters were no longer special.
Not being special meant not being unusual.

Furthermore, it meant that the existence of hunters had been around in this world for a long time, to the extent that even ordinary people felt familiar with hunters.
In such a world, ‘Kim Ha-su’, who received special attention unlike other hunters,

Was a promising talent who received offers from various guilds even before taking the hunter rank evaluation test.
He was evaluated as the hunter with the most outstanding abilities among the recently debuted hunters. No, he had been.

Kim Ha-su was shocked by the fact that he came in second place,
The fact that the first place in the test ranking received a perfect score that even S-rank hunters couldn’t achieve, and
The fact that the hunter rank evaluation site, which normally no one would come to except for scouts proposing recruitment to hunters, was abnormally packed.

‘Is this possible?’
In fact, each of these truths was so dizzying as to be unbelievable, but
For now, he knew deep down that the first and third could potentially happen, so he focused his mind on the most important second item.

‘… How did they get a perfect score when it’s absolutely impossible to get a perfect score on the hunter test?’
From the start, because strength itself is abstract and relative,
The evaluation test that determines the rank of new hunters tends to be more of a relative evaluation than an absolute one.

Of course, things like future potential, skill value, or the expandability of possessed skills are additionally evaluated and affect the score, but
Fundamentally, the most important part was the judgment of how much stronger one is or will become compared to others.
Therefore, a perfect score was originally an impossible score to achieve.

To put it bluntly, even if someone had the potential to hit rank 1 right now,
There might be an even more monstrous person in the future, so some margin had to be left for the future.
‘But giving a perfect score means in other words…’

That person named Lee Seo-rin standing there expressionlessly
Would become stronger than all existing hunters, and even in the distant future, no hunter stronger than Seo-rin would appear.
He could only stare blankly at her, realizing this fact.

While he had never doubted his own talent before,
Now he couldn’t help but feel more than doubt, a sense of meaninglessness.
‘… So this is why they kept saying talent, talent.’

Thinking he understood people’s feelings for the first time, he was smiling bitterly when
Suddenly, Seo-rin looked at her phone, made an extremely angry expression, and started running out somewhere.
‘Huh?’

Although they were free now that the test was over, it was still officially ‘training time’.
Moreover, it wasn’t just regular training time, but also a session where scouts observe trainees’ scores and training to propose recruitment.
‘Above all, the main character right now is that Seo-rin.’

The main character runs out with an angry expression without saying anything? Is this okay?
Kim Ha-su squeezed his eyes shut, feeling his common sense constantly twisting.

I cried.

Of course, as my mind and head were adult, I didn’t cry loudly but just sniffled.
No… I’ll correct that. I cried a little loudly. Embarrassingly.
Despite trying to create a cynical and rational state by plastering my entire mind with determination,

This body, still just a baby, seemed to have no intention of listening to me and was bringing on even bigger cries.
Rather, at this point, thinking I really wanted to cry, I tried to calm myself by slapping my face that wouldn’t listen at all with my palm.
“Ha, Ha-eun, don’t!”

I felt the counselor grabbing my hand in alarm.
Realizing this too had caused some misunderstanding, I quickly shook my head to indicate that wasn’t what I meant, but
The counselor, seemingly interpreting it as me wanting to continue self-harm contrary to my intention, hugged me tightly again and said,

“Ha-eun, you are someone who deserves to be loved, and you will receive an enormous amount of love in the future.”
“Ung, that’s not it.” (That’s not it.)
“So I can assure you that you won’t experience painful and sad things like you did before.”

I waved my hand to indicate that wasn’t it, but my words weren’t getting through.
I quickly shook my head looking at the chat window, meaning to clear up the misunderstanding, but
[JeongminDad – No… Ha. How hurt must the child be to self-harm? I really can’t watch this, it brings tears to my eyes.]
[MunyaMunya – If there’s anyone watching the broadcast with search skills, please check the community.]
[DragonsAreNotLizards – … This is serious.]

Everyone seemed to have no intention of listening to me.
Resigned to the situation, I lowered my head.
The counselor, judging that I had calmed down seeing me like this, patted my back and said,

“So from now on, you shouldn’t hit or hurt your body, okay? If something sad happens, tell the teacher. I’ll bring lots of things you like.”
Already having weak stamina, crying on top of that made me feel like all the strength had left my body.
I nodded my head, feeling like I had become a limp piece of seaweed.

‘It doesn’t seem like this will end like this.’
So I thought it might be better to clear up the misunderstanding later as I was being held, when
I heard Seo-rin’s urgent voice and saw the door opening forcefully.

“Ha-eun!”
Seeing Seo-rin rushing towards me, I called out to her with hope that maybe she could save me from this frustrating situation.
“Seo-rin!” (Seo-rin!)

Though my pronunciation was terribly slurred due to being soaked in water, I thought I called out clearly enough.
Looking at Seo-rin with a somewhat expectant expression, Seo-rin picked me up and said,
“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

I shook my head meaning no.
Seo-rin showed an extremely relieved expression and sat down on the floor as if collapsing.
As I was patting Seo-rin’s shoulder to calm her while she was holding me, the chat window saw this and started spamming ‘ㅠㅠ’.

I had no idea how to clear up this misunderstanding.
As I was clutching my head and pondering with my complicated thoughts,
Perhaps because I had cried earlier, I felt myself getting drowsy and my body losing strength.

‘Oh.’
If I fall asleep in this situation, it seems the misunderstanding will solidify as it is.
Thinking I would become a person who had caused nothing but trouble to those around me if I did so,

I closed my eyes for a moment after doing the minimum damage control… and opened them.

“Ing.”
When I opened my eyes, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling… no, bed.
I made a blank expression looking at the darkened room.

It was certainly… bright before, so why has it gotten dark?
To assess the situation, I grabbed the phone placed nearby and saw it said ‘1:00 AM’.
Seeing this, I made a blank expression and realized something had gone seriously wrong.

Nom nom.
The problem may be tangled, but
For now, it seems best to satisfy my hunger first.
I was eating a chocolate I had taken out from among the huge pile of gifts that hadn’t been there until lunchtime.

It was a very unique chocolate with something like green jam inside every time I ate it, and it felt like there were crushed ramen noodles.
Thinking this chocolate was extremely delicious, I stared blankly at the pile of gifts.
‘But who brought these?’

If I had to guess, it might be Seo-rin, the suspicious viewer, or Hunter Han A-rin.
I wrapped the chocolate that still had 90% left and put it inside the bed.
‘Considering that the lair was destroyed, they might think leftover chocolate is trash, so it’s better to prevent that in advance.’

So I nodded, deciding to eliminate any potential for misunderstanding in advance.
Now that I’ve eaten, I looked around wondering what to do next, but there wasn’t much to do.
‘The only thing I could do is use the phone, but’

Maybe because all my energy was drained from the broadcast, I’m a bit reluctant.
Deciding to take a break at least for tonight, I was poking around the hospital room when
I discovered something quite interesting.

‘The side of the puppy doll is torn.’
Seeing the puppy doll I received as a gift from Han A-rin drooping, I fell into thought for a moment.
‘I don’t remember tearing it myself, so it must have been torn when the lair was demolished.’

I thought about leaving it as is, but felt it would be disrespectful to the person who gave the gift to leave it neglected.
So I decided to at least do something simple about it.
‘Sewing… I’m not good at it, and more importantly, there’s no needle and thread, so pass.’

Then the remaining option is to seal the wound with tape?
I rummaged through the hospital room hoping to find some tape, but
I only found things like pens, notebooks, and bandages.

‘Hmm.’
At this rate, the problem will fall into a labyrinth again.
I was about to give up, but suddenly had a great idea and couldn’t help but pause.

‘Right, I can use bandages instead of tape.’
They both stick well, after all.
I can stick it on the doll too.

Thinking it was a good decision, I stuck a bandage on the puppy doll’s head.
“Hehe.”
I’m a bit satisfied that the wound seems to have been taken care of.

I looked at the neatly applied bandage, then lowered my gaze to look at the doll’s side.
‘Hmm, this won’t do, right?’
Because a lot of stuffing was sticking out, if I applied a bandage in this state, it might have the opposite effect with the stuffing and bandage mixing together.

I decided to ask Seo-rin or the teacher to repair this part later and was about to return to bed when
‘… Come to think of it, if it’s going to be repaired anyway, is there any need to stick a bandage on it?’

Oh.
I briefly took some red medicine I shouldn’t have taken.
Avoiding looking at the doll, I let out an awkward laugh.

‘Am I an idiot?’
Thinking that as my body has become younger, my thoughts seem to be getting younger too, I was about to pull my hair when
Realizing that hair scattered on the bed might cause unnecessary misunderstandings, I quickly lowered my hand.

‘I don’t know anymore.’
As I was shaking my head left and right and sighing at my mind becoming like a tangled ball of thread,
I heard someone knocking their head against the glass window.

‘What’s that?’
I was about to approach, thinking it strange for someone to be knocking on the window at this hour, when I suddenly realized one truth.
‘This is the 3rd floor… how is someone knocking on the window from outside?’

The moment I realized this fact, my whole body bristled and my tail stood up.
I thought I should run away and tried to go outside, but
‘Oh right.’

I realized it was impossible to leave here because the doorknob was too high.
As I was hugging my trembling tail and wondering what to do,
I saw what I presumed to be a ghost or strange person breaking through the window and coming in.

Seeing this, I was so surprised I almost screamed, but
The being that entered the hospital room was so cute that the scream about to leave my mouth was swallowed back.
“Huh…?”

What came in was a girl who looked about 5 years old with long pink hair reaching down to her waist.
First of all, setting everything else aside, it was strange that a little girl had entered through the window of a 3rd floor hospital room, and as I was feeling suspicious,
The pink-haired girl spoke to me in a somewhat calm voice.

“… Wooooow! I’m really glad to see you!”
It’s a difficult tension to accept right away in a hospital room where only silence was flowing at 1 AM.
As I was flustered watching the girl jumping up and down in front of me,

The pink-haired girl hugged me tightly and said,
“Hug me!”
Why is she asking for a hug when she’s already hugging me?

I started to shrink back, thinking I had no idea who this person was.