Chapter 107 - Operation Gamer 2

"It doesn't seem to be working," Eun Ha grumbled, looking at the result of his magic. Although the clothes were in line with her sketch, she just couldn't think of how to change her Professor's appearance. This resulted in failure of the magic, and his face just didn't change.

"I think you have very strong expressions," she explained, trying to justify the block after so many attempts.

"Um, did you do so well in the afternoon, are you tired by any chance?" he asked, his back to the mirror. Obeying the stylist's whims, Hunter Shin could not look in the mirror until she was finished. They were in the warehouse of the clothing store of a friend of Eun Ha, who had given the space for the stylist to 'try clothes on her model'.

"No, I actually feel full of energy and disposition! I'm very excited! I could eat a pot of jjajangmyeon and go up flights of stairs! I'm nervous!" the fairy confessed, jumping up and down." I shouldn't have had coffee earlier!"

"So easy off. You are wasting all of our time," the Hunter seemed to be spending all his proverbial little patience quickly. "What did you understand about conditional magic?"

Eun Ha was displeased that he was asking about it, as if she hadn't absorbed the theory. This was not the case. She took a deep breath,

"Well, I can condition magic to certain events, to make it stronger. For example, I can turn a prince into a frog. But in order not to put in too much anchored magic on it, I can determine that if a girl kisses him, the effect of my spell ends."

"Then condition your magic at once, and do what you have to do!" as always, the Hunter was in a bad mood and snapped at her. 

"Aishhh ..." she grumbled to herself. "I just can't seem to concentrate on thinking another look for Professor Shin!" Well, actually yes, she could think of a couple of good new looks for him. In getting that tousled hair done, and putting a bit of makeup, and ... All the things Eun Ha thought she could do soon, when her plan to help Ye Rim was in action. But not now. Now she needed an ordinary young man.

Eun Ha had previously done part of the magic crafting, creating the clothes he would wear. In fact, she was shocked to see him in 'regular' clothes; the kind that a college student would wear. 

She then created glasses that would match that 'nerdy' outfit: a varsity bomber jacket, a plaid shirt, and very ordinary pants. Finishing it up with a plain black cap. 

Then the Hunter put on the fake glasses, after cleaning the lenses. Eun Ha couldn't look at him without burst into laughing,

"Ehhhhhh! What is the reason for laughter? What did you do to make me look silly?"

"It's just… well, Professor Shin is looking like a drama actor who suddenly has to film a flashback to his student life. Totally fake-looking," she laughed, but didn't say the most important part. It was as if they had painted a tiger in pink and put on fake bunny ears. It was clear that it was a disguise.

"I don't know what you are talking about, but I figured it already. I'm ridiculous-looking. Of course. Because I don't need the favor of a fairy to just disguise myself and drawing even more attention."

He was looking quite cute, but at the same time a bit off-ish. Still, she suddenly wanted to be a noona to this fake student. ' I would even pay for your food, Student Shin! '

"Don't be ambitious. Just rejuvenate me enough, it will be enough," Shin suggested, taking out his pack of cigarettes. It was the last cigarette in the pack, which he crushed and tossed right into the bin.

"Uhn ... This isn't good enough, but it's an interesting approach," the suggestion appealed to Eun Ha, who now pointed her magic wand at the face of Fairy Shin.

She made a silly sound, "ZRUMMM!" since her magic wand didn't make funny sounds alone.

"Okay?" Hunter Shin asked skeptically, analyzing his apprentice's excited reaction.

"Okay!" she had to restrain herself from jumping with excitement! As always blasé and indifferent, the Hunter groped for his lighter and ignored her display of self-awe.

When the Hunter lit his cigarette and took the first drag, his moment of leisure was cut off by Eun Ha's two fingers in tweezers, extinguishing the end of the cigarette.

"Ouch!" She complained the little burn, carefully smoothing out the smoke she had put out. The fairy Hunter glared at his student,

"What the hell are you doing, Jung? I think you're going well beyond your limits, Agassi!"

"Erm, well… This is my Conditional Rule. When this cigarette ends, the effect of my spell will also come to an end," Eun ha felt quite pleased with herself, as she looked at a young and resplendent version of Hunter Shin.

' Omo, so cute! I didn't know I could be a noona in love! '

Hunter Shin raised an eyebrow, seeming to conform when he realized that his student had learned very well. Conditional magic becomes more potent and easier, the riskier the condition; it was what he had taught.

"So what, Professor? Don't you want to look in the mirror? Don't you want to remind your best years?"

"What nonsense is this, Jung? Those were not my best years," he was turning to the mirror, but her words, in fact, made the opposite effect. Hunter Shin resisted the urge and won over curiosity. 

"Come on, it's been too long," he abruptly snatched his last cigarette from Eun Ha's hand, heading for the exit.

"Aish, so grumpy ... I hope he really resists the urge to smoke this last cigarette," the fairy grumbled to herself once again, following her tutor.

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The fairy couple arrived at an unsuspected commercial building in the early evening. Shin had already given general instructions to his student. He would come in first, and then Eun Ha would come in and ask for him. Then all she had to do was sit at a computer and after a few minutes, manage to do a magic spell by reproducing an alert message on the Room Manager's computer. 

The Hunter then showed her the exact image of the screen she was supposed to reproduce. 

When the computers went through the reboot that this alert would trigger by the team, Eun Ha should 'get bored' and go to the restroom. There, she was supposed to wait for him, and use her magic in one of the cubicles so that people would think they saw only a solid wall. She just had to quietly wait in safety, that he would come to her and take her home. 

Of course, he didn't intend to include her in the dangerous part of the hunting, Eun Ha already expected for it. But ... This place seems to have special security. Normally she wouldn't have noticed if the Professor hadn't said earlier that the building and the LAN house belong to the mafia. But these scary men wandering around in the building remind Eun Ha of Go Hong Gi's men. Hong Gi was the mobster who owned Pearl's building. 'Ugh, bad people! ' 

In addition, this building didn't have good energy, and Eun Ha wanted to spend as little time as possible there.

She turned to look again at the handsome young Hunter, and felt her heart rejoice again. She stumbled on a step but didn't fall. 

"Try to act naturally, Jung," her master muttered under his breath, reprimanded her.

' How does he think I'm going to act naturally, if I can't stop staring at him?'

"O-kay, your NOONA is going to buy something to drink, do you want something, SHIN?" she said with a grin, emphasizing their new dynamic and his name. The Hunter even blinked. It was obvious he was feeling humiliated for being treated informally, and as a mere student, by his own apprentice.

Hunter Shin took a deep breath, and gave a bewildered smile which seemed to say ' Are you tired of your life? Do you want to die? ', but actually said, "Of course noona, I'll be right back."

' Look who talks about acting naturally, where did he learn to act so badly?' Eun Ha thought she could contain the smirk that came to her lips, and acted as aegyo as possible, waving goodbye when 'student Shin' came down the stairs that led to the bas.e.m.e.nt of the building. That was where the clandestine LAN house was located.

Eun Ha had a drink in the building's cafeteria, to pass the time while pretending to look at her cell phone, but she was very nervous. In fact, Eun Ha was aware that tonight's greatest threat was not a supernatural attack, but the fact that greedy humans probably kept people trapped and enslaved somewhere in this building. And despite knowing that Hunter Shin was probably a very capable man of action, from the little sample she had during the first hunt, the place would probably be full of people. How would he do everything without using any magic other than a modified appearance and a trick on a computer screen?

The fairy discreetly reached for her monocle in the bag to observe the surrounding area. From where she was, sitting inside the cafeteria, she could see the end of the corridor that led to the bas.e.m.e.nt. Quickly activating the object with a little floating magic, the fairy placed the object over one eye and peered at the ambient.

The corridor looked almost typical, if it weren't for dark stains in the corners, signs of corruption and the potential presence of wraiths and other beings attracted by low feelings. But what caught Eun Ha's attention was the profusion of mysterious colorful and attractive lights, like coming out of a fantastic amus.e.m.e.nt park, coming from the stairs to the bas.e.m.e.nt.