Chapter 94: Entering the Club
Desire Quests are generated randomly in response to emotions. Those emotions can be the user's own feelings or the emotions of people around them.
Seo Juhwan has completed two Desire Quests so far.
The first occurred in December targeting Jeong Sora: "Violate Your Direct Superior."
The second occurred in January targeting Han Soo-ah during his final military leave: "Save Han Soo-ah."
The Desire Quest that occurs once a month collects massive amounts of LP along with a large amount of "Desire" points to advance to the next level.
And now, as February was coming to an end.
The third Desire Quest had occurred.
Ding!
[Detected the user's intense desire.]
[Desire Quest has been activated.]
"Burning Friday - Club"
▶ You have never been to a club before and hold vague fantasies about it.
Do people really come to clubs for sex?
Or do they simply come just to dance?
Is it an exciting place where dancing happens like in manga?
What kind of clothes do people wear? What kind of people go? What are their purposes?
Today, experience that scene directly with your own body and successfully score a "home run."
▶ Achievement Condition: Enter club, hunt, have sex with a club girl.
▶ Reward: 10,000 LP
Seo Juhwan looked at the generated quest and thought.
'This is ridiculous...'
It seemed his fantasy about clubs was bigger than expected.
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As usual, Seo Juhwan arrived 20 minutes early at the meeting place. While waiting for Lee Junghoon, he checked his newly acquired talents and special abilities.
[Dancing (Rank: B)]
[Multi-Dancing Line]
▶ Effect: Your posture is corrected to display dance lines that suit all genres of music.
※ The dance line's suitability increases depending on talent grade and understanding of the corresponding music.
A talent he obtained from Lim Soo-hee a few days ago—dancing. Excited at the thought of going to the club, he raised the grade and even purchased the special ability. However, the effect of the special ability 『Multi-Dancing Line』 he purchased didn't feel right at all.
'I can't get a feel for it.'
As someone who had never been interested in dancing before his regression, Seo Juhwan couldn't understand how important dance lines were. However, for someone who majored in dance, 『Multi-Dancing Line』 would definitely be an ability that would make them drool.
Even with the same movements, some people displayed long, refined lines that seemed alive down to their fingertips, while others had jerky, short-looking movements. To develop beautiful dance lines, one had to spend a long time understanding what kind of lines their body had and when those lines looked most beautiful. However, spending time blindly didn't solve the problem. For those without natural talent, no matter how much they practiced, beautiful dance lines wouldn't emerge regardless of movement proficiency. For dancers, dance lines were like the tone of voice that singers were born with.
But the 『Multi-Dancing Line』 that Seo Juhwan picked automatically corrected his body movements to display suitable dance lines regardless of genre without any additional effort or understanding of his own body.
However, for Seo Juhwan who was ignorant of dancing, this ability was still lacking.
'Well, at least I practiced a few.'
Since he didn't trust the ability, he had looked up some club dances on the internet in his own way. With a B-grade talent equivalent to a professional level, he learned it quite easily. Soon the meeting time was approaching.
- Juhwan, where are you?
"Come straight toward exit 9. I'm still in the station."
- Ah, okay.
"Hyung, can you see me? I'm raising my hand."
- Yeah. I see it.
Lee Junghoon, who spotted him, waved back.
When he got closer, Lee Junghoon hesitated, lowered his hand, and let out a surprised sound.
"Seo Juhwan... right?"
Uncertain about the unrecognizable changes in his appearance over the past month.
Seo Juhwan laughed and said.
"It's been a while, hyung."
"...It is you, Juhwan? Hey, why did you change so much? Did you eat well alone after discharge?"
Seo Juhwan made an excuse he'd become quite familiar with.
"I guess my growth spurt came late. It was the same in the military, right? Once I started PT, the fat melted away quickly."
"Wow... I can't adjust. How many centimeters did you grow in just two months...?"
"About 6cm in two months? I'm still growing."
In fact, his growth had stopped long ago. But since he might grow more with future items, he laid some groundwork.
Lee Junghoon kept marveling and took the lead in walking.
"Which club are we going to?"
They had decided on Hongdae as the area, but he hadn't heard which specific club they were going to.
Lee Junghoon answered with a grin.
"I was thinking of going to a place with younger kids. Since it's February, there are going to be tons of girls who just turned eighteen."
The two of them were on the escalator coming out of Hongdae Exit 9. They had originally considered going to Gangnam, but decided on Hongdae because the scene here was better at this time of year. The Hongdae clubs, with a younger age demographic compared to Gangnam, were currently packed with newly adults.
'Come to think of it, I've only been with older women until now?'
Before his regression, since he had an age, he hadn't worried much about it. But all three women he'd been with were older than his current age. So much so that the system had even awarded him an achievement called "Older Woman Killer." He was starting to want to try younger women too.
"We're going to Attention today."
"Attention?"
"It's the biggest hip-hop club in this area. You know Show Me The Hiphop, right? Ever since that show blew up, hip-hop is booming from teens to twenties. If we go there, we'll find tons of people from twenty to twenty-four?"
Hip-hop was definitely huge at this time.
Show Me The Hiphop, a rap survival program, had become a hot topic. It was already in its fourth season, and the hip-hop craze showed no signs of cooling down. In fact, the scene had gotten better starting this season. From what he remembered, the fifth season happening this year would be the peak.
Hip-hop was music Seo Juhwan quite enjoyed listening to. He preferred hip-hop to classical, jazz, or ballads.
But wait.
Seo Juhwan suddenly asked Lee Junghoon a question that occurred to him.
"If it's hip-hop, they don't play electronic music?"
"Of course not. Why would they play electronic at a hip-hop club? Well, there's some hip-hop mixed with electronic, but..."
At those words, Seo Juhwan scratched the corner of his eye with disappointment. He had practiced shuffle and crocking and all that, but it looked like he wouldn't get to use them. You can't shuffle to hip-hop music, right?
Lee Junghoon noticed his expression and said.
"Don't you like hip-hop?"
"That's not it. I just want to dance a bit."
After practicing so much, he wanted to use it at least once.
"Do you dance, Juhwan?"
"Um. I can do shuffle and crocking to some degree."
"Ooh. Hey, then let's change venues to Aura. Since they have both hip-hop and electronic zones, let's play in the hip-hop zone for a bit, and if we don't pick up any girls, we'll switch to the electronic zone and just dance."
"That works for me."
Hopefully it wouldn't come to that, but if he really couldn't pick anyone up, he'd just dance his heart out.
Whoosh.
The escalator had reached the top before they knew it.
Come to think of it, was this the first time he'd come to Hongdae at night?
"Wow."
The nighttime streets of Hongdae that he didn't know about unfolded before his eyes.
Lee Junghoon asked curiously.
"Is this your first time in Hongdae?"
"I've been a few times, but this is my first time at night."
"Really? Isn't your house close to here? It doesn't even take 30 minutes."
"That's true, but I don't usually leave the neighborhood."
Seo Juhwan was born in Gwangmyeong where Seoul was just within reach, but he'd rarely come to Seoul. Or, to be more honest, he didn't even know Gwangmyeong where he'd lived well.
He had been cooped up at home, living like a half-shut-in, so how would he know anything?
'Maybe I should travel later.'
Before going abroad, he wanted to explore domestic travel since he didn't even know his own neighborhood well.
Lee Junghoon chuckled seeing him acting like a rural Seoul boy.
"The night atmosphere is a bit different, huh?"
"Yeah. There are more people than during the day."
He looked at the streets with curious eyes.
The daytime Hongdae was no shortage of being called a cultural street, but it couldn't compare to the nighttime Hongdae streets.
A feeling more free-spirited and energetic compared to the daytime.
There was more busking, and people dressed in distinctive outfits were everywhere. Especially the sight of people casually sitting on the street drinking was quite a culture shock.
Really walking around like a country bumpkin looking around, Lee Junghoon tapped his arm.
"Juhwan, look over there."
"At what?"
Following Lee Junghoon's hand and turning his head, he saw a person collapsed on the street. It was a woman wearing a short one-piece dress that clung to her body.
"What's going on?"
"Nah. She's just drunk. See her friends nearby? She's just had too much to drink."
"It's not even eleven yet?"
"It is a bit early, but it's not that rare either. There will be more when it gets to dawn."
It was amazing that there were more than one or two people lying down defenseless in such an outfit.
It seemed like the perfect opportunity for something bad to happen. Even now, as her skirt rolled up and exposed her thighs, the gazes of passing men were fixed there. Well, not just men—women were looking at her with 'what is that' eyes too, so maybe it was just that it looked unsightly.
"Seems dangerous."
"It is dangerous. But she has her friends with her, so it's fine. Even if she didn't, we wouldn't be responsible anyway."
Lee Junghoon said it casually, as if he'd seen people like that more than once or twice. In fact, it was none of their business. Nowadays, it wasn't uncommon to get caught up in trouble if you got involved unnecessarily. Choi Mi-hwa's case was an exception.
As he looked at the woman lying on the ground, Lee Junghoon poked his side and said.
"Just in case, don't touch her. You could have your life ruined."
"I don't really like shellfish anyway."
"Phaha. Then thank goodness."
Walking around like that, giggling, they soon arrived in front of the club.
They arrived, but...
"The line is crazy."
"It is."
"Sigh. I forgot since it's been so long."
Lee Junghoon let out a sigh.
And rightfully so, since there was a line twisted into three loops.
The two of them waited outside for over 30 minutes before finally entering the club.
[Achievement, "First Club Entry" acquired. 500LP has been granted.]
Now it was time to have some serious fun.