Then, suddenly, a pitchblack shoetip appeared through the scattering ice fragments. The powerful energy was palpable enough to feel on the skin.
Siwoo slowly raised his eyes.
“……So you’re the real boss.”
Despite his steady voice, his fingertips were faintly trembling. As if suppressed by that enormous, unseen force.
However, he couldn’t leave this place without defeating it.
‘It’s okay. This is the last one.’
Siwoo, having steadied his mind, held up his fingertips. The cold chill began to concentrate once more, following the elegant shape of his fingertips.
“……A boss, you say?”
Suddenly, his hand stopped in midair.
Incredibly, he heard Korean. The hair that had been tinged white had returned to its original dark blue color.
‘……A woman?’
His sharp eyes softened. Emerging from the darkness, ‘it’ unbelievably took on the appearance of a human woman.
[This is the time separator]About 5 minutes ago.
Eunha, having escaped the lair, was drifting around the gate as usual. The fifth named monster she was desperately searching for was still nowhere to be seen.
‘……Another fruitless day.’
Her shoulders sagged, and just then, her foot stumbled without thought.
‘Damn it.’
Eunha barely managed to regain her balance, then touched her forehead. The ground was calm, yet her brain shook as if an enormous earthquake had occurred.
Her condition had been at its worst recently, getting worse each day.
Was it malnutrition? There was a limit to satisfying hunger with tiger meat, after all.
It might have been several days, or even weeks since she became trapped in the gate. During that notsoshort period, she hadn’t had a proper meal, so her body’s complaint was understandable.
Or, perhaps, the fatigue from constant battle had accumulated to the extreme. Especially lately, as she was struggling to find the last named monster, she had not been able to rest properly.
Whatever it was, the red flags for her health were not a welcome development.
[Lv.30 ‘RedEyed Black Tiger’ is watching you.]There was still one monster left, it seemed. These guys, usually just a handful, felt particularly annoying today. Just as she was about to swing her blade in irritation,
[Lv.30 ‘RedEyed Black Tiger’ has become frightened! It attempts to flee.]Again. Another monster had started to turn tail.
Eunha let out a quiet sigh. She had no heart to chase such a cowardly creature.
She wanted to ignore it, but she couldn’t. Even a trivial monster would become a nuisance if not completely eliminated.
With her temples throbbing, Eunha turned to chase it when, at that moment,
[Warning! System damage detected. External interference suspected.] [Resetting the gate.] [ Loading ] [Warning! An unknown error has occurred.]Red warning signs popped up one after another in front of her eyes.
‘What’s happening all of a sudden—’
A sudden, deafening siren began to sound.
[System Error = 21387 볷?¶□뚭긆깂깒?긽¶‡귻깛긐긘긚긡?] [System Error = 21388 걁퉹뷠뾴?벍밙¶딯땝끯□궕뚷‡궻귘]
While the error messages were piling up, a strong quake struck, enough to make her body sway. Even with her headache, the ground began to shake, and her mind became distant.
Eunha barely managed to keep her balance and quickly scanned the surroundings. Cracks were forming on the inner walls of the gate.
Ding.
[The sacred beast ‘Wandering Cat of Darkness’ detects an unfamiliar presence and hisses sharply.“You’re the real boss.”
Eunha, who had suddenly gripped her blade and assumed a battle stance, froze in place.
“……A boss?”
If he hadn’t misheard, what had just come through was a man’s voice.
Human.
In this gate, there was a human, not a monster. Soon, Eun Ha was able to face the blue pupils directed at her. Hostility and caution filled that place.
“You, are you human?”
As he muttered as if disbelieving, this time he seemed surprised.
His heart began to pound like crazy. It had been months, no, years since he had come face to face with a person, not a monster.
With a thrilling sensation, Eun Ha took a step toward him. Immediately, he grimaced without hesitation, as if he smelled an unbearable stench from Eun Ha.
“Just talk for a moment.”
“I have no words to exchange with a monster.”
Swish!
The razorsharp icicle drew a thin red line on Eun Ha’s left cheek before savagely embedding itself in the wall behind.
His eyes, cold as ice, were full of hostility.
Xi Woo quickly analyzed his opponent. Long hair reaching to his waist was as black as ebony, and in contrast, his skin without a single tint was pale as a corpse. Blood, crimson to the point of appearing purple, dripped around his lips.
A suspiciously flashy and dark dress.
A black umbrella adorned with roses.
Flickering flames, like a living snake, coiled around her entire body.
No matter how she spoke Korean and looked like a young woman, this was a gate. A gate where humans couldn’t live.
Xi Woo’s judgment that she wasn’t human was only natural.
Swish!
The loaded icicle charged at her with lightning speed. As if to finish her off in a single strike, it ignored the resistance of the air and attacked her in a straight line.
He didn’t want to stay here anymore. The repulsive smell of the monsters’ blood. The adrenaline spreading throughout his body from the continued combat was unpleasant.
Swish! Swish!
He poured out relentless attacks one after another…
Was it just his imagination? Not a single one of his attacks had hit the mark.
‘Is this… a Brank gate?’
It couldn’t be.
Xi Woo’s face gradually lost its composure. But he couldn’t back down here.
Ding.
[Authority ‘Dog’s Fang’ activated.]A yellow message window appeared in front of Xi Woo’s eyes. Although Eun Ha couldn’t see that message window.
Whoosh─!
The ice shards surrounding Xi Woo formed the shape of sharp beast fangs.
He knew instinctively. He seemed genuinely intent on killing him.
‘No choice then.’
Eun Ha’s eyes sharpened, as she had been focused only on evasion until now. It was not an atmosphere where she could calmly sit and talk.
Apparently, her opponent was an awakened being, a hunter. If that’s the case.
‘I just have to avoid killing him.’
With determination, Eun Ha jumped into the air, drawing a gentle parabolic arc.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
