“Now, wait a minute, new Hunter.”
Gwanghyun quickly blocked Siwoo’s path.
“There’s something else I need to say.”
“If it’s an invitation to join the association, I’ll refuse. As you know, I already have a guild.”
“But the new Hunter and the Wolf Guild….”
“I refuse.”
Siwoo, who firmly cut off the end of the sentence, looked straight at Gwanghyun. He spoke in a barely audible voice, not hiding his annoyance.
“You said that once the tutorial is over, my activities would be up to me, didn’t you?”
“Well, how about this? Come to the association tomorrow… or whenever you have time.”
“Please get out of the way.”
Siwoo, who had cut off Gwanghyun’s words, tilted his head.
“There’s something else I need to prioritize right now.”
There was no longer any force to stop him. In the end, Gwanghyun had no choice but to let the Srank Hunter go.
“…It’s not easy, really.”
Gwanghyun clung to the window and stared at Siwoo’s receding figure.
In the meantime, he realized something.
‘…Wait a minute. That woman looks like the Black Flame Princess from the ghost story.’
The dress stained with fatigue.
The black rosepatterned parasol.
The shoes with thorns.
The incredibly long hair.
The skin stained with fatigue.
Everything fit perfectly.
‘It can’t be…’
Gwanghyun shook his head violently. At that moment, Siwoo’s warning flitted across his mind.
‘If she wakes up now, I might not be able to stop her.’
Gwanghyun’s movement came to a halt. His instinct told him.
That woman, there’s something about her.
[This is the time separator]It smelled good.
Eunha slowly opened her eyelids. Someone seemed to be poking her forehead with a needle, causing a headache. This terrible headache showed no sign of improvement.
“Where is this…”
Looking around, touching her throbbing forehead, Eunha realized the smell was from the fabric softener on the blanket.
Her mind was still hazy. As she slowly sat up, her still blurry vision caught sight of a white box.
‘This is.’
Inside the carefully wrapped box was Eunha’s old uniform. Why…? Just as she was wondering, a slender shadow appeared beside Eunha.
“Oh my, you’re awake? I’ll bring the lord.”
It was a young woman tidying up the room.
‘…A room?’
Only then did Eunha’s surroundings become clear.
A soft bed,
A wooden table,
White curtains,
And… sunlight.
Her dazed eyes focused, and her black pupils dilated.
Thump!
Eunha fell off the bed.
“Are you, okay?”
The woman approached and offered her hand. Without taking it, Eunha looked around, her face blank.
‘It’s not a Gate.’
Did she escape…?
How on earth?
Eunha’s memory was cut off after her battle with the blueeyed Hunter.
Into her confused mind, a familiar voice rang out.
“You seem to be awake.”
“Ah, my lord.”
“You’ve worked hard. You may leave.”
Eunha looked up.
The blueeyed Hunter. It was him.
“How are you feeling?”
Judging by his tone and face, he seemed sincerely concerned about her condition. Even though he shouldn’t be.
Slap!
Without answering, Eunha jumped quickly to the edge of the bed. The black flames on her shoulders flared up, confirming her hostility.
“…….”
But something strange happened. Instead of taking a battle stance, the man raised his hands in surrender.
“I apologize if I frightened you.”
Polite speech. Eunha’s brows furrowed. In front of the man, whose attitude had changed along with his speech, Eunha did not relax her stern face. It was hard to accept his changed demeanor since the battle easily.
“Prepare the porridge. Can you eat it?”
A subtle silence flowed between the two. Eun Ha still hadn’t collected the flames, glaring sharply at him. He surely must have seen the hostility in her eyes.
Shi Woo opened his mouth in the calmest tone possible without rashly closing the distance between him and Eun Ha.
“Please don’t be so guarded. If I had wanted to do something, I would have done it already.”
Eun Ha checked every part of her body. Certainly, other than feeling weak and a severe headache, there were no visible signs of injury or restraint. No, there were actually traces of having been treated here and there.
“……You attack as if to kill. What’s the trick?”
“Wasn’t it a situation that anyone could easily misunderstand?”
There were not a few humanshaped monsters that appeared at the gate. Speaking was rare, but there were precedents. Moreover,
“Normal humans don’t emit such a strong smell of blood.”
“You still think I’m a monster.”
“Didn’t I tell you? If I had thought that way, I would have killed you while you slept.”
Worn out from fatigue, Eun Ha had been sound asleep for almost two days straight. Twisting her neck during that time would have been easier than breaking a child’s finger.
But Shi Woo didn’t do that.
Eun Ha stared at him blankly. From her standpoint, there were many things she wanted to ask him. How he got into the gate, how he was able to escape with her, and…
‘He called me the Princess of Black Flame.’
Why he knew about that title, which even Eun Ha didn’t know.
“…….”
The black flames burning beside her gradually subsided. Of course, she hadn’t completely let her guard down.
Eun Ha, with sharp eyes, lifted her gaze. Shi Woo was sitting in a slightly distant place, with a respectful posture as if dealing with a superior.
“Thank you.”
He showed a relieved smile in front of Eun Ha, who seemed a bit willing to talk. Eun Ha’s eyebrows twitched. What the heck is this guy?
Meanwhile, Shi Woo thought.
Judging from the situation so far, she was most likely human. The evidence was as follows.
The gate’s exit opened, even though she didn’t die. That meant she wasn’t the boss of the gate.
After Eun Ha lost consciousness, Shi Woo didn’t leave the gate right away but checked the surroundings. As a result, he found a hut that seemed to be made by human hands.
There were charred monster corpses, possibly used for bonfires, and he found worn military uniforms, wrappers presumed to be emergency rations, and dustcovered books.
‘I don’t know why the TOEIC workbook was there.’
Monsters are compelled to attack defenseless humans. It was an absolute rule. But she didn’t attack the janitor she met as soon as she opened her eyes.
And finally, 4.
“I’ll give it back. I borrowed it for a moment.”
Shi Woo held out a golden military dog tag to Eun Ha. Since the investigation was over, this was now unnecessary.
Eun Ha took it with a wary gesture and naturally hung it around her neck again. Shi Woo, sitting across, watched her with a strange look in his eyes before slowly opening his mouth.
“Welcome to the world 30 years in the future, senior.”
As soon as Shi Woo finished speaking, Eun Ha, who had been hanging the dog tag around her neck, froze in place like a statue.
……What?
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
