He thought he saw a change in her eyes for a moment. Somehow mollified, Kinggodsoo followed Eun Ha, rubbing his arms.
I’ll ask about the divine beast next time, he thought.
[This is the time separator]“Seven, eight, nine…… exactly ten people.”
The leader of this gate, ‘Mobius’, opened his mouth.
Mobius was a Cclass hunter, but rumors had it that he would soon rank up to Bclass. He was competent and had many followers.
“These are the aquarium’s tourists. I’ll request reinforcements with my terminal now. Let’s halt our march here until they arrive.”
When gates appeared in crowded places, it was quite common for civilians to be swept up.
This place is an aquarium. And it’s the weekend. It wouldn’t be strange if tourists were swept up in the gate.
Normally, before the hunters were deployed to the gate, the Hunter Association checked via radar to make sure no civilians were swept up, but there were often cases like this when they were not detected in time.
About ten people were all that were needed; the nearly thirty hunters gathered here were more than enough to fend them off.
Mobius, who had requested reinforcements through the terminal, reassured the civilians and then directed the hunters to form a defensive line.
“Though it’s called a defensive line, we just have to kill the attacking monsters and we can sit down and play.”
Awesome, this gate is a freebie! Kinggatsu, excited, shrugged his shoulders.
“You said Yura, right? Want to eat this? It’s popular among eating show BJs these days.”
It was then that Kinggatsu was fumbling in his pocket.
“……The sound of crying.”
At Cha Eun Ha’s faint voice, Kinggatsu, who had been holding jelly, abruptly dropped it.
‘What, what is it…?’
Her black pupils had turned golden. Like a wild beast crouching in the dark, her pupils were vertically elongated.
“The sound of a child crying can be heard.”
Is it heard by a god? Or is this a concept? But her expression is too serious for that.
“You, your eyes suddenly…….”
Whoosh.
Cha Eun Ha turned and began to walk away hastily. The other hunters, including the leader Mobius, focused their attention on her.
“Wait. Where are you going?”
Mobius grabbed Cha Eun Ha’s wrist.
“Over there. I can hear the sound of a child crying.”
At Cha Eun Ha’s words, his eyes narrowed. As rank increases, physical senses naturally improve. Among the hunters here, he was the one with the highest rank and experience, yet he hadn’t even heard the sound of footsteps, let alone crying.
“Acting alone is dangerous. Please sit down and fulfill your defense duty.”
“No. I must go.”
Cha Eun Ha forcefully shook off the hand holding her wrist. It wasn’t so easily shaken off. Mobius, who was looking down at his own hand, looked up.
Cha Eun Ha had already turned the corner and disappeared.
“Sigh. They say the more foolish, the more fearless.”
“What will you do?”
“We must follow. If something happens to her, we will be in a scrape with the wolves. Two of you, come with me.”
Mobius followed Cha Eun Ha with two other hunters.
As if she could still hear the crying at that moment, Cha Eun Ha hurried in one direction without hesitation.
‘What on earth does she hear?’
That’s why he hated bringing novice hunters. Never again─.
“……!”
Mobius, who had been following Cha Eun Ha, stopped in his tracks. His once dull eyes widened as if he couldn’t believe the sight before him.
“Uh, uhh.”
A little child was crying.
The child, clutching a doll in hand, was tearfully holding back their breath, perhaps fearing detection by a monster.
“Little one.”
Cha Eun Ha reached out.
“Uh, uaaaah! A ghost─!”
Suddenly the child burst into a fit of crying. Cha Eun Ha’s pale face and dark attire were apparently too stimulating for them. Standing before the child, who was crying with snot running down their face, Cha Eun Ha awkwardly withdrew her hand.
Mobius, who had been blankly watching, came to his senses and approached the child.
“Little one, it’s okay now, follow me. It’s safe over there.”
The child didn’t cry at Mobius, unlike with Cha Eun Ha.
If she said she didn’t feel slighted, it would be a lie, but they were safe now, and that was what mattered.
“Why are you like that, little one? Let’s go.”
Mobius scratched his head, looking troubled. As Cha Eun Ha watched from a distance, the child seemed to be refusing to move.
Cha Eun Ha confirmed that the area was safe and turned around. There was nothing more for her to do there.
But at that moment.
“Uuhooong, Mommy…….”
Thud, Cha Eun Ha’s footsteps stopped. She made eye contact with the girl, who was halfcollapsed on the floor, sobbing.
“Mommy…is, hic, gone…sniff.”
Suddenly, a fragment of a dusty memory pricked her mind.
Shattered concrete.
A grotesquely twisted left arm beneath the broken piano.
‘……Mo……ther.’
The girl collapsed in front of her.
What she locked eyes with was herself from 30 years ago.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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