The way back as it is.
A hunter approached Moebius.
“Leader, do you intend to leave that woman alone?”
“I’ve warned her enough, and yet she has left the group on her own. If any problems arise from this, she will be solely responsible.”
Don’t worry. Reassured by the leader’s smile, he scratched the back of his neck and stepped back.
Meanwhile, at the end of his shifted gaze, he saw the face of a colleague who seemed to have lost his soul somewhere.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you?”
“Ah, no……”
Hesitating, the colleague closed his mouth and quickly turned his head to look at the passage he had just come through.
The woman in the black dress, the Princess of Black Flame, had already disappeared in the opposite direction.
She really seemed to have gone to find her child’s mother alone. An Frank hunter, in a Brank gate.
“……She’s from the 1st generation.”
“What?”
“She’s a graduate of the 1st training academy.”
“Who?”
“That woman.”
“…….”
“…….”
Pfft!
Another hunter walking by grabbed his belly. After laughing for a while, he looked at the man as if he found it more strange that he believed it so easily.
“Do you think that makes sense?”
The colleague’s tone was slightly mocking, but there was an unwavering conviction in it.
A 1st generation graduate meant a graduate of April 1998. Before the government agencies had even established specific measures for the gates, which was more than 30 years ago.
It was a time of chaos. The number of hunters gathered through indiscriminate conscription at that time was said to have far exceeded the current number. But only a handful of 1st generation graduates who survived that era remained now.
It was only natural. The treatment of hunters back then was not as good as it is now, and there was no specialized training program. After just three months of brief training, they were thrown into the gate almost naked, so it would have been a wonder if they didn’t die.
Therefore, the surviving 1st generation graduates were still talked about after more than 30 years, with their pictures hung at the entrance of the training academy or printed in the textbooks of hunter training academies.
Of course, that woman was not among them.
“You must have heard wrong. Or that woman must be really crazy.”
“That may be true, but……”
He knew well that it didn’t make sense.
But the strange, inexplicable sensation he felt when their eyes met was still vivid on his skin.
He took another quick look behind him.
The passage seemed to have swallowed the darkness. He couldn’t take his eyes off it for a long time.
[This is the time separator]“Huff, gasp……”
Without a moment to catch her breath, which had risen to her chin, the woman ran and ran again.
“Yeri, where are you? Yeri!”
She frantically called her daughter’s name.
Who would have imagined that they would be swept into a gate while visiting the aquarium for her daughter’s birthday?
She had intended to wait quietly for the hunters to come, but she had lost her daughter due to the sudden wave that hit them both.
Is this what it feels like when the sky falls? Now that her shoes have been washed away by the water, the woman ran barefoot through the gate endlessly.
Knowing that the sound of her desperate footsteps could wake up the monsters, she couldn’t stay still.
At this very moment, her daughter might have been eaten by a monster, and the thought made her marrow go soft.
“Yeri……!”
The woman’s exhausted voice echoed through the empty gate interior.
How far in had she come? As she went deeper, the light disappeared, and the battery was gone, so she could no longer rely on her cellphone’s flashlight.
The darkness that lay before her eyes was as thick as the despair she felt.
Thump.
“Ah, no……”
Due to her weakened body, she momentarily dropped the camera she had been holding.
The memory card in the camera was full not only of important work data but also memories with her daughter. Fearing it might be damaged, a woman with a bowed upper body gingerly held the camera in her hand at that moment.
Kwaeeeeeek!
A chilling cry echoed all around.
My goodness. The woman became rigid, unable to straighten her bent body.
‘Yeriya…….’
A kaleidoscope of memories passed before the woman’s eyes. She gripped the camera tightly with trembling hands.
Click.
Click.
Click.
She felt the monster gradually approaching from behind.
Kwaeeeeeek!
The woman tightly closed her eyes. But then.
…….
…….
Nothing happened.
Slowly, very slowly, she opened her eyes. Her pounding heart was still not calm. As she clamped a hand over her mouth and slowly turned her head at that moment.
“……!”
Golden irises were right there. Amid the pitchdark darkness, their eerie brightness was of a color hard to believe belonged to a human.
‘Mo, monster……?’
Too surprised, she dropped the camera once again, and the woman began to stagger back, step by step.
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.”
