The petite figure of a boy.
Hair the color of tangerines, as if soaked in twilight. A single teardrop mark under his acornlike eyes, quite cute.
Fortunately, the boy, who looked no older than a middle school student, showed no signs of external injury.
Carefully scanning the boy from head to toe, Eun Ha asked him in a soft voice,
“Your parents?”
“……Parents, you say?”
A nod.
“Ah, they’re not here.”
Stiffly, Eun Ha froze. This was an unexpected turn of events.
Not here means an orphan? Surely……they weren’t victims here? Either way, it didn’t seem appropriate to ask in detail.
“……Is that so?”
With a slightly hardened expression, Eun Ha slowly rubbed her knee.
The boy was looking at her with his big, rabbitlike eyes. He didn’t seem scared, but perhaps he couldn’t accept the reality of the situation. The details were unknown, but somehow a pitiable feeling arose.
“How did you get in here?”
With a softer voice, Eun Ha posed another question to the boy.
But that was what the boy, the Trickster, wanted to ask.
This gate was acquired by the legion. So the boss monster is also the legion’s.
There’s no way a hunter of this caliber wouldn’t know about the gate auction system. Especially if the hunter is not a rookie.
Upon realizing this, the Trickster quickly raised his head. Wait. Could it be a Gate Stealer? A hunter bold enough to steal from the legion?
‘If so.’
The round eyes, like acorns, sharpened in an instant.
The Trickster fiddled with the bazooka on his shoulder and subtly licked his lips. First, he needed to confirm.
“You’re a hunter, right?”
Kuuguugu─.
With Minju’s words, the surroundings started to vibrate softly. Passus, fragments like sand fell from above.
The moment a shadow was cast on the boy’s head, Eun Ha quickly reached out her hand.
“Yes, I’m a hunter.”
The concrete wall that was falling toward the boy was caught by Eun Ha’s hand, making a crumpling noise.
“So relax and follow me.”
With one hand holding up the wall, Eun Ha gestured to the boy.
The Trickster looked at her with bewildered eyes.
‘You just saved me?’
So, from the falling concrete wall? Me, the fifth Srank hunter in South Korea? His legion comrades would have laughed at this if they heard.
“Come on. If you stay there, you’ll be crushed.”
But the woman in front of him seemed unaware of this fact.
He had saved people before, but never had someone saved him. No, it was even dubious to call this saving……. The Trickster approached Eun Ha with a strange expression.
“Right.”
Then she patted him on the head.
What the? Seriously, what? The Trickster looked up at Eun Ha, his round eyes full of question marks.
[The monster has been eradicated!] [The exit is activated.]A blue message window popped up in front of each of them. Then a purple sphere, the ‘Gate Core,’ floated up from the body of the fallen boss monster.
“Hurry up. The gate will close soon.”
Eun Ha, who had picked up the core, extended her hand to the still bewilderedlooking boy. Her hand was slender and graceful but covered in wounds and black ash.
Staring at the grimy hand extended to him, the Trickster looked up again at her.
There was no hostility or doubt in those black eyes.
‘……Does she not know me?’
Impossible. Everyone among the recent hunters knew the Trickster, the master of the legion. He could boast that much. Because he was South Korea’s fifth Srank──.
“Can’t you move?”
Eun Ha tilted her head slightly. Her hightied black hair slid down her shoulder line.
“Shall I carry you?”
“…….”
The Trickster, no, Minju, was now certain.
‘This woman really doesn’t know me.’
When was she ever an enemy? Feeling an inexplicable sense of defeat, Minju reluctantly opened her mouth.
“Sister, you see. I’m from the legion─.”
“Wait.”
Eun Ha abruptly cut off Minju’s words as she walked closer. Then she stared intently at the area around Minju’s neck.
“That.”
Eun Ha pointed her index finger, something gleamed in her pitchblack eyes with a golden military tag.
“It seems to be mine.”
“…….”
“…….”
A brief silence.
Minju, with rabbitlike eyes, slightly parted her lips.
“….Yes?”
“Did you pick it up?”
Minju hesitated to respond.
“That military tag is precious to me. I would like to have it back.”
Minju looked at Eun Ha suspiciously. She didn’t seem to be lying, but it was hard to trust her fully, as they had just met.
If this person is the owner of the military tag, it would be right to return it.
‘Conversely, if she’s not the owner, there’s no need to give it back.’
Minju gripped the military tag in her chubby fist and grinned, having come up with a good idea.
“Then tell me the military number.”
Jokingly opening her mouth, Minju firmly wrapped the military tag so Eun Ha couldn’t see it. A military number is not as simple as a blood type. If she’s not the owner of this golden military tag, she could never guess it.
“98S10102794.”
Huh.
“The blood type is O. Issue date is January 3, 1998.”
With that, Eun Ha extended her hand.
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.”
