“……I can’t do it alone. It’s difficult to save everyone, so it’s better to split up from here. Don’t stay too gathered, and hide.”
“Why? Why? Why are you leaving us behind?”
“Death attribute monsters appear where people are gathered because…”
“Why are you leaving us? Huh? Can’t we go together?”
“…….”
“Ha, even after all this begging, you’re going to leave us? Just you wait, I’ll report you to the association. Let’s see if you can still live well then.”
Everything was a mess. People were crying, begging, and when that didn’t work, they resorted to threats and desperate clinging. He faced all this with a calm face, detached people from himself, and came towards me.
How could Baek Yi-hyeon’s smile fade away? I slowly approached him.
“……Are you okay, Shin-ah?”
“I’m fine.”
My response came out surprisingly calmly. He nodded his head.
“Harvesters that use fear skills to immobilize people and reap their necks. I’ll protect you, but if you just stand still, it’s dangerous.”
“I really am fine. I can move.”
Exactly as I said. I wasn’t immobile with fear or terror.
The foul stench was carried by the wind. Black smoke gathered in the distant sky. I looked up and said,
“Smoke is gathering in that sky.”
“Oh? Really…”
Baek Yi-hyeon’s face turned serious as he looked in the direction I pointed.
“Are we going to help?”
“What do you think I should do?”
I asked. Instead of answering, Baek Yi-hyeon asked me back.
“……I don’t know.”
He gently patted my head at my pathetic answer. I raised my head again to meet his gaze.
“Why did you help?”
“What?”
“The people just now.”
You could have left them to die and run away alone.
Why did you do that?
Baek Yi-hyeon, with kind eyes, took his hand away and replied.
“Because you would be sad if you saw people die in front of you.”
As if, if it weren’t for me, there would be no value in saving them. His tone was so calm.
I lowered my gaze and said,
“……Let’s go help.”
Even if we can’t.
Monsters with death attributes crave life. They instinctively seek out the living, devouring them, envying their life force, and eventually turning even the living into death.
So it was natural for them to come to where living people gathered.
I wonder why I forgot such an obvious fact.
Someone followed us, determined to stick with Baek Yi-hyeon. It’s dangerous, but they insist.
Unable to speak anymore, I just walked following Baek Yi-hyeon.
You are kind and gentle, and even have the ability to save others.
Having already given up on something in the past, I felt no sudden jealousy. I just thought, so that’s how it is.
The place we arrived at was utter chaos.
“Are you okay?”
The scent of death, the smell of corpses, screams and tears, the metallic smell mixed with blood. Despite all these repulsive smells, Baek Yi-hyeon approached the people.
Thus, the monsters in the sky were cleared.
“Thank you, thank you…”
“While some were thankful, others were angry at his late arrival.
“Don’t stay grouped up; it’s dangerous. At most, move in pairs if you’re together.”
Baek Yi-hyeon kept his kind smile.
The more people there are, the more dangerous it is for him as well.
Despite being advised to spread out, someone shouted that they should stay together. No matter how much he persuaded, the person, referring to themselves as a survivor, repeated like a parrot that people should stay together in such times.
“……Then you’ll have to hide well. Don’t get caught.”
In the end, we were the ones who gave up.
“Why don’t they trust us when they ask for help?” Before I could fully resolve my question, several people grabbed Baek Yi-hyeon, pleading for him to stay.
“……How can I become strong like you?”
Amidst everything, a boy Baek Yi-hyeon saved asked him. Baek Yi-hyeon, wiping the blood oozing from his wound, replied.
“I guess by working hard?”
It was a laughable answer. If effort alone made one strong, half the world would be strong.
With so many people gathered here, it was dangerous.
A lump formed in my throat.
And something was off.
“……It’s strange.”
“Why?” Baek Yi-hyeon inquired, puzzled at my muttering while looking at the red sky.
“It’s been quite a while, but no one has come.”
“……No one?”
“At least with an S-grade gate like this, the association should have sent someone by now. It’s strange…….”
I’m not sure why I know this, but Baek Yi-hyeon didn’t question it. He just looked seriously, as if naturally believing me.
When I closed my eyes, I could see the aura around me. There were no hunters with an aura like Baek Yi-hyeon.
“No one has come yet…….”
He murmured just as something unpleasant began to gather. Or, started to gather.
Should I tell them what I’m feeling now? Will these people listen if I speak? In a split second, a flurry of complex thoughts raced through my mind.
Is there a need for further thought? I shouted.
“We need to escape from here now!”
Yes, if even one person listens, that person can be saved. Attention shifted to me.
“Over there…”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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