Sister of the Ranking 1st (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
“I don’t know. But judging by the footsteps, it’s probably him.”
“Huh? Wh-why? Huh? Huh?”
I answered the whisper and focused every sense on Dullahan’s footsteps—when suddenly, a strange sound reached my ears.
If someone were scraping glass with their fingernails, it might sound like this. A ringing noise, almost like tinnitus, clawed chaotically through my head, and every candle in the room abruptly lit up.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh—!”
At the same instant, Myeong Hak began screaming. The deafening cry right beside me made my stomach churn.
Why? I wondered, but I couldn’t find an answer. Amid the candlelight, something hazy scattered through the air. An eerie ringing settled into my ears. A chill ran down my spine.
“Mom, Mom? Myeong Yoon, Myeong Yoon! Ah, please. O God. God, O God….”
Why all of a sudden…?
While I was still flustered, the ringing spoke to me.
—Why aren’t you affected at all?
At the moment I felt a strange sense of déjà vu, every sound ceased.
Silence settled heavily around me. The wind sounded cold.
A man lay unconscious, eyes rolled back. All the candles, as if questioning when they’d even lit, had gone out—and with a creaking, aged groan, the door began to open….
“…!”
A black knight.
Before my eyes stood a black knight.
Clad in armor consumed by pitch-black aura, the knight held a helmet glowing fiercely red and stared straight at me, gripping a black sword in hand.
The clattering sound was gone. The monster had stopped right before me.
“Ha… hahaha….”
Someone once said that when facing death, a split second feels like an eternity. Every sense in my body felt vividly awake. Dullahan raised his arm—and at the same time, his sword rose too.
I’m going to die. By that blade, I will die.
Will it hurt? It’ll hurt badly. The cut will burn like a scald, and the death surrounding Dullahan will soon consume me too.
From the start, hoping to survive a Grade S Gate was absurd. I… I just….
I don’t want to die.
“Hey, miss! Get out of the way!”
My body moved on reflex.
Huh… huh. Gasping ragged breaths, I looked at the spot where I’d just stood—there was a deep gash in the floor. Dullahan casually pulled his deeply embedded sword free and turned his head toward me once more.
“Found a survivor! Engaging Dullahan! I’m also seeing several Ghosts—request immediate support from Mind and Light attributes… Hey, you! If you’re not a Hunter, get over here right now…!”
The voice that snapped me back to awareness shouted again. But I couldn’t utter a word.
The sensation overwhelming me felt unfamiliar yet strangely familiar at the same time.
When I lifted my head, Dullahan was still there—pitiful, unmoving, his gaze fixed firmly on me.
To dare attack me… But even that fairy of death must merely be bound by this fortress’s lingering resentment.
Dullahan approached me with slow steps, a crooked smile curling at the corner of his lips.
“You… why aren’t you running?”
I won’t die. I can’t die here.
So I will….
“Judgment.”
A soft voice sounded. With it, a blinding white light flashed before my eyes.
Lightning so powerful it could burn even delusions itself erupted within the fortress.
Beyond the light, a tall silhouette walked steadily toward me.
With just a single strike of lightning, Dullahan knelt, smoke rising from his form—but the approaching figure didn’t seem intent on ending it there.
“I used it in a hurry without thinking it through… Hmm.”
But something felt odd. At the moment the lightning struck, that monster had stepped in front of me—as if shielding me. And as the light flashed, the red glow of his helmet shifted to blue.
Cheon Shin Woo let out an indifferent remark as he looked at that armored mass. Tinnitus roared in my ears. My stomach churned again.
“So you took the hit on purpose. Sin… are you okay?”
The man who approached—no, Cheon Shin Woo—extended his hand to me, as if urging me to take it and stand. I reached for his hand but slipped and fell instead.
All strength drained from my body. Perhaps it was relief at having survived, but I couldn’t muster any strength. Ha… hahaha. The laugh that escaped me didn’t even sound like my own.
Cheon Shin Woo frowned slightly as he looked at me. What’s with that dissatisfied look? Wasting that handsome face.
My vision blurred. As I tried to stand again, embarrassment made me rub my nose—only to freeze in surprise. Something wet was trailing down my hand.
“Huh… huh?”
“….”
Cheon Shin Woo’s expression twisted in shock.
Tinnitus buzzed in my ears. He seemed to be saying something, but I couldn’t hear it. What was he saying?
Just as I wondered, something rose in my throat.
Cough. Clotted blood filled my palm.
“Oh….”
No. If I lose consciousness here….
“…!”
My vision went black.
[This is the timeline separator]“Mom! ██ ate my ice cream again!”
“Ugh. Not a single quiet day. Your little sibling can have some ice cream too, ██—you’re the older brother, cut them some slack.”
“Seriously, hey. ███. If you eat my ice cream again, you’re dead.”
Beyond hazy memories lay a time of warmth.
We fought often and cried often, but I always believed my kind family would forever be on my side.
Now I couldn’t even recall their names or faces—but sometimes, I dreamed of them.
My older brother, who often looked after me in our busy parents’ stead. My brother, who never abandoned me even after our parents died.
“I hate you, oppa!”
“You really shouldn’t make that face. It’s ugly.”
“I hate you!”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Now even his voice had faded into a distant, hazy whisper.
His touch had been gentle. Though he teased me daily about being ugly, whenever he bought ice cream, he always got two—and after ruffling my hair roughly, he’d stroke it gently.
Do I miss them?
I don’t know. How can I miss people I can’t even remember?
I’d lost part of my past. Not only my memories from the other world, but even those from my original world—up to age seven—were jumbled and broken.
The few scattered fragments that remained had, over time, vanished without a trace.
“Sleep more.”
A gentle voice echoed by my ear. Its soft, calm timbre soon became a lullaby.
I have no family now. No friends. No one to lean on.
I must walk through this world alone.
When I realized that crushing loneliness, what had I thought?
“…Yeah.”
So this is an illusion—a fantasy conjured by a me longing for childhood.
A tender hand stroked my head. Consciousness blurred into haze.
[This is the timeline separator]When I opened my eyes, an unfamiliar ceiling greeted me.
It felt like the typical opening of a novel, but luckily, things didn’t unfold that way. A sharp medicinal scent filled my nose—it was a hospital ceiling.
As I tried to sit up, my head throbbed violently.
Ugh, my head… Only after my blurry vision fully returned and I could properly think again did a certain realization wash over me.
I’m alive.
I quickly checked my nose and hands. Both were perfectly clean. I was wearing a white hospital gown.
Looking around, I saw no other beds. When I tried to move further, my body felt as limp as waterlogged cotton.
Propping myself up slightly, I assessed the situation—and another harsh truth crept slowly in.
This seems to be a private room… How am I going to pay the hospital bill?
Of all the thoughts to have after surviving a Grade S Gate, worrying about the hospital bill felt both sad and absurd—but I couldn’t just laugh it off. After all, I hadn’t received my salary yet….
Should I break into my savings? Would the Guild count a Gate Sync occurring within Guild grounds as a workplace industrial accident?
Lost in these solitary thoughts, I heard a voice calling me.
“Oh? Ms. Park Ha Young, you’re awake? Just a moment—I’ll go get the Guild Master.”
“Huh?”
“Please wait right here!”
The person, who seemed like a nurse, came in and immediately left again.
They weren’t calling a guardian—but the Guild Master? What’s going on? Before I could even voice my confusion, the nurse returned—accompanied by none other than Cheon Shin Woo, Guild Master of Cheonrang.
“Ms. Park Ha Young currently has you listed as her emergency contact, sir. She’s in stable condition—just needs to rest another day or two before discharge. Go ahead and talk!”
“Um….”
The presumed nurse spoke cheerfully and quickly vanished once more, leaving no chance for me to ask anything. My hand hung awkwardly in midair.
As I sat flustered, Cheon Shin Woo spoke softly.
“You look like you have a lot of questions.”
“Huh?”
“The person who just left is actually a doctor. Since they said you’re fine, your body should be okay.”
“Oh… thank you?”
What was this situation? So that person wasn’t a nurse but a doctor? Even so, can one really tell someone’s condition just by looking?
My overloaded brain couldn’t reach a proper conclusion. Only after a short while did reality begin to sink in. I gaped at Cheon Shin Woo.
“Since you had no guardian, I temporarily listed myself as your contact. Is that alright?”
“Huh?”
“Hmm… maybe that’s not it….”
“Um….”
Dare I say it—right now, I must look incredibly dumb and blank-faced. Yet Cheon Shin Woo remained perfectly serious despite my reaction.
He was even pondering something deeply as he stood before me!
After a long moment of confusion, I finally recalled that Cheon Shin Woo was the last person I’d seen in the Gate.
Had he been the one to clear the Gate?
As I quietly pieced things together in my head, Cheon Shin Woo spoke again.
“The hospital bill will be covered by the Guild. It’s technically a Guild-affiliated facility anyway.”
“…Sorry, but could I ask what exactly is going on?”
“Ah.”
As expected, it’s best to just ask. At my question, Cheon Shin Woo let out a short sigh and smoothed his lips.
After a brief mutter of “Guess I have to start from the beginning,” he began explaining the situation.
“A Gate Sync occurred on Guild grounds—an event that shouldn’t have happened under normal circumstances. Thirty people were caught in it, including thirteen non-combatant Awakeners. While there weren’t many injured, three deaths did occur, which is the troubling part. Regardless, since this was an impossible scenario by common sense, everyone was moved to the Guild’s affiliated hospital for examination….”
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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