Chapter 20
After receiving the aid of those two Knights, Sae-Jin was able to safely leave the sewers.
"Oh, so your profession is a Hunter?"
However, a slightly irritating problem had developed. Although he wasn’t particularly hurt anywhere, the female Knight still dragged him to an emergency ward, and after placing him in one of the sick beds, she plopped down next to him and began asking an endless stream of questions while her black-spotted yellow ears atop her head busily twitched this way and that.
"…Yes."
Since he wanted to leave as soon as possible, he kept his answers brief, but this woman showed no signs of giving up at all. She even came real close to his side and openly started sniffing him out. As expected, it was his nice body odour causing the problem. To a Soo-in that desired a pleasant body scent over that of good looks, the aroma of a wolf would probably be no different than an irresistible pheromone.
"So that’s how it is. I happen to be a Mid Tier Knight, you know. On top of that, I’m a person with an excellent future prospect, too. And my annual salary is pretty high, as well… Ehehehe. We should go out hunting together some time. I’m a Leopard type, I’ll have you know. I’m really fast and sturdy."
Khwoung~ She made an adorable roar and tried very hard to get into Sae-Jin’s good books.
Honestly speaking, he didn’t feel bad at all. No, he felt rather freaking great. Because, this lady Knight was a stunner. Contrary to her sharp, leopard-like facial features, her actions were cute like a puppy dog’s and that helped a lot with how he was feeling right now.
"Ah, you just smiled. That means you’ll go out with me, right? We are, right~? You won’t regret it! I’ll help you raise your ranks by a couple of Tiers in no time!!"
"…Ahaha, no, I’m…"
As they conversed, the atmosphere bloomed in pink colour, but out of nowhere a proverbial dark cloud loomed over their heads. And that was the other male Knight who found Sae-Jin. His face convulsing intermittently, he spoke in a tone that indicated how pletely displeased he was at the moment.
"Mister Kim Sae-Jin?"
"….What is it that you want now?"
The male Knight definitely called for Sae-Jin but it was the woman who replied instead in a prickly manner, blocking him at the same time.
"You, go away. Mister Sae-Jin, you are feeling okay, no? Unfortunately, there are a lot of other injured civilians crying out in pain as we speak. If you are okay, then…."
"What do you mean, he’s okay?! Can’t you see he’s suffered a lot? Even his clothes got burnt!! We don’t know if he’s suffering from some kind of emotional trauma right now."
No freaking way. Sae-Jin chuckled in slight awkwardness as he raised his body.
"I’m fine. Since I’m okay, I should get going. There are promises I need to keep, too."
"Eh? Why? It’s okay if you stayed a bit longer…. oh, that’s right!!"
She grabbed the rising shoulders of Sae-Jin and forcibly pushed him down on the bed. Then she shot the pestering male Knight a sharp glare. But the dude was pretending to know nothing while whistling leisurely.
"No, Miss Knight, it’s just that…"
"It’s Rozen. Call me in the form you feel most fortable."
"Okay, Miss Rozen, I am thankful for everything you’ve done for me, but I really have to get going now."
It was indeed pleasant to receive the undivided attention of
a good woman. But, to a person like him that never experienced proper love all his life, such focus felt a bit foreign and unfortable, plus there was the restriction of time factoring in his mind as well.
"…If, if that’s the case, then please give me your phone number!!"
Seeing his unshakeable resolution, the flustered Miss Rozen grabbed hold of his collars and handed over her phone. (TL: something like the image at the end of the chapter….) Sae-Jin just couldn’t find it in himself to refuse her on this one so he gave her the numbers and said his goodbye.
"Please, please let’s go out on a hunt together later!!"
Rozen sounded like she wanted to play online games with him and that made Sae-Jin chuckle softly. There was no meaning behind the smile, though. But her face remained deep shade of red as she longingly gazed his back.
"….Ah. Oi, you wanna die? What the heck were you trying to pull? You pickin’ a fight to death with me, a wild leopard, or something?!"
As soon as Sae-Jin was far away, Rozen's face crumpled and began throwing sharp words at the male Knight. But his lips arched slightly upwards as if he was satisfied about something.
"What are you on about? I was just following protocol. He wasn’t even injured. Why should he take up a bed?"
"You, today, you…"
For a while after that, she continued to spit out nonstop verbal insults at him.
*
Sae-Jin walked past the emergency ward, scanning various injured civilians there. There was a guy with serious burns covering up his entire body, while another had slight bruising on the skin.
And as he observed the injuries of the patients, a strange and painful sensation assaulted his eyes all of a sudden.
"Eeuk…"
Leaking out a soft groan, he massaged his temples, while squeezing shut his eyes before opening them.
Then, the world had changed. It was an illusion brought on by the scope of his eyesight widening to an unrealistic level.
A normal person’s field of view was 180 degrees. But Sae-Jin could see what was happening behind him as well. And the whole world seemed richer in hue and brighter too. The light from the bulbs stung his eyes, and there were no longer any dark corners he couldn’t see.
He stopped moving and stood there like a rock and surveyed the surroundings until he caught a distant reflection of himself in the mirror mounted on a wall of the ward.
The colour of his eyes had changed to a hue of eerie golden shade.
[Condition plete: Sense at least ten cases of negative aura at once while maintaining the Ebony Wolf Form,]
??Passive Skill "Eyes of the Wolf" has been acquired.
– The host’s eyesight has been widened and not affected by the obstruction from light. Also, the host will be able to discern what is normally invisible to naked eyes.
– It’s possible to activate this skill during Forms other than the Ebony Wolf Form.
It was another message saying that he had acquired a new skill.
‘Discern what is normally invisible?’
His query was quickly answered. There were some sort of strange, ominous-feeling strands of aura dancing above the moaning patients. There were so many colours - blue, green, purple, red, even black. Sae-Jin was actually able to discern these strands of "light
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