Chapter 2: Ch 2: Where am I? - Part 1
It was peaceful around . For once in my life, there was no one shouting or suffocating
with their emotions.
I could not even recall when I had such a peaceful night of sleep.
Of course, nice things could not last forever, and I slowly began to feel the movent in my hand and my arm. It indicated that I was not dead.
Since I could feel my eyelids move, I knew that it was ti for
to wake up. But I selfishly kept holding on to the sensation of sleep. I did not want to wake up.
Unfortunately, I was too trained to sleep in like that, and my eyes flew open before my mind registered what was happening.
I sprang up from the bed, and the first thing I did was grab the man in white that was trying to co close to
and check up on .
"H-Hey, it’s alright. I know you are startled, but you need to calm down. I am just trying to help you out."
The person in white tried to reassure , likely to make
put my guard down, but I did not let them go.
If I recall correctly, the officer who was in charge of my training had inford
that there were various groups out there, waiting to capture
and study . That was how precious S-class were.
But I was more surprised by the fact that I had been recognized by soone. I usually had a mask and even masked my pheromones when I worked as a hunter.
’Does this an soone betrayed the governnt and sold
out? I need to figure out who it is. And once I do, I need to report them...’
I unconsciously put pressure on the doctor’s neck, but not enough to harm. It was just enough to knock him out.
The poor nurse who was on duty looked startled and did not seem to know what to do.
"Where am I and who is in charge here?"
I asked the nurse calmly. She looked like a civilian, so I did not hurt her.
"I... you are at the state hospital. You were brought in here—"
The nurse tried to speak, but her legs gave way under her. Her soft and sweet scent marked her as an oga, while the doctor from before was a beta.
I did not pay much attention to her words once she stated that this was a state hospital. It seed as if this nurse did not know anything after all.
’So, the organization that brought
here keeps their staff ignorant. That does not surprise . Hmm, should I break the window and jump down? That would be the fastest way to break free.’
I looked at the window with an interested look and moved toward it.
The nurse panicked as she saw
approach the window and her eyes widened.
"A-Are you thinking of jumping from there... don’t—! I don’t know what you went through, but we can resolve this..."
The nurse babbled, likely trying to make
reconsider what I was about to do. But I ignored her and looked down the window.
I was at the 10th floor, a steep fall for most humans and even most hunters. But for an S-class like , it was nothing special.
After all, I was the top hunter before I went inside the dungeon.
’Let’s run first and then think of what to do next.’
As I made my decision about whether I wanted to jump or not, the nurse had finally gotten herself under control and called for help.
"Hey, soone help—! There is a patient trying to end his life. He knocked out the doctor—"
The nurse spoke, and I decided to act before anyone could co and foil my plans.
One of my feet left the window sill when I felt a strong scent enter the hospital room. It was undoubtedly alpha, and it was potent enough to make even
halt.
’What the hell—! I don’t think I have ever slled anything this strong. If I were anyone else, this would have brought
down to my knees.’
My instincts warned
not to turn around and keep going. I knew that if I turned around, sothing horrible would happen.
"Hey, what are you doing—"
The person who stepped into the room asked. The husky and strong voice made
falter for a whole minute. It seed enough for the owner of that voice to walk over to
and grab my arm.
"Co down from here. I am sure we can talk about whatever is bothering you—"
The owner of the voice spoke softly now, and I could feel my pheromones responding to the man.
’This is dangerous. I need to escape now. I don’t know what would happen if I don’t run—’
My fight-or-flight instincts responded, and I yanked my hand out of the alpha.
"Hey, wait—! You—!"
The alpha tried to speak, but it was already too late for him to do anything because I had already jumped out of the window.
Before anyone could react, my feet touched the ground and I bent my knees to land on the ground like a cat.
And without looking back, I kept running toward the outside of the hospital.
Jumping the fence around the hospital was easy enough for
with my S-class capabilities, and before I knew it, I was out and about.
The city I landed in did not seem familiar, so I decided to look around to see if I could get anything by looking around.
But I saw nothing but buildings and shops.
And then I saw the thing that made
halt as well as reconsider everything I knew about my situation—a billboard that had a very familiar face on it.
The female in the billboard looked stunning but visibly older than when I had last seen her.
She was Lee Hara, a famous B-class Alpha hunter who had made a na for herself because of her starting acting career. She had never wanted to be a hunter in the first place, but there had been no way for her to opt out once she had awakened.
"Looks like Lee Hara did make her debut after all."
I comnted as I looked at the billboard, and I got so weird looks because of this.
Then, a person wearing a Lee Hara shirt walked toward
and grabbed my collar. I considered retaliating, but his words stunned
too much to do that.
"Don’t you dare insult my goddess Lee Hara like that. She pretty much set up the standard for hunter celebrities 10 years ago. If you speak anything negative about her, I’ll kill you—"
The man who grabbed
was a fully grown adult, but he still behaved like a kid. However, that was not why I felt shocked.
No, the reason I felt shocked was because what he said finally registered in my mind.
’Ten years? Wasn’t Lee Hara excited for her first movie role just last week? Did she have an old movie or sothing she acted in before?’
But as much as I wanted to believe this, I knew that it was not possible. After all, Lee Hara was a public figure, and much of her achievents were well docunted.
If she had starred in a movie, that would have reached my ear as well.
So there were only two possibilities that ca to mind—one, this was not the sa world I used to live in, and I had sohow jumped dinsions where Lee Hara beca a public figure way earlier than expected.
Or, I had sohow travelled forward in ti ten years later.
Thankfully, it was easy enough to guess which part it was.
There was one more possibility—that soone had ssed with my mind, but I refused to believe that fact.
I am an S-class, and that ant I had so resistance. Also, my ego as an S-class would not survive if I had been tricked.
"Hey, what is today’s date?"
I grabbed the Lee Hara fan who was still speaking about how his goddess did not deserve this treatnt and how ’normies’ needed to stay out of the fandom.
The man looked shocked when I grabbed him, and he tried to grab
back, but my pheromones stopped him.
"H-Hey, are you an oga—"
The man tried asking, but I was losing my patience now.
"I don’t have ti for this bullshit. Give
your phone. I will check for myself."
I grabbed the phone the Lee Hara fan had in his hand, and as expected, it had the image of Lee Hara as the screensaver.
But that was not what I wanted to see.
’Ah, so I did sohow travel forward in ti. Should I feel surprised by this fact? Sohow, I feel more relieved than I feel shocked.’
I finally let the fan go and also threw his phone toward him. My curiosity had been answered already.
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