‘Wow, his eyes are really pretty.’
They were an exceptionally fine color, like melted jewels. The color was rare enough to be called Wolf Eye, so it might be considered foreign, but it really suited Hyeon Gyu-ha. Maybe it’s because of his light-colored hair and fair skin, as well as the general nature of his light pigments.
‘I think it just suits him because he’s handsome. If it’s that face, whatever color the eyes are…… Wouldn’t he look handsome even without eyeballs at all?’
The eye color that could not come from native Koreans was one of the reasons why people speculated that Hyeon Gyu-ha was of mixed blood. Their eyes met, but he couldn’t ignore him and turn around, so In Yoo-shin bowed his head and greeted him.
I was incredibly grateful to be saved from the bank robbers. If it were not for Hyeon Gyu-ha, In Yoo-shin would have become a hostage and suffered great trouble.
Hyeon Gyu-ha rubbed the back of his neck without answering and turned his back.
Today would have been nothing more than an insignificant, commonplace day for him. However, In Yoo-shin bowed his head once more from behind to greet Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had changed a day that would have been remembered as a nightmare for many people, including himself.
“7-seya.”
He looked down and called out to see if it was hiding somewhere, like under the couch, but it was still nowhere to be seen.
At that moment, he felt someone’s presence behind him. In Yoo-sin’s eyes widened as he looked back, wondering if he had interfered with the police clearing things up. The left and right sides of his face were perfectly symmetrical, and said handsome face was right up to front of In Yoo-shin’s nose to the point where it felt unbelievable.
“Did you call me by any chance?”
“N-n-no, I didn’t.”
The moment his handsome face filled his vision, In Yoo-shin stuttered in embarrassment.
“It’s strange…… It feels like someone is calling me.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha tilted his head and walked towards the detective standing away from them. It was only after his back figure moved away that In Yoo-shin swept his chest.
It was more harmful to the heart than an encounter with a celebrity. How could someone be so perfectly handsome?
‘Hunter Hyeon Gyu-ha is a person who really has it all.’
Even in a world where Gates did not open due to the catastrophic revolution, In Yoo-shin wondered if there was anything he couldn’t do with that guy’s abilities. At most, Hyeon was a person from a different world to himself, an F-class Awakener.
In Yoo-shin blushed a little while touching his earlobe, which seemed to still have the vestiges of Hyeon’s voice.
‘I don’t think Seung-gi would believe me even if I told him that Hunter Hyeon Gyu-ha saved me and even talked to me.’
Above all, In Yoo-shin himself did not feel like it was real.
Anyway, where is 7-se?
In the end, 7-se was not found even up until the investigation ended, and In Yoo-shin returned home eventually. After trudging up to the rooftop room, he saw a cage with the door wide open.
“6-seya.”
A hamster jumped out from behind a hanger.
“Did you keep the house safe?”
Unworried, he poured water from the refrigerator while gently grabbing the hamster that had approached without hesitation. His palms were warm and cozy.
‘Managing 6-se also heals me.’
How many things happened today? It felt like my drowsiness had melted away in the warmth of 6-se.
[Name: Henry Raymond Charles Francois VII]
[Current Status: Joyful. Stable.]
Since they were in contact, 6-seya’s status window automatically popped up. It seemed that the guy was also happy to see the owner’s return. Like himself, all of the hamster's stats were F-class.
‘Come to think of it, I haven’t checked 7-se’s status window.’
Since it’s a bat, it might be a little taller than a hamster. In Yoo-sin, who called 7-se’s status window without much thought, spewed the water he was drinking.
“Pfft!”
Physical strength, strength, agility, etc—all stats were S-class. Even its mana was unmeasurably an EX-class. He wondered if he was seeing something wrong, so he rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked again, but it was still the same.
In other words, it was saying that I, who was no different from a normal person, could die with just one flap of the bat’s wings.
‘……No, it’s a bat, right? But these are not an animal’s abilities!’
An ominous foreboding sent chills down his spine.
So, the bat was powerful in the system, and in fact was not a monster but a-a-a…….
“Ca-calm down, In Yoo-shin.”
If it’s a special animal comparable to a monster, wouldn’t it be an S-class? Even among animals, there must be one born as a genius.
In Yoo-shin struggled to rationalize it and read the status window carefully. And despaired.
[Hidden Attributes]
- Vampire Attributes
……Occasionally, there were Awakeners who had the attributes of a non-human race.
Vampires could turn into mist or bats. An Awakener with the hidden attributes of a vampire must have the unlucky ability to be tamed as a rodent……
“Ugaak! It can’t be! What kind of rodent is a bat!?”
His sudden loud noise startled 6-se. In Yoo-shin was also startled and he quickly put 6-se into the cage. He also shredded its favorite lamb lettuce.
As he looked after his pet hamster, his beating heart calmed down a little.
This incident was unheard of—that a hidden trait could both tame and be tamed by people. If this fact were revealed, how would the people around me see me?
Taming is a compulsory subjugation. Regardless of one’s will, there is no intellectual body that would be willing to be forced to serve a master as a servant. Naturally, they would be on guard. Even if he pleaded that it was a system error, it wouldn’t work either.
It didn’t matter if I were ignored for my insignificant awakening ability, but it would be very sad if the people around me didn’t trust me and were wary of me.
In Yoo-shin decided.
‘I can’t cancel taming, so let’s ignore it! You’re not looking for whoever they are, you’re not curious about it! If I keep my mouth shut, that person won’t know!’
With that promise, he tried to close 7-se’s status window, but hesitated. An awfully familiar letter appeared on the status window.
[Hidden Attributes]
- Vampire Attributes
- A Hybrid of Iron Age and ®ÀÇ
- µ¡©±Ï¶
- King’s Illegitimate Son
[Attribution Artifacts]
- Broken Cross of the Last Emperor
- Eternal Conquest of Heir Padishah
I was surprised to see two Attribution Artifacts, when it was considered rare to have even one, but disregard that.
Hearing the sound of his beating heart, In Yoo-shin also floated his own status window beside him.
[Name: In Yoo-shin]
[Unique Ability]
- Taming (Rodents Only)
[Hidden Attribute]
- ¦°ø¾Îð
He thought that the only person on Earth who had the unique attribute, made up of glitched characters on the status window, was In Yoo-shin himself.
But today, one more person was included.
- Is there a case where the text on the status window was broken as if there was an encoding error?
ㄴWhat does that mean? How is the status window text broken??
ㄴIt’s the first time I’ve heard that the system screen can have errors. Status windows are displayed in a language that the Awakened recognizes as their native language.
ㄴㄴThis is true. My friend immigrated to the United States and obtained citizenship, but the status window was still in Korean.
He sighed as he closed the bulletin board, which had only insignificant answers.
‘Is there really no one other than me and 7-se—no, the person who was tamed—whose text is displayed on the system window with broken letters?’
After pondering over and over again, In Yoo-shin shook his head.
‘You’ve decided not to look for who it is and not to wonder who it is. Plus…… there are many people who hide hidden attributes, so there are probably many people who do not reveal that their letters are broken. I’ve never told anyone that my letters were broken until now.’
“Squeak. Squeak.”
6-se called in a muffled voice as if annoyed.
“Uh, sorry. Sorry.”
In Yoo-shin woke up from his thoughts and quickly cleaned the cage.
Being tamed didn’t mean that 6-se had undergone dramatic changes since then and had become a huge hamster. However, it had been able to communicate to some extent and had become much healthier. When it was slightly ill, it was better to heal it than to go to the vet. It’s an insignificant F-class ability, but In Yoo-shin was satisfied with it.
6-se was adopted through a hamster café after Yoo-shin left the orphanage at the age of 20 and became independent. The abandoned 6-se has already turned 2 years old. I wished he could stay with me for a long, healthy time.
6-se was far more important than the glitched characters on the system window. In Yoo-shin decided to erase the person he unintentionally tamed and the glitched characters from his memory.
He was really able to get rid of the memory after a busy day of running in and out of banks and police stations for stolen account issues. Except for the occasional thought of Hyeon Gyu-ha’s face, which was considered unrealistic, the events of that day were quietly forgotten.
“Good morning.”
“Good morning. Yoo-shin-ssi.”
Kim Ji-yeon, who went to work first, said hello while drinking her take-out coffee.
“Has the case of voice phishing been resolved?”
“I finally resolved the suspension of my bank account yesterday.”
“Whew, Yoo-shin is also a victim, but it took a long time. You’re cursed with bad luck.”
“For me, a week when my bank account was suspended felt like seven years.”
“If you are unlucky, it can take several months.”
People went to work one by one, and the office quickly became crowded. It was the beginning of a peaceful day after the problem that made the week that seemed like seven years was resolved.
The peace lasted for a long time. Today, the civil service room felt quieter than usual. There were no troublesome complainants raising their voices and swearing.
In Yoo-shin was a contract civil servant working at the Department of Supernatural Affairs and Public Safety. It had already been two years since he started working here as a high school graduate. Being in the Department of Supernatural Affairs and Public Safety was a good sign, as it meant that one would not deal with Gates or monsters.
‘It’s nice because it’s peaceful.’
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get used to the task of sorting out the list of civilians who died from monster attacks.
Waiting for the lunch break with five minutes left, In Yoo-shin stretched a bit.
‘What was on the lunch menu today? It looked like it was pork rice bowl. Uh, the door opened.’
Unexpectedly, a civil petitioner came in right before lunchtime. Hoping that it could be resolved quickly, In Yoo-shin turned his head, and a blank sound came from his mouth.
“Uh?”
“Uh?”
The second sound wasn’t In Yoo-shin. Kim Ji-yeon, who sat to his right, let out a similar noise.
“Gasp.”
The third sound came from the seat next to him on the left.
“Wow.”
“Oh.”
Breathless exclamations were heard from everywhere. Some people quietly took out their phones. The petitioner just took a step, but an optical illusion occurred, as if the desolate civil service office had turned into a runway for a fashion show in an instant.
Amid everyone’s attention, only the sound of a person walking approached. Into the civil service department, without a single search to look around. Straight. To In Yoo-shin.
The sound of footsteps suddenly stopped in front of In Yoo-shin’s desk. The shadow of the tall man illuminated by the light behind him fell over his head.
“Yoo-shin.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who clearly called his name without even looking at the ID hanging around his neck, bent his waist and smiled at him.
His half-gloved hand caught In Yoo-shin’s chin and lifted it up. Above his mouth, an amber gaze pierced him with a strange aura.
A deep smile crept across Hyeon Gyu-ha’s lips.
“Are you my Master-nim?”
When his hand and In Yoo-sin’s face came into contact, a status window automatically popped up.
[Name: Henry Raymond Charles Francois VII]
[Current Status: Murderous. Anxious from Separation.]
HM: Hello~ This is a new novel we took up. It is because I’m almost done with the translations of MYBIAH. What’s left is the editing….
Summary: In Yoo-shin reflects on a recent bank robbery where he was saved by the handsome Hunter Hyeon Gyu-ha. Yoo-shin is an F-class Awakener with a unique ability to tame rodents. He is surprised to find that he has unintentionally tamed a bat, 7-se, who has extraordinary S-class stats and vampire attributes. 7-se's status window also displays glitched characters, similar to Yoo-shin's own hidden attribute. Yoo-shin decides to keep this a secret to avoid suspicion and distrust. Later, at his civil service job, Hyeon Gyu-ha unexpectedly appears, calling Yoo-shin his "Master-nim" and revealing a status window indicating anxiety from separation.
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Credits:
Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: Stallion, Editor M
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