“Aah, it sucks. Really.”
On the brink of collision. 5 cm above the cement floor in the parking lot. Yoo-shin's body, who was falling, stopped abruptly.
Hyeon Gyu-ha lifted his floating body with both arms and smiled brightly.
“This is the first time in my life that my heart beats like this. Would you like to touch it?”
Hyeon Gyu-ha guided his hand to his chest once more. There was a heartbeat thumping loudly under the leather texture of the riding jacket. It was a more violent beating than the heart of In Yoo-shin, who almost fell to his death.
Thump. Thump. Endless Thump. It is the cry of the heart that witnessed the death of In Yoo-shin.
“The first time I attacked the gate was when I was 9 years old, right? I'm more afraid that you might die than I was scared back then.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha laughed softly.
“This is really interesting. So this is how it felt like being subordinated.”
The status window cluttered In Yoo-shin's vision.
[Current Status: Murderous. Murderous. Murderous. Murderous. Murderous.]
***
It was only today that In Yoo-shin realized that the eyes that did not mix with laughter, unlike the sound of laughter, were bloodier than openly swearing. He also realized that he would never kill him, but it's even more frightening.
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who flew through the air and returned to the rooftop, sat next to In Yoo-shin, unlike before. He was determined to listen.
“What is Henry Raymond Charles Francois VII?”
“It’s the name I set automatically when I was taming………….”
“How is it possible to tame people?”
“We-well……………. They said that because the system said bats are also rats………….”
“What?”
While explaining, In Yoo-shin felt like an idiot, and Hyeon Gyu-ha seemed to feel the same way. He couldn't even laugh when he saw him putting on a bewildered expression.
“My taming abilities are limited to rodents.”
He even explained that after mistaking it for a real bat and taming it, he even knew that his hidden characteristic was a vampire through the status window. For the first time, the smile disappeared from Hyeon Gyu-ha's face.
He thought for a while as he rubbed his face, while In Yoo-shin only looked at him.
“So, even if the issue of bats not being rodents is overlooked, since vampires can turn into mist or bats, the system identified them as bats?”
“Yes. Maybe……….”
“It's true that the hidden trait is a vampire trait, but I can't transform into a mist or a bat. I've never sucked human blood. I'm a human. Not a rodent.”
Do you have anything to say? In Yoo-shin just felt like hitting his head to the ground and atone for his sin.
“Honestly, do you admit that it's hard to believe?”
“Yes.”
“Haven't you heard from anyone that I have vampire traits? I did know a few people.”
“No. This was also the first time I saw Hunter Hyeon Gyu-ha in person.”
“......! “
His mind shriveled at the casually thrown words. His buttocks flinched instinctively, and he slowly distanced himself from Hyeon Gyu-ha. He has nothing to say to Hyeon Gyu-ha even if he dies, but he didn't mean that he wanted to die.
“Prove that what you said is true. What did you see in the status window?”
“Hunter's stats and abilities.”
“That's something you can find out with just one Internet search.”
“I saw you also have two Bind Artifacts.”
“......Ah, I've never shared about those two in public, okay, I admit. Also?”
“And the letters on the other hidden traits were broken.”
“......”
Hyeon Gyu-ha's mouth was closed again. Did I say something wrong? Feeling anxious, his heart started pounding loudly again.
“......Those broken letters.”
“Yes.”
“Can you draw it?”
Yes, of course. It’s possible. All he had to do was open the 7-se's status window.
When he nodded, Hyeon Gyu-ha took out a tablet from the subspace.
There is a weight limit in the subspace, which is the inventory. That's why hunters only cram in important weapons, but he doesn't seem to care.
“Well, but there is no application that can draw pictures.”
“Install it.”
“Yes.”
The one-minute time to search for and install a painting app in the store felt awfully long.
In Yoo-shin drew only the broken letters among the hidden characteristics.
®ÀÇ and iui±iql.
Hyeon Gyu-ha's eyes widened.
“...fuck.”
And with his words, In Yoo-shin realized that even Hyeon Gyu-ha had no choice but to believe in this absurd situation of taming people.
So In Yoo-shin mustered up the courage to say the following.
“Actually, I also have broken characters in my hidden attributes.”
“Don’t lie to me.”
“It’s true…………”
In Yoo-shin looked at his eyes and drew his own hidden characteristics.
1°Ø¾Îð.
Hyeon Gyu-ha narrowed his forehead, but he didn't believe it. It was natural. He can't see the status window of In Yoo-shin. The characters are broken, encoding errors, and you can only draw them.
“I am still very offended and confused. Anyone would feel the same way if they suddenly had a Master. But is the perpetrator trying to deceive me with lies?”
Not only the way he spoke, but even his voice was bleak. In Yoo-shin felt it. He was really angry.
“I can't kill you myself, but I think it's possible to ask someone to kill you?”
“I-I really am telling the truth. It has been there since I woke up.”
However, he couldn't lie that there were no broken letters, so he desperately appealed for the truth. Hyeon Gyu-ha sighed at the attitude of In Yoo-shin, who shuddered with his life but did not bend.
“Great. Then go to the dungeon and prove it.”
“A dungeon?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t have a hunter license…….”
“That doesn’t matter. It is my private dungeon.”
He glanced at the time. Lunchtime is over, but...…………. When he raised his gaze again, his amber eyes were staring at him. That gaze, which was very sober and cold even when he kept a smile on his lips.
There, he couldn't bear to say, 'Can I go after work?'
‘I might be fired……………’
In Yoo-shin nodded his head calmly. If there was a problem, he thought that he should at least make an excuse that Team Leader Hong pushed him away.
Hyeon Gyu-ha took out his helmet from the space and got off next to the bike parked in the parking lot. At his side was a load of In Yoo-shin.
“Consider it an honor because it’s the first time we’ve put someone else on Gap-sik.”
“......The name of the bike is Gap-sik?”
“Is there any problem?”
“No.”
He thought it was a devastating naming sense, but it seemed that someone like him who gave it the name Henry Raymond Charles Francoise had nothing to say about that.
It was my first time riding a bike. He clucked his tongue as he clumsily grabbed Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was sitting in front of him wearing the helmet he was handed to him.
“Hold on tight. It flies.”
Hearing that, he only gave him a little bit of strength, but soon, as soon as Hyeon Gyu-ha started the engine and started, he was frightened and hugged his waist. It was fast. It was insanely fast.
“Aaaaaaa!”
Even while screaming inside the helmet, the bike ran on the road for a long time. The place where In Yoo-shin arrived after seeing the lantern nine times was a hill in the north of Seoul. This is where the 38th parallel used to be.
“Huh…………….”
The strength was drained from the body. Hyeon Gyu-ha was dumbfounded when he saw him collapse on the floor with his legs loosened.
“No, it looks like this because you were just driven here?”
“I almost threw up.”
“If you vomit on my back, I'll hire someone to kill you.”
“Yes…”
Hyeon Gyu-ha carried him, who couldn't even walk properly, on his side and climbed the mountain. In Yoo-shin also just sagged.
The dungeon owned by Hyeon Gyu-ha was in the forest. When a certain mana pattern was injected into the barrier disguised as an ordinary tree, the landscape shook, and the gate was revealed.
It was the first time he had seen the gate so close. In Yoo-shin’s eyes widened, but Hyeon Gyu-ha did not give him time to enjoy the surprise.
With him on his side, Hyeon Gyu-ha stepped into the gate. Unfamiliar sensations swept over his body and his eyes shimmered black, so he inadvertently closed his eyes. Then, the moment he opened his eyes with a slight nausea.
“Wow!”
In Yoo-shin was above the sea.
[Time remaining until dungeon reset: 07 hours 28 minutes 31 seconds]
It is the same as being heard, but the feeling of the land and the sea is distinctly different. Surprised, when he reflexively struggled, Hyeon Gyu-ha just let go of his hand.
Fortunately, he didn't mean to drop him into the sea. In Yoo-shin crawled through the air and clung to Hyeon Gyu-ha's waist. Hyeon Gyu-ha frowned.
“I won’t drop you, so let go.”
“I-I’m scared...”
“Aren’t you afraid of me?”
“Scary.”
“Let go.”
“Scary......”
“......”
Why did the entrance of the gate open over the sea and I received the annoying glare of the first rank?
A low sigh flowed over the head of In Yoo-shin, who was desperately clinging to him while breaking out in a cold sweat. He didn't know if it's because of his gut, but today Hyeon Gyu-ha felt like he was sighing a lot.
“Let’s do it quickly and leave. Check the status window.”
“Does the status window change in dungeons?”
“If you don’t know that, why did you obediently follow me?”
“Hunter-nim told me to prove it...”
Hyeon Gyu-ha looked down at him for a moment and gestured to confirm. And the eyes of In Yoo-shin, who obediently called the status window, widened.
“The letters have changed! It never changed before!”
“How has it changed?”
On the tablet he took out again, In Yoo-shin drew and wrote.
1° 0 ¾ð.
“How does my status bar look?”
“Some of the broken letters in Hunter-nim’s status window have also been changed!”
[Hidden Attribute]
- Vampire Traits
- A hybrid between the Iron Age and this ÀC
- ̵i±Ï2
- King's illegitimate son
In Yoo-shin, who was shouting excitedly, tilted his head.
“Ah, this doesn’t seem to have changed, but it seems that the broken letters have been revealed as they were. Who are your parents?”
Hyeon Gyu-ha's face was extremely serious.
“I don’t know because I’m an orphan. I was abandoned in front of the orphanage.”
At the end of that conversation, Hyeon Gyu-ha was silent. His arms clinging tightly to his waist were gradually aching, and by the time he got used to the desolate sea where not a single seagull flew, let alone fish, his smooth lips slowly opened.
“There's nothing we can do. Let’s just date.”
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