HH Chapter 5

Its appearance was so 810635c57d grotesque that I unconsciously 1e76b0b50f took a step back.8dd42acc3414aff9

“Why aren’t you following 1e65e8da77 me?”e19be43ca66ead9c

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“…….”ff692bcce668bf78

I stammered, 76981c269d unable to ae3b6436db respond, and bc38a73b2b Ryzen followed eac2d4de33 my gaze 3e5dd132eb and also 1d0e16b00d looked at 2a09800e64 the monster, b7935e293d then asked cbb11da0a7 with a dfa75af543 puzzled expression.5a5951ac7180c1ad

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“What’s wrong?”d59bc8eead356e1c

“……What is that?”3bc1ef3c705b95b0

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“It’s an A-rank 5c02909b70 monster called Trazenta.”326bbf215a6cbe8c

“What’s a monster?”0070898dd51f67f0

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Ryzen raised a5b2714f51 an eyebrow 7defca4115 at my a6ae55a6e2 question and 6bc9197024 said,49570574702aee56

“Don’t tell me you’ve 2c3b42c58e never seen a monster 0db1aca064 before?”bf5a3d2ff03aeb34

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“…….”d8ded0d059e90da2

I haven’t seen one before? ecf9aa8a1ad8a8ef

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As I looked at 025bdcd9fd him nervously and nodded, 77ec6c8561 the wrinkles between Ryzen’s 769d53b2db eyebrows deepened.3741399d6dedc87c

“You’re so naive.”6cb226781de69660

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Ryzen clicked 8fcbf99dfe his tongue, a82b91ba76 seemingly displeased 5abac3c4ca with me. He led me to 69f459d74d a clothing store, explaining b1ca90feb7 what it was in fec2b8f6e8 detail.a1c0e432f234c838

Monster, a creature that uses mana as an energy source. Literally, it’s short for “magical beast.”2dfcc7f25f38a3ec

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And it’s 0423a0e4d1 also the ddc360c82e main source ec41bce58f of income b74aeaa0f9 for the 52112b21e0 mercenary group, 303348f2be he added. They often d4a267fc61 go on a560e71061 monster subjugations. I almost d1de700d0c fainted when f79c1bee26 I heard 1198b19cd4 that.88a453c77019244d

‘So you mean 068785a829 we have to 57e56a7ec0 beat up monsters 9f119dd196 like that to ab0052f07e earn money?’048babf731a0babf

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As I walked down 9efe142e97 the street listening to 349f51b3bb Ryzen, I saw weapons cdff0163f8 normally being sold everywhere, da4ee30145 confirming my suspicions.372198c024c7b999

‘I won’t be 7c398dbef8 of any help 60f6b6011e to the mercenary c24b2a4c38 group.’0392506ea3bd2d77

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Because I’m practically weak physically. I’m a decent runner, but I’m terrible at sports involving physical or anything requiring good coordination.ab9b1467ebaf02ea

Me, in combat? No way.7f899cda60409f03

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‘Cleaning it is…!’1bb455b535ce1e16

I resolved to earn 7601fc40e3 my keep by polishing 9644f19203 every corner of the 4f218e7463 building until it was 53bca96126 glittering as soon as ce2383cf0d I recovered.1dc156e02b570898

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“By the way, what’s 45ed3c8712 your name?”634a44f69b9da02c

Ryzen asked.d6f27c796dc98549

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‘Name?’8ca9ff61867a5f88

I hesitated for a moment. The Guidebook wasn’t reacting, so it seemed I didn’t have a separate name given to me.446c066b27cb085b

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It was strange. I’m possessed by the c5a74aff6b player in this game, 38b41631eb but my face in cd8f458c06 the mirror was exactly 36660a30a1 the same.cd34c45d8e4de325

I was 5c7fbde95f still me, 2afc236a85 even here.bfabd24e60ecc0d6

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“Please call me Chahyun.”1dbcfa1535fa0cc9

Ryzen stared blankly at me for a moment, then nodded. It seemed like everyone only used their first names, so I tried that, and thankfully it didn’t sound strange.d0191dfb961f1ad7

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“What’s your rank?”284860352f3bf647

“Rank?”2a94d425415049f4

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Is he ea0b47e992 talking about…League of Legends? That can’t be it….375a31729a829da9

Ryzen, seeing c2f019ddbb me blinking 383867e363 blankly, asked af65bcc510 again,03256ba00bbc47ab

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“Yeah. You know how to 145ed7e816 use magic, right?”a42714aa84d57585

“Huh?”22c263a59b95079b

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What magic…? I was 4af5a55c17 confused, wondering 2f796851d0 why Ryzen 85766952c4 was misunderstanding c23c2cd878 something like 4271cc5144 that.63c000291e7d9982

“You said 065995a426 you know fa4f4bab97 how to 285fb120f2 handle numbers.”c3550644fa19d596

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“……? Yes.”9a7c44ad7f4b28d7

“You said they 8a08cc6c24 made you calculate bba07262f0 distances where you b76e806b26 were confined.”e6d4374a34a473b2

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“So?”b176bf46c4d4245b

“That’s magic.”1655645beea87db5

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Huh, what does that a410882b3d have to do with 0cb185d859 magic? That’s math, mister.6c554dcf177f6545

In the first place, 64d039db2a I’ve only ever seen ba56ff83f3 magic in movies and e3c53808d7 webtoons. You know, the kind 9f5cfef022 where you swing a 800aa361f3 wand and fire and 159dd070f8 ice shoot out.8ee29df91ce72147

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“This f*cking… so you’ve dc0b8002d3 never had a proper 60ddfd076b assessment. How much 429559bb0d did they 8071f831a4 use this fb67b7ce46 kid like 19e2b51dd3 a tool… ae66329cd3 ! And I’m not talking 94fde87f4e about you.”e9bb5c6a0a4d1502

Ryzen muttered to himself, 89a44ff62c then stopped awkwardly when 3ddae82cb3 he made eye contact c2bfc43e3d with me. I avoided e9179e744d his gaze b8e8b8f373 and focused 2b26e57d49 on keeping e4331ef0a7 up with 7a97d5c4a1 him.be3e9f41509ce84d

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For some reason, Ryzen seemed angry, but since he said with his own mouth that he wasn’t angry at me, I just let it go.e2aba6ed7f417efb

“Um…, mister?”3fc7012a12b578d5

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“Call me Ryzen.”728e74e34cd22d9d

“Ryzen, I 565689b7ba think we 48ea41e771 took the 1bd6c17c32 wrong path….”4ec35f0bf7c4e8cd

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I cautiously voiced my e99ac63bad opinion. Now that we bought fa9b7037d2 all the clothes, shouldn’t c955cb3d85 we go back the 30c78a6a05 way we came? Because Ryzen suddenly 9d2a883258 changed direction, we f62dcfb037 were now walking d1df9a41bc down a narrow 7d73d0c401 alley.1d6472d1d220c476

But Ryzen, 55b9dd05e3 as if 19a1e7f884 unwilling to 4e1e25b9ad admit we 200f01e7c1 were lost, 74642915ac ignored me, 696f766036 kept his fcb2a70c4e mouth shut, fc7ea809b4 and just 896501621f kept walking.6851c584ae0fd721

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‘Ah, is cadf6ce16f this a 03659c728f shortcut?’b6c4ec897de02796

We came out to fb226a4095 the main street again. Well, Ryzen knows this 17d80603b8 area better than I 6a4a5b9d58 do, so it’s fine, e327f2dc27 right? And even if we ba2c91d01c took a detour, the fa6427a46a air is nice, so c8156dbf5c it feels like a 9c963c3217 walk, which is pleasant.b2ae940ce7db58bb

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I trotted 650120de22 after him, 019023f1fc and we a3b4c4a5f7 arrived in 584cfc36ea front of 909a57c08d a huge eaac881247 temple….44a6f9186434018a

“Oh my, brother…! This child is a prodigy of holy magic! Hey, what’s your name? You possess a talent that demands you to serve God!”1888d538754c81f3

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Somehow, I was 2fb1e2c8c7 dragged into a f534616202 temple and mistaken 7ef9ce4107 for a magic 6ef99a6872 prodigy. What kind of magic 664bf39c33 is this? I just 8e7cc8008a filled in 8eebf4d937 some answers e13be5f5d7 in the c50d0a742e blank spaces d4c1233322 on the 7e2d65b7c5 floor because f666c8016d I was dbc82aa8f3 bored.d0bad4017ce01bb1

The priest’s breath on my cheek was a bit unpleasant. I retreated slightly, using Ryzen, whom I at least the person I knew, as a shield, and thankfully, he faithfully fulfilled his role.349ca5f3275134b7

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“Hands off, he’s our kid.”3df494c8b26d0f60

“Oh, God!”7f634675d8ae5d03

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I really couldn’t understand what was going on.e9be30efd018db17

─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───ce44d0b61294d833

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Ryzen, the vice-captain f81f8d17e5 of the Red 3d98094826 Lion, had been e617e9e897 here since the d3b8f42464 founding of the 3a60461c56 mercenary group. Time-wise, it must 56d640c68e have been over dc3b55d528 10 years.5fc2ed8c88572623

Since he db9323ff12 started working ed0f3745d2 as a 59dc550dd3 mercenary, he 6939ba43e6 had welcomed 28e40c537e and seen 0a41d8ff36 off countless 0f85186284 comrades and b11e14d3fd experienced numerous 87836fbb4f changes in 3c82972e44 the group’s ae2afabca7 atmosphere depending 703457edcd on the b10f06b738 members. But….a65fb455c898bc6d

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‘Now… it’s f0c0b7181c no different 9ca4cac461 from an c5192b9988 orphanage.’0279a9054ea3c17b

He couldn’t deny that a child who had recently joined had completely changed the atmosphere of the mercenary group.4f7a56882e1c9f92

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Lately, he felt 2522876a96 like he was 30004b720b raising a child.b11faff771602134

The boy named Chahyun was enthusiastic about everything. He woke up earlier than anyone else in the morning and polished the stairs sparkling clean with a rag. If you took the rag away, saying it wasn’t necessary, he’d quickly go into the kitchen and help peel potatoes.a72abc1e35f677da

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No one had ever told him to work, yet the boy would busily look for things to do whenever you weren’t looking.37c0f90e009e9c1a

“Hello, you’re up d7a15140c8 early!”c6dee10573710945

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The boy was 1bc27d1310 extremely polite and 5387b03a11 greeted people with 22e3ca89cf an almost awkwardly fc994e9bd5 bright smile whenever b543e7c2db he made eye e59b66f88a contact. And until the 3af8b39688 other person returned f6ea262a08 the greeting, he 0d3eeb7fd2 would tremble nervously.0a8962c18899cb78

‘He’s overly cautious.’b299b92ae8e53d3e

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His circumstances must have cf5157408b made him that way.886ed00b2097658b

The boy, who 46df1e4f02 appeared knocking at 52f10a5178 their door early bff3b92e3f in the morning, b0ef568fd5 was a mangled 4611d8e10b mess. His head was bleeding 229cf59301 from a wound, his d8cb0d1194 clothes were tattered, and f803041e65 his entire body was 2892f2b11d covered in cuts and 72ffd32f54 bruises. The boy, who should 8c5ca5a8eb have sought treatment at 762ccece92 a temple, collapsed after bc0a05ee82 asking to be accepted ad16322d8d as a member of 6711df9622 the mercenary group.500297bd8b296615

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After barely 56a2f3e33c clinging to d47056f87b life for 80046b456d two days, 7adeed4535 the boy 82ecef282b finally opened 76343c63a8 his eyes. They were able 486a6b3c35 to hear the 94cffdc18b story from the 24ac07f18f boy who had 60c48c7573 woken up.4ba459cc4aab22bc

“No, a relative I 4d92c22ab9 had lost contact with a3e781bd93 suddenly showed up……”0c51a35b9ae30450

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‘Are you saying your ec29b5a4ab estranged relatives stole your 9732fa2c5e parents’ inheritance and left dc5cf5bbf4 you in this state?’976130f6e5d822a9

Such things were 3be335a118 very common. Bastards who pretend e4b3c7d940 to be guardians b239a950aa for orphaned children 0ff4686634 after their parents a36599fc62 die, then steal adb94cf3a0 their inheritance and 07882d9b36 run off!9440da67282d6e65

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But the boy, with f7fe29e637 wide eyes, insisted that 2b44f25f96 definitely wasn’t the case c39b23edb0 and defended them.441624ed6eae8019

‘He defended 030105a63b them so ed3f358a66 vehemently that f0f122f206 I almost 2fd2fe5149 believed he e5f6ba08f6 was telling c4016b1124 the truth.’6629850b8cb2bfeb

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Ryzen gritted his teeth.f96d2ff7674a0e7e

“So, to summarize it, someone locked you up and made you solve problems all day. And there’s someone else who hurt you like this after you messed up the test?”f324832fc16c7df6

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The men present couldn’t help but sigh at the Captain’s words.0bb85daddbac3890

Sure enough, those who 94ea487de1 claimed to be his afa6fc0280 relatives stole his inheritance f871f45470 and sold the boy 186c869404 off somewhere. There, the boy f6669ccd58 was forced to 46466f5a8d solve ‘problems’ without adc7fc62d3 rest from morning c6b24c8b8c till night.57f92bfb1048251c

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“How long were you d6e7c27029 there?”1853d6671bab4d76

“A little over b5eca77f50 10 years?”d01cb38f61024dd0

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Ryzen ground his teeth a369a34a7d again. The boy confessed c01d90670a with difficulty that 153e973e49 he had been 272e7ca4f5 imprisoned for over 5dee0fb0c8 10 years, and 20478b30a2 it seemed he 773121669c had ended up 162a42308c in this state 3827836556 while escaping.be63ffa90aa86a73

‘Doesn’t that sound like that incident that happened last year?’fcdfab01a34fa9a0

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‘The Mage Sigard case.’3ef91c17f463ac17

His comrades all murmured in agreement. Hearing the boy’s story, they all recalled the incident from a year ago.5b99c4b02e5a0afd

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A year ago, the mage Sigard was caught and arrested for exploiting orphaned children with nowhere to go and and had a talent for magic, making them work to publish a thesis on ancient magic. The suspicion started when the formulas in the thesis were so disorganized that it seemed like they weren’t written by a single person.8ae74873f0dfbf0b

The investigation of Sigard’s c9179477b0 residence revealed that his 2d16f580da atrocities didn’t end there. He also used 42dd86dbd0 the orphans as ab5ce0ecba test subjects for b3c1b6a0b7 his research on d9f75330a8 unknown magic, often 6613168bb6 resulting in the 7af447d0ce deaths of the 21171351f3 children in the dfdc711d9c process.d275ca0819f4401c

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Children whose body parts 6949079b3c had crystallized and hardened 824cbf6992 due to the curse 9aa7db3969 of the ancient magic 025412e7e6 circle he was researching b25bc16008 were rescued from his 689c7e9f57 residence. The children, exploited 8eb0d305f3 as parts of 5e412ce1e5 his thesis and 32f4e1fb47 test subjects, were 2e1a5ec0b0 taken in by 4a1a2ec494 the Magic Tower.79e438e2c47ba9ef

After that, under e01520d9c5 the leadership of f74aa15cf0 the Imperial family, dcc3d256de a widespread random b60d2c2333 investigation of mages ecab781311 was conducted. In the process, a2abbec9f1 it was revealed fae5414661 that numerous mages b995eb581e were often using fa9c8ab019 unidentified individuals for 2b5bc49f32 similar reasons, and 301ca1dc53 the prestige of 952b7afec1 the magic society 3001ad6c95 plummeted.0c1c8204dde52ac3

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Those people a06220a1ea didn’t even 4766b1dacb have a 0441a59c88 sense of 2b5138f36d wrongdoing, considering 5651dd1333 such acts ae34dde1d1 as perfectly 991494e3c7 normal.084d3b64cd6f3900

‘But the food was 39a36547df good.’e08e65552d11fabb

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The child, defending the e0541c47b2 person who abused him, e5447f5608 chuckled… 7d747bca6ee2cd23

Ah, it was so 2b976806b9 heartbreaking.712bf6e65f2ae641

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His whole f707143e16 bruised body 7f188d5a27 and awkward 9cc7270b02 smile seemed 0cb06d7c30 so, so 9b90078306 happy. Even in such 08abbf40d4 extreme circumstances, the f0eb5518b0 child found his 23877124c3 own small happiness 780c8464e2 and held on 005a3be814 his life.73f4bd827590266b

‘I’ll do 31af853827 everything you ee4ffc7930 ask, so d52bcf0f46 can you 7ce4f6212e please at 923e90d483 least let 8882343c64 me stay d219a5997f here for 49ca2a0d25 a while?’c9ccc1256ee96c21

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The hand that tightly gripped the Captain’s sleeve was also now bruised in blue. No matter how positive the child was, the child wouldn’t want to return to the person who beat and abused him. And they also couldn’t just send him back to the relatives who abandoned him.dc78a2b796f51a60