HH Chapter 5

Its appearance was 833adec903 so grotesque that fde12183fc I unconsciously took ce5b6025b9 a step back.367feca564e3c527

“Why aren’t you 35cb12bfa4 following me?”4b485530a815c5ac

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“…….”4c496442450f595b

I stammered, unable 4df7126cdf to respond, and c225fedf17 Ryzen followed my dfcceb4579 gaze and also c82bb56c39 looked at the 6ebd7d2a92 monster, then asked 57e7070c65 with a puzzled cb67216af5 expression.eb1775afea71a946

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“What’s wrong?”a261c5fa4e6234b5

“……What is that?”25108389214204cf

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“It’s an A-rank b2664a4b68 monster called Trazenta.”c0cbc6c25fe40269

“What’s a monster?”65ee999b6a8ca291

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Ryzen raised 1a204df0a1 an eyebrow 1cd8bdd7ac at my 25f2f4c9b8 question and 19fcee3e68 said,b4f2caedc3cd9c9d

“Don’t tell me 1283e6e303 you’ve never seen e3abef6a57 a monster before?”3c3881f1622a4e06

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“…….”ac0a9842453af5b3

I haven’t seen one before? 679af806d77aff31

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As I looked at 92572f9e66 him nervously and nodded, 0b4e7648cf the wrinkles between Ryzen’s 325b5d5ec8 eyebrows deepened.01c9968732234ddc

“You’re so naive.”0a46838563dced3a

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Ryzen clicked his 6012dd75bc tongue, seemingly displeased 40801fc99d with me. He led me to 21333a0425 a clothing store, explaining 11ae937ba5 what it was in 4f57d55273 detail.47475706f28c56ea

Monster, a creature that uses mana as an energy source. Literally, it’s short for “magical beast.”026657a81b982a9a

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And it’s 1a11d2064c also the ac3275cc8a main source 18d794d801 of income 1fe2a5e9fa for the 9a4cdaa0ea mercenary group, 2ff905a813 he added. They often go 85f87bd904 on monster subjugations. I almost 8bbbf197a0 fainted when 73aaa04866 I heard 6df21e4c51 that.547e50f3aaaefdf5

‘So you mean we a6b96bdb16 have to beat up 78ff71bfef monsters like that to 9bf85c1217 earn money?’945bcfbae11308e2

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As I walked down 84e54e10a0 the street listening to 1a3fe32785 Ryzen, I saw weapons f0404daca6 normally being sold everywhere, 346cb59cf4 confirming my suspicions.7e12cd45ebbad261

‘I won’t 89c35e1887 be of 90df5a50c4 any help 195a22e4a9 to the 72f8513be4 mercenary group.’83306d9d2752e05a

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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.8e7085ca3408f79e

Me, in combat? No way.6a27277265851933

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‘Cleaning it is…!’f027831a8308a31f

I resolved 0482ad45e7 to earn 2ac427bfeb my keep f7fbd1c215 by polishing 4bf48508a9 every corner a9dbbe7264 of the ceb8e47900 building until 027ed5eee9 it was c00ee62bb0 glittering as f1245b2559 soon as b40f773404 I recovered.835a3678e4b2f9b3

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“By the b5699cd3f5 way, what’s f904fcfb5f your name?”e1d27961fc207ddb

Ryzen asked.2af570a9b593131b

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‘Name?’48574967a42d34b6

I hesitated for a moment. The Guidebook wasn’t reacting, so it seemed I didn’t have a separate name given to me.f901481f039695b0

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It was strange. I’m possessed by de8b0d4856 the player in 1baaad4f3c this game, but 107a28df77 my face in 882bad2eed the mirror was 3c04b3fdbc exactly the same.76684a0797380e2f

I was 68a2263ab8 still me, 371480a409 even here.2781cc4a172a39be

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“Please call me 375d4cd574 Chahyun.”5fda6284a38f1a01

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.32c4c0fbc31b84c8

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“What’s your rank?”d7fb704679dd99ed

“Rank?”6e4a1036ebb27674

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Is he talking 7d7e12b803 about…League of Legends? That can’t be it….5049a52edc04f138

Ryzen, seeing me blinking 84076f3e0d blankly, asked again,33f78c931f152a5e

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“Yeah. You know b4cd29b4de how to 8966dff67e use magic, f06308e22d right?”ecc16c2b047ae28e

“Huh?”3f9355cd66ff190d

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What magic…? I was 1220f1d23e confused, wondering b98487a82f why Ryzen cbf8eef9fd was misunderstanding 24ef700a20 something like f0df940b03 that.f7683aa12b6152a5

“You said you know ac5f88360f how to handle numbers.”1b595780a2272e59

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“……? Yes.”6a7f0a740a37b8df

“You said 0c7c992cb5 they made b18652d368 you calculate 7fdb5c2bdd distances where 55ebad39df you were e7731cd21a confined.”c992d09d8b071889

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“So?”0f788674d9020089

“That’s magic.”24c051adcc9785fe

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Huh, what does 7486d56fba that have to ddfd13fbe5 do with magic? That’s math, mister.1c58397824254c93

In the first place, 2fd7061fd3 I’ve only ever seen 2b38b4ed87 magic in movies and c2e11955ff webtoons. You know, the kind b25c5a47dd where you swing a ed2e4db372 wand and fire and a12aa605cf ice shoot out.c05a27da13e9d4a5

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“This f*cking… ab2d903bbb so you’ve 906b821a0c never had e601811df2 a proper ce4ed9b438 assessment. How much fbe338cdd9 did they 56cde7186b use this ceccb06230 kid like 1390a8458a a tool… a5d5b79ee7 ! And I’m not talking 2f25f3a470 about you.”f28172f95d06da2a

Ryzen muttered df8fb3989f to himself, 4dfc16cafa then stopped 4359bad748 awkwardly when 9ebb6493b6 he made 3727bcf79a eye contact ac8964da42 with me. I avoided c51b699d21 his gaze c95fd708df and focused 0b868eb235 on keeping d232fe1bb9 up with 2c52090380 him.88b3082aa283208a

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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.554f9b85a462238d

“Um…, mister?”87c3519eadd0ead7

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“Call me Ryzen.”d161138a52666533

“Ryzen, I 0736982696 think we e30103c779 took the e3e225cf84 wrong path….”37288023322aa504

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I cautiously 5562686eeb voiced my 624f828946 opinion. Now that 92664f8e1b we bought ad7910eccc all the 6fd157618d clothes, shouldn’t 9d5b950295 we go fd77cd7015 back the bd9a31ae4e way we 0871d13c52 came? Because Ryzen suddenly changed cf40418e8b direction, we were now 90bcc32553 walking down a narrow 6e43a2ca96 alley.4790c70c02b8cc63

But Ryzen, 2812b3dac9 as if c29f9c5cfe unwilling to 4dc8086e5b admit we b4f782123f were lost, 95aea48a59 ignored me, e33cbbfb06 kept his 3ca7edbd13 mouth shut, c4d3cc7605 and just 58ac2c1b5b kept walking.26b898a24d307e83

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‘Ah, is c2334aa0a6 this a 343de40323 shortcut?’346305f909d67ba6

We came out to 967f3bf2ba the main street again. Well, Ryzen b6c71e9611 knows this ff1fe54d9b area better a839a04dab than I 91743509d3 do, so 8231434474 it’s fine, 026a5caaeb right? And even 0cd22452af if we 4f74b3c0d3 took a a95158b7bd detour, the 1b5327c2ce air is 86289e2e16 nice, so 9f9416f597 it feels 410b4f6c61 like a 253fe72d41 walk, which 6dce49b466 is pleasant.6b0284af37fd2181

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I trotted after him, a4689ef5bd and we arrived in 9f93c61645 front of a huge ceffe31d7a temple….42cd73d30172cfce

“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!”9a3b8fa883471fa4

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Somehow, I c55e5868b7 was dragged d99378020b into a 5c97b3e23c temple and 379fd1460c mistaken for 20c6e4a8c2 a magic 931c5f0f21 prodigy. What kind of a5aed35251 magic is this? I just filled a824ea9c1a in some answers 5ec2ddb09d in the blank 574c9d25f3 spaces on the 51ad5b361e floor because I bfd5d494eb was bored.048d6fd05e43983c

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.07b4462364f0dd2e

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“Hands off, he’s our kid.”8c926597d331c8a0

“Oh, God!”216d8b8534683f7c

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I really couldn’t understand what was going on.2779e1fecb3c2036

─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───dba3629f587957a0

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Ryzen, the 38a2d89c90 vice-captain of a865ec2008 the Red 2ea96f05a1 Lion, had 4a1e7cdb0f been here 66a990afef since the ab8d01bf5c founding of 8a392a0542 the mercenary 72420845fe group. Time-wise, it must 7f5c5592d7 have been over 21ae0ebf00 10 years.bd221c104a4cca2d

Since he started working 56159ad77f as a mercenary, he c9e9e2a284 had welcomed and seen ede4340175 off countless comrades and 76d0a922bf experienced numerous changes in 9eceae763a the group’s atmosphere depending 9432286778 on the members. But….95e84d0edf794c2b

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‘Now… it’s e45cead32c no different eb2c4e3bf6 from an 8c9e7eac87 orphanage.’8f0c1cb79a6f9968

He couldn’t deny that a child who had recently joined had completely changed the atmosphere of the mercenary group.bf1c176d83108d25

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Lately, he 34d72bd259 felt like a9e12a3068 he was 8ff8697a2a raising a a12e568658 child.9eadc03cdd917f30

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.b34014d4359b5ee7

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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.4cf83543d8c23a5e

“Hello, you’re efacc34a26 up early!”589dc9f507cd1df5

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The boy ac45c9ec32 was extremely c5de7fb67e polite and 1e729b1de6 greeted people 353fd0b96d with an 742fc85dae almost awkwardly c59748ca0a bright smile 45376ea404 whenever he da24e8e559 made eye 9c6aa3e960 contact. And until the other 31e5ceeb49 person returned the greeting, ba37750562 he would tremble nervously.b66752bec340e4c2

‘He’s overly cautious.’f4a4db6e9a03bf56

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His circumstances must have d48d16109c made him that way.f3fc058581701908

The boy, who appeared 80163ad26d knocking at their door e75239c254 early in the morning, 4d8cdcc08f was a mangled mess. His head cf8cadc17a was bleeding 5b352fcb6f from a 7cac62725d wound, his c306210c58 clothes were 2bde5ca6e5 tattered, and f0f3b270a8 his entire c6df3420ac body was b1f4bb414e covered in 6de7facb1a cuts and 7ca8f88c0c bruises. The boy, who 04ae6e6f9a should have sought 97cf65ce76 treatment at a da6f5b2723 temple, collapsed after 06e3d0891d asking to be f69bc8030c accepted as a ea150941f9 member of the 6a98700537 mercenary group.5313edf18f93d436

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After barely clinging c35d5849fe to life for 98a3024f1a two days, the c286dcb5b7 boy finally opened 579ee30fd8 his eyes. They were bf50ba0a3b able to 69bb081b9c hear the e8b880cfd0 story from 0cd9be6e7c the boy 2bc838728c who had 728bc5b69e woken up.047f156c2daaaf83

“No, a 8385c10419 relative I 3de146c864 had lost 30cfe09e9d contact with 6e610ac1f3 suddenly showed e5da23fc77 up……”b62c8158cbab764c

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‘Are you saying your 9f72a19812 estranged relatives stole your a803c3d941 parents’ inheritance and left 3d8b6e41ea you in this state?’05fb5066393c9bb0

Such things were very bb86ce58d3 common. Bastards who 06b31d9640 pretend to feeff28db8 be guardians fc5122ff02 for orphaned d83a513205 children after fe4882100d their parents f924759f2f die, then e14567363d steal their c71e364343 inheritance and 6798ee137a run off!8e9b676c390476ac

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But the boy, with 90c626a513 wide eyes, insisted that 02a3091e77 definitely wasn’t the case 248786b701 and defended them.05fd0101bcd20dba

‘He defended them 060d10385a so vehemently that c5f7300657 I almost believed a36b1d78a4 he was telling 6d7f0a26d2 the truth.’ab60582f1a9a6de4

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Ryzen gritted his 8eadc93cf7 teeth.61665b0b3b7e16e2

“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?”a640b623d9fe95c3

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The men present couldn’t help but sigh at the Captain’s words.e3622e0e4621fca9

Sure enough, those who f0dc4b4764 claimed to be his 7856d5a0e4 relatives stole his inheritance 72c79e9605 and sold the boy 9f31c03fc2 off somewhere. There, the boy was 994b299001 forced to solve ‘problems’ 875473ab79 without rest from morning 1b0a0fcbfc till night.64fd98e16cf402ea

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“How long were 080d8285d7 you there?”a7b8716633f62975

“A little 18f7b9b393 over 10 1962437ddd years?”cf3d6b81bed6c447

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Ryzen ground his 63baa02afc teeth again. The boy 0708346d44 confessed with 4e6f8576ba difficulty that 6a7f00eb53 he had 21c21a6aa4 been imprisoned f882c9de4a for over 9fa8cc9ee8 10 years, f0d15ae20f and it 171413955b seemed he 8e73bd76c0 had ended edf45c6e82 up in b3defcfbdd this state bef641d088 while escaping.4511da341a357558

‘Doesn’t that sound like that incident that happened last year?’7989f885a4a86bde

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‘The Mage Sigard case.’1a055413ddc543c8

His comrades all murmured in agreement. Hearing the boy’s story, they all recalled the incident from a year ago.3f44d4e75f7de9df

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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.06645341e0394e09

The investigation 465e21708b of Sigard’s 7871fe1dcd residence revealed 468fa8fbf2 that his a4f298eedb atrocities didn’t a2188fc605 end there. He also used the 6a54943c13 orphans as test subjects 7d324b1146 for his research on 050c5b8671 unknown magic, often resulting d3ec99d367 in the deaths of a1047c1ceb the children in the 1d63020662 process.09e2845babe9faa8

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Children whose body parts ff93dcbf5b had crystallized and hardened 07de86ea9e due to the curse a8268084cb of the ancient magic e86dcc4e3a circle he was researching b78a8ee877 were rescued from his d0b373f979 residence. The children, 7bdeb731f4 exploited as 9d1e11c1e4 parts of 546109066d his thesis c41346a670 and test bb1fb08cc8 subjects, were 91084bcf08 taken in ee3e2fe2af by the 12604637ce Magic Tower.36239eea3b3e141c

After that, under 35e58ba1e0 the leadership of e73ff99ba9 the Imperial family, c92f5ef4e2 a widespread random f25d6ba0dc investigation of mages 4918581d0e was conducted. In the process, it 129f8a20a2 was revealed that numerous 3d6d9b1b5c mages were often using aeb21a9299 unidentified individuals for similar a525e38fae reasons, and the prestige 6aba6bc47f of the magic society 2d381ada50 plummeted.fb11b6f81b5d3d0a

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Those people didn’t fd63f8d440 even have a ccf56fdbaf sense of wrongdoing, d207f4d03a considering such acts 4b076eb76f as perfectly normal.9504988a0bdad548

‘But the food was 4ab72e1b85 good.’8bbc3eb1736a0a99

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The child, 0e3d8ba5f5 defending the 2836debc54 person who 6e53707979 abused him, 3ce7a1e54a chuckled… ac57c16688137db9

Ah, it was so b74523be13 heartbreaking.eef924950f41a2e2

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His whole bruised 43bfa4142e body and awkward 3d7f7d5633 smile seemed so, 8203e62a14 so happy. Even in such extreme 076a5ae6ba circumstances, the child found 568ab338df his own small happiness 253112ebf5 and held on his 105798bd43 life.c577524b05e049bc

‘I’ll do everything b5308de6f6 you ask, so 2cf674f8dd can you please cb39b1f646 at least let bf46f9b9e3 me stay here 209d5e9a47 for a while?’e4ee9692934f7719

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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.519cc27b665b415a