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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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“(Keoheok?!)”
“(Uuuh?!)”
“(What….)”
At Sarang’s howl, the mercenaries who were about to attack the miko all covered their ears at once.
“(What is this…? The sound itself is an attack?!)”
Sarang had been following Lee Ha-eun and had often watched Han Geon-woo train.
Han Geon-woo had used various techniques while practicing his martial arts, and among them, Sound Art was also included.
As the saying goes, a dog at a village school recites a classic poem after three years, and so Sarang had also imitated Sound Art.
It was possible because Sarang wasn’t just a simple dog, but a Fenrir who had intelligence similar to, or even greater than, a human.
However, the level of its technique was still low.
“(Everyone, block your ears with aura or mana! Then you can counter it to some extent!)”
Unlike Han Geon-woo, who could make his opponents explode with just sound, Sarang’s Sound Art only went as far as confusing the opponents.
No, it could also be said that the level of the mercenaries, who were maintaining their senses even after being hit by both the presence of a Fenrir and the Sound Art, was outstanding.
“(I’ll take the left.)”
“(Then I’ll take the right.)”
“(Damn it! So you’re telling me to go for the front!?)”
Those who had blocked their ears with their own methods exchanged only minimal communication and moved.
And their movements were efficient and calculated.
Even the one who had complained about being assigned to the front had rushed to Sarang’s front because he knew that going to the front was the most efficient move.
“Kyaooo…!”
Sarang swung its foreleg at the mercenary who was rushing straight at it.
And Sarang’s foreleg was even imbued with internal energy….
Chwaak…!
“(Uh…?)”
The mercenary who had been rushing with great momentum and trying to block Sarang’s attack was split in half.
As one of their comrades died so futilely, the mercenaries began to get agitated one by one.
“(Crazy… Don’t tell me that was aura just now?)”
“(A monster that uses aura… A variant.)”
“(Everyone, shut up and surround it. Unless you want to die as futilely as that Takashima guy did.)”
Although they were mercenaries who specialized in dealing with humans, it wasn’t that they had never dealt with monsters before.
Among them, there were many who had dealt with powerful monsters in the past, though not on the level of Sarang.
“(Kill it!)”
As such, their agitation was brief, and they immediately took their positions and finished their preparations to hunt Sarang.
And they took out their respective weapons and swung them at the giant wolf.
Some used swords, the most popular weapon.
Some used spears.
Some used blunt weapons like maces.
Some used scythes, though they were extremely few.
Some used either a bow or a gun.
Some used magic.
Although everyone used different weapons to attack, they left no gap for Sarang to dodge.
The fact that Sarang’s body was huge was the biggest factor.
And so…
Hwi-ik…!
“(What….)”
Sarang dodged the mercenaries’ attacks by transforming into an ordinary puppy from its Fenrir form.
Naturally, the mercenaries’ attacks, which had been aimed at a huge target, all had no choice but to cut through empty air.
“(Kyaak?!)”
There was a miko who had been hiding behind Sarang and had been exposed to the attacks aimed at the giant wolf before it became small, but no one cared.
Because neither Sarang nor the mercenaries were concerned with her life or death.
Though she had managed to defend against the attacks aimed at her with a talisman, as she had some skill.
“Krr-ang…!”
“(Gyaaaaaah?!)”
“(Keok…!)”
Sarang, who had lightly dodged the attacks, became huge again and, at the same time, attacked the mercenaries who were nearby.
Some mercenaries were chewed up by its teeth.
Some mercenaries were struck by its foreleg.
Some mercenaries were torn apart by its claws.
The mercenaries who had closed the distance with Sarang to attack it died in an instant.
“(What is that movement!?)”
The mercenaries were veterans.
As such, they had read Sarang’s movements, but….
“(It’s not incredibly fast… but it’s precise.)”
Sarang had grown up always watching the movements of Han Geon-woo, Yeon Mi-rae, and the occasionally visiting Arthur.
And all three of them were strong people generally called Aura Masters.
Or experts beyond that.
Sarang had watched those three practice martial arts and had emulated their movements.
Although there were many differences between a bipedal human and a quadrupedal wolf, Sarang still had many points it could emulate.
Although its movements were merely emulated, so its level was lower than those three, but at least among the mercenaries present, there was no expert who could subdue Sarang.
“(Crazy…!)”
Sarang, as soon as it had subdued the nearby mercenaries, ran out.
The movements of Han Geon-woo, Yeon Mi-rae, and Arthur that Sarang had seen so far were not just about swinging weapons.
Lightness technique.
Since Sarang had also seen those three people move quickly, it was able to imitate their lightness technique to some extent.
Although it was just an imitation, so it wasn’t at a level that the mercenaries couldn’t respond to, still, it was a sufficient speed to break through the encirclement and run out.
“(Damn it…!)”
“(Have to run…!)”
“(Hah… To so futilely….)”
The mercenaries, whose encirclement had been broken, were killed one by one by Sarang’s claws.
Although they had resisted to some extent, it wasn’t to the point where they could injure Sarang.
And so, all the mercenaries could do was to attempt to flee, or to pray that Sarang would send them off as painlessly as possible.
“(Wow….)”
The miko was just staring blankly at Sarang’s appearance.
Although her eyes couldn’t properly follow Sarang and she was getting dizzy just trying to keep up, she could tell this one thing.
Because of Sarang alone, all the mercenaries who had been in this hotel were dying.
‘(…What a relief….)’
Although it had progressed in a slightly different direction from what she herself had thought, in the end, what was important was that the terror attack the mercenaries were trying to carry out while targeting her had ended before it even began.
If the corpses of these mercenaries were to be discovered, all the students who had come to Gyeongju for a school trip wouldn’t be able to enjoy their trip properly, but… still, it was better than being caught up in a terrorist attack.
The miko was relieved that everything had ended without a major incident.
‘(And those mercenaries… They couldn’t even hide the evidence properly, so maybe the authorities can even track down the mastermind.)’
As such, the result ended up being much better than she had expected.
As she was feeling relieved….
“Grrrrrrr….”
“(Huh…?)”
Sarang, who had finished dealing with all the mercenaries and had returned, growled at the miko.
…The miko, who saw that, realized that something was wrong.
‘(Wait a minute… My fortune was definitely ‘good and bad luck mixed’….)’
A fortune that said a good thing and a bad thing would come together.
Up until now, she had thought that the good thing was that a powerful ally would help her, and the bad thing was that a terrorist attack would occur due to the mercenaries.
But in the end, the terror attack hadn’t occurred.
‘(…It can’t be?)’
Then what was the bad thing left for her?
Seeing as the wolf that had killed all the mercenaries was growling in front of her….
‘(The bad luck, was it perhaps referring to my death…?)’
Having thought that far, the miko broke out in a cold sweat.
Yes…
‘Good and bad luck mixed’ meant that a good thing and a bad thing would come together inseparably.
If the good thing was caused by this wolf, then the bad thing would also be caused by the said wolf.
As the miko was having that thought, Sarang, before she knew it, had opened its mouth wide as if to swallow her whole.
And the miko, who felt Sarang’s teeth touch her body, thought inwardly.
‘(Aah… Father, Mother… Your daughter is leaving at a young age….)’
It was the moment when the miko had resigned herself to her fate that…
“Woof!”
“(…Woof?)”
Sarang had returned to its puppy form again.
“(…Uh, you’re not going to kill me…?)”
“Kyiing…?”
Sarang, who didn’t understand Japanese, just brought a single stick to her.
The miko, who realized that the stick was the scabbard of the sword a mercenary had been using until just a moment ago, pondered what on earth this meant, and….
“(…Don’t tell me?)”
She, with a sliver of hope, threw the scabbard as far as she could.
Then, Sarang, as if it had been waiting, ran towards the scabbard, and after picking it up when it had fallen on the floor, Sarang brought it back to the miko.
“Woof!”
“(Aha… ahahahaha….)”
She was saved.
Although she didn’t know the reason, the wolf that had been strong enough to kill all the mercenaries hadn’t killed her.
Instead, as if in return, it wanted the miko to play with it.
The miko, who realized that, was relieved.
And for Sarang, who was pestering her to play with it, she threw the scabbard that it had brought far away.
‘(Right, at least I didn’t die.)’
And so, the miko played with Sarang until it was satisfied.
For reference….
[Sarang. You can feel the residual traces left on this spell, right?]
[Then go and bite them while avoiding other people’s eyes.]
[Ah, don’t kill them… Just play with them like a toy.]
Sarang had just been faithfully following Han Geon-woo’s instructions.
…In other words, it meant that Sarang was currently treating the miko as its toy.
“(…My arm hurts….)”
“Grrrr….”
“(Hiiik?!)”
Sarang didn’t tolerate its toy disobeying it, and thanks to that, the miko had no choice but to play with Sarang all night long until it was satisfied.
Until the next morning, when the school teachers, who had realized that the miko had disappeared and had been looking for her, and the cleaning staff, who had come to work to clean the hotel, saw her and the corpses and reported it to the police.
The miko cooperated with the police’s investigation while massaging her arm, which had no strength.
The language problem wasn’t a big issue.
She was an Awakener.
And since the Awakener System’s strengthening sometime in the past, it had become easy for Awakeners to learn the languages of other countries, so it wasn’t that difficult for her to learn Korean.
Although her accent and intonation were awkward, it was at a level where the police could at least understand what she was trying to say.
“Some people forcibly dragged me here… but then a wolf suddenly appeared….”
“…A wolf?”
…Though they only understood her words.
The police who were investigating the case couldn’t make sense of what the miko was saying.
“It’s not like a ninja suddenly appeared at that moment….”
“The wounds left on the corpses could certainly be said to have been made by a giant wolf….”
They could at least understand the miko’s statement that the mercenaries had dragged her to the hotel.
Of course, this was a lie by the miko to hide the fact that she had entered the hotel on her own.
The problem was that she said that a wolf had suddenly appeared after that and had wiped out all the mercenaries.
There was no reason for the miko to lie about the wolf, and since there was evidence to support her words, it was probably true.
“Haaa… If only the nearby CCTV had been working….”
“It was probably the victims themselves who disabled all the CCTV cameras in preparation for their terror attack.”
Although a psychometry ability user was investigating the scene, it seemed that the mercenaries had been determined not to leave any evidence, so it was difficult for them to find any proper clues even with psychometry….
As the police were pondering about the case, the miko was thinking of Sarang, who had saved her and then treated her as a toy.
‘It disappeared as soon as people came.’
Sarang had disappeared as if it didn’t want to show itself to anyone other than the miko.
‘That wolf is definitely not a monster, but someone’s familiar.’
A familiar.
A being that a mage generally summoned to fill in as a front liner.
Since the miko also used a Shikigami as a familiar, she had some knowledge about familiars.
Therefore, the more she thought about that wolf, the more she couldn’t help but think it was amazing.
‘A familiar strong enough to subdue all those mercenaries….’
Generally, the mana required to maintain a familiar’s summoning was proportional to that familiar’s strength.
For that reason, the miko summoned only the weakest Shikigami and used it merely for reconnaissance.
But considering the combat power of the wolf she had seen, it was obvious that no ordinary mage would be able to handle it.
‘How strong is that mage who has that wolf as their familiar…?’
The miko suddenly recalled the moment when the talisman had burst into flames when she had used her spell.
Wondering if perhaps the being detected by her spell had been the mage who had that wolf as their familiar.
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“Kids, you have to stay quietly in your rooms today, okay?”
“Huh? Why?”
“Weren’t we going to Seokguram Grotto today?”
At the teacher’s words, the children in our class asked that.
However, the teacher just vaguely beat around the bush about the reason for the sudden schedule cancellation and didn’t give a proper explanation.
“A giant wolf might go ‘Roooar!’ and eat you up?”
What on earth did that mean…?
Amidst the children who were laughing while asking why a wolf would make such a silly sound, I briefly widened my extrasensory perception and checked the condition of the other students who were also on their school trip and were staying in this hotel.
‘…It seems like it’s the same for the other schools too.’
Their schedules had also been suddenly changed, and the story was proceeding with them either returning early or staying at the hotel for the day.
It seemed like something big had happened in Gyeongju….
If a giant gate had appeared or if there was a risk of monsters appearing because a dungeon clear had failed, the students would have been sent to a shelter, but since they weren’t doing that, it didn’t seem to be monster-related….
A terrorist attack by criminals then?
But if it were a terror attack, the students should have been sent to a shelter under the protection of Awakeners already.
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T/N – Aw, Sarang followed the MC’s instructions to the letter. How cute! Who’s the goodest boi? You are! Yes you are!
Also, I was right about the true interpretation of the miko’s fortune. Oh yeah! I wonder if this miko will be a recurring character?
Lastly, the MC is at it again. Seriously, you just sent a giant wolf out yesterday, and now, school trip schedules are being cancelled while your teacher jokes about your classmates getting eaten by a giant wolf. Wouldn’t you at least think about Sarang as soon as you heard that? 🙄
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
