Give Me a Hug

Give Me a Hug

After the awakening ended like that, the suspicious viewer asked me to tell them my wish content, but

Since my wish was an extremely embarrassing one like ‘I hope people need me’,

I shook my head while hiding my reddening face, crumpling it up, and the suspicious viewer naturally moved on to the next topic as if they hadn’t asked the question.

[RichAndSuspicious – Using the wish you made as a hint, it might be good to try various activities.]

… I feel sorry as much as I’m grateful.

I nodded while hesitating,

Then to shake off the embarrassment, I decided to act as the suspicious viewer said and awkwardly straightened my back.

‘Then… what should I do?’

Since ‘something people need’ was the central content,

Rather than doing things on my own, it seemed better to check my trait while interacting with other people.

Thinking that, I fell into thought for a moment while looking at Chae-a clinging to me.

‘Hmm. What do people need…? Food? Clothes? Money?’

Wondering if it’s an ability that can create such things,

I wished in my heart to create what Chae-a needs, but nothing special happened.

“I like contractor too…!”

As our eyes met,

Chae-a seemed to think this was my expression of affection and giggled while snuggling into me again.

I was patting Chae-a who was rubbing her head against my chest and trying to find another method when

“Ha-eun, congratulations on your awakening.”

Han A-rin, who had returned at some point, approached me with a gentle smile.

“… Hehe.”

Somehow feeling embarrassed to say thank you, I bowed deeply.

Thinking that they say you get used to praise the more you receive it, but wondering why I’m not getting used to it, I was wagging my tail gently…

‘Oh.’

I was surprised to see my tail swinging behind me.

I’m not sure if it happened to move in agreement with my tail or if it moved by my intention, but

If it was the former, it meant I could control my tail at will, so I felt a needless expectation rise, but

My tail, whether knowing my feelings or not,

Didn’t listen at all even when I mentally shouted to stop now, and swayed even faster than before.

[SherbetSmoothie – Ha-eun seems to be in a really good mood ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Look at her tail wagging.]

[MileageThief – Ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s really cute.]

[WhatIsMimeMeoim – So what’s this awakened trait?]

Trying hard to endure the urge to hide my face from embarrassment,

I grabbed my tail with both hands and held it as tightly as possible to prevent it from moving.

Thinking it’s wiggling but soft so it doesn’t hurt, I was holding it when Han A-rin looked at me and said,

“So Ha-eun, have you found out what your trait is?”

I shook my head side to side at that question.

Han A-rin picked me up and looked around.

“Then it might be good to find out with unnie. Since this is a training ground, let’s try various tests.”

“Yes…!”

“So what kind of trait did you wish for?”

At that question, just like with the suspicious viewer, I couldn’t say anything and only wagged my tail gently.

The training ground was filled with all kinds of tools and structures to prepare for various situations.

At first my eyes were drawn to them because they looked cool and flashy, but

“No. It’s dangerous over there.”

Because Han A-rin firmly prohibited it,

We were only allowed to stay on the mat we were on earlier.

‘When I get stronger, I want to go over there too.’

Mountain climbing looked fun, dodging arrows looked fun, and facing a hundred golems looked fun too.

My gaze kept turning that way, but not wanting to disobey my benefactor Han A-rin, I forced myself to shake my head pretending not to.

‘It’s better not to do things you’re told not to do.’

Thinking this was a mature thought I could have because I’m an adult, I was about to do a forward roll on the mat when

My tail kept stretching towards the dangerous training facilities,

Indicating to me that we should go there.

Feeling like I might get dragged along by my tail at this rate, I hugged my tail and was lightly nibbling on it to scold it when

Chae-a saw this and clung to me, starting to nibble on my tail.

“What are you babies doing?”

As we were nibbling on the tail for a while,

Han A-rin approached us trying to hold back laughter and asked what we were doing.

I barely came to my senses at those words and shook my head quickly.

“We, we were just resting.”

“I see? Rest is really important indeed.”

At the words that rest is important, the chat window scrolled up quickly again.

[IHateDentists – Han A-rin says rest is good? The hunter famous for hating taking rest?]

[RollingForwardRoll – That’s right ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ She’s probably lying to make the babies rest? Cute.]

[BlehSeaAnemone – Babies, take it easy ㅠㅠ Unnie got osteoporosis because she didn’t take it easy.]

Han A-rin, perhaps wanting to prevent me from seeing the chat, subtly moved her body to cover the phone.

It was a meaningless action since I had already seen the chat, but

Thinking it would be better to pretend I hadn’t seen it, I just nibbled on my tail.

‘Then what experiment should I try next?’

Thinking it’s still hard to grasp because it’s abstract, I pondered and then

Wondering if there needs to be contact with people, I slowly approached Han A-rin and carefully held the tip of her finger.

“… Ha-eun?”

I saw Han A-rin looking very surprised yet pleased.

I looked at Han A-rin like that, wondering if anything had changed, but

‘There’s nothing.’

After confirming there was no change, I became dejected.

‘Then what could it really be…?’

Thinking I had no idea at all, I was closing my eyes when

“Kyaaa!”

A small scream was heard from the side, and I saw someone grabbing their leg and falling down.

Startled by that sight, I tried to approach to help, but

“No. It’s dangerous.”

Han A-rin said no and grabbed my body.

I waved my hands at Han A-rin like that and said,

“… If there’s a hurt person, we should help…!”

At those words, Han A-rin seemed to remember something and flinched, glancing to the side,

After confirming there were no cruel scenes, she nodded.

[BulgogiBurger – I wonder if she’s saying we should help because she remembers being in that prison…?]

[Nerororne – Seems right ㄷㄷㄷ. I heard she was abused in the prison too, so she’s probably overlapping her own experience.]

[DragonsAreNotLizards – It seems like an excessive leap, but… considering the situation, it seems right.]

It seems like everyone is misunderstanding.

I wanted to explain that ‘helping hurt people is natural’, but

What’s important now was helping that person rather than explaining, so I moved my short legs as fast as I could towards the injured person and spoke.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be a serious injury.

The skin was just slightly scraped.

Still, thinking it must hurt, I was worried when laughter was heard from the side.

“Hey Mi-yeon, you’re a hunter now and you scream over a small injury?”

“Look at the baby running over in surprise. Mi-yeon, you’re making her tear up.”

“Ha-eun, this stupi… no, unnie isn’t badly hurt, so don’t worry too much.”

Hearing those words, I was hesitating, wondering if I had been too meddlesome, when

A man beside me spoke to me with a playful smile.

“Ha-eun. Give unnie a hug so she gets better quickly.”

The first to react to those words was the hunter named Mi-yeon who was injured earlier.

She gave a thumbs up to the man and smiled brightly.

The man also looked at her and started sending some kind of signal by making a finger heart.

‘… What are they doing?’

Thinking I didn’t really understand, I was about to grab my swaying tail and turn back, but

Because the hunter named Mi-yeon said loudly, “Ah, it hurts so much. I wish Ha-eun would give me a hug soon,” I had to stop.

As I was watching this, not knowing what to do because I was flustered,

The hunter named Mi-yeon seemed to find my flustered state cute and kept trying to hold back laughter while pretending to cry to me.

“Boo-hoo, unnie hurts and wants to get a hug quickly.”

At those words, jeers poured from around telling her to stop acting cute, but

Mi-yeon kept repeating this regardless and pointed to her knee.

Thinking I couldn’t stand any more embarrassment, I tried my best to calm my about-to-burst face and gave a hug to her knee.

The moment I hugged the injured area like that,

Completely unexpectedly, the wound healed rapidly in an instant, getting better all at once.

“Huh?”

Everyone was surprised at that result and looked at me.

As I was feeling embarrassed by those gazes yet bewildered looking at the wound that had healed cleanly,

Han A-rin stepped forward, picked me up, and returned to where we were originally.

[RichAndSuspicious – It’s a healing trait. And it seems to be not just ordinary healing, but top-class healing.]

[HelloHameowng – Aren’t there not many people with healing skills? As far as I know, I heard just having healing abilities gets you VIP treatment.]

[WuggleWuggle – That’s a bit of an exaggeration, usually you get that treatment from advanced healing and above ㅇㅇ. But Ha-eun seems to have at least advanced healing ability, so Ha-eun will probably receive VIP treatment.]

In the chat window, discussions about my ability were pouring in.

Seeing this, I realized my trait was healing and unconsciously smiled.

I thought that maybe I could be helpful to other people.

As I was thinking that and looking at my hands,

Han A-rin, who was holding me, smiled and then turned her gaze towards the phone and subtly added a word.

“Unnie intends to protect Ha-eun no matter what happens. If there are people approaching Ha-eun with strange intentions, not just unnie but all the magicians of the magic tower will make that person their enemy. Ha-eun doesn’t need to worry about anything, okay?”

It was a somewhat out-of-context, abrupt story, so I was momentarily puzzled, but

Seeing Han A-rin speaking while looking at the phone, I could realize that all this was a ‘warning’.

“And Perseus said he wanted to meet Ha-eun too. Shall we go meet him soon?”

I wonder who Perseus is?

Not sure, but thinking he probably isn’t a bad person, I nodded.