Chapter 36 The Rampaging Wolf

A Red Gate suddenly appeared while shopping with Park Jin-ha.

I ended up falling into it along with Park Jin-ha and An Se-ah.
“Ugh…”

My head felt like it was throbbing.

When falling into the gate, it seems I hit my head quite hard.

Fortunately, thanks to my Hero body, there were no external injuries, but it was difficult to gather my senses for a while.

Still, I was able to recover quickly and was now up examining the situation.

It was a place like a dark cave.

Moreover, it was inside a gate that felt quite large and dangerous.

“Of all things… a Red Gate.”

A Red Gate.

A high-risk gate that could range from at least A-class to as severe as SS-class.

The dangerous aspect of such a gate is that it can appear anywhere at any time and suck people in, and.

Once you enter, no one else can enter until it’s cleared.

Because of that, people go missing due to Red Gates at least once every few years.

One can only hope that such gates don’t appear too often.

The probability of being struck by lightning while walking?

In fact, the probability of getting caught in a Red Gate is low, but…

Now that I’m actually experiencing it myself, probabilities don’t really mean much.

“Jin-ha. Are you conscious?”

I shook Park Jin-ha who was collapsed beside me.

I couldn’t just leave her sleeping forever.

But.

“Ugh…”

It seems Park Jin-ha is in a very bad state right now.

Park Jin-ha was clutching her leg and suffering in pain.

Looking at Park Jin-ha’s leg, I could see some blood and it appeared red and swollen.

This looks like a crack or possibly a fracture if severe.

“Hey. Jin-ha, are you okay?”

“Si… Si-woo… my… my leg…”

“Don’t move too much. I’ll give you first aid.”

I took off my top and wrapped it around Park Jin-ha’s leg to prevent further strain.

This should at least be safe until we get to a hospital.

“Si-woo… what should we do. Like this… I don’t think I can fight. Si-woo… ugh… I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s okay.”

“But… it’s a Red Gate, and I’m… not being helpful…”

During the treatment, Park Jin-ha’s expression was not good.

Park Jin-ha began apologizing to me.

Given the special situation of being in a Red Gate now, she seems to feel guilty about not being able to contribute to our fighting power.

Indeed, due to the nature of Red Gates, we don’t know what dimensional creatures will appear.

In this situation, Park Jin-ha being unable to fight is quite a significant loss.

“Well, it shouldn’t matter, right? I’m here, and there’s also S-class 9th rank An Se-ah over there.”

But it doesn’t seem to particularly matter.

Because I’m stronger than expected now.

Moreover, even if it’s a situation I can’t handle alone, it doesn’t seem to matter.

Right now, we have another S-class hunter with us.

An Se-ah, the 9th ranked S-class, was it?

Though outwardly she’s a girl with golden hair who looks gentle, as the 9th ranked S-class power, she’s undoubtedly quite strong.

“Right? An Se-ah?”

I smiled looking at An Se-ah.

From now on, we two have to fight our way through, so this was a greeting of sorts.

Grrr…!

However, An Se-ah, who was watching me from a distance, responded to my words with a threat.

Looking at An Se-ah, I could see her beast-person ears and tail standing upright as she made beast-like sounds while staring at me.

It seems I’m being wary of by An Se-ah right now.

After the Red Gate occurred, the department store’s first-floor luxury section was almost destroyed.

And along with the damage recovery work, Min Seo-jin summoned guild members and was standing in front of the Red Gate.

“Haah…”

Min Seo-jin’s expression as she stood at the Red Gate was extremely anxious.

Unable to bear the anxiety, Min Seo-jin sighed deeply.

Of all times for this to happen, Min Seo-jin couldn’t help but be bewildered by the current situation.

She had just taken a moment out of the always busy [Witch’s Temptation] guild to enjoy some shopping.

For it to be not just any gate, but a Red Gate that burst open, it’s truly no exaggeration to say she was unlucky.

Moreover, the fact that she got separated from An Se-ah, known as the Explosive Wolf, the 9th ranked S-class, contributed the most to Min Seo-jin’s anxiety.

Min Seo-jin was very worried about An Se-ah right now.

An Se-ah, the 9th ranked S-class power.

She was still an unfinished product.

She’s incredibly strong, but there’s still a problem—An Se-ah doesn’t know how to control her power.

Usually, Min Seo-jin controls her power on her behalf.

But without Min Seo-jin now, there’s no telling what An Se-ah might do.

Therefore, if she were to rampage… it would be irreversible.

Not only the two people who were sucked into the gate, but An Se-ah herself would surely collapse, unable to withstand her own rampage.

“Really…”

Min Seo-jin continued with a worried expression.

“Oh my. Guild Master Min Seo-jin, hello?”

And as Min Seo-jin was wearing such a worried expression, a figure approached her.

Golden hair, and a beautiful woman wearing a nun’s habit with a benevolent smile, Saint Reytana.

“Reytana. Why are you here?”

“Oh my. Don’t be so wary. I’m starting to feel hurt.”

When Min Seo-jin saw Reytana, her expression began to rot.

Min Seo-jin knows very well what kind of person Reytana is.

A person whose outside and inside are different; Min Seo-jin herself isn’t in a position to talk, but Reytana was extreme in that regard.

That’s why Min Seo-jin is always like this when she sees Reytana.

And naturally, Reytana also knows Min Seo-jin very well.

About what kind of human experiments the Witch’s Temptation guild conducts to become stronger.

Reytana was wearing a mask now, showing the same business smile as usual.

But as guild masters of competing large guilds, their relationship is very bad.

They were guild masters of two large guilds who thought of each other as disgusting.

“Reytana. I don’t know if you’re looking for an opportunity, but leave right now.”

“Why should I?”

“Get out of here right now. You have nothing to do with this. I’m staying because of my guild member.”

“Huhut. I’m afraid I’m the same. I’m staying because of my acquaintance too. The most important person of our Order guild was sucked into the gate.”

Min Seo-jin raised her guard watching Reytana.

A killing intent as if a fight could break out at any moment, that was the level of her wariness.

Reytana was the same. She was ready to fight Min Seo-jin right now.

A situation on the brink of explosion.

“Sigh… do as you please.”

“I intend to.”

But fortunately, a fight didn’t break out.

Min Seo-jin was the first to lower her guard.

From her standpoint, right after the S-class 9th rank Explosive Wolf An Se-ah was sucked into the gate, that alone was considerable stress, so she didn’t have the luxury to fight with Reytana.

Reytana didn’t particularly want to fight either.

When Min Seo-jin lowered her guard, Reytana also began to lower hers.

Reytana was smiling slightly.

“By the way, I’m surprised you came in person? Do you like Park Jin-ha that much?”

After lowering her guard, Min Seo-jin deflated.

Min Seo-jin also knows that Reytana is targeting Park Jin-ha.

Among the large guilds, Park Jin-ha is a super-premium asset right now.

It was natural to infer that Reytana came to a place like this because of such a Park Jin-ha.

“Pardon? What do you mean?”

“Aren’t you here because of Park Jin-ha?”

“Huhut. Of course not.”

But when Reytana smiled as if it was not at all the case, Min Seo-jin couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Then…?”

“The reason I came here is because of Si-woo.”

When Min Seo-jin asked, Reytana answered the reason.

The purpose of Reytana coming here was because of Lee Si-woo.

The news that Lee Si-woo had been sucked into the Red Gate.

‘As the master’s faithful dog, it’s natural to rush over when the master is in danger…!’

With such a mindset, Reytana had hurriedly rushed over.

“Were you in that kind of relationship with Si-woo? Ahaha. I didn’t know.”

“Huhut. Our relationship is deeper than you think.”

When Min Seo-jin saw such a Reytana, she could roughly guess.

The fact that Reytana liked Si-woo.

Min Seo-jin thought of the relationship between Reytana and Si-woo as a romantic one.

And thinking that way, Min Seo-jin found Reytana too trivial.

“Ahaha. After acting so noble, you’re dating just a retired A-class? The Saint isn’t much after all.”

Seeing Reytana speaking like a girl in love, Min Seo-jin burst into a snicker.

After laughing out loud, Min Seo-jin looked at Reytana pathetically.

Behind the scenes she pulls strings, but in front, she’s the most noble and pure Saint, and yet she rushes over like this because of just one man.

The sight of the Saint, who is usually devout and lives only for God, acting like this was, from Min Seo-jin’s perspective, a spectacle of arrogance.

From Min Seo-jin’s standpoint, she had nothing to give but mockery at the pathetic appearance of a being she had considered a rival.

“Ahahahaha. The Witch Guild Master still doesn’t know anything. How amazing Si-woo is.”

But towards such a Min Seo-jin, Reytana instead mocked Min Seo-jin much more.

Reytana just found it funny.

The very fact that an ignorant person who doesn’t know Si-woo’s value would say such things.

“No matter how amazing, it doesn’t matter. Si-woo will die inside the gate anyway.”

“Pardon? What do you mean by that?”

Min Seo-jin found such a Reytana strange, but her original thought didn’t change.

Because of the presence of the S-class 9th rank Explosive Wolf An Se-ah who entered together.

“There’s a guild member of ours named An Se-ah who entered the gate with your Si-woo. She possesses the 9th S-class rank.”

To reiterate, An Se-ah is a being like a runaway train who doesn’t know how to control herself.

“That child’s alias is Explosive Wolf, a wolf-like child who cannot control herself.”

Min Seo-jin thought Si-woo had no chance of survival from the moment he entered the Red Gate with such an S-class.

“Even with Park Jin-ha, they can’t win, can they? I wonder if Si-woo can survive against such a violent wolf?”

Min Seo-jin knows Park Jin-ha’s combat power.

The S-class 9th rank An Se-ah is much stronger than Park Jin-ha.

There was no possibility for Si-woo and Park Jin-ha to survive.

“I’m sorry. You’ll lose your precious person today.”

From Min Seo-jin’s perspective, losing An Se-ah was a bit sad, but still, it didn’t feel bad to take a shot at the usually annoying Saint.

The sight of Reytana losing her beloved person would truly be satisfying to watch.

She hoped Reytana would despair upon knowing this fact.

“What? That’s all it was?”

But Reytana’s reaction was merely indifferent.

As if being with the Explosive Wolf, An Se-ah, wasn’t a problem at all.

“Excuse me, Reytana. Did you hear me correctly?”

“Yes. Do you think I have hearing problems? You’re saying he went in with a child named An Se-ah, the S-class 9th rank? Yes, I heard you correctly.”

Seeing such a reaction from Reytana, Min Seo-jin was dumbfounded.

Therefore, she questioned whether her intention was clearly conveyed to Reytana, but Reytana had indeed heard correctly.

“But. How can you be so calm then?”

Min Seo-jin couldn’t understand Reytana’s reaction.

She just kept looking with an inexplicable expression.

“Huhut. Of course. No matter what kind of wolf, it’s still a canine animal. Just a mere puppy, isn’t it?”

To such a Min Seo-jin, Reytana showed a benevolent smile.

“Si-woo is very good at handling puppies. He’s someone who makes arrogant female dogs know their place.”

And Reytana’s face turned slightly red as she began to twist her body.

“Crazy bitch…”

Min Seo-jin had a disgusted expression at the sight of such a Reytana.