Chapter 50 The Qualities of an Excellent Female

An Se-ah.

Right now, An Se-ah couldn’t help but tremble.
Her body was as if paralyzed and wouldn’t move.

In the overwhelming fear, there was nothing she could do.

‘Co… could it be he’s here to make sure I’m dead?’

The object of An Se-ah’s fear was none other than Lee Si-woo.

Seeing Si-woo’s appearance, the fur on An Se-ah’s ears and tail began to stand on end.

Instinctively, it seemed to warn her that he was an extremely dangerous person.

Dangerous.

Especially to An Se-ah.

‘Pl… please spare me…’

Normally, just because something is a beast doesn’t mean it’s unconditionally dangerous.

Beasts don’t pick fights with those around them except for necessary hunting.

Because a beast exists alone, solitary and noble.

But there’s one thing even such beasts cannot tolerate.

A fight brought to them—as a beast, they never back down from that.

Solely for their own pride, beasts tear apart and kill their enemies.

That’s what a beast is.

And An Se-ah remembers provoking such a beast in the past.

‘Sob… what am I going to do now…’

An Se-ah and Si-woo are acquaintances who have met before in a Red Gate.

And in that encounter, An Se-ah committed a very big mistake and disrespect towards Si-woo.

Looking back now, she did something unimaginable.

‘Don’t try to touch me as a mere human…!’

‘How dare a lowly human attempt to touch the king of wolves, impudent!’

She had arrogantly disrespected a beast that had never bared its fangs at her.

Biting his hand, growling threateningly, and finally uttering arrogant words.

These incidents happened because she looked down on Si-woo.

None of those scenes would erase from An Se-ah’s mind.

‘I… I did wrong…’

Si-woo was a beast at the top of the ecosystem.

An Se-ah had greatly offended the pride of such a beast.

For a beast, pride is more precious than life, and An Se-ah had touched that.

As a mere young female, she had committed such an arrogant act.

At this moment, An Se-ah could only tremble in fear and cry.

How dare she touch Si-woo without knowing any better—this wasn’t a problem that could be resolved by simply dying.

She could be subjected to terrible torture, or thrown as food with her limbs separated.

Because that’s the law of nature.

She had to accept it as natural.

‘Let me… beg for forgiveness. Then he might kill me without pain.’

Of course, she could just wait quietly for death.

But An Se-ah decided to beg for forgiveness.

Since death was confirmed anyway, begging for forgiveness might result in a less painful death.

To die a little more comfortably, An Se-ah stood before Si-woo.

She had to apologize even now.

“I’m… I’m sorry… sob…”

An Se-ah trembled and tears dripped down.

“I did wrong… I’m sorry for being arrogant…”

And she prostrated herself on the ground, begging for forgiveness.

Though they were in the mountains and dirt was digging into her skin, it didn’t matter at all.

A life about to end—apologizing was more important than such concerns.

“Huh…? An Se-ah? Why are you acting like this…?”

“Please… just kill me without pain.”

Si-woo looked at her with confusion.

He probably didn’t expect she would come to apologize first.

He likely never dreamed she would approach him while he was emitting such overwhelming fear.

She might have earned extra points in that regard.

But death is certain.

She must beg for forgiveness.

To die a little more comfortably.

An Se-ah begged and begged.

“Hmm… I don’t understand what you’re saying, but please get up first.”

“What…? You want me to get up?”

“Yes.”

But Si-woo’s attitude was strange.

As if he had no intention of killing her at all, he helped An Se-ah up.

“Um… I’m fine. I don’t mind.”

“But… that…”

An Se-ah was uncertain, but it truly seemed like Si-woo had no intention of killing her.

An Se-ah could only freeze in shock on the spot.

‘Why on earth?’

Until just a moment ago, An Se-ah had been waiting for death.

Waiting for her breath to be cut off.

But now, surprisingly, she was alive.

An Se-ah was dumbfounded in this situation.

The beast named Si-woo standing before her was now showing mercy.

He was casually saying he would let her live.

He forgave the arrogant female who touched his pride without knowing better.

‘Strange…’

But this situation was clearly very strange to An Se-ah.

For someone to forgive an opponent who touched their pride without any price—as a beast, that was impossible.

Beasts value their pride more than their lives. That’s what it means to be a beast, and Si-woo was the strongest beast she had ever seen.

So letting her live was very strange.

An Se-ah couldn’t help but tilt her head at this situation.

But.

‘Co… could it be?’

Soon, An Se-ah seemed to understand the intention of Si-woo who spared her.

The reason Si-woo spared An Se-ah who had touched his pride was very simple.

It was a very reasonable decision according to the laws of nature in the harsh wild world.

That reason was…

‘He wants to use me… as a breeding female?’

It was to use An Se-ah.

An Se-ah was female.

Si-woo was male.

In such a situation, the reason a male like Si-woo would spare a female like An Se-ah was very simple.

Because even a female who committed an indescribable wrong still had a use.

It was obvious that it was to use her as his breeding female.

‘Certainly…’

If An Se-ah had been male, it was obvious she would have been killed on the spot.

Because males are completely useless.

But the reason An Se-ah is alive now is because she is female.

Because she is a female with the utilitarian value of breeding.

In the wild world, there are cases where females who bared their fangs are spared.

That’s a very natural law. After all, a female existence is nothing more, nothing less than a breeding machine.

Such a being could simply be used that way. If they showed their teeth, those teeth could be pulled out and they could be used—that’s all they were.

So, it was obvious.

It was clear that Si-woo had spared her for such a purpose.

If not for that, this situation couldn’t be explained to An Se-ah.

Because in the harsh laws of nature, there’s no such thing as mercy without reason.

‘He… he wants to use me as a breeding female…’

Everything started to make sense.

And An Se-ah was utterly perplexed about this situation.

Because until recently, An Se-ah had thought of herself as the apex of living beings.

Because An Se-ah had maintained her pride as the ‘King of Wolves.’

Because until recently, she had never doubted that she was the strongest.

With such thoughts, An Se-ah had naturally never been treated as a female in her life.

Even now, being treated as a female was extremely bewildering to her.

She thought she was destined to be a king, but now she was just a male’s pregnancy vessel…

‘So this… is what it means to be female… I was ultimately a female…’

An Se-ah couldn’t help but despair.

She wasn’t unaware that in the harsh natural world, a female is ultimately a being for the breeding of a strong male.

But since she had never lost to anyone, she had deliberately ignored it. Now, An Se-ah realized it more desperately than anyone.

And now she had to acknowledge it.

The fact that she was ultimately nothing more than a mere female…

The fact that no matter how strong she claimed to be, she was a female who had to show her belly and act coquettishly to strong males to extend her life.

And as she acknowledged and let go of all that, An Se-ah’s heart became lighter.

‘Yes. Carrying the seed of a strong male… that’s the quality of an excellent female.’

And a new will ignited in An Se-ah.

She came to know a much more important goal than the trivial goal of becoming the strongest in the world.

Having such a goal, a new joy welled up in An Se-ah.

An Se-ah resolved to work hard from now on to fulfill her proper role.

“Um… excuse me…! Si-woo… nim? May I stay with you…? Inside the gate…”

Si-woo entered An Se-ah’s vision once again.

Though she had seen him several times, the emotion An Se-ah felt this time was different from other times.

The splendid male who would impregnate her, who would possess everything of her!

Just facing such a person, An Se-ah couldn’t help but feel ecstasy.

“I’ll be helpful…! Can’t I come with you?”

An Se-ah couldn’t help but stutter.

Her body condition was not normal right now.

An Se-ah’s entire body had turned as red as a carrot.

Moreover, her tail, which had been wagging gently for a while now, was something even An Se-ah herself couldn’t control.

Right now, An Se-ah was instinctively acting coquettishly to look good to the male.

And on the other hand, she was worried.

‘I hope he’ll let me stay with him…’

With an anxious heart.

An Se-ah hoped he would accept her.

And.

“Hmm… you want to come along? Then go ahead.”

Fortunately, permission was granted.

An Se-ah’s tail wagged even more vigorously.

“Hmm… you want to come along? Then go ahead.”

For some reason, An Se-ah wants to follow me around.

I thought about it briefly, but there’s no particular problem, so I told her to go ahead.

‘I do like dogs.’

The loyal, attentive appearance.

I’m a dog person rather than a cat person.

Of course, because of my younger sister, Lee Si-eun, we can’t have pets at home.

Anyway, it couldn’t be bad.

If an S-class hunter wants to follow me, she’ll handle herself if there’s danger.

I might even be able to entrust her with troublesome tasks.

“Hehehe…”

Hearing my words, An Se-ah seems pleased and runs to hug my waist.

By the way, she’s quite cute.

Really like a puppy.

While I was stroking An Se-ah’s head.

“Now. Everyone please enter!”

The call to enter the gate began.

The S-class raid conquest is about to start.