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    500 – Master

    500 – Master

    Everyone held their breath at the woman’s scream.

    Even the guards watching over the prison looked back at us, wondering if something had happened.

    “Woof?”

    Gaeul, receiving everyone’s attention, only perked up her ears, startled by the scream.

    But strangely, she was just staring at empty space.

    “Woof?”

    Gaeul stretched her hand out forward.

    In that state, she began to walk straight ahead like a zombie.

    Tap-tap-

    Gaeul, who was walking slowly, soon bumped her nose into the wall.

    Only then did I realize why Gaeul was acting like this.

    ‘She can’t see?’

    Had she suddenly entered a dark place from a bright one and couldn’t adjust?

    Gaeul was just wandering around with her hand stretched out in front of her.

    “Master?”

    “Gaeul, I’m here.”

    “Eeng?”

    Gaeul slowly walked towards me, following my voice.

    In the darkest corner of the underground, if I held Gaeul tightly in my arms, I couldn’t see her thanks to the darkness that had settled in the underground.

    I covered Gaeul’s mouth as she smiled brightly in my arms.

    At the same time, the guard’s pent-up anger exploded.

    “What’s going on in there?!”

    “B-bugs… there are bugs inside… please catch them…”

    I pleaded with the guard in the weakest voice possible.

    Hoping they wouldn’t come in.

    Fortunately, they weren’t gentlemen who would catch bugs for us.

    “Aish, seriously…! If you guys make any more noise, I won’t let it slide…?!”

    “Yes, yes…”

    I replied to the guard outside and gestured for silence.

    After some time, the guard lost interest in us.

    “S-suddenly appearing next to me…”

    The Beastmen woman was terrified, but the situation was urgent.

    I spoke in a small voice so that the guard outside couldn’t hear.

    “Gaeul, can you open a portal to here?”

    “Nang!”

    “Then can you bring other people here too?”

    “Naeng!”

    “I see.”

    It was possible.

    If I had remembered Gaeul’s abilities, I wouldn’t have suffered like this.

    I was about to kneel down in vain, but I stopped.

    It seemed like Gaeul only warped to places I had been to at least once.

    So, it was inevitable that I had to be captured here.

    Thanks to us, the safety of the two Beastmen here was secured.

    There was no need to think of it negatively.

    “Gaeul, then can you go and call some people? As quietly as possible.”

    “Heck!”

    Gaeul confidently took out a large cloth.

    It was Gaeul’s teleportation magic cloth.

    **

    “I grabbed her wrist there and bam…!”

    “Oh…!”

    Two guards beyond the bars were looking at each other and chatting.

    They seemed confident that nothing would happen inside the prison.

    “Excuse me, sirs…”

    I approached the two guards who were talking.

    Perhaps they were angry that I interrupted them at an important moment, the guards’ expressions turned fierce.

    “What?”

    “Ah, no… not you guys…”

    As the sharp energy pierced me, I couldn’t help but step back.

    The moment my ears and tail drooped, our Master placed a hand on my shoulder and stepped forward.

    “You talking to me.”

    “Huh…?”

    Perhaps they were surprised that our Master suddenly appeared inside the prison?

    While the guards were stunned, our Master approached the iron bars.

    Crack- Kwa-ga-gak-!

    With a single gesture from Master, the underground iron bars were torn off like paper.

    I would have a harder time breaking a reed than that.

    While I was panicking at the sight of the broken bars, Master subdued the two guards.

    “Sir, this whole ruin is one big underworld.”

    “…Should we do a sweep?”

    “Yes. But if they find out we’re here, they might hide or take hostages.”

    “…We need to move as discreetly as possible.”

    Master looked behind me.

    At the corner of the underground prison.

    There, the Dawn Guild’s forces were already gathered in large numbers.

    “Cover your faces and move as quietly as possible. The moment it gets noisy, it’ll get harder.”

    Those who answered with a nod secretly ran out of the prison.

    I just stared blankly at the children and their backs.

    ‘Cool.’

    It felt like a dark organization from a comic book.

    As I was admiring the guild members who had disappeared in an instant, the Beastmen woman muttered to herself.

    “W-where did all these people suddenly come from…”

    “Don’t worry…! We’re on the side of justice…!”

    Ahem.

    Levinas puffed out his chest and comforted the frightened woman.

    The young girl next to her…

    Despite everything that had happened, she was just staring blankly into space with empty eyes.

    “Gaeul, can you take these two to a safe place?”

    “Naeng…!”

    Gaeul covered the two Beastmen with the cloth.

    The woman without legs flinched, so I quickly comforted her.

    “It’s okay. We’re moving you to a safe place.”

    “R-really?”

    “Yes. You can rest there. Levinas, can you go over there and help?”

    “Okay! Got it!”

    Levinas nodded with a confident expression.

    Sophia, Saebyeok, and Bom were over there too.

    I decided to send the two Beastmen off without worry.

    **

    Even though the guild members had come, the reason I was still here was to send those who had been captured to a safe place.

    This place was a terrible place where not only Beastmen but also humans and Monsters were traded.

    “Gaeul, can you send these people to a safe place too?”

    “Heck…”

    I used Gaeul’s ability to move people to a safe place.

    Of course, I didn’t move any Monsters.

    “These people too…”

    “Heck…”

    “Here too…”

    “Heck…”

    “Here…”

    It seemed like it would be hard to open portals so many times, but Gaeul was diligently moving people.

    All I could do was wipe the sweat off Gaeul’s forehead.

    “Gaeul, there’s not much left, so let’s hang in there a little longer?”

    “Arato!”

    Was she so happy that I wiped her sweat?

    Gaeul giggled and teleported people to a safe place.

    “Next is…”

    I sensed that there weren’t many people left, and I was secretly moving to the next location.

    “Don’t come, you bastards!”

    On the rooftop of the building far away.

    Someone who seemed to be a resident of this place was grabbing a hostage by the neck.

    He was gesturing as if he would throw the hostage off the roof at any moment.

    “Aish, seriously, calm down, calm down.”

    The one confronting him was none other than Kwon Arin.

    Hanyeoreum had brought her, saying she would raise her.

    It seemed like she was still inexperienced and an accident had happened.

    “Gaeul, let’s go there.”

    “Heck.”

    I moved to the rooftop with Gaeul.

    When we appeared, the man holding the hostage started to rampage even more.

    “Don’t come! If you come any closer, I’ll throw this bitch away!”

    “Sniff…”

    The hostage was sobbing, and the man was very excited to see us.

    In this situation, all we could do was calm the other person down.

    “F-first, calm down…”

    “Shut up, you bastard! You’re all here to kill me anyway! I knew this would happen someday!”

    The hostage-taker’s eyes were half-turned.

    He seemed to have lost his reason due to excitement.

    It would be more dangerous if we couldn’t communicate.

    It was the moment I slowly stretched my hand forward to calm him down.

    “I’m not going alone, you bastard!”

    “Kyaaaa!”

    He pushed the hostage woman off the building.

    My heart started pounding as the woman disappeared over the railing.

    I have to save her.

    I was about to rush towards the railing.

    “Kyaaaa…?”

    For some reason, the scream of the woman who had fallen below started to be heard from behind us.

    Surprised, I turned around and found Gaeul holding a cloth and puffing out her chest.

    “Yak!”

    As Gaeul moved the cloth to the side with a shout, the woman appeared from behind the cloth, outside the railing.

    Gaeul had saved the woman with her ability.

    “Wow… Gaeul is amazing…”

    “Ekhem!”

    I was so proud of Gaeul, who was proudly puffing out her chest.

    **

    We rescued all the people captured in the ruins and returned.

    We returned riding on Gaeul’s ability, but for some reason, we had arrived at a place I had never seen before.

    “Where is this?”

    “It’s the auditorium in the Beastmen village. If this many people suddenly appeared in the guild, they’d find out we did it.”

    “Ah… it’s definitely better to hide it.”

    Were they trying to hide that Dawn had done this?

    Well, there was no need to reveal that we did it and become enemies with the people of the underworld.

    We could be retaliated against separately.

    Ordinary people related to Dawn, not us, might be retaliated against.

    “Gyeoul’s head is working well?”

    Hehe.

    Hanyeoreum, who was stroking my head with a smile, looked a little fierce.

    Hanyeoreum’s fierceness was directed at Kwon Arin, not me.

    It seemed like she was going to scold Kwon Arin, who had been taken hostage.

    “Arin, I want to see you for a moment.”

    “…Yes.”

    I watched Kwon Arin’s back as she was dragged away like a criminal.

    I didn’t notice it at the time because it was too urgent, but Hanyeoreum was lingering near us, who had been taken hostage.

    It seemed like she was watching how Kwon Arin was trying to solve the problem.

    ‘Hanyeoreum’s standards must not have considered it a dangerous situation.’

    That’s pretty amazing.

    I was watching Hanyeoreum’s back as she left, admiring her.

    “Wanga! Wanga, something terrible happened!”

    Levinas was running towards me from afar with a sense of urgency.

    “What’s wrong?”

    “The baby’s condition is strange!”

    “Baby?”

    I moved to where Levinas was leading me.

    There, the two Beastmen I had first met in the prison were sitting.

    ‘If it’s a baby… is it the one without arms?’

    I approached slowly so that the child wouldn’t be surprised.

    Then, the child, who was watching me with blurry eyes, knelt down with a weak movement.

    “M-master…”

    “Y-yes…?”

    “Thank you so much for, for purchasing me…”

    The child bowed deeply to me.

    Something seemed very wrong.

    Author’s Note

    PIA1747014585384, thank you so much for reading again today!

    Thank you so much for the comments and recommendations! They are always a source of strength!

    In celebration of the 500th chapter, Gyeoul bought a slave…!

    Huh?!

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