chapter_0502

502 – You’re Awesome

502 – You’re Awesome

“Alright, extend your fingers, and then grip again.”

“Yes…”

Haneul moved her mechanical arm while Shin Haeil measured something with a machine she had never seen before.

Shin Haeil spoke various technical terms like mana sensitivity and compatibility, but honestly, I had no idea what he was talking about.

“The mana resonance rate is quite good. With this, we just need to change the joint and reduce the arm size.”

“Um… I see…”

I didn’t understand what he meant.

I just nodded my head in agreement.

“Then can we go ahead with the work?”

“Yes. Please make it a wonderful arm.”

“Just leave it to me. It’s my specialty.”

Shin Haeil reached out towards Haneul’s mechanical arm.

As she pressed various spots with her dazzling hand movements, the mechanical arm was pulled out in an instant.

“······!”

Haneul’s eyes widened to the size of saucers as she looked at the fallen mechanical arm.

Tears welled up in her eyes, resembling a child on the verge of crying.

“My, my arm…”

Did she think it was given and taken away? Haneul wore a look of despair.

“······.”

Haneul couldn’t bring herself to ask for it back and just stared at the arm.

Then Shin Haeil waved her hands urgently at Haneul.

“This, this is just a temporary arm, and after we disassemble this, we’ll make you a new arm, Haneul.”

“A new arm…?”

“Yes. I’ll add some cool features to the new arm. Do you have any specific features in mind?”

“Um… Is a cleaning function possible…?”

“Cleaning…? Why cleaning… Ah…! If that’s the case, of course, it’s possible. You’re scarier than I thought, huh?”

Scary friend, huh.

What on earth did that mean?

Before I could ask for clarification, Shin Haeil ran off with the arm in hand.

It seemed that Shin Haeil’s way was to do everything quickly.

“Thank you for giving me an arm, Master. I will work really hard from now on.”

“That’s right! Work hard from now on! If you don’t, you’ll get scolded!”

“Huh?”

It was Levinas who replied to Haneul, not me.

Levinas stood proudly with his chest puffed out.

“Levinas always gives his best when eating carrots! So Haneul, you must also give your best when cleaning and eating!”

“Yes, yes…”

“Oh! Your voice is too small!”

“Yes, yes…!”

Levinas scolded Haneul in a surprisingly loud voice.

Then Haneul let out a voice of a size she had never used before.

Was Levinas trying to boost Haneul’s spirit in his own way?

I worried that if he scolded too much, it might have the opposite effect.

I looked at Levinas with concern, but I quickly realized that my worries were unfounded.

“Very well done! If you keep this up, Haneul could become a great member of the Ggaemmi Guild!”

“Ggaemmi Guild…?”

“Yes! It’s a guild where the strongest people in the world gather!”

The strongest people in the world, huh.

That wasn’t exactly a false statement.

Haneul seemed to have some understanding of the abilities of those who had saved her.

“But did you know, blue sky?”

“What…?”

“The master of the Ggaemmi Guild is none other than our king!”

“······!”

Haneul turned to look at me.

Her eyes sparkled with admiration.

“Wow, that’s amazing…! I will work hard to become the best cleaner…!”

“Yes. I look forward to it.”

I’m glad Haneul regained her spirit and found her goal.

Indeed, in times like this, the pure and energetic Levinas was the best.

**

“Thank you. Really, thank you…”

“Ugh…”

Those rescued by the Dawn Guild, or rather, the Ggaemmi Guild, approached me to express their gratitude.

Some even held my hand and shed tears.

“Hehe…”

Receiving such thanks felt awkward for me.

I forced a shy smile and turned to Saebyeok.

“Saebyeok, but where did the others go?”

Most of the adults, except for Hanyeoreum, were nowhere to be seen.

I felt a bit uneasy.

“The Master and a few others went to clean up.”

“Clean up?”

“Yes. Organizing the buyers.”

“Ah…”

I wondered how to deal with those who buy people.

If our Master was on it, I probably didn’t need to worry.

Then I decided to head home and take a rest.

“But guys, what will happen to the people we rescued?”

“Um…”

I couldn’t open my mouth at Bomi’s question.

I didn’t know what would happen to them either.

“Most of the captured people are said to be unclaimed. So I guess they decided to take them in at the Beastmen village.”

“I see.”

Among those captured, there were quite a few humans, and they were all going to be taken in.

The Beastmen village was changing gradually.

I felt relieved as I moved to the park.

“Master, I’ll clean the house for you.”

“Okay. Shall we clean together then?”

“Oh, no. I can clean by myself. I’m really fast at cleaning.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I’m fast but thorough.”

“Hmm… I see…”

Cleaning together would be more enjoyable and would create a bond, but if I suggested that here, she might get anxious.

I needed to gradually narrow the emotional distance.

Thinking that, I moved to the park.

“Haneul, that’s our house.”

“Yes…?”

The massive Dawn Tower.

Haneul froze as she looked up at it.

“Haneul, what’s wrong?”

“Th, that… I’m sorry…”

“Huh? What for?”

“Because the house is so big, I don’t think I can clean it quickly…”

“Ah.”

Did she think the entire Dawn Tower was our house?

The thought of cleaning that building by herself was something even a cruel employer would find shocking.

“Haneul, our house is only one floor of that building. No, we don’t even use half of one floor.”

“Isn’t it all our house…?”

“Yes. It’s only this small part of the building. It’s really tiny.”

“Then I can clean it…!”

Haneul regained her spirit.

So we were able to spend the day watching Haneul clean.

As I had said, Haneul cleaned remarkably well.

**

“It’s done!”

The next day.

Shin Haeil ran to us holding the mechanical arm.

“This is Haneul’s arm, and this is a temporary leg for Betty. I’ll make Betty’s tomorrow.”

To complete an arm in just one day was impressive.

I checked the arm just to be sure, and even I, with my lack of knowledge, could tell it was perfect.

While the previous arm was rough and made of steel, this arm was sleek and beautiful, shining silver.

“Wow! This is the first time Levinas has seen such a wonderful arm…”

“Me too.”

“Haneul, put it on quickly!”

Levinas and Gaeul looked on with envy, and Bomi urged her to put it on.

Haneul donned the arm, receiving everyone’s attention.

“Wow! Gaeul, look?”

Gaeul pointed at Haneul’s arm.

It seemed she wanted a silver arm too.

“Gaeul, to have that, your arm needs to be like this…?”

I pretended to slice my arm as I watched Haneul focus on her steel arm.

Then Gaeul began shaking her head so fast her ears flapped.

“No, no, no, no.”

The speed of her words matched the rapid shaking of her head.

Watching Gaeul’s head spin, Haneul approached me with her silver arm.

“Master, look at this. The arm is so pretty.”

“Yes. The silvery-blue color matches your name perfectly.”

“Yes…”

Haneul moved her silver arm around.

It was said to be an item powered by Mana rather than a mechanical device, but I didn’t understand the principle.

“Um…”

As Haneul examined her silver arm, she glanced at Shin Haeil.

It seemed she had something she wanted to say.

“Haneul, what’s wrong?”

“The cleaning function…”

“Oh, the cleaning function.”

We had decided to add a cleaning function to Haneul’s arm.

Looking back at Shin Haeil, he was attaching a temporary leg to Betty and spoke up.

“Of course, we added the cleaning function. Let’s go to the training ground and try it out.”

“The training ground?”

Why would we go to the training ground to use a cleaning function?

Couldn’t we just use it here?

I was puzzled, but since it was Shin Haeil’s suggestion, we followed along.

We all moved to the underground training ground.

Upon arriving, Shin Haeil appeared a bit excited.

“Alright, extend your hand forward!”

“Like this…?”

“Yes. And since Saebyeok is strong, can you hold Haneul’s arm tightly?”

Saebyeok, looking confused, tightly gripped Haneul’s silver arm.

What kind of cleaning method was this?

By now, I was quite curious.

“Can Haneul handle Mana?”

“No, I don’t know…”

“Then can someone put some Mana into Haneul’s arm instead? Just don’t let it extend forward.”

Hearing Shin Haeil’s words, I placed my hand on Haneul’s back.

Then I cautiously began to channel Mana towards her arm.

Suddenly.

Vwoooom-!

I heard a sound as if something was being condensed from Haneul’s arm.

It was the kind of sound you hear when a protagonist gathers energy in an animation.

“This is cleaning…”

Just as Haneul was about to say something,

KWA-BOOM-!

A beam of condensed Mana shot out from Haneul’s palm, destroying the training ground target and the concrete wall behind it.

We were all startled, our ears perked up.

“How about that? It swept everything away, right?”

“Cl, cleaning… cleaning…?”

Haneul kept repeating the word cleaning.

Oh dear.

It seemed she misunderstood that cleaning was not that kind of cleaning, perhaps thinking it was a metaphor.

I hurriedly tried to calm Haneul down, but for some reason, her expression was strange.

“Th, that’s amazing…”

Haneul’s face was flushed with excitement.

She truly was not just any ordinary Beastman.

Haneul might be stronger than I had thought.