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The wolf’s howl echoed through the mountains.

It was so loud that I couldn’t believe it was a human voice.

Rather than the howl of a wolf, it is closer to the roar of a lion or tiger.

Just hearing this makes me dizzy.

I got goosebumps and my body was shaking.

I was afraid just by looking at that wolf’s eyes.

I wasn’t the only one crushed by the wolf’s howl.

The chirping birds fell silent.

Even the tiny insects stopped singing and the forest became quiet.

─The wolf’s roar crushed the forest.

The wind blows and the leaves bump into each other.

There was only sound.

Absolutely!

In the silence, the sound of something being smashed was heard.

‘Up in the tree!’

Something is shooting at the wolf!

how? Since when?! I didn’t even feel like I was popular until I heard the sound!

Only after Inyeong came down, the tree trunk that served as a stepping stone broke and fell next to me.

“How dare you kill a member of our tribe?!!!”

A real mountain owner!

The wolf turned around and used its rotational force on the huge curved sword to slash sharply into the sky. Compared to that, the movements of the mountain owner who jumped down were so fast that I couldn’t even see them clearly.

Suddenly!

Although it was not visible, the mountain owner’s fingernails eventually scratched and tore the wolf’s leather armor. The curved sword split the air. The mountain owner quickly widened the distance and showed his sharp teeth.

···It was a male Terup.

The body is full of muscles, and there are sharp wounds all over the body.

The species itself seemed to be different from the terup I treated.

“Get out of here!”

“With only your head!”

The wolf advanced, swinging his curved sword widely.

There was a tree the size of a human head in Geomro.

Kkwajijijik!!!!

The curved blade cut down a tree the size of a human head with a single knife.

Crushed sawdust splatters everywhere.

It was like a dump truck on the highway.

If anyone tries to stop him, he dies that day.

The mountain owner ducked to avoid the curved sword and leapt at the wolf. The wolf threw away the curved sword he was swinging and retrieved his hand.

The sharp fangs of the mountain lord pointed towards the wolf’s neck.

However, the wolf stuffed his wrist, which was wearing wrist armor, into the mountain owner’s mouth.

chin!

Then, he pushed his teeth so that he could not be removed, clinging to him and pounding his fist on the mountain owner’s shoulder.

Wood-dud-duk–!

The sound of bones breaking could be clearly heard.

“Hwaaagh──?!!!”

The mountain owner screams and cuts off the wolf’s head with his sharp claws. The wolf tried to swat away the hand with his free arm, but missed slightly, leaving a long wound on his neck starting from his collarbone.

But the wolf doesn’t care.

Before the next attack came, I kicked the mountain owner in the chest.

Paaaang━!

‘Is this the sound of skin being slapped?!’

It was a bloody sound of slaughter that can never be heard when people fight.

The mountain owner fell down a few meters.

The kick was so strong that the mountain owner’s fangs that were biting the wolf’s arm were all embedded in the wrist armor and broken.

The mountain owner got up and jumped towards the wolf.

The wolf had already picked up the curved sword.

The teeth must have penetrated the wrist armor, and blood was flowing.

The mountain owner attacks with incredible speed.

The wolf followed suit and walked ahead, swinging his curved sword sharply.

The mountain owner slashes away at the curved sword that comes at him at the speed of a beam of light.

visor!!!

When the hands and swords collide, sparks fly and the sound of swords clashing is heard.

At the same time, something broke and flew in all directions.

─The fingernails of the mountain owner.

A hand-to-hand combat began between the mountain owner and the wolf, who had narrowed the distance to the wolf’s embrace.

If you give me some distance, that sword will cut me in half.

However, unlike the first time, this time the situation was unfavorable for the mountain owner, who suffered a broken shoulder and several broken fingernails.

I started to lose the power struggle.

In the first place, the mountain owner had never defeated the wolf by force.

The wolf took out a dagger in a surprise attack and struck the mountain owner diagonally in the chest, who had been pushed back in the struggle.

The mountain owner flexibly pulled back his head and chest, and at the same time kicked the wolf’s side.

It is a movement that is close to a stunt.

But the wolf was not pushed back at all.

─The fundamental power is different.

As if the wolf had been waiting, he received a kick to the side and firmly pinned the mountain owner’s feet with his arms. And then he lies down flat.

Due to the difference in strength and inertia, the owner of the mountain cannot maintain his balance and falls like a wolf.

Suddenly!

“───────!!!”

The mountain owner let out a silent scream in pain that was so painful that his screams were regurgitated. The wolf cut the mountain owner’s Achilles heel with a dagger.

“Kwaaagh───?!!!”

Then he immediately regained his bearings, kicked the screaming mountain owner, and rolled backwards to stand up.

It was such a creepy sight that my legs hurt.

He became crippled in an instant!

“Ugh—?! Haaagh—?!!!!”

The mountain owner, frightened by the approaching wolf, howled and tried to get up, but fell again.

The dagger that cut off almost half of the mountain owner’s leg is still lodged in the leg.

“Weak guy.”

The wolf laughed viciously and picked up his curved sword.

At that time, the mountain owner also somehow stood up and glared at the wolf, but he seemed to know that he was at a disadvantage and his spirit was dead.

” Also, what on earth happened—!”

Kkukduduk─!!!

Just one thing.

Despite the sound of bones splintering, the sword cut down the mountain owner smoothly.

As if he had been hit by a cannonball, his upper body, lower body, and even the arm he was blocking were separated, and pieces of meat and blood that were the owner of the mountain were scattered.

Tuk! Plop!

The flying upper body landed close to the severed arm.

“Aaaagh—?!!! Ahhh─!!!!!!”

The mountain owner did not die even though his lower body was cut off.

He was screaming.

Cognitive dissonance comes from seeing unrealistically realistic scenes.

My brain felt like it was on fire.

“Don’t scream. Because my ears hurt.”

Blood flows from the cut lower body, and from the area of the spine of the upper body, blood flows like a burst water.

The wolf approached the mountain owner and retrieved the dagger stuck in his leg.

Even in that situation, he grabbed the mountain owner who was running away by his hair, lifted him up, and began to cut off his head. It is not cut with a single knife, but from the front of the neck, as if cutting ham.

Crumbling.

Pak───!

The wolf hits the mountain owner’s spine like a chicken, breaking his neck.

My stomach was numb.

My skin grows and a chill runs down my spine.

“Say goodbye to your body.”

I thought that if my head was cut off, I would die right away.

But the mountain owner’s eyes were wide open and his mouth was moving as if he was trying to say something.

The movement soon faded away after a few seconds.

The fight between the two monsters ended in less than two minutes.

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puck! puck!

Just as my father said, wolves were cannibals.

The wolf was humming and chopping up the mountain owner.

The liver has already been eaten, and now the heart is chewing.

It looks just like a human, but it’s raw meat!

‘What Aztecs!’

I get goosebumps.

The remaining internal organs were torn out and thrown aside.

The head of the mountain owner was pinned to a belt.

What’s even more scary is that even though there are many wounds on his body, he shows no signs of fatigue.

At the same time, I didn’t understand.

‘Why do people need to eat their fellow humans?’

I can’t ask because I’m scared.

The paralysis was gone, but my body was shaking.

He didn’t want to attract attention, so he stayed dead quiet.

I wish you would forget me and just go away.

The wolf looked around, tilted his head, picked up the fallen mango, and carried the dismembered mountain owner on his shoulder.

Tuk- Toduk─

Blood seeps from the cloaca.

Even Grandpa Mangtaegi would be scared and collapse when he saw a wolf.

“Kid.”

“···Yes.”

It seems like the wolf hasn’t forgotten me.

The wolf looked down at me and fixed the bleeding blood clot.

“I hate people who attack like this guy the most. Those guys got their hair cut without exception.”

The wolf pointed his thumb at the mountain owner’s head.

I felt like my heart was sinking. Are you saying you want to kill me too?

“···Yes.”

“But your father is aiming his bow at me.”

“···Yes?”

ah! Hope and fear arose at the same time.

My father is not an ordinary person either.

But it cannot be compared to this crazy wolf.

‘That’s out of standard!’

Humans are no match for this.

What if my father dies while fighting a wolf?

phut!

With the sound of the bowstring snapping, an arrow came fiercely close. I closed my eyes tightly due to the sound of air being torn apart.

“···They are asking me to kill them.”

When I opened my eyes again, there was an arrow in the wolf’s hand.

‘I caught the arrow!’

That is not the arrow I shot, but the arrow my father shot.

These are not the practice arrows I use.

That’s why arrows are incomparably faster.

I tried to estimate my father’s location by looking at the direction in which the arrow was shot, but I couldn’t see him.

─As if it had become transparent.

It seems I’m not the only one who feels that way.

The wolf began to hesitate little by little and look around in all directions.

The wolf’s stance quickly lowers.

He seemed nervous.

“What is your father?”

“···My father?”

I don’t know.

My father was like a ghost.

There was no sight or sound.

phut!

The sound of a bowstring being struck was heard again.

‘Behind me?!’

The wolf ducks to avoid the bow and glares at me with burning eyes.

“──────!”

My body trembled just by looking into my eyes.

I didn’t know what to do, so I raised both hands.

“I didn’t do it?!”

I’ve met a lot of people, but I’ve never seen eyes like that.

It’s not a matter of eye shape.

There was something in those eyes that overwhelmed people.

“Is your father Dragonia?”

“No?!”

“···Really?”

The wolf came striding towards me.

Another arrow flies from the side of the wolf.

The wolf dodged the arrows and rolled towards me.

Soon, my neck was pulled by an unstoppable force and I was dragged all the way.

Squeak!

The sound of clothes tearing was heard.

I don’t know what happened, but my throat felt cold. I could instinctively know what it was.

─There is a knife at my throat.

The skin was slightly pressed and itchy, stinging and burning.

I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of the process of reaching death.

My heart was pounding with fear.

“This will work.”

You can tell because it touches your neck.

The wolf’s stone-like muscles, tense and relaxed.

The moment my father fired the arrow, I knew through my senses that he was really going to slit my throat.

“Tell your father. If I shoot you one more time, I’ll kill you.”

“If you shoot any more, you’ll kill me!”

The wolf tilts its head and looks down at me.

“Does your father also speak our language?”

“Yes, yes…? Of course I know how to say everything.”

“Human─!!! You wouldn’t want to see your child die──?!!!”

The forest is still quiet.

My father never shot another arrow.

But the wolf just froze with the knife pressed to my neck.

Sometimes, I face my body in an area where there is nothing, or hide behind my body.

As someone with limited knowledge, I couldn’t understand, but I know.

Something is happening that I don’t know.

Time continued to pass by like that.

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How long has it been?

Before I knew it, even the fear and tension had disappeared.

The sun slowly set on the trees. It will soon be dark.

I was in an awkward position for too long.

Before I knew it, I was leaning comfortably against the wolf.

When will this strange confrontation end?

‘They look human on the outside, so why are they in conflict with humans?’

The blood of the mountain owner and the wolf descending from the wolf’s body soaked his pants and underwear. His back is also wet and sticky with the wolf’s blood. The wolf’s wounds from the mountain owner were deeper than expected.

If things continue like this, I wonder if the wolf will fall first.

Then something strange happened.

The wolf’s ears fluttered, and it glanced at me.

The wolf began to drag and back away little by little.

“Kid.”

“···Yes.”

“Is there anything you want to say to your parents?”

I had a vague idea of what that meant.

─The wolf plans to take me as a hostage and run away.

······I spoke as if in a monologue to my father who was somewhere else.

“Father. There is an injured Terub on the mountain. I gave him first aid, but I think I need to take him to an osteopath.”

No answer comes back.

Of course. The moment he returns, his father’s location will be discovered, and it is certain that he will be cut in half by the wolves right away.

“Please don’t bother me like yesterday, but please treat me and take care of me.”

“Speak quickly.”

I can’t even think of how to say goodbye quickly… or what to say. When I looked up, the wolf was nervous as if he was going to leave at any moment.

“See you later. Please say hello to your mother too.”

The wolf’s arms come under my arms and hug my chest.

“Are you done?”

“······I don’t know.”

I know you have a father.

However, because I couldn’t see or hear it, it felt like I was talking into space, so I couldn’t empathize.

Maybe my father will come to save me.

This may or may not be the last. Of course, it may not be true, but I am not a good talker.

‘What should I say, how should I reassure you?’

Words are magic, but they don’t do magic at all.

In the end, I couldn’t say a proper goodbye until the end.

As soon as I am left speechless, the wolf drags me backwards.

Then, suddenly, he grabbed me by his side and started running.

─Dad will find you! I will definitely save you!! Hang in there just a little longer───!!!

My father’s voice echoed from behind me.

The lights seen in the distance seemed like the villagers had come up to catch the wolf.

‘It’s a shame.’

It was a chance to see other people.

However, because the wolf’s speed was incomparably faster than that of a human, even the light soon became invisible.