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“Can I really not go to the hospital?”

“I have skills so I don’t have to go to the hospital. And I hate hospitals.”

An unfortunate person who made a mistake in donating blood, had his blood sucked out, and was left in a garbage dump.

Eunha was now invited to the house of a woman she met for the first time today and was being served seaweed soup rich in iron.

Whoop…

A simple folding table with only lukewarm seaweed soup.

However, for her, who suffered a huge iron loss, it is as sweet as an oasis in the desert.

Eunha groped her round, hollow neck and made a groaning sound.

The doctor with a beautiful bright smile at the ‘Neulpureum Emergency Center’.

The doctor’s gown he was wearing wasn’t just for decoration, but he was really good at giving injections.

The pain when a straw-sized needle pierces the carotid artery, and the cool sensation when a large amount of blood flows out.

As if I had been anesthetized, all senses in my body became numb, and I felt cold and drowsy.

Then I start to feel out of breath, as if I’m drowning.

Although she struggled to survive, Eunha’s body sat on the blood donation chair and did not lift a finger, as if it had been pressed down by scissors.

So dark.

While wandering in the dark, unable to see even an inch in front of me, I met [black people] and [animals] in a strange space and was able to come to my senses again.

If you think about it again, where was the place you met the [black person] at that time?

Is this the afterlife that I only heard about? Or is it like a place to visit before going to the underworld?

If I get a chance later, I’ll have to grab my camera and try it.

Samdocheon live broadcast… It will be quite fun.

Anyway, when I came to, I found the blood donation bus abandoned along with a pile of trash in the alley behind the convenience store where it was parked.

Next to me, a blue-haired woman with a clearly embarrassed look was wandering around.

Because a lot of blood had been lost, Eunha tried to bring out her drowsy mind and stagger back home.

(Now, wait a minute!)

However, the beggar-looking woman who was standing next to her helped Eunha up and suddenly brought her to her house.

‘I almost fell from dizziness, but I’m glad I did. ‘You were a good beggar.’

Rustling…

I suddenly received help from someone I had never met.

Eunha leisurely drank seaweed soup and took out a Juseom Juseom card from her pocket.

Sized to fit easily in a wallet,

It was an [attendance card] that is usually given along with a free gift when donating blood.

The attendance card had the name of the Neulpureum Emergency Center and a sticker with an angry expression saying ‘You did a great job’.

At the bottom of the cart, there is even a phrase that says [Collect 10 stickers and you will receive a free gift!]

Do you have to donate blood 9 more times to receive a free gift?

… … I hate myself for being more curious about the free gift than my fear of being sick.

What a great gift did you prepare? Since you’re not going to die anyway, why not just close your eyes and try?

Isn’t it just a matter of sticking a straw into the carotid artery a few times?

I also received a monthly commemoration of the 200th blood donation.

Is donating blood 10 times in hard mode a big deal?

‘I will take a break from the blood donation center I normally go to and will only use the blood donation bus for the time being.’

With a promise to herself that she would definitely get the free gift, Eunha raised her head and glanced around the woman’s room.

Potatoes, a typical old crop, are piled up in black bags. Next to it are bubble wrap and delivery boxes that are no longer needed as the weather gets hotter.

With mixed feelings, I glance up to see a black cat napping on its stomach beyond the only window in the semi-basement.

A shabby semi-basement house that even feels damp.

Am I a human being served seaweed soup by someone who lives in a place like this?

Yes, it is a person. You will enjoy the seaweed soup.

Eunha, whose survival was more important than her conscience, savored the seaweed soup and looked at the woman sitting quietly across from the table.

A blue-haired woman wearing a shabby sweater and torn jeans.

Although her long bangs obscured her eyes, making it impossible to make out her overall impression, she appears to be a beautiful woman with fairly smooth features.

And unlike his shabby appearance, his neat demeanor, like that of a nobleman, is very impressive.

The woman, who noticed Eunha’s subtle gaze, timidly waved her hand and opened her mouth.

“Uh… Gwae, it’s okay…! Although I spent a week’s worth of food money on that bowl of seaweed soup, don’t feel pressured and eat it! I can just wander around the soup kitchen like I always do!”

A woman who puts a burden on Eunha’s shoulders, telling her not to be a burden.

Contrary to his timid attitude, he is quite a spicy person.

With the seaweed soup on top of the burden on her shoulders, Eunha quietly patted her chest and put down the bowl of soup.

And the woman sighed lightly and touched her forehead as if there was nothing she could do about how she accepted that action.

“Huh… You’re also curious. Why was I chased by a strange man and driven into an alley…”

“No, not really.”

“Please listen to my story while eating the seaweed soup that cost me a week’s worth of food. I’m telling you this specifically because you are my benefactor who saved me from danger.”

He is also a spicy person.

Even though he seems timid, he has great self-esteem.

Still… let’s think that good things are good things.

It will take some time for his condition to recover anyway, so let’s keep him company in the meantime.

When Eunha was ready to listen to the story, the woman began to happily tell her story, probably because her mouth was itching inside.

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In this country, there is a force called the [Four Major Guilds].

Among the numerous guilds, there are four large guilds that have the strongest influence and are backed by large capital corporations called chaebols.

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Equipped not only with economic power and recognition, but also with the power of hunters, they are difficult for the nation and the Hunter Association to mess with… They literally reign as ‘nobles’ and ‘royalty’ revived in this era.

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And among those ‘royal families’, the one with a particularly high status was the [Blue Dragon Guild], which was established in the metropolitan area.

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“The Blue Dragon Guild is huge. Together with [Changcheon Swordsman], one of the other four major guilds, it defends the metropolitan area. The Changcheon Swordsmen fight against monsters coming from the northern border, and our Blue Dragon Guild deals with monsters coming from the west coast. .”

“okay.”

“And you may have already guessed… Yes, that’s right. My name is Nari Kang. I am the niece of Uncle Kang Chan, an S-class hunter who is the guild leader of the [Blue Dragon Guild], and the youngest daughter of the current Blue Dragon Family Chairman.”

The woman with blue hair, Nari Kang, suddenly started promoting herself and looked at Eunha with eyes filled with anticipation.

Do you want me to react? When he made a surprised expression, he looked proud and took out a few potatoes from a bag he had left in the corner and stabbed them at Eunha.

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Honestly, I was surprised.

The woman in front of me is the successor to the famous Blue Dragon Group.

‘Pan Blue Dragon Family’ including Blue Dragon Guild, Blue Dragon Department Store Group, and Blue Dragon Automobile Group.

As I said, the smartphone that Eunha uses also has the Blue Dragon Group logo on it.

It was even more surprising that such a person was living like a beggar in a semi-basement room like this.

“Father… no, Chairman Kang forced his children to become independent in order to select a successor to the family. Without any support from the family, he expanded his business and network with his own skills, and thus achieved the most brilliant achievements. “I become this successor.”

Na-ri Kang has an older brother and an older sister, and it seems that they have already successfully become independent and are steadily increasing their performance.

Her older brother is an A-level hunter and the leader of a mid-sized guild, and her older sister is the youngest professor at the country’s best [Euncheon Academy].

Even without the name of the Blue Dragon Group, they are celebrities that many people recognize.

They appear so often on the news that even people whose faces you don’t know will nod their heads when someone next to them says something (ah, that person?).

But the problem was Kang Nari.

Kang Na-ri, the youngest member of the group, started her own business on her own last year, but it suddenly went bankrupt and she ended up in debt…

“Did you even take out a loan?”

“Yes, yes… When you first start a business, you need initial capital… right? But the family must have taken care of it, so the bank couldn’t give you a loan… so I took out a private loan, a little… hehe. ……”

Nari Kang smiles sheepishly, as if she was dumbfounded even as she spoke.

If your family has blocked you from taking out a loan, it seems like you should just work a part-time job and make money on your own… I don’t know if Kang Na-ri, who didn’t give in and took out a private loan, is extraordinary or stupid.

In the end, because she had nothing to secure as collateral, she used her own organs as collateral to take out private loans, but the business failed. Today was the day to repay the loans, and private loan sharks came to her.

Just before she was captured by scary men and sold away, Eunha appeared like a comet and saved her from danger.

I made a mistake donating blood once and got out of debt.

Is this right?

“Thanks to you, the loan repayment date has been postponed to next month! What on earth did you do? I really thought you were a corpse. Is this a disguise-type skill? If so, you must be a scout-type hunter. I heard that you make a lot of money as much as you are dangerous. I’m jealous.”

“Haha… Anyway, I’m glad you’re safe.”

Seeing Kang Na-ri’s sparkling eyes expressing her deep gratitude, Eunha smiled awkwardly and equivocated.

It wasn’t pretending to be a corpse, it was a real corpse.

However, you can’t just teach your skills to someone who is new to you.

There was no need to correct Kang Na-ri’s misunderstanding.

Nari Kang didn’t mention Eunha’s skills anymore, as if she didn’t want to dig deeper.

“Haa~… I wonder what would have happened if it wasn’t Eunha…”

“It was a relief. But what kind of business did you do that it went bankrupt like this?”

“Ah. In that case… I was going to make this and sell it.”

Eunha asked a question as she finished eating the leftover seaweed soup.

What did someone from the Blue Dragon family do that led to their ruin?

In response to her question, Nari Kang took out a small rectangular glass bottle from a cardboard box placed next to the potato bag and placed it on the table.

An object containing a thick red liquid in a small glass bottle.

It was an [emergency recovery potion] used by hunters to close wounds and temporarily increase blood volume.