PAID

Nearly a thousand Rage Howlers lay sprawled across the ground, their eyes void of light.

A mountain of corpses.

Thick, dark red blood soaked the vast floor of the cavern without leaving a single patch dry.

The deafening noise had faded into silence.

“Phew—”

Standing amidst that sea of blood and bodies, I took a deep breath in and let it out slowly.

“Haa—”

This was a process of refinement—to pull my senses back to reality from the unconscious trance I had fallen into.

As I locked away the adrenaline that had been flooding my system, an overwhelming wave of emptiness and fatigue crashed down on my body all at once.

Stumble—

I steadied myself, pressing a hand against my forehead and curling my lips into a bitter smile.

“Damn it, no matter how many times I go through this, I just can’t get used to this feeling.”

— Jin Yu-ha…

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— You’re back.

“Back? What do you mean? Wasn’t I acting the same as usual?”

— …U-Usual, yes. Well. I mean… Sure, you could say that.

I could hear the flustered tone in Shin Se-hee’s voice.

‘Did I look that different to her?’

Ah. That might be it.

I had clearly moved in ways that shouldn’t have been possible under normal conditions,

and my strength had undoubtedly exceeded its limits.