Now it was okay for her to freely meet them.
Nodding her head, Sophia brought the smartphone closer to her face.
“Understood. Since the extremists might attack the king, you two stay and assist the prospective king.”
“Yes, understood.”
“Got it!”
A king with monstrous abilities, yet not forgetting kindness.
Sophia wanted to meet them as soon as possible.
At least before the extremist faction that hated humans could find and kill the prospective king.
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The next morning.
I woke up in the box bed and looked down at my palms.
Feeling so refreshed from just a day of rest was astonishing.
With my current condition, I might even be able to hunt more than three horned rabbits.
“Wow.”
It was hard to suppress the rising hunting instinct.
I guess I should head to the hunting ground early this morning.
As I reached for the slingshot and iron balls placed nearby.
Rustle-
A girl with a familiar face entered the tent, pushing aside the flap.
“Gyeoul! Look at this!”
“Ye… Yes?!”
Her face and upper clothes were soaked, as if she had washed up in the valley stream early in the morning.
In her hand, she was holding the trap I had placed in the valley.
“You caught a lot of minnows today!”
“I… I did?”
How many did I catch for her to be this excited?
I was about to run over to check the trap but stopped myself.
Even from a distance, I could clearly see the minnows.
One, two, three, four.
In the brief moment the minnows leaped and fell, I could count about fifty of them.
‘Huh?’
Had my dynamic vision improved this much?
The more surprised I was, the more my fear of the girl grew.
Enhancing a mana-less person’s physical abilities to this extent.
Just how monstrous were her abilities?
I almost sighed in frustration at the perplexing situation but held it back.
I didn’t want to start the morning with negative feelings.
“There are about fifty minnows…”
“Wow, did you count them all in an instant?”
“Ye… Yes…”
I nodded and then realized my mistake.
She must have shown me the minnows to gauge how much my dynamic vision had improved.
I didn’t like being played like this and frowned deeply.
That was when I heard a robust male voice from a distance.
“Leader! Leeeaaader!”
“Cough.”
Was that the lizard man from yesterday?
If so, the wolf woman must be with him too.
“Leader, open up!”
Thud, thud, thud!
The lizard man was pounding on the tent entrance.
Since the entrance was also a tent flap, I could see the lizard man and the wolf woman behind the fluttering fabric.
“There’s no door here… Just come in…”
“Whoa! A house with no entrance! That’s incredible confidence! Truly barbaric!”
“Yes. It means anyone can come in, I guess.”
The two beast-humanoids suddenly blurted out something strange.
It was clear their minds had gone weird from the transformation.
‘Really, what’s wrong with me.’
Did I betray a country in my past life?
But I remember everything from my past life?
While I was lost in these ridiculous thoughts, the two beast-humanoids suddenly knelt before me.
It was a pose seen in comic books, like when a knight takes an oath.
“Let us formally introduce ourselves. From now on, we will serve you, Lord Gyeoul…”
“Why, why are you doing this…!”
It was shocking to see people kneeling before me.
In my surprise, I too knelt down towards them.
“Lord Gyeoul. You must not kneel before us.”
“That’s right! Leader! A leader is a leader! You mustn’t lower yourself!”
“What are you saying…! Get up quickly…!”
This isn’t the Middle Ages.
Kneeling before another person.
I felt a tremor through my body, as if I had committed some kind of abuse.
“But we…”
“No, please. I’m asking you, don’t kneel.”
“Ah, yes. Understood.”
The wolf woman glanced around cautiously before getting up.
She just stood there, fidgeting and scratching the back of her head.
‘Is this some kind of strategy…?’
After a moment of thought, I realized.
The girl was trying to attach a cruel image to me, making it seem like I made people kneel before me.
Her actions were so cunning that I only realized it too late.
‘She’s really a bad woman.’
Cunning and deceitful.
Annoyed, I grabbed my slingshot and dashed towards the hunting ground.
I knew they would follow me, but I wanted to express my dissatisfaction this way.