City of Backstreet Nymphs

1 – 001 – Nymph Oinoi # 1

001 – Nymph Oinoi # 1

It was an exceptionally cold day.

Upon hearing the news that a Class D crack had opened in the middle of the city, I simply packed my equipment and went out, shivering in the colder weather than I thought.

“Is it cold these days in winter even with clothes on?”

The weather is over 10 degrees below zero.

Unexpectedly opening an unexpected rift on such an inclement day.

“If you win the lottery, you should quit this job too.”

One day in December, a small complaint that no one would ever hear turned into a cloud of breath and disappeared.

The cracks were in the stream where people often came and went.

“Look at that person. I have a very large case.”

“Looks like an Awakener. There must have been a weapon in it.”

The city center in December was full of lights and noisy. Perhaps because it was a Saturday evening, most of the people who looked at me were lovers.

It’s a good time-.

Thinking so, I clicked my tongue and arrived at the scene before I knew it.

It is now quite familiar to see police and riot police armed with guns in the middle of the road surrounding something like a haze shimmering in the air.

“This is Haildo, a Class D Awakener. I have been contacted.”

I showed my ID and entered the police siege. They seemed to be checking my ID card, but their lips moved as if they wanted to say something.

“If it’s Haildo, a Class D Awakener, maybe it was in the past—”

“… ….”

Smooth-.

I felt sweat on my back.

I wondered what would happen if they recognized me.

I was quite a celebrity until at least six years ago.

That fact tightened my neck like a leash, so I wanted to close my eyes tightly.

But soon a loud roar blew away my worries.

“That, that person is Seo Ye-rim of S rank!”

“Really? Nice to have you waiting at the gate in cold weather!”

“My first time seeing a celebrity!”

Along with the shouts of people, someone crossed the police line. A woman with slender legs in black stockings and a black coat, her long hair as black as the night sky.

Her small and dense face was really pretty like a celebrity. Being a beautiful woman literally overwhelms those around her, and she made the women passing by the streets like a background.

Her name was Seo Yerim.

She was one of the few S-class awakening people in the world, let alone Korea, and a celebrity who also served as an entertainer.

And I couldn’t help but be amazed.

At last, an S-class hunter is dispatched to a D-class “Abnormal rift”? While I was trying to turn my head, the police approached Seo Ye-rim and asked.

“Are you Seo Ye-rim, an S-rank hunter? There was no name written on the dispatch list that was delivered. Hey how did this….”

“Oh? I was supposed to meet an acquaintance nearby, but stopped by after seeing a crack. An unexpected anomalous rift seems to have opened. Can I join? If it’s a report, I’ll post it later.”

“Would you do that? Then we are good! Cracks in the crowded city center. Even if it’s only D-class, it could put the safety of the citizens at risk.”

The faces of the police immediately brightened.

It seems that they didn’t want to spend the weekend shivering in the cold with Christmas due to an unexpected crack.

People also welcomed it.

“If an S-class hunter participates, the rift will disappear soon, right?”

“How much money do those people make? You will receive a billion won per month as a standard, right?”

“It was embarrassing because the roads were blocked for no reason, but it went well!”

Warm welcome.

S-class hunters were respected and envied wherever they went.

Even if you turn on the TV or turn on your phone, that face appears in all sorts of commercials.

“… You, maybe Hail too?”

Then I heard a voice calling my name.

Write-.

I was intentionally turning my head away as if I didn’t know.

“Hey, Haildo. A long time?”

Ttogak, Ttogak-.

I could feel the high heels coming closer to me.

When I reluctantly turned my head, there were rather sharp eyes looking at me.

“I guess you were still working on this floor? Class D?”

“Well, that’s right.”

I said it as calmly as possible, but I felt like I wanted to go into a mouse hole if there was one. Seo Ye-rim was a girl who was my F-class junior when I had just moved up to D-class.

Seniors and juniors.

Now that the relationship has changed like the stars and dust in the sky, it was natural for me to feel ashamed. When I thought she was like a nightmare in many ways, Seo Ye-rim soon turned her gaze away from me.

Has he lost interest in the common D-class brawler?

“Then, from now on, I will be in charge of the ‘N-52’ site. Each member of the crew will enter the prepared participants first. Enter—”

Wow-.

Seo Ye-rim, an S-class hunter, put her body into her shaking crack.

People entered one after another, and I also put her body towards the crack for the last time.

# # #

“Oh my God, no matter how S-class it is, D-class cracks were done in less than 5 minutes….”

“How can Bashikir bees, as big as cows, turn into coals with just one gesture?”

“… I don’t know if we can get paid today. I didn’t do anything.”

「Anomalous crack N-52」 Was captured in less than 5 minutes.

If there were only D-class squads, it would have taken more than two hours.

Even though she dealt with over 100 giant bees by herself, Seo Ye-rim, an S-rank hunter, didn’t even look out of breath.

She just looks down at the owner of the rift, the “Queen Bee”, With her slender eyes.

She told me.

“Hey, Haildo. Take out the core.”

“… Why me? If you’re going to capture it, it’s F-class….”

“Take it out.”

Class S and Class D.

The gap was the difference between a corps commander and a newly appointed second lieutenant. As Seo Ye-rim said, I had no choice but to rummage through the charred corpse of the queen bee and retrieve the round magic stone.

How could I complain when her hands were covered with gooey ooze and ash? But I was very dissatisfied.

If you’re going to capture it, that’s what the F-rankers who came with you should do.

A picky b*tch.

Why are you so anxious that you can’t catch and eat me? It was like that before. This guy has been caught swearing at me from her fellow girls since the F-class days.

Thinking back then makes me even more angry.

Kwajik, Kwajik-.

It was time to cut and smash the queen bee’s scorched carapace with a dagger for saving.

Chow-.

Unexpectedly, the juice splashed out and smeared on the shoes of Seo Ye-rim, who was standing nearby. The shoes, which were shiny red and seemed to show through to my face, became dirty in an instant.

… f*cked.

“Hey.”

Can a person’s heart sink with one word?

It was possible.

“Do you know how much this is?”

“… How are you?”

My eyes widened at the prospect of having to ask. While the monthly rent is behind, you have to compensate for the goods?

Since these are the shoes worn by S-class hunters who make good money, they must be expensive brands. And when I heard the price from Seo Ye-rim, I really thought my eyes were turned upside down.

“I still haven’t been able to capture even one straight line. Sick.”

Suk-.

Seo Ye-rim waved her hand in the air as it was. When her black shoes appeared out of her empty pockets, she took off the red shoes she was wearing and tossed them over me.

“Take this, buy the same one and ask for it. Okay? Give me your contact Try diving or running away again.”

Pot-!

Seo Ye-rim snatched her cell phone from my hand with her power so strong that I couldn’t even believe she was a woman. She then took her number and threw her cell phone back at me.

I wanted to stop crying.

That was her last conversation with Seo Yerim.

The police on standby skillfully closed the situation and the people disappeared as if they were smearing into the glitter of a happy Christmas.

Me?

I trudged down the cold street with my old women’s shoes in my hand.

“f*ck!”

I felt bad.

Could it be that there is no such thing as luck?

What do you mean by wearing something so expensive when it comes to shoes?

“… f*ck.”

The steps back home were exceptionally heavy.

How do you compensate for shoes worth more than 10 million won?

Even if it was a real lottery ticket, it was a lot of money.

Or maybe I’ll get some great luck….

That was when I headed to the studio where I live.

Crush-Crush-.

I was able to find something rummaging through recycling bags near Daehangno. Because of her diminutive size, I thought she was an old woman picking up waste paper, but she wasn’t.

Yes, grandmothers who pick up waste paper wear warm clothes.

He was wearing a long, tattered T-shirt or something. His limbs were exposed, and his feet were bare again, as if frostbitten.

“Heechu!”

I also sneezed.

I was stunned and speechless at this strange situation. Maybe he felt my presence then, he looked at me.

Her short shoulder-length hair was a light honey color.

So did the eyes.

I wonder if he was around 12 years old?

The curious thing was that the triangular ears were pointed through the hair. It was not the appearance of Koreans in the 21st century.

Fortunately, I wasn’t an idiot, and as a 10-year-old Awakener, I had enough knowledge.

“Are you a child? Elf?”

Ain with pointy ears was an elf.

There are about 100 people in Korea, so I knew it well. All the elves were treated as high-class naturalized people because they were all capable of at least a C-class Awakener or higher.

It is also contributing to overcoming the low birth rate in Korea.

Could this girl be a young elf?

Seeing little elves for the first time?

Could it be that the wanderer got caught up in the opening of the ‘N-52’ anomalous rift?

As I was thinking about that, the cold-looking tramp shook his head.

“… Mheuh, Oinoi is not a fairy with long ears like an elf, but a nymph with short and nice triangular ears… ! It’s more fundamental… ! But I’m so hungry and cold….”

“Nymph with triangular ears?”

It was a D-class for 10 years, but it was an unfamiliar word even to me, a 10-year veteran Awakener.

Another series of unexpected events seemed to turn my head black. But I seemed to know what to do.

I said, holding out my red shoes to the barefoot nymph cucumber blah blah.

“… Would you like to wear this for now?”