The Fighting Dog of a Ruined Organization

Originally, titles were one of two things.

Either they appeared or they didn’t.

How clear is that?

The only titles that the Title Collector couldn’t see were the ones not equipped, all equipped titles could be read.

But the Mohanya in front of me is different.

??? is floating openly above her head. Since there probably isn’t a title named ??? in the world, it means Mohanya has somehow hidden her title.

And, as if she knows that I’m a Title Collector.

“What’s your true identity?”

“I told you meow. Mohanya is Mohanya meow.”

“Mohanya…”

No matter how I look at her, she seems like a mentally ill person, but the fact that the title above her head is floating as ??? is not normal. Her tone feels a bit mocking, but that’s just the character of Mohanya, so I’ll let it slide.

It’s closer to goodwill than hostility, and she says she’ll teach me the technique to find people, so let’s trust her. My mind is urgent, but it’s not like I can find anything just because I’m in a hurry, right?

“Alright, then please teach me.”

“Meow meow! Good meow. I’d like to teach you everything I know, but there’s an order to things, so I’ll only teach you this specially today meow.”

“Today…?”

Saying ‘today’ means we’ll meet again later, right?

I don’t want to encounter a mentally ill patient often. I don’t know what she’s going to teach, but just facing her now is draining my energy.

“Now, anyway, focus meow. From now on, focus on watching what I’m going to do meow.”

Focus on watching what she’s going to do?

For now, I stared intently. But I missed Mohanya’s movement for a moment. When I came to my senses, my view was towards the sky, and my body was lying on the ground.

“Wh-what? What’s so fast?”

“Meow meow, this is only 1% of Mohanya’s maximum speed meow. That’s how weak you are meow.”

I’m certainly weak, but.

I’m not weak enough to lose to ordinary people. Mohanya doesn’t seem to be an ordinary person after all.

“How can you keep missing movements like that meow? You’ll surely die miserably meow.”

But through this recent engagement with Mohanya, I learned one important fact.

『You have experienced a fight. Your combat power increases slightly.』

『What is combat power? It means all abilities necessary for combat. The five senses including sight and hearing, and the sixth sense beyond the five senses, plus speed and power.』

The ability of the Fighting Dog, ‘the more you fight, the stronger you become’, didn’t mean you had to win fights to get stronger.

Whether you win or lose, you get stronger in real-time just by fighting. That means it’s not a problem if I can’t read Mohanya’s movements right now.

Because someday I’ll be able to read them.

“Alright. This time I won’t be caught off guard like before, so come at me again.”

“That’s what I wanted to hear meow!”

Certainly.

If before Mohanya completely disappeared, now it’s different. I can see a blurry figure approaching me.

But is it not enough for my body to react yet?

Even though I could see a blurry figure, I fell without being able to respond at all. I can see the pitch-black sky.

“Can you see the pitch-black sky? That’s your future meow! Pathetic puppy, you can’t do anything with just that meow!”

Her way of speaking is really annoyingly rude.

But it’s not bad. Rather, isn’t it thankful? I don’t know why she’s training me like this, but even though not much time has passed, I feel like I’ve gotten quite strong.

Look, this time I can see Mohanya’s movements clearly, not as a blurry figure.

And the moment I recognized the sensation of seeing, I felt my vision expand instantaneously. It feels like I can see things that can’t be seen by simply looking.

Every single movement of hair strands,
Every single movement of clothes fluttering,
And the chest… it’s small so it doesn’t shake.

It’s a comfortable stillness.

Anyway, if I can see movements this minutely, there’s nothing I can’t block. Earlier, my combat power increased a little across the board, but this time I feel like my vision has increased exceptionally.

I don’t know why, but thank you for this. This time, I definitely avoided Mohanya’s attack.

Here comes a low kick!

『Congratulations! You have completed your first training with Mohanya.』
『Title Granted: Observing』
『Your ability, Title Collector, grants power to the word ‘observe’.』

Whoosh!

Unfortunately, the low kick missed. Seeing Mohanya disappear into a blurry figure again, it seems that her claim of 1% wasn’t just boasting.

“Meow meow! Mohanya has taught everything she was going to teach today meow.”

“What exactly did you teach me?”

“How could a day-old puppy understand a tiger’s intention meow? Mohanya will be going now meow~”

And Mohanya disappeared in an instant. Is ‘in an instant’ the right phrase? It’s confusing because she vanished as if she was never there.

It feels like I had a dream.

But the title ‘Observing’ appearing in my title window proves it wasn’t a dream.

“What the hell?”

Didn’t they say that an ignorant person with conviction is scary? Even scarier than that is a mentally ill person with power. I hope I never meet her again.

For now, since I don’t have time, I should check the newly acquired title.

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Title: Observing

Rarity: B

Description: Observation is very important. Though surprisingly, people don’t do it often.

Ability:

Situation Observation: Once a day, you can observe from an observer’s perspective the situation of a person you want or the situation of a place. However, there may be limitations depending on the user’s level.

Behavior Observation (Not Acquired)

Mind Observation (Not Acquired)

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Even though there are limitations, it’s undoubtedly an amazing ability. I equipped the title without hesitation.

『Title: Observing Fighting Dog of Fantasia (Ruined)』

I don’t know if I’ll be able to find Shizu due to the limitations, but since Mohanya helped me to find Shizu, it shouldn’t be impossible.

“Situation Observation, Observation Target─Shizu.”

At that moment, my vision switched.

I saw a woman with her hair pulled back with a red headband. The woman had dark circles under her eyes as if worn out from fatigue, and her eyes also looked weak.

Overall, she looked tired, could this woman be Shizu?

Shizu was surrounded by men in front of a building labeled ‘College Student Aroma Massage’. They weren’t ordinary men, the overall atmosphere was quite unsavory.

Those unsavory men said to Shizu:

“Come on, miss. Why do you keep playing hard to get? You work here, right? That’s why you were hanging around, right? Give us that massage thing too.”

“I’ve told you many times, I don’t… I was just standing here thinking about whether to work here, I’m not someone who works here.”

“You were thinking about working here? That’s perfect! Practice on us once. We’ll evaluate whether you’re good or not.”

“I have no reason to do anything for you guys. I need to go home, so please move aside.”

So that’s how it was.

Eris had said. That Shizu started considering prostitution.

Logically, a place called ‘College Student Aroma Massage’ can’t be a place that gives truly innocent massages, right? It’s 100% a prostitution establishment.

Shizu was standing in front of it, contemplating whether to do it or not, and while contemplating, a lot of time must have passed.

Then those weird guys must have started hitting on her? What can you expect from passersby? They probably just went on their way, unable to help because the atmosphere was scary.

If left alone, she’ll surely be dragged to some weird place and raped. The really fortunate thing is that place isn’t too far from where I am now.

I stopped observing and hurriedly ran out, looking at the map on my phone. While running, I felt my body become even lighter.

The fight with Mohanya must have significantly improved my combat power. I was confident I could win against guys like that even in a normal fight, but now there’s no way I can’t win.

I arrived in front of the massage shop with confident steps.

What’s the current situation?

“L-let go of this. If you don’t let go, I’ll call the police…!”

“Hee─ Police? Go ahead and call! If we show them a bitch like you, even the police will get horny and join in? Then we’ll be innocent.”

Even if the police are idiots, would they really join in on that? Those bastards must have done drugs. If the police are called, it might be easily resolved.

But originally, in this world, fists are closer than the law.

I decided not to rely on the police anymore. Those bastards need to be taught a lesson with fists.

“Let go of that woman.”

I approached, cracking my neck. The men burst into laughter, seemingly dumbfounded by my appearance.

“Oh my? A great gym rat has arrived? Mister, just go on your way. Don’t see something you shouldn’t by messing with us.”

“That’s right, do you think working out is the same as fighting?”

“Do you know how many gym rat bastards like you we’ve sent to their graves?”

Hahaha… It’s not funny, but they’re giggling among themselves for some reason.

Do these bastards fight with words? What are they doing in a world where fists are closer than the law?

But if they’re going to do verbal fighting, I can’t lose either.

“Who are you guys? Are you part of Esper Hunter or something?”

“Huh? No, we’re not.”

“Then are you Carpe Diem?”

“Not that either.”

“Murim Alliance… I don’t even need to ask, right?”

“What’s that got to do with anything? You think we go around with solid backing like those gangster bastards? We have nothing to fear. We live only for today!”

“Then let’s really see you live only for today.”

Bam!

I threw a hook. There’s no need to check these bastards with a jab. When I swung my fist with all my might and threw a hook, the one who seemed to be the leader of the group…

Oh, sorry. I didn’t know my strength had increased this much.

I was just planning to hit his chin and knock him out, but not only did his jaw shatter, his teeth fell out like corn being shucked as he collapsed.

How should I put it, it’s a much more shocking situation than I expected.

“Aaaargh! It’s a monster!”

Is it because the one who looked like the leader collapsed after one punch, popping like popcorn?

The other guys ran away screaming like delicate girls. Where did that arrogant attitude from earlier go?

『You have won a fight for the first time. Your combat power increases modestly.』

I can’t help but laugh that my combat power increased even more in this situation. It even increased modestly instead of slightly, probably because it was a victory, not just experience.

Well, that’s good. If I keep getting stronger like this, it might not be long before I can rip out that bastard Chunsik’s tongue.

But now it’s time to pay attention to Shizu.

“Um… Thank you. But who are you?”

Shizu asks, blinking her tired eyes blankly.

No, first, is this really Shizu? I should confirm that first.

“Are you Shizu-ssi?”

“Yes, I’m Shizu Selenoor, but…”

With the same last name as Eris, Selenoor, there’s no need to confirm further.

I changed my title to public and pointed above my head.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Woo Hyeon-woo, who decided to become Fantasia’s fighting dog.”

And hearing those words, Shizu began to cry.

With those eyes that seemed too dried out from fatigue to shed a single tear.