I sent Boss a message last Friday night that I wanted to negotiate. Boss went silent for a week until today. Her message contained a coordinate to an intermediate rank danger zone on the outskirts of Gyeonggido.

“Huh?”

I spotted an abandoned house in the middle of a forest when I arrived. It looked like the houses that often appeared in horror movies with faded bricks covered in moss and vines. I went inside as my footsteps echoed in the darkness. Goosebumps rose on my skin every time a chilly wind blew.

“Hello?”

Something large dropped from the ceiling the moment I spoke. Evandel’s ghost wolf shot out from my chest as I grasped the situation.

“A bat?”

Fenrir crushed the flying nightmare. Er, wait. I was Fenrir.

— Krrrr! Krrrr!

— Guaaaa!

The giant bat struggled until its neck twisted like a stringless puppet. The flying nightmare should’ve been an intermediate rank, grade 6 monster.

“I guess I’ll leave close combat to him.”

I could shoot from long range as the wolf took care of anything that approached. It seemed like the perfect combination.

Kiiiik—

The door behind me opened as small footsteps resounded. I turned around and saw Boss. She looked back and forth between the dead bat and the wolf.

“Is that your pet?”

“Yes? Ah, yes, something like that.”

“It’s cute....