I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93

To see not just one, but two people I didn’t want to meet.

Irritation and sighs bubbled up from deep within.

“….”

It seemed Anabella felt the same way, as she frowned deeply.

I could understand that, but to frown in front of Callix Crowbell? She’s braver than she looks.

I glanced sideways and observed Callix Crowbell’s reaction.

His expression seemed similar to when he faced the temple envoy before, yet subtly different.

It wasn’t simply disgust toward his opponent, but something more complex—an expression mixed with old love and hate.

Such an expression couldn’t appear unless they already knew each other.

‘But the two of them getting to know each other happens during the monster extermination two years from now, doesn’t it?’

What on earth is going on?

I was curious, yet anxious that the original story I knew seemed to be gradually changing.

So I kept looking back and forth between Callix Crowbell and Anabella, when suddenly he looked in my direction.

“….”

When our eyes met, he flinched like someone caught in an embarrassing moment, then hastily turned his head away. Then he left abruptly without even a greeting.

“What’s with him? Why is he acting like that?”

Anyone watching would think he was running away.

I was watching his retreating figure in bewilderment when Anabella approached with a chilly aura.

“I told you to be careful, yet you continue to stay close to that man?”

Her low voice clearly contained reproach. She narrowed her eyes and glared at me as if feeling betrayed.

“You said you believed my words, but I guess that was a lie.”

“You’re one to talk—have you completely forgotten what I said about handling my own affairs?”

When I replied coldly, Anabella’s face hardened.

She let out a scornful sigh, then leaned close to my ear and whispered lowly.

“You’re the one who couldn’t take the opportunity when given. Don’t regret it later.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she roughly bumped my shoulder as she passed.

More irritating than the pain spreading through my shoulder was her warning that clung to my ear and wouldn’t leave.

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As soon as I returned to the office, a storm of work poured down on me. I was so frantically absorbed without even a moment to catch my breath that I lost track of time.

If another employee hadn’t come over to tap my shoulder and tell me to go home, I probably would have been stuck at my desk without realizing how late it was getting.

‘Ah, I’m tired.’

I somehow made it to the city gate, but as soon as I got on the stagecoach heading to the hunters’ village, drowsiness hit me.

The steady swaying of the carriage felt like a lullaby, and my eyelids grew heavier and heavier.

Eventually, I couldn’t resist the overwhelming sleepiness and dozed off.

How much time had passed? Thinking it should be about time to arrive, I forced my heavy eyelids open.

‘What? We’re still moving.’

I looked out the window to check how far we’d come, but all I could see was thick darkness.

The unfamiliar scenery with no gas lamps that should have been sparsely standing, or even light seeping from houses, made the back of my neck feel cold.

Only then did I notice the interior of the carriage. It was subtly different from the usual stagecoach that was old but familiar.

Most importantly, I was alone in the carriage that should have been packed with no room to step during rush hour.

“Excuse me! Driver!”

I frantically tried to open the small window connecting to the driver’s seat, but it wouldn’t budge. Even when I pounded on it frantically, there was no response from the other side.

‘This definitely isn’t normal.’

Goosebumps ran up my spine, and my heart felt like it would jump out of my mouth.

“Open it! Please stop!”

I pulled at the door handle, but it wouldn’t move. Even kicking it until my toes went numb didn’t help.

“Open! Open up!”

I was desperately struggling to escape somehow when the metal ring wrapped around my wrist emitted a strange light and flashed.

Screech—

Then the roughly racing carriage suddenly stopped.

“Ugh!”

From the impact, I was thrown into a corner of the carriage and let out a low groan. My head seemed to have hit something hard, ringing dully, and stars danced before my eyes.

For a while, I gasped and struggled to regain my senses without being able to breathe properly.

After a moment, the tightly closed carriage door slowly opened.

‘I have to get out.’

If I stay here, I’ll die.

Driven by the instinct to survive somehow, I dragged my aching body toward the door and crawled out.

The moment I felt the cold night air, a hand suddenly appeared from the darkness and roughly grabbed my arm.

“Aaah!”

I screamed and instinctively swung my arm. At that moment, the metal ring on my wrist emitted a blinding explosive light and struck the assailant who had grabbed me head-on.

“Guhak!”

The assailant screamed as if pushed by tremendous force and tumbled away.

At the same time, the skin where the metal ring touched burned with searing pain as if being branded with a hot iron.

“Ugh, urgh.”

“…Really, you’re troublesome from start to finish.”

While I was gasping from the terrible pain I’d never felt before, I heard a voice that seemed familiar yet strange.

When I turned my head, I saw Anabella slowly walking out from the darkness.

When Anabella reached toward me, strange clusters of light bloomed from her fingertips.

The moment that light touched the metal ring on my wrist, the ring that would never come off no matter what I did crumbled pathetically and scattered to the ground.

It was the metal ring I had so wanted to remove, that was nothing but shackles to me. But now that it was gone, anxiety rushed in before any sense of liberation.

Because right now, it was the only thing that could protect me!

I frantically tried to gather the broken ring pieces when the assailant, who had regained consciousness, rushed at me again.

“….”

The assailant grabbed both my arms and pressed my head to the ground. The sensation of cold earth and beast-like breathing hit my ears.

Through my vision distorted by fear, Anabella walked over leisurely.

“See? I clearly warned you. I said you’d regret not taking my hand.”

Anabella knelt on one knee and met my eyes. Her pupils seen up close were black as an abyss.

“This is all your fault.”

Her finger brushed across my cheek.

“If you had done as I suggested from the beginning, if you had taken my hand, we both could have been comfortable… Why did you stubbornly make things come to this?”

Even in this situation where I might die from fear, her claim that all this was my fault was absurd.

“Ha.”

When I unconsciously let out a bitter laugh, Anabella’s eyes sharpened.

“You find this funny?”

“Should I cry instead? Or should I beg you to spare my life?”

If that’s what she expected, she was greatly mistaken.

Even if I died like this, I had no intention of grasping this woman’s skirt.

“You….”

Swoosh—

Just as Anabella was about to say something, a sharp explosive sound cut through the darkness, and the assailant’s head pressing down on me was pierced through.

“….”

Fishy, hot blood poured down onto my face.

At the horrific sight of the life that had been threatening me just moments ago becoming a lump of meat and collapsing in an instant, I froze solid without even being able to scream.

Even the composed Anabella seemed a bit flustered as she stepped back.

Soon rough footsteps filled the darkness from all directions, and armed shadows surrounded us in layers.

While the knights surrounded Anabella and pointed their sharp sword blades at her, one man approached me.

“Can you get up?”

It was Callix Crowbell.

Who would have thought the day would come when I’d be so glad to see his face.

I held back the tears that were about to burst forth, grasping his outstretched hand with trembling fingers as I stood up.

The firm, warm heat transmitted through his gloves finally brought me a sense of relief that I was alive.

He looked me up and down as if checking whether I had been injured anywhere.

His brow furrowed deeply for a moment, then his cold gaze immediately fixed on Anabella.

“….”

In his eyes swirled displeasure and confusion, along with complex and strange emotions I couldn’t read.

Amid the heavy silence, Callix Crowbell, who had been staring intently at Anabella, opened his mouth.

“Arrest that woman.”

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