The Strongest Guild Kidnapped Me

Chapter 20.2

Jung Yu-na answered inwardly, biting her lip hard.

A drop of blood trickled from her lip.

‘I’m worse really trash.’

I’m a despicable human.

Jung Yu-na felt like burying herself somewhere and dying.

Of course, she couldn’t do that because of the child.

In this situation, death would be nothing more than a convenient self-consolation.

Jung Yu-na had no intention of seeking comfort in front of the child.

Not with the mistake she had made in the past.

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‘Ugh.’

I sat crouched, pressing down on my ears for a long time, all just to get the water out of my ear.

Unlike when I was a normal human, since my ear is that of a cat girl, it’s now filled with fur, making it harder to dry, since there’s always a little bit of water in every hair.

Drip

Drip

Watching the water ever so slowly drip down, I started feeling frustrated.

Even if I spend the next half hour crouching down like this, it still won’t make my ear dry.

‘What should I do?’

Should I try to do a handstand? Maybe if my head is down, the gravity would help make the water go down faster.

As I seriously considered this, I remembered the wolf woman who had come to see me.

Since she had animal ears like mine, she might know how to solve this.

‘Is she still in the tent?’

Hmmm... Let’s check on her.

I got up and ran towards the tent, carrying the bucket that had contained the minnows.

“Ah—!”

She looked me up and down, her eyes widening in surprise.

“Gyeoul, why have you turned into a wet, wet... cat?”

“I fell into the pond.”

“Ah, did you trip down?”

“No, someone was behind me—”

I stopped mid-sentence and clamped my mouth shut.

It would be ridiculous to say I fell because I got startled by someone behind me.

It seemed better to say I just lost my balance and fell.

“...Did someone push you from behind?”

“No–no–I just fell on my own.”

Ah, it seems she doesn’t believe me, her eyes held a look of suspicion.

At times like this, it was best to just pretend to be stupid and talk about something else.

“I think I brought too many minnows.”

“Ah, yes...”

The girl nodded, her gaze shifting towards the pond.

She seemed to be looking for someone, frowning and scanning the area.

“I’ll go check on the minnows for a bit. Gyeoul, do you want to dry off?”

“Yes...”

Thud!

The girl threw a goblin’s mana stone into the fire.

....To use such a precious stone for kindling a fire.

I felt a sense of admiration and looked back where she was, but the girl had already disappeared into the distance.

‘She’s fast.’

Scratching my head, I sat down in front of the fire.

For now, I decided to just dry off.@@@@