I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 120: Cat's Charm

The horned rabbit pulled its head back.

Blood stained its moderately long horns.

Squeak!

The horned rabbit, washing its face, fiddled with its horn and then fled deep into the forest.

It intended to scare her away, not to kill.

"Ugh."

Chae Juyeon slumped to the ground, using a tree as a slide.

The pain was much worse than the wound.

Why did such a minor injury hurt so much?

'It's the pain a child feels...'

Even small injuries make a child burst into tears.

A child of that age couldn't possibly handle the pain of being gutted.

"Haah."

A hot breath escaped up her throat.

Chae Juyeon, who hadn't been told much about Gyeoul, didn't understand why she was gutted by a mere horned rabbit.

She believed it was a mistake due to her youth.

First, the wound needed tending.

Looking around, Chae Juyeon realized people were staring at her.

"Hey, look at that."

"Did she really get stabbed by a horned rabbit?"

"She's not that bad. Some spit should do the trick."

Mocking gazes and voices of scorn.

Is that something to say to an eight-year-old child?

Chae Juyeon's mouth gaped open in shock, and at that moment, she returned to reality.

"Haah!"

Cold sweat trickled down her cheek.

She had been pierced in the stomach by the weakest trauma.

Wiping the sweat with the back of her hand, Chae Juyeon looked around.

"Are you okay...?"

Yeoreum and Jung Yu-na examined Chae Juyeon's condition worriedly.

Everyone else had disappeared.

'Did they do this to be considerate?'

Even showing struggle as a Guild Master was considered a weakness.

Knowing this, they must have left only a few people around and cleared the space.

The Master of Yeomyeong Guild, though taciturn, was very considerate.

Chae Juyeon silently thanked them in her heart and nodded.

"Ah, yes. I was just a bit startled because I was gutted by a horned rabbit right from the start."

"Ah..."

Yeoreum and Jung Yu-na looked at each other.

They seemed to know something.

"People were mocking Gyeoul for being gutted. I don't understand why they would do that to such a small child..."

As Chae Juyeon spoke, she scrutinized the two women.

However, for some reason, they seemed to be surprised about something else.

"Small? Was Gyeoul in the trauma short?"

Gyeoul should have been quite tall at that time.

Yeoreum stroked her lips, showing her confusion.

"Yes. Gyeoul is short, isn't she?"

"Did she also have ears and a tail?"

At Yeoreum's question, Chae Juyeon crossed her arms and fell into thought.

There was a strange sensation on my back—it must have been a tail, though I couldn't feel it properly.

"Yes, I had ears and a tail."

"Is that so...?"

So, the trauma was based on her current appearance.

For Yeoreum, it was fortunate.

She felt sorry for Chae Juyeon, who was trying to help, but it was better to keep Gyeoul's original form hidden.

Being known as a pure beast-kin child could bring many benefits.

Everything was for Gyeoul's sake.

"I'll try next."

Yeoreum extended her hand forward, signaling for the mana stone.

"Yes. But be careful."

"About what?"

"I got gutted right at the start."

The traumas start from the weakest and get stronger, aiming to collapse the opponent's mind with malevolent intent.

"Does that mean something more dangerous could come out?"

"Yes."

"...It's okay. I'm already prepared."

There was no hesitation in Yeoreum's eyes.

Chae Juyeon handed her the mana stone.

"I'll flow mana to you. Don't refuse it."

"Okay."

Warm mana that Yeoreum flowed into her.

Through this pleasant mana, known as divine energy, the horrible space called trauma was manifested.

In that place, Yeoreum was beaten almost to the point of fainting by Park Min-kyu.

Jung Yu-na had a similar experience and ended up crying in the body of young Gyeoul.

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Let's compare with ordinary people and common sense.

I moved towards the people with Sophia.

Several people were sitting on a mat, chatting, and I couldn't figure out how to join the conversation.

'What to do.'

I didn't want to interrupt their pleasant chat.

So, I just wandered around them until their conversation ended.

"......?"

Perhaps I seemed odd circling around them because the people chatting turned their gaze towards me.

They exchanged looks and then moved aside to make room.

There was enough space for Sophia and me to sit.

This must mean it's okay to sit down.

I took off my shoes and sat down on the mat.

"Oh my."

"She sat down! What do we do...!"

The people showed an inexplicable tension.

Among them were those who had bought vegetables from us.

"Hey..."

What does it mean to compare common sense with them?

As I looked up at Sophia, still standing, someone handed me fried chicken.

"Do you want this?"

I unwittingly opened my mouth and accepted the fried chicken.

Chewing the juicy chicken, I was shocked.

'Oh my.'

I couldn't believe I was eating food from someone I didn't know.

Isn't this totally wrong?

My ears and tail perked up in surprise.

Then, Sophia came and sat beside me.

"Don't feed her too much. She has to eat lunch."

Not 'don't eat', but 'don't feed'.

The remark wasn't directed at me, but at those offering the fried chicken.

"Yeah, I'll get in trouble for skipping lunch so just give it a taste."

"Yes. Thanks for being considerate."

Hmm-hmm.

Someone pushed a piece of fried chicken into Sophia's mouth as she cleared her throat.

Sophia expressed her displeasure by thumping her tail on the ground, but only beast-kin could read emotions through tail movements.

"So, do you kids need anything?"

The word 'kids' made Sophia's brows furrow slightly.

It was a very small change that only I could see with my level of vision.

"I have a few questions to ask..."

"Questions?"

"Yes."

Sophia looked at me, as if telling me to ask directly.

"Um, I was wondering..."

"Yes, ask anything."

"Do you not pick up chocolate if it falls on the floor?"

"Uh, yeah. We usually don't pick it up."

You don't pick it up?

Even if it's just chocolate that got a bit of dirt on it?

To me, this was an incomprehensibly bourgeois action.

"Are you perhaps incredibly wealthy?"

"No, we're just regular office workers..."

"Is that so...?"

So, even regular office workers don't pick up chocolate off the ground.

Maybe my common sense was focused only on 'survival', as Sophia said.

I had to admit it at this point, but I decided to ask one last thing.

"Have you ever eaten this?"

I plucked some dog grass nearby.

It was a good substitute for rice, edible and beneficial.

"Isn't that dog grass?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Hmm... I've never eaten dog grass."

"Really...?"

Definitely.

It might not be commonly eaten, but don't people occasionally try it?

I was shocked by the difference between my common sense and that of others.

"Yeah, people generally don't eat dog grass."

"Is that so..."

I wondered if it was just the person in front of me who didn't eat it, but everyone confirmed it.

This allowed me to draw a clear conclusion.

The thousands of small and big bits of common knowledge I had learned in my world were completely useless.

'Well, not entirely useless.'

It wasn't that you couldn't eat them; it's just that people don't.

There was no need to despair.

"Sophia, I guess I've been living like an idiot."

"Don't say weird things. Your knowledge is special."

"Special?"

"Yes, when it comes to survival, you're an expert beyond anyone else in the world. Your knowledge is just focused in that area."

Hearing Sophia say this reassured me.

My tail was wagging softly.

"Exactly, exactly. Knowledge related to survival is very important."

"In the end, it's the ones who know the most who survive."

The people sitting on the mat joined in with Sophia's words.

The wagging of my tail began to speed up.

It was enough to feel the breeze.

'Thank goodness.'

It wasn't a completely meaningless time after all.

Just as I was feeling relieved, I heard a familiar voice from afar.

"I'm going to kill that bastard Park Min-kyu!"

"Yu-na, calm down...!"

"I'll tear his limbs apart...!"

"They're already torn!"

Yeoreum was trying to soothe an agitated Jung Yu-na.

Yu-na's murderous intent was so intense that my wagging tail froze.

I said goodbye to the people on the mat and hurried towards Yu-na.

"Just seeing that son of a b*tch...!"

I locked eyes with the furious Jung Yu-na.

I trembled at the murderous aura she was emitting.

For some reason, Jung Yu-na was also trembling.

What on earth happened to make her so angry?

I wasn't sure, but it seemed like a bad idea to mess with her.

"I, I'm a cat, you know…"

I'm a cat, not a dog, so don't be mad.

I said it jokingly, trying to soothe Yu-na.

But for some reason, Yu-na's face turned pale.

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