As I turned my head to the end of the alley, a person I had never seen appeared.
A woman with a modest appearance dressed in a black suit.
“Hunter Seonwooyeon!
“What happened?”
“Policeman.
that is······.”
Is your name ‘Seonwooyeon Hunter’?
I put down the bird I was holding and looked at them.
Then a familiar face appeared.
“uncle!”
“Aha, that kid from earlier.”
“I’m here to find the policeman!”
“police?”
At the tip of the child’s finger was an Earthling wearing a blue uniform.
“Oh my, thank you for your hard work.
teacher.”
The person called the police smiled impressively and said.
“I was on patrol after receiving a report that a monster had escaped, and I think there was a hunter who happened to be passing by.”
“Hunter?”
“I’m so glad this guy was caught before he caused an accident.”
How can you smile like this when you meet someone for the first time?
What a friendly alien.
However, the person next to me, Hunter Seon Woo-yeon, did not have a good expression.
‘As soon as the report was made, we were dispatched… I never thought I was a step late.
Did this person really encounter a monster by chance?’
Umm.
What are you thinking?
‘If you look closely, he was killed using a straight attack method.’
Hunter Seon Woo-yeon seemed to be thinking alone as he looked at the traces on the floor and the dead bird.
‘The Beginner Killer is a Masura who lives in a soft sandy gate.
It’s rather easy to catch from outside.
If you guide the charging angle just right, you can kill it without using your hands.
but···.
That means it has the body vision to cope with the speed of the Beginner Killer.’
After thinking about it, Hunter Sunwooyeon immediately reached out to me.
‘Then this person is at least C grade?’
I vaguely understood what it meant for the Earthling to extend his hand.
So we shook hands, and the other person greeted me lightly.
“hello.
It came from the Constitutional Council.
“This is Seon Woo-yeon.”
“Ah yes.”
“You took care of the Beginner Killer without a scratch.
“This is my first time seeing you around here.
Are you a freelance hunter?”
freelancer?
Are you asking if there is a window?
The brain that died and woke up did not fully understand the question.
“So, what affiliation?”
“yes?”
“I have to report the Beginner Killer Gun to the association.”
“······.”
“You just need to show me your hunter ID.”
The atmosphere becomes strange.
Hunter ID?
What is that?
Is this similar to a pass?
What kind of association is this?
“uh······.”
Let’s be flexible for now.
“sorry.
“I don’t have a hunter’s license right now.”
“Oh, I see.”
phew.
It went well.
After overcoming a critical juncture, I looked at the escape route so that I could escape at any time, and immediately took care of the urgent matters first.
“For a moment.
Hey, you.”
“Yes?”
“You didn’t forget your promise, right?”
“Ah······.”
I quickly reached out to the kid who brought the police and Hunter.
Then the kid hesitated and held out what he was holding.
That orange food that I desperately wanted.
‘Did you just take away what the child was eating…?’
I hungrily drank the orange liquid, regardless of whether Seon Woo-yeon was next to me or not.
And as the sweet, cool liquid passed down my throat, my eyes suddenly opened.
it’s good.
“and!
“This is killing me!”
“My fresh tangerine…”
Originally, for a while after I was reincarnated, I was quite dissatisfied with this body.
It’s been a long time since I evolved to be able to live without eating.
To come into such a primitive body.
While doing so.
But now my thoughts have completely changed.
The act of eating, which I had forgotten about, was actually a very happy thing.
“Tsk.”
I frantically sucked and drank the liquid in the container.
“Hey.”
What stopped me from doing that was Seon Woo-yeon’s calm voice.
“We’ll both be busy, so let’s make it simple.
Please tell me your name.
Then, I will conduct a hunter inquiry at the association.”
I felt a chill down my spine for a moment.
“What is your name?”
That’s right… I don’t know the name of my body yet.
It’s like adding insult to injury.
As I froze, unable to give a proper answer, Seon Woo-yeon continued to interrogate me more and more.
“···Have you not registered as a hunter by any chance?”
“Uh… I don’t know.”
“What about the awakening test?
“Have you done a test?”
And after a short conversation, Seon Woo-yeon opened her eyes wide.
“You really used your awakening ability on the main street without even registering?
“That’s illegal!”
okay.
I don’t know what this means, but I know I’m screwed.
Seon Woo-yeon said in an angry tone that I had broken the law, and there was a little kid and a ‘police officer’ behind me.
After understanding the situation, I immediately took action.
“No.
Of course, I registered.
But you asked for a hunter’s card earlier, right?
I have a hunter ID at home.
“If you stay here, I’ll get it right away.”
A lie that comes out of nowhere.
I would say it as naturally as possible, but how would it look to the eyes of the natives of Earth?
I looked around and quickly left the scene.
Fortunately, they didn’t catch me walking away.
‘Let’s never come down this road again!’
Now that things have turned out this way, I’ll just have to pray that they don’t have any tracking magic.
***
A few minutes later.
I returned to a familiar room.
In the same room I woke up in.
“Let me see.”
The first thing I did as soon as I got back was tidy up.
Now that I thought about it, I realized that I didn’t even know the identity of this body.
“Ah, this is it!”
Fortunately, I found something helpful within minutes.
[registration card]
[Kim Ki-ryeo]
Kim Ki-ryeo.
This is my new name.
I clearly remembered the words written on the card and continued searching the room.
However, in the ensuing search, ‘Hunter’s ID’ was not even revealed.
“After all, this body hasn’t registered as a hunter?”
I’ve searched for everything worth seeing in this small room.
Now there’s only one thing left.
“Hmm.”
I headed to the bathroom.
There was a square mirror on the wall.
Thanks to this, I was able to see the reincarnated body for the first time.
‘It looks strange.’
I calmly look at the image reflected in the mirror.
First of all, Kim Ki-ryeo has apricot-colored skin.
Beyond the slightly thick eyelids, you can see dark, squinty eyes.
By the way, the people I met earlier all had black hair.
Kim Ki-ryeo’s fur is unusually golden.
Oh, if you look closely, there is a bit of black mixed in towards the roots.
“It’s spotty.”
I glanced down.
Now I can see what I was wearing.
Where have you seen Kim Ki-ryeo’s outfit?
okay.
Her clothes were similar to those worn by Seon Woo-yeon, whom we met earlier.
I am wearing a white shirt and a black jacket.
“Well, anyway.”
So, that’s about my impressions of my new body.
All that’s left to do is check to see if there’s anything hidden in the bathroom.
And I made an unexpected discovery in this process.
“Uh?”
When I opened the small shelf in the bathroom, I saw something.
Square boxes lined up in transparent plastic…
When I saw that, a forgotten memory came back to me.
“Cigarette.
The owner used to smoke it often.”
Another memory arose.
okay.
This corpse lives with cigarettes in its mouth!
“I was a heavy smoker!”
Is it because of the sugar from the ice cream I just ate?
Finally, my brain started to work a little, and at this moment, I realized something important.
“This damned bastard was a heavy smoker!”
So… that’s why the magic didn’t come out!
I suddenly lost my strength in my legs and collapsed.
Smoking.
Do you know how critical this is for wizards?
Until now, it has been expressed loosely as ‘magic power’.
In fact, the fuel used for magic is classified into ‘external magical power’ and ‘internal magical power’.
External horsepower.
This is literally mana moving around outside.
Scattered across the Earth.
So what is the internal horsepower?
It is the magical power that circulates within the body of a living creature.
Wizards create a complex by combining a small amount of internal magic power with external magic power.
Also, it is used to perform magic…
Then wait a moment here.
What organ does a wizard use to connect the magic within the body with external mana?
That organ is located in the respiratory system.
Lung.
“Holy shit!”
The most important organ for a wizard is the lungs.
However, Kim Ki-ryeo is a smoker.
As soon as I found the cigarette, I immediately realized why I couldn’t cast the spell.
This body’s lungs are already black and damaged, and it is in a state where it cannot exchange magic power!
“How on earth did you destroy your lungs when you have magical powers?”
It was something unimaginable in Alphauri.
Unless they were born with a disability that made them unable to use magic, the majority of the people could use magic, so everyone was very concerned about their lungs.
No one ever thought of destroying one’s lungs by inhaling smoke.
This was a crazy invention unique to Earthlings.
You crazy bastards!
“why······!”
But the sadness didn’t last long.
Not long after, I composed myself and stood up.
“G-let’s calm down.”
It’s already happened so what can I do?
This is my fault for being blinded by the amount of magical power and not being able to filter out defective corpses.
I made up my mind.
Even if I can never use magic…
“There must be some way.
“A way to heal your body.”
I couldn’t give up life on Earth.
I will live the rest of my life in this new land.
Happily.
Certainly.
***
Has it been about 10 minutes since we finished investigating the bathroom?
There is good news and bad news.
Let me start with the bad news.
“Ugh.”
As soon as I finished verifying my identity, I groaned at the feeling of hunger in my stomach.
‘There’s still a lot of research to be done about Earth.’
All I ate was that little ice cream I grabbed for breakfast.
This one was very hungry.
Since I couldn’t use magic right now, I had to somehow deal with my nutritional deficiency on my own.
Now, let me tell you the good news.
I remembered where humans get their nutrition.
“I can’t believe there was food this close!”
It’s located when you leave the building and go into the alley on the right.
The sign says [Sunhee’s Pork Soup].
I was able to get food there very easily.
When the store owner asked, ‘Can I have some pork soup?’ I just answered, ‘Yes, I have one.’ But a whole bowl of food was served.
I was finally free from the feeling of hunger that had plagued me all along.
“omg!
“This is delicious too.”
The Earthlings’ food was so hot that they had a hard time cooling it down.
Well, it tasted good so that’s okay.
hmm······.
I will correct it.
I will take it back to say that there is one good news and one bad news.
There are two pieces of bad news.
It was good to find out where the energy source was, but the fact that I had to calculate it occurred to me a bit late.
So, to sum it up, let’s start with the conclusion.
I am at the police box now.
The store owner reported the incident by radio and was taken into custody by two police officers.