Chapter 7: I’m Hungry
“Haa...”
Yoo Anna sunk into the bathtub for the first time in a while.
Her body melted into the warmth, loosening with a languid heaviness. Her mind, sharpened to the point of dullness, unraveled like a wet thread in water—soft, sluggish, and formless.
Crack, crack. She twisted her wrist under the water, and the strained bones popped with aching resistance.
Ever since the appearance of the monster Code 0, Despair-Class monster alerts had continued to go off throughout W-City.
Every time it happened, Yoo Anna was deployed to the site—but she’d failed to eliminate the monster each time.
The same routine on repeat. Worse, it was like the monster had grown wary of her; the moment she got too close, it disappeared completely.
Maybe that meant it was Code Alpha—the one that, during their confrontation, managed to land four direct strikes midair, each one cleanly tearing into her flesh.
But the strange part was: the traces left behind at the alert zones resembled Code 0 more than Code Alpha.
Unlike the esper-type Alpha, the clues pointed to beast-type traits—sudden, explosive bursts of power. The remains of monsters at those scenes had been blown apart with no trace.
The other Heroes claimed it was all the work of Code 0... but then why was it avoiding Yoo Anna?
She had started to form a quiet hypothesis.