Chapter 16: It’s Despair-Class
I had already fled far enough underground, and while I listened to Yu Anna yelling furiously above, I erased my presence.
Lately, I’ve been using a method where I suppress my presence underground, then shift into a human form near a shelter access tunnel.
When the chaos dies down and people start coming out of the emergency shelters, I just walk out ahead of the crowd. Looks perfectly natural.
“Mm. Guess I’m lucky today.”
I didn’t expect a kebab cart, and even in my monster form, I got to fill my stomach.
Smacking my lips, I stood among the people pouring back onto the street.
Everyone was murmuring, looking around, whispering about Yu Anna and the Black Cat.
“Did she lose him again today? The Black Cat... is he okay?”
“Isn’t Yu Anna the problem here? Isn’t she an upper-rank S-Class? Isn’t that why she’s alone in W-City? Other cities usually have two S-Classes, right?”
“In really important cities, you’ll even see two or three top-rank S-Classes. I don’t think Yu Anna can handle it alone...”
“Is she... too weak to take down a Despair-Class?”
Most of the conversation revolved around people doubting Yu Anna’s strength as a hero.