The Dragon Soul Forging

4. A Dog

The door of the house opened, it seemed like something had broken into it forcibly. I entered slowly.

Blood splattered from the living room to the inner area. Following the trail of blood I found the body of a man in the kitchen.

Not knowing whose dead body, which was clearly my neighbor because it was often seen in the front yard of the house with three families and one annoying dog.

An incision wound to the neck seemed to be the cause of this man's death. While the blood that splattered from the living room to the kitchen came from wounds on his legs.

“Did he drag his feet while trying to escape towards the back door?.” I thought after analyzing the state of the corpse.

Looking at the back door that opened, I thought that someone had escaped ahead of this man.

I pensively for a moment.

Had I been socializing with my neighbors, I might have lost it after seeing this man's corpse.

But unfortunately not.

My life after moving to a residential neighborhood was so monotonous. Departing from work at 6 am and then returning home at 10 pm, then the holidays are always spent resting.

So busy that there was no time to interact even with the neighbors.

Doing that routine for two years, made me sometimes question my own humanity.

‘Am I no different from a robot?.’ In my mind such thoughts often cross.

I regained my senses after hearing a noise from one of the rooms, it seemed like something was inside.

The feeling of danger began to approach, I immediately prepared for whatever was to come.

From inside the room appeared a white rabbit with red eyes, the beast looked cute if only there was no blood attached to its ears.

The rabbit's cup looked abnormal, it was hard and shiny like a blade. Maybe it was his weapon.

He started to growl after seeing me, the rabbit prepared to attack. Although I have fought this monster before in the Dungeon, but I remain vigilant, worried that the rabbit I am currently facing is different.

The rabbit started running. I prepared with a knife to face the attack.

But suddenly the rabbit maneuvered, the little monster leaped into the wall then used the wall as a foothold to jump back towards me.

Zigaz's movements were so epic that I didn't have time to dodge. The rabbit attack hit me, the injured arm started bleeding from the sharp incision of the rabbit's ear.

But I don't care about the wound, because the next attack is coming soon. The rabbit had already targeted my neck, instantly I remembered the body of the man behind.

Maybe I'll end up just like that guy who was killed by an incision in the neck.

No, that can't happen.

The rabbit starts to make movements like before, but the same maneuver will not work a second time. I've read the rabbit's movements, so facing it becomes easy.

My knife swung at the right moment, hit the rabbit's neck and slashed it.

A rabbit scream was heard as the knife I was using cut the rabbit's neck into pieces. I was so surprised to see a rarely used kitchen knife cut through a rabbit's neck so easily.

“Maybe this is due to the effect of the three workers I have.”

[Beating the rabbit dagger, got 20 Exp]

[Job Explorer level up]

The name of this monster is according to its characteristics. And also one job has leveled up, but why are the other two jobs not?.

Is it possible that each job requires different Exp points to level up?.

“Many things I still don't know.”.

The corpse of the rabbit I immediately took to hang so that the blood quickly dried. After that I intended to return home, but Indra's sharpened listener caught the sound from underground.

No, it sounded like a dog's moaning.

I remembered this family pet dog who always chased me in the morning when I was leaving for work.

For some reason every morning the four-legged animal always stood in front of the gate of my house and kept barking. It scares me when I want to go to work.

One of the neighbors' children, who was a girl my age, said that her pet only wanted to get acquainted with introverted neighbors who were none other than me.

How can a dog be that smart?

But despite being officially acquainted, the Doberman-type black dog kept chasing me every morning with its sharp teeth and saliva.

It was very scary for me, but the girl who was his master just laughed to see me being chased, was my suffering just an amusement for him?.

I also felt that the dog saw me not as a human, but as a hunted rabbit.

Remembering those memories bothered me. I stood in front of the basement, not knowing whether to open the door or not.

Afraid that a dog trapped in the basement would attack me if I opened the door, I chose to leave.

But my feelings were not calm when I heard the sound of a dog that sounded like asking for help.

“Tell me...” breathed a heavy sigh, I prepared to open the door to the basement.

Knife I prepare if the dog is aggressive and attacking. But I hope that if such a thing doesn't happen, because my conscience won't have the heart to do it.

'Maybe I'll just run like I always do when the black dog comes after me.'

After reassuring myself, I slowly opened the underground door and then looked in front of the stairs a dog curled up while continuing to make a small sound.

Upon hearing that the door had opened, the dog immediately got up, he was about to run out, but soon went back to silence when he saw me with a knife in hand.

‘He's a really smart dog.’ I thought.

I saw a dog that didn't move with the knife I was still holding. The beast was so thin, so different from the annoying dog that always chased me in the morning.

Maybe he's just as hungry as I am. But seeing if there was no water source in the basement, I felt the condition of the dog was even worse.

Getting rid of the knife, I left the basement so the dog could get out. Being too hungry makes it hard for dogs to walk.

Out of pity I immediately took the water from the well and gave him the head of the rabbit that I had just hunted. I removed the sharp rabbit so as not to hurt the dog.

He eats so voraciously. Taking the opportunity I tried to caress the dog's body, but all I felt was a rib lump because the body was so thin.

One bowl of water and one rabbit's head had already been eaten. The dog stared at the body of the rabbit I had hung on my back, but I said that the meat was not for him.

As if understanding my words, the dog stopped staring at the rabbit meat, he lowered his head in front of me as if to thank me.

Then he walked into the kitchen and was seen crying over the dead body of a man who was none other than his employer.

Seeing that it made me sick, I couldn't have just left it.

“Come to my house if you want to eat roasted rabbit meat.”

I'm taking her to dinner.

The dog looked at me astray before finally sitting down next to the corpse of his master. I won't force him to follow.

Leaving the neighbor's house, I'll be home soon. But after closing the turnstile, I saw a sight I saw every morning on a normal day.

The dog stood in front of the fence, looking at me as if to say hello.

I smiled at him, then opened the fence to let him into my house.