Chapter 85 - Queen of the Ring 2

The big screens hanging from the ceiling repeat the shocking moment of the deadly blow that knocked out the unbeaten champion of the category. But the fight was over and the champion celebrated his victory in front of the cameras and the public.

The surprising result of the night's fight was still causing controversy among the onlookers when the Hunter returned. Vukodlak's staff was divided between those who wanted to cancel the fight and those surrounding the fighter. Shin passed them, and faced the foreign werewolf. Eun Ha was right behind her teacher,

"Where is she?" The stranger continues to ask the people around him, an angry expression on his swollen, purple face. Shin pushes Eun Ha farther behind him with one hand, hiding her with his body,

"Do you violate some treaty items and still lose the fight, Ivanovich?" Says Shin mockingly.

Eun Ha couldn't see straight, but snuck as far as she could. But the Professor kept pushing back. It was a Hunter's tease, of course, but the werewolf just looked up angrily, 

"I heard a conversation. That there's a Devourer in this town."

Eun Ha didn't know what a Devourer was, but the fact that being the first thing the werewolf told her tutor meant something big, or so she believed.

"So you came to go sightseeing?" Shin talked back.

"Fairy, the last time this happened was not pretty…" the response was sour, and Eun Ha worried. If she had a taste of what supernatural beings can do by participating in just one hunt, she was afraid to try to imagine what a so-called Devourer could do to the point of causing fear in a werewolf. Weren't werewolfs puppies, right?

But the question surfaced,

"You know, don't you? Who was she?" muttered the Ukrainian to Shin. 

"What are you talking about?" the Hunter wasn't very patient.

"The red-haired girl. She."

Eun Ha had a feeling Ivanovitch was talking about Ye Rim. Of course, Ye Rim was a magnet for men, and by the way, even werewolves. She decided to find out if Ye Rim was still there. I didn't know how the fighter met Ye Rim, but he looked pretty annoyed. She couldn't let Ye Rim get in trouble for coming looking for her.

The crowd was already emptying the place, and Eun Ha was worried about not seeing her friend anywhere until she spotted the group.

…

"Are you better?" the handsome, athletic man dressed in a tracksuit held out the glass of water to her, and Ye Rim nodded him thanks. Jang Ji Woong motioned and his friend, next to the singer, continued to fan her, trying to improve ventilation. The other men, also athletes like Ji Joong, made a barrier so that no one else could reach the corner where Ye was was being given some basic first aid.

"Where's the medical help?" The MMA athlete asked, a bit distraught. Ye Rim wasn't even sure what was going on. She didn't know why she had passed out, in fact she wasn't even feeling bad. But for a moment, back there, she felt her body go weak and light as she stared at the…

Werewolf?

'Aigoo, how ridiculous! Werewolves do not exist! What did I see?! What happened?'

"What happened, honey?" Ji Woong's voice asked the same question, attentive and concerned, realizing that Ye RIm's gaze seemed to focus on him.

"Oh! Ji Woong…"

"It's fine. We called a girl who is a medical assistant to a fighter in the Women's league. She'll see you in a moment."

But Ye Rim was willing, actually quite electric. But she wasn't sure what had happened, and she repeated the question. Ji Woong ran a hand through his very short hair, nervous to realize she didn't know, and said,

"Ye Rim, don't you remember? Well, I'm not sure, I just saw you up there, I started calling you, I was glad to see you but I didn't know what you were doing there. Haha, I started trying to get your attention, but you didn't seem to hear or see anything, so I thought something was wrong with you… I was running over there with the boys on the team, did you look… in a trance or something? Did any strangers offer you something to drink? Huh? Tell me, Ye Rim!"

How could she say she had played this pathetic role because she had a strange delirium about seeing a werewolf inside the ring? Surely they would think she drank something on drugs.

Ji Woong had been Taekwondo's Olympic medalist, and had an undisclosed crush for Ye Rim. They met a few years after Ye Rim was expelled from the idol agency, and she and Eun Ha were doing a Christmas freelancer dressed as Santa's assistants at a gym party. Ji Woong and his team friends soon became friends with the girls. It was a fun winter, and Ji Woong never really confessed his intentions seriously, but he acted as if it were public and notorious that Ye Rim was his inspiring muse.

Ye Rim had really considered dating Ji Woong, but he was quite temperamental for her tastes, in spite of many good qualities.

"No," she said, sitting down, "I didn't drink anything. I was looking for Eun Ha. I think… Well, I don't know, I think I got dizzy with the spinning lights, I thought I was seeing things… Yeah, that's for sure that's what happened."

"It was awesome, Ye Rim! " said one of Ji Woong's partners who also knew her. "It looked like you were challenging the Ukrainian inside the ring. I even thought it was some promotional action!"

"Don't be stupid, because of her the guy got a knockout!" said another athlete, shutting up the first one.

Ji Woong silenced them with a whistle demanding order, "Don't be ridiculous, Ye Rim is not to blame, he should be paying attention to his opponent."

"…!" Ye Rim widened her eyes at the news, something was not yet fitting about all this, but what could she think about this strange incident? She knew that fairies, witches and werewolves were just inventions of idle people. She couldn't explain her little delirium, but her heart sped up as she remembered the sensations she had just moments through. But his daydreams were interrupted by Ji Woong,

"Ye Rim, I'll take you home then."

"No one saw Eun Ha?" she asked, they shook their heads, but one of them remembered, "I think I saw her, she was with her boyfriend."

'BOYFRIEND?!!!' Ye Rim was so surprised that her face showed her shock, and Ji Woong laughed,

"What is it, Ye Rim? You won't disturb anyone's dating today! I have an idea! So you don't feel alone, and since you said it's ok, let's go out to celebrate our reunion. We want to know what our favorite singer has been up to all this year!"

Ye Rim was grateful, but it wasn't exactly what she wanted to do right now. And the phone kept ringing in her coat pocket. Dr. Kim sure wanted news.

"Well, I need to talk to her, it's important and ..." As the singer tried to break free of her friends who at this moment disturbed her, she noticed a commotion over the athlete's broad shoulders.

"What's going on?"

Someone was shouting in a foreign language, sounding like a warning. Ji Woong looked back, straightened, turning his back to her. The other athletes also positioned themselves to protect her,

"Ye Rim, that asshole thinks you're guilty of him losing the fight. But rest assured, we're here to protect you."

Ye Rim swallowed hard. Deep down, she knew she'd done something stupid, even though not sure what, exactly.

"Get out of the way, assholes!" she heard a mob approaching, wanting only one thing: to mash her as potato.