This Card Cannot Be Removed

“Thank you for taking me out, my master.”

Taehyun, an F-rank freelance hunter whose daily life normally had little to do with dungeons, became caught up in an inexplicable event when he entered a dungeon for the first time in a while.

When he came to his senses, he found a strange card in his hand that could transform into a human.

The card introduced itself as a ‘curse’…

But why did this card keep trying to drag Taehyun, who already had his own trauma, into dangerous dungeons?

What could its purpose possibly be, and could Taehyun really be safe staying together with this card?

[Preview]

‘…Huh?’

To make matters worse, something completely unexpected happened.

Just as Taehyun’s hand was about to touch the man’s face, the man suddenly opened the eyes he had kept closed all this time.

They were golden eyes.

They were so intense that, even in the darkness, they gave the illusion of burning fiercely, eyes that seemed capable of bewitching anyone who looked into them.

[This leaves a rather bitter aftertaste, doesn’t it? Bringing this guy here was all because of an obsession and lingering attachment.]

An unidentified voice echoed deep inside Taehyun’s head like a hallucination.

Obsession?

Lingering attachment?

Taehyun had no idea what those incomprehensible words meant, but there was at least one thing he could be certain of.

That voice undoubtedly belonged to the red-haired man.

The man had not spoken, nor had he even moved his lips, yet Taehyun knew without a doubt that those were his words.

[But it’s not bad. In fact, that might be exactly what suits the host of a curse. Well, I’ve slept enough, so shall I start moving soon…]

Taehyun couldn’t understand a single thing he was saying.

The host of a curse?

Could he possibly mean Taehyun?

Just as Taehyun began to wonder if choosing the corridor on the right had been a mistake, the man closed his eyes again, and his entire body began to glow faintly.

The man, who had remained completely motionless until then, curved his lips into a gentle smile.

For some reason, an utterly inappropriate thought flashed through Taehyun’s mind, that the man’s expression looked more beautiful than anyone he had ever seen before.

[I’m going to be the tiresome curse that clings to you from now on. Take good care of me.]

The man’s body was enveloped in brilliant light.

The last thing Taehyun saw before squeezing his eyes shut was not the man from before, but a single violet card that shimmered with dazzling, multicolored light, yet somehow seemed ominous.