I Became the Weakest Summoned of the Genius Summoner

Chapter 8: The second summoning failed, but it’s cute

When Yeon Hee opened her mouth, Jo Giman leaned forward, showing as much interest as possible.

“A slime fell from a tree branch.”

“A slime fell from a tree branch... It just fell?”

“Ah, yes. I heard a sudden sound from behind and got startled, but I defeated it right away.”

“Hmm... I see.”

‘Oh, Yeon Hee, nice! I don’t know why you’re lying, but that’s a neat answer.’

Still, Jo Giman looked at Lee Yeon Hee from head to toe and made a suspicious expression, but when Kang Yeon-soo strongly tapped his shoulder, he cleared his throat and stood up from his seat.

After that, only discussions about the guild contract conditions between Kang Yeon-soo and Lee Yeon Hee and their future activities continued.

The guild’s internal opinion highly evaluated Yeon Hee’s potential, subtly encouraging her to join the guild without asking why she went around the dungeon alone.

In the meantime, Jo Giman came closer to me and looked all over my body. And when Yeon Hee headed to the refrigerator for Kang Yeon-soo, who politely asked for water, he began to touch my bones here and there.

‘Argh! Where are you touching, you bastard!’

I had never felt such a weird feeling in my life, but this guy was acting like a human born to piss me off.

“Hmm, strange... The stats are the same. Is this an anomaly?”

‘Did he use lookup? A skill that he can only use once a week, on a skeleton soldier?’

It was really something, but it turned out to be a fortunate event.

Jo Giman’s skill, [Lookup], allowed him to grasp the growth potential of strength, agility, stamina, and mana of anyone or any monster he made contact with, along with their current stats.

‘Of course, they would be similar. This skeleton soldier needs to grow a bit to be there.’

Anyway, after the examination, it seemed that Jo Giman became visibly more at ease, and he seemed to have judged that there was no need to worry too much. After chatting for another ten minutes or so, they soon left the room.

“Well then, Yeon Hee, fighting*! We’ll contact you as soon as you graduate, so if your phone number changes, let us know, okay?”

“Yes, yes- um, noona, please take care...”

“Why are you so shy? Yeon Hee, you’re really so cute-”

When I saw the two talking nonchalantly, old memories surfaced once again.

‘She used to take care of Yeon Hee a lot, treating her like a little sister...’

“See you next time, Yeon Hee. Goodbye.”

“Yes, please take care, Representative-nim...”

As the snake-eyed Jo Giman disappeared, and Yeon Hee cautiously closed the door.

-Click!

As the door closed, she suddenly collapsed to the ground, sliding as if losing all strength.

“Huff... I almost suffocated and died.”

Her legs had given out.

“January, could you come and help me up? Hehe.”

With her arms stretched towards the sky, Yeon Hee urged, “Hurry up!”

‘This Lee Yeon Hee is spoiled with her summons... I really can’t get used to it...’

- Thud, thud, thud.

Following her command, I moved, took her by the arm, and slowly raised her up.

‘Why is she sweating so much...’

It must have been quite difficult being with them. Her body was soaked with cold sweat, and she took deep breaths to steady herself.

“From March onwards, I’ll be working with the White Knight Guild... Is this really happening, January?”

‘It’s not something to be too excited about given your abilities.’

I didn’t know how she negotiated the terms, but Yeon Hee must have shown a vision worth considering. And the White Knight Guild was one of the top three guilds in Korea, no matter what others say.

‘Is it a privilege of a returner? I don’t know what Yeon Hee thinks, but I know what she wants.’

Joining the White Knight Guild was a predetermined plan. The fortunate thing was that even when I scraped together the memories of my previous life, there weren’t many instances of Lee Yeon Hee and Jo Giman entering dungeons together. I believe this only started a few months after I joined as their guide.

‘In the end, I have to ensure that the reports about the guild members who will be exploring dungeons with Yeon Hee from March onwards don’t differ from Jo Giman’s memories...’

For example, if something like a skeleton soldier spitting out acid was reported, it might bring Jo Giman’s attention again.

‘I have to be careful...’

But no matter how careful I was, it would only delay the inevitable. If it was going to be exposed, there was no other way but to quickly increase my strength.

“If Mom had heard this, she would have been so happy... Sob...”

‘She is crying? This... I can’t handle crying women.’

Even in my past life and now, it was truly difficult for me to see a woman cry. Seeing Yeon Hee’s moist eyes and sniffling, I hesitated for a moment and then raised my arms.

Suddenly, as I lifted my arms, Yeon Hee stopped her sobbing for a moment, and then I started shaking my arms as if I was doing some sort of exercise. Her eyes and mouth formed crescents in an instant.

“Phuhuhu- January, why did you suddenly do that? Hahaha!”

‘For the person who saved my life, this is nothing...’

The last look in her eyes as she saved me in the dungeon break and eventually lost her life to the orc group commander still lingered in my mind.

I hoped Yeon Hee would be happy in this life.

If possible, me too.

Wishing so desperately, I waved my arms.

“Puhukukk! Hehehe! Ahh, January, I really like you!”

The effect was tremendous.

She had been laughing heartily for a while when suddenly she covered her mouth, signaling to be quiet, and put her finger on her lips.

“Maybe the neighbor might hear... Shh, hush.”

‘Well... Even why you send such a signal to someone who can’t talk...’

“Hmm, thanks to you, I laughed a lot. Hehehe.”

“.......”

“By any chance, if the new summoned this time is a also skeleton soldier, can I see the two of you dancing together?”

‘Huh? New summon?’

“Ta-da! Look, this is a summoning scroll I obtained from leveling up. How about it? I summoned January with this!”

On her outstretched palm lay a thick scroll made of gray parchment, a truly unfamiliar item.

‘So leveling up grants summoning scrolls? It’s not just memorizing spells and summoning.’

Among the memories of her information, I had never heard the term “summoning scroll.”

‘She must have kept this a secret from others. But why?’

Whatever the reason, it was a typical thing to have information not disclosed to others.

“Ta-da! If you gently take the brown candlewax-like thing here, it’ll have strange letters written all over it.”

- Para-la-rak-

The rolled-up scroll was unfolded, and as she said, it was filled with unfamiliar letters.

‘What are all these letters...’

-Puhuk-

“No need to be too surprised, January. If you read a few of these shining letters from here, you can summon.”

‘I can’t see those shining letters…?’

Just in case, I lightly touched the scroll with my hand, and brief information about the summoning scroll was revealed.

Ancient Gray Summoning Scroll

- The summoning scroll created by the first summoner to summon creatures from the otherworld.
- Sometimes summons low-level creatures.

‘Isn’t Yeon Hee the first summoner…?’

It was a simple explanation, but there was something captivating about it that caught my attention.

‘low-level summons...’

The skeleton soldier would undoubtedly be classified as a low-level summoned. If that was the case, there might be a chance for a higher-ranked summon than me, though it seemed like a low probability.

‘How long has it been since I’ve been pushed back? If this doesn’t work...’

I wonder if she knows what I was thinking, she smiled as if she didn’t or did, and started reading the scroll with a light heart.

“...?...”

It was a familiar sound that I had heard once before.

The spell that pulled me up from the abyss-like darkness was being memorized again.

‘I wonder if the next summoned one will also be like me, someone of human origin or something like that?’

With hopeful anticipation, I gazed at her.

As the spell reached its end, I felt a tension greater than when I fought in dungeons.

- Uuuuuuuung-

Finally, a one-gray portal the size of my height opened, and she said with a puzzled expression,

“Huh? This time, it’s not a door?”

From Yeon Hee’s reaction, it seemed that the summoning was proceeding differently from mine. Now, she too looked in the same direction as me, staring at the swaying portal.

A moment later, a silhouette swayed in the gray portal, and that silhouette took the form of a quadruped beast.

‘Look at those long claws. Somehow, it seems stronger than me...’

Soon, a gigantic shadow filled the one-room apartment, then disappeared along with the portal, leaving behind a small figure.

And that was...

- Woof! Woof!!

“······?”

‘······?’

It was a fluffy, white-furred, puppy-like creature.

‘Oh no...’

The protagonist of the sound of a dog chewing on grass, also known as a land dog, was chosen as the second summoned. While I didn’t experience a drop in my usefulness, a more serious situation had unfolded.

‘A completely useless fellow came out.’

While I felt somewhat disappointed, Yeon Hee, on the other hand, trembled with excitement and suddenly hugged the puppy.

“Aww, it’s so adorable! Eeiiing···”

- Woof! Woof! Huff, huff-