After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

”AHHH!” he screamed, crying in pain, though fortunately—or unfortunately—still alive.

In addition to the level difference, he was also wearing some defense equipment so it didn’t go deep enough that he’d lose a part of his body—at least at first.

He felt its jaws clamp down, its teeth getting deeper and deeper into him. The crushing force was dull and bone-deep, but then he’d feel the sharp teeth puncturing his skin and internal organs.

He felt himself being lifted and shaken around, and he could feel the teeth go deeper and deeper, creating wider gashes in his body.

He couldn’t even describe the pain he was feeling anymore. It was excruciating but also hopeless—as if it was the last bit of feeling he’d receive before everything just… ended.

Fortunately, tamers finally got to them and made the beast stop moving, getting it to let him go. He dropped down on the grass, unable to even lift his arms. When the beast accidentally kicked him a bit, he couldn’t even avoid it.

Anyway, the beast soon calmed down and was ushered away, leaving Taho lying on the grass all bloodied up.

He was delirious in pain, but when he looked up and saw the tamers above him, he could only feel coldness

Beast Taming was his dream job since he was a young kid.

A long time ago, he was almost run over by a beast cart of a noble. It was agitated by a stronger monster that used the same roads.

He thought that was really it for him. However, a strong beast master arrived and used his skill to calm the monster down, saving his life.

His name was Zagu.

Now… that same beast master looked at him like he was useless trash, questioning the world why he was still alive.

Taho forced himself up, though he could only sit up, feeling that if he stood up, a part of his stomach would fall. He was shivering in pain, though it didn’t seem like it calmed the tamers’ anger at all.

The damage that level 15s could do was not small and the vicinity was a great mess.

”This is too embarrassing,” one of the seniors said, tone full of distaste. ”It’s fine if it’s just in our Town, but we’re in a place filled with other Beast Masters! This is humiliating!”

”No wonder no other beast master teams want you!” another screamed, still remembering the costs. ”You better sign an oath to pay back the damages or we’ll send you to rot in prison!!”

Taho shivered, and he was on the verge of crying. ”I… I can work for free—”

”No, we don’t want you anymore! You have been with our team for a year. You’re getting the salary of a newbie Beast Master but you haven’t done anything but make a mess!”

Although Taho agreed on getting the minimum beast master salary, it was still much higher than the commoner salaries, so the tamers didn’t think he deserved that much.

Granted, they were being harsh. This was the first time he made a mess. Before this, he was actually extremely diligent and could do the jobs of two or three people a day!

Anyway, their anger-filled minds conveniently forgot all these things. They had had enough. ”Get out!”

”No, please!”

One of the senior tamers narrowed his eyes at him. ”If you can pay 100 gold for the damages you caused right now, we will consider.”

If he could lose more blood he would. ”100 gold? That’s not—” that was too much.

The senior gritted his teeth, and it was exacerbated when he saw tamers from other teams look smugly at them, as if they were the target of jokes. He wanted to beat up this bastard!

”Listen here—” he said, gripping the younger man’s head. ”You know how much damage you—”

”Stop,” another, deeper, voice sounded and they looked at Zagu, who was the lead tamer of their team. ”Just leave him be,” he said, looking up and down at him. ”We’re not allowed to kill here.”

This made the tamers pause and look at Taho, who was bleeding a lot. A few more hours and he’d die of blood loss.

Not wanting to have anything to do with him anymore, they turned around, leaving him there to wallow in his own fate.

Taho’s shoulders slumped and he looked down, sniffing. He tried to hold back his tears—it was humiliating enough that he was fired in front of everyone like this—but it was not easy.

He could still remember the time when he awakened his profession. He was making all kinds of noise at the time, though it ended up attracting monsters that almost killed him.

Still, he was so proud. Getting a profession was the step to a better life, after all, let alone one that he had always wanted.

However, although his salary was indeed better, he had to endure endless humiliation, causing his self-worth to go down so bad he might as well bury himself.

He dragged his body to the interior woods to hide himself and to sob his heart out. He didn’t even care about his bleeding wounds, or that he was creating a bloody trail—it’d clean itself up eventually.

As for why he wasn’t going to get healed, he didn’t have money anymore. The next payday was actually the next day, but Zagu was definitely not sending him money after that.

Anyway, Taho went deeper into the interior forest until he was several trees in, finally dropping to the ground.

”Wuuu….” He cried, yelling out his anger and bitterness with the energy he had left.

He was such a shame. Why did he even activate the profession in the first place? Was it really the blessing he thought it was?!

”Sob… wuuu—”

His crying stopped when he heard rustles approach him. Was the world not even going to let him cry in peace? He was near death’s door, damn it!!

However, instead of shock or mockery—which he was expecting—he heard a gentle feminine voice instead.

”Hello there.”

He turned and gaped at one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. Then, he met cold blue eyes, and he unconsciously looked down again.

”We have seen what happened,” she said, ”We’re sorry we came too late. You could’ve received much less damage…

”H-Huh? Why are you—” Why was she apologizing?

”We heard you are a Beast master. We happen to be hiring Beast Masters right now,” she said, handing him a bottle of what he’d realize later as a healing potion. ”Would you like to try?”

His eyes widened and he looked at her in disbelief. Was she joking with him? Was this a prank? But her eyes were too kind for her to be so cruel…

”I… I’m not a real one…”

”Oh? How so?”

”I haven’t tamed a single monster in my life…” he said, though the two’s expression didn’t change at all. There was no disgust or even disappointment, and it made him very confused.

She smiled, placing the bottle on his hand when he didn’t take it. ”We don’t need you to—at least not yet.”

”We don’t just need any Beast Tamer,” she said. ”We need you.”

”So... what do you say?”