"Zorua, dad just fed you snacks a little while ago." Jinwoo chuckles as he scratches Zorua's chin who is rubbing itself on his cheek affectionately. "Acting cute is not gonna get you anywhere, buddy."

"Rawf.. Rawf!" The pokemon simply insists on being cute, hoping its antics would get Jinwoo to melt.

Jinwoo lives in an odd world, aside from awakened humans who go into gates to get rid of monstersㅡ They also coexist with pokemon who are mostly docile unlike the beasts born from those abyssal rifts.

He was quite young at the time when he first picked up Zorua to be his first ever companion, the poor little thing was left on a corner and wasn't chosen by anyone because of the fact that their species are just mischievous little thing. So Jinwoo took it upon himself to take in the miserable pokemon.

Zorua had been with him through his toughest hunter days and is still a close companion now that he has the system and fakes his rank as an E-ranker so he can freely roam around and take hunting commissions or the occasional help wanted posters for pokemons that are either causing a ruckus or are missing.

He would rather not be hounded by journalists and finds comfort in his current state of just hanging around secretly growing his army of undead soldiers while spoiling his precious pokemon. Jinwoo really just finds it more convenient at the moment to be a false ranker just for the sake of more slack off time. Besides, his family is also happy and simple. There is nothing more he wishes.

Jinwoo was about to relent on spoiling Zorua until he heard a yelp coming from the nearby lake. So, he gently put the pokemon on his shoulder and walked over to find a rather awkward sight of you.

"Hey, uh... You alright?" Jinwoo asks as he stares down at the unfortunate sight of you who has obviously tripped over and fell into the water since you were looking at your phone map for directionsㅡ not that you will ever tell him that at least. "Here."

He extends his hand towards you, offering help.