Bab 107: Chapter 46: Falling into an Ice Cave (Foreshadowing Recollection)

Startled awake from deep sleep, he saw a human-shaped creature crawling through the window into his bedroom.

It's described as a human-shaped creature because the intruder was cloaked in black, moving in an odd posture, and under the moonlight, one could barely discern its limbs and head.

This humanoid also noticed that the bedroom's owner was awake and turned its head to look over.

As their eyes met, Winters's sleepiness vanished in an instant.

He immediately leaped from the bed to grab the Dusack saber hanging on the closet door.

He had only an instant to think, it didn't matter whether the intruder was human or monster, getting a weapon was the priority.

Winters drew his combat sword and lunged at the humanoid figure, who was forced back into a corner, meanwhile drawing a short gun from its waist and aiming it at Winters's head.

Not a matchlock, but the kind of short gun with strange mechanisms used by assassins on the docks, what the cripple called a 'wheel-lock gun.'