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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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[Soo-hyun. I’ll be late today.]
Buzz-
A reply arrived.
[How late? Grandma said she’ll make chicken porridge for dinner.]
[I don’t know. Eight or nine? Maybe.]
[Come back safely. I want to see you tonight.]
…I definitely had to go back.
[How are the new mister and missus?]
[The mister brought a bunch of vitamins and stuff for unnie earlier. He just went out again. And the missus… she doesn’t talk much and seems really depressed, I don’t know.]
[Hmm… is the baby healthy?]
[Seems fine.]
[Okay. I’ll be back tonight.]
…Depression.
…Well, the apocalypse arrived right after she gave birth…
It would be hard to be happy and cheerful.
Those old, shitty gangster bastards trashed their house, and the police were useless.
Hmm…
I suddenly wondered…
What if the first house I went to was that man’s house?
Would the atmosphere have been just as terrible?
…No.
It sounded like I was tooting my own horn, but I think the situation would have been quite different if I had been there.
That thought made me laugh.
The apocalypse arrived, and here I was, full of myself, shit.
“Snort, shit.”
I chuckled and leaned back against the chair, half-lying down.
This place was cramped.
Should I take a nap…?
…Huh?
There was a charger.
Was Netflix still working?
If it was, I could kill time watching movies.
Strangely, Netflix was still working.
There didn’t seem to be any newly updated videos from the past few days, but watching the existing ones wasn’t a problem.
I munched on the dried squid from my bag and watched a few movies, and the sun went down.
7:13 p.m.
Ugh, I felt stiff.
5 Accelerate charges. Fully recharged.
5 charges were enough to carve my way through and escape.
Should I get going?
I left the parking lot office.
This time, I would count them properly.
7.
I would pierce 7 heads and escape.
As I rounded the corner of the supermarket, I saw shattered glass scattered on the ground.
Glass shards that had flown outside.
Not many.
There must be more inside.
Stepping on them would make a loud crunching sound.
They didn’t seem to react to most sounds, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
I stepped onto the squid stand display and climbed over.
Thump.
“…Hoo.”
I drew my sword.
Shing-
…Good.
Let’s see what was inside.
I carefully stepped out and looked towards the packing station; I could vaguely see human shapes.
They seemed to be scattered around there.
Probably some lying down too.
I had to check the floor carefully.
I cautiously peeked towards the supermarket entrance.
One… two…
…Only four?
There were more than that before?
…The restrooms.
The only place they could have gone was the restrooms.
Damn it.
Men’s restroom, women’s restroom, and the accessible restroom.
Three of them.
…What should I do?
Hoo…
I had to change the plan.
It was better to lure them outside.
I sheathed my sword.
I went back, climbed over the squid stand display, and carefully walked towards the supermarket’s main entrance.
There were more and more glass shards the closer I got.
Six bodies were piled up where the doors used to be, and shattered glass was scattered everywhere, like a bomb had exploded.
I peeked my head past the automatic doors and whistled.
Whew!
“Grrr?!”
The human beasts turned their heads, looking around. They started moving around, hunched over.
“Grrr, gurgle!”
Several of them growled and wandered around, and a few emerged from the restrooms.
About ten, it seemed.
Good.
Enough.
Now to provoke them.
…How should I provoke them?
…I didn’t know, shit! I couldn’t think of anything!
Just do it!
I took a deep breath and ran into the space where the automatic doors were open.
“Hey! Your mom’s awesome!”
What the hell was that?!
Couldn’t I have come up with something cooler?!
Their heads snapped towards me.
Their eyes widened as they looked at me.
Their faces contorted in unison!
“Grrr, kyaaagh!”
Shit!
I immediately took a large step towards the squid stand and drew my sword.
Shing!
“Hoo, hoo!”
“Kraw! Kyaa!”
I heard the sound of glass crunching under their feet, and then dark figures swarmed in front of me.
Shit, Accelerate!
[Auto-casting: Accelerate]
“Kra-a—a—–”
Like marathon runners nearing the finish line, the human beasts froze before me.
I charged at them, thrusting the sword.
Crack!
One more!
Crack!
The old man stumbling and falling!
Crack!
I yanked the sword out of his gray head and was about to stab the man next to him when…
“—a–a-awk!”
Accelerate!
[Auto-casting: Accelerate]
They froze momentarily, as if buffering.
Not frozen.
Slowed down.
I thrust with all my might.
The old woman!
Crack!
I pulled the sword out of her temple and stabbed again.
The tall man with glasses!
Crack!
I pulled the sword out of his forehead and stabbed again!
The house…wife with a baby carrier?!
My hand froze.
Just then, Accelerate wore off.
“–Kya-ugh!”
Accelerate.
[Auto-casting: Accelerate]
The baby…
Its neck was torn.
Its ear was ripped off.
…Shit.
I gritted my teeth and thrust.
Crack, crack!
She was a fairly young woman.
She looked younger than me.
She must have given birth recently.
…7 down.
I turned and ran.
Ha, shit, I couldn’t get used to this.
This felt…
Fucking awful.
“-awk!”
Accelerate.
[Auto-casting: Accelerate]
Let’s go back.
I ran past the squid stand, turned the corner, and entered the parking lot street.
And kept running.
Thud! Crash!
I heard the sound of multiple bodies collapsing and their roars.
“-Kyaa! Kraaagh!”
I ran, leaving the roars behind.
I glanced back and vaguely saw shadows.
Probably because of my footsteps.
Accelerate.
[Auto-casting: Accelerate]
More roars behind me.
The streetlights of the residential area whizzed past.
My shadow split into multiple, dancing before and behind me.
They were far away now.
At least 100 meters.
I could still hear roars in the distance, but they couldn’t catch me.
I turned the corner.
I could see the supermarket in the distance.
“Ha… ha… hoo!”
Gripping the scabbard in one hand and the sword in the other, I kept running.
Roars like wild dogs barking echoed in the distance.
Far away.
I had definitely lost them.
Thump, thump, thump.
“Ha… hoo… ha… ha…”
I ran a lot, shit.
The first day of the supermarket raid.
14 kills, 14 levels.
But…
Shit…
The image of the young woman with the baby in a carrier strapped to her chest kept flashing through my mind.
Her shoulder was covered in blood.
She was bitten while trying to protect her baby.
…Shit.
…This was just awful.
“Ha… ha…”
I didn’t feel anything when I killed those old gangster bastards.
But what I just saw was truly awful.
Would the day come when I became numb to this too?
…Shit.
Let’s go back.
To the boarding house.
“Ha… ha…”
The night air was cool, at least.
Dinner was quite nice.
The new man’s wife wasn’t feeling well, so she didn’t join us at the table.
Five of us filled the table. There was no more space.
Ye-eun and So-eun took two bowls of chicken porridge downstairs, and we all ate in a pleasant atmosphere.
This helped.
It definitely changed my mood.
Just as these women needed me, I also relied on them emotionally.
That was the reality, no need to deny it.
I had feelings too.
After dinner, I went up to the rooftop room and lay down, and then someone knocked.
It must be Soo-hyun.
Right, comfort me tonight.
I got up and opened the door, and it was the large man.
“Ah… I… um… s-sir.”
He seemed to have something to say.
…Ah.
I knew what it was.
“Diapers?”
The man scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.
That was it, shit.
I chuckled and said,
“There are a lot of those beasts in the supermarket. I killed fourteen of them today. I’ll go back and kill more tomorrow. I’ll let you know when it’s safe, and we’ll go together then.”
Soo-hyun must have heard me as she was coming up the stairs.
The man and Soo-hyun’s eyes widened at the same time.
“…Fourteen?”
“Fourteen?!”
Hmm…
I just shrugged.
The man, hearing Soo-hyun’s voice, stepped aside in surprise.
Soo-hyun entered my room with a sheepish smile.
“Hey, oppa. You’re lying, right? How could you kill fourteen of them by yourself? That’s impossible.”
I chuckled.
“Then come with me and that mister later. There are fourteen dead bodies by the entrance.”
I gestured with the sword.
Soo-hyun stuck her tongue out, playfully slapped my butt, and came inside, taking off her shoes.
I glanced at Soo-hyun’s butt and said to the man,
“You won’t have to wait too long. Maybe two or three days? I don’t know for sure, but around that much.”
The man looked back and forth between Soo-hyun and me and nodded.
“Ah… y-yes. I understand. Then, h-have a… g-good night… goodnight.”
Hmm.
He looked at least ten years older than me, why was he always so formal?
“You can speak comfortably. You seem much older than me.”
The man turned to look at me as he was going down the stairs and gave an awkward smile.
“Ah… y-yes. I-I’m a bit… shy right now…”
I chuckled and bowed.
“Goodnight.”
And closed the door.
“Ha…”
Soo-hyun sat on my bed and giggled.
“Oppa. I finished what you asked for. You wanted me to attach your sword to the lifting belt, right?”
Ah, that.
I forgot about it.
I chuckled and said,
“Thanks.”
And then I took off my clothes.
I tossed them aside and hugged Soo-hyun, kissing her neck.
Mmm.
She smelled so good.
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