I’m the Only One with Powers in the Apocalypse – Chapter 31

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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Heads popped up from between the shelves like a game of whack-a-mole.

They looked at me.

They charged.

“Kraaagh! Kyaaagh!”

Crash! Rumble! Display items toppled over.

The floor became a mess.

I smiled and gripped the sword with both hands.

Smiled?

Laughed?

Me?

Ha.

I must have been enjoying this.

“Come on, you bastards.”

Several of them charged, knocking over displays.

Accelerate.

They surrounded me.

At least ten, at a glance.

I leaped in and thrust the sword.

Thump—

Crack! Crack! Crack!

I took a step back.

Blood droplets shimmered.

The human beasts flailed as if emerging from a vat of jelly.

“–Kr-awk!”

Accelerate.

Three of them, heads pierced, spurting blood, about to fall.

I took a step towards the human beasts next to them.

I pulled the sword back.

I thrust!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The front row was down.

I immediately moved forward and then to the side.

Blood splattered onto my face and body.

“–Kya-rok!”

Accelerate.

The human beasts lunged at the empty space where I had been, as if trying to kill me.

Bodies collapsed.

I raised my sword, moved to the side, and stabbed.

Crack!

Step, crack!

Step, crack!

“Ha.”

I pulled out the sword.

I passed by the one clawing at the air with a ferocious expression, unaware that it was already dead.

The world moved again.

“–Kr-op!”

Accelerate.

A human beast, arms outstretched as if to grab razors and shaving foam from the shelves, knocking things over, looking not at me, but somewhere else.

I raised the sword.

Crack!

I ducked and moved past it, to the one reaching out from behind the shelf.

I thrust upwards.

Crack!

From its cheek to the top of its head, I pierced through and yanked the sword out with all my might.

“Ha.”

Blood droplets clung together, stretching and then splattering slowly.

None left.

I stood at the corner of the shelf, looking at the bodies, and waited.

“–Kr-awp!”

Eleven.

Eleven bodies, mid-run, mid-leap, collapsed in a heap in the corner of the supermarket.

Blood splattered everywhere.

It covered my face, the back of my head, my clothes.

Ugh, shit.

Everything was fine, except for the blood.

I wiped my cheek with the back of my hand and looked around.

…There didn’t seem to be any more.

Just in case.

I had to be sure.

If any were hiding, I had to draw them out and eliminate them.

I took a deep breath.

…What should I shout?

Something caught my eye.

“Trees are on sale!”

I yelled with all my might, my voice echoing through the supermarket.

If there were any hiding, they would have heard me.

…Silence.

I waited a bit longer.

Hmm…

I didn’t hear anything.

I should look around, just in case.

I checked every corner, the long aisle by the shelves on the left, the vegetable section on the right, and then the butcher shop.

It was quite spacious.

It took about five minutes to check everything.

I looked everywhere someone could hide.

Considering the possibility of “just in case,” this place was 99 percent safe.

“…Done.”

I nodded and walked towards the entrance, past the toilet paper and tissue section.

“…Oh.”

Past the toilet paper section, there were diapers.

…Hmm…

They asked for diapers.

I grabbed a large pack of diapers and walked towards the staircase, past the shelves.

Eleven bodies were piled up in a heap ahead.

“…Hmm…”

Blood dripped from the sword.

I walked over to the bodies and wiped the sword on their waists and backs.

I had to take care of my swords.

I only had two.

…Oh.

A good idea just came to mind.

Dual wielding from tomorrow…?

…No.

I was right-handed, shit, I didn’t know if I could aim properly with my left hand, or if I could pierce a skull with one hand.

I’d just stick to what I knew.

Thinking that, I walked out of the supermarket entrance with the pack of diapers.

It was difficult to walk with all the bodies piled up, shit.

“Hoo…”

How many times did I use Accelerate?

One, two…

Oh, four?

I still had five more uses.

Not bad.

“…Ah.”

It came from the side!

I stopped and turned sharply.

I didn’t know what was wrong with my eyes.

I gripped the sword so tightly that my palms felt hot.

…Six figures in strange attire!

“E-excuse me.”

A…cce…lerate?!

Accelerate didn’t activate.

What?

Was that… a human voice?

It sounded like a… woman’s voice.

Could human beasts talk…?

…No.

They weren’t human beasts.

Six figures standing under a streetlight in front of the supermarket, bathed in the morning sun.

None of them were baring their teeth or showing clawed hands.

…What?

“…Are you human?”

I blurted out without realizing it.

Human?

That question felt quite natural when I asked it.

But now that I said it, it felt strange.

Asking something with a head, arms, legs, eyes, nose, and mouth if it was human.

A woman with a ponytail stepped forward from the group of six.

…Stepped forward?

Her movements were strange.

Looking at her legs, she was wearing something.

…Inline skates.

What were these people?

The woman said,

“Ah, I… we saw what you were doing inside, from outside. Last night too. How… how do you move like that?”

…Huh?

What was she asking…?

How do I move…

Like that…

…These people saw me using Accelerate and killing instantly.

I had killed human beasts in front of people using Accelerate several times before.

In front of Ye-eun and So-eun.

But they were too terrified to properly process what they saw.

…The large man.

He saw what I did when I killed those old gangsters.

His face, his eyes, were filled with terror as he trembled.

I thought he was overreacting a bit, so that was why?

…How did I look to others when I used Accelerate?

I suddenly became curious.

Was it that scary?

Ah.

This wasn’t the time to be curious.

I looked at the woman and the people behind her.

I finally noticed.

Because I assumed they were human beasts, I only registered them as human-shaped figures.

Inline skates, knee pads, elbow pads, gloves, and two of them were even wearing teardrop-shaped helmets.

“…Who are you?”

The woman replied,

“…Ah, we’re members of an inline skating club called Speedster.”

Inline skating club?

Inline…

The six of them were wearing inline skates.

They looked pretty cool.

I’d never skated before.

Were they fast?

…Was that how they survived?

Three men, three women…

The women looked surprised, and the men stared at me with a mixture of awe and tension.

They didn’t seem too old.

…I didn’t know what kind of people they were.

“…So, what do you want?”

“Ah, actually…”

The woman was about to say something when a tall man behind her spoke,

“Where are your companions? You didn’t kill all of these alone, did you? No way.”

All of these alone?

…Hmm…

How many did I kill?

I think I killed over 40.

I looked at the man and said,

“I killed them all.”

“…No way.”

The women gasped.

“Y-you… you did all this alone? By yourself?”

A woman behind the ponytail woman asked, her face filled with astonishment.

Damn it, why were they asking the same thing over and over?

Who were these people, bothering me with useless questions?

I just nodded without replying.

The six of them looked at each other, unable to hide their surprise. They looked back and forth between me and the bodies behind me, exclaiming.

“How did you kill so many by yourself?”

…Ah, shit, this was getting annoying.

“Because I’m a Sword Master.”

Believe it or not, shit.

I said that and then looked at the woman with the ponytail who had stepped forward.

“So, what do you want?”

You guys were annoying, shit.

Coming here on inline skates and asking useless questions, what were they doing?

The woman said,

“Ah, actually… we’ve been surviving by raiding the convenience store up ahead. But with six of us, we run out of food quickly. We still have some drinks and alcohol left, but…”

“So?”

I was being quite blunt.

The woman flinched.

She glanced at the supermarket and then said,

“W-we know you… took care of all… those things, but… would it be okay if we… took some of what we need…?”

Hmm…

I glanced at the six people in front of me and then at the supermarket.

The woman continued,

“We’ll help you with whatever we can. Can we share?”

Hmm…

The supermarket…

There was quite a lot inside.

Honestly, I didn’t really care how much food and other supplies were in the supermarket.

What mattered to me were the things swarming inside.

I shrugged and said,

“Then just clear out the bodies inside. Take whatever you want after that.”

The six inline skating club members’ faces lit up as they nodded.

I finally sheathed my sword.

Shing-

“Anything else?”

I asked, half-turning.

The woman with the ponytail smiled and said,

“No, thank you. We’ll take care of the supermarket. Thank you so much.”

“Yeah.”

I turned and walked away, leaving the six of them behind.

Ah, right.

I turned back and added,

“Just leave the diapers.”

The woman looked at me in surprise, then smiled.

“Ah, we don’t need diapers… Okay. Thank you.”

…That look in her eyes…

Did she think I was the baby’s father?

…I didn’t know, shit.

Too lazy to explain.

I took the diapers and slowly walked towards the boarding house.

I could hear the whirring of inline skates behind me. They were probably going to move the bodies from the entrance.

They couldn’t pass through the doors on inline skates.

There were too many bodies piled up.

They would clear them out for their own convenience.

Hmm…

Anyway… the supermarket…

Where else were there hordes of them?

The residential complex, and…

…the hypermarket…

…Good.

The hypermarket was the next target.

I’d clear the path to the hardware store first.

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