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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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The road to the supermarket was very dark.
The streets, where people no longer walked, were so dark, and because the streetlights weren’t on, only the moon floating in the sky illuminated our path.
In the midst of that, Park Seong-oh was walking in the lead, killing any approaching zombies.
“Oppa, can we talk for a moment…”
“Yeah. Why?”
“That’s… that’s…”
Eun-ji and Ha-rin, who were gripping their sleeves tightly, came to me.
Both of them had frightened expressions.
They were probably like this because of how I was treating a human, Park Seong-oh, so carelessly. It seemed like they had become uneasy because they had seen my sadistic side.
Because Eun-ji and Ha-rin were also ultimately my ‘slaves.’
They were probably scared because they didn’t know when I would change like that and treat them harshly. I understood them completely.
I made a mistake. I should have tormented Park Seong-oh when the two of them weren’t watching.
“I know what you two are worried about.”
“O, Oppa, it’s not that we don’t trust you… sob…”
“It’s okay, Eun-ji, come here. Ha-rin too.”
I hugged the two teary-eyed women tightly.
I hadn’t even treated them harshly, but they had gotten scared after seeing my merciless words and actions that I had directed at Park Seong-oh.
I had said those things in hopes of making Park Seong-oh understand his place, but the two of them had become overly aware of their place at the same time and became scared of me… This was driving me crazy.
I had an image that I had built up.
It was understandable that they had become scared after seeing the brutal side of their kind master.
“It’s okay. Don’t cry. Stop it.”
If we made too much noise, the aggro that Park Seong-oh was drawing could be directed toward us.
I calmed the two of them down for now.
“Sob… Yes…”
“Huu… Eun-ji, Ha-rin.”
These two were fundamentally different from normal Awakened.
Would I be crazy enough to mistreat and be mean to these beauties who had hidden jobs?
From the beginning, I had no intention of mistreating or being merciless to them.
If we were in a relationship as some sort of ‘play,’ I might handle them a little harshly. But I wanted peace in our everyday lives.
‘Was I too clumsy…?’
Trust could be broken by even the smallest of mistakes or misunderstandings. Though giving trust was something that you had to keep trying to do.
Those two had given me trust. Because they were my slaves who had no choice but to give me trust. Therefore, I also wanted to give my trust to the two of them. That was how we could live with each other happily.
Even though they were my slaves, I wouldn’t treat them as slaves, and I wanted Eun-ji and Ha-rin to become my active sex partners and companions who I could talk to, rather than just being puppets who blindly followed my orders.
As I had said before, I wanted a genuine exchange of affection with these two.
Therefore, I would never give crazy orders like telling them to be a bullet sponge as I had ordered Park Seong-oh, or to run and commit suicide terrorism.
“Was it because I was too cruel to that guy?”
“…Yes..”
“I was a little scared… But… we’re also Master’s slaves… If we were thrown away like that…”
“It’s okay, Ha-rin. Eun-ji too.”
I only made them slaves because I hoped that they wouldn’t betray me. I definitely received the affection that Eun-ji and Ha-rin had given me this morning and yesterday evening. Neither of them hated me. That was enough.
Right, I had to make it clear this time.
“Until now, I haven’t treated Eun-ji or Ha-rin badly, right? I think that I’ve shown you my goodwill plenty of times already…”
“Yes, Oppa…”
“That’s right, Master.”
“Yeah. I’ll keep doing that in the future too. Because you’re precious to me. I’ll keep cherishing you both.”
There was no way that I would easily give up or throw away the two people with whom I had shared a bed with. Even if I didn’t know what they were thinking, I already liked these two quite a lot. I could even say that I loved them.
“From the start, I didn’t think that you would be this scared. I’m sorry that I didn’t give you enough consideration.”
“Ah, no, Oppa. It’s just that Oppa’s new side… was a little sudden…”
“M, me too… I was just… a little scared. It’s not that I don’t trust you… Master.”
“Yeah. I understand. You’re much more precious than that guy. Because I cherish you. I made him a bullet sponge. I don’t even want to imagine you getting shot.”
The two women hugged me even more tightly. I hugged them tightly in return.
Right, I liked this. Just by hugging the two women, my stress was relieved. I felt like I had a purpose in life, and a desire to live welled up inside of me.
Eun-ji and Ha-rin had already become one of the big reasons why I had to live. It had only been a short meeting of less than a week, a mere two days, but I had come to have that much affection for these two.
It was the first time that I had been confessed to by a woman, having lived as a loner all my life, and it was also the first time that I had shared my hobbies and laughed together while lying down on a bed with women.
“Let’s only think about ‘us’. Honestly, for that guy. He was trying to kill us. If we didn’t have this power, I would have died there. And I don’t know what would have happened to you two if you got dragged away. Right?”
“That’s right. That’s definitely true.”
“Right, let’s just think about us three like this. Of course, I might bring in another female Awakened, but… for now, we — that is me, Eun-ji, and Ha-rin — are a community of three. Okay?”
“Yeah, Oppa. I’ll only think about us from now on.”
“Me too… I’ll only… think about us three.”
Both of them had understood. Actually, I didn’t know what they were really thinking. I just hoped that my sincerity had been clearly conveyed to them.
Then, Park Seong-oh, who had been walking in front of us, stopped.
“From here, turn to this alley to go to the back door. Kim Min-joon, the archer bastard, is always watching from that roof.”
“Okay. See you later.”
“Yes.”
Park Seong-oh hurriedly ran toward the front of the supermarket. We watched him leave before entering the alley.
“Let’s go too.”
“Yes!”
“Fighting…!”
We quietly hid in the darkness.
Kim Min-joon, the crazy archer class who always kept watch at the front entrance.
He used the skills Clairvoyance and Presence Detection to look around the supermarket almost all day long. And he was a pervert who enjoyed screaming whenever he caught sight of a suspicious intruder.
He was like an alarm clock that would make a fuss and shout whenever he saw someone, saying that he had caught sight of a spy.
Anyway, he was looking around the area today too, and his eyes caught Park Seong-oh, who had returned covered in blood.
“Hey! Seong-oh! What’s going on! Where are the motorcycles? Where did the others go, and why are you coming alone!?”
He shouted at Park Seong-oh, who was walking slowly with his hands empty.
“Shit! They’re all dead!”
“What?! Hey, wait a moment. They’re all dead? Did the Daiso guys do it?”
“No! It was a huge special zombie!”
“What…?”
Kim Min-joon jumped down from the roof and landed in front of Park Seong-oh, striking a hero landing pose.
If a normal person jumped down like that from the roof of a big supermarket, their legs would break, or they would die, but he was fine.
That was because his archer job skill allowed him to move relatively freely between high and low places.
“No shit, they’re all dead? And what special zombie are you talking about?”
“An unbelievably strong guy appeared when we were raiding the hardware store. There was only one, but I barely managed to escape. The guys I brought with me… ha… Shit… They were completely annihilated.”
Park Seong-oh sighed and wiped his face with his dry hands, as if he had seen something very shocking.
Seeing this, Kim Min-joon assumed that something huge had happened and looked at Park Seong-oh with pity.
“What in the world happened?… Surely you didn’t bring that monster all the way here, right?”
“No. I ran away through the alley. More importantly, I have to go report to the leader.”
Kim Min-joon nodded as if he was sad when he saw Park Seong-oh, who had lost his spirit.
“Ha… Shit… Okay, I understand. It’s good that you came back alive, man.”
“Yeah. You also do your best.”
Watching Kim Min-joon climb up the wall back to the roof, Park Seong-oh hurriedly walked toward the back door.
While walking, he casually accepted the greetings of the people he met, and acted as usual, so no one suspected him.
“Huu…”
He let out a sigh of relief. Four of his companions had died, but no one was questioning him.
Perhaps because they were a group of neighborhood thugs, they had no special rules. It was just a simple hierarchy where the Awakened were the hyungnims and everyone else were subordinates.
Moreover, because they had won every battle so far against the guys who tried to invade, they weren’t afraid of anything.
Since Kim Min-joon was guarding the entrance all day long like a crazy person, it was understandable that their discipline had become lax.
And the boss of the supermarket, Ha Jin-seong, was so strong that he could be called the strongest.
Having seen the might of their leader, who could fight against more than three Awakened alone, with their own eyes, they believed that there was nothing that could threaten them.
They lived the life of monopolizing the overflowing food and various items of the supermarket while occasionally toying with the women they had kidnapped and imprisoned.
Since they were warm and well-fed, it was natural that their discipline would become relaxed like this.
And these guys who had settled in the supermarket had become frogs in a well.
Even though it hadn’t even been a week since the apocalypse started, their minds had become lax to the point of being lazy.
They deserved to die.
The back door entrance was blocked with furniture, but Ha Jin-seong, who was still uneasy, made them take turns standing guard there each day. Of course, none of them guarded the back door seriously. They just sat there, feeling like they were killing time.
“Oh, Seong-oh Hyungnim.”
A young punk was sitting at the back door while smoking a cigarette and being stupid. He was a high school junior who was quite close to Park Seong-oh. Park Seong-oh closed his eyes tightly. Because he now had to kill his junior with his own hands.
“Hy, Hyungnim? Why is the steel pipe…”
“I’m sorry.”
Clang!
Park Seong-oh swung the steel pipe down on the head of the punk who was looking up at him.
“Ack! Hy, Hyungnim…”
He didn’t die in one blow, probably because Seong-oh didn’t put enough strength to it. Then, he would just keep hitting him until he died.
Clang! Clang! Crack!
Park Seong-oh, who had swung the steel pipe until it was bent, was breathing heavily.
“Huu… Huu… Damn it…”
He felt uneasy, having beaten to death a guy who had once been his companion and close junior.
But he didn’t feel anything more than that. He then opened the door that was blocked with furniture as he had been commanded.
“Okay. Easy.”
Jang Jo-joon, Lee Eun-ji, and Sung Ha-rin, who had been waiting outside, came inside.
Too easy.
“For now, leave the bags here. Only take what you need, then let’s go to the second floor right away.”
“Yes, Oppa.”
“Alright.”
Eun-ji took five awls and a hammer while Ha-rin took her monkey wrench and wore three hammers on her belt.
“Hey, Park Seong-oh. Did you figure out where the Awakened are?”
“Yes. The archer is still on the roof, and the other guys are probably playing poker on the second floor since it’s evening.”
“So, they’re all gathered on the second floor. You know that you have to stake your life to pin that bastard Ha Jin-seong down, right?”
“Yes…”
“Good. I just need one crowbar… Park Seong-oh, you’ll be fine with that steel pipe, right?”
“Yes. This is… enough.”
“Then, let’s go up.”
While we were going to the escalator, Park Seong-oh brushed aside all the suspicions of the guys who looked at us with questions, saying that Ha Jin-seong had ordered him to bring us.
Luckily, that was enough, and no one else questioned us.
We reached the front of the escalator that led to the upper floor.
“Uh, Hyungnim. Who are those guys behind you?”
“Big hyungnim told me to bring them.”
“Yes? We didn’t hear about that…”
“Hey, do I have to explain everything to you? Just do what you’re told.”
“Ah, I understand.”
Park Seong-oh’s acting was flawless with almost no changes in his expression, and he was able to lead us to the second floor where the leader was, passing through all of the guys who were blocking our way.
We had arrived too easily, beyond what I had imagined.
Perhaps because he was one of only seven Awakened in a group of just over thirty people that he got a free pass from everyone. It seemed like the difficulty of this raid had dropped to the bottom the moment we entered the supermarket.
“This is easier than I thought. How come those guys haven’t suspected us even once?”
“They’re a group of neighborhood thugs, so they’re not very thorough. They just accept it and move on. And most of the intruders get cut down by the archer at the entrance. The moment you break through Kim Min-joon, it’s practically over.”
We roughly approached the electronics section. Then, we hid in a corner and observed the guys inside.
There were four men inside playing a card game, having brought chairs and a table.
All of the other guys were on the first floor, and only the Awakened were here. This was too easy. How could these punks still be occupying this place?
“Ha-rin, can you sense the people around us?”
“Uh… There are four people there, and two people in the car accessories section. It seems like there’s no one else on the second floor.”
“Hey, Park Seong-oh. Is Ha Jin-seong one of these guys?”
“Ha Jin-seong isn’t here… The guy in the car accessories section is probably Ha Jin-seong. He’s probably rolling around with a woman he captured.”
“Then, who are these guys? And who’s that leader’s younger brother?”
“The guy wearing the baseball cap, the guy with the cigarette in his mouth, and the guy with the thick mustache are warriors. The guy sitting next to them wearing a tank top and chewing gum is Ha Jin-woo.”
“That’s lucky.”
We had raided this place when the leader happened to have left to have sex. This timing was too good. Was this also the power of my 666 luck stat?
From the moment we had entered, avoiding the archer who was guarding the entrance, it seemed like our victory was already certain.
“Eun-ji, use stealth and capture Ha Jin-seong first. Stab him from behind with Paralysis Fangs. Don’t worry, I can heal your wounds. He’s level 9, so don’t show him any mercy. I won’t be angry even if you kill him. If it seems like it’s not going to work out, kill him right away.”
Eun-ji flinched at my words. It was understandable that she was scared since I was telling her to capture a guy with a gun.
Of course, I didn’t have any intentions of sending her alone.
“And Park Seong-oh. You distract Ha Jin-seong, so that Eun-ji can attack him from behind. Grab onto him and don’t let go if you have to. You know what to do if he pulls out his gun, right? Be a good meat shield. If Eun-ji gets hurt, I’ll kill you.”
“Ugh… Yes.”
Eun-ji’s expression quickly brightened when I said that Park Seong-oh would be tanking the gun.
“Eun-ji, you can do it, right?”
“I can do it, Oppa.”
“Good. That’s my girl.”
“Then, I’ll be going now.”
Eun-ji hid her body in the darkness and then completely concealed her presence. She was already hard to see when she was hidden since she was petite, and now that she had used her skill, it was even harder to find her.
Park Seong-oh started to walk toward the car accessories section.
“Okay, Ha-rin. We’ll be the ones to face these guys.”
“Ma, Master. Can we do it?”
“We have to. What else can we do? Let’s take them out the moment we hear a gunshot or when Eun-ji gives us a signal.”
I had originally planned to use Summon Tentacles on the Ha duo, but since Eun-ji had left to capture the older one, I could use it to completely incapacitate these guys instead.
Three warriors on Park Seong-oh’s level, and one fighter who was a Taekwondo expert. We could definitely take them down.
“You take care of those three warriors and I’ll take care of that guy.”
“Yes…”
“It’s okay, you can do it. Use your skills right away when the battle starts.”
“Yes, Master.”
We waited for a moment. I hoped that Eun-ji could take care of that guy safely… Then, it happened.
Bang! Bang!
“Kua!!!”
We heard Park Seong-oh’s scream.
Two gunshots rang out.
Had Eun-ji been hit by a bullet?
“Eun-ji!!!”
“Oppa! I caught him!”
Thank goodness. It seemed like Park Seong-oh had done his part. How commendable.
Then, one of the Awakened discovered us and screamed.
“Ah, shit!!! Gunshots!!! Hey! What are you guys doing here!?”
What were we doing here, you ask? We’re giving you guys a surprise gift.
“Al-la-kum-R’lyeh!”
Tentacles shot out of my hand. They instantly entangled the body of the guy who had been chewing gum. That guy was Ha Jin-woo, who was the most dangerous after Ha Jin-seong. With this, it was practically over.
“Ack, shit!!”
The warrior who was wearing a baseball cap tried to pull away the tentacles that were binding Ha Jin-woo with a steel pipe, but at that moment…
Whack!!!
A hammer hit the guy’s face.
Ha-rin, who didn’t show any mercy, threw the hammer, and it accurately crushed the guy’s face due to her Slinging Stones skill.
“Damn it!!!”
“Intruders!!!”
Two Awakened were left.
Crack!
Ha-rin had hit another guy just now. They were defenseless. There was a huge difference between our skill performances, and the levels of the remaining guys weren’t that different from ours, so it was our overwhelming victory.
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T/N – Really, this novel. I almost thought that this was a Chinese novel with the way the author seems to be padding out his word count by making the MC repeat certain details over and over again. Also, they took down the supermarket group quite easily.
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
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