Chapter 4 – 4. Preparing to Sweep (2)

After agreeing to accompany him, we decided to have dinner.

I was very hungry because I had been working hard all day but had not eaten anything yet. We went into the lady’s house in room 709 and sat down at the table facing each other. Since there was rice and side dishes in this house, I should eat it before it goes bad.

“…”

“…”

Yoo Sae-yeon was watching me while wiggling her chopsticks to see if she was eating or not. The dark circles were dark and the eyes were a bit cloudy, making it look like he had lost a lot of mental power.

She probably has no contact with her family and has probably seen people die on the way, so isn’t she mentally disturbed?

If you end up suffering from depression or have mental problems while doing this, there is no answer. In the end, I actively talked to her to prevent her from thinking anything strange.

Since I have to take him with me as a colleague from now on, I have to take good care of him. First, I will lighten the mood by doing a simple household survey.

“Uh, hmm. Now that I think about it, how old are you?”

“I’m thirty. Mr. Inho..”

“Uh… I’m 28.”

“What..? “Are you younger than me?”

“That’s right.. I couldn’t even imagine it… “

Saeyeon was two years older than me. She was my older sister. She was a little embarrassed.

‘Oh my god, I can’t believe I’m already 30 with that face. I thought she was definitely younger than me…’

He looks and sounds like a new college student, but I had no idea he was already in his 30s.

He was quite small and looked young, so it was difficult to guess his age just by his appearance. I thought I had to give it a lot to be the same age…

Maybe there is someone who is married or about to get married..

“I.. Could I.. Get married..”

“I haven’t done it yet. “I don’t have a boyfriend. My family is a bit strict. They tell me not to meet men unless I plan to get married.”

Fortunately, she was neither married nor had a boyfriend.

“I see… Then, can I call you sister?”

“Yes? Ah.. Yes.”

“You too, please speak comfortably. We will travel together from now on, so let’s go comfortably together.”

“Ah.. Yes. Is that so? Hehe…”

Yoo Sae-yeon smiled slightly, perhaps because the atmosphere had relaxed a bit.

“But sister. “You decided to go with me from now on.”

“Yeah, right.”

“I’m thinking of going out there tomorrow… “Can you follow me?”

“Huh? Out?”

“Yes. Opening an empty house with your inventory seems like a bit of a waste. I’d like to go to the supermarket 10 minutes away from here. How do you feel?”

“To our mart..?”

“Yes. There. “I think there are still quite a few things.”

“It must be very dangerous outside the apartment. And the second floor may have been filled with zombies…”

Saeyeon explained the sights she saw on the way here. As she listened, it occurred to her that the people living downstairs might not be able to get through tonight.

Zombies can pull, push, and hit, so if they rip off the security window, break the window, and then crawl into the house, it could be considered the end. The noise the zombies make will attract other zombies. It must be difficult to sleep due to noise pollution.

Just because it’s our home doesn’t mean it’s safe. If zombies crawl up to the 5th floor tonight, the 6th floor will be next, and the 7th floor above that. The stairs could be full of zombies by tomorrow.

Furthermore, Sister Saeyeon said she saw a guy with abnormally high physical abilities among the shambling zombies. Although he was only one, he had the physical ability of an athlete.

‘Could it be a variant?’

Are you saying that mutants have already appeared? It’s only been a day since the zombie outbreak broke out… But this is a bit serious.

‘If the number of variants increases as time passes… There is no hope. You have to quickly kill those with combat-related skills and steal their skills… Or make them your allies..’

It seemed clear that the situation would gradually deteriorate. It doesn’t seem like this plague, which we don’t know if it’s a zombie virus or a curse, was spread by humans in the first place… Regardless of whether it’s the team that took away the ability, we need to actively look for people with awakened abilities.

‘I would like to resolve the situation through dialogue, but… ‘

If the other person is an asshole, he will kill you mercilessly. In an age where law and morality have lost their function, I wonder if there is any need to keep this shitty guy alive.

‘Yes, considering the situation, I guess I should kill him.’

If you leave a person who causes trouble for no reason alive, he will only cause trouble until he dies. If you bend down from the beginning like Saeyeon, you won’t know…

But there was a bigger problem. Even if the opponent bends first and comes out, it is a problem.

‘If the survivor you encounter is the type of awakened person who needs to kill people to become stronger…’

The problem becomes more serious if you have the ability to become stronger the more you kill people, or if you have the ability to increase your physical abilities by killing awakened people. Those guys wouldn’t go around openly saying, ‘I’m a would-be murderer!’

‘They may approach you assuming love and kindness and target your back. Also, there may be cases where you have to kill someone as a penalty for using your abilities…’

Just as my ‘skill robbery’ required hair in return for using the ability, some abilities might require a person’s life.

‘The more I imagine, the more serious the situation becomes… It would be better to just kill the awakened person first…’

It would be nice to know what abilities you have and what the penalties for those abilities are, but it doesn’t seem like they will just tell you and there is no way to find out.

So, rather than trying to be cautious and getting attacked first, I decided that it would be better for my survival to just attack and see if I could survive.

Of course, I could be killed in a counterattack, but since there was a risk of death if I stayed still, I thought it would be much better to attack and take away his abilities if I could make a surprise attack.

‘Actually, Saeyeon, we still have to wait and see.. It looks like there’s no problem right now, but we don’t know when things may change.’

If you see too many shocking scenes, you may develop mental problems and do strange things. In addition, they can force morality by talking about human rights needlessly, or they can prevent people from killing people who need to be killed and force them to show mercy. If that happens… I plan to throw it away without mercy.

‘The ones who are frustrating always die first.’

I refuse to play the role of dying first.

Having awakened, I want to survive until the end.

“Uh.. Over there.”

“Yes? Ah, yes.”

As I was lost in thought for a moment, Saeyeon started looking at me again. Because you completely rejected my suggestion to go outside. It seemed like they thought the conflict was caused by conflicting opinions.

“First of all, like you said, it’s dangerous outside, so let’s move while watching the situation tomorrow. If there are too many zombies downstairs, just rob the empty house… If you think it’s worth going out, go out. How do you feel?”

“Huh. Good. Let’s move while considering the situation.”

“And if things go well and we can go to the supermarket, it would be perfect for me to watch over you while you write down the items in your notebook and put them in your inventory.”

“Note? Ah. “I won’t forget.”

“Yes. Because it’s complicated to do all three by yourself. “You just focus on fixing things, and I’ll catch and kill zombies.”

“Yep. “When I go out tomorrow, I’ll have to take a notebook and pen with me.”

If you can just get to the supermarket, farming can really begin in earnest. I don’t think about other people at all and plan to attack everything in sight. If you ask me, I should have had an inventory.

“Then let’s go out tomorrow… I think it would be better to go to bed early today. Let’s move around 6 o’clock or sunrise. Then, we are disbanding today…”

“There.. Over there..”

“Yes?”

As I was putting dishes in the sink to go home, Saeyeon gently grabbed my clothes.

“Can’t we be together today?”

“Yes? Ah.”

He probably felt uneasy about spending the night alone. I nodded.

“Of course.”

I brought Saeyeon to my house.

The house was clean because earlier, when I was cleaning up the blood on the front door, I threw all the trash out the window. There was still a bit of a fishy smell of blood that hadn’t gone away yet, but it was clean enough.

“Oh. “I’ll bring a toothbrush and a towel.”

“Yes. “I’ll spread out the bedding.”

“Thank you..!”

I brushed her teeth first while she went to get her toiletries. Then I took out a new blanket and laid it out on the floor. Even if you sleep in the same house, you can’t all sleep under the same blanket.

Saeyeon, who is showing signs of anxiety due to the shock caused by the zombies, is also emotionally anxious, so she just wants to be under the same roof. It doesn’t mean she wants to sleep with me.

If you try to rape someone, it will lead to the breakdown of the relationship. If that happens, when I run into another awakened person, I might run away to that other person… So I have to get a little closer first.

-I’m here.

“Yes, just a moment.”

When I opened the front door, Saeyeon was standing in her pajamas. Pajamas with a bear pattern … For a 30-year-old woman’s pajamas, they didn’t look quite right for her age, but they were still very cute and she had a small and youthful body, so they suited her well.

It was quite impressive that her hair was tied up in a ponytail and her neckline was slightly exposed.

“Please come in..”

“Yes..Excuse me..”

She took off her slippers and entered her house barefoot. Something about her defenseless appearance made me feel strange. You don’t think that I could attack you…

‘I… I never thought a day like this would come in my 28 life…’

The only woman who came into my house was my mother. There was something strange about her because a woman whose name she didn’t know until yesterday came into our house in her pajamas and was brushing her teeth.

It’s not that I’m really excited or excited, but I thought something like this could happen.

Soon after washing her face, Saeyeon came out of the bathroom. Meanwhile, I took out an old radio from the storage room. It is a small radio the size of the palm of your hand that runs on batteries.

My father bought it for me to carry in my pocket and listen to while hiking or walking… But I haven’t used it once since receiving it as a gift.

“Wow. Is that a radio?”

“Yes. My father gave it to me as a gift… This is my first time using it in almost two years. I don’t know if it will turn on..”

I answered Saeyeon’s question while rummaging around in the drawer looking for batteries. I soon found a new battery, replaced it, and turned it on.

“Frequency…”

I soon found a radio broadcast muttering something.

[… ] ] This concludes the broadcast. I hope you survive safely.]

-Chijijijik..

“What?”

“Ah…”

The timing was bad. As soon as the frequency was found, the broadcast ended. It would have been better if I hadn’t heard anything. It was even more disappointing to think that I was one step late.

“Should I just sleep?”

“Yes.”

In the end, I turned off the radio with no results.

I went into my room and Saeyeon lay down on the blanket on the floor.

“See you tomorrow.”

“Yes… Thank you for saving me today.”

“What. Next time you get the chance, please save me too.”

“Yes…!”

So we exchanged greetings and then went into our respective beddings.

The night deepened.