Chapter 103 – 103. What the Suicide Left Behind

“Kuaaaaa”

Twenty or so Chinese people were captured and killed.

Eun-ji threw down daggers coated with paralyzing poison without rest, knocking down all those who ran away, and the jet-black wheel rammed their genitals into the stomachs of the fallen ones and laid eggs. Needless to say Harin, he sliced ​​it up like a pig’s neck.

Heesun noona summoned the roots of the oak tree and pulled the fleeing people into the ground. Thanks to the merciless pulling, those who were caught by the roots of the oak tree were crushed as if they had been crushed by a press. It’s a corpse that feels like it was crushed by forcibly sticking its head into a small hole…

I chewed the heads of the fleeing ones with my abyssmaw and swallowed them, then released my tentacles to twist and pull out their limbs. I caught and killed most of them. He sacrificed it to the killing tribes, Kashinax and Indicron.

[Hmm… It tastes like cheap…]

Carshinax devoured the souls of the Chinese people who had been sacrificed in the feeling of eating just because it was given. Like an evil god who always prefers quantity over quality, he is satisfied with just giving a lot. He is the kind of god who will be happy if you just blindly beat him until his stomach bursts and feed his soul. In a way, it can be said that she is a goddess who is easy to deal with.

The problem is that he wants to make an offering all the time. To eat, to eat

[It smells too much, so I’m going to need some toppings. More. Let it scream some more.]

However, the picky eater Indicron ordered me more. Make them scream and kill them. Because Indicron always prioritizes quality over quantity. She is a god who prefers 1 well-seasoned Desperate Soul to passing over 10 human souls. She gave her her soul and always cared for her.

“Is this one left? Anyone who can speak Chinese?”

“I! Me! I know how to say hello!”

Harinyi raised her hand and she smiled at the Chinese.

“Nihao.”

“Aww!%*$&#%#@#”


Nihao is a greeting I know how to say. Still, the brightly smiling Harin was cute and funny, so she just stroked her hair.

But Harin’s Nihao seems to have hit him quite hard.

When Harin greeted her with a smile, the Chinese who was possessed, probably thinking that she was mocking her, screamed at her with a fucking mania.

Disgusting to hear, I immediately took out a hammer from my bag and struck it in the snout.

-Kwajik!!


“Aaaaa!!!”


The lips were crushed, and the teeth, including the front teeth, were broken into chunks and pulled out, spilling onto the ground along with blood.

But, after all, screaming is universal.

The cackling screams were so loud that I wrapped my tentacles around his snout and strangled him. When he couldn’t breathe, his eyes became bloodshot red, and he eventually couldn’t stand it and fell into incontinence.


“Uh, the fuck is dirty ..”


I frowned and took a step back from him.

At that time, Heesun noona said.


“I can’t understand a word of what you are saying.”


Then, Eunji stabbed him in the stomach with a dagger and said,


“Should I just kill him?”


Eunji didn’t want to leave even one of them alive, probably because they were the ones who attacked them.

It’s the same for me, so I’m going to kill it first, but before I kill it, I want to see if there’s something I can experiment with with this bastard, so I’m not twisting my neck right now and I’m leaving it alive.

“Um… Is there anything I can do with this bastard?”

“Well…”

“Ah, if I make you a slave, will the conversation work?”

Harin gave a pretty good opinion.

“Oh… Let’s try it right now.”

I immediately hit him moderately with a hammer while threatening to subdue him. But he doesn’t give in easily. Is this continental weather? Or maybe they simply don’t understand what I’m saying and don’t know what I want and keep rebelling.

No matter what, if you keep beating, you’ll succumb on your own. Humans are very vulnerable creatures. If you smash a few joints and cut off a finger, you can’t help but bow down to the torturer. He will be weighed down by the pain and will want to get rid of it all.

“Aaaaa!!! Wow Chao!! Ciao!!!”

– Kwajik! Kwajik! Kwajik!

As he hit each of his fingers with a hammer, the Chinese shook his head and screamed. Eunji, who saw that, said she wanted to try it herself, and broke the Chinese foot while using the pain increase. At this point, he might have given in, but he struggled and spat out Chinese curse words.

Heesun noona, who was watching our crazy scene, finally turned her head slightly. Hee-seon’s older sister hates horrible things, so she was reluctant to watch scenes of torturing a living person. Although her corpse was the most horrifying, the corpse that Hee-seon noona mashed to death.

Anyway, after about 10 minutes of beating her extremities, breaking them off, cutting them off, and reattaching them to heal them, the Chinese prisoner ended up drooling and banging her head on the floor.

“T-T-T-T-T-T!”

[The opponent has succumbed to you.]

“Good.”

I immediately put a slave brand on his forehead.

– Chii Ik!!!

“$!*#%^*@”

As the spirit subdued, it screamed again. I still can’t hear what you’re saying.

“Brother, can you understand me? I can’t understand it at all.”

“So do i.”

Even if they were branded as slaves, words did not work.

I still couldn’t understand the Chinese language. Maybe it’s the same with him, but even when I talk to him, he doesn’t seem to respond to my words, and he just keeps babbling about his own words.

But this bastard is very noisy even talking to himself. Their language itself is noisy and hard to hear. I immediately ordered him. I want to see if the command works well even if the words are not communicated.

“The label of slavery doesn’t make it through to the end. Does the order work? Hey. Shut up and turn round and round.”

“Ugh…”

The Chinese, whose legs were smashed by Eunji at my command, spun in place while shedding tears. The staggering movement sped up as fragments of broken bone from his shattered foot tore through his skin.

Judging by the fact that he kept his mouth shut even in the midst of that, it seemed that the order was clearly going through.

“Heh.. Jun-ah, even if words don’t work, orders work..?”

“I know. That’s interesting. The effect of the skill must be applied.”

Seeing a broken human being spinning around in place, Heesun noona must have gotten tired of the pretty grotesque scene. Quite strange. He shook his head with a disgusted look on his face.

If she tortured her further, Heesun noona would vomit, so she decided to kill her at this point.

I grabbed his head and used my unclean touch. He cried out and died without understanding the current situation until the end. As his head melted away, his body, which still had nerves, trembled.

“Dedicated.”

[It’s better if you add toppings.]

I struggled with Indicron’s answer. If I said it wasn’t good this time, I would have had to torture the captives more intensely in the future, but then time would be delayed too much. I’m glad she satisfied me in moderation.

“Then, let’s farm these guys’ equipment.”

We then robbed the luggage of the Chinese.

“Nothing. There are a lot of things like Chinese sweets…”

“Leave it all. These bastards are hard to eat.”

“Right?”

They didn’t touch their food. We also brought enough food. More than anything, I don’t like groceries or food from China. Greatly.

“Uh! There are so many knives in this bag!”

“Huh? A cleaver?”

“Huh. Do you have a lot of knives? Did you bring it as a substitute for a weapon?”

“Hmm… Let’s take that.”

“Yep!”

Heesun noona lifted the bag containing the kitchen knife. It was a bag containing more than ten kitchen knives wrapped in newspaper or something. She seemed happy at the thought of getting something.

“There is nothing special about the weapon. Eunji unni, what’s in that bag?”

“Something to eat… Bottled water? Oppa, I’ll just throw it all away.”

“Okay. There is no need to eat strange things and get sick.”

They were like beggars who didn’t have much. Still, the weapons of those who would have killed and farmed special zombies were in pretty good condition, so I packed them all up and put them in a large-capacity magic bag. I think I can give this to non-awakened people when I go back to the mart later.

“Then I ate everything that could be eaten roughly… How many hours do I have left?”

“Uh… An hour and a half.”

“Haa… An hour and a half…”

Soon the sun will set When the sun went down and the night lasted, from then on we had to keep checking the time and keeping the date. Since the sun never rises, you won’t be able to tell when it’s night and when it’s day.

“For now, everyone isn’t tired yet.”

“Yep. You’re perfectly fine.”

“Me too!”

“Brother is?”

To be honest, I’m a bit tired right now. I didn’t know that I was in a state of excitement during the battle, but after the battle was over, I was very tired.

‘As expected, only I am affected by the forest..’

The three of them seemed unconcerned. Hee-seon noona hugged me, probably because I didn’t look good. Heeseon noona, who was weak in close combat, retreated a little from the battlefield and fought behind her, so her body was not stained with blood. So I didn’t smell her blood. She felt a little better as she fell into her neat arms and smelled her scent.

“Since before, Junie is tired. It doesn’t seem to fit the forest very well.”

“Really? Brother. Then, shall we get some rest?”

“Sniff… There are no other smells around… It’s not accurate because of the smell of blood…”

When they said that I was not feeling well, they immediately suggested that I rest.

Like they said, I just wanted to spread out and go to sleep, but…

‘No… I don’t think it will get better if I sleep.’

It seems better to keep moving. After all, when the night begins, the unleashed monsters, beasts, and missing persons will begin to roam the forest to slay intruders. You’d better get away quickly from a scene full of corpses.

“Let’s keep moving. I’m not sure where the center of the forest is… But I can’t waste time.”

“Yeah… But if it’s difficult, tell me? My sister will carry it.”

“Lord! I can carry you too!”

“Uh… I…”

Eunji is short, so if I put her on her back, she would look pretty weird. Thanks to my stats, I’ll be able to carry me on my back, but I’m afraid my legs will probably drag on the ground because of the height difference.

“Eunji is fine! It’s small!”

“Hey… Harin..”

“Oh, sister. Why are you staring at me like that!?”

When Harin stroked Eunji’s hair and teased her about her short stature, Eunji cutely looked up at her Harin and clenched her fists. Harin is pretending not to know why. Watching her puts her mind at ease.

“Okay, let’s keep moving.”

“Yes!”

Nothing good will happen if you stay in this place full of corpses for a long time. I broke all of her heads in case she was revived as a zombie, but since the smell of blood is so strong, it is certain that the beasts will be attracted to her. And since he killed a lot, there is a high chance that monsters and missing people will be seduced.

We quickly got out of the scene.

*****

After walking in one direction for about an hour, we stopped for a moment.

“Haha…”

I clutched at the tree in a sweaty state and gasped for breath.

“Brother, drink some water here.”

“Yeah. Thank you.”

I drank clean water from the Undine and wiped away my sweat.

“How long until sunset, Harin?”

“Let’s see… Um. The sun sets in about 35 minutes!”

“Haa.. It will be night soon. Oh right. It’s Eunji. This.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“I picked it up earlier. It’s like a diary written by someone who died in this forest. I brought it because I thought it might be a clue. Can you read it?”

“Uh… Wait a minute.”

“Can you speak Japanese too?”

“Huh. I studied a little on my own before.”

“Wow!”

Eunji likes horror movies quite a lot. And Japan is a country with quite a lot of horror movies.

So Eun-ji became interested in Japanese while watching movies like Ju-on and Ring since she was in school… I don’t quite understand it, but Eun-ji learned Japanese.

I think it’s like a process for people who like anime to naturally learn Japanese.

“Uh… But I haven’t learned it properly, so I can’t fully interpret it… There will be a lot of paraphrasing. I’ll read it anyway.”

“Huh. Good.”

“Eunji is amazing!”

Me and Heesun noona didn’t dare to read it in the first place. I couldn’t even understand Korean. She only knew that it was Japanese because she was familiar with the characters.

“Uh… Is this… A journal? Hehe.. The first chapter doesn’t have much content, it’s just a review of the menu I ate today. I’ll just skip over the useless stuff.”

“Huh.”

Eunji briefly read the notebook left by the missing person. There were quite a few words I didn’t know, so I was shaking my head.

Then, eventually, she caught her clue about this forest. And she read that part to us slowly.

“This forest is strange. The sun doesn’t rise from a certain moment.. There is no battery in the flashlight.. It’s hard to hold on anymore. Then I saw a fox fire. I followed the fox fire as if possessed. Without knowing the reason… While chasing the light like that, I crossed the torii gate and reached a shrine that was abandoned in the forest. I don’t know what kind of gentleman he is. It’s just… It seems to have been abandoned for a very long time… It smells dangerous.”

As Eun-ji was reading an important-looking page, she asked me slightly if I didn’t want to interrupt Eun-ji’s concentration as Hee-seon noona, who was still listening.

“Junah… What is a torii?”

“Ah, should I say that…The gateway in front of a Japanese shrine or shrine? I painted it red. It’s just a pillar at the entrance.”

“Ah~ I think I know what it is.”

And so we continued to listen to the journal of a suicide that Eunji read.

“Hmm. This part in particular is strange. Never open ‘Kotribako’… Written on a whole page. It’s hard to figure out what’s going on after this part. It seems like someone out of their mind wrote it haphazardly… But the word ‘Hayashi Juten’ keeps being mentioned in a meaningful way…

“Hayashi Juten…?”

“Yes. I think it means the center of the forest. Follow the red star. It probably points to where the shrine is. The man who wrote this journal must have found the shrine while wandering through the forest. After witnessing something at the shrine… And running away… I wonder if he died from the despair of not being able to escape this place in the end?”

“Hmm.. But Eunji unnie. What is Kotoribako?”

“That’s a ghost story that was popular on the Internet in the past… It’s a cursed box made by killing children. You shouldn’t have opened it.”

“Ugh.. Why are you making something like that..”

I know a bit about Kotoribako. It’s a monster that appeared in a jjukkur game in the past. I’ve never played it, so I don’t know exactly what it’s doing, but like all Japanese ghosts and freaks, it must be something that harms people recklessly.

“Hmm.. To say that you wrote a page full of words saying you shouldn’t open it… Sounds like you might come to a situation where you have no choice but to open it due to some reason… I’m reluctant.”

“This forest… It’s a bit scary.”

Harin, who had always been afraid of ghosts and things like that, trembled and held her in my arms. It’s quite cute that she changed her job to the beast of Cheongwol and now she’s afraid of ghost stories while tearing to death ghosts. I stroked Harin’s withered ear.

“That’s what I mean. I also care about being a living sacrifice. It feels as if they are trying to bring people into this forest and bring something down with their blood and soul.”

Eunji reasoned on her own. The moment she saw the word Kotori Bako, she couldn’t get rid of the thought that this forest itself was a curse box, that the players who entered it were sacrifices, and that we were trying to create something with our lives.

And that’s me too.

This forest is still sucking my energy.

Maybe I have to take the grudges of the dead, but I wonder if I’m in the way. This forest may be hostile to me because I handed over the souls it should have sucked up to the evil spirits with the human sacrifice skill in the middle.

No, this must be the correct answer. Had the World Tree intervened, Carshinax or Indicron would have stepped in first to stop it.

Then what bothers me is not the world tree, but the will of the forest itself.

It was clear that he was hostile to me for taking the soul outside.

“Maybe Eunji was right. I think they are sacrificing the players who entered the forest… To complete the ‘Idol of God’.”

“That means…”

“Idols of gods are never gifts from good beings. A collection of curses and sorcery. Miracles created by the spirits of those who entered the forest..”

“Ah…”

It’s also a fucking apocalypse. There is no such thing as a good without a price, a world where it is very natural to trample on others in order to survive.

“It’s Eunji. There is also a tape recorder left behind by this person. Please explain this too.”

“Yes..”

He also handed over the cassette tape to Eunji.

Eunji listened to it several times, then spoke to me with a puzzled expression.

“Brother.. I think we are ruined..”

“Why? What do you say?”

“I pass my curse on to those who listen to this recording. And run away I heard that ‘Dodomeki’ will target you…”

What else is Dodomeki doing?

My eyes went dark.

The sun begins to set.