Chapter 103 – Die (2)
Die (2)
Beep-
Unfamiliar electronic sound that tingles in the bewildered ears.
Nam Do-yoon hurriedly reached out his hand with a pale face.
Took-!
Cha Ha-yan took a step back and kept the distance between them.
The hatching, which was done through the door of the infirmary, continued to be done in the hallway of the College of Agriculture.
Nam Do-yoon’s hand is taken awkwardly without being able to hold her.
Cha Ha-yan looked at the hand gesture and smiled bitterly.
Whii-i-i-!
It was wind.
Her strength that keeps pushing her behind her.
Cha Ha-in, feeling the night breeze on her rooftop that still hasn’t blown away, shed an uncharacteristic laugh.
If the past few days were a time of escape for Nam Do-yoon—
It was a time of self-awareness for Cha Ha-yan.
Beep-
Nam Do-yoon opened his mouth again in a hurry, and an unfamiliar electronic sound flowed from the corner of his mouth.
Cha Ha-yan closed his eyes as if to run away from the overly distinct and clear noise.
A landscape that is not so dark is drawn in the slowly darkening field of view.
Wheeeee
A comfortable smile looking at the stars in the dark night sky.
Conversation for persuasion, which is rather awkward for her, where all her communication generally leads to affirmation.
The face with a mischievous smile as he looked at himself expressing his awkwardness.
‘Hey, what’s awkward? The person who just now confidently said with such bright eyes that those people would never be able to do that.’
‘…’
There is nothing to argue against, but a cold answer that somehow makes me upset.
Her gaze returns to the night sky after watching her for a while as she silently pouted her lips.
‘… Since they truly believe in you, you can just say that you sincerely hope they don’t fight.’
The head naturally turns to the suddenly calm tone.
Cha Ha-in, facing her eyes gently looking at his own eyes, repeated her words to follow her next one.
‘It’s a cliché, but in the end the truth works.’
An awkward smile followed by embarrassing words.
Unlike the day when Cha Ha-in nodded her head at that smile, she shook her head slowly.
Persuading others with sincerity.
This awkward thing she’d never done—
It wasn’t awkward for her, it was impossible for her.
Sincerity has not always worked.
As she realized from a very young age – in some moments, in some people, rather than sincerity…
────────.
A noise that did not flow into her ears from a certain moment.
As she slowly opened her eyes, Nam Do-yoon, who was staring blankly at herself, appeared in her field of vision.
“… Why the hell are you doing this, White? …”
Nam Do-yoon’s question trembles in a false voice.
Nam Do-yoon’s face slowly distorted at Cha Ha-yan’s gaze looking at him again.
“… Why the hell do you say you’re going back to a murderer like that, why…”
“… How many times have I said that it was unavoidable for Mr. Han Se-gye-“
“I said there’s no such thing as unavoidable murder!”
Thud-!
Nam Do-yoon’s feet rolling on the floor as if pouring out overflowing emotions.
A violent finger pointing continued at Cha Ha-in, who opened her eyes wide in surprise.
“Killing to take food—! Killing to take away a place to live! I’m going to kill you because I’m lowly! What you’re doing kills you for being arrogant! Killing for a very noble cause! For the country, for the superiors, for the people you love! And just killing people out of boredom—!”
“As so many people died, killing became increasingly unacceptable! What do you think is the reason—?!”
Nam Do-yoon’s roar reverberates through the hallway.
Namdoyun, who raised his eyes wide at Cha Ha-in, threw his head forward and shouted.
“It’s because everyone realized that the end would be destruction in the end!”
“Don’t say it so easily that you kill people! What on earth are we left with when we say it so easily?! What is left for us, who should unite and join forces in a twisted world!”
Desperate shouts of evil continued to echo through the hallways of the Agricultural College.
“Don’t underestimate the values people have built up over thousands of years! Don’t attach a reason to a crime that naturally causes rejection! That, let alone progress, is nothing more than a regression that goes against the collapsed world!”
“…”
Ha-ha-ha-ha-
Namdo Yoon stops talking for a moment and lowers his head.
Pop-! Pop-!
Beads of sweat trickled down his chin as he took a quick breath.
“… Then you can’t go back even more, White.”
“When I said I could definitely go back, you too…”
As if holding back something, tightly closed lips.
Namdoyun slowly lifted his head and stared at Cha Ha-in again.
“… I want to go back as soon as possible.”
“This strange lord or something, rather than a sudden name like the King of the White Army or something—”
“Mom, Dad’s son… It’s so wrong to just want to go back to Banseok University college student Nam Do-yoon… ?”
His voice trembled far too little compared to the shouts that echoed through the hallway just before.
“Not just me, everyone wants to go back together. I hope everyone who went through such a dangerous and difficult thing together can go back to the time when the worries and worries were so light compared to now…”
“Those who can still afford it will work harder- taking care of those who are struggling a little harder and hurt- like that- safely…”
That is…
“That is… That’s such a bad idea… ?”
“…”
Nam Do-yoon looked at the unanswered Cha Ha-yan and smiled dryly.
“… Kill someone who looks dangerous, and if a camp member gets hurt, take revenge on the person who hurt him… Do you know who doesn’t want to do that? If you cross the line like that—the person who took the easiest route like that—”
… Can’t go back to the old days forever
“Even if all the zombies disappear miraculously and society is restored, those who have crossed the line like that can never go back to the past.”
Not a son of normal parents, a normal college student, but something else.
“That… That…”
A head that shakes its head without being able to speak easily.
“Even though I keep repeating that, I keep seeing the easy way. I think I’m going crazy because I want to walk that easy way!”
Thud-!
Nam Do-yoon hit his chest and shouted again.
“Such an idiot-like mind comes out, but you’re desperately trying!”
“You say I’m a saint! Be a good king!”
“This is why the world has become so full of garbage that I can be called a saint!”
“I’m trying so hard, how the hell am I supposed to try harder!”
Pop-! Pop-!
This time, something other than a thick drop of sweat pooled on his chin and dripped onto the floor.
“… I’ve been able to hold on so far though. No, it wasn’t even those hard and bad days…”
Tea white.
Namdoyun stared at her eagerly with her red, bloodshot eyes.
“… Because you always make me want to be a good person.”
“Because it makes me feel ashamed of such stupid thoughts and gives me strength…”
Therefore-
“Don’t go.”
… Please.
Nam Do-yoon’s earnest request full of water.
Uncharacteristic of Nam Do-yoon, a soft, beautiful voice flowed into his distorted face.
“… That day. The day we met again.”
The scene of the day came to mind naturally at Cha Ha-yan’s whisper.
Nam Do-yoon rushed to the lobby and Cha Ha-yan smiled brightly at him.
“Did you say you were unfamiliar with me?”
“…”
That day when we raised our voice for the first time, glared at each other for the first time, and exchanged sharp words.
“That is me. Really me A real tea white without any pretense.”
Or really…
With a hazy smile, Cha Ha-yan let out the final words that no one would hear.
“… To be honest, I don’t know any of the difficult stories my brother told me. I’m sorry, brother.”
She looked at Nam Do-yoon and apologized with an awkward smile.
“Rather than such a complicated problem, I just want to go back.”
“I’m really sorry, but the me oppa wants is not the real me, it’s me who acted badly…”
Took-!
“And I don’t want to do bad acting like that anymore.”
I’m sorry, brother.
As if it were the last time, Cha Ha-yan took another step back.
Nam Do-yoon hurriedly stretched out his hand in that ominous conviction.
This time, her hand, which tried to firmly hold her back –
Took-!
I couldn’t catch Cha Ha-yan, who was sliding all the way back.
“… Sister?”
A hand gesture that grabs the air and a whisper from Cha Ha-yan looking back in surprise.
Only then was Nam Do-yoon able to turn his attention to someone other than Cha Ha-yan.
“… Mr. Linna?”
“…”
A blonde woman hugging Cha Ha-yan.
Lynnea, who had been quietly glancing at Namdoyun with trembling eyes, turned her body away without saying a word.
Widely-!
Rinnea quickly walks away while holding Cha Ha-yan in her arms.
“Miss Linnea—?!”
Nam Do-yoon looked at his blonde hair blowing in the wind and reached out his hand involuntarily.
The dark hair beyond the blonde that the eagerly reaching out gesture aims for.
“… White aaaaa white!
Ugh-!
In response to his will, the ‘selection’ spread red and created an invisible hand.
Whee ae ae ae liquid-!
An invisible hand aimed at Rinnea’s back at once.
Doyoon Nam chewed his lips and glared at the invisible hand digging into Linnea’s back.
In the increasingly blurry distance, Linnea’s back was clearly felt.
The telekinesis that wrapped around her back quickly wrapped around the person on the other side.
The feeling of the two of them very clearly felt in his grasp.
As soon as Namdoyun felt that sensation, he hurriedly clenched his outstretched hand into a fist.
Ugh-!
Will transmitted through telekinesis with a rough crushing sound.
The telekinetic powers surrounding Linnea and Chahayan responded to his will.
Tuong-!
However, unlike the situation he had expected, his hand gestures staggered as if pushed by something.
Tring-!
[All violent acts other than infection are prohibited during the identification period.]
In an instant, the red aura that wrapped around my arm faded, and a warning message was printed out in front of me.
Clink-!
With the sound of breaking windows, the two of them move away to a distance where they can no longer see each other.
“…”
However, Nam Do-yoon could not look away even though he was aware of the two disappearing far away.
A shocking warning that comes from trembling eyes.
[All violent acts other than infection are prohibited during the identification period.]
… Violent act.
Nam Do-yoon’s arm snapped as he uttered that—! He brushed his pants again.
“…”
A gaze that continued to stare at just a warning message without saying anything.
“… Do-Yoon-ah! Nam Do-yoon—!”
Nam Do-yoon turned his gaze to Seong Joon-gi, who was calling out to him anxiously.
“What the fuck time is it and are you still up there?! What was that glass breaking sound?! Where is the white one going?!”
“…”
Seong Joon-gi, who had raised his voice with his bangs messed up, shook his head on his own.
“No-! Fuck that’s not the problem now!”
“…”
“Hey, Nam Do-yoon! Things seem to be going very strange right now—?!”
Seong Joon-gi’s eyes filled with embarrassment and a hand gesture pointing outward urgently.
“It’s also a problem that Linnea and the dormitory campmates didn’t come by this time, but the real problem is that the kids are gone, Doyun-ah!”
Chin-!
Seong Joon-gi hurriedly grabbed Nam Do-yoon’s shoulders and shook them, shouting again.
“By now, not only the kids who should have gathered in the lobby, but even Kang Cheong-sin have all disappeared! Fuck you, come to your senses, Nam Do-yoon—! Are you listening to me?!”
Staring at Nam Do-yoon’s hazy eyes, he made a gesture of shaking his body more strongly.
Only then did Nam Do-yoon raise his head and meet Sung Jun-ki’s gaze without saying anything.
The moment Sung Joon-gi twists his forehead at those empty eyes—
Tring-!
[00:00:01:00]
[1 minute remaining until the start of the first battle for the throne, the battle for the capital.]
[Identification of the white army and the black army is finished.]
[The power level of the remaining pretenders in Banseok University is currently being updated.]
A new message that tells us that time is running out.
Tring-!
A familiar map of the university came to mind as they blankly stared at the message window.
[North side of the university (the entire area of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences): Nam Do-yoon]
[University North, South: Han Se-gye & Linnea (temporary leader of the dormitory area) alliance]
The baseline that divided Banseok University in half along with sentences that could not be understood gradually changed.
A black light rapidly dyes the northern side of the university, crossing the dividing line based on the Rock Church.
Most of the territory was painted black, except for the white agricultural area.
“This…”
What’s this… ?
Seong Joon-ki’s brainstorming while looking at the university map printed in the air.
His trembling eyes quickly scanned the colleges around the agricultural college.
The colleges around the agricultural college where their precious food and supplies are hidden.
An unwelcome spark brushes against the dark paint that paints them all black without fail.
The younger siblings who wanted to move supplies and food elsewhere, and the younger siblings who suddenly disappeared.
“… No way.”
Kang Cheong-shin, who disappeared together, and the dormitory allies who did not come.
“… No way.”
And now, in front of his eyes, the map is turning black like a lie.
Tring-!
[The White Army and the Black Army, who have finished identifying friends and family, prepare for a contest!]
The map they had been looking at blankly disappeared and a new sentence flickered in front of their eyes.
However, Seong Joon-gi, who had been repeating the map from just before that sentence, whispered with his lips that he could not close.
“… Nonsense.”
Words… , This…
“… Is this a lie?”
“…”
Seong Joon-gi’s eyes stuttering his lips and biting in vain.
Looking at those eyes, Nam Doyoon’s shoulders trembled slightly.
“… Hehe-“
It was a laugh.
The most inappropriate behavior in this situation.
Namdoyun continued to shrug his shoulders and look at the message printed in front of his eyes.
“… Heh heh heh-“
Parched-
An inexhaustible laugh broke out.
***
Took-! Took-!
[00:00:00:39]
Less than 40 seconds left now.
I continued to hit my thighs with an iron pipe and stare into space.
“In one world eh eh eh eh!”
At that moment, Nam Do-yoon’s roar resounded throughout the university.
I swung around my surroundings, feeling the lifeblood oozing out from the roar.
The buildings of the College of Arts cover all directions like a forest of buildings.
I calmly waited for him in the empty lot in the center of the art college.
A random place that wasn’t even promised to him in the first place.
However, a strange certainty more than ever made me look up.
The guy comes here
Camp One – Food and Supplies –
And lost all allies—
“In one world eh eh eh eh!”
I will come here with only the anger that remains.
Whee ae ae ae liquid-!
A bloody gong sound that ferociously harasses the surroundings.
At the end of the sound, Nam Do-yoon, who has been waiting for it as if it were natural, is contained.
An ugly distorted face looking down at me with reddened eyes.
Wherever the usual gisaeng brother-like face goes, the expression full of life as if possessed by evil spirits.
“…”
Nam Do-yoon, trembling with anger, was quietly floating in the vacant lot of Yedae.
I carefully examined Nam Do-yoon’s red-hot face and smiled proudly.
Knock-!
The bloody Lee Gali clearly answered that smile.
It was exactly what I thought and hoped for.
These were plans just for this situation.
An alliance called Linnea, the camp members and supplies of the College of Agriculture-
All of those are secondary gains.
In the end, it’s the pack leader that decides everything.
It is not the number of sheep that always sets the way, but the shepherd who leads them.
Nothing happens with a different sheep, but a different shepherd changes a lot.
Humans are not too different.
“… One world.”
A voice growling ferociously, like chewing on a house.
“This bastard.”
He tilted his head with an even more nasty smile because of this dark life.
Pad-!
Nam Do-yoon’s hand stretched out to me at once.
I stare at that trembling hand.
Anger, as always, is a double-edged sword.
An intense magical power that narrows people’s vision and forces them to think one-dimensionally.
Sometimes such quick decisions and judgments lead to better situations, but-
Most anger leads its users to not-so-good endings.
So, be more angry.
Cha Ha-yan and Camp One-
Losing allies and all the supplies they’ve been cherishing—
Continue to rage while losing even the beliefs that supported you.
Tring-!
[Start the countdown!]
At that moment, a message that is simultaneously output to each other’s field of view.
[00:00:00:05]
In the center of my field of vision, a timeless watch came to mind.
“… Haha-“
Looking down at the countdown of the status window message, Nam Do-yoon breathes even harder.
[00:00:00:04]
Keep breathing that fast and your vision narrows again.
Therefore-
[00:00:00:03]
Ugh-!
Gold and red colors covering each other’s bodies.
Each color symbolizing the king came out like armor and wrapped around Nam Do-yoon.
[00:00:00:02]
The iron pipe and the hand that was aiming at me shook at the same time.
[00:00:00:01]
Eyes full of turbulence and calm eyes that contain only each other.
Ugh-!
The crowns placed on top of each other’s heads shuddered with brilliant light.
Tring-!
[00:00:00:00]
[The battle for the capital of Banseok University.]
[Last King Standing]
There was only one condition to start the game—
There is only one condition to end the game.
The white and black kings glared at each other and whispered the same words at the same time.
[Start.]
Die.