Chapter 109 – Puppy in a Cage (1)

Puppy in a cage (1)

Wahahahaha-!

The 6th floor of the library filled with loud laughter.

Even though it was a dark night, I leaned back on the sofa, staring at the lights that illuminated the 6th floor with moderate brightness with new eyes.

♩~ ♪~ ♬

Electronic devices coloring the 6th floor with various songs.

Apparently, on the first day of the festival, there were no new songs on someone’s phone, and on some laptop, there were only pure ballads, so where did the silent grunts go?

As if competing, music stored on electronic devices was beating the library itself at full volume.

The top floor of the library has been transformed into a kind of party room.

The relaxed faces of the campers clashing with beer cans with bright smiles were captured at a glance.

A public declaration of the system of temporary protection period and zombies who suddenly withdrew from the university.

Everyone was genuinely delighted with the first true safety they saw since the appearance of the zombie monster.

Even this loud music that is hitting everyone’s ears even now–

It was clear that it was a reaction to the stress of having to live every day in silence because of the existence of zombies.

“Wow! Koh Goh Hoon-! Koh Goh Hoon-! Koh Goh-hoon—!”

Koh Jang-hoon responds with open arms to the shouts that instantly shake the 6th floor and the camp members who chant him.

Koh Goh, who was repeating a strange ceremony in front of the ping-pong table, smiled brightly at Park Tae-ha who approached and muttered something.

Match-!

Park Tae-ha and Goh Jang-hoon exchange ping-pong paddles and beer cans after clapping hands with Goh Jang-hoon with a light laugh.

The two players on the other side of the ping-pong table exchanged ping-pong paddles and beer cans, exchanging tips and tricks with each other.

“Hey~! What are we going to do now?! You should drink the penalty wine and challenge us again, bastards!”
“Uh? Wasn’t this a 2 out of 3?”
“Ehehe~ Ehehe~! A man is a single game, what is a 3rd edition 2nd line?”
“Ah- men are best of 3 out of 5. We thought the first edition was a practice edition, so we played it lightly as a search battle, brother.”
“Uh huh… Drink-drink-.”

Drink-! Drink-!

From the small whisper of Koh Goh-Hoon, the shouts spread to the camp members around the ping-pong table.

With a mischievous smile, a barrage of shouts that instantly put pressure on the two of them.

Park Woo-jin opened one of the beer cans spread across the table, waving his hands at the humorous pressure.

“Huh- burning a can of beer in a game of ping pong?”

The smirk of Koh Goh-hoon achieved his goal.

Park Woo-jin, who received the joke, stiffened his expression solemnly for a moment and pointed at the local hun with his beer-holding hand.

“… You— add one right now.”

Oh oh oh oh wow haha!

The cheers of the camp members return to Park Woo-jin, who pours a can of beer straight down his throat.

Park Woo-jin, who finished all the beer in the can at once, received the ping-pong paddle from Kim Min-jun, who was smiling at him.

Park Tae-ha, who looked at the scene with a smile on his face, urged him.

Koh Sang-hun, who walked casually with a very exaggerated expression while watching Park Woo-jin on the ping-pong table, received a ping-pong bat from Park Tae-ha.

“How—would you like to change seats for this edition, brother?”

Tuk-tuk-tuk-

Park Woo-jin rolls a ping-pong ball and provokes Koh Goh-hun.

Goh Goh shrugged his shoulders and maintained an exaggerated expression.

“Uh-huh—how does a wolf cub switch places with a dog?”
“… Brother, this is really not going to work.”

Took-!

The rally starts with Park Woo-jin’s first attack.

Tuk-tuk-tuk-

The white ball that kept going back and forth on the ping-pong table missed Woo-jin Park’s ping-pong club and fell to the floor.

Waaaaa

“This is—! It’s this-! Because this is more ping-pong—!”

As soon as he confirms the score, Koh Jang-hoon starts another bizarre fuck.

“Puhahaha! Hey, are you drunk with a can of beer?”
“Damn it! I didn’t get drunk, it’s a baby?! And I drank more than three fucking cans of beer instead of just one—!”

Kim Min-joon bursts into laughter as he turns over the scoreboard, and Park Woo-jin gets angry while picking up the ball.

Match-!

This time, watching Park Tae-ha, who finished clapping his hands at Koh Goh-hoon’s crap, made me laugh out loud.

Compared to the first day when they said they would hold a festival, the landscape has changed to the level where the Gaebyeok took place.

I spat out a small smile, thinking of the campers who stood on the sofas lined up like a drinking party for thugs, standing upright and looking only at me.

In contrast-

Aaaaa!

I swung around the ping-pong table full of boisterous laughter, no― all the way to the 6th floor filled with all sorts of chatter and singing.

Ahn Se-joon and Jeong Se-ri giggle while exchanging whispers in the corner of the sixth floor.

Bang Dae-hwa and Yoo Seo-jun exchanged cards and exchanged stories in one place, as reported that they had become close while carrying survivors to and from the student center.

And even Kim Woo-jung and the search crew next to him shouting about something heroic at a table a little far from here.

Everyone was enjoying the festival that continued from the day the battle for the capital ended with a mind so comfortable compared to the stiff first day.

Among the brightly smiling camp members, I took a closer look at the relatively unfamiliar faces.

Converts who are assimilated to those who enjoy the festival happily and smile just like them.

Compared to those who only rolled their eyes on the first day, which was stiff and very awkward—

Now, rather than the original 6th floor residents, they were sharing the festival with brighter smiles.

Tok- tok-!

As I hoped, a hand tapped me on the shoulder as I looked at the converts who were gently blending into the camp.

When I turned my head, a colorful liquid in a glass greeted me.

Dalgrak-!

Ice that makes a cool sound in a slightly shaken glass and a color that is completely different from the liquors I am familiar with.

“Hey, try this too.”

Cha Seol-hee holds out a glass to the corner of her eyes that draws a languid line of strength.

I sipped a little of her cocktail, which was brewed according to the ratio Koh Jang-hun told me.

“… How is it? Delicious right? Right? Is it delicious?”

As soon as she sips a little cocktail, Seol-hee Cha chatters nonstop.

I nodded her head as I looked at her hands shaking my arms lightly and the traces of cocktail brewing scattered across the table.

A soft smile reflected in her pupils as she focused her eyes on my head.

The smile spread across her lips without resistance.

I looked down at her waiting for something in her, her red cheeks flushed.

Numerous drinks used to mix with various alcoholic beverages spread out on the table.

An action that I repeated to her over and over again, having already sampled quite a few cocktails and tasting them.

I smiled slightly, took a sip of the cocktail from the glass, and turned her head.

Cha Seol-hee opened her lips slightly as she looked at my face, which was getting closer.

“… Uh-“

When I put her lips to hers, her moist, glistening lips with a light bite, she opened her lips as if she had waited.

As I carefully grasped her face, I hurriedly added a thin hand to mine.

Her concoction she made flowed to her through her kissed lips as her mother bird passed her water to her baby bird.

Gulp- gulp-

A cute click that echoed very quietly and her hand that kept holding onto my sleeve and trembling.

“… Jjook- side- jjook-“

Even though the cocktail in her mouth was gone, she did not part her lips.

Rather, he drew closer to me and held my lips.

Slowly tilting her head to and fro, she savored the moist texture from various angles.

After enjoying her lips so addictively for a very long time-

“… Puha-“

She let out a light sigh and threw her head back.

“Hey—it’s really delicious—?”

Her face shows the aftermath of the cocktails I kept handing out at a glance.

The flabby facial muscles and a slightly goofy smile.

She stretched out her hand, giggling at her double joke, which would not have been easy for her normally.

Cha Seol-hee gently sticks out her chin at my touch and wipes away the saliva that dripped during the kiss.

Soon after, she confirmed that my hand was withdrawn, and she slowly hugged my arm.

“… Aren’t you sleepy?”

Right before she goes to sleep, always the words she asks me as is her habit.

I mischievously narrowed her eyes and studied her face, which was so mushy that I couldn’t easily see it.

“Are you a lot weaker than you thought?”
“… No-! It’s just a little late, so I just asked you to check! Huh- the people who accuse me of being drunk were the most drunk at times like this-!”
“…”

A coy smile that doesn’t reap after sending a very cost-effective provocation.

She stared at that smile with her lips tightly closed, and then leaned her head on my shoulder with an expression trying to get angry.

“… I’ll just take a break and make the next cocktail right away.”

After rubbing her shoulders for a while, as if to find her comfortable position, the familiar scent of her shampoo rises from her as she stops moving.

I watched her swing her fest again as she leaned over her slightly to make her comfortable.

Wahahahahaha-!

Top floor full of laughs and shouts still enjoying the festivities.

Once again, a familiar face appeared in the field of vision examining the camp members.

A survivor who smiled lightly at the female campers on either side and moved to the area where the female campers were gathered.

She stopped at the sight of her eyes suddenly clearing each other.

“…”

Gu Ye-ri shook her body lightly with a not-so-bright face.

Ku Ye-ri, who had been holding back something with her lips tightly shut, briefly lowered her head.

Yeri Gu moved her steps forward again only after I gave her a short nod in her bow.

A very red face cut into her vision as she quietly watched her back.

“… A-go–oh-oh-oh-“

Koh Goh-hoon hurriedly jumped at me with a sudden song.

I realized the cause of the song only after we looked back at him wide-eyed.

Newly- Newly-

Cha Seol-hee is leaning on my shoulder and breathing quietly.

“… Oh, my wife is sleeping, and these children… Shall we make everything quiet right now, President?”

Continuing his speech like a rapid-fire gun with a hissing voice, Koh Jang-hoon looked around.

“… Uh-.”

The moment she slightly raises her body, Cha Seol-hee whines and shakes her head.

As soon as she lifted her body up and embraced her, she hugged me tightly like a cicada sticking to her old tree.

I smiled at Goh Goh, who was looking at me, feeling Cha Seol-hee locking my waist with both legs.

“Don’t talk nonsense, go play more, Mr. Ping Pong.”
“… Hehe-.”

Gojanghun scratched his head in response to my smile with a sly laugh.

“I’m going to go in now, so you go in after finishing today’s festival well.”
“… Yep, I see—!”
“Ah- crack down well so that there are no bastards who are drunk and talking nonsense.”
“Yep, don’t worry and have a good rest, President-!”

Koh Goh-hun, who suddenly raises a solemn salute with a red-faced face.

Seeing the absurd laughter bursting out of his head, he turned around, flicking his saluting hand lightly.

“… Waaaaa Welcome note~ Welcome note~”

I walked down the hallway listening to the cheers of the campers echoing from the direction he had returned.

A quiet space where there is no one standing up in surprise and lowering their head along with the hallway where the number of people gradually decreases.

Awesome profit!

After I entered her bedroom with Seol-hee and I, I carefully laid her on her bed.

“… Ugh-.”

Cha Seol-hee whines once more at the softness that suddenly greets her and puts out a faint smile on her face.

I reached out my hand and brushed her pretty smile across her face.

Her hair gently cascaded down my fingers.

“…”

I quietly pulled the blanket over her.

Swoop-

The warmth of her slowly hugging her.

“…”

She smiled brightly and thanked me.

It was such a picturesque smile that I couldn’t even imagine being asleep.

***

Whii-i-i-!

As soon as I opened the rooftop door, the familiar night wind tickled my bangs.

I stood up from her bench and stared at her with her startled face.

Thud-!

Cha Ha-yan creaked at the sound of the iron door closing and hurried to get off the bench.

“… How are you going to escape this time?”

I nodded at the iron door behind my back and smiled lightly.

Cha Ha-yan, who does not respond to my small smile at all, lowers her head slowly.

Soon, after staring at the iron gate I was blocking several times, I sat down on the bench again.

Cha Ha-yan, who had been avoiding me since the battle for the capital was over, or after it was confirmed that Nam Do-yoon and Seong Joon-gi were dead.

Whether it’s meal time or any time with Cha Seol-hee—

I sat next to her, remembering her deliberately avoiding me so desperately.

Took-!

Cha Haein, surprised by the slight noise of leaning her back on the bench, lifted her shoulders.

Her I looked at her with her head bowed, staring at the ground, then turned her head toward the sky just like that day.

Wahahahahaha-!

“… I’m sorry, Mr. Han Se-gye.”

A thin voice can be heard along with the sound of a festival that cannot be blocked by the rooftop iron gate.

“I’m alone like this during the festival, when everyone should be having fun—you’re busy, but you’re just showing off your nerves for no reason…”

Turning her head, her chanting continued as she looked at the ground.

“… Just-.”

The bitter self-help behind her shrug.

“Because the two of you are like that, it’s so—, I feel like I’ve done something so bad…”

She smiled lightly and raised her head.

No, she raised her head with a smile that was too unnatural to be called a smile and a sad look in her eyes.

“… That’s why I don’t know what expression to make in front of Mr. Han Se-gye.”

Wheeeee

A finely trembling voice that flew in with the cool night breeze.

I asked her in silence as she looked at me with an expression that could not be easily defined.

“… Let me ask you this one thing, Seolha.”
“…”
“If you could go back to that moment-“

Are you going to make a different choice than you did back then?

Cha Ha-yan’s pupils trembled at the low question.

Soon, she shook her head lightly, with self-deprecation lingering on her lips again.

“… No.”
“… So do i.”

As if in response to that self-condemnation, a bitter smile formed on my lips like a decalcomani.

I made eye contact with her and whispered to her in succession.

“Don’t be too distressed over a choice that will never change, Seolha. No one in this world can live as a good kid – doing only good things.”

There is only one thing that is important to us, Seolha.

I continued to whisper as I held her hand on the bench.

Even though she slowly interlaced her hands, Cha White quietly waited for my next words.

“That there comes a moment when one must do something bad.”
“…”
“For something to gain from doing bad things rather than bad things—”

There are bad things you must do.

“… Seolha.”

I caressed her hands, which were holding each other gently.

At the gesture of her who continued to sweep the back of her hand with her thumb, she trembled her hands that were holding her together.

I whispered again, holding her hand tighter.

“Chaseolha.”
“…”

As they slowly pull their clasped hands together, their heads gradually get closer.

I shivered in her trembling pupils, and I spread more and more.

Took-!

A hand gesture that stops me at a distance where our breaths touch each other.

She held me back with the hand opposite to her gripped one, and she opened her quivering lips.

“Drunk, I think you’re drunk, brother-in-law.”

As if to indicate the embarrassment she is feeling right now, Cha Haein, who naturally brings out the words attached to her mouth in her usual way.

I looked at her still trembling eyes and quietly chanted.

“… So that’s a bad thing.”

With a blurry smile and her opposite hand that stopped me for the last time-

The distance where we could feel each other’s breath became narrower.

Feeling the bridge of her nose rubbing against the bridge of her high nose, she slightly twisted her head and touched her lips with hers.

An electric current that runs through the whole body at the same time as the soft touch wraps around the lips.

As if she felt the same thing, she closed her eyes tightly as if an electric current was passing through her lips.

A basic kiss that didn’t even touch her lips or stick her tongue in – just lips.

However, with just that, Cha Ha-yan’s whole body trembled and a hot snort blew into my throat.

“…”

The head slowly moving away from the lips that were touching.

Only then did she open her eyes, which had been tightly closed, and she whispered softly.

“… This too?”

Blurred eyes and the sound of breath flowing out of the faint heat that has yet to be shed.

“… This too.”

The moment she nodded at her question…

This time her lips came over mine.