Chapter 12 – Show of Arms (3)

Show of force (3)

The sound of vehicle alarms followed by another noise in the library area.

“Go up and guard the window.”
“Yes, yep!”

Even if he shouted, it would be smaller than that roar, so he started running once again after informing Goh Goh-hoon of his next plan with words rather than eyes.

“Kieh!”

Zombie pup screaming excitedly at the sight of a new prey.

Perhaps soon, a lot of my fellow pups, feeling competitive for that joy, will come running to me.

Pooh-!

At the same time that the running zombie cub collapsed, the zombies running like crazy were caught in the field of view that it was covering.

I hurriedly retrieved the iron pipe dripping black blood and ran with all my might toward the ladder.

“What is this bastard-! Who are you-!”
“Hey, calm down, calm down a little—”
“Ah, ah ah ah ah!”

While climbing the ladder, a voice came through the window.

He twisted his mouth while kicking his tongue at the scene where he was fucking up and down in pairs.

“Kieh!”

Zombies gathered in front of the ladder like ants.

I climbed over the open window, watching the black bag coming closer and closer.

Then the zombie cubs hurriedly pulled up the fucking ladder, shaking and slapping shoulder straps.

Kkeudeudeuk-!

A ladder that is distorted with a bloody noise in the tug of war with zombies.

However, as if I couldn’t overcome my strength, I quickly put the ladder that was coming closer to me on the library floor and stared straight ahead.

“Aaaaa!”

There, there was a strange man who ran towards Goh Goh with his eyes wide open.

The face of the guy oozing more fear than Goh Goh, who is being attacked, and the small hammer in his hand.

Feet respond faster than hands.

Pooh-!

A kick that pierces the belly of the attacking guy.

The guy fell on the floor just as he was charging at it, and in an instant, he slipped and crashed into the bookshelf.

Coo-!

A man who fell unconscious with his head on a bookshelf.

As I was walking backwards, I caught my eyes on the frozen Koh Ji-hun and the strange woman I hadn’t even known existed.

Especially sweet ― a female college student who tightly covers her mouth with trembling legs and violently vibrating eyes.

Strangely, seeing that figure, the next action was clear to the eye, as if it had been predicted.

His right arm fluttered indifferently, as if telling him to do it if he was going to do it with a troublesome expression.

Starting from that right arm, the woman’s voice rang as if it would tear.

“Kyaaha ah!”
“Kieh!”

As if in response to the scream, I closed the open window and drew the blinds at the roar of the zombies that rang again.

Crunchy bang- the sound of a group of people running after the screams of a woman.

I stopped screaming when she saw the female college student sitting down on the floor by herself and asked the local hun.

“What?”
“Ugh— when I came up with that man and that woman—”

Koh Goh-hoon rolls his eyes as if he is very perplexed.

Ah-

Understanding at once, I let out a laugh and nodded my head.

Bastards are doing that shit even in the middle of this.

“What-! What’s the matter-!”

Gasping for breath, a large number of people surrounded Goh and me in an instant.

For the first time since the zombie apocalypse broke out, it seemed to put more than 10 survivors in one gaze.

Many non-zombie survivors notice our presence and open their eyes wide as if tearing.

“Hey—hey—brother—”

A female college student pathetically stretches out her finger at the rushing crowd.

“Suddenly—suddenly—black—black—”

She pointed at the man who had passed out after bumping into a bookshelf as she couldn’t get her words right.

“Sejun? Sejun-ah!”

Only then did one of the men in the crowd, recognizing the man with the hammer, hurriedly ran towards him.

“Sejun-ah! What are you okay?! Hey, why is this bastard doing this?!”

A man shook his shoulder as he weakly slapped the face of a man who seemed to have fainted.

Except for the man, everyone who came running suddenly was wary of us.

“Everyone, who are you—!”

Perhaps a pointy question that should come out of course.

They were holding out small tools to us as if they had found a toolbox like me.

Black blood was lightly smeared on the tips of their tools.

Well, there was no way to secure a safe space without any resistance in a library that was half air and half people like a swarm of ants.

They must have been able to be here only after killing the zombie cubs who were trying to eat them.

Perhaps because of this, the eyes looking at us were not at all the same as looking at the same students as usual.

Very sharp and aggressive red eyes.

“Ah-! Aren’t you the student council vice president? At that time, you came to our class to campaign. Don’t you remember?!”

At that moment, Goh Jang-hoon breaks through the tense confrontation and takes a step forward.

The guy asked brightly, pinching the man in the center who seemed to be the leader of the group.

A large man nodding weakly at his point.

“Yes, that’s right. I don’t remember Yu Se because I went to almost every department.”

A stiff answer that fits the rigid atmosphere.

The man who seemed to be the vice-president narrowed his eyes in an atmosphere that was not resolved at all and continued.

“I asked who you are anyway.”
“Ah- we came from the College of Humanities-“
“Yes? It’s not a teacher’s college, it’s a humanities college.
“Yeri.”

A high-pitched voice that interrupts Goh Jang-hoon and asks him back.

The vice president immediately cut off the female college student who was staring at her with a questioning face in the crowd.

Haha-

Koh Goh Hoon showed a faint smile at that figure and continued.

“Of course, we also came here after hard work. I was really lucky to find an open window and a ladder while being chased by zombies.”

Whoa, I was really lucky.

Ko Jang-hoon took a deep breath and let out a sigh of relief, then stared at the man who was still fainting.

“Sure- there was a very slight collision with that man who mistook us for zombies on the way up, but it’ll be fine.”

I really bumped into it a little bit.

Koh Ji-hun shrugs, emphasizing ‘very little’ with his fingers.

I’m behind his back, so I can’t see anything but the bouncing black bag, but it’s probably been a long time since I’ve been looking around for a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long conversation.

“You really came from the Humanities College? No how? There must be zombies outside right now. How did you get through that zombie field-“
“Yeri.”

She is still a female college student who reads and quickly shoots women who are weaving on the ground for a long time.

The vice-president interrupted her college student once more and stared at the hometown Hoon.

“It doesn’t matter if you come from a liberal arts college or where you come from. Get out.”
“… Yes?”

Koh Goh-Hoon, who was taken aback by the sudden congratulatory order, asked a question.

“Safety issues and food issues are the same. We can’t afford to accept more students right now. Go back to where you came from.”
“… Yes?”

Not a very surprising reaction.

I probably would have done the same to a stranger in a situation like this.

However, as if it wasn’t Goh Hoon, he took one more step and raised his voice.

“No, go back among those zombies?! It just means die!”

The crowd on the second floor of the library averts their eyes as if their conscience was stung by Goh Goh’s shouting.

I carefully scanned them one by one from behind Goh Jang-hun.

The survivors on the second floor of the library are looking at us with anxious faces from behind, with people pointing at us with their own weapons.

My gaze stopped on one of them, surrounded by a crowd of women.

Even at a glance, her beauty stands out as if she is of a completely different race from others.

I couldn’t help but open my mouth slightly at the real thing that was much more destructive than the face I saw on YouTube every time.

As if Koh Goh’s juniors made a fuss, that superior beauty that the camera couldn’t capture.

Her name comes to mind naturally from those large eyes staring at us quietly.

‘Seolhee’.

Her real name is Ama Cha Seol-hee, and she was the visual center of High Queens.

The miracle of small and medium-sized idols that made an agency that had only one singer, High Queens, stand shoulder to shoulder with the three major agencies at once, continuing to hit the jackpot with each song released after her debut.

And that’s the main characters of the real miracle that the fandom’s loyalty itself was achieved through female idols, not other male idols.

Even in High Queens, with her unrivaled beauty, the first female idol who has been holding the top spot in the female idol individual brand reputation rankings ever since her debut.

Since Seol-hee debuted, her idol was really pretty, but the excuse that she couldn’t become popular because she was unlucky didn’t work.

Because everyone started saying this to the fans who said that.

‘Then, your idol probably wasn’t as pretty as Seol-hee.’

Well, in my poor position, there was no hobby as economical as YouTube.

When you watch YouTube like that, you naturally see idol fancam videos-

If you watch the direct cam like that, you will learn a lot of miscellaneous information from the video coming in through the algorithm.

I didn’t go that deep after I learned that ‘idol fanaticism’ is money for those who can afford it if you go deep into it.

Still, if you read through the arena of hit-and-run idiots in the comments, you could get a rough outline of a tolerable idol version.

“The library is not the student council or the people here, what right do you have to send us out! The library is a space for all Banseok University students!”
“As vice president of Banseok University Student Council, I am politely notifying you.”
“No, fuck! Where is that notice?! What is the student council vice president saying with such a nonchalant attitude—!”
“I have the guts of being the student council vice president. Do you have anything like that?”

He continued to stare at Cha Seol-hee, not even looking at Goh Goh, who was backing away, as if he was full of spirits at the shameless answer.

Whether she really is a born idol or not, it seemed like she had a magical power that I couldn’t take my eyes off of once I started watching her.

Appreciating the selfish proportions and large features one by one, the perfect cat-like cold beauty was glaring at us.

“Student dues! These are the people who paid the student dues, are you going to do this!”
“The story is getting more childish. Don’t say it twice. Get out.”
“I was hired to work for the students under these circumstances, and then they were forced to die – damn it!”
“So you’re standing up for the students— you bastard.”

The increasingly shortened tone and violent profanity.

After the words of the vice president, the students standing behind him take a step forward.

Thanks to that, Seolhee Cha, who was looking at me with a furrowed brow, must have noticed my gaze, but the face of a certain boy is hiding it.

Tsk-!

I didn’t know why, but I tapped the shoulder of Koh Goh-hun, who was giggling with a small click of his tongue.

Goh Ji-hoon stepped back, biting his lip at my hand gesture.

Thud- thud-

In an instant, I take a few steps forward on the second floor of the library, which is tinged with silence.

At first glance, it seems that they are proudly holding out their weapons, but—

Something slightly different is reflected in my eyes.

As if this was the first time they’d seen such an enemy – their hands and legs trembling slightly.

And the conflict as a human being who follows the vice president’s opinion but can’t hide it in the end, that look in his eyes.

Maybe I can convince them.

Maybe we can convince the dogmatic vice president to join the library camp.

Took-! Took-!

Gradually, he moved forward, shaking the metal pipe in his right hand.

Thanks to the narrow terrain, the bookshelves are constantly caught on the iron pipe.

Everyone’s eyes are focused on the iron pipe that makes such a strange noise.

Something different from the tools they are holding out to me.

Something bright black, like tar, painted on the end of an iron pipe without being erased.

You might be able to change their thoughts through dialogue and persuasion.

But it was quite complex.

And i-

He was a person who did not have to do complicated things anymore.

“… Nope?”