Chapter 13 – Show of Arms (4)

Show of force (4)

…

At a single word, the atmosphere pierced the earth’s crust and fell to the mantle.

The vice-president, who frowned mercilessly, asked stupidly.

“… What?”
“I don’t like it, you stupid bastard.”
“What did this bitch just say?”

The vice president stomps with an imposing size.

I wiggled the metal pipe—twitch—and quietly watched him approach.

If it was a normal fighting sport, he would have a difference of at least 2 weight classes, his overwhelming physical strength.

Just a week ago, the sight of him approaching would have made my hamstrings tingle, but now even I have no feeling at all.

A much calmer and quieter heart than when zombies came running at me.

Maybe it was a very natural thing.

Compared to the zombies I’ve killed so far, one adult man was too easy.

It’s not like it’s game over just because you’re bitten…

Whether it’s a broken arm or a blown leg, it’s not just a monster full of thoughts of slicing down its prey.

No matter how big he was, he was an ordinary human, no different from the man under the bookshelf who fainted from unexpected damage.

“Senior-! For a moment-! Senior Taeha—!”

I made a desperate hand gesture to pull the vice president who was approaching me while snorting hiss.

It was a female college student who had been cut off by the vice president twice.

She obviously stood up from the woman who was being teased by the female college student whom the vice president called ‘Yeri’ and pulled her vice president.

“Senior, wait a minute! Isn’t this a bit—!”
“No, what is it! That bastard is talking nice to people right now-“
“It’s not like he did it all of a sudden! What’s good about us fighting each other right now, aren’t you tired because we can’t fight like that?!”

The vice-president stops her steps at the dissuade of her college student and lets out a sigh full of annoyance.

“Why should the survivors fight each other when fighting the zombies isn’t enough? Calm down your anger for a moment!”
“… Haa— fuck it—!”
“You too, get rid of that obnoxious iron pipe and step back! You didn’t come here to fight, did you?!”

In that way, the people behind the vice chairman belatedly caught the vice chairman in a restraint that the parties did not seem to want.

A wall of people suddenly built between the vice president and me, as if we all stuck together to stop a fight during our school days.

Koh Goh, who quietly blocked my way, whispered with a shy smile.

“Compared to that side, our side doesn’t buy paintings. In case you’re embarrassed, hehe-“

Crazy guy

The vice-president’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out after seeing the empty laugh that popped out.

“Why is that bastard laughing all of a sudden—”
“Senior!”

The vice-chairman’s bubbling anger turned to the female college student who had restrained him once again.

“Then what are you going to do with us! Are you asking me to take care of and protect pups who don’t even know how they came from or who they are?! Even without those bastards, there are already hungry and anxious people!”
“If those two people are added, there will be no shortage of food! Besides, even though it’s been several minutes since I saw those two, they’re still human without any problems! It’s not even people who got bitten from somewhere!”

The female college student who said she was Yeri whispered to the vice president, pointing at us in front of the window.

“Besides, these are people from outside the library. They may have information that we do not know.”
“What’s the use of information when you don’t know when you might starve to death-“
“I need you, old man.”

Two people suddenly silenced their voices and whispered earnestly.

It seemed to me that it was an intention to prevent us from hearing it, but in my more sensitive ears, the whispers of the two were heard without filtering.

“You know what Seolhee asked for?”
“That needs to be solved first with the food issue—”
“I also have to join senior Do-yoon.”
“… Under.”
“Whatever it is, we need experienced people. To increase the odds of living even a little bit.”

Tsk-!

A loud clicking sound echoed through the library as if to be heard.

The vice president, who was glaring at me with triangular eyes, moved the laser to Koh Goh.

“Hey, you!”
“… Yes?”
“If you do something useless or hear a strange noise from people, you send them out right away. Okay?!”

At the threat of the vice president, Koh Goh-hoon turned his head to confirm me.

I shrugged my shoulders lightly and looked at the vice president again and nodded.

“Yes, I understand.”
“… Fuck! I’m sure I’ll be busy because of the singularity-“

The vice president unilaterally conveyed the words to Koh Goh-hun and turned his back as if I couldn’t see him.

Following him, the survivors on the second floor of the library disappear.

Seol-hee, who was surrounded by a group of women, and a female college student named Ye-ri, who followed the vice president after watching me for a while.

It’s like, ‘Are you avoiding poop because you’re afraid of it? It’s dirty, so I avoid it.’

What are we going to do with this now?

It’s not like they’re resolutely letting us go, and they’re not leniently accepting us—

In other words, it was a half-hearted response.

Even if you think that this is the first time for that vice-president, this can’t be anything other than an idiot’s response.

Well, at first glance, the guy who looked like a leader was good enough for me, but it was absolutely not a loss, so it didn’t matter too much.

…

As if the immediate atmosphere was an illusion, in front of the window again soaked in silence.

I moved to the corner of the second floor with a chin to Koh Ji-hoon, who let out a light sigh.

Perhaps the corner that looks like the bottom right corner of the humanities library on the second floor.

Reading seats arranged at regular intervals along the very long windows catch the eye.

And several bookshelves blocking the view to the exact opposite side of where we are now standing.

At first glance, it seemed that this was the area where the survivors on the second floor were mostly staying.

While I was looking at the area with my eyes like this, I felt it all over again, but the space was so wide that it could not be compared to the rooftop of the College of Humanities.

It is large enough to accommodate not only one hundred people, but also two hundred people without any inconvenience if the area is divided well.

Well, even a table for 4 people standing along the wall for the study space of current students can easily serve 50 people, so that’s only natural.

I looked at the fire extinguisher in the corner and put my hand on the bookshelf placed at regular intervals.

Awesome profit!

The position of the bookshelf is readjusted with the sound of the bookshelf being dragged to the floor.

A bookshelf rebuilt like a wall in a small room.

Seeing me nodding as if this was enough, Goh Goh, who had been calm, put a black bag containing food on the wall.

Anyway, the wall is made of bookcases, so there is no door, so I made a gap for one person to escape, and then I leaned against the wall and sat down.

I don’t know why, but Goh Goh’s face was flushed.

After confirming that I didn’t feel any presence around me, I nodded lightly.

“And-! This is really fun! It looks like he’s become an operative of some kind-“

As soon as the seal is opened, the snout starts to flutter in an instant.

I smiled at the consistent guy and shook my head.

“Anyway, it seems like everything went as I thought on the roof. Of course, since we were talking in the middle, I got really angry, so I did a bit of method acting—”

As Goh Jang-hoon said, this situation was the most ideal situation.

The method of subduing the attacking vice president and eating up the camp at once is not bad, but it is not a more ideal situation than the current situation.

There is only one person I can trust and work with, Koh Ji-Hoon.

It is good to take over the camp, but there is not enough manpower to maintain it.

Of course, if I do that maintenance, there will be no problem, but the real problem is that I have no intention of being stuck in camp.

‘Stats’ and ‘Status Window’.

This special ‘superpower’ that makes the vice-president, who used to attack me like a wild boar, look like nothing.

This special shines more as I kill zombies.

Once I drank the drug called ‘growth’, I couldn’t tolerate it anymore.

In order to raise the kingship necessary for its growth, it had to belong to the camp where many survivors are holding out rather than the liberal arts college.

However, I don’t want to waste time and take responsibility for maintaining and repairing the camp within it.

The position of a stranger who belongs to the 2nd floor survivor camp, but does not belong to it.

So-called ‘pleasure without responsibility’ was the best for me.

“In terms of movies, we are currently filming ‘007’ or ‘Mission: Impossible’.”
“… It must be ‘Parasite’.”
“Ah~ That wording is too negative. We didn’t come here with that intent—”

Just-

“Hmm—some kind of righteous rebellion on board? An inevitable change of government? Impeachment?”

I changed the topic as I saw Goh Goh started to spit out nonsense again.

“By the way, you must have told the club juniors well, right? It would be very embarrassing if you pretended to know or showed off.”
“Of course. I have already finished talking through KakaoTalk.”

A crafty face with a confident expression as if to trust only himself.

Yes, you know, you must have done well.

Since we have already reached the second floor of the library without any resistance, it is only a matter of time before we take control of this camp.

Rather than eating it in a hurry and getting sick, it would be more efficient to break it into small pieces and eat it.

“Ah-!”

Seeing me get up from my seat, Goh Goh, who was standing up with me, let out a short sigh.

Koh Goh-hoon points to the black bag with an uneasy face.

“By the way, where should I hide that bag? Do you have a place to hide it secretly?”
“Leave it as it is.”

Goh Goh, who was shaking his head around, asked with a slightly surprised expression.

“… Yes? If I leave it like this, someone might steal it?”
“Leave it.”
“… Yes.”

Goh Goh-hoon nodded his head with a trembling face at the firm answer and hurriedly followed me.

I put my eyes on the black bag standing on the wall like a treasure that someone spilled, and then I turned my head and started looking at the second floor.

The second floor of Banseokdae Central Library, which has a structure that seems to be symmetrically connected with the letter ‘c’.

We walked from our makeshift shelter to the window through which we had entered, and slyly—retracted the blinds.

“Keeeee

Zombies that still missed their prey were wandering around the pile of corpses, spitting out groaning sounds.

I slightly frowned at the not-so-good scenery, closed the blinds again, and walked forward.

The road the survivors on the second floor left as if avoiding shit.

It was a road that could be called the center of the humanities library that connects the ‘c’ structure.

There are various notices and books on the wall.

I walked along, carefully examining the interior stairway door and the elevator, which seemed to have been tightly blocked by the survivors.

Bookshelves filled with books were blocking the iron doors and the elevator like a barrier.

Thud- thud-

We pass the wide open second-floor office that seems to have already stripped down to the inside, and the blood-colored loan and return desks that indirectly show the hell of the first day.

“… Oh.”

The front door of the humanities reference room on the second floor.

Gazing at the glass doors carefully covered with newspaper and torn books, Goh Goh exclaimed in low admiration.

The inside of the second floor is completely hidden from the zombies who are affected by the sight thanks to that screen.

Shoot aaaaa-

And in the bathroom on the second floor, the sound of pouring water was in full swing.

The survivors on the second floor whimper and carry buckets full of water.

Nearly every junk item available contained water in case of a water outage.

Based on the main entrance on the 2nd floor, traces that can clearly be seen that it is now the area for survivors on the 2nd floor.

In order to move the bookshelves easily, books that have been abandoned on the floor and bookshelves that have been moved here and there catch my eye at once.

I took a good look at the hurried survivors.

Survivors doing their job, completely ignoring us as if we weren’t there.

However, the obvious wariness and anxiety in those eyes could not be hidden.

Those pitiful steps whimpering, carrying buckets full of water, somehow trying to quickly get away from us.

A small smile leaked out of his head as he pretended not to and kept measuring the distance between himself and us.

“Ugh—you won’t see it very well from here.”

Koh Goh-hun suddenly lowered his head and whispered to me.

Armed with his signature smirk, Koh Goh-hun whispered to me again.

“As I said at the time, they said it was cheap as if it belonged to a student council. She’s probably hiding in a corner, being treated like a princess?”
“You finished packing up quickly.”

As I was looking at Goh Goh’s eyebrows, which moved loudly as if I knew everything, a familiar voice approached me.

When she turned her head, her vice president and the female college student who stopped me were walking towards us.

“Nice to meet you. This is Gu Ye-ri, the 20th degree of Public Administration Department. She serves as the secretary general in the student council, and as someone said, this is a very useless battle.”

Goo Ye-ri, who kindly extends her hand to me while sniping the hometown Hoon.

I took her hand and carefully scanned Gu Ye-ri.

It’s not special, but it doesn’t have a particularly angular appearance.

A lively atmosphere that can be immediately recognized from the unique tone and a soft smile that is still giving us.

It was just a human figure that I could sense as soon as I saw it.

‘Woman of 7’.

Despite her appearance, it was a general term for all women who, unexpectedly, enjoy the highest rank in college life.

As if showing her round personality as she thought, Ye-ri Gu lightly shook her hand, ending her handshake, and once again opened her mouth first.

“By the way, you came from the College of Humanities?”
“…”

I silently stared at Gu Ye-ri without answering.

Even if it was only a month ago, I would have been a parent to this kind of reaction.

Even if she was only Gu Ye-ri, she was a tree I couldn’t climb.

Of course, I don’t really feel that much about my appearance after seeing Another Level of Another Another, but even if it’s just that much, it’s a look that will make men cry quite a bit.

No, that’s not what I meant to say.

It was obviously an ordinary greeting, an ordinary regards.

Even though it’s the first word that I’m sure everyone would think–

Strangely, her chest swelled up.

What is this-

Okay.

“… Hey?”

Got cocky

A clear feeling that even surprised oneself.

Gu Ye-ri, who is pretending to be confident in front of me, is really too arrogant.

A new person appeared in front of Gu Ye-ri, who was looking at me strangely without answering.

Koh Ji-hun, who stood in the way between me and Gu Ye-ri, like a bodyguard.

“Tell me, Mr. Guyeri.”
“… Ah yes. She said she came from the College of Humanities, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
“It will be a bit far from the College of Humanities to the library, but you must have encountered zombies on the way, right?”

I’m talking to Koh Jang-hoon who stood in my way, but Ye-ri Gu keeps his eyes on me.

“Yes, it is. Any problem?”
“No. If you’ll excuse me, may I ask if you came here while avoiding the zombies or defeating them?”
“… Half and half.”
“Ah, I’m glad.”

Ye-ri Gu, who nodded her head with a soft smile, continued her words again.

“As you probably know, we are very short of food compared to the number of people. No, in fact, it is safe to say that there is no food.”

Ku Ye-ri said, looking over at the busy library people behind her.

“In addition, I received a disaster text message saying that the electricity will be cut off soon this morning. If the electricity is cut off, of course the water will also be cut off.”

And when that happens-

“Those who will naturally share our destiny must also find themselves in a very difficult situation, right?”

Under.

A small laugh lingers in my heart.

As she followed her story, it was as clear as if she could hear the next words even without hearing them.

“I was trying to secure a store on the 1st basement floor before the electricity went off, but it’s a relief.”

Either to you or to us.

Do you know Gu Ye-ri, who is smiling at me right now?

“I hope two people with enough experience to get from the College of Humanities to the library through the zombie field will help us secure the underground canteen today.”

That you’re entrusting the fish shop to the cat.

Armed protest.