Chapter 19 – Jenga (1)

Jenga (1)

Therefore-

“You mean he didn’t say anything to you two?”

The two of them hurriedly nodded at my words confirming the facts again.

Park Woo-jin, who had been filling his stomach with determination in the light of the flashlight, hurriedly supplemented the explanation.

“Senior-nim, no, Park Tae-ha asked how he killed the zombies from below.”
“So what did you say?”
“… I thought it would be obvious if I lied about this, so I evaded it by saying that the manager would solve everything.”

The vice president, so Park Tae-ha asked how to kill zombies from below…

After I finished answering, I gave a small smile to Park Woo-jin, who kept looking at me with a sidelong glance.

“Good job.”
“Lol-“

Park Woo-jin smiles cunningly as if he were copying Koh Jang-hoon, who is in a similar position to his seniors.

I handed out a mineral water bottle to Park Woo-jin, who smiled with crumbs on his lips.

“Thank you-!”

Now, Park Woo-jin is quite courageous and naturally drinks bottled water.

And next to him, he stared alternately at Minjun Kim, who was working hard to fill his hungry stomach.

Tring-!

[‘Park Woo-jin’ and ‘Kim Min-joon’ are ‘weakly’ ‘obeying’ you.]

[Common factors: trust in the leader, ‘strong’ fear of violence.]

The duo finally went from ‘submission’ to ‘submission’.

Thanks to that, the status window message has also changed considerably.

First of all, the ‘positive factor’ of the two jjeori finally updated on the status window.

It was clear that trust in the leader, in other words, trust in me was gradually building up over time.

Moreover, positive factors that do not have modifiers such as ‘very weak’ or ‘very strong’ attached.

At first glance, it seemed that the intermediate state, which was neither weak nor strong, was a way of expressing it by removing modifiers.

“Lol-“

Sensing my constant gaze, Kim Min-joon lifted his head and smiled.

Kim Min-joon bows his head again, groaning at my motion to continue eating.

Also their negative factors.

Another noteworthy feature was the shift from a ‘very strong’ fear of violence to just a ‘strong’ fear.

The not-so-kind status window, of course, didn’t explain the exact reason to me, but—

A rough guess was that it was most likely proof that they were getting used to this relationship of ‘submission’ and ‘obedience’.

In other words, he voluntarily learned the line where violence occurs—that is, the line that should not be crossed.

It must be that instead of the fear of violence that has faded so much, trust in me has settled.

It was a very welcome change.

I had no intention of refraining from violence that could easily subdue the opponent, but I had absolutely no intention of ruling everything with violence.

Moreover, the fear of violence was a simple weapon that could be pulled out and used at any time.

You may not know your head, but your body will remember the fear very clearly.

Besides, the most pleasant thing about those two status window changes is—

[Kingdom: 6]

Whatever it is, it means that the kingship has risen.

I don’t know what section the new skill will be unlocked, but I was thinking of setting the goal of ’10’ for the first time.

“Come on—captain.”

Park Woo-jin, who was calmly organizing his next plan, spoke very carefully to me.

“If you’re worried, should I ask the other kids behind Park Tae-ha’s knowledge?”

Park Woo-jin, who misunderstood my silence for another reason, continued to look at me.

“Of course, I am not asking outright. If I say it a little bit, no one will know.”

What is it?

I laughed as I ruffled the hair of the pretty aggressively changed jjeori.

It was the words and actions that made it clear where they thought they belonged.

“Doesn’t care.”
“… Yes?”
“The locust in the stomach doesn’t really care what the pups think.”

I stared at the food bag placed in front of Woojin Park and Minjun Kim.

The two of them follow my eyes and stare at the food bag together.

“Because when we are gone, they will be the ones who will have to go looking for food.”

In that sense, we were the backbone of the camp with a very important mission.

Irreplaceable.

“Of course, even if you exclude us and come down to the first basement floor, isn’t it too late now?”
“… Lol-“

The two of them smiled cunningly, as if affirming my smile.

I brandished a flashlight at the empty underground canteen before I knew it.

“Because we’ve already stored the food somewhere only we know.”

A spacious locker area on the first basement floor.

I removed all the personal lockers that were overflowing there and hid all the food in the underground canteen.

Besides, there are heavy lockers placed at the entrance that require a few strong adult men to move them—

The chances of Library Camp getting their hands on food without our help were very slim.

Unless they are pioneering a new route.

“So don’t show off. I only do snacks here.”
“Hehe— of course, captain!”

Two jerks nodding like robots at my warning.

“Although, when everyone else was whining that they were not feeling well, we were the only ones who noticed it a little bit.”

Kim Min-joon opened his mouth first, probably not enough to respond to my words, as if his stomach was quite full now.

“Oh, that’s right! There were a lot of kids whining about stomach aches because they ate frozen food raw.”

Park Woo-jin hurriedly agrees with Kim Min-joon’s words and bows his head to me.

He whispered to me in a manner conveying important words as if he were copying Goh Goh.

“Frozen food itself was already cooked and then re-frozen, but grunting about a stomach ache made me grumpy.”
“That’s right, Captain. Girls behave like menstruating every day, and Gu Ye-ri stopped them from having a fight with boys because they told boys to clean up their poop and urine.”

Information about the camp whispered to me like twins.

I winked at them to add to the pretty interesting information coming out of them.

“Of course, we only have to organize a little bit on the first basement floor, but the second floor has a lot of people, right?”

A survivor camp of exactly 17 men and 15 women.

Excluding those two who are with me, there were exactly 30 survivors hiding on the second floor.

“They ran out of toilet paper, so I’m tearing up the book and using it as toilet paper. Besides, the smell is fucking— oh, sorry. It smells very good—”

Park Woo-jin frowns without finishing his words.

For some reason, looking at that expression, I felt like I was naturally smelling a stinky smell on the tip of my nose, so my forehead wrinkled mercilessly.

“It really feels like walking on thin ice when you go up to the second floor. Even those bitches who shuddered to get close to Seol-hee in the beginning are quiet as if they were chewing shit these days.”

Park Woo-jin puts both fingers above his head and explains that his dissatisfaction has reached an end.

I asked Kim Min-joon, who was nodding very eagerly next to him.

“What is Park Tae-ha doing?”

In the midst of this, when the camp leader asked how he was doing, Kim Min-joon’s face wrinkled slightly.

“I don’t know, chief. After that bastard’s heartfelt search, he doesn’t talk very well and doesn’t show off.”

Sometimes, it seems like Ku Ye-ri is the vice president.

As I listened to Kim Min-joon’s comment, I remembered the vice president’s face.

His behavior is quite different from the first encounter.

It’s the same as burning with anger, but those hesitations that somehow hesitated to do something.

I wonder if I realized a lot of things because my close friend searched for me like that.

I don’t know the details, but he didn’t even want to know.

All he had to do was keep him as a brilliantly incompetent leader like he is now.

That way, I will stand out as a teacher on the other hand.

He was just a tiny chin to secure the justification for me to rule the camp.

The problem is with Ye-ri Gu rather than the vice president.

Well, Gu Ye-ri didn’t seem to have to worry too much.

Rather, it is easier to predict the one who is trying to roll his own head rather than the vice president who does not know what sudden action he will take.

“Then, shall we wake up soon?”
“Yep! I will wake up Jang Hoon-senpai too!”

As soon as I got up, the two of them got up quickly and started waking up Goh Goh, who was sleeping in the corner.

I finished everything I had to do on the first basement floor.

I packed all the food, and I cleaned up the zombies that might be hiding.

In addition, the places where they could enter and the lockers taken out of the locker area were blocked.

Probably, if it wasn’t as chaotic as the college festival in the library, the first basement floor wouldn’t be breached.

“Hehe- Captain. Thanks to your consideration, I slept very well, hehe.”

As if to show the dignity of the ancestor, Goh Goh-hoon cringes and clings to me as soon as I wake up.

“Then would you like to go down the underground passage?”

Every time before going up, I shook my head lightly to Koh Goh, who asked where the rotten blood was buried.

It was time to move from the first basement floor.

I had to collect the remaining points by killing zombies again, and it’s the same as having to organize the entire library anyway.

“If we keep our form from above and delay too much, don’t we look too incompetent?”

In response to my question, the two of them smiled awkwardly while carrying a half-full bag of food.

It was time to push harder.

I continued by pointing my chin at the food bags they were carrying.

“Get upstairs and tell them it’s over.”

The remaining food on the 1st basement floor.

***

Awesome profit!

As usual, the door to the second floor stairway opened wide with a beeping sound.

However, the group of students who always waited for us in front of it was nowhere to be seen.

Chin-!

I stood still and raised my right hand.

Tails coming close to me in line with my hand signals.

I softly muffled the sound of my footsteps and flicked the metal pipe in my right hand.

A strong smell that lingers for a long time.

The second floor was vibrating with a bloody smell hot enough to be felt.

Besides, the sound of footsteps that seemed cluttered and confused.

Tracking the noise, I approached the camp on the second floor.

Poo-! Poo-!

“… Hehe-! Sobbing-!”

The noises become clearer as we approach the camp.

The sound of hitting something repeatedly and several people crying at the same time reverberate through the second floor.

“Haha-! Haha-! Haha-!”

The first thing that catches my eye when I arrive at the library camp area is the large lantern.

A large back looking down at what appeared to be a zombie corpse was bobbing up and down violently.