Chapter 26 – Jenga (8)

Jenga (8)

“Haaa—.”

I sat down and stretched out my hand in front of Cha Seol-hee, who used his energy and struggled to keep from shedding tears.

“…”

For the first time, Koh Goh-hun doesn’t respond to my gestures.

When he turned his head, he saw the guy looking at his bag and the iron pipe scattered on the floor.

“Bandage.”
“… Ah!”

After hearing my answer, I finally exclaimed and handed over the white bandage in my bag.

A white bandage from the first aid kit in the library was loosely tied around her bite.

After tearing off the bandage and tying it in a short knot, he stood up and handed out the remaining bandage to Koh Goh.

Even at such a moment, Cha Seol-hee is still sitting down.

I opened my mouth again after scanning the rotten blood and flesh of the zombies all over my body.

“Stop shaking and get up, Princess Cha Seol-hee.”

Cha Seol-hee flinched at my sarcastic voice.

Seriously—sometimes they say they don’t want to be treated like princesses, but I have to treat them more than princesses.

“Get up soon. Go home, you baggy bitch.”

Cha Seol-hee slowly stood up at the more direct words.

Tsk-!

Looking at Seolhee Cha, who flinched at the sound of clicking her tongue loudly in the bathroom, she chinned to the search team.

Thanks to the madman’s trolling, securing the third floor had to be postponed until tomorrow.

…

Tong-!

A short noise rang in the middle of the second-floor library camp.

Park Tae-ha looked blankly at the monkey wrench thrown at him, and she slowly stood up.

“Park Hyo-eun acted like an idiot and then looked like an idiot.”

Park Tae-ha picks up the monkey wrench with a calm look, even though the person who borrowed the weapon is dead.

He too was slowly getting used to someone’s death.

“I am sorry.”

I, who finished the case of Park Hyo-eun in a nonchalant manner, took-! I urged the person next to me.

Cha Seol-hee, who came to the front in an awkward dance at my gestures.

“Monkey Spanner and Cha Seol-hee. Now that you’ve both made sure you’re back at camp- what else is there?”

Park Tae-ha’s gaze, which had been looking at Cha Seol-hee indifferently as if he couldn’t hear my question, stayed in one place.

The white bandage on the right hand that Cha Seol-hee awkwardly covers.

“… You, Cha Seol-hee.”

Sparks flashed in his dark eyes.

“… Are you bitten?”

Park Tae-ha straightens his back while holding a monkey wrench.

“… I was bitten.”
“…”

Park Tae-ha, who regained his original bear-like momentum with confident eyes, took a deep breath.

“Everyone, run away! I got bitten! I, I, that year, I finally went outside-“

Whoops-!

Park Tae-ha, who had been loudly calling out to the camp members, tilted his body in an instant.

Coo-!

Park Tae-ha, who was knocked to the ground by a sudden kick, felt a strange pressure on his neck before he even came to his senses.

Kkeudeudeuk-!

Someone’s foot suddenly choking him.

The sticky feeling on the soles of his shoes was disgusting, and his feet were faithfully suppressing Park Tae-ha’s breath.

“Cheek-! Kek—!”

I quietly looked down at Park Tae-ha, who was hurriedly breathing, and told all the camp members who were watching this scene.

“Cha Seol-hee is after I have already taken appropriate measures.”
“Cheek-! Kek, kek—!”
“That’s why Cha Seol-hee won’t bite you guys or turn into zombies like that bastard who does Gwang-il or something.”

At my declaration, all the camp members’ eyes are directed to Cha Seol-hee’s right hand.

Cha Seol-hee, who cringes even more at that gaze, covers her right hand.

“So, the moment you lay your finger on Cha Seol-hee—”
“Keew-! Kek—!”

Before I knew it, I met the eyes of Park Tae-ha, who was clutching at my shoes with a blushing face.

Even in the midst of a mad rush for oxygen, I looked at the guy who was trying to avoid my eyes somehow and recited one letter at a time.

“Now I won’t look at you anymore, Taeha.”
“Keew-! Kehehe! Hehe-! Hehe-! Haha-!”

As soon as he lifted his foot from his neck, Park Tae-ha raised his upper body and took a quick breath.

I love seeing this guy with him- the camp members trembling and watching-

And seeing Cha Seol-hee, still covering her right arm and bowing her head, turned her steps toward her makeshift abode.

Stir-fried-

She turned her head in silence, still hearing the strange sound of her shoes clattering against the floor.

Car Seol-hee tries to slowly enter her camp, and the camp members walk backwards at her.

I smiled at her and turned her head again.

***

A heavily soiled exterior from close combat with zombie pups.

Thanks to that, I sat down with my back leaning against the wall of the library after taking a light shower with the bottled water that I had been saving quite a bit.

The moonlight illuminates the library, where there is not much left to shine.

Looking through the window, the light was much brighter than expected, and the full moon was scattering the soft moonlight in the center of the night sky.

At times like this, Goh Jang-hun always has to say in a nonsensical voice, ‘Maybe it’s because it’s a full moon, the day is so bright, hehe’, but not today.

Thinking about the loss of a lot of people in the camp, I made several spaces similar to the temporary shelter where I am now.

The search team, including Koh Goh, and Ahn Se-joon, would be sleeping in their own temporary shelters.

Because I can’t sleep in the same room with boys forever.

“…”

I calmly looked at the full moon for a while and sorted out today.

The emergence of an unexpected strain and the infection of Cha Seol-hee.

When I remembered the message on the status window that said I had killed the ‘furwheel’, I slowly let out a blank laugh.

Of course, the foreshadowing was clear.

Park Hyo-eun was whining at the ceiling all day.

It was a mistake if it was a mistake to think that there would be zombies hiding on the bookshelf at most if there was something because what he said was true.

At that moment, I really didn’t know that the zombies crawling on the ceiling would fall from the ceiling and surprise me.

What is this-

It wasn’t a lack of attention, it was a lack of imagination.

“… Under.”

Okay.

I lacked imagination.

It was good to recognize the existence of other competitors with my ability, but I never thought that there would be zombies with special abilities like humans.

“… Isn’t being a zombie already such a fucking special thing?”

I laughed and whispered softly and continued my thoughts.

Yes, you should be more careful from now on.

Now that we’ve clearly recognized that there are variants among zombies, it’s time to conduct our search more carefully.

Furthermore-

Ugh-!

I smiled at the pale golden light shining brilliantly in my hand.

Today was the day I gained something rather than lost something.

It’s not just earned, it’s a lot.

Ugh-!

As if agreeing with my feelings, the golden light blooms more intensely.

Tring-!

[Partial incompetence Lv.2]
[You are the lord of incompetence.]

The true ability of my skill acquired through a reckless attempt that I would not have attempted if it were not for Cha Seol-hee.

The ability to nullify something didn’t work on zombies, but it definitely worked on infected humans.

So-

Now, this skill meant that if the infection cure was considered an elixir, it was at least a ‘half elixir’ skill.

“… Crazy.”

A situation where just the thought of it makes you swear words of joy.

If this ‘partial incompetence’ skill can be used as long as the royal authority permits—

The benefits I can take and the actions I can take expand beyond words.

Ugh-

I drew a golden light from my right hand and smiled even more.

What I gained did not end there.

A happy harvest that is similar to the use of ‘partial incompetence’ that I finally found out.

Thud- thud-

I smiled at the familiar footsteps in the distance.

Weak footsteps thicker with hesitation than the footsteps of that day.

Thud- thud-

Even so, I felt the footsteps approaching me and quietly stared at the gap in the temporary shelter.

There, this time, without knocking, the face that had been waiting for it stuck out its head.

Very different from the dignified face of that time–

The elaborate features that desperately try to look as if nothing is wrong.

Her face, naturally glowing in the moonlight, stares at me waiting for her.

A bandage still on her right arm, cautiously entering through the gap.

And the left hand that I’m holding tight as if I’m covering the bandage.

“…”

She went into her makeshift abode and was silent for a while.

I just waited patiently for her to see her with her head down and just staring at the ground.

Her body illuminated by the moonlight was trembling so faintly that even my eyes could barely see it.

But-

No matter how much she was her, it would have been difficult to hold on any longer.

There is no greater stigma in the world now than that mark she is so anxious to hide.

You must be ostracized by the camp members who cause the game as if you are close to death.

In just one day-

A top idol who can’t get close to anyone.

Looking at her bandage, which works much better than I thought, I smiled at her and looked at her blatantly.

In an urgent moment, she was really angry, but now that the phone call has become a blessing, I fully understand her actions.

A quest of hell difficulty where she has to save her sister from the preliminary rape that reveals her very blatantly.

It was a situation and despair in which anyone other than Cha Seol-hee had no choice but to suffer the pain of failure.

But even at that moment, she was more resolute than she thought, tried to be confident, and tried again.

Maybe Cha Seol-hee thought.

They said they were playing a very risky game of Jenga over the rescue of me and Cha Hayan, who are preliminary rapists like a time bomb that might explode at any moment.

She’s precarious and dangerous like Jenga, but you’d think she could get what she wants by carefully removing her blocks one by one.

However, that was her mistake.

She is not the player standing across from me,

Because it was Jenga itself.

In order for her to survive and to save her sister –

She took out very carefully the parts she thought were unnecessary.

She had enough money for her, and her common sense that the dead don’t rise—

And even the logic that if someone sexually harasses you, you should report it to the police and retaliate.

The blocks that were taken out one by one in order to survive are shaking very precariously.

She swayed so precariously that in the end—

‘… White, I’m sorry.’

Warr – it’s collapsing.

Her world, common sense, and reason that made her come true.

All of that has collapsed without a trace, but she is still alive.

So-

Whether she wants it or not, the game must go on.

“… How much.”

A dry voice quietly permeated the temporary shelter.

Cha Seol-hee, who raised her head very quietly, was looking at me with a sorrowful face.

Since a new plate has been laid, new blocks must be laid.

I must build a new world.

New laws, common sense, and logic must be established.

“… How attractive of an offer would you save my brother?”

I smiled quietly at Cha Seol-hee, who finally gave me the answer I was hoping for.

Like-

Jenga.