Chapter 33 – King’s Origin (3)

King’s Origin (3)

Strange.

“Anyway, I made it clear that there will be no more food aid from today, Park Tae-ha.”
“What, Park Tae-ha?! This bastard told Taeha sunbae-“

The face of Park Woo-jin, who was clearly laughing at Park Tae-ha, was so unfamiliar.

Because Park Woo-jin’s face, which was more familiar to him, was a face that was friendly enough to be a little burdensome, talking about brother and sister.

“The assholes are still talking about seniors and juniors.”
“… This bastard is really- what are you doing now to do it later?! Ye-jin-ah, Kim Ye-jin! Say something!”
“…”

It was also unfamiliar.

The face of another junior with her head bowed down as if she was afraid of the juniors now.

Apparently, the female juniors who joined the group of women who came together to the camp over there and left.

It was so strange to see Kim Ye-jin, who always stamped attendance at after-party events and laughed like a man, standing behind Park Woo-jin with a pale face.

“It’s an order from the captain, so just shut up and follow it.”
“Woojin-ah, first of all, I only met Mr. Han Se-gye once—”
“Ah, Mr. Guyeri.”

As if Park Woo-jin had waited, he pointed her finger at Ye-ri Ku.

“You told me to stop bothering Jang Hoon and tell him to come find me.”

Got it?

Park Woo-jin asks again with an expression full of annoyance, as if driving away flying flies.

Goo Ye-ri just blankly opened her mouth at the sight of Park Woo-jin, a figure she could not have imagined a month ago.

“Did you understand?”

Following Gu Ye-ri, he reconfirms his direction to Park Tae-ha.

“…”

Seeing Park Tae-ha’s eyes quietly looking at her, Park Woo-jin calmly nodded her head.

“It’s okay, it’s the captain’s order, so be sure to keep it in mind.”

A unilateral notice that food aid is no longer supported.

After that, Park Woo-jin casually turned his back.

A hand caressing Kim Ye-jin’s buttocks, who hurriedly follows him.

Park Woo-jin openly mocked Kim Ye-jin’s butt as if he were asking them to see it.

And Kim Ye-jin, who doesn’t resist such a touch, just follows Park Woo-jin’s side.

Park Tae-ha is just unfamiliar.

The conversation just now, their faces, the situation that surrounds us all right now.

All of this is depressing and unfamiliar, like a midsummer night’s nightmare.

“I- you fucking bastard. That bastard is fed with bean rice by unconditional rape.”

A voice full of resentment watching Park Woo-jin playing with Ye-jin Kim’s butt.

It was the tears of a student council junior who was sitting close to Park Tae-ha.

And Park Tae-ha, of course, understood the junior’s resentment.

Because he was a junior who showed a lot of love for Kim Ye-jin.

There was no way he didn’t know that the guy who couldn’t drink well took care of his condition and took a picture of his face every day at the after-party.

Because of that, I had a memory of hearing from Shim Yu-han that Kim Ye-jin, who naturally knew that fact, and that junior were having a fling.

Of course, it’s a fact that I don’t particularly remember now, and it’s not important.

“It’s not just Kim Ye-jin, but every morning there’s someone being hit. Isn’t this something we have to forcibly stop the other kids from going over there?”
“Damn that, you asshole. Even Hyeji and Karin look at us like crazy these days. It looks like you’ve been talking to some friends since you went over there—they’ll be there sooner or later.”

The dissatisfaction of the camp members who remained at the place where Park Woo-jin left was naturally sharp as if piercing the sky.

When the camp members confirmed that Park Woo-jin, who had openly sexually harassed Kim Ye-jin, had disappeared from her sight, she exploded in rage.

“Dogish criminal bastards play like fucks with what they eat. Fuck—not even the animal kingdom, bastards.”
“Aren’t the scars on Cha Seol-hee’s hands also from that young giant in the world? Cha Seol-hee is also a human, not a zombie, and quietly stuck next to Han Se-gye in the camp over there.”
“Fuck—then no way…”

… Fuck.

The camp members frowned and cursed at her at the same time as if they were imagining something.

“… Isn’t that bastard really crazy?”

He quietly closed his eyes at the question of another junior who asked Park Tae-ha as if seeking consent.

“Our food problem is much more urgent than that.”

Ku Ye-ri, who was immersed in something with a serious expression in the world, drew everyone’s attention.

“Whether we like it or not, we have been forced to depend on that side for food itself. But today, the other side suddenly notified us that they would cut off food aid.”

Gu Ye-ri, who pretended to carve her neck with her hand to emphasize to everyone, continued her words.

“We don’t have any left over even if we have meals to solve today. What’s worse—it’s likely not just today.”

Senior Taeha.

Park Tae-ha quietly opened his eyes at the sound of Gu Ye-ri’s voice calling him.

“What do you think?”

As soon as Ye-ri Gu finished her words, she turned to everyone’s eyes.

Seeing her uneasy, creepy eyes, he repeated the same words as if turning on a tape recorder.

“… We decided to stay safe here until rescuers arrived.”

A guide to action that everyone agreed upon when the search for a convenience store at the College of Education failed and two juniors were lost.

“I know. But that was only when there was enough food and water. You can’t keep starving knowing when the rescue team will come!”
“… Look at me—”

What do you want me to do?

A shout that comes out as if protesting Gu Ye-ri’s impeccable theory.

Park Tae-ha barely swallowed the shout that was about to come out until the end.

Goo Ye-ri looked at Park Tae-ha, who was desperately holding back something, and she quietly stood up from her seat.

“I can’t. Once again, go find that person-“
“Stop it, Yeri.”
“That’s right. That can’t be done, old man! I know what those bastards will do!”
“That’s right. I’m sure I’ll do the same thing to you as I did to Yejin, you criminal bastards.”

Like this, the circumstances of their meeting were different every time, but the ending was always the same.

“You can’t starve to death!”
“No. Didn’t you hear that bastard, Park Woo-jin, told Ye-ri not to pick up on you? Just by looking at it, what kind of plan is it?”

Park Tae-ha silently looked at her Gu Ye-ri, who was trying to find her in Hansegye, and her camp members, who were trying to stop her.

“Okay-! Now they’re trying to buy us too. Even if we say nothing later, those bastards will eat all the beans, so they’re trying to bribe us with food.”
“… Jerk the.”

A single word of profanity flowed softly among the excited campers.

It was a whisper that only Park Tae-ha could understand in the overheated camp.

Therefore, only Park Tae-ha, who turned his head after the voice, was able to find a camp member similarly separated from them.

“…”

A familiar face that noticed his gaze and quietly met his eyes.

It was Kang Cheong-sin.

The survivors who ended up on the second floor could be divided into exactly two groups.

Students from the student council gathered at the library to help control the students who would gather like a cloud at the news of the shooting of High Queens.

And the extreme groupie and groupie students who tried to break through the control in order to see the High Queens a little closer somehow.

Kang Cheong-sin was the type of male student who would definitely belong to the latter group.

In a word, he is a typical stereotype of ‘otaku’.

However, Park Tae-ha didn’t feel bad about Kang Cheong-shin’s sudden swear words.

Perhaps the reason they were able to hide on the second floor without much damage was Kang Cheong-sin.

She was also the one who called the students who were rushing at her first, calling them zombies.

It was also Kang Cheong-sin who shouted to himself what to do next on behalf of the panic-stricken students.

“… Any good ideas?”

But the situation then and now is 180 degrees different.

I didn’t have such high expectations, I just asked him a question.

However, upon receiving the question, Kang Cheong-shin nodded softly as if it were natural.

“Of course.”
“…”

With that overflowing confidence, Park Tae-ha quietly urged him to say the next word.

Kang Cheong-sin whispered to Park Tae-ha, lowering her head slightly.

“If there is not enough food, we can take away the food.”
“…”
“If there are people you care about, you can put them away for a while.”

Park Tae-ha laughed involuntarily at the unstoppable solution.

Set aside for a moment…

If that was possible, I wouldn’t be having a meeting like an idiot here right now.

One world…

As soon as she remembered Park Tae-ha’s face, she frowned.

The self that tumbles across the floor with one kick.

Such a sudden, desperate sense of helplessness that clogs your throat.

And-

Those unlucky eyes quietly looking down on you from above.

‘I won’t look at you anymore, Taeha.’

Park Tae-ha never thought of himself as an asshole.

No, even an idiot, anyone in the world would notice that there was something different about that bastard.

“What I want to say is not that you have to gossip about the knowledge of the Three Kingdoms, which is spreading around the neighborhood.”

Looking at Park Tae-ha’s face, Kang Cheong-shin pathetically continues her words.

He looked at Park Tae-ha, who met her eyes again, and opened his mouth again.

“There are not just one or two ways to put things aside. For example—a raid at night.”

Night, surprise.

Park Tae-ha’s eyes shook for a moment at the way Kang Cheong-shin quietly mentioned it.

“What, surprise?! What nonsense! If we do that, how are we any different from the other side?!”
“Someone said that food is the most important thing, but now they are talking about old-fashioned morality again.”
“What?! Hey, Qingxin Kang—!”

The atmosphere between Gu Ye-ri and Kang Chung-sin, who had been listening to the conversation before they knew it, was on the verge.

However, Park Tae-ha, who had to stop this, was quietly rolling the solution that Kang Cheong-shin spit out in his mouth.

Night, surprise.

“… Okay.”

And then he nodded his head.

There was only one fact that this fucked up situation surrounding them was telling Park Tae-ha as if he was beating him up.

Even when Sim Yu-han, who was closest to anyone, returned as a corpse with her head broken, and when her juniors whom she cherished turned into zombies and had to kill with her own hands―

Death was not as special as he thought.

From some time ago, death became a very close and common word to him.

Someone becomes a zombie and dies.

Someone is killed by that zombie.

Someone can’t stand this fact and dies themselves.

Parents, siblings, friends, juniors, professors.

It was only now that I came to the realization that no one could die very easily anytime, any day.

Therefore-

One world too.

That one world too.

“… In the end, if you try to kill him, he will die.”

Death isn’t that special.

“Isn’t he also a person who eats, is cheap, and sleeps?”
“… Senior Taeha!”

Gu Ye-ri hurriedly approached Park Tae-ha.

“What you’re thinking right now is the worst possible response! Then, both you and we have no choice but to take extreme measures!”
“That’s what started first.”

Gu Ye-ri shouted louder into Park Tae-ha’s eyes, which were becoming clearer and clearer.

“You’ve been giving us food support until now too! It means that the minimum human duty was being done! There is plenty of room for conversation!”
“Human duty?”

Park Tae-ha lifted his body helplessly leaning against the library wall.

“People you know and I used to know are being raped by those bastards, what is human duty? Now, what is human duty to the bastards who unilaterally notify them to starve?”

A gigantic figure that roared like a bear and approached Guyeri nonstop.

“Do you think that bastard in the world is a bastard with such a thing? After that bastard came in in the first place, everything changed strangely. So just get rid of that bastard and everything will go back to normal.”
“Taeha sunbaenim, I’m so excited right now—”
“Shut up!”

Park Tae-ha glared at Gu Ye-ri’s face and roared loudly.

Every time—every time—!

So fucking tired of asking me every single day what to do-!

While leaving everything difficult to solve to me-!

“If you ask me so much about my opinion, you should follow my opinion!”
“…”

Not only Gu Ye-ri, but the quiet silence of everyone.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-

Park Tae-ha, who took a deep breath, made eye contact with everyone and muttered as if chewing on a house.

“Get everything that could be a weapon.”

Tonight.

“Killing a world.”

***

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Endless silence, as if you were about to be crushed.

After Park Tae-ha gave instructions to everyone, the camp members remained silent as one.

I just waited for the sun to set, gradually looking for things that could be used as weapons.

The night I hoped would not come so subtly comes…

Park Tae-ha, who had been waiting quietly for a long time after that, stood up like a ghost.

On the second floor of the Central Library, where even the sound of breathing cannot be heard.

Park Tae-ha held her monkey wrench in her right hand tighter – and walked towards her sneaky world.

All camp members following him.

Even Gu Ye-ri, who was fiercely opposed to the operation, was forced to follow them with a small hammer in hand.

Anyway, if this operation fails, everything is over.

Literally everything in the camp was a surprise attack.

Swoop-! Swoop-!

The toes, which had gathered all of their nerves, carefully rubbed the library floor.

In this way, the camp of one world, which had only been looked at sideways, began to vaguely outline in the dark.

A camp where you can’t even hear the sound of snoring as if everyone has already fallen asleep.

Park Tae-ha cautiously walked towards the largest dwelling in the corner.

Thump – thump –

A heart that beats as if it would explode every time you take a step closer to your home.

Park Tae-ha, feeling the cold sweat running down his sideburns, kept repeating to himself.

If only one world is killed, it will be over.

A world is also human after all.

Death isn’t that special.

“Haha-“

I didn’t even realize it, but I opened my mouth carefully as if I was longing for oxygen.

Park Tae-ha felt the sweetness in his mouth and kept repeating the truth as if brainwashing himself.

You only need to kill one world.

One world only-

Chin-!

A hand carefully grasping the corner of the bookshelf that serves as the wall of the dwelling.

Now, if you go inside and break the head of Han Se-gye, who is sleeping soundly, it will be over.

Now-

“Look at this.”

At that moment, Park Tae-ha unknowingly staggered his body.

As soon as I heard the voice, I felt dizzy and exhausted, as if my body was falling off a cliff.

Many flashlights shine brightly on his face as he slowly turns his head.

Their target standing in the way he and the campers had passed.

The camp members, who had been silent without making a sound of breathing, slowly began to let out sounds of pain.

Everyone’s face is white enough to be distinguished even in the thick darkness.

“You don’t even know this kind of grace-“

Park Tae-ha quietly stared at the one who stood at the forefront of the guys waiting for them.

That clear face that spits out a laugh while looking at them.

The peculiarity of the guy who always looked at himself with a creepy feeling—

‘I won’t look at you anymore, Taeha.’

“Did you see the baby bugs?”

The strength of the hand holding the monkey spanner was slowly released.

Park Tae-ha quietly closed his eyes, feeling the gaze of the guy looking at him.

“… Fuck.”