Chapter 83 – Forever (4)

Forever (4)

Kiik-

The faint sound of brakes coming from the library lobby.

When I turned my head in pursuit of the sound, I could see Goh Goh, who had already run quickly, walking through the blackout curtains on the window.

Cheek-!

Afternoon sunlight dyes the lobby darker with the curtains drawn, and convenience store delivery vehicles shine through the windows.

I calmly scanned the cars stopped on the main road and the familiar faces hurrying out of the cars.

Yoo Seo-jun, who appears with the sound of the driver’s seat opening and closing, and Bang Dae-hwa and his siblings getting off at the rattling back door.

As soon as Bang Dae-hwa got out of the back door, the image of her being wary of zombies following her was reflected on the window.

There was not a single zombie that followed the convenience store delivery vehicle.

The disappearance of zombies that, not long ago, tirelessly jumped out and clung to vehicles like leeches.

However, it was not that surprising or shocking scene.

‘Puuuuuong!’

Listening to the hallucinations of the balloons hitting my ears very naturally, I remembered the zombies in the middle that I was tired of facing with Cha Hayan.

Waves of zombies swarming around like a swarm of ants, occupying the center in a long strip.

If the wave didn’t fall from the sky, the disappearance of these zombies wouldn’t be too surprising.

Most of the zombies spread throughout the university must have been driven to the center by the mutant ‘Balloon’.

Hehe”

I pulled back the blackout curtains and ran back to catch a glimpse of the panting Goh Goh, then stared through the window again.

The strike team hurriedly disembarking from the back door, and the unfamiliar survivors continued to disembark.

We weren’t the only ones who benefited from the sudden drop in zombies.

The survivors made a last-ditch gamble using only the flyers they scattered in the student union.

They were the new camp members of the library that the strike team and Yoo Seo-jun had safely scraped from the student hall.

The capture of the new survivors at the business school and those survivors I see now.

Recalling the uninterrupted and well-continued supply of campers, I quietly captured the faces of the campers waiting for instructions from the strike team.

All of them don’t look so good, clean condition and shoulders that are a lot of shriveled.

And in common, the vigilance and fear contained in the eyes that look everywhere.

I ordered Goh, looking at the survivors looking at the library surrounded by vehicle barricades with a very blank face.

“Don’t join new campers right upstairs, gather them all on the second floor and manage them.”
“Yes, I will, Chief.”
“Starting with the chicks that can be seen on the second floor, they are gradually sent up to the general camper floor.”
“Yes, I understand, Chief.”

At the same time as Go Jang-hun bowed respectfully, the sight of the strike team leading the gathered survivors and approaching the library came into view.

Very carefully, Daehwa Bang and the new camp members following his younger siblings and Seojun Yoo are quietly watching behind them.

The guy who had been looking at the procession for a very long time with pursed lips and quivering pupils slowly moved his gaze to the only window that had no blackout curtains.

Tring-!

[‘Yoo Seo-jun’ ‘weakly’ ‘obeys’ you.]

[Obedience factors: trust in promises, ‘very strong’ fear of violence … ]

[A person with special powers obeys your command.]

[Kingdom: 245 -〉 255]

The status window that is updated the moment you make eye contact with Yoo Seo-jun.

Sensing my gaze, Yoo Seo-jun bowed his head quietly toward me.

After giving a small nod to the silent greeting, I moved towards the elevator again.

Thud- thud-

Campers stop their busy movements as I follow my steps across the lobby.

Goh Koh, who followed me faithfully along the wide open direction, hurriedly pressed the elevator button.

Ding-!

The elevator that had been waiting on the first floor from the beginning slowly opened.

I stepped inside, hearing a cheerful electronic sound that I thought I would never hear again.

Beep!

Koh Goh-hun’s hand pressing the 6th floor button and the close button in turn.

It was only then that through the slowly closing elevator doors, campers began to move supplies on the first floor again.

Elevator doors that close quietly without any special noise, and the elevator’s unique sense of floating that lightly wraps around the body.

Took-! Took-!

Every time the metal pipe taps the thigh, the numbers on the electronic signboard flicker higher numbers in sequence.

Ding-!

I looked at the electric signboard that stopped at ‘6’ with a clear arrival sound, and slowly moved my gaze to the elevator door that opened again.

“””Have you been there, Director?””

The lounge on the 6th floor is revealed with high-pitched echoes that resound together.

The female camp members gathered there bowed respectfully, looking at the open elevator.

An instantaneous reaction that could never be shown if not prepared before the elevator door opened.

It was a sight that could have happened because I was the only person in the library who could use the elevator.

Thanks to the electricity reserve, which is still not very comfortable, the use of elevators by all camp members was absolutely prohibited.

The waists of the female campers coming up almost simultaneously after a polite bow.

I scanned the faces of the female camp members gathered along the steam from the coffee cups rising on the round table.

“…”

The calm eyes of the female camp members who are just calmly facing my gaze.

In the meantime, even if I squeezed it in, the fear and fear that eventually came out and made their eyes tremble did not come out well.

I let out a small smile as I looked at the familiarity and obedience that had grown thicker than fear.

The obedience process is very similar to the two jeo-ri that come to mind after a long time.

It was very clearly visible that the fear of violence that remained deep in them had faded, and that other positive factors had settled in that space.

This was the power of the passing time and the power of self-justification.

In the end, it was also proof that I had almost completed my adaptation as a camper on the 6th floor of the library.

And this time and the power of self-justification will become more and more rugged, far from weakening.

The more you reflect on the fact that the library is the safest area, the more survivors downstairs more unfortunate than yourself—

Their loyalty and obedience was a structure that had no choice but to increase naturally.

Perhaps, Yoo Seo-joon, whose status window had just been updated, was going through a similar process.

You may not like everything in the library, but law and order are clearly maintained, unlike the student hall.

For Yoo Seo-jun, the ‘library’ must have been a home where he had no choice but to gradually feel a sense of belonging no matter what the joining process was.

So, it was quite natural that the order that maintained the nest and the me who was on top of that order had different attitudes.

Obedience and obedience achieved at some point without continuing direct and impactful violence and fear.

This quiet, secretive structure was a necessary process of obedience that I had to keep going.

It’s because I can’t scare all the growing camp members with an iron pipe.

So- in order to maintain this structure, it was most important that the ‘library’ become an irreplaceable space.

The only nest with no choice.

In that sense, the College of Agriculture and the library were absolutely incompatible camps.

Therefore, it is a stumbling block that must be removed unconditionally.

“…”

I waved my hand with a soft smile at the 6th floor campers who quietly looked at me in the eyes.

Then, after turning toward the bedroom hallway, I heard the sound of female campers sitting on chairs in the lounge.

“Do you want to check the little wife’s room first, Director?”
“No.”

I shook my head and chin at the end of the hallway to Koh Goh, who implicitly asked for the next schedule.

“You know how to do it well. I have something to bring to the bedroom, so wait at the door for a moment.”
“Yes, I understand—”

In front of the first reading room, I handed the iron pipe I was holding to Goh Jang-hun.

Koh Goh-hoon hurriedly opened his mouth to my instructions, but quietly looked at the iron pipe I was holding out.

I hurriedly opened the iron door, seeing him handing over an iron pipe with trembling hands as if he was very embarrassed.

Thud-!

The iron door slammed shut with a loud noise before he could even open his mouth.

Thanks to this, the attention of the people in the bedroom was naturally drawn to the door.

Awesome!

Two women pulling chairs watching me stride across the bedroom.

Sisters Cha Seol-hee and Cha Ha-yan stood up from the table by the window and were staring at me with wide eyes.

I picked up the bath basket that was lying in the corner of the bedroom and smiled softly at the sisters who were looking at me.

“Did you both sleep well yesterday?”
“… You.”

Cha Seol-hee approaches me from the table as if quickly narrowing the distance that is getting closer.

I gently brushed the face of Cha Seol-hee, who was getting closer, and stared at her back.

Unlike Cha Seol-hee, who got closer, Cha Ha-yan did not take a single step in front of the table chair.

“Hello, sister-in-law?”

Her pupils, who had been staring at me while standing, trembled and quietly avoided my gaze.

“… Hello.”

A look that looked down as if staring at the ground and a very small leaked greeting.

“… Brother-in-law.”

And at the last name that came out of his mumbling mouth, a thicker smile came out.

Took-!

A hand pulling the sleeves of his clothes as if pulling his gaze at Cha Ha-yan.

“… Where the hell did you sleep last night?”

Looking into my eyes, I opened my arms to Tea Seol-hee with a soft smile.

A deep hug that puts Cha Seol-hee completely in her arms without saying anything.

In an instant, I quietly buried my face in Seol-hee’s hair as she came into my arms.

Sniff— sniff—

The sweet scent of shampoo that you inhale deliberately and loudly.

“… What, what are you doing, really—”

Seol-hee, who was twitching her body as if tickled by the continued sniffing, began whispering in a very low voice.

“Ha, the white one is watching too…”

A defiance that is not so clear compared to the quiet grumbling.

Rather, as if to tempt me more, I hugged her weakly wriggling body tighter and whispered.

“How are you? She is a sister-in-law who is no one else.”
“…”

At her low whisper to reassure her, her car Seol-hee stopped her wriggling and calmly placed her hands on my back.

It’s crushingly tight ― instead of her embrace, Seol-hee digs deeper into her body.

I looked back at her again, feeling Seol-hee’s hand on my back.

“…”

Cha Hae-in, who doesn’t say anything and just keeps looking at her on the ground.

However, I smiled quietly as I looked at the epicenter of the strange noise that had been leaking from earlier.

Pole- pole- pole- pole-

Cha Ha-yan’s index fingernails were constantly scratching the wooden table.

I don’t know if it’s conscious or unconscious…

I watched very quietly as her thin fingers scratched the table at an almost obsessive pace.

“… Aren’t you coming in today?”

At that moment, a soft voice permeated my ears.

I untied the hug for a moment and met Cha Seol-hee’s eyes and smiled.

“Isn’t a day too short for sisters to talk about their backlog? Do you think it would be more comfortable for you guys without me?”
“… Is that why you take your bath basket too?”
“That’s how it is.”

The brow furrowed slightly as if he didn’t like something about my positivity.

“But you have to sleep here.”

… This is our room.

Huge eyes holding onto my clothes and looking up at me.

I stared alternately at Seol-hee, the car that came closer to me, and Hay-han, the car behind her, and showed a puzzled smile.

“Uh-but sleeping in the same bed with your grown-up sister-in-law is a little bit—”
“… A while ago, you said it was okay because it was your sister-in-law and not someone else—”

Cha Seol-hee’s grunt that immediately jumped out at the refusal to say it around.

I pouted slightly and stroked Cha Seol-hee’s face again.

Cha Seol-hee meets her eyes again at the warm touch that evenly sweeps her face down.

I looked at her for a long time at her starry eyes, unique to Cha Seol-hee, and then hugged her tightly again.

“Come to think of it, I heard that White’s room is finished.”

And then a very quiet whisper in her ear.

But it was a whisper loud enough for another person at close range to hear it.

As soon as my whispers ended, I met eyes with Cha Seol-hee, who began to tremble.

Her mischievous smile and slightly narrowed eyes sent to her blankly looking up at me.

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Soon, she, who had been holding my signal for a long time—

“…”

He nodded her head very weakly.

It was an answer that I, who was in front of me, and Cha Ha-yan, who was behind me, could easily distinguish.