Chapter 92 – A Clash of Fate (2)

Clash of Destiny (2)

“Go, thank you, manager.”

The last camper who bowed very politely, bowed, and left the photocopying room.

Click-!

After the door closed without a loud noise, silence settled in the copying room.

“…”

Me leaning my back against the copy room wall and Cha Hayan sitting in a chair silently.

Dalgrak-!

Soon, only the sound of Cha Ha-yan tidying up the glass bottle containing the royal authority rang in the copying room.

A very exquisite coordinated attack between a poison-related superpower and a bug-related superpower.

It was a very sudden surprise that was unclear whether it was possible to prepare in the first place, so it was best to prevent an unfortunate incident that could happen again.

Therefore, partial incompetence injection was conducted again for all camp members.

The long injection that followed right after Jang Deok-gu was subdued came to an end only very late at night.

Dalgrak-!

I quietly gazed at the ceiling of the photocopying room, listening to the white noise of white tea that strangely comforted me.

… By now, you would be busy guiding and controlling the camp members who were injected with partial incompetence.

In order to find camp members who have not been injected with partial incompetence, they have to go through double checks to see if they have been injected with partial incompetence or not, so there will be no more free time.

In particular, Go Jang-hoon, who oversees office work, and Cha Seol-hee, who virtually oversees the high-rise female camp members, would be very to die for.

“… Did you have to?”

Dalgrak-

A hand gesture to line up glass bottles that can be recycled again.

“I know very well that they are bad people. I know very well that someone needs restraint or punishment.”

Still…

The white hands, repeating the not-so-necessary pastime, were fidgeting incessantly.

“Nevertheless, Mr. Han Se-gye in the lobby…”

Dalgrak-

Unable to speak to the end, the hands went back and forth between the glass bottles.

“I don’t know what you’ll think if I say this—but that’s a little too much.”

As if fidgeting hand gestures are replaced with courage, the final words are followed only then.

Han Se-gye in the lobby—

“… It was so cruel and scary.”

What I wanted to say continued.

Dalgrak-

Cha Ha-yan, as if she had finished what she had to say, is immersed in arranging the glass bottles again.

I looked at the back of Cha White, who was sitting in her chair, and raised her back against the wall.

Thud- thud-

Without saying a word, she sat down in her chair next to her and turned her head to her.

Cha Ha-in, who suddenly turned her head at the sound of a chair dragging the floor.

“Aren’t you afraid to say this to such a scary person?”

A mischievous smile that doesn’t suit this atmosphere.

“…”

However, she smiled bitterly at her expression, which did not reciprocate at all, and turned her head away.

“It has become a world where you do not need to explain the exact reason when explaining everything, Seolha.”
“…”

The emergence of zombies and supernatural powers.

Making a previously nonsensical situation a reality—

Reasons that don’t seem like reasons.

“A world in which no one can complain even if a meteorite falls on the library right now.”

“A mad world with all the bizarre threats, all while leaving the old ones intact.”

“We are now – and forever will be – clinging to a precipice that falls to the ground at the slightest mistake.”

Especially-

I let out a small smile as I looked at Cha Ha-yan, who was quietly listening to me.

“My mistakes are much more dangerous. Maybe one mistake on my part could end everything as it is.”

So-

“If I had to attach a reason to my behavior, let’s say it was because I didn’t want to create a variable that added to the already sufficient risk.”
“…”

Cha Ha-yan still looks at me with unclear eyes.

I smiled again at that gaze and called someone’s name.

Yujin Lee.

“… Lee Yu-jin is a person with too many variables to keep alive. She is a person with this ability that is so effective at killing people. The only thing that can stop that ability is my own ability, but that doesn’t mean I’m stuck next to Lee Yoo-jin all day—”

Her face shook her head with a deep frown between her brows.

“Besides, since Lee Yu-jin’s final goal was the library itself—if he had survived, he would have threatened the camp members with more vicious means than now. There is nothing worse than letting a clear threat stand unchecked.”

And next-

“Jang Deok-gu. Why did you bully that child a little too much—”

Borrowing Cha Ha-yan’s expression, I slowly continued my next words.

“It’s because that bastard had this ability that our library needs.”

There are already an infinite number of ways to use the ability that was inferred.

“A very exceptional ability that will make our library a better place. Seolha, according to what you said, I would have already lived like a king, working as a slave in the engineering college.”

“It looks so obvious how the story will flow without thinking about it.”

I shrugged her shoulders and gave her a thin smile at her.

“At first, it may be submissive, but as you gradually realize the usefulness of my abilities, you will start to go out. He might try to negotiate with me again by putting on the table the ability to help the camp.”

I repeat-

“There are still too many threats out there to waste our camp’s capacity on such a wasteful task.”

A giant mutant zombie at the front door, a band of zombies in the middle, and other survivors beyond.

“So, we try to scare them before they happen. Because fear is a very useful emotion when distinguishing ranks. More than anything, it was very important to imprint that fear in his first impression.”

A first impression of someone lasts much longer than a person thinks.

“Can you understand why I did this?”
“…”

At the careful question, Cha Ha-in said nothing and turned her head to the front.

Dalgrak-

Busy gestures to and fro the glass bottle again, lips protruding in embarrassment.

“Tta, I didn’t mean to say that I didn’t understand… I-I just-“

Cha Ha-yan, who is much more cautious than expected, and rather overbearing.

I quietly brainwashed as I watched Cha Ha-yan fidgeting with the glass bottle that I had arranged.

“Other people don’t know, but you should know.”
“…”
“It’s like that, we are.”

The head that stopped rattling the glass bottle and turned back in a daze.

I smiled lightly at the eyes that met me, neither positive nor negative.

“I didn’t do it because I wanted to, I did it because I had to.”
“…”
“Cha Seol-ha, just like you did.”

Like her who chooses to be a good kid who hides her feelings rather than being a kid who is honest about her feelings.

“You don’t think you’re the only one with that secret, do you?”

Contrary to her first joke, her eyes trembled.

I stared into her eyes and whispered her next words as if casting a spell.

“Everyone lives with multiple masks, Seolha.”
“…”
“Among them, there are masks that you have to wear even if you don’t want to wear them.”

A deliberately very blurry smile on the corners of your mouth.

Cha Ha-yan’s eyes, which had been staring at my face, trembled more violently at the smile that quickly dispersed like a haze.

A number of masks that everyone has.

I stared into Cha Ha-yan’s eyes for a very long time to understand this more deeply than anyone else.

It was a very good achievement and reward.

Cha Ha-in asked me if she really should have done that.

Negative questions that would have been very unfamiliar to her, who had been living as a ‘good child’.

An honest impression that says it was excessive, cruel, and scary.

All of this was proof that I wasn’t wearing the mask of being a ‘good kid’ in front of me.

An honest relationship beyond the mask you always wore.

The bizarre assurance that only each other knows each other, and the deepest secrets.

She was already dyed in my color too darkly.

Oneself being dyed in someone else’s color without even knowing it.

“… Then-“

When she noticed the change, there was only one question she would spit out.

“Who are you next to me now?”

A cautious question full of trembling that could not be hidden.

I met her eyes and whispered again.

“One world.”

Just as you are no longer Cha Ha-yan, I am no longer the director.

“When I called you Cha Seol Ha, you didn’t call me brother-in-law or director Cha Seol Ha either.”

Not even once.

In the meantime, the issue of titles that have been taboo without knowing each other.

Her eyes trembled more steeply at the name brother-in-law, which very naturally reminded her of Cha Seol-hee.

However, as I stared into her pupils, I saw a completely different scene.

Dry lips quivering incessantly, and a hand that was already holding on to the glass bottle.

“Then this too… You who are next to me right now…”

She said her sister was worried about something else.

“… Are you wearing a mask?”

Very earnestly, her eyes seemed to be urging a pre-determined answer.

I quietly bowed down without answering.

Took-!

The end of the pass that slowly fell down.

I closed my eyes, feeling Cha Ha-yan’s thighs softly wrapping the back of my head.

Her thighs were frozen by the sudden drop of hair.

He whispered to her who couldn’t let out a single sound of her breath in her face as she got closer.

“… You?”

Not a definite word, perhaps a very ambiguous gesture.

The interpretation was up to her and no one else.

“…”

The back of the hair sinking more fluffy on the thighs that are quietly relaxing.

The moment I felt her gaze looking down at my face even in the dark

Swoop-

I could feel her warm hands gently combing my hair.

Swish – Swish –

Thin fingers ran through my hair slowly and for a long time.

A sluggish sensation that naturally releases tension throughout the body.

I let out a comfortable breath and closed my eyes more deeply.

***

The library lobby shines bright as if yesterday’s chaos was a dream.

I turned my head to the side as I looked at the trucks in the bright sunlight.

“Starting today, work on the Teacher’s College will also begin.”
“Yes, manager.”

After banning outdoor activities due to seizures by campers for unknown reasons, we didn’t play as much as we did.

Library remodeling where all the manpower that was searching outside was concentrated.

Thanks to this, we were able to successfully complete the library remodeling up to the first basement floor according to its intended purpose.

It was time to increase the work radius from the nearby instructor instead of the library.

“I’ll take care of securing the apology table today, so you’ll take care of the remodeling of the Teachers’ College from the first step—”

The face hanging around my eyes as I was giving instructions to Koh Goh, who was listening intently to my words.

I stopped giving Koh Jang-hoon instructions and motioned for him to come closer to the tangled, stupid face.

“Hehe, then I’ll go now, Director!”

Have a nice day today, Director!

Goh Goh-hun, who quickly bends down and walks away, and Jang Deok-gu, who approaches with a pale face.

I gazed out of the library again, clasping my shoulders with Jang Deok-gu, who approached me.

“I, I—the director…”

Jang Deok-gu opens his trembling lips at my sudden shoulder.

He looked up at me, showing his bruised forehead from yesterday’s aftermath.

“That, that—when will the antidote…”

Well, since I know more than anyone what kind of poison Lee Yu-jin’s poison is, it’s going to burn my shit.

I tilted my head at the guy who was dripping in a cold sweat about how much time had passed.

“I have to give you the antidote already because you did something good? One day after this bastard came in, he did something he didn’t like.”

Are you already gone?

Took-!

He shook his head as he jumped up at the touch of a hand on his shoulder that was a bit strong.

“No, no, the director—! Just, just when you’re comfortable! Give it to me when it’s convenient for you! That, that— the queen bee—! First of all, I will collect a lot of queen bees for you!”

Deok-gu Jang finally pours out the answer he likes.

I nodded my head in satisfaction and confirmed his ability again.

“So, the higher the exclusive stat ‘Insect Imprint’, the higher the level of bugs you can control?”
“I am correct, Director! You are very precise!”
“Then, how should I raise that exclusive stat?”
“The more you collect, tame, and raise various bugs—”
“Fuck – what kind of bug monster is it?”

Jang Deok-gu pulls his neck like a turtle in annoyance.

I rolled my eyeballs hard and tapped my tongue more lightly at the eyes of the guy staring at me.

Tsk-!

“First of all, catching the queen bee before controlling the bugs is the job.”
“…”

Jang Deok-gu keeps his mouth shut while keeping his eyes on me.

Awesome profit!

At that moment, the interior stairway door opened and the prepared search crew hurriedly began to cross the lobby.

The brown baseball bat common to searchers who run as fast as they can and line up in front of me.

Some were short, some were long, and I stepped out to the front door, nodding my head slightly at the weapons of the search team that had finally been unified in a jumbled array of weapons.

The three days that I had to cower at the sudden attack of the poisonous person.

Today was the day to put an end to the occupation of the South, which had not been completed for the past three days.

Finally, there is only one remaining college in the south.

College of Social Sciences.

Occupying the remaining colleges and searching for bugs that Jang Deok-gu will control—

Finally, we also had to figure out how to deal with the zombie wave blocking the north where we had to advance.

“Let’s go catch bugs for now, Deokgu.”
“… Yes, yes, manager!”

Awesome profit!

I slowly opened the front door of the library, awkwardly leading Deok-gu Jang, who was following me, with a shoulder strap.