Chapter 94 – Identifying Friends (1)

Identify peers (1)

[Identification of foes is performed prior to starting the skirmish.]

[Distinguish between enemies and allies within the set time.]

[05:00:00:00]

[04:23:59:59]

Subsequent messages printed out and the time limit starting to decrease by 1 second.

While staring at the suddenly given 5-day identification period, the message notification sound resonated in my mind.

Tring-!

[The king cannot invade the opponent’s territory during the peer identification period!]

[The King of the Black Army must return to the Black Army as soon as possible!]

[In consideration of the location where the skirmish was announced, a 30-minute return time is granted as an exception.]

[30:00]

A new 30-minute time limit was added under the peer identification time, which is still decreasing by 1 second.

[29:59]

Took-!

As I looked at the second clock that started counting down just like the identification time, I heard a series of dull landing sounds.

“Where is the white one now-!”

Nam Do-yoon stopped his ability to float in the air and approached ferociously.

“Well, shouldn’t we be having brunch at home by now?”

The guy’s face turned redder at the answer that was full of laughter.

“Now play with me!”

Tuong-!

Something bounced off the hand that was reaching out to grab my collar.

The moment Nam Do-yoon was completely pushed by something invisible, a warning message was displayed.

[All violent acts other than infection are prohibited during the identification period.]

The corner of his eyes darkens at the message that flashes several times as if to emphasize it.

“… Wait—is the white one you’re talking about the white one I know?”

Rinnea’s slightly slurred question came through the momentary lull.

“That you kidnapped the white one—”
“… That’s right! Damn, that’s right! That fucking backside on a rainy day—!”

A loud voice overtook Rinnea, who had approached me while glaring at me through the wall.

A man with a bloody wooden sword was poking me with his finger, his eyes wide open.

“You bastard human bastard! Our white one-“
“Don’t come any closer—!”

A shout that hurriedly restrained the two men and women who were approaching me.

Nam Do-yoon hurriedly raised his hand to the two men and women with their eyes wide open.

“… It’s dangerous, Mr. Linnea.”
“…”

The act of turning her head to warn Linnea made me laugh out loud.

Nam Do-yoon turns his head back at the laugh that doesn’t stop easily.

He looked behind me as he let out a balloonless laugh.

“… Do you know what kind of person Jang Deok-goo is behind you, even if you exclude Whitei?”

After following his gaze, Jang Deok-gu, who shrugged his shoulders at the suddenly gathered gaze, entered.

“Jang Deok-gu.”
“… Oh, long time no see, Chairman.”

Jang Deok-gu stutters with an awkward smile at Nam Do-yoon’s name being called.

Jang Deok-gu, who got up from the ground, dropped his body for a moment, as if expressing anxiety.

“There are dozens of women that Jang Deok-gu enslaved and raped. Even after working like a slave like that, things didn’t work out the way he wanted, so he abandoned all of them and ran away. Did you know that?”
“…”

The splendid career that Nam Do-yoon recited one after another.

Seeing the gaze quietly staring at Deokgu Jang, he desperately avoided my gaze and broke into a cold sweat.

Ugly purr—thick drops of sweat swaying on his trembling cheeks.

I turned my head back to Nam Doyoon and shrugged lightly.

“I don’t know because there hasn’t been anything like that under me yet.”
“It’s not that such a thing hasn’t happened, it’s that the opportunity hasn’t come yet.”
“Well, isn’t Jang Deok-gu also working while looking at people?”

Looking at Nam Do-yoon, she let out a small smile.

Nam Do-yoon’s eyes became ferocious at the end of the deliberately lengthy sentence.

“What are you talking about? Jang Deok-gu and Lee Yu-jin— Wait.”

With a small whisper, the furrows between the eyebrows deepen.

“… Where is Lee Yu-jin?”

No one answered Nam Doyoon’s question.

There is only Jang Deok-goo’s face, who is even more tired of the name Lee Yu-jin that suddenly pops out.

Nam Do-yoon, who was looking at the cheeks of the guy who started to tremble more steeply, frowned.

“… Could it be that you killed him?”

A pupil that sparks with a certainty that is too firm to be a question.

“Are you really crazy?”
“I must have killed her because she deserved to be killed.”
“Who decides that it is worth killing?”

Nobody-!

A shout that comes out right away without even a chance to catch your breath.

The unmoving eyes glared at me.

“You cannot make that judgment alone and all at once!”

No one dares

The following ending words and eyes full of self-confidence naturally frowned.

“Do you think Lee Yu-jin would have shed tears of emotion at such a morally heartfelt comment?”

I continued to say the following while glaring at the skinny bastard’s face.

“If you jerk off alone in front of such a kind child statue and your campmates who don’t have to die are killed— can you still say such fucking shit in front of your campmates?”
“A world is better than you. It would be much faster for you to kill the campers you don’t like than for my campmates to be killed by dogs.”
“Huh—on what grounds?”
“Well, does a murderer who kills people without standards really need evidence? Since there is no line, it will surely happen someday without the awareness that it crosses the line.”

He brought his head a little closer and spit out words like chewing.

I shook my head slightly and smiled wider.

“It is strange. I obviously killed the cancer soldier. Could the nickname be duplicated?”
“… Common name. I’m sorry, but I’m not a person lacking in ego who mimics myself with a nickname that came down suddenly.”

His gaze, which had been glaring at my expression, went down a little.

Nam Do-yoon, who looked at the metal pipe that came out of my right hand like a habit, smiled provocatively.

“It will be uncomfortable and cramped. In the meantime, I’ve been killing all the stupidly annoying people without much thought, and then I’m caught in this restriction.”

An indelible bloodstain on the end of an iron pipe.

“Even now, my hands will itch just believing in the power I suddenly gained, but I managed to hold it in.”

Wait.

“Because I will make sure that you and Jang Deok-gu stop their madness.”

Nam Do-yoon’s eyes full of will, who were looking at me, spontaneously let out the first false laugh.

Nothing much has changed in this long conversation.

Just like I first thought-

“Sorry.”

I shook the iron pipe he was holding in his hand toward Namdo Yoon.

“I will use that simple method again.”

Nam Do-yoon calmly collided with the scrutinizing gaze.

Namdo Yoon, who had been silent for a while, nodded his head slightly.

“I know very well, Mr. Han Se-gye.”

Their faces seemed to have faded a little from the flames that had boiled over them on the day they were talking to each other.

He stared back and forth between the black crown still on my head and Jang Deok-gu.

“There are only black guys next to black guys.”
“That sounds like something a white person would be very sad to hear.”
“… You.”

Nam Do-yoon seemed to be holding back the lightly rising fire.

He muttered as he glared at me with his sleepless eyes.

“I can see why this kind of identification with friends and family suddenly started. But the more I talk to you, the more I feel that I’m a piece of trash that can’t be rehabilitated.”

Took-!

Nam Do-yoon, who had come close to him, turned around and returned to his camp members.

“See you again in five days.”

Looking at the back of Nam Do-yoon leading the camp members and disappearing without looking back, a grin burst out.

“… Sick.”

5 days later.

“…”

While joining Nam Do-yoon’s group, Byeok-an continues to stare back.

I continued to make eye contact with Linnea’s blue eyes, which were gradually moving away.

Identification of friends and family suddenly started in the forces already divided into white and black.

… The struggle has already begun a long time ago.

Took-! Took-!

An iron pipe striking the thigh while watching the white army recede.

I quietly stared at the metal pipe that was shaking.

Doyoon Nam.

Whether you’ve been fooled by my bluffing or not—

You’re going to have a very hellish time from now on.

[14:38]

I glanced at the time limit, which had already passed half, and turned around.

“…”

Jang Deok-gu, who is constantly shaking his neck at the sight of each other.

I frowned as I pointed at the central road in front of me with my chin.

“What are you doing, if you’re done with your business, you should go home, Deokgu.”
“… Yes, yep! Of course, of course, sir!”

Tring-!

[‘Jang Deok-gu’ ‘obeys’ you.]

[Obedience factor: ‘very strong’ support for survival, ‘very strong’ fear of violence… ]

[Kingdom: 330 -〉 345]

Jang Deok-gu, who starts to flutter as if he has come to his senses, and the updated status window message.

I smiled at the state of obedience that had jumped quite a few steps at once, and the scepter that had risen once more.

“I will serve you, sir, sir!”

Jang Deok-gu, with a servile expression, bends at the waist and points to the road ahead.

I looked at Jang Deok-gu, who started doing something I hadn’t done before, and looked back at Nam Do-yoon’s disappearance and let out a deeper laugh.

… Before you go, take care of the bonus like this.

***

Awesome profit!

“Chief, you are the curator—!”

As soon as you open the front door of the library, the sound of fuss echoes through the lobby.

I swung the search and strike teams lined up in the lobby with Goh Jang-hoon running towards me like a darting.

“The situation has already been identified through a sudden message. Therefore-“

The hometown Hoon poking his chest with his fingers quickly while gasping for breath.

“So we are the Black Army and the enemy is the White Army! All preparations were already completed before the director arrived. If you just give me an order right now-“

I knew the general situation through the message, but it seemed that I hadn’t figured out the details yet.

I interrupted the local hun and lightly touched his hand.

“I do not need. Because the identification period or something has begun.”
“… Yes? No, it was already divided into black and white troops, so what kind of identification was it…”
“It must mean that the Black Army and the White Army are not fixed roles.”
“… Yes?”

Deok-gu Jang, who is making a dumbfounded expression next to me, and Hoon Go-san, who narrows his eyes and rolls his head quickly.

I shook my hand again and continued talking to the executives who were looking at me from a little distance.

“For a while, don’t make a fuss like this, and do whatever you have been doing.”
“… Yes, manager.”

Even while he was rolling his head, the hometown Hoon slightly lowered his head like an instinct.

I looked at him and whispered the next unfinished word.

“Finish your work and pick a few people, eunuch.”
“…”

Koh Goh-hun, who bowed his head a little and listened to my words.

“A person who is very satisfied with his camp life now.”

“Anyone who has a lover at camp.”

And-

I smiled while staring alternately at Koh Jang-hoon, who listened to my words, and at the ceiling of the lobby.

“Someone with a family in the camp.”