Chapter 172 – #37_Friendship?(5)

#170

One.
It is often said that there are monsters guarding the entrance to Hell.
Why not?
Like the three-headed dog in Greek mythology.

However, Siu could say for sure.
If you are going to bring a monster to protect hell, it’s much better to put that dog that chases Siu and Sharon like crazy now.

Considering the speed difference between the two, it was good to see that they would be caught quickly if they ran along the road to the boundary of the barrier.
Therefore, Siwoo wandered around the alleys between the buildings, trying to get rid of him.

-Bang! Kukkoom! Kwakwawang!

But the homunculus did not stop.
They hit a stopped bus with their head and blew it into the air, smashing all the sides of a shopping mall, knocking down telephone poles and streetlights, and continuing their pursuit.
It’s like a bastard going wild in an elaborately crafted mini set for special shooting.

Anyway, even though I could keep my distance by turning round and round using obstacles, it seemed difficult to shake them off or go out of the barrier.
The moment you run in a straight line, you will be caught up by the superior physical difference.

-Kooooo!!
“That’s fucking fast!”
“Mmmm…!”

The first sound heard was the shout of the monster with the medicine raised.
The second is Siwoo’s annoyance at the monster that he can’t shake off no matter how much he runs away.
The last was the strange sound Sharon made as her cheek kept smacking against her breastplate as she held her in a huddled position.

“Sharon! What the hell is that bastard!”
“Mo, I don’t know, me too…! I’ve never seen anything like that before!”

She breathed heavily and asked, but Sharon just shook her head and she didn’t give a cool answer.
Wouldn’t it be better to fight?
Siwoo asks just in case.

“Can’t we fight it somehow? I’ll try!”
“No! No! No way! The homunculus that caused the most terrible disaster in history had twenty pairs of eyes! That’s not a level we can deal with!”

40 eyes are the worst ever?
Siu glanced over his shoulder and looked at the frenzied homunculus.

“It looks fucking disgusting.”

That alone makes me feel a bit bad.
It looks as if an elementary school student roughly made it out of black clay.
It’s hard to tell which is the forepaw, which is the back leg, and which is the head, but it looks like a mess, as if it had been stepped on once.
Every time it roared, the stench and roar that it gave off made goosebumps all over your body.

But the important thing is not that that homunculus looks disgusting and disgusting like a beast that came up from hell.
Those eyes that are tightly packed anywhere on the body.
The number seemed well over four digits.

“Then who needs to come to catch it?”
“I don’t know!!! Why does this only happen!!”

Sharon clings tightly to Siwoo’s arms and begins to lament her life.

“Stigma is strangely inherited! Explosions happen during experiments! Of course, he blows up his research documents and becomes a debtor! Besides… Besides, what is that monster!”
“Hey, calm down for now and run tight!”
-Quooooo!

Also, since the distance was narrowed, we decided to use the building this time.
Using the speed that narrows by several tens of meters per step, it quickly runs as if it were doing a three-step jump, converting it into jumping power and leaping.

-Wow!

Siwoo jumped to the 4th floor of the building at once, spreading his shadow so that the shards of glass would not bounce at Sharon.
It must have been a space that was used as an office, and Siwoo entered the building with his computer, documents, and windows broken.
And almost without jet lag, the monster’s snout burrowed into the building like that of a gnawing woodpecker.

“What crazy!”
“Kyaaaaah!”

He didn’t even have time to catch his breath.
Siwoo quickly lifted Sharon, who was about to be bitten by the monster, and ran to the other side of the building.

-Kiaaaaa

The roar of the beast that narrowly missed its prey hit the back of my ear.
At the same time, a tremendous wind leaked out, blowing everything in the hallway.

“Done!”

But this is auspicious
The fact that that guy still exists behind means that when you break through the window of the building on the other side and run, you can put a wall of the building in between.
There is a delay in the pursuit, and if you use the opportunity to cover up with the effect of the music box or run away further, it will not be a dream to go outside the back barrier.

“Wow… That’s really fucking shit.”

However, Siwoo’s dream collapsed like a soap bubble the moment he looked back at the sudden presence.

– Kreurreung!
– Kkong kuk kuk kuk!

Dozens of black dogs appeared without a clue where they came from and were running to present Siu and Sharon to their mother, spurring here and there in the hallway.

-Hauuuuu!
– Aww!

In addition, some of them seem to be reporting the location of Siu’s escape by howling.
Only then is bullying or hide-and-seek, the only hope, hopeless.
It is admirable to see that the situation is only getting worse by the minute.

Get caught
It’s coming soon.
Certainly, the black dogs were faster than their mothers because of their small size.
The problem here is that the moment you start grappling, your ankles are completely caught.
When the barely maintained distance narrows, the only thing left is a head-to-head match.

The black dog that chased right behind Siwoo made a wild leap.
Then Sharon, who was cradled in her chest, took something of her own from her sleeve and stuffed it into her mouth, then aimed her wand at her back.

“Balance!”

At the same time as Sharon chanted, I felt my ears heat up.
A small ball of fire floated in front of the wand and emitted flames in a fan shape.
It’s not like the flamethrower you used to see in the movies.
The flames spread like waves and burned the entire floor of the building.

“It’s the last time… I used up all the mana I gathered while running away!”
“Nice job Sharon! She still lives thanks to her!”

The other side of the building we arrived after escaping the dogs by a hair’s breadth.
You can’t just jump off.
Right next to the landing point, the mother dog, who specified the location of Siu and Sharon, hit the side of the building with its huge front paws.

-Koo-kung!

Vibration echoes throughout the building.
The front paws of the black dog with red eyes were tearing apart the building as if tearing down Legos.
The scene comes to my eyes vividly like slow motion.

Its body had unprecedented curves protruding like maggots infesting a corpse.
Every time it moves, it bites the skin and flesh, and a black dog jumps out and starts to climb up the outer wall of the building furiously.

What is that?

“Sharon hug me!”
“Already hugged!”
“Tighter!”

If this is the case, even if you stay still, you will get caught up in it.
Making that decision, Siu held on to Sharon and stretched the ribbon upwards without delay.
Using the elasticity of the ribbon that stretched out in an instant, I flew as if I was being thrown into the air and landed on the roof.

I glanced down and saw that the mother dog was already slamming into the wall of the building, and the black dogs were clinging to the outer wall like cockroaches and crawling at a running speed.

“Let’s scatter. I’ll get your attention, so you run away first.”
“Sharon, that’s not important right now.”
“Not that important! At this rate, will both die? I’m the one who dragged you into the hunt, so I’ll take responsibility! Hurry! Run away quickly, you first!”
“Sharon!”

Siu tightly wrapped his arms around Sharon’s shoulder, who was almost in a state of panic.
For the first time, I had time to have a conversation like a conversation.
Maybe there is a way out of this dead end situation.

“Anyway, it will take time to get here with that size. Until then, only miscellaneous guys will come up.”

As Siu said.
No matter how fast that homunculus is compared to its size, its body is as heavy as it is a giant.
Running on flat ground and climbing a building are completely different abilities.

“So listen to me. There’s something strange about him.”
“What?”

Siu started to explain the clues he found while running away as quickly as possible.

“Sharon, do you really think that guy is a homunculus with thousands of eyes?”
“Thinking and sleeping, you saw it too. The whole body is covered in snow.”
“But do you really think that guy is dozens of times stronger than the worst homunculus in history?”
“That….”
“Look.”

At first I was just terrified.
He couldn’t help but feel a visceral fear from the overwhelming difference in physique that would destroy the entire department store and destroy everything in his way just by walking around.
However, as I ran away without thinking, there was something suspicious.

That homunculus did not have the dignity of a strong man.
All the strong enemies Siwoo had faced had an aura that matched them.

For example, Ea Sadalmelik, who gave off a sense of intimidation as if he would suffocate even if he breathed next to him.
For example, Della Radcliffe, who seemed to lose the initiative completely if she was careless even for a moment.
All of them were high witches of the 20th rank or higher.
Among them, Ea was a witch of the 21st rank that would not be strange to receive her title.

The power to destroy department stores is great.
The agility of chasing down the streets at night without a break is also amazing.
However, that’s all.

Siu drew a picture in his head.
What if that over there was Ea?
Could Siwoo have escaped this far?

It can’t be.
No matter how much Siwoo has become stronger through various incidents, she knows through experience and her head that if Ea, who has done her best, is her opponent, she will not be able to last even one minute.
Because Ea had a history of falling out badly in her attack that was ‘slightly’ mixed with sincerity.

“This is just a guess. But look. Did you see all those black dogs coming out of him?”
“Yeah, I saw it too! Just coming up.”

Sharon must have felt something as well, and the nervousness that seemed like she was going to die soon disappeared.
Instead, she listened to Siu with her ears pricked up.

“A little while ago, I read the magic of that homunculus with my own eyes. It’s very central heating. It wasn’t concentrated in one place, but it was spread out as if scattered.”
“Uh…..?”
“What if the eyes on that body weren’t all from one individual? What if that mother dog is just a ‘colony’?”

Human thinking in an urgent situation becomes narrow and narrow.
So Sharon couldn’t think of anything as she ran away from the mother dog, who had eyes all over her body like ornaments.

The stronger the homunculus, that is, the more important the legacy it possesses, the stronger it becomes.
Because she uses a variety of magic that is comparable to that of a witch, hunting becomes more difficult.

But what about that mother dog?
Except for scattering puppies, she doesn’t use any kind of magic.
Even when chasing Sharon and Siwoo, he only used his physical abilities.
Even now, after becoming like a dog chasing a chicken, they only hit the outer walls of buildings or fall while trying to climb.

Is that unsightly appearance truly rude to see a homunculus whose ‘eyes’ exceed four digits?

“Come to think of it, is that so…?”

Rather, if he had 20 eyeballs like this, he would have told Siwoo not to say something that would not work and to prepare to run away.
But that number is unrealistic.
And Siwoo’s persuasion is extremely realistic.

The time to worry didn’t last long.
It was because the puppies had already climbed up the outer wall and surrounded Siu and Sharon on the roof.
Even the mother dog, realizing that she couldn’t simply jump in place from below, was clinging to the outer wall of the building while running away from a distance.
Every time the blunt fuselage clings to a building, the building shatters and shakes greatly at the same time.

“So, what are you going to do?”

Sharon clutches at the wand even though she knows that there is no meaning without magical power.
Siwoo pointed his spear at the puppies and said bitterly.

“Thanks to Joe, I woke up to my heart’s content. We should eat a room too.”