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Snow fell from the sky.

First snow this year. It wasn’t heavy snow, it was closer to sleet, but snow is snow.

Falling snow has a mysterious magic.

People who don’t like winter, people who are in a bad mood after breaking up with their partner a few days ago, and people who are just walking down the street without thinking.

When you see the first snow falling from the sky, it makes you feel a little happier.

And that day, Yoon Sia was walking down the street.

On my way home after school. Normally it was common to take the bus back, but the reason she was walking now was largely because she happened to have inadvertently stepped on the scale while brushing her teeth that morning.

Morning is very important. If something goes wrong in the morning, the sun rises fiercely all day that day.

And that fierce iljin made her choose to walk home for exercise even though she could have taken the bus.

‘I need to do some exercise.’

Every time I make a resolution, it ends in just three days, but this time might be different.

purple. Isn’t even heaven blessing his decision now? I raised my head and looked at the sky, and something cold fell on my face from the gray sky.

‘… what?’

As she looked up at the sky with such a firm resolve, her eyes caught something strange.

A phenomenon where something distorts the air in the sky.

In an empty space, something was happening that could only be described as the space being crumpled, as if someone was crumpling paper with their hands.

Seeing this phenomenon for the first time in her life, she stopped walking and just stared at the scene blankly.

“Huh? What is that?”

“Honey, did you see that? Do you see that now?”

“Wow, that’s amazing. What is that?”

People’s eyes focus into the air as if others are also discovering the sight she saw.

Although everyone was amazed at seeing this phenomenon for the first time, they did not seem to be overly frightened.

Some people took out their cell phones and filmed the scene. I heard the clicking sounds of cell phone shutters.

“Well… It’s a strange thing. This is the first time I have seen a scene like this in my 50 years of life.”

In a taxi parked on the side of the road with the empty car indicator on, a middle-aged taxi driver stretched out the window and muttered as he looked at the scene.

The crumpling of the sky gradually grew in size, and it was now large enough for anyone around it to notice the anomaly.

The sky, which had been crumpled like that, suddenly changed its appearance into a large circle and began to emit purple light.

“Wow, it’s amazing. What kind of movie set demonstration is this?”

“Hey, this is awesome. I took the right picture!”

People were now flocking around him. I was amazed by this strange phenomenon I was seeing for the first time and was a little anxious, but I was approaching the unknown.

The large oval emitting purple light mixed with the snow falling from the sky created a dreamlike scene.

While people were approaching little by little to see the scene up close, Yun Sia took a step back.

Some uneasiness was creeping up in her mind.

She was walking backwards, then turned around and ran. Something inside her was screaming at her to get away from that oval.

For some reason, I didn’t know why, but her intuition was right. She decided to trust her intuition.

At that time, a sound like a piece of meat exploding was heard and a sharp, tearing scream rang out.

As she ran like crazy, she reflexively turned her head and saw a black liquid flowing from an oval in the sky.

A woman who was taking pictures at the bottom had the misfortune of being hit by the liquid directly on her body. She was embarrassed by the sudden accident, and her body suddenly exploded, screaming and spraying blood around her.

“What…what the fuck! What is this?”

“Ugh!”

“Aaagh!”

Her scream became a signal, and panicked citizens began to run away.

It’s literally a father figure.

People actually die. No, it would not have been unreasonable for ordinary people to panic at the sight of the balloon suddenly bursting like a needle pricked.

The liquid that fell from the sky gathered in the center and formed a jagged circle. It looked like a moss ball with black fur.

A black devil’s mothball with a huge eyeball in the middle.

Tentacles came out from the moss ball and struck the citizens who were trying to run away.

No, the expression of being struck down may not be an appropriate expression.

The swing could certainly be described as a slash, but the place where the tentacle passed was being cut into pieces as if a huge blade had been swung.

“Ahhhh!”

Every time the tentacle swings, human bodies fly away.

Humans are obviously made of bones, but they split endlessly, as if cutting tofu.

Black water flowed endlessly from a purple hole in the sky.

It would not be appropriate to say that it flowed out. It would be much more accurate to say that the water was exploding as if the limit on the hydraulic press had been lifted and the water had been turned on to its maximum capacity.

And the jet-black liquid that burst out coalesced into spheres, forming dozens of monsters.

Soon the monsters started moving and waving their tentacles. An army of monsters advances.

“Aaagh!”

“Please help me!”

An office worker wearing a suit had his legs cut off by a monster’s tentacle and was left rolling on the road.

As he fell down with blood gushing from his severed leg, what caught his eye was the sight of the monster that had taken his leg swinging its numerous tentacles towards him.

He closed his eyes tightly and instinctively raised his arms to try to block the attack, but it was probably a futile resistance.

All he could understand at the last moment was that he had been torn into dozens of pieces and his head was flying in the sky.

After barely understanding the startling phenomenon, his consciousness sank into infinitely deep darkness.

One woman ran down the street in a trance. My brain was refusing to understand the phenomenon.

What happened today? What happened that made me have to go through this?

In the past, when my younger brother was addicted to computer games, I suddenly remembered hitting him on the back to tell him to stop playing. In that game, my brother’s character was hunting such enemies with a sword.

Will you now become its prey?

The heel of the heel I was wearing broke and the shoe came off and flew away. She sprained her ankle, but she kept running without even feeling any pain.

At that time, some warm liquid splashed onto my cheek. There was no way to figure out whether it was him or someone around him.

She continued to move her feet, but suddenly realized that she was not moving forward at all.

She looked down and realized that she was floating about 30cm in the air. As she unconsciously looked down, her face became stained with despair.

Because the black tentacle that penetrated his stomach was lifting him up.

She tried to scream when she realized that the tentacles contained organs and organs that appeared to be hers.

“Guuu.

With the air forced out of the already torn and shattered lungs, only a deflated sound escaped my throat.

Soon, several more tentacles pierced her body and she, too, turned into blood.

The tote bag she was wearing fell into a puddle of her own blood and turned red.

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“Lower… Lower jaw.”

Yun Sia ran with her feet like crazy.

She was some distance away from the oval that gave off an unknown purple light, and fortunately, the people gathered near the oval fell to pieces, giving her some time, so she was able to increase the distance from the monsters.

What are those monsters?

Yoon Sia’s brain was overloaded and she was unable to properly judge the situation. In fact, not only she but everyone here was like that.

I don’t know what the hell it is. All I could do was run away from a phenomenon that could only be described as a literal disaster.

Fortunately, those ball-like monsters were slow to advance. Although it spewed out its tentacles quite far, Yoon Sia’s running speed was faster.

Being part of the track and field team in middle school is helpful here. For a brief moment, Yoon Sia thought about that.

“Ahh!”

Yoon Sia was suddenly pushed by a hand that protruded from the side, causing her to fall and roll.

Many people were running away from the monsters. It was like a wave of waves.

It seemed like someone who was running away in fear accidentally pushed the woman in front of her.

My knee scraped against the asphalt and got a big scratch, but I didn’t have time to fall down. Those monsters will continue to chase.

She reflexively got up and tried to run away again.

“… Ah.”

Is it about 30 meters in front of her? The phenomenon she had seen earlier was happening again.

However, this time the speed was much faster. In the blink of an eye, which lasted only a few seconds, space folded and a purple oval appeared.

And monsters started pouring out of it.

A different humanoid monster from before.

However, there was only a large mouth with sharp teeth and no eyes, and long blade-like nails sprouted from the fingers of both arms.

The other guy had grotesquely twisted hands and feet and moved quadrupedally with twisted hands and feet.

A thought passed through Yoon Sia’s head as if an army of demons from hell had invaded.

“Ahhhh!”

“Save me!! Mom!!”

“Local! No!!”

The monsters that suddenly jumped out in front literally slaughtered the refugees.

Its sharp teeth crushed human skulls with ease, and its sprouted claws cut humans to pieces with a single swing.

Yoon Si-ah, who watched blankly as the monsters bit off the head of a man in his 20s who was running in front, jumped into the building next door.

It was already surrounded by monsters protruding from portal-like objects that appeared in front and behind. There was nowhere to run on the main street.

I suddenly thought about going up to the building and hiding, but decided to run through the building and escape through the back door.

When I briefly looked at the sky, at first glance, there were more than five oval-shaped gates, and flying monsters were literally coming out of them.

The monsters were flying into the buildings, breaking the front windows and attacking the people inside.

‘ji… subway. Okay, let’s take the subway.’

Remembering that Seoul’s subway stations are used as bomb shelters when a disaster occurs, Yoon Sia decided to take refuge in the subway station.

Fortunately, Mapo Station was close to where she was currently located.

Leaving behind the screaming citizens fleeing the monsters, Yoon Sia ran through the building toward the subway station.