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514 – Straightforwardly Kill

514 – Straightforwardly Kill

Gyeoul is terrified.

Hanyeoreum wanted to say something, but unfortunately, only one-way communication was possible at the moment.

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“Hah…”

Hanyeoreum let out a deep sigh and turned up the volume on the tablet.

It was to find out what situation Gyeoul was in.

Bang-! Bang-!

-Argh…!

The sound of knocking on the door and the shaking camera.

Did a zombie appear nearby while he was alone, triggering Gyeoul’s forgotten trauma?

Crunch-

Hanyeoreum, who had been biting her nails, thought of Gaeul who might still be sleeping in the room.

“G-Gaeul!”

Hanyeoreum shook the sleeping Gaeul’s body.

Gaeul, who still wanted to sleep more, put a pillow over her face in her drowsy state.

“Gaeul, wake up for a moment! Okay?!”

“Nnng…”

“Gaeul! It’s really an emergency!”

“No… Gaeuli no…”

Gaeul shook her head under the pillow.

It wasn’t Hanyeoreum’s way to wake up a child who needed to sleep well, but it was an emergency, so she had no choice.

“Gaeul, can’t you get up just once…? Gyeoul is in danger…”

At Hanyeoreum’s quiet mutter, the pillow covering Gaeul’s face flew up to the ceiling.

“Gyeoul?!”

Gaeul’s eyes flashed, and even the children who were in deep sleep opened their eyes.

It was quite a surprising scene for Hanyeoreum to see the children who usually sleep late all wake up at once.

“Wang?!”

“What’s wrong with Gyeoul?”

The children kicked off their blankets and got up.

Among them, Gaeul ran to the living room without asking any questions.

“Gyeoul! Gyeouuul!”

Hanyeoreum chased after Gaeul, who was running while screaming.

When they arrived at the living room, there was only one portal sitting alone.

“Ah…!”

Hanyeoreum hurriedly rushed towards the portal.

Levinas and the other children also ran to the portal, but.

Boing-!

An inexplicable wall bounced them back.

It felt as if it wouldn’t allow anyone but Gaeul to approach.

“Wang! Waaang!”

“Gyeoul!”

“M-Master…”

Knock knock knock knock-

The children pounded on the portal with their fists.

Hanyeoreum stepped back and watched the situation.

‘This is…’

Hanyeoreum had often seen this before in the past.

A mysterious dungeon that doesn’t allow entry to those who are unqualified.

Gaeul wouldn’t have deliberately blocked everyone from entering.

Did something prevent everyone except Gaeul from approaching?

Hanyeoreum felt anxious, but decided to keep watching for now.

The dungeon probably wasn’t created to ruthlessly kill Gyeoul and Gaeul.

“Kids, for now…”

“Yah!”

Just as Hanyeoreum was about to calm the children down.

Levinas threw a handful of something towards the portal.

It was a large amount of seeds.

The portal that didn’t allow people through lets the seeds pass.

Will those seeds help the children?

Hanyeoreum could only hope so.

**

“What should I do…”

Hidden under the desk, I quickly racked my brain.

I pondered how to escape from the dungeon.

‘Should I deal with all the zombies?’

All the zombies, whose numbers I don’t even know?

That’s too difficult…

‘I don’t have that many arrows either.’

Thanks to the magic quiver, I had plenty of arrows, but it didn’t seem enough to face all the zombies in this world.

‘There must be a reason why the dungeon opened in front of me.’

What exactly does the dungeon want from me?

As I was seriously contemplating.

Thump-!

Someone stomped on the desk I was hiding under.

“…!”

The footsteps sounded familiar, but this was a dungeon.

I covered my mouth and quietly hid under the desk.

Thump- Thump-

The sound of stepping on the desk was so familiar.

Gaeul used to walk with this kind of feeling, but could it be?

It was a moment when I focused all my senses on hearing.

“Kaku!”

Gaeul poked her face out from above the desk.

“Nyaaah!”

Startled by the sudden appearance, I jumped up like a cat.

As a result, I bumped my head on the desk ceiling.

“Gyeoul?”

“G-Gaeul…”

Bang-! Bang-!

“Argh!”

Reacting to my scream, the zombies roughly pounded on the door.

As my ears perked up in surprise, Gaeul put her hand on my head.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

“Are you okay?”

“Yep. Gaeuli too, hug.”

Gaeul smiled brightly and stretched out her head.

I patted her head like Gaeul had done for me.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

“Heh…!”

Patting her head felt somehow familiar.

I felt my mind clearing and becoming more stable.

“Gaeul, did I often do this to you in the past?”

“Yep!”

“I see.”

As my mind cleared, I was able to think properly.

There were only three zombies pounding on the door.

I wasn’t weak enough to be scared of just three.

“Gaeul, let’s take care of the zombies first. More might gather because of that noise.”

“Let’s go!”

I moved towards the door with Gaeul.

Using the function Shinhae-il had added, I turned my bow into a longbow and shot a regular arrow at the door where the zombies were.

Crack-! Thud-!

The empowered arrow pierced through the iron door and penetrated the head of a zombie that was pounding on the door from behind.

After dealing with two more zombies in the same way, the sound of pounding on the door disappeared.

“Gaeul, let’s clear this together.”

“Yep!”

Gaeul and I moved the desk and other objects that were blocking the door to the side.

For some reason, this moment with Gaeul felt so familiar.

“It feels nostalgic somehow.”

Even though it should be a scary situation, Gaeul was calmly accepting the situation.

Looking closely, Gaeul’s tail was wagging a little.

Did Gaeul and I live like this in the zombie world?

Tilting my head, I went inside the door and pulled out the arrow stuck in the zombie’s forehead.

‘I’m sorry.’

I pulled the arrow from between the eyebrows of those who must have been people in the past.

It was a horrific scene, but thanks to Gaeul’s presence, I was able to maintain my composure.

“I’ll retrieve the arrows first.”

I pulled out the arrow stuck in the zombie’s forehead.

Blood oozed out, but there was no worry of infection.

The flow of mana was similar to the zombies I had seen in my world.

The zombies in this world seemed to be born from mana as well.

‘If it’s mana, there’s no need to worry about infection.’

While I was lost in thought for a moment, Gaeul started dragging the zombie somewhere.

The place Gaeul took the zombie to was none other than above the broken window.

“Gaeul, what are you doing?”

“Not okay.”

“It’s not okay?”

“Yep.”

Gaeul pushed the zombie out the window.

I didn’t bother looking down at the zombie falling from the tall building.

“You’re clearing away the zombie corpses?”

“Yep! Infection!”

“Infection… I see.”

When corpses rot, they cause various problems, so it’s not good to leave them in the living area.

Gaeul really knows a lot.

I patted Gaeul’s head, telling her she did well.

“Let’s clear away the other zombie corpses too, and make this our living space for now.”

“Yep!”

Gaeul and I cleared away the zombies together.

As we dragged the zombies and threw them out the window, something that looked like seeds flew out the window, brushed off the zombie corpses.

‘That’s…’

It looked exactly like the vine seeds Levinas often used.

Of course, Levinas isn’t here, so they can’t be his seeds, right?

I patted Gaeul’s head while watching the seeds flying far away out the window.

At first, I was so scared.

But with Gaeul, there was nothing to be afraid of.

Is that how we were able to survive in the past, thanks to being together with Gaeul?

Feeling inexplicably happy, I hugged Gaeul tightly.

Then Gaeul looked at me with bright eyes.

“Gyeoul!”

“Yes?”

“Gaeuli will protect you.”

Even without licking a gem, Gaeul spoke quite a long sentence clearly.

My tail started wagging quickly at Gaeul’s sincere words.

**

Hanyeoreum bit her lip as she looked down at the tablet.

They cleared away the corpses from the living area to prevent rotting and problems, and set up primitive alarms using broken glass.

They spoke quietly to avoid attracting zombies, and sometimes communicated only with hand gestures.

Their familiarity with the zombie world showed how Gyeoul and Gaeul had survived.

‘Was living in the tent relatively easier back then?’

Hah.

Sighing, Summer looked at the children gathered around the tablet.

Even though zombies are terrifying creatures, none of the children were covering their eyes.

“Kids, you don’t have to watch if you’re scared.”

“We’re fine for now! If there’s a scary scene, Levinas will cover his eyes like this!”

“…Are you very worried about Gyeoul and Gaeul?”

“No!”

Hanyeoreum’s eyes widened at Levinas’ confident appearance.

She thought they would be worried about Gyeoul and Gaeul, but they didn’t seem particularly concerned.

“You’re not worried?”

“Nope! Wang is invincible! And Gaeul puppy is with him too! Levinas also threw seeds!”

“Ah…”

Did their faith in their family erase their worries?

Hanyeoreum smiled lightly and then looked at the tablet.

“Gaeul, when we meet zombies, we run away immediately without fighting, okay?”

“I know!”

The children making plans to deal with zombies.

Their familiar-looking behavior only made her feel frustrated.

Author’s Note (Afterword)

PIA1747014585384, thank you so much for reading today as well!

Thank you also for recommending in the comments! It’s always encouraging!

It was a chapter where the surrounding characters learned how Gyeoul and Gaeul were able to survive…!

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