episode_0055

While walking around the library, I couldn’t take my eyes off the surrounding scenery for even a moment.

It was the same for other people too.

Paper and leather. parchment. And with the bookshelves, all kinds of terrain were created.

I stopped walking.

Jeong Hae-won laughed helplessly and held his bangs.

“Wow… … . This is a bit absurd.”

In front of us, a steep valley stretched out.

Fighting.

Things disappearing below make a mournful sound.

These are books pulled out of bookshelves at precarious angles and fragments of broken bookshelf.

“Dabin. What should I do?”

Serim Choi asked, but I was preoccupied with other thoughts.

Where do all the fallen books go?

Thanks to my excellent aptitude for observing anomalies, my eyes saw more.

Paper. The letters written inside are sucked into a dark place, and at the last moment they flicker for a very brief moment. At the same time, it shows a gigantic being devouring all information.

Empty eyes.

Stars floating around.

And flowing black flesh is wrapped around translucent teeth.

Something I could see down there was something I couldn’t reach with my senses.

“Dabin?”

“… … Just a moment.”

“Oppa, aren’t you watching something strange again?”

Before I knew it, Da-ju was next to me and asked me a question.

The voice is full of worry, without any of the usual playfulness.

“You know that if you keep looking at that, you’ll go crazy, right?”

Ugh.

Dajoo puts his hand on my shoulder for the first time in a long time.

“I’ll give you 3 seconds, so look away.”

“Yes.”

I looked away.

what. “It’s not fun,” I hear Daju muttering in a regretful voice.

Instead, Jeong Hae-won sat next to me.

“Huh? Is there something over there?”

Da-ju Yoon grabs the back of Jeong Hae-won, who is trying to look into the abyss without thinking, and pulls him.

A painful scream comes straight out of Jeong Hae-won’s mouth.

“Ah! Ah!”

“You didn’t listen to me?”

“Ah. I heard. But I’m curious. Ah!”

“Really? I’m going to harass you every time I’m curious.”

There is no devil in Daju Yoon’s hand tightening and tormenting the other person.

Jeong Hae-won frowned and tapped Da-joo’s hand.

“Ah! sister! ah! It really hurts.”

Jeong Hae-won is finally released.

To Jeong Hae-won, who grumbles, “Why are you being so hard on me?” Da-ju replies with a grin.

“You’re not cute.”

Meanwhile, Da-ju Yoon casts a glance in my direction. My eyes feel sticky for some reason.

What was written on the laptop last time?

I fucked Da-bin Lim… … want?

I get goosebumps, and without realizing it, my arms come together towards my body.

“It’s cold.”

I gently stroked my forearm and looked at the length of the valley as I passed by.

The cliffs spread out endlessly as if they were the end of the land that you can walk to. No matter what lies down there, you should never fall into it.

“Let’s just find a suitable place around here as much as possible. At night, what was it?”

“Monk.”

Serim Choi added an explanation in the middle.

I nodded slightly and continued speaking.

“Yes. Since people in monastic robes come out, a place that is too open is not appropriate. Now I don’t have enough time to build a house or anything. I guess I’ll have to find a place like a cave.”

“Right?”

“Yes. No matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t make sense to cross that.”

The cliff is so wide that an entire building can fall into it.

Whether it’s building a bridge or throwing a rope. No matter what I do, I can’t bring myself to cross.

“But since I keep seeing flat hallways, I don’t know if this will be enough time… … .”

There are also concessions in the records I read. They say there is a place that looks like a village created by survivors, but strangely enough, the place we passed was only flat land.

As I was thinking about what I was saying, Jeong Hae-won’s voice stuck in my complicated mind.

“Now that I think about it, it looks like he’s playing Minecraft. At night, monsters come out.”

“You play Minecraft because you’re a high school student.”

After reprimanding Jeong Hae-won for talking nonsense, I stopped walking and placed my hand on the bookshelf.

Raise your head and look at the sky. The stained glass covering the ceiling has suddenly changed its color. To a more intense color. From white and yellow to a red color that resembles a sunset. A faint green remnant floats on the vivid orange border. .slowly. Night was falling at the library.

There is something strange.

Even though the library is obviously a space closed off with walls, a cold wind blows.

The sound of someone whispering is heard mixed in with the wind. listen carefully Old and young voices were praying together.

Daju asks from next to me, moving her eyes from side to side anxiously.

“Did you hear it too?”

“Yes. You too?”

Daju Yoon nods. Everyone else did the same.

I can hear the prayers more and more clearly.

[Stat Rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.]

The more I listen to it, the more I feel like my body is losing strength. I couldn’t give another reason, but I knew it instinctively. You need to find a place to hide as quickly as possible.

As I looked into the abyss beneath my feet, I made up my mind.

“Let’s just camp here. I think it’s too late to keep moving.”

“This is just flat land? Are you okay?”

Choi Se-rim is worried.

I looked down the cliff and examined the shape.

It is a very steep cliff, but there are a few protruding parts below. We were also able to find a space that was flat enough for several people to stand on it.

After choosing the most suitable place, I opened my mouth.

“You know it’s cliff camping, right?”

As soon as I spoke up, Jeong Hae-won started freaking out.

“No, that’s not true, right?”

“Go all the way down there, see that protruding area? Let’s spend the night up there.”

“Oh. Sounds fun.”

Daju looks as excited as always, so now there is only one person left.

I turned my head towards Choi Se-rim.

“What do you think, sister?”

“Yes. I think it’s best to do as Dabin thinks.”

Choi Se-rim looks down the cliff.

“But have you thought about how to get down there? I brought some rope, but no nails or hammers.”

“Just a rope is enough.”

The wind blows from below to above.

My long hair hit my face, and I had to move.

Daju, who was watching the scene, intervenes and says something.

“Oppa, I have to cut my hair later.”

“Noisy.”

After interrupting Daju Yoon’s conversation, I went back to talking about the cliff.

“I don’t know if this is a rock wall, but they’re all bookshelves, right? Going up and down will be much easier.”

“Uh… … . What if I fall?”

This is Jeong Hae-won.

“I have to die.”

After spitting out an answer, I prepared to go down.

“It’s just a joke, you just have to be careful not to miss the rope.”

I took out gloves from my bag and put them on.

“I’ll tie the rope there, so let’s go down one by one.”

Then, take out a rope and tie it to the pillar of the bookshelf. As it is large, it can easily support at least one person.

After finishing the work, I looked back at the people.

“Who do you want to go down first?”

“… … .”

Jeong Hae-won too. Choi Se-rim too. Even Daju Yoon. No one steps forward.

“Daju?”

“For things like this, you should go first.”

Daju grins and picks me up and places me in front of the cliff.

“Fighting!”

“Oh, no. Of course I thought you would go first.”

“A. Why me?”

Hehe, Daju smiles and tilts her head.

“By the way. Oppa, it’s been a while since you’re cute?”

“I’ll just go first. Yes.”

I tied the rope around my wrist and went down.

The angle was really steep, but going down the cliff was easier than I thought.

Because it was not just a cliff, but a terrain made of bookshelves.

You can put your feet between books or hold on to an empty bookshelf with your hands.

“Phew… … .”

My strength is okay, but this body. I definitely don’t have enough stamina.

I had to close my eyes tightly because beads of sweat got into my eyes.

Both hands are supporting the body.

I feel an uncomfortable and stinging sensation, and tears start to leak out.

I also heard this somewhere.

In rock climbing, it is said that establishing the first route is the most important.

A bolt is driven into a rock and a rope is fixed to it. The rope is later retrieved by the climber, but the bolt remains on the rock wall and serves as a guide for the next person.

My case is a little different, I don’t need to go through the trouble of putting in bolts or anything like that. There is no change in the importance of this work.

You must reach the target point and secure the other end of the rope.

That way, other people can grab the rope and come down.

Fighting.

“Wow.”

Several books are pulled out from under my feet and disappear below.

Books gradually become smaller and then disappear completely.

The information contained on the paper emits its final light.

Something underneath that can be seen at a glance.

[7]

[6]

X

[2]!

[One]

[???]

[7]

[6]

X

[2]!

[One]

[???]

I looked at it as if I was being sucked in for a moment. I soon decided to focus on my goal.

Fix your gaze on the target point and leap.

one. two.

Soon, my feet touched the flat ground with a clicking sound.

A flat space created by a huge bookshelf falling backwards. There would be no problem staying here with about 10 people.

He fastened a rope to a nearby pillar and called the people above.

“It’s all over, so come down!”

“Come down!”

“Come!”

There is an echo.

No answer comes back.

“What happened upstairs?”

“Have something happened?”

“Really?”

“?”

The echo rings again.

There is no voice coming back this time either.