Ch.68068 – Suicide Squad 3

# 068 – Suicide Squad # 3

Kwon Suho and Hong Miri seemed to know each other.

In a way, it made sense.

Kwon Suho was the third-generation heir of Oseong Group currently attending Yeongji High.

A well-known troublemaker in Gaeryong City.

Meanwhile, Hong Miri was a popular English teacher at school.

It wouldn’t be strange if there was some connection between them.

“Teacher. I heard you have some kind of talisman that can get us out of here? Hand it over now.”

“I don’t want to. And are you really in a position to talk like that? If you don’t want trouble with the Chairman, stay quiet. Before your father comes kneeling in front of me again like last time.”

“…What did you say, you fucking bitch?”

Sparks seemed to fly between Kwon Suho and Hong Miri.

If they started fighting, I might be able to take advantage of the situation.

I shouted toward Kwon Suho.

“Hyung! Hong Miri said she kills people who don’t have talismans! She said dying is a way to escape! She’s probably going to kill you too! Run away!”

If Kwon Suho really had supernatural abilities, he would understand that my words were true.

His eyes flashed with realization.

“Hong Miri is completely insane.”

Pat-!

Kwon Suho lunged at Hong Miri.

He charged with a low stance and arms spread wide, looking just like an MMA fighter.

Thud-!

Kwon Suho grabbed Hong Miri and threw her down on the women’s bathroom floor.

Even Hong Miri couldn’t withstand the grappling technique of a 190cm muscular giant, and she screamed while struggling.

“Aaaaargh! You son of a bitch! Aaaaargh!”

“Stay still! Where did you hide the talisman!”

From a distance, he looked like a thug assaulting a woman.

Actually, that’s what it looked like up close too.

Would the fight end with Kwon Suho stealing the talisman?

No, if that happened, my chances of getting the talisman would decrease even further.

When Hong Miri had the talisman, I might have had a chance to take it from her.

But if I had to fight Kwon Suho, a well-built male student, I’d lose nine times out of ten.

“You fucking bitch! You dare look down on me? Die, you whore! Do we still look like those lowlifes who just sell things and make money in such a vulgar way?”

Thud-! Thud thud-!

Kwon Suho’s rock-like fists struck Hong Miri’s face and pummeled her stomach.

He clearly intended to kill her.

But Hong Miri’s resistance was also formidable.

Even while being beaten one-sidedly, she clawed at him with her hands and feet as if trying to fight back.

Crack-!

His massive hand, large enough to palm a basketball, squeezed Hong Miri’s neck.

Hong Miri struggled desperately to resist, but it seemed futile.

“You son of a… bitch! Do you think… you’ll get away with this? I’ll tell… the Chairman everything…!”

“Hehehehe, if you die here, you’ll forget everything, right?”

“…!”

“What’s wrong? I’ve had that much education too. Half-breeds like you are different from me from birth. I’m the protagonist of this world. So lie flat beneath me and crawl…”

Gack, gaaack-.

Hong Miri struggled in extreme pain, flailing her arms and legs.

If things continued like this, the fight would end with Hong Miri’s one-sided defeat.

And if Hong Miri was defeated one-sidedly, my life would clearly be in danger too.

From what I heard, it seemed Hong Miri actually had more authority than Kwon Suho.

It seemed she was a trusted subordinate of Chairman Cheon Daegon.

This meant that Chairman Cheon Daegon’s power behind Hong Miri was more formidable than Oseong Group behind Kwon Suho.

Which meant this scene was essentially an act of rebellion. It seemed Kwon Suho wanted to eliminate Hong Miri, the witness and involved party, to make it as if nothing had happened.

Kwon Suho seemed to know that people lose their memories when they die in this corridor.

And that meant there was a high probability that Kwon Suho would kill me too, as a witness to this incident.

In other words, Hong Miri’s defeat also meant my death.

“When I was a freshman, you acted so high and mighty, but look at you now, you fucking bitch! In the end, you’re beneath me, completely helpless! Because of you, my dad hit me with a golf club!”

Is it just my imagination? Somehow the mechanism seems to have changed from “killing” to “assaulting.”

And this seemed like a golden opportunity for me!

“Stop it! Don’t hurt Ms. Miri! Hyung! This doesn’t seem right! Let’s resolve this through conversation! Hyung! Do you really want to see me go crazy…!? Hyung! Hyuuuung!”

I quickly calculated my move but pretended to know nothing as I pulled at Kwon Suho’s hair and ears. I also grabbed his arm and pulled.

Kwon Suho was shocked.

“What the hell, you retard! Get lost! Fuck off!”

That hurts my feelings.

But did he think I’d back off because of that?

“There must be a way for all of us to escape! Hyung! You know I’m not lying! Don’t fight!”

“Hey! You bastard! Let go! Aaaah!”

When I jabbed my finger into Kwon Suho’s eye, he couldn’t bear it anymore and finally screamed.

“Aaaah! You fucking bastard! I’ll kill you too!”

As Kwon Suho clutched his eye and fell backward, Hong Miri struggled to get up and lunged at him in return.

Then something shocking happened.

Crunch, chomp-!

Hong Miri bit Kwon Suho’s nape hard.

Blood began to spurt like a fountain, and the area was filled with bright red bloodstains and the smell of blood.

“Aaaaargh! Aaaaargh!”

Kwon Suho screamed frantically.

But that didn’t last long.

Thud-.

Kwon Suho stopped moving.

He was dead.

“Where do you think you’re going, making trouble for people? Dogs always think they’re equal to humans when you treat them a little nicely, and they try to climb up.”

Ptui-.

Hong Miri spat something out.

I didn’t really want to know what it was.

Anyway, the fight ended with Hong Miri’s victory.

But could this really be called a victory?

Hong Miri’s left arm was broken at the forearm, bent in an L-shape.

She had been beaten severely earlier, so her internal organs and ribs must have been severely damaged too.

But Hong Miri showed no sign of pain.

“Teacher, your arm…”

“What? It’s broken.”

Hong Miri grabbed her left arm with her right hand and pulled it as if assembling bones.

Crack. Crack-.

The sound was painful just to hear, but Hong Miri’s expression didn’t change at all.

Come to think of it, Hong Miri didn’t scream even once when Kwon Suho was beating her earlier.

Could it be that she couldn’t feel pain?

Something like analgesia?

It made sense.

But even if she couldn’t feel pain, the damage to her body didn’t disappear.

Hong Miri sat down, breathing heavily, and looked very exhausted.

“Ha Yeongwon. You… bastard… If you’re going to come in, come in now.”

Hong Miri covered in blood was scarier than when she was the ghost with the red mask.

She was emanating murderous intent.

“This is fucked up.”

Swish-.

Hong Miri pulled out a talisman from between her breasts with her intact right hand.

Before I could do anything, she tore it and it disappeared like dust.

She had escaped.

“So you can tear it, not just burn it?”

I thought you had to burn the talisman.

That’s what Dahui had told me.

But if tearing it works too… that’s actually better.

“Yeongwon!”

Just then, someone called me from the bathroom entrance.

“Dahui? Yu Dahui?”

“Shh! Come quickly! The shaman is coming this way soon! It was too noisy!”

# # #

I joined Yu Dahui in this blood-soaked nightmare.

Entering “1-4,” I felt a wave of relief wash over me as if all the blood had drained from my body.

I’m alive.

That’s what I thought.

Kwon Suho. Hong Miri.

What just happened felt like a dream.

In a sense, it was a dream.

Anyway, I gained several important pieces of information today.

It was worth sending this suicide squad into the Nightmare Corridor.

The problem was that I needed to escape alive to remember all this.

“Dahui. Do you happen to have a talisman?”

I could tell that the talisman on the first floor was gone.

Soon Dahui spoke.

“Yes. I have a paper crane. If I release it, it can locate the nearest shrine with a talisman.”

Swish-.

Yu Dahui showed me a paper crane.

It was literally a crane folded from paper.

It was very small.

“Grandpa said it was my mom’s keepsake. I lost it in reality, but somehow it’s always in my pocket here.”

So Yu Dahui always starts with that crane as an item.

That’s why Yu Dahui could easily find shrines.

Good information.

Ding. Ding.

The sound of bells was heard.

“……”

“……”

Both Dahui and I fell silent.

I suddenly became curious.

“Dahui. This might be a random question, but what kind of person was your mother?”

“…I don’t know well. Grandpa and others are reluctant to talk about her. The new lady who came said my mom was a very bad person. She didn’t listen to grandpa and only did bad things.”

She doesn’t seem to know that the shaman ghost wandering outside is her mother.

That’s what it looked like.

As I was thinking this, Yu Dahui handed something to me.

“Yeongwon. Get out of here. You shouldn’t be in a place like this.”

It was a talisman.

An escape talisman.

“You want me to leave?”

Honestly, I was extremely happy.

I wanted to shout with joy and break into a dance.

But if I leave like this… what about Yu Dahui?

Yu Dahui was caught and killed by Hong Miri last time.

According to the corridor’s rules, she would have gained a Quirk.

And people who accumulate two Quirks die.

In other words, if Yu Dahui doesn’t escape this time, death is her only option, and the result would mean real death in reality.

Yu Dahui said:

“Yeongwon, you helped me. I’m repaying that debt.”

“…You mean finding Baekseol? No. Even so… Dahui. I’ll tell you now. Last time, you helped me escape and then got caught and killed by the red mask.”

“…Really?”

“If you die again, you’ll really die. Dahui. I know. If you send me away like this, you’ll die. You’ll really die in reality too. Are you okay with that…?”

Just now, I told Yu Dahui almost everything truthfully.

I felt I could trust Yu Dahui since she readily offered me the talisman.

Yu Dahui was silent for a moment.

After thinking for a while, she said:

“It’s okay. Sometimes there’s an exit door on this first floor. It doesn’t open often, but if it’s open today, we might be able to get out through there.”

A door! An exit!

There was such a thing!

Come to think of it, Yu Dahui knew the location of the exit when playing the game “The Abyss Corridor,” right?

It wouldn’t be strange if there was an exit in this nightmare corridor, which was very similar to that game.

“Where is that exit? Let’s go together.”

Let’s go to the exit together and then think about what to do next.

That was my plan.

I left “1-4” with Yu Dahui.

The corridor was quieter than I expected.

With the map, finding the exit wasn’t difficult.

“Here. The large drawing is the exit. It’s really convenient with the ‘map.'”

“Really?”

We headed to the exit together.

And we found the school entrance firmly blocked with chains.

“Is it blocked?”

“This means… we can’t get out.”

The moment of choice had finally come.

In the end, one of us had to stay behind.

I thought hard and decided to be honest with Dahui.

“Dahui. I still want to escape using the talisman.”

“……”

Dahui held out the talisman to me.

I gave it back to Yu Dahui.

“Not this. Give me that paper crane. I’ll leave using the talisman on the second floor.”

If Yu Dahui died because of me here, she might appear to me as a high school girl ghost.

I decided to help Yu Dahui escape first.

And I’ll go to the second floor!

I’m opening up the second floor now!

No matter what’s there, if I have Yu Dahui’s paper crane, I should be able to find a shrine!