episode_0032

Cabrini Green, Miller Town, north of Silverside.

A white rat, which caused a sudden swarm of rats, is lost in thought in a ruin.

A liquid-filled container attached to the abdomen of a crude shell.

The white rat was controlling the artificial body inside the container using only its thoughts.

A white rat escaped from an abandoned factory in Silverside and was soon caught by someone.

I don’t know their faces.

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a container full of strange liquid.

But if there is a difference in the child…

The child now has a prosthetic body that can move at will, and the power to control his compatriots.

The child’s parents and siblings were born on the human test bench and died on the test table.

I didn’t want that to happen.

All the child could do was hope that humans would not choose him.

Not yourself, but your mother, not yourself, but your father.

Not yourself, but your brothers…

I have lived my short life in fear and fear.

Surprisingly, the child survived the experiment.

But humans were not like that. Other humans killed humans.

In the sudden chaos, the child was able to run away.

In the process, a girl with turquoise eyes saw the child, and the child also saw the girl.

After gaining strength and prosthesis, the child realized that he was not alone.

The child’s compatriots that exist in this city, countless compatriots.

Although no one told him, the child provided direction to his fellow countrymen.

The child felt a change, and his fellow countrymen also felt the same.

The world was no longer a place full of fear and fear for the child.

The child decided to take revenge on those who had bullied him, his family, and his people.

The artificial body moved as the child thought.

Numerous compatriots rushed in the direction pointed by the body, their red eyes shining.

It gave a nightmare to many people in Miller Town.

But this wasn’t enough.

Something huge is approaching from the west. The compatriots who had entered Miller Town disappeared from the north and east.

There was no place for the child to go but south.

And despite how I gained freedom, I had no intention of dying while trapped here.

The child… started heading south.

Just to survive.

***

While something is moving south.

I and the Blue Heart Office welcomed the addition of Ildong Office.

“We’ve done all the work, so it’s finally here.”

“What? hey! We all had our own circumstances.”

To Astoby’s dissatisfied voice, Deokbae? who had a star-shaped scar next to Ilseong responded.

“It’s not wrong, so you can reduce our share from this compensation.”

“We’ll discuss that later. Because the situation is not over yet.”

Sylvia responded to Ilsung’s words by saying that it was still too early to make such a judgment.

Astoby whispered to Sylvia as if it was a waste, but Sylvia comforted her.

“Hello, Youngmin!”

I spoke as I landed on Youngmin’s head.

Of course, it was not his real appearance, but the appearance of a baby bat.

“Chris, are you used to that look now?”

“Yes, there is no harm in getting used to transformation anyway.”

Saying that, I returned to my normal self.

Of course, Youngmin didn’t transform right on top of his head.

As I jumped above my head and released my transformation in an appropriate place, I began to hear a strange sound from somewhere.

-Chiiik.

It was the sound of my body burning in the morning sun.

“Chris?”

Youngmin was embarrassed, but I calmly checked my belongings.

“Tskcha.”

Force field parasol!

This was the item I received last time when I helped the manager of a subcontractor who had turned into a gargoyle.

When I pressed the button on the parasol, a blue force field appeared! And it unfolded.

“Now that I think about it, vampires are weak to sunlight.”

“It doesn’t really matter, but it sounds like a hamburger patty being grilled.”

“Hahaha!”

Ilseong laughed out loud after hearing what I said.

“Mr. Il-seong, Mr. Deok-su. I will share the information so far, so please come here.”

Sylvia and Cat Mom hurriedly took the two away.

The remaining members of the office were left to wait for a moment.

“Chris.”

“Sila!”

Before I knew it, I quickly hugged Silas who had come towards me. The hand-painted figure was cute and pretty… but the cat figure wasn’t bad either.

When I called Silas cute, Youngmin’s eyes changed.

What, are you really jealous of animals?

Youngmin’s unexpected reaction was truly embarrassing.

I used to be a guy, but now I’m a kid, so I feel uncertain about my gender identity.

Plus, I felt like I was getting used to this kid’s body.

Even our thoughts and reactions become more and more assimilated.

“Youngmin, can you hold this parasol for a moment?”

“Yes.”

Instead, I gave Youngmin a specific role.

Youngmin put a smile on his face as he held up the stationmaster’s umbrella for me.

Looking at things like that, Youngmin is really naive, right?

However, a delicate atmosphere continued between Youngmin and Silas.

‘These are just… no.’

There was nothing bad about it because it was popular.

But this kind of war of nerves was not very welcome.

I tried my best to keep them from feeling jealous, but it was virtually impossible.

If you do something nice to one person, the other person gets jealous.

Fortunately, this situation was able to end with the return of Il-seong and Deok-su, who had followed Sylvia and Cat Mom.

***

Some members of the All Office followed Astobi and Datihi and were deployed to strengthen the defense posture of Cat Mom’s stronghold.

Ilsung, Deoksu, and Youngmin. The three followed Sylvia and approached the entrance to the sewer.

Coincidentally, I joined the sewer team.

“How about it? Are you feeling better now?”

“Sister. How about seeing it for yourself?”

Johnny’s words made me wonder what the situation was like.

I quickly checked the inside of the iron cage illuminated by a searchlight while holding Silas in my arms.

Then, it was confirmed that a small number of rats were heading north.

There are only a few rats on the move, but…

In the meantime, there was an optical illusion that appeared to be a lot of corpses of rats whose blood was sucked by mosquitoes or who died from Martin’s toxic gas.

“It looks like Martin’s gas was effective.”

“Yes, I think this is a pretty good result.”

“It’s not okay. As expected, it was a good idea to call Sylvia.”

Cat Mom joined Ilseong and Sylvia’s conversation and began praising our Blue Heart Office.

“Then I will handle the rest.”

“What? Do you want to go in there?”

Johnny was startled by Ilsung’s words.

“I happened to get a decent weapon from the Shining Sea.”

Ilseong tried to get into the grate at the entrance to the sewer.

Johnny looked at me, and I looked at Sylvia. This time Sylvia looked at Cat Mom.

“…Well, I can’t help it.”

Cat Mom said that and opened the window with the key.

The sight of Ilseong, a Doberman beast, entering the sewer wearing a black coat was quite intimidating.

Despite Ilsung’s appearance, the few rats were moving steadily.

Meanwhile, the corpses of dead rats and mosquitoes were mixed with the sewage, creating a terrible evil.

“Phew….”

Ilseong, who already has a sensitive sense of smell as a dog owner, seemed to regret his decision.

But that too was just a moment.

A fleeting moment.

-Percussion!

Ilseong took out a sword from his chest and slashed it toward the bottom of the sewer.

As I looked at Ilseong through the bars, I did not feel any sound.

The loud squeaking sound of rats inside the sewer.

The sound of Youngmin talking and Silas yawning.

Even the sound of Sylvia, Cat Mom, and other solvers talking.

All those sounds stopped momentarily, deafening my ears.

One change occurred immediately afterwards.

With a blinding flash, dark red electricity filled the sewer.

Sewage was flowing in the sewer, although it was obscured by piles of dead rat corpses.

The dark red electricity electrocuted the rats that were still running safely along the sewage.

In an instant, the squeak of the rats turned into the stench of electricity.

“Ugh, what is this smell?”

Ilsung trudged out the entrance of the sewer as if he had finished his work.

Badek and David closed the bars again, covering their noses.

Johnny used his searchlight to shine around the space inside the sewer.

“What, did they all die just because of that?”

“All the rats near this would have been electrocuted.”

“Ilsung, you. You said you went to the shining sea, is that what you got there?”

“Yes, they said it was Hromund’s sword.”

Ilsung gave a simple answer to the questions of me and Cat Mom.

Hromund’s sword? Ah, there was such a weapon. It was definitely one of the legendary weapons with the lightning attribute.

Among weapons that could emit a large amount of electricity in that way, it was not a bad weapon.

***

When Ilsung released a large amount of electricity into the sewer.

The white rat, the culprit of all these incidents, was moving from Miller Town towards Silver Side.

And not on the ground, but through the sewers.

The artificial body and the white rat’s body were attacked together by a sudden electric shock.

Blood began to fill the child’s red eyes, and the movements of the body became more sluggish.

But the child was not afraid of anything.

The artificial body pointed with a crude finger in the direction the child wanted.

Then the rats that were nearby or that were not affected by the electricity emitted by Hromund’s sword began to flock in a hurry.

“What?! Where did it come from?!”

I said, horrified at the sight of the swarm of rats that had begun to fill the sewer system again.

Either way, the child slowly took steps towards the entrance of the sewer with a swarm of rats.

The window opened again, and Ilseong repeated the same action as before.

Numerous rats ceased their activity again, and a small swarm of mosquitoes flew into the sewer.

The child had no idea how strong the people he would meet were.

Chris from the Blue Heart Office.

Ilseong of Ildong Office.

The two are in an old-fashioned corpse coming down from the far north to the south in a sewer filled with the corpses of a bunch of rats.

And on the stomach of the corpse, a white rat was found in a bucket full of liquid.

“Uh, that?!”

“Youngmin!”

As soon as I could react, Ilseong called Youngmin.

Then Johnny and Youngmin, whose names were not specifically called, entered the sewer together.

“What is that guy?!”

“Just shoot! Quick!”

Johnny happened to be carrying a minigun.

The interior space we were in was illuminated from the outside, so the view was limited.

-Weeeeing.

Johnny’s minigun made a clunky sound and the barrel spun.

However, the white rat inside the shell began to approach as if nothing had happened.

With many of his own people flashing red eyes behind him!

“Wait! Everyone get out!”

Ilsung belatedly realized the situation and shouted at us.

Johnny tried to fire at the white rat, but he was grabbed by Ilseong and Youngmin and started to be dragged away.

“Wow!”

Unlike others, I took the form of a bat.

Anyway, this view was enough even without clear visibility.

This is because bats can identify surrounding structures using ultrasound.

I, in the form of a baby bat, shot ultrasonic waves and approached the white rat and the artificial body.

He had no idea that I was approaching in the dark.

-chin.

So I arrived at the head of the body.

‘Whoa….”

With a few deep breaths, I got ready to target the white rat.

As soon as it becomes its true form, there is a container full of green liquid attached to the stomach of the artificial body.

More precisely, dispose of the white rat in that barrel.

With my vicious right hand!

While thinking that, I exhaled again.