episode_0047

Non-believers’ Day (3) ― Starlight Church 3rd floor ‘Grand Sanctuary’

“Please give us our daily bread… ”

A chapel filled with the murmurs of those hoping for a miracle.

In a space where everyone was praying, there was the only woman who did not pray.

Neat yet distinct facial features and hair pulled back to reach the waist.

Joo Ju-hye, who had just closed her eyes next to those who were groaning in pain, opened her eyes.

A huge cross before her eyes.

She bit her lower lip in deep resentment that came out before holiness.

dump-

At the now familiar sound, she lifted the candlestick next to her.

A faint orange light illuminated the fallen grandmother.

“Grandma. grandma. Are you okay?”

“… … .”

Joo Joo-hye hurriedly put her finger under her grandmother’s nose.

The faintest breath tickled her fingers.

“Ha… .”

She thought with a little relief.

The face that defended me when I was looked down upon as a pre-infected person.

Her face back then, which she said was like her late daughter who went to college in Seoul, and her face now were so different.

“Grandma… .”

I slowly massaged the body, which was really just a bone.

Still, until last week, he was in a cold sweat and muttering that he was hungry… .

Has there now been a limit?

The grandmother’s limbs were as stiff as a dry old tree.

“You just have to hold on a little longer. It’s distribution day soon.”

As has been the case up until now, Sergeant Kim, that bastard will supply food as if it were a good ship only when it reaches its limit.

All he can do is pray that his grandmother can hold out until then.

‘pray.’

She let out a bitter laugh at the question ringing in her mind.

‘What should I pray for now?’

Ask your grandmother for something to eat?

Grandma wants to be saved?

Instead of desperately begging for such a thing, it was quicker and more certain to kneel down and beg Sergeant Kim.

‘Okay, let’s talk to Sergeant Kim instead.’

After covering the fallen grandmother with a blanket, she stood up.

A needlessly huge basilica that seems to represent the past.

A cross immersed in pitch black in a space that is not even filled with the light of the chapel, let alone the light of the whole world.

‘Where are you really?’

Her parents held her hands every time she had a really hard time and wanted to die.

We went to church together, prayed, and whispered quietly to each other.

‘The pain my daughter is going through right now is all bearable. The trials given by God are God’s will for you.’

God’s will.

My churning stomach flutters like waves, pouring out pieces of the day.

Your workers were more faithful and diligent than any other church members.

My mother and father.

Is it your will to be eaten by zombies?

Is that a trial and a gift that I must overcome?

Joo Ju-hye, filled with emotions, raised her middle finger and pointed it at the cross.

Someone grabbed her ankle as she hurried out of the main temple.

“Joo, Joohye! You were here!”

“Deacon Shin. What’s going on?”

“We’re in big trouble! Go Hyewon! Hyewon!”

Hyewon was Deacon Shin’s daughter.

Joo Joo-hye rubbed Deacon Shin’s shoulders and calmed her down, who seemed upset.

“Calm down and speak slowly.”

“That guy dragged our Hyewon away! I-I stopped him until the end, but he! That guy killed my daughter!”

Just from her gibberish words, Joo Joo-hye understood the situation.

‘Park Young -jin, this dog!’

He is probably using food as bait to satisfy his dirty sexual desires.

I could roughly guess where it was.

“I will look into it first, so just calm down.”

“Ah, it’s really only you now. I’m sorry for doubting you all this time… You are not a potential infection, but an angel sent by God… thank you so much… .”

angel.

Joo Joo-hye also wasn’t able to become the angel she hoped for.

Joo Joo-hye, who did not have the confidence to take Hye-won out, just put an awkward smile on her face.

And seeing that smile, Deacon Shin wiped his tears and slowly stood up.

The mother, whose daughter was taken away, stumbled and walked back down the path Joo Joo-hye had come from.

In the darkness, she sat down on a chair and clasped her hands.

“Lord! Please take care of my daughter Hyewon… ”

Leaving behind a prayer that would never come true, Joo Ju-hye opened the door to the main sanctuary.

It’s a profit –

The third floor of Starlight Church welcomed her with the sound of an old door.

Unlike Daeseongjeon, which relies on candlelight, I walked and climbed the stairs in a space with a clear view of sunlight.

“Ugh― Ugh― Ugh―”

A moan mixed with tears that can be heard as soon as you reach the 5th floor.

Joo Ju-hye frowned at that creepy sound.

“If you don’t want to be left behind, wipe your tears. I’m not forcing you to do it, and they even give you food stamps!”

“Ssss At me, please… .”

A lewd and dirty smell wafting from the slightly open university youth room.

And Ju-hye Joo hurriedly ran to the front of the university youth room in a situation that was beyond disgusting.

“Ah, wakku is a real minus! Should I put a bag on it? hey! Are you good at following Joo Ju-hye?”

The hand that was quickly moving forward toward the handle suddenly stopped.

I clenched my hands, which were shaking with fear and anger, and flung open the door again.

bang-

“Hey! Park Young-jin!”

“Fuck, this is a surprise!”

Park Young-jin, who had been moving his waist violently, suddenly stopped.

Joo Joo-hye’s eyes rolled over when she discovered Hye-won underneath her.

“What are you doing!”

“Ah, if we like each other, we might have a little sex, but it’s all a joke. If you don’t give it to me, get out.”

The guy who was frowning in frustration waved his hand.

When I grabbed the nail of the guy who was trying to move his waist again, he formed his fingers into a gun shape and pointed it at Joo Joo-hye.

“Ah, fuck! Why are you acting like that? Now that you ask me if I’m an awakened person, do I look like we’re in the same class?”

Joo Joo-hye’s body took a step back as the bluish mana gathered in Park Young-jin’s index finger.

Ju-hye Ju did not back down, although she was filled with fear due to her abilities that she had seen over and over again.

“Don’t show off, you idiot! If you could kill me, you would have killed me a long time ago. No?”

“No? Would you like to drill a hole in your head right now?”

He shaped his remaining hand into a gun shape and pointed it at her.

Cold sweat broke out on her back as the blue light glistened from her two index fingers.

I couldn’t control this crazy idiot.

In the end, Ju Ju-hye had no choice but to mention the last resort.

“If you kill me, Sergeant Kim won’t stay quiet, right?”

“Ha… And only in times like this, Sergeant Kim, Sergeant Kim.”

And today, that guy’s only weakness worked.

With the blue light slowly fading, the guy withdrew his gun-shaped hand.

Park Young-jin, who was barely dressed in his outerwear, spit phlegm at Hye-won, who was lying down.

Hehe-

Despite the phlegm spraying on her breasts, she did not say anything and just continued to tremble with her delicate body.

“Because I didn’t pack it properly, I don’t have the meal ticket I promised. If you want to blame me, blame it on that young old man.”

Ju-hye Joo, watching him leave after saying something to the end, hurriedly covered Hye-won with the blanket that was next to her.

“Are you okay?”

“Uh, sister… Okay, thank you.”

“I told you not to go outside if possible… .”

“Oh, I really need to pee… The bathroom is already… .”

After the water and power outages came, the most embarrassing problem was the problem of excrement disposal.

The bathroom was now filled with such a terrible smell that people couldn’t go there, so they had no choice but to dispose of it in a nearby outskirt.

And those moments were the best times for men to hunt women.

“Hurry up and gather with the people in the main sanctuary. Because I have to go to Sergeant Kim.”

“Um, can I go with you?”

“… Sorry. Elder I collapsed again.”

“Ahh― It might be really dangerous this time.”

Even though she went through something unbearable for a woman, she can still worry about others.

Such a good kid… .

“Anyway, go back quickly before Park Young-jin comes back.”

Joo Joo-hye, who was slowly stroking Hye-won’s head, added as she left the youth room.

She crossed the 5th floor, where the youth room was located, and reached the 6th floor, the top floor of Starlight Church.

After passing through Harmony Hall, the kitchen and dining room, I stopped in front of the elder’s office in the far left corner.

smart-

“Come in.”

The voice of a blunt middle-aged man.

Joo Ju-hye slowly opened the door to the elder’s room.

Sergeant Kim and Joo Ju-hye, who were looking closely at something on the table, met the eyes.

A soldier with angular uniform and cold eyes spoke to her.

“Now that I think about it, the scout team is a little late.”

“Elder I collapsed. Please release some food to the people.”

“You really never miss a day. Aren’t you a little tired now?”

Joo Joo-hye looked as if she was wondering what the problem was.

The name written on his military uniform is Kim Joo-hyung.

This ruthless ruler, who conveniently called himself Sergeant Kim, suddenly appeared to us with a broken down military vehicle.

He, who ran away alone without subordinates or colleagues, blended into the church in an instant.

He recruited men who were dissatisfied with the hard work and meager compensation given to them and people who were misunderstood as potential infected people, and quickly rose to become the ruler of the church, using the various guns he was said to have brought with him when he ran away as weapons.

And then Sergeant Kim’s merciless tyranny began.

Supplies that had been distributed equally to all were cut off, and men began to receive food first and in much greater quantities.

He quickly expanded his territory around the church based on the men’s explosive support for Sergeant Kim.

In addition, because he already knew about the existence of awakened people, he gave special preferential treatment to awakened people, who were despised as pre-infected people, and won their favor.

All zombies discovered during the search were killed with guns in the hands of the awakened person.

The awakened people who quickly gained points with Sergeant Kim’s gun became Sergeant Kim’s most powerful sword, and became nobles of all people and all people of Sergeant Kim’s country.

The church that barely survived this hell by praying for each other is no longer there.

There was only a country of madness where Sergeant Kim was the king and the awakened people were nobles.

“It’s part of the mountain of things piled up in the kitchen! You can really loosen it just a little bit!”

“Points Don’t you know how many points it costs to buy decent food at a store? You have to give 50 points to get a decent meal. Are you telling us to provide three meals a day for all those people in the church right now? Do you know what kind of hotel this is?!”

“What points did I ask you to buy it for? Even just in the galley… .”

“You should save that! No matter what happens, you have to save it till the end!”

The stick that Sergeant Kim was holding stabbed Joo Ju-hye in the shoulder.

Sergeant Kim spoke again as he watched her push back every time he stabbed her.

“What will you do when there is no more food to eat? At that time, would you waste all your precious points just to save people or buy food? So how do awakened people grow and how do they catch zombies?”

He asked Joo Ju-hye in a loud voice.

“As an awakened person, you know better, right? Have you already forgotten the points we earned you?”

Ju-Hye Joo remembered what Sergeant Kim said.

Zombies flock to the sound of a gun and he throws a grenade given to him by Sergeant Kim.

“Those people are already receiving sufficient compensation just by being alive. Keep that in mind, Joo Ju-hye.”

“… Then please reward me for my cooperation so far. I deserve it.”

she knew

The reason why Sergeant Kim’s subordinates and awakened people are able to expand their territory like that.

One of the reasons for this is because of his own skills.

Skill [Return of the Wisher]

A return skill that moves the person who repeats the ‘keyword’ set by the caster to the caster’s side by consuming a certain amount of mana.

Thanks to the incredible effectiveness of this skill, she was able to be safe in the men’s amusement park.

“If you do not give me compensation, I will not share ‘keywords’ with you in the future.”

“Hmm, yes. What was the ‘Operation Name’ today?”

Even though I always told him that it was a keyword and not a name for the operation, he did not break his stubbornness.

Seeing Sergeant Kim remaining calm despite her threats, she quenched her dry throat with saliva.

“… ‘A world full of grace’.”

“Oh, just in case someone came from a Christian family, the name of the operation shows it.”

It wasn’t meant to show off a Christian family, but it was set because no one in this world thinks of keywords like that anymore.

“… Don’t change your mind. Will you give me a reward? I would like it to be food, if possible.”

“Hmm… .”

Sergeant Kim waved a piece of paper in front of Joo Ju-hye.

Her eyes wavered as she looked at the paper with her abilities written down in detail.

“You are receiving sufficient compensation now… Did you not feel it?”

Those quiet yet creepy words reminded Joo Joo-hye of Elder Na, who collapsed from hunger, and Hyewon, who was raped.

Something that Sergeant Kim showed her added ripples to the already violently shaking woman.

“The only remaining family members are also under special protection for me.”

Grandma’s cross earrings swayed slightly in Sergeant Kim’s hand.

After Joo Joo-hye’s abilities were revealed, she had to be separated from her grandmother and grandfather, her only remaining family members.

This was to prepare for Joo Joo-hye sharing the keyword with her family and running away.

“Joohye. My grandmother held my hand and asked me to take good care of her, saying that it was a name given to me by the grace of the Lord.”

“… Bastard.”

Even if you only had another alternative.

If only there were different pores, I wouldn’t have to use my skills on that bastard.

I felt mana draining from my trembling body.

Joo Joo-hye’s body glowed blue and search team members appeared around her.

“Ugh! Lord, sergeant major!”

The condition of the returning search teams was strange.

The guys, who were groaning with their eyes closed, grabbed Sergeant Kim by the pants as soon as they saw his face.

Sergeant Kim’s eyes sparkled as he examined them.

“Jinhyeon is not there.”

“Sergeant, Sergeant! We must run away! We have to leave here quickly!”

Joo Joo-hye’s face was filled with surprise as she looked at that scene.

The faces of the guys who were making fun of women every day were so white that it looked like they had been painted with powder.

“Boo, you shouldn’t have gone north!”

“Brother also died in one hit! Hey, look at this gun!”

Sergeant Kim lifted the gun from their shoulders as they continued to scream.

A K2 rifle that has been severely bent by the power of undistilled water.

Sergeant Kim’s voice became thin like a snake.

“Who is it?”

Sergeant Kim’s eyes quickly scanned the search team.

One of the search team members who was rolling his eyes spat out as if he was having a fit.

“Sect, I said it was the leader! The guy who called himself the leader of the Salvation Church or something… !”

Kuuu…

The ceiling shook before he even finished speaking.

It looked like something big had happened on the rooftop.

“Hee hee hee hee! It’s here, it’s here! He’s here! Sergeant! W, where is Youngjin? Hurry up and take Youngjin!”

Sergeant Kim, who was always cool-headed, opened his mouth as he looked at the shaking ceiling.

It was the first ripple effect in his dreary kingdom.

Joo Joo-hye’s eyes, who were watching the whole scene, twinkled slightly.