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Sword of Faith (5) ― Gongseong High School Class 3 Class 10 Classroom

The rifles and ammunition boxes that popped out of the inventory danced according to my hand gestures.

Thump- thud- thud-

After opening the ammunition box, the bullet comes out and gently enters the magazine.

A magazine fully filled with bullets is attached to a dark-colored rifle and held in the hands of students who are looking at it blankly.

Click―

With the sound of the drone moving in rapid succession, they obtained their weapons.

However, they were not happy at all.

“… mister. There’s nothing you can’t do with a gun.”

These are eyewitnesses who saw the shelter built by the soldiers collapse.

These are people who have painfully realized that a weapon called a gun cannot protect them.

And, I already know that.

“It’s not a gun.”

“… Yes?”

“It is a sword. Without the spark of faith, there is just silence.”

The students’ eyes become cold.

Instead, he smiled brightly despite the deep disappointment conveyed.

“There are only two things you need to know.”

I held up one finger and twitched it.

“I am not a pastor, but the leader of One Mind Salvation Church.”

And the second.

“You will need me just as I need you.”

I spoke again to the students whose eyes did not understand at all.

“I am looking for special people to share my power with.”

“… Then you got the wrong street number. As I mentioned before, Jinheon went to Yeongjong Island. Hae-il is like Jin-heon… ”

“You didn’t understand what I said correctly. I’m telling you that I need you. You will be more special than anyone else in this world.”

special.

It was a sentence that perfectly contrasted with their current situation.

And I casually told them something special.

What do I look like in their eyes now?

Is my own aura really spreading as Seong Ga-eul requested?

I don’t know, but now I know one thing for sure.

I had to believe in myself first to be able to do that.

I slowly got up from my seat and smiled at the students looking at me.

Different from others.

Positive and out of place in a hopeless world.

“I will prove to you that you are special.”

After finishing what I had to say, I quickly left the classroom.

I smiled as I saw the students slowly following me.

Little mice followed me through the flute of curiosity.

They left their nest and flew through the air with me, reaching the rooftop.

“Woo, wowaaaa—!”

“What, what! Is it really flying?!”

The students exclaimed in exasperation as they experienced their first flight.

The student, startled, grabbed the rifle and pulled the trigger.

Taang!

“Wow, wow! You crazy bastard!”

The bullets fired in front of the startled students slowly floated and flew with them.

The student who pulled the trigger lowered his head repeatedly as he looked at me reaching for the bullet.

“S-sorry!”

He smiled softly as if it was nothing and continued his flight.

Even as the Internet develops and times evolve more and more.

Students are still students.

Running around home and school like a treadmill, grades are everything in the world.

and.

“You crazy guy! Be a good guard!”

“Mi, I’m sorry! You said it was okay too!”

“Anyway, I’ve known it since I was a trash shot in the game.”

“야이 개새끼야! Why is that coming out here?”

Peer group is the most important human relationship.

Children who have a very narrow world.

Because I only enjoyed such a small world…

“ and—”

“Um, what is that, mister?”

It’s easy to fall into a new world.

Their eyes sparkled at the mystery emanating from the orange protective shield.

A deviation that could not be experienced even in the past when zombies did not attack.

No, this was the adventure they so longed for.

“Our home and paradise.”

It passed through the protective shield with a mysterious answer.

A new world hidden behind the orange protective shield is revealed.

Their mouths could not be shut as they fussed over the ‘heavenly shield’.

Maybe it was natural.

It is a sanctuary designed to instill as much mystery and awe in the newcomers as possible, spending all night and all night.

The green vitality of the sanctuary garden.

The majesty of the white, huge, and tall building.

A believer who witnessed my arrival ran inside and looked at the students.

A body frozen in a new world and two eyes busy looking around.

At the same time, he smiled slightly as he looked at the rifle he was holding so dearly.

“Lee Jeong-wook.”

“… Yes, yes!”

The name of the student who accidentally pulled the trigger was called.

“Where do you see this?”

“… Uh, that… Home and paradise… .”

“Kim Hae-il.”

“… Yes, yes!”

“Where do you see this?”

“… You said it was home and paradise.”

I called all 10 students by name and asked them about this place.

They all answered the same.

Home and paradise.

In fact, these words probably won’t make much sense to them right now.

But Lee Jeong-wook, who was the first to answer, answered that it was home and paradise, and I guess it happened because I didn’t deny anything.

Because Lee Jeong-wook’s answer seemed like the correct answer.

That was the ability that school and society demanded and taught, and it was the power of the peer group.

Everyone follows their friend’s correct answer.

While 10 people were listening to the same answer, it was noisy in the back.

Before we knew it, all the believers of the Salvation Church had come out to welcome us.

“Master.”

I smiled as I saw Seong Ga-eul bowing politely.

With this, all preparations for the coming-of-age ceremony are complete.

“Today! We found ten children neglected by old-fashioned adults!”

At my shout filled with mana, everyone’s eyes turn to the students of Gongseong High School.

“Let’s welcome the sprouts of the new era abandoned by the world that only asked us to answer their teachings in the same way as a parrot!”

Clap- clap- clap-!

Waaa!

welcome! Welcome, everyone!

The students bowed their heads in bewilderment at the applause and cheers that erupted at the end of the speech.

“They didn’t teach our sprouts anything! How to survive together with faith! How to overcome together with faith!”

“Aaaaa—!”

Congregants sighing and students quietly staring at me.

I clenched my fist and waved it forward.

And he appealed in an even more earnest voice.

“I had to endure my heart breaking as I saw these people being neglected without being able to learn anything!”

“Aaaaa— I’m a teacher!”

He called out to one of the believers who broke down in a sorrowful voice.

“Kim Cheol-soo believer!”

“Yes! Cult leader!”

I asked, pointing to Kim Cheol-su, who quickly stood up at my call.

“We remember the noble efforts of believer Kim Cheol-soo to protect his family. I know, understand, and love everything about you!”

“Aaaaa—!”

“I also know the hidden heart of such believer Kim Cheol-soo! How did you feel every moment you faced the zombies?”

“Aaaaa—!”

Kim Cheol-soo’s eyes trembled as he recalled that day.

And he shook his head and looked for his savior.

Kim Cheol-soo confessed with tears and a gentle smile in response to salvation.

“I was scared! It was so scary and terrible!”

“ Believer Kim Cheol-soo had an experience! He was old and had a very precious wife and daughter! Although he had many things that made him strong, he eventually collapsed!”

Even he looked at the zombies before his eyes and hoped for salvation.

“But after falling, he stood up again! He realized the only correct answer in the world! What is it!”

“It’s faith!”

The voices of believers echoed through the sanctuary.

“The true power that the old era hid and hid again! Those who face salvation born of faith and obedience!”

Ah, I believe it!

“Even you groaned under the veil that the world covered! It was only after the old world collapsed that I saw myself with true eyes!”

“Aaaa—!”

The leader pointed at the students and raised his voice.

“This is true for adults as well, but what about children? Look at the sprouts that have collapsed under the oppression of the old world! I will embrace them and protect them as the great trees of the sanctuary!”

“I believe it! I believe it!”

The cult leader’s body rose into the air.

Watching the believers prove their faith by shaking and twisting their bodies, the religious leader spoke to the students looking at him from below.

“Kim Hae-il!”

“Yes!”

“Lee Jeong-wook!”

“Yes!”

… …

The leader called all 10 sprouts by name once.

The students’ eyes were vague and heated as they answered the teacher’s questions.

The religious leader, who responded to each of the disparate looks in his eyes, pointed to the outside of the sanctuary.

Zombies just reaching out for food gathered outside.

“The nightmare that tormented you is here! The power I truly desired is here!”

The rifles in their hands were raised by an intangible force.

The cult leader said as he watched the rifle aim perfectly at the zombies outside the sanctuary.

“You said it! That’s just the lost property of the defeated!”

“Kkisss—!”

Their howling echoes as if reliving the day when the shelter collapsed.

“I told you! It is your sword that needs the spark of faith!”

There was magic in his voice.

The magic that makes you have no choice but to listen to the end, expect, and fulfill.

“Do you want power! Do you want to be special! Then grab the sword in front of you!”

The students’ eyes turned to the rifles.

A dark-colored weapon that is all ready.

A lost item of defeat that will spark and fire ammunition just by pulling the trigger.

However, he called it a sword.

That’s why the students grabbed their swords.

The leader’s words flowed quietly along with a clumsy stance.

“The nightmare that tormented you will come. But then and now are different. Now you have me. In your hands is my sword.”

I told you so. I will prove your specialness.

With his words, the protective shield opens.

The zombies that kept reaching out for us realized that the path had opened.

“Kkisss—!”

Cheers and madness.

They come running, starting with howling, an unpleasant mixture of two emotions.

A huge wave approaching a small straight line of 10 people.

A wave of human bodies as grotesque and surprising as when it hit the shelter.

The nightmare of that day approaches.

There are seeds of despair that we must run away from…

“… Faith!”

A single ringing sound spread through their heads as they were tinged with fear.

They reflexively pulled the trigger.

Ta-da-da-da-da-!

The rifle fired a bullet without the slightest recoil.

Zombies fall down with flames flashing from their guns.

Bullets that seemed like they would miss pass straight through the zombies’ heads.

There was not a single mistake.

Like someone’s blessing.

Smiles spread across the students’ faces.

Like a scene from a movie.

We were fighting.

We were the protagonists in this battle.

Tick – Tick –

The magazine that has run out of bullets is automatically removed and the next magazine floating next to it is attached.

And they pulled the trigger again.

Ta-da-da-da-da-

“Kkisss—!”

For them, that howling was no longer the beginning of fear.

It was the screams of those who had fallen.

I, who always tried to run away, am now killing zombies.

Easier than the soldiers.

Faster than Park Jin-heon.

Just press the trigger and they fall.

The nightmare that took away his daily life collapses.

Joy spread through my heart at the sight.

Only joy spread.

In a short period of time, a mountain of corpses piled up.

A silence falls where neither the ear-piercing sound nor the zombies’ howling can be heard.

However, they did not let go of the trigger.

A regret that I had never even thought of grabbed their hands.

“Evil has fallen! In your hands! With your weapons!”

And by your faith!

The sprouts were triggered by the words of the religious leader.

Heo-heo- Heo-eok-

Was it because I was concentrating and forgetting to breathe?

Lately, my heart was pounding and I was out of breath.

Sprouts looked ahead with thick beads of sweat running down their foreheads.

A mountain of corpses piled together like a mountain.

The death of the zombies they created.

A true victory achieved by themselves.

“Didn’t I tell you? That you will need me as much as I need you.”

Everyone smiled brightly at the leader’s words.

With that laughter, their bodies, stripped of the grime of the old world, shone white.

“Ten sprouts today! no! Ten noble knights of the Church of Salvation protected us!”

The religious leader told them what to do.

“We should all be thankful for their hard work! Reward your dedication!”

It taught me true joy.

“Thank you! Thank you for protecting us!”

“I will not forget this favor!”

“Thank you so much!”

The knights of Salvation Church waved their hands in response.

Then, the response grew louder and louder, causing only one word to be shouted.

“Salvation! Salvation! Salvation! Salvation!”

Their salvation, the salvation of the knights.

“Noble and noble! My knights!”

The knights’ eyes turned to the sky.

Their eyes were closed by the strong sunlight, but they held on with tears and gazed upward.

The leader of the cult with the brilliant sun asked.

“My faithful knight, Lee Jeong-wook.”

“Yes, I’m a teacher!”

Lee Jeong-wook responded with a shout that made the ulver in his throat vibrate.

“What is in your hand?”

In response to the leader’s question, Lee Jeong-wook looked down at his hands.

The weapons of soldiers who could not protect themselves.

But not anymore.

Lee Jeong-wook shouted, full of confidence.

“It is the sword of faith!”

“That is my strength and my salvation that will make you special!”

“Aaaaa—!”

After Lee Jeong-wook, who was shaking with joy, the leader spoke.

“My faithful knight, Kim Hae-il.”

“Yes, leader!”

“What is in your hand?”

“It is the sword of faith!”

The leader smiled softly.

Everyone follows their friend’s correct answer.

The religious leader slowly summoned 10 knights.

Everyone cried out for the correct answer.

“Everyone raise your sword! And tell me your only weapon!”

“““Sword of faith!”””

Cult leaders, knights, and their swords.

The leader shouted along with the white waves they released.

“The coming-of-age ceremony is over! The pledge ceremony has also been completed! Obey with faith and cut down your enemies with faith!”

“Waaa—!”

You are my first sword and shield.

The leader smiled as he saw them spitting and screaming.

This was his answer to the first question posed by Seong Ga-eul.