episode_0078

Shoot ───!!!

The rain poured down with great force.

No matter how many times I’ve been here, this is the first time I’ve seen a scene like this in my life. It wasn’t like this when Typhoon Maemi came. I felt like the world was going to be submerged like this, and I couldn’t even hear Jules’ voice while I was carrying him.

It felt like someone was spraying water on my face from the shower, so I couldn’t even open my eyes. I had no choice but to look at the floor.

Kkkkwang!

All life around the place where the lightning struck would have already perished. This side was also dangerous. This is not a river. Nevertheless, the water was already up to Jules’ knees.

“I’ll get off and run!”

I can’t even hear myself screaming over the rain, wind, and lightning. Jules didn’t seem to hear either.

Shoot!!!!!

In an instant, the rain became thicker so that I could not see in front of me.

Moreover, the day is dark, and dark clouds cover the sky, making it even darker. This is how you can’t even see ahead.

If rainwater like this flows down and merges with the river—it’s hell.

How far did it run?

Suddenly the rain stopped.

“It’s all here!”

Kwaaaa―――!!!

The rain disappeared in an instant, and the sound of the waterfall, bigger than usual and like the sound of heavy machinery, echoed.

We arrived inside the village entrance.

“Let’s go!”

Jules, who wasn’t even breathing, put me down and started running. There would be no need to pretend to be half-crippled even in the village. There were no wolves or sentries guarding this entrance, and there were no dvergs cutting the ground. The torch is not even lit. In the first place, water was flowing slowly here and a stream was formed.

However, because I knew that the ground was flat, I was able to run forward without hesitation. Jules untied the peg knot on the bridge and took the rope in his hand.

“Seollang has arrived!!”

“As soon as you come across, prepare to cut the rope!”

It seems like other people were waiting for Jules to come too!

Jules, who went first to assess the situation, turns towards me.

“Sihyeon! Come here!”

Lived!

Inside the village, many people were running around with heavy heat. The waterfall, which was as beautiful as a natural landscape, was spewing out water like a dam discharging water, and was getting stronger in real time.

It was hitting the skybridge with the force of destroying it.

“Walk in step with me!”

Jules grabbed my hand and took a step toward the water cannon.

I had no choice but to follow.

Kwaaaa!!!

“───────?!”

The waterfall pierces my skin like a needle.

If Jules hadn’t hit me with that crazy water cannon, I would have been blown away even if only one arm had been swept away. By the time we somehow made it across, the water level in the river had risen to just below the bridge.

Moreover, the sound of rain continues to get stronger.

“Cut the rope!”

phut!

The inelastic rope breaks with the sound of an arrow shooting.

After cutting the rope, several Hosotts began to pull the rope that Juul had brought, and the bridge was immediately recovered.

“Sihyeon, please leave this at home.”

Juul holds out his soaked backpack.

I quickly grabbed it and ran home.

puck!

Something fell in front of me.

······fish. I was swept away by a waterfall. I think I fainted from the impact of falling. Now I see that there are quite a lot of fish that have fallen here and there.

“Ugh!”

Even people who get hit by a fish and fall off after being hit by a fish─── Shir? ···Are you okay? Luckily, he gets up and runs off somewhere.

I roughly threw my backpack into the house and came out. Using his unique strength, Jules cleared the bridge, looked for rocks, and blocked the rapids around the river.

Only then did it seem like a waterway was created. Other hosots bring rocks from all around and fill gunny sacks with dirt and stones to block the waterway.

Nature is huge.

The place where the river flows is where the ground is the lowest in the place where the great nature gathers. The water flowing from the waterfall began to become stronger, as if to say that this was the beginning.

Water was seeping in at a terrible rate from the collapsed ceiling of the cave. Most of these were towards waterways──

Taltaltaltaltaltaltaltaltaltaltal-───!

There was a sound as if a jackhammer was crushing stone or asphalt road. The source was a watermill. It spins like a wheel on a roller coaster train, spraying water everywhere, like a sprinkler.

In addition, every time the mill grinded the empty pestle, the ground trembled. It feels like a giant blender blade is spinning, and just looking at it fills my body with fear.

That’s no longer something a creature can stop.

Wouldn’t it have the inertia of a speeding car on the highway? I remember leaving it that way even during the last rainy season in the first place.

“It is turning into a residential area! Here, bring some gunny sacks!”

“Stone! rock! Bring me a rock!”

People are clamoring from all directions.

That’s not something I should touch. It would be better to help with this. We moved rocks and stones to reinforce the waterway and borrowed Deberg’s farming tools to put soil and stones in gunny sacks.

“Hey!”

I had to interrupt Deverg, who was moving things in a hurry.

This is because voices could not be heard properly due to the noise of the torrential rain.

“What’s going on?!”

“Is it okay to leave the watermill like that?!”

“If you fix that thing, it will be destroyed! We have to release it!”

To prevent people from being swept away, the Dverges laid several layers of thin, strong nets in the river at each point, and were digging here and there or heading somewhere with ropes.

······These people are experts. Let’s just do as we’re told.

I threw away my clothes.

Most Korean men have experience in this area. We filled the sacks and moved them quickly, lifting all the rocks in the corner of the village and moving them.

Despite working so hard, the situation did not improve at all, and the stream only grew stronger. Now the water flowing in the canal has started to overflow.

Kwasik! Kwakagagak!!!

Even amidst the thunderous sound of a waterfall, a strange sound of rolling wheels can be heard from somewhere.

······Watermill!

It’s definitely sturdy. It was sturdy, but the increased noise from the machinery clearly meant something was going wrong. I slowly looked at the watermill.

······The seam that drove the wedge into the ground broke!

The only one who can stop it is Jules. To Jules───

Absolutely!! Don’t miss it!!!

The metal cracked and bent, and the water wheel began to shake in all directions. Nonsense. The steel couldn’t withstand the water pressure and bent?!

As one seam breaks, the shaking quickly becomes more intense. ···That thing will break soon!

“Cut the net rope! The spinning wheel is being swept away!!!”

A few hosots have already noticed and are screaming.

But the roar of the waterfall drowned out almost all sound.

I grabbed Deberg by the collar and pointed to the watermill.

“How do you do that─?!”

Deberg’s gaze, which had been collecting fish nets, then turned to the water wheel. The pupils become as big as flower lamps.

“Hands are out! Throw away the net!!!”

When Deberg shouts, everyone runs away.

Kkeeek─── Ping! ping! ping! ping! Ping! Ping!

By now, all the seams and pegs had been pulled out!

Ujijik──!

Then, the watermill that had been planted in the ground tilted, swept all the way to the ground, and began to slide down the river with all its parts.

A wheel, a hammer, a hammer, a hammer, a water pipe, all of this together!

The water pressure was withstood, but the wedge driven into the rock came off, bent, or broke. As a result, everything around the river is being washed away.

I burst into laughter.

These crazy people! It’s really fucking sturdy too! Don’t you have to think about making things even when they break?

The violent float that swept away everything in the river flowed down, smashing everything it touched.

bang! Kwakagak! Quagga gagagak!!!!

With a roar, the watermill’s attachments begin to sweep the path of people. Everyone took a step back, avoiding the watermill, at the sound of a roar that could not even hide the sound of the waterfall.

My eyes were fixed on Shir, who looked a little dazed.

Shir stepped back, staring blankly down at the watermill that was being swept away. It seemed like there was no need to worry.

Just as I was about to turn my head.

I found out that the watermill was pouring by scraping the existing drainage ditch. Seeing the water rising to Shir’s knee level.

It was low water. The water was barely knee-high.

But it’s enough to wipe out people. In the meantime, Shir looked at me and waved his hand.

“Run away!!!”

─What?

It was Shir’s last mouthful.

Shir, who was not prepared, was swept away by the river. My heart went cold. However, no one knew that Shir was missing. Because everyone was just looking at the watermill that was being swept away with a roar!

“Gang! river!!! A person fell into the river!!!”

The safety net has been torn off by the watermill a long time ago.

Sur was rapidly being swept away by the current, but no one was looking at this place.

bang! Bang──!

A watermill roars as it flows down to the downstream entrance.

It’s only me! I have to save him!······But I don’t even know how to swim? The past fear of nearly drowning three times as a child flashed through my mind.

Nevertheless, my body was moving desperately as if I was suffering from alien syndrome. Wrapping a thinly torn safety net around my arm, I put my feet into the river that gets swept away just by brushing against it. Why am I doing this?

Even a semi-aquatic subhuman who lives in the water would go into a rapid current where even fish would be swept away?

why?!

couldn’t understand me But I’m doing it.

After briefly dipping my feet in the river beforehand, I became convinced that I would never be able to stand upright unless I stood on my own two feet. After dragging my feet into the water—Shir’s black hair caught my eye.

At that moment, I had already launched myself and snatched Shir.

──────Am I crazy?

Creep!

The sound of water like thunder passes over my eardrums and hits my whole body.

It’s dark before my eyes. I was swayed by a force that I could not resist and was swept away by the torrent. Why did I come here?! Aren’t I going to die too?! why?! Why did you come here?!

My whole body was frozen, but somehow my grip on Shir was firm. It continues like this───.

Pretzel!

It felt like my arm bones were being shattered.

Still, I couldn’t let go of Shir. However, it cannot overcome the current. You have to let go. I have to let go, but I can’t. I don’t understand. All my mind and nerves cry out that I must not let go.

I can’t breathe.

Nevertheless, I foolishly held on and sat down.

Just like that, when my lungs were full of breath.

The sound of the torrent hitting my eardrums disappeared in an instant.

“Puha-?! Cough! Cough!! Wow!!!”

“Pull—!” “Get it out! Come on──!”

Muddy water gets into my eyes and I can’t open them.

Someone is pulling me with brutal force. it’s okay! It’s done! Did I… save you? Did you save it?!

I was pulled ashore and rubbed my eyes in a half-asleep state.

“What on earth happened?!”

“The watermill came down and washed away the sidewalk!”

“You’re asking what happened to my daughter!”

“Shisha! Calm down!”

“Is this something to calm down───?!!”

Numerous hosots were flocking downstream.

The ones who pulled the rope were none other than the priest and Heilang.

I see Jules running from afar. The excited look in Heilang’s eyes made a part of my heart feel cold.

People followed and rescued Shir from my hand.

One of Shir’s shoulders was missing. My arm… was swept away by the rope and turned into a blood clot. My chest hurts and my lungs itch. But there wasn’t much interest. I’m just worried about Shir.

“······What happened to Shir?”

The priest sitting next to me opened Shir’s eyelids.

Then place your ear to your heart. While everyone, including Jules, was not even breathing, the priest’s face was frozen and he could not open his mouth.

No one.

“···How did it go?”

Only I opened my mouth again in that heavy air.

The priest’s green eyes come towards me. Why are you looking at me like that?

“······He’s not breathing.”