episode_0128

​(#Be careful of depictions of bloodshed)

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3. If a doll falls in the hallway.

– If it’s an animal-shaped doll, it’s probably an ordinary lost item. Please leave it as is or bring it to the apartment security office.

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– However, if a human-shaped doll is left in the hallway, please shout to the doll, “You will be sad if you become a lost child.”

– Then the doll’s owner will soon come to retrieve it.

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# caution! It is recommended that you hide immediately after finding lost child.

You might mistake which doll to take.

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There is a pillar in a person’s heart.

A soft heart that is easily hurt by the blowing wind,

A solid pillar that supports it.

The young man used his ‘skill’ as a pillar of his heart.

Because his ‘combat skills’ are rare even among hunters.

Invisible, long-distance, combat-related skills.

Since they were not born with good skills, they are different from the idiots who only focus on ‘body strengthening’.

He was a potential B-level hunter in his 20s.

He is the son of a father who works as an executive at the Hunter Association [Potion Dispensary].

This is a person who gets a number from the opposite sex once a week.

It’s thanks to the ‘skill’ I was born with and realized around middle school.

Even the members of the association who regarded him as a thorn in their eyes could not hide their envy for his ‘skills’.

A pillar that supports the heart of a young man.

A combat skill that other hunters also envy.

And that name…

“I guess I can’t use that continuously?”

Kyaang!

Saetbyeol Apartment, 9th floor.

The young man blocked the titanium bat swinging at his head with his right arm and took a step back.

My thighs are swollen and painful after being hit with a blunt weapon.

Every time he steps on the ground, the throbbing pain hinders his movements, and he limps and moves ungainly to distance himself from the woman in front of him.

“Approximately between 5 and 10 seconds… It looks like you have to collect mana for that much to get cutting power.”

“Hah…! Haha!”

“I don’t think it’s a very good skill.”

“……!! What do you know and talk about!”

Exhaling white breath in the rushing cold, the young man glared at the beautiful woman clutching the titanium bat as if she were going to kill him.

… … .

Clap… Clap…

The apartment hallway was covered in blood.

It is not the blood of a young man.

Of course, his body was covered in bruises after being hit with a blunt weapon, but the blood pooling in the hallway was not his.

It is too much for one person to shed in the first place.

… … okay,

It’s too much for one person to shed.

“Whoa… Ah, it hurts so much.”

Eunha, who was staggering as if she was going to fall, leaned her shoulder against the wall.

Sticky blood pouring from a half-severed waist, shredded intestines…

But soon the wound closes.

Just like joining together clay of the same color, wounds are glued together in an instant.

After confirming that the bleeding has stopped, she adjusts her weapon and approaches the young man.

Eunha covered in her own blood.

A young man limping away from a bloody woman.

As the sound of teeth clicking together becomes louder, the young man’s back becomes damp with cold sweat.

can not understand.

I had never heard of such a ‘recovery skill’.

Is it possible to restore a severed body part in a matter of seconds? Even if it were possible, ‘mana’ would run out quickly.

Not only that… How accustomed are you to pain that you can wield a weapon even when your body is cut open?

This is ridiculous.

Either he’s hallucinating or he’s gone crazy.

Anyway, this makes no sense.

Clap… Clap…

Her clothes, which had been cut into tatters by the young man’s ‘skill’, barely covered the important parts, leaving her with a gaudy appearance…

This is not an important fact to the young man who is breathing heavily due to rapid consumption of mana.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

A sound coming from under the stairs.

The staircase, engulfed in darkness, detects the movement of ‘something’ and becomes brighter one by one.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps reaching up to the 7th floor narrows the young man’s thinking circuit.

The feeling of crawling through an endless, narrow, dark passage.

“friend. cheer up.”

“Cough… are you coming?”

Clap clap clap!

A tiny girl wearing fluffy hamster pajamas sat on the stairs and cheered for Eunha.

The sight of people raising their small hands above their heads and clapping their hands is as cute as watching a children’s daycare banquet.

What is that again?

Seeing the girl calmly cheering after witnessing the bloody woman, the young man felt dizzy and his stomach twisted.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

When did that girl appear,

What are the ‘things’ coming up from below?

What is the woman in front of me?

Kagagak!

I used the ‘skill’ against the tightly closed hallway window.

I wanted to run away.

But nothing happened.

Let alone the window being broken, you can’t even hear the sound of the invisible blade hitting the window.

A space isolated from the outside world.

A girl sitting on the stairs and clapping her hands.

The sound of footsteps slowly approaching from the bottom of the stairs.

Thighs convulsing from being pounded against hard titanium.

My shin is painful every time I move because the bone is cracked. Swollen right arm.

My head is still dizzy from the first blow, and the nosebleeds that are flowing out are interfering with my breathing.

“Hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm~.”

Nope…

A woman covered in blood,

Dragging a black bat across the floor,

He walks by humming a strange nursery rhyme.

He felt afraid.

‘This… what is this? ‘Why did this happen?’

The existence of [Rare Hunter Protection-Kill Department]? What is the mission of the [Fluid Collection Team]?

I don’t even care anymore.

Must live.

You must kill the woman in front of you and escape this crazy space.

“Why… why don’t you die?”

however,

The woman in front of me is not dying.

“I feel like I’m dying from pain, but surprisingly, I’m still alive.”

Even if I cut off my arm or my leg,

Even if the heart is cut obliquely along with the ribs,

Struggling against the surging pain, I recover from my wounds and come towards him.

Ugh.

The young man raised Mana.

Because I overused the ‘skill’ for a short period of time, I don’t have much mana left.

The collected chunks of mana are sharpened at his fingertips.

Did he feel the swelling flow of mana?

Eunha lifted the titanium bat and protected her face and neck.

Suddenly…

The sound of being cut sharply.

The invisible blade was blocked by solid titanium and deflected to the side, cutting Eunha’s carotid artery.

Blood spurts.

The neck is attached.

I couldn’t cut it all at once.

[Self-recovery] skill heals wounds.

“Kehehe! Cough!!”

“Huh… Huh…”

“Cough! It looks like you’re having a hard time. Did you use up all your mana?”

Eunha smiles.

Pure white skin without any blood.

It brings unbearable chills to the young man.

Is something like this D-level?

Don’t be a jerk.

“Cough…! Wow, I’m drunk. I’m dizzy.”

Kaaa!!

Eunha lunged forward and hit the bat.

The young man, struggling to raise his right arm, somehow manages to block the fiercely swinging chunk of titanium.

Wow…!

The right arm is broken, causing terrible pain.

“Turn it off!”

A young man kicked Eunha in the stomach with his incontinent leg.

He stepped back, clutching his broken arm.

Back, keep going back.

To a place where that monster cannot be seen…

chin…

and,

I hit my back against the dead wall next to the elevator.

When I turn my head, I see two identical elevators.

“Haa…! Haa…! Haa…!”

Dead end.

I turn my gaze to the dark apartment hallway.

“Where are you going? Come play with me.”

The sunset sets between the dark clouds. A dark red sunset comes through the apartment window.

The 9th floor hallway was dark with no lights on, and the setting sun coming through the window illuminated the bloody galaxy.

Clap… Clap…

Bloody woman. Dark red sunset.

The face hidden in the shadows creates a languid smile,

“haha…!”

“Let’s play? Why are you doing this when you started the fight?”

It’s like,

A dark shadow seems to be casting over the young man’s life…

“Haa…! Haa…! Don’t come closer!!!”

He felt fearful of ‘that’ slowly approaching,

I gathered all the remaining mana and sent it towards ‘that’.

The target is the ankle.

I wanted to block the approach of ‘that’ even just a little bit.

Suddenly…

The ankle of ‘that’ is cut off.

Clap!

But, ‘that’.

The severed ankle was kicked down the hallway.

Boom!

A chunk of titanium swings around.

“………ah…”

Short terminal.

he saw

Backlit by the sunset sinking into the horizon,

The ‘thing’ swinging a blunt weapon at you is,

Her face is shrouded in deep shadow.

was laughing

Kaaang!!!

… … .

… … .

… … .

Saetbyeol Apartment.

An apartment with friendly neighbors.

“Hey, what was your… name?”

Eunha sat down in the hallway and muttered.

He throws the bloody bat on the floor and asks a question with a very relieved face.

“What is the name of the skill you were using?”

“Purp…! Purg…!”

Grump… Grump…

The young man covered in blood made the sound of boiling phlegm.

I crawl across the floor with my still intact hands and desperately move away from Eunha.

It made me laugh because it looked like a turtle.

“Haha… It’s okay. You don’t have to say it. I’ll forget it anyway.”

The young man crawled on the floor.

Run away from Eunha, take the stairs… and crawl hard towards the 8th floor.

Do you want to live like that?

I don’t know.

Eunha took the severed ankle and attached it to the cut surface.

“friend. Winning.』

“That’s right. I beat a C-rank hunter.”

[Doll Girl], who was sitting on the stairs watching the fight, approached Eunha, wriggling in her fluffy hamster pajamas.

The girl waddled like a baby penguin and jumped into Eunha’s arms, who was resting against the wall.

The [doll girl] sitting on her thighs hugged the bloody Eunha tightly.

Although the girl’s body was as cold as a corpse,

The warmth felt inside makes Eunha smile.

『… … open it?”

The [doll girl] in my arms pointed to the window with her scraggly finger.

He doesn’t even look at the dolls scattered on the floor, only focusing on Eunha.

What I feel in the girl’s sunshine-pure eyes is… the joy of meeting a friend.

And, the sadness of breaking up.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

“Stick!”

Phew! Phew! Phew! Phew! Phew!

The sound of a sharp needle cutting into a person’s body.

A terrible scream comes from the 8th floor.

Phew! Phew!

How much time has passed?

By the time the screams could no longer be heard, [Doll Girl]’s friends came up to the 9th floor one by one.

An adult-sized rag doll.

The soft hand has human fingers, a thick needle, and a blood-stained cloth.

Sticky blood flows out of the gaps made up of colorful cloth.

“Eup… Eup…”

The ‘stuffed dolls’ with their mouths sewn shut and large buttons replacing their eyes slowly approach Eunha.

“Eup… Eup…”

“Ugh… Eup…”

“Grrr torrr torrr torrr torrr tot…!

Oh, I know that voice.

“friend. open it?”

The girl asks again.

Pointing to the tightly closed apartment window.

Eunha looked down at the [Doll Girl] while smoothing the scars on her severed limbs.

The sight of me waiting for her answer with my lips pursed gently melts my heart, which has been broken several times.

“……No. You don’t have to open it.”

The worry was short-lived.

Eunha, where all the wounds have healed and only a scar remains,

I hugged the [doll girl] tightly.

… … .

Okay.

Today I want to play with the girl in front of me.

If I go back home like this, I won’t be able to sleep.

( “help.” )

A request from an ambiguous being who is neither a monster nor a ghost.

I didn’t plan on listening right away… but a bad bug stuck its head in and caught it.

Would you be satisfied with this?

He must have been a hunter,

Was there a better way…

Small lumps pile up, and I keep them in a corner of my heart.

‘… … … It’s not easy. Hitting people.’

I curled my fist.

Hide your shaking fingers.

When she looked up, the night sky, without the sunset, was looking down at her from outside the window.

Night has come.

… Okay. No problem.

My hands and feet are shaking as I imagine the pain that will happen in the future.

For now, I decided to just… think about it that way.

『… … friend. play?”

“Yes. Let’s play together. Make it as painless as possible.”

“friend! friend!”

Was it an unexpected answer?

A girl in dreamy hamster pajamas was running around the blood-covered hallway.

Like a child receiving a gift from Santa for the first time in his life, he hugs Eunha’s neck and rubs her soft cheeks.

How could he be so happy when he was just told to play together?

Eunha thought positively.

In a way, isn’t it my job as a hunter to bring warmth to a girl suffering from loneliness?

I plan to play with [Doll Girl] once today, and if it turns out to be better than I thought, I will play with her more often in the future.

And above all… I’m scared of falling out of the window.

It hurt that much if I fell from the 7th floor, but how much would it hurt if I fell from the 9th floor?

Leaving the girl alone and jumping from the 9th floor,

Playing with the girl and getting sewn.

If you look at it like this, it’s there.

Both seem to be equally painful.

Because, I’m going to get sick after playing with the girl.

A neat decision.

Freshness springs from Eunha.

“friend! Cow friend!』

“My sister is not a four-legged animal.”

Thanks to [self-healing], there are no injuries.

Eunha stands up, holding the girl in her arms.

[Doll girl], leaning her head on her shoulder, lets out a happy breathing sound and pats Eunha’s large chest.

Wow. Bwak bwak. Wow.

As the conversation between the two ended, the ‘stuffed toys’ surrounding them approached like bodyguards.

What they have in their hands is a thick needle. A clean piece of cloth.

… … It’s just a piece of fabric with white and black spots on it, but whatever.

“house.”

“Yeah, okay. Let’s play at home? What floor should we go to?”

Like that, Eunha was gently captured by the ‘stuffed toys’.

Following the gestures of the [doll girl] in my arms…

With my usual languid smile on my face, I went down the stairs, led by my ‘friends’.

It’s really hard.