episode_0231

Only one (3) – World Hell Dungeon ‘World Cinema’ Han Gu-won Hall.

[No, I told you to make a backup, where are you and what are you doing?!]

[Brother, I’m busy too, so please talk to me later.]

[Hey you bitch! Then why are you doing voice acting?! Aren’t you coming right now?!]

Seong Ga-eul laughed helplessly as Han Gu-won’s voice filled the theater.

Sitting in a theater seat that is soft, but not soft at all…

I was looking at the screen with blank eyes.

[Look, look, it’s the present! If you do as your brother says, you win!]

[I said I was busy, but I didn’t think I could win, right?]

[This bastard—!]

[Hahahahahahaha!]

While making a promise with such a sincere expression-

At the end of dawn, I looked at the sky and promised to change –

[Huh- the bus was sweet~ So- do you want more? Roll it up?]

[…] … Hey, the sun is rising. Do it tomorrow, tomorrow.]

[Am I playing a game with Hermione and not Han Gu-won? If we’re going to play games like this until dawn and play again tomorrow, who’s going to take care of our damn Guwon-hyung’s studies?]

[Fuck you! I’m going to rest for a week and do it properly! Don’t you have to study after doing all your homework!]

[Wow – I was told I would take a break for 3 days, but before I knew it, it had stretched to a week. Is this the theory of relativity or something?]

[Do you really want to hit it relatively?]

[Hak-hak-hak-!]

Han Gu-won didn’t change anything.

Sometimes I held my head and frowned at the thought of having to change, but…

In the end, he always chose to sit in his gaming chair rather than outside the house.

[Well, see you tomorrow, bro!]

[go away.]

[yep! Pop!]

Tiri-ring-!

However, the appearance was not strange or awkward at all.

Funny enough, Seong Ga-eul thought that look looked like Han Gu-won.

That’s what Han Gu-won looked like without trials, tribulations, and stories.

Seong Ga-eul smiled bitterly, remembering his eyes that were full of unexplained anger and inferiority complex.

Han Gu-won’s routine is now so familiar that even she memorizes it.

A bored face resting on its chin while listening to an internet broadcast coming through a speaker.

His face is reflected as he wanders in and out of the Internet community along with the clicking sound of the mouse.

After staring at the monitor for a while, he picked up the roll of toilet paper placed in front of his desk, as was his habit.

Seeing that, Seong Ga-eul wrinkled her face with a small sigh.

“… … .”

However, Han Gu-won, who stopped for a moment as he picked up the tissue, frowned just like her.

“… … Fuck!”

A tissue is thrown at the wall while muttering a strong curse.

thud-!

After a small impact sound, Han Gu-won, who was looking at the tissues scattered on the floor, let out a deep sigh and looked at the monitor again.

[The world is unfair. It’s unfair even when seen from afar… … .]

And his inner thoughts resonated in the theater like a narration.

[I wish the world would perish. A soft destruction with little infrastructure and foundation remaining.]

Seong Ga-eul looked at the ceiling and let out a laugh as if imitating Han Gu-won, who was laughing.

That empty laugh brought out a fact I had long forgotten.

In the first place, becoming the vice-president of the One Mind Salvation Church was not what she wanted.

However, when there is even a small amount of choice left –

The result of choosing the lesser evil over the worst was the One Mind Salvation Church.

… … It was Han Gu-won.

[I soon got used to the strange thoughts that were poking my head.]

Han Gu-won was lying on the bed in the room as dawn broke, staring at the ceiling with blank eyes.

[Just as I got used to seeing myself promising to change and change every time – just as I got used to seeing myself sitting in front of the computer again – in the end, I also got used to this strange thought.]

[Now I’m not so surprised or sad. I was tired of being angry at myself. The moment has come when I just have to admit that this is me.]

[It’s no one’s fault. It’s not like anyone insisted that it had to be like this. It became like this very naturally.]

[A dirty feeling, like looking at a stone statue that has hardened and does not change. I am not the one who can change myself, who is trapped inside the stone statue.]

[People who are already hardened do not change that easily.]

Seong Ga-eul closed her eyes as she listened to his voice flowing softly.

The feeling of swimming in the darkness with no answer in sight.

There was not even the slightest shred of clue or breakthrough in sight.

The only thing I knew from the moment she entered the theater was that her voice could not reach Han Gu-won.

The audience and the stage were so far away that they were located in different timelines.

There was nothing the audience could do here.

The voice of the current Seong Ga-eul could never reach Han Gu-won in the past.

[Probably, unless the world falls apart, nothing will change for me.]

[Maybe it’s not really a joke, but destruction is the only salvation for me?]

Seong Ga-eul, who was facing destruction as he spoke, smiled bitterly and shook her head.

In order to end that destruction, Han Gu-won, who had been waiting for destruction so much, had to be taken with him.

Seong Ga-eul clutched her head, desperately trying to ignore this absurd irony.

I couldn’t give up like this.

It couldn’t end like this.

Clearly, there must have been a reason why the system allowed members of the same organization to enter.

There was only one thing that Seong Ga-eul could know after watching Han Gu-won so far.

Sometimes the screen fast-forwards as if cutting out unnecessary scenes, and other times, it shows the same daily life as usual for a long time.

The time it takes for this screen to show Han Gu-won’s journey, every day for almost a year, will easily take about 20 days.

Then, even if Han Gu-won succeeds in that theme, it will be too late.

Even if Han Gu-won returned, there was a strong possibility that Gu-won Church would suffer irreparable damage.

However, as she sat in her movie theater seat desperately clutching her head, there was no answer in sight.

While she continued to suffer, Han Gu-won, who had been staring at the ceiling with blank eyes, slowly closed his eyes.

As soon as he fell asleep, his smartphone beeped loudly with a disaster text message.

Keekeeek!

The howling of zombies echoes through the fast-forwarding video on the screen.

The screams of people climbing through apartment windows and the constant sound of sirens.

Along with the noise of a world turning into hell, the sunlight shining through the window fades and the moonlight shines.

Soldiers’ evacuation broadcasts are occasionally heard loudly –

bang-! bang-!

Gunshots ring out, tearing through the air, and day and night continue to change.

like that-

─────.

As I watched the world quietly falling into silence, I burst into laughter.

The world that ended like that and the days since.

I thought I worked hard and did my best.

In the end, she couldn’t change anything.

The morning when day and night changed for the seventh time.

Han Gu-won’s face, bathed in the sunlight shining down on the collapsed world, frowns loudly.

In the end, like that day, it started without any answers.

He suddenly came to visit us.

thud-! thud-! thud-!

Apocalypse knocked on the door.

***

“Haa― Haa―”

A violent breath that shows no signs of leaving my mouth.

Kang San shook off the zombie pierced by the spear blade and quickly swung around.

Gaaa!

The screams of Salvationists sharply pierce the square.

Frogs moving through the sky non-stop, and fragments of buildings being thrown by cult leaders.

Kiiing—!

And the awakened people are desperately trying to stop all of that.

Kang San frowned in confusion amidst the fierce battle.

I gritted my teeth and suppressed the regret that continued to prick my head and suppressed my rapid breathing.

First of all- first of all, people-

I kept repeating this to myself and shook off the spear blade that was covered in rotten blood.

Crude barricades that have already been trampled by zombies and guns that are of little help.

The muzzles of the guns spewed fire when the terrified male believers pulled the triggers, but not many zombies fell.

“Crraaa—!”

Rather, the throwing of steroids and the bombardment of sound stalkers, driven by gunshots, follow.

“Kwaaagh―!”

The desperate scream of a male believer whose leg was crushed by building debris thrown by steroids.

In the end, dozens of zombies were already attached to his upper body, which he was unable to remove.

The zombies, who had been greedily devouring the believers with faces covered in red blood, all raised their heads.

“Kkieeee—”

A blue sword energy attacked them as they roared with joy.

Suddenly!

The heads of all the zombies gathered around the debris were cut off in an instant.

Tuk!

“Move!”

Yunhyeon’s shout as he hurriedly cleaned up the zombie corpse that had fallen on the male pew.

The paladins who followed forcibly moved the believer, who had already become a zombie with a grotesque appearance.

“kkieeek―!”

The zombies howl in a frenzy as they confirm that more prey has arrived.

But-

Kiiing!

For the zombies who attacked the paladins who were rescuing male believers, there was only a flash of blue sword light and an end.

The majesty of a one-man army that cuts through waves of zombies alone.

But the opponent-

“Crraaa—!”

Has more legions.

Yunhyeon, who was cutting the zombies’ throats, quickly took a step back.

Cooo!

The remains of a large building stuck in the spot where Yunhyeon was.

Nettle liquid!

And a sword-wielding variant emerges through the dust in the debris.

Blue mana flickers from Yunhyeon’s whole body as he glares at the guy’s sword strike.

But that wasn’t the only bad news.

Wow!

Black Baby’s mana blocking continued uninterrupted from the start of the battle.

Chaae-ae-!

Yunhyeon received the swordsman’s strike with a frowning expression.

Yunhyeon continues to retreat from the swordsman’s ceaseless strikes.

Kang San clenched his fists as he looked at the black babies floating in the sky.

Invariably, a clear sound of crying is heard in a place where a visible struggle is shown according to the gestures of the religious leaders floating in the sky.

Kiiing—!

Kang San quickly scanned the surroundings, generating the adventurer’s mana that was not affected by the man’s mana blocking.

I, I had to fill in their gaps somehow.

“Aaaaagh―!”

At that moment, someone’s scream hit Kang San’s ears.

As I followed the sound, I saw a girl with a young face covered in frogs.

Frog desperately pushes the boy’s head, but he doesn’t care at all and cuts off the child’s shoulder.

“Aaaah! It hurts! Don’t bite, it hurts!”

The child was shaking his legs violently, as if the pain that could not be relieved by screaming was spreading.

Sooo!

Two feet moving before the head.

I grit my teeth and the red spear blade that cuts through the wind pierces its green area.

Whoa!

The blunt collision of the spear blade, already dulled by their rotten blood.

“Off-”

Frog, whose head was pierced, died silently, but the child was still writhing in pain.

Kang San hurriedly put the child on his back and ran in the opposite direction.

Cooo! Cooo!

The sound stalkers’ bombardment struck the space where Ai and Kang San had just been, shaking the ground.

Gaaa!

Kang San looked around to find the safest possible place in the square, which was already in chaos.

The ring bridge continues its merciless attacks from all directions, even from the sky.

Thanks to this, the zombies easily overcame the struggles of the paladins and were easily reaching the believers.

“… … Brother.”

A very small voice tickled Kang San’s ears while he was busy turning his head.

A young voice, shaking dangerously as if it would go off at any moment, reached Kang San.

“… … Run away― If you see someone bitten at school, run away―”

The sound of phlegm boiling, so unbecoming of a young girl.

“… … .”

“kkieeek―!”

Kang San suppressed his devastated feelings and hurriedly put the child down on the floor.

The red eyes of a girl desperately waving her arms to catch Kang San.

He threw down the window and quickly pinned the girl’s small head.

He pressed the girl’s petite body with his upper body and took out a zombie cure from his makeshift inventory.

“kkieeek―!”

The beautiful voice and spirit from before disappeared like a mirage, leaving only the monster with an appetite.

Kang San managed to put the zombie medicine into the child’s mouth with his hands shaking like he was suffering from a miscarriage.

“Kkieeee—”

The child gradually loses his glow and closes his eyes, and his body continues to fall into constant spasms.

Kang San’s eyes twitched as he felt and looked at it all.

A feeling of nausea that continues to pulsate within the body.

Everything was shaking so much that I could almost vomit out everything that was left inside me.

“kkieeek―!”

Kang San, who had been closely watching the child being treated, quickly turned his head.

Perhaps because he was focusing all his attention on the child, he was too late to detect Frog’s glide aimed at his back.

He hurriedly stretched out his right hand, but his spear was thrown farther than expected.

Kang San and his own image are reflected in the pupils of Frog, who is running towards him with his arms wide open.

Grumbling!

The craze of saving Gangsan from imminent danger.

The flames that came like a flash struck Frog, which was trying to attack Kangsan.

The frog instantly turns into ashes and hits Kangsan’s body.

“Live baby—!”

The old man hurriedly kicked the ashes and called out to Gangsan.

Kiiing!

Following the old man’s gesture, a wall of blazing fire blocked their path like a shield.

“… … Young man.”

“Is this okay?! Are there any injuries?!”

Kang San nodded, looking at the old man’s already matted hair and the black ash piled up between the wrinkles of his clothes.

“… … Thank you, old man. Please take care of this child.”

“San-a—! First, go to the back and see the sea-”

While the old man continued to speak, Kang San’s eyes quietly looked back at him.

“… … .”

Kang San, holding the spear tightly in his right hand, dismissed the old man’s words with silence.

“… … Old man, if you don’t mind, could you give me half of the remaining mana potion?”

Quiet and motionless, no-

Kang San’s eyes are so constantly shaking that they seem to have stopped.

The old man quietly handed Kang San five mana potions.

“Thank you.”

Gangsan takes a sip of one of the potions he received and puts four into his simple inventory.

As he hurriedly tried to turn his back, the strong hand of the old man grabbed his shoulder.

“… … Sana. It’s all good, it’s all good―”

The old man met Kang San’s eyes and whispered clearly.

“I’ve always thought about this, but you only focus on one thing.”

Even when I faced the steroids alone, and now when I’m saving that girl.

“Never think of only one thing. These aren’t just zombies. It is a group that digs traps and carries out surprise attacks.”

“If you act with only one thought in mind, you could die from a blind bullet.”

Do you understand, San?

Kang San nodded at the old man’s advice and turned around.

Grumbling!

An endless blood battle beyond the wall of fire that slowly fades away at the gesture of inspiration.

Gaaa!

Kang San gathered his shaking heart and hurriedly kicked the floor.