Got Done
Time limit: ten minutes.
No time to waste playing it cool.
But where the hell was I supposed to go?
I couldn't pin down where the screams were coming from.
This way? That way? Or over there?
Where the fuck is it…! Just once more—please, just scream one more time…!!
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAAAGH!!!"
There.
I took off running.
Not the zombies shrieking right around me—the ones a little farther out. That was enough to lock in a direction.
I could be wrong, but it was the only call I had.
The moment I burst out onto the main road leading to Seongsu Bridge, I stomped onto a car trunk and launched myself into the air.
"KRAAGH!!"
A zombie threw its arms wide in a cheerful welcome. I kicked it square in the chest, landed on a car in the next lane—and there they were.
Across the road, roughly two o'clock: a stream of zombies pouring into the alley between two buildings.
I didn't head straight there. Instead I crossed the road and ducked into the alley directly opposite.
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAGH!!"
Might as well thin them out a little first.
I'd be using this route a lot.
I smashed and crushed my way through every zombie that lunged at me, killing as many as I could while I moved. Every scrap of my attention stayed locked on my right ear.
Sound was all I had to go on.
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAA!!!"
There.
I zeroed in on the spot where the howling was loudest and swung around the corner ahead. Then I caught the trailing edge of the zombie pack and swung my mace with everything I had.
Three of them went flying at once. I bellowed after them.
"Come and get it, you undead bastards!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAA!!!"
There was only one reason to bait them like this.
If that many zombies stayed piled up in front of the building, I'd never get inside.
I ran, drawing them after me, putting distance between myself and the building where I figured the woman in trouble had to be. I looped a full block with the pack on my heels and came back around to the place I'd first shouted from.
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!"
"KRAGH!!"
"KRAA!!"
A few zombies were still hanging around the entrance—but only four. I could drop them and get inside before the ones chasing me, or the ones filtering in off the main road, caught up.
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!"
"KRAGH!!"
"KRAA!!"
"KRAAAAGH!!!"
"KRAAGH!!"
"KRAAAAAAGH!!!"
"Why the hell are there so many?!"
The second I put those four down, a tidal wave of zombies came pouring out of the first-floor café.
I couldn't pull the same trick twice. Zombies were flooding in from both ends of the single-exit alley.
"KRAAGH!!!"
"We're going in!"
I seized a zombie by the throat and smashed my mace down through the crown of its skull. Then I charged the doorway with the corpse held out in front of me like a shield.
Stat Amplification.
With Strength jacked all the way to twenty-two, I flattened the zombies in my path, vaulted the bodies, and forced my way inside.
Skip the zombie-choked café on the first floor.
That left the second-floor dermatology clinic, the third-floor plastic surgery office, the fourth-floor spa, or the fifth-floor language academy… Why the hell would anyone hole up in a building like this?!
If there'd been a restaurant, I could've gone straight there. Instead I had no choice but to check floor by floor.
And I was running out of time…!
Time Remaining: 00:04:17
Halfway up the first flight, sofas propped against the wall blocked the stairs. Good enough to stop zombies—not enough to stop a person.
I grabbed the railing, hauled myself up and over, and dropped down behind the sofas in one motion.
Second floor: dermatology.
I flung open every door I could find.
Nobody.
I sprinted up to the third floor: plastic surgery.
Every door. Empty.
Fourth floor: spa.
Door after door after door. By the time I finished, a cold prickle was running down my spine.
"Ah, shit…!! I don't have time for this!!"
Please tell me this is the right building.
If it isn't, I'm looking at erectile dysfunction… No. Absolutely not. A man's pride—his entire life—is on the line here!!!
Time Remaining: 00:02:09
I took the stairs two at a time on pure desperation and hit the entrance to the fifth-floor language academy.
The handle wouldn't budge.
Yes!
Locked. This is it.
I brought the mace down with everything I had.
The thick glass door exploded into a glittering rain of shards—and right on cue came the most welcome sounds in the world.
"What the hell?!"
"Fuck…!!"
"Go block the entrance! I'll get this bitch on the floor somehow…!"
"Unbelievable. We set the whole thing up and you still can't close? Pathetic."
"Shut up and help!"
"Don't order me around! And I just got my nails done yesterday, okay?! If I mess them up I can't do anything."
"You crazy bitch…!!"
"Fine—today's a freebie. I'll let you finish inside."
"F-for real…? You promised!!"
What a goddamn circus.
I crunched across the broken glass and stepped inside. Two guys who looked like they hit the gym came scrambling out in a panic.
"Fuck, you scared the shit out of me…!! Hey! It's not a zombie—it's a person!!"
"Hey, buddy. Do yourself a favor and walk away quiet, yeah? As you can see, there's no food here. Nothing."
"Move. I'm short on time."
"The fuck did you just say, asshole…?! Get lost!!"
"Don't tell me you came because you heard someone yelling for h—"
"I said I don't have time."
"Huh…?"
Confusion spilled out of one of them—right as the guy next to him went flying backward.
One punch straight to the face sent him crashing over the reception desk. The other one was still turning toward me in a daze when my elbow found his jaw and dropped him in a heap.
Someone had been watching the whole thing.
The woman with the immaculately done nails saw both men go down in an instant, and her eyes went huge.
"Hey… hey…! Hey…!!! You crazy bastard, get out here!!!"
"Got you! Damn, this bitch has been putting me through hell!"
"Let go! Let go of me!!!"
"Look at you thrashing around—you're gonna taste amazing~. Next time I'll eat you together with your big sister, heh heh heh…"
"D-don't you dare touch my sister!! I'll kill you!!!!"
"I'll kill you too. With this. I'm pretty big, so you're gonna love it~"
"You pieces of trash…!!"
"Hey…! Look over here…!!!"
"Ah, for fuck's sake!!"
Completely unbothered. In a world like this, and he still wasn't paying attention to anything happening around him.
"Y-you—what the hell are you?!"
Only then did the guy glance back—and freeze when he found me with my arm already draped over the pretty-nailed woman's shoulder.
"Do something already…!!"
"You little shit…! Get your fucking hand off her right now!"
I had to hand it to him. The guy was absurdly calm. He was in the middle of restraining a woman with a knife in her hand, and he still turned around to glare at me.
Sure, he had both her wrists locked down tight so she couldn't swing the blade.
But her legs were free.
Her knee drove up between his legs.
You're not looking at ED anymore, buddy. You're looking at a eunuch.
"GAAAAAAAH……!!!!!!!!"
He let go of her wrists and crumpled. Hands suddenly free, the woman reversed her grip on the knife, raised it high in both fists—
—and just stood there shaking, tears dripping steadily onto the floor, unable to bring it down.
"Hic…! Hhng…!!"
This is exactly when you're supposed to do it.
You've got to be kidding me…!
Time Remaining: 00:01:35
I grabbed the groaning bastard by the hair, dragged him out into the hallway, slammed his head into the wall until he went limp, and dumped him. Then I walked back into the classroom.
"Hic… hhng… hic…"
"……"
She was sitting on the floor, sobbing her heart out—badly shaken, badly scared. Top priority first.
I picked my way through the overturned chairs and desks, crouched beside her, and patted her back while I offered what comfort I could.
"Are you all right? That must have been terrifying. I'm sorry."
"Huh…? Ah… th-thank you…"
Whether the words actually reached her or not, she scrubbed at her tears with both hands and ducked her head in a quick bow. Then a flicker of confusion crossed her face. She tilted her head and looked up at me with eyes still bright with tears.
"But… why are you saying you're sorry…?"
"……"
I didn't answer.
Instead I stood up from my crouch and started unfastening my pants.
They hit the floor. She looked from the discarded pants to the bulge in my underwear to my face—and the tears that had been blinking in her eyes spilled over as she screamed.
"KYAAAAAAAH!!!!"
"Just once. Let me put it in."
"W-what kind of bullshit is that!!! Get away! Get the hell away from me!!!!"
She snatched the knife off the floor and started swinging wildly. I hopped backward on both feet like a hopping vampire, dodging every slash, then shoved my underwear down and stepped free of the clothes tangled around my ankles one foot at a time.
"You crazy bastard!!!!!!"
"I don't have a choice either."
"What do you mean you don't have a choice?!! Put your clothes back on right now!!! KYAAAAAH!!!!!"
Had she dumped a ton of points into Stamina or something?
The knife she was waving to keep me back showed no sign of slowing down. So I walked straight in and caught her by the wrist.
"KYAAAH!!!"
The second I had her, she tried the same move as before—knee driving upward.
She wasn't faster than my eyes or my reflexes.
I twisted my hips just enough to let it slide past, and something stupid slipped out of my mouth before I could stop it.
"Missed me~"
"……"
"Ah. Sorry."
"You son of a…!!! Let go!! Let go of me, you pervert!!!!!"
I pried the knife out of her grip first and tossed it behind me, then checked the clock.
Time Remaining: 00:00:41
Almost out of time.
And the real problem wasn't the woman fighting me—it was my dick, which still wasn't cooperating.
Her face? Stunning.
Nothing like those plastic-surgery beauties downstairs. This was the real thing—pure, natural beauty.
Her body? Excellent.
Taller than Nari, shorter than Yu Eunseol—somewhere between 163 and 166 centimeters. Her chest had a nice soft swell to it, and the sliver of waist showing under her slightly hiked-up T-shirt was smooth and narrow.
Time to get close.
She kept yanking her feet up like the floor was on fire, trying to knee me. I slid one foot between her legs, then eased sideways until I was settled naturally between her thighs.
Her feet were farther out than mine now. No matter how high she brought a knee, she couldn't reach me.
And I was finally starting to feel it.
Every thrash of her body as she tried to break free rubbed against me, waking things up.
But it still wasn't enough.
I gathered both of her slender wrists into my left hand, cupped her face with my right, and pushed her lips into a little duck-pout. Then I tilted her chin up so she had to look at me.
"N-no… don't… mmph!!!"
I kissed her like I was starving.
I didn't close my eyes the whole time.
Time Remaining: 00:00:14
Fourteen seconds to get it in.
I dropped the hand from her face, hooked my fingers into the waistband of her sweatpants and panties, and dragged them down.
"Mmmmph!!!! Please don't!! Please!!!"
"I'm really sorry. In exchange, I'll grant you one favor. Anything you want."
"Please… hic… please…"
"……"
I don't want to be doing this either—but I am not becoming impotent!
I dropped into a horse stance to line myself up, now hard enough for the job, and hoisted one of her legs with my right hand.
I prodded here and there with the tip, searching for the entrance—and frowned.
"Why are you so wet…?"
"W-what are you talking about?!! Don't!! Don't put it in!!"
"……"
"No…! You can't put it—ah…!!!! It hurts…!!!"
"……"
What is with this woman?
I'd stopped with the tip pressed against the wrong spot, and she moved her hips on her own and guided me to the entrance.
Coincidence?
Yeah. She was thrashing around and it just slipped in. That had to be it.
Either way.
Time Remaining: 00:00:01
Buzzer-beater.
I pushed all the way in.
"AAAAAAAH!!!!!! Nngh…!! Ahn…!!!"
"……"
"What do I do…! I finally…!! Got done by a complete stranger… heh…"
"……"
Did she… just laugh?