6. Tail
6. Tail
Seo-yoon decided to follow me.
It seems her ability played a decisive role.
The ability called Contract.
That first contract.
Because of the first contract that prevents lying, she must have known that everything I said was sincere.
The guys outside will come here eventually, and she has nothing to eat.
In the end, the outcome was bound to be set.
However, I decided that if she followed me, I would protect her and give her food in exchange for her body and her ability.
What did she trust?
It must be the superpower.
'That's the most likely possibility.'
Who am I, anyway?
Just an ordinary person,
Just someone who happened to get a superpower, that's the vibe.
Even if a swarm of Walkers or Runners comes, there's no answer.
Even if a bunch of people come with tools to jump me, there's no answer.
Of course, as long as I have the revolver, guys with guns are fine, but once the 5 rounds in the revolver are gone, there's no answer.
Still, a promise is a promise, so I will protect her in exchange for taking her in.
Though I don't know if I can.
"Um..."
"...?"
"...It's Lee Seo-yoon."
"Kim Yu-seong. You can speak comfortably if you want."
"No. Um, I'm comfortable with this."
"Alright."
"Um, then what should I do?"
What should she do, huh.
For starters, I thought it would be best to move her location.
This Yugwang Apartment is in a terrible location right now.
It's too close to Eunha High School, and I've already fired shots here.
Plus, she and I made noise while talking.
'We need to leave right now.'
As I was thinking that, I heard a strange sound from the front.
ㅡSreuk
I wondered what it was, and it turned out to be the sound of Lee Seo-yoon taking off her clothes.
A dizzying figure is revealed. Of course, she looks thin because she hasn't been eating properly.
Breasts that look like they'd be a G-cup.
And hips even more impressive than that, and an ass I want to fuck right now.
Right, I did say we'd do the real thing.
But I didn't expect her to come out and do it right away.
What drove this woman to this point?
A promise is a promise. However, there was another promise too.
I ignored her and said,
"Pack only the things you need right now."
"...Eh?"
A deflating sound.
It's a bit frustrating, but this much is fine.
"We're leaving. Pack what you need."
"Ah. Yes. Yes..."
Lee Seo-yoon scrambling.
Watching her, which was kind of funny, I thought.
Lee Seo-yoon.
20 years old.
If it weren't for this situation, she would have been going to school and having a fun college life.
Infection. Apocalypse. Superpower.
If it weren't for the apocalypse, I, too, would have been living an ordinary life working at Seongho Pharmaceutical.
Perhaps I wouldn't have had any reason to meet her.
As I was thinking that.
"Huff. Huff. I packed everything."
"Alright."
Seo-yoon came out. Wrapped up tight, with a small bag packed.
They say women take a long time, but it was good that she was fast.
"Let's go."
#
Back in reverse.
U-Gwang Apartment.
Road. Shopping district.
Hill road, IN Convenience Store. GP Convenience Store in that order.
"Hiiik..."
Other than Lee Seo-yoon making squeaking sounds after seeing the Infected, which almost drew them in a few times, there were no issues.
'That's a relief.'
If I had to fight while protecting dead weight, I could've been fucked.
In front of Hope Villa.
The same scene as when we left.
Looking at the black sky, I checked the interior.
As I did that, Seo-yoon, who was wrapping one arm around the other, opened her mouth.
"I-is it okay to move around like this?"
"They do something like sleeping at night."
"Sleeping? Th-they sleep? The Infected?"
"That's right. Come in first."
ㅡKkii-ik
I closed the villa's main door.
I've cleared out Hope Villa, so there shouldn't be any problems, but you never know.
Room 401.
We arrived at my place.
"This is it. Open it and go in, there's a bathroom, so put your stuff down and wash up there."
Lee Seo-yoon nods and goes in.
Watching her trot inside, I looked out the small window on the villa stairs.
About 5 minutes.
Still, just in case.
Should I watch a little longer before going in?
That was when I was thinking that.
ㅡBlink
Far away.
I mean, in the direction of the GP Convenience Store down the hill.
Something was blinking around the path to the IN Convenience Store.
'......'
I couldn't see anything more than that, and afterwards, I only saw the Infected staggering around. But I didn't see it wrong.
5 minutes later.
No reaction.
ㅡKkii-ik
I opened the door and headed inside the villa.
#
I think I know why she was cornered.
ㅡNom nom
I told her to wash up before doing anything else, and took out some food first.
Food I had brought from the convenience store.
Food that had passed a month and didn't have much shelf life left.
Since I told her she could eat, she's inhaling it.
Just how long has she been starving?
ㅡChomp chomp
The woman is eating while shedding tears.
Seo-yoon looks soft and clean after washing up once.
Now she looked a bit more like a human.
ㅡTak
"Hup."
I placed a water bottle in front of her.
Then Seo-yoon jumps up like a hamster.
She really did follow me because she saw food.
Yeah. Eating is important.
Body or whatever, you have to eat to live. That's right.
And is this woman, who figured that out like a ghost and stuck to me, smart? Or just stupid?
"...Did I eat too much?"
"You can eat. It has to be thrown away anyway."
"......"
Now she's eating without even being self-conscious.
"Hic.."
Well, look at that.
Now she's even burping.
"......"
But even so, she doesn't stop eating.
"How many days have you been starving?"
"...I think I haven't eaten properly for a week. I barely managed to make white porridge in a pot."
"I see."
A few dozen minutes like that.
Only then does she realize what she's done and blushes.
Feeling awkward for no reason, the woman gathers the trash.
"Forget it, leave it. And, what did you pack in your bag?"
"Um, my smartphone, a bag of rice, and my wallet."
"You got nothing."
"...Because you told me to come out quickly."
"Yeah."
An awkward air flows.
The woman is hesitant.
Well, I did say we'd do the real thing.
"I have some leftover toothbrush and toothpaste, so go do that. If the water gets cut off later, you won't even be able to do that."
"Ah. Yes."
The woman who went to the bathroom.
Awkwardness still flows.
"Um."
I lifted my head.
"It's nothing..."
"Why."
"It's really nothing."
"Say it."
"Um... I was wondering when you'd do that. Since you gave me food and all, um..."
"Sex?"
ㅡCough cough
Since I said it outright, the woman coughs, perhaps because she choked.
I narrowed my eyes.
"Do you want to?"
"N-no!"
"I want to."
"......"
The woman shuts her mouth. She blushes. As if something is about to happen.
However.
I can't do that today.
"I want to, but I can't right now."
"Yes?"
I grabbed my weapons.
There are no other weapons in the house besides the crowbar and the revolver.
What should I do with Lee Seo-yoon?
It's better to let her sleep. I'll wake her up when I get back.
"I'm going out, so take a blanket out of the wardrobe in the master bedroom and sleep. If you can't sleep, just watch outside from there. They can't see in from the outside."
"...Yes? Eh? Where are you going?"
"Earlier, it seemed like someone was following us. So just sleep. Or do you want to follow me?"
"......"
Seo-yoon shuts her mouth.
She must know that she's no help.
"If I bring someone back, get ready to use your ability."
I headed outside, carrying a bag as well.
#
Actually, I had thought this would happen.
It was half-luring them in, too.
Because the noise I made at dawn wasn't just one or two things.
The noise I made with the Walkers inside Building 103.
The gunshot and the man's scream on the 4th floor of Building 101,
The noises made at Lee Seo-yoon's house on the 10th floor of Building 102.
And lastly, the sounds the Infected outside made.
'...That's enough noise to wake up the guys who were sleeping at dawn.'
Of course, unless they were deep sleepers.
It's enough noise to make the guys inside U-Gwang Apartment get up and move. Plus, dawn and night are now times when the Infected become dull.
But this is my territory.
The hill road that goes up to the GP Convenience Store.
A place where I've been constantly walking back and forth for about a month, making a path.
The only Infected left are the ones wandering in from outside.
To check the light that came from the GP Convenience Store,
I went into the bushes outside the villa.
If I go this way, they won't be able to see me from the GP Convenience Store side.
If I go down from here.
It's the same as going down the hill road.
It's a dark, musty, shitty path with a few slugs, but.
It's better than getting caught.
And coming down this way, the side wall.
ㅡTak
If I climb over carefully like this.
It leads to the back warehouse side of the GP Convenience Store.
ㅡSseuk
ㅡClick
Then now
There's a door I left open from the inside when I looted this place before.
GP Convenience Store inner warehouse.
I haven't used this path since I cleared it out in the first week, but I left the route just in case.
Because something like this might happen.
'I hope I saw it wrong.'
I could go down to the front door, but you never know.
The front door of this GP Convenience Store has shattered glass, so it makes a crunching sound when stepped on.
If someone is inside, they'll notice right away.
ㅡCrunch
Just like this.
ㅡCrunch
ㅡCrunch
The sound of stepping on glass.
As expected, I didn't see it wrong.
Someone came out from U-Gwang Apartment and tracked us.
Me and Seo-yoon.
I carefully moved my steps inside the warehouse.
So that no one could hear.
And I pressed my ear against it.
Voices heard from the middle.
Two men's voices.
But it doesn't seem like there are only two people.
"This Infected corpse looks like it died recently."
"By a gun?"
"No, with a hammer, or a crowbar, something like that."
"Tsk. Still, I'm a bit scared. It seems like they have a gun. We heard a gunshot earlier, didn't we?"
"Well, so you're going to run away after coming all this way?"
"No, you fucker. I'm saying let's be careful just in case."
"What about the man?"
"We have to kill him. We can just say it was an unavoidable mistake."
"If we give Min-jun and Yoon-seong... it's two o'clock now, so it'll be just the right time to go back to school. We picked up a decent chick. It was already shitty because everyone else died."
"Right? Let's do it quickly before dawn breaks and leave."
That's definitely about me.
More than that, school.
When they say school, it can only be Eunha High School.
Are there survivors left?
Or, did the survivors all die and they took over the place?
Or, did something happen inside there?
Well, I can just ask them.
I think I can just kill them all except for one.
Then what else is there.
ㅡBang
I kicked the door.
What I see are two guys holding tools.
And two guys holding rifles.
Rifles, huh.
"What the?"
The guys making dumbfounded sounds.
I aimed the revolver and fired right away.
ㅡBang!
The head of the guy holding the rifle was pierced, and he flopped onto the floor.
"What the fuck...!"
"Jae-hoon hyung!"
I aimed the revolver again.