Chapter 6
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title: Bellierd Library (6)
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After washing off the sticky blood from his body.
"Even kids like you have red blood, huh."
He naturally sat down at the desk and opened the bento box to eat first.
"..Huh?"
Inside the bento box container, he could see the torn memo he'd placed there that morning.
And not just that...
"..?"
Beneath the letter paper where he'd written his apology... there was some kind of emoticon drawn there...
- Thank you for always providing such delicious meals.
The reason I left the meat was for personal reasons, not because the food wasn't tasty.
However, this time, I'd like to borrow the metal chopsticks from the bento box for a bit.
I'm truly sorry.
I say it again, but thank you sincerely for always packing such tasty meals.
:>
'..What is this? In their language, does it mean something like "I'm gonna kill you soon"..?'
It looked like a smiling face on the surface...
Who knows? To monsters, it might be a double entendre for "I'm going to kill you"...
'..Am I overthinking it?'
Whatever the case.
It was a relief that the being who made the bento didn't seem upset about the request to borrow the chopsticks.
'They even put in new ones.'
Seeing the refilled bento box with fresh chopsticks inside.
It seemed like they had no intention of taking back the ones he'd taken that morning.
So he decided to make good use of these chopsticks, and this time he just went for the rice... Huh?
"..What's this?"
It was the same composition as always.
Rice and... some side dishes, and mystery stir-fried meat.
However...
"..Doesn't it smell a bit different from usual?"
Today, the scent wafting from the bento... he realized it carried a strangely familiar aroma.
'..Should I try it?'
Just in case, the moment he tasted a tiny bit of the meat...
He realized this was meat they'd often eaten before.
"..Pork?"
The fat wasn't greasy and slid smoothly down his throat.
The moderately spicy seasoning tingled his mouth pleasantly, and the tip of his tongue savored that "spicy yet delicious" flavor.
"..Is it just because I ate a little?"
Like when you try samples at a supermarket—they always taste umami-rich in small bites, making you think the food is amazing no matter what.
This time, he piled some well-seasoned meat on the rice and popped it straight into his mouth...
"..It's good."
It was spicy yet delicious... the kind of spicy pork stir-fry that anyone would agree tasted great.
'..So I guess I need to build favor with the bento maker too, huh..?'
In other words.
If he wanted to keep eating food this tasty from now on... he'd have to stay on good terms with whoever delivered the bento.
'..What would happen if I gave them a gift too?'
He turned his head to look for something suitable to give as a gift...
'..Even so, if I give them a corpse, would they take it as a declaration of war..?'
...
"..20 minutes left."
After trying hard to butcher the monster corpse, he slipped out to the bathroom and checked the clock.
Realizing he had to head out for afternoon duty in 20 minutes.
"Ugh.. Forget it. I can't. Screw this."
He gave up on the hour he'd spent trying to cut off the monster's arm.
And looked down at the fallen creature's corpse.
'..What if this thing wakes up?'
The worries weren't minor.
If this guy woke up while he was on library duty... there'd be nothing he could do.
'..Should I really try dunking it in water or something..'
He opened the status window and began carefully rereading the posts the community folks had written to help him.
[Noobie, this is the method I came up with for you.]
Burn it.
Set the corpse on fire and that bastard can't do shit.
Telling him to set a fire in the library? You're dead set on seeing the manager rip our newbie to shreds, huh?
Why can't you start a fire in the library?
You... never mind. Just stay tied up as is.
No shit, how do you all know??
Your nickname is visible??
I'm kinda against setting it on fire.
Yeah, setting fire seems off to me too. (Edited) (Deleted)
I'm a newbie too, blocking the OP.
Newbies don't say it like that.
First.
There was the opinion to set the fallen corpse on fire.
But aside from how to even get fire here, starting a blaze in a place overflowing with paper...
The owner of the Bellierd Library might really tear him apart like a book.
So he passed on that method.
[If there's a bathtub in the Bellierd Library bathroom, how about dunking it in water?]
Doesn't have a visible nose or anything, but usually drowning works.
Water is the answer.
What if that ugly monster back there is actually water-element and revives?
Korea's a water-scarce country too, so it's fine. Newbies are water-element anyway.
This guy's probably trying to dunk the newbie in the tub too?
No visible breathing organs, so it might actually be dangerous to dunk it in water. I'm against.
+1
+1
The second method was to dunk it in a bathtub.
But there wasn't even a tub to hold water in this bathroom...
And as Anonymous 4 said, no visible breathing organs on the thing.
So it seemed better to avoid splashing water and accidentally awakening the monster.
"Haa.. But cutting off limbs isn't working either.."
No other plausible ideas came to mind.
If it woke up, would he really have to die without any resistance? Just then...
He noticed the thread stitching its mouth shut.
'..Can I untie this?'
On a whim, he tried snipping the thread with the chopsticks.
Snap... snap... snap...
Unlike the tough flesh elsewhere.
The thread sealing its mouth cut easily.
In under 10 seconds, he could inspect its oral structure.
"Eww.. What kind of teeth.."
Hundreds of teeth embedded densely in the roof of its mouth.
He didn't know why they'd sewn up a mouth like that.
But if it woke up again, pulling all those teeth would definitely help.
"Suck.. Will these even come out.."
Curious, he tried yanking one from the gums first...
"Huh? It came out super easy."
Way easier than expected, the monster's tooth pulled right out.
So he kept pulling them out willy-nilly, but glancing at the clock outside, he realized he had only 3 minutes until librarian duty started.
"This should be enough—it won't be able to chew properly now."
Even if it woke, the blood pouring from its mouth roof should make it collapse from blood loss soon, he figured.
Among the roughly 50 teeth he'd extracted, he put 2 in the bento box with a "gift" memo.
Then he hurried out the door to start his librarian shift before he was late.
...
The afternoon shift on day 2 as Bellierd Library librarian was over.
Today too, only 2 patrons in the library, so it wasn't particularly busy.
'Phew.. Before bed, gotta finish pulling Anonymous 10's teeth and sleep.'
He'd planned to yank the rest of the monster's teeth in the bathroom, then check the community a bit...
"..What?"
Opening the bathroom door... the spot where the monster corpse should be was empty. Nothing there.
"..!"
Chills ran down his spine for a moment.
Thinking the monster might be hiding somewhere in the room, he immediately scanned around.
'Where..! Where the hell are you..!'
Gripping a chopstick in each hand tightly, he searched the room carefully, but...
No monster hiding anywhere, so he checked the bathroom again.
'..What? Did it come back to life?'
The bright red bloodstains that should have been there were gone too...
So it wasn't the monster reviving.
Someone—or something—had cleaned up the corpse.
[Some kind angel cleaned up the monster corpse.]
(Photo)
Check this out.
This horrific monster that was right here?
(Photo)
Tada~
It's gone!
Guess if you just leave monster corpses in the bathroom, the system cleans them up automatically.
Whew.. Shouldn't have bothered pulling its teeth like an idiot.
(Photo)
These are from Anonymous 10—how should I use them?
PS, it has tons of teeth, so I wrote a "gift" note and tossed 2 in the bento box.
And tonight, we got bread dessert too.
Gonna keep trying to build favor with the bento deliverer ㅇㅇ
Tada?? Tada????
????????????????????
Why do you keep spamming question marks on my posts to harass me?
I'm asking seriously, are we harassing you? Or are you harassing us?
Obviously you're harassing this newbie.
Ne~w~bie
Bro.. We don't call the bro who ripped a monster a newbie..
We~ll, I didn't rip it, but I can't share how I dealt with it or the monsters might catch on and be cautious.
Popped 4 eyes and yanked like 50 teeth, and you're like "I didn't rip it?" Yeah.. didn't rip it. Just killed it.
Noob bro, you're seriously so likable. Gotta survive and meet at the next exchange.
Even if we meet, not untying you guys.
What the fuck, how do you all know??? Holy shit;; What is it??;
Your nickname shows up!!!!!
You pulled its teeth?? If it woke up while you were doing that, wouldn't it have chopped your arm off?
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah, and here you sit. You crazy bastard. Holy shit, you're a monster??? Monster scum?? Mod!! Block this fucker!!!
Why are you coming at me..
ㅠㅠ what are you talking abou t ㅜㄴ ㄷㅏ
Chill, monster. Wanna get DM'd and wrecked by a newbie too?
ㅂㅗ my ass get fucked up ㄷㅏ
Sitting there waiting for DMs, you dumb fuck lol. Wanna get your eyes and teeth yanked like that other one?
Saying it now, but don't DM monsters, newbie. That's one of our survival rules.
Now that I think about it, we never told the newbie our survival rules.
We can't tell him. If we leak our rules, monsters see it and we're fucked.