A Madman Behind a Madman
A Madman Behind a Madman
"Kuaaaaaah!!!!!"
Listening to the psycho bastard's screaming burst out, it looks like he's really in pain.
"Does it hurt a lot? How much does it hurt? I wouldn't really know since I haven't been hit before."
"Guaah!!! Hey, you son of a bitch!!!"
"You look fine. Guess it doesn't hurt? Then this leg too..."
"W-Wait..!!"
As I grabbed his ankle to make his left leg match, an urgent shout was heard.
"Why?"
"W-What the hell are you doing this to me for?!"
"What did you do to me?"
"What did I ever..."
"You don't know? It's fine, you'll remember once you get beaten up a bit."
"W-Wait!!"
"Aw, shit... ruining the flow..! Say it all at once!"
"I-It was to protect myself! It's because I thought you were gonna kill me!!"
"Hey~ But you enjoyed it way too much for that. You ripped open the door with that excited face and claim it was to protect yourself? Don't bullshit me."
After answering with a very gentle tone and expression, I lifted my right hand that had paused for a moment and brought down the crowbar in my hand.
Paak!!!
Along with the crowbar striking the ground, the psycho bastard shook off my hand pressing down on his left ankle and started crawling away in a perfect low-crawl posture, as if he'd properly learned it in the military.
Though thanks to his broken right ankle dragging along the floor, he couldn't maintain a proper speed.
"Ugh..!! You crazy bastard..! Dog-like bastard..!!"
"Ha... You're annoying as hell."
With a sigh, I forced my reluctant body up, grabbed the kitchen knife the bastard had dropped on the ground, and started walking after him.
Teok! Sseuk- Teok! Sseuk-
Jeobeok- Jeobeok- Jeobeok-
The psycho bastard crawling desperately with a face distorted by pain, staring strictly ahead, and me walking beside him with my hands behind my back.
What is this, some kind of comedy sketch?
Well, should I play along for a bit anyway?
"Must be busy, huh?"
"Ugh..! Ugh..!"
"Hmm... Looks like you need some help."
Kkuuuuk!!
Gently stepping on the bastard's waist, I stabbed down with the kitchen knife in my left hand.
Puuk!!
"Kuaaaaaah!!!!"
Releasing the kitchen knife properly embedded in his left thigh, I removed my foot from his waist and grabbed his hair with my left hand.
Then I started walking forward along with the bastard's half-lifted upper body.
"How far do we need to go? Over there?"
"Ugh!!! L-Let go..! You son of a b..."
"......"
The psycho bastard was struck speechless the moment our eyes met as I turned my head to look down at him with a cold gaze.
Perhaps the bastard even intuited that something extraordinary was about to happen.
"Hey, can't I help you?"
"What..?"
"Can't I help you? What the fuck, why are all the shitty things in the world giving me a hard time! Right, am I wrong?!"
"......"
"Don't you know this? It's Manshik Choi's line from I Saw the Devil."
"Crazy..."
"Yeah, I'm crazy. So there's no need for two crazy guys in this turf, right?"
"W-Wait..!"
"Moron. You think I won't hit you just because of that?"
Hwiiiiik!!!
Kwajik!!!
Clutching the bastard's hair, I spun my body around and swung the crowbar held in my right hand.
"Kuaaaaaah!!!!"
The psycho bastard screaming at the top of his lungs while covering his left eye with both hands.
Ah, I made a mistake.
I was trying to pull his eyeball out.
Tch.... I guess I'll just settle for pulling out one.
"Hey, stop acting like a baby and open your eyes. I gotta pull your eyeball out."
"Guaah!! Guaah!!!"
"If you don't wanna open them, suit yourself."
Shwiik!!
Puuk!!
"U... Ugh...."
With the back end of the crowbar embedded in his unharmed right eyeball, the psycho bastard didn't even have the strength to scream anymore; he trembled all over and let his body go completely limp, to the point where a heavy weight was suddenly felt in my left hand gripping his hair, and I pulled the crowbar out of his eyeball.
Ssuuk-!!
Damn it...
"Hey you, son of a bitch! The eyeball didn't come out!"
"......"
His left eye was smashed and burst by the crowbar, and his right eye was stabbed and burst by the crowbar.
Now there were no eyeballs left.
Though I missed the detailed part, the big picture of killing him with my own hands was still being maintained, so I moved behind the bastard's back and hooked the hook-like front part of the crowbar around his neck.
And.
"Among all the crazy bastards out there, I'm the best!"
"......"
"Not funny? You bastard with not even a rat's dropping of a sense of humor..."
Having failed even my triumphant line, I pressed my right foot down on the bastard's back and forcefully pulled back with my right hand holding the hook around his neck.
Udeudeuk!!!
The psycho bastard's face looking at me as his neck snapped back.
Of course, he didn't have eyeballs to look at me with.
Anyway, even though I was already covered in zombie blood, I didn't have to get covered in this psycho bastard's blood too, so I sat on top of his collapsed back along with the discarded crowbar and gently touched the shining exclamation mark.
[You have killed a player.]
[You acquire 86 coins.]
"Oho~ This is pretty lucrative."
Even though I was short 14 coins, I recovered a fair amount of the coins wasted on the zombie vaccine—100 coins in total, for both Kim Minseo's and mine.
Of course, I had already recovered almost all of it just from the zombies I beat to death on the way down here.
"Ah, right! Kim Minseo!"
Perhaps because she had almost turned into a zombie, I remembered Kim Minseo whom I had momentarily forgotten and sprang to my feet.
"Did... did she die?"
A woman?
Suddenly, a woman's voice was heard.
And a very cautious voice at that.
Well, the voice that followed was a bit agitated, though.
"Is that human really...! Is he really dead?-!" -> "Is that human really...! Is he really dead?!!"
"He's dead. Why? Gonna take revenge or something?"
"......Huk..! Huuk...!"
The woman suddenly sat down on the floor and sobbed.
Is that bitch crazy too?
Ah, no she isn't.
Only now do the dark blue bruises covering the naked woman squatting on the floor and storm-crying, along with swollen handprints here and there, catch my eye.
Just how much did she get beaten?
This psycho bastard even has psycho sexual preferences.
Wait a minute! This is no time to be standing around like this!
I need to quickly go back to Kim Minseo, whom I left behind.
If she's dead, it can't be helped, but if she's still alive, I want to save her.
Damn it, I shouldn't keep having feelings like this...
"H-Hey..!"
"I'm busy, so say what you gotta say quickly."
"Th-Thank you for saving me... Thank you so much... Sob..."
"Whatever."
Leaving behind the woman who was squatting down, covering her breasts with her left arm and her pitch-black pubic hair with her right hand while bowing her head in gratitude, I started running toward where Kim Minseo was.
And the reason I gave a blunt response to that woman's expression of gratitude was because I hadn't done anything that deserved a thank you.
I just killed a bastard who looked dangerous, a bastard who might become a headache if not eliminated now, and a bastard who tried to screw me over.
Still, the way back won't be a cakewalk either...
Deolkang! Deolkang! Deolkang! Deolkang!
"Guaah!!"
"Guaah!!"
"Kuaaa!!"
"Fucking hell... A whole bunch of them gathered in the meantime."
Even though I killed almost all the visible zombies on my way down here, whether they were newly influxed or ones I missed and passed by, the area in front of the wire mesh was packed with a crowd of zombies.
It's not like some kind of feast.
Well, I can't repeat the same mistake, so first...
"Shop, purchase Stamina Level 4."
[You purchase Stamina Lv.4 (60 coins).]
[Player information is updated.]
Her twitching eyelids lifted and her closed eyes opened.
And then.
Blink- Blink-
Kim Minseo, blinking her eyes a couple of times.
"Kyaaaah!!!! Get away, you monster! Let go of this!!!"
Somehow turning her body around in the cramped space, she started wildly flailing her hands and feet toward me.
Puck! Puck! Jjaak!! Puck!!
"It hurts, you crazy bitch!!!"
"O-Oppa??"
"You fucking...!"
"Oppa!!"
Pulling Kim Minseo out from under the helicopter as she eagerly hugged my outstretched arm tight, I slammed my forehead down onto the crown of her head without fail.
Koong!!
"Aah!!!"
"Shut up! I got hit way more!"
"Tch..!!"
"Tch? Is that the kind of talk that should be coming out of your mouth right now?!"
"......I'm sorry.."
Kim Minseo, thankfully safe, seemed to remember everything that happened to her and how she owed her life to me, so she didn't talk back, apologized, and hugged my waist right then and there.
"Thank you, oppa... I thought oppa was going to kill me..."
"I thought about it a lot. But I haven't found a replacement for you yet."
"......Do you have to say it like that to feel satisfied?"
"Yeah."
"Haa...."
Sighing as she looked up at me, Kim Minseo still wouldn't let go of her arms wrapped around my waist, so I peeled her off, turned my body, and started walking.
I had already cleared out all the newly incoming zombies on my way up here, but zombies were still constantly flowing in.
"W-Where are we going..?"
"Underground."
"Underground??"
"Stop yapping and just follow me quickly. I don't feel like killing even a single zombie anymore."
"Okay.."
It's not that my stamina has hit rock bottom, but I'm mentally exhausted.
Especially because the time I endured to avoid turning into a zombie was so grueling.
So, I need to quickly and refreshingly awaken my mind, which has gone beyond tired to devastated.
The best way for that is rest, but rest isn't the only way, is it?
"Hey, you brought plenty of condoms, right?"
"......"
"What?! You didn't bring any??"
"Pfft...! I brought plenty~"
Poke-
"......"
Ah-ing, whatever.
With a face making just that expression, Kim Minseo turned her head slightly to the side, poked me in the ribs with her finger, and twisted her body.
Why is she acting like that?
Of course, it's not like I don't know why she's acting like that...
She's severely deluded, huh?
"Ah! What about that murderer??"
"You'll see when we get there."
Thus descending underground with me, Kim Minseo saw the psycho bastard's corpse sprawled on the floor and realized that I had killed him, and also learned that other people had survived in this department store.
Of course, the fact that other people besides the bruised woman had survived was something I only found out just now as well.
Including the bruised woman, a total of five people... Looking at their state, they aren't people who'll last very long.
"Thank you so much!"
"Thank you for saving me... Really... Sob... It was so hard I really wanted to die... Huuk..."
"But your outfit... You're a rescue team, right..?"
"Yoonjung Oh-ssi! What kind of rude remark is that?! To someone who came to save us by risking their life to the point where their clothes are in tatters!"
"Ha... Why are you shouting at me after keeping quiet this whole time?! When you're younger than me, too...!"
Seeing people who are seriously deluding themselves makes me think they're pathetic.
If someone killed the person who oppressed them, they should be even more wary; are they really just blindly accepting it in a favorable light like this?
They really are hopeless humans.
And Kim Minseo told those hopeless humans the truth.
"We're not a rescue team, you know?"
"Pardon..?"
"You're not a rescue team??"
"Yeah."
"Well, then... who are you...?"
"I'm Kim Minseo."
"......"
Kim Minseo proudly stated her name.
Hey, that's not what they're asking your name for right now!
Or is she teasing them on purpose?
Anyway, this is super disappointing.
The reason I chose the department store first instead of a place where people gathered is because it was close and a definitive destination, but also because I figured the female employees here would boast pretty top-notch beauty and figures.
Because mentioning a department store just sounds like something special.
Yet the people right in front of my eyes now are.
"No, we're not asking for your name right now!"
An ajumma who looks to be in her mid-to-late 30s.
"A-Are those weird people not wandering around anymore??"
A woman who looks to be in her 20s, but not a single bit likable.
"Then did this person kill all those monster-like people?-!" -> "Then did this person kill all those monster-like people??"
"Is the department store safe now?!"
Two men whose reasons for not being killed and kept alive by that psycho bastard are a mystery.
Seriously, I don't know why he didn't kill these four people.
Of course, they aren't people who strictly needed to be killed, but they didn't seem like people a guy crazy enough to turn people into clusters of grapes would have bothered to keep alive.
Do they possess some hidden ability you can't tell from looks? Or are they on the same side?
Whatever the case, the only salvageable thing around here is that bruised woman.
Why, why are you looking at me like that...
"You told me earlier that you were thankful I saved you, right?"
"Pardon?? Ah.. right.."
"Then you gotta repay me. You surely don't think you can settle it with just a single thank you, do you? That would make you a punk."
"......"
"W-Wait a minute! Oppa... you're not, right..?"
I reached out my hand in front of Kim Minseo, who was looking up at me and shaking her head slightly as if telling me to say no.
"Condoms."
"No way! I won't give them to you!!"
Kim Minseo, wearing the bag filled with condoms on her back, took a step back and tried to run away from me, but there's a whopping 5-level difference in our Agility stats.
Before she could even take a step back, I grabbed her shoulder and spun her around, thrusting my hand into the slightly open bag to grab a handful of the condoms scattered all over the bottom.
"H-Hold on! Condoms, what do you mean..!"
"What the hell, you! You're also that psycho... cough!!"
My right fist, gripping a handful of condoms, slammed into the shouting man's face.
"Stop yapping and chattering so noisily. And why am I your 'you'? Are you my wife?"
"Aah!! Guaaah!!!"
"......"
If he had just passed out, it wouldn't have hurt, but seeing the man suffering more because I hit him moderately, the man next to him was also cleanly resolved.
Because his face didn't even show an ounce of will to resist.
It's a hassle, but this works out well.
Anyway....
"T-This is rape! It's a crime!!"
"Hey, ajumma, get lost. I wouldn't eat even if you served yourself on a platter."
"......"
"Sob.. Huuk.. In the end, again... again... sob.."
"Hey, you stop blubbering and get lost too. You're a set with that ajumma."
"......"
Silencing the mouths of the ugly duo who dared to harbor the ridiculous delusion that I would screw them, I crooked my finger toward the bruised woman who had gotten dressed while I went to fetch Kim Minseo.
"You, come here."
"Don't come! Run away!!"
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Oppa, what kind of behavior is this?! How can you do this when I'm right next to you..!"
"So what if you're next to me? Ah! You want me to eat you together? Don't worry. If I try her and she's no good, I'll eat you right away."
"That's not what I meant!!"
Kim Minseo, who blocked the space between me and the bruised woman, glared at me while snorting heavily through her nose.
Even though she must know very well that nothing will change no matter what she does.
Is it just some kind of courtesy performance? Wanting me to understand her feelings?
Well, anyway, I don't feel like watching that kind of performance right now.
I just want to refresh my devastated mind as quickly as possible.
"Step aside."
"I won't step aside! Absolutely not ste... Kyaaaah!!"
Shouldering the annoyingly persistent Kim Minseo, I walked with heavy, deliberate steps toward where the bruised woman was.
Teolseok-
As I arrived right in front of her, the bruised woman's legs seemed to give out, and she slumped heavily down onto the floor.
"Guna suck it first? Great, let's see how well you suck."
"......"
With my underwear pulled down, my limp cock rubbed against the bruised woman's lips.