Kill That Bastard
Kill That Bastard
Right, I had been thinking way too complacently.
The complacent thought that while I kept getting stronger like this, the zombies wouldn't get any stronger.
"Fucking hell!!!"
"Keuak!!"
"Kkyak!!"
Swiiik!!
Puuk!!
The short spear gripped in my left hand misses the back of Minseo's head and pierces the head of a lunging zombie.
And instantly rotating my body, I switched positions as if rolling against Minseo's back and swung the mace held in my right hand.
Ah, not a mace with a weighted ball connected by a chain, but a club-like mace with a round sphere at the end.
That mace I snatched from the half-shaved mister.
Peok!!!
Tududuk-
Along with the shattering zombie skull, blood and flesh splatter across my face.
And with a sharp sound cutting through the air, a dagger embeds itself into the head of a zombie lunging at my back.
"Haa..! Haa..!"
"Are you gonna keep getting in my way?!"
"I just saved you a moment ago!"
"I'm the one who saved you, did you save me?!"
"Is this really the time to argue about that... oppa! Above us!!"
"Keuaaa!!"
"You crazy bastard!!"
Tuk!!
A zombie drops down into the space created as I pushed away Minseo's back, which had been touching mine.
Peok!!
"Hoo..."
The zombie that fell from the building right next to us died instantly upon crashing into the ground, and I yelled, dashing forward.
"Follow me!"
"Let's go together!!"
It's been a whopping 3 days since we set off wherever our feet took us.
On the first day, we traveled over 1km from Rodeo Street past Apgujeong Station to some place with a cultural center, but including today, for the past two days, it feels like we haven't even moved 300m.
As those fucking zombies started getting stronger and faster.
No, as new kinds of zombies started appearing.
"Keuaak!!!"
Guys just like that one right there.
The difference between that guy and the existing zombies isn't just strength and speed.
A stark difference that anyone can recognize at a glance: their clothes.
Those guys aren't wearing any clothes.
What does that mean, you ask?
"Keuak!!"
"Shut up, you asshole!"
Peok!
Kwajik!!!
Swishing my short spear, I slapped away the reaching hand and smashed my mace down onto the defenseless bastard's head.
These guys' muscle strength level isn't exact, but it's around 6 to 7, seemingly more than double that of regular zombies, and their agility is likely on a similar level.
Yeah, anyway, I'm stronger.
That's why I'm still alive.
But when they swarm like that, there's just no answer.
"Keuak!!"
"Keuaa!"
"Keua!!"
"Keuaak!!"
"Fucking.... Kim Minseo!"
"Right now..."
Seogeok!!
"Let's go!!"
"Keuaak!!l"
Puuk!!
Minseo, who instantly dispatched two zombies, runs toward me.
Among the weapons we snatched 3 days ago, the dagger was light, easy to handle, and powerful, so I told Minseo to use it, and her skills have improved by leaps and bounds—was she a knife fighter in a past life or something?
To the point where she can survive well on her own even if I leave her alone like that now.
Well, to survive following around a crazy bastard like me, she has to be at least this good.
She's in a position where she has no choice but to get stronger to stay alive, too.
"What are you doing?! Are we not going?!"
"I was waiting for you."
"Hmph... pretending to have manners when it doesn't suit you..."
"Ha... why? Should I just abandon you and go?"
"I'm the one who'd abandon you! Follow me!"
"Crazy bitch. This way."
"So petty..! Let's go together!!"
Leaving behind Minseo, who insolently passed me and turned the left corner, I headed in the opposite direction and slipped into a nearby building for now.
Because we need to wait until those bastards lose interest in us and scatter.
Deudeudeuk!!
Kwang! Kwang-kwang! Kwang-kwang!
Zombies are hammering on the door so fiercely that even though Minseo and I are sitting on the floor blocking it with a heavy desk and pushing with our backs, the desk is shaking.
"Haa.. haa.. But it feels like there are even more of them now."
"True."
Ah, those clothless zombies aren't humans turned into zombies.
They're bastards who were born as zombies from the very beginning.
Of course, I can't say for sure since I haven't verified this with my own eyes either, but the fact that they aren't wearing clothes is enough to deduce it.
Because unless they were bitten by zombies while completely naked and turned, even zombies would normally be wearing clothes.
Yet those guys are completely naked without a single thread on them, and above all, they don't look human.
Even though their body shapes resemble humans, their ash-gray skin looks caked in pus.
And not a single strand of hair is on their bodies, and their facial features consist of nothing except ears and a snout sticking out with filthy teeth.
You could almost say they look like egg ghosts?
Of course, rarely, there are some that terrifyingly flash red pupils just like zombies with eyesight.
No matter where or how those bastards came to be, one thing has become clear: this world won't end even if all the people turned into zombies die off.
"Looks like they're gone now."
After about 20 minutes, as if all the zombies hammering on the door had gone elsewhere, the shaking desk regained its peace.
Only then did Kim Minseo and I pick ourselves up.
"Good grief... But where on earth is this?"
"You came here without knowing?"
"Do you know where this is?"
"It's Garosugil."
"Garosugil? Here??"
As I walked over to the window, buildings I'd seen here and there caught my eye outside.
Because even if I didn't come often, I used to visit Garosugil occasionally.
"It really is..."
"Would I lie? By the way, oppa, what are your stats right now? Can you show me?"
"Hold my hand."
"You're gonna show me?? Wow~"
I never thought I'd ever show my status window to anyone else, but now she's like...
Well, that much trust has been formed between us by now.
"Information sharing."
"Information sharing for me too~"
Minseo and I clasped hands and shared each other's information.
『Name: Kang Hajin (27)
Height: 183cm Weight: 77kg
Trait: Resilient Mentality (D)
Coins: 133
[Muscle Strength Lv.7] [Agility Lv.9] [Stamina Lv.6] [Luck Lv.3]』
『Name: Kim Minseo (25)
Height: 163cm Weight: 49kg
Trait: -
Coins: 92
[Muscle Strength Lv.5] [Agility Lv.7] [Stamina Lv.4] [Luck Lv.3]』
Unlike 3 days ago, I had raised my muscle strength, agility, and stamina by 1 stat each.
I don't know what it does, but since having bad luck never hurts, I even raised my luck by 2 levels.
Adding the stats I raised and the coins I currently have, that means I've earned a total of 465 coins over the past 3 days.
However, that doesn't mean I've killed over 200 zombies.
Because those real zombies wandering around naked, those bastards give you at least 6 coins, and sometimes up to 10 coins.
Assuming catching just 20 yields 20 coins, it doesn't feel like I've earned that many coins after all.
And in the case of Minseo here...
"Did you lose weight?"
"I gained weight.. I ate way too much yesterday and today, so I gained 2 kilos, heying..."
"What is your weight, a rubber band? You gain weight just from eating a lot for two days?"
"Girls are sensitive about that, you know?! Besides, aren't you going to praise me? I raised my stats a whole bunch~ Hehet"
"You highway-robbing bitch... Did you raise these?! I'm the one who raised them!"
"I only raised my agility by 1 using what oppa gave me, okay?! And the one who said he'd pay it back with interest was oppa, right?"
Minseo, who greedily extorted a whopping 80 coins out of the 47 coins I had borrowed, picked up serious speed in zombie hunting after getting her agility to level 5.
On top of that, she sneaked around nicking naked zombies like a petty thief.
She claims she didn't steal them but helped out... I'd believe a stray dog giving directions before I'd buy that bullshit...
Anyway, on top of all that, I gave her a weapon worth over 100 coins for free, so you could say she owes her current stats entirely to me.
Still, why are our stats so similar?
Purely in terms of numbers, mine are higher, but her stat distribution is identical to mine.
"Did you copy me? Why are your stats so similar to mine?"
"That's right, I raised them following oppa?"
"Ha... Is that why you kept asking what my stats were every single day?"
"Yes. Oppa is, how should I put it... like an answer sheet? Because if I get strong just like oppa, there's no chance of dying."
Well, it's not a bad choice.
Since I, who raised my stats this way, haven't particularly been in danger until now.
Of course, it's not like I've never been in danger, but that wasn't because I raised my stats like this; it was for other reasons.
"By the way, oppa."
"Why?"
"If you just have 7 more coins, you can buy level 8 muscle strength, right?"
"So?"
"Shall I lend them to you? Hehet~"
"Shut up."
"Tch..."
Do you think I'd get fooled twice after falling for it once?
Of course, I only fell for it because I stupidly made a pointless bet.
A bet about not having sex for two days.
That exact reason is why I got ripped off for 80 coins.
Because I had no idea I'd instantly want to have sex on the evening of the day we left—the very next day after making the bet.
So I ended up handing over 80 coins—with 33 coins of interest tacked on—to Minseo, who had insisted she wouldn't do it because I was the one who proposed the bet, just so we could do it once.
Now that the bet ended as of yesterday, I'm never making that kind of bet again.
"Then how about we do it once while we're taking a short break?"
"Again?? Oppa, you're gonna die at this rate!"
"Don't worry. I'll kill you first, hehehe..."
"W-Wait a second! We'll just wash up and get dirty again soon, do we really have to do it right now?? Besides, once we use up all this water, we'll have to buy more to use."
"You saw there's a convenience store nearby~ We can just get it from there."
"The glass there was totally smashed, you know? Someone already looted the place clean. And for both oppa and me to wash up cleanly, it costs at least 50 coins. Plus, considering drinking water for when we get thirsty afterwards, that makes 55 coins. And that's really calculated on the bare minimum. So think carefully before you act."
"Such nagging... But where on earth are all these damn humans hiding?!"
For the past 3 days up until today, I haven't even caught a glimpse of a person.
Yet every convenience store we see along the way here has been completely looted.
Fucking hell, it's not like they looted convenience stores and evaporated—where on earth did all the humans vanish to?!
"Oppa."
"Why?"
"Don't talk like that. When you say it like that, it sounds like you're hunting people down just to kill them."
"It's pretty much the same."
"No, it's not! Oppa, your goal isn't murder; you just want to sleep with a new woman!"
"Yeah, and to do that, I have to kill the men trying to protect those women anyway. Killing two birds with one stone to earn coins, how great is that?"
"Haa... From now on, no more murders. Unless oppa and I are in a dangerous situation, absolutely not."
"Bullshit. Why the fuck do you get to decide that?"
"It's because I'm worried about oppa."
"Worried about me? What's that supposed to mean?"
"If you end up really starting to like killing people and it becomes a habit... you'll literally become a murderer..."
"..."
A literal murderer?
Me?
A guy like a psychopathic serial killer who slaughters people without any reason?
"Kim Minseo."
"I-I spoke a bit too harshly.. I'm sorry.. I was just worried about oppa..."
"No, that's not it—aren't we not all that different?"
"Pardon..?"
"There's not much difference between guys like that and me. Just the guys I've killed already amount to how many."
"..."
"So don't think useless thoughts, and let's just do it once."
"O, Oppa!!"
For now, since both our hands and bodies were a mess, I pressed against Minseo's pussy right over her pants and ground it in circles.
Anyway, she's the type who can't stop once she gets revved up.
Whether it's a murderer or water, we can think about that again after doing it once.
As for water, it's just a bit of a waste of coins, not even worth stressing over.
As I was rubbing her pussy over her clothes and trying to take off the backpack on my back...
"Kkyaaaaak!!!"
A blood-curdling scream echoes out.
Not from Minseo, but from outside the window.
"Oppa!"
"I know. Fuck, if it weren't for the fact that she's a woman, I'd just do it once first... She better not be ugly..!"
Deureureuk-
Opening the window and sticking our heads outside, Minseo and I began looking around to find the source of the screams.
"Kkyak!!!"
"It's over there!"
"Doesn't seem too far away, though..."
The place where the screams came from was behind the building directly opposite.
Judging solely by the sound, it's close by, less than 50m away from here.
But the problem is...
"Keuak!!"
"Keuaak!!"
"Keuak!!"
The naked zombies that had been chasing us are swarming in a group toward the place where the screams came from.
Even if we went now, it'd probably be too late...
And I don't have the confidence to rescue anyone against those bastards.
"I'll coolly give up on that bitch. How about I eat you instead of her."
"No way! If we go now, we can save her!"
"My goodness, it's not like you're gonna fuck her, why are you like this? And why are you so enthusiastic when I say I'm gonna fuck another woman?"
"That's because... I want to save her..."
"What?"
Minseo, who had been consumed by jealousy back when I fucked Minsujeong and Jeong Daeun, had set her own goal using me.
To save as many people as possible.
Since I fuck women but don't kill them, her goal is to use that fact to share the methods and information she knows with people we encounter, saving as many people as she can.
What a uselessly pointless goal.
And as if the women I've fucked would be thrilled to have those things shared with them.
"Stop talking bullshit and focus on this right here."
"Hseuht..!! W-Wait a second..! Huh?? O, Oppa! Look over there!!"
"What is it now?"
"Haa..! Haa..! Haa..!"
Whoa, a woman comes bursting out of the alley where the zombies swarmed, gasping for breath.
How on earth did she manage to survive and come out?
And what the hell are those other bastards?
"Puhahaha~ Look at that bitch run~ Puhahaha!!"
"Is this the time to care about some bitch like that?! Clean up the zombies behind us first!!"
"Seriously, because of that fucking bitch...!"
"One of you go catch that bitch. We need to find those bitches' hideout today."
"Then I'll go~~"
"That bastard to the very end...!"
The guy, who had been laughing hysterically while chasing the fleeing woman, separates from the guys dealing with the zombies pouring back out of the alley and starts chasing after the woman.
"Ha... How are there only guys like me in this world? Am I right?"
"..."
"Hey, are you listening?"
"Oppa."
"Why?"
"Kill that bastard."
"What?"
"I said kill that bastard!!!"
Has this bitch lost her mind?
One second she's telling me not to kill people, why the hell is she throwing a fit to kill someone all of a sudden?
"That motherfucker's left hand!"
"..."
Turning my head to check, something is attached to the left hand of the guy chasing the woman.
No, to be exact, he's wearing it like a bracelet around his wrist.
A bracelet made of human eyeballs.
"Whoa... He's an even crazier bastard than me... I can't let that slide."