Apocalypse Tyrant

Jenga (7)

“Aaaaaaaah!”

Cha Seolhee who had fallen to the floor alongside him.

She hurriedly bent her right arm defensively while looking at the ceiling just like Park Hyoeun.

A black figure rapidly falling towards Cha Seolhee.

Something covered in black fur all over its body was falling towards Cha Seolhee with its mouth wide open in a surprise attack.

Kadeuk—!

A clear noise heard after the black figure completely pounced on Cha Seolhee.

Shwaeaeaeaek—!

From in front of the bathroom to the end of the bathroom.

Like that, a chaotic route continuing from the end of the bathroom back to in front of the bathroom door and a belated response naturally following.

I gritted my teeth and swung the metal pipe as fast as possible at the black fur that had pounced on Cha Seolhee.

Pueoeoeok—!

A swing accurately piercing the head of the bastard that had been greedily clinging to Cha Seolhee’s arm.

The black fur’s movement stopped at the metal pipe that had pierced it like a ray of light.

The black fur going limp right on top of Cha Seolhee that it had pounced on.

Ding—!

[You have killed the mutant ‘Fur Wheel’.]

[You have gained 10 points.]

At the same time, an unfamiliar status message popped up, but there was no time to be conscious of it at all.

I hurriedly removed the mutant’s corpse and picked up Cha Seolhee who had been pinned underneath.

Ko Janghun’s shout is heard behind me as I hurriedly ran to the end of the bathroom.

“Door—! Block the door—! Park Woojin, Kim Minjun quickly block the door first—!”
“Kieeeeek—!”

The zombies’ roars that had been resounding loudly become a little quieter as the men’s bathroom door closes at Ko Janghun’s instruction.

Bang—! Bang—!

Zombies going berserk and starting to slam their bodies into the men’s bathroom.

“Uuuuuuuuh—!”

I could hear the groaning sounds of the two minions behind me as they desperately blocked the door.

But there was no time to pay attention to that at all.

Thud—!

Ko Janghun’s flashlight that had quickly followed illuminates Cha Seolhee as I carefully set her down against the bathroom wall.

Cha Seolhee blankly staring at something despite the sudden light shining in her eyes.

And the very clear teeth marks imprinted on her right hand that she was quietly holding up.

“…Ah.”

She let out a small exclamation while continuing to blankly stare at the teeth marks.

“It’s, it’s not my fault…”

A low whisper heard while looking at her like that.

“I, I clearly said there was something above—!”

Park Hyoeun, who had somehow ended up next to Ko Janghun and me looking at Cha Seolhee, started to have a fit.

“So this isn’t my fault, it’s your fault, you retard—!”

His crazed red eyes shoot towards me like a mad dog.

“It’s not my fault—! It’s not my fault—! It’s not my—”

Pueoeok—!

He collapsed to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut at the fist that accurately hit his jaw.

The shouting that had been like an alarm clock ended and I hurriedly knelt on the floor and closely examined the bitten area on her.

Bright red blood seeping from the clear teeth marks and compressed flesh marks imprinted so clearly that no one could doubt it.

My molars felt like they would burst as I ground them at the traces so clear like footprints stamped in pure white snow.

“…Mom?”

Cha Seolhee’s hazy eyes that seemed to be looking at somewhere far away rather than the bite mark.

“…Mom.”

The precursor of death so familiar to me was beginning.

“…Hayan. Hayan, unni is sorry…”

No, to be precise, rather than death—

“Hayan, Hayan— Keureuk—!”

It was the precursor of change.

I pressed down on her body that was starting to convulse and hurriedly stared into空.

Ding—!

[Infection Cure : State an appropriate price.]

[Do you want to purchase the Infection Cure for 10 points?]

The status window immediately bringing up the pop-up I had hoped for.

I poured in my entire fortune that I had just gained from killing the mutant, but—

Ding—!

[Minimum purchase points not met.]

“Fuck—! I’ll definitely pay back however much later so just give it to me for now—!”

Ding—!

[Minimum purchase points not met.]

Kwang—!

“Fuuuuuuuuck—!”

The wall right next to her right ear caved in but the convulsions still continued.

I pressed down on her body more firmly while pulling back one hand.

“Spear!”
“Ye, yes—!”

Ko Janghun hurriedly handing over the kitchen knife spear at my instruction.

I immediately tore off the tape connecting the kitchen knife and sack as soon as I received the kitchen knife spear.

I hold the kitchen knife in my right hand and lift up her arm with the clear bite mark with my left hand.

Even the infection cure, which was the last hope, was blocked by the fucking wall of insufficient points.

Then, the truly last remaining hope is—

“Prepare something for hemostasis!”
“Yes—!”

I gritted my teeth while listening to the sound of Ko Janghun hurriedly rummaging through the bag.

The kitchen knife with a blade dulled in the darkness faintly glimmered.

“Keureuk—! Keureureureuk—!”

Cha Seolhee’s eyes looking at me like that.

Red blood vessels gradually spreading to her pupils, tearing across her eyes.

Baadeuk— my teeth ground even more fiercely at the sight of her convulsing more severely as if foaming at the mouth.

Now there’s no choice but to follow the final cliché.

The final cure for infection that appears in numerous zombie media.

Amputation of the bitten area.

I couldn’t buy the infection cure, and my skills had already been confirmed long ago.

Partial Incapacity has no effect on zombies that are already infected.

So that meant I had to remove her infection with only what I had now.

No matter how dull the blade was, it shouldn’t be impossible to cut off one woman’s right arm with my current stats.

The problem was the bleeding and aftercare after cutting rather than before cutting.

It was natural that she couldn’t receive hospital care after amputation, so the probability of her surviving even if I cut off her arm wasn’t very high even thinking optimistically.

“…Fuck!”
“Keureuk—! Keureuk—! Keureuk—!”

But it was better than losing Cha Seolhee like this.

It’s a case where trying for even a tiny hope by removing the bitten area is much better than Cha Seolhee becoming a zombie like this.

Fuck—! No matter how I think about it, what I have now—

A flash of light grazing me just as I was about to bring down the kitchen knife on Cha Seolhee’s arm while gritting my teeth.

I dropped the kitchen knife I was holding at the light that occupied my mind in an instant like a spark bursting.

Clang—!

Along with the sound of the kitchen knife falling to the floor, I hurriedly pressed down on her neck with my left hand.

“Keureureuk—! Keureureureureuk—!”

There was already no vitality at all in her eyes pinned against the wall.

Her eyes that had shone like starlight were already on the verge of losing reason.

I firmly pressed down on her convulsing body with my left hand while grabbing the area where she was bitten with my right hand.

[Partial Incapacity Lv.1 -> Partial Incapacity Lv.2]

[10 points will be consumed for skill level up.]

Woowoong—!

As always, a faint golden light gathering in my right hand in response to my will.

The golden energy illuminating my right hand gradually began to spread to her right arm along with a strange operating sound.

“Keureuk—! Keureureuk—!”

Clearly ‘Partial Incapacity’ had no effect on zombies.

But strictly speaking, Cha Seolhee wasn’t completely a zombie yet.

“Kieeeeeek—!”
“Uuuuuuh—!”

If she was, she should be letting out the unique roars like the zombies the two minions were struggling to block right now.

“Keureureureuk—!”

So I bet on the final gamble.

Rather than a method with a high probability of death whether her arm was attached or not, I decided to bet on the possibility that Cha Seolhee could live.

Woowoong—!

The golden light brightly illuminating the darkness continued to leave my hand and gently seep into Cha Seolhee’s right hand.

I firmly pressed down on her neck while staring intently at her eyes without even blinking.

“Keureuk—! Keu…”

Cha Seolhee’s mouth that had been tightly clenched as if enduring something gradually loosened.

The red blood vessels that had been tearing and spreading to her pupils were gradually disappearing from her eyes.

Woowoong—!

I pushed in my Royal Authority more strongly while observing her.

The convulsions that had been tickling my left arm gradually subsided.

As the starlight I remembered gradually frosted over her pupils—

“…Ah.”

A soft voice flowed from her, not that of a beast.

“Haaaaah—.”

Only then did a sigh flow uncontrollably deep from my mouth.

Feeling the presence of cold sweat wetting my back for the first time in a very long time, I removed my arm that had been pressing down on her neck.

Then I swung the emotion that even the deep sigh couldn’t remove as it was.

Jjaaaak—!

Her face jerked sideways at my hand gripping with emotion.

“You—! You—!”

I swallowed the countless words trying to burst out of my mouth and picked up the fallen kitchen knife again.

“Kieeeeek—!”
“Uuuh— Te, team leaderrr—!”

The screams of the two minions who had clearly reached their limit now.

I turned my eyes from glaring at Cha Seolhee and shouted at the two minions who were forcibly blocking the completely shattered glass door with table shields.

“Open the door—!”

At my shout, the two minions who had been waiting for this retrieved the table shields and collapsed to the floor just like that.

And finally leaping towards the prey instinctively raising their voices after passing through the broken obstacle.

“Kieeeeek—!”

Tak—!

I firmly grasped the nape of the zombie that had leapt at me first, throwing its body.

Keudeudeuk—!

The sound of bones being crushed immediately responding to my gripping hand.

I threw the zombie with its neck bizarrely twisted at the zombies rushing towards me just like that.

“Kieeek—!”

Zombies collapsing to the floor at the sudden corpse throw.

I switched the kitchen knife I was holding in my left hand to my right hand and rushed at the bastards just like that.

“Kieeeeek—!”

Zombies hurriedly trying to get up while pushing aside the zombie corpse that had fallen on them.

I firmly grabbed the head of one of them and thrust the kitchen knife I was holding into it just like that.

Puwook—!

Stabbing with the dull blade would be more accurate to say forcibly thrusting in.

I pulled out the kitchen knife from the limp zombie’s head and firmly grabbed the head of the zombie right next to it and thrust in the kitchen knife.

“Kieeeeek—!”

Thanks to that, the left side became quiet compared to the right side that was still noisy.

I briefly planted my stepping foot and sharply thrust my shoulder at the zombie rushing at me after pushing through the zombie corpses.

Keudeuk—!

The zombie falling flat on its back with that sound, zombies on the opposite side reaching very close to me.

Pueoeok—!

I kicked the belly of the bastard rushing at me with both arms spread wide, then firmly grasped the head of the zombie next to it that was thrusting its head at me.

“Kieeeeek—!”

Puwook—!

I stabbed the kitchen knife into the side of its head and swung the limp bastard just like that.

Pueoeok—!

Zombies falling flat on their backs again at the new zombie corpse I swung and threw.

I briefly swept over the chest of the bastard that was already completely caved in at my shoulder and looked to the right again.

The zombie that still couldn’t get up from my kick.

“Kieeeeek—!”

I kicked the head of the zombie going berserk and struggling to somehow get up like kicking a soccer ball.

Pueoeoeok—!

A strange sound and a sensation both mushy and hard piercing my leg beyond my shoe.

I who had strongly kicked the mushy soccer ball quickly retrieved my foot and swung it at the last soccer ball.

Pueoeok—!

An impact weaker than expected and a subtle sense of balance overtaking me before that.

The body that almost fell from the blood pooled on the floor already recovered with the amazing sense of balance given by stats, but the impact of the kick had already weakened a lot by then.

“Kieeeeek—!”

The zombie still letting out strange noises and lying face down on the floor despite my kick.

I stamped my left foot on the blood-soaked floor bang—! as if to maintain balance and raised my right foot right above the bastard’s head.

And—

Pueoeoeoeok—!

This time an odd sensation felt on the sole rather than the instep.

I quietly lifted my foot while feeling the rotten blood splattered on my shoes and even my face.

“Kieeeeeeek—!”

The bastards’ roars still loudly ringing through the 3rd floor.

But the zombies near the bathroom were all lying on the floor in silence.

I carefully scanned the zombies desperately reaching out their hands while pinned under the bookshelves and obstacles I had knocked over, then entered the bathroom again.

Jjigeok— Jjigeok—

Foreign matter and blood fully stuck to the soles of my shoes left marks on the bathroom floor following my footsteps.

Jjigeok— Jjigeok—

The two minions watching me approaching closer and closer hurriedly turned their bodies to make way.

Cha Seolhee looking at me with blank eyes inside.

I ignored her and grabbed Park Hyoeun’s neck who was sprawled on the ground.

Keudeudeudeudeuk—!

I lightly lifted Park Hyoeun’s body full of muscles with one hand while gradually increasing the grip.

“Kek—! Keureureuk—! Keeek—!”

Maybe a survival instinct greater than fainting woke him up.

He started to resist convulsively, unable to endure his windpipe gradually being squeezed.

“Keureureup—! Keureureureureuk—!”

A desperate scream like phlegm being cut off.

I gradually tightened Park Hyoeun’s neck with one hand while looking down.

There, Cha Seolhee still blankly looking up at me.

“How does it feel to die once and come back to life?”
“Keureureuk—! Kek—! Keeek—!”

Neither Cha Seolhee nor Park Hyoeun answered.

Park Hyoeun was desperately reaching out his hands to me with gestures too desperate to be called a tantrum.

His hands that had been flailing at me struggling—

Keudeudeuk—!

Stopped abruptly with a twisting sound.

“Does it feel real now?”

That the end has come.

Park Hyoeun’s corpse collapsing in front of her with a thud.

She suddenly clenched her mouth tightly while looking at Park Hyoeun’s corpse lying dead grotesquely with his neck broken without moving.

Tears welling up despite that effort.

I looked at her face desperately holding back tears with eyes already full of moisture.

Seeing that face, only an annoying sigh leaked out.