A Horror Novel’s Supporting Character Wants to Live as a Human

Chapter 198

"No."

"No, not 'no'! Where did these berries come from? Berries, grew, place!"

"No?"

"That's not what I mean!"

Though Yurik was a quick learner, smooth communication wasn't happening.

Yurik couldn't understand even half of what he said, and he couldn't make Yurik understand.

He suppressed his growing impatience and took a deep breath.

Now, Yu Yesung. Think. Think about it.

What was in front of him was a child who had only been learning to speak for a week.

Moreover, he was acting as if he had never met any people before.His actual conversation skills were practically no different from an infant.

Then didn't the answer of what to do become obvious?

He lowered his tension considerably, relaxed, and picked up one berry.

"This."

"Yes."

"I eat!"

"??"

"This good. This eat. I also eat. You also eat. I, this eat lots. Lots lots eat. Give me more of this."

If the other person's conversation was at an infant level, he just had to match that level!

When he waved his arms around demanding 'lots,' young Yurik's face, which had only been confused, brightened considerably.

"Lots?"

"Yes, lots! Give lots lots. Give me more of this."

"No."

"No? You're saying no?"

"Home, no. In soil, no. In lake, no."

Ah, so it didn't mean he wouldn't give them.

It seemed to mean that there were no berries in the places Yurik knew - near this rock, in the soil, or near the lake.

Hmm. Then how far would they have to go?

"Give me this. Give! Give lots!"

Give them! He didn't care about that stuff, just give him the berries!

He should know where they were!

Yurik answered hurriedly, flustered by his tantrum.

"Not in lake! Not in rock. In other soil. In other lake. Yes."

It was certain they were in another place. Naturally there wouldn't be any around here.

To go there, he would have to move with Yurik. For that, he would need to explain to Yurik the necessity of these berries and make him understand that they needed to go to the place where the berries grew.

Instead, the method he chose was.

"Give! Give me this! Giiiiive!"

Tantrum round two.

When he lay down on the ground completely and held onto the berries without letting go, Yurik looked down at him with a confused and flustered face.

Yurik also tried to express the emotions he was feeling, but his learning was still short, so he only failed.

Finally, he painfully uttered one word.

"Yes."

Anne Sullivan. I'm sorry.

He had just abandoned his duty as an educator.

But sometimes such things were necessary, weren't they?

Please forgive him just once.

Yurik wanted to set off immediately at his demand for berries.

He barely stopped him and they spent the night first, then when dawn broke, they began their journey, leaving behind the beloved rock cave.

The first journey in this life was different in nature from what he had done before.

First, there were only two people,

And there was nothing to pack except berries, the book, and the pen.

Since he didn't need to worry about food or climate, their luggage was reduced this much.

Yurik had been depressed ever since waking up.

Even if he wanted to ask the reason, it was difficult to expect an explanation from him with his limited speech.

In the end, they walked in silence for a long time, rested, and when night grew dark, found an appropriate place to lie down.

Yurik still liked sleeping pressed against his side. While Yurik slept beside him, he compressed the day's events into stories.

Meanwhile, he didn't forget to constantly talk to Yurik and tell him stories to help him become more talkative.

They were busy days for him, and for Yurik... well, how had it been for him?

When they had walked for nearly half a month like that.

A sudden forest area revealed itself before them.

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"What is this place..."

The red earth they had been walking on until now had been a barren wasteland that stirred up dust clouds, but as if someone had deliberately drawn a boundary, from some point suddenly appeared land covered in green.

Moreover, the plants were all ones he had never seen before.

Some had leaves so large you could sleep under them like blankets,

Others had petals so small you had to observe them closely to barely see them.

Here and there, fruits giving off rich sweet scents hung so heavily the branches bent, and they came in various colors.

Green, red, yellow, blue, ones that glowed as if coated with fluorescent material.

To him, who had only seen barren land and scenery until now, this place felt like paradise.

In fact, might this place really be heaven?

Otherwise, such diverse plants couldn't have clustered and grown luxuriantly only within this area.

Moreover, the positions where the plants grew seemed to have some kind of regularity.

Small paths ran between plants planted in long rows like a large field. It looked like it had been systematically created assuming someone would walk around.

Could intelligent beings be living here?

When he unconsciously took a step to look more closely.

Someone grabbed his clothes from behind and interfered.

It was Yurik.

"What's wrong?"

"No."

Yurik uttered negative words while tugging at his clothes.

Fear and terror he had never seen before settled on his innocent face.

He couldn't know the reason. He could only notice that Yurik was acting extremely sensitive about something.

Was he telling him not to go close, or warning of some other danger?

"Wait a moment. I'll look around to see if there's anything nearby and come back."

"No!"

The moment Yurik protested more loudly, rustling sounds came from the distance.

Yurik's face turned pale upon hearing that sound, then he grabbed his clothes and hid behind large leaves.

Behind the leaves where he had been dragged, Yurik held him tightly and was trembling. If this were an ordinary forest area, there would be no need for Yurik to be this frightened.

Then what exactly was here?

At that moment, a large shadow fell through the gaps in the leaves.

A glossy sheen flowed down over the black body. A heavy body that sagged like a giant sack filled with jelly moved weightily.

The black sack with no hands, legs, head, or eyes was larger than most trees. He couldn't understand well what the writhing body was made of.

About five of them were marching slowly in a line.

Then they suddenly stopped and surrounded a particularly tall tree. The tree looked similar to a palm tree, but the fruit hanging at the top was green.

What were they trying to do?

The black sacks made strange whistling sounds. Then they stretched their bodies long and transformed their appearance.

Upward, further upward. The sacks that became like very thin poles easily picked the green fruit.

Instead of falling to the ground, the fruit went into the bodies of the black sacks.

At the same time, squelching sounds came, and crushed fruit remains spurted out from around what seemed like the sacks' sides.

After collecting fruit like that for a while, when time passed, the sacks seemed to have achieved their initial goal and began returning.

"Stay here for a moment."

"No..."

"Just for a moment. I'll just go over there and look. Okay?"

After they left, he watched for signs for a while, then temporarily left Yurik and came out from behind the leaves.

The fruit crushed by the black sacks lay abandoned on the ground, soaked in juice.

The fruit's outer skin was quite hard and appeared to be about the width of his palm in thickness.

Certainly, humans wouldn't be able to eat it without using sharp chisels or hammers.

He rummaged through the broken fruit and wiped off the sticky liquid on his hands.

Abnormally strong physical strength.

Black body and glossy sheen.

Beings whose form couldn't be specified and who didn't maintain a fixed appearance.

From what he remembered, there was one demonic beast in the grimoire Pnakotic that matched these characteristics.

If his guess was correct...

At that moment, a sharp scream was heard.

"Yurik!"

A black sack writhed behind the tree where they had been hiding.

Its body split open. The entrance that opened like claws stretched out long and grabbed Yurik's body.

Yurik, screaming frantically from fear, struggled, but he was far too weak for that.

His red eyes, being dragged as if sinking into the middle of a gelatinous mass where no color or object was visible, pierced into him.

Help me.

Yurik's eyes were saying that.

But even that was soon buried in the gelatinous mass, and the black sack closed its opened body while imprisoning its captive.

It moved its writhing body as if he didn't exist at all and disappeared into the heart of the forest area.

"No, damn it, no!"

He couldn't let Yurik be taken here!

How much information did he need to hear from that guy!

He chased after it, frantically pushing through overgrown grass and plants, bushes, and giant flower vines.

Even though he ran with all his might, he couldn't catch up to the speed at which the black sack disappeared.

How long had he wandered through this jungle-like forest area?

The moment he finally found the end of the green.

His breath caught at the sight spreading before his eyes.

There was a city of giants dug into a huge cavity.

The city looked like a colosseum buried underground, and also like an upside-down castle.

An indescribable scale, numerous outdoor corridors and hallways, layers of stairs and slides.

Strange rock sculptures and bumpy but well-polished floors.

The edges of the cavity colosseum were surrounded by towers that jutted out sharply like a crown.

Black sacks were everywhere.

The black sacks were all writhing, moving rocks or embracing them to crush, break, and pile them up, contributing to the formation of this city.

The strange whistling sounds or woodwind instrument resonances he had heard in the forest area wrapped around the city's air and continued playing in low tones.

"That's..."

He had read about it in the grimoire Pnakotic.

Before humans even existed.

Beings who had fallen to this planet and were once the most prosperous species on the planet.

Based on outstanding curiosity and research desire, that species had interpreted everything that existed on the strange planet,

And based on that, they mass-produced new species to develop the diversity of life while simultaneously trying to subordinate all existence under their authority.

Also, they had created a slave species called 'Shoggoth' to do dangerous work for them,

And used mental domination to prevent the Shoggoths from having any will.

And by using the slave species, they had simply built dazzling cities and civilizations.

The name of the species that even the compiler of the grimoire had completely forgotten was 'Elder Things.'

Also called the First Ones, their identity was nomads from outer space who had folded their wings that flew through the universe and settled.

And the period when they were known to have landed on the planet was...

About 1 billion years before humanity appeared.

He had returned 1 billion years into the past to meet the conclusion of this story, To correct the twisted story from the beginning.