novelraw Chapter 4 : Chapter 4
Chapter 4 : Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Intrusion (3)
Tilting.
The bus fell, as if sweeping the ship's deck at a precarious angle.
Kwaaaaaang!
It landed on the deck.
While it was lurching heavily.
Hwik-hwik- Deureureuk.
Han Chulwoon turned the wheel, stomped the pedal.
He intentionally shook the bus, dispersing the impact.
The motion sickness would be severe, but it could prevent, to some extent, the body from being physically broken.
‘The people, too, will be less hurt if they roll around a bit.’
Kwak.
The bus stopped.
“Euaaa……”
“Keollok.”
“Uwek.”
The people inside were just rolling around and crying out in pain.
There were no fatalities.
Han Chulwoon got out of such a bus.
‘80 points.’
He graded it.
It wasn't exactly perfect.
Because among the countless futures, it had been quite a while since he had come this route.
‘It’s not good to move too much according to habit.’
If you're awkwardly familiar, it only creates carelessness.
Right now was just about that level.
‘It’s a bit regrettable.’
The more proficient he became at life, the more difficult enemy to face was his own habit.
‘It’s so-so, not bad.’
He said, scanning the inside of the bus.
Just ‘so-so, not bad’ was not enough.
‘Well, what can you do.’
And so, Han Chulwoon, who had walked out ploddingly, saw the Orcs and the Ogre not far away.
Ttuduk.
Ttuk.
He warmed up his body.
Just standing there, from the tips of his fingers, the tips of his toes.
Jjuuk-
He repeated lightly bending and loosening his body.
Ttuduk.
Ttuduk.
He activated his bones and muscles.
Beneath the surface of his skin, his muscles were rampaging, preparing for violent movement.
‘A bit stiff.’
He thought.
Just before he died, he had been in a state that far surpassed human limits.
The problem was what happened after regressing.
‘I haven’t even done much, but I’m already tired.’
This body is uncomfortable.
He had made so many mistakes because of this before, that to him, ordinariness felt awkward.
Even just breathing normally felt stifling.
Even now, having grown used to regression, the sense of loss alone always remained in its place, going round and round and ending up in the same spot.
It was harder to get used to resurrection than to death.
Leaving such a man alone, the Orcs and the Ogre did not approach.
According to their ‘rules’, it was not yet time for them to be active.
Finally, having adapted to his body, he looked in the direction where the monsters were gathered.
Twelve Orcs.
One Ogre.
‘First, let’s clean up.’
With the kitchen knives he had bought beforehand secured in his pockets and waistband.
Paat!
He leaped into the horde of monsters.
***
Inside the ship.
“Waaaaaaak!”
“Move! Move!”
People pushed each other, and were shoved.
An unseen fear just continued to press down on them, pushing them away.
“Qu-Quickly, go down! Quickly! They’re coming! They’re comiiiing!”
“My baby? My baby! Someone, my child……”
“Mom, here.”
“I said go quickly!”
Kudangtang.
“Someone’s being trampled he……. Ak!”
Collapsing.
People pushed each other, were pushed, and, unable to resist the flow, just drifted aimlessly.
A fear like gravity, trying to get even a little farther from the monsters.
It was a waterfall of humans.
In the midst of that.
Wadeudeuk!
People were dying.
They rolled down the stairs, and someone stepped on them.
If they so much as accidentally fell, they could not get up.
People only realized that fact after they had stepped on the fallen person.
“Euaaaaak!”
“I said go quickly!”
It wasn't an intentional murder, but somewhere in the act of endlessly pushing each other, there was a person who provided the ‘cause’ of death.
[You have decided on the destiny of a monster.]
[Monsters will recognize you as their own kind and will not attack.]
[Warning. If you kill a monster, you will become human again.]
A message popped up on the status window.
A small number of people could see the message, and felt relief amidst the chaos.
The explanation that the monsters would not attack brought greater peace of mind than the shock of having killed someone.
In addition, the one fact that it wasn't intentional had lessened their guilt by a handful.
They hid the fact that they were monsters.
At the same time, they watched the situation.
[Acquiring kill reward.]
[You have acquired 10coin.]
It was simultaneous with the kill reward.
[Scenario Clear.]
[You have chosen a path.]
[Acquiring clear reward.]
[You have acquired 10coin.]
[This is the first time you have acquired coin. Providing Status Window User Manual.]
In addition to the scenario success reward, they had also obtained information about the status window.
They were placed in a very special position.
[You can see your abilities in the Status Window.]
[Showing 4 basic abilities.]
[Strength : Physical output]
[Stamina : Physical endurance]
[Focus : Mental output]
[Willpower : Mental endurance]
[Strengthen your abilities by consuming coin.]
[20 coins remaining.]
That phrase was the starting point.
[5 coins are required to strengthen a stat.]
The murderers had an average of 20 coin.
[You have acquired 1 Strength stat.]
[5coin have been consumed.]
[Next required coin 6]
They could raise their stats.
Just one ability was enough to feel a change, and with just one reward, they could raise at least 3 stats.
Literally, a ‘new path’ had opened.
“Heok……. Heok……”
The lowest floor.
Only after there was no more space to run did the people stop.
Among them, people who had become monsters were mixed in.
Most didn't know the meaning of becoming a monster, so they just stayed put, but.
Just one person.
Seureureuk.
There was a woman who stood up.
It was impossible to know what she was thinking, but she walked slowly, moving her feet toward the upper floor where the monsters would be.
“What’s with that person?”
“Oh. Oh my? She must be crazy.”
People were surprised, watching the woman go up.
Teobeok.
Teobeok.
She moved her heavy feet and reached the 2nd floor.
The not-yet-dead injured were lying here and there.
They were not injuries from the monsters.
They were just people who had been pushed by the wave-like crowd, trampled, or had fallen down the stairs.
While there were people who had fainted from difficulty breathing, there were also people who were just barely breathing, blood streaming from their heads.
Looking at such people.
One of the murderers.
Seo Yeonhwa was…….
“Y-You’re going to die anyway.”
With her hands trembling nervously, she choked a dying person.
“Anyway. Anyway.”
Swallowing her tears kkeuk-kkeuk, even while being shocked that she could do such a thing, she did not release the hand that was choking.
“Everyone’s going to die.”
[You have acquired 12coin.]
Was the text ‘kill reward’ only for the first time?
The status window compensated her murder with a more concise sentence.
Seo Yeonhwa, having killed a person of her own will this time, felt her legs give out.
‘I…… I killed someone?’
She wet herself, her skirt becoming damp.
Tears welled up in her eyes, blurring her vision.
But she did not stop.
She raised her ‘Strength’ stat with the coin she earned, and again went to the side and killed a person.
Killing…….
Killing…….
Killing…….
[You have acquired 11coin.]
[You have acquired 10coin.]
[You have acquired 13coin…….]
“Heukkeuk.”
She cleaned up the injured.
She saw a person who looked like they would die soon, their eyes rolled back completely flipping over.
She choked him.
Mysteriously, only just before dying, the other's eyes turned sharp and bright.
It was a gaze filled with so much resentment it was chilling.
“Heoeok!”
For a moment, she felt a feeling like her chest was being stabbed with a knife.
She retreated, gasping kkeok-kkeok.
“I’m sorry.”
But she did not stop.
She killed them all.
“……”
She became alone, thrown into the silence.
‘What on earth am I…….’
While all her surroundings were quiet, the sound of a person's voice was heard.
From the floor above this one.
It was a voice shouting until it was hoarse, begging to be saved, begging not to be abandoned.
“Ah……. There are people upstairs……”
The sound was this clear, so why couldn't I hear it?
She blankly followed the sound and went up.
Would there be monsters on the floor above?
But, she was already a monster.
It probably wouldn't matter even if she ran into monsters.
She didn't calculate the possibility that the scenario might be spreading false information.
If she doubted even that, her heart would have nowhere to lean on.
When she went up like that.
The 3rd floor.
More people were scattered about.
While there was a cripple with broken legs, there were also people who had fainted, like on the 2nd floor.
She looked around, feeling dazed.
Was a person something that could be abandoned so carelessly like this?
“Please help me! Over here!”
That corner.
A person whose legs were broken but whose mind was clear was crying and begging.
“Please save me. Please! I…… I’ll give you as much money as you want!”
“……”
She ignored the man and approached the fainted people.
Like she had done before.
While choking them to death one by one.
There was a person who didn't give coin, so she put more strength into her hands.
They still didn't give coin, so she put even more strength…….
Kkadeudeuk.
Only after breaking the neck bone did she realize.
‘……Huh?’
That it wasn't a fainted person, but a corpse that was already dead.
‘Am I an idiot?’
Anyone could see it was a corpse, but where was her mind…….
She had just been choking the corpse, grumbling inwardly that it wasn't giving coin.
“Aha…… jeez.”
The cleanup finished quickly.
After raising her Strength a little, killing also became easier.
Or, it might have been because her hesitation had disappeared.
Now, everyone on the 3rd floor was a corpse.
Except for just one, the man with the broken legs from a moment ago.
Seo Yeonhwa looked at such a man and approached him with a tear-streaked face.
“Aaaak! Go away! I said go away!”
He struggled convulsively, but it was a needless fear.
Seo Yeonhwa's hand, which had shot out as if to choke him, grabbed the man's arm, pulled him up, and carried him.
“There are many survivors on the floor below.”
She supported him as she spoke.
Regardless of her Strength, which had its limit raised, her two legs were trembling beol-beol.
“Heueok. Please save me. Please……”
“It will be safer than here.”
It wasn't because the man was heavy.
It was because she was crushed by her own mental shock.
Even the air she breathed in felt heavy.
“I’ll take you.”
Walking unsteadily.
Staggering.
She carried the man on her back and went down the stairs.
With every step she took down.
Her mouth began to form a strange smile.
The effect of stats seemed to be certain.
It wasn't heavy at all, even carrying a person and walking.
Her trembling legs were becoming comfortable.
The more her heart stabilized at the thought of having saved someone, a contradictory joy was blooming inside her.
***
-Oh my. How can this be so sublime.-
The witch admired it without even realizing.
Seo Yeonhwa was registered as a monster.
Her actions were a clear sin.
It was an unforgivable serial murder.
However, the fragment of humanity seen even in the midst of it…….
It is so noble.
-Ah. So it is.-
How contradictory.
And yet, beautiful, is it not?
-The elements that constitute you.-
Around then.
Morsallia felt an intense gaze.
It was definitely the gaze of a great being.
-Did the clown's play please you.-
[The Constellation ‘Serpent of the Deep’ has entered.]
-Yes. Great one. Here, one person seems to be ready.-
Around then.
The Goblins, having finished their search of the 4th floor, began to descend to the floor below.
[Goblins are entering the 3rd floor.]
It was simultaneous.
[Orcs are entering the 4th floor.]
According to the order.
The monsters were occupying one floor at a time and descending.
***
The ship's deck.
“Hoo……”
Han Chulwoon took a deep breath.
He knew this was an impossible victory.
No matter how outstanding the skills stuffed into his memory were, the limits of his flesh were clear.
[Strength : 10]
[Stamina : 8]
[Focus : 8]
[Willpower : Error(Unknown)]
His body's score, quantified by stats, was just a little below average.
For example.
Twelve Orcs and one Ogre were not opponents that a normal human body could handle.
But now, they were in a state of death, their organs pulled out and exposed.
Kkudeuk.
Kkudeuk.
Among them, the Ogre's build was so large.
That its body alone looked like a small hill.
Han Chulwoon, who had sat down exhausted next to it, looked relatively shabby.
Like a single dog, collapsed in front of an elephant.
[You have acquired 15coin.]
[You have acquired 15coin.]
[You have acquired 15coin…….]
…….
[You have acquired 30coin.]
From all that slaughter, he had obtained a total of 210coin.
[Scenario Clear.]
[You have chosen a path.]
[You have acquired 10coin.]
[You have decided on the destiny of a human.]
He had decided on a direction.