6 Episode 6 - The Mark of an Awakener, Part II (2/2)
”If we get involved and get hurt…”
The silence was full of fear.
The four men glared around in the harsh atmosphere. Their eyes glistened with murderous spirit. They were not bluffing. They had seen blood, and not once or twice. They had stabbed a living monster with a knife, chopped down a lump of flesh with an ax, and swung a baseball bat to break a monster's skull. It was enough for a person to learn the murderous spirit.
”Did you see it? Did you see it?”
”It's really fucked. Don't you take off your eyes from us?”
Of course, none of the people in the crowd who were overwhelmed by that look could say ”Stealing is wrong!” to them
”What the fuck are you talking about, man?” In front of the calmed crowd, the four's murderous spirit and hostility naturally shot toward Park and his family.
Dozens of people nearby became docile bystanders.
”I'm sorry, sorry . . .”
”What are you sorry about? Huh? Huh?”
”...I'm sorry.”
”What? Tell me loud what you did!”
As soon as the spectators became the audience, the four men began to burn like angry fires. It was a hunch. They were predators here, on the second floor, a closed space. What they saw around them was not something that could threaten them, but something they could trample on.
”Hey, man. Get up. Get up.”
There was no let-up.
Whack! When Park was about to get up, a man with a slim figure behind him kicked him like a soccer ball.
”Argh!” Park tried to get up, but he fell back to the floor with a scream.
”Daddy!” His daughter, who had finally opened her eyes, gave the biggest scream that she could from her young throat. ”Daddy!”
One of the men saw Park's daughter and wife, smiled and headed toward the woman, a knife flashing in his hand.
”Oh, no! No.” Park, who fell on the floor, saw that and threw himself toward the man approaching his wife and daughter. He threw himself forward and clung to the man's left leg.
”Er? Er?” Suddenly, the man who saw Park clinging to his leg was scared. Park's actions were the only desperate thing he could do, but the guy was different.
”Get off me! Get off me! Kill him!” It was more than a threat to himself. He had seen a lot already, how easily a human died. Of course, the remaining three people, except the man who was holding the leg, set out to take off Park.
”Let go of me! Let go of me, if you don't want to die!”
”Just kill him!” The men kicked and trampled Park.
”Huck, huck!” Every time they did that, a harsh breath came out of Park's mouth.
”What do we do?”
”Someone should come and stop them.”
The crowd just watched the process with the frightened, disgusting expression.
”Dad! Dad!”
In such a situation, Park's wife covered her crying daughter's face with her body, in order not to show something she did not want her daughter to see. Terrible things started to fill the second floor and the horror was no different from when the monsters around.
”Stop it, you bastards!”
Finally, a woman came out. A woman wearing a thick jumper, with impressive freckles around her nose, shouted out with a loud voice.
”Oh, someone else?” One of the men looked at the woman with a grim expression.
The woman, without fear of him, shouted with malice in her eyes, ”If you're going to steal, be quiet and take off like a thief! Don't bother someone who isn't worth it!”
At the cry of the woman, one of the men, spitting on the floor, strode toward her.
The woman put her right hand on a knife, a hand engraved with a mark.
”Uh? Uh!” The man stopped walking. The other three also stopped.
”A knife, it's a knife!”
”She is a crazy bitch, kill her! Kill her!”
There was a strong reaction, but no violent action was taken. They'd already experienced how threatening a knife was. There was plenty of evidence. The blood stains around them, the pools of blood, all were evidence of the danger of a blade.
If there was a monster body, it would be more definite evidence. Unfortunately, however, there was nobody that could clearly convey that emotion at the moment.
”Stop all of them,” a man spat this out.
”The four of you, if you move, I will kill you.” The man who appeared in a bloody plastic apron took care of all the monsters.
Kim Tae-hoon returned.