7 Episode 7 - The Mark of an Awakener, Part III (1/2)
Chapter 2. The Mark of an Awakener, Part III
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
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”If you move, I'll kill you.” After the warning, Kim Tae-hoon slowly took off his plastic apron. The green blood on the apron, dripping as it hit the floor, sounded creepier than ever.
”Big brother!” Bang Hyun-wook showed up after Kim dropped the apron he had taken off on the floor. When Bang appeared, the surrounding area of people, again grew silent. But this silence was different from the time the previous time. There was a sense of pressure incomparable to before.
As if they had made a promise, the four men swallowed together!
”'He is the monster…” The four men were not free from this pressure. They froze as they saw Kim, and they remembered what he had done.
”What do we do?”
”If it hadn't been for that damned bastard, we'd have fled…”
Kim had appeared when they had been struggling and shouting against an Orc on the second floor, and he had killed the Orc with the ax he was holding. Quickly he had sprinkled something on the Orc's eyeballs after splitting its head with an ax, and then had poured lighter oil on the head of the Orc, which was rubbing its dark eyes with a shrill cry, and then had lit it.
The four were sure of one thing, things were going from bad to worse.
'What do we do?”
”Should we just ask for forgiveness?”
”Shit, should we have just fled?”
Three of them were waffling, unsure of what to do.
”Kill me? Kill me!? Kill me, you bastard!?” Unlike his colleagues, the big man revealed his hostility to Kim. It was proof that he was quite a strong man, with fighting spirit and courage.
However, Kim did not hesitate. He used his Telekinesis to grab the neck of the big man and then lifted the man up. A scene that could not be understood by normal reason unfolded.
”Huck!” ”What, what? What!” ”Go…, ghost?” The three remaining men, stunned, sat down on the floor in horror, knowing their friend had become a victim.
Kim lifted the man up three meters high and then released his Telekinesis. There was a gruesome sound, like a corpse falling to the floor.
The silence spread again, and now beyond the harshness and the pressure was horror. Everyone looked at Kim with a deathbed face, and he looked at the remaining three people before the eyes of the crowd.
”From now on, the four of you have no right to speak in anything. If you have a complaint, spit it out, right here, right now.”
Three of them shook their heads, their mouths tight.
Kim did not give them any more attention. Kim confirmed that Park Jae-woon was with his family, and Kim turned to the watch on his left wrist.
After checking the time, he said quietly to everyone, ”It's 22:33, but I'm going to start reporting on the current situation from now on.”
4.
”Our current location is on the second floor of a large mart; an emergency generator is operating normally, and communication using smartphones and radios is impossible. No attempted contact with rescue teams or external survivors has been successful.”
He took a sip of canned coffee. His tasting was not brief, but no one asked him or complained about it. He resumed speaking after savoring coffee to the end calmly.
”Based on the circumstances, we are in a bad situation, and this area is not as safe as we think.”
Some of them immediately doubted his judgment. ”Dangerous?” ”Isn't it safe here?”
It had been about seven hours since the monster raid. The heat of the battle was now sufficiently turned off, and instead, there were only the aftereffects of the battle.
Naturally, the survivors did not want to do anything anymore. They just wanted to wait here until the rescue team or the army came to their safe place and rescued them. By the common sense of these people, the second floor of the large mart was safer than anywhere else.
This was mainly because of the fire shutters, making it impossible for outsiders to come in without warning, and the food was very abundant, with enough food and drinking water to last the survivors half a year.
The main problem was that there was limited space for washing their body or urinating, but it was not reasonable to seriously worry about that problem in a world where monsters were going crazy.
However, Kim said that the space which everyone judged safe… was dangerous! ”Once the incident occurred, not one outsider, including the rescue team, has come here, even though it had been more than six hours.”
The crowd still looked suspicious at this explanation.
”The first thing survivors do when social infrastructure collapses is to secure food. If the route to this place had been secured to some extent, someone would have come here, if not a rescue team, then for Ramen… or to loot an iPad.”
At the end of his last words, three men who kept their mouths shut trembled.
He once again enjoyed his coffee. Again, a short time of savoring passed, and the crowd began to get anxious during that time.
”He's right if it had been really safe . . . I'm sure someone would have come here.”