32 Episode 32 - Messiah, Part I (1/2)
Chapter 12. Messiah, Part I
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
1.
A large-scale mall located in front of the New Jungdong Station...
It was a quiet fortress now, crowded with people all the time.
All the windows were covered with newspapers, and the entrance, which enthusiastically welcomed the guests, was now walled with tangled shopping carts.
Three men approached the entrance, with thick jumpers, safety helmets and crudely made spears.
They stood in front of the automatic door, which was covered with newspapers, and one of them carefully pulled out a business card from inside and swiped it through the door.
Swish!
The business card disappeared as if it were a snake's tongue, and soon the door opened.
Beyond the door, three men stood tensely, aiming a spear at the door. They relaxed only after confirming the other party.
”What did you find?”
”I can't see anything. The weather looks crazy.”
”What about group B?”
”I couldn't find them.”
”You didn't find them?”
”There were no bodies.”
It was not a pleasant conversation.
”What about footprints? You could see footprints, couldn't you?”
”Have you seen this weather? Our footprints are already gone!”
”So, you just came back?”
”What the hell was I supposed to do? Get out of my way! I am cold enough to die!”
Eventually, the conversation became intense at some point, and those who were guarding the door stepped to the side.
Three men, their shoulders and heads covered with snow, strode into the mall.
The three men who entered the mall immediately took off their helmets, and a man with a chubby face spoke up, ”He's not a damn Awakener, but he handles us like slaves. A---hole! He can't do anything in front of a monster.”
The words that were spoken out of anger were so low that they were close to speaking to himself, contrary to the fierce expression.
The two remaining men turned away from the subject as if they did not want to continue the conversation with such a man.
”It will be colder tonight.”
”I'd sleep with a girl in that case. How about that? Do you want to take one?”
But the younger man replied to the fat man's words with an awkward smile, ”It's okay.”
”The only good thing we have in this damn world is that we can do it for free.”
”...what happened to Group B?” Another man in his mid-20s wanted to turn the subject around.
”I'm sure there was an accident somewhere, trying to enjoy a girl named Baek Ji-yeon.” The fat man changed the subject of conversation to an unpleasant one.
”There was a guy named Ahn Tae-seok who was crazy about women, and there's no way he's not going to be excited there with a naked woman lying in front of him in the snow.”
The younger man gave up on continuing the conversation. 'You damn pig, is that the only thing that comes to your mind in this situation?'
Fortunately, the filthy stories of the fat man did not last long. ”Damn it, I'm going to take a shot today…”
”Speak such stories alone.” A woman walked out of the darkness, a skinny as a skeleton, as if she were about to fall apart right away.
The appearance of the woman caused a gruesome distorted expression on the fat man. But as soon as he saw the mark on the back of her right hand, his distorted face turned blue.
”I'm sorry, I'm sorry!”
”Get out of here, you are disgusting.”
”I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just spare my life, please spare my life…”
”Get out of here.”
The three men nodded vigorously and disappeared as they ran into the escalator and fled to the second floor.
The woman headed for what was originally a pharmacy, located in the corner of the first floor.
There were two men in it.
One stood up as straight, acting as a bodyguard, and the other sat on the couch, tapping his smooth hair, holding a sword with the sheath in his right hand, like something out of a historical drama.
The woman said to the man on the sofa, ”There must be a disturbance.”
”Disturbance?” At the woman's words, the man stopped tapping his head. ”What's the matter?”
”The group that went out to execute a woman as an example is missing.”
”Missing?”
”Yes.”
”Did a monster eat them, or did they run away?”
”The team tried to investigate, but it failed.”
”Failed? Why?”
”Because of the snow and wind...”
At those words, the man let out a suddenly uncontrollable laugh and tapped his head again with the handle of the sword.
”You should have given the organization by a different name, not Messiah. Everyone looks at us like an angel who was sent from heaven for some paradise. I'll have to send the men who went out as a search team to the New Jungdong Station in the morning when the sun rises, with their Achilles tendon nipped, and hope the yellow-eyed devil likes it.” The swordsman smiled faintly.
3.
The blizzard showed no sign of stopping, even in the dark night.
Kim Tae-hoon was looking down at the large mall from a building located across the street. The blizzard blocked his vision, but there was no problem drawing pictures in his mind.
'The gates are strictly guarded, but their armed state is crude, and no one stands guard on the roof.'
Kim Tae-hoon scanned the area through the blowing blizzard and thick darkness.
”Baek Ji-yeon said there were about sixty candidates for sacrifice inside, and there were about thirty people watching them and guarding the large mall. In addition, the sacrifices were kept on the second and third floor.”
Darkness and a blizzard.
What all animals did in front of these two things was the same: they just crouched as much as they could in the dark where they could avoid the wind, and they waited for the cold and long night to pass.
Humans have escaped such behavior by using tools, but the humans in the large mall were no different from animals.
Kim Tae-hoon turned around.
The hunt began.
4.
Kwa-kwa-kwang!
It only took a moment
A huge truck rushed toward the entrance of the large mall, and after smashing through the automatic glass doors, entered the entrance of the large mall.
”Aaaaaaargh!”
The three people, who were guarding the door in this sudden situation, were hit by the car, and they were smashed away helplessly.
”What's going on?”
”Is it an earthquake?”
People, who were forced to sleep in the cold all over the large mall, were scared and woke up.
”A truck crashed through the entrance!”
The disturbance reached the third floor after passing the second floor.