Chapter 17 (1/2)
SLAM!!
”Kheuck!”
Blood spilled on the ground; Jeong Min-Woo's large frame tilted unsteadily to the side, before falling down hard with a loud thud. And from the seemingly empty s.p.a.ce, Hyun Sahng-Min's figure slowly revealed itself like a ghost. There was a steel bar clutched in both of his hands.
”What the…?!” (Kahng Seok)
The utterly stunned Kahng Seok tried to stand up from the chair, but he couldn't. s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah was desperately clinging on to Kahng Seok's waist with both of her hands tightly interlocked, as if the ghost of Nongae had come to possess her. Also, she was pus.h.i.+ng down on him with all of her body weight, as well. (TL note at the end)
”Sung-Jin-ah!!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
She shouted out while lowering her head in a hurry.
”Uh? Oh! Right!” (Yi Sung-Jin)
And so, Kahng Seok had no choice but to watch on helplessly as a chair descended upon his unguarded face. Accompanied by a dull impact noise, his head snapped to the left.
”G, geuwaaaahhh….”
Kahng Seok then slowly fell to the floor, his face dazed and frozen as a whimper leaked out of his mouth.
”….Who the h.e.l.l do you think you are to utter out my sister's name?” (Yi Sung-Jin)
Yi Sung-Jin angrily spat out while carrying a chair.
Now left alone, Lee Hyung-Sik dazedly stared at Hyun Sahng-Min as the latter man spat on the floor in disgust.
”Hey, man. Why don't you take a nap.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
One swing of the steel bar later, Lee Hyung-Sik's upper torso spun as if he was performing a traditional dance, then he crumpled to the ground.
Seol could only stand there and stare at the three of them, still frozen in the middle of trying to throw a spell ball. And as he continued to blink in stupefied state, he ended up witnessing something quite… extraordinary.
Kahng Seok, even as his eyes were swimming from the impact to his head, was pulling out his other paper talisman, almost unnoticed; at that moment, s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah, baring her teeth like an angry lioness, pounced on that hand holding the talisman.
”Euh-waaaaack!!” (Kahng Seok)
Her teeth tore into his flesh; Kahng Seok threw his head wildly while screaming in pain. She didn't stop there, though - she then proceeded to climb up on top of his writhing body and lifted her hands up high.
”In all my life, I…. I…!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
Slap!
Her wide open palm powerfully slapped Kahng Seok's face.
”I've never, ever seen….!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
SLAP!!
”….A d.a.m.n perv like you who's so fixated on a girl's naked body before, you d.a.m.n son of a b*tch!!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
Slam!
Her third hit was an elbow drop roughly aimed at Kahng Seok's philtrum. Blood exploded out from his nose.
Kahng Seok was laid out on the floor like a dead frog, and when her elbow hit, he began convulsing like a person having a seizure. However, that must have not been enough to cool her anger - s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah stood up while breathing like an angry bull, and then, lifted her foot up as high as she could.
”….No, she wouldn't….” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Seeing this, Hyun Sahng-Min flinched and stopped his actions of making sure that Lee Hyung-Sik and Jeong Min-Woo would not get up again with the help from the steel bar meeting their faces. And, he squeezed his eyes shut when her heel accurately slammed down on Kahng Seok's family jewels.
”@%#%^%!!!!!!!” (Kahng Seok)
Maybe he had some energy left over, because Kahng Seok's scream was loud enough to tear open his own vocal cords.
Only then, Seol could feel the restriction spell being deactivated. Since the owner of the spell lost consciousness, it was only natural that it would be cancelled.
Seol was able to regain his focus when he heard the wet, sticky footsteps coming from his rear.
It was the monster, Gaeg-gwi. It would've been strange if the creature didn't show up after so much noisy chaos unfolded here already. Although Seol was confident of killing the monster, he'd rather make sure that an unlucky accident wouldn't happen.
Seol hurriedly carried Yun Seo-Rah into the safe zone, and then pulled the still-enthusiastic s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah inside as well.
”Miss s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah!! Miss s.h.i.+n! Please, stop!” (Seol)
”Let me go! Let me go, right now! Do you have any idea how much this b*stard…!! I, I….!!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
”It's the monster! The Gaeg-gwi has shown up!” (Seol)
”….Eh? ….?!?! Mommy!!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
When s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah confirmed the monster's terrifying outer appearance approaching them, her att.i.tude did a 180 real fast and she jumped into Seol's arms. Somehow successfully calming her down, Seol carried her back into the safe zone and only then could the four of them breathe long, long sighs of relief.
It felt like they had to go through a torrential storm all thanks to a certain someone.
”Whew. First time ever hitting another person like that.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Hyun Sahng-Min's hand, as it pulled out a cigarette, was unsteady. He offered what he extracted out from the packet first to Seol.
Seol was about to pull out his own, but quietly accepted that, instead.
”Hey, man. What are we going to do about those three outside the cla.s.sroom?” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
”? Should we bring them inside, then?” (Seol)
”You do that, and we are through.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Hyun Sahng-Min bitterly spat out his opinion.
Not too long after, the two men looked at the corridor through the cla.s.sroom window. The Gaeg-gwi had come closer before anybody had noticed, and was in the middle of slowly devouring Jeong Min-Woo.
Crunch, crunch.
Seeing the monster chew and swallow the man from his head first, Seol could only feel the sense of astonished disgust.
”What happened just now?” (Seol)
”Mm? Oh, that. Yeah, well. Me and the boy over here exchanged some eye signals, you know what I mean? I was the one who signaled Miss s.h.i.+n over here, though.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Did that really happen? Seol felt rather dazed after hearing that, since he genuinely had not noticed it. Hyun Sahng-Min chuckled, sounding rather pleased with himself.
”What? You thought we really betrayed you just now?” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
”How did you signal to each other?” (Seol)
”Like this. I just had to show this off a bit, and….” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Hyun Sahng-Min began fiddling around with a half-torn piece of paper - but, 'it' happened right then.
”K, khhhh-euhhh!!” (Kahng Seok)
Suddenly, the sliding door was flung open and Kahng Seok's face entered the cla.s.sroom. His arm was clawing the floor, desperately trying to reel himself inside.
The two men couldn't hide their surprise. To think, he was able to regain his consciousness so quickly after being pummeled like that. His endurance was indeed higher than average, according to his Status Window, so that might have been enough to explain his resilience.
”Where the h.e.l.l do you think you're trying to enter?!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
As soon as she saw him, s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah ran hard and kicked Kahng Seok's head like a ball.
”K, keok!! P, please! H, help me!” (Kahng Seok)
”Help you?! You cheeky b*stard! Have you forgotten all the c.r.a.p you did already?!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
”…P, please!” (Kahng Seok)
”Get lost! Get lost!!!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
She stomped down on his hand that was desperately clinging onto the floor. In the end, he couldn't continue holding on, and his body was sucked out of the doorway like a receding tidal wave.
Meanwhile, the Gaeg-gwi had finished devouring the two lackeys, and when it saw the bloodied Kahng Seok, it reached out and grabbed him as if he was a delicious dessert.
”Hey! You, you devour that a*shole slowly, okay?! You eat him piece by piece, got that?!” (s.h.i.+n Sahng-Ah)
The Gaeg-gwi blinked its large eye several times while hearing that. Then, it proceeded to chew on Kahng Seok from his feet onwards. Hyun Sahng-Min began shuddering after witnessing all this.
”I, uh, I didn't know she was this insane.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)
Seol almost ended up agreeing out aloud with him there.
”And well, there we go, that thing finis.h.i.+ng everything up. I hadn't gotten my share of satisfaction yet, though.” (Hyun Sahng-Min)