Chapter 30: But Who am I?

Chapter 30: But Who am I?

*Thump! Thump!*

It was good to stay calm in this crisis situation, but there was no clear solution in sight.

I thought I should have stayed next to Han Seori and listened to what she was saying.

But if I did that, she would be a bloody pancake right now instead of herself.

I didn’t want to imagine that sight, so I tried to erase it from my mind.

Based on the circumstances, I didn’t want to see the sight of Han Seori getting hurt while running away together, as she got hurt because of protecting me by putting me in a glass container.

There’s no solution, and it may be reckless, but since she fell into danger while trying to protect me, I should do this.

It’s quite gratifying.

What should I do now?

That thing is rushing towards me, *Crash! Crash!* shaking its dreadful face wildly as if I were its parents’ mortal enemy.

Perhaps because it was the path it had passed through, the floor was already dented.

Another notable thing is... the absence of people.

Well, if there were such a thing roaming around and people were crowding, that would be strange, too.

But besides that.

I wondered why the people who appeared in the sewer didn’t show up at all, even though sirens or something like that were ringing so loudly.

It seemed like they could quickly turn such a large wooden barrel into a rag with those terrifying firearms they were holding.

...Could it be that they came to catch me because I’m weak, and they can’t even approach that because it’s strong?

Somehow, I feel like their evaluation is falling in my heart.

The strong bullying the weak.

It’s the worst, isn’t it?

...But if I think about it carefully, there’s no way that’s the case.

The fact that this thing is here in the first place means that it was caught... so maybe there was some kind of accident.

I’m not sure what it is.

I thought that they might not be as thorough as I thought.T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

Well.

The people working here aren’t aliens or anything; they’re just people who eat the same meals as I do, so what’s the difference?

Over there, across the sea, the white and black guys carry guns in every house, so having a gun doesn’t make you special.

I’ve shot a gun before, too.

Although they’re not very good memories.

Anyway.

In the end, it’s something that people do.

There’s no way there can be no mistakes.

Now that I’ve assessed the situation and determined an accident occurred, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m running away─

*Crash!*

Suddenly, the sound coming from behind changed from *Thump! Thump!* to *Crash!*. At the same time, I felt my body being cut off and falling.

When I looked back, I saw the thing that had been just bouncing along now collapsed forward.

On its collapsed face, blue lumps that had fallen off from my body were splattered all over.

It would have been nice if it had collapsed from exhaustion.

But it gets up again.

...Isn’t this cheating?

Jelly flowed down my spine at its sudden dirty play.

It was really playing this like some kind of game.

But in this life-or-death game of tag, getting touched doesn’t make you a chaser.

So I ran again with the newly grown jelly.

Now, I had to keep glancing back, not just looking ahead.

And that was quite troublesome.

If the speed is the same, wouldn’t running while looking back inevitably lead to getting caught?

I can’t even not look. Didn’t my jelly already get cut off while not looking?

I felt a sense of crisis that I hadn’t felt until a little while ago.

Ah, this is driving me crazy.

How nice would it be to have eyes on the back, too?

...Huh?

*Bang!*

While I was turning my head, that thing did another dirty trick, so I narrowly avoided it. It wasn’t something I couldn’t dodge if I was watching.

While it was momentarily stuck in the floor, having an intimate moment with my jelly smeared on its face.

I felt like I had some kind of realization like lightning had struck my head.

The presumed wood and sturdy metal collided, but why was there a sound of metal being crushed? Is it crazy?

I thought it wasn’t ordinary wood, but isn’t this going too far?

*Bang!*

Actually, from the fact that similar things to the room I was in were shattered, I had thought this might happen.

...It’s just that there was something that stimulated a man’s dreams, so the choice was biased towards this place.

*Craaash!*

Damn it.

In the end, the car couldn’t withstand its attack and was crushed. Beyond the wall that was crumpled like a crumpled paper, the hideous face of the guardian totem began to appear.

As if there hadn’t been any impact at all, its face had become uglier than a little while ago, twisted and gnarled like an ancient tree.

Before it completely breaks...

*Crack!*

I have to decide what to do.

Run away.

Or....

Try to fight.

I mulled over the behaviour patterns of the thing I had observed while running away.

Honestly, if I calmly observe... I think I can deal with it.

Especially now that I have no blind spots.

If there’s a problem.

Can I digest that, too?

The only attacks I can do are spewing mucus and digesting.

Ah, I also used hardening when I ate the horned wolf, so maybe that’s possible, too.

I have a few attacks that I can do.

*Crash!*

There’s no way my cotton fists will work on this sturdy car.

Then, in the end, can I melt it?

That’s all I need to judge.

I tried to recall the things I had eaten.

Thinking of the... metal pieces that Han Seori gave me...

Couldn’t I do it?

I gained confidence.

*Bang!!*

Now that it has its head stuck in the crushed car.

I opened the door of the car and went out. Honestly, there was no need to open the door. It was already loose from the impact.

And.

I climbed up its body, which had its head stuck in the car.

The sticky body was optimal for climbing trees, and it was easy because it wasn’t standing vertically but was tilted.

*Squish...!*

When I reached what would be its neck in human terms.

It pulled its face out of the car.

I climbed onto its topknot to devour its head and stuck it into my body.

*Bubble bubble....*

It didn’t melt quickly like usual, but I felt its body slowly being digested.

It tasted really bad, but seeing the possibility, I tightly clung to its head.

*Bang!*

It must have felt it, too, as it wiggled its body like crazy to get me off.

*Whoosh! Whirr!*

It felt like riding a drop tower without a safety bar.

When the fierce wind sound was heard, some of the jelly was thrown off.

As I endured like that, in my field of vision.

I saw the figure of a person carefully approaching from where I had come out.

...Only now you show up?

They were too late.

At that moment.

That guardian totem drives its body into the sharp part of the heavily crumpled car, jagged metal piercing its wooden flesh.

The sharp piece of metal quickly approached in front of my eyes, glinting menacingly in the dim light.