Episode 243:
Every time the underworld preyed on the survivors, it did not devour all the crazy people in the world. It was a system in which a limited space, such as an area or a room in a building, was arbitrarily designated as a rider nearing annihilation and the people inside were devoured. No matter how qualified you are, if you stay out of bounds and don’t get eaten, you won’t become a regular member of the underworld.
Also, the number of talented people who can be preyed upon by the underworld is limited. No matter how close a regular member is, if the quality of the psychopath is significantly low, he or she will not be eaten.
“...uh?”
However, in the case of Eonhak High School, where the Park siblings are enrolled.
“What what what?”
“Uh...? uh? uh? uh? uh? uh?”
“Where the fuck am I!”
Last time, it was not a space designated by the secret world, and Park Da-young and Park Da-hoon were not in it. They went out of their way to celebrate Park Da-hoon’s birthday and stopped by a cafe in another area.
However, at this time, the Park siblings were taking classes at Eonhak High School, and there were definitely friends there who had the qualifications to become regular or sub members.
“...Oh crazy.”
Park Da-hoon, who had been swallowed up by the underworld while sleeping face down, looked around.
The total number of students in the 2nd grade class 10 he was in was 22. Among them, there are about 10 friends who came to the underworld along with Park Da-hoon. No, I counted correctly again and there were 9 people. There were people I was close with, there were people who were embarrassed, and there were people whose faces turned red, but out of those 9 people, there were only 2 who came to their senses to some extent
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“....”
Park Da-hoon’s gaze immediately turned to the phrase in the frame decorated on the blackboard. I didn’t look there with any particular intention, but it was the result of avoiding my gaze from the strange harmony created by the students fluttering around like crazy and the dressed mannequins staring at them intently.
And in the frame that had written [Class motto: Let’s eat a good breakfast.] until just a moment ago, there was a new phrase in a neat font. It was a phrase so neat that it made me sick.
[Rule 2. Please remain seated during class.]
“...Holly.”
Please save me.
Da-hoon Park quietly closed his eyes as he watched the monster that looked like a teacher rushing towards the rampaging students. With the sound of bones breaking and flesh splashing, something lukewarm splashed onto his cheek. There was nothing more to see than blood.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
...?
“Hee hee hee hee hee...”
Even in the meantime, I can hear a moaning sound, so it looks like he’s not dead.
‘It looks like I’m going to die soon.’
He carefully opened his eyes and, as if he had grasped the situation, muttered softly as he looked at the two people sitting in place with their mouths closed, the classmates tied tightly to chairs with their limbs broken and their bones exposed, and the mannequins continuing their work as if nothing had happened.
“Fuck you....”
Mayday, Mayday.
Are you alive, my little bastard?
* * *
A total of 16 people were somehow gathered together using the classic method of starting a fire and making smoke. The survivors moved steadily and moved to Eonhak High School, where Park Da-young and Park Da-hoon would be.
Hong Gyeong-jun looked at Lee Jae-heon and asked.
“Are you saying there is a place where communication is possible?”
He nodded in response to a question from a detective he hadn’t seen in a long time.
“When you say that, the other side of the world seems like a remote mountainous area where no radio waves can reach, but... it does exist. “It’s crazy hard to find.”
“Where is it?”
“It’s school.”
Although it is one-way, once you make a call within the school, you can communicate anywhere. If the timing was right and I contacted the survivors I had not currently met within the school, I would be able to clarify who had not been eaten by the underworld this time.
“Oh, I was weaving a canvas. Starting with the wooden frame and covering it with fabric on top... They say to make it now and use it later. “It’s a graduation exhibition.”
“Do you usually use a big hammer like that when making canvas? “Isn’t it for polishing stains?”
“Yes, I know that’s not true, but there weren’t enough hammers in the Western painting building for the number of students, so I brought those at least.”
“Do you normally learn how to make canvas in Western painting classes?”
“No matter what, I usually don’t start with wood as a frame... but I sometimes do work that vaguely overlaps with the formative side. Perhaps because the professors were close to each other, they tried various things with each other. That doesn’t mean it’s completely outside the genre of Western painting itself, but it feels like it’s not really ‘at all’...”
“Oh my god.”
“You’re already receiving a lot of criticism among students. “You still don’t understand.”
His face was still calm, but his voice was that of someone who had a lot of resentment toward the professor. They say that the complaint reaches the head of the department, but they are all in the same situation and are just ignoring it.
‘It’s good that Song In-myeong didn’t kill the professor or the department head.’
I heard that before he dropped out, he was a little out of the ordinary, but he lived as an ordinary student earning credits. To be honest, it wouldn’t have been easier for him to kill everyone and accept a new professor. Although it could not have been done due to practical problems.
“It’s okay because we are interested in this area, but other motivations are dying out.”
“....”
Well, it looks like this person is just satisfied. It’s not that there are no complaints, but should I say that I have accepted the reality? Jaeheon Lee nodded without saying a word.
As we walked and talked like that, the survivors had already reached Eonhak High School.
“...Something....”
“It looks like you can’t get out if you go in.”
“That’s it.”
The last time I came to see the Park siblings, I didn’t know where the neat and shiny building had gone, but in its place stood an ugly building that looked like it wouldn’t be strange to call it a prison.
The clean white paint on the school’s walls had peeled off and stood high in the sky, the end of which was pointed as if it were a spear. The beige bricks that made up the school building were stained with all kinds of dust and moss and crumbling here and there, and the modern rectangular building was curved in odd curves, making it difficult to even find the entrance.
“....”
Jaeheon Lee raised his head and looked at the sky.
“...is the sun setting?”
The sky is gradually turning gray, increasing the anxiety of the survivors.
“No matter how much I think about it... I don’t think it will be easy to get out once you get in. The same goes for that mannequin dressed as a security guard standing at the front door. “It seems like it would be a burdensome space for everyone to enter at once.”
“Then shall we divide into a standby team and an exploration team? I also need a place to rest. “Everyone is exhausted because they walked quite a distance.”
“Then let’s split into teams. The standby team will find a shelter and build a fire to prepare for the night, while the search team will check if there are any survivors inside the school. “If you can make a phone call, we will contact you quickly.”
The members of the search team that were selected were Lee Jae-heon, Yoon Garam, Ha Seong-yoon, and Hong Gyeong-jun.
“...is it okay if I stay in the standby group? As expected, the manager must protect these people....”
“I can’t be left out in a situation where I don’t know how the rules of Unhak High School work. However, no one can keep the standby level. We also have kindergarten students. “There are more non-combat personnel, so I hope In-ho Jeong can protect them.”
The protagonist nodded his head at those words, but had a disapproving expression. I thought it was probably due to the excessive sacrificial spirit that Jaeheon Lee showed last time and the injury this time. Lee Jae-heon, who was planning to keep his wits about him this time, cursed internally at the protagonist’s reaction.
‘Who cares about whom when it comes to chicks?’
Lee Jae-heon, who was about to criticize the worry by saying it was nonsense, immediately changed his mind. Isn’t it said that no one knows the future? Although he simulated all kinds of situations in his head, he did not show the protagonist at all.
“Do not worry too much. “If I can, I will contact you as soon as I have time.”
“All right.”
“If we ask for help, please organize an additional search team to enter the school in advance... If not, just....” “....” “No, no. I’ll be back right away
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”
In the world, this is called a ‘death flag.’
Approximately 30 minutes after entering Eonhak High School, Jaeheon Lee successfully retrieves this flag.