## Chapter 28 – Yeji (2)
“You’re insane, completely insane.
Do you even understand what you’ve done?”
“Yes, I know.”
“…You released a bio-weapon that barely passed basic control training,
and right in the middle of the city.”
“It’s enough.”
“Doctor Jeong Ah-un, do you not grasp the situation?
If the public finds out, I can no longer protect you.”
The director tries his best to make me understand with a serious voice,
but his face says otherwise.
His wrinkled eyes are bloodshot,
and he’s crumpling the paper on his desk with one hand.
“I’ll ask one more time, do you really understand what you’ve done?”
He tries to suppress his anger and speaks calmly,
but I can see him swallowing the curses that are slowly rising from his throat.
“…Don’t worry, I won’t let you down.”
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“…What?”
I rushed out and faced a woman with long hair.
It was the school where blood and screams had been scattered.
As if I had dreamed for a moment,
the red liquid and chunks of flesh scattered beneath my feet,
the fishy smell that didn’t match the city air I’d breathed all my life, had disappeared in an instant.
Even the strange woman in front of me.
Am I finally going crazy?
The thought crossed my mind, but I couldn’t shake off the anxiety that swept from my left shoulder to my right.
It was that ominous warning in my head, of all things.
It’s a ridiculous situation where I seem to blindly trust my instincts,
but when I think about it, that voice has never been wrong.
“…Then what the hell was that…”
Various thoughts and杂thoughts become intertwined in my confused mind, causing a headache.
What the hell was that,
am I really going crazy?
Is it a side effect of the petals?
Is it because of the shining fruit I ate before?
“….”
‘Danger.’
‘Different from us.’
‘Something’s different.’
‘Strange.’
‘Dangerous.’
The warning thrown at me from inside my head,
and the image that flashed through my mind along with it.
“…Wait, an image?”
Until now, the sense of crisis I felt was accompanied by fragmentary images and messages in my head.
But what I heard a moment ago was just a message, not an image.
What if the scenery I saw earlier was an image of the danger that would happen soon?
Like the images of the situations I had experienced or was about to experience, it showed it to me.
What if I saw the future?
“…..”
I couldn’t even finish my thought,
but my legs were already running towards the school’s main gate with all my might.
I pass by several students.
That man, in the image I saw earlier, died with his face split in two.
That person was torn to pieces and died.
“Damn it…”
I don’t think it’s my place to say this,
but that bastard, whoever he is, seems to be completely insane.
I don’t know who that woman is yet,
but I think I know who sent her without even looking.
A woman in a straitjacket, deprived of the freedom to move her arms, massacred several people.
It’s those bastards.
Even if they’re trying to catch us, do they have to go this far?
The massacre committed by that monstrous woman.
Such a large-scale disaster in the middle of the city, even in a place with many eyes, is not a welcome situation for us either.
If such a huge accident that cannot be hidden occurs,
the existence of ancient creatures will be exposed to many people.
What the hell are they thinking?
It wouldn’t be a good situation for them either if people found out that such an absurd monster exists.
But right now, I don’t care about that,
first, that woman in front of me.
“…..”
“A person, is it?”
I have to stop this woman who is wearing a straitjacket that is not yet stained with blood and has long, shaggy hair, with her clumsy speech.
The woman, who looks dazed and haggard, seems perfect for attracting people’s attention.
Where the hell did she come from?
That kind of outfit would be easily noticeable.
…..
An awkward silence weighs heavily on me.
Is it because of the image I saw earlier?
My body won’t move easily.
“Hey, can you understand me?”
“…..”
“…Say something…”
‘Danger.’
‘Evade.’
‘Right.’
“Shit!”
A cold, sharp sensation runs down my spine and spreads throughout my body.
I quickly pulled my head back,
but my nose was cut by something invisible.
I can feel a lukewarm liquid flowing down my face, which has been cooled by the cold air, following the curve.
“Kill people who block the way and talk too much.”
So that’s why so many people died in that image?
I know it, but she’s not in her right mind.
“…Who?”
“That. Secret.”
I don’t know who it is, but they’ve taught her well.
Putting that aside, what was that just now?
I couldn’t see anything.
If I hadn’t had a sense of crisis,
I would have been the one who died with my face split in half.
An invisible, sharp object flew through the wind and cut my face.
But that woman didn’t even move,
and even her arms are tightly bound so she can’t move them.
“….”
I have to think.
The people I saw in the image were all torn and
cut to death, and now I’ve experienced it firsthand.
If I don’t figure it out, I’ll die.
No, even if I figure it out, can I even avoid it?
And let’s think about that later.
First, I have to get her as far away from the school as possible.
A deserted place.
The back mountain of our school where I got the shining fruit before.
There won’t be anyone there,
and it won’t be known.
The problem is how to drag her there.
“…I don’t know…!!”
After eating the fruit, my strength, which had already gone beyond the realm of humans, had become even stronger,
and now I decided to trust only that.
The attack that woman launched earlier.
It was fast, but not so fast that I couldn’t avoid it.
Thinking about that, I ran towards her with all my might.
No matter how much I can avoid it, there was a limit to avoiding something invisible,
it tore my clothes and flesh.
The slightly widened distance was quickly narrowed,
and I rushed into her arms with all my strength.
“….Huh..?!”
At the same time as I rushed in, I hugged her waist with both hands and lifted her up,
and she lost her balance in an instant.
Not missing the gap,
I threw her towards the back mountain without controlling my strength as much as I could now.
“…..!!”
“…Did it work?!”
While I was feeling a brief sense of accomplishment about the success of my ridiculous plan, watching the woman flying away, something grabbed both of my shoulders.
Due to the tremendous force, following the flying woman,
my body also began to float into the air.
Like a villain in a cartoon who is defeated by the protagonist and flies away,
I screamed in vain and fell into the trees with the woman.
“Cough! Cough! Ugh…”
“……”
Due to the unexpected impact, my respiratory system, which had inhaled a lot of dirt, was gathering oxygen for normal breathing.
Fortunately, I was able to breathe normally soon,
and then I looked around.
Instead of the open sky from earlier,
the trees were densely packed, blocking the sunlight.
Even if I think about it again, it’s an absurd plan,
but it seems to have succeeded somehow.
And that woman.
The clean straitjacket was dirty with dirt and wood debris,
and a long piece of wood was stuck in her lower left abdomen.
“….”
The woman pulls out the tree with something invisible without even making a groan,
as if it were nothing.
Blood poured out of the wound like a faucet,
but the blood seemed to stop gradually,
and the spot where there was a hole just a moment ago was filled with flesh.
“Power. Not human.”
“Looks like you aren’t either.”
“I have to take you.”
…
I don’t know the exact purpose,
but I know for sure that she’s trying to take me somewhere right now.
Another silence occurs just before something happens,
and the silence is broken before it can last 1-2 seconds.
‘Below.’
‘Left.’
‘Top left.’
I roll around on the dirt floor according to the warning in my head,
avoiding something.
To other people, it would be a ridiculous sight of me covering myself in dirt in front of a woman,
rolling around here and there.
But if I don’t avoid it, I’ll die.
“How. Avoid?”
The woman tilts her head and expresses her question.
“That’s my secret, you bitch.”
I swear and avoid the incoming slashes.
I wonder if I’m putting on a show,
but when I see the pebbles and branches that were in my place being cut off, I get scared.
It won’t end if I just keep avoiding it like this.
I have to attack somehow,
but I don’t know how to do it.
Even if I pick up a stone and throw it with all my might,
it doesn’t even reach the woman and is split in half.
“….Ugh!!”
If only I knew what this attack was.
Let’s think, think.
It feels like it’s been about 10 minutes since I’ve been avoiding it like this.
When I come to my senses, it hasn’t even been 30 seconds.
At that time, when I was just avoiding it, something cut the branch above my head,
and sunlight came in through the gap.
The sunlight illuminated me and the woman,
and I, who had only been covered in dirt, saw it.
Ah, I know what it is.
