Chapter 54 – 11. The Spirit of Delusion (4)
Dark red tentacles wriggling grotesquely were destroying everything around them with a tremendous piercing sound.
Buildings collapse, dust rises, and blood drips from tentacles.
I was able to instinctively realize that the gigantic being was the demon I had encountered the other day.
I don’t have the black armor from that time, but I remember the grotesque tentacles and disgusting movements all too clearly.
Where the hell did I go wrong?
That night, when the power of the demons was still weak, did they have to defeat the demons even if they were prepared to die?
Or was it a problem with the stereotype that the demons were only active at night?
Could it be that many people who could have survived were sacrificed because of my false report…
Yu Seol-ah, who was staring at the tentacles that seemed to be hundreds of meters long with a firm expression, asked me.
“Jihoo. How did you know?”
“I don’t know… I just got a weird feeling…”
“…I get it first. Let’s properly evacuate the citizens.”
Yoo Seol-ah didn’t seem to like my answer, but I didn’t know how to answer either.
It’s so ridiculous to say that an unknown text message gave me a warning.
[Run as fast as you can. Towards the academy.]
The person who sent me this message knew that a giant demon would soon appear.
If the demons weren’t that big, even if they were at least the size of a small building, they would have been able to deal with them only with the awakened people on the street, but if they were that size, it was close to impossible to respond unless they were a professional unit. It was the right decision to run away as much as possible.
Still, I had a feeling that the person who sent the text wasn’t hostile towards me.
I don’t know how I got the information, but I was stuck and in danger of dying, but I was able to live thanks to it.
Most of the citizens outside seem to have evacuated, but in the case of those inside the building, perhaps their fate was different.
Judging from the sad expressions on some people’s faces, it seems that there are some citizens who barely managed to escape and were unable to take care of others.
“Whoa…”
I suddenly felt depressed.
A bizarre sensation as if you are separated from reality attacks your body at the scene like a hell map unfolding in front of you.
You have to come to your senses. You can’t collapse here.
I bit my lip and opened my eyes wide to catch the consciousness that was moving away.
However, the feeling of uneasiness begins to rise again in my heart.
The negative emotions that I didn’t want to think about, that I had forced into the depths of my heart, surged in an instant.
The students of the academy, who were mixed in with the crowd, and other students who quickly heard the news and rushed despite the holiday, are seen evacuating non-awakened citizens to safe buildings one after another.
Everyone skillfully performs their role without any confusion, as if they are accustomed to this kind of situation happening.
On the other hand, I, who fell into this world out of nowhere, just stood there, not knowing what to do.
I was also a stranger.
He was just a small human who was able to find a goal to continue his life only when he reached the absurd situation that he was suddenly drawn into the novel.
Could I really resist the absurd?
Ever since entering the novel, did you question and actively respond to the sudden change in development?
Not at all.
Since hypnotizing the heroine and changing her mind already made my nerves feel dull, I had no choice but to compromise with the world in moderation.
To get rid of that unpleasant feeling, I deliberately stayed without thinking…
I had no idea that human death would come so coldly.
”Hello, I am Goryushin, a first year student at Arbadelin Academy.
Before he knew it, Goryusin also joined in and was evacuating several citizens.
He must have known that it was at that time because he had faced the demons together last time, but unlike me, he did not feel any anxiety or fear in his eyes now.
It has to be at that level to be able to be called the main character.
No matter how much pain they suffer, how badly they collapse, and how much they fall in fear when faced with a being stronger than themselves, they eventually rise above all of that.
“Jihoo. Are you here too?”
Goryushin raised his hand and greeted me as if he had found me standing helplessly.
It seemed like there was little time to leisurely greet each other, perhaps because the already full crowds had dwindled and the evacuation work was left only in the finishing process.
“I didn’t come to help, I just ran away. Inside the building over there…”
“Ah… The expression looked dark, but that’s it.”
Please don’t look at me with an understanding face.
“Still, I believe you can get through it. To be honest, your abilities weren’t that strong, but you somehow beat me.”
“It’s just a weird error…”
“Don’t you remember the last time you dealt with the demons? Even though you could have escaped by yourself, you dared to call me and somehow find out the truth. At that time, I felt that you were like a real Awakener.”
It was because of Seo Joo-ha that we cried and ate mustard…
My motivation is very impure compared to Goryūshin, who can be seen as a real hero.
How would Goryushin react if he found out that I did it to steal the women who were supposed to be lovers of the person standing right in front of me?
Goryushin’s words were just a veneer to comfort me, judging only the outward appearance without knowing the intention of the action.
“I didn’t mean it like that, so just be quiet.”
“Huh? Uh… But, I just wanted to cheer up…”
He walked away from me with a puzzled look on my face.
When I looked around, Ha Yul and Yoo Seol Ah were nowhere to be seen.
They are probably working hard to evacuate people somewhere.
I want to take a little walk.
My head is buzzing at the sound of people talking.
I want to go to a place where no one is and take a rest for a while.
I leaned against the wall of the secluded promenade outside the academy and slumped.
“How do you get rid of that…”
If strong people such as Professor Shiana and Professor Kim Jong-cheol cooperate and fight, they can be killed enough, but they have not yet appeared.
The headmaster had also told me that she was away for several weeks and hadn’t returned yet.
The good news is that as long as there are tentacles of that size, the chances of a baby tentacle attacking people are small.
All you have to do is evacuate the people as you have just done, and protect the citizens from the threat of monsters.
Of course, if I had been fine, I would have joined.
Right now, I just want to lean on somewhere because my whole body feels helpless.
“Haa… Dizzy…”
“Are you dizzy, kid?”
At that time, an unknown female voice tickled my ears.
I looked around quickly but couldn’t see anything.
“Who is it? No. Where is it?”
“It’s down there.”
Damn, that’s dangerous.
I resisted violently at the feeling of grabbing my ankles and forcibly pulling them down, but the force was so strong that I eventually began to drag them helplessly down.
“Where are you taking me…”
“Well. Wouldn’t it be fun if I told you?”
Similar to the movement of Seo Joo-ha’s shadow, but an unpleasant sensation of grip is transmitted to the ankle.
The moment my head went completely under the ground like that, my vision went black.
Soon, the shock of the violent blow to the head left me unconscious.
* * *
His eyes are black and his limbs do not move.
It was probably covered with an eyepatch and thoroughly tied up to the limbs.
Have you been kidnapped…?
When the brain, which was lethargic until just now, finds itself in this situation, it begins to draw conclusions surprisingly calmly.
As if I hadn’t woken up, I heard a squeaking voice behind me, like a saw scraping an iron plate.
“I must have told you to find the stigma.”
“Uh…? Isn’t that right?”
It was clear that the voice of the woman who answered was the one who had just kidnapped me.
First of all, it was necessary to eavesdrop on their conversation a little more.
Where am I, what is the current situation, and why I was arrested.
You need to get even fragmentary information so that you can devise an escape plan.
“You should have taken off your clothes when you brought it… Isn’t that your main specialty? Seeing the number displayed on the sensor, it’s definitely not a stigma.”
“No, it was definitely stigma-like when I kidnapped him, so I brought him without worrying…”
Stigmata?
How do those kids know that name?
The stigmata would be such that few people know of its existence.
Even if he knew what a stigma was, why would the wicked know it?
Did information leak among the Guardians?
“I’ll go for now. Retrieve the king wriggler and he’ll take care of whether you peel him off or kill him.”
“What is it? It’s not really? It’s strange…”
Feeling the woman’s voice approaching me, I hurriedly closed my eyes and pretended to faint.
However, it seems that the fact that he is awake has been discovered.
“Little boy. What do you think? Huh? You know…?”
When I heard her words, I was taken aback.
It feels like my body gets hot every time I whisper a word in my ear.
It was a different level of pleasure from the headmaster’s lewd whispers, and it felt as if he was gradually raising his deepest desire.
“Since everyone knows you’re up, all you have to do is answer. If you answer well, noona will do various things for you…”
It was only then that I was able to intuit her true identity.
A being that moves from dream to dream and can freely move in and out of space, and seduces most humans just by being close to it.
She was a succubus.
