Chapter 33 – Cats
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“Five. My brother Will you come back?”
Seeing me getting ready to go exploring, Jia looked somewhat uneasy.
The other children looking at me didn’t look so bright either.
‘Do you think I might leave like this?’
As they accompanied me, they knew that they would become a burden to me, so I understood the anxiety that I might leave.
However, if I had decided to lose my hand, I would have abandoned it a long time ago.
“Okay. I won’t run away, so don’t worry so much.”
As I spoke while stroking Jia’s head, her anxious expression eased a little as if she was relieved.
I wondered if there was anything special, but on the other hand, I couldn’t help but feel worried about leaving these children alone.
But if you pay attention to these things, you can’t do anything.
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When Unho left, Jia was strangely restless.
Chaewon herself was a little anxious, but she didn’t seem like the kind of person Unho would leave alone.
Chaewon also felt the vacancy of Unho greatly.
It was because she hardly felt the anxiety and pressure of survival that she always felt while traveling with her brother while with him.
She felt a sense of security that she hadn’t felt, even when she was at the survivor’s camp.
But just because he wasn’t there, the atmosphere in the party changed drastically.
“Sister Jia. Don’t walk around, take a seat.”
“Uh? Uh. Yes. Sorry.”
With only Unho to rely on, it was understandable for Jia to act like that.
I didn’t mean to criticize her for sleeping with her Unho.
Even at the survivor camp that was there before, such things were not uncommon.
For her, being a woman to a man of importance in the camp guarantees her a comfortable life and safety.
I don’t mean to say anything about it.
It is a story that sleeping with a man to survive is not as embarrassing as it used to be.
Such a messed up world.
What does that mean?
Needless to say, if you have absurd abilities like Unho.
At the survivor camp she had been to before, Chaewon herself had briefly thought about that too.
I just didn’t know that the opponent was a lolicon.
Still, in this dead end world, Unho was a person who kept his line.
Even when Unho asked for his body, Chaewon couldn’t refuse.
No, he had no intention of rejecting it.
She was also a companion who was prepared for it.
However, although Unho seemed interested in her, he did not even ask her to sleep.
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I got out of the shelter and started moving quickly.
When I hit the ground, my body rises.
I lightly climbed onto the top of a three-story building.
After strengthening my body, I was able to climb this high without any problems.
Commercial buildings other than apartments were not that tall.
Stepped on the rooftops of those buildings and moved quickly.
Detected low-class erosion bodies grabbed those close to the moving line, marked those far away, and moved quickly.
This is because hunting the corrosive was not the goal.
‘If I can become a zombie, I’d rather not catch him.’
I’ve seen it evolve from a zombie to a lesser corroder before.
Valuable experience someday later…. No, I didn’t know it would become an erosion body.
Finding the school was neither difficult nor easy.
There was no map, so I had to walk around a bit, but it was easy to find once I found the sign.
It was time to explore two schools and find a third one.
‘Strange….’
At one point, the streets were overly tidy.
No, rather than being neat, not a single zombie was seen.
‘Can this be?’
Then, I found an eroded body.
‘Cat?’
A hideous monster, presumably a cat the size of a bull, was leisurely roaming the road.
[It is a low-level erosion.]
It wasn’t far away, and I couldn’t stand it anymore after seeing it.
He jumped from the roof and slashed his greatsword at the monster cat.
-Thud.
‘Harm?’
It didn’t do its best, but the monster cat avoided it.
Perhaps because it was a monster transformed from a cat, it seemed that its reflexes were unique.
– Kyaaak!
Perhaps angry, the cat monster yelled at me.
It was so big that it looked like a twisted tiger.
He kicked off the ground and approached in an instant, took out a spear from his inventory, and shot it quickly.
However, I could see that he was trying to avoid it as if he recognized even what kind of reflexes he had.
Yes, it is low class.
Although it is said to be agile because it was a cat, it could not avoid the blow that it had poured all its strength into.
-Puck!
In an instant, the skull of the monster cat was pierced.
〈Lesser Erosion Kills: 3 / 10〉
It was different in that it reacted differently from the dog corroding bodies.
Is it a cat that is fast?
After making my own inference, I set out to find the 3rd school again.
‘No matter how much I think about this, it’s a bit strange, but why are there no zombies like this?’
[Master. It is an erosion body.]
‘Erosion body?’
[Too many. We will display it on the screen.]
It was full of red dots that surrounded and approached from afar.
Anyone could see that they were surrounded.
‘I think it’s fucked up….’
Have you underestimated this world?
[It is grade C.]
‘Middle class?!’
If it was grade C, it could be expected to be a medium-grade corroded body.
It was the first medium-class corrosive body I saw after coming to this world.
Suni displays a dot in a different color.
A gigantic monster cat, about 5 meters tall, approaching by lightly stepping on the building, came into sight.
Unlike other low-class objects, it had the appearance of a neat black cat.
Isn’t it revenge for the guy I caught earlier… And did I come into their territory?
[Master, you must retreat.]
Sunni had nothing to warn her about.
Intermediate is also intermediate without thinking, but just looking at the numbers seemed dangerous.
‘Exit.’
I don’t know if it was one-on-one, but there were too many.
I think there are 2 or 30 of them.
He quickly started running away.
‘What?!’
The giant monster cat, which is an intermediate level corrosive body, quickly shortened the distance between me and me.
It was absurdly large, but it was rapidly approaching me, stepping on top of the building with light body movements that did not suit it.
As it is….
‘Shit.’
There is no possibility of repelling it.
I couldn’t drag these guys to the base where the children were.
I, who had intended to quickly return to the base, turned around.
The save point should be activated by now.
But what if you go?
Even if I returned to the original world and leveled up, I wouldn’t have any problems, but I didn’t have the confidence to protect the kids against so many corroding bodies.
It is an absurdly strong body.
I am confident in my physical strength.
I wondered if my guys wouldn’t be able to chase me forever, so if I just ran away, I might be able to get away with it somehow.
As I turned and ran away, the lower-level cat corroding bodies on the street attacked me.
‘Going up.’
I was thinking of moving on the roof of the building rather than the bottom.
I gave strength to my legs and leaped toward the roof of the building.
At that moment, the medium-class cat erosion body sped up explosively, and in an instant, its huge front paws snapped.
There was no choice but to be exposed to attacks from the air.
‘Damn it! I can’t avoid it!’
[Master!]
A giant shield that Suni quickly took out of her inventory appeared and blocked the attack.
-Bang!
He grabbed the shield and flew back.
-Cudangtang.
The shock from being hit in the air made it roll like crazy on the ground.
– Kyaaaaang!
I don’t know where they appeared around me, but the lower level monster cats instantly rushed at me as I was rolling.
‘I have to get out.’
With his shield, he struck down a low-class cat corrosive body that was charging in front of him, then got up and broke through the encirclement with his shield at the fore.
– Tung. Blank.
The monstrous cats that rushed in hit the shield and bounced off.
Looking at the shield while running, this sturdy shield was dented.
It looked like an area hit by an intermediate cat erosion body.
‘Fuck. What attack power….’
Because it was an intermediate level, the attack power was terrifying.
As soon as I broke through the surrounding cats, I put a heavy shield into my inventory and ran quickly.
I thought I had to get out of this place.
But the cats were good at ambush.
Hiding in buildings or alleys with its large size, it attacked me.
Fortunately, with the ability to detect, it was possible to prepare, but it was impossible to avoid everything.
I wanted to catch a low-level corrosive body, but if I did that, the speed would inevitably be slowed down.
Intermediate Cat Erosion is faster than me.
I couldn’t ignore that huge monster.
It was also dangerous to just run away.
I thought it would be best to run away while avoiding it.
I am using the terrain to escape, but the mid-level monster cat constantly hinders my path and slows me down.
And taking advantage of that gap, he induced attacks from lower-level corroding bodies.
While fleeing like that, the situation of being attacked one-sidedly continued.
In the end, the company’s combat suit could not stand it and was smashed.
All that was left was the suit skill that covered my body in black.
‘It can’t go on like this’
No matter how much I thought about it, if I just ran away like this, I couldn’t do anything and only suffered damage and suffered the worst consumption.
‘I’m going to have to fight the damn thing’
I made up my mind and gave up running away.
Then, as if they had been waiting, the monster cats began to surround them in an instant.
The monster cat, an intermediate level erosion body, was looking down at me proudly from atop a building a little further away, with its cold dark red eyes shining.
It was the ruler’s eyes.
A clean street without a single zombie, I could see that he was the king who ruled this area.
