Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 25

EP.25 Resistance

A ball made of leather flies in the sky. A running sound is heard along with a joyful howl. tadak. When a clawed foot strikes the hard concrete, it makes a powerful sound with an offset beat divided by two. Concrete, unlike soil, does not absorb vibrations, so the impact completely transforms into sound and comes to me.

“bruise! bruise!”

The short break is over. Aji is running to this place with a ball in his hand. I faced the approaching small catastrophe with unfocused eyes.

My break time is proportional to the distance of the ball.

If you throw high, Aji catches it late.

I have to throw it far so Aji arrives late.

So, at first, I threw it as far as possible without overdoing it. So that Aji can run away and rest until he runs away with the ball.

But nothing is permanent in this world. Except for Aji’s stamina.

I knew it by throwing the ball.

The more repetitions, the shorter the flight distance. The leather ball, which had risen high in the sky, only fell to the ground slightly above my head. Now the distance it rolled was longer than the distance it flew.

Now Aji wasn’t ready to run. He just crouches at my feet and bites the ball as it rolls and comes to my side. Then I pick up the ball again and throw it with only my still-good wrist.

Then, finally, that moment came.

“for a moment.”

Humans are also animals by nature, so beastly intuition often comes to them out of the blue. The feeling of the beast in my heart, which hadn’t been in a while, was whispering to me.

If you throw more than this, your shoulders will hurt.

“bruise?”

I raised my hand before throwing the ball. I feel a strange tingling sensation in my shoulders. It is as if the shaft is off axis when you turn the sharpener, and the handle swings back and forth. Something familiar, but a feeling I should never hear in my arms.

I stopped throwing the ball and let my hands hang down. Aji came to me with a puzzled face.

I declared with my arms hanging down.

“Today’s ball game ends here.”

“Woof woof! more! more!”

“I can throw more. but.”

I unlocked the packet of clothes I was wearing. The sweaty cheap shirts were scattered one by one, revealing my pitiful body hiding under them.

A lean and agile body specialized in escape and survival. So far, I haven’t felt much discomfort in my body, but now that my durability is being tested, the time I spent in idleness in the past was a waste. If I was trapped in Tantalus and expected to become a ball-throwing machine, I would have exercised when someone recommended it

. I hope that the future me will not regret today, and I just have to do my best every time.

Leaving behind my regret, I sat down and showed Aji my red-hot shoulder.

“Then my shoulder breaks. Does it matter though?”

“bruise!”

“do you want to die?”

“Keeing.”

Still, Aji seemed dissatisfied with not being able to play anymore. With a new look on her face, she began to circle around me and glance at me.

joy. There’s no way.

“What can I do? Look at me now if you make me throw a ball. I will become a body that can no longer lift my arms, suffer from aftereffects, and eventually die suddenly at some point.”

“bruise!”

“what? You don’t die because you don’t have arms? what do you say You could fall down the stairs and you couldn’t hold onto the railing because your arms didn’t go up, and you could die. A terrorist would come in and threaten you to raise your hand, but your arms wouldn’t go up, so you could be shot! Being uncomfortable in one of your bodies is, in and of itself, an incredibly serious threat!”

“Woogh….”

“Look at me when I die. In this abyss, a man who can throw a ball obediently like me is disappearing from this world! Are you going to permanently disable the goose that lays the golden egg, or the machine that throws the ball, for the sake of temporary gain?”

“Buff… I don’t like that.”

“haha! Got it? If you don’t want me to break, guarantee me a break!”

It was time to teach this unintelligent brute the basic concepts of labor efficiency and fatigue limit rest. Aji thought hard about something, then hugged my arm with both arms and put his mouth to it.

what? Are you trying to catch it? Are you saying that since you can’t lay golden eggs, you should become goose meat now? I can’t be that stupid

Oops. Wouldn’t a dog give you more goose meat than a golden egg that you can’t even eat?

what. wait for a sec.

“Sorry boss! I’ll throw the ball, so please save your life!”

As I was about to withdraw my arm, Aji’s snout approached faster than that. I closed my eyes in anticipation of terrible pain. Then, with a clatter, something wet and soft brushed my shoulder.

When I opened my eyes, Aji was carefully licking my red-hot shoulder.

“what. Are you going to oil me because you say you’re sick?”

“bruise.”

Then it is. There’s no way a dog king would eat a living human.

no this Because I can’t read my thoughts, I start to flinch without even realizing it. You can’t help it. Because it’s a self-preservation instinct.

Embarrassed, I stared at my son as he scratched his head and carefully licked it.

It’s a completely vicious boss to deal with. It doesn’t roll well, so I oil it first.

“hey. No matter how much the king of beasts said that licking would heal wounds, would this be any better? This isn’t a wound, it’s a body worn out from too much use…”

As he muttered that, he felt a strange coolness around his shoulder. It’s nice to have a window on the body so that the wind can flow through it, but it’s not cold and it feels refreshing.

There were too many differences from the wetness to be sure it was because of the saliva. I raised my arm just in case.

It was a bit stiff, but the arm moved more easily than before. Or rather, it might be smoother than before throwing the ball.

“Is this going to happen?”

I’ve heard that the act of licking the king of beasts is like holy water, but that’s it? Or is Aji something special?

As I tilted my head, Aji looked over my shoulder and barked like it was over.

“bruise! I’m better!”

“AS is certain. There won’t be any arms going out. But I just got better, so let’s take a little rest.”

“Woof woof!”

Aji just put his upper body on my thighs and lay down. I ran my fingers through Aji’s hair and looked around.

According to the golem, supplies will arrive soon. How the hell did you get there?

Common sense would be the right way to drop it. Can you get to the bottom of the abyss by ordinary means? If it can arrive, how will I receive it? Won’t you ask me to take it with my body? Even so, he would become a hamburger patty and only like vampires.

Oh, come to think of it, there were also vampires. I turned my head and looked at the underground armory in the distance. The entrance to the underground arsenal, ominously positioned like a door to the abyss, remained firmly closed today.

“You can’t get up all day long.”

They say that the older you get, the more sleep you get. If the correlation between age and sleep duration is even 10% of what people say, it’s no wonder that the average amount of sleep per day for vampires converges to 24 hours.

He also has orthostatic hypotension, so he can’t easily get out of a wheelchair or coffin. Even so, he overreacted to say that he had a teacher-teacher relationship, so he was happy with the precious blood. I can’t even get a blood supply anymore.

Tsk tsk. I was biting my tongue when I suddenly remembered something. blood supply.

“for a moment. If the vampire runs out of blood, won’t I become dangerous?”

If a vampire forgets that I am a human due to dementia, or if I get hungry in my sleep and inadvertently try to eat a snack, I will die first. I don’t have the ability to resist, so I’ll just tear open the envelope and take the blood as if I were eating the food inside.

“There’s no… blood on the supply list, right?”

it got creepy how should i do this

Blood packs… are not something that can be supplied this way. Won’t you send a death row prisoner instead?

“No, it’s a problem. There is no guarantee that I will beat the death row inmate.”

It will be fine for a while. If the food for the four of us here for 3 days became 90 days, it means that at least 100 people originally lived here. Aside from those who escaped, quite a few people must have died.

But when I came down here, I didn’t see any dead bodies or bloodstains. There was no way the military had dispatched a cleaning unit, so there was only one possibility. The vampire ate them all.

Thinking like that is a bit filthy. It’s not a human sewer…

Anyway, if you’ve sucked that much blood, you won’t be greedy for a while. but i don’t know again Since a running engine needs fuel continuously, the vampire may need blood constantly.

I need a source of blood to live… Is there anything like a livestock that keeps pumping blood?

for a moment. there is.

Didn’t you just find it?

“Immortals, yes. They said they were immortals.”

I unknowingly praised my brain for a genius idea that popped into my head. Self-praise is ugly and embarrassing, but this time, calling myself a ‘genius’ won’t be enough.

The undead don’t die even if their arms are cut off. Similarly, if you draw some blood, you won’t die. At the same time, it will continue to eat and regenerate, so if there is enough supply, it will be able to supply blood close to infinity.

“Quack-quick. good. Perfect. There is no law saying that this must die.”

“bruise?”

“Ah. I just had a crazy idea, would you like to hear it?”

“Woof woof?”

“know. you’re stupid you don’t understand That’s what I’m talking about, so just listen. I mean. Did you just come up with an idea that would slap the greatest genius in history?”

“bruise? Are you stupid? I?”

“Quack. Originally, I was going to have you take care of the leftovers, but do we really need to do that among ourselves? Let’s eat well and live well together. Leftover food, burnt food, and spoiled food are given to the Undead.”

“bruise! I’m not stupid!”

“Since it is spoiled food, you should give it to the spoiled person. Even the immortals wouldn’t die if they ate something wrong? Instead, it will detoxify itself and produce blood. Then. Blood must be squeezed out and sold to vampires. The vampire is dog fur, but the guy who claims to be his disciple is rich, so he’ll pay for it. So…”

Tuk.

Aji’s front paw hit my cheek and passed by. My head jerked back in an unexpected shock.

I’m not sick, but I’m bewildered. Ay no way I was slightly irritated and glared at Aji, but the aji lying on my leg was staring at me. Are you cutting your leg in the middle of this? Is it that he has no awareness of what he has done?

How dare you slap a human on the subject of animal life?

Crossed the line. I really wasn’t going to do it, but now I need to prepare a miso paste protocol.

It was when I made that decision and jumped up to shake Aji off.

I expected Aji to slip off my thighs, but Aji jumped up first and looked up.

What. what’s on top I lifted my head to check the top, but there was nothing but the pitch-black darkness that was always visible.

what. did you catch me

No, Aji doesn’t have the intelligence to do that.

He raised his head again, frowning and glaring at him. Then, in the distance, in the black space, I saw something shining. Is the sky visible through a hole? To say that, the light is getting bigger and bigger as if it were coming this way.

The benevolent Earth Mother sometimes approaches us, but the lofty Celestials do not come close easily. When a human climbs high to get close to the gods, it is the heavenly gods who punish them with wind and lightning.

So it’s not the sky that’s coming this way. maybe.

“It must be the supplies the golem said.”

Immediately after that, a fluttering sound was heard. A huge presence is felt in the darkness. The bottomless pit is silent because there is no wind. The air sinks heavily here.

It will arrive even if you are not in a hurry. waited patiently The shimmering darkness in the distance and the periodic twinkling lights are getting closer.

As they reached the range where the light spread, their appearance became more distinct.

A square box wrapped in tarpaulin is falling from a large parachute. On the side of the box, there is a small indicator light attached to it and it is shining. It was a measure taken because I was afraid that I would not be able to see the box in the dark and get crushed. The box is big enough for a person to fit inside. There must be plenty of food in there.

Perhaps because there was no wind, the supply box did not move and settled on the concrete in an upright position. A thump and heavy vibration runs through the concrete.

“bruise!”

Aji jumped and ran. I followed Aji and walked towards the landing point.

It looks like they hang a parachute and drop it like that. Maybe I dropped it that way too. Military guys still use parachutes so they don’t break. It’s common sense, but it’s obvious, but honestly, I was a little impressed that the military kept common sense.

As I got closer, I heard the entanglement of the fabric and the parachute was sucked into a small packet. Even the parachute was made from a clothing packet. If you use it like that, you won’t have to go through the trouble of rolling it back in. Because it’s so cleverly used.

It was when I was about to open the lid of the smile box.

what.

Why is the unopened sticker torn off? Who told you to tear open and eat while delivering?

‘Infiltration successful. It’s been a long wait, comrades. Now let’s infiltrate.’

At that moment, a thought came to me from within.

comrade? Penetration?

I don’t think it should be heard from the food supply box.

While I was in a daze, I heard a hurried movement from inside. The supply box rattles ominously and something that was crouching stretches.

‘Let’s use our lives, comrades! To defeat the oppressor army!’

Damn the military. What on earth did you supply?

Before I had time to prepare anything, the side of the supply box burst open.