54. Shim Hyeong-taek
Fifteen days have passed since the party with Ma Kyung-rok.
Ryumin has been staying at home all this time.
I had nowhere to go and no friends to meet.
I didn’t feel like going out, so I ate delivery food.
My younger brother was in a similar situation, so we left the door together.
Sometimes, my younger brother went out and took care of the garbage in front of the house, even when it was time to throw it away or separate it.
‘I’m completely unemployed… … ?’
Ryu Min smiled self-deprecatingly, but thinking about the future, he needed this much rest.
‘Well, I guess I can rest until today.’
Ryumin opened the calendar on his phone.
Sunday, April 17th.
Today is the day I marked in case I forgot.
‘Now it’s time to move.’
One of the five runes that can be obtained in reality.
[Rune of alter ego].
This is on the list of runes that must be obtained, and Ryumin wants to obtain it today.
‘Because today, Sunday, is the day they are regularly active.’
Ryumin smiled meaningfully and checked the time.
It’s only 9 a.m.
‘If you want to process everything within today, you should apply early.’
Ryumin’s fingers holding the cell phone were moving busily.
At that time, Ryu Won came in with a knock.
“Hyung, what are you doing?”
“Internet. But why did you come?”
“I wanted to ask you about going out for lunch today. I’m sick of only eating delivery food….”
“I don’t think that will work. I have a lunch date scheduled.”
“You mean there’s going to be? There’s going to be, or there’s not going to be?”
Ryumin burst out laughing.
“We’ll have to wait and see.”
* * *
[1.8 billion people taken to another world. The number decreased to 90 million in three months… … .]
[Celebrities, soldiers, police officers, etc., regardless of occupation, were taken to another world and died of cardiac arrest.]
[The economy is paralyzed due to the death of young people. Schools across the country temporarily suspend operations.]
[Parents and siblings around the world suffer from the never-ending wave of mourning.]
I’ve only read a few lines of the article’s title, but I can feel the gloomy atmosphere.
But Shim Hyung-taek laughed.
Because it was someone else’s business.
Because he was none other than a surviving player.
“1.8 billion people reduced to 90 million? It’s only been 4 rounds and you’re dead, you inferior bastards. Hehehe.”
For a while, only laughter was heard in the quiet classroom.
It was the smile of a winner who was not eliminated.
I knew I was being overconfident, but that’s okay.
Because he was ranked 3rd in his district.
[The number of confirmed players in Korea to date is estimated at 450,000.]
[Players causing accidents. Is it okay to leave it like this?]
[After the 4th round, deaths caused by players increased rapidly.]
[Players who do whatever they want, including murder, theft, arson, and rape.]
[Thousands of broken CCTVs. There is no such thing as a lawless area at night… … .]
[Expert says, what use is law if humanity is perishing? The anxiety of not knowing when you will die causes you to lose self-control… … .]
[The player’s strength to break the iron bars and escape. Even the police have virtually no way to stop it… … .]
[Players unite against government regulations. There’s even a player union cafe… … .]
[Citizens’ growing anxiety. We need immediate action… … .]
Shim Hyeong-taek, who was reading the article, sneered.
“This is funny. Even if they had become players, they would have done this shit.”
The smiling face soon became filled with dissatisfaction.
“If I do what I want to do before I die, what’s the point? You f*cking old bastards. That’s why you shouldn’t have suppressed them on a regular basis. Don’t do this, don’t do that, all kinds of restrictions, so what you’ve been holding in isn’t going to explode. Tsk!”
I nervously hit the ax on the floor.
thud-!
The three students, startled by the sound, look up with tearful expressions.
They were middle school students from the same class that Shim Hyeong-taek kidnapped.
“What are you looking at? You bastards.”
“…….”
“Why? Are you surprised that I, who is normally quiet, swears? I think you’re a fool who can’t swear.”
“…….”
The students just stared in silence.
It’s not because his hands and feet, as well as his mouth, were sealed with duct tape.
“Eup-eup.”
“Why? Release me?”
“Eup-eup.”
“Eup!”
“What are you saying? X bar.”
As the three people sang in unison, Shim Hyung-taek approached with an annoyed look on his face.
Crack-crack-crack!
All the tape on the students’ mouths was removed.
“What? Do you have something to say to me?”
“Gasp, woo, we were wrong, Hyeongseop.”
“Yes, yes. I was wrong.”
“Please save me just once.”
“okay?”
Shim Hyung-taek suddenly picked up an axe.
Flutter-!
When I hit my head like splitting a watermelon, brain fluid comes out.
“Ugh, wow!”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…!”
Shim Hyeong-taek, who killed one person in one go, spoke nervously.
“The dog is a good name.”
Shim Hyeong-taek smiled as he looked down at the two students who were shaking like aspen trees.
“Why are you falling like that? Are you cold?”
“…….”
“Don’t you know my name too?”
“Oh, no. I know. It’s Shim Hyung-taek.”
“Is that something you didn’t notice?”
“Well, that can’t be possible! Of course I knew that!”
“Then you understand why you are being held?”
The two students nodded slowly with guilty expressions.
“I’m sorry, Hyungtaek….”
“I’m really sorry for bothering you all this time….”
“Tell me specifically how you harassed me.”
“Well, that’s….”
The students hesitated and hesitated to speak.
Because if I said it for no reason, they might kill me because they were upset.
However, when he raised the ax as if he was going to kill me if I didn’t speak, I had no choice but to open my mouth.
“Oh, I’m sorry for teasing you and saying you can’t do it….”
“That’s all?”
As I raise the ax above my head, I open my mouth with anxious eyes.
“Well, I’m sorry for making fun of you and calling you a bastard who only eats food….”
“……Is this the first time you’ve heard that?”
“huh?”
“You talked about me behind my back, right?”
“what?”
Flutter-!
The ax was struck mercilessly on the top of his head.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
The student next to me screams.
It was a sight that was difficult for an ordinary person to bear.
“How can a bastard say such harsh words behind someone’s back? Sigh, annoying.”
“Ahhh…….”
Shim Hyeong-taek chuckled as he looked at the student who was unable to speak due to shock.
“Why are you playing around with this? There were so many scenes in the 4th round that were much more gruesome than this.”
Is that all?
He even experienced having his head cut off.
Not once, but five times.
And that too to a person named Black Scythe.
‘If I had done something really wrong, I wouldn’t have made it into the rankings.’
Who in the world can experience the experience of dying and coming back to life?
As Shim Hyung-taek glared at him with evil eyes, the remaining students were astonished.
“Hey, Jingon.”
“…….”
“쉬는 시간마다 나 놀리고 빵셔틀이나 시키던 개새끼야.”
“…….”
“Do you think I’m killing you just because you’re bothering me? No.”
Shim Hyung-taek raised his ax once again.
“Because the stack goes up. If you kill a human, something will fall. Hehehe, isn’t it funny? Even human trash like you are helpful to me.”
“Ugh, save me. Save me, tongue, Hyeongseop, ah, ah! No, Hyeongtaek!”
“Ha, you bastard.”
Shim Hyung-taek’s eyes turned cold.
“As expected, you didn’t know my name, right?”
Byak-!
Blood splattered everywhere as the ax was struck without hesitation.
“Oh, wow! It’s all on your face.”
Shim Hyeong-taek, who was wiping his face with the back of his hand, left the classroom, leaving the body behind.
Grumble-
The hallway was quiet.
Because school attendance was suspended nationwide, no one remained in school.
Other than the trash with split heads lying around in the classroom right now.
I immediately went to the school restroom and washed my face.
Snap, snap, snap!
After washing off the blood, I looked in the mirror.
I see a fat and ugly middle school student wearing glasses.
“f*ck, this life is bad. As a final round wish, I should ask to be born as Cha Eun-hoo in the next life.”
Shim Hyeong-taek mumbled and washed away the flesh stuck to the ax blade.
He lured the three men who had been harassing him to school and killed them, but he didn’t feel good about it.
This is because the compensation was low.
[A stack of 1 was obtained with the rune of absorption.]
[A stack of 1 was obtained with the rune of absorption.]
[A stack of 1 was obtained with the rune of absorption.]
[Current stack 22/100]
Even though they committed murder, each person only went up 1 stack.
‘Is it because I’m an ordinary person? ‘They don’t even give me a f*ck.’
When the stack is filled to 100, the stat randomly increases by 1 and the stack is reset.
A deceptive rune at first glance, that is the rune of absorption.
‘I heard goblins also give 1 to 2. ‘f*ck you, you guys are worse than goblins.’
The most exciting part was the 3rd round, when a lot of monsters appeared, and the 4th round, when the players were slaughtered.
‘Especially the 4th round was a mess. After killing one player, the stack went up by nearly 10.’
I remember being surprised at how efficient it was compared to catching monsters.
“Anyway, I’m glad my birthday was early. Otherwise, I might not have been able to kill him so easily.”
The three people I killed a little while ago were all ordinary people.
Even though they were in the same class, they were divided into players and ordinary people depending on whether they were 15 years old or not.
“For the first time, I killed someone in real life.”
Is it because I experienced hell beforehand?
I committed murder in real life, but it didn’t matter.
Feeling emotionally numb.
“Tsk. Well, good. There’s no one here to stop me now.”
He is no longer Shim Hyung-taek, who was teased for being fat.
He was reborn as a superior being called a player.
“Now what kind of bastards should we kill?”
What are you going to do if you play until the next round?
In order to build up the stack, it is beneficial to kill at least one more ordinary person.
“If possible, I want to kill players who give me a lot of stacks… Ah!”
Shim Hyung-taek recalled an article he had read a while ago.
“You said there was a player union cafe, right?”
I searched online and was able to find it quickly.
“What if I join here and contact the players and kill them? Hehehe!”
You can build a stack that is incomparable to that of ordinary people.
Shim Hyung-taek, smiling heartily, tapped his cell phone and immediately went through the registration process.
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◆Questions before signing up◆
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1. Please write down your name, address, and cell phone number.
2. Please write down your level, occupation in this world, and nickname.
3. Please write down the name of the area (if you don’t remember, please write down the place where you first lost consciousness on January 1st).
4. Please write down the ranking for each round you have played so far (in the ranking of the relevant area).
5. If you agree to an interview for membership, please write ‘I agree’.
“Not only do you reveal all your personal information, but you even conduct an interview? That’s very tricky.”
Still, you have to sign up here to meet players and beat them up.
Other players probably have no idea.
I never thought there would be a player who eats players.
Shim Hyung-taek smiled and wrote down his level, job, and nickname.
Lv10, warrior, black flame dragon on the right hand.
