EP.100 Kings of Beasts
“Hmm? for a moment.”
The Undead tilted its head and headed for the room where I was hiding. He quickly opened the door and peered inside.
And our eyes met.
“teacher. What’s going on here?”
“Oh, I got caught!”
looking for this
An undead looking suspiciously at me hiding suspiciously.
I crawled out of the room with an awkward smile.
“No, I had something to bring, so I headed to my room, but the atmosphere downstairs was strange. So, I rushed into my room and hid, and missed the timing to come out, so I was just on standby.”
The Undead accepted my excuse and scolded me.
“If you were watching that, you should have stopped it! The lieutenant colonel was almost killed and the boy was almost killed!”
“If I got involved, wouldn’t I have died and Mr. Shay would have evolved from a murderer to a serial killer? Unlike Rashi, I am not an immortal. If an arm is cut off, it cannot be reattached, and even if it dies, it cannot be resurrected as a blade of grass.”
“hmm! I can’t deny it! In fact, I was only involved in it, but I couldn’t stop it! ha ha ha!”
The Undead laughed heartily. I smiled awkwardly along with him.
In fact, I was hiding here to see the identity of the escape package.
There was only one place where Khalis could run away from the regressor, and I, who noticed that, apologized to Tyr and hid here. If Khalis went out to the ground through the escape package, he intended to seize or find out how to escape at that moment.
However, I would have thought that the identity of the escape package was an escape package from this world.
When I first read the idea of the package, I seriously considered pickpocketing. It was because of the habit of not going anywhere, and when I saw the thick leather pocket inside my belt, my hands would itch and pop out without my knowledge.
I’m glad I didn’t see it now. If you pickpocket and use the package to escape from this world and then die, it will be published in the humor section instead of the obituary section.
Whoa. After all, people have to go through and see. Living kindly is a talisman against evil… no, good luck comes.
It was when I was breathing a sigh of relief. The Undead said while holding onto Kalis’ shoulders.
“The one who saved the colonel was the colonel himself. I only helped a little! So you can be proud of it, Lieutenant Colonel!”
“…yeah.”
The sound of biting your tongue was heard. The Undead and I looked at Khalis. In an instant, Callis’ face turned as red as the color of her hair.
The Undead was puzzled.
“hmm? lieutenant colonel. Do you think the reaction has become cute?”
“Ah no hehe…”
“By the way, I don’t have a hat that half covered my eyes, so now I can see my face clearly! My eyes are rounder than I thought! Every day I looked at the eyes under the hat, so I thought they were sharp like blades, but they are cuter than they look!”
“That’s…”
“Why the hell did you wear that hard, wide-brimmed hat? It’s of no use whatsoever except for pressing the head! I would have known the lieutenant colonel’s face sooner if it hadn’t been for the shadow of that brim!”
“I don’t want to look funny.”
Covering her flushed face, Callis kept lowering her head.
Oh dear. Is it like that?
The faintly felt sweet and sour emotion was like a drug that made my limbs shrivel but I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. I said while wiping under my nose.
“Yeah. It was lame, but it was still interesting! No matter how hard life is, this life is good, right?”
“…do you want to die?”
“what? Are you still sharpening your teeth against me?”
Hey immortal. Are your eyes soft? It’s still sharp when it points at me, so I think I’m going to cut myself.
I don’t even have a uniform or a hat, so I feel intimidated just by staring at her. Is this fear imprinted in your instincts?
Khalis glared at me and quietly leaned against the Undead and murmured.
“…I have to stay here until the investigation team arrives. Even more so, I was suspended, so I am also a prisoner.”
“Don’t worry too much about that! Still, the lieutenant colonel isn’t completely trapped like we are! And what I felt while living here is that it is quite worth living here!”
“I might…”
You’re completely lost. Well, it’s natural to have good feelings for the person who saved you by throwing yourself away.
But what about this?
“You held on too much! So now I’m going You’d better take a deep breath for now! The way to calm the frightened body is to fall asleep!”
The Undead politely tried to move away. It wasn’t what Callis hoped for.
It wasn’t that Calis was special. In the first place, Undead has a history of confronting the ringleader to protect mere laborers even when a prison break occurred. I was defeated miserably and had my limbs ripped off, but anyway.
So, that’s how the character of the immortal was born. If you ask if Callis is ‘special’, it is not.
I have an idea of what to do well.
“Eh. The hardships have been opened…”
When I was curious about what kind of difficulties I would face in the future, I muttered that.
without the slightest hint.
without any context.
without the slightest sound.
A cat Su-in appeared in front of me.
“Nya-.”
Everyone was speechless at the sudden appearance. As if they had made a promise, all eyes were taken by the girl who was walking lightly.
Soo-in, the cat who quietly walked into the middle of everyone, cupped her hand and started licking the back of her hand.
“…cat?”
The upright tail reaches near the head. It has triangular pointed cat ears and abundant gray hair that extends down to its back. Unusually, the outer fur color is dark gray, but the inside is white enough to be close to pure white. It’s as if the inside and outside were painted differently.
His white face had a long, thin four-pronged mustache. Its light gait was graceful and light as a feather, and if I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have known it was there.
“Nya-.”
The cat Soo-in cried desperately and looked at everyone as if he was indifferent.
I also read the other person’s thoughts that appeared reflexively. no i was trying to read it.
can’t read
No, I can read it, but the meaning doesn’t connect. It is as if the hieroglyphs written in the cave were transcribed into our language. It was a book of context that could be read along, but the meaning of the words could not be grasped.
I was not embarrassed because I had already experienced it. I was just surprised.
“King of Cats?”
Does the king of mad beasts come here for something to eat?
no this is kinda weird The dog king is said to have come because humans ordered it, but why does the cat king come to the abyss? Is this the abyss or a zoo?
I don’t have any thoughts that I feel right now around me. That’s what it means to be alone. Can’t you just ask yourself?
I can’t read the memories of the King of Beasts, but I can know his name. Because you can read it aloud.
I spoke to the butterfly clapping on the back of my hand.
“Butterfly. Why did you come to my house?”
“what?”
Butterfly stopped licking the back of her hand for a moment and spoke proudly.
“Nya received an offering and came to listen to the will.”
“Take a tribute?”
“Nya is the only king who made a contract with humans as equals. Catch the rat squeaking in the rat hole. My attendant made an offering and asked for it. Is that why Nya came here?”
contract. mouse. tribute.
It’s probably not your fault that you feel bad about something.
Especially if there was a lot of talk about the warrant of creation just a moment ago.
“oh! Cat Lady!”
At that time, the Undead, who had no sense of danger because there was no death, approached the butterfly with great strides.
“I have been lucky this year! To see two animal ladies who are said to be so hard to see! What an adventure. You are good in the eyes of those who will be shocked when they return to the village!”
“Nya?”
“Nice to meet you! My name is Rashi, cat lady!”
It was when the Undead stretched out its hand toward the butterfly.
The butterfly, staring at it, struck the Undead with its front paw.
space has been emptied The cat’s paws darkly engulfed the space, and the undead’s arm flew across the corridor. His attached right arm never touched the ground until he ended the hallway.
The Undead opened its eyes wide.
“oh!”
It was similar to Aji, no more than that.
Unlike Aji, whose hostility fades even if he has a human-like body, the king of cats, who is very wary, does not hold hands. If Rash hadn’t been an immortal, he would have beaten him like that.
So, even if I held out my hand.
Sweat runs down your back. Slowly, the smell of death began to waft through my nostrils.
Although he is the king of animals and cats that is relatively friendly to humans… It is better not to get close to the king of beasts in the first place. Beasts do not know when they will change at will.
Aji with completed favor is a heterogeneous case, but basically a beast… It has been a symbol of fear and danger from the distant past.
The butterfly, which casually blew off the man’s arm, twitched its forepaw that it had just swung.
The Undead scratched his head with his left arm and said.
“It’s a cat after all! Being picky is the best! These days, I’m a little lonely because there are only prickly women around me! haha! Everyone, you’d better not get too close to the cat girl! Unless you’re immortal like me!”
Callis asked anxiously, looking at her right arm that had disappeared below the elbow.
“Rashi, are you alright?”
“It’s okay. Falling off your right arm is normal now! Being together is more awkward these days, so sometimes I take off my right arm and use it as a pillow to sleep! An arm pillow in the true sense!”
“…It’s only been a day since it happened?”
“is it? Then I will sleep like that starting today!”
The Undead’s silly jokes eased the atmosphere to some extent.
It wasn’t until after hitting the wall on the other side that the right arm, which had fallen to the ground, raised itself up with two fingers and approached it with a bang.
Seeing that rare sight, the butterfly stared at the right arm moving by itself with eyes full of curiosity.
“what? Are your arms moving?”
“My proud arm! You’ve never betrayed me! As reliable as any other colleague…”
“Nah.”
It was when his right arm passed in front of the butterfly.
Kwajik.
The butterfly crushed the right arm with its paw. I simply hit it down, but the floor dented in the shape of a cat’s paw. The right arm, mashed between the butterfly’s forepaw and the concrete floor, was crushed like a fruit, and flesh scattered in all directions.
The Undead muttered with a stunned expression.
“Oh, this isn’t very good.”
Callis exclaimed urgently.
“Lash!”
“Shh! don’t come close It’s okay though! The right arm is a body made as an offering to the Earth Mother. No matter how damaged it is, it will regenerate someday…”
The butterfly looked curiously at her right arm, which was constantly regenerating, then slammed it down with her hand whenever it was fully recovered and tried to run away. At such times, his right arm trembled painfully.
A scene that torments the right arm out of pure curiosity without any malice. Its appearance was gross, but there was something cruel about it that I couldn’t bear to take my eyes off of.
A strange confrontation continued for a while. We just watched the butterflies play without saying anything.
In fact, there was nothing else I could do.
It was at one point.
“Nyaaaa! When the hell are you coming!”
The right arm gradually lost its regenerative power. The butterfly, losing interest in his trembling right arm, cries annoyedly.
Right after that, there was a thump and something landed on the roof. It was followed by the sound of a parachute flapping.
The butterfly with its ears pricked up raised its head and shouted.
“Nya! Hurry up!”
“I am going.”
After hearing the voices, two officers descended from the roof stairs.
