Episode 314 Surplus Human (1)
< Mission End > – Number of Survivors: 69
※End Condition: Survive for 108 minutes from 108 Hellhounds -Titling
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[Leaved the ‘familiar land’ on the 2nd basement floor]
[Entered the ‘familiar land (2)’ on the 3rd basement floor]
It was still a dry alarm sound.
69 survivors from the second basement floor fell to the third basement floor.
“W Where are you?”
“Ecliptic.”
“It’s out of the academy!”
The students’ expressions brightened, wondering if they had come out of the tower, even for an instant.
However, soon after learning that the scenery of the ecliptic was also similar to that of the academy, everyone became sullen.
A cold, desolate ruin. In the imperial city, which was more lively and crowded than any other city, everything was broken and cracked.
Broken windows and rusty doors, a leaning roof and half-destroyed pillars.
It was still daytime, and the sun was shining, but the dry, dry cold was still there.
at that time.
“Hey hey! What is that?”
“Ugh… it’s so big.”
“It looks bad.”
“Don’t you think I shouldn’t approach you?”
The students, who were walking cautiously through the city, soon found a strange thing.
The central clock tower symbolizing the center of the ecliptic. A building that was once destroyed by Miss Ourobors and lost its shape.
It stood tall right here.
Although broken and cracked here and there, the clock tower still boasts a magnificent scale.
But the surprise was that it wasn’t.
“Something is wrapped around the clock tower.”
“It’s a vine of a plant. No, it could be a root.”
“What’s that on top of the tower? It’s huge.”
“……Does it look like a flower?”
Plants entwined around the clock tower.
It was a huge flower growing atop the tower’s roof, hanging down with shriveled leaves and root vines.
‘Dead Flower’.
The students soon saw that the giant flower was completely dead on top of the clock tower.
“Hey. This flower is subtly warm.”
“It’s not cold when I’m next to you. I’ll spend the night here.”
“What is this? Is it a leaf? No, the air sac is shriveled with dryness.”
“There’s a bit of air inside, too? It’s fluffy, so I can use it as a pillow.”
The students were divided into two groups.
Those who want to rummage through the ruins in search of safety, and those who want to stay near the dead body of this flower to avoid tonight’s bitter cold.
Those who wished to stay around the flowers began to relieve their fatigue by covering withered roots or leaves.
Those who went to the ruins each found a light on the roof of a metal trash can in the basement of the sewer between the collapsed collapses and hid.
In most cases, they belonged to the latter.
It’s because the memory of hiding here and there to avoid the hellhounds on the stage just before is still vivid.
But in Bikir’s case, it was the former.
It was warm because the dry leaves were soaking up the warmth of the sun.
If you touch it, it is tough and soft, and it seems that there is a little air inside.
Bikir covered it and lay half-lying. It’s from the idea of recovering physical strength.
……It wasn’t until the end of the day that time passed that Bikir’s judgment turned out to be correct.
“You are too cold.”
“Why are you so cold?”
“I don’t have any tools to stop the cold…”
“I’m going to freeze to death.”
Cold concrete or glass railings could not keep out the cold.
The students who hid throughout the ruins crawled out shivering and gathered at the ‘withered flower’ of the central clock tower.
“Ah, I think I’m going to live a little now.”
“It’s amazing. It’s only warm around this flower.”
“The energy must have been very strong when the flower was still alive.”
“If it retains this much heat even after death, it must have been really strong when it was alive.”
“But why is this kind of creature dying in a place like this?”
“I don’t know. Damn- what are you doing here?”
“Doesn’t the fairy come out? There’s no mission.”
After some time, the students began to complain about the current situation.
at that time. A second crisis has come.
Growling-
The cold has subsided, and now hunger is a problem.
The students left their seats again and searched all over the ruins, but as expected, they found little to no food.
A bar of chocolate that you can’t tell when it’s past its expiration date, a canned food that’s puffy, the meat of something that smells rotten, and a few wilted weeds were all you could eat.
Even that was too little for everyone to eat.
A situation where everyone is frustrated by the food shortage.
……But there was someone who was concentrating on cooking alone, out of sight of others.
It was Bikir.
Bubbling bubbling…
Bikir lit a barrel of waste oil on fire and placed a dented pot over it.
And he boiled the rainwater that had accumulated in the tent.
“Hey. Why are you boiling the water?”
Grenouille, who was watching from the side, asked sneakily.
Bikir answered quietly.
“I need to eat.”
“Really? Do you have any rice?”
Vickir only nodded at Grenouille’s question as he gulped down his saliva.
Then Bikir stretched out the blade of Baalzebub and brought it to the stem of the dead flower.
…Poo-wook!
As the aura was applied and poked, the stems of the plants began to cut off little by little.
The stem of this extremely tough plant was not easy to cut, even with Bikir’s aura.
Perhaps other students would not even dream of it.
Before long, Bikir held up two fragments the size of a small fingernail on the tips of his fingers.
Grenouille tilted his head.
“Eat it? But will it be as little as that?”
However, Grenouille’s mouth opens wide at what happened before long.
…fondant!
When a piece of plant stem is placed in boiling water, a surprising change takes place.
Bubbling and bubbling…
The piece of stem, which was the size of a little fingernail, eventually swelled to an enormous size.
It was about the size and length of an adult man’s forearm.
“It’s dried up and looks small. If you recklessly eat it, it will grow to an enormous size in your stomach.”
Hearing Vikir’s words, Grenouille swallowed.
The stems were so hard and tough that you couldn’t even cut them off, but even if you succeeded in cutting them out, your stomach wouldn’t be able to handle them if you ate them blindly because you were hungry.
“I’m sure. If I ate too much, my stomach would explode and die.”
Grenouille put a piece of water into the water while watching.
Bikir said nothing.
Grenouille was also aware of it, so he began to mumble on the plant stem, noticing Vikir’s notice.
“But you mean.”
“hmm?”
“Why are you being nice to me?”
Vikir saved Grenouille’s life from a group of hellhounds on the previous stage as well.
Aren’t you even giving me meals like this now?
Vikir stared blankly at Grenouille.
To be precise, he was looking at the necklace hanging from Grenouille’s chest.
“…well, we’re friends.”
Bikir said indifferently and averted his gaze.
The word bondi friend cannot be used to the extent of being in the same class at a similar age.
Bikir knew that, but said roughly nothing.
But for some reason, Grenouille’s eyes were moist.
‘……friend.’
Grenouille had never made a single friend since entering the Colosseo Academy.
A group of motives all follow him and just look around to see if anything falls.
Seniors are people who approach or need to approach for networking.
Going further, he always longed for attention and recognition from his father, the head of the family, and his proud brothers.
However, since he was the youngest, he was always treated like a child. No matter how good his achievements were, they were things that the older brothers had gone through once, so there was nothing new, and only lonely and dry times were repeated every day.
Even after entering the academy, that hasn’t changed.
But now. Grenouille was feeling complex and subtle emotions that even he could not understand.
‘I’m friends… with this guy.’
I felt it even during the college league, but this guy in front of me seemed like a reliable older brother despite being younger.
And when I said that such a Bikir was a friend, I felt that something was recognized.
When Grenouille was blushing with pride that even he himself did not know.
“Hey. Aren’t you Grenouille there?”
someone calls from behind
At the place where Grenouille turned his head, the third-year aristocratic seniors were standing.
“I thought he was killed by hellhounds earlier, but he wasn’t.”
“I’m glad he’s alive. He’s from the Leviathan family! He’s strong and reliable.”
“Come here quickly. Oh, I’m glad I have the youngest again.”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you earlier. Instead, let’s go out of the tower and have a big drink. Haha-”
They were gesturing towards Grenouille as if the previous stage was no big deal.
Grenouille hesitated. Aren’t they a group of people who were friendly before entering the tower?
‘What do we do?’
Bikir and the people who were friendly outside the tower.
Grenouille was conflicted, not knowing which way to go.
“That… I…”
When Grenouille opened his mouth about the choice he had just made after a brief thought.
[Hot, ho, ho, ho? ]
A grotesque laugh suddenly came from the air.
At that moment, all the students turned their heads with their eyes wide open.
A grotesque mass of flesh can be seen floating in the air.
It was the appearance of a fairy.
[How are all the 6 9 survivors? Is your little fairy appearing ? ]
As soon as the fairy appeared, it spread missions.
< Mission > – Survive 1-69 days in ruins!
※ ??? Avoid!
[Is the mission you’re going to do simple this time too? Can I just stay alive ? ]
Then there was a commotion among the students.
“Really? Is it really just a matter of surviving?”
“But what are the numbers 1 through 69? Does it last just one day? Or does it mean you have to last 69 days?”
“I see. The period is unclear?”
“Common sense, how can you survive 69 days in this cold and hungry place
?
The student who seemed to be the leader jumped up.
This model student, who was usually good at sharp analysis and pointing out in class, found a lacking part in the fairy’s explanation this time too.
“Wait. There is something unclear. What is the small text under the mission?”
Indeed, everyone’s eyes turned to the direction his fingertips were pointing.
※ ??? Avoid!
questionable message. What are you trying to avoid?
Then, the fairy who was about to disappear hurriedly returned as if she had forgotten something.
[Oh cha cha cha? Did you forget to free it ? ]
Forgot? What did you forget?
The schoolboy who pointed out the fairy snorted as if he was pathetic.
“If you’re going to bring this many people and play with them, do it right, you devil. Shouldn’t you be so lax?”
[ sorry ? Did you almost make a big mistake ? ]
The fairy apologized to all the students, including the model student, with a bewildered attitude.
And then
…knock!
After raising his finger, a drop of dark red blood fell into the air.
“?”
In front of all the students making puzzled faces, a single drop of blood drips down like tar.
It fell to the roots of the plants that were drying up on the floor and was quickly absorbed.
And immediately, a terrible accident happened.
Kude deudeuk – Pudeudeuk!
Strange noises began to be heard throughout the huge clock tower building.
The vines, which had been withered just before, were moving slowly.
at the same time.
Knock-Gak-
The back of the schoolboy who hit the fairy suddenly broke.
A long, tough vine that had been hanging down the wall of the clock tower suddenly wrapped itself around his waist and grabbed him.
“……uh?”
He didn’t even feel the pain from the broken back.
It was because I was overwhelmed by the sight of a huge flower on the roof of the tower with its mouth wide open.
Inside his wide-open mouth, as if smiling, terrifying teeth sprouted up, down, left, and right, densely and without crowds.
…Puzzik!
It took less than a second for a human being to turn into an insignificant piece of meat in the mouth of a flower.
Blood trickled out from the cracks in the mumbling mouth.
At the same time, a change occurred in the mission window.
< Mission > – Survive from 1 to 68 days in ruins!
※ Avoid the ‘Daylily of Blood’!
The fairy smiled broadly.
[Can I just hold out for a maximum of 6 8 days now?]
