4. What A Bad Day

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South Korea, an East Asian nation on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, is equally known for its green, hilly countryside and high-tech cities such as Seoul, the capital.

But all I can see of it now are buildings destroyed, corpses of loved ones, panicked children who got lost from their parents, and monsters that are rampaging, killing, and eating every human they see.

'It's chaotic'

"..y!“

'...haa...'

".ey!"

'What am I going to do now?'

"Hey!"

Flinch

!? 

"What are you doing just standing there!?“

"...?"

"Do you fucking want to die, huh?"

"...What?" 

 "Tsk, nevermind. Just follow me."

"...huh?" 

"What huh? Just don't speak."

..!?

"Wait, what are you doing?"

The unknown man grabs my wrists and drags me in a direction where there are no monsters. 

We stopped on a building that had caved in, but there was a space where you could hide from the monster.

In simple words, it's a perfect hiding spot. 

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

The silence is so excruciating that I decided to break it. 

"Why did you do that?“

"What? What did I do?“

"...You just grab me and drag me out of nowhere."

"Ha! Then what do you think I should have done?"

"...Well, just run to a safer place?“

"And then leave you there for the monsters to rip into two, then let you be eaten to shreds by them?"

The man said it in a sarcastic tone.

But I don't know why, but I feel irritated. 

"..."

Sigh

"I didn't have a choice, you were also in my way at that time, and you looked lost, so I just dragged you along with me."

"..."

The man looked at me as I stayed silent.

"..."

"..."

I decided to answer since I felt like he wouldn't stop staring if I didn't.

"Is that so..."

"Yes, that's right."

The man nodded as if it were a normal thing to do. 

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Isn't it rude to ask for someone's name without even saying yours?"

"...is that so, then my name is Kim Rok Soo, now what is yours?" 

The man, whose name I assumed was Kim Rok Soo, said this while gritting his teeth.

"Okay, my name is......"

Boom! Boom! Bang!

--Tinggggggg.....

"...!!?...haa...haa.."

I woke up with a cold sweat in the middle of the night. 

I stared at the ceiling, trying to forget the dream—or should I say one of my memory fragments from my previous lives?

"..."

What a bad way to start a day.




 

 



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