Chronos sacrifice // Ominiscent Readers Viewpoint

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— Land Lord Part 1.

    Lee Jihye hadn't been able to get far before Kim dokja said something that caused her to stop and look at him in vigilance and confusion almost at the same time as if they merged.

"Is Yoo Jonghyuk, here?" Ji Hui couldn't help but looked at Dokja with confusion.

He didn't know who Jonghyuk was nor why Lee Jihye seemed so vigilant at the simple question.

"....who are you?"

"I am a companion of Yoo Jonghyuk who came back alive."

Lee Jihye stared at him with even more suspicion. She was sure her master had no companions though there was a person that he seemed to be looking for.

But she didn't know who that was as her master was sensitive about that topic.

Ji Hui's confusion reached another level.

"Companion? how is that possible? master doesn't have any companions." Lee Jihye said with her arms crossed over chest in suspicion.

Kim Dokja just shrugged shamelessly as he was always a shameless person.

"That guy will understand if you tell him. Where is Yoo Jonghyuk now?"

"Master isn't here right now..."

"Really? That's difficult, I have something I need to say."

Lee Jihye kept her eyes on him for a few more moments before calling over a boy squatting in the corner. "Hey! Over there!"

"Eh? Yes..Yes!"

"Wath these people over here. I'm going to find master."

The boy stared at then with puzzled eyes, his eyes lingering a pancake and Ji Hui a bit more than the rest of them.

"Who are they?"

"I don't know, masters friends?" Lee Jihye said without much confidence going to find her 'master'.

At her words the people on the platform perked up and stared at them a bit more obvious than before at the mention that they might be Yoo Jonghyuk's friends.

If Ji Hui had attention on him for pancake than it just grew much to his dislike.

He wanted to slap dokja at this moment, forgetting about his gloomy mood not long ago.

"Yoo Jonghyuk-ssi's friends?" The boy's tone became more enthusiastic than before as he question them.

"Something like that." Kim dokja said brushing it off.

Ji Hui wanted to curse at dokja but he didn't see the point.

He could feel this was going to be a bothersome time.
...

"The boy says that some of them are dependent on Lee Jihye and Yoo Jonghyuk for food. In terms of drinking water....they trade food and coins to the 'landlord alliance'," Kim Dokja explained to the group after the boy had moved away.

"Excuse me hyung." Lee Gilyoung tugged the corner of Kim Dokja's shirt as he interrupted his sentence.

"yes?"

"I want to go to the toilet."

"is it urgent?"

"Yes."

"Excuse me, can I also go with you?" Yoo sangah raised her hand and asked with a blush. Ji Hui decided to go as he felt that he had to go too.

The boy that had conversed with Kim Dokja earlier overheard their conversation and intervened. "You need to go up to the second underground floor for the toilet, but it won't be easy to enter."

"Why? Has something happened?" Yoo sangah was the one who asked instead of Kim dokja.

The boy glanced at her with a small blush. Yoo sangah wasn't ugly so it was exzactly surprising after all Kim dokja thought she could be a main character.

But the main character of this story is Ji Hui.

And at the moment Ji Hui was waiting for Kim dokja to go so he could use the bathroom. He couldn't hold it very long.

I mean he hasn't gone all day yet.

"I think it's better to see directly.....Do you want to go with me?"

"Let's go." Kim Dokja was the one who answered.

They went up to the second underground floor level. Lee Hyunsung was the one who carried the unconscious Jung Heewon as he followed behind the group and Ji Hui sat on pancake as he always did.

A middle-aged man saw them as he stood by the escalator for line 4."oh, I heard there were new faces. have you come to see the rooms?"

The boy shook his head and said to the middle-aged man. "Ah, I'm sorry. We are going upstairs."

"Eh, too bad. Be careful." The middle-aged man didn't hesitate to wave his hand as he moved away. Yoo sangah looked at him moving away and asked curiously.

"That, by the way...What exactly is the 'room'? I don't think it Is the rooms I know."

"It's easy." The boy pointed to green square tiles around them.

The tiled were also there on the platform of line 3. Green tiles that were about a square foot in size and had a written thing on top.

[ Green zone 0/1.]

"The scenario is called green zone and the tiles are 'rooms'. "

Near the unoccupied tile, two men fought eachother viciously as Ji Hui watched in intrest as he passed by. Based on what the boy said Ji Hui figured out the conditions of the scenario.

But Lee Hyunsung didn't it seemed.

"What is that? Why are those people fighting over it?" He seemed curious and a bit shaken up at the sight of two men fighting for a green square.

The boy explained and Ji Hui confirmed his theory as to what the scenarios conditions were. The only people that still seemed to be in a state of confusion was Lee Hyunsung and Yoo sangah who were not confused after the explanation.

Not long after they arrived at the second underground floor the boys body had an obvious tense deminor about it.

'....?'

Ji Hui noticed it but didn't comment on it.

He had a feeling he'd find out soon enough anyway.

"We have to be careful from here onwards."

There were more rooms on B2 than the other level as more people were guarding their rooms with a crazed look on their face. As if they'd snap at any person who came close.

They looked more like wild animals than humans.

[ Green zone 7/7. ]

Ji Hui could only think.

'what the hell is going on?'