《ROAD TO SALVATION》|| A Sweet Home Fan Story

Episode 5: Harsh Reality

Dae-shim's POV

A while later, we decided to eat dinner with the ramen noodles Hyun retrieved from the hallway. I even added some of my remaining food so we wouldn't starve while sleeping. After this, we placed our plates, bowls, spoons, chopsticks, and the pot on the sink, and I headed back to my room. I then slept under my bed since I couldn't risk letting that blind monster killing me in my sleep. I had a feeling that Hyun was doing the same thing as well.

The next day...

I woke up from my sleep and decide to see what is happening outside. Upon opening the window, I noticed many people resting on the roofs of all the still-intact buildings.

'I can't believe this is all too real...' I contemplated on these last few days. 'Even in normal buildings, monsters are lurking within. It's just like Darwin said: survival of the fittest. The world outside this room is dangerous.'

"I just wish this was all over once I cure all the monsters in this town," I said to myself out loud, before I noticed another monster outside. This one had a grotesquely long neck and an oversized head covered in eyes.

"Goddamn, that is freaky," I said as closed the window and curtains.

Later that day, I went to Hyun's room again.

"So how do we survive in a crisis like this?" I asked.

"Hmm..." Hyun pondered before turning to the computer. "I'm pretty there is an online survival guide here that we can read."

He clicked an article that read "Bear Gurylls's apocalypse survival blog", slowly scrolling to the latest news as we began to read.

The Government has actually announced "NO MEASURE" in this monsterization situation, which we do not know exactly when it started. The president seems he's already been monsterized.

He no longer shows himself in public.

And it seems that all senior government officials have been monsterized. The government is now unable to provide any kind of help.

Yes, that's right.

After all, the zombie apocalypse was only possible in movies... No I mean, the era of monster apocalypse is here. I always knew mankind would go extinct someday, but what annoys me is that why it has to come in our generation and why in this form. A nuclear explosion or a meteorite crash would've been much better since we'd die in an instance without feeling any pain.

I've already not been able to eat proper food for three days. There are so many monsters near my house. I'll get killed immediately if I get out, man... I miss my mom's food... Well, actually I think my parents are also monsterized because they aren't picking their phones for 5 days.

I know I should feel sad, but I'm not even sad anymore. It's not clearly known that monsters have certain attributes, which blocks all wireless transmissions around them. That means wired services such as wired communication and wired internet are still working (in some areas only). If monsters aren't nearby, it's possible that even wireless communications are working...

But the block range is 50 meters per each monster, so if you're living in a densely populated area and not in a rural area, wireless communications are virtually impossible... well... these all don't matter much now.

If they were like zombies, we could just avoid their bites. But this damn monsterization starts inside of you out of nowhere. Early symptoms include frequent nosebleeds, frequent hallucinations, excessive appetite, and frequent fainting.