33. Director (2)
The heart of Defender’s move plan is the truck.
Where did you get it? I got a 5-ton refrigerated truck.
All the luggage was loaded in the truck, and my brother was one of them.
[ hi. ]
My brother showed me the tablet screen and waved.
“hi.”
As soon as she saw me, she typed and showed me.
[Has your body shrunk a lot? What happened? ]
“It was a joke. I tried to imitate Jonnaenon.”
After hearing that, Defender’s brother looked at me with a serious expression. Soon, her fingers moved like lightning.
[You keep getting cursed at for pretending to be such a strange person. The sub-account nickname you gave me was 183cm83kg3cm, right? Ugh. really transparent Be transparent. It’s really consistent. ]
The defender brother, who was excitedly dissing the discussion, put the tablet down again and suddenly looked at me.
“Hey Skeleton.”
she said in an upbringing.
Upon closer inspection, the younger brother’s face looked quite tired and weak.
I thought it was the first time in my memory that she talked to me directly, so I looked at her in silence.
She made eye contact for a moment, but then looked away and hesitated about something.
Do you have a story to tell?
As I watched silently, she picked up the tablet again.
[ it’s nothing. 197cm100kg30cm. ]
“No, that’s the expression of a strong ego.”
[Go to my brother. ]
“excuse me.”
He could just go, but this guy is another defender.
“If you have any concerns, brush them off.”
It is certain that there are concerns.
However, for unknown reasons, he hesitated to speak.
I may not be able to solve everything, but I will be able to listen.
“Are you worried?”
In the past I wasn’t like that.
I left my juniors, classmates, and seniors alone, even though I knew that I was suffering beyond worrying and was almost in despair.
They dismissed their suffering as weakness and interpreted it as a lack of qualifications to face monsters.
As a result, many colleagues were lost and sent away.
My ties, which I could have saved, disappeared into the smoke.
“Don’t regret it later.”
Maybe that’s what the defender brother and I were saying.
Defender was checking the route in the parlor with a map made of four sheets of printer paper spread out.
“Oh, Skelton. What would you like to drink?”
“Water is enough. Let’s see a map.”
I stood arm in arm next to Defender, observing the map and route.
Defender’s plan was exactly as it was announced on the Internet.
Zombies – fanatics + monsters.
Avoid the soldiers and pass through 2 less dangerous areas.
If you pass through that area, it’s safe for now.
There are often pioneers, but compared to soldiers, zealots, and monsters, they must be charming.
Meanwhile, the arrival point shown on the map was about 4 km west of my territory.
It is also an abandoned land.
It is close to the U.S. military base that was bombed, so it was hit with excitement by hundreds of cruise missiles aimed at the U.S. military base as well as the aftermath of the nuclear explosion.
Is there a place for people to live there?
I was curious and asked.
“Where are you going to settle down?”
“Your air-raid shelter.”
“You know what’s not right?”
“Of course it’s a joke.”
Suddenly, Defender’s brother appeared and floated something on the tablet and handed it to me.
The place that popped up on the screen was an abandoned country house.
It is a so-called courtyard-style house, but all the few windows were broken and a part of the outer wall collapsed, revealing the inside like a broken egg.
“This house looks good.”
“It doesn’t look all that good.”
“The basement is well maintained. I don’t know what the previous owner was doing, but he built a decent living facility in the basement.”
“shelter?”
“No, the gambling house.”
“When did you go see it?”
“It’s been quite a while.”
“fairly?”
The younger brother next to him suddenly replied.
“Our aura room, visiting houses is my hobby.”
Defender shrugged.
“I knew from the beginning that this place was not good. So I went looking at real estate here and there.”
“Didn’t you set the ground well from the beginning?”
“I couldn’t afford that.”
“okay?”
“This is not our house.”
Defender looked at his younger brother and smiled faintly.
The younger brother just listened in silence with a strange expression on his face.
“Really?”
The siblings looked at me at the same time and nodded.
It’s amazing.
So you’re saying you’ve already moved once?
Viva! How did Apocalypse! join?
Judging from the reactions of the siblings, it doesn’t sound like they’re joking.
Then, there is only one possibility that comes to mind.
It is possible that the Defender siblings were predators from the beginning.
So, at the point when the war started, the defender siblings turned into looters faster than anyone else, killed the unknown owner of the house and stole everything from him.
Viva, who will be named Defender in the future! Apocalypse! This includes accounts and satellite equipment.
The defender who cast doubt on me naturally stood up.
“Let’s go soon before sunrise. Aren’t you going to stay overnight?”
Defender’s younger brother stared blankly at his departing brother and asked abruptly.
“Are you leaving now?”
“uh. Get in the car.”
“What about Dad?”
I saw it for the first time.
The defender’s younger brother is having a hard time.
The voice was still small, but inside it was a sharp will that could not be easily retreated.
For a moment, I remembered the powerless expression she secretly showed me.
“Are you going to leave Dad?”
Defender stopped.
he said without turning his head.
“Did you fix it?”
“I do not want to.”
“I hate it too.”
Defender turned his head and glared at his brother with cold eyes.
His cold eyes stained with murder, but his younger brother was also formidable. I didn’t hesitate in the slightest, and I glared at my brother’s gaze.
Is it a sibling fight?
After all, the director is a big deal in the family.
Surprisingly, it was the older brother who lost in the fierce snowball fight between siblings.
“······do it yourself. I don’t know.”
Defender left the spot as if he were running away with an uncharacteristically lethargic expression on his face.
The younger brother, who was glaring at his older brother, let out a shallow sigh as he leaned limply on the living room sofa like a deflated balloon.
“What?”
I asked my brother again.
My brother looked at me with tired eyes.
“Skelton.”
Calling my nickname, she slipped away again.
Instead, what she picked up was his tablet.
Fingers painted with black manicure dazzled the screen and revealed the finished message to me.
-Honestly, do you think we are strange people?
“I know.”
-You’ve never dated a skeleton girl, have you?
“There were a lot of girls who liked me.”
– Why the hell are people like that?
“…”
-I have a request.
“ask?”
-If you go further out of the house, there will be a cliff overlooking the theme park. There is a body hanging in front of it.
A dead body?
Are you saying that
A corpse that had a line similar to that of a brother and sister.
– This is my dad.
“…Was it your father?”
I stared blankly at her.
I will not deny that my gaze is mixed with accusations and accusations.
I know what kind of people the Defender siblings are, but even considering that, their actions crossed the line in a sense.
My younger brother did not take my gaze, but he seemed to know what I was thinking.
“I know what you are thinking.”
she said in an upbringing.
A small, creeping voice.
However, there are overflowing emotions that are about to burst inside.
“I’m really sorry, but could you look over the remains of the body?”
“Didn’t you do it yourself?”
My tone was cold enough to make me worry about myself.
The younger brother shrank and turned his head around with a puzzled face.
“Because I’m scared.”
“what?”
“I am not alone. My brother is more afraid of that.”
I didn’t understand for a moment.
body is scary
The fact that there is a corpse that the brother and sister who always kill people, touch the corpse, and upload videos are afraid of.
I looked at her quietly.
She curled up like an armadillo on the single-person sofa, trembling lightly with her bare feet exposed.
“…only this time.”
“Skelton.”
She raised her head and looked at me.
It may be because of her mood, but her eyes were definitely clearer than when they first met.
“Skelton. I’m ready. I’ll be in the car.”
Defender stood up from his seat, sweeping the weapons spread out on the desk with deft movements.
“wait for a sec.”
“restroom? Is the bathroom over there?”
Without answering, I left the mansion and headed towards the place where the corpse was.
Coincidence or if the deceased had something to say, the clouds were making room for the full moon when I stood in front of the corpse again.
Under the moonlight scattering colors reminiscent of the state of the corpse and the color reminiscent of a certain ruin in the desert, I searched the corpse with the feeling of an archaeologist who was excavating a pyramid about 100 years ago.
Took
“Oops.”
One arm fell off.
There is neither time nor space to put it back together.
Fortunately, excavations have led to the discovery of crucial artifacts.
There was an envelope that looked like a will in the jacket pocket.
I gladly obtained the will because I saw it as decisive evidence that the brother and sister did not commit the felony of parricide.
But the will was unreadable.
The ooze from the corpse, the weathering of the years, rain and snow mixed together, erasing the emotions and words written in the suicide note, just like the remains of Ozymandias.
At the end of the erased text, there was at least one decipherable character.
that last sentence.
[Sorry, I love you. ]
It was too clichéd, the boilerplate of a suicide.
*
In an ominous silence the truck drove off.
Defender drove and I sat in the passenger seat.
The defender’s brother squatted in a small gap with a flat sheet on the back of the seat.
“It smells like a rotting corpse.”
Kugoong!
The truck rocked precariously as it rolled down the incline.
It must have stepped on a fairly large stone.
Even in pitch-black darkness, the Defender skillfully descended the steep slope without turning on a single headlight.
“and.”
I know it’s not the right time to admire it, but his talent is so good that I unknowingly spit out an exclamation.
“What does it smell like?”
Defender reacted sensitively to the smell of a corpse.
I looked at my brother.
She looked at me and said in a small voice, looking at her brother’s silent back as if she had made up her mind.
“Skelton took care of Dad’s will.”
“okay?”
The Defenders responded insignificantly.
“So what did you write? I’m sorry. love? You didn’t use such common words, did you?”
“How did you know!?”
Unbeknownst to me, I interrupted.
However, the impurity of the country did not seem to have any effect between the siblings.
It is as if no one paid attention even though we uploaded “Skelton’s Beatbox (3)”, a secret content that is comparable to Seamonkey Papa’s choreography on our bulletin board.
“It’s not too late now. Can’t I just put some makeup on?”
said the younger brother seriously.
“We can’t leave it there forever.”
“You liked theme parks. It reminds me of when we were young. It’s nice to see you even when you’re dead.”
“brother.”
The truck rocked violently.
A bitter smile crept across Defender’s lips.
“Oh, my father. It’s still there.”
he muttered in a self-deprecating tone.
“If you see him come back to life again at this important time and catch his ankle.”
The infernal shaking stopped.
A truck entered the road.
Out of the realm of the most dangerous soldiers, you have now entered the realm of zombies.
“Ask for the side.”
Defender turned on his headlights.
The bright lights revealed a variety of smooth-edged iron rods mounted on the front of the truck.
It’s an anti-zombie countermeasure.
Sharp spikes were once in the limelight, but spikes have many weaknesses.
Because the body sticks to it.
Besides, zombies don’t feel pain.
It is said that sharp things are nothing but zombie glue after all.
On the other hand, the round obstacles seen in playgrounds may not injure zombies, but they struggle and make them fall. Of course, there is no such thing as a dead body sticking to it.
From a distance came the hum of a zombie’s cry.
I remembered the map.
The zombie realm is, strictly speaking, quite a loophole.
It is a northern area that you would never pass by on foot or by bike.
But there was a road and I had to go this way to avoid the army.
“It is close.”
As the sound of the zombies got closer, the defender stopped the vehicle.
Beyond the light, the shapes of people begin to appear one by one.
it’s a zombie
Residents of the abandoned city jumped out in tabi to welcome us.
clap
loaded the gun
clap
There was also a noise from behind.
My younger brother also picked up a gun this time.
Looking behind me, my younger brother stuck out his tongue and smiled wryly.
“The world of beauty doesn’t work for zombies.”
Didn’t you really try?
No, that brother and sister might have tried it for some reason.
Anyway, the smell of corpses vibrates inside and outside.
“Goes.”
The truck accelerated rapidly in the midst of rampant drunkenness.
Zombies were vividly revealed under the lights.
Eyes that glisten with red light in the dark crave flesh and companions.
thud!
The truck blows away a few zombies with its reinforced bumper and crushes a few.
“under!”
The younger brother showed this and laughed.
Defender also had a cool smile as if he had never done that before.
“Skelton! side!”
You sure like killing these siblings.
bang! bang!
Two guns struck the clinging group from the flanks.
What was more effective was the pump action shotgun my brother had.
bang! bang! bang!
Every time the rain of cannonballs was sprayed, the zombies that were clinging to each other collapsed one by one.
“hahahaha!”
With the sound of his brother’s rising laughter, Defender whistled and stepped on the accelerator.
Boaaang-
The truck’s engine roared and trampled everything in its path.
It was a perfect breakthrough drama that made me feel cold.
It is certain that the cool action drama opened the door between the siblings that had been closed.
In front of the zealots’ realm that is dyed gray and white.
Defender stopped the car and inspected the vehicle.
In particular, he carefully checked the connection of the armor plates attached to my sister’s side.
“Aurabang.”
My younger brother called Defender with a different voice.
“Tell me.”
she saw me
“Skelton is curious.”
The defender let out a shallow sigh, then lowered his head with a helpless expression.
Fierce concerns appeared and disappeared several times between her beautiful eyebrows.
Soon Defender raised his head and pointed in the direction we came from.
“The house we were in.”
“uh.”
“It’s the owner’s house.”
“The owner’s house?”
At the moment, I couldn’t understand the meaning of the word properly.
I wanted to hear it wrong.
Because it was a million light years away from what I thought.
The next word narrowed the distance in an instant.
“uh. My father was the head of the house.”
The gaze of the defender, who was shining with a bizarre life, was coldly arranged.
His gaze was directed toward a blurry past he did not want to see.