6. Back Alley Between Alleys
6. Back alley between alleys
20 years ago.
A small gate began to open in an alley.
It was a very dark evening that day.
A man found the gate.
The gate was large enough for only one person to pass through.
Humans are curious animals.
The era when the word “gate” just started to appear in the world.
If there is a gap that can fit in, it is my way.
‘If you go in there, what will happen?’
The man, unable to contain his curiosity, plunged himself into the small gate.
What he saw in front of him was an area.
There were tall buildings, but they were not called cities,
Low buildings were erected, but they were not called rural.
A space where dazzling buildings and garbage pile-like houses coexist.
The man who saw the scene suddenly realized.
The fact that this place is the place of another beginning for me.
The fact that he is the new king of this unpopular land.
After that day.
The man started gathering people doing illegal things to the place.
Various weapons, drugs, and those who are the basis for business.
They were people who had a lot of skepticism after the existence of the hero, so they could easily persuade them.
So the man was called out.
Build ties with strong people and accumulate wealth.
He built his own kingdom.
And currently.
The back alley, the kingdom he founded, was designated as an untouchable area.
This was about the background of the back alleys I knew from playing V. AGE.
“Hey, I’ve been to all these places.”
I let out a small sigh.
Those dark streets were always far from me.
My stamina was 2, so after school, moving around was very tiring.
If things go well in the back alleys, I’ll be able to make pretty high stats before I graduate.
Let’s just be patient this time, and later on, we’ll increase our stamina so that we won’t get tired even after walking for hours.
I put up with my shaky legs and got out of the train station.
1 hour by train.
30 minutes by bus.
30 minutes on foot.
After two hours of ordeal, I was able to find a way to the back alley.
“..you’re supposed to go in here?”
The road to the back alley is spread out in several directions, but there is only one gate to enter.
In order not to confuse people, a staircase symbolizing the back alley is marked on the wall.
The way that such a wall pattern exists.
It was covered in darkness and it was impossible to see ahead.
Still, how did I get here, and I can’t go back.
I took a step down that dark road.
“Ha..is this right..”
One step, two steps.
At first, I was afraid of the dark because of the leverage, but as I walked forward, my mind was again at peace.
If the will stat was set to 6 or less, it might not have been possible to even approach it at all.
I think setting my will to high was not the last thing I did well.
You crazy bastard with 2 strength and 8 will.
Come to think of it, was Hayeon Yoo afraid of the dark?
As I was about to walk on the road I couldn’t see, I thought of her.
Childhood, elementary school age.
On her birthday
Ha-yeon Yoo had lost her parents due to a fire.
A child who has lost his parents at a funeral and stands alone.
She had no relatives, and was solitary by blood.
My parents, who lived next door to such a Yoo Ha-yeon, and had an encounter with her parents, could not stand still and look at Yoo Ha-yeon.
‘If it’s okay with you, will you come with us?’
No matter how many memories were mixed, I couldn’t forget that scene.
Yoo Ha-yeon looks at her parents’ outstretched hands with empty eyes.
Small eyes fell on the unfocused corners of her eyes, and she took our family’s hand.
So, why do you hate the dark?
It happened on the first day Yoo Ha-yeon came to our house.
In the evening, her parents, who had given her a makeshift room, turned off the fluorescent lights for her to sleep.
Yoo Ha-yeon said that she fell asleep with a blanket over her without saying a word.
From a parent’s point of view.
Early in the morning, the parents who came out to check if she was sleeping well on the first day shouted as they lifted up the sleeping futon of Yoo Ha-yeon.
‘Wow.. Honey..!! Hayeon is..!!’
I remember falling asleep and waking up to the sound.
What I saw as I headed to her room was Yoo Ha-yeon, who was white and trembling with her small body.
She did not know that she was covered with a blanket, but since it got dark, she was still in fear, unable to even scream.
Is it because the fire broke out while turning off the fluorescent lamp to celebrate a birthday and lighting the candles on the cake?
Yoo Ha-yeon The dark situation itself made me feel fear.
‘…if it’s not dark, you don’t have to turn on the light.’
Even now, Yoo Ha-yeon’s room must be shining brightly even in the evening.
Even though it always annoyed me, I felt sorry for Yoo Ha-yeon.
As I recalled the past in those remaining memories, I was able to find a gate that glowed in the dark.
“This is the gate.”
Seeing what I had only seen in the game like this in real life amplifies the sense of reality.
A back alley leading to a world of darkness with just one step.
You’ve finally arrived…
I couldn’t help but be upset.
This is because the size of the gate was larger than expected.
It was capable of moving in and out much more than the original level of human entry.
I am 170 cm tall.
5 or 6 times?
The size of the gate is one of the bad news.
Not my father, but…
I don’t want a lot of people to die though…
There was nothing I could do about this.
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Just praying.
“Why is the gate still there? You idiots..”
It is orthodox that the gate is closed only by destroying the core of the gate.
It was said that the larger the size, the higher the nuclear power, and the higher the risk level.
A monster that grows over 20 years.
My head hurts anymore, so I decided to stop thinking.
Let’s cover my front well.
Who am I supposed to worry about?
I hid in the gate.
***
As I entered the back alley gate, what I saw in front of me was a myriad of stairs.
As it went up, the economic level was divided, and as it went down, slums were formed.
A back alley dominated by the logic of money and power.
Yes, this place used to be such a garbage place.
Let’s just do what we have to do and get out.
I had to catch the last train to go back to school, so I hurriedly started climbing the stairs.
‘There are a lot of dirty stairs really..’
Aren’t you going to fall down and be trafficked?
Maybe it really is?
With my shaky legs, I was able to reach the level of the stairs I wanted.
Block B located in the middle of the back alley.
I put on my hood even more and went into the alleyway.
‘Really, I’m afraid I’m going to die.’
As I went up the stairs, most of the people I saw next to me were Mattangi.
Drunk, out of focus man.
A crazy woman waving her fingers, telling me to come.
The people they saw on the lower floors were not here because they wanted to.
It’s okay when you come in, but not when you go out.
Beings called watchers are full of curiosity and forcefully poison those who come or are forcibly taken away.
Because there was a gate in a place where there are few people, manpower is also important.
Addiction can make you do anything you want.
There should never be any tension here.
Oh, I want to go home soon.
I hurried to the location of the store I remember in the game.
Tub.
Passed by several pubs.
Tub.
Passing by an illegal arms dealer.
Tub.
Passed the nightlife.
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Just go a little further.
Not long left
At that moment, two people started coming out of the store in front of me.
“So I screwed him up?”
“G-X. Let’s say it with that face.”
“Huh, he’s probably in the garbage dump by now? Did he say he’s dead?”
Characters who giggle among themselves and say whether they killed or not.
Their nameplates had the emblems of back alley guards on them.
Oh I’m going out
They were drunk and their faces turned red, and they raised their heads and looked at me.
“Huh? Isn’t that a face you haven’t seen?”
“..Come over there with a hoodie in front of you.”
I wish I could have gone a little longer, sorry.
After grasping the situation, I hurriedly turned around and started running.
“Hey there you! There!!”
“If I get caught, I’ll kill you, would you stand?”
I’m not saying I’m going to die, but if I get caught by them, I’ll really die.
I thought that going against the Warden was treason against my superior head, so I squeezed out the rest of my stamina and ran.
Right alley.
Next to the left.
The buildings and roads in the back alleys were as complex as a maze.
It was rather good for running away.
If it was a normal person, it would have been better.
‘I’m just going to raise my stamina a bit more..’
As the change of direction was severe, the consumption of stamina was also the worst.
The sound of footsteps is constantly heard from behind.
I was put in a desperate situation.
“shit.”
Dead end road.
There was nowhere for me to escape.
In such a situation, I could only hear the sound of footsteps moving in my ears.
‘Die like this?’
Heartily?
The people in the novels I saw lived happily ever after?
I recognized the fact that it was my fault, which was too risky, to blame fate.
Tub. Tub.
The sound of their footsteps was getting harder and harder for me to breathe.
Is there any way to do anything?
Begging Ha-yeon Yoo to save her life?
Should I make a phone call now?
‘Help… help! Yoo Ha-yeon..!’
Would it be
I die much quicker than he comes.
What other way could it be…
I looked around and found small pieces of glass and broken bricks on the ground.
Wait, bricks?
It was good.
Hide on a curve and break your head when approaching.
The other one…
Then go think about it.
It’s important to send at least one person.
It is the best way to increase your chances of survival, even as a temporary measure.
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Jerk. jerk.
A small sound of footsteps signaled that someone was near me.
A little, a little more.
So close that you can’t even react…
Then I heard footsteps next to me, and I saw the shape of a person on the curve.
I swung the brick and blasted it towards the man’s head.
Widely!
Dull hitting sound.
It’s not the sound of flesh touching flesh.
I could feel someone else’s touch in my arm holding the brick.
Who is it? this person.
“Oh my gosh, what are you doing with this..?”
“who..”
It’s the first person I’ve ever seen who appeared on the street and blocked my attack.
A woman with long white hair, not a man following me.
She was looking at me with blood-red eyes.
“That’s what I want to ask, who are you?”
With his tongue stroking his red lips, with his seductive eyes.
Why are you looking at me with those eyes?
Her eyes had something indescribable ominous.
Ofc, its woman..
Sigh