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Today’s alarm clock came to me with pain that went beyond the noise.
What if a cicada made of steel cries violently? It looks like it’s being cut in pieces with a sharp blade. Unable to bear it, I suddenly jumped out of bed and turned off the wall-mounted alarm clock.
The process of headaches becoming a part of the routine was not very pleasant. He grabbed his head and clenched his teeth.
“Oh. That damn alarm clock.”
The military alarm clock can advance the alarm time, but not delay it. No matter how late you set it, it will automatically beep at 8 am. The noise is close to an attack.
It is not for nothing that there is a joke about finding a house where the alarm clock is not turned off if you want to find a corpse. Because that noise cannot survive until you die.
If you want to oversleep comfortably, you have no choice but to smash it, but only then can you be guaranteed to wake up tomorrow. In the military, where daily routines are meticulously intertwined like cogs, tardiness is close to a crime.
“Evil bastards. If you let me get up a little more gently, it will get better.”
After stretching as much as possible, I stand in front of the sink and look in the mirror. Inside the broken mirror is my face that has been cracked due to incontinence. The corners of his mouth were exquisitely twisted, so he couldn’t see his expression.
The clothes she wore were a standard t-shirt. It was the clothes that the military gave before wearing the straitjacket. The shirt I had been wearing for several days was already wrinkled.
“I have to do laundry soon. I’m also looking for extra clothes. You can’t be a single-piece gentleman with just one shirt.”
This is also a place where people lived, so there must be some clothes left to wear. After I finished washing my face, I headed out to find some worn-out clothes.
“bruise.”
And then it closed again. Pulling the handle tighter, closing the door with my foot tightly closed, I pondered.
Why is that furry waiting in front of my door? Are you going to take me for a walk in the morning?
“Woof woof.”
no. Absolutely not. Lots of work to be done here. Still, I have no one to take care of her rice, so I have to cook every day. I wouldn’t even have my personal time to walk this horrible carnivore every day.
How about just taking a walk? The opponent is the dog king. It means taking a walk like a king.
“Puppy.”
I hear the sound of my front foot slamming on the door. The workers’ quarters don’t have locks, so whenever my front foot hits the door, the door rattles and shakes my body.
Aji is just scratching the door without even thinking about breaking it. The problem is that even with that much movement, the impact feels like being hit by a siege pendulum. If I keep going like this, my strength will run out before the door opens.
When a battle for the fortress takes place, even though the unit has a small number of troops, there are many things that try to open the gates and charge. Not because they’re stupid, but to do something before they collapse from exhaustion and helplessness.
I, too, touched the doorknob with the heart of a general ahead of the fall.
“It’s a win. This damn beast.”
afraid. Wouldn’t it be terrifying to fight a monster that could separate me into blood, flesh and bones with a single gesture?
However, dogs are by nature beasts that are loyal to humans. Aji, the king of dogs, has an infinite favor for humans, and does not attack in any way. You can bite me a little as a sign of rebellion, but it won’t tear me apart.
Up until now, he thought he would build a good affinity for him and treated him like his boss, but from now on, it won’t be.
Humans are no longer defeated.
Do not succumb to the demands of beasts.
will fight against Even if you have to die.
As I made a firm resolve and opened the door, Aji, who was sitting in front of the door, looked up at me.
I shouted at Aji, who was encamped in front of the door, like a mercenary who came to collect music, with a ferocious attitude.
“What did you come here for, you terrible beast!”
“bruise?”
If you brazenly ask for a walk in the morning, throw it on a leash, and if you ask for rice like a pig, make a special dish sprinkled with spices and serve it as dog food.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have the ability to fight and win. What matters is my attitude. Ogi that you can’t sit still and lose!
It’s a fight, you bastard!
“bruise.”
With that promise, Aji crept up and crawled up to my feet. Then he sat down again and yawned sullenly.
what. take a walk… don’t you ask? Aren’t you looking for food?
I waited for about a minute just in case, but Aji just tapped me with her tail from time to time and stayed still.
“He just came. phew. thank god.”
Dogs are the king of dogs. It requires communication with humans. However, the other humans here are slightly flawed in communicating with dogs. Returners can’t afford it, and when it comes to vampires, there’s no life. Right now, the only person the dog king can communicate with is me.
I relaxed and slowly stretched my hand down. Aji, who was yawning droopy, looked at my hand and rubbed his face.
“okay. That’s what pets are. You have finally realized where I am!”
Humans are the undisputed rulers of the earth. So the kings of the beasts were able to wear human skin and speak language. For the king of beasts, the prophet of a species, had to be able to communicate with the dominant species on earth.
Like all dogs, they are overly active and subtly stubborn, but the difference is that they can communicate at any time. He stroked Aji’s head and twisted his lips.
“👑👑. yes, not good How good is it to be pure? I don’t even need to use my hands!”
There is no other animal as good as a dog if you listen carefully. Well, okay. This is enough for you to look at it that way.
“I’m obedient, so I can put it to good use. Follow me, ah! I’m going to use your nose to rummage through the management room.”
“bruise!”
I headed to the control room, and Aji got up straight away and followed me.
If this was a normal prison, there would have been a tall tower next to the prison.
The tower stood with its head upright about two stories above the rooftop of the education center, and it must have looked down on the prisoners and laborers swarming like ants. He would have meticulously monitored each prisoner with numerous searchlights like the eyes of a deep-sea fish. If some prisoners hide in the dark shade from the light of a searchlight, they will somehow find their toys, shouting like a lost child. There is no need to say what kind of disposition you will receive after that.
But this is Tantalus. A place where only heinous prisoners that even the military cannot control are confined.
In order to manage prisoners and survive here, the military has to make a decent investment. Either deploy an army, or dispatch a strong general.
Of course, that’s impossible. It would be extremely inefficient to waste that amount of power just as a prison janitor.
After making the calculation that it would be most economical to leave the manpower and resources alone rather than pouring in and managing it, he threw the prison into the abyss and then released it. Kill each other or save each other as you like.
Anyway. Perhaps that is why, instead of a tall and authoritative watchtower, there was only a square temporary building that looked like a warehouse. It was a container building separated by a small fence.
It wasn’t even perfect now. I frowned and climbed over the broken wall.
“Uh-huh, it’s a mess inside.”
One wall had completely collapsed. It looked like a large handprint, so it must have been someone smashed the wall with the palm of their hand. Dozens of small holes were drilled in the iron plate on the building as if someone had shot an arrow as a target, and there were traces of melted iron on the edge of the hole. what did you shoot You wouldn’t be able to make something like this with a fire arrow.
The roof was slumped badly. There was no need to find a reason. It was because a huge concrete with a steel frame, which you can only see at a construction site, had hit the roof. One of the four corners of the building disappeared in the shape of teeth marks as if it had been bitten by something… . But there’s no way a creature with that size of a mouth could exist, so it must be a mistake, right?
What the hell happened? I was walking cautiously, crouching, and suddenly the ground shook. I quickly lowered myself and looked down to see that someone had cut the concrete floor as clean as a cake. This is probably the work of a regressor.
It seems that something, something has happened, but I am a mind reader. I don’t know what happened in the past. We can only speculate that a tremendous amount of hatred and violence was swept away.
Unable to move my feet, I scratched my chin and looked back at Aji.
“Hey, do you remember what happened?”
“Wow! Everyone fought!”
“Uh, so who? Why are you fighting? Can you explain in detail according to the six-and-lower principle?”
“bruise?”
“no. It’s my fault for asking you.”
Aji would not have taken sides with anyone. To be loyal to all humans also means to be equally indifferent to all humans. Even if I build a good affinity for it, if I fight with other people, I won’t take sides with anyone.
Thinking about it makes me mad I’ve been nice to you, but don’t you listen to me?
“ha. The effort you put in is futile. No matter how much you eat or take a walk, in the end a dog is still a dog… .”
“I love walking!”
“I know. It’s because I don’t like walking as much as you do.”
“bruise?!”
Aji opened her eyes wide in surprise. Was it such a shock that I didn’t like to go for a walk?
As if suddenly nervous, Aji jumped and started speaking the most fluently I’ve ever seen.
“bruise! A walk, okay! cool! Sometimes I see strange things! Fun!”
“Yes, yes.”
“There are a lot of good things about taking a walk! Good mood! wide! Run!”
whatever. Are you trying to convince me? hahaha, no matter how much I turned into a prisoner, would the dog be persuaded?
Aji, who diligently preached the goodness of walking while using advanced vocabulary for herself, looked up at me with bright eyes and said:
“You don’t like walking?”
“I also like to go for walks.”
“bruise!”
It’s too early to rejoice. Seeing Aji spinning round and round, I added briefly.
“I just prefer to sleep on my back.”
“Huh, bruise?!”
“late. let’s go.”
okay. What should I ask you for? Eventually I’ll have to find out.
While having a conversation at eye level, they crossed the three-pronged door and entered the management room.
What did you do that ripped the door like a piece of paper? Is it still iron?
Well, I’ll just go back.
It was dark inside the building as there were no lights. If the roof had been intact and the walls had not collapsed, the interior without a single light would have been dark and invisible. Fortunately, light leaked through a hole the architects didn’t design, and the interior was bright enough to tell the object apart.
In the crumbling and shattered rubble like a management office, things that were once machinery could be seen. The reason it is in the past tense is that it has now been damaged to the extent that only the shape is barely recognizable. Scattered bolts and nuts. Cracked gears, rims torn off the instrument panel. The golem’s arms and legs were torn apart, and so on.
The machinery and magic golems that once managed this place were completely destroyed by something attacked.
“I see everything shattered while escaping. You can understand it.”
We’ve lost a lot of debt, so let’s make it a bad situation. very correct posture. I mumbled meaningless words and rummaged through the mountain of rubble. If there are items or equipment that the military has not yet recovered, I will pick up and use them.
But there was a lot of rubble and it was dark inside. In the dark where I didn’t know where to start, I stretched out my back and wiped my sweat. The building that looked narrow from the outside looked annoyingly wide when I was in the position to search. In addition, the wreckage was so heavy that it had to groan every time it was lifted.
Even if there is a treasure hidden in that darkness, I have no way to find it or the ability to obtain it.
“Zeep. Is it nonsense?”
Just when he decided to go back, Aji turned his head and dug into the wreckage.
Every time Aji dug into the ground with both hands, large debris flew through the air with a strange sound. I hid under the collapsing roof, waiting for the riot to end. Aji, who simply tossed aside the reinforced concrete and the large antenna, swung his tail furiously and pointed to the small cabinet lying around.
Recognizing its identity, he slowly got up.
“Isn’t this a locker for important items? I even found it.”
“Did I do well?”
“okay. good, good You are the best dog.”
“bruise!”
After stroking her hair with compliments, Aji ran around the cabinet. I pulled the handle hard to the side of the cabinet.
However, the cabinet with its dented side could not be opened even with force whether it was locked or something was jammed. It looked like something was caught and structurally broken. It’s not that I lack power.
but who i am A human being with intelligence Tools are a characteristic of human beings.
“Type 1, type 2. and 3 kinds. How many levers are needed in this case?”
“bruise! walk!”
“It is one paper. idiot.”
“bruise? I am not stupid!”
I inserted the steel frame through the cracked gap and pressed it hard.
… didn’t open
Hmmm. but who i am A human being with intelligence When my strength is not enough
“Hey, can you help me?”
“bruise? I am not stupid!”
“Okay. Okay, so come on, doggy punch!”
“Woof woof?”
“I mean, I want you to hit this place with your forefoot. Harder.”
“bruise? like this?”
As soon as I saw Aji lift my foot, I turned and ran away. Aji’s arms curled vaguely behind me.
quaang.
With a roar, the cabinet rose about 3 meters into the air. The tightly locked door leaf spun and flew over there and locked on the roof, and the steel frame that had been used as a lever fell to the ground with a V-shape bent. The cabinet, which was floating in the air, fell to the ground upside down from the head.
I’m pretty sure it’s punching performance.
“Aww, that’s nice. After all, you are the best dog in the world.”
“best?”
“okay. best.”
“bruise! I am the best!”
Leaving behind the triumphant Aji, I looked inside the cabinet. Inside, you can see a few crystal beads and some paper documents that appear to have been reserved for spares. Is this the end? I miss something.
As I cast my gaze one more time on the inside of the cabinet with regret, I saw a round object shining in the color of lead from the inside. It was dark so I couldn’t see well. I put my hand deep inside and pulled it out.
And involuntarily, I exclaimed.
“Oh my gosh. Is this left?”
This. can be used