A ball made of leather flies in the sky. A roaring sound is heard along with a joyful cry. tap. When the clawed foot slams the hard concrete, a powerful sound is produced with a split beat. Concrete, unlike soil, does not absorb vibrations, so the impact is completely transformed into sound and comes to me.
“bruise! bruise!”
A short break ends. Aji is running to this place with a ball. I faced the small calamity approaching with unfocused eyes.
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My rest time is proportional to the distance of the ball.
If you throw it high, you will catch it late.
If you throw it far, Aji arrives late.
So, at first, I threw it as far as I could without overdoing it. So that Aji can run away and catch the ball and rest until he comes running.
But nothing is permanent in this world. Except for Aji’s stamina.
I figured it out by throwing the ball.
The more it was repeated, the shorter the distance was. The leather ball that soared high in the sky just fell to the ground slightly above my head. Now the rolling distance was longer than the flying distance.
Now Aji wasn’t ready to run. It just squats at my feet, bites the ball as it rolls, and comes over to me. Then I pick up the ball again and flick it with my still-good wrist.
Then the moment finally came.
“for a moment.”
Humans are also beasts by nature, so animalistic intuitions come to us all of a sudden. The sense of the beast in my heart, which had come to me after a long time, was whispering to me.
If you throw more than this, your shoulder will hurt.
“bruise?”
I raised my hand instead of trying to throw the ball. I feel a strange creaking in my shoulder. It’s like when you turn a pencil sharpener, the shaft is misaligned and the handle shakes to and fro. It’s something familiar, but it feels like it should never come out of my arm.
He stopped throwing the ball and dropped his hands. Aji came to me with a puzzled face.
I dropped my arms and declared.
“Today’s ball game is over.”
“Woof woof! more! more!”
“I can throw more. However.”
I unpacked the clothes I was wearing. The sweat-soaked entry-level shirt was scattered, revealing my wretched body hidden underneath.
A skinny and agile body specialized in escaping and survival. I haven’t felt any discomfort in my body so far, but now that my durability is being tested, the time I spent with laziness in the past was wasted. If I was locked up in Tantalus and expected to be a throwing machine, I’d do some exercise when someone recommended it… .
Regret is too late no matter how early. I hope that the future me will not regret today, and I just have to do my best at each moment.
With regrets behind me, I sat down and showed Aji my reddened shoulders.
“Then my shoulder is broken. Does it matter anyway?”
“bruise!”
“Wanna die?”
“Keeping.”
Still, Aji seemed dissatisfied with not being able to play any more. With a fresh expression on his face, he began to squirm around me.
huh. It’s not hard
“What? Look if you made me throw the ball now. I will become a body that can no longer raise my arms, and I will suffer from the aftereffects and eventually die suddenly at some point.”
“bruise!”
“What? You don’t die without arms? what sound You can fall down the stairs and you can’t grab the railing because your arm doesn’t go up, or you can get killed when a terrorist attacks and threatens to raise your hand and your arm doesn’t go up! Discomfort in one of the bodies is in itself a very serious threat!”
“Woof woof… .”
“Look when I die. A human being who can throw a ball as obediently as me from this abyss is disappearing from this world! Are you going to disable the goose that lays the golden eggs, or the machine that throws the ball, for a short time?”
“bruise… . I hate that.”
“hahaha! do you understand If you don’t want me to break, give me a break!”
It was time to teach this intelligent beast the basic concepts of work efficiency, fatigue limits, and rest. Aji thought deeply about something, then grabbed my arm and brought it to her mouth.
what? Are you trying to catch me? You can’t lay golden eggs, so now you’re saying goose meat? I can’t be that stupid
Oops. Would you give me more goose meat than golden eggs that a dog can’t even eat?
what. Wait a minute.
“Sorry, boss! I’ll throw the ball, so please save my life!”
As I was about to pull out my arm, Aji’s snout approached faster than that. I closed my eyes, anticipating the terrible pain. Then, with a click, something moist and soft brushed my shoulder.
When I opened my eyes, Aji was carefully licking her reddened shoulders.
“what. You say you’re sick, so do you give me some oil?”
“bruise.”
Then yes. The king of dogs can’t eat a living human.
No, this. I couldn’t read my thoughts, so I flinched without realizing it. I can’t help it. It’s a self-protection instinct.
Embarrassed, I scratched my head and stared at Aji who was licking meticulously.
It’s a total evil boss to deal with. It doesn’t roll well, so I’ll oil it first.
“hey. No matter how much the king of the beasts say that licking heals wounds, would this be better? This isn’t a wound, it’s a body worn out from overuse… .”
I was muttering like that, but I felt a strange coolness around my shoulder. It’s nice to have a window on the body so that the wind can pass through, but it doesn’t feel cold and it’s refreshing.
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Maybe it was because of the saliva, there were too many differences from the wetness. I raised my arm just in case.
Although it was a little stiff, his arm moved much more easily than before. No, it might be smoother than before throwing the ball.
“Is this going to happen?”
I’ve heard that the King of the Beast’s act of licking is holy water, but that’s it? Or is Aji special?
As I tilted my head, Aji looked over my shoulder and barked as if it was over.
“bruise! All right!”
“AS is for sure. The arm won’t go out. But I just got better, so let’s take a break.”
“Woof woof!”
Aji put her upper body on my thigh and fell face down. I ran my fingers through Aji’s hair and looked around.
According to the golem’s words, supplies should arrive soon. How the hell do you get here?
Common sense would be the right way to drop it. Is it possible to reach the bottom of the abyss by ordinary means? If it can arrive, how do I get it? Aren’t you going to tell me to take it with my body? Anyway, it would be a hamburger patty and only vampires would like it.
Oh, come to think of it, there were also vampires. I turned my head to look at the underground arsenal in the distance. The entrance to the underground arsenal, located as sinister as the door to the abyss, was firmly closed today.
“You can’t get up from the fortress.”
It is said that the older you get, the more sleep you get. If the correlation between age and sleep time is even 10% of what people say, it’s not surprising that the average daily sleep time for vampires converges to 24 hours.
He also had orthostatic hypotension, so he couldn’t easily get out of a wheelchair, no, a coffin. Even so, he was overbearing because he had a teacher-teacher relationship, so he gave up his precious Jinhyeol. I can’t even get a blood supply anymore.
tttttttttttttttttttttttttt As I was biting my tongue, I suddenly remembered a fact. blood, supply.
“for a moment. If the vampire runs out of blood, won’t I be in danger?”
If a vampire forgets that I am a human due to dementia, or if I go out to sleep and unintentionally try to eat a snack, I will die first. I have no ability to resist, so I’ll just rip the envelope and get blood as if I’m eating the food in it.
“Blooming on the supply list… Wouldn’t it?”
It got terrifying. How should I do this?
Blood pack… It’s not something that can be distributed in this way. Why don’t you send a death row inmate instead?
“No, there is a problem. Because there is no guarantee that I will defeat a death row inmate.”
It will be fine for the time being. If you say that three days’ worth of food is 90 days’ worth of food here, it means that there were at least 100 people who originally lived here. Quite a number of people would have died, even if not the ones who escaped.
But when I came down here, there were no bodies or bloodstains to be seen. There is no possibility that the military would have dispatched a scavenger, so there is only one possibility. The vampires ate them all.
Thinking about it that way makes me a little dirty. Not a human sewer… .
Anyway, if you’ve sucked that much blood, you won’t be coveting any more for a while. But again, I don’t know. A started engine needs to be constantly refueled, so vampires may continue to need blood in the future.
I need a blood supply to live… . Is there any kind of livestock that keeps squeezing blood?
for a moment. have.
didn’t you just find it
“The immortal race, yes. I said immortal race.”
For the genius idea that popped into my head, I involuntarily paid tribute to my brain. Self-congratulations are ugly and shameful, but this time I will not be short of calling myself a ‘genius’.
The immortal race does not die even if its arm is cut off. Similarly, drawing some blood won’t kill you. Even so, it will continue to feed and regenerate, so if the supply is sufficient, it will be able to supply close to infinity of blood.
“👑👑. great. Perfect. There is no way that this must die.”
“bruise?”
“Oh hey. I just had a f*cking idea, can you tell me?”
“Woof woof?”
“know. you’re stupid you don’t understand That’s what I’m saying, so just listen. i mean Did you just come up with the idea that even the greatest genius in history could smack his forehead?”
“bruise? idiot, do you? I?”
“Kukk. Originally, I was going to do the processing of leftovers for you, but do we really need to do that? Let’s eat well and live well together. Leftovers, burnt food, and spoiled food are given to the immortal race.”
“bruise! I am not stupid!”
“It’s spoiled food, so you have to give it to someone who’s spoiled. Even the immortal race won’t die if you eat it wrong? Instead, it will detoxify itself and produce blood. Then that’s it. Squeeze out the blood and sell it to a vampire. The vampire is dog hair, but the guy who claims to be his disciple is rich, so he will pay for it. so… .”
tuk.
Aji’s front paw hit my cheek and passed. My head spun around in a sudden shock.
It wasn’t painful, but I was stunned. hey, maybe I’m staring at Aji with a little bit of anger, but Aji, who is lying on my leg, is staring intently at me. Are you cutting your legs in the meantime? Is he not aware of what he has done?
How dare you slap a human on the subject of beasts?
crossed the line I really wasn’t going to do it, but now I have to prepare the miso application protocol.
It was when I had made up my mind to do so and got up to shake off my son.
I expected him to slide off my thighs, but before that, he jumped up and looked up.
What. what’s on top I lifted my head and looked up, but there was nothing but the pitch black darkness I had always seen.
what. did you catch me
No, Aji doesn’t have the intelligence to do that.
He raised his head again and frowned and looked at him. Then, in the distance, in the pitch black space, I saw something shining. Is it the sky that looks like a hole? That being said, the light is getting bigger and bigger as if it’s approaching this way.
The merciful Earth Mother sometimes comes to us, but the noble deity never comes close easily. When humans climb high in order to approach the gods, they are often punished with wind and lightning.
So it is not the sky that comes this way. maybe.
“It must be the supply the golem was talking about.”
Immediately after that, a fluttering sound was heard. A huge presence is felt in the dark. The abyss is quiet because there is no wind. The air sinks heavily here.
It will arrive even if you are not in a hurry. I waited patiently. The distant flickering darkness and the periodic twinkling light are getting closer and closer.
As they reached the range where the light spread, their appearance became clearer.
A square box wrapped in tarpaulin is falling from a large parachute. A small indicator light is attached to the side of the box and it is flashing. This is a measure taken in fear of not being able to see the box in the dark and being crushed. The phrase “90 days’ worth of food” is not an exaggeration, but the box is large enough to fit a person inside. It must be full of food.
Perhaps it was because there was no wind, the supply box did not move and sat upright on the concrete. A thump, a heavy vibration flows through the concrete.
“bruise!”
Aji jumped and ran. I followed Aji and walked towards the drop point.
It looks like the abyss is hanging a parachute like that. Maybe I dropped it that way too. Military guys, you still use parachutes so they don’t break. It’s common sense, but honestly, I was a little moved by the fact that the military kept common sense.
As I got closer, I heard the sound of cloth being engulfed and the parachute sucked into a small packet. The parachute was also made of clothing packets. If you use it like that, you won’t have to go through the trouble of putting it back together. Because it’s cleverly used.
It was when I was about to open the lid of the squeaky box.
what.
Why is the unopened sticker torn off? Who told you to tear it apart and eat it while delivering it?
‘Successfully infiltrated. It was a long wait, comrades. Now let’s infiltrate.’
At that moment, a thought came to me.
comrade? Penetration?
I don’t think you should hear it from the food crate.
While I was silent, I heard a rushing sound from inside. The supply crate rattles ominously, and something crouched stretches it out.
‘Let’s spend our lives, comrades! To defeat the oppressor army!’
damn army. What the hell did you spread?
Without time to prepare for anything, the side of the supply box burst open.