f*cked.
This is a conclusion reached after careful consideration.
I guess I’m just screwed.
The moment I took a step into the underground arsenal, regret flooded in. Perhaps even if you go into the mouth of a whale, you will feel more comfortable than this. At least whales don’t feed on human blood.
A vampire that sucks human blood, this is the realm of the night where the monster has resided for decades. From the moment I stepped in, the blood that ran around my body was not mine. The blood rushing under the veins is drawn to one side. I start to deviate from what should breathe life into my body.
It is not a problem that can be solved by mind reading. If a vampire is determined to kill me, the moment when he has such a murderous intention… Without a moment’s resistance, my body would turn into a shriveled mummy.
Is the regressor okay? The more sensitive you are, the greater the pressure you must feel.
‘It’s great energy. The power that is no different from the previous episode… . But this is before [the incident] happened. Do you want to be more violent, or do you want to be moderate? Before [that problem] was resolved, Tirkanzaka would lend me her power.’
What is [that incident]? What is [that problem]? Please don’t think that only you know and can’t you remember?
‘Don’t worry. Because I haven’t regained enough strength to compete with Tirkanjaka yet. If you die, you die, huh?’
great. That’s it. It turned out that it was best not to engage with the regressor. It is one of many lives that can be returned to some people, but to me it is only one life.
Should I die if I die? If you are with someone who has this kind of thought, even ten lives are not enough.
I turned around and headed out the door.
“ruler. Shay trainee. Shay is the only student I have to deal with, so I’ll just step back… .”
bang.
The iron gate closed in front of me. The stigma that gave off a strange red light flashed in front of her as if she was ready to go.
Seeing me in disbelief, the returnee snorted.
“yes. Good bye. If only I could go.”
The exit is blocked. A pitch-black darkness that could not even see my body enveloped me. I sighed and followed the returner.
“why. You said you were going back?”
“Come to think of it, we need to figure out why Student Shay visited the underground arsenal. Would you like to accompany me for a moment?”
“So.”
As long as you’ve come this far anyway, it’s a community of fate. The returnee nodded happily. I stuttered against the wall in the pitch-black darkness. He couldn’t even see his feet and it was subtly slippery, so even taking one step required considerable concentration.
shit. There will be stairs soon. Doesn’t it slide all the way down there? If a writer called a military instructor slipped in the arsenal, he would be ridiculed and even suspected.
Rather, what would a returner do in this darkness?
‘Seven color eyes, open eyes, blue eyes.’
Then, the regressor stabbed his eye with his finger. Twinkling tears welled up in her eyes and began to burn blue. Even in the darkness that swallowed the light, the blue flame followed the outline of the object.
‘The five colors of the seven eyes, the blue eyes see depth. I can see through the darkness gathered by vampires.’
There are all sorts of skills. A person who only has the ability to read minds will live with shame.
Cheong-an sees the world of lines and planes. It can’t detect fast-moving objects or round parts with blurred outlines, but it can see the overall structure in the dark. The returner threw his blue eyes here and there. A tight ceiling and walls obstruct the view. The only way is to go down there. In the regressor’s field of vision, a narrow trapezoidal line appeared as a distant ladder. There were stairs going down to the basement.
The returner stretched out his feet towards the stairs without a little thought. As I went down a step or two, he suddenly glanced back at me.
‘Where can we see if you can make it through this darkness?’
Thank you. for looking at me
I didn’t realize it, but the stairs were starting right in front of me. It was even a stairway that had been cut in half with a broken corner. If I had stepped on it hastily, I would have fallen right down there.
hey, that’s good I stepped cautiously, avoiding the broken stairs. Then there was a clicking sound from the front.
‘Did you see through the darkness gathered by the vampires? He’s a man who can’t figure out the bottom. The dazed-looking guy destroys the darkness of my heavenly cherry blossoms and vampires… .’
For this reason, one must experience even in the lower waters. As I go back, I meet great people like swordsmen or saints every day, so I can’t figure it out even when I see a really ordinary person. That’s why we need people’s experiences.
Anyway, the returner and I headed to the basement side by side.
‘Why are you walking so close? Offensive.’
The regressor seemed to be burdened with my approach, but I persisted. It was because I was borrowing her view now, and if the distance widened, I might not be able to see my feet. With a feeling of being half lifted, I followed the returner down the stairs.
After arriving at the underground arsenal, the returner looked back at the bunker with blue eyes.
The arsenal, which could be used as a bunker in case of emergency, had a long hallway and spacious rooms on either side. In the event of an emergency, it is a space made to hide in that small room and wait for rescue, and there was a guest who came first.
The regressor stared at the faint shadows peeking over from the inside with blue eyes. A large horse, whose head seemed to reach the ceiling, was glaring at him.
‘Is it her workman? I heard that most of them were lost during the war… It seems that the blood horse Rallion is still alive.’
How the hell are you using the underground arsenal? Why is the big horse taking up the entire bunker by itself? You’re using a better room than me on the topic of nostalgia. guarantee human rights
The regressor, who had cast his gaze on the blood horse for a moment, turned around and started walking again. I hurriedly followed after him.
At the end of the long hallway, there was a foreign door.
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Military forces that value efficiency and rationality do not mix art on their doors or walls. The purpose of the door is to open and close the space, and the wall is to divide the space. Rather than attaching a separate decoration to the door and hanging a picture frame on the wall, the inefficient and unproductive act of engraving a piece on a steel door and painting a mural on the wall was considered a sin.
However, it seems that even such a military state wanted to pray to God in front of the Sijo.
The door, forged out of solid steel, was engraved with a picture suitable for a biblical illustration. On the wall was a picture of a beautiful angel with large wings blowing a trumpet. The direction of the trumpet was toward the inner door, so that if an unlucky person came out of the door, it seemed that punishment would be given immediately.
Sculptures and murals that you can only see in churches. The underground arsenal was dark, but the sculptures and murals were clearly visible to my eyes.
Oh, in this darkness, the majestic sculpture and the sacred painting.
It was shining red, soaked in fresh blood, like a festival with blood.
I faced the picture, creaked and turned my head.
“… there. Shay trainee.”
“why?”
“Shall we go back?”
“Are you scared?”
“yes.”
At my candid answer, the regressor put on a puzzled expression.
No, it’s too scary. this. I’d rather not see it.
If the Seonghwangcheong had seen this scene, they would have dispatched a heretic inquisitor, saying it was blasphemy. However, if the opponent hears that he is the progenitor, Tirkanjakara, he will quickly cancel the dispatch and pretend not to see it. Because that would be like giving only the blood of the Inquisitor.
The progenitor of vampires is such an existence. Whether I am strong or weak, it is not strange to receive fear.
The returner looked at me and said.
“I’m more scared than I thought.”
“Thanks to you, I am still alive. Fear of danger is an essential element of survival.”
“is it?”
‘That’s why I died thirteen times.’
oh Thinking about it, it is I don’t care if you die suddenly became sad.
“Does the guy who says you’re scared call her old man?”
“You’re old, aren’t you?”
“Ehh. Let’s not talk.”
Saying not to speak means to do whatever you want. The returner strode forward and touched the door. I didn’t even give it much force, but the door opened by itself. Like the jaws of an animal waiting for its prey.
“Oh, damn it. Earth Mother.”
Can not help it. If it was eaten anyway, it wouldn’t make much difference whether it was in the mouth or through the throat. Before the door closed, I followed the returner into the last room.
A perch hanging on the wall is a bit anachronistic compared to the modern era, where lighting and electric lamps are commonplace. It was a noble perch made by cutting stones with iron nails and chisels, making them look like cages, and then turning them upside down. The spirit of a craftsman resides in the nest-shaped decorations carved out one by one, as if a phoenix would rise from the inside with its wings spread out at any moment.
Blood-red flames crave the sky and soar upwards. However, the fire’s flight did not last long. This is the lowest place in the world. The basement of a certain prison in the abyss. It is too harsh a place to fly to the sky. Took, the flames that hit the ceiling crumble, and bodies of light scatter in all directions.
Sadly, light has meaning because it fades. The last room shimmering. The scattered light hitting the ceiling creates a red shadow.
Thanks to that, I was able to see what the room looked like.
It wasn’t just that the flames were red that all directions were bright red. blood. Thousands of liters were covered in blood. On the ceiling, on the floor, on the walls. As if the room itself was a big heart, so much blood was gushing and flowing.
However, even though there was so much blood flowing, there was not even the smell of blood. Even the smell of blood is part of it. Because it was under the power of the sijo.
Unless Tirkanzaka permits, me and the returnee will not be able to even smell the blood.
[For what reason did you come to see me?]
A black wooden coffin in the middle of the room. An exquisite piece with a red cross with wings engraved on the body of precious juniper wood, carefully lacquered, and engraved. A voice came out of it.
blood rushes The blood that I had to devote for my life under the veins was about to run out with tabi feet to meet the longing.
overwhelming power. The returner who faced it.
“Tirkanjaka. I’m here to offer you a deal.”
Facing the vampire, he said proudly.
“Teach me hematology.”
He suddenly came to me and asked me to teach him a technique. As absurd as it may seem, the vampire was not at all surprised. because you’re used to it. For over a thousand years, the number of people who came to her to get something was over four.
The power to control blood. At the name he had not heard in a long time, the vampire asked quietly.
[Do you want to become part of my family?]
When you become a vampire, if you receive the blood of the ancestors in your body, you will naturally have the power to control the blood. There are countless people who have been seeking immortality and have coveted or demanded the blood of the ancestors. The vampire felt a little banal, and asked the returner if he was one of the many.
However, the returner had no intention of becoming a vampire. Instead, they demanded something deeper and more fundamental.
“No, I don’t intend to get it that way. Teach me the skill you learned before becoming a vampire.”
In a very brief moment, emotions fluctuate. In that coffin, intense perplexity and confusion arose. In an instant, all the blood in the room gathered as if it were constricted.
However, the opponent is a vampire who has lived for over a thousand years. There’s no such thing as hot blood with just this kind of thing. The vampire calmed the excitement and responded.
[How did you find out?]
The returner faced the vampire. Thinking that only a returner can do.
‘You told me in the last round.’
The regressor who smiled was immersed in emotion for a moment, for a moment.
Before a vampire turned into a vampire, when she was also a human. At that time, the girl was said to be able to handle blood. Many people benefited from the little girl who helped her father, who was a member of the House of Representatives, run the House of Representatives. As a human being, at best, his ability was only enough to stop the flow of blood. That alone was enough to make people smile.
The vampire from the previous episode alluded to that fact, advising him to learn… Quietly, he died that no one commemorates.
recall is over. I felt like I was being thrown out of the depths of the sea and touched my throbbing head.
this is a reminiscence It was a very short and fragmentary memory, but it had its own achievements.
Not only did I read a little bit of the regressor’s memories, but I also found out a little bit of information about the ‘disaster’.
It seems that disaster is coming. A catastrophe so powerful that even the founder Tirkanjakara died without being able to withstand it.
[Don’t ask again. How did you find out?]
“If you teach me, can you tell me?”
[…] It’s interesting.]
short silence. slow thinking. Thousands and hundreds of thoughts flash and disappear. Then at some point. The vampire’s attention turns to me.
[That one. What do you think?]
No, suddenly? I was obviously quiet, but why did you point to me? I replied sullenly.
“Do as the elders will.”
[…] Elderly?]
what? The blood just squirmed. are you mad? I said hurriedly.
“My job takes precedence over my age, so I’ll call it a trainee. However, the Tirkanjaka trainee, uh, had a lot of spring and autumn. The military does not issue any specific instructions or orders for senior trainees. Me too. As long as you don’t leave the school, you’re free to act, so you don’t have to worry about staying here.”
pit. Something dark brushed past my cheeks. Very thin incontinence occurs. Through the gap, the blood that had regained its freedom slowly flew towards the vampire. Fluttering like a swallowtail butterfly.
was not even visible. He didn’t avoid it because he had no intention of killing, but even if he tried to avoid it, nothing would change.
Feeling terrified, I took a deep breath and stopped talking.
A voice with a soft anger could be heard from inside.
[…] You’re old, so why don’t you just stay in your room?]
“no. It’s not really like that. Please continue as you have been.”
[I hate to hear it.]
The black coffin lid was opened. Just like the outside, the inside of the coffin is filled with pitch black darkness. Through the darkness, a white, slender hand is lifted.
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My blood flew through the air and landed on her hands. Then it soaked in like rain on the dry ground.
I felt a slight displeasure from the vampire that harvested my blood.
[…] After all, even blood has no taste. It’s completely opposite to me. He’s a guy who doesn’t like any of them… .]
But, that’s why.
And after that, Kwan got up. He pushed himself up into the rushing darkness and faced me and the returner.
[I take only the blood of virgin virgins by nature. The blood of men like you is usually… I prefer to use it as a material.]
It is still dark inside the coffin. Only white hands, lifeless, came out through the cracks in the coffin. Another blood flowed into that hand. It was the blood of a returner that was shed to open the door.
The vampire wet his hands with the blood and said.
[But your blood is fine. For a man… . it’s the first time To drink the blood of a man in my own life… .]
That’s because she’s a woman… . Even with such a manly disguise, the vampire didn’t seem to even think of the possibility that the regressor was a woman. The regressor clenched his fists at the positive sign.
said the vampire calmly.
[good night. Don’t tell me that.]
“thank you.”
[…] I’m tired of welcoming guests after a long time. Just go out.]
After saying those words, the vampire closed the lid of the coffin. Hearing the positive answer, the regressor desperately controlled his expression, resisting the desire to jump.
‘Keep it up! Success! I never thought it would be this easy!’
Suppressing his excitement, the returnee asked carefully.
“When are you going to start? I want to do it as quickly as possible.”
[then… Shall we start next time the moon is tilting?]
It meant about a month later. Naturally, it was unacceptable for a returnee who was in a hurry.
“What? too late. Start tomorrow.”
[What’s so urgent? Whether you start now or a month later, there is no difference… .]
“There is a difference! The difference between heaven and earth!”
[Be patient. The moon is rising and falling because the goddess of the night slowly closes and opens her eyes. It takes that much time to see things properly.]
The two are arguing again. It’s time for me to step in to resolve the conflict.
“Uh-huh! Shay trainee!”
I screamed and started to stop the returner.
“One month may be a long time for you, but for a Tirkanjaka trainee who has lived for over 1200 years, it is a short time! Take care of your opponent a little more! Time seems to be fair to everyone, but in fact, it is a relative law more than anyone else. That person… .”
“… Why don’t you really care about your partner?”
huh? what. I already care enough about my opponent. How can you treat your opponent with so much respect?
Just as the two of us were arguing, a slow voice came from inside the coffin.
[…] okay. My actions are slow, is it because I am too old?]
“No, I am not saying anything. To show this spoiled bastard the difference in age.”
[OK. If so, let’s start right away from the next day.]
While the regressor who achieved what he wanted was happy, the vampire put me in sight and added a word.
[Both of you, I mean.]
“yes?”
No, I suddenly wondered why.
It was the moment when I wanted to counter something.
[Go away now.]
The world has gone away, I had no choice but to express it. Me and the returner’s body moved in a jiffy. No, we didn’t move.
walls, floors, and doors.
The hallway, the ceiling, the room, the stairs- were pushed forward. The world passes from behind to forward. As if watching a rushing river from a moored boat, a dark, murky liquid flows past us, following the way it came.
All of a sudden, we stood at the entrance of the underground arsenal without moving even a single step. The sound of the steel door closing with a thump returned me to reality.
“crazy.”
From the moment I entered, I felt like I was in the mouth of a tiger.
Literally, on the inside… It was nothing like the body of a vampire. A vampire just spit us out.
As if familiar with the returner, he brushed off his body and said.
“👀. That’s pathetic. Are you surprised?”
“… Absolutely.”
I just realized that a terrifying monster has actually become a transcendentally terrifying monster. When I answered, the regressor covered his mouth and laughed and laughed at me.
“I will give you one piece of advice. It’s better not to say your age in front of Tirkanjaka. That is the heart of a woman.”
The returner shuddered a lot and turned around lightly and walked away. I looked at the retreating regressor with cold eyes.
I didn’t do it because I didn’t know how to feel.
well done He didn’t explain anything to me either, so I won’t have to explain it either.
I turned around, shaking my hands and feet. Gosh. I’m so nervous my back hurts. Shall we stop early today and rest? I’ll go to the restaurant and see if there’s any leftover canned food… .
And when you turn around
“bruise.”
I heard a sound I shouldn’t have heard. I turned my head slowly.
There, after chasing after my smell with the intention of playing with a ball, he digs through a pile of concrete rubble to find a leather ball… there was an aunt
no way. no way… .
“bruise!”
tuk. the ball falls forward at my feet. And Aji wiggles his tail and taps the ball with his nose.
The meaning is obvious.
throw the ball human.
“I, Aji.”
I tried to negotiate like never before in history. A dog king and a human. A great attempt was made for a dramatic compromise that transcends races and races.
“Today, he, I am very tired, aren’t I? So that.”
“bruise! bruise!”
“… a little bit. If you procrastinate… .”
“bruise! promise!”
Pak Pak. Aji shook her front legs in dissatisfaction. The wind pressure shakes the hem of my clothes. It was like he was saying that if he didn’t throw the ball, he’d hit you with this paw.
When did you learn the word promise again? Who the hell taught a dog useless things like promises? I am not harshly teaching a promise to a child who cannot take responsibility. Even if he breaks his promise, I get nothing in return, but if he breaks his promise, he gives me an excuse to force myself.
“Ugh.”
It’s like this. I looked up at the invisible sky and sighed.
“after. Sorry, it’s my shoulder. Today, we’ll finish within 250.”
Do you want to feel like this if you are forced to climb? I caught the ball. Aji’s smiling face was very sarcastic.