Chapter 177
The end of everyday life (2)
– Chi-jik, chi-jik.
It wasn’t until she finished her words that I heard the voice that announced the end of my short-lived daily life.
heterogeneous I felt that way. It sounded like something burning and tickling my ears.
– Chi-jik, chi-jik. Hello, fellow citizens.
The sound of electromagnetic waves colliding with each other and breaking strands, called noise, engulfed the son-in-law.
time is running out
I felt that way.
In the slowing world, the corners of Elizabeth’s mouth began to harden.
Her eyes were on the wall behind me.
no.
To be precise, I stared blankly at the screen of the wall-mounted TV behind my back.
-KN news breaking news.
The restaurant was full of noise.
The chittering of children waiting for their turn in the food distribution line with food trays, children receiving food and a nutritionist responding in response.
From the scolding of the teacher who manages the children who have jumped out of the line, to the sound of the jjamtong and the finished food plate colliding.
“excuse me… … . Elizabeth?”
A clamor close to my calling and din came from all directions, but Elizabeth’s eyes and ears /from my bedside/ did not seem to come off.
The moment he sneaks up on his butt from a chair to wave his hand in front of her eyes.
– You may remember the great earthquake that took place in ‘Avignon, France’ just a few days ago.
My attempt to drag Elizabeth into reality was reduced to a mere attempt by a single word from the announcer’s mouth.
I paused for a moment.
The stiffness that started at the fingertips climbed up the arms and made the shoulders shake.
“Sun… … ?”
Anya tilted her head.
Halfway up from her seat, in an awkward posture, she quietly turned her head to follow Elizabeth and Desiree’s gaze.
Breaking news continued from the mouth of an announcer in a suit in the light white paint pillars that filled the field of vision and the screen attached to the top of the pillars.
-The British government recently announced the cancellation of all relief funds and goods that the royal family had decided to send to Avignon.
‘Tuk.’ There was the sound of something falling.
Desiree had lost the spoon in her hand.
The spoon that slipped from her hand made an unpleasant noise as it tumbled across the table.
The grotesque noise resembled the atmosphere at the table where we are sitting now.
-At the same time, the British government requested the return of Princess Elizabeth through the Korean Embassy in the UK, and the Queen denounced it as an act of excess of authority by the Parliament.
I couldn’t believe my ears for a moment.
-… … British citizens expressed concern about the ongoing power struggle between the royal family and the government… … .
What the hell is going on here?
-… … Regarding the defense training in Maritime Province, which is being carried out by the ROK military, it is dismissed as ‘an act that harms peace in Northeast Asia’… … .
I expected the British government to be eaten up by the [Holy Apocalypse].
But this reaction… … ? nonsense. It was more intense than expected.
-… … The French government expressed its dismay at the conflicting requests of the British government and the royal family.
And Elizabeth’s request to return home? Her academy life was just beginning. No, is it possible for the government of a country to change its words like flipping its palm like that in the first place?
Elizabeth’s expression was as cold as ice.
She quietly narrowed her eyes.
His white eyebrows wrinkled, and his soft eyebrows curled up.
Elizabeth raised her thumb to the corner of her mouth and chewed the tips of her nails.
“No, no way… … No matter how strong the authority of the council is, if it moves recklessly like this, it must be forced to resign!?”
A crushed lament leaked out of her mouth as much as the biting nails.
Anya, who had been watching him, leaned toward me.
Her warm breath touches my earlobes.
“… … the sun Elizabeth, does he look too serious?”
that’s what i think too
Instead of answering, I nodded quietly.
“Baby, sorry. Shall I go first?”
After muttering for a long time, Elizabeth immediately jumped up from her seat, left us a short message, and left with the tray.
It would not be an illusion that the back of her, seen through the central aisle of the restaurant, was staggering as she walked away.
The windows were obviously closed, but the wind was blowing.
No, it started blowing.
I felt that it would not be such a good wind.
and.
Unfortunately, the ominous wind did not end here.
Elizabeth is about to leave the restaurant with her waving ponytail.
‘thud!’
There was a shock that shook the restaurant.
When the restaurant was shaken, it was natural for the students inside to stumble.
The diaphragm in his chest rattled at the sudden change of circumstances.
Anya quickly went under the table and Desiree, who looked around in confusion for a moment, saw Anya go under the table and joined her.
-Aeee!!!
There was no need to find out what the current situation was.
Because the siren that blared loudly with the momentum to tear the eardrum indirectly informed me of the current situation.
That siren was a siren that informed that the gate had opened within a 10km radius of the academy.
Students are embarrassed when they encounter a situation for the first time.
A student staring blankly at a red siren hanging from every corner of the wall, a classmate hurriedly running toward the exit, and a child stomping in place, not knowing what to do.
Hornbibaeksan.
No word can describe the current situation better.
“Sun… … ?”
“It won’t be a big deal—.”
When Anya called my name in an uneasy voice, I gave her a hug and told her not to worry.
Desiree is also lying flat on the floor and watching the situation closely.
Contrary to what I said to Anya while pretending to be calm, my insides burned.
A cold sweat runs down your back.
why not? already?! can’t you?
It’s not too complicated to think.
As far as I know, the opening of the gate in Seoul was a kind of ‘signal’.
A signal announcing the invasion of the world.
Museon The barrier protecting the earth is weakening, another world. It is the ‘signal’ that the invasion from the other world will begin in earnest.
‘Damn it, even if it’s fast, it’s too fast—!’
Even if the guys from the upper world were spread all over the world, I never imagined that it would progress so quickly.
I don’t know what the holy Apocalypse did to make it happen so suddenly, but one thing was certain.
It means that ‘they really got on the nerves of the higher world’.
Elizabeth, who had reached the far entrance, lowered her stance and crawled back toward us.
Through the sound of the siren, a loudspeaker on the ceiling shouted ‘Crazy!’ There was the sound of something tipping over.
There was also the sound of breaking glass in the middle.
for a while too.
– After, after! All students in the academy must move to the playground belonging to each hall in a calm and orderly manner, and the instructors of the association are asked to manage the students!
The tone of the broadcasting manager’s voice, which would normally have sounded solemn, fluctuated like crazy.
“Let’s go, because nothing will change if we stay like this. Let’s find out details on our smartphones as we go.”
“yes.”
“okay.”
“huh!”
I tried to calm my wildly beating heart and took care of the three in front of me.
Amid all the noise, I hear the nutritionist’s shout.
‘Hey guys!!! Go to the playground quickly!’
‘thud!’ The building shook.
– We will give you a guide once again! All students in the academy must move to the playground in a calm and orderly manner, and the instructors of the association are asked to take care of the students!
The broadcasting staff’s broadcast hit my ears again.
At the same time, ‘Enemy!’ The wall cracked.
It would not be my mistake that the cracked and shaking building looked like the earth.
* * *
The afternoon classes following lunch were canceled.
It was natural. In the middle of Gwanak-gu, which can be called the front yard of the academy, the gate was opened, and if classes continued as they were, that would be a problem.
The gate that opened at lunchtime was not that big.
I didn’t even have to borrow the hands of the students, including myself.
A few instructors were mobilized just for initial action, and the Awakener residing in Seoul was added to it, so the gate was able to stabilize safely in no time.
Most of the instructors who teach students at the academy are active awakeners, and since Seoul is the center of Korea, the number of resident awakeners is not small.
However, in this case, it was a problem because it had more meaning in ‘the gate was opened in Seoul’ rather than ‘how the gate was handled.’
“At least it’s fortunate that it ended at this level… … ?”
It was fortunate that the invaders this time weren’t from the Demon Realm. Probably from a world where even the name is obscure.
Or that the advance party was sent from the parasitic world belonging to the upper world.
If they had come from a world on the scale of the demon realm, even the advance party would not have been suppressed at this level.
“Fu—what’s the use of thinking about it now…? … . Let’s wipe our feet and go to sleep.”
There were two bad news today, but I was wondering how I managed to finish it safely, sit on the bed and finally get some rest, but there was an uninvited guest who came.
– Knocked up.
[Long time no see. Geumtaeyang, no, should I call it “greed” now?]
A yellow towel around his neck and a blue janitor’s suit.
Lust is one of the seven deadly sins.
The guy who casually opened the door, which was obviously locked, sat down on the chair across from the bed.
I could feel it now when I faced him.
The difference between when I saw it through the eyes of a student and through the eyes of an awakened person and now—the eyes of the same Seven Deadly Sins—was heavenly and earthly.
I sighed inwardly and opened my mouth. different from usual.
The feeling of expressing myself.
[What’s going on? lust?]
[Adaptation is fast enough to make me feel bad.]
[…] … The corner of the mouth is trying to ascend to heaven to be in a bad mood?]
At the words of lust, I fought back without losing.
[Yes—, yes! I’d rather be overly competent than someone sitting in the same seat as an incompetent person who couldn’t even handle my [Gyeong]!]
He chuckled at my answer and then tapped the armrest of the chair he was sitting on with his index finger.
Originally, I was going to send it off quickly and rest, but—
[The meeting is over about the agenda you brought up at the last meeting.]
[…] … Did the result come out?]
——At the words that came out of his mouth, I had no choice but to raise my body from the bed.
The center of gravity of the body naturally leans forward. My nerves were focused exclusively on his mouth.
[Are you interested?]
[…] … It would be a lie if it wasn’t.]
The boy’s reaction is not important.
All I care about is the result.
Normally, I wouldn’t have been so obsessed with the results.
But now I had to focus.
-From now on, the fate of the earth could have been ruined depending on the words that came out of the mouth of lust.
He leaned back in his chair and bounced the armrest once.
[The Demon World has decided to go to war—.]
It brought me the answer I was waiting for.
How nice it would have been if the words of lust had ended here.
Unfortunately, the guy had a line that would follow.
[—however,]
[step… … ?]
The corners of his mouth went up, evil.
It was bizarre.
The corners of his mouth, ripped up to his cheekbones, expressed exactly how the devil laughed.
[The target is not heaven.]