The Inescapable Enemy (2)
‘When was that day?’
The day he appeared in this forest.
I don’t know exactly when that day is.
But Winter certainly remembered the background of the day it appeared, at least roughly.
‘It was overcast that day. And it even rained at the end.’
The rainy season is not over yet.
The heavy rain that started pouring last time was, at best, just the start of the rainy season.
Now is the rainy season.
The rainy season in Korea lasts for tens of days or months.
Frequently.
So, even if I can’t get a sense of exactly when it will appear, I can at least indirectly predict it.
‘Well then, at least not right now. If it was, the day wouldn’t have been this clear.’
The current weather is very clear.
At this kind of weather, it should last at least a few days.
Then why does he appear?
Then it could be the cycle of rain.
The important thing.
That guy will definitely appear.
There is no chance of ‘what if’. It’s unconditional.’
The moment when the complexion of winter is about to harden seriously.
Warak.
From behind him, there was a warm embrace that embraced him.
“How woong.”
My mother was Yuhwarin.
She asked aloud, as if there was something displeased about her.
Winter let out a low noise and shook his head.
‘No, Mother. Nothing.’
Even so, Yuhwarin’s mother seems to have noticed something.
She stroked him gently. It’s an act of showing warmth, as if trying to appease them.
Winter made a promise.
Until that day comes.
I will definitely avoid the future of death that has been decided for everyone, no matter what.
Winter never runs away alone.
He was already a member of the group.
Even if he were to die, he would die with his pack.
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Bang-!!
With a bouncy sound spurring the ground.
A group of people gallop on the cracked old asphalt ground.
The speed of their movement was so fast.
My surroundings seemed to be pushed back.
This place, reminiscent of a forest, where the ground cracks open and giant trees grow profusely, was actually an old town.
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The home of once prosperous humans. Remnants of the Old Man
But this place was no longer theirs.
This place, which has become a lush jungle with thick green bushes, is now just another ecological environment where numerous monsters have settled as owners.
Tadadak!
In that green-grey asphalt jungle, on the walls of tall buildings,
The pack of werewolves rode upright, hammering their claws into them.
How many dozens of floors. The dizzying height, well over a hundred meters.
They rode up at once, as if they were galloping on a flat surface.
Boom!
Soon, it landed on the roof of the building with a violent roar.
Whoop-!
A strong wind blew up.
Unlike the weak tailwind on the ground far below.
At the top of this tall man’s old structure, even the strength of the wind was sharp and strong like a blade.
“How.”
The second-in-command of the werewolf pack, Misoah.
As she galloped through the gray forest without hesitation, her smooth stomach and chest jerked up and down.
She took a few moments to catch her breath and get her breathing in order.
Soon after, the eyes of Misoah and the other werewolves.
I just glanced wide at these old ruins, overgrown with green rain forest.
What dwelled in the eyes of the pack of werewolves was a clear sign of vigilance.
I was preoccupied with examining the surroundings with both eyes sharpened.
Somewhere in this wide asphalt forest, they found a feather.
A purple feather with an ominous energy.
If that’s the case, maybe the owner of the feather, the ominous being, might be somewhere in this vast land.
Their vigilance has recently increased even more than before.
Werewolves were clearly the top predators of the forest.
However, even so, the position was not always solid.
The world was wide, and there were as many monsters as the wide and diverse environment.
There are certainly few creatures that could threaten the werewolves, but it was a natural result that they exist everywhere.
“How woong.”
At that time, someone tapped her smile.
As she turned her head, a high-ranking werewolf with a say in her pack was calling for her smile.
“Aww.”
She raised her hand and pointed in one direction.
I meant to take a look over there.
“…… ?”
Although puzzled by that.
For the first time, Misoa calmly turned her gaze to that direction.
Soon, her pupils turned vertical and narrowed further, and she began to look in the direction the member was pointing.
“Ah.”
After a while, Misoah’s mouth opened slightly.
There were quite a few familiar groups there.
They, the edge of the horizon of the ruins, located quite far from the werewolf’s field of view.
There was a group of people moving in countless lines.
They moved diligently with a large meat dumpling in their thick jaws, and their identity was none other than a colony of Giant Ants.
“Whoops.”
A smile spread across Misoah’s lips when she discovered the unexpected crowd.
It was an unexpected and welcome appearance.
I never thought I would see that group again like this.
Even though it was so far away, even its shape was barely distinguishable.
Nevertheless, it was clear that they had been neighbors and coexisted with the werewolves until recently.
Seeing that there is not much difference in the number compared to before,
Perhaps those groups of ants were migrating quite smoothly.
“Aww?”
At that time, the member of the group that first discovered them made some suggestions.
I have come face to face like this, how would it be to go see it for a while?
Of course, the meaning was simple.
It was meant to protect them for a while.
“Hmm.”
At that, Misoah looked around her with a slightly troubled face.
Many of her kin, werewolves, were already staring at her.
Her suggestion was getting a pretty good response.
Nodding. Nod
She, Misoa, nodded her head, a smile tucking the corners of her mouth.
It was a sign of agreement.
A forest is always static, but at the same time it is always unstable.
Somehow, as in the case of the previous Giant Mantis, a threatening high-level monster could appear.
Because they werewolves.
I just decided to quietly hover around the surroundings without revealing myself to those docile ants.
Of course, as a token of appreciation for the small gift you gave to Winter earlier.
They were a polite bunch.
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Stupid.
My mother Yuhwarin.
She fell asleep and her eyes, which had been quietly closed until now, opened.
“… ….”
She looked inside the cave without saying a word.
Leakage-. Color-.
Peaceful late afternoon.
The werewolves were all asleep, exhaling evenly.
So were her children, Yumi, Yui and Winter.
But it wasn’t just that she awoke to inspect them, who were members of the group.
Yuhua Lin, the mother, quietly lifted her head and stared out beyond the cave.
I feel something.
Something was approaching at high speed.
So far, the rest of my people have not woken up from their slumber.
Even though they didn’t notice it yet, her senses were so sensitive that only Yuhwarin could feel them.
It was the sharp feeling of being the leader of a group.
But within.
The pupils of vertical light as beasts that seemed to have sharpened their blades quickly loosened and returned to their original form.
It was because I quickly recognized who the people approaching were.
Not long after.
[Arr?]
Young Winter and her two children.
And the rest of the werewolves also opened their closed eyes one by one.
Because they noticed that something was rapidly approaching their territory.
But none of them showed any sign of wariness.
It was because the identities of those approaching were easily inferred from the wind they were exhaling.
Bang-!
Soon there was a loud noise outside the nest.
A vibration as if it had been an earthquake also resonated along with it.
But none of the group members seemed to be paying much attention.
Because it was a familiar noise.
In addition, the smell coming from the outside was also informed that it belonged to a familiar person.
[Kururu-.]
Misoah, a werewolf who led a group on a hunt.
She and her pack, in the form of ferocious beasts, have just arrived at the nest again, now, in the late afternoon.