I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27
I touched my eye with one hand.
The warmth beneath my palm felt intense.
I rubbed at it, but the brilliant golden gleam reflected in the window pane refused to fade.
What is this?
While I stood frozen in confusion, a sharp cry pierced the air.
“Trainee!”
Chef Zombie was moving again.
With one leg rendered useless, Chef Zombie crawled toward me across the floor, his body prone.
The word “crawled” hardly did justice to his speed—he moved at nearly a sprint.
I backpedaled while ejecting the magazine and clearing the chamber.
My hands trembled slightly, but I made no mistakes.
The round that had been in the chamber struck the steel floor with a metallic clink.
I shoved the Glock back into the sling bag and shouted.
“Please continue repairs!”
I couldn’t afford to glance at Mo Hae-in and Gwak Han-muk while keeping my eyes on Chef Zombie.
Yet I could sense they’d resumed their work.
The repair progress bar in the system window, which had frozen, began climbing again.
Current repair progress: 69%
Chef Zombie moved noticeably slower than before, making him far easier to handle.
But my own reaction speed had dulled in turn.
My mind churned with confusion over these golden eyes, and the system window kept surfacing unbidden, obscuring my vision.
You feel a sense of alienation from yourself, yet you soon realize this is nothing at all.
This is because you are ■■ ■.
This is merely a natural process of growth as a ■.
However, ■■ ■ must still remain hidden.
To protect the secret, you believe now is the most perfect and appropriate moment to register ‘Mo Hae-in’ and ‘Gwak Han-muk’.
Will you register ‘Mo Hae-in’ and ‘Gwak Han-muk’?
I closed every system window except the one displaying repair progress.
First, I had to survive this.
If I died, the color of my eyes meant nothing.
‘Two marbles remain.’
I wouldn’t use the last one.
Since I’d already used the gun, I couldn’t afford to create any more situations that would further reduce Chef Zombie’s health.
But Phase 2 would begin soon.
As if waiting for my thought, the progress bar in the system window rose.
Current repair progress: 70%
From this moment onward, as the emergency generator repair reached 70%, the most treacherous section began.
Transitioning into Phase 2, Chef Zombie, who had been crawling across the floor, suddenly began convulsing violently.
“Ggguuurgh, gguuurgh….”
Veins bulged across the zombie’s contorted body as if wracked with agony.
Blue blood vessels protruded grotesquely across its entire frame as the creature methodically snapped each joint—crack, crack—one by one.
As though testing out a freshly reborn body.
Then it slowly turned its head toward the emergency generator.
The emergency generator, now 70 percent repaired, roared with tremendous noise.
“Kieeeee!”
Chef Zombie shrieked at a piercing pitch, then dragged its apron across the floor and scuttled forward at rapid speed.
Toward the emergency generator, not me.
This was why Phase Two proved so troublesome.
Chef Zombie invariably attacked the emergency generator.
No matter how much aggro I drew, its focus would break within mere seconds.
Even using a pebble stone limited me to three seconds.
Therefore, in Phase Two, close-quarters combat was the only viable strategy.
I quickly retrieved a carabiner with climbing rope tied to it from my sling bag and secured it to the metal shelf.
Then I wrapped the rope across the thick piping and finally tied it around my waist.
After confirming the knot, I pursued Chef Zombie.
And I seized the crawling zombie’s leg.
Its left leg—the one shot in the knee that couldn’t move properly.
It wore sanitary boots, and I nearly lost just the shoe, but I quickly grabbed higher up and embraced the limb.
“Krek! Kreeeee!”
Chef Zombie thrashed violently, but did not attack me.
In Phase Two, unless damage exceeded a certain threshold, the emergency generator remained the priority target.
Chef Zombie advanced forward while I hung from it, using only one leg and both arms for propulsion.
As I was dragged along, the rope around my waist suddenly went taut.
“…!”
A crushing pain radiated through my entire body.
I clenched my teeth hard and planted my feet against the warped section of the floor plating.
A wet, sticky sensation brushed against my skin.
The dark crimson bodily fluid flowing from Chef Zombie’s leg drenched me.
Under normal circumstances, this was a force I could never withstand.
The rope alone barely kept me anchored, and I clearly wouldn’t last much longer.
‘Just a little more….’
Sweat dripping down my face blurred my vision.
I blinked hard to regain sight, and finally confirmed the changing number in front of me.
Current repair progress: 90%
The moment the repair reached 90 percent, Chef Zombie began convulsing.
Its entire body trembled as its limbs writhed grotesquely.
This was the precursor to Phase Three.
In Phase Three, Chef Zombie enters a berserk state.
Parts of its hand bones grow outward, forming the shape of kitchen knives, while both speed and strength increase dramatically.
My transformed body unleashed a barrage of attacks across the entire Generator Room.
Though my leg was injured, judging by the crawling speed I’d displayed earlier, the damage didn’t seem to have significantly diminished the destructive power of my rampage.
In other words, I’d reached a level beyond what I could handle.
Originally, the plan had been for Gwak Han-muk to face the Chef Zombie, which was why this situation had unfolded.
But the situation had already developed, and I had to attempt something.
I retreated from the Chef Zombie and tore off my wool gloves.
Then I pulled out the fourth jacks stone.
To attempt a new method I’d never tried in the game.
‘It was physically impossible back then.’
But it might be possible now.
I gripped the jacks stone firmly and disassembled the top and bottom of the plastic.
Click—the jacks stone opened.
The tension that had gripped my mind eased slightly.
In the original game, this item couldn’t be disassembled.
When I checked the item, its description had changed too.
Broken Jacks Stone: Please! Only use it for jacks!
I poured the small metal filler fragments inside the jacks stone into my palm and gripped them together with the plastic case.
Then I scattered them in the opposite direction from where the Chef Zombie’s body transformation was beginning.
The plastic case and filler fragments scattered in all directions with a faint sound.
Compared to the diesel generator’s roar, it was merely the sound of falling leaves.
But the Chef Zombie reacted immediately.
The body that had been convulsing stopped, and the physical transformation halted as well.
The guttural sounds that had been emanating until moments ago vanished completely, leaving only the engine noise filling the Generator Room.
The Chef Zombie, frozen as if malfunctioning, turned its head very slowly.
Its gaze was directed toward the scattered jacks stone fragments.
“Ah…. Ah….”
The Chef Zombie emitted a different sound than before.
And its eyes darted frantically among the fragments scattered in all directions.
Its head moved wildly up, down, left, and right.
The Chef Zombie, shaking its head frantically, suddenly began crawling.
It didn’t move toward the emergency generator. It didn’t target me as an attack target.
It simply crawled in all directions to pick up the scattered jacks stone fragments.
But its hands, which were undergoing transformation, were lumpy with protruding bone.
Since they were transforming solely for destructive purposes, it was difficult to pick up the small filler fragments.
At best, it only managed to pick up the plastic case and put it in its mouth.
While the Chef Zombie repeated meaningless actions trying to pick up the filler fragments, the repair progress steadily climbed.
Finally, Gwak Han-muk tightened the last screw.
Current repair progress: 100%
Emergency generator repair complete!
A cheerful notification appeared along with the system window.
The moment I confirmed the repair completion system message, Gwak Han-muk seized the screwdriver in his hand and shot to his feet.
I moved to block his path as he lunged toward the Chef Zombie.
Or rather, I tried to.
“Captain Gwak…, ugh!”
I’d forgotten about the rope tied around my waist.
Unable to move forward, I tumbled backward instead.
My tailbone throbbed from the impact, but I had no time to assess the damage before I cried out.
“You can’t kill him!”
Gwak Han-muk, who had been about to drive the screwdriver into the Chef Zombie’s neck while trampling its writhing form, turned to look at me.
His gaze was sharp and cold, cutting like a blade.
I, frozen in place, slowly opened my mouth.
“He’s the father of the little child whose jacks you brought back.”
“So?”
Gwak Han-muk asked, his foot still planted firmly on the Chef Zombie’s back.
“Is that a reason to keep the boss zombie alive?”
“I’ll develop a cure. He can return to normal.”
“Is this connected to the true ending?”
“…Yes.”
Gwak Han-muk’s gaze remained fixed on me. I slowly added my explanation.
“The sub-quest you received at the Elementary School connects to the true ending.”
Gwak Han-muk let out a short laugh and tossed the screwdriver into the air.
The spinning screwdriver landed neatly back in his hand.
“You should have said that from the start.”
In truth, it wasn’t related at all.
Whether the Chef Zombie died here or not wouldn’t affect the development of the cure and vaccine.
But I wanted to save the Chef Zombie.
It was something I’d never managed to accomplish in countless playthroughs of DeZomDeal.
◆Sub-Quest: Finding the Little One’s Father.
Accept the quest from the little child at the Elementary School, and you receive jacks that can be used in the boss battle.
It was a quest destined to fail—you had to defeat the boss using the jacks.
I’d tried everything from not using the jacks to countless other approaches, hoping to find a way to succeed, but all attempts failed.
I only ever experienced the same ending: the little child, upon hearing of his father’s death, would break down in tears, asking me to find his father.
No matter how much DeZomDeal was set in a zombie apocalypse, now that I’d committed to making a cure, I wanted to create a more perfect happy ending.
Of course, I couldn’t save every zombie.
‘But I could save one or two zombies I know, couldn’t I?’
As long as it didn’t interfere with clearing the game.
And besides, as long as I succeed in repairing the generator, the battle counts as a victory without needing to kill anyone.
I glanced at the system window floating in the corner.
Victory achieved against the Chef Zombie!
Gwak Han-muk tossed the screwdriver and caught it repeatedly as he asked.
“Is there a way to secure this?”
“There is. If you could just keep pressing a bit longer, I would appreciate it.”
I hastily unfastened the climbing rope tied around my waist.
I was heading toward the carabiner connected to the metal shelf to release it when Mo Hae-in blocked my path.
“Wait.”
She extended her hand toward me.
I stared at her approaching hand with wary eyes.
A fact I’d forgotten because of Chef Zombie suddenly came back to me.
My eyes had flashed gold.
Mo Hae-in’s hand grasped the zipper of the sling bag I was wearing across my chest and opened it.
She pulled out a pistol, pointed the muzzle downward, and pulled the trigger.
A click sounded as the trigger locked back into place.
Even as Mo Hae-in finished engaging the safety, I remained tense.
But she simply returned the pistol to the sling bag.
‘Is she not arresting me this time…?’
I, who had been arrested before on suspicion of being a national catastrophe, looked at her with some bewilderment.
Then static crackled from the speaker in the Generator Room.
Followed by a familiar voice.
“H-hey, G-Gwak Han-muk… Are you… alive…? S-sob, if you’re alive, could you please come quickly…?”
It was Lee Ga-on’s broadcast.
Before I could even be surprised at how she’d turned on the broadcast, Lee Ga-on dropped an even bigger bombshell.
“S-sob, I think I just killed someone…!”

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