I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 31

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Chapter 31
My body plummeted rapidly.
I barely had time to flail my limbs.
Before I could fully comprehend what was happening, the fall ended.
Splurch!
A revolting sensation engulfed my entire body.
“Gasp!”
I drew in a sharp breath.
The stench of decay rushed into my lungs, though I was too disoriented to fully register it.
The sky before my eyes vanished rapidly.
The gaping maw that had opened to swallow me was closing shut.
I pushed against the slimy interior and reached out my hands, but there was nothing to grasp.
My hands slipped.
The mucous membranes surrounding my limbs convulsed.
And then—gulp.
I was swallowed.
My body tumbled down a slick passage that I presumed to be an esophagus.
In the suffocating darkness, system windows materialized frantically.
Will you execute ‘Je Hyeon-o’?
Will you execute ‘Je Hyeon-o’?
Will you execute ‘Je Hyeon-o’?
Will you execute ‘Je Hyeon-o’?
Will you execute ‘Je Hyeon-o’?
It seemed I was furious at what Je Hyeon-o had done to me.
But Je Hyeon-o had shown me far too much for me to execute him over this.
Such as, for instance, annihilating a million zombies.
I knew he was strong, but witnessing that moment firsthand had been nothing short of overwhelming.
Having seen his usefulness, I simply couldn’t bring myself to execute Je Hyeon-o.
Instead, I resolved to survive this somehow and lodge a complaint—though grabbing him by the collar might be pushing it.
Honestly, the system window was all talk; it didn’t truly wish for me to execute Je Hyeon-o.
After all, it was the system window that had most desperately desired his registration.
As I tumbled endlessly through slimy mucus, a new Quest materialized.
◆M-A-I-N Q-U-E-S-T!
: Escape from something that is nothing.
There was more written in detail, but it was difficult to read while falling in such chaos.
How far had I fallen?
Finally, my body came to a stop.
“Ugh…”
I let out a small groan as I landed in a space roughly the size of a small room.
Fortunately, the impact of the fall was minimal.
I slid down what felt like an esophagus, and the soft, spongy ground beneath me cushioned the impact.
Unlike the esophagus above, which had been pitch-black, this place held a faint luminescence that allowed me to see my surroundings.
Surprisingly, there was no stench.
It was an odd way to put it, but I felt as though I’d landed in the cleanest part of this place.
The texture, however, was absolutely revolting.
I let out a small sound of disgust as I watched the wall cave inward where my hand pressed against it.
As I steadied myself against the wall, my palm began to itch, and I jerked my hand away—only to freeze.
Eyes were sprouting from the damp wall.
The eyes that had covered the creature’s outer skin had now manifested within its inner cavity.
Bloodshot eyes stared directly at me.
As our gazes met, the inner wall convulsed, and more eyes began to materialize in rapid succession.
Within moments, I found myself surrounded by hundreds of eyes.
A chill ran down my spine at the biological revulsion, yet my heart raced for another reason entirely.
I examined the eyes lining the inner wall with keen interest.
Had the outer eyes been pushed inward, or were these newly formed?
I’d never expected to find myself inside the final boss of DeZomDeal, so I couldn’t suppress my curiosity.
Having quickly adapted to the grotesqueness, I cautiously reached out and touched one of the eyes.
The captains would have been horrified if they’d seen me, but with no one here but myself, there was no one to reprimand me.
The eye was moist and slick.
Whether it couldn’t feel pain or simply lacked eyelids, it didn’t blink.
It merely rolled its pupil to follow my hand.
As I withdrew my hand, I recalled something I’d momentarily forgotten.
‘I need to get out of here.’
My inventory consisted of little more than the ammunition belt around my waist and a military knife secured to my thigh as a backup.
No matter how much I wielded the knife, it would be useless against a zombie that couldn’t feel pain.
‘I can’t count on the captains to rescue me.’
Je Hyeon-o had personally baited me and dropped me into the boss monster’s grasp.
Mo Hae-in and Gwak Han-muk wouldn’t abandon me to save myself.
But it didn’t seem like Je Hyeon-o intended to kill me.
“Han Go-yo. Don’t die.”
Those were Je Hyeon-o’s words as he let me fall.
It seemed Je Hyeon-o wanted to confirm something about me.
Whatever that might be….
‘He could have at least given me a gun.’
If I made it out, I’d be tempted to grab Je Hyeon-o by the collar.
First, I summoned the system window I hadn’t finished reading earlier.
◆M!a!i!n! Q!u!e!s!t!!!
: Escape from the Nothing.
You have been placed in mortal danger by the cunning ■■.
K!i!l!l! E!x!e!c!u!t!e!!K!i!l!l! E!x!e!c!u!t!e!!
Execution would be justified immediately, but mercy is also not a poor quality for ■■ ■ to possess.
Instead of punishing ■■, you wish to overcome this crisis through your own strength.
You believe you can escape from something that is nothing.
But that nothing wishes to remain with you forever.
It will not let you go easily.
“…?”
I finished reading it, but I couldn’t understand the content.
It wanted to be together with me.
Smiley at Haspack had tried to draw in the player out of loneliness,
but that nothing was a boss monster formed from the corpses of dead zombies and the ruins of the city clumped together.
Without a sense of self, it merely faithfully carried out its sole purpose: to kill the player.
Even as I dismissed it as the system window’s nonsense, my heart felt slightly uneasy.
Perhaps it was because of the countless eyes watching me. Strangely, they felt like eyes full of anticipation.
But what could they possibly be anticipating?
Like in a game, there were only set actions possible between a boss and a suitable candidate in Trial.
To defeat each other.
All I could do now was burst through my insides or tear them apart to escape from within.
Without a special Quest being given, there was no means to resolve this peacefully.
I had no idea what Je Hyeon-o, the boss monster, or anyone else wanted from me.
Then I felt a sharp pain in my lower back.
When I felt it with my hand, there was a shallow wound between the torn military uniform, ripped lengthwise.
It seemed Je Hyeon-o had scratched me slightly with his metal hand when he grabbed me.
The bleeding had nearly stopped, but blood was smeared on my palm.
As I frowned at my crimson-stained palm, I felt eyes upon me.
“….”
I slowly lifted my head.
All the eyes were looking at the same thing.
My blood-stained palm.
Suddenly, Lee Ga-on’s voice flashed through my mind.
“Gunbam’s blood was the cure for the Pandora virus!”
Perhaps… I might be able to do something after all.

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The boss monster opened its maw, Han Go-yo plummeted, and was swallowed whole.
It all happened in less than a minute.
Mo Hae-in froze in place, then bolted forward.
She cast aside every shred of formality toward her superior and screamed.
“Je Hyeon-o!!!”
Blood flooded her mouth as she cried out.
Je Hyeon-o had displayed an aggressively hostile demeanor from the moment he first saw Han Go-yo.
It was strange, but understandable.
Aside from Sidaecheong, he was naturally antagonistic toward Trial and its chosen ones.
But now he clearly recognized Han Go-yo as a team member.
Yet he’d just tossed him to the boss monster like a plaything.
It wasn’t some instinctive mistake in combat.
This was a violation of Sidaecheong regulations—a crime warranting arrest.
As Mo Hae-in rushed toward Je Hyeon-o, Yeom-ju came flying from a distance.
The long wooden prayer beads streamed through the air like a rope, coiling around Je Hyeon-o.
“Major Je, you bastard!”
Gwak Han-muk gripped the beads and roared.
“I told you not to kill him!”
Je Hyeon-o, the very architect of this catastrophe, remained serene. Bound by the beads, he simply hung suspended in the air.
“I didn’t kill him.”
“Then what the hell is this!”
He replied in a tone that was calm, almost languid.
“I needed to see his eye color.”
Mo Hae-in felt her blood surge backward.
As she drew closer, the sheer absurdity of what had transpired became painfully apparent.
The boss monster, larger than the Research Facility building itself, stood motionless in a gelatinous, filthy mass.
The hundreds of eyes that had once covered its outer surface had vanished without a trace.
Since swallowing Han Go-yo, it had made no further attacks—merely standing there, inert.
Mo Hae-in fired a burst of rounds at the towering mass as a test.
But the bullets merely embedded themselves in the flaccid flesh, absorbed without resistance.
‘If only I could use the Black Moon Blade…!’
Helplessness made her vision blur crimson.
Without the Black Moon Blade, only Je Hyeon-o possessed the power to cleave through that colossal monster in a single stroke.
There might be other methods, but she had no way of knowing what was happening to Han Go-yo trapped inside in the meantime.
Mo Hae-in trained her gun barrel precisely at the gleaming goggles.
“Right now! Get the trainee out this instant!”
A metallic grinding sound echoed.
It came from Gwak Han-muk tightening the beads that bound Je Hyeon-o.
“Major Je. Release Go-yo.”
A blue spark flashed briefly from the beads.
Je Hyeon-o glanced briefly at Yeom-ju before slowly calling out names one by one.
“Captain Mo. Captain Gwak.”
Then he said something strange.
“Could you wait just a moment before the mutiny? I have a feeling something interesting is about to happen.”
What nonsense was he spouting now? He was utterly unreasonable to deal with.
I was on the verge of pulling the trigger.
“…!”
Mo Hae-in startled and swung her gun barrel away.
Splurch.
Something gelatinous fell from the boss monster.
The falling object was a zombie corpse that had been absorbed.
That was the beginning.
Splurch, splurch, splurch—the boss monster’s skin continued to peel away.
It was regurgitating everything it had indiscriminately absorbed and devoured.
Zombie corpses, rubble from collapsed buildings, urban waste….
As the components that had formed its body crumbled, its massive size gradually diminished.
Watching the boss monster decompose alive before their eyes, both Mo Hae-in and Gwak Han-muk could only stare in stunned silence.
It was when more than half had collapsed.
A brilliant golden light spilled across the darkening surroundings.
The source of that light stepping out from within the disintegrating boss monster was Han Go-yo.
His eyes had changed color once again.
Mo Hae-in, who had been gazing at those golden eyes as if entranced, suddenly widened her own.
She had only now noticed what the golden light had concealed.
Han Go-yo’s entire body was drenched in blood.
Beneath his ashen face, several deep gashes carved by a blade gurgled and spewed blood.
The blood that spilled pooled at his feet only to be absorbed by the boss monster, and wherever the crimson touched, it melted away as if decomposing.
While both Mo Hae-in and Gwak Han-muk stood frozen, Je Hyeon-o’s laughter rang out.
He removed his goggles and shouted with a laugh.
“They’re truly the same golden color…!”
Ding—a cheerful notification chimed as a system window materialized.
Victory achieved against nothing of consequence!
It was a victory notification that Han Go-yo had defeated the final boss of DeZomDeal.

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