I'm a Young God, so Please Raise Me - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32
It was reckless, admittedly. The attempt was built entirely on conjecture, after all.
If it failed, it would be nothing more than a pathetic death.
‘But staying still means dying anyway.’
Without much hesitation, I drew the military knife and slashed across my forearm.
A sharp sting bloomed as my forearm grew slick with blood. Crimson droplets fell to the floor with soft thuds.
I stared downward with tense eyes.
If even the smallest gap appeared, I planned to seize it and attempt an escape.
But the result was far more dramatic than I’d anticipated.
“…!”
I’d only expected a small fissure where the blood made contact.
But the moment my blood touched it, the inner wall began to dissolve.
The slick inner surface decomposed, revealing the zombie’s upper body and a massive television.
It had reverted to its original form before being absorbed by the boss monster.
I had no idea my blood, despite being a cure, could produce such an effect.
Since the ‘cure’ was a substance that didn’t exist in the original game, it seemed to exhibit even more abnormal properties.
The moment I saw the area touched by blood decomposing, another thought occurred to me.
‘Could I actually capture this?’
Trial allows item acquisition in certain endings.
Generally, higher contribution scores yield higher-grade items and greater quantities.
But items typically went only to the top contributor, or were limited to the top three by contribution.
From what I knew, DeZomDeal allowed items to be claimed by the top two contributors.
The highest contributor right now would be Je Hyeon-o. He’d accomplished what was designed to be impossible.
I’d accumulated decent contribution during my battle with Chef Zombie, but I’d dealt no damage to the final boss—Nothing.
Though I’d played a key role in developing the cure and vaccine, my ranking would likely slip because of it.
‘I need to become the top contributor.’
With no way to predict what would happen next, I needed to demonstrate my usefulness to Sidaecheong even further.
Becoming the top contributor despite entering alongside Je Hyeon-o?
That would be the strongest proof.
‘And considering how long I’ve been playing.’
Securing top contributor status was only natural.
I gripped the military knife and slashed my right forearm again.
Anemia and chills began creeping in steadily.
Since I’d already undergone blood collection once today, my physical condition felt precarious.
As my vision blurred, I carefully assessed my remaining stamina.
The ground beneath my feet crumbled softly. The sensation was oddly strange for mere decomposition.
Looking down at my feet, I doubted my eyes.
All the eyes that had clung to the walls had gathered beneath me.
Each time blood touched the writhing eyeballs, they reverted to their original form and decomposed.
As the decomposed flesh crumbled away, new eyeballs took their place.
The relentless movements pressing into my blood were desperate, almost frantic.
I stared at countless eyeballs pooled with blood.
They looked as though they were weeping tears of crimson.
Suddenly, I understood what they wanted.
‘They want to go back to how things were.’
I found myself wishing I could restore everything if I could.
But the blood I’d already shed wouldn’t be enough to defeat the boss.
‘Just until I’m on the brink of death….’
Once I reached critical condition, a warning would appear, and I could stop the bleeding then.
I dragged my left leg across the ground.
As blood spattered down, the eyeballs’ reactions grew more violent.
They writhed and surged up my leg with terrifying momentum.
Perhaps from excessive blood loss, I felt no pain—only a hazy sensation.
Another strange thing: the critical condition warning hadn’t appeared yet.
‘I still seem fine?’
I slashed my right leg as well. Blood poured forth.
The nothingness crumbled rapidly, and the small space that had confined me grew steadily wider.
And finally, I could see outside.
I staggered forward, my steps unsteady.
My vision blurred, making it impossible to see clearly ahead, but I could make out the silhouettes of those watching me.
I heard voices speaking, but the ringing in my ears was too severe to understand them.
‘Captain Mo is probably going to call me crazy again….’
Having been trapped inside for so long, the outside air felt remarkably fresh.
As I drew a deep breath, a system window materialized.
Victory achieved against the Nothingness!
I was confirmed as the greatest contributor.
Yet for some reason, my consciousness blurred despite not being in critical condition.
Pain I’d forgotten came crashing down all at once, and my body swayed.
In that moment, Je Hyeon-o entered my vision.
Seeing him bound to the wooden pillar with rope, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Just before I collapsed to the ground, someone rushed over and caught me.
Whether it was Mo Hae-in or Gwak Han-muk, I couldn’t tell, but even as I was dying, I didn’t forget to ask.
“Please grab Lieutenant Je by the collar….”
And then I lost consciousness entirely.

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When I opened my eyes, multiple system windows floated before me.
Third defense successful!
(Current successful defenses: 3/3)
The Research Facility has been perfectly defended against zombies!

Vaccine development successful!
‘I survived.’
I read through the system windows one by one, relief washing over me at my survival.
The Research Facility defense had succeeded, and it seemed Lee Ga-on had safely developed the vaccine as well.
‘The cure hasn’t been completed yet?’
As I tried to sit up, I realized someone was watching me from beside the bed.
My vision hadn’t fully recovered yet, so everything was hazy. I blinked several times.
After blinking repeatedly, I finally recognized that the person watching me was Lee Ga-on, and that I was lying on a makeshift bed in the Research Facility.
“….”
Lee Ga-on said nothing, simply watching me.
I tried to move my lips, but my throat was parched—impossible to speak.
Then Lee Ga-on placed a moistened gauze pad against my lips.
After absorbing a bit of moisture, I finally found my voice.
“The cure….”
“I made it.”
Lee Ga-on cut off my words with a sharp tone, her lips pressed tightly together.
I couldn’t understand why the quest completion window hadn’t appeared if the cure had been made.
Noticing my confusion, Lee Ga-on spoke of something else first instead of the cure.
“Colonel slept for two full days before waking up, and the others are currently cleaning up around the Research Facility. Before that, they found Tak Ju-chul and Paeng Sang-do and handed them over to me.”
Both had become zombies, and with the help of the others, they’d been confined. After explaining this, she fell silent again.
I watched her carefully. Her eyes were filled with resentment.
“Colonel, I heard you caught an enormous monster all by yourself.”
“…Yes.”
“There’s that really strong soldier, right? The one with the latest weapons. Why didn’t you ask him to catch it instead of getting hurt this badly all alone?”
‘That person did push me into the monster’s jaws….’
I couldn’t bring myself to tell her the truth.
Besides, I’d been greedy about becoming the greatest contributor, which had led to these excessive injuries.
I laughed awkwardly and sat up.
Still, my condition seemed better than expected. My vision had recovered considerably from when I first opened my eyes.
An IV was inserted in my arm, but Lee Ga-on removed the needle for me.
“The preliminary tests with mice were successful. I wanted to try it on my brother right away…. But I waited. For you to wake up, Colonel.”
It seemed the quest completion notification hadn’t appeared because we hadn’t yet confirmed the cure’s effectiveness on a zombie.
She extended her hand toward me.
“We’re going to treat them now. Come with me.”
I grasped the hand Lee Ga-on offered.
The Research Facility was silent.
Though I’d defeated the final boss, I would have expected a few zombies to remain, yet I sensed nothing.
‘Did Colonel Je and the other captains clean them up?’
Walking alongside Lee Ga-on, who was unusually quiet in a way that felt eerie, I moved through corridors that were similarly shrouded in an uncanny silence.
We arrived at the Director’s Office on the 2nd Floor.
Tak Ju-chul and Paeng Sang-do were bound with rope in front of the Director’s Office.
Their zombification had progressed considerably.
“Ga-on, Ga-on…!”
The moment they saw Lee Ga-on, they erupted into chaos. They crawled forward with utterly pathetic expressions.
“The cure? You’re still researching it?”
“Yeah, Lee Se-eon will treat us, right? You two were so close—there’s no way you’d give up.”
Before their desperate pleas of hope, Lee Ga-on silently began removing the barricades that had been blocking the entrance to the Director’s Office one by one.
I helped Lee Ga-on move the barricades.
Lee Se-eon, reacting to the noise from outside, began making gurgling sounds.
Once all the barricades were cleared, Lee Se-eon came into view—not much different from when we’d first confined him.
Lee Ga-on exhaled in relief.
She pulled out a case containing syringes. Then she looked at me.
“It’s something I made together with Gun-bam.”
This was why Lee Ga-on had been waiting for me.
Before my eyes, and before Tak Ju-chul and Paeng Sang-do’s eyes, she injected the cure into Lee Se-eon.
Tak Ju-chul and Paeng Sang-do began wailing.
“Ga-on! That’s the cure, isn’t it! It’s definitely the cure!”
“I knew you could do it! Look, see my arm here? Just give it to me right here. Please? I’m begging you. Should I get on my knees?”
Ignoring their pathetic pleas, Lee Ga-on pushed every last drop of the cure into Lee Se-eon.
The moment the cure was fully injected, Lee Se-eon began convulsing.
His entire body trembled, and suddenly black tears of blood streamed from his eyes.
The torrent of pitch-black tears flowed so heavily that both Lee Ga-on and I stumbled backward in shock.
Lee Se-eon’s research coat was drenched, and the tears pooled on the floor before finally stopping.
Remarkably, from that moment on, Lee Se-eon showed no signs of aggression.
Though he hadn’t fully regained his sanity, color returned to his previously pallid face, and he gazed at us with docile eyes.
A system window appeared announcing success.
Cure development successful!
“Gun-bam! It seems to be working!”
Lee Ga-on shouted at me with an excited expression.
“We should monitor his condition a bit longer, but I’m confident it was successful. Oh right, there’s still one vial left, so if you inject it into your colleague right away…!”
“That won’t be necessary.”
Once I cleared the true ending and left, the DeZomDeal virus would be cured anyway.
There was no need to waste the precious cure.
“Instead, could you treat the zombie trapped in the Underground Power Plant? He was the Research Facility’s chef.”
“Ah….”
Lee Ga-on suddenly fell silent.
Tak Ju-chul and Paeng Sang-do wailed behind me, begging for the cure, but both Lee Ga-on and I let their pleas fade into the background like ambient noise.
“Colonel, you’re too….”
Lee Ga-on trailed off, her gaze settling on my bandage-wrapped arms and both legs.
”
We
have nothing we can give you.”
I hadn’t done anything worthy of hearing such words.
I answered, feeling a twinge of embarrassment.
“It’s fine. Besides, Lee Se-eon was in a zombie state anyway.”
Rather than agreeing, Lee Ga-on offered a peculiar smile and extended something toward me.
“Please take this.”
It was the portable cassette tape player I had given her.
I accepted it with a slight sense of delight and casually checked the item description.
But the item description had changed.
Portable Music Device: Contains a cassette tape with 666 exciting songs. Listening to the music brings a joyful feeling.
The number of songs had increased from the original 6 to a staggering 666.
“Lee Ga-on, did you perhaps….”
I stopped mid-question, about to ask if she had inserted a new cassette tape.
Lee Ga-on, who had been standing right in front of me moments ago, had vanished.
In her place remained only a system window announcing the clear of DeZomDeal.
【Dead Zone Delivery】 Clear!
– Ending: A New World’s Horizon.

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