Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 59

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 59

“Close your eyes and cover your ears.”

“Huh?”

“Close your eyes, cover your ears… and keep purifying.”

A cold sensation moved my hands to my ears.

I squeezed my eyes shut and covered my ears with both hands.

Then I invoked my purification power.

With my eyes and ears blocked, my senses felt strange.

My body wasn’t moving, but I felt like my surroundings were subtly tilting.

As if the ground was very slowly becoming slanted.

“…?!”

The direction I believed was up gradually shifted to the side, creating the illusion that what was under my feet was becoming a wall.

Just then, a strong wind blew, and I had to be careful not to lose my balance.

And in an instant.

The damp smell like wet concrete changed…

What lingered at the tip of my nose with each breath was the smell of dust.

The sensation under my feet also changed.

I, who had been standing on hard concrete, now seemed to be standing on a rough texture.

What happened? What did he do?

My heart was beating like crazy.

* * *

Chae Heon looked down at the small alien and slowly raised his head.

Stone stairs had appeared in front of him as well.

Once you set foot on those stairs, also called the ‘Infinite Stairs’, you could never escape.

“…”

Step by step.

Chae Heon passed by the Pink Jelly and headed toward the stairs.

There was only one way to break the stairs.

Someone in the group had to climb the stairs.

It was a rule that someone absolutely had to be sacrificed.

That’s why Chae Heon began climbing the stairs himself.

One step.

Gulp.

One step.

Gulp.

With each step up the stairs, the stairs tried to extort something from Chae Heon.

Things like vitality, energy, vigor.

However.

Chae Heon smiled slightly.

With each step, black contamination spread from his toes, filling the stairs completely.

An unbearable amount of contamination devoured the stairs.

Crack!

Crackle-!

Along with the sound of bones breaking, cracks began to form in the stairs.

The stairs that should have been infinite showed their end, as if they wanted to stop Chae Heon.

But Chae Heon didn’t stop spilling contamination.

As if pouring contamination directly down his esophagus.

At the same time, corroded corners of the stairs fell downward.

Chae Heon’s form was now scattered in the shape of blazing black flames.

As if he had become contamination itself.

Crack! Crackle!

Debris fell from various parts of the stairs and rolled to the floor.

He stood on the crumbling stairs as if reigning like a king.

Rumble!

The speed at which the stairs collapsed grew faster and faster.

Then long hands began emerging from between the stone structures.

-Aaaaah!

-Huuuuh!

Those things making bizarre screams flailed about trying to grab Chae Heon.

But Chae Heon only watched them indifferently.

The hands burst apart before they could even approach him.

Pop-! Splat-!

Blood splattered on his cheek.

Chae Heon calmly wiped it away with the back of his hand and glanced down at the jelly below.

He worried whether screams or explosion sounds might be heard, but it seemed like nothing was audible.

A moment later.

Chae Heon slowly closed his eyes.

And when he lifted his eyelids, he was standing on a road, not on stairs.

The stairs lay collapsed on the road, with blood flowing profusely from between them.

‘I should clean this up.’

Chae Heon thought nonchalantly as he adjusted his disheveled face and put on his gas mask.

* * *

Even though I was standing still, I felt nauseous from the sensation that everything around me was turning upside down.

‘What on earth is happening?’

I opened my eyes just a little bit.

What I saw before my eyes was the end of the street moving.

The buildings at the end of the street within my sight, the roads, the streetlights… everything was shifting or collapsing while slowly changing positions.

‘How?’

Then, another building tilted.

It was at a falling angle but didn’t fall. The building just remained tilted and connected to the ground in a different direction.

Meanwhile, the road split apart.

The road split in half overlapped like colliding mantles, then one stream disappeared. Not even a speck of dust remained on the disappearing side.

I couldn’t believe it.

It was as if the city was being reassembled while changing like puzzle pieces.

I was breathless.

Then, I saw the Central Bank building being pulled forward very slowly.

The entire city was aligning itself based on that building.

This looked like… the city was moving according to someone’s thoughts.

And when it seemed like it was finishing, I squeezed my eyes shut again.

“Now-“

Chae Heon’s voice was heard very close by.

“You can open your eyes.”

I carefully opened my eyes.

Not only were the stairs gone, but the road where the fallen traffic light had been was now an empty intersection.

No billboards, no creaking signs either.

Instead, what was in front of me was the massive Central Bank building.

My mouth fell open without realizing it. It felt like the world had spun around.

I looked up at Chae Heon.

I had a bucketful of questions about what happened and what he did.

But the moment I saw Chae Heon, my words got stuck and wouldn’t come out.

Chae Heon was looking down at me while wearing a gas mask.

It seemed like he was trying to block all questions, or like he wanted to hide something.

Every time he took rough breaths, contamination spewed out through the gaps in the gas mask.

Without time to think about anything, I grabbed Chae Heon and shouted for purification.

“Purification!”

But no matter how many times I tried, the power of purification couldn’t even reach Chae Heon’s side and fizzled out.

“Why isn’t it working… Purification! Purification!”

As I kept trying, Chae Heon shook off my hand.

“Your power isn’t even close to enough, so don’t worry about it.”

“But you…!”

I could tell without measuring the contamination spewing out.

That it was very thick and deep.

But Chae Heon turned his head away as if annoyed. It seemed like he didn’t want to hear what I had to say.

“…”

Soon he started walking with big strides.

Watching his back as he told me nothing, I finally realized.

That’s what kept you from going home.

I looked down at my two hands.

This powerless and insignificant strength keeps feeling so inadequate.

Suddenly, the image of myself waiting to die in the hospital room flashed through my mind.

“…!”

My body trembled with a start.

I shook my head to shake off the thoughts that kept trying to sink in, then approached Chae Heon and took his hand.

As if to show that this much was nothing.

Chae Heon hesitated and looked down at our clasped hands.

Fortunately, Chae Heon didn’t shake off my hand and kept holding it.

“Your hand is damp.”

Though he did say something annoying instead.

“It’s soft and moist.”

I replied shamelessly.

“It’s so damp you could probably do laundry with it.”

“That’s great! Then I don’t need to make you a washing machine, right?”

“Why does the conversation go that way?”

While we bickered as usual, we arrived in front of the bank.

“We’re here.”

At Chae Heon’s calmed words, I looked up.

“Oh.”

It’s a bank!

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