Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 22

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Chapter 22 8. Night Room Rental (3)

Young-woo sat on the edge of the bed, quietly listening to the sound of water flowing from the bathroom.

Shhhhhh!

“….”

What on earth was all this about.

In front of the glass door of the practically useless bathroom, the woman’s clothes and backpack were carelessly placed.

Everything except her dagger, one-handed sword, and shield.

‘What is she doing in there.’

Imagining the woman showering was almost unavoidable.

She had gone into that narrow bathroom carrying none other than a sword and shield.

Of course, it wasn’t sensible at all to come into a room with two complete strangers and casually start showering.

‘Is she that confident in her fighting abilities?’

Well, considering the woman’s appearance and story, she was definitely not ordinary.

‘Anyway, I’ll have to tie her up properly once she comes out.’

If he tied her hands and feet with rope and left her on the floor, even if she broke free and launched a surprise attack, he’d be able to respond in time.

Of course, Ye-chan would have to wake him up without being too late.

‘Hmm.’

Young-woo stared intently at the commemorative coins still placed on the table.

Then he noticed that the timer at the top of his vision had disappeared.

‘Ah, come to think of it.’

By now, red fog would be forming outside.

Since there was a window on the right wall of the bed, Young-woo quickly approached it and looked outside.

Although the half-open window also had a blue barrier, he could see the outside situation well enough.

He could see reddish fog-like substance spreading throughout various parts of the city.

“Oh.”

Soon, a human silhouette appeared near the fog.

Tap tap tap!

A man frantically running toward somewhere.

Seeing that he wasn’t armed at all, he seemed to be either a robbery victim or a latecomer who hadn’t followed the initial Quest line.

‘He must have managed to survive without encountering goblins.’

But his luck seemed to end here.

The red fog was closely chasing the man’s hurrying legs.

And eventually.

Swoosh.

Without any sound or presence, the fog swallowed the man.

“….”

Although there was quite a distance between the scene and the motel, he should have been able to hear screams, but no sound had come yet.

Instead, he could see the man’s silhouette, blurred by the fog, limping.

Then finally.

“…Ah.”

The man stopped walking and collapsed to the ground.

‘How long did that take? One minute?’

Young-woo reflected on the time it took from when the man touched the fog until he couldn’t control his body.

‘About a minute, I think. Not sure if he’s dead though.’

As Young-woo was pondering this alone, Ye-chan called him from behind.

“Um… sir.”

“Yeah?”

When he turned around, he saw Ye-chan looking somewhat flustered.

And three or four steps away from him stood the woman who had finished showering.

Her body was wrapped in a shower towel, and she held a one-handed sword and shield in each hand.

Even so, Young-woo’s Gumi Sword Technique and Golden Flash remained silent.

They judged this wasn’t a combat situation.

“Thanks to you, I had a good wash. Thank you.”

The woman glanced at the commemorative coins she had placed on the table, which were still there, and leaned the sword in her right hand against the wall.

With the hilt facing up so she could grab it again at any time.

Young-woo spoke with a sharp expression, as if reminding her not to forget the promise made outside.

“You said it was okay to tie you up without weapons, right? I’ll do exactly as you said, so put down that shield too.”

Then the woman obediently dropped the shield from her left hand to the floor.

“What I said earlier is all true. So I hope you won’t be too tense.”

But instead of answering, Young-woo placed the shield between the wall with the window and the bed.

So he could immediately grab the shield even while lying on the bed.

And the woman, who couldn’t have missed this, smiled once more.

“But you’re really the First Sword, aren’t you? Gumi isn’t that big a city, so could there be two people who look so similar?”

“What if I am, and what if I’m not?”

“If you are, well… it would be good to meet such a distinguished person, and if not, there’s no problem either.”

An ambiguous answer.

Young-woo decided to stay quiet since he didn’t want to create more unnecessary commotion.

He planned to leave Gumi as soon as the fog disappeared anyway.

‘I need to go to another city before the next mutant appears. The longer time passes, the wider the ability gap with First Swords from other regions will become.’

[Golden Platform]

|Call Golden Rain in 2 or more regions. (1/2)

[Premium Social Worker]

|Return a mutant alive.

Among the currently recommended Achievements, those two were the ones he could attempt in the near future.

He might even be lucky enough to accomplish both simultaneously.

“By the way, what’s the relationship between you two?”

The woman threw another question.

“Nothing special. We just ended up traveling together by chance.”

“You’re not family? But you can share the same room?”

The woman spoke as if surprised, so Young-woo tilted his head instead.

“Right now, you’re also sharing the same room.”

“Ah, well, that’s true.”

Young-woo sensed something suspicious at this point.

“Well then, could you put your clothes back on? It’s a bit awkward to tie you up in that state.”

When Young-woo signaled Ye-chan to prepare the rope, the woman smiled and spoke.

“Wouldn’t it be more dangerous to tie me up with clothes on? You don’t know what might be in the pockets.”

The woman wrapped in a towel brazenly raised both arms to show them.

Ye-chan, who had taken out the rope, looked troubled as he glanced back and forth between Young-woo and the woman.

Meanwhile, Young-woo stood on the bed and spoke in an annoyed tone.

“That’s for me to handle. Just put on your clothes quickly. If you delay any longer….”

“If I delay any longer, what?”

The woman seemed remarkably relaxed for some reason.

And from this point, Young-woo was convinced that at least one of the things the woman claimed was a lie.

For instance, the story about being pregnant.

‘No matter how easy we might look, we outnumber her. But she can act so relaxed? Even while claiming to be pregnant.’

Young-woo stared intently at the woman who was still waving both hands, gesturing for him to hurry up and tie her up.

Then.

“Give me that.”

He got down from the bed and received the rope from Ye-chan.

“Uh… what are you going to do?”

“She’s asking to be tied up like that, so I should grant her wish.”

Even as Young-woo said this, he thought the woman wouldn’t submit to being tied up quietly.

All the circumstances were equally absurd.

And the strangest thing was that the woman kept maintaining an unarmed state.

“….”

When Young-woo kicked away the shield that had fallen at the woman’s feet, she raised the corners of her mouth.

“Are you relieved now?”

“I wonder.”

Young-woo approached the woman, holding Early Bird in his right hand and the rope in his left.

Then the woman glanced at Early Bird’s blade as if it were terrible and trembled.

“You’re going to tie me up while holding that? That’s dangerous. Put it down for a moment, I don’t have any weapons anyway.”

However, Young-woo paid no attention to her words and prepared to bind her.

“Just stay still.”

The moment the distance between them closed to about two spans.

“…!”

Young-woo’s eyebrows twitched.

He had seen something glinting from inside the towel wrapped around the woman’s body.

And at the same time, both Gumi Sword Technique and Golden Flash sent warnings.

「Sense stat has temporarily increased from the existing 100 to 137.」

“This…!”

Swoosh, slash!

Young-woo and the woman moved almost simultaneously.

The woman drew a dagger hidden inside the towel and tried to stab Young-woo’s neck, while Young-woo on the other hand….

Swish!

Swung up Early Bird that had been hanging down and cut off the woman’s arm.

The woman’s right arm that had been reaching toward him while gripping the dagger.

Slash!

“Huh?”

Perhaps forgetting even the pain because it happened so quickly, the woman stared blankly at her right arm flying off in an impossible direction.

Then.

Seeing her arm fall to the floor with a thud, she screamed.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

Blood gushed from the severed section.

Young-woo sighed as he watched the woman’s blood stain the bed sheets red.

He realized he would be spending tonight on a sea of blood.

“Hey.”

“Ughhhhh…!”

“What you said about this being the last room, that had a different meaning, right? You’d already ransacked the other rooms and only this one was left?”

Young-woo came up with a plausible deduction, but the woman didn’t seem to have the leisure to answer.

She was busy trembling madly and running toward the entrance.

“Wait. You’ll die anyway if you go outside.”

Young-woo pulled out the shield that had been wedged between the bed and wall, then threw it diagonally toward the woman’s lower back.

Whoosh!

With a terrifying sound of cutting through air, the steel shield embedded itself in the woman’s waist, bending it in a strange direction.

Crack!

“…Agh!”

The woman who fell forward with a single cry poured sweat from her entire body and gritted her teeth.

“You, you crazy bastard…!”

Young-woo jumped down from the bed and said quietly.

“You should have stayed quiet and ambushed at dawn instead… why did you choose the difficult path? I guess it worked well on the other guys.”

Then fear suddenly appeared on the woman’s face. She finally realized she had been completely wrong about her opponent.

“You… you really were the First Sword.”

“Weren’t you attacking knowing that? Was it very different from what you imagined?”

“Well, that’s….”

“Die.”

Young-woo didn’t bother listening to more and deeply stabbed the woman’s nape with his sword tip.

Spurt.

Then the woman’s trembling body stopped moving, and soon a small pool of blood formed beneath her.

“….”

Young-woo stepped on the blood and searched the woman’s body.

There were no other weapons inside the towel, but instead he found something on the woman’s finger.

‘There was a ring.’

It was a blackish color like a tarnished silver ring.

‘Could it be an item?’

When Young-woo removed the ring from the woman’s hand, an item tooltip really appeared.

「Murderer’s Finger」 – Relic Ring

【10% stat increase in PvP combat】

【–Empty Slot–】

*’Portrait of a Murderer’ achievement bonus.

‘Portrait of a Murderer?’

This was an Achievement.

To be precise, an Achievement Young-woo had never seen before.

It was probably an Achievement corresponding to a different disposition than ‘Scoundrel’, which meant….

‘This woman had also unlocked an Achievement.’

Anyway, as his first impression suggested, it was confirmed that this woman was no ordinary person.

And Ye-chan, who had witnessed all this scene up close.

“….”

He stood frozen in place, unable to even breathe properly.

All the moments he had just witnessed were shocking.

“Are you okay? She was a fraud after all.”

Young-woo awkwardly comforted Ye-chan while swallowing the words, ‘The pregnancy was probably fake too.’

Current time, 11:23 PM.

Young-woo confirmed through the window that the fog had become thicker than before, then lay down on the bed with vivid bloodstains.

Whoosh.

The fresh smell of blood rose up throughout his body.

But it wasn’t nauseating enough to interfere with trying to sleep again.

He had become accustomed to the smell of blood.

Finally relaxing, the muscles throughout his body loosened.

His eyelids grew heavy with a soft sound.

However, Ye-chan.

“….”

Unlike Young-woo, he couldn’t easily fall asleep.

For a while, he stood there blankly in place, staring at the woman’s corpse lying face down near the entrance.

It had been a cruel and strange night.

Class 4 Human of the Ruined World (Serial)

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