Episode 72 < The one who picks up death. (1) >
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One.
What word in the world does not go well with [zombie]?
I know it’s a weird question.
But this world has been taken over by zombies. As I suddenly started fighting against zombies and practicing martial arts, I naturally had no choice but to worry about zombies. So I just realized what the word that doesn’t go well with zombies is.
-Grrr!
That was the [gift].
-Whoa, whoa!
A zombie wearing a black uniform put both hands together and fired a long shot.
It’s not a joke. It’s real.
I’ll say it again. [Zombie], who used to be a martial artist, screamed and fired a [long wind] at me.
“Oh my, this is crazy—.”
Whoa!
The long wind lightly pushed my body away. I floated in the air like a wooden stick. Just what had happened so far left me dumbfounded and on the verge of losing my mind, but unfortunately, it didn’t end there.
-Oooooh!
The zombie crashed and kicked the ground. A mysterious step. A smooth light technique unfolded. The zombie’s body soared into the air as if it were filled with helium gas. The zombie flew right in front of my nose in an instant.
crazy.
“hey! “Wait a minute, this isn’t real!”
I hurriedly swung the holy sword. But before I could cut down the zombie, there was a voice blocking my blade.
“Go! “Do not swing your sword at random.”
It was the voice of the Heavenly Demon.
She was looking down at my fight from above the pit.
“Didn’t you tell me? Think of hunger and the pain of those who starve to death. Remember only the sensation of hunger. “If you just swing it, the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art is nothing more than a shell of him.”
“B-but!”
The zombie opened its mouth right in front of my nose. Crack! Barely twisting her body to avoid the zombie’s teeth. There was no time for a proper landing, so she rolled to the ground. Did he get even more angry when I avoided him? The zombie roared and charged again.
“I’m not really hungry right now!”
“What a stupid thing.”
The Heavenly Demon shouted as if he was frustrated.
“Just because there is no red in front of you, does that mean you can’t picture red in your mind? “Just because you’re not hungry now doesn’t mean you can’t get the feeling of hunger back.”
That’s it!
Even while the Heavenly Demon was talking to me, the zombie was constantly scratching its fingernails. If you touch that nail even once, it’s over. I am also infected with the zombie virus and become Kim Zombie in the true sense.
Cheaaa! Cheap!
The zombie’s claws hit my knife terribly. I couldn’t bear to attack and was only focused on defending. It was to die for.
“If it is impossible, it is because you are not yet accustomed to the feeling of hunger. My stomach was so full that it exploded. “A person who masters the Demon Heavenly Art must be able to freely recall his senses!”
Sensation of hunger.
Memories of hunger.
“Remember the longest time you were starving. Think back on your feelings at that time. Where were you then? What did you want to eat most? “How long have you been starving?”
“The longest I’ve starved was 3 to 4 days… … ”
“what? “Three to four days?”
The Heavenly Demon was dumbfounded.
“… The longest you’ve starved in your life was only about three days? This is ridiculous. It has been a long time since the world fell into turmoil, and the seasons are long and famine is coming. “Unless you are a child of a prestigious family, how could you have starved for only three days?”
“Well, the area where we lived was much more prosperous than Jungwon… .”
Naturally, the pagoda was richer than the martial forest where powerful people roamed. Yes, it is still a place where modern civilization is enjoyed. There are probably quite a few hunters who have never starved for more than two days.
“Uh huh. Huh. Tsk tsk tsk.”
The Heavenly Demon sighed.
“The story doesn’t make sense. Hunger is the most urgent feeling. It is a pain that cannot be missed even for a day, and it is a pain that all people cannot reject, so people naturally live to appease hunger. The hunger felt by the Son of Heaven and the hunger felt by the common people are no different. “If you don’t even know this, how can you awaken the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art?”
no.
I was quite hungry while living as an F-class hunter for over 10 years.
When I bought tteokbokki in the outside world, I counted how many tteokbokki per serving, and I only bought tteokbokki at stores that gave 4 more.
“It is done.”
The Heavenly Demon turned his back.
“It’s my fault! I looked forward to it even for a moment. “As expected, he was a talkative guy.”
I was at the bottom of a huge pit. So the back of the Cheonma quickly disappeared from sight. Chaaaang! Cheap! Barely fending off the zombie’s teeth and claws, I shouted at the Heavenly Demon, who had already moved away.
“Heavenly Demon!”
There was no answer.
“Heavenly Demon!?”
There was no answer either.
Cheonma, she was a martial artist without a bad name.
“Please wait a moment! No, my God, starving is not a civil service position! Does it make sense that you can’t learn martial arts because of that? yes!?”
The monsoon zombie opened its mouth wide.
ah.
“Mr. Lee .”
Quaz that is!
[You are dead.]
[Returns to 24 hours ago.]
“—foot!”
I went back to a day ago and stamped my feet. As I returned, I saw the skill card of a rainforest zombie, experienced trauma, and received system certification that the subject’s ego was maintained, but none of that was important right now.
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“Still, I lived through a lot of hardships!”
I huffed.
anger. Desire to win.
Only two emotions were burning in my heart, a red flame and a blue flame. It was more than just burning, it was blazing.
-Wow.
Bae Hu-ryeong was peaceful next to me.
-Educated in a completely traditional way. Actually, it teaches the one and only secret season, and that is correct. It’s a zombie. Since ancient times, whenever humans tried to eat raw food, they became raw… .
“great. “It comes out like this!”
I ignored Bae Hu-ryeong’s words and left the hot spring cave.
“If it comes out like that, do you think I’ll be scared and surrender? This is what you’re welcome to say. I am someone who has burned to death before! There was even a time when my head was set on fire and I fainted! But I don’t think I can die of hunger!?”
-uh… .
Bae Hu-ryeong showed a rare expression of embarrassment.
-Are you a zombie? Why? hey. She shouldn’t be like this, she should only learn the sword from me, not from the woman who says she’s the Heavenly Demon or something. Still, if I were to be considered a teacher, I would be much more lenient… .
“If you want to starve, why not starve?”
-shit.
Bae Hu-ryeong muttered.
-It’s a big deal. This guy is crazy. Ah, when he gets angry, he’s really an idiot who can’t see anything in front of him… . Another dozen days will just fly by… . From that day on, I entered the path of hell.
‘I’m going to look for the items needed to clear this stage.’ That’s what he said to his colleagues. And left.
I went as far as possible from the hot spring cave alone and stayed in the snowy mountain.
Not doing anything. Just stuck.
-You crazy guy… .
Do I know what I’m trying to do?
Bae Hu-ryeong looked at me with cold eyes.
-Are you just going to stay there until you starve? right?
“yes. By the way.”
-oh my.
Bae Hu-ryeong lamented.
-Everyone in the neighborhood, including me, should know what a jerk this guy is. oh my! I’m the only one who knows this, oh my. Han is the one who died and became a ghost, Han.
noisy.
-It’s a zombie. No, Confucius. Please. I don’t care if you’re so angry that you’re focusing on training, but what’s wrong with me that I have to keep watching you like that? huh?
“Oh, it’s noisy.”
-Let me ask you just one question. How long do you plan to hold out?
I sat in a small cave in the snowy mountain. It was different from the cave where Cheonma and his party stayed. Of course, there were no hot springs and no Byeokgokdan altar. It was just a dark and cold cave.
“I don’t know. “First of all, it has to pass 112 days.”
-what?
“I saw it in The Heavenly Demon’s Trauma. That person didn’t eat anything for 111 days and survived only on fortune-telling breakfast. So, I will last until the 112th day.”
-Like this kind of crazy, raw sashimi… .
Bae Hu-ryeong cursed for about a minute. But it was meaningless. No matter what curses I spat, they couldn’t damage my spirit. I was already in lotus position.
-Even if you try to last more than 100 days, you won’t be able to!
Bae Hu-ryeong shouted.
-Look at the weather now. It’s cold! It’s so f*cking cold! If you don’t cover your body with auras, you’re going to freeze to death right away, so how are you going to keep your auras on for 100 days? No matter how much effort you put into it, 20 days is probably the limit.
Bae Hu-ryeong seemed to think that swearing was not the answer and was trying to persuade him.
-Besides, it’s Confucius. Surviving for more than 100 days is no longer the realm of starvation. You haven’t starved for over 100 days, right? Don’t say anything if you haven’t starved.
“Have you ever starved?”
-cancer. I know this because I practiced fasting with my friends when I was young. There may be a few days when I feel hungry, but for the most part, I don’t feel hungry at all! That’s not starving, it’s just mental training. Mental training!
“Then we have the answer.”
I said calmly.
“You just have to fast for 15 days and then repeat the 15th day.
-…….
Bae Hu-ryeong gaped.
-What are you saying?
“I didn’t eat anything for 15 days. Last only until hunger reaches its peak. And then he commits suicide and continues to stay on the 15th day. “Hunger will not change either.”
I looked at Bae Hu-ryeong.
“We repeat this until we reach 112 days. how is it? Even the aura doesn’t fall. I still feel hungry. “It’s the perfect answer.”
-You… you crazy bastard… .
Bae Hu-ryeong was astonished.
-Just learn from me… Don’t take a strange cult leader as your teacher. Are you saying my martial arts skills are better? If you really need a teacher, learn from me. What on earth is driving you to do such crazy things? !
“I will learn the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art perfectly.”
My heart burned.
“Do you know why the Heavenly Demon despaired of the world? Do you know why this world and [Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon] came to an end? “It’s because I feel like there’s no point in living any longer.”
When the Murim lord lay sick in bed.
The Heavenly Demon muttered to herself.
“The whole world has become empty.”
That was the end of it. If the world is considered a work of art, that was the last word written on the last page.
That it is meaningless.
Whatever the characters say no longer has any meaning. No matter how the character moves, where he goes, or what he feels, it has no meaning. Even if there are hundreds of lines of dialogue. Even if there are thousands of lines of description. It’s no use.
It just becomes the same as white paper.
At that time, the work dies, and the world dies too.
perish.
That’s probably what the library director meant by [discontinuing serialization].
-…….
I don’t want this world to perish like that.
I never want the character Cheonma to end like that.
“… “It’s easy if you live like the Flame Emperor.”
I looked outside the cave. A white snowy field spread out.
“He may also have gangster skills. I am the best guy. If I win, it’s all through skill. The other hunters are worse than me because they are assholes. There’s no need to worry about those idiots, so I just pick the stages I’m comfortable with and attack them. No matter what happens, you laugh at it. Sarcastically… .”
I quietly sat cross-legged and turned the aura all over my body.
“That looks cool.”
And then it started.
“Cynicism is not childish, but people who live with cynicism are childish.”
I starved.
“Honest opinions are childish, but people who live by honest opinions are not childish.”
I starved for a day.
“I am also a person. “I have to live.”
I starved for two days.
“Then the answer is obvious as to how to live.”
I starved for three days.
I starved and starved again.
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