Ch. 4 The Paid Service (2)
" Kill one or more living organisms?"
"Does that mean we have to kill someone?"
People kept asking themselves and each other that very question.
"Junghwa, what do we do?" asked Minjoo
I knew exactly what to do, but should I tell them how I know? Would they believe me if I told them?
No, I can't say anything about this novel, at least not yet, or else I'll be forcefully removed by the angels.
" I don't think we have to kill anybody."
I quietly told them to huddle around so I could explain the logic of the request.
"It says we have to kill a living organism, that we have to kill something that's alive, not a human."
"I see..." says Minjoo
Everyone quickly understood what to do next.
" But Junghwa, what else other than humans is there in here?" asked Soonhyeok.
At that exact moment, Minjoo stomps down her foot on a cockroach.
-[You have killed a living organism]-
-[ The First Kill mission has been achieved]-
-[ You have received 300 coins]-
"Huh?! Oh! THE COCkroache...!" says Minjoo while we stare at her, and she stares at us, and we stare at her.
This moment of silence was interrupted by a man panicking.
"AHHH! I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!!"
The man runs to the door to try to escape, but gets pushed back by an invisible barrier.
"Huh?!"
Then the angel appeared again, and made a sinister face
[ You guys can't leave until the Game is over!]
[ I see that most of you aren't moving enough, so I'll speed this up for you!]
The angel snaps his fingers, and the time left shortens.
-[ Time Left: 22:34-->10:00]-
[ There! Now you only have 10 minutes left!]
The angel disappears, leaving all of us to fight each other.
"Damn it! Hurry! We have to find more cockroa-"
I turn around and make direct eye contact with a man who is running towards me with a knife in both his hands. I need to move! He's coming, he's going to kill me! I need to move! Why can't I move?! My mind can see him and wants to move, but my body can't move!
"AAHHHHHH! I DON'T WANT TO DIEE!"
The man screamed as he lunged himself at me until he stabbed my abdomen, and let go the knife.
The shock of getting stabbed caused me to fall back on to my seat.
"Junghwa!" yelled Shinhui and everyone else, then Soonhyeok took off his jacket to cover my wound, but I had lost too much blood by then, my vision is getting blurry, it's getting harder to breathe, my abdomen hurts. Is this what it feels like to die?
"Junghwa!"
" Junghwa, wake up!"
"Junghwa..."
-[ You have died]-
I'm dead, huh? I honestly thought I would survive longer than this. I didn't think I would get killed so soon. What is this place? It's so dark.
-[Qualifications met]-
"Hmm?"
-[ Skill name will now be revealed]-
-[Skill: Regression Lv. 1]-
"Regression? Is this really true?"
-[Regression is being activated]-
After I saw that message, everything around me turned white started moving up.
"Wooaahh-!"
Then I woke up again
" AHHH, I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!!"
The man runs to the door to try to get out, but gets pushed back by an invisible barrier.
"What's going on? I'm back?"
But I'm sure I got stabbed, so I really went back in time.
Then the angel comes back,
[You guys can't leave until the Game is over!]
[ I see that most of you aren't moving enough, so I'll speed this up for you!]
The angel snaps his fingers, and the time left shortens.
-[ Time Left: 22:34-->10:00]-
[ There! Now you only have 10 minutes left!]
Since I know what's going to happen, I look to my right and see the man already starting to run at me.
"Tsk! Not this time!"
I quickly move out of the way, and kick his arm up so that it doesn't stab anyone, causing him to toss the knife next to Jinsung. I fall down because of the way I kicked it and the man kept moving and ended hitting himself on the seat and getting knocked out.
I sighed in relief.
"Junghwa are you alright?!" asked Soonhyeok
"That guy came out of nowhere!" said Minjoo
"Yes I'm okay, I have some quick instincts. Thanks for worrying about me, but we have to find more cockroaches so we can survive, we only have 10 minutes. Let's meet back up after we find one."
Everyone nods in agreement and we begin looking for more cockroaches, people kept looking at us wondering what we were doing, I told everyone not to tell anyone before you find a cockroach. Eventually, we all find a cockroach and group up.
-[Time left: 1:58]-
I look over at the passengers, and all the other passengers were fighting each other, some were even beating people to death in groups.
"Alright, 3...2...1!"
Everyone crushes the cockroaches they had, and I was about to, but the guy that stabbed me woke up and bumped into me, causing me to drop my cockroach.
-[ You have killed a living organism, you have received 300 coins]-
-[ You have killed a living organism, you have received 300 coins]-
-[ You have killed a living organism, you have received 300 coins]-
"Huh? Wait...the cockroaches! HEY EVERYONE!! YOU CAN JUST KILL COCKROACHES INSTEAD OF KILLING EACH OTHER!!"
Everyone heard him. They realized what he had just said, and they all got down and started looking for more cockroaches, but they won't find any more than one now because there were only 5 cockroaches on this cabin.
"Junghwa! Quick, we gotta find your cockroach!"
said Soonhyeok.
"Oh! Right!"
I had completely forgotten that I dropped my cockroach. We start looking for my cockroach.
-[Time left: 30 seconds]-
"Damn it, where is it?! said Minjoo
-[Time left: 20 Seconds]
" I can't find it!" said Jinsung
-[Time left: 10 seconds]
Shit! Am I going to die again?! I can't just keep dying, I don't know if there's any repercussions yet!
-[ Time left: 5 seconds]-
With only five seconds left, I'm already at the back of the cabin. I look to the other side and see a woman holding the last cockroach.
I look at her, she looks at me, and crushes the cockroach.
-[Time left: 0s]-
"Junghwa!"
Who said that? I wondered while I felt pressure quickly and painfully building up in my head, and I black out.
-[You have died]-
-[Regression is being activated]-
Then, I wake up again
"AHHH! I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!!"
I see the man try to get out the door and fail.
And yet again, the angel showed up.
[You guys can't leave until the Game is over!]
[ I see that most of you aren't moving enough, so I'll speed this up for you!]
The angel snaps his fingers, and the time left shortens.
-[ Time Left: 22:34-->10:00]-
[ There! Now you only have 10 minutes left!]
I'm still in shock from how I just died, that I forgot that a man was going to stab me, so he stabbed me again.
I fell back on my seat from the force of him stabbing me, and Soonhyeok takes off his jacket and covers my wound to stop the bleeding, and Shinhui grasped my cheeks and said, " Junghwa! Junghwa, please!"
Please? Why are you saying this? You barely know me.
"You can't die!"
Why not? I'm just gonna keep dying.
"You have to live!"
When I heard those words. Those words gave me enough willpower to think straight.
"That's right. I need to live."
-[You have died]-