maybe I could have done something different
Ha-joon chatted about how the real experience of being a kaiju exterminator starts next week while I wrote in my notebook.
It was dark outside with av's occasionally passing by. The lights were really beautiful.
"It's almost 12AM" Ha-joon said and I looked at the clock on my phone. Right then it hit 12 and the ground slightly shaked. The entire city was slowly lowering like a platform and soon we were completely underground, the sky shutting in on us.
"Man..."
I couldn't continue my sentence, I wanted to say something but couldn't think of anything
"So you said you lost your sister..."
Ha-joon thankfully saved the conversation
"Yeah... it's been a three weeks since then... I'm planning on visiting her tommorow" I replied
"I've never really lost any family... although I had quiet the father..." Ha-joon gripped his beer can tightly before continuing. "he would come home late... drunk out of his mind... he had rage issues so sometimes he would hold me or my mother against a wall with a knife on our throats... my mother always said I looked like him... but I don't want to do anything with that bastard... so I try to be different than him, better."
"Do you know why he was like that?"
"No idea to be honest... my mom said he was influenced by his friends to do all those things."
There was a long silence as I thought about what to say next. I wasn't sure how to reply, how to help, and I hated myself for that.
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Inside the grave wall building
I wondered through the hallways. The walls besides me were all covered by small lockers with urns inside. My sister should be somewhere on the 11th floor. People didn't do burials anymore.
DING!
the elevator doors opened and here I was on the 11th floor. There was a homeless man slumped against the wall without and pants and a bottle of whiskey in his hand
This wasn't a rare.
The grave walls were in the slums of Seoul after all so alot of homeless people used this as shelter.
"Hey kid! When I was your age I was covered in women you know! Those bitches had the audacity to tell me I need to pay 50 thousand won an hour! Can you believe those whores?"
I didn't listen to his rant and kept walking till I reached my sister's locker. There was a small display with a photo of her on her. I opened up the locker and pulled out a red Anemone.
I gently placed the flower inside the empty locker before stepping away and closing it with a card.
Tssssssss
The homeless guy was pissing in the damn corner.
I simply walked past him without acknowledging his presence
"I used to be such a player back in the day! Women swarmed me like a swarm of insects!"
His voice slowly faded into the background and I was back in the elevator
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3 days later, kaiju exterminator's HQ
We were lined up like animals and the instructors were sizing us up. If you are doing this work you aren't really seen as a human but more as a disposable pawn. So obviously the instructors held no respect for personal space or feelings.
"Whats up with that fucking smirk huh? What are you smiling at!?" An instructor shouted at the guy next to me before landing a right hook on his face "let's see you smiling when your organs are being displayed for the angels! Let's see you smirking while a kaiju tears through your fucking useless body!"
Ouch, he was really trying to think of the worst things huh? The instructor grabbed the exterminator by his collar and kept speaking "I'll fix you up quickly though. Turn you into a real fucking man and not a sissy bitch!"
A sissy bitch huh? They didn't comment on my long hair or thin waist though.
"20 suicides!" Everyone stared at the other instructor who said that.
"Hey what for?!" Another guy shouted and the instructor pointed at some guy who didn't tie his laces correctly
"When you make a mistake your whole squad has to suffer the consequences! The same goes for the battlefield! One guy messes up and your whole squad becomes dinner"
Me and Ha-joon quickly started on our suicides, by the sixth one I was already feeling tired. The entire kaiju exterminator's HQ was so sterile and this gym was no different. Some guys couldn't get past the tenth suicide while I was barely up. It felt ad if I would die at any moment
I didn't think my condition would be this bad. There were high schoolers in movies doing hundreds of suicides and they were still standing, maybe it was just an unrealistic movie, Or maybe I just suck.
The next thing that followed up was getting used to the Chimera Skin. It felt different than it did in the simulation, everytime I jumped up 6 meters into the air i felt my organs sink to the bottom. It was so fucking scary
But this would be a daily occurrence from now on
And then the next thing, using the suit to pick up rocks weighing tons
Next was learning the features of the suit like the heating systems and the shield named the aegis shield, the thing that protected us from being turned into mush.
Then a display opened up before my eyes
[WELCOME, EXTERMINATOR]
there was a loading screen and a shit ton of text we went through. This was how we got information and how we viewed maps. With this I didn't really have a need for phones, I can always just open up the display and search through the web with just my mind
BANG!
what I saw was...