chapter 8
8 – Mice in the Wall
“Hey, what is that bastard?”
A man smoking a cigarette in an alleyway said with a frown on his face.
“Isn’t that bastard Kim Hyun-seong?”
His true identity was a cadet staying at the bottom of D class in the first year of the academy.
“Ah~ that last place? He was caught out on me while rambling on a topic that I couldn’t even sign a contract with the Constellation, that guy.”
The cadet standing next to him leaned against the wall and said, as if recalling a bad memory.
“The idiot didn’t even know the subject matter and even messed around with me.”
Kim Hyeon-seong, who was in the first semester and the beginning of the second semester, had a nickname that he always followed.
The incarnation of defeat.
He is so weak that he loses no matter who he fights because he is too weak.
In other words, it is said that the guy who voluntarily sparred with Kim Hyun-seong looked that much easier.
The winner should feel the sense of superiority after defeating the original enemy with dignity.
However, if you fight Kim Hyeon-seong, you will end up in a strange situation where you feel bad even though you won, because you will be tainted without leaving a single speck of shame for being looked down on.
This is the reason why upper and middle rank cadets do not think much of Kim Hyeon-seong, but lower rank cadets fiercely hate Kim Hyeon-seong.
“Whoa…”
The first person to discover Kim Hyeon-seong was once a dropout in Class F.
However, he worked hard and managed to rise to D-class, but he reached the limit of his talent and could not get ahead of others.
I ended up in a situation like ‘Kim Hyun-seong’.
It is said that growth is impossible.
So he hated him more than the other cadets, thinking that he had become like Kim Hyeon-seong.
“Crazy, but what’s next to him?”
“Huh? f*ck.”
He was frowning grimly when he saw two women walking next to Kim Hyeon-seong and widened his eyes.
A celebrity on TV looks like a squid.
The owners of such looks were clinging to his side, making faces of joy.
“What the f*ck?”
A friend who was smoking next to him was so surprised that he only spit out curses.
But he turned his hair white with anger.
‘Damn it, someone is eating and smoking cigarettes with her boyfriend, and a loser playing around with a woman?’
The first feeling of inferiority I felt towards the object I hated.
It became an opportunity for him to cross the line, which he was already drunk with alcohol.
“[Vengeful Spirit].”
He is a shaman who uses curse-type abilities.
Enraged, he immediately sent out a magical spirit and caught Kim Hyun-seong.
Of course, it’s a criminal act.
“Hey, hey, f*ck…You can’t…!”
My friend who saw it said with a shocked expression.
“Shut up.”
“…f*ck, I don’t know.”
My friend stepped on a cigarette and left as if he didn’t want sparks to fly.
‘Where are you going to eat some sh*t?’
Kick.
He laughed.
Not noticing the chaos creeping into his shadow.
* * *
After eating, I returned to the real world and smiled with mental satisfaction.
My stats hit 20 all at once!
This is at the level of being the strongest in the F class with only the strength of the stats.
The comparison target is F grade, so it’s modest, but considering that this is the result of just one meal, it’s a huge deal.
“…The thing that catches the stars is throwing ant babies.”
At that time, Nyarlathotep, who was walking while holding my right hand tightly, muttered with a displeased expression.
Badung, badung.
When I looked around her with a puzzled expression, I saw a strange white mass caught in her hand and struggling.
Kwajik.
And soon it turned to powder and disappeared.
“What happened? What was that?”
“Never mind. The poor jealous thing just threw sh*t.”
Nyarlathotep stretched her finger towards her somewhere and she grinned.
“And I’ve taken care of it, never mind.”
“…I heard you took care of it, so you’re worried about something?”
The two of them look easygoing, but no matter what anyone says, they are gods.
Ktuga was about to destroy the city with only his followers, and Nyarlathotep easily persuaded Ctuga to sign a contract with me.
I was worried about something when she said that she had ‘treated’ it.
“Never mind, let’s go home. I’m a bit tired today.”
“Does God feel tired too?”
“That’s what it says. Come on in.”
Nyarlathotep was certain that he would be very surprised if he knew what he had done, so he hid his actions and pushed Kim Hyun-seong’s back.
“…Hey, you can’t.”
Then Ctuga sneaked up next to her and asked.
“You got caught by the ‘system’?”
“Don’t worry. I just planted a ‘mouse’.”
System.
It is a kind of helper given to mankind who have ‘awakened’.
And it was something mysterious that even Nyarlathotep could not understand.
In addition, it had power beyond imagination, and even showed an overwhelming appearance of putting restrictions on the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones.
Even ‘Yog-Sothoth’, the supreme god of the Outer Gods, could not escape the restrictions of this system.
‘Because of this limitation, it is not possible to deeply engage with humans.’
In fact, the Earth has been almost destroyed by various cosmic beings many times.
However, due to the existence of a ‘system’ that forcibly imposes restrictions on such beings, they are currently only maintaining safety.
This is also the reason Ctuga did not destroy the city himself, but ordered his followers to do it.
What if we broke through the limitations of the system and got deeply involved in the earth?
‘Disappear.’
There have been several Great Old Ones that have perished just like that.
Nyarlathotep made a pretty reasonable judgment about such a system.
Just giving up understanding.
It is just a natural phenomenon that even foreign media cannot go against.
That’s it.
* * *
“Whoa…”
Returning home, he sighed and changed his clothes.
“Kick.”
I smile when I think of Kim Hyeon-seong, who must be suffering from the curse he placed earlier.
Sasak, sasak.
To explain the contents of the curse, it is a curse that makes luck extremely bad.
Sasak, sasak, seokjul, seokjul.
A curse filled with such misfortune that if you fall backward, your nose will be broken, and if you fall forward, your skull will be shattered.
Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sausage, Sausage, Sausage.
It was a curse that couldn’t be placed on anyone because the original content was the content, but Kim Hyun-seong had a lower rank than that, so he was able to cast it somehow.
Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sasak, Sausak, Sausage, Sausage, Sausage, Sausak, Sausak, Sausage
“…I’m hungry.”
He felt a sudden hunger and walked towards the kitchen.
When I opened the refrigerator, Swarms of delicious rats Poured out.
Sasa sasa sasa sasa sasa sasak, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.
Grabbing a pack of rats, he shoved them into his mouth.
Jjiik! Jjiik! Jjiik!
The rat, which struggled in his mouth, soon met its end with its powerful jaws.
“mmm
Grey fur stuck between teeth, meat like chewing rubber tires, intestines that taste like sh*t and urine, bones piercing through the mouth, a skull of robbers that shatters teeth, the last thing you can’t describe. Even the brain that tastes like nothing.
“Delicious.”
With blood smeared around his mouth, he grinned and took out the next mouse.
Crispy! Crisp! Crispy! Crispy! Crispy!
Impressed by his hunger, Swarms of mice Rushed at him through the wallpaper.
Tens of thousands of rats fill the narrow house and enter his mouth.
In the end, the rats that got into the stomach ate the intestines, and the rats that were blocked in their airways struggled hard and choked.
As if Jicheon was moved by the mouse’s efforts to get into all kinds of holes, several mouse heads went into his pores.
“hahahahaha!!”
Still, as if he didn’t care, all he could do was let out a breathless laugh with his airways blocked.
The next day, the police officers started talking to each other as they looked at the corpse, which was so gruesome that they couldn’t even look at it.
“He died with holes punched all over his body. He must have been stabbed with a sharp awl or something.”
Then, when he saw the huge hole in his head, he said.
“I think I killed him last time by piercing his head. It’s been a while since I did such a bizarre murder.”
“…Huh, senpai?”
The investigator who was examining the corpse together said while looking at the intestines.
“There are signs that the intestines have been gnawed away. Besides, the airway is very wide, probably because it is blocked.”
“…Strange? Only stabbed with an awl, no evidence of slitting the stomach. But they ate the intestines? How?”
“I don’t know either…”
Dilated airway, gnawed intestines.
If you look at this, it was a pitiful victim whose stomach was ripped apart by a bizarre murderer.
However, there were only traces of awl stabbed here and there, and there were no traces of split stomachs.
From here on, it’s not the realm of the general public…
‘Realm of the awakened.’
“Tell the victim’s information.”
“Yes, my name is Sunyoung Lee. I am 20 years old. She is in Class D, Year 1 of the Academy.”
Awakeners all awaken at the age of 20.
So if you’re 20 years old in your first year at the academy… Did you wake up and go right away?
‘Have you done anything worth living for in that year?’
“First of all, investigate the people you last met yesterday. The only thing that can kill an Awoken person is an Awoken person.
“Oh, I see.”
An incomprehensible case for the first time in a detective’s life.
He also felt an unknown fear for the first time in his life.
There are no traces of the ship being split, but the inside looks like a wrecked mess.
He was sure this would have a profound impact on his detective career.
But they didn’t know.
The fact that there are mice in the walls.