Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Murder

I felt the vehicle approaching.

The engine sound cut off in the empty lot across the yard.

Three people are approaching.

Three men entered through the door I had opened in advance.

Of course, there was not the slightest sign of tension.

A man with a cool expression entered first.

I had seen him a few years ago.

It's Director Park Gwangsu.

I examined him carefully, but there was no way to confirm whether he was an awakener or not.

Next, a man with a sturdy impression.

Team Leader Kim Namguk.

Last was a youth with a bewildered expression.

He looked like a legal team employee.

“It's unfortunate.”

Park Gwangsu who approached said while staring at me.

A voice that was not unfortunate at all.

It doesn't matter much.

Anyway, I also had no particular feeling toward him.

What I was curious about was only one thing.

Is Park Gwangsu an awakener or not.

“That's right, Director. It would be good if he gets up from his seat as soon as possible. Ugh, this thing called life is really···by the way, where did Nurse Lee Heeja go?”

Kim Namguk who spat out words that weren't in his heart left his seat.

Then he started searching here and there in the room.

Only Park Gwangsu and the employee remained in the bedroom.

Should I kill Park Gwangsu?

No. I have to do it according to the plan.

It was right to deal with Team Leader Kim Namguk, the definite awakener, first.

“By the way, is Ms. Lee Heeja a formal nurse?”

“Of course. When she was young, she worked at a university hospital.”

I turned my gaze.

The nameless legal team employee was filming here and there with a small camera.

Then soon he approached me with an awkward expression.

The sound of filming rang out.

“It seems like he's watching.”

At the employee's words, Park Gwangsu shook his head.

“It might look like that, but it's not true. The necessary examinations have already all been conducted.”

Bullshit.

Actually, my symptom name is Locked-in Syndrome.

Consciousness, sight and hearing, memory and thinking ability are normal.

Even hunger is partially felt.

Only the state of not being able to move the body.

The reason they imprisoned me in a rural corner instead of a hospital.

“I see.”

The bewildered employee nodded without any suspicion.

The situation ended with that.

The employee who finished what he had to do sat perched on the chair.

Perhaps tired from driving, he closed his eyes.

Not long after, Kim Namguk returned.

In a state where his breathing had become rough as if heated.

He had thoroughly searched the room and even the warehouse, but the burned Lee Heeja couldn't appear.

Kim Namguk picked up his phone.

“Uh, uh···Munryong. Nurse Lee Heeja is not···no, no. The interior is clean. It's not dirty. Nurse Lee Heeja has such a neat personality, right? The director's mood is also good, the patient also looks very healthy···I just need to find Ms. Lee Heeja···.”

Kim Namguk briefly took the phone away from his ear.

He asked toward the employee.

“It seems Ms. Lee Heeja went out for a bit, wouldn't this be enough to wrap up? We took interior photos, the patient is healthy, and medical records have already been submitted.”

The employee's expression became slightly troubled.

“I'll check the manual a bit.”

Chubby fingers clumsily searched the phone.

The employee who paused for a moment scratched his head and said.

“That would be difficult. In the manual···it says that the interview record with the medical personnel in charge must remain as a video···hahaha···.?”

Suddenly Kim Namguk's expression turned cold.

The employee who showed a flustered sign.

Director Park Gwangsu smiled softly and waved his hand.

“If the manual says so, it can't be helped. I'll go out and smoke one cigarette.”

The eyes of Park Gwangsu who turned around changed.

Ice-cold pupils lightly scanned me and soon moved steps outside.

Footsteps walking out to the yard.

Grass rustles under the feet.

“...Ahem. It wasn't that there was dissatisfaction. Don't misunderstand.”

Kim Namguk who added with an embarrassed expression.

The employee's expression slightly relaxed.

-Fuck, where the hell did that fucking bitch go?

In the meantime.

Outside, Park Gwangsu spat curses and took out a cigarette from his bosom.

His hand headed toward the pocket where the lighter would be.

He takes out the lighter and brings it to his mouth.

“Where the hell did this woman go···.”

In front of my eyes.

Kim Namguk muttered like that while bringing the phone to his ear.

All those things happening simultaneously indoors and outdoors were input into my head without omission.

The power of the Detection skill that reached the maximum level.

Recognized information immediately connects to sensation.

Every single movement was vivid as if watching right in front of my eyes.

'Let's focus.'

I calmly observed the entire flow.

The most appropriate moment.

I had to firmly grasp the one and only opportunity.

Ting, tssssss···.

In the yard in front of the house.

Park Gwangsu's finger flicked the lighter.

The flame heading toward the cigarette.

Air sucked into the pursed mouth.

Meanwhile, Kim Namguk's face distorted with irritation.

His finger nervously headed toward the end button.

Right at that moment.

Along with a bizarre feeling as if the nerves in my head were tightening.

It was instinctively felt.

The time is now.

I summoned Fireballs around Kim Namguk who was lowering the phone.

9 fist-sized Fireballs summoned simultaneously.

The Fireballs that floated according to the positions simulated all day simultaneously rushed toward Kim Namguk.

Whoosh!

At the sudden flame, the legal team employee froze as is.

But Kim Namguk the awakener was different.

“Ugh?”

Indeed befitting an awakener.

Compared to the flustered sign, the action was quick.

He immediately kicked off the spot and threw his body toward the window.

But it seemed too much to perfectly dodge.

2 Fireballs pierced Kim Namguk's body in one go.

One in the calf.

One in the side.

“Kuaaaaaak!!!!”

The guy let out a scream.

Fist-sized holes pierced in the calf and side flesh.

The surrounding flesh blackened, and the holes instantly became head-sized.

In the air, Kim Namguk's leg dropped to the floor with a thud.

But it wasn't as much as expected.

Because he didn't turn into a pile of ashes like a goblin.

Clang!

The window shattered and the guy's body rolled outside.

“This is crazy, the cripple bastard awakened!? How the fuck is there a case like this!”

The guy's voice full of venom rang out.

A light sense of relief felt from the voice.

It seemed he thought he lived because he left the field of vision.

A stupid thought.

Swaaek!

A Fireball flew toward Kim Namguk who was crawling on the floor.

I had already expected that the guy would run to the window.

The last Fireball summoned entirely outside the building cut through the air like lightning.

The result was already decided.

Kim Namguk who didn't notice the existence of the Fireball at all.

At this rate, the guy dies.

Murder.

When I recalled that word, my insides churned.

A bizarre feeling as if bugs were crawling around the heart.

I can still disperse the Fireball even now.

Should I stop?

But after that?

In a fleeting moment, all sorts of thoughts went back and forth.

In the end, I didn't stop the flame.

I could have dispersed it, but I didn't do so.

Pain was enough for 8 years.

That much was sufficiently long.

The me who was sixteen had become twenty-four at some point.

Times worse than an animal spent lying on the bed looking at the ceiling.

If they had at least killed me, it wouldn't have festered this much.

Puk!

The fireball pierced the heart of Kim Namguk rolling on the floor in one go.

Kim Namguk's chest heaved greatly.

The last inhale was sucked into the lungs and a grotesque sound leaked out.

“Keueok···.”

A sensation that approached too specifically and nakedly.

But I didn't erase the sensation.

I didn't run away.

To move forward, I must not avoid it.

What must be endured must be endured.

Soon Kim Namguk's breathing cut off with a thud.

And.

Thuk.

···Thuk?

Suddenly a heterogeneous sensation stabbed into my head.

Outside the building.

Something dropped to the floor.

With a slight heat remaining.

It's the lighter.

Bang!

Suddenly the front door crumpled like paper and pushed toward me.

Behind that, Park Gwangsu was crouching his body.

As worried, Park Gwangsu was also an awakener.

Thinking that way, it was the right judgment to ambush when one fell.

“Th-this cripple bastard, how the hell!!”

I let the greatly excited Park Gwangsu's words go in one ear.

I blocked the door with densely bundled Mana Thread.

Tremendous pressure pushed in as if a physical ability awakener.

Dozens of Mana Threads crumpled.

But I endured while attaching more Mana Threads.

Whoosh!

At the same time, the summoned Fireball roughly struck the iron door.

A Fireball skill specialized in burning, not explosion.

Instead of piercing the iron door, it covered it in one go.

“Kuaaaak!”

Park Gwangsu who took a step back.

He immediately rushed to the side, but perhaps because he was already excited, the movement was read too easily.

I launched three Fireballs to block the path.

In the meantime, one Fireball struck the guy's shoulder.

Fwoosh!

The shoulder was pierced and the skin immediately necrosed.

As the wound grew as big as a head, the arm dropped to the floor with a thud.

Park Gwangsu's pupils enlarged greatly.

With a startled expression, he grabbed his shoulder and hurriedly turned his body.

“This cripple bastard! Just you wait!!”

Park Gwangsu who roughly spat curses.

He rushed outside and immediately headed toward the vehicle.

A wise and appropriate judgment.

If I.

Couldn't move.

Step, step.

I wrapped my body with Mana Thread and headed outside.

Park Gwangsu who had already reached the parking lot and was boarding the vehicle.

I raised my hand and summoned a Fireball.

Not a fist-sized one.

One Fireball much larger than an adult's head.

If no teeth, use the gums.

As practiced all day yesterday.

The hand wrapped with Mana Thread grabbed the Fireball and roughly threw it.

The flame that extended so it wasn't even properly visible to the eyes directly hit the vehicle.

Fwoooooosh!

Tremendous firepower incomparable to the existing Fireball.

The flames swallowed the vehicle whole.

Park Gwangsu hurriedly opened the door and came out, but it was already late.

The whole body blazing brightly.

He rolled on the floor, but the flames didn't decrease even a little.

“Kuaaaaaaaaaak!! S-save me!!!!”

It took 1 minute for the guy to be completely incinerated.

I didn't take my eyes off the guy who begged to be saved for the entire 1 minute.

Dirty bastard.

Trash who lived in luxury under uncle Lee Taesik.

At some point the scream subsided.

Since he completely turned into powder, there was no need to even confirm death.

I returned to the room and looked around.

There was no living person.

The legal team employee had collapsed while pouring a lot of blood from the chest.

The dagger that Park Gwangsu who pushed in the iron door threw for silencing was stuck in the middle of the chest.

“...”

I collapsed to the floor as if crumbling.

My head went blank, and no thoughts came to mind.

A feeling that the string supporting my mind had become too tight and seemed like it would snap at any moment.

I closed my eyes.

Darkness came.

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