Apocalypse Tyrant

Plunder (2)

Bright sunlight where you can feel the weather gradually getting hotter.

“Kieeeeek—!”

I waited for the zombie running towards me enthusiastically after discovering me from a bit far away.

Splat—!

Another zombie collapsing right away as soon as it approached me.

I shook— shook— the iron pipe while looking down at the zombie that perished from a blunt strike I didn’t even put much strength into.

Ding—!

[Strength: 40 (30+10)] [Agility: 40 (30+10)] [Intelligence: 1] [Royal Authority: 104]

[Remaining Points: 75]

This much was nothing to the Strength stat that achieved 40 thanks to the stat pumping of the exclusive skill ‘Vulgar Dignity’.

I lightly bent my waist and grabbed the shoulder of the zombie sprawled on the ground.

Then I threw it towards the library smoking area like that.

Thud—!

A new corpse landing exactly on the small hill of piled up corpses.

Buzz buzz buzz—!

I frowned at the auditory hallucination automatically playing in my ears just from seeing the corpses and looked around.

An unfamiliar scenery looking at the library from outside, not the scenery looking outside from the library windows every time.

A 6-story library with modern architectural beauty deeply embedded.

I stared again at the particularly empty area among the glass layers shining brightly bathed in sunlight.

The 1st floor and lobby of the library where all the glass windows already tattered from zombies’ desperate breakthrough attempts had been cleared.

Camp members moving busily here and there could be seen there.

Camp members trying to connect bookshelves that will act as barricades by wrapping them tightly with tape and camp members trying to hang blackout curtains in the spaces where glass windows had disappeared.

Ko Janghun enthusiastically directing camp members in areas where curtains hadn’t been hung yet could also be seen.

And huge objects occupying the road surface still full of dark red blood in front of the bookshelf barricades.

Vehicles with wheels forcibly torn off were surrounding the library as new barricades.

I confirmed the faces of search team members busily searching inside cars within the newly deployed vehicle barricades and stared straight ahead.

The 4-lane central road connecting the library and university.

I carefully scanned the vehicles irregularly occupying the road there.

Whether doors were open or closed—

Whether there were zombies inside that hadn’t been checked yet or not—.

I calmly checked inside the car through the open driver’s seat of a black Mercedes and nodded my head slightly.

Most of the vehicles abandoned on the road had their batteries discharged due to being left for a long time with the engine on.

Well— In that moment of life and death, only a crazy bastard would check if the ignition was on before fleeing the car.

I checked the vehicles scattered around once more and called the closest search team member.

“Hey!”
“…Ye-Yessir—!”

A familiar face starting to run over panting at my call.

I pointed at the vehicles behind with my iron pipe to Kim Woojung standing at attention in front of me with a clueless face.

“Search the cars here first.”
“Yes—!”

Although Kim Woojung answered clearly enough for anyone to understand despite the small voice, he didn’t run quickly towards the vehicles.

A careful attitude as if he had something to say.

When I met his eyes while tilting my head sideways, Kim Woojung swallowed— saliva and hurriedly took something out of his pocket.

“Um… I-I found this in that Tivoli over there.”

I took the small box he carefully held out in my hand.

A surface starting to shine glaringly in the sunlight and the number ‘003’ stamped large as if emphasizing.

Plus English spelling that you can tell is Japanese at a glance when read.

“…Oh.”

I smiled slightly while turning over the box of condoms that came into my hand this way and that.

A clueless face carefully watching my reaction after handing over the condoms in front of me like that.

Thud—!

I lightly hit his shoulder and slightly bent my waist.

“Why did you give this to me?”

Kim Woojung’s expression hardened at once, probably not expecting me to ask like this.

He hurriedly opened his stammering mouth while looking at me quietly urging an answer.

“Uh, uh— Ju-Just because it seemed like I should.”
“……”

The face of the guy licking his dry lips after barely finishing his answer.

I watched that face for quite a long time and smiled slightly at the end.

“…Looks like you’ve finally become a somewhat useful search team member.”
“……”
“Now you have a face that’s suffered a bit.”

Thud—!

He didn’t show any signs of feeling bad at all even at the touch hitting his cheek quite hard.

Rather, he was clearly biting his molars as if hiding the faint smile trying to escape.

“Right— What should I give our Woojung who’s now become a real search team member?”

Hot eyes expecting something while frozen stiff at the arm friendly putting around his shoulder.

I quietly whispered while looking at those eyes.

“It must be that, right?”
“……”

Kim Woojung very faintly nodding his head while looking at me at my question.

I burst into a snort at that sight and asked him.

“You must have been quite envious of the other search team member friends all this time?”
“……”
“Well— There’s nothing else to do now without TV and smartphones besides chatting with the kids. Then what to talk about is pretty much set too.”

Clearly everyone except Kim Woojung would have shared the new pleasure they had, if not openly then implicitly.

The guy’s head nodding with more definite movement than earlier at my question like that.

“Right, I’m fine with everything but there’s still one problem left, Woojung.”
“……”
“A very important problem is left.”

A negative feeling suddenly dropped in the conversation that had been continuing quite positively.

Gulp—.

Kim Woojung who had been listening to my voice quietly whispering hurriedly swallowed dry saliva repeatedly.

Fear gradually filling the eyeballs that had been full of expectation.

I smiled faintly while meeting those pupils as if piercing through them.

“The remaining women are the problem, Woojung.”
“…Huh?”

Kim Woojung who had been stopped for quite a long time finally blurted out a stupid retort.

I tapped— his shoulder as if loosening his completely frozen tension and grinned.

“The women I can give you now are already filtered and filtered.”
“……”
“Honestly, even if I told you to choose now, there’s no woman you really like, right?”

Just be honest with me.

Kim Woojung’s clueless face was maximized and stared at me blankly at my subtle question.

When I waited a bit more for his answer, he nodded his head with an idiotic smile while going “Hehe—”.

“This bastard is really answering honestly. The women inside would be hurt if they heard.”
“……”

Kim Woojung’s expression hardened at once like a cartoon at the sudden change in attitude.

I opened the packaging of the condom box I was holding while looking at his face gradually turning pale as a sheet.

I tore off— one of the several condoms coming out with my hand and put it in the guy’s hand that started trembling— violently.

“You choose first from the women captured next time.”
“……”
“Use that to fuck them thoroughly then.”

Thud—!

Kim Woojung was blankly looking down at the condom in his hand even though I hit his shoulder lightly again.

I quietly murmured in his ear while looking at that dazed face.

“Be honest again, Woojung.”
“……”
“In some ways, living like now isn’t so bad, right?”
“……”

Kim Woojung who had been looking down at the condom for quite a long time even after my words ended carefully raised his head.

“…Yes.”

I smiled gently at the clear affirmation coming from his opened mouth while looking at me.

“Do exactly like now, no more, no less. Then I’ll take care of you.”

Understand?

Kim Woojung hurriedly nodding his head at my question.

“Then go search the remaining cars over there thoroughly.”

Thud—!

Kim Woojung quickly stepping forward at the gesture lightly pushing him after removing my arm from his shoulder.

He bowed his head to me several times while awkwardly stuffing the condom in his hand into his pocket.

I slowly turned my back while watching him quickly run towards the direction I had instructed.

I looked around the wide open space beside the library while moving the condom box in my hand to my inventory.

White paint parking lines divided regularly and abandoned vehicles placed here and there.

Now it was time to search the vehicles in the library parking lot.

A satisfied smile naturally formed at the sight of quite many vehicles still quietly waiting for their owners in the parking lot.

As expected, searching abandoned vehicles isn’t bad in terms of time efficiency.

Also, there was a strangely full feeling of opening random boxes since you never know what the car owner might have stuck inside.

Condoms, snacks, simple tools or sports equipment they did as a hobby, etc.

It was a search operation with a very high hit rate for work done in conjunction with fortifying the 1st floor barricades.

“Team Leader.”

A thick voice calling me as I was moving my footsteps towards the parking lot.

I stopped my footsteps at the sight of Park Taeha approaching me with large strides.

“I told you Taeha is the team leader.”
“……”

The guy’s bear-like face distorted to look even uglier when I clarified the title.

I smiled gently and waved my hand while looking at him pondering how he should call me then.

Since I worked them hard while recapturing the 1st floor, it was time to give carrots today.

“Forget it for now. What did you come for?”
“…Ah.”

Only then did Park Taeha hold out the long bag in his hand to me.

“Cigarettes.”
“Yes.”

It was a carton of cigarettes without even tear marks.

“…Ah.”

A faint exclamation heard while lightly receiving the cigarette carton.

Then I snickered— while looking at Park Taeha’s hand trembling— after the carton had left.

“Were you a smoker?”
“Yes.”

His pupils fixed on the cigarette carton I was holding even while answering.

The guy’s face stupidly followed the carton moving this way and that.

“How much per day?”
“I smoked about a pack a day.”
“Is that average?”
“It’s average if you say it’s average, and a lot if you say it’s a lot.”
“I sort of get what you mean.”

Thud—!

I nodded while lightly throwing and catching the carton again.

“If it’s you Taeha, which would you choose between one meal and one pack of cigarettes?”
“…If it’s now, I would choose one pack of cigarettes.”
“You’re honest. That’s the honest answer of smokers……”

I stopped nodding my head and opened my mouth to Park Taeha.

“Announce that I’m giving the choice from today. Say they can choose cigarettes instead of food rations.”
“Yes.”
“You tell the eunuch too if you want to choose cigarettes while delivering the announcement.”
“Yes.”

Good, this should put quite effective brakes on food consumption.

I was nodding my head with satisfaction when I quietly stared at Park Taeha still blankly looking at the cigarette carton.

A facial expression similar to when I stimulated his sexual desire with Ku Yeri.

The smoking urge that had been suppressed in extreme situations all this time clearly felt exploding at the improved situation and cigarettes placed before his eyes.

The more means to control them, the better.

Moreover, the work of recalling ‘obedience’ was also better the more frequent.

“You’re showing me signs unlike Park Taeha, keep going.”
“……”
“Should I think you’re that desperate, or think you’re impudent.”

Thud—! Thud—!

Whispers murmured while lightly throwing and catching the cigarette carton.

Only then did Park Taeha hurriedly start composing his expression.

“Why? Did you think I’d coolly tell you to just take it if you look at me so pitifully?”
“…No.”
“No my ass— It’s all visible on your face. Taeha—.”
“…Yes.”

I called him with a sharp voice and killed my expression.

I met his eyes for a long time with that expressionless face and quietly opened my mouth.

“Did you really not think that?”
“…I-I—”

Thud—!

Park Taeha greatly flinching at the palm lightly placed on his shoulder.

His pupils also became similar to that night at the natural reaction coming from experience.

I bent my waist a bit more and murmured to him.

“Did our Taeha forget what I said then? Why are you rolling your eyes?”
“……”
“Did you really not think that?”
“…I did.”
“What did you think?”
“That you would give a reward saying I did well. That I should do even better.”
“……”

Thud—! Thud—!

Light gestures patting his shoulder without saying anything.

However, Park Taeha’s expression receiving that gradually darkened.

“Taeha.”
“…Yes.”
“Then you should have said so from the start. Why did you answer no?”
“Te-Team Leader—”
“Afraid I’d get angry hearing those words?”

A gentle question while cutting off his words.

Park Taeha barely answered with his head creaking.

“Why are you judging that?”
“……”
“What did I say?”

Thud—!

Another question continuing while gently massaging his shoulder again.

I urged an answer while looking at his trembling— eyes.

“…You said not to think, not to judge.”
“Right. You remember well.”

Thud—!

I hit— his cheek with the cigarette carton I was holding in the arm around his shoulder and asked again.

“Answer properly again.”

What was the reason you were looking at the cigarette carton like a dog who lost its food bowl?

Park Taeha hurriedly opened his mouth at my low growl.

“I thought you would give cigarettes as a reward if I did that.”
“Right.”

Thud—!

I nodded while pushing the cigarette carton more deeply against his cheek.

“Don’t think, don’t judge either.”
“……”
“I’ll do that. That’s the way to make better results.”

Understand?

Park Taeha quickly nodded his head at my question.

“Here.”

Thud—!

Like that, the cigarette carton I had been holding was given into Park Taeha’s arms.

Park Taeha receiving the cigarette carton in a daze.

I gestured with my chin towards the library while speaking to Park Taeha looking at the ‘better result’ with blank eyes.

“Go call the eunuch.”