Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

Kenji stood dumbly as he watched the man fight.
No zombies nor ghouls could approach him without being cut into sashimi.
Not only that, his movements were also extraordinary.
With minimal movement he sliced ​​through the monsters swarming towards him.
He was also a swordsman himself, but if someone asked him to move like the man in front of him, he would have no choice but to shake his head as an answer.

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‘Just how much hardship had he gone through to be that strong…’

Judging by the man’s movement, Kenji was sure that it wasn’t just an effect of mere skills.
The man looked as if he was reading the monster’s movements and was attacking accordingly.
Wherever his longknife went, limbs of zombies and ghouls flew in the air.

When the man suddenly walked towards him, Kenji couldn’t help but take a few steps back.

“If you don’t want to get hurt, step back.” The man’s voice was very thick.
Normally, repulsion and competitive spirit would arise within oneself if the person talking to them like that was also someone from the same field.
However, no such feelings arose within Kenji.
After all, the fighting powers of the large man in front of him was beyond something he could handle.

“Are you helping us?”

“For now, that’s the case.
Our ghouls might attack, so it’s best for you all to just stay out of the way.”

“Your ghouls?”

The moment Kenji and Yuzuka furrow their brows, the zombies filling the street suddenly start to fly in droves; someone was throwing them.
When both of them stretched their necks to see who was doing it, they couldn’t be any more surprised.
It turned out that a group of ghouls was the culprit.

They were clearly different from the ghouls that attacked the Japanese.
To put it bluntly, the difference between them was like the difference between an elementary school student and a high school student.

And when they saw the woman who was controlling the ghouls, they were surprised once again.
Everytime her fingers snapped, the ghouls attacked the zombies in unison.

Kieek-!!

Kieek-!!!

“Oh my god…” Yuzuka pulled the bowstring halfway and couldn’t close her hanging mouth.
Never in her wildest imagination did she ever think that there would be a time when she would see someone ordering ghouls.

On the other hand, the large guy threw the zombies that were running towards him to the ground with an annoyed expression plastered on his face and crushed them with his foot.

With the appearance of the two, the number of zombies and ghouls, which were a lot at first, dwindled quickly.
It’s unbelievable, but it was also true that the two of them had single handedly stopped the zombie raid.
And after watching their bloody dance for another 30 minutes, the zombie raid ended.

“Huff…” Seongho let out a long breath as he flicked his long knife to clean the blood over it.
Although he had become quite strong, it was still difficult to face such a large group of monsters directly.
Thankfully, he had Da-jeong by his side.
If not, going into a zombie raid alone to help people he didn’t know was something he wouldn’t do.
After all, nothing is more precious than his own life.

“I went up 1 level.
I’m level 27 now.”

“YES! We only need 3 more levels!”

Seongho couldn’t help but chuckle at her answer.
Her determination was incredible.
However, the moment he looked at the siblings in the distance, he erased all traces of his smile and walked towards them.

Seeing him approaching, the two siblings nodded towards each other and ran towards him and introduced themselves.

“Nice to meet you.
My name is Shiraishi Yuzuka.
And this is my brother, Shiraishi Kenji.”

“These people seem different from the Japanese from before.” Da-jeong whispered.

‘We’ll see whether they are different or not.’ Seongho said to himself.

“Don’t you know that if there are more than five people in a single place, a zombie raid will occur?”

“Unfortunately, we aren’t aware of it.
As soon as we arrived in Korea, we were always chased by them, so we thought it was supposed to be like that.”

“Thank you so much for your help.
We learned a lot from this opportunity.” Yuzuka politely bowed her head.
And while doing that, she still let out a series of wet cough

At that moment, Da-jeong walked up to her and circled around her.
“She’s definitely different from Koreans.
She has an aura of a lady.”

At Da-jeong’s scrutinizing gaze, Yuzuka stopped coughing and tried to cover her body with her hand.
“Does Yuzuka look that different?”

“Wow, this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone call themselves in a third person perspective!” Da-jeong laughed.

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“We will be talking for a long time, so let’s go over there.” The place Seongho had his finger pointed towards was a one-room building right next to the Japanese hideout.

“The zombie raid… Has it truly ended?” Kenji asked as he covered his nose at the slowly rising rancid smell.

“For now it is.” Seongho answered.

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“Thank you so much for your help.” As soon as they went up to the third floor, Kenji and Yuzuka bowed deeply towards Da-jeong and I.
The raid must have been extremely difficult for them considering the fact that they were bowing so deeply to express their gratitude to us even though our bloodline and class were far too inferior to them.

I exchanged glances with Da-jeong and she nodded.
“It’s fine.
We helped because we had a purpose for looking for you guys in the first place.”

“What do you mean by purpose?” Kenji asked.
Even though he currently had a beard covering his face, he didn’t have the atmosphere of an overly old person.
At most, his age should be around 30.

I’ll have to dig up some information before I get to the point.
“Yesterday we were attacked by about 20 Japanese people.
The captain looks like a big gorilla, do you know him?”

“A gorilla huh… Did he perhaps have a strange tone of voice?”

“You seem to know him.”

“Ah… I know him, but we are not allies.” Kenji hurriedly waved his hands.
“The person’s name is Futaba Otaro.
He used to be a famous wrestler in our country.”

Now it makes sense why the guy was huge.
But the strange words and actions still cannot be explained through that.

Kenji hesitated and said.
“Futaba was a good wrestler.
But he was even more popular due to his bizarre words and actions.
There were even rumors that he was on drugs.”

“What is your relationship with them?”

“We don’t have any relationship with them aside from the fact we both hail from Japan.
Can I ask what happened to them?”

“He and a lot of his subordinates are dead.”

“That’s a relief.
It’s better to not have Japanese people who come all the way here just to cause trouble.”

As I heard his answer, my eyes drifted towards Da-jeong who stood still while looking out the window.
At her side, Yuzuka was also standing.
It seems like the reason she was attached to Da-jeong was because they were both women.

Seems like it’s time to get to the point.
“I have a suggestion.
Should we exchange information?” Of course, the quality of the information must be good.
If their information was not good, the information they will get from me will also be something ordinary.

At my words, enthusiasm could be seen blazing at Kenji and Yuzuka’s eyes.

“We’ve come all the way here to live, so there is no reason to hesitate.
We will reveal everything we know.” Kenji quickly called his men to bring something.
Meanwhile, the two troublemakers were talking with a Japanese girl on the second floor of a commercial building across the street.
They seemed to be having fun.

After a while, Kenji’s subordinate came and put a small pouch between us.
When Kenji opened it, it contained a map and notes.
Da-jeong walked towards us and opened the notebook.

“It’s a diary, isn’t it? But why is the first page written on July 17th?”

“That was the date when we were informed by the government that the Apocalypse was going to happen.”

“What the… Didn’t zombies appear 5 days before the 17th? Before that, even goblins were found.”

Yuzuka bowed her head at Da-jeong’s remark.
“At the time, in Japan, it was considered as nothing but Korean fabrication, so… Yuzuka is ashamed.”

Why is she the one who’s ashamed?

After thinking like that, I opened the map of Kyushu.

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“Even if civilians think that way, the government shouldn’t do that.
What’s wrong with your government… By the way, what happened to the nuclear power plant?”

“The government told us to stay still.
We were only able to survive by grasping Korea’s information and stockpiling supplies on our own.”
Kenji shook his head with a crestfallen face.

“Is this circle the location of the nuclear power plant?”

“Yes.
The northern part of Fukuoka prefecture must have become a land of death by now.
No one can survive that place…”

“What about other lands?”

“We decided to go to Korea, so we don’t know about other regions.”

Then, there’s no information they can provide me, isn’t there?

Perhaps, Kenji felt the minute change in my expression because he quickly put some marks on some places.

“I’m giving you this information just in case, but this is Sanribu, this is…”

“What is Sanribu?”

“There are a lot of discount stores in Kyushu… And there’s a korean mart in Sanribu.”

“If it was a mart, everything would have been stolen.”

“Their warehouse was located in a remote location, so it should still be fine.”

How did he know I like warehouses?

Monsters usually appear in places where a lot of people gather, so they rarely appear in a remote location.
That’s the very reason why the rice center I looted before was still in a good condition.

Kenji and Yuzuka knelt down in front of the map and told me quite a bit of information.
It was to the point that if I went to Japan right away, I wouldn’t have any trouble.
Though, it is only limited to south of Kyushu.

Then Yuzuka suddenly moved away and coughed heavily.
She was almost out of breath because of the coughs she let out.
Looking at his sister, Kenji let out a sigh of resignation.
It seems that no matter how worried he was, he knew that there was nothing he could do.

“She’s been like this for a few days.
I couldn’t find any medicine and the cough only got worse… I’m worried that she might start coughing blood soon…”

Da-jeong stabbed me in the side.
She seems to be asking me to do something.

I sighed and told them.
“I knew a doctor who we can chat with through the auction house.
If things went well, we might be able to get some medicine.”

Both of their eyes widened at my words.

“If you can do us that favor, we will never, never forget it!”

“Yuzuka will never forget too.”

“Wait a minute.” I called the members through the auction house.
Yoohyeon, who proclaimed himself as the group’s auction house addict, immediately answered my comment.

-Hyung, is something wrong?
-There is a patient here… Can you ask Sooyeon to open the auction house?
-Noona is talking with Geom-in ssi right now, so wait a minute.

Geom-in with Sooyeon? It’s not a combination I would say is good by any stretch of meaning, but if they like each other, oh well…

As I waited for her, Kenji sent me a dazzling glance.
It was something I didn’t want to receive from a man.

-Seongho, you want to see me?

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-Yes.
There’s a patient who needs your help, Sooyeon.
-Ah… do you need remote treatment? It’s illegal in Korea.
-There is no law in Korea right now.
-Ah yeah… Could you please tell me the patient’s personal details and the symptoms?

“Yuzuka, your personal details and symptoms please.”

“Ah, yes.”

She hurriedly entered the auction house and wrote it all down.

-I can’t be 100% sure because it’s not my major, but I suspect it’s an upper respiratory tract infection.

What a dangerous sounding name.

-Seems like it’s very dangerous?
-That’s right.
There is no cure to that disease and without luck, it is a dangerous disease that can lead to death from various complications.
-Ah…

It’s getting more and more serious.

However, at that moment, Sooyeon added.

-The upper respiratory tract infection is a common cold.

What the… Why did she use that complicated jargon rather than directly saying it was a common cold?

Seeing the comments, the brother and sister sighed in relief.

-It’s so cold in Korea right now.
Since she had been walking around, her stamina must be low.
In other words, her immune system is in a state of breakdown; an optimal condition for the virus to work.
-Then, she just needs to eat well and get plenty of rest?
-Normally, doctors would say that, but… it sounds like she has a bad cough, so I’ll prescribe her some medicine.

Soon after, when Sooyeon put a medicine bag on the auction house, Kenji quickly bought it.
She even put it at the lowest price: 10 points.
Once they received it, Yuzuka quickly poured water into her cup, drank it along with her medicine, and let out a small sigh.

“Ha… Now I can rest assured.”

“For the time being, it would be better for you to eat well and rest well.”

But I know that it was something difficult for them as their situation was rather bad.

When we finished our talk, Da-jeong and I went out and called the two troublemakers.

“Hyung, what’s going on?”

“Take this to the Japanese.” I said as I handed them a bag of rice, a match, and a bottle of soy sauce.
This much supplies would last them for at least a day or two.
After that, they need to start searching by themselves.

“But where did you get this rice? I couldn’t find it anywhere…”

“My ghouls are the ones who find it, got a problem with it?”

In this kind of situation, having Da-jeong with me is very reassuring.
The two paid attention to her momentum and went up carrying the sack.
However, before they walked away, I told them.

“Tell them that they can occupy the Dot island.
And once you guys are done, return to Dot Island right away… we will also leave right away.”

It’s a good investment if I can win their heart by giving them this little of a help.
It won’t pay dividends right away, but you never know what it will bring in the future.

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“Okay, hyung!”

“We’ll be back soon!”

We headed to the island.

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Once Junho and Do-hyung returned to the island, I quickly sent them to the portal.
I gave them the map to the Farming Dungeon, and someone had agreed to meet them in Seoul, so they won’t have any trouble.

Then, we watched the Shiraishi siblings enter the island from the shore.
It was clear that they were happy to finally find a way to live.
The siblings had continuously thanked me and even said that I was their benefactor.
Not only that, Yuzuka herself swore that she would listen to any of my requests once.
It was a bonus to see Yuzuka’s face turn red when Da-jeong said that I might demand her body as a joke.

Well, I have no intention of making unreasonable demands in the first place.

Da-jeong said all of a sudden.
“You gave them the island because you think it was a waste to leave the island alone, didn’t you?”

“It’s not bad if a friendly force occupies it.
We never know when we will need it again.”

“You are really thrifty.”

“By the way, I don’t think there will be anything left for them to loot nearby… our members must have taken everything.”

“You already told them the location of the rice center, so it’s up to their effort from now on.”

Yeah, I guess she’s right.
With that in mind, we headed north with the ghouls.
And after finally conducting an experiment I found that the monsters could cross the river without any problem.
It’s a disappointing result, but it can’t be helped.

We turned around from there and headed towards Mt.
Jiri.
The reason was because I wanted to see how many Chinese were in the areas I passed through, which was Jeonnam and North Jeolla Province.

When we arrived near Mt.
Jiri, we found ourselves in a little bit of a pickle.
It was because the amount of plant monsters there was no joke.
The amount made me feel as if the entire Jiri Mountain came to life.
In the future, this kind of mystical scene would also be seen in the city.

We fought moderately there and then fled to Gurye.
Once we arrived there, my level rose to 29, and my points broke through 15,000.
It was all thanks to Da-jeong’s bus.

“One more level… One more level… One more level.” She murmured and set out to find a monster to sacrifice to me.
When she finally found the orc, she cheered.

“Thank you for coming, Orc!”

Kiek?

The orcs threatened her by twitching her pectoral muscles, but were soon beaten by the ghouls and dragged towards her.
I continued to level up comfortably in this way.
And finally, I reached level 30.

「Level has risen to 30」

「You have earned 10 points」

「As you have reach level 30, your unique skill will undergo a change.」

「Your Unique Skill ‘Dedicated Dimensional Door’ has changed to ‘Dimensional Door’」

「You can set points required for other to use the DImensional Door.」

「A special contract is required for other to use the Dimensional Door.」

It finally came out…

But something is strange…