Apocalypse Tyrant

A Cat in a Cage (3)

Cha Seolhee, even in the dim moonlight, was overly attractive, but

as expected, Cha Seolhee’s most fatal debuff was ‘darkness’.

Cha Seolhee, placed under the sunlight that illuminates the temporary shelter through the window.

Cha Seolhee’s face, gently caressed by the sunlight, always makes me open my mouth foolishly.

Well― that’s her real face.

Spotlights, broadcast lighting, camera flashes from fans and reporters.

Because she was a woman who had always lived in bright light.

And the sight of such a Cha Seolhee quietly waiting for me made it difficult to regain composure in the morning.

Even more so, considering that I had come down after dealing with the remaining zombie dregs on the third floor while Cha Seolhee was taking care of breakfast.

The adrenaline that filled my body while smashing the heads of the zombies naturally urged me to the next action.

Kung―!

The sound of impact as I pushed her slightly roughly against the wall.

I held her head even more strongly with the hand that was already protecting the back of her head, and lowered my head.

“Jjoo-ok―! Jjoo-ok―! Jjoo-ok―!”

A one-sided kiss that didn’t need her permission or consent.

A fluffy sensation was transmitted directly from the chest that was tightly pressed against her body fixed to the wall.

A jelly-like sensation that gently resists my body as I press closer.

I blatantly rubbed my body against her chest and greedily explored her mouth.

“Jjoo-ok―! Jjoo-ok―! Chyureup―!”

A lewd noise ringing through the temporary shelter early in the morning.

I knew from yesterday’s experience that it wouldn’t matter if I played with her tongue,

but I didn’t put my tongue in and continued to suck on her lips.

Because it was much more fun and exciting to forcibly take and eat her lips like this.

“Puha―! Haa―! Haa―!”

Cha Seolhee, who was now a little familiar with controlling her breathing after a fairly long kiss.

I quietly looked down at Cha Seolhee’s glistening lips and neck, which were cutely gasping for breath.

The fair neck next to her constantly moving shoulders.

The traces of kisses that are dyeing it dark red.

I gently stroked the kiss marks, which numbered at least five.

Just looking at these marks made the dick inside my training pants throb as if it would ejaculate at any moment.

Tak―!

“…Please go easy on me in the morning.”

Cha Seolhee slightly pushed my hand away and glanced back.

A soft voice whispering fiercely, looking at the back of the bookcase with anxious eyes.

I turned my head and checked where her gaze was directed.

The bookcase that serves as the wall of the temporary shelter.

The Search Team (수색조) was waiting for me through the gaps that couldn’t be covered even by the books piled up as a kind of screen.

The voyeurs who must have been listening to the lewd sounds coming from the temporary shelter.

“…Why? Are you embarrassed?”

“Well, am I not supposed to be embarrassed when I’m advertising with the sound of smooching from the morning? Besides, I haven’t even brushed my teeth after breakfast.”

Cha Seolhee’s right hand, shooting like a machine gun, tudada―.

I stared intently at the white bandage wrapped around her right hand, which was covering her neck as if to hide the kiss marks.

“…Ah.”

Cha Seolhee, who felt my gaze, opened her eyes wide, then lowered her right hand again and quickly covered it with her left hand.

The bandage on her right hand, hidden again by her left hand, and the fully exposed kiss marks.

“Are you still anxious?”

At my quiet question, she slightly bit her lip and replied.

“…It’s not me, but other people who see this will be anxious.”

“Oh, so you are not anxious?”

When you don’t know when you might turn into a zombie again?

I lowered my voice slightly, intending to scare her, but she just looked up at me without moving.

“If that were the case, wouldn’t someone else go crazy before I do?”

Like throwing a tantrum against the wall, or slapping my cheek really hard―.

Oh―

She remembered all that, even when she must have had a near-death experience?

I let out a small chuckle at her words and shook my head.

I had thought of some fun pranks using that infection site―

But seeing her reaction now, the chances of them working seemed a little low.

“You’re trying to play above my head until the end.”

“I’m just a bit strong in adaptability.”

At the sight of her trying to get the last word again, I shook my head again and gestured behind me.

“Yeah, it’s funny to criticize you for being adaptable.”

I hope that adaptability remains the same this time too.

Ttubeok― Ttubeok―

As I released my hold and left the temporary shelter, the footsteps of Cha Seolhee following me echoed along.

“Aigo― Team Leader (조장), it’s such a good morning, hehe―!”

As soon as I stepped out of the temporary shelter, a greeting popped out like a macro.

“I heard you went to the third floor alone. Aigo― It must have been uncomfortable going alone, I should have known in advance and prepared― Or I should have prepared Woojin or Minjun in advance― This is all because I’m lacking―”

Ko Janghun (고장훈) approached me faster than anyone else and began to grovel as usual.

And behind Ko Janghun, the underlings squirming in awkward positions.

Their slightly bent waists and rough breathing were somehow familiar to me.

And the destination of their desperately glancing eyes.

Cha Seolhee, noticing the destination, hurriedly covered the kiss marks on her neck with her hand.

Cha Seolhee, bowing her head deeply and covering the kiss marks.

And the two underlings desperately glancing at that sight made me let out a hollow laugh.

Well, how could they not know, when I advertised it with surround sound like that.

“Ai― Park Woojin (박우진), Kim Minjun (김민준). What are you doing back there? Our Team Leader did what you were supposed to do during mealtime, you punks. Come quickly and see if there’s anywhere he’s uncomfortable―”

It’s just that this guy, who is engrossed in flattery even at a time like this, is the most amazing.

Tuk―!

“Hehe, Team Leader.”

The waist that bowed more politely when I tapped his shoulder as a sign of praise.

Me looking quietly at that Ko Janghun, and the two underlings scrambling to get their shields.

And An Sejun (안세준)’s couple, standing a step away from us.

The members of the Search Team, which had grown in number quite a bit.

“Everyone stay put here today.”

The faces of the Search Team members, who always gathered every morning to receive my orders, changed to bewildered expressions.

Especially the two underlings and Ko Janghun, who always followed me and acted as my limbs, were openly showing question marks above their heads.

“It’s time to choose.”

Since it was promised as a reward for teamwork in the first place.

At the short sentence I threw out with a faint smile, Ko Janghun’s smile, who understood immediately, deepened.

Behind that Ko Janghun, the two underlings still looking at me stupidly with expressions of not knowing what was going on.

I didn’t bother to explain further and gestured to Ko Janghun.

“Have An Sejun and his girlfriend continue to guard the food bags, and you, eunuch, distribute them as you see fit.”

“Yes sir―! I will take responsibility and carry it out perfectly―!”

Ko Janghun, who had been in the military, answered loudly, giving a fairly sharp salute.

I let out a hollow laugh and gestured to Cha Seolhee, who was attached to my back.

The departure of Jung Seri (정세리) and Cha Seolhee from the camp.

Especially Cha Seolhee’s departure from the camp, rather than Jung Seri’s, would change many things.

Even if Cha Seolhee came with the stigma of being bitten by a zombie and was ostracized by the camp members, she is Cha Seolhee.

What would they think if they saw her, who always attracted the attention of others as a matter of course, walking around perfectly fine?

And in a healthier state than when she was in the camp.

Humans are cursed to live with the curse of comparison for the rest of their lives.

They would initially compare Cha Seolhee in the camp and Cha Seolhee now―

In the end, they will compare the camp I created and the camp they belong to.

Moreover, Cha Seolhee and Jung Seri were originally people who were with them.

If Cha Seolhee and Jung Seri moved camps, they would naturally think that they could also move camps.

In other words, it wouldn’t be long before deserters appeared in that camp.

Probably the women, who have a low threshold for this uncomfortable and starved life, will start to desert first.

Tuk―!

“If you were even half as good as Eunuch, I’d take care of you.”

I tapped the shoulders of the two underlings who smiled belatedly, realizing my intentions.

Their faces, turning white as a sheet of paper at my face quietly smiling at them.

Just now, it was a reaction I deliberately induced to stimulate the resentful Cha Seolhee’s shame, but that was that, and this was this.

“…Let’s be careful with our eyes, guys.”

“Ye, yeeees―! S, sorryyyyy―!”

Still, they’re not completely clueless, so at my last warning, they trembled like aspen trees and bowed deeply.

Still, those guys are not clueless, they’re not inexperienced.

Since they are living witnesses of the violence I committed, this much should be enough for them to understand.

I briefly stared at An Sejun’s couple, who also awkwardly bowed, and then hurried my steps again.

“G, goodbye, Team Leaderrrrr―!”

I heard the farewell of the Search Team, who had regained their senses, and threw open the inner stairwell door.

Kkiiiiiik―!

Originally, there should have been a Barricade (바리케이드) blocking the way to the third floor right in front of the inner stairwell door, but I had moved it one floor up while going up to the third floor earlier.

Kung―!

The sound of the door closing and the inner stairwell instantly darkening.

Ttalgak―!

I turned on the switch of the Flashlight (손전등), not the Metal Pipe (쇠 파이프), and then handed it to Cha Seolhee behind me.

Cha Seolhee, quietly taking the flashlight and illuminating the view.

Ttubeok― Ttubeok―

I started to climb the stairs leisurely, guided by the flashlight she was shining.

“Aren’t you curious why I’m only taking you up?”

A voice that resonated through the inner stairwell, woong woong―.

“…It’s obvious that you’re going to do that again.”

“Oh― That too, and there’s another reason.”

It seems that it’s not a lie that she’s strong in adaptability, her voice is quite calm now.

I answered her guess honestly and continued to hurry my steps.

It was quite awkward that my right hand was empty instead of holding a metal pipe―

But since the third floor was completely cleared of zombies, it didn’t really matter.

“…Another reason?”

“I was thinking of moving on to phase 2.”

“…Phase 2?”

A conversation that becomes more enigmatic the more we talk.

I smiled more deeply, seeing Cha Seolhee slightly furrowing her brow.

Cha Seolhee, quietly looking at my face.

I just gestured to the doorknob without saying anything.

Cha Seolhee, slowly grabbing the doorknob at my instruction.

Tuk―!

And she, who was about to turn the hand on the doorknob, flinched and stopped moving.

“…”

A slightly biting lip, an anxious expression, and faintly trembling pupils holding her right hand.

The white bandage imprinted on her right hand like a stigma made her hesitate.

“…Why?”

Are you scared?

A hellish experience that you never want to experience again.

What would it mean for her, who came back from the very end of life, to open this door?

“…No.”

She denied my question with an extremely firm voice.

Cha Seolhee, staring at me with starlight-like eyes, as if she wouldn’t lose to my provocation.

“…”

I just kept looking at her, meaning, then open it.

Phase 1 was the process of breaking the vain hope she harbored.

The hope that the rescue team would come, that all of this was a happening, and that she could eventually save her younger sister with her own strength.

She, whose hope was shattered, bet everything on the most likely possibility.

And she, whom I tasted a little as I wished, was sweeter than I thought.

A magic that makes me want to possess and monopolize her to the point that I can’t compare it to other pleasures.

Of course, I had no intention of stopping here.

Because I literally want all of her.

So, it was time to move on to phase 2.

“…There’s nowhere else to fall from here.”

Kkiiiiiik―!

Cha Seolhee, bracing herself, opened the door to the third floor.

I smiled even more deeply, looking at the darkness that was slowly approaching, welcoming her.

…Really, is that so?