Apocalypse Tyrant

Origin of the King (2)

Keek—! Keek—!

A crisp sound reaches my ears as the soles of my shoes lightly scrape the floor.

“Wow— It’s cleaned as spotlessly as a new floor, our Jaehee.”
“……”

Her face, turning deathly pale and breaking out in a cold sweat at my praise.

It’s such a contrast to the face that was screaming if I had gone crazy when I was distributing women to the search team.

It’s a little better than the face that was vomiting on the floor and crying pitifully, but still.

“Well, has Jaehee finally passed the inspection?”

At my quiet muttering, Sung Jaehee bit her lip as if making some kind of resolution.

Her eyes were already brimming with tears about to spill over, but she was desperately trying to hold them back.

Because the moment she shed tears, this ‘example’ would be extended to tomorrow.

Swoosh—! Swoosh—!

She roughly stripped off her clothes with trembling hands.

Sung Jaehee becoming naked without any hesitation despite over 10 camp members all watching.

Sung Jaehee hurriedly pressed her now naked body tightly against the floor.

An expression of submission with her whole body, as if performing a full prostration.

I slowly approached her and quietly observed her trembling body.

“……”

No, I displayed Sung Jaehee’s form to everyone watching this scene.

I slowly looked around at the new members trembling in fear of something as I raised my leg.

Thud—!

Sung Jaehee’s body flips over from my kick.

She takes on a posture of exposing her belly, like a dog showing submission to a human.

Squish—!

“Has your stomach gotten a bit better?”

Sung Jaehee clenched her teeth even harder at my question as I pressed down on her stomach with my shoe still on.

“Y-Yes… It-It’s fine.”

Her voice breaking as if choked up, sounding so pitiful as she answered.

I slowly trampled from her stomach to her protruding breasts and neck gently in front of everyone.

Sung Jaehee just gritting her teeth and enduring no matter what I did.

Now—

Squish—!

My foot stomped down on her face repeatedly.

Her swollen face getting mangled mercilessly as my foot moved.

Even in such a moment, she disgustingly stuck out her tongue trying to somehow lick the sole of my shoe.

My foot destroying her face while avoiding her tongue here and there, and her face moving here and there chasing after that foot.

“…Hic—! Ah—! Ahhh—!”

Finally, the self-loathing reaching its limit makes her shed the tears she had been holding back.

And as if unable to accept that fact, Sung Jaehee wipes away her own tears faster than anyone else.

“You cried again.”
“N-No—! It’s really, really not that, Team Leader! J-Just—! Just—!”

Sung Jaehee’s face flaps back and forth at my cold pronouncement with no change in tone.

“I’m just— so sorry— I really didn’t mean anything else—! Really— Please—”

Pleeeease…

Sung Jaehee begging me with a voice wet with tears.

But I coldly withdrew my foot and picked out one of the camp members watching this scene.

“Jung Seri.”
“Yes! Yes, Team Leader!”

Jung Seri hurriedly taking a step forward as if struck by lightning at my call.

I asked her, who had been watching this whole scene with eyes full of fear.

“Why do you think this prospective camp member is receiving such a rigorous inspection?”
“Please— Please Team Leader. Please— Just once—”

I pointed at Sung Jaehee, who had started begging desperately as if her hands had become feet, and Jung Seri’s eyes trembled.

At my appearance of quietly waiting for her answer, Jung Seri hastily opened her mouth.

“Th-That woman behaved arrogantly when you were showing mercy, Team Leader!”
“……”

Jung Seri had shouted as if blurting something out, but seeing no reaction from me, her face gradually turned pale.

I silently gestured for her to come closer.

“Hic—!”

Jung Seri hiccuping and dragging her feet to approach at that gesture.

I patted the pale face that had come before me with a bright smile.

Pat—! Pat—!

“Yes, our Seri knows this so well, why don’t the others understand?”

Erasing the bright smile, I looked around at the camp members again.

The new members bowing their heads deeply again as if burned by my gaze.

I smiled slightly at that appearance and sent Jung Seri back.

After glancing at An Sejun, who was openly letting out a sigh of relief, I raised Sung Jaehee who was still begging with both hands clasped together.

“I’m feeding and keeping you alive, so why are you doing things I don’t like?”

She froze stiffly in front of me, gripping both her shoulders, like a frog before a snake.

I brought my face closer and growled.

“Are you deliberately defying me?”
“No—! No I’m not— I’m not, Team Leader—! Please—!”

Only then did Sung Jaehee’s mouth burst open all at once as if speaking in tongues.

I continued speaking while stopping her words with a glance.

“Alright, since our Jaehee seems to be reflecting, I’ll let it slide just one more time.”
“Thank you, thank you! Thank you, Team Leader!”
“If you do something I don’t like again during tomorrow’s inspection—”

I really won’t overlook it then.

She nodded her head frantically at my whisper to her eyes.

Thud—!

I stroked her swollen face and whispered again.

“But that’s that, and this is this. You still need to be punished.”
“…Hic—!”

At my whisper, a strange sound escaped her and tears filled her eyes again like a flood.

I moved slightly away from her frozen stiff and immediately moved my hand.

Slap—!

Sung Jaehee rolls on the ground as my palm strikes her face.

Everyone watching flinched as if they had been hit themselves.

“Raise your head.”

At the short command, everyone’s heads that had been bowing while trembling turn forward.

“Ugh, hic—! So-Sorry, sob—!”

She somehow raises her naked body that had been rolling on the floor and stands before me.

Slap—!

“Cough—! Cough—! Th-Thank you—!”

Slap—!

“Hic— Hic—! So-Sorry—!”

My palm repeatedly pushing her as she stands up like a roly-poly toy.

But even this much, she will think is fortunate.

Because yesterday, it wasn’t her cheeks, but other body parts.

I quietly met eyes with each of the women who started trembling more deeply each time Sung Jaehee rolled on the floor.

The bystanders who had been waiting and hoping when Sung Jaehee raised her voice in defiance against me.

The lucky bitches who can stand intact thanks to Sung Jaehee becoming an ‘example’.

Slap—!

The most important thing when ruling a group is how effectively you use fear.

Because there is no emotion that spreads faster and deeper than fear.

Only after watching each of the new members for a long time, unable to avoid my eyes and somehow holding back their tears, did I stop Sung Jaehee’s punishment.

Sung Jaehee writhing on the floor with a face even more swollen than before.

The two minions reacting to my nod hurriedly drag the squirming Sung Jaehee away.

Only then did the camp members realize the assembly was over and start moving to where they had things to do.

Mostly camp members heading towards the internal stairway door under the control of the two minions.

The surplus resources that would be in charge of cleaning up and exploring the 3rd and 4th floors I had fully secured.

“Hehe— Team Leader. Good work with the morning assembly too, hehe.”

Ko Janghun hurriedly attaching himself to my side.

I nodded my head as a signal for him to start reporting.

“Hehe— There’s still no movement from Park Taeha’s side, Team Leader.”
“Are you sure?”
“Come on~ Just trust me, Team Leader, just me! I even secretly met Cheongshin yesterday and confirmed it while giving him snacks.”

Ah, Kang Cheongshin.

Right, we had our final last resort against that camp.

“But wouldn’t it be a bit troublesome if Chunsik betrays us?”
“…Huh? Chunsik?”
“Kang Cheongshin.”
“…Ah—! Cheongshin, Chunsik ah—! Hehe— You really don’t need to worry about that. It’s not because Cheongshin, ah, Chunsik is a junior I know, but that bastard is quite clever.”

Hehe—

Ko Janghun, laughing like a sly fox while catching his breath, hurriedly continued speaking.

“He was even cursing their camp yesterday, asking when he could join our side. Saying there’s only half-corpses and idiots, he was talking all kinds of trash about them—”

I quickly cut off his chatter that was about to go off in a strange direction again.

“Alright, if you say so, it must be that way.”
“Hehehe— Really— Really there won’t be any disappointing incidents. Let’s trust Cheongshin, ah— Chunsik once, Team Leader.”

I nodded my head in understanding at Ko Janghun’s bold declaration.

“And this is a bit of an unpleasant thing to say but—”

Ko Janghun, slightly trailing his words while gauging my reaction, continued speaking again.

“Um— Since the camp numbers have increased, the food supplies have become a biiit tight—”
“It was about time for that.”

No matter how big the basement floor 1 store was, it couldn’t keep providing food for over 20 people indefinitely.

The store would naturally have limits too.

“Sooo— For now— The newly arrived—”
“No.”

I cut off Ko Janghun’s words as he was about to suggest a solution and smiled faintly at him.

“The supplies are getting tight in the first place because we’ve been supporting food to that camp. From today, we’ll completely cut off support to that side.”
“Then they’ll go completely insane—”

Ah—.

Ko Janghun, who had stopped mid-sentence and raised his head, bowed politely to me with his characteristic sly smile.

“I’ll send Woojin right away, Team Leader.”

From the start, securing Cha Seolhee accomplished 90% of what needed to be done in the library.

Moreover, as the camp members we each have are gradually approaching a ‘golden cross’, it’s time to speed things up a bit more.

We’ve kept them tied up unable to even faint with constant light jabs—

“It’s time to drive them into a corner.”