Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

19. theme park (2)

Just as I did not reveal the name, the siblings did not reveal their names, so for convenience, I decided to categorize them as defenders and defender younger siblings.

“Skelton.”

Defender’s brother called me in a small voice and beckoned me.

When I looked at something, it was nothing other than a community.

She was writing a new article.

Defender: (Breaking news from Defender) A skeleton came to my house!

– Skelton so sweet. I thought some actor came. It’s just a walking piece. Bentley, 2 meters tall, dressed in a crisply ironed tuxedo! I’m a guy too, but he was so cool that I fell in love with him at first sight.

The mouse cursor point was in front of the ＜Send＞ button.

“Nope! no. don’t don’t put it up.”

“······why?”

“No, what are you doing with such nonsense?”

She pouted and suddenly opened the notepad and excitedly tapped the keyboard.

-You’re not popular. so.

“So what?”

– to float

“You don’t have a good image either, do you?

-I’m still named. Skelton you listen.

“…”

-And since everyone else is friendly, can’t we be friendly too?

“Can’t I just say it?”

-There are things that cannot be expressed in words.

“Can I type it?”

I never thought there would be a human who communicates with a notepad in front of people.

“Originally there. my brother.”

Defender said a word as he put the magazine full of bullets into his pocket.

I wonder if there is some kind of dark story.

“No, it wasn’t a big deal, and since I was little, I liked tapping the keyboard rather than talking.”

clap

I asked him as he checked the chamber while retracting and fixing the bolt with skillful hand movements.

“There are a lot of opponents, so you’re going to kill them all?”

About 20 people wore red pants.

The armed status is far superior to that of the group of lieutenant colonel Choi who came to my territory.

All are armed with automatic rifles and even have armored vehicles.

The quality of each soldier needs to be checked, but considering the size alone, it is a threatening force.

I wondered how he would solve that difficult fight.

“Should I kill the kids first?”

Defender said without a single eyebrow raised.

“If you kill the kids, won’t you come and find one or two?”

Seriously.

It’s a sincere voice.

“To reduce the number by killing them one by one. Then, if they think they’re coming, I’ll run after them and sweep the camp.”

“What about the armored car?”

“Your brother is good at drones. In particular, he is a master at dropping things with a drone. There was a time when I killed him by dropping a brick instead of a bomb.”

My brother pointed at himself with two thumbs.

“I thought that far. what do you think about it?”

“It’s an impressive plan, but it has no backlog.”

“Isn’t that what fighting is all about? Plans don’t mean much, especially against such a bummer. You don’t know where it will bounce, and if you set it up well in the beginning, it will collapse on its own.”

“Do I really have to kill the kids?”

“Then let me live?”

Defender laughed.

The defender brother, who was watching the monitor, also turned his chair and stared at me.

Feeling the pressure, I opened my mouth.

“Wouldn’t it be better to save him?”

“why me? Not even my baby.”

When Defender looked at his brother, the younger brother nodded with a strange smile.

The defender looked at me again.

“Or are you going to take the skeleton and raise it?”

“······that.”

“If you’re going to take it and raise it, I’ll reconsider.”

Defender grinned and his brother calmly glared at me.

The siblings were asking what to do at the same time.

I thought about it.

how much does the child weigh

I have little memory of my childhood and have never raised a child, so I don’t know exactly how much a child weighs.

But their weight will never be light.

Seeing how you can’t easily answer the weighty question.

“look. You can’t answer either, can you?”

Defender arranged the weapons he had prepared on the table and looked at his younger brother.

“What do you think of your brother?”

As if his brother had been waiting for him, he spoke in a characteristic whispering tone.

“Anyway, at this point, the moment they lose their parents, they are already dead. It’s a place without luck. The times are not on their side.”

In an instant I was convinced.

After all, Defenders are not one, but two.

It’s not anyone’s solo.

The two siblings came together to create a horror movie called The Human Hunters.

After a moment of silence, Defender offered a different opinion.

“Actually, there are ways to ignore it. Anyway, it’s steep here and the road isn’t good, so kids can’t climb up. They move along the road.”

“Then it’s okay not to fight?”

It is my caution not to engage in unnecessary fights.

“I guess so. But someday we’ll fight Because you can’t hide forever. Besides, before that.”

Defender stared at the monitor.

“Our friends will die.”

My sister added as she pointed into the monitor.

“Our bulletin board friends.”

“It’s a community…”

It makes sense.

Even if a notice is posted on the bulletin board and warns of the danger, how many people will have the heart of a snake like Defender?

Even I don’t have much self-confidence.

“How about combat experience?”

asked Defender.

Defender noticed my intentions and his eyes twinkled.

“Are you going to fight together?”

He nodded.

“We have to protect the community.”

That’s the biggest reason, but not the only one.

The method of the red pants was too vicious, and there was a quick calculation that it would be a surprisingly easy battle given the condition and equipment of the defender. If you’re going to fight anyway, it’s better to be with a group than alone.

Of course, I will not deny that there was also a desire to satisfy my shallow hypocrisy.

Yeah, I guess I’m getting old too.

*

A drone soars over the dark night sky.

It was Defender’s younger brother who piloted the drone.

“Your brother will destroy the armored vehicle. They always leave the hatch open.”

I knew from the Demian 04 incident that Defender’s combat power was not normal.

He’s keeping his mouth shut, but maybe he’s from a hunter.

If you look at the habits and behaviors that come out implicitly, they are not very different from what was taught in school.

Probably around the 17th or 18th.

If he was a cursed horseman whose future ran away while he was in school, he might be able to explain, albeit slightly, his crooked personality.

“That’s where the women are locked up. Therefore, that building has the weakest boundary. There are guards, but they guard the inside, not the outside.”

Defender was a meticulous killer.

He already knew the enemy’s layout, weaknesses, and even small habits.

Right before the battle, Defender shivered lightly.

“Hey~ Look at the thrill running through your body. I think this time is the most thrilling.”

I could hear my brother’s disturbed breathing through the earphones in my ears.

She didn’t say anything, but she seemed to be feeling a lot of tension and excitement.

“Then shall we begin?”

Defender signaled.

Looking at the battle sign I hadn’t seen in a long time, I crossed time and sea and saw an illusion as if I was on a battlefield in China.

Thousands of broken corpses, colleagues firing at the ruins with expressionless faces, Chinese soldiers shouting in an unknown language and setting the corpses on fire, and medium-sized servants revealing their outlines one after another in the twilight above the ruins.

More than anything, I felt a little headache and boredom.

“…”

The reason why so many comrades fell into an eternal sleep was probably not only because of the dangers of the battlefield.

We were in hell on the loose.

Slow and boring to the point of yawning.

“Skelton?”

Defender’s voice brought me back to reality.

“let’s go.”

The outline of the operation is simple.

Two trained killers ambush the disorganized janitors at night with specific information and a plan.

It is a battle whose outcome was foretold from the beginning.

Coincidence may change fate, as in all things, but I will not let it kill me.

The home of the pioneers in red pants was an abandoned theme park.

The rides will never run, but there are many empty buildings, roads, and resources to divert.

What we approached was the staff quarters where they locked up the woman they had captured.

Listening to women’s sobs and men’s shouts, I captured the soldiers guarding the entrance along the outer wall with my own eyes.

Defender pointed the gun at him.

Shaking my head, I drew my two axes and headed towards the sentry.

He did not bend down or excessively reduce the sound of his footsteps.

Soon, a man noticed someone and turned his head towards me.

hooked!

The ax was lodged in the man’s neck.

As the man shuddered and was about to fall, another sentry turned his head.

“what?”

hooked!

Two corpses lay on the floor.

Stepping on their temples, pulling out their axes and wiping the blood off their clothes, the Defender came over and gave a thumbs up and whispered:

“Skelton double kill.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard his brother’s excited voice in his earphones.

“Did Skeleton kill you? huh? Did you kill them both?”

Her voice was much louder and, so to speak, full of life than when I saw and talked to her.

“I’ll organize the inside.”

Defender drew his dagger.

“Is alone enough?”

“You must be having fun in the middle of the day, but I am enough alone. Be alert outside.”

I nodded and looked around.

An armored car is seen under the pale street lamp.

Soon, a woman’s scream rang out and the Defender’s soft voice was heard.

Soon Defender walked out.

“kids. It was there. But there were five of them?”

“…”

“There are two ways.”

“Two ways?”

“How to make women run away and create chaos.”

“rest of it?”

“How to quietly kill like this.”

“Do the latter.”

“Aren’t you pretending to be nice?”

The defender was a little more serious.

“Now that you’ve decided to pretend to be nice, why don’t you do half of it?”

“Looks like you’re already halfway through?”

Looking at the results alone, my method was wiser.

They drank and slept together in one lodging without proper boundaries or dispersal.

The old armored car parked in front of the lodging seemed to be the source of their confidence.

The sentries were subdued and preparations were made for sweeping.

We started the operation when we heard the drone’s flying sound over the night sky.

The defender threw a grenade and at the same time broke a window and opened crossfire from both sides.

Tatatatatatang!

On the signal of a gunshot, a drone approached the armored vehicle and dropped a grenade precisely into the wide-open hatch.

The armored car started galloping along with the heavy drinking.

It’s probably dead with the driver stepping on the accelerator.

bang!

A few red pants inside try to fight back using the table as cover, but the building is already on fire and the smoke is quickly filling.

All variables were excluded.

All that remains is a tedious yawning massacre.

“hey! Skeleton!”

Defender laughed out loud as he saw the red pants running out with his body on fire.

“Is it the right way?”

With a smile on his face, when he aimed and fired, the man who had been crying while on fire collapsed and never got up again.

“Skelton. Did you look at me funny? huh. I know everything. I can see it all in this noona’s eyes.”

Even my younger brother is excited.

As if playing a game, I shot and killed the red pants with a Chinese-made drone.

“surrender! surrender!”

A few red pants climbed out of the smoky building with their hands up.

Defender laughed and fired his gun, his brother’s laughter picking up.

thud!

An explosion occurred in the distance.

It seems that the speeding armored car crashed somewhere in the theme park facility.

It was a moment to dismiss it as an insignificant coincidence and ignore it.

pop! pop! pop!

With the explosion, colorfully shining objects flew up into the sky and exploded, embroidering the night sky with beautiful radial patterns.

It’s a firecracker.

A large amount of firecrackers set in the launch tube before the war broke the long silence with an accidental shock and launched five-colored fireworks into the sky.

“and! look at this! hey!”

“Quaaa!!!”

Looking at the siblings who were enjoying themselves like children, I suddenly thought.

Perhaps the evil deeds of the red pants were not a good thing for these friends.

They just wanted to kill the red pants, and they accomplished that goal thrillingly.

In that respect, it may not be an exaggeration to say that this theme park has done its job well enough.

Why, because the person who came to enjoy it came and enjoyed it enough in it.

Thinking so, I silently gazed at the miracle brought by the coincidence that had not struck me.

*

The play is over and the time for reckoning has come.

“What are you going to do? these people?”

children and women left behind.

It is the price of shallow hypocrisy.

“I told you before, but I won’t accept it. No, I will not accept it.”

The defender stared at me like it was being pierced.

“······I am.”

Several thoughts popped up in my head, but I knew the truth.

That my gaze was only looking at one result from beginning to end.

He looked around, holding an awkward gun, silently watching the people walking towards the darkness.

A child stared back at me.

They decided not to think about their fate.

click click

In the background, Defender is taking an authentication photo.

“Skelton.”

He came up to me and held out something.

“What? This.”

When I received it, it was a picture.

An overly glorified, handsome man who seemed to come out of a female-oriented cartoon was contained on the canvas.

“My brother drew it.”

Indeed, underneath the painting was a pretty handwriting that read, “Dear Skeleton.”

Come to think of it, it seems a bit similar, but…?

“Aren’t you going to come over to my house anyway? My sister told me to tell her.”

Certainly, Defender has a corner that sees through people’s hearts.

It is the same for younger brothers and older brothers.

“Are you wondering why I am doing this?”

“Why is this sudden introspection?”

“I know you think he’s a psychopath.”

Defender put a cigarette in his mouth and smiled strangely.

His eyes were chasing the last dispersing sparks.

“This park. I used to come here with my brother when I was little. Hand in hand with father and mother.”

He blew white smoke into the night sky.

“He was a very bad father.”

“······huh.”

I heard my brother’s voice through the earphones.

“The next story will be after we get to know each other better.”

This time, Defender held out a piece of paper to me.

Unlike his brother’s painstaking drawing, what Defender prepared was a crude ticket.

＜Defender Summon Ticket＞

“What? This.”

“If you need help, send me a DM.”

Defender waved his hand and trudged away into the darkness.

“I’ll take you anywhere.”

After that, I heard my brother’s voice.

“Skelton. Shall we be friends in the future?”

Holding the pictures and tickets they left behind, I stood blankly for a while, looking at the silent mountains, parks, and sky.

There was a lot of work, but in the end all I felt was fatigue.

It’s like the kind of tiredness you get when you come home from an amusement park.

That night, Defender plastered the bulletin board.

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

Defender: (Confession of Defender) I love Skeleton!

…

…

Unfortunately or fortunately, I couldn’t see the terrible atrocities in real time.

“Numi……!!”

Because I was being chased by those f*cking zombies!