The Babysitter Wants to Stop Dying

Chapter 37: Marvas (2)

“Of the same…… kind?”

I looked at Romero, wondering what he was talking about, but she still didn't move a muscle. No, it was more accurate to say that she didn't seem to have any reaction to Marvas's words.

Maybe there was a possibility that she didn't even understand the meaning of 'kind'. Romero seemed to have a purer mind than I thought.

It was as I was thinking that and turned my gaze back to Marvas.

[Why was a being like you captured by the village morons? No, in the first place, why are you associating with such human rabble?]

“What are you talking about? You stink, so just hand over the demon stone and die.”

Marvas, pointing at me with a black lion's paw. Romero indifferently cleaned her ear. Then she blew on her finger.

A strong conviction came over me at that sight.

Romero was definitely not normal. To have such an attitude even when facing a creature that looked like it had crawled straight out of hell.

It wasn't just a matter of the abilities she possessed.

That was an attitude only possible if a few screws in her head were loose, that is, if she was completely steeped in this unrealistic life.

They say a dog covered in shit is scarier than a dog covered in bran, and a drooling dog is scarier than a dog covered in shit. But what if the drooling dog also has the best physique in the area with no one to match it?

That confident and nonchalant spirit.

My mind automatically calmed down and became at ease. I would have nothing more to wish for if trustworthiness was added to this, but that's a bit greedy, so I should be satisfied with this for now.

‘I should keep some distance.’

A battle would soon break out between Romero and Marvas. I glanced behind me, trying to move away from them, when,

[Ha! I see. Have you lost your memory?]

Marvas, with a look of having realized something momentous, muttered in admiration. At that, Romero, who had been wiping the finger she had used to clean her ear on her pants, shook her head.

“What, nothing like that.”

[There is no cooperation among devils, but there is an obligation to enlighten those who do not know their roots.]

“I said no. What are you talking about, anyway?”

A sinister black aura began to spread from behind the huge half-man, half-beast figure, but…….

[Now! Feel the magical power, you dunce……!]

Unfortunately, Marvas could not finish his sentence.

Kkegegek-!

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

Romero's fist, which instantly went into Marvas's solar plexus. Marvas's body was pushed back, raising a huge cloud of dust on the ground.

“Oh. You're definitely a high-ranking devil. To withstand this.”

[K-keoheok! Wh-what is this……!]

Marvas, who had been suddenly attacked, shouted, unable to come to his senses, but Romero just sneered in a voice tinged with laughter.

“I told you. Just hand over the demon stone and die.”

[Keeeuk! If you do not realize, then it cannot be helped! A being who does not even know its roots will have nothing to say even if it dies! Be a quiet source of my magical power!]

The enraged giant lion's head roared with tremendous force.

The air pressed down on my shoulders even more heavily. The atmosphere vibrated as if it were a living creature.

[Arise, my loyal servants!]

As Marvas stretched out his hand, something began to crawl out of the ground. I was watching it carefully, and my eyes widened at a head that popped out from under my feet.

“This is, undead……?”

I've heard of them.

Beings who are dead but not dead, unconditionally obeying under the control of a caster.

Grrrrrrr-

The sound of the dead rising could be heard. One by one, the corpses were opening their eyes by Marvas's power.

There were those who had rotted away to skeletons, those who were ambiguously rotted and wearing rusted iron armor, and even those who looked as if they had died not long ago.

Grrrk!

There were even rotting beasts. A wild boar with no eyeballs, its body half-eaten by insects. It automatically made me want to throw up.

At a glance, there were well over a hundred of them.

[If I just gather a little more magical power, I will be able to return to being a ruler of the demon world. I will be able to take revenge on the donkey bastard who made me like this soon! Go, my loyal servants!]

At Marvas's roar, the clattering corpses began to charge at a tremendous speed.

“What is this now.”

As I swatted my hand as if chasing away a flying insect, the corpses fell away like leaves. But,

“Ugh!”

I was different.

“Uwaak! Kuhk! Lottie, hold on tight to Hyung-ah!”

The corpses weren't just charging at Romero.

Corpses, dripping with rotten fluid, reached out their hands towards me. I was dodging their attacks, showing off my flexibility as if doing the limbo.

“Arsen!?”

A flustered Romero tried to come my way, but,

[My servants, kill them all!]

Undead were constantly popping out of the ground. In no time, the number of corpses between Romero and me had become too great.

“Ms. Romero, can't you just blow them all away! Like with the alligator swarm, uwaaak-!”

Romero, who was striking down the clinging corpses one by one, shouted in a troubled voice.

“Ah, I can't! At this distance, you and Lottie will get caught up in it too!”

That's right. This was a completely different situation from the alligator swarm. Back then, there were plenty of covers, and above all, the distance from Romero was quite far.

‘In that case……’

I shouted at Romero, who was knocking down the undead with a perplexed face. Of course, I was also dodging a deer carcass that was trying to gore me with its antlers.

“Are you saying we just need to get away from here!?”

“What?”

“If we create some distance, will you be able to move freely!?”

“That's right!”

In this situation, Romero can't use her full power because of us.

Then there's only one way.

Create some distance.

“Alright! We'll move away!”

Lottie, who had predicted Moris's attack. If he can just use his premonition, it won't be difficult to break through these attacking corpses.

But…….

“Lottie, show me! You can see the attacks, right?”

The moment I turned around and took a step, a man with his belly exposed and his intestines dragging behind him charged at me. As he bared his teeth and opened his mouth wide at me, I made a judgment.

I can't dodge this.

In that case,

Ppeok!

Kujeojeok!

The fist I threw with all my might shattered the man's jaw. Without even a moment to think if I had such strength, a horrific body fluid splattered on me, and at the same time, another corpse charged.

“Kuhk!”

As I rolled on the ground to dodge the next one, my vision became hot. The wound that had barely healed before had burst open.

My vision went dizzy. I quickly gathered my senses and rolled to the side to get up.

“Lottie, please! Just try it once!”

“Uu-uu!”

At my urgent shout, a face on the verge of tears looked at me. Terrified, unknowing eyes. Lottie's blue eyes reflected the moonlight.

‘Ah……!’

The moment I saw those eyes, I realized.

Am I, an idiot?

Let's think about the situations so far.

Let's remember the moments when I brought the abilities of other beings.

I used both Cobe's and the grasshopper's abilities as the main subject. Then is there any reason why Lottie's ability would be the only one where Lottie is the main subject?

My third ability, ability copy.

It wasn't that I just used the ability together when the other person activated it, but that I was using the ability that the other person possessed. That's why I could use that power when Cobe was knocked out.

If this guess is correct, then my thought that Lottie was 'showing' me the future was just my own misunderstanding.

In other words, I saw the future by taking the premonition ability with a random probability, which means Lottie never showed me anything himself.

‘That means my will can interfere with the randomness!’

I turned my body. The corpses were gathering around Romero, but the number heading towards me was not small. I barely dodged the half-melted bodies that were leaping at me and held Lottie up higher.

His short arms also wrapped around my neck. Perhaps because of the appearance of the corpses, the brave little one was cowering.

‘I can do it. I'm going to take Lottie's ability.’

I focused my mind.

Random.

Random means that it can be used, one way or another.

Possible and impossible. It means that these two existences coexist.

‘Please. Please. Please!’

I gritted my teeth with the feeling of sucking Lottie's energy. I could now clearly feel the limits of my stamina, and it was getting harder to hold on.

The moment I took a step with my right foot and dodged a crow with a skull for a head, a female corpse with a caved-in chest swung her sharp claws at me. Just as a curse was about to escape me.

‘From the top right, straight to the left.’

Fwoong!

The claws brushed past the tips of my hair. My head, which had ducked before the corpse's attack.

“……I can see it!”

The trajectory of the claws, I definitely saw it!

The future, seen with a momentary time lag, like an overlap. And then,

‘Three behind me.’

I immediately moved my body forward as if shooting out. At the same time, the three corpses that were about to pounce on me tumbled over from behind.

Again, right……. No, left!

“Alright!”

The corners of my mouth shot up to the sky on their own. This is crazy. This is premonition? It's a total cheat, isn't it?

It was only a few seconds ahead, but it was enough to dodge the not-so-fast undead.

“Bring it on, you bastards!”

The escaping laughter could not be hidden. As I wiped the blood flowing from my eyes and provoked them, the undead's speed increased slightly.

Grk! Grrrk!

This time, a corpse that seemed to have once been a mercenary, with a bulky body and black liquid oozing from its hollow eye sockets, charged at me.

As if its memories from when it was alive remained, its large, crushed hand reached out erratically. A single hit from this would be dangerous.

I don't know much about martial arts, but this one is quite skilled.

‘From left to bottom right, strongly. And then it bites!’

The future seemed to show me what I wanted to see. The moment I focused on the opponent, the attack became visible.

The moment the mercenary's shoulder twitched, I ducked my upper body and immediately moved to the side. As the guy lost his balance and fell over, the two corpses that were there were crushed under his heavy body and struggled.

As I was preparing to dodge the next corpses with a satisfied rhythm in my steps, two small fists suddenly caught my eye.

“Hyung-ah-a!”

I looked down to see Lottie, his eyes sparkling, smiling with his front teeth showing.

He seemed excited by my sudden battle, and even his small body, held in my arms, was bouncing. He seemed to have long forgotten about his heavy diaper.

“Hyung-ah, ike!”

Lottie, waving his arms and imitating me.

For some reason, it felt like I was being cheered on.

As I moved my steps to dodge the approaching undead, I smiled at him once in a while, and Lottie waved his arms even more.

In an excited mood, I lightly placed my hand on his head, when,

“Lock the fence!”

“If you do anything foolish, they might come to kill you!”

“Uh……?”

Didn't I just see something mixed in?