Chapter 21: Punching the Mirror
After eating sandwiches again with different fillings, they went to wash up.
"Ashlee, do you know how to take a bath by yourself?" Luciel asked.
"Yes, I can," Ashlee said while nodding.
"Ok, then, you take a bath by yourself. I will wait for you outside. This is for your hair, and this is for your body," Luciel said, pointing at the shampoo and body wash that he lowered.
While waiting for Ashlee, he also prepared her clothes. Fortunately, Yang brought some clothes for Ashlee, as they expected to stay overnight.
He also prepared his clothes, and afterwards he started looking for blankets as they would be sleeping on the rooftop. They couldn't stay off the rooftop for long because they still needed to look out for everyone.
Fortunately, it seemed that the force that was preventing them from waking up was also preventing their bodies from being damaged. He checked a while ago, and all of them really don't seem to be having any problems.
After Ashlee washed up and changed her clothes, he also went to take a bath. After drying their hair, they went to the rooftop again with the blankets they were going to use.
They slept together on the portable bed that was on the rooftop. Ashlee seemed to be tired, so she immediately slept while he played some games first before sleeping.
However, not long after he slept, he was woken up by the sudden movement of someone trashing around.
Luciel immediately woke up and checked to see who it was. When he looked at the place where the sound came from, he saw Rick with black veins all around his body. It seemed that Rick didn't manage to survive and became a zombie. It was also trashing around while looking at them; it seemed that it was regarding them as food already.
Luceil was already accustomed to seeing death around him because almost every day he would see someone dying at the hands of monsters or at the hands of other people. But it still doesn't feel good to see someone you know turn into a zombie. However, he immediately disregards such emotion and started walking to Rick, who became a zombie after wearing gloves.
He got some ropes and tied Rick, who became a zombie, so tightly that it couldn't even trash around. He also put a cloth in its mouth because even though it can't speak, it could still roar and make inhuman sounds, which can disturb them and even alert the other zombies in other places. He didn't want to hear such sounds while sleeping, so it was better to also gag.
After doing such things, Luciel immediately went to wash his hands in the washroom. As soon as he looked at the mirror, he suddenly punched it with his hands.
He really didn't like staying in such a world. When he saw Rick become a zombie, he was reminded again that he would be seeing such sights again from now on. So, his urge to kill whoever sent him here surged again, so he couldn't help but punch the mirror.
After punching the mirror, he just let the blood from his fist to his wrist where the bracelet is.
According to the novel, the bracelet's space would be awakened after dropping blood on it, so now he just lets the blood flow from his fist to his wrist.
In the novel, Treyton didn't find the specialness of the bracelet at the beginning because he was skilled and wasn't injured. He only discovered the space on his bracelet after he was injured in a fight and his blood flowed to the bracelet.
Now, he doesn't even need to find a reason why he found the space of the bracelet because of punching the mirror.
As soon as his blood flowed to the bracelet, he could see that it was being absorbed; afterwards, he could suddenly see a flat space around his mind, which was roughly the same size as the space of Treyton in the novel.
He touched the soap in front of him, thought of putting it inside, and saw it appear inside the space.
Afterwards, he thought of getting the soap out and saw it appear in his hands. He tried putting out the soap again by just thinking about it without touching it, but it didn't succeed. It seemed that he really needed to touch the object first to put it inside the space.
After trying to understand how the space on the bracelet works a few times, he finally decided to take care of his wounded hands.
He washed his bloodied fist and went out to take the medicine kit that was on the rooftop. He bandaged his hands properly so as not to let the smell of his blood leak out because, as soon as he went out, he could see that the zombie Rick, who stayed still after being bound tightly, started to become energetic and tried to get out of his bounds.
It seemed that the smell of blood could greatly stimulate them. So, he bandaged his fist tightly. After seeing that the zombie Rick became quiet again, he went back beside Ashlee and began to sleep.
After waking up because of the zombie Rick, nothing happened afterwards, so Luciel was able to sleep peacefully.
He only woke up after he felt Ashlee waking up. Fortunately, Ashlee only woke up around 8 a.m. So, he doesn't have any problem waking up too early.
"Brother, are we eating sandwiches again?" Ashlee asked.
"Unfortunately, yes, we are going to eat sandwiches again because brother really can't cook," Luciel said with a sigh.
Yesterday evening, he tried frying something because he heard that it was very simple. However, just turning on the stove took a long time; looking for the pan and other things also took time; and when he tried frying the egg, it turned black afterwards, so it was better. So, he gave up trying after seeing how it turned out, and they could only eat sandwiches again.