Have a Meal Before You Go
< What should I do......? >
“Can I touch it? ”
“I told you to take care of it, even though you could touch it. ”
Echo's got a point.
Khan slowly opens his bag. Inside, the gameboard unfolded.
“It's a board game, right? ”
“Oh, yeah. ”
Echo and Khan squat down and poke at the gameboard. The column tilts its head.
“Don't you know what a board game is? ”
Echo nods slightly embarrassed.
“Oh, I know. I've tried this body a lot. ”
“Really?"
The Khan looks at Echo with a suspicious face and shrugs.
“Well, anyway. It seems so old. I mean, look at all these games. ”
The square gameboard has a tight compartment along the square border. Usually starts with the gamer's words in the lower-right position, which is in a different color column.
“What's written in each column? Players entering this slot will not be able to move for one turn, and they will step back two spaces, something like that. ”
“Aha, I see. ”
Echo reacts as if he had never heard of it before, then nods again in surprise.
“Oh, oh, right. That's the way."
Khan gazes at Echo with shrewd eyes.
“Don't you know?”
“Oh, I know! ”
“....... Anyway. There's nothing here. ”
About that time.
Ji-ying!
The ceiling of the subspace opens and Qasim enters. Qasim was surprised to see the two factions.
“What are you doing? ”
“I didn't do anything, kid. ”
Qasim walked to Khan who complained that he was always wary of me.
“Hurry up and cover that bag. It's Tangerine's. ”
“Okay, okay. ”
The car grumbles and closes the bag and hands it to Kasim. Qasim took it and held it in his arms. I can never trust that red dragon. Rather, I was about to move on thinking the Demon King was better.
Tuk-
“Unh!”
The bridge twists. Qasim falls headlong into the Khan and Echo.
Bang!
Is this some kind of joke about fate?
The box was opened, and three horses and two dice fell from it.
Approach!
Ji-eying!
At the same time, all three men turned white.
.
“....... ”
Khan and Echo look left and right. Suddenly, there was a white world everywhere. I thought I'd seen this place somewhere.
Both factions shudder at the same time.
“I think it was there. ”
“The White Room that's been locked up for 10 years? ”
“That white-hot space! ”
“Wow, that damn little Goblin did it. ”
The Khan is forced to change his teeth.
Echo, close your eyes and pod! And seeing that nothing has changed, I find it somewhat bewildering.
Khan looks at that echo with a betrayed face.
“You, you, you! You just tried to run away by yourself, didn't you? ”
Echo flinches.
“No! What do you see in this body? ”
Two factions have been devastated.
Suddenly.
Gum Gum!
A giant monster appears on the ceiling of the White Room.
Huh?
The creature's face seems familiar to me. I looked up quietly and asked.
“Car, Qasim? ”
[Yes, Mr. Khan! What the hell is going on here?]
Qasim was a little confused. As if you were an ant, the smaller columns and echoes look up. You can see the giant eyes moving in the trenches.
[Uh, huh? There's a letter in front of my eyes. Wait, let me read it to you!]
Qasim rolls his big eyes back and opens his mouth.
[I've become a game master.]
“W-what is that? ”
[First of all, you can roll two dice and move as many columns as the sum of the two. However, if the same number appears, a special number may be triggered and something unique may happen.]
Khan nods.
“Yi, I understand. ”
[And when I get to the car that moved like that, I roll two dice. And there's a monster on the difficulty level. Of course, I also said that unique things can happen when the same number comes out.]
“....... why is it suddenly like that? ”
[I-I don't know. And they said you have to go around the whole circle to clear it!]
At the same time, two dice appeared before my eyes. I thought I was supposed to roll it.
“Wait.”
Echo starts pounding the wall with a bunch of magic bullets. The candlestick beats the white wall.
“Huh.”
It was exactly the same. It was a very, very similar structure to where I spent 10 years in hell.
When I was beaten for such a long time.
The countdown to the air begins.
5.
4.
3.
2.
1
And the dice that floated in the air rolled at their own pace.
Dhararak!
“Unh!”
“Ugh!”
When both factions were frightened. The dice stop rolling.
-1, 6
1 and 6 came out. The sum is 7.
At the same time, one wall of light disappears and a passageway is created that leads to that side.
[Seven of them! Move quickly!]
Khan and Echo face each other. Both factions were thinking the same thing.
“If you leave this, I'll set an example for that little Goblin. ”
“I agree with you. ”
The two factions set their eyes on fire and walk toward the gap.
When I entered the seventh room.
Kugu!
The passageway closes, and Qasim's face reappears in the sky.
[Hey, guys….. are you serious? I know I'm wrong, but I don't need you to set me up.]
Qasim is crying.
[I have a girlfriend....... No, she's my wife now. One day you might have a baby....... and if you hit me wrong, Khan did more. Did I do more? Oh my! If you hit me, I'll go to Steelho. It's true!]
Qasim nods as he continues to cry.
[Okay, I'll roll.]
Daradararak!
Two giant dice begin to roll in the sky.
-2.1
2 and 1. The sum is 3.
Ji-ying!
You hear monsters forming in the room where Khan and Echo are standing. I felt like I was being summoned somewhere.
The monsters in front of you are the Trikelops. The soles of the feet were made of a very resilient material, and they could not stand still.
Dozens of Trikelops howl here and there with the sound of Taeanne.
Papa Papa Papa Pa Pa!
Echo's Magic Ammo has defeated the Trikelops in an instant.
[Ah, hahaha! That's good. But it's Trikelops. The bodies are all gone?]
Indeed, Trikelos' bodies literally disappeared as if evaporated.
Fall!
Dice again.
Khan has two dice.
“I roll once, you roll once. Fairly.”
Echo nods.
“Good.”
The dice roll with a splenic face.
-1,1
“You stupid lizard bastard? ”
Echo snaps at the cage. Khan frowned for no reason.
Back then.
Flash!
It flashes everywhere, and instead of somehow going forward, the space to go backward is opened.
Qasim hesitates and opens his mouth.
[Er....... you know, they say that when you get 1,1, you go back one space.]
“Die! Die! ”
Echo curses.
The two factions struggle and eventually retreat.
And I'll roll?]
The giant dice roll in the sky, and somehow they pull out a high number.
-4.5
[Uh, huh? I'm sorry, everyone!]
Kasim's voice is joyful.
Khan frowns.
“That one looks delighted. ”
“I agree."
Shashah Shah Shah -!
There are massive monsters everywhere. Echo narrows his eyes and looks at them.
In this side of the world, there were monsters that were supposed to be labeled as zeroes.
It's the giant eye-eyed monsters called the Anops. Those monsters that come close to the messy three-story building, they emit light from their eyes and destroy everything around me.
At this point, it was no joke.
Ten such knobs appeared.
Echo pulls out the Magic Ammo. Papa-pot again! The flying magic bombs pierced the Acknobs.
The Anops are boss-class monsters classified as zero-grade monsters in this world.
Maybe it's necessary not to die in one shot.
Pot!
A spiraling chasm cuts through the trunks of the rest of the knobs.
“....... ”
Both factions swallowed dry saliva. Somehow, my back felt like it was getting cold.
“Well, somehow the difficulty suddenly seems to have jumped to conclusions. ”
“Four and a half are ten zero-grade Maries……"
So far I'm relaxed, but what if it's more than that? We can't even fathom what's coming.
[West, it's working. What the hell is going on here?]
Somehow I knew this game was not a normal game.
So is this white space. A white space that cannot escape by physical force.
It's like a designated space, like the rules of a game. In the past, Echo and Khan knew better because they had been battling in this white space for 10 years.
“At least, this is not the level of power that the body knows. ”
Khan nods at Echo's words.
“I'm sure. This could be the power of another world that Cheolho used to talk about. ”
The two factions shake hands.
“Let's call a truce. If we fight amongst ourselves, we might actually get to die out here. ”
Khan has spoken the truth for a very long time.
“Good. Truce. ”
After a good handshake between Echo and Khan, you roll the dice. This time it's echo.
Dararak-!
-6.6
The dice produced the same number.
Echo clenches his fist.
“Heave-ho!”
“Don't put in your little thanksgiving. ”
Somehow the Khan looks unhappy. The room flashes like it did when 1,1 came out, and a passageway leads forward.
[Wow, that's amazing! 6,6 is an unknown number. You have to go to 12, but you can go to 24, which is twice that!] And when I roll the dice, the same number will happen, and something amazing will happen!]
Qasim was excited.
Khan and Echo left 24 compartments intact. You move straight up, then up, and then two cars to the right from there.
[We're halfway there already. It'll be over soon.]
Qasim is filled with hope.
[Now, can I roll?]
Daradararak -!
Qasim rolls the dice. The dice roll up and down, creating enormous numbers.
-6, 6
“....... huh? ”
“....... huh? ”
[sighs]
Flash-!
Suddenly, the whole area flashed.
Chuck-fucking-chuck-fuck!
It is full of flashy lights, like playing fireworks all over the place with loud fireworks.
By the way.
It's pretty weird.
Nothing had changed.
Khan and Echo look left and right. A white space that's still nothing to see. The space that could be wide if it were wide, and narrow if it were narrow, did not change a thing.
[....... ugh.......]
Qasim's face appeared from the sky. Qasim is stuttering heavily.
[Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Uh, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi]
“Hey, hey, what is it this time? ”
Khan yelled at Qasim like that.
After a long time, Qasim stammered badly, but Echo decided to break his promise to not kill anyone immediately when he left.
By the time I had enough time to decide whether to kill that poor little Goblin, Kasim continued to speak.
< What should I do......? > End
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