I'm still alive

The bodies were collected in one place and the blood was wiped out by soil. And I searched their bodies, but I couldn't find anything. They tried to find food to eat, but all they had was a pack of cigarettes and two lighters. I packed everything in my bag just in case.

Then he saw the light-dressed children and stripped them from their bodies and stuck them out. The child showed signs of reluctance, perhaps because the body was wearing it, although he peeled off as little blood as possible. The girl hesitated for a moment, but I said nothing.

When they didn't answer, they put their clothes down on the floor and searched the body again. The reason was simple. I didn't want to talk about this stuff. When I threw my clothes on the floor without saying anything, the girl and the child looked at the clothes with fear in their eyes and picked them up and wore them soon.

The body was dragged far away and rolled down the steep mountain. All the bodies were disposed of and the blood from the Great Sword was wiped off with a cloth. Then he moved his steps to the hiding place.

I don't know the exact time, but I felt the dawn was passing by. The fine-looking dawn between the mountains brings the news that the sun will rise soon.

When the sun rises completely, I intend to start looking for shelter. I had to take a little rest before that. As I moved my steps, I heard the sound of a girl and a child following me. I didn't stop it. Because there was something I wanted to hear from them.

I leaned down and crawled into a temporary shelter. Then he put the branches he had brought on the ashes and lit them again. The bonfire burned again and the interior of the hiding place was bright. Warm heat began to melt my body.

After a while, I felt strange that the two were not coming in, so I leaned out. Then the schoolgirl and the child were shaking, looking around outside the hiding place. I beckoned them and they followed in with their heads down.

'Sit down.'

I gave up a seat in the bonfire to the two who were standing in a dim position. The two still sat carefully beside the campfire, wary of the sense. And when I felt the warmth, I began to warm up with a little relieved face.

It's been a long time, but I didn't open my mouth. Then the child, feeling very tired, fell asleep in her arms. The schoolgirl was looking at the burning flames with a slightly dim look.

And I brought up the story carefully.

'My brother?'

Then the girl looked at me with surprise. And answered with a nod.

'That's right.

When she answered, I asked her again.

"Who were the men you were chasing?'

I'm sure you didn't meet him on the street by accident. Considering persistent tracking, broken handcuffs in his hands, and what they said, I thought there would be a different connection with this student.

At the question, she bit her lips tightly and bowed her head. Tears gathered in her eyes, and she turned her eyes to look at the fire as if nothing had happened. And after a while she answered in a voice full of weeping.

'The vagrants...... we call them vagrants.'

'The vagrant?'

When I asked her back, she swallowed her tears as if she had accumulated a lot and answered in a tearful voice.

There were quite a few survivors.'

I nodded my head and expressed my optimism. Even though extra-standard monsters roamed outside, humans boasted their ability to survive like cockroaches. I have often seen more survivors than I thought. She went on talking again.

"In the beginning, everything was fine. If we don't make noise, we'll have basic safety......... Survivors began to get together one by one, and later there were big shelves......... but as time went by the way...….'

She was speechless and I answered.

'There must have been a group that didn't.'

She swallowed her tears and nodded frantically when my words were over.

'At first, the group of survivors that we knew started to disappear one by one. At first, I thought I was attacked by monsters, but it wasn't. There was a body left.'

She wiped away her tears with her sleeves. The child, who was sleeping in his arms, woke up when his sister burst into tears and began to cry. But the child was sobbing as if by habit. They know instinctively that they shouldn't make sounds. My mouth felt bitter for no reason.

One by one, a bunch of survivors are gone....... We decided to leave the Shelter after much consideration. Then I was attacked that night.'

She murmured, looking at the light with blank eyes, as if recalling the day.

They killed all the men and teachers who were trying to protect us.......and set fire......and rap and beat us like demons again...….'

The girl shook herself and soon closed her eyes tightly. A tear dripped down the dirty cheeks.

'And my brother and I were taken. I lived, but I wasn't happy at all. Every day there was a nightmare. A friend who commits suicide while being treated as a livestock;a friend who is strangled to death.'

She trembled and soon began to vomit on the floor. I didn't even get water to see if I had eaten anything. The child cried and hugged her as her sister began to vomit. I held her back in a hurry.

However, she bit her lips and shook her head as if she had to tell me the end while she was gritting. And said in a voice mingled with evil.

'My friends died of starvation and sickness. When they saw my exhausted friend, they took him away, saying it was no use. And you know what they did?'

She was again in vain and shed tears. In her mouth, she was tormented by tears and vomit. She grinned helplessly as she cried. Her eyes were cloudy and murky.

And she gave up her last words in a voice that gave up everything.

'It's starting to eat. Like a pig.'

Oh, my God, cannibal! I felt my heart and hands shaking. If you look at the history of the world war, there is a record of cannibalism. History has been telling us what humans, who are driven to extremes, can do.

a war against the apocalypse Some humans have given up being human.

She leaned against the wall. And I patted the child's head with my hands and closed my eyes.

'The pastor at school told me. We're being punished, we've sinned so much that there's not enough room in hell! So......that's why they crawled up here!'

She grinned and soon hardened her face. Then he closed his lips as if chewing something and spat out something mixed with hatred with his voice.

'The pastor was wrong. The monsters didn't come up to make this place hell. They just came to another hell. The hell we humans created. They just came to see us for a while.'

And she shut her mouth. I couldn't answer back. They just kept silent, looking at each other's bonfires. I couldn't even console her that another tomorrow would wait for her to get better.

It was a world that would not come tomorrow.

Light poured from the blocked entrance with bags and branches. The dawn passed and the sun began to rise.

'Oh, mister......... Where are you going?'

The way she laughed like a madman had turned into a frightened high school girl. She held her brother tightly in her arms in a quivering voice and came up to me and knelt down. And while looking at the wits, he told me in a mournful voice.

'Well, could you please take me to school? I have friends at school who are hiding without being caught that day....... Please take me there...….'

She begged me again, shedding dung tears. She explained the details in a trembling voice, bending as much as possible, as she expected me not to take her home.

Soyul Yeo-sang was where she was. After that, Cheongnyongsan Mountain was located in Cheongnyongsan Mountain. And he persuaded me by begging with explanation that he would go to school soon.

Literally, Shin Seoul National University was located in the adjacent area, and above it was Soyul Yeosang. The place I am going to go is also a children's shelter located in Cheongnyongsan Mountain. Whether it was heaven's help or not, it was not that far from where he was going to meet with the party

I hesitated. I felt sorry for the girl and the child. I wanted to help and heard sympathy. But I had to search this wide Cheongryong Mountain for a shelter with my party. There was no food and so little time. There was a clear priority and it was not a situation to help her.

I wondered endlessly whether I should give her a clumsy refusal, repeating my bitter tongue. But at that moment, at the sound she uttered, I shut my mouth.

I know the geography of this place! I've lived in this town since I was a kid! On weekends, my parents and I went hiking together, so I can go to school soon! Please, I'm not confident that you two will go......... I was so scared.........just go with me......... Yes?'

As soon as I heard her, I felt like I met a lighthouse on the drifting sea. I asked her in case.

'Chungnyongsan Children's Shelter.'

She answered my answer with her eyes wide open.

'What?'

I once again asked her in a clear voice.

'Chungnyongsan Children's Shelter. Do you know exactly where it is?'

She looked at me with shaky eyes and closed her eyes to see if she was thinking soon. And after a while, he opened his eyes and answered in a little loud voice.

'Yes......Yes! Yes!! I know! It's not that far from my school! I know exactly where it is.'

Good, good. Everything fits. It could greatly reduce the time to meet with the party. I closed my eyes tight. Then he slowly got up and took the bag that blocked the entrance and stepped on the fire to extinguish it.

Then he took the gun and the sword and looked down at her quietly.

'I'm going there first. If you show me there, I'll take you to school.’

It's a legitimate deal. I needed her and she needs me. Reason and emotion come together after a long time.

She stood up with her child, wiping her tearful face. Then he grabbed his faltering legs and nodded frantically.