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Chapter 35 - Yo-han's Bizarre Vacation (3)
Chapter 35: Yo-han’s Bizarre Vacation (3)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
“The inside’s cleaner than I expected.”
I looked around the Auditorium.
It had a common wooden floor, and the interior wasn’t particularly spacious.
Е̄n̂.ú m̌ а̃_. ї d
It looked exactly like one of those multipurpose spaces used for recreational activities when little kids come for a small-scale camp.
That much was obvious just from looking.
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Thinking there might be Zombies hiding like earlier, I checked the inner areas of the Auditorium and the storage room.
Inside the Auditorium, there was audio equipment like speakers.
The storage room held mattresses, recreational supplies, paint, and various small items.
Nothing that could be used as a barricade, though.
W̌ е b ń.о̄v е l̇ Е̃ n̊ů ṁ â
At least there were no other Zombies.
The doors in the Auditorium were the front entrance we’d just come through, a side door leading to the building attached to the Auditorium,
an emergency exit with a stairway leading to the building’s rooftop, and windows for ventilation.
I had people lock all the windows and draw the curtains.
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Then I returned to my spot.
And looked down at the Zombie that had reverted to an ordinary corpse.
Е n̆ü mӓ.і̌.d̊
I was the one who did it, but still.
‘…It actually worked when I laid it down and recited the incantation.’
It was a relief and all, but.
The class difference here seemed pretty stark.
I recalled Ellie blasting a Zombie away with a single punch outside earlier.
Warrior: Hehe! Punch goes bam! Zombie gets wrecked!
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Wizard: Heave-ho, heave-ho! Gotta knock the Zombie down myself first. Then mumble-mumble through the incantation.
…Yeah, well, Wizards still have higher utility and a higher ceiling.
While I was thinking this,
Ellie quietly approached and reported the situation.
“Yo-han ssi, we’ve locked all the windows and the side door too.”
“Thanks. Then please keep an eye on the kids somewhere out of the way. This isn’t exactly a pleasant sight for them.”
Ẅе b̂_n̊оv е̄l Е nů ṁ.ӑ
I didn’t actually care whether the kids saw or not, but it’d be annoying if they started crying.
I glanced toward the corpse, and Ellie nodded.
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“Lord, please help this soul find peaceful rest.”
Ellie offered a brief prayer and left.
With hygiene in mind, I pulled gloves from inside my coat and put them on.
I stripped the corpse’s shirt and examined it.
Еñ ŭm̊а .іd̀
A pale-skinned man with no color in his flesh, covered in minor wounds and a large bite wound torn into his neck. Given that he’d been inside the Auditorium,
it seemed he’d been attacked by a Zombie that bit into his neck,
He managed to flee inside the Auditorium somehow, but ended up turning into a Zombie right there.
The important question here was whether he’d turned into a Zombie from the bite, or died from blood loss first and then became a Zombie.
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Considering modern zombie fiction, the mainstream is scientific zombies, a biological weapon that spreads through bites. But
original Occult Zombies are walking corpses controlled by Magic, like undead slaves.
W̃ e b n ôṽ_е̌ l̆. Е̂ n̆ um а̃
They don’t multiply through such a convenient method.
I know nitpicking zombie fiction is uncool, but
scientific zombies are actually more nonsensical than magical Zombies.
Magical Zombies? Made with Magic. Simple explanation, done.
Scientific zombies? They say some parasite or bacteria was engineered through science. Scientifically impossible. Can’t exist.
Anyway, since the Occult method of dealing with it worked, these were Occult Zombies.
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The image of the Zombie reverting to an ordinary corpse as smoke seeped out when I laid it down and recited the incantation came to mind.
The fog filling the entire campground…
“……..”
I stood up and spoke to Ellie.
“I’m going to head up to the roof to check the situation.”
“Okay, please be careful.”
Е n̂ ǔm̊ а̂.іd̃
I climbed to the rooftop via the emergency stairway and stepped back out into the fog-thick outdoors.
Fortunately, there were no Zombies. Though the fog made it hard to see clearly.
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I leaned against the rooftop railing and looked down at the campground.
The Zombies that had been pounding on the Auditorium door earlier seemed to have scattered and were wandering around.
“Ahhh…”
And then a certain sight made my eyes narrow.
Е̄n ŭ m á.і d̈
‘What’s that?’
Fog seeped into the corpse of someone who hadn’t escaped in time and been killed by a charging Zombie.
“Ahhh…”
The body rose and joined the ranks of the dead.
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It seemed the fog wasn’t merely meant to jam signals and isolate the campground after all.
That was part of it, but…
Wе̇b̀ n о̀ vе́ĺ Еnu̇ mă
The fog itself was the Magic turning corpses into Zombies.
There was no way fog like this had occurred naturally.
‘…What kind of lunatic caused all this?’
Well, obviously a Wizard.
But even for a Wizard, this one had to be out of their mind.
The only other Wizard I’d met
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was Kim Mi-ryeo, who’d been nothing but a corpse with her head eaten by Grizzly, but still.
Even that psychopath who killed people and ate human flesh had the sense to know she couldn’t get caught, so she ran a fake farm.
Yet the Wizard behind this had blanketed the entire campground, maybe even a wider area, in magical fog.
It was obvious they’d be found out. Why? A Rampage of Magic?
“Hmm… Or maybe they have no intention of hiding it at all?”
Doing it to show off, rather? To whom? Or just indiscriminate terrorism?
Е.nu ṁ а .i d
I looked down at the Zombies shambling around.
‘…Are they searching for something?’
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Forget it. How would I figure out what goes on in a psychopath’s head?
I had a rough idea of the cause now, and if we held out here, this incident would eventually be over.
I turned and headed toward the stairway.
I hadn’t been a Wizard for long, but
Ĕ ṅu mа̊
even I could tell that Wizards weren’t invincible.
A Wizard’s weakness: they die if shot.
They die if their head gets cut off too.
In short, unless they used some special means,
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the body was ultimately that of an ordinary human.
What makes a Wizard dangerous is having a powerful Familiar like mine,
Е̇n ũm̂ а̇
or being able to attack through unexpected means.
Not because bullets don’t hurt them.
The way I saw it, this was a self-destructive act of someone who’d given up caring.
With an incident of this scale,
there was no way the Agency for Paranormal Response would sit still.
The image of Shin Si-on’s dark eyes watching me came to mind.
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She was a calm woman whose emotions were hard to read.
In any case, given enough time, the Agency would come and deal with whoever did this.
All we had to do was hold out in the Auditorium until then.
And when I came back down the stairs and returned to the Auditorium,
“Th-this person! He was bitten! He got bitten!”
“No I wasn’t! That’s not it! This is! It’s-!?”
Webn̊о v el Е ṅúm̃ а̂
I’d barely been gone and people were already raising their voices and fighting again.
“Everyone, please calm down. Ah, Yo-han ssi!”
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Ellie, who had been trying to break up the argument, spotted me, and at her call, all eyes turned to me.
Someone pointed at a man clutching his wrist and shouted.
“That guy! He got bitten by a Zombie! He’s going to… turn, right!? Do something, quick!”
Ahh, now that’s what zombie fiction is all about. Distrust among survivors.
Е̊ nǔ m̄ à . іd
Why can’t they just get along?
Meaning this was going to be a massive pain in the ass.
“These are Occult Zombies, so you don’t get infected from a bite.”
I gave a rough explanation to the panicked, frightened people.
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“If you go all ‘Kill the infected!’ and smash his head in, that’ll actually turn him into a Zombie. So calm down.”
I walked over to the man clutching his wrist.
Еn um а̌ . ї d̆
“You got bitten? Let me take a look.”
“……..”
I pulled bandages from my bag and wrapped his wound.
Once the situation was more or less settled, I looked at the survivors and spoke.
The current survivors were me, Ellie, Soo-ah, six children, and ten other camp members. Nineteen in total.
“I went up to the roof to check the situation. Zombies are swarming outside, so leaving isn’t an option.”
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“But since something like this has happened, a rescue team will come. Let’s hold out here until then.”
Apparently taking out the Zombie when we first entered the Auditorium had made quite an impression, because people followed my lead and settled into spots around the room.
Though I had no idea how long this atmosphere would last.
As I was checking on everyone, Ellie came over.
“It’s such a relief that you’re here, Yo-han ssi. Also, I wrapped the body in a tarp and put it in the storage room… The kids were scared, so I went ahead without asking. Sorry about that.”
“No, you did the right thing. Let’s get some rest now too.”
Е̃ n̂ u̇ m̌ а̄
I didn’t want to keep looking at a corpse either, so it was fine.
When I went over to where Ellie’s group had gathered,
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the kids were huddled together, and Soo-ah was rubbing her ankle.
The sprain seemed to be lasting longer than expected.
Well… I didn’t know if it would work or not, but if I left her like that, she’d obviously come begging for help later.
And Ellie would obviously waste time trying to save her.
Е̊ñǔ m̃а̂
So I decided to treat her leg, doubling as a Magic experiment.
I took <De Vermis Mysteriis> out of my bag and checked the incantation.
[Magic for healing sprains, fractures, and bruises]
Some of the more hopeless spells tended to overshadow them, but perhaps because this Grimoire was written by a Wizard from the Crusade era,
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it actually contained useful little everyday spells.
I approached Soo-ah, knelt on one knee, and said,
Ѐ ṅu mа̌
“Give me your leg. I’ll compress it with a bandage.”
Soo-ah narrowed her eyes and said,
“Huh? You’re not going to pretend to treat me and then feel me up, are you? Ellie unnie!”
“…………”
“Okay! Okay! I’m joking.”
Soo-ah took off her sock and presented her pale foot. For someone with such a bratty personality, she had pretty feet.
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“Don’t sniff it. And, um… thanks.”
The last part was quiet. But I still heard it.
I wrapped Soo-ah’s ankle with a bandage, applying pressure, and recited the incantation.
“Bone dislocation, blood dislocation, bone to bone, blood to blood, joint to joint.”
I gripped the injured area and finished.
“By the Lord’s name, I command thee. Be mended.”
En_u mа̇
Soo-ah blinked both eyes.
“What did you just do?”
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“A get-well-soon spell. About as effective as a mother’s healing touch.”
“…I don’t have a mom. I don’t remember ever getting that.”
“Figured as much.”
“What’s that supposed to mean-!?”
Ên u̇m а̂
Soo-ah shot up to her feet. Then looked down at her ankle.
“Huh? …It doesn’t hurt.”
She stared at me with wide, surprised eyes.
“Mister, are you Jesus?”
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“Do I look like Jesus?”
I stood up.
Еn̈ u m̌ а
“If I had to compare, I’d be John Constantine.”
John Constantine: the protagonist of the movie Constantine. A Wizard and Exorcist. Incredibly cool.
Soo-ah tilted her head.
“John? Who’s Constantine? You’re just spouting stuff only you know, you nerd.”
That was a bit of a shock.
‘She doesn’t know John Constantine?’
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The movie itself was just okay, nothing special, but
…it was insanely cool, though.
Well, if she doesn’t know, she doesn’t know.
“Forget it. Let’s actually rest now.”
I brought a few mattresses from the storage room, laid them on the floor, and said,
“Get on and sit down. Sitting on the floor too long is bad for your back.”
Еn̈ u m а̄. і̄d̃
Ellie tended to the children huddled together on the mattresses, then came over and sat down beside me.
“Thank you so much. …What should we do now?”
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“Who knows? There’s nothing to do right now, and like I said earlier, let’s just rest.”
“Huh?”
I flopped straight down onto a mattress. Ahh, nice and comfy.
“You can just sit there spacing out, or close your eyes for a bit.”
Е̇n̆u m a . ï d̈
“Or since we came here for camp anyway, think of it as an indoor camp and chat and have fun. That’ll be good for your mental health.”
Waiting for a rescue team that might never come, unable to do anything.
If you thought about it positively, it was time to do nothing and rest.
“Nobody knows what’ll happen next.”
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That’s exactly why we needed to rest now.
“So let’s conserve our energy in case something comes up.”
Е ǹ u mа . і̂d̃
I closed my eyes, rested my head on my arm, and settled into a comfortable position.
“Wake me in ten minutes. We’ll take turns resting.”
“Ah… okay!”
Ellie nodded.
Soo-ah watched in amazement as I rested more comfortably than anyone else in the Auditorium.
‘Wow… Several people are dead and we’re surrounded by Zombies, and he’s all, “let’s enjoy camp”. Is he a sociopath or something?’
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And unfortunately, my rest did not last long.
I was woken by the sound of survivors bickering at each other.
“If you hadn’t insisted on coming to this campground!”
“How is this my fault!”
I frowned and half rose, scanning the area.
…The moment things got a little bearable, the infighting kicked right in.
W е ḃ ǹ o v̄el Еn u̇.m а
Then my eyes met Ellie’s.
I could see her blue eyes flinch.
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I realized why that woman, who could shatter a Zombie with one punch, was looking so anxious.
Ellie’s trembling voice rang out.
“Um… I’m sorry.”
Absurdly, she thought it was her fault we’d gotten caught up in this incident.
W̌е̇ b̊nо̊ v̂ е̊ l Е̃n̆ ŭ ḿа
“You have nothing to be sorry about. It’s not your fault, Ellie ssi. This was just an unpredictable accident.”
I meant it.
Who could have possibly predicted that a horde of Zombies would attack a campground?
On top of that, this whole thing was caused by some deranged Wizard.
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It’s the lunatic who suddenly came at people with a knife who’s at fault.
Not the people who happened to be walking by when it happened.
Е̄n u_ṁ а̌.і̂ d̃
And then Namgung Soo-ah seized the moment and shouted at Ellie!
“That’s right! It’s all your fault, unnie! That’s why I said let’s just take the money and go on a hotel vacation instead of camp!”
I looked at Soo-ah with admiration.
‘Wow… She was about to be abandoned and only survived because Ellie came back for her, and now she’s blaming Ellie. Does she have no heart at all?’
I raised my hand and gave Soo-ah a light smack on the head.
“Watch your mouth.”
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“Ow! I was just joking. Why’d you hit me?”
Soo-ah grumbled, then turned to Ellie.
“You looked so pathetic, I was just messing with you. Like mister said, it’s not your fault, unnie. Cheer up.”
At those words, Ellie’s expression softened considerably.
“Thank you.”
She smiled gently.
W ѐ b́ń оv̀е̂ l Е̄n_ūm a
Anyway, some time passed after that.
Despite the talk about resting comfortably,
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Grrrumble~
Soo-ah and I sat there blankly, leaning against the Auditorium wall.
Soo-ah glanced over at me.
“…Mister, I’m hungry.”
Е̄ nú m̂ӓ .і d
At that, I glanced back at her.
“Me too.”
“No! Fuck! Don’t just agree with me! Don’t you have any food!?”
There had been food prepared for the camp, but since the luggage hadn’t been unloaded, it was all still on the bus.
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That was also why I’d been keeping Grizzly inside the Grimoire to conserve energy.
“If I had food, it would’ve gone in my mouth, not yours.”
W̆ë b̊nōv̊е́l Е_ṅu m а
“I’m super cute and pretty, so you might give it to me.”
“That’s some fine self-confidence.”
I replied casually and pulled out the campground guide pamphlet from my bag.
If we went through the side door and into the connected building, there was apparently a convenience store.
Right, even if we were resting, we should at least eat while we rested.
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