Chapter 16

Melting Shampoo (5)

Melting Shampoo (5) - How a Blacksmith Survives in a Neapolitan Horror World - Penguin Squad

Chapter 16

Melting Shampoo (5)

‘..What is it?’

I was a little confused, but I had to find out why the community had ended up like this.

I clicked on a post at random and checked its contents..

[Newbie, you f***ing idiot, look at this already]

Don't go outside, please. It's a trap. Please don't go out. Please, please, seriously, please don't go out.

[Comments - 0]

‘..Huh?’

I could see a post that had somehow managed to write down a warning telling me not to go outside.

‘What is this?’

Wondering whether everyone was making such a fuss over whether I had gone outside or not, I checked another post.

[Didn't he already go outside?]

You wrote the flag, right? Then you have to stay now, right? Right??

Newbie, please tell me you haven't gone out yet?

[Comments - 1]

Anonymous 1: Ah, seriously, please..

This one too.

[I'm seriously going crazy. Looking closely, this is f***ing creepy;]

Whoa, fuck.. Looks like anomalies have already taken over the world over there. Those things that came out of that Melting Shampoo.

They can't write posts themselves, so they must have forced an already dying human to write them instead.

..I'm a little worried about Newbie.

Did he already go outside.. He asked us about all sorts of things..

[Comments - 4]

Anonymous 1: That's a really f***ing bleak place..

Anonymous 2: Couldn't it be our Earth?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: But it can't be Earth, not when the buildings don't even have windows.

ㄴ Anonymous 2: That's a relief..

This one too..

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Ah, Newbie, please don't go out. Why haven't you answered for four hours? Seriously.

[Comments - 0]

‘..They were all telling me not to go outside..?’

I realized that every single post was written to tell me not to go outside.

Wondering what was going on, I made a post.

[(Glancing around..)]

I couldn't check the community for quite a while because I was, uh, getting ready to make armor..

So, uh.. what exactly is going on?

[Comments - 0]

I cautiously wrote a post while glancing around.

[Comments - 9]

Anonymous 1: Are you really Newbie, you f***ing idiot?

Anonymous 2: Seriously?? Not a troll?

Anonymous 3: Prove it. Now.

Anonymous 4: Proof, go.

Anonymous 5: Ah, seriously, I f***ing hate bastards who troll with crap like this. Kill them all, I should--

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Kill them all..

ㄴ Anonymous 5: We should kill them all.

ㄴ Anonymous 2: If you're really impersonating him, we'll throw you outside during the next lockdown.

Anonymous 1: If you realize even now that this is wrong, apologize and never do this again.

Since the community seemed to be taking this somewhat seriously.

‘Oh man.. I should prove it quickly.’

I took pictures of various parts of where I was, and also photographed the materials I'd gathered for making armor to show what had kept me busy, then uploaded them to the community.

[Proof first.. Will this do..?]

(Photo)

I took pictures of the place I'm in from every angle and uploaded them.

In case you think I just reposted them, I took all of them anew from different angles.

And..

(Photo)

Hehe.. srry..

It took me a while to gather materials to make something like a leather cuirass to wear when I go outside.. hehe;

That thing that looks like a sheet of metal is what I got by taking apart every single computer component.. Preparing that took longer than I expected..!

[Comments - 24]

Anonymous 1: Oh, he's Newbie all right. Phew.

Anonymous 2: Could he be an anomaly that ate Newbie's memories?

Anonymous 3: He really could be an anomaly that ate his memories. I think he should prove he's human too.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: But if it's Newbie with his memories eaten, couldn't he imitate anything?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: “Eating memories” probably doesn't mean it can eat every single memory, so childhood memories and stuff would be the most foolproof.

Anonymous 4: Gㅏ outside.

ㄴ Poster: Too bad. I was just about to send you a note.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: I wㅏn't fㅏll for it.

ㄴ Poster: I mean it.. This time, I really had even made up my mind to send you a note..

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Dㅏn't go out.

ㄴ Poster: Idiot lol.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Whㅏt?

ㄴ Poster: “Idiot” < This means a clone, but it's roughly like a positive exclamation.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Aㅏhㅏ

Anonymous 2: Completely human, huh?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ ㅅ2ㅂ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Yeah, definitely human ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 1: True, even a highly intelligent anomaly couldn't do that. If anomalies had that level of intelligence, we'd all be dead already ㅋㅋ

Anonymous 5: I'm telling you, we have to confirm whether he's human in the first place.

ㄴ Anonymous 3: At this point, cut him some slack. The fact that he tried so f***ing hard to prove it makes him human ㅋㅋㅋ An anomaly couldn't take all those pictures so meticulously.

ㄴ Anonymous 5: What if it's a super-high-intelligence anomaly?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Anomalies all die when they come here anyway. Just tell him to hit Return and come here ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Ah.. Uh.. okay..

Anonymous 2: At least we know Newbie wasn't eaten by an anomaly.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Happy ending~ Happy ending~

Anonymous 6: I was seriously worried, Newbie.

Anonymous 7: Our Newbie, are you hurt?

ㄴ Poster: I didn't even go outside..?

ㄴ Anonymous 7: What?! You got hurt that badly? Come here. I'll blow on it and make it better.

ㄴ Anonymous 8: Hey, stop that bastard. He's getting worked up over Newbie again.

Fortunately, the people who had seen everyone teasing the note anomaly became convinced that I was human.

I stopped trying to prove I was human any further and asked in the comments why they had been looking for me so desperately.

‘..You want me to click a link?’

When the people in the gallery gave me a link and told me I absolutely had to read one post, I clicked it.

[Hey, hey, look at this quickly, Newbie. You absolutely must not go outside.]

(Photo)

This is a picture Newbie sent, and if you look closely, some of the letters here and there are written in bold, while others are underlined.

At first, I think everyone just let it slide because those strange letters couldn't be combined into anything.

But I saw it differently.

I read the bold letters separately as bold letters, and the underlined letters separately as underlined letters, and they came out like this..

First, here are the bold letters.

1. Don't go outside

2. The inside of the house is the safest place

3. We can't get inside the house

4. We're about to starve to death because there's nothing to eat

5. So hold out inside the house

6. It all ends in four days

7. Make sure you survive

And these are the underlined words.

Don't do anything foolish. The world has already ended.

I don't want to die. Save me, please..

I got goosebumps like crazy after finding this too, so, Newbie, please.. after reading this, don't go outside.

In a world overrun by anomalies, the survivors who remain hid this code somehow to save the other survivors.

Newbie, never trust the rulebook.

[Comments - 23]

Anonymous 1: Whoa, f***.. I'm covered in goosebumps right now..

Anonymous 2: Looking at it now, if you take just the first letter of each line in front of that, it says, “I'm already infected. Everyone will be dead in four days.”

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Wow, shit; he's right;

Anonymous 3: Oh.. shit..;

Anonymous 4: But Newbie isn't looking at the gallery right now. What do we do?

ㄴ Anonymous 5: He'll come back soon. You don't think he'll leave after asking us a question, do you?

ㄴ Anonymous 8: This statement really came true..

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Ah, Newbie, come look at this already, seriously..

Anonymous 6: Oh man.. Looks like the world was already eaten up by anomalies because of that Melting Shampoo or whatever..

Anonymous 1: But what if this is just the anomalies waging an advanced psychological war?

ㄴ Poster: From the anomalies' perspective, there'd be no reason to wage psychological warfare like that. They can just write whatever they want in the rulebook.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Oh, right.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: The OP's smart. Harvard by any chance?

ㄴ Poster: I graduated high school.

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Highly educated, huh. There's also someone up there who had the “education” taken out of “highly educated.”

ㄴ Anonymous 1: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ A eunuch? Who?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Who is it?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Answer me, you f***ing bitch.

Anonymous 7: Looking at it this way, it's f***ing ridiculous ㅋㅋㅋ Did the company selling that shampoo cause the world to end because of the shampoo they sold? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 3: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 5: This is pretty damn stupid ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Anonymous 6: So the place selling that Melting Shampoo was the cause of the apocalypse ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Anonymous 8: Oh, shit; creepy.

As soon as I finished reading the post, I felt goosebumps break out all over my body.

‘This was a code?’

The humans who had survived in a world that had been destroyed.. had been conveying information to the only survivor who remained.

‘Wow.. ..If the community hadn't existed, I would've died just like that.’

I had thought that in a horror-story world, I absolutely had to trust and follow the rulebook..

But it turned out I even had to doubt the rulebook..

‘...’

I blankly looked down at the materials I had gathered to make armor.

I did feel a little silly wondering why I'd prepared all this when I wasn't even going outside.

But compared to going outside and dangerously trying to hold out, safely lasting four days inside the house was clearly the better option.

‘So I just have to hold out here for four days.’

Just as I was wondering whether I should spend the time here even more peacefully than I had at Belliard Library.

Suddenly.

‘In a way.. I'm really grateful to these people too. ..Even while being tortured by the anomalies, they somehow mixed this code in.’

I felt grateful that people in this world, people I'd never even met, had written this information for my sake.

Why wouldn't I?

Since they had given me the clear standard of “four days,” counting from today.

This note must have been made today, which meant they had somehow done their best to save me—to let me survive if I noticed even one of the three codes.

Even though they knew they'd die if the anomalies found out, they had still made that effort to keep me alive..

‘..What could a human like me possibly do, that I'm thinking such nonsense?’

I wanted to help them too.

This.. was a thought that had taken root deep in my heart before I even realized it.

But what could I do in this frail human body?

What could I possibly do against the unidentified anomalies that had already devoured humanity..?

‘What could I possibly do, really..’

They had helped me, but I couldn't help them in return.

The most I could even try was to go outside the house in four days and see how thoroughly the world had been destroyed.

‘They'd all be dead by then, though.’

A faint laugh escaped me.

Because the thoughts I was having were ridiculous, yet somehow felt like the thoughts of someone with a full stomach.

‘What the hell am I even talking about?’

I accessed the community and honestly confessed that I'd been entertaining these absurd, pointless thoughts.

[I'm seriously such a worthless fucking idiot. Insult me.]

After you guys here saved my life.

I'm imagining going to rescue the person who hid the code for me and thanking them ㅋㅋㅋ

Ha..

I don't know if I want to be a hero, or if I just want to save them as fellow humans..

A bastard who can't even preserve his own life is sitting here entertaining this kind of nonsense.

Insult me harshly enough to knock some sense into me.

[Comments - 0]

“Idiot.”

I cursed myself, then lay down on the floor, intending to quietly pass the time by following the code that said I would be safe as long as I stayed inside the house..

Suddenly.

‘..Huh?’

It occurred to me that the Melting Shampoo was still in the room where I had opened my eyes.

‘..Right. I won't go outside, but I can try one experiment, can't I?’

Thinking I could at least try this action that had just occurred to me as an experiment.

I deleted the post I'd written like a confession of my crime, then immediately returned to the room where the Melting Shampoo lay.

[Newbie, you f***ing horny bastard!!!! Get a grip before I fuck you!!!! You son of a bitch!!!]

Get a grip.

We joked around saying you fought well, you fought well.

But only a complete fucking idiot would think of running off to play hero in a place crawling with anomalies.

Thinking, “I can go out, fight, and just hit Return when things get bad,”

Don't even think that shit.

What if you die before you press the button?

Then what?

Are you just going to die right there?

No, right?

So get a grip and just stay holed up quietly inside the house.

Phew..

That said, the warning to be careful still stands.

I didn't want to curse at Newbie, but since Newbie asked me to, I had no choice but to write a few insults.

Sowwy.

[Comments - 14]

Anonymous 1: That's too harsh..

ㄴ Poster: Nope, Newbie wrote a post asking us to curse at him.

ㄴ Poster: ? What happened to that post?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: You're mean..

Anonymous 2: You're seriously unloading a barrage of abuse on a newbie.. Now that you're an adult, is this really what you want to do?

ㄴ Poster: No, wait; that's not it.. It's a misunderstanding; Newbie really did ask me to curse at him;

ㄴ Anonymous 2: Proof.

ㄴ Poster: No.. I don't actually have any..

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Boo~ You piece of trash.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Go die outside, you anomaly bastard.

Anonymous 5: Okay.. Sorry.. I'll stay holed up inside the house.. (Edited) (Deleted)

ㄴ Poster: ??? You can't do that, right?? Newbie?? Newbie?????

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Wow, this piece of trash is telling Newbie to just hole up at home and never come out.

ㄴ Poster: No..!! It's a misunderstanding..!! Fuck, seriously, isn't it?? Head mod!!! Head mod!!!! Find that deleted post for me..!

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‘..What is it?’

I was a little confused, but I had to find out why the community had ended up like this.

I clicked on a post at random and checked its contents..

[Newbie, you f***ing idiot, look at this already]

Don't go outside, please. It's a trap. Please don't go out. Please, please, seriously, please don't go out.

[Comments - 0]

‘..Huh?’

I could see a post that had somehow managed to write down a warning telling me not to go outside.

‘What is this?’

Wondering whether everyone was making such a fuss over whether I had gone outside or not, I checked another post.

[Didn't he already go outside?]

You wrote the flag, right? Then you have to stay now, right? Right??

Newbie, please tell me you haven't gone out yet?

[Comments - 1]

Anonymous 1: Ah, seriously, please..

This one too.

[I'm seriously going crazy. Looking closely, this is f***ing creepy;]

Whoa, fuck.. Looks like anomalies have already taken over the world over there. Those things that came out of that Melting Shampoo.

They can't write posts themselves, so they must have forced an already dying human to write them instead.

..I'm a little worried about Newbie.

Did he already go outside.. He asked us about all sorts of things..

[Comments - 4]

Anonymous 1: That's a really f***ing bleak place..

Anonymous 2: Couldn't it be our Earth?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: But it can't be Earth, not when the buildings don't even have windows.

ㄴ Anonymous 2: That's a relief..

This one too..

Ah, Newbie, please don't go out. Why haven't you answered for four hours? Seriously.

[Comments - 0]

‘..They were all telling me not to go outside..?’

I realized that every single post was written to tell me not to go outside.

Wondering what was going on, I made a post.

[(Glancing around..)]

I couldn't check the community for quite a while because I was, uh, getting ready to make armor..

So, uh.. what exactly is going on?

[Comments - 0]

I cautiously wrote a post while glancing around.

[Comments - 9]

Anonymous 1: Are you really Newbie, you f***ing idiot?

Anonymous 2: Seriously?? Not a troll?

Anonymous 3: Prove it. Now.

Anonymous 4: Proof, go.

Anonymous 5: Ah, seriously, I f***ing hate bastards who troll with crap like this. Kill them all, I should--

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Kill them all..

ㄴ Anonymous 5: We should kill them all.

ㄴ Anonymous 2: If you're really impersonating him, we'll throw you outside during the next lockdown.

Anonymous 1: If you realize even now that this is wrong, apologize and never do this again.

Since the community seemed to be taking this somewhat seriously.

‘Oh man.. I should prove it quickly.’

I took pictures of various parts of where I was, and also photographed the materials I'd gathered for making armor to show what had kept me busy, then uploaded them to the community.

[Proof first.. Will this do..?]

(Photo)

I took pictures of the place I'm in from every angle and uploaded them.

In case you think I just reposted them, I took all of them anew from different angles.

And..

(Photo)

Hehe.. srry..

It took me a while to gather materials to make something like a leather cuirass to wear when I go outside.. hehe;

That thing that looks like a sheet of metal is what I got by taking apart every single computer component.. Preparing that took longer than I expected..!

[Comments - 24]

Anonymous 1: Oh, he's Newbie all right. Phew.

Anonymous 2: Could he be an anomaly that ate Newbie's memories?

Anonymous 3: He really could be an anomaly that ate his memories. I think he should prove he's human too.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: But if it's Newbie with his memories eaten, couldn't he imitate anything?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: “Eating memories” probably doesn't mean it can eat every single memory, so childhood memories and stuff would be the most foolproof.

Anonymous 4: Gㅏ outside.

ㄴ Poster: Too bad. I was just about to send you a note.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: I wㅏn't fㅏll for it.

ㄴ Poster: I mean it.. This time, I really had even made up my mind to send you a note..

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Dㅏn't go out.

ㄴ Poster: Idiot lol.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Whㅏt?

ㄴ Poster: “Idiot” < This means a clone, but it's roughly like a positive exclamation.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Aㅏhㅏ

Anonymous 2: Completely human, huh?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ ㅅ2ㅂ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Yeah, definitely human ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 1: True, even a highly intelligent anomaly couldn't do that. If anomalies had that level of intelligence, we'd all be dead already ㅋㅋ

Anonymous 5: I'm telling you, we have to confirm whether he's human in the first place.

ㄴ Anonymous 3: At this point, cut him some slack. The fact that he tried so f***ing hard to prove it makes him human ㅋㅋㅋ An anomaly couldn't take all those pictures so meticulously.

ㄴ Anonymous 5: What if it's a super-high-intelligence anomaly?

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Anomalies all die when they come here anyway. Just tell him to hit Return and come here ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Ah.. Uh.. okay..

Anonymous 2: At least we know Newbie wasn't eaten by an anomaly.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Happy ending~ Happy ending~

Anonymous 6: I was seriously worried, Newbie.

Anonymous 7: Our Newbie, are you hurt?

ㄴ Poster: I didn't even go outside..?

ㄴ Anonymous 7: What?! You got hurt that badly? Come here. I'll blow on it and make it better.

ㄴ Anonymous 8: Hey, stop that bastard. He's getting worked up over Newbie again.

Fortunately, the people who had seen everyone teasing the note anomaly became convinced that I was human.

I stopped trying to prove I was human any further and asked in the comments why they had been looking for me so desperately.

‘..You want me to click a link?’

When the people in the gallery gave me a link and told me I absolutely had to read one post, I clicked it.

[Hey, hey, look at this quickly, Newbie. You absolutely must not go outside.]

(Photo)

This is a picture Newbie sent, and if you look closely, some of the letters here and there are written in bold, while others are underlined.

At first, I think everyone just let it slide because those strange letters couldn't be combined into anything.

But I saw it differently.

I read the bold letters separately as bold letters, and the underlined letters separately as underlined letters, and they came out like this..

First, here are the bold letters.

1. Don't go outside

2. The inside of the house is the safest place

3. We can't get inside the house

4. We're about to starve to death because there's nothing to eat

5. So hold out inside the house

6. It all ends in four days

7. Make sure you survive

And these are the underlined words.

Don't do anything foolish. The world has already ended.

I don't want to die. Save me, please..

I got goosebumps like crazy after finding this too, so, Newbie, please.. after reading this, don't go outside.

In a world overrun by anomalies, the survivors who remain hid this code somehow to save the other survivors.

Newbie, never trust the rulebook.

[Comments - 23]

Anonymous 1: Whoa, f***.. I'm covered in goosebumps right now..

Anonymous 2: Looking at it now, if you take just the first letter of each line in front of that, it says, “I'm already infected. Everyone will be dead in four days.”

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Wow, shit; he's right;

Anonymous 3: Oh.. shit..;

Anonymous 4: But Newbie isn't looking at the gallery right now. What do we do?

ㄴ Anonymous 5: He'll come back soon. You don't think he'll leave after asking us a question, do you?

ㄴ Anonymous 8: This statement really came true..

ㄴ Anonymous 5: Ah, Newbie, come look at this already, seriously..

Anonymous 6: Oh man.. Looks like the world was already eaten up by anomalies because of that Melting Shampoo or whatever..

Anonymous 1: But what if this is just the anomalies waging an advanced psychological war?

ㄴ Poster: From the anomalies' perspective, there'd be no reason to wage psychological warfare like that. They can just write whatever they want in the rulebook.

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Oh, right.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: The OP's smart. Harvard by any chance?

ㄴ Poster: I graduated high school.

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Highly educated, huh. There's also someone up there who had the “education” taken out of “highly educated.”

ㄴ Anonymous 1: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ A eunuch? Who?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Who is it?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Answer me, you f***ing bitch.

Anonymous 7: Looking at it this way, it's f***ing ridiculous ㅋㅋㅋ Did the company selling that shampoo cause the world to end because of the shampoo they sold? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 3: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Anonymous 5: This is pretty damn stupid ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Anonymous 6: So the place selling that Melting Shampoo was the cause of the apocalypse ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Anonymous 8: Oh, shit; creepy.

As soon as I finished reading the post, I felt goosebumps break out all over my body.

‘This was a code?’

The humans who had survived in a world that had been destroyed.. had been conveying information to the only survivor who remained.

‘Wow.. ..If the community hadn't existed, I would've died just like that.’

I had thought that in a horror-story world, I absolutely had to trust and follow the rulebook..

But it turned out I even had to doubt the rulebook..

‘...’

I blankly looked down at the materials I had gathered to make armor.

I did feel a little silly wondering why I'd prepared all this when I wasn't even going outside.

But compared to going outside and dangerously trying to hold out, safely lasting four days inside the house was clearly the better option.

‘So I just have to hold out here for four days.’

Just as I was wondering whether I should spend the time here even more peacefully than I had at Belliard Library.

Suddenly.

‘In a way.. I'm really grateful to these people too. ..Even while being tortured by the anomalies, they somehow mixed this code in.’

I felt grateful that people in this world, people I'd never even met, had written this information for my sake.

Why wouldn't I?

Since they had given me the clear standard of “four days,” counting from today.

This note must have been made today, which meant they had somehow done their best to save me—to let me survive if I noticed even one of the three codes.

Even though they knew they'd die if the anomalies found out, they had still made that effort to keep me alive..

‘..What could a human like me possibly do, that I'm thinking such nonsense?’

I wanted to help them too.

This.. was a thought that had taken root deep in my heart before I even realized it.

But what could I do in this frail human body?

What could I possibly do against the unidentified anomalies that had already devoured humanity..?

‘What could I possibly do, really..’

They had helped me, but I couldn't help them in return.

The most I could even try was to go outside the house in four days and see how thoroughly the world had been destroyed.

‘They'd all be dead by then, though.’

A faint laugh escaped me.

Because the thoughts I was having were ridiculous, yet somehow felt like the thoughts of someone with a full stomach.

‘What the hell am I even talking about?’

I accessed the community and honestly confessed that I'd been entertaining these absurd, pointless thoughts.

[I'm seriously such a worthless fucking idiot. Insult me.]

After you guys here saved my life.

I'm imagining going to rescue the person who hid the code for me and thanking them ㅋㅋㅋ

Ha..

I don't know if I want to be a hero, or if I just want to save them as fellow humans..

A bastard who can't even preserve his own life is sitting here entertaining this kind of nonsense.

Insult me harshly enough to knock some sense into me.

[Comments - 0]

“Idiot.”

I cursed myself, then lay down on the floor, intending to quietly pass the time by following the code that said I would be safe as long as I stayed inside the house..

Suddenly.

‘..Huh?’

It occurred to me that the Melting Shampoo was still in the room where I had opened my eyes.

‘..Right. I won't go outside, but I can try one experiment, can't I?’

Thinking I could at least try this action that had just occurred to me as an experiment.

I deleted the post I'd written like a confession of my crime, then immediately returned to the room where the Melting Shampoo lay.

[Newbie, you f***ing horny bastard!!!! Get a grip before I fuck you!!!! You son of a bitch!!!]

Get a grip.

We joked around saying you fought well, you fought well.

But only a complete fucking idiot would think of running off to play hero in a place crawling with anomalies.

Thinking, “I can go out, fight, and just hit Return when things get bad,”

Don't even think that shit.

What if you die before you press the button?

Then what?

Are you just going to die right there?

No, right?

So get a grip and just stay holed up quietly inside the house.

Phew..

That said, the warning to be careful still stands.

I didn't want to curse at Newbie, but since Newbie asked me to, I had no choice but to write a few insults.

Sowwy.

[Comments - 14]

Anonymous 1: That's too harsh..

ㄴ Poster: Nope, Newbie wrote a post asking us to curse at him.

ㄴ Poster: ? What happened to that post?

ㄴ Anonymous 1: You're mean..

Anonymous 2: You're seriously unloading a barrage of abuse on a newbie.. Now that you're an adult, is this really what you want to do?

ㄴ Poster: No, wait; that's not it.. It's a misunderstanding; Newbie really did ask me to curse at him;

ㄴ Anonymous 2: Proof.

ㄴ Poster: No.. I don't actually have any..

ㄴ Anonymous 3: Boo~ You piece of trash.

ㄴ Anonymous 4: Go die outside, you anomaly bastard.

Anonymous 5: Okay.. Sorry.. I'll stay holed up inside the house.. (Edited) (Deleted)

ㄴ Poster: ??? You can't do that, right?? Newbie?? Newbie?????

ㄴ Anonymous 1: Wow, this piece of trash is telling Newbie to just hole up at home and never come out.

ㄴ Poster: No..!! It's a misunderstanding..!! Fuck, seriously, isn't it?? Head mod!!! Head mod!!!! Find that deleted post for me..!