Chapter 5
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Other party : I found you.
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I clicked on the message window for the messages Anonymous 10 had been sending me and checked it.
After saying they had found me... the other party hadn't sent any more messages, and their behavior...
“..Could they be coming here? Are they on their way..?”
I began to feel terrified that something unmistakably inhuman might be coming to find me.
“..What do I do? What should I do?”
Should I open the keyboard now and send Anonymous 10 an apology?
However... it was hard to say I'd done anything wrong, since I hadn't exactly sent them anything abusive in a message.
I just...
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Me : Hello.
Me : Judging by the way you type, you seem like a bit of a veteran? Something like that.
Me : I'm still in no position to adopt a persona and do anything, since I don't know anything yet...
Me : Could I get some advice?
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“I only asked them for a little help..”
It would be a lie to say I didn't find it strange.
Still...
If Anonymous 10 had really been some kind of monstrous life-form, I didn't think someone called Anonymous 4 would have left a joking comment on Anonymous 10's post.
A veteran playing some strange role?
I regarded Anonymous 10 as that sort of person,
and sent the message only because I thought they were a survival expert who knew how to stay alive in a world crawling with monsters.
“No... then they shouldn't have said ‘Not that’ after the tits..”
I felt wronged.
Why the hell would a monster understand what the word ‘tits’ meant?
If they'd at least pretended not to understand what tits were... I could've guessed, ‘Ah, this bastard isn't human!’
“Ten minutes..”
When I checked the clock, there were only about ten minutes left before it was time to work my second day as the librarian of Belliard Library.
“..What do I do about this? Uh... what should I do?”
The thought that Anonymous 10 might really come here kept swirling through my mind.
The choice I made was...
“..Fuck, let's borrow just this one thing..!”
I wiped the metal chopsticks from the lunchbox with a tissue and took them with me as a weapon, just in case.
When I started grinding the ends of the chopsticks sharp, trying somehow to make them more effective as weapons...
Suddenly...
“..Ah, wait... will they get angry that I stole the chopsticks..?”
I began to wonder whether whatever being kept refilling the lunchbox might get angry that I'd stolen the chopsticks.
I immediately tore off part of the empty notebook on the desk and began writing a message on it with a ballpoint pen.
“Come on... if they were going to kill me... ...they would've killed me in my sleep, right? They wouldn't get that angry just because I stole some chopsticks, would they..?”
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Ding~ Ding~ Ding~
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The second day as the librarian of Belliard Library.
When I heard the alarm signaling the end of my morning shift, I slowly got up and returned to the room where I was supposed to be.
..What? Was he just a roleplayer?
Since Anonymous 10 had clearly said they'd found me, I had expected them to come all the way to where I was...
But when it appeared that no patron had come to the library all morning,
I realized they'd only been playing a prank through the messages.
“Phew... I was scared for nothing..!”
I immediately brought up the status window and connected to the community, and just as I was about to demand to know why Anonymous 10 had sent me such a message...
Knock knock knock-
“..!”
I heard someone knocking on the firmly closed door right behind me.
...
I turned around and looked at the door without a word.
However, since I might have misheard the knocking,
I decided not to let them know there was someone inside, and quietly kept staring at the door...
[Unconfirmed Alert : 1]
[Unconfirmed Alert : 2]
[Unconfirmed Alert : 3]
[Unconfirmed Alert : 4]
[Unconfirmed Alert : 5]
[Unconfirmed Alert : 6]
With a chime, the status window informed me that unconfirmed alerts were piling up for me.
Anxiously, I pressed the alerts...
[There is 1 unread message : Openthedoor]
[There are 2 unread messages : Openthedoor]
[There are 3 unread messages : Openthedoor]
[There are 4 unread messages : Openthedoor]
[There are 5 unread messages : Openthedoor]
[There are 6 unread messages : Open the door]
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Ah... seriously... I'm screwed...
Knock knock knock-
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Knock knock knock knock-
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What a polite bastard.
Look at it, just constantly knocking because I won't open the door...
My heart feels like it's about to burst or I might die of a stroke, and it's just politely knocking.
‘What should I do?’
I realized how laughably pathetic the thought ‘If Anonymous 10 appears, I'll stab it with the sharpened chopsticks’ had been, and all I could do was...
Knock knock knock knock knock-
As though no one was here, I could only hold my breath and maintain silence.
Knock knock knock knock knock knock-
The knocks grew louder, and my heartbeat grew louder in proportion.
I took a deep breath and held even my breathing back, trembling at the thought that the creature beyond the door might hear my heartbeat.
Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock-
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud--
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
The monster on the other side of the door had now started pounding on it as though angry, as if to break it down.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
‘The door's going to break..!’
The door in front of me wasn't made of anything like steel,
and as I watched it begin to split, I realized that death was close.
Bang bang bang!-
Thud!----
Flop..
“..?”
The insane noise that had suddenly been ringing out stopped, and I heard something collapse outside the door.
‘What is this?’
It had happened so suddenly that my mind stopped working for a moment.
But with bright-red blood seeming to flow through the cracks in the splintered door...
‘..Did it die? All of a sudden..?’
I realized Anonymous 10 had been knocked down by something.
‘..Can I open the door?’
I wondered for a moment whether I should open the door in this absurd situation.
But then I thought Anonymous 10 might still be alive, so I decided to wait a little longer for the time being...
‘No... if I'm going to kill it, if I want to make absolutely sure it's dead... wouldn't it be right to kill it while it's unconscious?’
Suddenly.
I thought that if the time came when I had to kill it, it shouldn't be when it regained consciousness...
but now, while it couldn't regain consciousness.
It would be a lie to say I had no hesitation, but I grabbed the doorknob and pulled the door open.
Flop..
I saw something that had been leaning against the door collapse into the room.
“..Fuck..”
I tried my hardest not to swear.
If I said something bad in a place like this and fell out of favor with its owner, wouldn't that be bad?
That's why I'd been holding back the profanity as best I could...
But seeing that bizarre something collapsed right in front of me... there was no way I could keep from cursing.
Because...
“What the.. what the hell is this..”
The being sprawled before me...
Its skin was a dark shade of blue,
and although it looked very small, only about 100–120 centimeters tall,
it had a head four times larger than a human head,
and four eyeballs were embedded in that being's head, while what appeared to be its mouth had been tightly sewn shut, as if someone had stitched it closed.
I couldn't see anything resembling ears, so I didn't know whether it could hear...
and its fingers and toes looked two or three times longer than a human's, making it look horrifying—at least for a moment.
“..Yeah, I have to kill it. I have to... kill it..”
For now... I had to somehow make it impossible for it to move again.
“Let's do this.. I can do it..!”
Any living creature...
Eyes had to be a weakness.
Pook- Pook- Pook- Pook-
I began stabbing the sharpened chopsticks into the eyeballs of the collapsed monster one after another.
Pook- Pook- Pook- Pook-
Stab and pull, stab and pull.
After attacking the monster's eyes repeatedly, when I'd stabbed its eyeballs roughly twenty times...
I suddenly saw an eyeball melt like liquid with a wet pop.
“So I just need to stab each one about twenty times.”
Once I realized I only needed to stab each eyeball twenty times,
I kept plunging the chopsticks into the remaining three eyeballs, digging them out, when...
“..?”
Beyond the open doorway...
I saw something shaped like a mannequin staring fixedly at this place.
...
There was an awkward moment, but...
Since the mannequin-like thing didn't seem to be trying to attack me,
after bursting the final eyeball, I naturally stood up and closed the door first.
“..What do I do now?”
Once I actually closed the door, I had no idea what to do next,
“For now... I should probably wash up.”
As I entered the bathroom to wash the blood off my clothes,
“I should ask the people on the forum about that... for now.”
I took pictures of the collapsed monster and asked the people in the community what I should do with the corpse.
“How do you deal with a monster corpse... Haaah..”
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[How are you supposed to dispose of a monster corpse?]
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For now, I was nervous, so I burst all its eyeballs, but how am I supposed to get rid of this?
Will it evaporate on its own if I leave it there or something?
Haa... I have to eat and start my afternoon shift, but this thing is really getting on my nerves...
Give me some advice.
[Comments - 22]
Anonymous 1 : ???????????????????????
Anonymous 2 : ??????????????????????????????
Anonymous 3 : ?????????????????
Anonymous 4 : ???????????????????
Anonymous 5 : ????????????????????????
Poster : Why is everyone using nothing but question marks... Are you all monsters like Anonymous 10 too?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : No, wait... how did you know there was an anomaly on the community?
ㄴ Poster : I sent it a message, and it came all the way here... That's Anonymous 10.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : ????????????????????????????????
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : ??????????????????????????????????????
Anonymous 6 : No. ...No? ..No..? ..No..?
ㄴ Poster : Are you saying you can't get rid of the corpse?
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : ..No?
ㄴ Poster : ..?
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : Why the hell are you using question marks, you crazy bastard?
ㄴ Poster : ????????????????
Anonymous 7 : ..This is a newbie?
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : Fuck; this bastard says he pulled off in two days the insane shit we've been trying for two years?
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : This bastard's earlier post wasn't saying he'd get fucked by a monster—he was saying he'd fuck the monster??
ㄴ Anonymous 9 : Ah... so that's what it was.
Anonymous 8 : ㅇ ㅣ 게 ㅁ ㅝ 야 ?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Your buddy got thoroughly fucked by a newbie, then had all its eyes burst—what else could it look like?
ㄴ Anonymous 8 : ????????????????????????
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : Right? It's not just us being weird about this, is it?
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