Chapter 5
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Other party : I found you.
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I clicked on the message window that Anonymous 10 had been sending me messages through and checked it.
After saying they had found me, the other party hadn't sent another message.
“..Could they be coming to find me? Are they on their way..?”
I began to feel terrified that something unmistakably inhuman might be coming to find me.
“..What should I do? What am I supposed to do?”
Should I open the keyboard even now and send Anonymous 10 an apology?
However.. it felt awkward to say that I had done something wrong, since I hadn't exactly sent them any abusive messages through the notes.
Just..
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Me : Hello.
Me : Judging by the way you chat, 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 or something?
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“All I did was ask for some help..”
It would be a lie to say I hadn't found it strange.
However..
If Anonymous 10 really was a monster-like creature, I thought Anonymous 4 wouldn't have left a joking comment on Anonymous 10's post.
A veteran who had adopted a strange persona?
I regarded Anonymous 10 as that sort of being.
I had only sent them a message because I thought they were a survival expert who had managed to survive in a world overrun with monsters.
“No.. Then don't say not that after I say tits..”
I felt wronged.
Why would a monster understand the meaning of the word tits?
If it had at least pretended not to understand what tits were, I could have guessed, ‘Ah, this bastard isn't human..!’
“Ten minutes..”
When I checked the clock, I realized that I only had about ten minutes left before I had to go work my second day as a librarian at Belliard Library.
“..What the hell, uh.. what am I supposed to do?”
The thought that Anonymous 10 might really come here kept churning through my mind.
The choice I made was..
“..Ah, damn, let's just borrow this one thing..!”
I wiped the steel chopsticks from the lunchbox with a tissue and took them with me, intending to use them as a weapon in case anything happened.
As I tried to make the chopsticks as efficient as possible by grinding their ends into sharp points,
Suddenly..
“..Ah, this.. Is the thing that keeps refilling my lunchbox going to get angry because I stole the chopsticks..?”
I suddenly wondered if the entity that kept refilling this lunchbox
might get angry because I had taken the chopsticks.
I immediately tore off part of the blank notebook on the desk and began writing a message on it with a ballpoint pen.
“Well.. If it wanted to kill me.. it would've killed me while I was sleeping, right? It won't get super angry just because I borrowed some chopsticks, right..?”
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Ding~ Ding~ Ding~
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Second day as a librarian at Belliard Library.
The alarm signaling the end of my morning shift rang, and I slowly got up and returned to the room where I was supposed to be.
“..What was that? Just a roleplayer?”
Since Anonymous 10 had clearly said they had found me, I thought they would come all the way to where I was..
But since it seemed that no guests had come to the library all morning,
I realized that they had simply been playing a prank through the notes.
“Whew.. I got scared for nothing..!”
I immediately opened the status window and logged onto the community, and just as I was about to demand an explanation from Anonymous 10 for sending a note like that..
Knock knock knock-
“..!”
The sound of someone knocking on the tightly closed door came from right behind me.
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I silently turned toward the door.
However, I might have misheard the knocking.
So I decided not to reveal that there was anyone inside and continued staring quietly at the door..
[Unread Alerts : 1]
[Unread Alerts : 2]
[Unread Alerts : 3]
[Unread Alerts : 4]
[Unread Alerts : 5]
[Unread Alerts : 6]
The status window informed me with a notification sound that unread alerts were piling up.
Anxiously, I pressed the alerts..
[There is 1 unread note : Openthedoor]
[There are 2 unread notes : Openthedoor]
[There are 3 unread notes : Openthedoor]
[There are 4 unread notes : Openthedoor]
[There are 5 unread notes : Openthedoor]
[There are 6 unread notes : Open the door]
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Ah.. This was really bad..
Knock knock knock-
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Knock knock knock knock-
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What a polite bastard.
Look at it continuing to knock just because I wouldn't open the door..
Here I was, feeling like my heart might burst or stop, while it just stood there politely knocking.
‘..What should I do?’
After realizing how pathetic the thought ‘If Anonymous 10 appears, I'll stab it with these sharpened chopsticks’ really was, the only thing I could do was..
Knock knock knock knock knock-
I held my breath and remained silent, as though there were no one here at all.
Knock knock knock knock knock knock-
As the knocking gradually grew louder, so did my heartbeat.
Worried that the creature beyond the door might hear my heartbeat, I drew a deep breath and then didn't even let my breathing make a sound.
Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock-
Thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump--
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
The creature beyond the door began pounding on it as though it would break, as if it had finally gotten angry.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!-
‘The door's going to break..!’
The door in front of me was nothing like a steel door.
As I watched it begin to crack, I realized that my death was near.
Bang bang bang!-
Thud!----
Thump..
“..?”
The sound that had suddenly been ringing madly stopped, and I heard something collapse in front of the door.
‘What is it?’
It had happened so suddenly that my mind couldn't process it for a moment.
Bright-red blood was flowing through the gap in the broken, splintered door..
‘..Is it dead? All of a sudden..?’
I realized that Anonymous 10 had been knocked down by something..
‘..Is it safe to open the door?’
I wondered whether I should open the door in this absurd situation, but only for a moment.
Thinking that Anonymous 10 might still be alive, I decided to wait a little longer..
‘No.. If I'm going to kill it, if I'm going to kill it for sure.. Wouldn't it be right to kill it while it's unconscious?’
Suddenly.
I thought that if the situation came where I had to kill it, the right time would not be after it regained consciousness.
It would be a lie to say I had no hesitation, but I grabbed the door and pulled it open anyway.
Flop..
I saw something that had been leaning against the door fall into the room.
“..Fuck..”
I had tried as hard as I could not to swear.
I couldn't afford to say something vulgar in a place like this and incur the displeasure of its owner, could I?
That was why I had been holding back my profanity..
But seeing that bizarre thing collapsed in front of me.. this was a situation where I couldn't help but swear.
Because..
“What the.. is this, seriously..”
The thing collapsed before my eyes..
Its skin was dark blue,
It looked very small, only about 100 to 120 centimeters tall,
but it had a head four times the size of a human head,
and four eyeballs were embedded in it. Its mouth—or what appeared to be one—had been sewn tightly shut, as though someone had stitched it closed.
I couldn't see anything resembling ears, so I didn't know whether it could hear..
Its fingers and toes looked two or three times longer than a human's, and for a moment, it looked horrifying beyond belief.
“..Right, I have to kill it. Kill.. it..”
For now.. I was in a situation where I had to somehow make it impossible for the creature to move again.
“Let's do this.. I can do it..!”
Any living creature..
I reminded myself that the eyes of any creature had to be a weak point.
Thrust- Thrust- Thrust- Thrust-
I began driving the sharpened chopsticks into the eyeballs of the fallen creature one after another.
Thrust- Thrust- Thrust- Thrust-
Stab and pull out, stab and pull out.
I repeatedly attacked the creature's eyes, and when I had stabbed one of them about twenty times,
I suddenly heard a squelching sound and saw the eyeball melt like liquid.
“So I just need to stab each one about twenty times.”
After realizing that I only had to stab each eyeball twenty times,
I continued driving the chopsticks into the remaining three eyeballs and gouging at them when..
“..?”
Beyond the open door..
I saw something that looked like a mannequin staring intently at me.
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I felt a moment of awkwardness, but
the thing that looked like a mannequin didn't seem to be trying to attack me.
So after popping the final eyeball as well, I simply stood up and closed the door.
“..What should I do now?”
Once I had closed the door, I had no idea what I was supposed to do next.
“For now.. I should wash up.”
As I entered the bathroom to wash the blood off my clothes,
“I should.. ..ask the people on the community about that.”
I took a picture of the fallen creature and asked the people on the community what I should do with the corpse.
“How am I supposed to dispose of a monster's corpse.. Phew..”
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[How do I dispose of a monster corpse?]
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I was nervous, so I popped all its eyeballs first, but how am I supposed to get rid of this thing?
Will it evaporate on its own if I leave it here or something?
Damn.. I have to eat and then 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 only using question marks.. Are you guys monsters too, like Anonymous 10?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : No, wait.. ..How did you know there was an anomaly in the community?
ㄴ Poster : I sent it a note, and it came all the way here.. This is that Anonymous 10 guy.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : ????????????????????????????????
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : ??????????????????????????????????????
Anonymous 6 : No. ..No? ..No..? ..No..?
ㄴ Poster : Are you saying you can't clean up the corpse?
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : ..No?
ㄴ Poster : ..?
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : Why are you using question marks, you crazy bastard?
ㄴ Poster : ????????????????
Anonymous 7 : ..This is a newbie?
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : Fuck, this bastard pulled off in two days the crazy shit we've been trying for two years??
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : This bastard didn't write that post about getting fucked by a monster last time—he wrote that he was going to fuck the monster??
ㄴ Anonymous 9 : Ah.. So that's what it was..
Anonymous 8 : W h a t i s t h i s ?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Your colleague got brutally fucked by the newbie and had all its eyes popped, so what else would it look like?
ㄴ Anonymous 8 : ????????????????????????
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : Right? It's not just us being weird, is it?
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