The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

074 – Z Apocalypse #2

074 – Z Apocalypse #2

“Fuck!”

Wang Ja-hyun couldn’t hold back his anger when he saw the clump of hair stuck in the bathroom drain cover.

His hair had been falling out a lot recently.

Stress.

The heat rising from his head was definitely killing his hair follicles.

“Hah, Hanam Jin, you b*stard!”

Sshhh—.

Even after taking a cold bath with ice-cold water, his mind and body wouldn’t settle.

He roughly said himself off and walked into the living room. Then, he picked up his phone and searched his name.

“Author: ㅇㅇ”

“Title: Shocking) Wang Ja-hyun’s ex-girlfriend exposes his s*xual preferencesㅋㅋ”

“Apparently he made her cosplay as game characters every dayㅋㅋ Looks like he even had her sign a confidentiality agreementㅋㅋㅋ”

└ㅋㅋ Even

Someone had exposed his private life.

“Who the hell is she!”

Wang Ja-hyun, recalling the faces of the women who had signed the confidentiality agreement, threw his phone to the floor in anger.

Crash-.

The screen shattered in an instant.

Wang Ja-hyun’s mind also slightly returned.

“Calm down.”

Anyway, the noisy crowd on the internet were losers who would never even brush against the coat of Wang Ja-hyun, the heir of a conglomerate family and the protagonist of the world.

“No need to care about what those pigs and dogs are babbling about. The real world is outside the phone.”

Five minutes later.

Wang Ja-hyun picked up the broken phone, turned on the internet again, and searched for his name and read the comments.

He had to stop the indiscriminate speculation and rumors from spreading.

Then he found a post.

「Author: ㅇㅇ」

「Title: At the hospital now, what the hell is this guy? He bit me lol

「(Photo)」

└Oh, damn, that must hurt

└You’re gonna turn into a zombie now lol

The wound was so explicit it was horrifying.

「Author: F-Ranosaurus」

「Title: My mom also got bitten by a crazy woman and came to the hospital」

「Is there some zombie virus going around?」

└Isn’t it mad cow disease lol

└Seems like rabies is spreading because of the raccoons eating feed

Feeling upset, Wang Ja-hyun turned off the internet and opened the messenger.

There were a lot of unread messages.

Among them were many rising idols and actors these days.

「Joo Joo-hye (Streamer, 17 years old, C): Oppa, what are you doing?」

「Kim Eun-ha (Model, ugly smile): Ja-hyun, are you free today?」

「Yoo Dae-dam (Ordinary idol): Do you remember me? I wanted to buy you a meal to thank you for your help last time… .」

The self-esteem that had plummeted to the ground was instantly replenished.

It was amusing to see women, whom ordinary men would never even make eye contact with in their lifetime, trying so hard to spend time with Wang Ja-hyun.

After much contemplation, Wang Ja-hyun invited a woman to his house.

“Do you want to come over now?”

His father had told him to behave and not cause any trouble for a while, but inviting a woman over seemed harmless enough.

Some time had passed.

“Oppa! Long time no see! Right?”

Streamer Joo Joo-hye, who had dyed her hair a loud blonde, came to Wang Ja-hyun’s apartment and expressed her excitement excessively.

She then pestered him, asking how he had been, whether he had eaten dinner, and boasting that she could cook ramen well.

‘She’s crossing the line.’

Wang Ja-hyun disliked presumptuous women.

But the women, oblivious to this, would lie in bed with him and act as if they were his girlfriend or wife, meddling and making noise.

Just like now.

“Oppa, there’s a hole in your crown. What’s this? Balding? You’re not even an old man, puhuhup!”

“……”

Having finished his business, he wished she would leave soon.

As he was thinking this, the girl who had snuggled into his side started coughing.

“Hey! Joo-hye! Are you sick? Damn, you should have told me earlier!”

“Huh? No, it’s just esophagitis cough! Oppa, really! It’s not a cold! And anyway, don’t Awakened ones not catch colds?”

“I just hate colds!”

As the disgusted Wang Ja-hyun was throwing Joo Joo-hye’s clothes at her, she desperately explained that it wasn’t a cold and even took out a medicine packet from her bag.

“See! It’s just esophagitis medicine!”

It was then that Wang Ja-hyun noticed the bandage wrapped around Joo Joo-hye’s wrist. Feeling his gaze, Joo Joo-hye began to speak as if she had been waiting for this moment.

“This? Oppa, listen. I went to the hospital to get this medicine, and some crazy woman bit my arm and ran away. Seriously, it was unbelievable.”

Bitten by a mad person─.

The posts he had seen on the internet earlier came to mind.

“Hey, Joo Joo-hye. Just go home.”

“Why? You said I could stay over tonight!”

“Fuck, I said go, so go! Get out!”

Wang Ja-hyun pushed the underwear-clad Joo Joo-hye out of the house with his palm and then turned on the internet.

And I eagerly searched for terms like “bite,” “zombie,” “rabies,” and “kiss.”

# # #

“You want me to take this down?”

Seo Ga-eul grimaced as she watched the zombies limping towards us.

Living corpses.

Squelch, squelch, wriggle, wriggle-.

“Groooan….”

“Ughhh….”

Their bodies were crawling with maggots and oozing pus, making it clear they had been dead for at least several days.

Disgusting, right?

“Just so you know, if you get bitten or scratched by their nails, it won’t just hurt for a few days. And absolutely no kissing.”

As far as I know, “zombie” is a kind of disease.

It spreads through various channels.

“The only way to deal with these zombies is to smash their heads completely. Make sure you finish them off.”

“Ugh, seriously!”

Seo Ga-eul spread her palms wide.

Soon, a round energy gathered around her palms. As I watched the scene with interest, Seo Ga-eul pointed her palms at the zombies and shouted.

“Energy blast!”

Bang-! Fwoosh-!

The round energy shot from Seo Ga-eul’s palms hits the zombie’s body.

The zombie’s leg fell off as if hit by a bullet.

Even though it was a long-range attack, the destructive power was quite impressive.

“Ugh! Gross! The blood splattered!”

“Hey, you have to aim for the head. They’ll keep moving until their heads are blown off.”

I sternly warned Seo Ga-eul.

Then, as if out of spite, Seo Ga-eul frowned deeply and spread her palms again, firing several more energy blasts.

Bang-! Bang bang bang-! Bang bang-!

The accuracy of the attacks was terrible.

In the end, the memorial park in D City became even messier with zombies whose limbs were dismembered.

“Screech!”

Suddenly, Seo Ga-eul screamed like a burning pterosaur.

At first, the zombie that Seo Ga-eul had kicked did not die and bit Seo Ga-eul’s ankle.

“See? That’s what happens when you don’t aim for the head. I never told you what your most fatal weakness is, did I? It’s your altruism. Your kind heart is your biggest weakness.”

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“…Altruism? My heart is kind?”

Seo Ga-eul seemed puzzled that I was calling her kind-hearted, especially since she was known as the ‘worst b*tch.’ But I was sincere.

Seo Ga-eul was a mean girl, but in truth, she had a very kind heart like a fairy.

“You’re hesitating to damage even a corpse in this state, treating it like a person.”

I understood.

No matter how tough Seo Ga-eul was, she was still a person within the bounds of common sense.

Even if she had received training, it would have been limited to hitting round targets at best.

Shooting a mannequin and shooting a person were psychologically different levels of difficulty. Moreover, for Seo Ga-eul, who was full of altruism, destroying a 13-year-old girl would have been even harder.

Even if it was a zombie that seemed to have been dead for over a month.

“To survive, you have to be tougher. In the world that will change, those who can’t be selfish will die first.”

I lifted my foot and smashed the zombie’s head.

Crack-!

The splattering fragments and the terrible smell brought back many memories.

Like the time we lived in a large mart with other survivors.

It was a surprisingly pleasant memory!

Seo Ga-eul, who had no such memories, couldn’t stand the foul smell and collapsed on the floor, vomiting.

“Uuweeek!”

「Name: Seo Ga-eul

Possessions: Click to see details ☜

《Miracle Lv.4》 – As the name suggests, an existence beyond common sense and rules.

《Lady Lv.2》 – Elegant like a fairy from the heavens. Never does anything dirty.

《Length Lv.1》 – Can adjust the length of objects like a rubber band.

《Repair Lv.1》 – Can fix objects that have been broken for a short time.

《Zombie Lv.1》 – Craves warmth like a dead person. A concept copied from the host.

Status: 《Infected》 – Infected with a special disease. Feels bad.”

I could see the concept of “Miracle” that Seo Ga-eul possessed.

And I noticed that the concept of “Zombie” had also appeared.

It seems that “zombie” is not simply an infection or germ, but a concept.

A concept replicated from the host.

‘Can a concept be replicated?’

Wasn’t it impossible for the same concept to exist in more than one place at the same time?

But there might be exceptions.

Just as Seo Ga-eul can transfer her concept to others, if the concept of “zombie” can also spread to others through various routes?

I felt like I was beginning to understand the identity of the suddenly appearing zombies.

“Damn, you’re so lucky!”

“Hey! What’s so lucky about it! I got bitten! What happens to me now? Am I going to die? Am I going to turn into one of them!?”

Seo Ga-eul clutched her ankle and whimpered.

The scar, bitten hard enough to draw blood, indeed looked painful.

From my memory, it took about three days for ordinary people bitten by an infected person to go berserk.

For the awakened ones, it was about ten days.

Of course, there were slight variations depending on the person.

I whispered into Seo Ga-eul’s ear.

“Queen never cries.”

Her tearful expression turned resolved.

“What are you saying, idiot? “What’s a naver?”

“Don’t be scared. I know how to make the cure. It’s not that difficult.”

“Really? Do you really know how!?”

“Hey, are you doubting a man’s word? There’s something we need to do first.”

The problem is the “zombie” itself.

Zombies are like cockroaches; if you see one, it means there are a hundred more somewhere.

Before my temporary happiness ends with the Z apocalypse, I had to act quickly.

First, someone with national influence had to step up.

It was at that moment.

Bzzz-.

My phone rang loudly.

It turned out the group chat of Class D was in chaos.

“Did you see the broadcast just now?”

“Do you think there will really be ten thousand new infections every day?”

“Are zombies real?”

When I turned on my phone, there was something strange in the hottest video.

A man with a plain white mask with only holes for his eyes and a golden laurel wreath on his head was talking to the camera.

“To the kidnapper of Seo Ga-eul. If you do not surrender, ten thousand innocent people will become infected with the zombie virus I spread every day.

This is no joke or lie. I will show you the proof.

Witness the power that has conquered even death.”

When the man in the video cut his hand and sprinkled his blood on the corpses, they began to tremble and rise in a grotesque manner.

Creating zombies. Could this guy be the host of the zombies?

Seo Ga-eul, who was watching my phone with me, shivered.

“This feeling… This guy is the one! The demon with the red eyes! Look! His eyes behind the mask are bright red!”

Indeed, the eyes reflected in the mask were very red.

The devil with the red eyes! I never thought I would meet him like this!

“Honestly, it’s unexpected. The zombie host and the demon with the red eyes are the same person. Th…this…”

My body trembled.

Cold sweat ran down my back as if I was holding back an urgent need.

“Th…this…this…”

“This?”

“Yippee!!!”

What luck!!!!

Zombies and a demon! I can deal with both at once!

If I handle this guy, I can stop the zombie outbreak, right?

But why does the demon of the zombies want the kidnapper of Seo Ga-eul to surrender?

“Yippee? I thought something was wrong.”

While I was lost in thought, Seo Ga-eul frowned.

Then she looked at me again with tense eyes.

“Hey, what are you going to do? If he doesn’t surrender, ten thousand innocent people will become zombies every day! I got bitten too! Damn it!”

Thinking about the lives of ten thousand innocent people made my blood run cold.

Seo Ga-eul was as kind as a fairy.

People with such altruism cannot survive in a world that has perished.

Then what about me?

I was the ‘one who survived.’

It means I knew how to be appropriately selfish.

“I’m not turning myself in.”

“Hey! What are you going to do if ten thousand zombies are created because of you! You b*stard! Crazy lunatic! Han Namjin, you’re really a piece of trash! Because of you, ten thousand people will turn into zombies! “Because of you!”

“No! That won’t happen!”

Among the various disasters of destruction, “zombies” were quite tricky.

They drove people into fear until a cure was discovered.

In terms of sheer terror, it might be similar to the disaster of “darkness.”

But? According to the destruction expert, compared to the disaster of “darkness,” “zombies” were a disaster that could be completely prepared for if the timing was right.

For reference, the destruction expert is me, Han Namjin.

In that sense, it might be unfortunate for the zombie minds, but for me, the Z apocalypse was already a conquered genre.

The timing is just right.

“Seo Gaul, I need to call your dad!”