Chapter 126

【Yoho】─Huh? What are those eyes?

【Handsome Licker】─Isn’t that a yokai?

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Holy crap, why is that yokai so huge?

Outside the window.

The moment I locked eyes with an abnormally large pair of pupils.

Kuuuung!

The plane shook violently, and as if the sun had disappeared, the entire world was plunged into pitch-black darkness.

【Qkrnfl892】─???

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─What’s going on?

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─What the hell! Why can’t I see anything all of a sudden?

【Min Ji】─Se-hoon nim! Are you okay!!?

【Meng Yao】─Wait, why is the plane shaking again? Are we crashing???

【Jujijoa】─Se-hoon, say something. Are you okay?

【Big Girl】─Se-hoon nim! Why aren’t you answering?!

I couldn’t see anything.

The sudden darkness had robbed me of my vision.

To make matters worse, the oxygen was starting to thin out.

It felt like I had been thrown into space all alone.

“What the hell…”

Before I knew it, I passed out without being able to resist.

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└Se-hoon nim!!!

Thanks to the constant sound of sponsorships, I gradually regained consciousness.

Lying face down on the cold ground, I struggled to lift my body and slowly opened my eyes.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Gyesekkihoon’s awake!

【Jujijoa】─Se-hoon, are you okay?

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wow! He’s perfectly fine!

【Maid】─Wow! He’s immortal!

My vision was still blurry.

But the chat window was oddly clear.

Probably thanks to the lens Drifting had gifted me.

“Guys, what’s going on…?”

【Min Ji】─It suddenly got dark, then bright, and we fell here!

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─What the hell is happening…?

【Yoho】─Min Ji, explain properly.

【Meng Yao】─But seriously, what’s up with Se-hoon? How is he not hurt at all?

【Qkrnfl892】─Se-hoon’s a monster too.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─The ring Drifting gave him must’ve protected him!

【Big Girl】─Let me explain properly.

【Big Girl】─It suddenly got dark, then bright, and the plane crashed here.

【Handsome Licker】─How’s that different from what Min Ji said?

“…So, the plane crash-landed, right?”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Yeah, damn it.

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─Wait, but how are you still alive after a crash? What’s going on?

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─What, you want him to die? You wanna die?

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─That’s not what I meant. I’m asking how his body is so tough.

“Ah… My body’s tough because I’ve been training consistently. It wasn’t this tough before. My skin used to be weak and would get cut by knives easily.”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Human skin is supposed to get cut by knives, you idiot.

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─Can training really make you that tough?

【Handsome Licker】─Monster Se-hoon…

I probably wouldn’t even get hurt by a knife now.

This body grows faster than in the previous world, and the more it grows, the tougher it gets.

By the way, growth is slower when exercising outside, but it’s faster when training in the Stamina Training Room.

I still don’t know why that is, though.

“Still, it’s a bit surprising that I don’t have a single scratch. Is it because of the ring Drifting gave me?”

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Yeah, he said the ring has some kind of protection function.

“Really? Well, anyway… Let’s stop the unnecessary talk and figure out where we are first. We can’t just stay like this.”

I turned my head to look around.

The area was covered in dense trees and tropical plants.

It looked like a jungle.

“Did we crash on some kind of island?”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─There’s no island like that in our country, right?

【Jujijoa】─It doesn’t look like any island in South Korea.

【Meng Yao】─The plants look weird too.

“It could be an undiscovered uninhabited island. But where’s the plane…”

As I said that, a ‘giant fish’ that oddly resembled the plane I was on came into view.

“…That’s not the plane I was on, is it?”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─That’s it. Damn.

【Big Girl】─Surprisingly, that fish is the plane Se-hoon nim was on.

【Meng Yao】─A fish yokai disguised as a plane.

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wow! Flying fish!

【Maid】─Wow! A fish flying in the sky!

【Yoho】─Wow, guys, read the room.

【Handsome Licker】─Yokai are Maehwa’s specialty. Too bad Maehwa’s not here right now. Tsk tsk.

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─What the hell is this? I’m dizzy.

【Min Ji】─You’ve seen yokai before, why are you dizzy? -_-

【Reverse Rape Mania】─?? A fish yokai disguised as a plane?

【Jujijoa】─What have you been looking at all this time?

“This is insane.”

The situation was beyond ridiculous.

It feels like I’m getting dragged into stranger and stranger things as time goes on.

“But what happened to the other passengers?”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Don’t worry about those bastards. They’re scum.

【Big Girl】─They weren’t human either.

“What do you mean? They weren’t human?”

【Qkrnfl892】─Look closely around the flying fish.

Following Palkgui’s words, I carefully examined the flying fish’s corpse.

Around it were scattered bodies, horribly torn apart.

Even the body of the staff member who had guided me onto the plane.

“Those were bodies…? I thought they were the fish yokai’s guts at first glance…”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─So damn creepy.

But upon closer inspection, something was off.

Both passengers and staff.

Every single one of them had fish tails instead of human legs.

“…So, everyone I was on the plane with was a yokai too.”

【Meng Yao】─Yeah, yokai disguised as humans.

【Qkrnfl892】─We were shocked too.

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wow! Why is Se-hoon so calm?

【Maid】─Wow! He’s quick to accept things!

【Reverse Rape Mania】─But why hasn’t there been any news about the plane crash?

【Handsome Licker】─It wasn’t a normal plane to begin with, why would there be news?

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─Se-hoon, should we report you missing?

【Min Ji】─If we say you boarded a fish yokai and crash-landed, the police will definitely help, Hyeon Ji. Think about it. -_-

【Big Girl】─If only Drifting were here…

【Yoho】─Room Master. I don’t know where that island is, but we’ve sent a helicopter to search the waters near Jeju Island, so don’t worry. We’ll find you soon.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─I’ll call the Defense Team too. They can open a portal.

【Jujijoa】─I’ll try contacting Maehwa.

I ignored the chat for now.

Silently, I walked around the giant fish’s corpse, checking the condition of each mermaid’s body.

There might still be a mermaid alive.

‘They’re yokai after all, at least one should be alive.’

Then, I finally found a living mermaid.

［Ah, ugh…］

A mermaid with half her body horrifically torn apart was moaning in pain.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Damn, that’s scary.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─What? That mermaid’s alive?

【Meng Yao】─Seems like it.

【Handsome Licker】─Ugh…

【Qkrnfl892】─How is that thing still alive?

【Min Ji】─It’s a yokai.

I crouched down and looked into the mermaid’s eyes.

There was something I wanted to ask her.

‘The reason they lured me onto the yokai plane… I probably don’t need to ask.’

The reason they lured me was obvious.

Revenge for killing the Mermaid Prince.

There’s no other reason they’d target me.

There’s only one thing I want to ask.

About the identity of the giant eyes I encountered earlier.

Of course, I have a guess.

That giant creature is probably the yokai known as the Mermaid Queen.

But a guess is just a guess.

It’s not certain yet, so I wanted to ask the mermaid who serves the queen directly.

“Mermaid.”

［Uh, ugh…］

“Mermaid, you bitch.”

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Gyesekkihoon’s calling you. Answer, you stinky fish.

I called her twice, but the mermaid didn’t respond.

Her eyes were unfocused, so it seemed she didn’t even realize I was next to her.

Just as I was about to call her one last time.

［Queen, nim… Why did you swallow us too…］

The mermaid muttered resentfully.

And with those words.

Her breathing stopped.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─She’s dead.

【Handsome Licker】─RIP.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Rest in peace, triangle kimbap.

【Min Ji】─The mermaid was a bad yokai who lured Se-hoon nim, why are you mourning? -_-

The limp mermaid corpse.

I stared at it, slowly digesting the last words she had spoken.

‘The queen swallowed them…’

The queen swallowed them.

I kept repeating that in my head.

Then, a thought occurred to me.

Perhaps…

This isn’t an island.

But the inside of the Mermaid Queen’s body.

A ridiculous thought.

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