Chapter 103

Blood splattered and splattered again. At the time, the children who had a proper sense of morality were also shocked. Some even tried to stop me.

“Hey, stop it!”

“Stop what?”

“That’s murder! If you keep this up, you’ll really kill that person…”

“I don’t care if you die, but don’t force me to die too, you idiot.”

I pushed the kid who was trying to stop me and stepped on him. I was already in a hurry, and having someone stop me just made me more annoyed. After stepping on him a few times, he quickly quieted down. That kid seemed to be popular, so other kids started trying to stop me too.

“Hey! You don’t have to go that far! How can you do that to a girl…?”

“Hey, do you think it’s easier to kill the people tied up here or the uncles outside this room…?”

“Are you crazy? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“It’s easier to kill the people tied up here than to fight people stronger than us.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden…?”

“Listen up, you idiots. There are three answers. Do nothing and all die. Go out and fight those uncles—oh, and they have guns, right? And the last one is to kill these uncles and aunties. The answer is simple.”

For my own sake, for my survival, it didn’t matter how many people I had to kill. At least, that’s what I thought at the time. I thought anyone who didn’t think that way was an idiot. That’s why the kids trying to stop me seemed like idiots. They didn’t want to kill, didn’t want to die, but also didn’t want to go out and fight the uncles who locked us up… In the end, they couldn’t decide, and that made them seem like idiots.

The kids who were trying to stop me eventually pushed a knife toward me. Among them, number 69, who seemed like the leader, threatened me.

“Stop…”

I casually placed my index finger on the kid’s knife and provoked number 69.

“Are you trying to fight me now?”

I tried to kill the kids who pointed the knife at me. Since they didn’t have the resolve to kill others, I thought I could handle them alone without any trouble.

While everyone was shrinking back, number 69 raised the knife with a trembling hand. It seemed like he had the guts to point a weapon at me. But I laughed and mocked him.

“I can’t understand the situation right now. If you don’t want to kill, just shut up and watch. Shouldn’t you be thanking me for dirtying my hands on your behalf since you don’t want to kill?”

“You… you’re crazy.”

“Why do you want to stab me? Go ahead and stab me. But if you could stab me, you would have stabbed these people already. Besides, even if you stab me and save these people, it’s still a massacre, right?”

Unable to withstand my provocation, number 69 closed his eyes tightly and tried to stab me. I didn’t want to die either, so I tried to stab his neck first before he could get me. I thought it was self-defense, so even if I killed him, the adults would forgive me to some extent.

But suddenly, an arm appeared and stopped us both. It was Yibai.

“Now, now, let’s stop the fight here.”

“What? Do you agree with that guy too?”

I thought we were on the same page, but suddenly stopping me made me feel a bit betrayed.

“Are you going to stop me like these idiots, saying murder is bad or something?”

“It’s not like that, so stop overreacting.”

But suddenly, number 69 shouted.

“You should try to stop him properly too! Didn’t you come out to stop him?”

“That’s not it, what are you talking about?”

“What?”

“If we follow Yibai’s words and Yibai kills all the adults here, we’ll owe him our lives. I came out to stab them together because I hate owing someone more than dying.”

At the time, I was a bit happy that he agreed with me, but also a bit annoyed. It was embarrassing to say “we” in front of the kids. I wanted to die from shame. Well, all the kids back then were like that. The boys back then had a habit of arbitrarily deciding that being associated with girls was embarrassing.

“Hey, why are you saying ‘we’ in front of us! We are!”

“Ooh, is someone mad because big sister said ‘we’?”

“Hey, I’ll kill you first.”

“Do it if you can.”

Leaving me, who was lamenting my execution ability, Yibai tried to stab the uncle next to him. Our hero of justice, number 69, tried to stop Yibai too.

“Hey, are you crazy?”

“Are you crazy? If we go on like this, we’ll all die. Are you telling us to just die?”

“No, I…”

“If you don’t have a clear answer, just shut up and watch. Don’t interfere with us getting our hands dirty.”

When number 69 couldn’t retort and backed down, the kids who thought like us started to gather. Yibai smiled brightly at me.

“Just leave that idiot alone. In the end, he’s just a loser who thinks he’s better than others and expects others to do things for him.”

“But what’s masturbation?”

At that question, Yibai’s face turned red, and he knocked me out with a suplex. Thinking about it now, that was clearly sexual harassment. The fact that it ended at a suplex was his mercy. If I had asked that in society, I would have definitely gotten three years in prison. Well, you might laugh at getting three years for such a question. But the law has always been like that.

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“So, the uncles only gave this to our room?”

“Yeah, the uncles thought we were impressive and gave it to us.”

Me, who tried to kill someone first.

And Yibai, who single-handedly took out three people.

The two of us were given chicken as a special treat. The first time I ate chicken, it was indescribably delicious. It was completely different from the usual stew, bread, or cheap lunchboxes we got. I don’t know if they were trying to teach us that killing people leads to good things.

“Bai, Bai.”

“What?”

Yibai, who was watching me tear into a chicken leg, smiled lightly. Then he gently wiped my lips with his finger and showed me the crumbs of fried batter stuck to the corner of my mouth.

“Is it so delicious that you’re getting it all over your face?”

“Honestly, this is the most delicious food I’ve ever had in my life.”

“Hahaha, eat a lot.”

Yibai said that and took the fried batter from my lips into his mouth. At the time, I thought it was gross, but now I feel a bit embarrassed. If adults did that, it would definitely be a sexual appeal. Well, back then, neither I nor Yibai had that awareness. Or maybe Yibai did. That guy was really mature for his age.

Yibai handed me another chicken leg.

“You eat two legs.”

“What about me?”

“Just watching you eat makes me full.”

“Hey, what kind of nonsense are you talking?”

Then Yibai kept hitting my forehead with the edge of his hand. Let me say it again, that kid never jokes around. Every hit was serious. So it hurt like hell.

Seeing me holding my greasy forehead, Yibai covered his mouth and giggled, then said in a cutesy voice,

“So when big sister gives you a leg, you say ‘Thank you~’ and eat it.”

“I’ve been wondering since earlier, why are you calling me big sister when you don’t even know my age?”

“Because I’m stronger than you.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

It’s survival of the fittest, but I was caught off guard by the logic of ‘weak younger brother, strong older sister,’ which I had never seen before. But Yibai was crazier than I imagined.

“Why do you think in movies about gangsters, if the boss is better at fighting, even if he’s younger, they call him ‘big brother’? It’s the same thing.”

“I’ve never seen those movies, and I don’t want you to call me big sister.”

Then Yibai put me in a chokehold. A rear naked choke, no less.

“Gack… gack…”

Caught off guard by the sudden attack, I couldn’t even respond properly, and Yibai forced me to surrender.

“Call me big sister, and I’ll let you go.”

“Gack… gack…”

Yibai was really a crazy kid. How could anyone say ‘big sister’ while being choked? I kept shouting ‘big sister,’ but all that came out was the sound of me choking to death. I almost died eating chicken that day.

They say ghosts who die while eating have a beautiful glow. I almost became a beautifully glowing ghost.

“Oh, I was choking you.”

Yibai finally released the chokehold, and I realized the preciousness of oxygen. As I gasped for air, Yibai patted my back.

“Are you okay?”

“Ugh, you crazy bitch… I’m not even vomiting, why are you patting my back?”

“Oh, right.”

After catching my breath, I grabbed Yibai by the collar.

“Now that you’ve tasted blood today, you’ve awakened to murder, huh? Do you want to kill me so bad that you’ve gone crazy?”

“Hahaha, it’s not like that…”

Yibai looked away, as if searching for an excuse. But the evidence that I almost died was too clear, so even he didn’t have much of a way out.

Yibai gave up and smiled at me.

“If I let you eat the rest of the chicken, will you forgive me?”

“What do you take me for…? Well, of course, that changes things.”