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Sharhan’s heart pounded as he instinctively pulled Lestel into a protective embrace and crouched low. The thunderous sound had come from nearby. Staying low and tense, waiting to hear if it would come again, Sharhan finally stood up when all remained quiet. Thankfully, no further sounds followed. “Grab what we need and get inside, now.” There was a chance the sound had drawn the moving corpses toward the cabin. Better to avoid running into them. “W-what was that sound?!” Derry,…- 264.3 K • Completed
- Chapter 3: Survivors Sharhan and Lestel, deliberately riding through the forest in search of water, stopped their horses the moment they spotted a stream. No one had to say it first. They had drained their waterskins completely that morning and hadn’t had a sip since. Now that they had found a stream, they needed to drink and refill every pouch. If not, they might collapse from dehydration. “Shh, quiet. You know the drill, right? No noise.” The horses were just as thirsty as the humans, if…
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- The two who had been fighting turned slowly to look at the gate. Thud! Another heavy, muffled impact came from beyond the tightly shut gate. “C-could it be a person?” Derry, who had been hovering nervously while Sharhan and Lestel grabbed each other’s collars, crept up beside them and asked. “Who knows.” Sharhan replied anxiously and stepped closer to the gate. If it was a survivor trying to signal after clearing out the monsters nearby, they had to open the gate. Thud,…
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- Creeeeak. The door opened with the groan of twisting wood. Sharhan flinched and froze for a second before cautiously stepping outside. Fortunately, there were no monsters right outside the door. Still, they had seen some on the opposite side through the window, so they needed to stay alert. Unless they were completely surrounded by dozens of those things, Sharhan and Lestel could hold their own. The real problem was noise. If the sound of fighting drew in more of them, things could quickly get…
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- There was a strange heat in Lestel’s voice as he repeated the question. Sharhan, who had been expecting him to criticize him for trying to seem fair, was caught off guard. “Huh? Uh, well… If he’d helped make the Paphun tea even a little, it might be different. But it didn’t seem like he knew anything at all…” Regardless of anything else, it didn’t sit right to leave behind someone who looked at him like a trapped animal. “Fine, he can come. But if he slows us down, we’re…
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- Sharhan’s face twisted immediately. “How the hell do we look like a couple?!” Sharhan glared in disbelief, but Derry’s face, shrinking into his shoulders, was smeared with tear stains and dirt. The sight of his pathetic state sapped away any anger Sharhan had left. “I’m sorry if I was wrong.” Just as the intimidated Derry apologized, a loud grrrr rang out, from his stomach. Face flushing bright red, he apologized again. “S-sorry. I know it’s inappropriate, but I’m hungry,…
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- At Sharhan’s grim murmur, Derry lowered his head deeply. “I saw the people who arrived late to the festival run away in shock… but I don’t think many of them made it out alive.” Considering how many had fled through the open city gates, Derry’s guess wasn’t far off. A heavy silence filled the cramped and suffocating room. Lestel and Sharhan were each lost in thought, while Derry hugged his knees, anxiously watching them both. His expression was a tangled mess of guilt, fear, unease, and…
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- As soon as Lestel stepped forward and asked, Derry let out a startled gasp. He seemed shocked by Lestel’s intensity. “D-Do you know about Paphun?” Derry answered the question with a question. Lestel’s brow furrowed. “I asked you first. Do you know about Paphun tea? How much do you know? Who made it, and for what purpose?!” As his emotions flared, so did his voice, and Derry, eyes wide in panic, hastily tried to calm him down. “Y-You can’t raise your voice!” He pressed…
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- If it spreads through bites… As soon as Sharhan realized that, his mind flashed to the wide-open city gate. If those monsters made it beyond the territory of Luhas… He didn’t even want to imagine what horrors might follow. “The gate!” The words burst out of him instinctively. “We have to close the gate!” Lestel turned his head urgently and shouted the same. The moment their thoughts aligned, both of them bolted forward. “Now’s our chance!” “The gate’s open! We can…
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- To Sharhan, there was an arch-nemesis destined by fate, not just since childhood, but from the very moment he was conceived. And that person was the man standing before him now: Lestel Ailun. Sharhan frowned as he stared at the ever-smirking Lestel. Just looking at that smug face that made him instinctively want to punch something, how long had it been? They’d parted ways when Sharhan left the academy after receiving news of his family’s misfortune. That made it three years. Still the…
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