“Get lost! Die! Kha! Please just die on your own!! Huh?!”
Kang Jinno, engrossed in his rage, continued to fuel his own anger. Aware of Kang Jinno’s condition, 998 had wisely kept their distance from the start.
“Kugh! My, my legs… My legs…!”
A squad member, whose thigh flesh had been torn away, sobbed right at Kang Jinno’s feet. He could do nothing but shiver and crawl, unable to run away.
“Aaah…?”
Kang Jinno looked down at the squad member indifferently. To him, the member was nothing more or less than an ant that squirmed annoyingly.
Ju Ye finally snapped out of her daze and noticed the danger the squad member was in.
‘Ah, no!’
She realized the squad member could die.
Kang Jinno’s twisted eyes showed he didn’t care whether he was being filmed by a helicam, whether this was a training exercise or not.
Eyes of rotten self-centeredness.
If I don’t like you, you’re dead. At least, you’ll be brought to the brink of death.
“What does that bastard think value is… Kuk! All squad! Rescue our comrade!!”
The armor emitted a light, boosting the morale of the squad members.
[Armor That Doesn’t Lose Light]
*An armor of hope that shines light wherever and whenever.
It can boost the morale of those around its owner.
The Deputy Squad Leader took the lead with courage, prompting the squad members to rise and ignite the wicks in their eyes.
“Aaah?!”
Kang Jinno swung his right hand horizontally. The mirage that spewed from his fist once again blocked the way like a wall.
“Kugh! It’s the same as before!”
“Dep, Deputy Squad Leader!”
“All squad members, do not retreat! A value that can’t be overcome is simply something to be stepped over!”
Ju Ye ran at the same speed, stepping over the mirage as if it were a wall. With just three steps, she completely crossed it, displaying elegance beyond elegance.
“Kha! Welcome! You firefly-like bitch!”
Kang Jinno deliberately left the mirage uncontrolled, licking his lips as he allowed Ju Ye to cross over.
“Yo! From down here, your proportions aren’t too bad either?! I won’t hit you, so how about you take off that weird armor! Eh?!”
“What’s certain is, the value your mouth holds is truly the worst.”
Ju Ye, standing at 170cm, was quite slender for a woman. However,
“Kha! I really hate bitches with foul mouths?! Do you also want to die?!”
When Kang Jinno stood in front of Ju Ye, it almost seemed as though he was twice her size. The actual difference in height was significant, but his bulky physique made the gap seem even larger.
“This training ends when the bracelet is destroyed, signaling death. Why bother injuring our squad member?”
“Aaaah?! Reason?! It’s annoying!!”
“What…?”
Ju Ye trembled with disbelief.
“Aaaaah!! So annoying! Now you’ve become annoying too! Just die, all of you!!”
“Mad…”
Kang Jinno, now in the second stage of rage, was literally as his name suggested, a trembling anger. Just as lightning strikes without grand meaning, Kang Jinno’s anger swelled meaninglessly, starting from his physique.
A rage that could muddle one’s senses.
“Khiha!”
The problem was that Kang Jinno was satisfied with this state of himself.
There was no thought, will, or reason to control his anger.
Whether there was a target for his rage or not, once it boiled over, that was all.
“Just kill them all!”
Since Kang Jinno was enveloped in anger every day, he usually pretended to laugh heartily. Forcing himself to suppress his anger so that when he finally unleashed it, the relief would be all the more satisfying.
In reality, Edeya had nothing to do with it. Even if Kang Jinno had possessed an Edeya that bloomed flowers, it would have made no difference.
“Kha!! Dieeeeeeeee!!”
Kang Jinno was simply a villain with a temperament so thick it could cause headaches.
“Kugh…!”
“Dieeeeeee!!”
Kang Jinno bellowed noisily as he fiercely pummeled Ju Ye.
[Armor That Doesn’t Lose Light]
The armor doesn’t take any damage from attacks that the owner believes can be blocked. However, if the owner’s heart wavers even slightly, the effect disappears.
Tudududududududu!
The armor screamed instead of Ju Ye, but as long as Ju Ye did not break, neither did the armor.
“Kahahahahahahahaha!!”
“This psycho bastard…!!”
Although there wasn’t any damage, Ju Ye’s body started to sink into the ground while standing. Her ankles had already been buried in the ground due to the monster-like fists hitting her consecutively.
Kang Jinno raised the height of the mirage, completely rejecting anyone else’s intervention except for Ju Ye. Ahn Sungho’s squad had to desperately hit the mirage while watching Ju Ye getting beaten.
“Kha! Firefly, you’re quite tough, aren’t you?!”
“…The value you hold is too irrational.”
“Kahahahahaha! What are you saying!!”
Tudududududududu!
Ju Ye, who had been passively taking hits, inadvertently noticed Kang Jinno’s emerging smile.
‘Ah…’
While her eyebrows and all facial muscles were fiercely furrowed, only the corners of his mouth were pleasantly torn up as if they could hook onto his ears.
‘That, what is that… He’s smiling…?’
The moment Ju Ye recognized Kang Jinno’s face, a crack formed in her heart.
‘How can such a person possess such fists… If I get hit by this fist…’
The fist Kang Jinno made was so powerful due to its immense force, it was comparable to a mace.
If she were to be properly hit by that mace even once, not even bone dust would remain.
‘Ack. No! If I think of that scoundrel’s value before my armor’s…’
Upon seeing Kang Jinno’s brutal expression, Ju Ye inadvertently thought of the word ‘worry’. It was a barely existing emotion, but it was enough to affect the armor.
“Die! Die by getting hit! Die crushed! Just die of compression! Kahahahahaha!!”
“Damn…!”
Tudududududu!!
Contrary to Ju Ye’s will, the sound of the armor being hit grew louder. It was evidence that Ju Ye was wavering.
Creak… Creeeeak!
Eventually, the armor’s right arm was splendidly cracked.
“Aah? It’s penetrated??”
Kang Jinno, who had been in a rage, lowered his voice for the first time.
“Ah….”
Ju Ye’s face hidden inside the helmet turned pale. She intuitively knew that the armor wouldn’t hold up any longer.
“Dieeeeee!!”
Just as the mace-like fist was about to crush Ju Ye,
“Tch. I don’t really like doing this.”
A giant iron pillar slammed down on Ju Ye and Kang Jinno.
Boooooom!
“It’s the same iron pillar throwing!! Everyone, dodge!!”
“Aaaaaack!”
The iron pillar crushed all of 998’s forces behind Kang Jinno as well.
“Aaaah?!”
However, the mirage emanating from Kang Jinno protected its master as usual. The iron pillar couldn’t touch its intended target, Kang Jinno, leaving massive damage to 998 instead.
Squeeeeeek!!
As the iron pillar bent and snapped in a bizarre form, following the wavering of the mirage, it broke into a strange shape.
Byun Kiyoung clicked his tongue at Kang Jinno, who remained unharmed.
“Heh. I really have the worst luck. What kind of trash is that?”
“Aaaah?! Did you throw this?! Huh?!”
It was a peculiar evil, distinctively different and strangely unique, akin to an odd delicacy compared to what he had seen with Kim Iljeong.
If Kim Iljeong represented an evil that was well-aged and refined, Kang Jinno was like a sprout with a fresh taste of evil.
For Byun Kiyoung, who had faced Kim Iljeong, Kang Jinno felt relatively lighter by comparison.
“Hehehe. I hate getting hurt.”
Byun Kiyoung exerted strength into the shoulder that was supporting the pillar.
He had immediately run back to fetch it upon seeing Kang Jinno. He hadn’t expected such a situation to unfold in the brief time it took to retrieve a second iron pillar.
‘There really is all sorts of trash in the world…’
The trash in front of him was by no means easy to deal with. Although the overall situation still favored the Haeun Battalion, Byun Kiyoung was prepared for the entire force to be wiped out.
“Aaaaaah?! What are you, another monkey?! After an iron pillar, now a stone pillar?!”
“What, dude! This is all because of you! You piece of food waste!!”
In terms of roughness, Byun Kiyoung was unmatched anywhere, anytime. Even in the face of fiery anger, his distinctive sharp tongue remained unchanged.
“Food waste?! Kha! You’re sentenced to death too!! Die, you moron!!”
“Ah. Guess I’ll have to be satisfied with being a premium supporting character today.”
Byun Kiyoung sincerely expressed his regret.
* * *
Right Pathway.
“Private Park Jinsung…”
“What is it?”
Sparrow Eyes suddenly choked up and couldn’t finish his sentence. The information coming through the earpiece was shaking his eyeballs continuously.
Currently, the right pathway was the scene of a tense standoff between the battalion and the brigade.
Contrary to expectations, the battalion drew their swords first, taking the initiative, while the numerically superior brigade ended up spreading their shields.
Though it was a situation ripe for a push with momentum on their side, Park Jinsung had moved the zombie troops to the rear.
“Speak up, you bastard Corporal.”
“Le, left pathway has been annihilated…”
“Annihilated?”
“Ah, Sergeant Ahn Sungho’s squad and Sergeant Ju Ye have retired… All of the 3rd Company’s rankers and Corporal Byun Kiyoung have retired as well.”
“Hmm. It’s a bit unexpected that our squad leader was eliminated. How did 998 fare?”
“Well… Initially, our battalion was pressuring 998 to the brink of annihilation. But then Kang Jinno took control of the pathway with just himself…”
“What about now? What’s the situation now?”
“Corporal Byun Kiyoung completely wrecked the pathway, delaying 998’s advance. It seems like it’s resulted in a stalemate, similar to our right pathway. Kang Jinno is currently missing after retiring Corporal Byun Kiyoung.”
“Wow. That’s even more unexpected. The squad leader ended up playing a supporting role? Even a premium one?”
“Private Park Jinsung?”
Despite the grim information, Park Jinsung’s attitude was surprisingly positive.
“Corporal Sparrow Eyes, as the zombie commander, I’ll assign you your first mission. If you complete this mission, you’ll officially join the zombie squad.”
“Huh? Wasn’t I already a member of the zombie squad?!”
“Do you think our zombie squad members would easily acknowledge someone who joined without any real achievements?”
“I… I’ll make sure to succeed.”
“From now on, forget about defense entirely. Break through the shield formation with the resolve to die. Understood?”
“Huh? Are you talking about that shield formation?”
The shield formation held by 998 was designed to avoid calling for reinforcements to the center.
It was a deliberate strategy to end the conflict through a direct show of force in the center, which would also appeal more easily to the media.
“I don’t aim for full occupation. I just need the forces on the right to be unable to return to the center. That’s the purpose of this attack.”
“What do you mean?”
“Can you do it, or not?”
The left pathway was balanced by Kang Jinno, while the right had been balanced with additional reinforcements.
If time continued to pass, the remaining forces forming the shield might rejoin the center.
‘Originally, this was a role for the Zombie Squad. Hehe. Thanks to the card called Sparrow Eyes, I can use the Zombie Squad elsewhere.’
“Ha…! Of course, I can do it! Such a weak shield can certainly be broken through without the Zombie Squad seniors!”
“Thank you. The Zombie Squad and I need to head somewhere else.”
“Are you going to the left pathway for reinforcement?”
“Hehe. Thanks to Sparrow Eyes, we can go anywhere now. So, if you execute this attack well, you can proudly puff out your chest.”
Despite having fought numerous battles, the Zombie Squad members still had lively eyes.
These were zombies who had gone beyond guerrilla training and had consistently worked out in the HT with Ahn Sungho, Park Jinsung. Their physical strength had already surpassed the high school level.
Csik!
Physical and mental endurance like zombies, the Zombie Squad members were tough inside and out (外剛內剛)!
A realization of true Ironmen, strong both externally and internally!
A sublime realm achieved through rotten Edeya!
“Let’s go, iron zombies. Our destination is.”
The Zombie Squad, with the Bible at the forefront, quietly and swiftly began their movement.
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