chapter 42
42 – #042 You always hide
Result of careful observation for about 10 minutes.
A conclusion has been reached.
“Park Ha-young is hiding.”
Park Ha-young is now hiding in the giant’s left hand.
Under the pretext of providing a safe zone for the warriors, he hid into the arms of a giant living alone in the easternmost land.
To avoid me.
“Wow, that one has no conscience.”
“Are the words of what you warriors say about this situation ‘rape the deceased’?”
“It’s like that.”
Giants are dead.
And to honor his noble sacrifice, we’ve decided to leave him alone unless in a really desperate situation.
The soul has already been freed from the body through the ancestral rite, and I even held the funeral myself.
Just because the memories are sealed doesn’t mean that the body is still alive.
The giant is dead.
Park Ha-young hid there to protect herself using the ‘mission’ left in the body of the giant.
“Hey. Hero. You’re also a hero, so there’s no problem, right?”
“…Probably.”
Of course, the targets the giant wants to protect include me.
If Park Ha-young is not controlling some kind of giant, the giant’s body will accurately recognize me.
In other words, if I do well, I might be able to bring Park Ha-young out without fighting the giant.
If the giant misunderstands me and starts chasing me in the process of forcibly pulling Park Ha-young out, the story will be a little different again, but that is nothing more than an atrocious variable that I expected but has a very low probability of actually happening.
“Titania. You quietly move separately.”
“Are you afraid that the giant will recognize me as an enemy because of me?”
“The anxiety factor should be reduced as much as possible.”
“My body is a doll made by your hero?”
“Apart from being a doll, your soul is Titania.”
“Huh…”
Titania got out of my body and ran across the earth as if there was nothing she could do, and I threw myself lightly down the cliff.
Even if it is a canyon that a giant crawls through while lying on its back, its height is almost 20m.
Kung!
However, I landed safely using the power of the divine power, and the giant, feeling my divine power, immediately stopped in place.
“It’s been a while, hyung. It’s me, the undertaker.”
I took out the shovel spear so that the giant could recognize me.
“I don’t think it’s the first time we’ve met face-to-face like this since the funeral. How are you?”
Turn it off.
The giant stared at me.
Now I have to persuade a being whose memories have been removed, who doesn’t even know why he exists as a giant, who only has the idea of protecting the hero who fled under his shadow.
“So many things have happened since my brother’s death. So many things that cannot be explained in words. To put it simply…”
Goo Goo Goo.
The giant began to lift himself slowly, straightening his hunched back.
Disheveled hair flowing down, staring at me with a half-masted face, clutching tightly in his left hand.
Probably the size of the interior space of a small car in the palm of my hand.
So it must be that Park Ha-young can stay alive without coming out like that.
I don’t know how food or human metabolism works, but I don’t need to know that anymore.
“Hyung. Put down Park Hayoung. I don’t understand what she’s saying, but I have to get her now.”
There is no need to provoke the giant.
With the determination to never offend the giant, I came out naked.
“The demon king has fallen, brother. And the woman he is holding right now is something that must die.”
My voice must be reaching Park Ha-young.
Then Park Ha-young must be reacting inside something.
“…You.”
The giant finally opened his mouth.
“Brave, brave, kill.”
It’s not even a sentence, it’s just words, and it’s just words without proper investigation.
The iron-scratching voice contained questions, and I opened my arms toward him.
“I’m the undertaker. The Undertaker. You still don’t recognize me.”
“???”
The giant tilted his head and expressed only doubts.
It would be nice if we could have a conversation, but right now there is no conversation at all.
The language ability remains, but it is limited, and I couldn’t remember anyone.
If I had any memory left, I would have heard that someone tried to control the giant using the giant’s power.
Not for Park Ha-young to be trapped in the giant’s hands in a numb way, but to move the giant to wipe out the demon army or manipulate it in other ways.
“Hyung, can you understand what I’m saying? Hyung, can you understand what I’m saying from now on?”
“Ah, ah.”
The giant is suffering.
My mental age has become like an infant that has degenerated below the age of 3, and I can’t understand even the slightest difficult words.
“Hyung, please don’t interfere. I must take Park Ha-young with me.”
After grabbing the shovel spear, I ran forward and leaped toward the giant’s body.
Good.
I lightly reached the giant’s calf.
His body was not of normal skin, but was like a rocky cliff, so he could cling to it, and I quickly climbed up his legs like an ant crawling up a wall.
“… Huh?”
I hear a crackling sound from inside.
When I listened again to see where the sound came from, I began to hear a strange sound from inside the giant’s body.
“This is…”
The moment when my spine felt chilly from wondering about something.
“…!!”
I instinctively jumped upwards.
I stretched my hand toward a higher place, mainly using strength in my grip, and something popped out from a crack in the rock where I was hanging.
“What crazy…!”
How did this happen?
There was no time to think.
A crack in the rock opened like a scab on the skin – from the wound, quite large insects escaped from the body and started chasing me from below.
“Damn it!”
I climbed the giant’s body with all my might.
Huge scarabs, probably at least 10cm in size, or crustacean bugs, whether cockroaches or river mouths, climbed along the wall and started chasing me.
‘I’ve never heard of such a thing!’
The story about the brave giant in the east was extremely limited, but I was able to hear it through the church to some extent.
Reason exists, but comprehension is the same as that of a 3-year-old child, and even conversations are possible only in the language of the warrior – Korean.
Living in pain trying to control one’s own body.
That’s about the amount of information I’ve heard from the saintess and the church, but I’ve never heard of him having so many bugs in his body.
‘No way.’
Probably not.
‘Did the body get bigger as the corpse bug settled in the giant’s body?’
Terrible.
Corpse worms settled in this hero’s body like this.
You can’t even eat a corpse, so how can you sit like this-
“Ah.”
They didn’t come into the body to eat.
Corpses are scattered all over these eastern ruins anyway, and the corpses needed a safe place to hide from the sunlight.
“…Empty blood vessels.”
Corpse worms are now living in the ’empty space’ filled in the body of a giant, whether it is in the body of a giant, between the fat layer and between the muscle fibers.
“This crazy…!”
I barely held back my double desire.
No matter how much it was a corpse insect, it would not be able to enter this body carelessly, and that was only natural.
This body is the body of a hero, and it is impossible with common sense for corpse bugs to enter the body of a hero, lay eggs, and settle down.
However, when the two factors overlap, the impossible is not completely impossible.
There is a magic spear.
There are traces of making long cuts on the giant’s back and taking out part of the vertebrae in order to settle in the giant’s body.
And there is another factor.
“Park Ha-young!!!”
I shouted loudly at the giant’s waist at his hand.
“Hey, you idiot!! Are you going to beat bugs into this hyung’s body right now to save his life?!”
The area around the giant’s hand trembles.
The corpse bug in my hand didn’t try to get out.
A giant’s hand is completely a giant’s hand, and there won’t be any corpse bugs around you.
“One played queen bee against humans, and here’s a queen ant. Crazy.”
I went up quickly along my abs, then moved sideways this time.
Still, the corpse bugs are running towards me to catch me, the ‘living prey’, and to carry out the commands given by pheromones.
You can’t eat me, but in order to hinder and block me.
To prevent him from reaching himself hidden in the giant’s left hand.
“I really felt sorry for you, so I wasn’t going to kill you like Min Sena or Huang Lian, but I never imagined you would do something like this!”
After kicking off the corpse bugs from below, I managed to climb onto the giant’s back.
“Ha. Crazy.”
In places like Egyptian movies, it is said that a large number of insects crawl through the desert, but now it feels just like that.
I know those corpse bugs can’t hurt me, but I can’t be attacked by bugs that try to lick my whole body with their tongues, drive their teeth into me, and even lay eggs in me.
“Now that he is an insect master…”
Park Ha-young.
Her ability is ‘Insect Tamer’.
The ability to control insects.
“The demon king is dead, so he controls the corpse insect. To live. Crazy.”
After inserting the shovel spear into the body of the giant, I climbed onto the hilt of the shovel spear to avoid the approach of the corpses.
“…Good.”
Park Ha-young.
“I’ll kill all the bugs.”
I made the sign of the cross lightly, then threw myself at the giant’s spine, where corpse bugs were pouring out.