Necromancer Survival

wering his gaze; at least he said nothing.

     “Don’t worry too much… I’m pretty strong, too!” I said with a wry smile.
However, I felt a little embarrassed since all the servants except Lackey sighed simultaneously.

[Clack Clack!]

[That’s right!]

     “Haah…”

     “Hooo…”

     “Hmm…Of course.
I think, by now, you’ve gone from a hamster to a rabbit…”

     I held the dagger up, pretending that I hadn’t heard what Kim Olim just said.
I could feel the surrounding gazes focusing on the blade.
Anxiety, expectation… All that pressure was concentrated on one point.

     “…I’ll be back,” I said, swinging the dagger mercilessly.

     At the same time, a bright light burst out from the magic circle underneath my feet.
The sharp pain on my palm gradually dulled; nausea and dizziness welled within me.
I closed my eyes without much resistance.

[You’ve fulfilled the conditions for summoning a Vengeful Ghost.]

’

[Replaying the Memories of the deceased, ‘Bang Eunji.’]

* * *

     Before I opened my eyes, I experienced a brain-splitting headache.
I could barely endure the crushing pain and only just managed to stagger back and touch a smooth wall to stabilize myself.

     ‘This is… Where am I?’

     I was impatient to learn what kind of environment I was in, but my body didn’t follow my will.
I took a deep breath, barely swallowing the stomach acid that threatened to surge up my throat.

     It was then.

[….
it looks like it.]

[No.
He’s very healthy.]

[How long will he live?]

[If you take good care of him…]

     Not too far away, I could hear voices ringing around the room–as if I had heard them through a broadcast system.

     Reflexively, I tried to open my eyes, but, as soon as I sensed an intense light piercing through my eyelids, I closed my eyes again.
The huge amount of light that poured in would probably make me go blind.

     Furthermore, it wasn’t just the voice–the thumping and ringing vibrations I could feel from the space around me… I felt threatened and flattened my body.
I wanted to see if there was anything nearby I could use to cover up my body, but I couldn’t open my eyes to search.

’

     After turning my back towards where the light felt the most prickly, I blinked slowly.
Tears leaked from my tear ducts but, firstly and most importantly, comprehending my environment was an urgent matter.

     My efforts were not in vain, and I could gradually begin to see ahead of me.
And, what I first saw through my blurred vision was…

     “What is it… No way, a hamster wheel?”

     I stared blankly up at the wheel, which looked large enough to be an amusement park ride.

      I looked around again–perhaps I was just unfamiliar with this structure…but no.
No matter how hard I looked, it was a gigantic hamster wheel.

     However, something even more surprising appeared afterwards.

     Suddenly, a long, eerie shadow loomed over me; I looked back reflexively and almost screamed.
“……!”

     A ginormous person… was staring at me.

     Pierced with terror, I could only stare blankly at the person opening what seemed to be a lid above my head and putting their hand inside.
There was no place to run; the person was so big that I felt like I would be crushed to death if I were hit by that palm.

      As I stood there, frozen, the owner of that hand carefully wrapped their fingers around me and grabbed me gently; but, fortunately, it didn’t seem like the person intended to kill me.
Warmth flooded into my body.

      I sat in the huge hand’s grip, sweating as if I were a sieve, and was lifted out of the room containing that gigantic hamster wheel.
The owner of the hand unfurled their fingers carefully and lifted me up, as if they were showing me off to someone.

     “…Ba… Bang Eunji?”

     To my surprise, Bang Eunji, who had become a giant, observed me quite blatantly.
However, she didn’t respond to my voice at all; she merely investigated my body, as if she were searching for something.

[…He looks a little…vapid… Don’t you have a cuter one?]

[Isn’t the pattern cute? It’s quite a rare coloration.]

[Well….]

[And, since he’s young, he hasn’t lost the baby fat on his face.
If you raise him for a bit, his face is sure to become pretty.]