Necromancer Survival

n Joo-sung!”

     Bae Jaemin looked at Kim Sangyoon for a moment before smirking, “So, you’re standing here because of how you’ve been treated…? Then, I’ll give you HaHae’s deputy guildmaster seat if you cut off Choi Lee-kyung’s legs here.”

     “……”

     “It’s better than following a corpse whose resurrection may or may not come.”

     “……”

     When Kim Sangyoon couldn’t answer him, Bae Jaemin laughed, “Haha… Why are you trying to think so hard? You’re not even an intelligent enough bastard to do that?”

     Bae Jaemin took a step closer to me.
Kim Sangyoon spoke urgently, no longer pretending to be calm, “You son of a bitch! You don’t have the confidence to beat me? You’re number one in the rankings!”

     “Why would I take the long way when I can take the easy path?” Laughing, Bae Jaemin opened his inventory and slowly pulled out his own weapon–a staff.
His expression was so cruel–like a criminal pulling a sword from its sheath.

     I bit my lips–to the point of bleeding–in order to stop the groans that threatened to leave my mouth.
And, when Bae Jaemin completely turned away from Kim Sangyoon to look at me…

     “[Seizing Blow]!” 3

Clank–!

     The barrier of light was smashed in one hit, like a window pane.
Kim Sangyoon had succeeded in breaking the skill with pure physical strength!

     Numerous broken shards poured down over Bae Jaemin’s back.
Then, as the Priest had yet to turn around, Kim Sangyoon spread his arms wide and swung his sword at the Priest’s neck.

     “…Cough…”

     “Honestly, you play with them a little, and suddenly they think they’re on the same level,” Bae Jaemin muttered.

     Just before Kim Sangyoon’s sword touched Bae Jaemin’s neck, the Priest avoided the attack at lightspeed.
Then, he dove into Kim Sangyoon’s arms, and from my perspective, it looked like they were hugging each other.

     However, soon after, Kim Sangyoon vomited blood, and his sword helplessly dropped to the ground.
His slow collapse, still holding onto Bae Jaemin, took almost five seconds.

     I was shocked and belatedly realized, after seeing Bae Jaemin’s white hand penetrate through the Warrior’s back, what had happened.
The Priest had stabbed Kim Sangyoon’s stomach with his bare hand.

     “N….o….” I clumsily staggered towards the pair, but Bae Jaemin immediately pulled his hand out and pushed the Warrior away with his fingertips.
Eyes widened, Kim Sangyoon toppled over without any resistance.

     After falling backwards with a thump, a pool of blood began to spread from Kim Sangyoon’s back.
The dark red blood also began to flow down the sides from his stomach.

     “In about a minute, he’ll probably go into shock from excessive blood loss,” Bae Jaemin whispered joyfully as he looked at my panicked face.

     After listening to those words, I placed some strength into my trembling arms and tried to approach Kim Sangyoon.

     However, Bae Jaemin stubbornly blocked my way.
He even stepped on one of my hands and stomped down.
I knew that a bone had broken, but I couldn’t even scream.
Even though I was in terrible pain, I could only see the afterimages of Kim Sangyoon crumpling to the ground and remaining motionless.

     “Mo…ve…” I tapped at Bae Jaemin’s foot while crying.
But, he merely looked down at me with a grin on his face.

     Bae Jaemin rubbed his hands, dirtied from Kim Sangyoon’s blood, on my hair and asked with a delighted expression, “So, what’s the relationship between the two of you? Are you two gay or something?”

     “……”

     “Urk, so disgusting.
I got his blood on my hands…Tsk, he isn’t diseased, right?”

     “……”

     My pleas–my desperate begs–got stuck in my throat.
I looked up at the Priest vacantly.

     He giggled, “You know very well that I’m the only one who can save Kim Sangyoon here.”

     “……”

     “What should I do? I’d love to rip you and that piggy apart, but… It’s a little too easy of an ending for both of you…”

     “……”

     Meanwhile, Bae Jaemin raised the foot that had been on the back of my hand and tapped my mouth with the tip of his shoe.
“You need to be proactive for it to be fun.”

     “……” I stared at Bae Jaemin’s boots stained with blood, lowered my head, and slowly opened my mouth.

     Honestly, I didn’t think that licking his shoes would make Bae Jaemin spare Kim Sangyoon.
However, being weighed down by the burden of my own helplessness was even more painful.

     Just before my tongue touched the tip of his shoes…

[Grrr….]