*Splash* *Crash*
"Hehe even I know this is expensive stuff, so much so just tears and pieces of this cloth will sell for at least a week of food, I can finally eat a set meal for once, and, and- Huh?"
*Thump* *Thump*
I hear whispers of a memory, a familiar refrain. In darkness, I reach out to toward the voice and felt a touch.
"Eek! Y-You're alive!?"
Hearing a soft voice speaking in Hwansea, I slowly regain half ny sight. A haze of light enters and a small figure comes into view.
"Cough! Cough! Blergh! Uerblegh!"
I try to mutter a word but all that comes out are but vomits and water pouring out of all the orifice on my body. Leaking puss, blood, mold, and unknown substances.
"Aaaaah! A Gwishin!"
The small figure runs away screaming in terror. With my last strength, I try to stand and hold on to whatever I touch and felt a rusty surface. I feel my nose burns, as my throat felt grated before I finally say,
"H-Helergh!!!"
*Slump*
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*Creak* *Creak*
"What the hell you brat!? What do you mean she's alive!? She's clearly a bloated corpse! Discarding the fact of her having no heartbeat, no human can survive with that much holes in their body."
As I regain my consciousness again, I hear a unfamiliar voice. I try to open my eyes but this time, I really am seeing nothing no matter how much I wait.
"N-No! I swear! She's breathing! And I even saw her move! Just put your fingers near her mouth or nose."
Hearing a familiar voice, it is then follow by a loud,
"Like hell I'm touching that thing! Get the fuck away!"
"Argh!"
*Crash*
"Not even those crazy Han Corps will buy that Owlian Corpse! Now leave! Or if you so generous, give her the honours."
(Han?)
Hearing that name, I start to lose consciousness.
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"Hmm, the fabric's the real deal that I'm willing to pay but I'm not willing to take a risk, boy. Judging by her complexity and what she wears, she's definitely some big shot noble's daughter from our southern kin. Burn that glove away."
"Yes maam!"
Hearing another unfamiliar voice I try to open my eyes but I can't feel anything now.
"W-What do you mean!? We got a deal!"
"This is too much for a lowly kelp like you to understand. But, simply put, we don't want to be associated with her death especially when tensions are this high thanks to that yearly invasion. I don't know where you found it or why you didn't burn the body given the chance. But more importantly, I believe I said I want something alive."
"She's alive! Like I said, just bring your hand-"
*Slap* *crash*
Hearing a conflict happening, I try to move but my body just doesn't listen as I'm still trapped in this eternal darkness.
"Don't come close to her, you lowly kelp!"
"Urgh..."
"Listen boy, you may be once part of the old Generation, but things have changed. The new Hangong may be weakened and fragmented, but don't think you can trick us like this. I want slaves boy, not corpses. In respect for your Hyung and our previous deals, I'll pretend this meeting never happen. Let's leave."
"Yes, maam!"
*Shuffle* *Slam*
"Darn, stupid, stupid, flower noble! Why bother going down here then... And this stupid corpse! Why is she so heavy!? And she's been secreting water ever since, blegh!"
(Han...)
Once more hearing that I fade away...
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"Just like that corpse, you're nothing short of a nuisance! You think you can just give us some dead body as payment? Are you mad!?"
*Smack* *Smack* *Kick*
"Try to get over us again and you're dead! No one in this neighborhood screw over the Hansaeng Fam!"
*Smack* *Punch* *Kick*
"Stop, stop! Sigh... Listen Wittle Heon, we're already gracious enough to provide you with such a luxurious apartment with an amazing view, and this is how you treat us? Tck, tck, tck, listen, we're probably the only one who remembers your name~!"
Hearing such violence, I slowly open and finally, my eyes regains sight. Whole my vision is still blurry, I can see what's close to me. Surrounded by rusting steel and waste, a group gangs up on a small boy. One of them crouches and pressed something on his head saying:
"Heh, I know you're a good kid and since I'm such a generous person. I'll be more lenient. I'll give you 1 more week to get the money, if not I have no choice but to sell you-"
*Crash* *Clang* *Clang*
"What the hell?"
After a long rest, the burns I felt on my face have subsided enough. The backlash and shock on my body seems to died down as well but...
"Hyung did you do that?"
"W-What!? I didn't touch nothin! You're the one who's slamming that kid everywhere-"
*Crack* *Creak*
Slowly I rise from what seems to be a broken cart. My body felt like a rusted door that has to be forcefuly pry open.
*Snap*
"Eek! D-Did that corpse just moved?"
*Crack* *Crack* *Snap* *Crash*
My blurry vision as if I'm underwater slowly starts to become clearer. Falling over somethings and trying to cling at whatever I can hold, I slowly stand and fell again as I realize a leg and arm.
*Splash* *Pop* *Splash*
Slowly I regain the feeling in my body, and...
"Bleeeergh! Areeghaaa!"
"Eiyaaagh! W-What the hell?"
It was pain, unimaginable pain as if I've been cut all over and rubbed by salt. Feeling the searing on my face, I move and I felt countless stabs as if my skins is popping and something is swaying inside me slowly being compressed out of every orofice I have.
"Cough! Blergh! Uwerhh!"
"Eeek! W-What the fuck is that!?"
"Run away! It's a fucking Gwishin! I don't want to get killed!"
"You're the one who brought it! Go deal with it!"
"Wha- Noooo!"
As the group tries to bolt away, one of them grabs the boy and throws him at me.
*Crash* *Clang*
His body slams at me and with my already weak and missing lower half, I fell and tumble into an uneven surface. As if being thrown unto the edge of a table, I felt as if my sides have been severed. Seeing the boy trying to regain his footing, my arm with torn skin and exposed bones and flesh hold unto him.
After I stop moving, I take a good look at him as my vision refocus but I can't quite grasp his looks. I can feel his body shaking and trying to break free, and using my only arm I finally embrace him tightly. Seeing the futile effort, he finally stops and slowly look up and I can finally see his face.
He's a boy who's probably 11 or 12, he has long messy black hair with red highlights that curls in all directions. With agony on his face he continues sobbing.
"Hic, hic... P-Please don't eat me!!! I'm only skin and bones. I-I'm not delicious at all and probably taste even worse! Uwaaah!!!"
Despite the dirt, snot, and tears flowing out, he can't hide his deep beautiful ruby eyes that seem to sparkle. And like he said, I can feel how slim he is through his thin clothes. The boy cries on top of his lungs as I wonder what has been happening. Holding him tighter, slowly I stand with one feet. I felt as if my legs has snap and lean over the wall for a crutch, bringing his dirty face ever more closer as my nose finally cleared and I could smell once more.
"Urb! Uerhh! Blegh!"
At the first time I try to breathe, I vommit at his face, the boy's already agonizing face paled as he struggles once more shouting:
"Blek! Eeek! Nooo! I'm sorry...! Hyung! Mommy! Anybody! She's gonna digest me before eating me! Uwaaah..!!!"
What enters my smell was a terrible stench of decay and pus alongside the taste of something rotten, salty, and mouldy in my mouth.
(With all my 5 senses kinda funcfioning, I rejoice knowing that I'm still alive).
*Hug*
"Uweeeh! Eheck! Urgh! I don't wanna die! Weeeh...!"
Holding him tighter I remember what those thugs said again...
(Han... Yoo-Sui I seem to arrive at the next destination. I wonder if this is Sis Yuwei's doing again like what she did when I enter the peninsula? No, she say that she won't do this again so tmits probably not so... The fact I arrived at my destinatios means... Lucky me?)