"It is what is it..."
Is what Kim Jaesuk answered before closing his eyes.
That kind of answer is not what I expected coming from Kim Jaesuk.
To my knowledge, he's a guy that likes to prioritise other's need before himself, that's why lots of people in our club back then likes to depend on him. One of the reason why he's the most popular guy back then as well.
He's even so kind that it kinda pisses me off sometimes. That's why I was surprised when He knocked the young man to the floor earlier, and I even thought that He will look for the other group alone when we said that we were gonna stop looking for them.
But I guess that he's reached his limit today. Experiencing this strange phenomenon, having to look calm all the time, taking care of the situation while other people keep bickering among themselves.
If I was in his position, I would just ignore and abandon all those useless people, and start prioritising the useful ones that can work together with me.
The fact that he held on until now makes me go 'wow'.
"Hey Jaesuk, are you sleeping?"
"..."
I didn't receive any answer, which means that he's already asleep. I too, soon closes my eyes and fall asleep, hoping that when I woke up I would be in my bed instead of this hard jacket covered floor.
---
"Aghh!!"
(!!!)
The sound of a guy screaming from outside wakes me up and even made me jumped to my feet.
"What the fuck..."
"Who's screaming so hard in the morning"
Not only me, other people got surprised as well and started waking up one by one, including Kim Jaesuk.
Realising the sound comes from outside, I look through the window and see that one of the idiot in the other group is running towards the front door.
But what's surprising is not that he come back, but the fact that he come back in bloody tatter.
I then opened the door and the guy rushed inside and fainted straight away after he stepped into the cafe.
"..."
"What the fuck happened to him"
"Look at the blood..."
"Closes the kid's eyes!"
Everyone started flocking to the man, before I shouted:
"Bring me the first aid kit! Is there a doctor among you here?!"
I then started taking off the guy's clothes just to realise that there are multiple scars throughout his body, even his legs has something that looks like a bite mark.
"Eughh..."
"Blewrghh.."
It looks so gross and disgusting that even I almost throw up, while a couple of other people did throw up.
"What the heck... it looks like a bite mark and scratches"
"Hiikk.. sob sob.."
"I.. I'm so scareddd..."
The girls started screaming and crying saying that they're scared. Well to be expected when a girl who's never been exposed to something like this suddenly see that sight.
Even Kim Jaesuk's face is very pale right now. It looks like he's holding back his urge to throw up.
"Umm.. I'm not a doctor but, I have a bit of medicine knowledge. Let me take a look..."
The young man who got knocked down by Kim Jaesuk last night stepped up to take a look at the man.
"Hmm.. looking at his condition, he's experiencing severe dehydration. But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that he's lost too much blood and some of his wounds are infected"
Said the young man, then he continued with a pale face,
"To be honest, I don't think he's gonna make it"
Everyone then started gasping.
"Tha.. that means he's... he's gonna die?"
"No... no no no... noooo!"
One of the girls started screaming and crying.
"Noooo... I don't want this... I wanna go homeeee"
(Gasp...)
The wounded man suddenly opened his eyes.
"He... hey, are you okay?"
Kim Jaesuk asked.
Tears then come out of the man's eyes before he said:
"Wo... wolves... there are a pack wolves out there..."
"Wha... what??"
"Everyone... everyone got eaten by it... I.. I saw it with my own eyes... Th... the wolves to.. tore them apart and at.. ate them alive..."
"..."
"We can't survive... we... we're all gonna... gonna die!!"
The man suddenly scream before he completely stopped. His breath, his voice, and he himself completely stayed still while staring blankly at the ceiling.
"He... hey?"
"What.."
Yes. He died, and for the first time in my life, I see someone died right in front of me.
The lady who closed her son's eyes suddenly fainted and fall to the floor. Everyone else are just staring blankly at the corpse, still can't process what happened.
Kim Jaesuk then pick up the corpse and started walking outside.
"Hey... what are you doing?"
I asked.
"We can't leave the corpse here. I'll put it outside"
"Bu.. but..."
"There's no other choice, if left here the smell might get stronger. Andy come with me..."
"O... okay..."
After that, both Kim Jaesuk and Andy started walking outside carrying the body. I see them brough the corpse to the forest before coming back empty handed.
After that, we use a little bit of water that we have to clean up our hands. Not in the mood to do anything else, I sat down while leaned on the chair while staring outside the window.
"Fuck..."
---
After probably an hour, Kim Jaesuk suddenly told me:
"We need to leave this place..."
"Wha... what?"
Surprised by what he said, I stuttered before asking him back,
"Leave you say, to where? hahaha..."
"When we went to the forest yesterday, there was no signs of any animals there. It might be because it's either near the forest exit or there's people there that's patrolling. We might just missed them yesterday..."
"Hahahah stop with the fantasy Jaesuk. Can't you see? The whole group of idiots are dead, and we too, are all gonna die soon"
"Wha... are you crazy Alex?"
"Crazy? no no no... I'm completely sane. Maybe this is some kind of game? Where you need to die to be sent back? Hahahah those idiots are probably having fun on earth already..."
"..."
"Ah! Instead of waiting to die, should I just kill mys..."
(thud!)
Before finishing my sentence, I suddenly got punched on the face. I stared blackly at Kim Jaesuk and realised that He just hit me.
"You... you fucker!"
I then got up and ran to him trying to punch his face as well. But then I realised that this guy is a black belt Taekwondo, but then its too late to stop.
Surprisingly, my punch connected, but he didn't even budge. Only his face turned slightly. He then asked:
"Are you okay now?"
"Ah.. I..."
"If you're still not okay, go ahead and hit me more..."
"I... I..."
"..."
He stopped talking and only looked at me. I flinched under his stare and put my hand down.
"Sorry..."
"It's fine. It's just that I've known you as a cool headed person no matter the situation, so I was a bit surprised seeing you like that"
Kim Jaesuk said to me.
"Yeah, my bad... It's just so hard to accept the fact that this is our reality now..."
"..."
"You're right, we need to leave this place"
"Yeah..."
After that we called everyone to discuss our next step.
Everyone then gathered in front of me and Kim Jaesuk, who begin to explain what should we do next.
"Me and Alex decided to leave this place"
(!!!)
"What... why?"
"No way... after seeing that?"
"He's right, we need to leave this place"
"If we stayed here we will surely die too"
There's a lot of mixed reaction coming from everyone. Some opposes, and some accepted the decision, thinking that we're trying to reach an agreement together. I then cleared up the misunderstanding:
"Just to tell you guys, we're not voting or anything. With or without you guys, we'll be leaving this place soon. Might even be after this discussion"
"What?! Its too sudden... we can't get ready that quickly"
"Get ready for what? We only need to bring food and water, and some other necessities. Other useless stuff we leave it here"
"But..."
"There's no but. The longer we wait, more time will be wasted"
"What about the kid and the mother? Will you bring them along?"
"If they want to come with us, then come. We won't guarantee your safety though"
"..."
Just as they were talking with themselves, some people raised their hands:
"We'll go with you"
It was Andy, Martin, and Shresta.
"You guys are right, staying here will do us more harm than good. Who's gonna guarantee that the wolves will not come here tonight? Especially with how bright this cafe is"
"I'm ready to go anytime you guys want"
Honestly, I kinda expected them to come with us, but they decided that rather quickly.
"Okay, so that's five of us"
"We... we too want to go"
The lady with kid suddenly said that.
"Umm sure. It'll be 7 of us including the kid then"
"We'll also go with you..."
A couple of girls and the young man who examined the wounded man earlier decided to come with us as well. After agreeing with that, I asked the remaining four people whether they want to stay or leave, and they decided to stay.
'I guess they rather spend the remaining days of their life inside the cafe',
Is what I thought. In total, 10 of us decided to leave, consisting of six mens, three women, and a kid. We then grab some bags and filled it out with some food and drinks from the kitchen, while leaving some out for the people who decided to stay.
I estimated the food will last us until tomorrow morning. So if we're not able to find another source of food and drink till tomorrow, then we're dead.
And just when everyone's ready we walked out of the door to the forest, to the direction where we went yesterday.