He's probably running a similar script simultaneously in the scenario area he controls.
[You have been living too long for free. Isn't life too generous? You were born and paid no price for breathing,eating, shitting, and reproducing at will without paying anything in return! Ha! What a world you've been living in!]
As I listened to him, I wondered if this is what it would have been like if a 'Omniscient Reader's movie had come out.
The problem is that I'm now an extra in that movie.
[The stars watched over your planet with great generosity, but that's only until today, and the time has come for you to repay them for all the kindness they've shown you. It's better for you to see what's going on than to hear me ramble on about it, right?]
As if he couldn't be bothered to recite the boring lines, Bihyung snapped his fingers.
[#BI-7623 channel opened.]
[Constellations have entered.]
A small window floated upwards above those who raised their heads in confusion.
[The main scenario has arrived!]
Category: Main
Difficulty: F
Clear Conditions: Kill one or more creatures.
Time Limit: 30 minutes
Reward: 300 coins
Failure: Death
The Dokkaebi's transparent body slowly faded away, giving us a vague smile.
[Then, good luck everyone. Please show me an interesting story.]
As the scenario window popped up in front of me, it really hit home.
The time limit reducing in real time.
Right now it says 30 minutes, but as the time goes on, the penalties will start to kick in.
"What does this mean?"
Unsure of what's going on, people started talking to each other and calling out to each other. In the distance, I could see people scratching and hitting the transparent wall.
I took a light, deep breath and muttered to myself.
'Attribute Window.'
[Currently, due to a system error, the Attribute Window cannot be activated.]
I squinted my eyes.
This wasn't working?
'Fourth Wall.'
I called it out, just in case.
Kim Dokja had the [Fourth Wall] skill since the beginning, and as a penalty of that skill, he was restricted from viewing the Attribute Window.
So, if I also have the [Fourth Wall.]...
'Fourth Wall.'
....
I don't.
So why doesn't it open?
I don't know.
It's a novel I wrote, dammit.
First of all, I'm a writer, not a reader, so I should have the [Writer]'s skills... Maybe I have [Avatar].
I concentrated and tried to use [Avatar] and other writer-only skills. But there was no noticeable change, except for the strain on my sphincter.
[The remaining time has decreased.]
[There are 28 minutes remaining.]
While I struggled in vain, the crowd in the station split into two groups.
One was a group of people wearing sweatshirts with the same logo.
"Everyone, please don't panic and gather this way!"
"Let's go to the deacon's side!"
They were clutching tissues with the church's name on them; they seemed to be from the same church.
On the other side of the room, a large man with a tattoo on his forearm was gathering people.
"Hey, everybody, come over here and help!"
This was the same guy who was worried about getting his head cracked by Bihyung earlier. The big guy pushed against the transparent wall with both hands and shouted at the other people.
"Everyone push this together! We might be able to get out!"
Obviously, it's safer to struggle against a wall than to attack a Dokkaebi.
But some people didn't think so.
"What if we do something weird and that monster does something to us?"
"Then what? If you're not going to help, go away. Push! Harder! Harder!"
At this point, some of the other people who had been hesitating joined in and started pushing
against the wall. The sound of cha, cha, cha, cha echoed around the room, and the people in the church who had been watching got involved.
"Everyone, let's help him!"
At the deacon's signal, the congregation rushed in and pushed against the wall. It was quite a sight to see, dozens of people clinging to the transparent wall like a pantomime.
I slowly made my way to the edge of the station as people struggled with the wall. A few steps away, I caught my reflection in the screen door.
First, I think I'm possessing a bad character.
A body whose average stats does not seem to exceed 1.
This is why I wasn't sure I could win a fight against a bare-chested Kim Dokja.
Kim Dokja.
I have to meet him somehow.
I don't know what caused me to possess this man, but considering what's normal in web novels, I should be able to return to reality the moment I see the end of the scenarios.
So I needed to meet the main character of 'Omniscient Reader', who dies and comes back to life for the sake of his colleagues, and win his favor. It's the only way to increase your chances of survival in this cruel world.
By the way, I'll have to survive here before you can meet Kim Dokja or anyone else.
「 The first scenario requires you to kill 'one or more living things'. 」
Kim Dokja cleared the first scenario by crushing the grasshoppers and grasshopper eggs collected by Lee Gilyoung.
But since he's the main character, he's lucky, and since I'm an extra character, I'm not so lucky.
As an extra character, I can't be that lucky.
「 So this is what I came up with. 」
I glared at the soda machine in front of me.
If you didn't end up in the same train car as Kim Dokja, you'd be lucky to land in a subway station.
At least here, this vending machine was my 'insect catcher'.
"Push! Harder!"
"Aaaahhh."
I gently shook the vending machine in time with the chants of the wall pushers.
「 A lot of bugs live in subway vending machines with refrigeration and freezers. 」
I had seen an article like that when I wrote about 200 chapters for Omniscient Reader.
I wonder how many times I shook it like that.
Something made a thud sound, and a nameless bug crawled out from under the vending machine.
I quickly clasped my hands together and trapped the fleeing bug.
Lucky for me, I'll survived the first scenario.
I immediately tried to crush the bug in my hand.
「Maybe it's a pregnant bug.」
My hesitation wasn't because I was philosophizing about the bug's right to life.
I hesitated because I remembered a line from 'Omniscient Reader'.
「 An 'egg' is a living thing. 」
In the scenario, bugs' eggs are recognized as living beings, and Kim Dokja's solution was to crack hundreds of eggs to gain an advantage in the scenario.
But what would have happened if Kim Dokja had given the bug's eggs to everyone on the subway?
I glanced over and saw people banging on the transparent wall.
People knocking on the wall to live.
I knew who the people in Geumho Station were. People who could casually take the lives of others for their own survival.
For a moment, I felt like Kim Dokja.
「 What would Kim Dokja do if he returned to the first scenario? 」
Suddenly, a tsuchuchut rang out and I almost missed the bug.
It wasn't a probability spark.
The cell phone in my pocket was ringing.
I hesitated for a moment, then slipped the bug in my fist into my coat pocket and zipped it up tight.
I opened my phone and a message popped up.
[You have one new message.]
A message?
ㅡSender: RepresentativeKimDokja
ㅡAuthor-nim. Congratulations on your new side story series.
I looked at the message with suspicion in my eyes.
ㅡWe're sending you a small gift in anticipation for your series.
Author's Note
Sing: I am not Lee Hakhyun. ^^;;
Shong: I'm not Lee Hakhyun either. ^^;