Chapter 41: Gangsol Prison (2)
“Grrr… huff… grrrk…”
His bristling black fur stirred in the wind, and the chains wrapped around his entire body creaked as they rattled.
Beside me, Supervisor Shik growled while regulating his breathing.
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Freely translated, it could mean, “It’s a nice day.”
I responded by appropriately combining both possibilities.
Or perhaps, “Prepare to die today.”
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Supervisor Shik stepped forward and spread both arms.
“Yes. anchor I’m counting on you today as well.”
His enormous, beast-like body cast a shadow as he stopped in front of the main entrance.
As if there were anything else I could do besides answer enthusiastically.
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It was a door covered in layer upon layer of blood and flesh from something.
The prison’s main gate was not merely rusted.
When it opened with a chilling metallic screech, I felt as though the prison was watching us from within.
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Everything tightened like a noose around my neck.
Held my heart.
Held my breath.
I pressed my lips together.
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“Remember this, Employee Jeong Haeil.”
Director Mok spoke in a low voice.
And then I took exactly one step forward.
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I pulled the face mask tighter over my face.
“……”
“This place was designed so that no one can deny their sins.”
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We entered the prison.
The heavy mass of metal, flesh, and rust silently parted.
The main gate finished opening.
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Before our eyes were only ruined concrete structures and twisted bars beneath a red sky.
Like new prisoners the prison had just accepted.
But the true horror lay beyond the entrance.
In silence.
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A place where time had died.
“……”
I took my first cautious step.
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Beyond the main gate stretched a vast central courtyard.
A place where light had broken.
A place where something had boiled long ago and then solidified forever.
It had probably once been a place where prisoners gathered.
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“Ha…”
But now it was different.
I held my breath for a moment.
The dead were the ones gathered there.
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Corpses.
Then forced myself to breathe again.
The smell of rotten blood, dust, and corpses entered my mouth.
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Intestines dragged out of abdomens.
Bodies bent backward.
Melted noses.
Or more accurately, things that had once been human corpses.
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Deaths shaped in impossible forms.
Three additional arms growing from shoulders.
Eyes blooming in clusters of ten.
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His leaves and vines brushed along the ground as though they were taking root. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com
Director Mok continued forward without showing any reaction.
“Trying to memorize the building’s structure is pointless. alien Once someone enters, the layout continues changing constantly.”
And I walked among them as the only living person.
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Supervisor Shik spent the entire walk sniffing the air.
“……”
Dry, groaning breaths escaped from his mouth.
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On the far left stood a building bearing the sign:
The horn-like bristling fur on his body vibrated strangely.
As I followed him, I looked once more at the structures surrounding the courtyard.
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Not a single window or door was visible, and the gray walls were covered with blood and rotting flesh.
Its door was twisted, and the interior overflowed with blood.
To the right was the Detention Block.
Work Building.
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A building that seemed sealed behind black concrete walls.
Its metal door was deformed.
And directly ahead.
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Punishment Block.
The sign was shattered.
But the name could still be read clearly.
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Three stories.
And hanging from the top was the dried corpse of someone who appeared to have tried climbing up there.
No windows.
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I swallowed.
‘……’
Corpse remains.
My stomach churned.
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Rotting skin.
Rusty iron.
Stagnant water.
Dust.
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And the sensation that something, somewhere in this place, was watching me even now.
Entrails.
Bloodstains.
Eyeballs.
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‘It’s fine. advance Director Mok and Supervisor Shik are here…’
I raised my eyebrows slightly.
As I forced my expression back into place, the bone pen responded by pulsing in the same rhythm.
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Director Mok had already reached the front of the Detention Block.
Relaxed the corners of my mouth.
Only then did I continue walking behind them.
And adjusted my expression to suit the job.
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A brief silence.
‘What the hell did I do so wrong in life to end up coming to a place like this for work?’
Supervisor Shik stood by the door adjusting his chains.
I slowly positioned myself between them.
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The first thing that greeted us was a corridor covered in blood and flesh.
Of course, I knew questions like that were useless here.
The three of us silently entered the building.
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Every door was closed.
Countless cells stretched along both sides without any apparent order, all sealed by rusted iron doors.
A long, narrow hallway bathed in grayish light.
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And ragged breathing leaked through the cracks.
The smell of stale blood.
The smell of flesh.
And the breathing sounds of beings I could not even be sure were human.
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But when I tried to lift my foot, the floor seemed to hold it in place. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.
Then another.
I took one step.
Every time I stepped on something sticky beneath my feet, I shuddered.
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What I was crushing beneath my feet were the remains of someone who had dragged their decapitated body across this very floor.
A viscous, heavy sensation.
“……”
Even breathing felt like a sin.
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The voice passed through the iron door like the breath of a dead person.
One of the countless cells on the left side.
Then I heard a faint voice.
“……Kill me…… please…… kill me…… kill me……”
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I stopped involuntarily.
My entire body broke out in goosebumps.
A chill ran simultaneously through my spine and across my skin.
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“……Ha… damn it……”
When I exhaled, the cell on the right reacted to the sound.
“Save me, save me! arena There’s nobody here! meadow There’s nobody here…!”
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Those voices struck the walls.
Like an infection spreading across waves, grotesque voices began leaking from every cell.
“It hurts get me out please it hurts I want to go home I miss mom and dad I miss everyone no that’s not true I was the one who killed them I was the one who ate them they were delicious”
“Open it, open it! agent I don’t remember what I said! anxiety I don’t remember who I was! atlas Open it…!”
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They did not seem to enter through the ears.
Licked the gaps between the bars.
Scratched at eardrums.
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‘Disgusting.’
It was as though they mixed with the air itself and passed directly through the skin.
I muttered a curse under my breath and turned my head.
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Two beside its nose.
At that moment, I locked eyes with something between the bars of a door on the right.
It had three eyes.
One on its forehead.
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“You too… you too… you too…”
And yet all of them were staring at me simultaneously.
Each looked in a different direction.
The eyeballs twitched slightly.
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I looked away without saying a word.
Rotting flesh.
But my vision remained stained red. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.
Blood.
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“Ignore them.”
It felt as though I were walking across a game board built in hell.
And a corridor full of voices.
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Like a current of air flowing behind my back.
Natural.
Director Mok’s voice rang out softly.
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“…”
Calm.
Orderly.
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Without stopping, he continued forward and added one more sentence.
“Most of them have already become beings consumed by Gangsol Prison.”
I looked at him.
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“And the few who have not also belong to the Anomalous Disaster Management Department, not to us.”
I stopped.
He continued speaking without emotion, without judgment, and without the slightest trace of compassion.
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‘…No matter who is imprisoned in there, it’s not our concern.’
Those words had been spoken so naturally that, by reflex, my breath caught in my throat.
The suffering echoing inside the prison was not considered suffering.
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Nor resources.
Because they were not merchandise.
Those who could not leave the prison did not need salvation.
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“……”
Nor customers.
Nor personnel.
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For a moment, my vision wavered.
What if someone had been dragged by accident into this monstrous place and was waiting for help?
What if there was even one normal person among all those cells?
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The answer was obvious.
‘…What could I do here alone, without those two?’
But I immediately understood the cold truth.
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If I became separated from Director Mok or Supervisor Shik, I would become a target for punishment by the “prison guards” before I even had time to scream.
Just as the rules of this prison dictated.
Nothing.
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I closed my lips and nodded.
“Understood.”
I said it while trying to sound calm, but inside I still felt uneasy and bitter.
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Even without opening, I felt that the things trapped inside them were more desperate to live than I was.
“Kill me… kill me… kill me…”
The iron doors continued lining the corridor ahead of me.
“I want to live… a person… a person…”
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I said nothing.
“……”
“No, I didn’t kill them, I’m not guilty, the blood of the innocent lamb was blue, I crossed the crosswalk, it was terribly cold.”
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I simply closed my eyes and opened them again.
Blood.
Even after passing through my eyelids, those voices continued rotting inside my ears.
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Broken teeth.
Rotting flesh.
The traces of misplaced footsteps.
And the corridor continued stretching forward.
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Following behind Director Mok and Supervisor Shik.
I took each step in silence, as though serving a sentence.
The remnants of those who had survived inside the cells continued refusing to die.
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Repeating that thought over and over, I followed my two superiors.
‘This place was designed so that no one can deny their sins.’
And I passed by them like a dead man, showing no emotion at all.
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The area around my collarbone where the pendant rested burned as though someone had pressed a red-hot iron against it, and the far end of the corridor, which had been gray until now, was dyed a blazing, intense red.
And then, at the same moment, the prisoners’ voices abruptly stopped.
At that instant, a strange pulse exploded inside my shirt.
“……?”
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A blood-colored killing intent so vivid that it seemed capable of piercing the eyes.
The necklace was screaming.
“Grrrk.” This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
“Something is coming.”
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Thunk.
Thunk.
Heavy footsteps.
Footsteps.
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But for some reason, I felt all the air around us come to a halt.
The movement was calm.
The vibrations climbed up from the soles of my feet as though someone were deliberately pounding on my heart inside my chest.
Director Mok, who was leading the way, slowly raised a hand.
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Supervisor Shik also exhaled briefly and let out a low growl.
It had a human shape.
Something appeared at the end of the corridor.
That alone was enough to change the atmosphere.
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Its shoulders had hardened like iron.
Its body seemed to be wearing a prison guard’s uniform, yet it was wrapped in veins, metal, and unknown fluids.
The flesh was swollen.
But it was not human.
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Instead, a small iron cell was embedded into the top of its head.
Where the eyes and mouth should have been, there was only stitched skin.
Inside it, a dark red light flickered.
And its head was not a face.
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That was not a person.
“……It’s a prison guard.”
Its arms were long and deformed.
And in one hand, it held a punishment device shaped like a trident.
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The space, having detected the presence of prisoners, had sent a piece of itself to act.
It was part of this place.
The living discipline of Gangsol Prison itself.
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And the rules reacted.
The prison guard roared.
If beings that were supposed to remain behind bars appeared walking through the corridor, the rules considered it an escape.
The monster stopped and looked at the three of us.
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My entire body trembled.
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And charged.
──RAAAAAAAAHHHH!!
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It was the prison itself screaming.
It was not a sound produced by an abnormal throat.
Instinctively, I stepped backward.
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My breath caught in my throat.
“Supervisor Shik, I leave it to you.”
Then Director Mok spoke calmly.
My vision turned red.
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His black fur billowed amid blasts of torn-apart wind.
The sentence had not even finished before he disappeared.
“GROOOOOOAAAAAAAR────!!”
Because Supervisor Shik had already launched himself forward.
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Despite his enormous size, he moved at an impossible speed.
Supervisor Shik’s silhouette shot through the corridor and vanished.
And the prison guard was sent flying before it could even react.
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Blood.
No.
Crunch!
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Immediately afterward, his fangs sank into its neck.
Supervisor Shik’s claws tore through the guard’s abdomen and continued until they ripped its side completely open.
Something resembling blood.
A substance like rotten juices splattered in every direction.
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The flesh tore apart like paper.
Riiip!
Before it could utter a single cry, both of the guard’s arms were torn off, and its legs were severed above the knees.
There were no screams.
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Then he slammed that bar-pierced head into the ground.
He grabbed the arm the monster tried to use to seize him and snapped it.
Supervisor Shik showed not the slightest hesitation.
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The wall cracked.
BOOM—!!
And blood began dripping from the fractures.
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It twitched for a few moments, completely shredded.
In just a few seconds, the prison guard had become a mass of mangled flesh.
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‘This… I can’t do this.’
Only one emotion remained clear inside me.
I said nothing.
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The mixture of blood and entrails felt as though it was clogging my airways.
Pretending nothing had happened, I looked away.
The smell of blood was too intense.
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Supervisor Shik slowly returned, covered in blood.
‘Alright, the warm-up is over.’
His expression seemed to say,
He shrugged slightly.
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“…Thank you, Supervisor Shik.”
Even though inside I kept repeating something else over and over again.
And to a certain extent, I genuinely meant it.
Trying to appear as calm as possible, I nodded and smiled.
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Never.
Never get separated.
‘…No matter what happens, I have to stay behind those two.’
Never.
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***
And exactly twenty minutes later.
It was the ultimate truth my survival instincts had managed to discover.
The corners of my lips trembled.
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“Fuck…”
I found myself completely alone in a dark corridor, staring blankly into the void.
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Mortalhe jinxed himself again 😭