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