The Villainess VTuber Rips People Apart-Chapter 100: Tears

【'SerenadeKR' Group Survivor Status (2/4)】

【Jeongseok】

【Choi Changyoung】

【Elenoa (Deceased)】

【Masina (Deceased)】

Noah was late, and Sina, who had gone to the bathroom, was somehow taking a long time too.

Changyoung felt puzzled, and it was a bit later when he confirmed the deaths of the two.

“Huh?”

Checking the survivor status displayed on his smartwatch, Changyoung’s expression turned to one of shock.

As Jeongseok was about to ask what was wrong, a gunshot rang out.

Bang!

A powerful explosion echoed from the window.

Changyoung quickly ducked, but in reality, his reaction was a moment too late.

Had they not replaced the window with bulletproof glass for the base's reinforcement, he would have been dead.

“What the hell...!”

Startled by the sudden gunfire, Jeongseok jumped to his feet.

Changyoung opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say. He could tell Noah and Sina were already dead, but the crucial question was why those two had died.

What did the bullet lodged in the reinforced glass signify, and how should they interpret and navigate this situation?

To judge all of this, they first needed a moment to think.

Of course, the enemy wasn’t giving them any time to sort through their thoughts.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

Bullets kept flying in.

The reinforced glass was not going to shatter easily.

However, the continuous sounds of explosions from the window and the cracks spreading across the glass only served to heighten human anxiety.

‘Stay calm... Stay calm....’

Despite the bullets repeatedly banging against the glass, Changyoung barely recognized that his life was safe for now.

But anxiety was not something that could easily be erased.

What came to Changyoung’s mind was a news story about a fish tank made of reinforced glass breaking.

After seeing the news, he had been intrigued about why the reinforced glass had shattered. He learned that while reinforced glass is strong against shocks, it is vulnerable to ‘twisting’ and can break.

Although Changyoung was acting as a virtual squad leader, he didn’t know what would happen if bullets continued to pierce the reinforced glass.

Would twisting occur and shatter the glass? Or would the glass hold until the end?

“Haah... Haah...”

Changyoung found himself breathing heavily without realizing it.

Though everything happening now was a game, the game created in Dead Rows was excessively realistic.

The sense of being in a real battlefield made him feel as if he was truly placed in the heart of war.

Faced with primal fear, Changyoung hesitated slightly, but he soon realized that the longer he delayed, the higher the chances that the glass would no longer protect him.

He rose to his feet.

Through the spiderweb-like cracks on the window, Changyoung looked out.

As long as the reinforced glass was still intact, he ducked again to secure safety.

“Sora!”

“What?”

“Ayano Kouji Sora! Aurora’s rival! Aiaia’s 6th generation!!”

In his dazed state, Changyoung managed to relay the information to Jeongseok in mere words.

What he saw beyond the glass was Sora aiming her gun from the opposite building towards them.

‘...Was that a sniper rifle?’

It seemed like a sniper rifle, but then again, it didn’t. The distance made it hard to confirm the type of gun.

It wasn’t clear whether the type of gun mattered. What difference would it make if it were an assault rifle instead of a sniper rifle?

In this world, just how useful was a sniper rifle anyway?

An assault rifle would be far easier to handle for taking down zombies, while a sniper rifle would probably only be useful in special situations.

For hitting enemies from a distance or precisely assassinating a living human, perhaps.

“......Aiaia attacked us?”

In terms of reasoning, Jeongseok was much better than Changyoung.

Through fragmented information, Jeongseok pieced together the current situation.

“Why... No, did they find out about the two vaccines? Did Noah or Sina say something...? Then they came to fight for the vaccine??”

“Jeongseok! Is this the time to think about that? Think about how to resolve this situation!”

Seeing Jeongseok panic, Changyoung shouted.

Although he appeared to be the cool, glasses-wearing type, he was swayed too much by the unexpected situation.

Perhaps it was because he was calculating by nature. When things didn’t go according to plan, that’s when the calculated types would stumble.

Of course, it wasn’t a situation where he could blame Jeongseok for his weakness.

Bang! Bang!

The gunfire didn’t cease.

The increasingly damaged glass seemed to symbolize Jeongseok’s mental state. Changyoung guessed that the enemy was firing at the reinforced glass not to hit them but to deprive them of their ability to think.

Such a strategy was working well.

Changyoung was managing to stay calmer than Jeongseok, but in his urgency, his situational awareness was sluggish.

Still, he tried to maintain his composure and understand the situation.

‘After all, the reinforced glass won’t break. Even if it does break, I can just move to another spot.’

Once he reached that conclusion, he thought that the number of their enemies was not the entirety of it.

And speaking of which, how had Noah and Sina died?

The whole building was made of reinforced glass.

There hadn’t been a single gunshot until now.

Conclusion: Noah and Sina did not die by gunfire.

Changyoung panicked and stood up.

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Crack!

At just the right moment, the door burst open.

Laura stepped in, leading with her pistol.

Changyoung was already throwing a chair toward her.

[Laura, be careful!]

“Oh my.”

A loud voice came from the walkie-talkie in Laura’s left pocket. It was Sora’s shout.

She had detected Changyoung’s movement through the heavily cracked window. Because of that, Laura could easily react to Changyoung’s action.

Dodging the flying chair effortlessly,

Laura aimed her gun at Changyoung.

Tatatatata!!

She emptied a magazine cleanly.

However, Changyoung, rolling on the floor, somehow managed to get behind a desk.

“You crazy b*tch!”

In the meantime, Jeongseok, having secured a gun, aimed his firearm at Laura.

As he was about to pull the trigger,

Thud!

Something hit Jeongseok’s head.

It was Sina’s head.

“AHH!?”

Seeing Sina’s head fly in, Jeongseok screamed.

Right after that, he felt a sudden pain in his shoulder.

A bullet had struck his shoulder.

“Dammit... My aim was off.”

Sora, who had just entered the room, muttered.

How on earth?

Come to think of it, the gunfire from earlier had stopped for a long time.

It was only now that he realized that it was due to Laura’s sudden intrusion.

Was there even a need to care about the outside situation?

With the reinforced glass, it was essentially impossible to snipe them. Unless the reinforced glass broke, they didn’t even need to worry about enemy fire. That’s why the realization had come late.

But how?

Surely they had been sniping from the adjacent building; how had they crossed over?

‘That’s....’

In Jeongseok’s line of sight, he saw something.

It was a rope.

The cracks in the window made it hard to see clearly, and he was too scared of the sniper to dare look outside.

But upon closer inspection, he noticed that a rope was connecting the buildings.

It turned out he wasn’t the only one stalling for time.

Laura had been stalling for time too, waiting for Sora to cross over on the rope.

‘How is that possible?!’

No, had she really crossed over on a rope?

Couldn’t even an adult man find it difficult; did she really do it as a woman?

What kind of monsters were the 6th generation?

While those thoughts crossed his mind, Sora’s gun was aimed squarely at Jeongseok.

“Waaahhh?!?!”

Jeongseok hurriedly fled through the back door, leaving Changyoung behind.