Episode 15. Edit! National Central Museum! (12)
The vertebrae suspended in the air swayed and wobbled every time I stepped on them with my weight.
Running while stepping on a stepping-stone bridge without any safety device, well, how should I put it?
It felt like I unwillingly started enjoying the speed.
Like little kids who are learning to ride a bike and just pedal wildly so they don’t fall.
Thump- thump- thump-!
By the time I had gotten the hang of it and was pounding along the vertebrae……
Whooosh-!
I heard something flying through the air.
I turned toward the sound absentmindedly, then ducked in surprise.
Skk-!
Something whip-like flew past my head briskly.
“D-Don’t… tortu, re… me…”
It was the Contaminated Person.
“L-Let… me… live…!”
The Contaminated Persons, who had been excited at the thought of devouring 「Imitation Rice」, now started to get angry at me.
Whooosh-! Hooong-!
But maybe because I was hanging on 「False God」’s vertebrae?
They couldn’t strike me directly and just let out piercing sounds in the air irritably.
“Yo-you… m-must… die…”
“C-Catch… me.”
Perhaps thinking it was too risky…