Chapter 103. Cookie, Run! (3)
“Dmitriiiiiii!”
Caesar screamed in horror at the sight.
Yukgap, who had accidentally crushed one of Caesar’s kin underfoot, immediately panicked and apologized.
“S-Sorry. I didn’t know he was there.”
Caesar hurriedly jumped down from his palanquin and ran to the cookie Yukgap had stepped on.
The cookie had already been crushed so badly that it was difficult to make out its original shape.
White tears streamed from Caesar’s eyes as he lifted his fallen kin.
“Dmitri! Wake up! Please!”
“Ugh...”
The cookie called Dmitri let out a faint groan.
Then his head dropped limply.
He no longer moved.
Apparently, he had died.
“Look, I’m sorry.”
Yukgap had not meant to do it, but he had ended up killing one of the cookies.
He hurriedly apologized again.
Caesar suddenly whipped his head around while holding Dmitri’s corpse.
Then he screamed,
“You cookie-murdering monster!”
“You brutally killed Dmitri, one of my people!”
“I will never forgive you!”
“I told you it was an accident!”
Yukgap instinctively protested.
Caesar ignored him.
Instead, he shouted at the other cookies.
“Hear the command of Caesar, great leader of all cookies!”
“Eliminate the cruel cookie-murderer who killed our comrade Dmitri!”
The surrounding cookies shouted in unison.
“Eliminate him!”
“Eliminate him!”
A tiny cannon cobbled together from laboratory equipment was rolled in front of Yukgap.
The cookies quickly loaded it and aimed the barrel at him.
“Fire!”
The moment the command was given, there was a tiny firecracker-like pop.
A small pellet arced through the air and struck Yukgap.
He tilted his head as he looked at the crystals lightly stinging his skin.
“This is... salt?”
The cannonballs the cookies were firing were nothing more than ordinary chunks of salt.
When their weapon proved ineffective, Caesar pointed dramatically into the air.
“Bomb him!”
Something quickly rose overhead.
Tiny airplanes made from flasks.
They swooped toward Yukgap and began dumping boiling milk over him.
“Aaagh! That’s hot!”
Yukgap recoiled as the scalding milk poured over him.
But it was nowhere near enough to actually injure him.
The cookies quickly reported the failure.
“It’s not working!”
Caesar immediately gave another order.
“Pour on more boiling milk!”
“Melt him alive!”
More tiny aircraft carrying steaming milk came flying in.
Yukgap clenched his teeth and swung his arm.
“You little...!”
His arm moved faster than the speed of sound.
The resulting pressure wave alone knocked the cookie aircraft out of balance and sent every one of them crashing down.
One of the cookies hurriedly reported,
“The aerial unit has been destroyed!”
“Our current weapons appear insufficient against that cookie-murderer!”
Caesar went silent for a moment at the disastrous report.
Then he ordered his forces,
“Everyone, gather!”
“We’re going into close combat!”
The moment he finished speaking, the surrounding cookies screamed and charged Yukgap in a swarm.
Their tiny eyes burned with furious determination.
“Cookies united are strong!”
“Glory to sugar!”
“Attaaaaaack!”
They rushed him from every direction.
Some rammed their hard heads into Yukgap’s legs.
Others beat at him with their tiny hands.
Of course, they were still just cookies, so their attacks caused virtually no damage.
Yukgap could only stare at the absurd situation in disbelief.
“How many times do I have to tell you it was an accident?!”
Then several cookies with rubber bands tied around their waists used the tension to launch themselves into the air.
They pulled out toothpicks and struck Yukgap hard in the back of the neck.
“We’ll take you down!”
A faint sting brushed across his skin.
But there was no chance such an attack could defeat Yukgap.
“You think scratching my neck is going to kill me?!”
He shook his body.
The cookies clinging to him were thrown off.
Their durability was literally that of well-baked cookies, so many of them broke in half just from hitting the floor.
Caesar watched his kin crumble one after another and screamed in fury.
“Kill as many as you want!”
“I have plenty of ingredients to make more!”
Yukgap stared at him.
“You were furious because one of your people died five minutes ago.”
“Do you really get to say that now?”
Caesar showed no sign of backing down.
“We will never retreat!”
“We will fight until only one cookie remains!”
Yukgap looked at him with pity.
“You seem to be missing something important.”
“You can’t keep fighting me much longer.”
“Do not underestimate my fighting spirit!”
“That’s not what I mean.”
Yukgap clicked his tongue.
“How many days has it been since you were baked?”
“So what?”
Caesar looked confused.
Yukgap sighed.
“Restaurant Shelley only uses organic flour with no preservatives.”
“Do you seriously not understand what that means?”
