105 – Yoon Se-rin

“Haa…”

Yoon Serin let out a long sigh. Seeing this, Han Sua, who was beside her, asked with a puzzled look.

“Why the sigh? Is something bothering you?”

“What isn’t bothering me here? It’s just… I’m troubled about other things.”

“Ah, because you’re leaving soon?”

Yoon Serin nodded. Only a week remained of her six months at the training center.

When she first entered, she barely survived each day, wondering when she could ever escape this hellhole, but when she came to her senses, the end was already approaching.

“You’re just leaving, what’s there to worry about?”

“…Aren’t you worried? You know exactly what will happen to us when we leave here.They would either become playthings for wealthy people or be dragged off as comfort items for public facilities like the military. Of course, there were cases where families would buy them back, but that didn’t apply to Yoon Serin. She had declared severance and ran away a long time ago, so they probably didn’t even know she had become infected.

And Han Sua was no different. She hadn’t heard the details, but she had an unhappy family situation just like her. But unlike the anxious Yoon Serin, she said nonchalantly.

“Well, will worrying change anything? I just have to accept it.”

“Sigh. It’s my fault for talking to you. My mistake.”

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

Yoon Serin glared at Han Sua, who said that as if to tease her. But she had been comforted by such indifferent reactions several times, so she couldn’t even curse. Instead, she clasped her hands tightly and prayed.

“Please let someone with a good personality take me.”

“Someone with a good personality wouldn’t use the training center, though.”

“Are you going to keep raining on my parade?”

“Oops, Serin’s angry!”

Han Sua screamed playfully and ran away at Yoon Serin’s reaction, which she couldn’t hold back.

Yoon Serin chuckled at the sight of her blonde hair swaying as she hurriedly ran away, and then immediately followed after her.

“Hey, you’re dead if I catch you!”

Yeah. Nothing would change even if she worried. Instead of wasting time worrying, she had to cherish the present moment.

Yoon Serin finally caught Han Sua, who was running away, and flicked her forehead.

A joyful smile bloomed on both of their faces.

“Ugh, what a joke.”

In Multipurpose Education Practice Room A, Ha Yoon sat by the window and muttered quietly as she watched the two of them running around in the training grounds. She couldn’t understand why they were having so much fun when they were about to leave the center.

After all, their remaining lives would be spent in a hell worse than the training center. Ha Yoon made a sullen expression and kicked something at her feet.

“Don’t you think so?”

“Ugh! Y-yes, you’re right!”

“Idiot, who told you to talk like a human?”

At those words, Joo Yeonhwa, who was lying under her feet, belatedly realized her mistake and shouted.

“Woof! Woof woof!”

“Good girl. Well done.”

She moved her foot, which was still on her, to stroke her head, and Joo Yeonhwa panted happily.

Joo Yeonhwa, who had been at the training center for two months, was no longer treated like a human. Of course, she was on equal footing with the other trainees in front of the teachers, but once the teachers disappeared, she moved solely as Ha Yoon’s dog.

The reason for this was simple. Ha Yoon perfectly recreated the experiences she had gone through and inflicted them on Joo Yeonhwa. Thanks to the constant training, whether it was a weekday or a holiday, she no longer resisted Ha Yoon.

At that point, Kim Seonah no longer stopped her either. Instead, she used it as an excuse to force herself on her, but it was fine if she thought of it as part of the play.

Joo Yeonhwa’s classmates also didn’t care at all, as if they thought she had crossed a river from which she could never return. As a result, Joo Yeonhwa had almost no interaction or conversation with anyone in the dormitory.

Apart from obeying Ha Yoon, she was completely isolated. Of course, Joo Yeonhwa wasn’t the only one who was isolated.

Jin Siwon. Like Yoon Serin and Han Sua, who were about to leave the training center, she only had about a month left. But after seeing the end of her classmate and lover, Shin Sohyun (though she wasn’t dead), she just lived quietly in the dormitory as if she didn’t exist.

Occasionally, Kim Seonah would come and talk to her, and she would respond. Of course, that didn’t mean it led to a conversation. She mechanically answered questions like an answering machine, but she didn’t lead the conversation or anything like that.

As a result, even Kim Seonah seemed to get tired of it and stopped talking to Jin Siwon at some point. In that way, Jin Siwon became isolated. Not because of someone’s intention, but because she wanted it herself.

It was like watching a withering tree.

‘Not that it’s any of my business.’

Ha Yoon smirked as she looked at Joo Yeonhwa, who was blushing and panting with her face under her foot.

“Do you like being stepped on, you pervert?”

“Woof woof!”

“If you like it that much, you can lick my feet.”

As if she had been waiting for those words, Joo Yeonhwa stuck out her tongue and licked her feet. The slimy tongue swept over her soles, sending shivers down her spine.

But Ha Yoon didn’t take her foot away, even with the tingling sensation. The tongue that was licking her soles soon began to suck on her toes, carefully sucking on each one.

The sound of “Chupa chupa-” as she sucked like she was giving a blowjob overlapped with the image of Hongryun. She should have made that bastard kneel like this before she left. Ha Yoon felt a slight regret and a great excitement and pushed her foot in further.

“Do you think I’ll be satisfied with just that? Suck harder. Like you suck the teachers’ dicks.”

“Haa, woof!”

Joo Yeonhwa replied in a heated voice.

Teacher Gan handed a stack of papers to the middle-aged man sitting at the table and said.

“This is the profile of all the trainees currently in the training center.”

“Thank you.”

The man, who was wearing a suit and had his hair neatly styled, responded with a gentle smile as he accepted the stack of papers. Teacher Gan was also smiling back, but there was a feeling of disgust hidden inside.

‘Dirty bastard.’

The man reading the profiles of the trainees was a cook. He wasn’t a famous chef who had worked at a multi-star hotel or anything like that. His job was a driver. A veteran who had worked for a chaebol family for decades.

But he was a cook. A cook who only cooked for his masters. Even Teacher Gan didn’t want to think about what the ingredients were.

A driver who cooks humans and a cannibalistic chaebol who eats human flesh. Of course, this wasn’t the first time. He had already met him several times and several trainees had gone that way.

Even though they were infected people without human rights, eating them was another matter. But the director of the training center, who was blinded by money, silenced such controversies with a few coughs and told them to take good care of him.

That’s why Teacher Gan waited for the cook’s reaction without erasing his smile, even though his head was full of disgust.

“Are these two graduating this time?”

Teacher Gan nodded at the mention of Han Sua and Yoon Serin.

“That’s right. They are both excellent trainees. Especially Yoon Serin.”

“Ah, I’m not interested in the blonde one. The chairmen don’t really like Westerners.”

“I see.”

It wasn’t a fact he was particularly curious about. The cook passed by the two of them and carefully examined the profiles of the other trainees. Then he stopped at one place.

“There’s a trainee with unusual hair color.”

“Ah, you mean Ha Yoon.”

“Ha Yoon, yes. When is this child scheduled to leave?”

“She still has about two months left… Do you like that trainee?”

Not “leave,” but “ship out,” you moron. Teacher Gan swallowed those words and said.

“Like… yes, maybe. Her appearance is one thing, but I like her hair and eye color. The way it reminds me of cherry blossoms makes me think I can create a great work.”

“Haha, I’m glad you like her, but unfortunately, that trainee already has an owner.”

“Oh… is that so? May I know who is taking her?”

If they were lower in rank than the masters they served, they were planning to take her, whether through behind-the-scenes negotiations or threats. But the cook had no choice but to give up on that idea as soon as the name came out of Teacher Gan’s mouth.

“It’s the eldest son of the Sunwoo Group.”

“Ah, the Sunwoo Group… That’s a shame.”

The Sunwoo Group was too big. He didn’t think the chairmen he served were less powerful than him, but even so, it wasn’t to the point where he could steal things. The cook cleanly gave up and slowly looked through the remaining profiles before saying.

“The rest are so-so. I’ll choose the child named Yoon Serin.”

“You can send the payment to the usual account.”

“Yes, then I’ll see you again on the day of departure.”

The cook said that, packed his things, and prepared to leave. Teacher Gan escorted him to the front gate and then returned, muttering nervously.

“Why doesn’t someone catch those cannibalistic bastards?”

It’s so disgusting. Teacher Gan thought that and called Ha Yoon on duty.

He was in a bad mood and needed to relieve some stress.

A week passed and the day of departure arrived. Yoon Serin, who had washed her body clean and dressed neatly, took a deep breath with a stiff face. As she did so, she felt the warmth of someone holding her hand.

“Why are you so nervous? Just stay still.”

“How can I do that?”

“By the way, where do you think we’ll go? I wish we could go to the same place.”

“That’s impossible. All the guys who have left so far have gone separately.”

Yoon Serin replied curtly. She didn’t think that she and Han Sua would be the only exceptions to that. Instead, she just tightened her grip on the hand she was holding.

As she did so, Teacher Gan came out of the administration office and led the two of them, as if the people who were going to take them had arrived.

Two foreign cars of different brands were parked in the training grounds. However, one of them had the driver get out to greet them, while the other had someone sitting in the back seat with the window rolled down, watching them approach.

She was sorry to Han Sua, but she hoped that the man with the warm and friendly face of a father, rather than the person sitting in the car with that venomous face, would take her.

And that became a reality.

“Miss Yoon Serin?”

“Yes!”

“There’s no need to be nervous. Shall we get in?”

Yoon Serin clenched her fist without realizing it when he even kindly opened the passenger seat door for her.

She thought she was lucky to have a good person as her master.

Vroom- The parked cars led the people they had picked up and drove out of the training grounds.

Author’s words (Author’s note)

As you may have guessed,

I’m slowly wrapping things up.