35 – Pets

“Hee, hee…”

Hayoon gasped for breath, tears streaming down her face.

Every step was agonizing, from her elbows to her knees. If it weren’t for the tug of the leash, she would have collapsed right then and there.

But she couldn’t say it hurt. If she did, she’d be running instead of walking. Even if it hurt, even if it was hard, she had to move as Mr. Gan moved.

To suffer even a little less. As Hayoon thought this and walked, Mr. Gan, who had been moving his feet slowly, said,

“Speaking of which, what about Kim Sun-ah?”

Kim Sun-ah. As that name popped out of Mr. Gan’s mouth, Hayoon’s eyes widened.

“Wasn’t she truly devoted? I think she’s far too good for you.”

She knew that without him saying it. That she was too much for a scoundrel like her.

Even after deliberately hurting her, she never imagined Sun-ah would be waiting for her to return. Hayoon, recalling Sun-ah hugging her head and making a sad face, looked uneasy.

Mr. Gan bringing up Kim Sun-ah’s name clearly wasn’t just to make small talk.

“Hngh, hngh…”

“Are you anxious? Because I mentioned her?”

Anxious. Terribly anxious. She deliberately hurt her to keep her from getting involved with her. Even if the recovery abilities of the infected were strangely high, it didn’t mean they couldn’t feel pain.

The sensation of sharp scissors piercing her skin and rummaging inside would have been felt even more vividly than by others. It must have been very painful and bewildering.

But she wanted to separate Kim Sun-ah from her so much that she went that far. It wasn’t hard to imagine what the instructors would do to Kim Sun-ah if she was close to her.

Because she remembered what she had done. As Hayoon looked at Mr. Gan with trembling eyes, he chuckled and said,

“It’s a masterpiece. I almost want to show Hayoon’s current appearance to the Hay Seung-jin of the past.”

That Hay Seung-jin worrying about someone else. It was a story no one who knew him would ever believe.

A person who was the embodiment of selfishness, caring only about himself, worrying about someone?

Is that what happens when you become infected? Mr. Gan continued in a cheerful voice.

“I don’t particularly intend to touch Kim Sun-ah. Unless it’s necessary, she’s not my type.”

“Hoo… hngh…”

“But… come to think of it. Even if she’s not my type, she’d be good enough to play with for fun.”

As he said that, the leash she was holding trembled. Mr. Gan stopped walking, met Hayoon’s eyes, and said,

“Shall we play with her for about a week?”

It was as if he was asking for her opinion. Hayoon shook her head violently. Then, with faltering steps, she crawled to Mr. Gan’s feet and began rubbing her head against them.

“It’s really amazing. This TS disease,” Mr. Gan said, stroking her pink hair.

“Or shall we do this?”

“…?”

“If Hayoon acts like a trainee while she’s here, I won’t touch Kim Sun-ah. It’s not a difficult task, is it?”

That was true. It was like setting a condition for something that should have been done in the first place. Hayoon nodded her head repeatedly without the slightest hesitation.

Now that things had come to this, she had no desire to assert her ego. Nor could she.

The reason was simple. She was tired now.

Just as a straight bamboo tree cannot withstand a strong wind and breaks, Hayoon’s unyielding nature had been broken by violence and rape over the past two days.

There was no pride left. She didn’t want to hurt anymore. Once the punishment was over, she planned to bow her head and live like the other trainees.

She realized it too late. No matter what her past was, now that she had entered this place as a trainee, she was just a sex toy without human rights. An insignificant creature that couldn’t assert anything.

It was as Hong-ryun had said. She was the one who had said those words to her, so it was a situation that suited the saying “hoist with one’s own petard.”

“Okay. Let’s work hard for the week of punishment first.”

Hayoon nodded vigorously. There was no right to refuse.

After the walk, they headed to the private shower room inside the infirmary. Mr. Gan carefully washed Hayoon’s body, which was covered in sweat from the long walk.

Of course, in the middle, his lust was aroused, and he took out the dildo that was blocking her vagina and thrust his penis into her.

“Euh-heung! Ung! Euh-eung!”

She didn’t even have time to be embarrassed by the sound of her moans echoing in the shower room. Hayoon was internally ejaculated into three times by Mr. Gan and climaxed seven times. Even after that, she climaxed two more times because of his fingers rummaging through her vagina, which he said he was cleaning after ejaculating.

After that, she felt like she was about to faint from the accumulated fatigue. It wasn’t just staying up all night, but also intense sex.

Hayoon almost bowed her head to the ground, but barely kept up with Mr. Gan’s movements.

She quickly realized where they were headed. Hayoon felt her sleepiness disappear at the sound of the trainees doing morning roll call.

The habitual clicking of a pen and Hong-ryun’s voice checking the trainees’ condition.

“Absent…”

“Hong-ryun, you’re diligent from the morning.”

“…Mr. Gan?”

Hayoon quickly hid behind Mr. Gan. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t be seen by the trainees standing against the wall.

A familiar voice gasped, and when she raised her head, Shin So-hyun was looking down at her with trembling eyes.

Fortunately, Hong-ryun didn’t seem to have noticed yet. She looked at Mr. Gan, who had appeared in front of her from the morning, with a strange wariness and said,

“What brings you here from the morning… There are no sick trainees.”

“Something happened last night. I came here to see Kim Sun-ah and to deliver a message.”

“A message…?”

Hong-ryun looked at Kim Sun-ah, whose name had been called by Mr. Gan.

“Kim Sun-ah, come closer.”

“…Yes.”

“Take off your clothes.”

Kim Sun-ah, who had come in front of Mr. Gan, threw off the clothes she was wearing at those words.

‘Bandage?’

Hong-ryun twitched her eyebrows as she looked at the white bandage wrapped around her abdomen several times. No wonder she hadn’t seen her in the shower room before today’s roll call.

Mr. Gan removed the medical tape that had been holding it in place and slowly unwound the bandage. And when he removed the gauze that had been covering the wound, smooth skin without a single scar was revealed. He gently stroked it with his fingertips and muttered,

“As expected, the recovery ability of the infected is bizarre.”

No matter how shallow the wound was, it was a wound stabbed by something sharp. It was impossible for humans to have their flesh fill up like this and heal without a single scar in just one day.

It wasn’t for nothing that they were called the new human race when they first appeared. Although they are now just sex toys. Mr. Gan grabbed Kim Sun-ah’s hand, handed her the unwound bandage, and said,

“It’s a gift to commemorate your recovery.”

“Ah, yes…”

Kim Sun-ah, who received the bandage covered in her own blood, had a sullen expression. But her eyes were directed elsewhere. Towards Hayoon, who was trembling and hiding behind Mr. Gan’s legs.

She had already noticed that Hayoon was there when Mr. Gan appeared. It was possible because they had already met once yesterday.

If that hadn’t been the case, she would have been making a puzzled expression like the trainees who were looking at Mr. Gan and herself with puzzled faces now.

Mr. Gan patted Kim Sun-ah’s shoulder as if telling her to go in and looked around.

“I said I had a message, right? Last night, one of the trainees tried to kill an instructor.”

“Tried to kill…?”

“Who would do such a foolish thing…”

It quickly became noisy at the words that someone had tried to kill an instructor.

But everyone quickly shut their mouths. It was because everyone guessed who that trainee was.

There was only one trainee who hadn’t been seen even after her shift was over and morning roll call had started. Hayoon, the one who had recently entered as a trainee with Kim Sun-ah.

“Stupid bitch.”

Yoon Se-rin muttered in a quiet voice. She thought that she couldn’t control her temper and had finally caused trouble. The other trainees’ thoughts were no different.

Except for Kim Sun-ah. She lowered her head with a heavy heart.

“Well, as you all probably expected, it’s trainee Hayoon. She stabbed Instructor Choi with a weapon and injured him. The wound on trainee Kim Sun-ah was also caused by her.”

“Kim Sun-ah…?”

The commotion grew louder at the words that she had stabbed Kim Sun-ah rather than the fact that she had stabbed Instructor Choi.

Everyone knew that the two had been together like glue for only two days.

Although it seemed that Kim Sun-ah was unilaterally clinging to her, it was clear that they were quite close, judging from the fact that Hayoon didn’t strongly push her away.

Moreover, unlike Hayoon, who had a nasty personality, Kim Sun-ah was quiet and gentle, so she was highly regarded among the trainees.

‘Even so, how could she stab the girl who took care of her?’

‘She’s a complete bastard.’

Yoon Se-rin and Han Soo-ah, who had a crush on Kim Sun-ah and disliked or didn’t like Hayoon, cursed Hayoon in their hearts.

‘…I thought she would change a little, but.’

‘Where did the weapon come from?’

Ryu Jin-ah clicked her tongue softly, and Shin So-hyun thought as she looked at Hayoon, who was crouching in front of her.

‘…Sleepy.’

Baek So-ra, who had a secret meeting with Hong-ryun until dawn, yawned widely. She had no thoughts.

“Hayoon… did that?”

“Yes, thanks to that, there will be no afternoon training today. He said he needs to rest for a day.”

Hong-ryun narrowed her eyes without Mr. Gan noticing. It was Hayoon, of all people.

That human, who knew the physiology of the training center better than anyone else, attacked an instructor, even if she was crazy?

If she was really going to attack, she would have done it with the intention of killing him, not just inflicting a simple wound.

No, what was even more incomprehensible was why she attacked Kim Sun-ah.

If she had intended to kill the instructor, asking for her help would have increased the chances of success, but it was strange that she attacked someone who would have been friendly.

‘If she didn’t stab him with the intention of killing him in the first place…?’

Of course, she would have had the intention to kill him. But if there was something more she was aiming for. Hong-ryun thought so and asked Mr. Gan.

“Then where is Hayoon now?”

“Ah, Hayoon, you see. She’s going to be punished for daring to injure an instructor.”

“Punishment…?”

“It’s better to see it with your own eyes than to hear about it. Hayoon, come forward.”

He pulled the leash he was holding forward. Hong-ryun then realized that Mr. Gan was holding such a thing and inadvertently moved her gaze along the leash.

“Ha.”

Then she let out a laugh without realizing it. It was because Hayoon’s appearance, wearing cosplay animal ears and a tail anal bead and forced to walk on all fours, was funny.

The other trainees gasped when they saw that. Mr. Gan looked around at the trainees and said.

“For the next week, Hayoon will be living as a pet, not a trainee. I hope everyone will take good care of Hayoon with affectionate interest.”