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The air in the hospital operating room was cold.

In the operating room, there was only one female doctor, Jin Wol-hee, standing alone.

“… … … gulp.”

But instead of treating the critically ill patient, she just stood there and stared blankly.

Pale skin, delicate features, and a slender body. The sight of the patient lying on the operating table was more fascinating than any human being she had ever seen.

No, the word ‘fascinating’ doesn’t fit the original meaning. ‘It looks delicious’ would be a bit more appropriate.

Jin Wol-hee unconsciously brought her nose to the patient’s wound where the bleeding was not stopping. The scent of blood wafting from the patient’s body stimulated her instincts.

“Haa, this smell… … .”

Her hands were trembling. The smell of blood was good, but her body odor was also very sweet.

Is this how a person who is starving to the point of death feels when he sees a table full of delicious food before his eyes?

“… … But, you can’t eat the intelligent body. You have to endure it.”

Jin Wol-hee kept her mouth shut, but her body already recognized the patient as prey.

The soft-looking flesh, the elastic muscles, and the fresh organs hidden inside. Everything about the patient seemed to Jin Wol-hee like the best dinner of her life. Eventually, a certain thought began to invade her mind.

“If you just lick it… …it’s not cannibalism.”

Jin Wol-hee slowly bent down. The fragrance rising from the opened area numbed her senses.

“Just once, just once… … .”

Finally, her tongue reached the patient’s organ――

–licking.

“… … … … !!”

The moment her tongue touched the patient’s blood, Jin Wol-hee’s whole body trembled. All of her senses were awakened, as if she was tasting food for the first time.

An indescribably intense sensation enveloped her, and immense pleasure surged through her like a powerful wave.

I want to eat. I want to chew, crush, and swallow the liver, spleen, stomach, and heart with my teeth.

For Jin Wol-hee, an appetite that she had never felt before and that she could not explain in words took over her brain.

And Jin Wol-hee――took it a step further and took extreme measures to suppress the cannibalistic desires of the human-eating species before eating the patient.

“… … Ugh.”

Half of her tongue was cut off by the sharp fangs. Blood spurted out like a fountain from the cut-off section of her tongue, but the bleeding stopped as new flesh quickly grew to fill the wound.

“Haa, haa… … .”

Jin Wol-hee, who came to her senses after cutting off her own tongue, trembled between fear, guilt, and unquenchable desire.

She no longer felt confident in performing surgery on this patient.

… … … … …

Jinwolhee is a cannibal.

This does not mean that they are cannibalistic humans. It means that they are a species that eats humans.

Her home world was a world where the sun never rose during the day, its light obscured by thick fog, and at night a bright and huge moon rose.

That world was ruled by cannibals who were distant relatives of the vampires that existed on this world, on Earth—about the same difference between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals—and intelligent humans were treated as livestock and slaves.

And in a society dominated by cannibals, Jinwolhee was a very unique species who did not eat cannibals in order to uphold her belief in not eating intelligent beings.

She ate wild animals instead of humans. She survived by eating wild animals indiscriminately, such as rabbits, rats, wild boars, and birds.

If I had to make a comparison, Jin Wol-hee was like a vegan vegetarian on Earth. She was treated as a weirdo who no one wanted to associate with, and she was always followed by contempt and ridicule.

Of course, there was no one who openly insulted her. She was originally one of the strongest beings in the world, and had accumulated a lot of experience while surviving for over 500 years.

Of course, Jin Wol-hee could not have been unaware of the humiliation she was receiving, and so she was not bound by the world she lived in. As soon as the dimensional gate opened, she crossed the dimensional gate without looking back, and settled on Earth without much difficulty.

It would have been nice if it had ended happily, but right now, Jin Wol-hee was facing the greatest threat in her 500-year life.

The identity of the threat was the small, delicate, and beautiful patient lying on the operating table.

“… … … I can’t do it.”

The patient, who had suffered three gunshot wounds, was rapidly losing his life. He needed to be operated on urgently. However, Jin Wol-hee could not even begin the operation.

“Haa. Then… … Is there nothing I can do?”

Jin Wol-hee’s brilliant mind was working quickly. There was only one way to save this patient, whose golden time had long passed.

It is to use an elixir containing her essence.

Jinwolhee’s elixir is so powerful that it can even regenerate a severed arm. It would be more than enough to save the patient in front of you.

If you use up an entire bottle, any gunshot wounds the patient sustained will regenerate without leaving a scar.

But is it worth using the precious elixir on this patient? Wouldn’t it be better to just let him die?

Jin Wol-hee thought and thought again. Her reason clearly told her that the latter was more reasonable.

The reason is simple: this patient is a normal person, and what’s more, it stimulates her cannibalistic desires to a strange degree.

In other words, Jin Wol-hee could continue her peaceful daily life only if she left this patient to die. This was a self-evident fact.

But… … but.

Jin Wol-hee’s emotions betrayed her reason. She didn’t want to let this boy die.

because…….

“… … gulp.”

Because it looked so delicious.

She swallowed for what seemed like the umpteenth time and took out a red vial from a pocket hidden inside her doctor’s gown.

“That’s stupid. That’s stupid.”

While mumbling about her own choices, Jin Wol-hee slowly dropped the elixir onto the patient’s wound.

The elixir’s effects were evident. The wounds healed quickly, and the patient’s pale complexion regained its color.

“Haa… … A woman like me can do such stupid things.”

As the situation settled down and the patient’s visible internal organs disappeared from sight, the cannibalistic desire also subsided to some extent.

Jin Wol-hee sighed in relief and cursed herself for choosing an unhelpful option.

On the other hand, there was still a deep regret in her heart. If only she had tasted just a little bit of that child’s flesh when she licked the blood with her tongue.

No, not just a little. If I was going to use the elixir to save him anyway, I would have eaten at least one arm or a leg without killing him instantly――

“… … … Ugh!”

Jin Wol-hee forcibly stopped the explosive spread of her imagination. Even in her own thoughts, this cannibalistic desire was clearly strange.

At that moment, Jin Wol-hee saw the red liquid remaining on the patient’s white skin.

It was the patient’s blood. The wound had healed and the bleeding had stopped, but the blood that had spilled before it healed still remained on the skin.

“… … … .”

I can’t stand it anymore. Jin Wol-hee’s sharp mind started to hastily form a logic.

“That’s… … blood that’s left over. Even if you lick it… … it’s not cannibalism.

But――”

She has pride too. She can’t do something so undignified.

This is nonsense logic to begin with. Why would she have eaten wild animals instead of drinking human blood for over 500 years?

Of course, drinking human blood also falls under the category of cannibalism.

But the cannibalistic desires fueled by over 500 years of hunger powerfully suppressed the cries of cool reason.

This is… … yes. It is enlightenment. It is not giving in to desire.

For example, don’t the priests of Earth who do not eat meat also eat meat if certain conditions are met?

Drinking the blood that has already been spilled is as mild as the way of the Earth priests. She has not broken her beliefs.

In the end, Jin Wol-hee succeeded in persuading herself. She stuck out her tongue and touched it to the blood remaining on the patient’s smooth lower abdomen.

… … … … …

When I slowly opened my eyes, the first thing I felt was confusion. As my blurry vision gradually became clearer, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

On the ceiling… … there was a chandelier hanging that looked incredibly luxurious.

“Wow, is she dead after all… … ?”

Heaven was a little different than I expected. I thought it would be above the clouds overlooking the earth, but it was a bed in a luxurious room with a chandelier.

Although I was a little skeptical, there was evidence to support the idea that this was heaven.

I must have lost consciousness after being shot three times, but I felt no pain or discomfort anywhere in my body. There was no other way to explain this than by the hypothesis that I had died and come to the afterlife.

I got up from the bed and looked around, and there was a soft-looking sofa, a large refrigerator, and――

“Nurse call… … ?”

A button on the side of the bed that said ‘Nurse Call’ caught my eye.

“Could it be heaven… …?”

Looking back, I could see the cityscape outside the window. The sky-blue curtains were fluttering softly, and on the table was a basket of fruit that no one knew who had placed there.

Although there was ample evidence that this was not heaven, questions still remained.

If this is a hospital and I’m admitted, where the hell are the nurses and other patients? And what about the gunshot wound?

After much thought, I realized that there was no other way, so I decided to call a nurse. I pressed the call button with a mixture of half fear and worry, half anticipation and half curiosity.