episode_0014

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“I guess it’s so sad when my sister comes home and the house is empty.

First, I want to go home and say, ‘Welcome-‘ Hehehe… … … .”

At that moment, an ear-splitting sound was heard from behind me again. This sound, like a saw grinding bones, was so horrifying that even after hearing it again after a few days, the hairs on my body stood on end.

“Heehee… … ?!”

So, without realizing it, I buried my head in Teacher Wol-hee’s arms. As always, the teacher hugged me gently.

“… … … … .”

But I couldn’t hear the teacher’s voice that usually calmed me down. I raised my head slightly to check the teacher’s expression, and she had her eyes tightly shut and was mumbling something very quietly.

After a short while, Teacher Wol-hee opened her eyes. Her red pupils seemed to swirl even faster today.

“Boy. Please calm down and listen to the end. There’s something important to know.”

The teacher’s voice sounded heavier than usual. What on earth was going on? I asked her cautiously, feeling anxious.

“What… … are you talking about?”

Teacher Wol-hee took a deep breath and looked at me. I could see in her eyes an incomprehensible worry and determination.

“Boy. You are now under indirect mental control. The degree is slight, but… …the presence is certain.

And this is because of a certain Awakened person’s supernatural ability.”

“Yes… … ?”

I couldn’t understand her sudden words.

“What are you talking about? What is that… … mind control?”

“This is the conclusion I reached while treating the boy and observing him for several days.

When a boy has a negative experience with someone he is familiar with, he dismisses it as an illusion or hallucination and stops thinking about it. And soon after, he forgets it.

This is clearly unnatural. The boy must have been affected by some kind of mind control ability.

And… …the prime suspect for that ability is.

Boy, the person you call ‘sister’. There’s no one else but her.”

I became dazed by Professor Wol-hee’s words, and soon my mind went blank.

And then, immediately, a wave of intense rejection came crashing down on me. There’s no way Seoyeon would do something like that. It’s ridiculous.

“No, no. There’s no way my sister would do that! Don’t say such strange things!”

In a sudden surge of anger, I shouted at Teacher Wol-hee for the first time. My voice was shaking violently.

Soon, I sprang up as if I was bouncing up, and jumped out of my teacher’s arms. But she held onto my arm and wouldn’t let go.

“Boy, please listen to me. Calm down first.

Even this sudden rejection/avoidance response could be a response induced by this ability.

Your ‘sister’ is manipulating you. She is extremely dangerous. “

Every single word from Teacher Wol-hee pierced my heart like a sharp knife. I shook my head hard.

“Stop it! Don’t talk like that about your sister!

Sister Seoyeon is not related to me by blood… …but she’s like family to me. There’s no way she would do something like that! ”

I struggled violently, trying to break free from my teacher’s bonds.

But the teacher wouldn’t let go of my arm. Her desperate voice also rose in volume.

“Boy, please. Please… … ! Listen to me. I’m saying this for your own good.

Don’t go back to her, and just break off the relationship. I’ll help her and the boy separate. ”

“Put this down! Don’t say that to your sister!”

I pushed the teacher with all my might. The moment I pushed her, her eyes widened as if they were going to tear apart, and the light in her pupils went out.

“Boy… ….”

Teacher Wol-hee’s voice trembled. She was not pushed back at all by my strength, but she let go of the hand that was holding my arm, perhaps because she was shocked.

“Boy, there’s something you don’t understand. I’m just trying to protect the boy. The boy is going back to a very dangerous woman.

The woman the boy calls his sister is someone who wants to control the boy’s mind. She will destroy the boy’s personality and control the boy’s life as she pleases. ”

“You’re protecting me? While badmouthing my sister?

I don’t want to hear any more from you, teacher. I’m going to go now!”

I yelled at her and walked towards the door.

But Teacher Wol-hee followed me like lightning and grabbed my hand. Her grip was so strong that it hurt.

“No… … No. Don’t you know how dangerous the situation is?”

“Let go! Please… … It hurts! I don’t want to see you, teacher, ever again!”

But Teacher Wol-hee’s grip grew stronger and stronger every time I yelled at her. Now it hurt so much that I almost cried.

“Let go, let go… … ! It hurts, teacher… … !”

But Professor Wol-hee had already become strange. Despite my pleas, Professor Wol-hee’s eyes became increasingly pitch black, like a deep abyss.

What was swirling in those eyes? I was so terrified that I could only look at the teacher with trembling eyes.

“Boy… … ”

The teacher’s voice gradually became strange. His usually soft voice became rough and sounded like a raspy sound.

“You are something I absolutely have to protect. I can’t hand you over to anyone.”

The teacher’s grip grew stronger. Her fingers that held my arm became tighter and tighter, like a snake squeezing its prey. I cried in pain, but a greater fear gripped me.

“Yes, I have to protect you. I can’t let her ruin you. You’re in danger without me. No one can protect you properly.”

The teacher’s mutterings gradually turned into a mad monologue. I looked at her face in horror, and the corners of her mouth slowly began to stretch.

At first it looked like a smile, but soon the mouth opened wide as far as the ears. The sharp teeth revealed inside took my breath away.

“But you pushed me. Why did you do that, boy?”

Suddenly, tears flowed from Teacher Wol-hee’s eyes. Her tears made me even more scared.

“She’s manipulating your mind. So why are you going back to her?“

The teacher’s face was distorted. The expression was not that of the teacher I knew. It was as if he had become a different being.

”It was definitely not your will. The boy is being manipulated right now. Yes, that woman… … It must have been her doing.”

“Ah, ahh… … !”

The teacher’s eyes moved like crazy. I could only stand there frozen, waiting in fear for her next move.

“I get it now. Boy, I have to guard you harder so you don’t walk into the limbs… … .”

The teacher’s huge mouth slowly approached my hand. I was terrified and wanted to run away, but my body was already frozen.

“There is only one way. Inside me, closer to me, safer——”

Kkwaduk.

“AAAHH …

My hand, which had entered Teacher Wol-hee’s mouth, was cut off. She devoured me, making a creepy, squelching sound.

And from my severed wrist, blood spurted out as if it had been cut by hundreds of blades.

“Ahh… … Euaaa… … Ahh… … !”

The pain was so intense that my vision began to darken. Even as my consciousness began to fade, the pain continued.

The last thing I saw was the teacher’s face, swallowing something while shedding tears of blood.

… … … … …

The taste of blood and flesh still lingering on her tongue clouded Jin Wol-hee’s mind. Slowly but surely, she realized what she had done.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ahhh… … … !

What did I do… …!”

I ate it. I devoured it.

Jin Wol-hee immediately tried to vomit by sticking her hand down her throat. She tried to vomit out the boy’s flesh and blood that had entered her stomach. But her body wouldn’t accept it.

Instead, her stomach was craving more of what it had swallowed: blood, bones, meat.

He was saying that he wanted to feel that taste, that sensation, once again.

“This, this can’t be happening. I, the boy… … … !”

Suddenly, Jin Wol-hee realized that the boy lying there bleeding was in critical condition. His wrist had been cut off, so there must have been a lot of blood loss.

Fortunately, Jin Wol-hee had the last remaining vial of elixir in her arms. If the elixir had the power to regenerate even severed limbs, it would be enough to heal the wound on her severed wrist.

But her boy was not in the hospital room. Not even the bloodstains that would have been left if the boy had escaped while bleeding were there. Fear and confusion swept over her.

“Boy, boy! Where did you go?”

Jin Wol-hee shouted, but of course there was no answer. She panicked and started searching the hospital room.

Then suddenly, she realized that the inside pocket of the doctor’s gown she always wore was no longer weighted. The elixir was gone.

“Elixir… …Elixir… … is missing… … ?!”

It was the last trump card she had. Jin Wol-hee searched her pockets in a hurry, but all she found was a business card.

“What is this… … What the hell is this, why is it here… … .”

Jin Wol-hee’s head throbbed as she picked up the business card with the name of the Awakened Ones Association president on it. Fragments of memories vaguely emerged in her mind.

A white-haired human who was torn to pieces by Jinwolhee twice, but ‘recovered his existence’ as if nothing had happened.

And, he finally subdued Jin Wol-hee and carried the boy whose wrist had been regenerated by spraying him with an elixir.

“… … That’s ridiculous.”

The flow of thought that was trying to deduce the situation didn’t end. An intense heat ran through her entire body, as if lava was flowing inside her body. Jin Wol-hee couldn’t hold it in and collapsed on the floor.

Jin Wol-hee vaguely knew the nature of this phenomenon. It was the effect of cannibalism. Within her body, life force and magical power were surging with tremendous momentum.

“Haa, haa, haa… … No, no… … .”

For over 500 years, she had not eaten a fleshly body.

It was her belief and pride in respecting rational life forms. And that belief has now been shattered into pieces.

Jin Wol-hee fell into despair. Tears flowed from her eyes.

But at some point, Jin Wol-hee’s tears suddenly stopped. Instead, she trembled as if an electric current had run through her body.

In the midst of deep despair, she came to an epiphany.