Serial Murders in Stozanya City

Jacque is the president and factory owner of ‘Mana Power,’ a mana engine company in Stozanya City.

At the age of his late 40s, Jacque lived well, so his skin was radiant, and his body was moderately fleshy.

Depending on its size, the mana engine is an important power and energy supply device used in mana devices in general, such as automobiles and mana refrigerators.

Since the Hamel Empire increased military spending and implemented pro-business policies several years ago, Jacque did not miss this opportunity.

Jacque invested heavily in research and development, developed a highly efficient mana engine, and succeeded in mass production.

The mana engines produced by Mana Power were purchased in large quantities by other finished product companies and used to make mana devices and military equipment.

Mana Power likely produced most of the mana engines used in the Hamel Empire’s cannons that were recently manufactured.

Today, Jacque was sitting in his office on the upper floor of the factory, watching contentedly as thousands of workers below sweated profusely while making mana engines.

“Hehehe. You bugs. Work faster.”

Next to Jacque’s office were the offices of corporate executives and researchers.

Corporate executives and researchers enjoyed a sense of superiority by comparing themselves to the workers.

Jacque felt stiffness in his shoulders and pressed the bell on his desk.

“I’m getting old these days, so my body feels sluggish. Should I get an IV drip or something.”

Jacque’s office burst open, and Chief Stefan, a muscular giant with a height of 182cm, entered.

“Chairman-nim. Did you call?”

“Call some women for a massage.”

“Understood.”

Several tens of minutes later, a beautiful woman in her early 20s with a bag on her shoulder entered.

“Oppa, it’s been a while~”

Jacque spoke to the woman in a friendly manner.

“Bomi-gun, it’s you. My shoulders and back have been hurting lately.”

“Oh my! Oppa, you’re still young! I’ll make you feel better if I give you a massage.”

“Hahaha. Okay.”

Bomi pointed to a simple bed in the president’s office and said.

“Oppa. Take off your clothes and lie down here.”

Jacque took off his clothes and lay face down on the bed, and Bomi took out a towel and massage gel from her bag.

Jacque glanced at Bomi and asked.

“Aren’t you taking off your clothes?”

“Oppa~ Just wait a moment.”

When Bomi took off her clothes, her voluptuous body in her early 20s was revealed.

Bomi laid a towel on Jacque’s buttocks, sat on it, applied massage gel to Jacque’s back, and skillfully massaged him.

Jacque groaned with relief.

“Eum. Eueum. Good.”

After Jacque received a massage and after-service, it was 6 p.m.

Bomi received her payment and left.

Jacque turned his neck and looked down at the window, and the workers were still making mana engines.

“They’re working hard. You have to work like that to succeed. Yes.”

This factory rotated between day and night shifts, so the lights never went out.

Jacque pressed the bell to go home, and Chief Stefan entered.

“Chairman-nim. Are you going home?”

“Yes. Call the escorts.”

“Understood.”

When Jacque left the office, 10 thug-出身 escorts armed with light armor and swords followed Jacque closely.

As Jacque passed by, all the executives and researchers around him stood up and bowed politely.

“Chairman-nim! Goodbye!”

“Yes. Everyone is working hard. Good work.”

The executives and researchers were working past their quitting time even though they didn’t have night shift pay, but they all took it for granted.

When Jacque went out the main gate of the factory, about 20 people who were protesting with signs came rushing over and shouted.

“Jacque, compensate the workers suffering from the aftereffects of dust! Compensate!”

“My daughter is coughing up blood all day! Give back my daughter’s youth!”

Mana engines generated a lot of metal dust during the manufacturing process, which was fatal to the respiratory system and increased the incidence of cancer.

However, Jacque did not provide any protective gear for the workers to protect themselves from the dust, and he immediately fired sick workers and replaced them with new workers.

One of the escorts shouted with a fierce face.

“Do you have evidence that you’re sick from dust?! Do you have evidence\?!”

“My healthy daughter developed lung cancer a year after working at the mana engine factory, and isn’t that evidence! She said she touched it with her bare hands without being provided with protective gear!”

“You have to explain it scientifically! You guys do the experiment and bring the results!”

“How can we do the experiment! The city hall and the constabulary are all on your side, so how can we do it\?!”

At that time, Chief Stefan brought executives and researchers with clubs from the factory.

Jacque frowned at Chief Stefan and got angry.

“Hey! I told you to take care of this, what is this\?!”

Chief Stefan bowed his head and apologized.

“I’m sorry.”

Chief Stefan instructed the executives and researchers.

“Open the way for the chairman-nim to leave!”

The executives and researchers began to hit and push the protesters with clubs.

Thud Thud Pak Kwang

“Get out! You bug-like bastards!”

“Kyaaaa! Assault! It’s an assault!”

From afar, the constabulary heard the commotion and ran over.

The protesters appealed.

“Please save us! These people hit us first!”

The constables politely greeted Jacque.

“Chairman Jacque-nim. Hello. We came after hearing the commotion.”

“These people are interfering with legitimate business. Take them all away.”

“Understood.”

As the constables tied the protesters with ropes and took them away, the protesters twisted their bodies and shouted.

“We are innocent! Let go of this!”

“My daughter got lung cancer because of the mana engine factory! Catch those bastards!”

One of the constables frowned and got annoyed.

“I told you that the causal relationship hasn’t been revealed yet. Do you want to be tortured in prison like other protesters? Let’s go to the detention center first.”

“I am innocent! Save my daughter! Save my daughter!”

The constables covered the protesters’ mouths with cloth and took the resisting protesters to the constabulary building and locked them in the detention center.

Many workers suffered from aftereffects while working at the mana engine factory, and countless people died.

The workers’ families protested to the factory, but they were threatened by thugs, and even if they reported it to the constabulary, nothing improved.

Therefore, most of the workers’ families received only a small amount of support from the factory and gave up.

They were living in pain every day, watching their family members suffer from occupational diseases.

The fact that workers were suffering from unsafe working conditions was happening not only at the mana engine factory but also at most of the factories in Stozanya City.

Jacque hummed and went to his luxurious house next to the center of town with 10 escorts.

“Heung~ Heu heung~ Heung~ Heueueung~”

Jacque’s luxurious house was already guarded by 20 private security guards.

When Jacque entered the luxurious house, his beautiful wife, who was 10 years younger, greeted him.

“Honey! Welcome home~ I made delicious pork stew~”

“Hahaha. That’s what I like.”

When Jacque washed his hands and went to the living room, various side dishes and fruits, including pork stew, were placed on a large table.

Jacque’s son, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter were all sitting around the table.

“Father! Welcome!”

“Father-nim~ I also helped mother cook~”

“It’s grandpa! Wow!”

Jacque smiled contentedly and sat at the table and said.

“Hahaha. It must have been hard waiting for me. Let’s eat.”

The granddaughter said in a clear voice.

“No. I wanted to eat with grandpa.”

“Hahaha. Who did you take after to be so cute?”

As Jacque and his family were chatting, the topic turned to the serial murder case.

In the past few months, corpses with their bodies eaten have been found in various places in Stozanya City, regardless of location, such as streets and inside buildings, and most of them were wealthy people, criminals, and thugs who were notorious among workers.

The corpses were mutilated as if beasts had bitten and torn them with sharp teeth, and some of their internal organs and body parts were eaten and disappeared, and beast saliva was also found.

Some people suspected that it was not a monster but a human who selectively killed only notorious people.

The constabulary was investigating with their eyes wide open, but they still couldn’t even grasp the outline of the culprit or the monster.

Jacque’s son was worried.

“Father. I heard that a monster that selectively eats only wealthy people is going around these days, so you have to be careful.”

“Don’t worry. I haven’t done that much evil. And there are 30 guards guarding this house.”

Jacque’s wife agreed, massaging Jacque’s shoulders.

“Hoh ho ho~ Where can you find a kind person like you, honey~ Right, son?”

“Of course.”

The son had heard a lot about Jacque’s evil deeds, but he also did a lot of evil deeds by using his position, so he just kept quiet.

Jacque ate dinner deliciously, spent some time appropriately, lay down on the bed in his room, and fell asleep in the arms of his beautiful wife.

—

Jacque was sleeping happily when he woke up to the sound of his wife tossing and turning next to him and got annoyed.

“Aish. I woke up. Why are you moving so much?”

There was no answer even when Jacque called.

‘Is this bitch ignoring me?!’

Jacque got up from the bed with an angry face and was about to get up and scold her while looking at her side.

“Dangsi…!”

Next to the bed in the dark room, a huge monster that looked about 3m tall was chewing on his wife’s stomach.

Crunch crunch smack smack

The monster’s outline was reflected in the faint moonlight and entered Jacque’s eyes.

The monster was standing on two legs next to the bed and bending its upper body, holding his wife with both hands with five huge claws each.

The monster’s toad-like face had two shining eyes on each side, and its mouth was full of sharp teeth, with pieces of his wife’s flesh stuck between the teeth.

The monster’s skin was tough like a toad and looked slippery due to the mucus.

Jacque was about to scream.

“Eua….”

Teop

The monster quickly blocked Jacque’s mouth with its left hand and brought its right index finger to its mouth.

“Shhh-“

Jacque trembled with fear and nodded his head.

덜덜덜 끄덕끄덕

The monster muttered to himself in the voice of a man in his 30s.

“Hey. I tried to eat as quietly as possible, but I woke up the man. I was going to eat you without hurting you.”

It was a story that was chilling just to hear.

Jacque quickly rotated his thoughts in his head.

‘This guy is a serial killer and can talk. He said he only kills wealthy people or villains, so if I say I regret it, he’ll save me.’

When the monster took its hand away, Jacque trembled and spoke.

“Monster-nim. I’m really sorry.”

The monster asked with a curious face.

“What are you sorry for?”

Jacque cheered inwardly.

‘Nice! I can persuade him after all!’

“I know that I’m the president of Mana Power. I was too blinded by money and didn’t pay enough attention to the safety and health of the workers. I will immediately compensate all the workers who suffered from dust and introduce safety equipment tomorrow. I’m really sorry.”

The monster chuckled.

Jacque knelt on the bed and bowed politely to the monster, thinking that he was giving a great performance even in his own opinion.

“I will become a new person from now on.”

The monster opened its mouth.

“I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

Jacque asked back.

“Yes?”

“I’m not exactly choosing my prey for ethical reasons.”

“Then….”

“The richer and better-off a human is, the softer the meat and the fewer impurities. The workers have too many chemicals in their bodies, so I get indigestion if I eat them. Wouldn’t you want to eat delicious food even if you only eat one meal? Is this your wife? The meat is tender and the internal organs have a moderate amount of fat, so it’s the best.”

Jacque was horrified and tried to scream.

‘Crazy! I was wrong!’

“Eua….”

Kwajik!

The monster quickly swung its left hand, and Jacque’s head exploded.

At that time, a fly flew to the monster and buzzed.

The monster talked to the fly.

“Eum. Yes. I see. The escorts around you heard the screams and are coming into the first floor? The man also looks delicious, but I can’t eat him because of the disturbance. I’ll just eat his liver.”

The monster stabbed its hand into Jacque’s stomach, took out his liver, stuffed it into its mouth, and chewed it.

Crunch crunch

When another fly flew to the monster, the monster talked.

“The escorts are coming to this room soon? Still, I ate the woman’s internal organs and the man’s liver, so I got my money’s worth. I have to go now.”

The monster shrank and shrank, turned into a fly, and flew out the window.

Aeaeeeeng

The moment Jacque went out the window, the escorts broke down the door and entered.

“Chairman-nim!”

What the escorts saw was the chairman with his head blown off and a hole in his stomach, and the chairman’s wife with all her internal organs eaten.

The escorts screamed and vomited at the horrific scene.

“Euaaaaa!!!!”

“Uweeeeek”

—

Far away from Chairman Jacque’s house, in a middle-class neighborhood, a man staggered, clutching his head.

“Eueueue…. My head….”

A voice was heard in his head.

‘Hyung. I had a feast today too.’

‘It can’t be. I killed someone again….’

‘Hyung. Just admit it already. I’m also part of hyung.’

‘Get out of my head! Hyde!’

‘I’m hyung’s other half, where am I going? Seeing me getting stronger and stronger, it seems that the God of Darkness has returned.’

‘Eueueue…. No….’

‘Why don’t you listen to me? The only way for hyung to survive is to return to the God of Darkness, right?’

“Get out!”

The man was startled even though he shouted it himself and looked around.

Fortunately, it was night, so no one was there.

The voice was no longer heard in the man’s head.

‘Damn it. The cycle of Hyde’s return is getting faster and faster. I need to increase the dosage of the mental barrier medicine.’

The man staggered and returned to his house.