Chapter 3 – Hope Training Center

Chapter 3 – Hope Training Center
The girl leaned against the window, watching the scenery rush by. She was wearing orange clothes that fit her size, instead of the roughly cut and fitted clothes she had been wearing, and her hands were handcuffed.
She was being treated like a criminal. She hadn’t even changed her clothes herself; the police had changed them for her.
And it wasn’t female officers, but male officers! Fortunately, she wasn’t raped or forced to suck dicks as she had feared, but her ass and breasts were openly touched.
Fucking bastards. Those male dogs full of such desires are supposed to be the people’s support? It was clear that the world would soon turn into a lawless zone. Men would die and women would be raped. (T/N: Ever looked in a mirror?)
“…Haa.”
After thinking for a while, the girl sighed and looked at the city that was getting further and further away.
She knew it too. The world would never become a lawless zone. The people’s support would fulfill its duty, and the country would function normally under the stern law. It was just that she had been bounced out of that framework.
It was truly fucked up. Just because she got a disease, she instantly became something less than human, less than livestock. But she didn’t regret what she had done so far.
She was just frustrated. Why did she have to get such a fucking disease? The girl blankly stared outside, then frowned and said to the sniffling that she had been hearing since earlier.
“Hey, you bitch, stop sniffling!”
“Hic…”
The bus heading to the training center was a 15-seater. The girl was sitting in the window seat at the very back, and the only other passenger was sniffling loudly one row ahead. She was already in a shitty mood, and having to listen to the sound of crying made her even more annoyed.
The woman in the front seat seemed startled by the girl’s outburst, but soon she shed tears and said,
“Hic, aren’t you, aren’t you upset at all?”
“About what?”
“How can you be so calm when you’ve not only become a woman overnight, but you’re also about to be treated as less than human…”
“The fuck, does this look calm to you?”
The girl was just as anxious. In the first place, she used to be a teacher at the training center. She knew better than anyone how the infected were treated there. In fact, the place this bus was heading to was the same place she had worked until three months ago.
The girl, who was tightly gripping her trembling leg to stop it, glared at the woman and said,
“I’m pissed off too, so stop crying. Do you think anything will change if you cry? You and I are just gonna be fucking sex dolls!”
“Se-Sex dolls…”
At the blunt words, the woman’s face turned pale and she lowered her head.
Following that movement, a drop of tears flowed down her chin, making her look like something out of a magazine. Anyway, she was damn pretty for an infected. Shiny black bobbed hair that reached her neck and blue eyes that looked like jewels when wet. If she had been caught, it was clear that it was because of those blue eyes.
The girl thought so and leaned back against the seat, tilting her head back.
Sex dolls. When she was a man, when she was a teacher at the training center, she had said those words to the infected until her mouth was sore.
Because men get horny, so they have to spread their legs, suck them, and shake them. It wasn’t wrong. Because they were bitches who existed only to discharge sexual desire.
It was also what she would be subjected to in the future. The girl raised her bound hands and covered her face. Anyway, that sentimental bitch was making her chest feel stuffy.
After a while of silence, the woman raised her head and, with her blue eyes shining, spoke to her.
“…What’s your name?”
“What do you need to know my name for?”
“Still… we’re going together like this, so it would be nice to know each other’s names…”
Yeah, she’s a damn sociable one.
The girl let out a snort and straightened her body, looking at the woman.
“Name? I’m Ha Seung-jin. What about you?”
“Kim Ji-min.”
“Okay, Ms. Kim Ji-min. It seems like your head isn’t working properly yet, so let me tell you something.”
“…What is it?”
“The training center we’re going to is a place that erases all traces of humanity left in the infected, you know?”
At the words of the girl, Ha Seung-jin, Kim Ji-min shook her head. Well, most people wouldn’t know. Unless they were trying to find out, or were in a related profession, it wouldn’t be exposed to the public.
“Your name, your resident registration number, your family relations, everything will be erased.”
“Everything will be erased… what does that mean?”
“In short, it means that the fact that a man named Kim Ji-min lived in this country will disappear.”
It meant being removed from the administrative data of this country. It wasn’t a death notice, but literally annihilation.
It would be as if she had never been born in the first place, as if she had been mistakenly registered by a worker and corrected later.
Perhaps realizing the meaning of those words, Kim Ji-min muttered with a pale face.
“Th-That can’t be…”
“You’re not Kim Ji-min, you’re a crazy bitch who remembers being a man named Kim Ji-min. Do you understand now?”
‘I’m a crazy bitch who believes I’m Ha Seung-jin…’ Ha Seung-jin muttered and then opened her mouth again.
“So, how many days has it been?”
“…What?”
“How many days has it been since you got infected?”
“It’s been 25 days…”
“25 days? That’s a damn long time. Did your family hide you?”
“A friend…”
A friend? At those words, Ha Seung-jin, who had a listless expression, leaned forward and said with an excited face.
“A friend? A man?”
“Yes, yes… why…?”
“Then you’re not a virgin, are you?”
“Vi…!”
At those words, Kim Ji-min’s face turned red in an instant. Judging by her reaction, it seemed to be true.
Ha Seung-jin chuckled and said to her.
“Those who enter the training center late are usually found late because their family or friends hide them, but those who are the latter are all non-virgins.”
“How do you know that…”
“I know because I used to be a teacher at the training center.”
“A teacher at the training center?!”
Kim Ji-min looked at Ha Seung-jin in surprise.
“Is that so surprising?”
“Well, teachers at the training center are usually maladjusted psychopaths…”
Realizing how rude her words were, Kim Ji-min covered her mouth, but Ha Seung-jin didn’t care.
After all, even if they are treated like sex toys, they are the ones who fuck up things that are in human form.
They don’t kill, but they do everything they can to break the will of the infected and make them give up everything. Who else would do it if not those kinds of guys?
Of course, she wasn’t a psychopath. She was just more honest about her desires. Ha Seung-jin thought so and said.
“Why are you so scared? It’s not like you’re wrong. Of course, I’m not a psychopath, but I admit that there are a lot of those guys among the teachers.”
“Ah, haha…”
At those words, Kim Ji-min laughed awkwardly. Regardless, Ha Seung-jin rested her chin and said.
“Anyway, to continue what I was saying, when you go to the training center, no one cares how old you were originally. They’re only curious about how many days it’s been since you became infected.”
From the moment you become infected, you become a woman of reproductive age, regardless of whether you are old or young. Therefore, they usually only counted how much time had passed since the infection.
“Then how many days has it been for Seung-jin?”
“What time is it now?”
“It’s… 10 a.m.”
“It’s only been 22 hours then.”
“What?! Not even a day has passed… were you caught as soon as you changed…?”
“Shut up.”
Who wanted to be caught? Ha Seung-jin frowned and recalled the two people who had come to her house.
If it weren’t for those guys, she could have stayed holed up at home for at least a week. She didn’t know what would happen after that. (TN: I wonder who caused it?)
As they were talking, the bus that had been running on the road began to climb up a mountain. Ha Seung-jin mumbled as she looked at the scenery full of trees.
“Fuck, we’re almost there.”
“Where… is this?”
“Where else, it’s a mountain where dreams and hopes exist.”
Ha Seung-jin twisted her lips as she looked at the words [Welcome to the Hope Training Center full of Dreams and Hopes] engraved on the building in the distance.
It was her workplace after 3 months.
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“Line up!”
The driver shouted as the bus stopped. Ha Seung-jin grabbed Kim Ji-min’s hair, who was stuttering, and approached the driver.
“Ah! It hurts, Ack!”
“Don’t be a fool. Haven’t you been to the army?”
“I only got a physical examination!”
“The future is rough, rough.”
Ha Seung-jin muttered and stood in front of the driver with Kim Ji-min. With familiar hand movements, he tied the ropes and connected the two.
Of course, he didn’t forget to touch their breasts and buttocks from time to time.
“Ah…!”
Fucking used goods. Why are you feeling that?
Ha Seung-jin shook her head at the moaning sound coming from behind her.
No, rather, it might be easier to survive in the training center if her sensitivity is that good. It would be better to moan than to scream because no water comes out. As she was blankly thinking about that, the satisfied driver grabbed the long line and led the two people.
When they got off the bus, there was already someone waiting. The man wearing a uniform reminiscent of a prison guard took off his hat and greeted the driver.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Yes, thank you for your hard work.”
“Are these two the only ones this month?”
“I think so. I haven’t received any contact about whether there are more. First, the sign that the handover is complete…”
“Ah, yes…”
The man scribbled something on the tablet that the driver handed him, pressed the completion button, and nodded.
“Then thank you for your hard work.”
“Yes, then I’ll see you next time.”
With such a simple greeting, the driver boarded the bus he had come on.
The man, who had been watching the bus leaving the training center, turned his body and said with a bright smile.
“I’m late in greeting you two! My name is Gan Gang-jin, and I’m usually called Teacher Gan. Nice to meet you.”
“Ah, yes…”
“…”
Gan Gang-jin, Teacher Gan, shook hands with the two people tied to the ropes one by one, then spread his arms and said.
“I sincerely welcome you to our Hope Training Center full of dreams and hopes. Let’s get along well during the 6-month training period!”
Get along my ass. Ha Seung-jin muttered inwardly as she looked at him.
[A/N (Author’s note):
Come and learn at the Training Center filled with hopes and dreams~]
[T/N (Translator’s note):
In other words, Syosetsu.
What? I’m not wrong, smh.
If this disease happens to me in that world?
I’d kill myself upon knowing. Free justification, smh.]