Boy Monster Chapter 44

“That’s not something a guy more promiscuous than me should say. Why don’t you go ask your friends who visit that office to give you some, they seemed ready.”

Jae Eunho grabbed the man, who had his head down, again and punched him several times. He swung his fists and even shoved his head, slamming it against the wall. It felt like he couldn’t endure the pain if he didn’t hit him.

Shi Taehyun took the hits quietly. He let Jae Eunho beat him over the head. He said nothing the entire time. His tolerance for pain was frightening. Even with a split lip and a bloody nose, he remained composed.

Even seeing the man’s face busted and ruined didn’t relieve his anger and only made him more pained. Jae Eunho, with his increasingly agonized heart, caught his breath and stepped back.

Shi Taehyun’s disheveled hair fell over his face, which was a mess with a busted nose and mouth. Shi Taehyun shook his head back and forth. The man wiped the blood from his nose with his sleeve and smiled faintly.

Shi Taehyun, who spat blood on the floor, approached with a shadowed face.

“Are you finished?”

It was a single phrase uttered by Shi Taehyun. In an instant, Shi Taehyun wrapped his arms around Eunho’s waist and trapped him. It was a force so solid that it was impossible to break free. Shi Taehyun let out a heavy voice as he dragged the struggling Eunho towards the full-length glass window that filled the wall.

“We’re going to stand over there, look at the temple, and do it from behind. Killer view, right?”

Contrary to the excited content of his words, the man’s voice was somewhat dark. Letting out a coercive and thick voice, he pressed Eunho against the glass window.

“You two met here for the first time and lived here until you died, so doing it while looking at it makes for a perfect picture, doesn’t it? I’ll provide the service to match the historical background.”

Fear washed over him under a power he couldn’t possibly fight against. Beyond the glass window that filled the entire wall, a forest of buildings stretched out. It was the site of the old grand mansion. In the distance, the roof of Hwangu-dan Altar and a temple site with lanterns could be seen. The courtyard where he had strolled with the boy, the main wooden-floored hall, the main house’s yard where the plum blossoms had bloomed—they all shimmered before his eyes.

The rain beat against the wide glass. Just as the strength in the hand holding his hair loosened, his chin was grabbed. His neck was bent back sharply. His windpipe was pressed, making it hard to breathe. Shi Taehyun, holding the struggling Jae Eunho’s chin, grabbed his pants and pulled them off as if shaking them hard. The pants, pulled down in an instant, got caught around his ankles.

In the meantime, Shi Taehyun, with a completely unsmiling face, pridded and rubbed Eunho’s mouth with his thumb. Good boy, good boy. Jae Eunho’s ragged breaths were soaked in the voice that insulted him as if egging him on.

His breath grew hot and his neck began to get wet. It felt like he was struggling to escape from all the ugly feelings he had held since long ago, including the sense of betrayal he felt from the man, and it was sorrowful. Because this moment of being overwhelmed by a dark power he couldn’t win against, no matter how much he struggled, seemed to be a condensed representation of his life.

Shi Taehyun’s words ended with an obligatory sneer. The man began the procedure without a sound.

“Kuh… heuk! Heueub….”

His white shirt was stripped off by the man’s hands. A couple of buttons were torn off, and his shoulders were abruptly exposed, leaving his upper body half-naked as well. Shi Taehyun gathered Jae Eunho’s flailing hands, raised them up, and pressed them against the window.

It was an unbelievable strength. Even with his bad leg, he had never been subdued in a physical fight like this. His arms were immovable, and it was hard to breathe with his neck bent back. When Eunho, out of breath, finally stopped resisting, Shi Taehyun released the hand that had been holding his chin and finished taking off Eunho’s shirt.

“…Heuu…. Hu-euk….”

Eunho put his weight on his arms leaning against the window and let out a pained breath. When he opened his eyes and looked at the glass, a small blade glinted at his waist. The moment he turned to identify it, his body was pushed hard.

“Ugh.”

His blood ran cold. Jae Eunho, pressed against the glass, sensed the greatest danger of his life. The destructive instinct of a male who had seen all he needed to see swept down his back. Jae Eunho slowly lowered his gaze. What Eunho saw was correct. Held in the black hand that gripped Jae Eunho’s naked body was a small knife.

The blade swept up Jae Eunho’s waist and touched his cheek. The blade, tapping his cheek affectionately, was saying this.

Behave.

Jae Eunho’s vision blurred as he looked at his naked body and the blade reflected in the dark glass. The storm that was beating down as if to shatter the window faded.

Before his eyes was the place where he had spent happy days that could never be found again….

Never to be found again….

The fact that it was this man committing such an act struck his heart wildly. It stung as if a toxic substance was being poured into his chest.

On the other hand, he might have been expecting it. He might have been swayed by the expectation of the comfort the man would bring and a future different from what he had known until now.

He had never thought that the blade held by Shi Taehyun would be turned towards Eunho. Why was that? What did Jae Eunho expect, and what did he mistake?

Shi Taehyun’s hand, which had been restraining Eunho’s wrist, came down and swept over his waist. The glove slowly caressed his bare skin. A hot tongue rolled onto his shoulder.

Jae Eunho flinched, his head bowed. At that moment, wetness fell from his eyes in a patter.

He kept his head bowed to hide his tears. The tears, running down his cheeks and chin, continued to well up with no sign of stopping. His chest felt like it was on fire. As Jae Eunho remained motionless with his head bowed, Shi Taehyun touched the corner of Eunho’s eye with the hand not holding the knife. Jae Eunho turned his face away and clenched his trembling lips.

Shi Taehyun, who had confirmed the wetness on his hand, slowly turned Jae Eunho around to face him. Eunho turned his vision, which was blurry with water, as far away from the man as possible. Shi Taehyun turned Jae Eunho’s chin, whom he was holding in his arms, towards him. Eunho’s two eyes shed tears even at that moment, making both his cheeks newly hot.

Jae Eunho cried silently. Crying was like this. The tears he had long forgotten felt so awkward.

The man’s gray pupils met the streams of water that soaked both Eunho’s cheeks and chin.

Jae Eunho’s wet throat trembled.

“How does it feel to see me flustered and broken by every single word about that child.”

“……”

“Fuck, I’m so angry right now…. The me who, even now, wants to hear that I wasn’t fooled from beginning to end by you, you bastard… is so….”

When he felt that quite some time had passed, Eunho came to his senses. The hand holding his body was trembling with tremendous force. A chilling voice came from the body that completely blocked his vision.

“It would all be over if I just took your life. But I… why… can’t I kill this thing?”

The voice, which started from a dark and deep place, soon struck his ears like thunder.

“I could just knock him unconscious. Why… why can’t I do that, I could just crush him!!”

Shi Taehyun, who had let out a terrifying roar, grabbed Eunho’s two arms. He couldn’t look into the eyes where billions of emotions were blazing. He tried to pull his body out of the man’s arms, but he couldn’t move at all.

The fear that this was the end seeped down his spine. Shi Taehyun, looking at Jae Eunho’s wet face as he barely endured the fear in his naked body, released his hands at the end of a sigh.

Jae Eunho pulled his exhausted body away from the window. Shi Taehyun, who blocked Jae Eunho with one arm as he limped to walk somewhere, said in a low voice.

“Where are you going. You completely lost the game, Sir.”

“……”

“I was next to you the whole time I was coming here.”

“What… what kind of nonsense is that?”

Shi Taehyun took out his cell phone from his pocket. Since he was still holding a knife in one hand, he couldn’t let his guard down. The man, who had his arm around Jae Eunho’s shoulder, held up the phone and showed it to him.

Jae Eunho, who was about to shake off the man’s arm, couldn’t help but stop his movement. The photo filling the phone screen was of his own back as he was avoiding being tailed before coming here.

Jae Eunho caught in the checkout line of the SPA brand clothing store.

Jae Eunho passing by without helping the office worker who dropped his bag at the crosswalk of Seoul Station.

Jae Eunho standing in the revolving door of the hotel entrance.

And… Jae Eunho’s back taken inside the elevator.

He was dumbfounded as Shi Taehyun swiped through the photos one by one. While Eunho’s eyes were glued to the phone, Shi Taehyun muttered as if to himself.

“Me and that general, what’s so different that that bastard can fuck you whenever he wants, Sir, even though he’s not a Hwelju.”

He had been secretly photographed at every place he had stopped on his way here. Jae Eunho tried to figure out how.

Hacking CCTVs?

No. Judging by the angles they were taken from, they were taken from up close. Calculating the angles from which the camera was pointed, it was every passerby Jae Eunho had passed on his way.

The man who picked up the necktie, the office worker, the woman in the revolving door compartment, the foreigner in the elevator….

All of them had taken pictures of Jae Eunho.

“What’s so different between that bastard and me. Except for the fact that I live in darkness, and you people live in the high light.”

There was only one possibility in Jae Eunho’s judgment right now.

A Hwelju can shapeshift, and the higher the rank and ability of the Hwelju, the more excellent their shapeshifting ability becomes. There is only one Hwelju who can shapeshift into so many different people in such a short time.

“Why does that bastard confidently confine you in a residence, parade you around in front of important people, and fuck you when he feels like it, why does he live like that? What’s so different from me. I lost everything because of you.”

A Hwelju with shapeshifting skills so excellent that Jae Eunho had never witnessed it in any first-rank Hwelju had changed his appearance and taken pictures of Jae Eunho. If he assumed that, everything was explained.

If Sa Hwelju had shapeshifted into an NIS archive staff member, went in and out of the place, and backed up all the data and even the control device.

Everything fit together.

“I was in the darkness. Doing all sorts of vicious things. All because of one man who just shot me.”

If you really are Sa Hwelju, if you appeared shapeshifted as Shi Taehyun…. Everything is explained.

Eunho barely managed to lower his hardened gaze. He could see the traces of organs and flesh tangling together inside Shi Taehyun’s blood-soaked shirt. The blood that had splattered on the wall and floor by the entrance was also disappearing as if evaporating….

“I fucking destroyed myself. Because of you.”

Jae Eunho slowly turned his body. Shi Taehyun’s two eyes came close, as if to pounce on Eunho’s face.

“Why did you kill me.”

“……!”

The small blade rustled through Eunho’s hair. Eunho was gradually pushed back by Shi Taehyun. Shi Taehyun, who finally threw the knife, pushed Eunho back step by step, a thick vein bulging on his neck.

“Why did you break and shatter my soul. Why did you tear it to shreds like that. And still, why, why!”

When he fell back from the roar that shattered his eardrums, he was on the bed.

“You make me offer up even the soul I barely pieced together again, why!”

Shi Taehyun finally poured out the pain inside him towards Jae Eunho, who was lying in his arms.

Jae Eunho held the man’s face with both hands. As if he couldn’t believe the body temperature and heat that touched his hands, which he held hotly, he swept his ears and cheeks once more before holding them again with both hands.

Two pairs of gazes tangled hotly.

Shi Taehyun, who was looking at the speechless Jae Eunho, after a moment, collapsed his body and pressed his lips deeply against his.