Lovely Monsters Chapter 31

Kim Heejo, who had inadvertently called out his lover’s name, sank to the floor and wept for a long while. The tears he had been holding back until now rushed out all at once; he wailed sorrowfully before roughly rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand. His tears hadn’t stopped yet, but he still had to move forward.

To get out of here, and thus to meet Choi Yujeong again, there was no other way but to go to the front car.

Let’s go. It’s okay.

Struggling to pull his shattered self together, he opened the cabin door. Then, he recoiled in shock.

The Statue was in the center of the room. However, as if it had truly become a literal statue, it did not move; it simply remained still, holding its pose atop a display stand.

Could it be that it can’t move in this state?

Kim Heejo, who had been cowering, swallowed hard and walked forward. Even though he had come nearly right up to it, it still didn’t show the slightest movement.

“…!”

In the next moment, startled by the clattering noise of the train, Kim Heejo reflexively swung his hand forward. His long jungle knife brushed against the Statue’s thigh.

At that, the Statue tipped over just like that, and as soon as it hit the floor, it shattered into pieces. While only the head, which was the only part that looked human, went rolling across the floor, all the parts he had thought were like marble broke, scattering fragments here and there.

“Ack…!”

The Statue’s closed eyes suddenly snapped wide open and glared this way. Because only the head was human, Kim Heejo was startled, but he had seen and suffered too much during this time to be scared and run away now. He immediately snapped out of it.

Since it’s turned out like this, let’s just kill it.

Kim Heejo picked up the broken body of the Statue and slammed it against the floor. Since not a single drop of blood came out anyway and the whole body was marble, he didn’t feel much of anything. He smashed it by throwing it here and there until its form was unrecognizable.

However, that head was the problem. Looking at the unnecessarily handsome head that was still opening its eyes and staring this way, Kim Heejo fell into thought.

If I leave it like this, won’t the body regenerate and reattach to the head? Recalling a common cliché, Kim Heejo tore a long strip of the carpet laid nearby and made it into a sort of bundle. He wrapped the Statue’s head tightly with it.

Among the cabins he had passed through, there were cases where there was a trash area, but there were also times when there was an incinerator. So, if he put this head in there… Honestly, his heart wanted to strike it down with the jungle knife, but even though the Statue was a monster, only the head was exactly like a human’s.

Even though he tried to repeatedly think of it as just a monster, he hesitated to use the blade because its eyes were wide open. Above all, it would be a problem if his precious blade was damaged while striking down on hard bone like a skull.

Suddenly stuck carrying the Statue’s head, Kim Heejo occasionally unwrapped the bundle and checked the Statue’s status. it was alive, and upon closer inspection, marble-like parts were gradually growing from the neck.

“….”

Kim Heejo dropped the Statue on the floor and broke the growing marble. The Statue, having suffered such an absurd thing, glared fiercely at Kim Heejo, but it had no real effect. The Statue was wrapped back in the bundle.

After passing through a few more cabins like that, Kim Heejo discovered a poster again, and belatedly saw the warning notice written beneath it.

[During the exhibition period of Mr. Statue, the entry of all monsters into this cabin is prohibited. Please be especially careful, as forcing the door open may turn a monster into something that used to be a monster.]

Ah, the answer to the lingering doubt in his mind had come down.

It seemed the Statue could not move as it pleased during the exhibition period. Only the part below the neck, which was made of marble.

Therefore, during the exhibition period, it stays exhibited there while blocking the entry of other monsters. The meaning of becoming something that used to be a monster likely meant dying.

But Kim Heejo was human. Thus, he was able to enter that cabin… and had come this far carrying the Statue’s head.

If that’s the case, couldn’t monsters like Lion Head, Stacked Books, or Chains have weaknesses like this too?

“…Ah, fuck.”

Walking while pondering, Kim Heejo opened the door to the front cabin and came face-to-face with numerous monsters. However, contrary to his expectations, the monsters could not pounce on Kim Heejo. It seemed less because of the jungle knife and more because Kim Heejo was holding the Statue in one hand.

Suddenly finding himself in a hostage situation, Kim Heejo pulled the bundle containing the Statue toward himself, hugging it as he moved forward. The monsters cleared the way on their own and even knelt. Even though it had ended up in this state, it seemed its rank remained the same.

That much was fine, but the problem was that a cabin with an incinerator wouldn’t appear. It wasn’t easy to keep walking while carrying a head that felt like it weighed over 5kg.

“….”

It’s just a monster bastard anyway, so it doesn’t matter, right? Gradually finding it difficult to walk while holding something, Kim Heejo walked forward while giving the Statue occasional kicks. In that way, he mindlessly opened the door to the next car, and then the next. At least hundreds of times.

However, this time too, the end was not in sight, and his exhausted body rapidly complained of fatigue. He didn’t even have the strength to kick the Statue’s head anymore. Eventually, upon arriving in a cabin where things could be piled up in front of the door, he decided to catch some sleep.

…He didn’t know how long he slept. However, Kim Heejo, who had fallen asleep with his jungle knife within reach, got up from his spot at some point while making a groaning sound.

By then, the Statue’s torso had grown all the way down to its toes. Thanks to that, he felt like his heart dropped for a moment, but after confirming it couldn’t move, he cleared the bundle away. Sure enough, the Statue was glaring at Kim Heejo with an extremely indignant face.

Rather than feeling eerie, the thought of whether it had been like this the whole time he slept briefly crossed his mind and then vanished. Kim Heejo, feeling dazed, examined the Statue’s grown body. Perhaps the clothes were provided as the body grew, for the Statue was draped in clothes a Greek sculpture might wear.

Suddenly curious about what was under the clothes, Kim Heejo lifted them and frowned. Since it was a Statue, it should be small, but there was something like an arm hanging between its legs. Thinking about it now, it seemed he had thrown the part suspected to be a wrist onto the floor about three times when he first broke the body. Surely one of those must have been the object that had practically beaten Kim Heejo’s esophagus.

Come to think of it, didn’t I suffer quite a bit from this bastard…?

Of course, since he had been kicking it all the way here, it wasn’t as if he hadn’t taken revenge, but too many things had happened at the hands of the Statue for it to be resolved by just that. Kim Heejo recalled the way the Statue’s cock had been shoved in until his throat expanded. When he touched his neck, the inside felt needlessly hot and painful.

Moreover, the Statue was still looking at him as if it would kill him. He was in a position where he would be grateful if it died, but he displeased by it acting like that.

“What are you staring at?”

Kim Heejo abruptly poked the Statue’s eye with his finger. Since he hadn’t poked it hard, the Statue had an expression of absurdity when it opened its eyes again.

But wait.

If it can move its face, doesn’t that mean it can move its mouth too? Kim Heejo, pondering, brought his fingertips to the Statue’s mouth. He was cautious in case he got bitten, but it seemed it could only twitch its facial muscles and could not bite.

At that moment, a smile spread across Kim Heejo’s lips.

An emotion he had never felt in his life pounded in his chest. Truly, in his entire life, Kim Heejo had never once had such a thought about anyone. But it seemed like it wouldn’t matter. It wasn’t human anyway.

Thus, Kim Heejo lowered his pants in front of the Statue’s head. When its eyes widened in surprise at the sudden erratic behavior, that alone created an early sense of satisfaction. Kim Heejo, smirking, pulled out his own member, which had become erect at some point, and thrust it in front of the closed lips. Just by pressing on its cheeks, the Statue opened its mouth helplessly.

“Haa…!”

The glans passed the Statue’s front teeth and entered the mouth. He had wondered if it would be cold or warm, and it was the latter. Kim Heejo, who pushed his genitals into the mouth where heat was thickly pooled, wrapped his hand around the messy blond hair and pulled it toward him. Soon, as he pressed down strongly, his lower half entered completely into the Statue’s mouth.