Lovely Monsters Chapter 47

He threw the book far aside and went to Lion Head. Since the monster had killed other monsters that had been prying around him before, he thought that if he asked, Lion Head might kill them too. However, Lion Head’s reaction was the same. He let out a short sigh and shook his head. Then, as he tried to grab Kim Heejo’s shoulders, Kim Heejo could no longer endure it and screamed hysterically.

“I told you to make them shut up! Why can’t you understand my words?”

At this rate, it felt like he would suffocate to death before he went mad and died. Belatedly deciding that it would be faster to kill them himself, Kim Heejo searched around for his knife. He had killed a black shadow once before; why had he forgotten that?

[I like it when he’s like this. ―Black Shadow 3―]

[What do you mean? ―Black Shadow 2―]

[He’s fucking hot when he looks out of his mind like this. It was a good idea to bring XXX then. Don’t you think he’s been properly turned around since then? ―Black Shadow 3―]

But he couldn’t remember where he had last put the knife. As Kim Heejo searched every corner of the guest room and found the knife nowhere, he even began lifting the carpet spread on the floor. However, what was there was not a knife or anything else, but a scene preservation line drawn with white spray.

“…….”

Kim Heejo slowly pulled the carpet as he backed away. A large rectangle, and a long human body shape continuing beneath it.

It was familiar somehow. No, he knew it.

At that moment, the writing written next to the scene preservation line pierced his eyes.

[The CRT TV monster sleeps here.]

He remembered it clearly. The first monster he had killed, and when he killed that monster, surely…

‘An announcement for all monsters. In Train 9709, the CRT TV monster has died.’

He had walked for so long, passing through guest room doors again and again, and it was still the 9,709th? This meant he had returned to the place where he originally was. Had he just been circling the same spot? Amidst the overflowing flood of thoughts, he no longer had the strength to hold onto anything and let go of the carpet. The black shadows were mocking Kim Heejo. Scratching his eardrums like rakes with their long, splitting laughter…

“Ha… ha.”

Stacked Books hurriedly scooped Kim Heejo up. As he walked toward another guest room, Kim Heejo, who had been soul-less, began to scream as if he had been struck by lightning.

“When on earth, when is the end coming? Why is it here? I kept going forward. I kept walking like that, to get out. Why am I still here!”

He struggled to escape the embrace, but Stacked Books would not let Kim Heejo go. However, to hold Kim Heejo without hurting him, he couldn’t hold him too tightly. Eventually, he did escape the embrace, but Kim Heejo couldn’t go far. So he slammed his head against the floor, thud, thud. Without even realizing it was painful, he kept doing the same thing until Stacked Books grabbed him, and finally, his face drenched in blood, he collapsed backward.

When he opened his eyes, all four monsters were nearby. The blood had been wiped away, and the wounds he had finally made had cleanly disappeared. Fumbling at his forehead, Kim Heejo began to laugh loudly.

“You bastards who did nothing but rape me to death, fuck, what is this, why are you keeping me alive? Do you like a living hole? Then just put me to sleep and keep fucking me, fuck, fuck… ha.”

The words came out in stammers. Even while swearing, his head wouldn’t work properly, so he merely repeated the same words over and over. Gritting his teeth, Kim Heejo strangled himself with his own hands. However, because Chains held him to prevent it, he ended up merely struggling.

[“You mustn’t go!” Laura shouted as she hurriedly grabbed Kevin.]

[“Oh, Grandma, your mouth is truly big,” said Little Red Riding Hood. Then the wolf disguised as the grandmother opened its mouth wide. “That’s so I can eat you in one bite!”]

Even though the unable-to-watch Stacked Books repeatedly opened books to show him, Kim Heejo’s heart did not change. He pretended to be calm for a moment and then clung to them while crying. This time, he even knelt and pleaded. Stacked Books, not knowing what to do, ended up dropping his books with a thud. Then he barely managed to pick up the one remaining book and opened it to show the surrounding monsters.

While both Statue and Chains were lost in thought, Lion Head’s gaze, as he took the book and read it quietly, fixed on one word.

[Truth]

Lion Head looked at Stacked Books. When the hesitating Stacked Books nodded, Lion Head scooped up the sorrowfully sobbing Kim Heejo. The suddenly embraced Kim Heejo tried to struggle, but his eyes widened upon seeing the door that appeared before him. A fragmented cake with candles stuck in it was attached to the door, forming the number 26.

It was baffling, but it was clearly a door of a different form than before. Kim Heejo went inside without looking back.

There, a pretty and colorful flower garden spread out, something he had never seen here and that didn’t belong. For a moment, Kim Heejo thought he had returned to the original world, but he soon panted as if crying. He thought it was an open space, but it was blocked by glass walls. It meant that this place, in the end, was also inside the train.

Furthermore, a flower that happened to touch Kim Heejo began to rot blackly and soon disappeared without a trace. All that remained was one notice printed on paper like a flyer and another notice printed on stiff, luxurious paper.

[☆★Notice☆★

Delivering to all monsters!!

Due to a divine error, an innocent thing has fallen.

As you know when a guilty thing enters, from the processing stage upon first entry, the soul and body are separated and the soul is predated, but because there are no rules for an innocent thing.

Everyone seems to like the fact that an unseparated thing has entered, but beware of death by ecstasy.

Also, because there has been no such case, we do not know what side effects there are.]

[Announcement to Stacked Books-nim.

Due to an error by the Great One, an innocent thing has fallen inside the train. In this case, if the person has the will, they can go back out, but the innocent thing seems to not want to go out.

The name of this thing is Kim Heejo.

As you know, when a guilty thing enters the train, the soul and body are separated from the first processing stage. Afterward, the soul is cooked into an ingestible form, and the flesh is stored to be used in the later monster production process. Because this is the first such case, it has been categorized as a sacrifice for now.

Since the four of you can use it in any way without worrying about encountering problems or dangerous situations, please use it comfortably. However, because it is an alien sacrifice without sin, it is confirmed that there are parts linked with the human world.

We will strive to clean up the traces of the black shadows that entered with Kim Heejo as soon as possible. Also, the shards that entered the train along with Kim Heejo have been stored in Room 12, Room 26, Room 68, and Room 182.

We offer the access authority for Room 26 to Stacked Books-nim.

Then, we hope you have a pleasant time within the Absolute today as well.

Thank you.]

Kim Heejo recalled the words the monsters had said when he hadn’t been trapped in the train for long.

[…why is he here?]

[…it is because he was omitted due to a divine error. He fell, from another bridge. There exists no other reason.]

God? Absolute? Great One? Well, if there were such monsters, there was no law saying there was no god.

But what does another bridge mean?

Bridge?

When he heard the words that he had fallen from another bridge, Kim Heejo couldn’t apply that sentence to himself, but vaguely thought of it as a facility. However, the moment the words remaining in his memory and the contents of the notice clicked together, Kim Heejo cast his gaze out the window. Then, a sight he hadn’t been able to see until now entered Kim Heejo’s field of vision.

This is not a train.