Lovely Monsters Chapter 50

“Yujeong, help me, save… heuk…!”

Choi Seongjin ran away.

“Aueuk, kkeu, heuk… ah, ah…!”

From that situation, and above all, from Kim Heejo.

But the stories shared by others followed him like a nightmare, sticking viscously to his ears. And they vividly whispered the reality that Choi Seongjin tried not to know.

“Hey, we need to call a doctor. Those bastards used the guy in Room 12 as an ashtray. They burned the entire inside of his arm. Ugh, fuck, it’s disgusting.”

Kim Heejo’s situation worsened as time passed, and that was perfectly natural. Choi Seongjin had essentially thrown Kim Heejo into boiling water. What happens when you put a perfectly fine person in boiling water? Naturally, the skin and organs will cook, and after the breath stops, the person will eventually begin to lose their human form.

Just like that, Kim Heejo crumbled steadily day by day.

“…….”

Now, is this a dream? Or is it reality?

There was no reason to go to Room 12 on purpose.

Feeling dizzy enough to make him gag, Choi Seongjin, who was dry heaving, brought his eye to the slightly open crack in the door. And while holding his breath, he watched Kim Heejo slowly dying inside Room 12.

“Did you guys give him a shot too?”

“No? We didn’t, but he’s like that.”

A man who had regained some senses after doing drugs burst into a hollow laugh. Kim Heejo, wandering through illusions, was smiling foolishly while looking into the air. Even as the man kicked his cheek with his booted foot, the smile did not vanish from the red, flushed face.

“If he had laughed like this when I shoved my hand down there earlier, it would have been hotter and better.”

“Coming from the bastard who slapped him to make him cry more, you have a lot to say.”

“Ah… did I do that?”

The man, playfully tapping his own head with a slightly trembling hand, suddenly brought a pen that was rolling on the floor.

“We can’t play with the hole anymore today, right?”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s damn loose down there.”

“I should have used it moderately. Moderation isn’t working… Hey, isn’t this all because you’re so hot?”

With that, the man scribbled on Kim Heejo’s body. The first word written as black, thick lines continued over his cheek was “rag.” Next, between his thighs, he wrote words like “cum bucket” and “cum catcher.” Seeing that it looked fun, the other men brought pens as well. Filthy words beyond description were written around his genitals and buttocks.

“Ah, you crazy bastard. Why write this kind of thing on the hole? Fuck, it’s hilarious.”

“It’s true, though. Hahaha!”

The men, who had been laughing for a while, went back toward the table to do more drugs. And Kim Heejo, left alone, lay face down on the floor with those disgusting scribbles hanging on his body. His white body looked like a white piece of meat slaughtered and put on display. The reason he looked that way despite being clearly alive was because Kim Heejo had been treated as such.

Choi Seongjin, who had been dazed, was startled as if burned when he saw Kim Heejo open his eyes and move. He thought Kim Heejo had seen this way. But it wasn’t that; it was to reach his hand forward.

Kim Heejo’s trembling hand barely managed to grasp the pen that was in front of him. Then, he began to slowly write words on the floor. Unlike what the men had written, they were so shaky they were unrecognizable, but Choi Seongjin knew.

[I must live and return]

[Because I fell into a place like this for no reason, there must surely be a way out]

[Yujeong-ah]

[I miss you]

Even if the whole world didn’t know, Choi Seongjin had no choice but to know.

“…….”

So he ran away. Because there was nothing else he could do but run, he dashed down the long hallway in a hurry.

∞ ∞ ∞

[Just don’t contact me again. You don’t pick up the phone and you send a reply after three days, what do you want me to do? Do you think I’m someone who just waits for your messages?]

Choi Seongjin ended up losing his next target. However, despite the effort he had been putting in, he had no thoughts about it. He turned off his phone and leaned his head back.

Let’s stop. This act too.

It wasn’t a thought he intended to have since he was going to stay in an organization that sells people anyway, but he felt like he couldn’t possibly do it in the future.

“Hey, Choi Seongjin!”

One of the organization members approached the soul-less Choi Seongjin. Sitting next to him, he began to chatter with a somewhat excited face.

“Did you hear? About the one you brought in.”

“I told you not to talk about that.”

“That thing killed someone?”

“What…?”

“I don’t know where it got a knife… but it seems like those shitty young masters gave it to him. Anyway, it seems the bastard working dawn went there to fuck it or something.”

“…….”

“And then it suddenly pulled out a knife and just like that…!”

The staff member made a motion of stabbing repeatedly with a knife, as if imitating Kim Heejo’s actions. Choi Seongjin could not imagine that sight at all.

“I heard from the guys who were disposing of the body that it was at a level where it couldn’t be recognized. Choi Seongjin, you almost got into big trouble, didn’t you? If you had been caught before… haha!”

Heejo wouldn’t do that. He’s such a kind kid.

Choi Seongjin thought that way in spite of himself and then bit his tongue inside his mouth.

Get a grip.

Get a grip.

Don’t think about Kim Heejo. Find the next guy to sell off. You need to make money and leave this shitty place quickly, don’t you? What are you going to do by thinking about that guy? Are you going to get him out or something?

The person Kim Heejo would have wanted to hack to pieces was Choi Seongjin, not the staff member.

“…Fuck.”

From that day on, Choi Seongjin began to have nightmares.

Kim Heejo was staring blankly at Choi Seongjin with a large knife in one hand. He didn’t stab him and just watched quietly, but the problem was that Kim Heejo’s lower body was bizarrely twisted.

And as the days went by, it grew stranger, and in less than a week, it began to turn like tentacles. Hundreds, thousands of dark red, damp legs slowly approached Choi Seongjin.

Choi Seongjin could not escape. Every night, countless tentacles wrapped around his ankles and climbed up to strangle him, or passed over various parts of his body, fumbling.

As those nights continued, there was nothing he could properly do during the day. He had to search for a new target again, but the image of Kim Heejo he saw in the nightmares was as vivid as reality. From yesterday, suckers with teeth began to nibble at Choi Seongjin’s body. They didn’t even chew him up but set their teeth on the surface, slowly tightening his breath.

It was not strange for the daily life of Choi Seongjin, who screamed in fear until he woke up from the dream, to be ruined. And it was not much different even in reality.

“Hey, Choi Seongjin. Don’t be like that, just once? Huh?”

That evening, the waiter blocked the way and clung to both his arms. Choi Seongjin avoided the waiter, trying hard to swallow the curses that seemed ready to pour out of his mouth.

“I’m not doing it. Go.”

“No, why won’t you? Hey! The tip alone is ten million won! No, would they only give that? Those guys are big spenders!”

“Let go.”

“Hey, hey, hey, hey, let’s not be like that and just go once. Huh? Huh?”

They said that if he fucked Kim Heejo just once in front of their eyes, they would give a generous tip, so they told him to bring him no matter what. Those young masters.

Perhaps because a large sum of money was involved, the waiter clung persistently. When he avoided the spot entirely, the waiter followed right behind him and even entered the breakroom.

“I told you I’m not going! Can’t you understand human speech?!”

Finally, unable to endure it, Choi Seongjin burst out shouting.

Kim Heejo, Kim Heejo, Kim Heejo.

He could no longer bear the name he didn’t want to hear ringing in his ears. He was already going crazy, so why on earth wouldn’t they leave him alone…!

“Agh, fuck, is this something to get angry about? Why act so expensive? You must have fucked the bastard in Room 12 a hell of a lot by now! What changes if you go and do it once…!”

“I said stop it!”

…It was bad luck.

Ever since he sold off Kim Heejo, everything was just a mess. But he didn’t know it would become a mess to this extent.

“…….”

He had merely pushed him once.

Because he was sticking too much, to pull him away… he had just done that to pull him away, but the waiter fell backward with a thud and hit his neck against the table nearby. Such an absurd thing had occurred.