A Flower That Eats Humans 139

## Chapter 139 – Attraction (15)

Blue grass, grown long enough to tickle ankles, lies like a carpet on the soil, swaying in the breeze.
Just two steps away, I lock eyes briefly with Chaeyoon.
She’s brushing her wind-tossed brown hair with her hand, smiling at me. It’s definitely Chaeyoon.
The first petal I ever met, the woman who changed the roots of my life.

“…Who are you?”

“……”

Chaeyoon is the one I’ve known the longest among my companions. It feels natural now for her to be sitting in my apartment’s living room.
Her smile in my everyday life, which has become so natural to me, overlaps with the smile of the Chaeyoon before my eyes.
An unbelievably identical face, smiling with the same voice, but
she’s not the Chaeyoon I know. If I think about it even a little, there’s no way she’d be here.

Someone hiding their identity, imitating Chaeyoon’s face.
Anyone would see this suspicious woman approaching me, but I don’t feel any sense of danger.
It’s not that I don’t think this woman with Chaeyoon’s face would harm me…
She doesn’t answer my question about her identity, just keeps getting closer.

“……”

Finally, she reaches me, looks up at me, and hugs me with strangely sad eyes.
Who the hell is this woman…? A strange feeling, both unfamiliar and familiar.
It’s like I know the face hidden behind Chaeyoon’s face.
I let her hug me tightly for a long time, then slowly lower my head.

I meet her eyes as she looks up at me.

This time, a woman with Seohee’s face says quietly,

“…We’re sorry.”

She lowers her head again, moves away from my embrace, and transforms back into Seorin.
Each time she moves further away, she changes into Heeju, Sua, Iran, Soyul.

I know who they are, who she is.

“…At the place we met him…”

Leaving those short words behind, the woman disappears beyond the sunlight, her hair shining a beautiful silver.

“…What a vivid dream.”

As always, I force open my eyes, which I realize I’d closed at some point, and see the antique ceiling.
What’s supporting my back isn’t green grass, but a spring mattress.
The breeze carrying the fragrant smell of soil that had brushed my bangs has stopped.

“…Churp… Ugh, ha, are you awake, Administrator?”

I lift my head slightly from where it’s buried in the pillow and roll my eyes down to look at the lower part of the bed.
Rubbing my still-dry eyes, I look in the direction of the voice and meet Yuri’s eyes, still licking my erect penis with a dry expression.
Her mouth is wet with saliva, and a smooth fluid is creating a thread between her penis and tongue, so she’s probably been servicing my dick since long before I woke up.

Blinking my still-sleepy eyes, I cover them with my hand.

“…How long did I sleep?”

“From 1:42 AM to 7:45 AM, for a total of 6 hours and 3 minutes of restful sleep.”

I grab my aching head and mutter to myself, but Yuri answers my mutterings.
Hearing her words, my eyes snap open. I slept that long?
The average sleep time for most adults is six hours, but that’s for ‘average’ people.
Since gaining the power of the petals, I haven’t slept this long except when I was severely injured…

…

I did sleep longer than usual when I met Virgilago.
The woman who appeared in my dream, disguised as my companions, is a being like Virgilago or Lapus.
Her words to me echo in my ears.

‘We’re sorry,’ and ‘At the place we met him…’
‘The place we met him’… There’s something there…

“…Administrator?”

“Huh? It’s nothing, I was just thinking about something.”

I put my arm over my forehead and stare blankly at the ceiling, repeating the woman’s words,
when Yuri’s voice calls me back to reality.

“I have something to report, but if you’re busy, I can do it later…”

“No, it’s okay. It’s nothing important. You have something to report?”

“Yes, the task you ordered yesterday has just been completed.”

Yuri, who suddenly says she has something to report, stops what she’s doing,
leaving my penis next to her saliva-wet face as she speaks.
Did I order her to do something yesterday? Now that I hear it, I think I did…

“…Okay, then. Show me.”

“Yes, I understand. Come in.”

Yuri turns her head and raises her voice to someone beyond the closed door.
Before Yuri’s voice in the room has even faded, the sound of hinges creaking open.
Someone enters the room through the opened door, and the guest slowly reveals herself.

Unlike Yuri, she has short hair, making her features more visible.
Round eyes, but deep, dark pupils that seem to lack any remaining humanity.
A straight nose and well-maintained skin that shines with a glossy light.
A woman with a beauty that is absolutely no less than Yuri’s.

Looking down slowly, the same black suit as Yuri’s covers her entire body.
Completely dyed black from her legs to her body, chest, arms, and even each finger joint.
She looks familiar, like I’ve met her somewhere before. She’s the member of the idol group that Yuri kidnapped and modified before, what was her name again?

“Reporting! Subject name ‘Hanuri,’ the android modification and re-brainwashing ordered by the Administrator has been completed!”

She salutes me with the same unwavering posture as Yuri before,
introducing herself as ‘Hanuri.’ Ah, now that I think about it, I did give that order.
After Yuri was brainwashed and modified, the bio-weapons were left without a master.
I decided to reuse the girls who couldn’t return to their original state or back to society.
A method of recycling them by modifying their already rewritten minds once more.

Especially the girl named Hanuri, who was a beauty you wouldn’t see often, so it was a waste to just throw her away.
I ordered her re-brainwashing to use her in this way, and it seems to have been a success.

Then should I try her out right away…

“You come here too.”

“Yes, I understand!”

…Hmm, is it because she was brainwashed twice? She seems to have more fighting spirit than Yuri.
Whatever, I look at Hanuri, who has come to me and knelt next to Yuri.

“…Now that I think about it, you two have similar names. You were friends since middle school, right?”

“Yes, that is correct.”

“The subjects of this unit, ‘Yuri Lee’ and ‘Hanuri Han,’ have been friends since childhood.
As the Administrator mentioned, they formed a close bond because of their similar names, their desire to pursue the same career path, and their shared interests.”

Even if their relationship had soured, they were still friends who went to the same school.
Instead of feeling any sense of discomfort at each other’s appearance in these perverted black suits,
the two of them don’t even make eye contact, only looking at me.

Four dry eyes fixed on me. Interesting, and funny.

“Well, don’t just sit there, look at each other.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Yes, I understand.”

The two of them look at each other as soon as my order is given.
I decide to give them a moment for an emotional reunion and observe them.

“So, how do you feel? Meeting each other like this. Let’s start with Yuri.”

“…There is nothing in particular to report.”

“Then what about you, Hanuri?”

“…Similarly, I do not feel any particular emotions worth reporting.”

Not long after the two of them make eye contact, I ask them a question.
‘How do you feel right now?’ A friend who betrayed you, a friend who made you like this.
In some ways, they’re facing their mortal enemy right now,
but they report to me as if they don’t understand the meaning of the order.

…Well, right now these two are ‘Yuri’ and ‘Hanuri,’ not themselves, but dolls wearing their shells.
There’s no way a doll will smile just because I tell it to smile. I had unnecessary expectations.
But it would be a shame to just leave them like this,
so I’ll help them ‘reconcile.’

“…Okay, look at each other again. And start ‘sister unit’ registration.”

“Yes, I understand. Starting ‘Yuri Lee’ and ‘Hanuri Han’ sister unit registration.”

A moment of silence flows between the two people facing each other.

“…Completed. From now on, I will be in charge of managing sister unit ‘Hanuri.’”

“Good, from now on, Yuri, you’re in charge of managing ‘Hanuri,’ so you can treat her however you want.
It’s no fun just like that, so from now on, you’re ‘Yuri Lee from her human days.’ Would you be able to forgive Hanuri?”

“…Executing ‘Yuri Lee’s’ disguise personality to carry out the order.
…Ah… I… I… No, I… can’t forgive her. Administrator…”

Yuri, who had lowered her head at my order, mutters quietly and raises her head.
Unlike before, her face is contorted with anger.
I was wondering if ‘Yuri Lee from her human days’ would be able to forgive Hanuri…
But it seems that’s not the case. Yuri quietly gets up and glares at Hanuri.
Should I help her relieve the pent-up frustration for now…