A Flower That Eats Humans 17

## Chapter 17 – Start

“I might be able to find them, but how do I get into the school?”

“Ah, right.”

To find the owner of this handkerchief, Chaeyun’s power is needed. Or, even if not her, Seohee could…

“I can’t do that. I can’t even get in there.”

I think I’m screwed.
I finally came up with a good idea, but…

“…But what’s so important about that handkerchief that you’re trying to find its owner?”

“I don’t know, but I keep getting this feeling that it’s important…”

Chaeyun tilts her head again,
snatches the handkerchief from my hand, and starts sniffing it.

“It smells fishy and unpleasant.”

“…What does that mean?”

“Now that I’ve memorized the smell, I don’t need this anymore.”

She hands the handkerchief back to me,
then opens the window and starts sniffing the outside air.
Wait, can she really smell it like that?

“…I can definitely smell it coming from the school,
but it’s too far away to pinpoint the exact location.”

“Then can’t I just take your body with me tomorrow to check?
Like today.”

“I wish I could, but if I leave my body behind,
this body won’t be able to properly use the functions I’ve evolved it with.”

Seeing Chaeyun shrug, I feel blocked again.
I throw myself onto the bed and think.

I need to find them, the ones hiding their presence,
without them detecting us.

I don’t know why I think this handkerchief is related to them.
But I can’t ignore the feeling that all the nerves in my head are pointing to this handkerchief, like a guide message in a game.

“Ugh, what to do…”

Finding the owner of the handkerchief doesn’t seem too difficult,
but the process is a real headache.

I need to take Chaeyun to school,
but that’s a dangerous act that would expose us to the pursuers again.

Maybe I can smell it,
so I bring the handkerchief I’m holding to my nose and sniff.

“You’re like a dog too.”

“Shut up.”

I sniffed, but all I can smell is the faint, dried-up smell of blood.

I rack my brain, Im Chanwoo.
How can I find them…
I recall all sorts of mystery movies and comics.

How do they usually find the culprit in these situations?

“…Wait, we don’t necessarily have to find them, do we?”

I kept thinking, and there was a method used when the smell was the only evidence.
What I’m about to use is a slight twist on the current plan.

I take out my phone and look through my contacts, which aren’t many,
and find the number I’m looking for relatively quickly and make a call.

“Hey, Rina, ‘it’s an order,’ come to the address I’m sending you now.”

“…Who’s Rina?”

Chaeyun looks at me with a slightly surprised expression, wondering about the person I called,
but Seohee has no way of knowing who that person is, so

she tilts her head and looks at me, asking with her eyes who it is.

“Seo Rina, she’s the head of our department.”

The department head, who rushed to my place at my call, is sitting in the middle of us, staring at me intently.

“…Heeeuuuum, you’re the best at this kind of thing…”

“If you do it too violently like Unni, it’ll break someday,
you have to use it for a long time♡”

Seohee looks at the department head with wonder, while Chaeyun hugs the department head and sits next to her, as if showing off her belongings,
and sticks out her long tongue to lick the department head’s cheek.

Even so, the department head doesn’t show the slightest change in expression,
and doesn’t seem to care about this situation at all.

“But, Oppa. Why suddenly our Rina?”

“Is the department head your daughter? Anyway,
you have to use your power here one more time.”

The reason why Seohee or Chaeyun can’t enter the school is because they have their main bodies in their heads.

So the right person for this job is someone who is related to us but not that closely, and who faithfully obeys orders
without getting their brain taken over, a normal human.

That’s right, the head of our design department, this woman.

“Can’t you make her smell things well, like, really well?”

Hearing my words, Chaeyun licks her lips like a snake and smiles slightly.

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“……”

I’m silently tapping the keyboard with a pen.
Time is passing so damn slowly.

“…Minjung-ssi.”

“Yes?”

“How long have we been here?”

“It’s been… 4 days.”

Hmm, so that means we’ve been sitting here for 96 hours,
but why is it so quiet?
I thought I’d be able to see them if I just came to this place.

“Haa, I’m bored.”

“But we can go back in just 3 more days.”

Without realizing that she herself looks exhausted,
Minjung-ssi’s eyes looking at me have dark circles under them.

It’s only natural since she hasn’t slept for three days and has been staring at the monitor.

“…Have you received the list of students?”

“Yes, we periodically receive attendance records and student information,
but currently, there are no students showing any noticeable behavior.”

“They’re attending classes regularly too?”

“Yes, we checked the students who suddenly didn’t come to school just in case,
but they weren’t parasitic entities.”

“Haha, that’s good. I guess students these days are all diligent.”

Ah, damn it. Leaving aside whether they noticed, how are they hiding?
Is there a characteristic I don’t know about yet?

I knew it, that stupid bald, blubbery team leader,
it’s too much to transfer them before the investigation is complete.
He never listens to people…

What’s the point of cursing the dead,
nothing will change.

“We’re having a hard time, should we have a company dinner when this operation is over?
I’ll pay.”

“Ah, then…”

“Let’s have it at a sauna.
Everyone hasn’t been able to wash properly for the past few days…”

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Inside the lecture hall, I’m quietly listening to the lecture in the corner as usual.
I’m distracted by other things, so the lecture isn’t registering in my ears.

I glance at the department head sitting in the front row of the lecture hall.

The department head, who is wearing a mask and looks unwell, is also looking back at me.

“…Seo Rina? Are you okay?”

“……”

The department head, who caught the professor’s eye as he continued the lecture, silently nods in response to the professor’s question.

But her face looked like someone who was sick to anyone.

The sweat she’s been sweating since earlier,
her flushed face, and her eyes that seem dizzy and unfocused.

“…I don’t think you can make it, go home early today.
I’ll mark you as present. Just bring a doctor’s note later?”

Wow, that works.

I was reminded once again that a person’s usual behavior is important.
The department head, who was a good student who studied well and listened to the professors, is no longer there.

As usual, she bows her head silently, packs her things, and makes eye contact with me as she leaves.

“…Shall we go?”

I also pack my things without realizing it and quietly leave the lecture hall.

And I grab the hand of the department head, who is walking ahead, and go into the bathroom we always go to.

After locking the door.

“…Take off your mask.”

“……”

The department head, who always answered my orders, is silent today.

Her mouth, which was finally revealed, was holding something.

“Puhah…”

She opens her mouth and shows me the inside of her mouth, which is full of moisture and heat.
A white, fishy liquid fills her mouth.

It’s my semen.

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“Uuuuuum… it’s all done now.”

Next to Chaeyun, who is pulling tentacles out of the department head’s ear, who is just twitching her body without any sign, Seohee is watching the scene with interest.

“Now she’ll be like a hunting dog when it comes to smelling things.
As expected, it’s super easy to modify her since her head is completely empty!”

“Good, then…”

“Wait a minute.”

I had solved the problem and was about to take a rest for tomorrow,
when Seohee stopped me.

“Hey, you have to take Chaeyun’s body tomorrow too, right?
But she’s here tomorrow. What are you going to do?”

“…Ah.”

That’s right, I didn’t think about that.
Chaeyun’s shell can only follow very simple commands.

It’s too dangerous to take such a Chaeyun to uncover the identity of the pursuer.

“…Let’s do this.”

Our brain,
Chaeyun, thought for a moment and opened her mouth.

“Order my body to listen to lectures in the lecture hall.
I have back-to-back lectures tomorrow.”

“What about us?”

“Sneak out during the lecture and find them.
You’re already a lost cause to the professors anyway.”

“What?”

I think I heard something I can’t ignore.

“So no one will care if you leave the lecture hall,
but our Seo Rina is the problem.”

The department head is a model student, an honor student, and a student favored by the professors.
If the department head’s attendance record is marked as absent…

It may be nothing, and I may be overthinking it,
but I have a feeling that it shouldn’t happen, like a lightning bolt striking my head.

“So, we’re going to make her take a sick leave.”

“What? Can you guys even do that?”

“No? You have to do it.”

“Me?”

What am I supposed to do?

“The department head may have a hard time expressing emotions, but if she really feels unwell, she can show some abnormalities.
Unlike us, she’s human.”

“…What are you talking about?”

Seohee objects, but I put my index finger to my lips to signal her to be quiet.
Noticing that Seohee is getting bored as the story gets longer, Chaeyun clears her throat briefly,
and starts to say the conclusion.

“…So, the department head’s sense of smell is super sensitive right now.
If you put something smelly in her mouth,
the reaction will come up at the right time after the lecture starts.”

“…I think I know what that something is?”

“Yes, your semen.”

That’s how it happened this morning,
before entering the school, I made her cum in her mouth and hold it.

“…I can’t believe this is going to work.
Let’s swallow it first and go quickly.”

“….Gulp…”

The sound of swallowing something small echoes in the bathroom,
and then it becomes quiet again.

I was about to hurry away,
when the department head grabbed my sleeve from behind.

Surprised to see her doing something I didn’t order, I turned around,
and as usual, her face was expressionless, but it was a little different.

Her face was flushed red,
her breath was somehow irregular,
and she was panting heavily.

“Ah, I… I’m sorry. Master, I don’t know why I did that…”

She seems to be embarrassed by her own actions.
I observed her again.

The confused department head, Rina’s legs,
I saw a stain on her skirt and lifted it up.

“…..Ugh.”

Her panties, which were soaked as if they had been soaked in water, were revealed along with the hot heat,
and the water that leaked from her panties was dripping onto the floor in a long line.

“I’m sorry… Ugh!”

I don’t remember what I did after that.

My last memory was of raising my head fiercely,
and kissing Seo Rina’s lips.