## Chapter 181 – Preparation (2)
“Haa…! Chup…! Haa!”
The disgusting sound of licking the blue drug off the ground filled the quiet park.
I sighed at the sight of her not knowing her place and still shouting about ‘Daddy’ and not letting it go.
Even if I had split her personality into two to use her longer as a drug-selling worker,
I was annoyed at her barking at her own master, but I had to endure it for now.
“…Hey, how long are you going to keep licking? Get up already.”
“Kyaak…! Ugh… Keuek…!”
To shut her noisy mouth, I stepped on the blonde hair of Number 2, who was still licking the ground even after eating all the drug I had dropped.
Startled by the shock of her head shaking, she screamed and glared at me with sharp eyes.
Did the shock of being stepped on break her out of the addiction? Even so, she’s regaining her senses too quickly.
Could it be…
“L, let go of me…!!”
“…Haa, you’re really noisy.”
“Keuk?!”
I stomped hard on Number 2’s head again, as she twisted her body and kept irritating me.
Then, I rolled up the sleeve of her arm that I had twisted and grabbed, and saw the blue veins popping out.
“…Eh…? W, what is this…?! M, my arm is…”
Number 2’s face turned pale as she denied reality, looking at the strange marks on her arm.
I sharpened my nails and lightly scratched her fair skin, drawing blood, and then lightly licked it.
“Ow, it hurts…! What are you doing…?!”
“…This is definitely severe.”
The blood seeping from Number 2’s veins was not ordinary human blood.
Addictive substances were mixed in the blood; she was already in a state where she couldn’t live without the blue drug.
And considering that she didn’t even realize such a big abnormality in her body,
she must have been in a hallucinatory state almost all the time from taking the drug.
Once a human reaches this stage, they can no longer be turned back. They can’t distinguish between reality and delusion,
and they become irritable without even realizing it. After that comes memory gaps, amnesia.
After that, their brain will be completely broken, and all they can do is sit and breathe.
But I made her into a toy around mid-spring, so if the addiction symptoms are appearing this quickly…
“…You were eating the drug I gave you almost every day, huh? You have no patience at all?”
“…Drug? What are you…”
“I’m talking about the blue liquid that was always in your bag.”
Is she unable to distinguish reality to the point where it’s causing problems in her daily life now?
She doesn’t even know what the blue bottle is. She was just licking the drug off the ground a moment ago.
“Drug…? Blue? Aaghh?! H, head…!! Th, that’s right…! Drug, you…! You made me like this…!”
“Yeah, that’s right, I made it. Looks like you remembered?”
Even though she’s addicted to the drug, this woman is definitely different in some way.
She’s breaking free from the hallucinatory state with her own will; did she develop a tolerance from taking the drug for so long?
Even if she happens to develop a tolerance, it will only delay the end, but nothing will change.
“Why, why are you doing this to me…! What did I do?! Help…! Someone, please save me!! Someone call the police…!”
“…It ends up like this after all.”
She’s trying to crawl away, using her legs that haven’t recovered from the drug’s effects.
Does she think she can live if she escapes? Even if she lives, she’ll live a life worse than a human.
The same goes for her father. Humans without tolerance will show addiction symptoms even faster.
Having lost her family, her place to return to, and her reputation, can she really live as a human?
Perhaps living as a flowerpot, even if she loses herself, would be a happier thing for her.
I walk towards her, who is desperately crawling away, and crouch down right in front of her.
I have a hobby of tormenting, but I don’t have a hobby of tormenting like Chaeyoon,
so I decided to give my ‘flowerpot,’ who will be working for me from now on, a clean finish befitting her.
“Y, you… Your eyes are red…! P, please… Le, let me go… I won’t tell anyone…”
“Come to think of it, I’ve always been calling you ‘Number 2,’ so I still don’t know your name. What’s your name?”
“H, Han, Yeonwoo…”
Number 2, who had been trembling and abandoned her high and mighty attitude when she met my eyes, was begging for her life.
I stroked the blonde hair of the girl whose name I asked, as tears dripped from her eyes with eyeliner.
“…So, your name is Yeonwoo? Good, as a reward for working for me until now, I’ll let you live.”
“T, thank you so much…! Thank you, reall-… Nihiit?!♡”
Yeonwoo’s voice rises as she bursts into tears and repeatedly bows her head after hearing my last words.
The seed that will bloom the ‘Flower of Consciousness’ in her ear is already stretching its body and digging into her ear.
Didn’t I say I would let her live? I am letting her live now, aren’t I? I didn’t lie.
Even if she goes back like this, she can’t live anyway. To be exact, she can’t live as a human.
A plant-like life where she can’t move a single limb and has to lie in a dark room for the rest of her life,
and the life of a worker, a ‘flowerpot,’ who abandons herself as a human and is reborn for me and her master.
Which is the better life? I’m just giving her a new opportunity.
“I’ll turn a blind eye to you annoying me until just now. We’ll be seeing each other for the rest of our lives anyway.”
“Keok…! N, no…! In, inside my head… So, something’s…!”
Yeonwoo, who had widened her eyes and flattened her body on the floor, began to tremble.
I did put the seed in as Chaeyoon said, but will it grow properly?
“…Eot… Keoheok…♡ St, stop… My head is being pressed, so… I, I don’t like it♡
My memories…!♡ My precious things…♡ It’s, it’s eating them♡♡ I don’t like it, I don’t like it!!♡’
I watch Yeonwoo, who is twisting her joints and rolling on the floor, her expression distorting,
while she is smiling somehow pleasantly.
It seems that it is growing while eating the host’s brain, as Chaeyoon said…
I should have done something like this before… Is it going well?
“I don’t like it, I don’t like it, I don’t like it!! Don’t eat that!! Ah♡ …My, my name…!♡ What was my name again…
Ahit…♡ My, na…me? Dad, ah?♡ It hurts♡ It hurts, but it feels good…♡ Name..? Hit…♡”
Yeonwoo, who was screaming, twisting her body, and raising her hand to her face, drooped down,
lying on the floor, smiling pleasantly, convulsing, and quietly muttering.
“…Ah, hik…♡ Clothes…♡ Th, that’s right… My name… Yeon… eubeub?!♡♡”
She couldn’t even say her name completely, which she had finally remembered, and her mouth was blocked by the stem that sprouted from her ear.
As the stem spewed out like a spider web from Yeonwoo’s ear, her body convulsed madly in response to the movement.
“Ogeopok…♡ Hook…♡”
“Oh, it’s done. The stem has grown.”
When the stem that had been spewing out powerfully completely wrapped around Yeonwoo’s head,
the momentum gradually decreased, and faint breaths and groans were heard between the stems,
and only Yeonwoo’s hands and feet, which occasionally twitched, were flapping like freshly caught fish.
“Clothes…♡ Oh…♡ ….”
“……”
…The movements are gradually decreasing, is this right?
No, wait a minute, Chaeyoon definitely said I had to do something…
“Ah, that’s right. I almost messed up.”
I forgot because it’s different from ordinary flowers. If you think about it, this is also a ‘plant’,
so it needs water and nutrients, right? Chaeyoon said she gave it a liquid that refined nutrients inside her body,
but I don’t have talent in that area… All I can make is poison…
Wait a minute, ‘poison?’ Come to think of it, I had that, didn’t I?
I sharpened my nails to make a syringe and started collecting blood from inside my body.
If I mix the poison I’ve been making with various antibody substances… like this…
The blue liquid that started to pool at the bottom of my nails, the ‘drug’ that Yeonwoo likes so much.
Of course, if you think about it, this is also a type of ‘poison’, so it would be a disaster if you sprayed it on ordinary plants,
but the ‘Flower of Consciousness’ is a flower that grows while being affected by everything around it, so it has tenacious regenerative power.
Moreover, even the host, Yeonwoo, has a tolerance to this drug. The flower’s regenerative power and the host’s tolerance,
this ‘flowerpot’ with those two countermeasures is no different from a nutritional supplement to her.
“Then…”
“Clothes♡”
I put the made nail syringe into Yeonwoo’s forehead, which was covered by the stem,
and poured the pooled blue drug directly into the roots that had taken root in her brain.
Then Yeonwoo’s body began to flutter happily. Her back arched,
and seeing the water spewing out from her crotch and the bottom of her skirt, it seems like I’m right.
“…Eat a lot and grow up quickly, I don’t have talent in this kind of thing.”
The feeling of quietly sitting and watering the flowers. This calm atmosphere doesn’t suit me…
But the sight of the roots happily drinking the blue drug I’m giving them.
The way Yeonwoo’s body moves and twitches her hands and feet somehow feels cute…
I quietly crouch down, feeling a fluffy feeling that I’ve never felt before,
and keep feeding the drug to my ‘flowerpot’ that will be reborn.
“…By the way, how much do I have to feed it?”
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….
“…Hot?!”
What, when did I fall asleep? I raise my body, which is lying on the bench.
I only closed my eyes for a moment and fell asleep like that? Surely…
I spent almost 30 minutes making the drug and pouring it into the flowerpot…
“Ah.”
That’s right, I ran out of calories to make the drug, so I just collapsed.
The amount of calories I had stored in my body must have been enormous, but I used it all up?
Damn it, how long have I been sleeping? I pick up my phone and turn on the screen.
“…An hour?! Wait, Yeonwoo…!”
I jump up from the bench in surprise and look around.
Surely, if I don’t keep feeding her nutrients, she’ll wither away in an instant…!
It’s completely dark, and I turn my head following the light of the old street lamp that’s the only one illuminating the park,
but Yeonwoo is nowhere to be seen. This is a disaster, should I look around nearby?
Thinking that, I put my phone in my pocket and was about to leave the park when,
“Ah! You’re awake!”
The voice I heard was coming from the entrance of the park.
When I turned my gaze towards it, I saw Yeonwoo, who had long legs like a model, slightly faded blonde hair,
and was wearing casual clothes that looked fancy yet neat, holding a sandwich in one hand.
“…You, how…”
“Ah, don’t move yet. You overdid it because of me, right? First of all, please eat this♡”
Yeonwoo kneels down in front of me and hands me the paper pack she brought.
Inside were sandwiches, fried food, and high-calorie foods like milkshakes.
…I was definitely hungry because I made so much drug…
I looked back and forth between Yeonwoo, who was smiling at me for the first time since we met, and the food,
and grabbed the biggest-looking sandwich and took a bite.
“Ah…♡ How can you be so beautiful even when you’re eating…?“
“Ptoo!!!”
I choked on my food at the words that came out of Yeonwoo’s mouth, who was looking at me with an overwhelming gaze even in this situation.
I looked at Yeonwoo, thinking, ‘Is she making fun of me?’
but seeing her with her eyes dyed red and a blissful expression, it didn’t seem like it.
“Ah, my ‘Queen’ who saved me from a trash-like human life…♡
I, Han Yeonwoo, your flowerpot… apologize for my rudeness when I was human…♡”
…What the hell happened when I fainted?
No, before that, did something go wrong with the drug I gave her as nutrients…?
How can such a flower… red and white, but with a slight mix of blue…
Unlike the flower that seems to have a strong impact, Yeonwoo’s attitude is almost praising me.
Still, I’m glad that this seems to be a flower that the owner will be quite satisfied with.
“…You know your role well, right? I said it before, but don’t disappoint me?”
“Yes! Of course, my Queen! This flower will be offered to the King for the upcoming ceremony,
I will definitely protect it. For the King, and for the beautiful you…♡”
“…..”
Something is definitely wrong. Should I contact Chaeyoon…?
