A Flower That Eats Humans 225

## Chapter 225 – A Week Later, and Then

“So, Hirudo’s still got no taste, huh? Not only does he take a human-born woman as a partner,
but now he’s handing over all his power to a nobody human like you. What’s he even thinking…”

“You’ve been running your mouth a lot since a while ago. Aren’t you here to fight?”

At a completely unexpected time and place, the last remaining Creator, Kin, appears.
I try to provoke him while keeping a reasonable distance and guiding him to a place where people won’t notice,
but Kin completely ignores my words and just stares at me, seemingly lost in thought.

“…Fight? I only came to find Theresa. I don’t have time to waste on the likes of you.”

Unlike his somewhat violent actions, he really doesn’t seem to have any intention of fighting me, just like he said.
He’s standing with his hands behind his back, looking back at the gathering crowd drawn by the commotion, blatantly ignoring me.

“Then why did you try to kill me earlier? Or… were you trying to kill Iria?”

“Ah, don’t worry. Just now, I was testing whether ‘the one who broke my prison would be a threat.’
Now that I know neither you nor that woman pose much of a threat to me, you can rest assured.”

…Just like Irun-nuna and Theresa said, he doesn’t seem interested in Iria’s soul at all.
If he really wanted to kill Iria, he could have easily done it just now.
But he didn’t move, and Kin says the reason he attacked was to test me.

Standing before him, who’s glaring at me with an arrogant tone and expressionless face, I slowly get up.
What should I do? Should I run? Or should I fight? All sorts of thoughts flash through my mind.

The enemy I need to fight has come out of his base and appeared right before my eyes.
Maybe this is the best opportunity, but my body won’t move easily.
Did he show up without any thought or plan? He might be hiding something,
and right now, students who sensed the tense atmosphere are gathering around, surrounding us.

Kin also says he has no intention of fighting me right now, so do I really need to fight?
I clench my fist, agonizing over it hundreds, thousands of times in my head. What should I do…

“…Are you thinking of attacking?”

“I’m still thinking, so wait a moment.”

“No, I’ll pass. I don’t want to waste my strength and time fighting you unnecessarily.
I can’t tolerate anything interfering with the ‘important matter’ that’s coming up soon. You’re lucky, half-breed.”

With those words, Kin takes off the black gloves he was wearing, puts them in his pocket, and turns around.

“…What, you’re just leaving? Like this? Weren’t you curious about where Theresa is?”

“My business is done. I know that the newly born Creator in this land isn’t a threat to me,
and Theresa probably lost to you and was captured or killed. Either way, it doesn’t matter.”

He turns away indifferently, as if he only needed to confirm Theresa’s life or death,
and I slowly release the strength in my fist. What, is it really ending this anticlimactically?
Abandoning his comrades like throwing away trash is villainous, but…

I scratch my head, watching Kin slowly walk away from me.
Well, maybe this is better. Of course, it would be best to defeat him as soon as possible,
and take back Iria’s body, but the situation is too bad right now.

I’m not properly prepared, and there are too many people around. There’s no need to take the risk.
Besides, Kin isn’t even thinking of me as dangerous right now, he’s completely letting his guard down.
Instead of fighting him without knowing much about him, it’s better to let him go like this,
find out about him from Irun-nuna or Theresa, and then raid the research lab headquarters.

Just as I was waiting for this moment to pass while planning to stab him in the back,
Kin suddenly stops walking and stands still, asking without turning around.

“….Ah, one last thing. Are you going to stop me?
If you didn’t kill Theresa and kept her around, you would have known what my plan is.”

“……”

I thought he was just going to let it go. As expected, he’s been alive for a long time, so he’s disgustingly perceptive.
As if testing me one last time, he turns to me with sharp eyes, waiting for an answer.

“…I don’t intend to. Your plan is world domination, but it doesn’t really harm me, right?
I’m not confident I can beat you in a fight, and I don’t like fighting either. I’m satisfied with things as they are.”

Denying everything with a vacant, cowardly voice that doesn’t show any will,
I squeeze out what little acting ability I have to pretend to be scared so he can continue to ignore me.

“…You were born human, but you’re quite wise. You know when to yield, I like that.
It’s a bit of a problem that you’re of lowly birth, but since you’ve become one of us, you’re qualified to stand above humans too.
I promise, if you don’t interfere with me, I won’t touch you or your subordinates. But…”

Kin turns to me with a surprised tone, I lower my head so he can’t see my expression.
I’m not making eye contact, but I can easily tell that his sharp gaze is fixed on me.

“If you’re deceiving me right now, if you’re thinking of interfering with me, you’ll lose everything then.”

“……”

Kin finishes his eerie warning and turns back to walk out of the university. My heart is pounding.
But this is good enough. I let out a sigh of relief that I got through this bad situation and blinked.
When my attention was drawn to the noise created by the surrounding people and the flash of the camera,

“…Ah…!”

“Hey, are you okay? Excuse me, if you hit someone, you should apologize.”

In that fleeting moment, a woman collided with Kin, pushed by the crowd, unable to avoid him,
and a man who seemed to be the woman’s friend grabbed Kin’s wrist and spoke to him accusingly.

“…Unpleasant.”

“Huh? What did you say…”

The man, who didn’t hear Kin’s small voice, frowned, and my legs were moving on their own.
In an instant, Kin throws a punch at the head of the man who grabbed his arm, and I rush in.

Just before the punch reaches the man’s head, I jump in front of the man and block the punch with my arm.
I fly away with the man I shielded and fall to the asphalt floor, rolling.

“Kyaaaa!!”

A woman who saw Kin send two adult men flying into the air right in front of her screamed,
and then people realized Kin was dangerous and began to murmur, distancing themselves from him.

“W-what is this…! You…!”

“Run, get out of here!”

I blocked the punch that would have killed him instantly if he had been hit by it with a human body,
but the shock was fully transmitted, and the man got up with trembling legs.
I shouted at the man, who was still out of his mind, to run,
and he began to move away from me and Kin with a stiff face.

“What are you doing? Weren’t you indifferent to humans?”

“That’s right, I don’t care what happens to other people besides me…”

Things have gone wrong. The carefully laid out plan has become useless.

“…I don’t like it when it’s noisy around me. But you ruined everything, you son of a bitch.”

“…I take back what I said about you being wise… You’re just a human under me after all.”

‘Front!’ ‘Block!’ ‘You’ll die!’

While I was healing my arm that was broken by Kin’s punch, I was suddenly kicked in the stomach.
Again, my body floats into the air and crashes into a tree on the campus’s boulevard,
and dirt rises, the tree collapses with a crack, and the screams of the onlookers pierce my eardrums.

I can’t breathe properly, as if a large amount of air has filled my lungs at once,
and I can’t get up because my back, which collided head-on with the tree, won’t straighten.

“S-someone, please call the police!”

“O-Oppa…!!”

Kin, who was scanning the students who were screaming and running away, sighs.

“It’s noisy and annoying. I didn’t intend to do this, but if I leave like this, I’ll feel bad,
so all the humans in this place will have to die. Die and be helpful to me.”

“H-hik…! J-just a moment. C-close… H-huh…! S-save…”

The sight that came into view as soon as I managed to lift my injured body, caught in the wreckage of the tree.
Kin grabbed a female student by the neck and lifted her up, then put strength into his hand.

‘Snap’

The woman’s neck broke powerlessly with a sound I had never heard in my life.
Her struggling legs and arms drooped, and she died in Kin’s hand without even closing her eyes.
Kin throws the limp woman’s corpse on the floor without a care.

“Ugh, ughaaa!!”

“S-save me!! Mom!”

The corpse fell in front of the students.
Fear pierced through the students who recognized that it was the corpse of a friend who had been laughing and talking with them until just now.
The campus was filled with screams, and Kin took out the black gloves he had put away and put them on his hands.

“…Hu, huhuk…! Ugh…!”

I try to move my legs while somehow trying to find my scattered breath, but they won’t move.
Even while I’m struggling, Kin is approaching a student who fell while running away.

“P-please, save… save meee…”

“Don’t cry. Don’t beg for your life, and don’t even breathe. It’s unpleasant.”

Kin reaches out his hand to the man who is crying and rubbing his hands together like a fly, begging for his life.

“…This is…? Kuk?!”

The moment before Kin’s hand touches the man, roots sprout from under his feet and bind his legs,
and because of that, Kin’s right arm and shoulder, which had lost his balance, were covered in green light.
His right arm, which should have been in the place where the light passed, disappeared, and his expensive suit was charred black.

Kin grabs his charred right shoulder with his left arm and glares at me with a face distorted by anger.
Similarly, I press down on my hand, which was burned by shooting a high-pressure beam, and glare at him.

“…I take back what I said about you not being a threat… I’ll kill you here and now.”

“Ah, shit… I’m screwed…”