A Flower That Eats Humans 6

Chapter 6 – Kim Seohee

The man tries to shake off my hand by any means possible.
I put more strength into my grip.

And with one hand covering his mouth, I kick the man’s leg with my foot.
His leg breaks easily, like snapping a slender reed.

“!!!!!!”

The man’s voice, blocked by my hand, cannot escape and is buried as is.
If I let go, he’ll scream, so I quickly remove my hand and, just as the man did,
I control my strength and strike his jaw with the palm of my hand.

And so, the man collapses powerlessly to the floor, unconscious.

“Dae, Daehyun… you, you…”

The remaining two thugs still act threateningly,
Behind them, the pierced woman is frozen in shock.

I walk towards the two men.
They only awkwardly step back as if their legs are frozen.
I can easily catch up even with my slow pace.
This time, I approach the gold-necklaced pig and grab his arm.
Of course, he tries to resist, but he loses to my strength and stares at me with wide eyes, perhaps flustered.

“Quiet.”

I cover his mouth again and lift the grabbed arm with all my might.
His arm pops out of its socket far too easily with a snap.

“!!!!!!”

His struggling figure feels so comical that I watch him for a bit,
Then, as I did with the previous man, I slap his cheek hard to knock him out.

I turn to look at the last remaining man.

“I, I, I’m sorr…”

I feel sorry for his appearance, unable to finish his sentence.
Come to think of it, this man was the one who tried to stop the others.

In front of the man, paralyzed with fear, I focus my strength.
I feel warm blood circulating throughout my body, the swelling in my eyes subsides in an instant, the split lip heals,
And I feel the broken ribs mending.

The man and the pierced woman witness the absurd scene before their eyes.
Their expressions show a bit of bewilderment and a lot of fear.

“But you did try to stop them.”

I slap the cheek of the man whose body is stiff.
Similarly, his body collapses like a doll with cut strings and he faints as is.

“Eek!”

When I turn to look at the last remaining woman, tears are already welling up in her sharp eyes,
And her whole body is trembling, showing none of her strong attitude from before.

I walk straight to her and snatch her phone.

The woman’s phone screen shows the number ‘112.’ It seems she hadn’t managed to make the call yet.

I put strength into my hand,
And crush the phone like a soda can.

“…….I, I…”

Looking at the woman, terrified and unable to say anything, I see the crotch of her short shorts getting wet.
Incontinence due to excessive fear, I never thought I’d actually see it in real life.

“Why did you do that?”

“I, I, I’m… sorry…”

A cat who thought she was a tiger, now at a loss in front of my eyes.
I want to torment her a bit more.

I touch her short hair.

“I asked why you did it.”

“Sorry, hic, sob….”

Desperately trying to hold back her tears and somehow spit out words,
It was a thrill I’d never felt before.

“…But you’re pretty.”

“Yes…?”

I take out the bottle filled with flower petals from my pocket.
I no longer feel any hesitation.
I feel somewhat refreshed.

As soon as I remove the cork stopper blocking the bottle, an anomaly occurs.
Something wriggles out of the petals.
A visual resembling the slime that elementary school kids play with.
It was so long ago during Chaeyun’s time that I didn’t see it properly, so this is what it looked like.

The liquid crawls out onto my palm and looks around, then makes eye contact with me once.
It was a creature without eyes, but I definitely felt like we made eye contact.

The creature turns away as if uninterested and makes eye contact with the pierced woman named Seohee.

“What is this…”

Her face is filled with shock,
I feel a strong curiosity about what will happen next.
I become a child watching the ecology of ants and observe the situation before my eyes.

The creature, having identified its target, quickly begins to act.

It slides onto Seohee’s shoulder.
Then it stretches its body long and lunges into her ear, past her hair.

“Ugh?!”

A short groan, her whole body twitches and trembles briefly.
I release her body, which I had been holding,
And watch Seohee, staggering and leaning against the wall, clutching her head.

“What’s… what’s in my head… ah?”

Judging from her confused expression, it seems a bit different from Chaeyun’s time.
Is it case by case for each person?

“Please, I’ll do anything, save, save me..!
I’ll do whatever you tell me to…”

She looks up at me with an expression that I can’t tell if she’s crying or laughing, clinging to me with her head in her hands as if she’s lost her mind.

I’m sorry, but once it’s gotten to this point, I don’t even know how to handle it, so I can’t help you,
I silently stare at Seohee without saying anything.

“Ugh, ahhh? Scary, scary, scary
That look, me, am I?”

No longer able to support herself with her legs, she collapses and puts her hand inside her pants and starts masturbating.
It seems she doesn’t notice the changes happening to her as ‘it’ eats away at her brain and assimilates.

“My brain, melting, me? Am I?”

She twitches and trembles.

“Ah…”

Now the appearance I know has emerged.
A sudden change in emotion, strangely abrupt, after being distorted by pain,
The woman named Seohee stares blankly into the air.

But she doesn’t seem to be coming back to her senses easily.

“…Did something go wrong?”

I feel something is wrong, looking at Seohee, who is still like a doll.
Originally, she would act as if she were herself soon.

I take out my phone and call someone.

The other person answers quickly despite the late hour.

“Hey, Chaeyun, are you still awake?”

“Aww, I was looking forward to a dawn date since you called me so affectionately, ‘Chaeyun~,’ but
You’ve made a huge mess, Oppa.”

“I didn’t call you like that, more importantly, how is it?”

“I’ve healed all the men’s injuries,
And erased their memories.
They’ll think it was a nightmare, right? And you know what…”

Chaeyun, who came out after receiving my call late at night, pulled out a small tentacle from her mouth and inserted it into the men’s ears, solving everything.
She’s really competent.

Chaeyun’s gaze turned to Seohee, who was leaning against the convenience store wall, unconscious.

Is she worried because they’re the same kind?

“How is she?”

“She’s normal, it’s just that assimilation is taking a bit longer.
She’ll come to her senses soon.”

“Then that’s good.”

“Really, it’s all because of you, Oppa.”

“What, me?”

While I was throwing the men who were sprawled out in front of the convenience store into the car,
Chaeyun places the blame on me.

“What did you do to this child during assimilation?”

“I didn’t do anything.”

“…Really?”

“…Really.”

I feel a bit guilty, but I play dumb for now.
Why is she like that, did something go wrong?
While I was thinking that, Seohee opened her eyes in the corner.

“…Um…”

“Ah, you’re awake, do you know who you are?”

Chaeyun quickly approaches Seohee and asks how she is,
She must have been quite lonely all this time.
Since a fellow kind has appeared, she must feel that much more happy.

I decided to watch without interfering in their conversation for now.
Above all, it’s my first time seeing the moment when two of the same kind meet, so I was curious about whether they can recognize each other, how they recognize each other,

I’m staring at them, feeling slightly wronged.

“Oh, you too…?”

“Yeah, I’m the same as you.”

What, how did she know?
What about my curiosity,
I’m looking at them with a slightly aggrieved expression.

“First, change your clothes, you’re all wet.”

“Th, thank you.”

Seohee and Chaeyun, who seem awkward in this situation, are staring blankly at us
Chaeyun pushes Seohee’s back and takes her into the warehouse.
She’s excitedly taking Seohee to the warehouse, saying she’ll teach her how to wear unfamiliar clothes,
Seohee, who still can’t keep up with the situation, seems to have forgotten about me.

I’m sitting alone at the tasting table inside the convenience store, scratching my head in awkwardness.
About 10 minutes later, Seohee, who roughly washed up and changed her clothes in the warehouse, looked a lot neater.

Seohee stood awkwardly in front of me, hesitating, and finally started to open her mouth.

“I, ‘the previous me’ seems to have done something terrible,
I’m sorry, I’ll apologize.”

Seeing Seohee confidently apologizing, even though she was a bit flustered, I think I understand a bit about how the host’s personality carries over.

She has become so confident that I can’t even remember her terrified and helpless appearance.

“No, it’s okay, it wasn’t ‘you’ who did it.”

“Ugh… the words are difficult, I’m not that smart,
I’m apologizing because it’s true that I did it.”

“…Okay, then I’ll accept the apology.”

With that, the situation is settled for now, and me, Chaeyun, and Seohee, who was born not long ago,
We sit at the tasting table and continue the conversation.

“So you have ancient human genes?”

“I don’t know either, so I’ve been told?”

I point to Chaeyun with a nod.
Chaeyun proudly straightens her body with a smug expression, as if saying, ‘I found her, aren’t I great?’

“What information do you have about your body? How much have you eaten?”

“Um, so, Kim Seohee, 22 years old, doesn’t go to college.
I live away from home, so you don’t have to worry about my parents, I’m working part-time so I have money…”

“Wow, you’re older than me… if you live away from home, where do you live?”

Chaeyun interrupts Seohee’s words, Seohee looks slightly annoyed, her true personality hasn’t changed after all.

Even though she looks uncomfortable, Seohee answers every question.

“Just, well, I live with a friend, I pay rent too.”

“Hmm…”

“Th, more than that, let me ask you something.”

Seohee asks a question with her actions frozen again, what is she going to talk about?
Why is she so nervous?

“Have you guys already, done it…?”

“Pfft!”

“……”

At the sudden question, Chaeyun started to laugh out loud,
I hung my head.

“We haven’t done it yet, but we’ve tasted it~♡”

“Stop it, it’s embarrassing.”

Of course, since she’s Chaeyun’s fellow kind, I thought the topic of reproduction would come up,
But I didn’t think it would pop out so suddenly.
Chaeyun playfully smiles and gives Seohee a thumbs up.

“….Ugh”

When I raised my head again, I met Seohee’s eyes, who was looking at me.
Seohee pretended not to look at me, startled, and turned her head.

“Speaking of which, Oppa, when are we doing it?”

“…Don’t ask me.”

While I was receiving a headache-inducing question, the sky was gradually brightening outside.
6 AM, it’s time to go back.

“…I should start switching shifts soon, what about you guys?”

“My house is right in front, she’s in a dorm.”

“…Then let’s see each other tomorrow,
I need to eat my brain a bit more today,
I still can’t keep up with your stories.”

I roughly said goodbye and left the convenience store and asked Chaeyun.

“You said you follow the host’s personality, right?”

“That’s right.”

It’s not a big deal, but I can’t erase a slight sense of discomfort.
Seohee’s stiff attitude that I’ve been feeling since earlier.
It’s only been a few hours since I met her, but I felt something was off in her actions.
I arrived at my place, thinking that she probably hasn’t fully assimilated yet, pushing away Chaeyun, who was clinging to me.