A Flower That Eats Humans 76

## Chapter 76 – Size (14)

“News here, news there.
Every channel is just showing breaking news.
‘A tree appears in the middle of the city, do aliens exist?’
And… ‘A car chase, who is this man?’
Wow, I’ve suddenly become a celebrity.”

“…Ha.”

Unlike my cramped studio apartment, I’m lying in this spacious house watching the news that Seohee is playing.
Even when I change the channels with the remote, the picture remains the same.

An announcer reporting on a photo of me wearing a helmet, or
a video of a tree towering in the middle of the city.
A sigh comes out involuntarily.

“I know, what were you thinking? No,
how did you even do that in the first place?”

“I don’t know. Anyway, it’s thorough…”

“What is?”

I feel a sense of unease amidst the news that repeats the same content even after flipping through almost 20 channels.
The majority of the news content is about
the tree I created.

But, the content about the masked pursuer is minimized? No,
it’s almost non-existent.

Even though they caused chaos in the middle of a road full of people, it’s not on the news.
No matter how I think about it, this is media control, a cover-up.
Something like that.

I press the power button on the remote to turn off the TV.
Listening to it more won’t help.
It just makes my head ring and hurt.

“Unni, Sua Unni fell asleep.”

“Ah, okay, good job.”

Another door opens, and
Nabi peeks her small head out from there and whispers in a quiet voice.

Seohee gestures to her, telling her she did a good job.

“Then you should rest too, I’m going to go check on Chaeyoon.”

I give her a casual wave as she gets up from the bed and goes into another room, then bury my face in the pillow.

It smells like Seohee.

This place is much bigger than my studio apartment.
It’s Seohee’s house.

Seohee thought there were too many injured people and that my small room couldn’t possibly fit all of them, so she brought us to her house.

Originally, Seohee had saved money to get a large house to live in with her friends, but
she says she’s living alone with Nabi now and tells us to stay until our injuries heal.

“…What happened to her friends…”

Covered in a blanket on the bed, I close my eyes and mutter trivial things to myself.

…I can’t sleep.

It’s already been an hour since I started trying to sleep, but
I can’t fall asleep.

I thought I would fall asleep if I lay down in bed because I was tired and in pain, but
there’s something on my mind, so I can’t sleep.

“..!! …!! Ugh…!!”

Ah, I can already hear it.
Noises are coming from the room that Seohee said was a closet room.

One of the people who caused that mess,
the woman who ate the fruit and whose name I don’t even know, is currently captured in that room.

I couldn’t just leave her there after she ate the fruit, so I brought her along, but…

“…It’s too noisy to sleep…”

Unable to bear it, I ignore the muscles screaming in protest and get out of bed and start walking.
Then I grab the cold doorknob and open the door,
the woman, gagged and with her hands and feet tied, glares at me and jumps up and down.

“…”

“Mmph!! Mph!”

“…Please be quiet…”

“Mph?! Ugh mph!!”

…I don’t know what she’s saying.
I sigh and sweep my hair back.
She doesn’t seem to have any intention of being quiet like this,
so maybe I should try it once…

I concentrate the power in my hand and reach out to her.
Just like how I put Chaeyoon, who was rampaging at the cafe, to sleep, I wonder if it’ll work on her too.

…I guess it won’t work.
I didn’t even use the petals in the first place… Huh?

“…Huh?”

A blue light visible from her body.
Wait a minute, how is this happening?
I didn’t use petals on her.
…Could it be because of the fruit?

Carefully, I reach out towards the light.
A warm feeling touches my hand, I can touch it.

“…I don’t know what’s going on, but…”

I don’t know what’s going on, but this is good timing.
If I use this power well, maybe I can do something about the fruit she ate?

“…But still, for now…”

For now, I want to rest a little too.
She must be tired too, so let’s let her rest a little.

“Okay, then… ‘Sleep…’”

“Eugeup?!!”

It was the moment I couldn’t even finish the command.
I pulled the blue light out of her,
and I thought I succeeded because I felt the feeling I had felt before, but it wasn’t.

At the same time as pulling the blue light, an unknown, enormous power struck me, and my body was pushed back.
My body floated up, then I crashed into the wall with tremendous force.

“Ugh!!”

And then I collapsed to the floor.

“Cough! Cough! Aish, damn it… It hurts again…”

It was a strange feeling.
A feeling of power and power pushing against each other.
Like the north and north poles of a magnet meeting, it pushed me away violently.

And I felt it in that moment.
That there was something inside her.
Something was shining with a green light in the center of her body, absorbing my blue light.

One method quickly spinning in my head.
With this method, I might not even have to take the fruit out of her body…

“…Mph…!!”

The woman, making strange noises with her mouth blocked, soon smiles and starts to laugh at me.
I must look ridiculous right now.

I start to laugh too.
It was a really coincidental thing, but
thanks to it, I solved one of the things that was bothering me.

I get up and approach her.
And I untie the gag.

“Puhah! You’re finally listening to me.
I thought I was going to die from being suffocated.”

“I was originally going to do it slowly, but does it matter?
Who are you? Why were you being chased?”

“Why should I tell you?”

“…Then forget about that, where did you get that fruit?”

“…Meh~”

The woman childishly sticks out her tongue and mocks me.

“Do you even know what that thing is?
What were you thinking when you ate it?”

“Isn’t that none of your business?
More importantly, are you guys that monster flower?”

The woman ignores my questions completely and instead asks her own questions. Her face is relaxed,
her appearance, showing an unknown confidence, is so exaggerated that it’s almost nerve-wracking.

“…”

“Ahaha, I guess so? You guys are so pathetic?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“No, I read a little bit about you guys.
If you can’t parasitize a human body, you die right away, right? I’m saying that fate is pathetic….”

“…Hmm.”

If Seohee or Sua heard these words right now, this woman would die before she even had time to think that the words she was spitting out were her last words.

“I have to say what I want to say, so.
Do you really think that weeds that can only live by sticking to people are superior to humans?”

The woman speaks to me in a seemingly angry tone.

“That fruit I ate, it’s important to you guys, right?
Then you guys can’t hurt me, right?
Because I ate it.”

“…Why do you think that?”

“I had it in the information I hacked.
‘In the event that a human ingests a power source,
the power source is permanently vested in the human body.’”

“What?”

“It is said that in order to extract it, ‘another power source’
is needed, but what should I do?”

“…Ah, I see.”

I cover the woman’s mouth as she giggles, not even knowing what she’s saying.
I have to hold it in so that laughter doesn’t leak out.

First of all, to put it bluntly, I have no intention of taking the fruit out of her body.
The reasons I came to that conclusion were, first, when I used the power of the blue fruit on the road earlier.

I didn’t know it when I used it, but after experiencing the aftereffects, I thought, ‘I can’t use this a lot…’
And the second reason was that I remembered when I saw the blue light reacting to the green light, trying to absorb each other.

‘Do I have to eat the fruit?’

Even I find the power of the fruit burdensome.
If I were to obtain a second fruit, that burden would double.

So the method I came up with was to ‘make an oxygen tank.’

Who would dive deep into the sea without any equipment?
Even veteran divers probably couldn’t do that.

Creating an ‘oxygen tank’ that would reduce my burden when using abilities.
The material for that is this woman.

It’s about utilizing the property of the fruits trying to absorb each other.

“…In short, you guys can’t kill me.
Do you understand?”

“…Yeah, I see.”

“Oohuhu… Good, if you understand.
I’m sorry for saying those harsh things earlier too.
We have to help each other from now on.
If you untie this first… Eh…?”

I grab the collar of her chest, which she’s smiling at triumphantly, and pull it with all my might.

Then the fabric tears helplessly.
Behind it, cute underwear is revealed.

“W-what are you doing?!”

“…It’s pathetically small.”

Her breasts that are revealed aren’t completely non-existent, but
excluding women who boast enormous sizes like Chaeyoon, Seohee, and Heeju,
I look down at breasts that are much smaller than even Sua or Nabi, who I thought were small.

“…You’re not a student, are you?”

“I’m 21 years old!!”

Wow, she’s even older than me.
I reach out and touch her small breasts.

“Eup…?!♡”

She shrinks back as if embarrassed.
Ignoring her reaction, I fondle her breasts.

“S-stop…”

The woman’s voice, trembling, starts to ring out in accordance with the trembling of her body.

“Stop! Stop it!! What are you doing right now?
Are you out of your mind?! You’ll be in trouble if I’m not here?
Did you not understand because you’re a weed?”

The woman, her face much redder than before, shouts.

“I’ll forgive you if it’s now, so hurry and…!”

“Hahaha…”

“What? What’s so funny?!”

“You’re the one who’s mistaken,
it’s funny how you’re acting all high and mighty.”

“…What? What are you saying I’m mistaken about…!”

“Why do you think ‘you’ are necessary?
All I need is that fruit inside you, not ‘you.’”

I sneer at the woman who’s staring blankly at me,
and tap her chest with my finger.

“What I’m going to do from now on is,
I’m going to make you a living tank.”

“What…? What does that…”

“So, you said that the fruits have the power to push each other away and absorb each other, right?
There’s a fruit inside me too, the same as yours.”

“…What?”

“So, if I eat all the power of the fruit inside you, then you’ll literally become a tank that supplies me with power while still alive.”

“D-don’t say such ridiculous things! That’s…
That’s impossible…!!”

“No, you don’t know, but
you and the fruit are connected right now.
If all the power in the fruit is eaten, what do you think will happen to you, who’s connected to the fruit?”

“….Ah…”

The woman, as if she finally understood,
turns her face blue.
And she gradually staggers back, retreating.

“I know how to eat the power of the fruit.
No matter what method, if I make that person’s mind submit to me, it works.”

When the repulsive reaction between the fruits that occurred between her and me earlier pushed me away,
I must have been a little scared.
That’s why a little of my energy was absorbed by her.

If that’s the case, then shouldn’t I make her submit using the method I’m best at?

“…Don’t worry, it won’t hurt.”

“W-wait, don’t come…! Don’t…!! Kyaak?!!”

I push her over.
And when I tear the leggings she was wearing,
her pussy is revealed right away without any underwear.

I take off my pants and thrust my dick into her crotch, which is pure white with no hair.

“Hic?! W-wait a minute! Stop for a second!!”

I stop my actions upon hearing her urgent words.
Well, is it like her last words?

“…That, that alone… I can’t….”

The woman swallows once.
She speaks in a voice that’s so small it’s almost inaudible, as if she’s embarrassed.

“…I-it’s my first time… Please, not that….”

Her body is trembling.
Tears are welling up in her eyes due to fear.
…If I do this, I’ll be a complete piece of trash…?

“…Okay.”

I take my dick away from her pussy.

“…Huh? R-really…?”

It’s going to be the first and last experience of her life.
She wouldn’t like it if that special experience was rape,
should I help her enjoy it a little?

If I make her beg me to put it in myself,
then that’s not rape, right?