55. Slave No. 1
55. Slave No. 1
Choi Seol-hwa was shedding tears.
Violence really does have the answer.
'Maybe not, though.'
Actually, definitely not, but still.
I had Seo-yoon.
Then, I had to deal with the remaining women and men.
I asked Seol-hwa.
"Hey."
"...Why...?"
A woman who uses honorifics.
"It doesn't suit you, so just drop the honorifics. I have something I want to ask."
I explained.
What I had heard from the kids here.
"Is it true?"
"...It's mostly true."
"Mostly true means there are a few things that are inaccurate, right?"
"Yeah..."
Seol-hwa had become docile.
Ugh, fucking hell. So annoying. Seriously.
I decided it would be better to just take this woman and verify it myself.
It was only about an hour's drive from here to my house anyway.
'She can stay tied up like that for three hours.'
If she dies, she dies.
"Follow me."
"......"
I dragged her toward my car.
The back gate.
The vehicle parked on the mountain road outside.
"Get in."
As I was doing that, a puffy-faced Choi Seol-hwa spoke up.
"...That."
"What."
"What about the other women...?"
"Why about them?"
"...Didn't you kill them and save the women because we did bad things?"
"Why would I?"
"...Huh?"
Choi Seol-hwa was flustered.
"Why should I be responsible for them?"
Seol-hwa shut her mouth.
She seemed a bit confused.
"Just shut up and get in."
"......"
I put the babbling Choi Seol-hwa in the car and headed toward I-Pension.
#
Seol-hwa, sitting in the passenger seat, made a strange face as she watched the Infected dying off.
Infected creatures getting their heads blown open and collapsing one by one.
"......"
The woman mumbled, watching him.
"What."
"......"
"Speak up."
I pressed her, and Seol-hwa spoke.
"...Is that, like, a superpower?"
"Obviously it's a superpower."
I crumpled the car in front of us and tossed it aside.
Maybe it was because she got hit a few times, but the woman had become docile.
Was it true that the ancestors said women need to be beaten?
'Probably not.'
If it were me, I'd beg for my life if I got the shit beaten out of me.
It's only natural.
As I was thinking that, Seol-hwa spoke.
In a very small voice.
"....."
"Can't hear you. Why are you so quiet? Do women really need to be beaten to listen?"
At that, the woman got a bit defensive.
"...This is my original personality."
"Doesn't seem like it."
She was fucking vicious earlier.
"Then, should I have just stayed still while that shit happened in the middle of the night and I was getting raped? Am I a psychopath?"
"You guys are the psychopaths."
"......"
The woman tried to say something but shut her mouth.
"What were you about to say just now? Say it."
"...Never mind."
She really is a ridiculous bitch. This one too.
There was no more talk after that.
She seemed to be walking on eggshells around me, and I didn't need to hear things again that I could hear if Seo-yoon used her ability anyway.
#
"You're back... gasp."
Seo-yoon made a strange sound.
Well, she would be surprised to see a woman with a face swollen like a balloon.
Seol-hwa looked at our base with a blank expression.
Well, with chickens clucking in the back and the pension being incredibly clean, she would be.
And there were people up there holding guns.
"Wh, wh, who is that? Did you rescue her?"
Seo-yoon asked as I approached.
I said.
"Slave."
"What?"
"Slave No. 1."
"...Eh?"
"So go call Eun-bin. Leave the others for now."
"Ah. Okay."
We went inside.
#
"Th, um, there could have been problems with her eye area."
"Really?"
"Yes. Where was she hurt? This is a level that requires hospitalization. The recovery period is over two months."
"Why."
"I think her cheekbone is broken. It's quite serious."
"Can't you just heal it anyway?"
"Well, yes, but..."
ㅡWooooong
A white light shone from Eun-bin's hands.
Seol-hwa's face gradually returned to its original state.
Choi Seol-hwa, who had been in pain, looked amazed.
"I beat her."
"...Really?"
"Yeah."
"I see."
Eun-bin nodded.
"Is she someone with issues?"
"Right. That's why I'm planning to use Seo-yoon's ability. Seo-yoon."
"Yes."
"Follow me. Eun-bin, go rest."
"Okay."
Eun-bin seemed to have fully adapted now. I headed to my room with Seol-hwa and Seo-yoon.
"......"
"......"
I wrote down the slave contract on paper.
I didn't know how much longer it had become since Seo-yoon's ability reached lv.3, but it would definitely be longer than a week.
Since I was still testing it, I planned to renew it every week for now and change it once I was sure.
I applied the contract.
Something roughly like absolute obedience.
Seol-hwa asked.
"...What is this?"
"An ability."
"This is a superpower? Does that make sense...? If you use this, I have to do everything?"
"Just agree already."
"......"
The woman had no choice but to agree under my glare.
I asked.
A question for the first time in a while.
"What's your porn preference?"
"....Cowgirl, kissing while stuck together... huh?"
Seol-hwa was flustered.
The contract ability really is ridiculous.
As I was doing that,
Seo-yoon said.
"Pretty normal."
"True. Seol-hwa. Sexual experience?"
"...First time was with you... no. Ah. Fucking hell..."
I turned to look at Seo-yoon.
"This means she can't lie, right?"
"Yes?"
The contract was definitely in effect.
I turned my head back.
She didn't do it with Su-hyeok?
"Why didn't you?"
"Ugh. Ugh. I didn't do it, so I didn't! Fucking hell, what is this? Undo this right now!"
The woman was flustered. She tried to cover her mouth, but how could that work?
The woman turned bright red.
"You really didn't do it with Su-hyeok?"
"...I didn't. Why would I do it with him?"
"What's your relationship? Not boyfriend?"
"No, you fucker. He's my cousin."
"Ah."
Then it makes sense not to. It's a bit of an ambiguous relationship.
However,
Today is April 7th... no, it's past midnight, so it's April 8th.
It's hard to understand why she didn't do it with other men.
"You could have picked and chosen men. Why didn't you?"
"No, why would I have sex with dirty men? I don't want to, so why would I? Ah."
But.
There's a problem with this.
The men wouldn't have just left her alone.
"But you just let that slide?"
"...Su-hyeok was the leader there. The men couldn't touch me. And I have my ability."
Ability, huh.
"So you're saying they left you alone because of your ability. Su-hyeok and the men."
"...Yes, although he sometimes looked at me with weird eyes."
"Probably. You look hot as hell."
Seo-yoon and Seol-hwa turned bright red.
It makes sense she didn't do it.
Fucking hell, come to think of it, this woman wasn't in that sex room, she was next to it.
Whatever.
I stopped asking because I felt like I would dive into the abyss if I asked more.
Seo-yoon next to me also had a really weird expression.
Now I had to get to the main point.
"Then why did you kill the man and woman earlier?"
"The man and woman who died...?"
"Yeah. They said the kids below refused to let Su-hyeok take them, so they were killed."
"That's probably right. Kim Jun-seok and Seo Na-yeong. Su-hyeok said he'd take Na-yeong, but Jun-seok refused. So he probably killed them to reduce the headcount too."
"Wow..."
"So they were pieces of shit?"
"...Yeah."
"So you were planning to backstab us too?"
"Yes. Ah."
"How?"
"I was going to follow you here, pretend to listen, then kill you secretly."
"Wow."
"Wow."
"Ah..."
"But now? What do you think?"
The woman answered.
"...I think I'm fucked."
"Yeah, you're fucked."
"......"
The woman turned pale.
Well, it's not just that she can't lie, she's under absolute obedience.
Anyway, the conversation went off-track, but that wasn't important. The contact from those people and the 37th Division and 17th Fighter Wing was important.
I asked about that.
"Whatever, let's move on. I'm going to ask one by one, so answer immediately."
"...Okay."
#
To sum it up,
Among the five women excluding Choi Seol-hwa, two women, Jin So-young and Han Min-ah, were indeed bitches.
The two women Kim Su-hyeok chose.
The other three, Park So-mi, Lee Hye-na, and Kim A-reum, were indeed victims.
The other men were all the same.
"It's similar. If told to take the women, they took them well, and recently, since they ran out of condoms, they've only been doing sexual acts."
And,
The story so far.
It was the same as the man I killed first.
A monster came, everything was smashed, the survivors said let's live well together, but eventually, it turned into a group of looters because of food.
"Are there no other places?"
"No, we killed everyone."
And at the center of it was the Paralysis ability user, Kim Su-hyeok.
"What's your ability?"
"I... I have a Detection ability."
"What's Detection? I mean. No, write it here."
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Nexus Core : Detection lv2[0/100]
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It really was just Detection.
"Explain in detail."
Detection ability.
An ability with 58.6 compatibility.
However, it wasn't a very good ability yet.
At lv.1, it detects living things within a 5m radius.
At lv.2, it detects living things within a 10m radius.
'It's similar. To who was it, Area Surveillance.'
It was similar to 2nd Lieutenant Kim In-seop. However, he could monitor multiple areas, whereas Seol-hwa's ability was to detect the immediate vicinity.
"You must not have seen me when I arrived because you were sleeping?"
"...That's right."
She seemed to have a good ability for a slave.
Well, now I knew all about their abilities and situation.
Just a normal story.
Now it was time to ask the most important thing.
"They said you got contact from the 37th Division, the 17th Fighter Wing, and Jeungpyeong County. How did it come?"
"...It came via superpower."
"...It came via superpower?"
"Yes. It was a Communication ability. We got a walkie-talkie a while ago."
"A walkie-talkie."
"It was just left in Su-hyeok's room. We heard unknown words from it, but we thought it was rescue, so we said a few things, and then contact came via superpower."
"Via walkie-talkie?"
"No, via superpower. It seemed like if you have a walkie-talkie, you can make contact. Or hear voices."
The conditions were whatever.
"What did they say?"
"They said they were Col. Park Young-ho, Regimental Commander of the 37th Division. Said they were occupying Cheonan City and pushing through Jeungpyeong County. Said they were recruiting ability users to join them. Said they cooperated with the 17th Fighter Wing to create a safe military."
"So."
"We said we had Paralysis and Detection abilities, so they asked if we could come up to Jeungpyeong County. When we said it would be hard, they said 'Okay, try to come up to Jeungpyeong County if you can, we'll try too,' and hung up."
"37th Division 1st Regimental Commander."
"Yes."
"And then?"
"That's it."
"That's it?"
"Yes. Nothing after that, so we just looted a mart and said if our abilities got stronger, we'd go up. To Jeungpyeong County."
"I see."
In my memory.
From what I asked while looting Kim Min-jun and Han Min-woo. The 37th Division was completely destroyed.
The story was that they went to Cheongju and Daejeon and got wiped out.
On top of that, INSS and INRS are running around causing trouble at the IN Company branches in each city.
Then who is this Mr. Park Young-ho, who is lying about being the 1st Regimental Commander of the 37th Division?
Are Cheonan City and Jeungpyeong County free from the hands of that IN Company, and is the military still intact there?
'I'll know when I go there.'
I had more work to do.
Though I'd have to educate them before that.
"How does it feel to have the contract ability applied?"
"It's annoying. I wonder how such an ability exists. And it's scary. Because I might die. Ah..."
Being forced to speak is quite something.
That's why Seo-yoon is important.
"If I don't kill you, will you listen well from now on?"
"..I'll try."
I asked again.
"Will you listen well?"
"I... ugh. I'll try... fuck."
"Really?"
I raised my fist.
Seol-hwa's eyes trembled.
"Will you listen well?"
"...Yes. Yes. I'll do well."
"Good. Let's do well. I'll ask you every chance I get."
"......"