Chapter 35
Chapter 35
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 35
Chapter Title: The Spark of Rebellion
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“How the hell did you manage guard duty?!!”
—Thwack!!
“Guh! …S-sorry!”
One soldier, knocked backward by Kang Haeseok’s kick, scrambled right back to attention.
He and the soldier beside him had already been beaten multiple times, their faces badly bruised.
The reason was simple: someone had died in the dormitory.
‘What the hell….’
Lee Sangwoon watched as the soldiers were brutally thrashed by Kang Haeseok.
As a medical professor and the former leader of the civilian group before the military joined, he now stared at the cold, stiff body of a man before him.
Im Jeongwoo.
He was a man close enough to Lee Sangwoon to have plotted a rebellion together.
Yet that very man had been found dead that morning in an unused room, stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife.
After the body was discovered, Lee Sangwoon had examined it on Kang Haeseok’s orders to find any evidence.
But there was nothing—no evidence at all.
Upon hearing the report, Kang Haeseok had exploded in rage, now beating the subordinates on guard duty.
“Everyone, listen up.”
After doling out punishment to those most responsible for guard duty, Kang Haeseok raised his voice to the group gathered behind him.
There stood the entire civilian group, surrounded by all the soldiers.
Kang Haeseok glared murderously, scanning each face one by one.
“Whoever the bastard is who did this… you’d better confess before you’re caught. Once you are, I’ll make you wish for hell.”
“…….”
No one dared respond to his growl.
Then Kang Haeseok’s eyes fixed on one man in the civilian group.
“Hey, Professor. Get over here.”
“Y-yes, sir!”
It was Lee Sangwoon he’d called.
Standing before Kang Haeseok, whose face was twisted like a starving beast, Lee Sangwoon trembled like a frail rabbit.
Kang Haeseok placed a hand on his shoulder and murmured quietly.
“I’m giving you one week. Find the bastard who did this within a week. If you don’t, you won’t like what happens next.”
“…U-understood.”
Though he’d once been the leader of the group, Lee Sangwoon’s position had come from his age and status as a medical professor.
He couldn’t resist Kang Haeseok’s overwhelming power in the slightest.
‘Who the hell….’
Lee Sangwoon scanned the group with eyes full of resentment and anxiety.
Every single one avoided his gaze, faces pale with fear.
To him, none of the civilians looked capable of murder.
“Finally, until the culprit is found, rations will be cut to half the current amount.”
After dismissing Lee Sangwoon, Kang Haeseok continued.
At those words, the civilians’ faces filled with despair.
“Half of what we’re already getting? You trying to starve us to death?!”
“Yeah! We just got a ton of food! By selling off us women…!”
Terrified as they were of Kang Haeseok, food was a matter of life and death, so the civilians began voicing their protests one by one.
Most of the complainers were the women who had stood as merchandise before the masked man.
Having sacrificed themselves for that food, their resentment burned even hotter.
“Shut your mouths! If you want to eat, then find the damn culprit!!”
But Kang Haeseok’s sharp roar silenced the protesters instantly.
‘Whoever the bastard is, when I find you, you’re dead.’
Everyone in the dormitory, Kang Haeseok included, was worn down mentally and physically from prolonged isolation and survival struggles.
A case of one comrade killing another couldn’t be ignored.
Once the thought took root that the person next to you might kill you, the group would fall apart.
Kang Haeseok knew he couldn’t survive in this world without the group.
That’s why he was furious with the murderer behind this incident.
“Now get to investigating and find the culprit! Dismissed!”
And with that, the roll call right after the murder case concluded.
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“P-professor… what are you going to do?”
After Kang Haeseok ended the roll call,
Lee Sangwoon gathered only the civilians for their own meeting.
Naturally, Chae Sua and Shin Juha, who were close to the soldiers, weren’t present.
“I don’t know…. The guards said no one saw anything….”
Sweating coldly, head bowed, Lee Sangwoon had been ordered by Kang Haeseok to find the culprit—but there was zero evidence.
Im Jeongwoo had been stabbed to death in a room rarely used in the dormitory.
Nothing around it pointed to the killer.
No witnesses either, making it nearly impossible.
“The soldiers did say they heard strange noises that night a few times….”
One civilian man recalled what the guards had mentioned.
They’d heard odd sounds at night and checked the area, but found no one—a bizarre tale.
But that alone didn’t reveal the culprit.
Lee Sangwoon sank into despair.
‘Just when I thought we could breathe a little….’
They’d recently sacrificed women to secure food for the whole group.
It had averted starvation, but now this happened.
‘If a week passes like this….’
The one-week deadline Kang Haeseok had given him.
Find the culprit, or else.
But Lee Sangwoon knew.
Kang Haeseok had no real way to find the culprit either.
So the order really meant: pick someone to die as the scapegoat.
Even if they weren’t the real killer.
To prevent the group from fracturing, he’d execute a straw man if needed.
‘Not again….’
It had happened before.
While plotting a rebellion with some civilians,
The day before the plan, Lee Seoho had come urgently with news.
Chae Sua, who’d overheard the plot, was actually Kang Haeseok’s fucktoy.
Prepared for the worst, Lee Sangwoon was summoned by Kang Haeseok just like today.
And ordered to offer up one sacrifice.
So Lee Sangwoon had thrown Lee Seoho under the bus.
‘This time, I have to sacrifice someone again…!’
His hands would be indirectly stained with blood once more.
Tormented, Professor Lee Sangwoon bowed his head, unable to look at the others.
“……Um.”
Someone spoke up then.
“I have a question.”
The one raising her hand was Ryu Dahee.
“Why assume the killer’s one of us?”
“……What?”
Lee Sangwoon, head down, snapped his head up, eyes wide.
“W-what do you mean?”
“Well, couldn’t it be one of those soldiers? The victim was one of us to begin with.”
Ryu Dahee tossed out her thought casually.
Her words jolted the group, still reeling from the murder shock, into considering the possibility.
“C-come to think of it, why assume it’s one of us?”
“Yeah, Kang Haeseok just acted like it was obvious one of us did it.”
“We all got along! I even talked with Jeongwoo a lot! Right?”
Ryu Dahee’s question unified the group, who had been tense suspecting each other.
“But why would the soldiers….”
The surprise was short-lived.
As the eldest, Lee Sangwoon quickly regained composure and posed a rational counter.
“Jeongwoo was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife. A soldier would’ve used a different method.”
Even if it was revenge, the murder weapon wasn’t military issue.
And soldiers would’ve disposed of the body more cleverly.
With help from comrades, tossing it to the zombies, say.
One doubt led to another.
Lee Sangwoon couldn’t buy that the soldiers were behind it.
“That’s obvious—they did it to make it look like one of us.”
But Ryu Dahee’s immediate retort hit him like a slap to the back of the head.
—Frame it on the civilians.
Those guys were capable of it.
“Y-you think… why would they….”
Lee Sangwoon still couldn’t grasp the motive.
Why stage such a charade to pin it on them?
And what did they gain?
“Hmph, come on….”
Arms crossed, Ryu Dahee answered Lee Sangwoon’s trembling question indifferently.
“To kill off the ones they don’t like and play dumb about it?”
“…….”
She said it like it was no big deal.
But to Lee Sangwoon, it suddenly made perfect sense of the whole incident.
‘Right… Jeongwoo was one of us….’
Im Jeongwoo had been part of the recent coup attempt.
Kill him, search the civilians for the killer, and if none found, execute another civilian as scapegoat.
‘That’s how they nip rebellion in the bud…!’
Lee Sangwoon concluded Kang Haeseok aimed to eliminate every past rebellion plotter.
No other reason for such a farce.
And it felt all too plausible.
“……Everyone, listen to me.”
Sorting his thoughts, Lee Sangwoon drew the chattering group’s attention.
He shared his interpretation of the murder.
“T-that’s…! So they kill one of ours and frame us?!”
“And cut rations on top…?”
“This is them trying to hog more food, right?”
“Yeah, that’s it! They reduce our numbers to eat better, frame us for the crime, and slash our food!”
Lee Sangwoon carefully avoided mentioning the rebellion itself.
If non-participants learned, resentment might turn on them.
The omitted parts filled naturally with the group’s angry imaginations.
The soldiers killing them for food.
“Damn it…!! We even let our women go through that hell…!!”
“Those bastards…!! I can’t take it anymore…!!”
The civilians brutalized at roll call earlier saw their fear turn to outrage.
And the outrage swelled into unbearable fury.
‘Scary….’
Ryu Dahee stood quietly after tossing the spark, watching them.
‘Everything’s going just as you planned.’
Things escalated absurdly smoothly.
The small pebble Lee Seoho had dropped via Oh Nayeon, per his plan,
Cracked the ice lake wide open, setting the still waters crashing down.
And finally,
Ryu Dahee raised her hand to add the last piece as instructed by Lee Seoho.
“Um, I have something to say.”
All eyes turned to Ryu Dahee, the one who’d uncovered the truth, hanging on her words.
“I have a good idea.”
She etched their pitiful faces into her memory one by one.
And smiled wickedly.
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‘Dahee’s doing great.’
Through the pigeon, I watched Oh Nayeon kill Im Jeongwoo, then monitored everything from the next day’s roll call to the civilians’ meeting.
Ryu Dahee had executed my instructions perfectly.
Impeccably so.
Squish, squish, squish—!
“Haahng…! Seoho…! Seoho…!♥”
‘Oh Nayeon’s impressive too.’
I never dreamed she’d carry out the order just two days after receiving it.
I figured she’d mull it over for days.
It was murder, after all.
No matter how badly she wanted to stay at the department store, killing wasn’t easy.
‘She’s worth keeping close.’
Yet she pulled off the murder in a mere two days on my command.
Remarkable loyalty.
“Slurp…. Haa, Seohooo….”
Squish, squish, squish.
“Aren’t you liking this a bit too much? This is the third time already.”
“N-nooo….”
After checking the dormitory via pigeon, I opened my eyes and fondled Han Moa’s breasts as she rode me.
Not as huge as Ryu Dahee or Yu Haeyeon’s, but plenty soft and fun.
“Y-you… haang! It feels too good with you…!”
At my touch, Han Moa naturally leaned down, rubbing her body against mine.
Her arms wrapped around my shoulders, hugging tight as she rocked her hips.
Squish, squish, squish!
“Guh… Moa’s pussy feels amazing no matter how many times. So tight and springy.”
“I love…! I love Seoho’s cock so much too…!”
“Just the cock?”
“No…! I love you too, Seoho… I really love you…!”
Han Moa rubbed her cheek against my neck, lavishing me with affection.
All while her tight little pussy clenched my cock relentlessly.
Squish, squish, squish!
“Good girl, answering right—so I’ll cum inside…!”
“Yes…! Ungh…! Cum lots…! Fill me up…! Make yourself feel good with me!”
At my signal, Han Moa’s pussy moved even more frantically.
Her soaked hole squelched lewdly as she shook her hips fast to take my load.
Finally, at the peak, I pumped a huge load into Han Moa’s tiny womb.
Spurt, spuuurt…!
“Haaang…! This feels so good!♥ So much hot cum from Seoho…! Feels amazing…!♥”
Feeling her belly fill with semen, Han Moa clenched her pussy tight, mouth agape, body convulsing.
I held her close, kissing her as we savored the afterglow.
Smooch, slurp.
My thick tongue invaded her chick-like lips, mixing saliva lewdly.
Pulling out, strings of spit stretched as Han Moa collapsed onto my chest.
“Huu… I love you, feels so good….”
She kept kissing my neck, pussy squeezing tight.
‘Time to head to Baek Mina next.’
Han Moa was fully conquered long ago.
The dormitory was proceeding smoothly under my pawn’s antics.
Today, I’d handle the rest with Baek Mina.
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