What Is This? A Baton? A Club?
“What is this? A baton? A club?”
“If I win this bet, the wager ends right there.”
“...Huh? You’re saying...?”
Click.
I flicked the plastic cap off the needle of the syringe with my thumb.
The sharp, exposed needle in mid-air. And the vicious drug seeping from its tip.
Lee Yohee opened her mouth with a curious expression.
“You idiot, didn’t you hear me? If it actually works, you’ll turn into a horny dog and your heart will burst. You’re dead.”
Her tone sounded like concern, but her lips trembled as if waves were crashing over them. She looked at me like a clown—frantic, dying to see me break.
“I understand. As the young lady who is so clever, I can’t possibly watch over every arrogant fool who dares to defy me. So I’ll willingly accept the punishment.”
Of course I wasn’t going to do this without a plan. There was only one way I could survive even if I became addicted to the poison.
Lee Yohee didn’t know. Only I did.
“...Hmm... Is that so? What are you going to do?”
She licked her lips again and again, as if enjoying the situation where one word could decide a human life.
“Fine. Since that kind of heart suits me, I’ll accept it with the same feelings. As long as you survive, of course.”
Lee Yohee looked down at me arrogantly, as if sincerely thanking me.
You fucking dog.
I’ll corrupt you in the worst way possible.
She pointed at the syringe with a gesture.
Plop.
A tiny bit of the drug dripped from the needle tip and fell to the floor.
Shit.
No matter how much I had planned it out in my head, I was still trembling. Injecting a lethal poison straight into my own body on the spur of the moment was not something a sane person would do.
“What are you doing?”
Lee Yohee prodded me, as if warning me not to hesitate.
Don’t hesitate.
Puuk.
The needle, now cold as ice, pierced my skin with a chilling sensation. Lee Yohee glared at me steadily. Her eyes screamed that if I left even a drop behind, she would immediately draw her gun and blow my brains out. I calmly endured her gaze and injected the entire contents of the syringe.
“Puhah! Y-You really did it. Crazy bastard...! Kya ha ha ha ha! View, you idiot! Kya ha ha ha!”
Lee Yohee was clapping her hands together and pounding her own knees while laughing hysterically, as if I hadn’t expected her to actually inject it herself.
My stomach was boiling.
Bub-bulbul
No... It wasn’t a metaphor. It really felt like my blood was boiling...
“Kruuuugh!”
Before I knew it, mere seconds had passed, and my entire body was burning as my heart began to race wildly.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every heartbeat made the world spin in front of my eyes, throbbing in my temples and making my pulse roar. My cock swelled to the point of bursting from the extremely accelerated heartbeat and blood flow.
Atropine? Cocaine?
Both were drugs that unnaturally sped up heart rate. Maybe it was a cocktail of the two.
“Hey, are you still conscious?”
“Kruug... Y-Yes...”
“Wow! Amazing! The first time I’ve seen someone speak normally after getting this shot?”
Lee Yohee deliberately crossed her arms to squeeze her overwhelmingly huge tits tighter, as if wanting to stimulate my already hyper-excited body further.
I felt an itch like ants crawling on my cock rod. My capillaries must have all expanded, giving me this sensation.
On top of that, a crazy sexual hunger surged inside me. She must have mixed in something like ecstasy. Whatever it was, this was not a syringe meant for a human.
A single injection of a designed lethal poison that guaranteed death!
Yet strangely, I managed to keep my mind intact somehow.
At 190 centimeters tall, with a physique close to perfect and resistance on the level of an animal, it was possible.
Moreover, the fear of death could be overcome through mind control. Because I had already died once.
If I hadn’t had this sturdy body or if I hadn’t already experienced death, I would have lost my sanity long ago.
“Tch... If you had tried to jump on me while my dick was hard, I would have blown your brains out right then. Boring.”
Seeing that I was holding on better than expected, Lee Yohee’s expression turned languid, as if she had lost interest. Just moments ago she had been giggling helplessly, then switched in just a few seconds. Typical psychopathic behavior.
“Ah... young lady... kruug... you will keep your promise, right?”
“Do I have to say it out loud? Low-class trash like you all just mutter with one mouth. People like me who were raised with dignity never take promises lightly. Get those rats out of here.”
Koong! Koong! Koong! Koong! Koong!
Unlike the early phase where I had endured, my heartbeat continued to race, driving me toward death.
Drugs usually allow adaptation over time, but this crazy mixture—regardless of what it was—only led me deeper into the worst situation.
Ugh!
‘I have to get out of here. I need it!’
Dying here would be a real death.
I bit my tongue to regain my senses, dragged my staggering legs, and pulled Jerry Lamer and his sister out of Lee Yohee’s room.
“Oh, by the way, I’m sending you out like this now, but if you’re found dead, I’ll cut the limbs off that Japanese bitch you like so much and send her to the red-light district, okay?”
Why was she being so obedient? She had to be thinking I would definitely die.
“Uuuug... I-I will...”
It was only natural. If I were in her position, I would think the same.
My vision was turning red, and the capillaries in my eyes had already burst, sending blood tears. My neck was bulging with veins.
Looking at my arms, the veins had expanded abnormally. Not just the arms—my entire body was covered in twisted capillaries like a spiderweb of veins.
Sweat poured down like rain, soaking my clothes like a wet towel, and I started feeling dehydration.
Because I had the physique of an elite athlete, I had survived instant death. But unless I relieved this state, my heart would definitely fail and I would die.
“Get out quickly. Don’t stand there with your dirty dick erect in my room.”
The sound that greeted me as I heard it was pleasant.
“...Yes.”
Koong—
The moment I closed the door to Lee Yohee’s room, I collapsed to my knees and hit the floor.
“Tch, senior! A-Are you okay?!”
Jerry Lamer, who had been silent until now, tried to support me clumsily, but that was impossible. He was only about 160 centimeters tall, a small rat beastman, yet how could he support a 190-centimeter me?
“Kurruk... When did I ever call you senior...”
“N-No, that’s it! Senior saved us! Tch!”
Beastmen made those characteristic sounds when they felt fear or excitement toward their own species.
“O-Oh, oppa... what happened to this person?”
“Kruuk... It’s all my fault...”
I mean, if I had held on to life, I should have just run away. Why was I rolling around here?
“Don’t act tough, you rat bastard... You’re just paying for your bread.”
That was my creed: hatred and favor are both repaid tenfold.
“Yes, yes? Bread? What bread...?”
Jerry Lamer stared at me with a dumbfounded expression at the sudden irrelevant question.
“Shut up and get out. Are you going to die here? Take your sister and get out, you rat!”
While I was covered in this blood and filth, my strategy was to turn Lee Yohee’s bet into a one-shot victory, but I also wanted to save Jerry Lamer, who had shown me kindness, and his sister.
If you sleep here and get caught by a changed Lee Yohee, you won’t even get bread or rice.
Thud!
I gave Jerry Lamer a little push with some strength, and because of the huge size difference, he was easily sent flying.
“...T-Thank you, senior. I will definitely repay this debt...”
Go already.
“Jeni! Greet him too!”
“Thank you, uncle!”
Is oppa oppa and I uncle?
The mouse beastman siblings hurriedly left toward the exit.
All that was left was to find it.
Stagger... stagger...
It felt like I had been poured a bucket of alcohol.
“Kruuuugh...”
How many steps had I taken while forcing my mind to stay conscious before I finally saw my destination in front of me?
[Laundry Room]
All I had to do was reach out and turn that knob. The thing that would save my life was inside.
Raising my hand to just grab the knob... would be...?
Thud!
“Kurak! Kruuugh!!”
The drug mixture had amplified the effect instead of diminishing it. In just a few minutes of walking here.
My vision was blurring.
The edges were darkening like tunnel vision.
“Hooek! Hooek!”
...This was really dangerous. Just when I was about to lose consciousness.
Bulge!
“S-S-Sun... no, Kim Sunghyun!?”
Hajika had appeared at the perfect timing. Maybe there was no law that I had to die.
Without asking what was going on, she quickly carried me into the laundry room while I was groaning. She was sharp—smelling a rotten body from afar.
“Hooek...! Kurak...! Detox... detox kit... bring it, Hajika.”
“Y-Yes!? What...?”
“Kruug... Bring the detox kit, you know! The emergency medical pouch!”
That was what I had believed in until now.
It was the detox provided by the Surveillance Bureau.
Just like the rapid-injection healing potion that instantly healed even severe wounds that had punctured lungs, if it was the detox provided by the Surveillance Bureau, it would surely save me from any poison once. They were providing potions far beyond modern science.
“A-Aah! Yes!!”
Hajika quickly tore off the front panel of the washing machine where she had hidden the Surveillance Bureau supplies.
Ziik.
With a hurried hand, she unzipped it, and various medicines spilled onto the floor.
‘Don’t mess up... you careless girl...’
Still, she wouldn’t have missed injecting the detox syringe.
I lost consciousness with that thought.
.
.
After being saved by my senior and regaining my senses, I returned to the laundry room. There was a mountain of laundry. It must have been brought by the other servants. Even though my body had fully recovered, the mental stress was so heavy that I wanted to rest, but I couldn’t. This wasn’t a place that accommodated such matters.
“Sigh...”
How had I ended up assigned to this place?
I was dragging my body as heavy as a thousand catties and folding laundry when an odd sound came from outside.
Thud!
“Kruuuugh...!”
Someone sounded like they had collapsed to the floor, followed by a pained groan.
Bulge!
When I opened my eyes, I saw my senior lying on the floor, his entire body bright red and veins bulging.
Poisoned!?
“S-Sen... no, Kim Sunghyun!”
No matter how much I was a trained agent, the size difference was too great to pull him into the laundry room.
“Kruug... Bring the detox kit, you know! The emergency medical pouch!”
Before I even asked what had happened, my senior commanded in a panicked voice to bring the detox.
“Ah... Y-Yes!!”
Unconsciously startled by the sudden turn of events, I dropped the pouch and the medicines scattered, but I still managed to grab the detox quickly.
Puuk!
The detox injected into my senior’s body. A special detox given only to Surveillance Bureau field agents. No matter what poison, it could be detoxified, so he should be fine now.
“Uuuuu... Kruung...”
The bulging veins on my entire body were rapidly shrinking.
“Senior... what exactly happened to you...?”
Probably something terrible had happened to him instead of me.
“Uuu...”
I couldn’t even lift my face. If I hadn’t infiltrated and my senior had come alone, he wouldn’t have had to endure this...
Anyway, I couldn’t leave my pained senior lying on the laundry room tile floor. First, I had to move him to his room.
“...?”
Then I saw something huge bulging on my senior’s lower abdomen.
What is this? A baton? A club?
Why did you stuff that into your pants? Was it a weapon you used in battle...? Either way, carrying a hard object on your waist would be very uncomfortable.
Swoop—
But when I lifted my senior’s shirt, I realized it wasn’t a baton at all.
“Eh...? A... ah?”