Hobby Activity
School. A place where countless children gather to study and occasionally play, building friendships.
What can I do there?
Even if I can't mingle with the kids, as long as we can communicate somehow, it would be fortunate.
Most of them have lived in a completely different world from me.
I don't know.
The only one of my age I know is Seojun.
Anyway, I've been able to go there somehow.
Ultimately, I was able to meet the person I wanted to see so much.
But there was one condition.
“Save me! Originally, we were just ordered to...”
The sight of her face swelling and then exploding is disgusting no matter how many times I see it.
Originally, there's no reason for a human who forced someone to do something to give an injection to an experimental subject and smile like that.
Calling me a successful experimental subject probably wasn't entirely wrong.
The girl of my age tied to the chair, wearing nothing but a scrap of cloth, opens her mouth but can't say a word.
Anyway, until the start of school, there's about a month left, so I was told to find at least one thing I want to do.
To live like a human being, one needs hobbies or something like that.
At first, I tried to get various instruments and play them.
Even sitting in front of a piano, I couldn't get the desired notes out, so I gave up after a while.
I was told I was good at it, but to me it was just noise.
By roughly matching the rhythm and dynamics, I was just pressing the notes on the score like a machine.
The forcibly improved eyesight and physical abilities made it possible, but it seemed my emotions had been taken away.
Next, I went to a barista academy to learn how to make coffee.
I got a little tired of the sight of many people gathering around me, laughing heartily among themselves, and making and drinking delicious coffee.
Probably because I couldn't laugh when others were laughing.
When I drink it alone, the coffee that was so fragrant there was just bitter water.
Especially when I saw couples holding hands gently during class.
Ultimately, the hobby I found is this.
- From the right, 30 private security guards will pop out, so return first.
I threw away the earphones that were buzzing in my ears.
I was about to take off the mask I was wearing, but since I might not be able to go to school, it was a bit unsettling, so I stopped.
“Hey, hey! Sihyun, stop what you're doing and go to the kid first...!”
Because of the blood soaking, it made a cutting sound, and then it seemed to break down.
It doesn't seem like I need to care much.
Adding a little more injury to the already dead researcher's body, I let out more blood and dragged it while it was still flowing, walking towards the right corridor.
As expected, the sound of sirens and numerous footsteps echoed.
In the narrow corridor, every light I see is broken by me, the loud siren sound spinning around and increasing the confusion, and the place filled with red light, 30 people rushing in at once doesn't seem like a very good choice.
After bursting the corpses, I beheaded the humans who rushed in with the gathered blood in an instant.
The severed cross-sections slid down smoothly, and the humans whose bodies tilted as they were beheaded only had dazed expressions on their faces, not knowing what had happened to them.
Soon after, various screams were heard.
But there were two survivors.
One was staring blankly at the ceiling with his hand on his neck, and the other was staring at his leg that had become a cube.
Then they looked at me and shouted.
“D-Don't come, you crazy monster...!”
I made a red hand in the air and grabbed my face, and it became quiet.
“Do you have cigarettes? What kind of thing is it that doesn't even sell a pack to a kid like me.”
At that, the man took out a cigarette and lighter with his trembling hand from his pocket and handed them to me with both hands.
“P-Please save me. Please.”
The bottom of the cigarette pack was a bit wet with blood, so it was unusable, but it didn't matter.
I fell and since it was crushed, I took out one miserable cigarette, put it in my mouth, bit the capsule lightly with my teeth, and lit it.
Then I inhaled the smoke....
“Ekuh! Epuchi! Aigoo, it was the first time.”
This didn't seem to become a new taste like piano or coffee.
Whether it was because I smoked a wet cigarette or not, I didn't feel my head getting clearer, and the stuffiness didn't disappear.
I felt like a boring human.
Originally, if a human, they wouldn't care if shot, and severed limbs wouldn't regrow, so it's questionable if I can even be called human.
The man stared at me for a long time with a strange expression, as if looking at something bizarre, and then he exploded.
Because his expression was unpleasant.
Anyway, whenever I see an experimental subject on the way, I release them, and if they beg me while holding my leg and asking to be killed painlessly, I instantly blow their head off.
I am the understanding of everyone here.
I'm not trying to claim that there's only one philosophical issue with suicide, but at least if I'm trapped here, even if I go out, I'll definitely have a lot of thoughts about wanting to die.
We've lived in places like this, so we've suffered so much that we've forgotten the value of living.
That's why I hate the humans related to this place so much.
Security guards, researchers, even the cleaning auntie who cleans the building.
Every day in this small place without any sunlight, every day, if I have a bit more time, if I have any abilities, if this experiment succeeds, if I get a bit older and understand how important this research is, while hearing the same nonsense every day, the vain imagination that I can go out every day, and eventually at the end, how tough my eyeballs are, bullets don't work, so they bring a handsaw and slice my arms, and experiment if I can breathe even if my neck is cut a bit, peeling my Adam's apple a bit at a time with industrial pliers, recalling the time they cut my limbs, these humans here are all...
Um, I seemed a bit excited.
It's not a story that goes well with me, though.
To meet that kid, I still have to remain a kind and nice girl.
Even though I've become a boring human, since I was a boring human from the beginning, it doesn't seem to matter much.
By the way, it's a girl. It's funny, so I laughed out loud.
Following the blood flowing with a gesture, it started wetting the floor and leading the way.
A sense came that I had to go underground.
So, I passed through the corridor and went down to the underground.
Below, there were experimental subjects with the look of meat that only breathes, or kids who had just been caught not long ago.
The security guards, most of them were the ones who just came up, so except for one or two occasionally guarding the corridor or area, they weren't visible.
The researchers, surprisingly, were hiding trembling under the office desks.
Even if I blocked with my hands, the blood soaking my body couldn't be stopped from flowing into my ears and nostrils, and most of them scratched their faces madly and died.
Most meaning there were still some who hadn't burst yet.
“Build, ability, hair color, 11th rank?
Even if wearing a mask, I can recognize immediately.”
In the innermost research lab, along with the experimental subject who was undergoing durability testing, the Department Head and some researchers were visible.
“Why are you here?”
“I need someone to move your limbs and explain.”
Taking the fingers and toes full of buckets, I don't know where to use them.
Probably not to eat.
I also ate someone else's at first.
At that time, I thought it was just meat with the meal, but the Team Leader said it was the flesh of a quite successful experimental subject before I appeared.
He took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and lit it.
I wanted to light it too, but since my body coughed after inhaling smoke once, I stopped.
“By the way, I'm more curious why you're here.
After a sudden terror, I lost the most successful experimental subject and researchers in a day, but if the experimental subject comes back on its own, it would be a bit embarrassing.”
I shot the blood flowing on the floor sharply and answered by stabbing the surrounding researchers to death.
“It may sound like an excuse, but I didn't want to do this to kids like you.
The result is this disappointing, though.”
“Then why did you do it to me?”
There are many things I want to ask.
“In the end, I will save countless people.”
At the same time as that, the man took out a gun from his pocket and pointed it at my head.
Before pulling the trigger, my wrist flew off.
“You shouldn't die like that.”
I moved the blood spurting from my wrist to slowly make him drown.
Without saying anything, in a place where no one to ask for help.
But the man, seeing the blood approaching his face without making a single scream, just gently closed his eyes.
As if he knew this day would come.
The man who had experimented on me for several months died more pathetically than a fish flopping around.
Without any ugly plea to be saved.
Even kicking the corpse didn't bring any reaction.
Just the blood pooled on the floor made a squelching sound.
“Ugh.”
I feel like my head is empty.
No thoughts came to mind.
Still, while looking at the scene, I put the cigarette back in my mouth.
Lighting it and inhaling the smoke, I coughed as usual.
When the smell of burning tobacco leaves reaching the filter became disgusting, someone shouted from behind me.
“I told you not to do dangerous things... Ah.”
When I turned my head, seeing the woman wearing the Rabbit Mask who was the Department Head, I slipped and fell.