Chapter 231 – Collapse, Poisoning

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Marcella pulled a small remote control from her gown pocket.
When she presses the button on top of her, she hears a booing sound as the screen comes down from the wall and covers the entire wall.

As Marcella, still agitated, was operating her remote control with her trembling hand, she called Dr. Sehwa.

“Doctor.”

“…?”

Sehwa continued talking to the doctor who was making a nervous expression.

“I will give you a chance. As long as the doctor makes good choices and listens carefully, YuRia will be all right.”

The doctor closed his eyes tightly.
She’s also been caught. If you don’t mind going to the park…
I don’t know what to do with the guilt. I’m so sorry.

Soon after, the screen turned on.
Split screen. On the left, people of various races were piled in a large prison,
On the right, Yuria was soundly asleep without a blanket in her hospital’s resemblance to her private room.
While being tied up.

The doctor looked at the screen to the right and his heart sank.

“Yuria… Are you okay…?”

“It’s okay. She’s just asleep. Do you know who the humans on the left screen are?”

Left screen close-up in time.
The doctor, who had been taking a rough look at everyone, shook his head.

“Mo, I don’t know… They’re people I don’t know…”

“Okay? Would you be sad to hear it?”

“Who…?”

Sehwa giggled and explained.

“The people tied to the screen on the left are people who know you. In many ways, it is related to Dr. These are the people who copied research and papers published while you were using Isabel Parsons’ name without permission. There are people who slander the doctor behind the scenes. These are very shameless things.”

“…..”

“The ones you brought here are just a device to acclimatise you. My relationship with the doctor was negative, about a passing relationship. But the next humans I catch will be innocent. Your relationship with the doctor will also be positive.”

Sehwa said that he would be punished twice.
Judging by her mention of the word option, it was clear to her that what was about to happen was terrifying.
Besides, the next humans he catches will be closer to him…

“What do you want from me…”

“What do you expect? Next, I will ask Marcella to explain.”

When Saehwa tapped Marcella’s pelvis with her palm, Marcella, who was still making a hazy face, suddenly regained her senses and opened her mouth.
What came out of her mouth shocked the doctor.

“I will turn Yuria Elenaar into a demon as many times as the number of mistakes you made. Instead, the doctor has a choice… If you don’t want YuRia-sama to turn into a demon, kill the humans on the left screen… Since you made the mistake twice, you can kill 20 people, ten at a time…”

She expected her option to kill humans instead of putting Yuria in pain.
But she never imagined there would be ten of them at once.
The same goes for demonization. It was unbelievably harsh.
Marcella continued her words, whether or not she knew the doctor’s panic.

“Usually, humans lose their intelligence and become monsters after going through one or two rounds of monster transformation. However, Yuria-sama is as strong as she has gone through countless hardships… Maybe twenty times… At most thirty times…”

When Marcella finished her sentence, Saehwa pulled out two small switches from her pocket.
She said, placing the red switch in the doctor’s left hand and the green one in her right.

“The doctor chooses for himself.”

“Ah…”

The doctor’s body, which had come to the brink of losing consciousness, staggered once.
Saehwa, who quickly supported her, said in her grim voice.

“You shouldn’t be like this already… Cheer up. I’ll give you one minute. If you don’t choose, I will punish YuRia unnie and all of those humans.”

“Sehwa… Where the hell are you…”

How far has Sehwa fallen?
That evil look is evil itself.
It seemed that there was no sense of justice to protect humans in the first place.
It makes me want to find out what method Tairat used.

“Time is running out.”

“…..”

It reminds me of the train car problem, an ethical thought experiment in which one person is tied to one track and five people are tied to another, and a switch is operated to choose who to kill.
How to solve this dilemma? In fact, the doctor’s answer was already decided.

The doctor liked numbers games and estimating values.
So I put a price on life.
Compared to those people, the value of Yuria alone was so great that it was incomparable.
She thinks of her like her family, so of course she had to choose her left.
However, the thought of people dying by her own choice aroused her visceral reluctance.

He hated humans because of what Ji-hyeok went through and what he said, but this fell on Tyrat’s machinations.
Her own nature has not yet collapsed. The fact that she thought she never wanted to kill was evidence of that.

The mind becomes confused. I just wanted to let go of consciousness.
She said that if she didn’t choose, she would punish both YuRia and the humans.
There will never be empty words. I had to press the switch all the time.

“Thirty seconds left. If you have a hard time choosing, let me know. Let me help you. Just this once.”

Please… I hope Jihyeok finds out about his disappearance and sends Sylvia and Adele away.
I hope they break down the ceiling like Superman and purify Sehwa, rescue Yuria and herself, and get out of here.
If there is a God, I hope he will save me.
But… That false hope doesn’t happen.

“Ten seconds left.”

“…..”

“9, 8, 7, 6…”

Sehwa counts like a child playing a fun game.
The doctor who shed tears finally squeezed his voice.

“Left… Left…”

At those words, Sehwa gave a beautiful smile and grabbed the doctor’s left hand and bent it.

“I knew you would. Well done.”

And then, without hesitation, I gave it my strength.
Two clicks echoed through the silent room,

Bang-! Beep!

The screen turned off with a series of explosions.
At the same time, the doctor let go of reason.
A prison that turned into a scene of misery as the heads of 20 people exploded at once.
It was because it seemed that the survivors’ screams of despair and fear could be heard inside.
She immediately rolled her eyes up and passed out.

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– Aaaaa!!
-It exploded…! My head exploded!
-Help me! Please let me out! Sorry!

“Huh!”

The doctor, who had a nightmare of people dying, jumped up.
Then a headache came and touched my forehead.

“Ah…”

“It’s okay?”

The doctor, who turned his head at the high-pitched voice coming from the side, gritted his teeth as Sehwa looked at him with a fishy smile.
I want to swear at her right away and slapp her cheeks, but if I do, Sehwa might switch again.
The doctor, who forcibly relaxed his expression, asked in a trembling voice.

“It wasn’t a dream…?”

“Yes. You killed 20 people at the same time.”

“… Uuk…!”

The doctor, vomited in vain by Sehwa’s confirmed kill, ran to the bathroom.
Pressing her face into her toilet bowl and pouring out her stomach acid, she leaned her back against the bathroom wall with a look of strain.
Then, Sae-hwa approaches and holds out a wet towel.
The doctor took the towel and wiped her mouth without saying anything.

“Thank you…”

“Thank you? Our doctor, have you become very nice? I guess the shock therapy was pretty strong?”

“It can’t be helped…”

“Yes. I can’t help it. Just do it like this. Then YuRia will be safe, and she won’t have blood on the doctor’s hands.”

“…..”

“Eat quickly. I put it on the table.”

Would rice go down your throat in this situation?

“I have no idea… Can I give you some alone time?”

“Are you not going to eat?”

Se-hwa watches the doctor with a meaningful expression.
If the doctor didn’t eat here, she had a hunch that the same thing would happen again.
It was so vicious. It’s to the point of doubting whether the devil is wearing Sehwa’s mask.

Yes let’s eat Tragedy can be avoided as long as one eats, but some cannot.
The doctor got up and went to the table.
And then, without realizing it, I touched my stomach.
Not because I was hungry, but because I was worried about my child.

“There is nothing wrong with the child. Because when the doctor fainted, she did the test on the medical device.”

These were the words of Sehwa, who was sitting opposite the doctor at some point.
The doctor thought it was fortunate, but suddenly he was curious.
Sehwa, who became Tyrat’s limb, was cruel.
So if she sees holding the child hostage as the default option, why does she bother?

Seeing Sehwa’s gentle expression, the doctor gathered courage and asked.

“Why… Are you looking after my child?”

“The doctor’s child will serve my master… In other words, the Demon King.”

What…? Do you dare to use your own child as a servant of Tyrat?
It was impossible.
Hearing the absurd answer, the doctor exclaimed.

“Dog sound! There is no such thing as that!”

“I will take a look. Calm down right now.”

The scab looked like it was about to burst.
But, as Sehwa said, you need to calm down.
I couldn’t make the easy choice again.
The exasperated doctor let out a long sigh and apologized meekly.

“Sorry…”

“I understand your feelings, Dr. It must have been daunting to give a child to an enemy chief. But what if the doctor is mistaken?”

Are you thinking wrong? What kind of bullshit is this?

“What are you talking about?”

“No. Now eat.”

Looking at it, it didn’t seem like he would tell me, so in desperation, Dr. Han looked at the cup of Korean-style porridge and water on the table.
I guess I planned this diet in anticipation that I would not feel well, but I was dumbfounded that they were even using a stick-and-carrot strategy.

When I scooped a spoonful of porridge and brought it to my mouth, I felt its unique steamy and soft taste.
Unknowingly, the doctor, whose expression was relaxed, began to eat the porridge slowly.
Saehwa, who was watching the doctor eat while resting her arms on the table, asked.

“How does it taste?”

“Tasty…”

It wasn’t empty talk. Porridge was really good.
To the point where I think I want to eat it every day.

“I made it. Eat a lot.”

“… Yes, I will.”

The doctor moved his hand steadily and aggressively to scrape and eat the porridge.
The tension continues, and the speed has reversed, but to inhale the porridge as if it was a hook.
I must have been very hungry.

After eating all the porridge and taking a shot of the water in the pink cup, the doctor stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.
Then, startled, he looked at Sehwa.
Did you just whack your appetite? I was pathetic and embarrassed myself.

“You eat well. Can I get you more?”

“…..”

To be honest, I wanted to eat more.
However, because of face and rebelliousness, words did not fall.
Sehwa smiled and said nothing.
It was as if he was waiting for an answer from the doctor himself.
The doctor, who had been thinking a lot for a short time, eventually gave in to temptation.

“Can you… Give me more?”

At those words, Sehwa smiled and stood up.

“Sure. I’ll bring it, so wait a minute.”

Se-hwa went outside humming her song.
Feeling that she was somehow kind, the doctor stared at her plate and agonized for some time before sitting down with his back to her surveillance camera.
Then he picked up her bowl and brought it to her face, licking off any residue that was stuck to it.
She didn’t even know what she was doing.
I just ate the delicious porridge according to my instincts and the way my heart felt.