Became a Failed Experimental Subject Novel - Chapter 33

“You clearly said there would be delicious honey tteok, and yet you play with my feelings like this.”

Goo Seoryong smiled at my cold reaction, then glided across the floor towards me. “You used the term ‘nest,’ so you must know, right? What it means for a female monster like me to guide a charming male monster like you to her nest.”

“You want offspring?”

“Correct. How about it, won’t you have them with me? Our offspring. They’ll definitely be strong children.”

“I refuse.”

I grabbed Goo Seoryong, who was clinging to my arm, and pushed her away with one hand. Goo Seoryong, in a state of excitement, licked her lips and continued to thump her core loudly. In contrast, Goo Seoryong’s expression subtly twisted as she felt my core maintaining a very quiet state.

“Hmm… The more you refuse, the more I want you, but I’m a little hurt, you know? To have no reaction at all.”

“I am not the same type of monster as you. Sending out waves won’t make me want to copulate.”

“Regardless of that, it’s natural for a woman to be upset when a man shows no reaction after she takes off her clothes.”

“If you’re upset, put your clothes on.”

“Oh, why, are you embarrassed to see me?”

“You’re impossible to reason with.”

“Reason with you? If you were in my shoes, with a man like you in front of me… Hehe, well, even if I said it, men wouldn’t understand a woman’s heart, would they?”

Goo Seoryong intertwined her legs with mine and wrapped her arms around my waist. Annoyed that she kept clinging no matter how many times I pulled her off, I grabbed G3’s neck and squeezed it tightly, as if to break it.

“Let go. You’re bothering me.”

“Hehe, CXI, why don’t you just copulate and become mine?”

“No. I’ll leave when the necklace arrives, so don’t bother me.”

Goo Seoryong once again manipulated her body, matching my height and meeting my gaze. “You said you had nowhere to go after leaving the lab, didn’t you? I can promise you, if you stay here, I’ll feed you delicious food like this every day until you’re full. You can have anything you want, even women… Hehe, I’ll especially forgive you, so if you’re bored, you can embrace other women to your heart’s content.”

“You want me to settle down here?”

“That’s right. If I have a strong monster like you, I won’t have any worries, and personally, I like strong men. I don’t think I’ll ever see a male as strong as you again, so of course, I have to… hold on tight, right?”

Goo Seoryong flicked her forked tongue and wrapped herself around me. Feeling her half-liquified body pressing completely against me, I calmly tightened my grip on her neck and said, “I told you I don’t like to repeat myself.”

“If I don’t let go, will you kill me?”

“Yes.”

“Aha, that’s fine too? But tell me… can you really kill me? You’re CXI, aren’t you?”

“Hmph…”

Since she was an experimental subject from the same lab as me, I didn’t particularly want to kill her… but Goo Seoryong was a monster. I squeezed her neck, intending to break it. At that, Goo Seoryong’s neck flowed down like ice cream.

“Ahahaha! You really tried to break it! You’ve changed a lot, haven’t you?”

Goo Seoryong’s head, which had flowed down like ice cream, melted off the back of my hand and spoke. This wasn’t a body manipulation power like softening. It was Illusion. Sensing something was wrong, I immediately tried to transform into my monster form.

“CXI? You won’t be able to turn into a monster in my room. This room is full of my fixative.”

“Fixative?”

“It’s a drug that prevents you from leaving your human form, hehe… I never thought I’d have to use it like this, though.”

Focusing my sense of smell belatedly, I noticed a suspicious, metallic scent mixed with the steam emanating from the humidifiers. The sensation of a human body stiffening after inhaling the steam was an incomprehensible phenomenon, but what was certain was that I couldn’t transform into a monster.

At that moment, I frowned in confusion, and Goo Seoryong spoke as if she had read my mind. “Aha, that expression is cute~? You must be thinking something like this right now, aren’t you? ‘Why can Goo Seoryong use her power? She shouldn’t be able to use her monster form’s power in human form.’ Right?”

“…That’s right.”

“Since you’re so cute answering honestly, I’ll tell you specially. This room is also my training room! Training to use monster powers in human form, to pull monster powers into a human body.”

Why would she train something like that? And is it possible just by training…? Suddenly, remembering Goo Seoryong dripping poison from her fingertips, I voiced the question in my head.

“Are you blending monster characteristics into human form?”

“That’s right. I call it Ghoulification. How about it? Isn’t it attractive? If you apply it well… Ta-da! This is also possible!”

Goo Seoryong covered her hands and feet with scales, then lifted her hips and revealed a long lizard tail. Her black hair turned pure white, and her red pupils opened and split vertically. Goo Seoryong, who had entwined my waist with her sturdy tail, suppressed my arm with a force similar to my own current strength, unlike when she was in simple human form. It was astonishing that she could blend human and monster forms halfway. Even in human form, Goo Seoryong’s monster core subtly exuded power close to a Disaster-Class.

So this was Disaster-Class Ghoulification. It didn’t seem efficient enough for me to want to learn it, but it was certainly curious.

“Seems pretty useless. Why do you train like this?”

“Because a woman always wants to be beautiful, right? My monster form isn’t as abundant or cute as yours, Black Cat.”

My eyes widened in surprise at the name Black Cat. Goo Seoryong, confirming my reaction with her monster’s sensitive senses, curled the corners of her lips.

“So you really are Black Cat?”

“How did you know?”

“I was just guessing, but it makes sense, doesn’t it? CXI is a Despair-Class, and this ‘Black Cat’ is also a Despair-Class. Plus, a monster helping humans isn’t normal to begin with, is it?”

“You could tell that much? How curious.”

“It was just suspicion~ Now, it’s certainty.”

To realize I was Black Cat with just that much… Goo Seoryong must be quite intelligent. Goo Seoryong, having confirmed that I was Black Cat, embraced me tightly with her even longer tail, saying, “Hmm… Since CXI is Black Cat, I’m curious. Why exactly do you help humans? You’re a monster, aren’t you?”

“Monsters aren’t allowed to help humans?”

“It’s not that we’re not allowed, but it’s strange, isn’t it? We’re instinctively programmed to see humans as prey. You must feel it, right?”

As she said, when I smell human blood, my mouth waters, and my core vibrates just from smelling the dying thoughts. Monsters are the natural enemies of humans; humans are the prey of monsters. Hunting for food is an act that goes against the very existence of a monster.

But.

“You just ignore instinct.”

“Ahaha! Ahahahahaha! That’s so CXI! Indeed, if you were the type to be bound by instinct, you would have already devoured all the monsters you met in the lab and become a true monster! You’re a monster who does what he wants! Someone who absolutely won’t do what he doesn’t want to do.”

“I don’t want to copulate with you.”

“I’m also a monster who has to do what I want, just like you. It doesn’t matter if you don’t intend to be on my side now. Even if you’re not in my nest, it’s certain that strong children will be born if I get Black Cat’s seed.”

Goo Seoryong, exuding pheromones stickier than the humidifier’s steam, twitched her eyes at my calm voice and bared her venom-tipped claws.

“…But you, aren’t you too relaxed? Even though you’re completely subdued by me?”

“Is there a need to be tense? You’re too weak.”

Certainly, the power I felt from Goo Seoryong was somewhere between Disaster-Class and Despair-Class, but at that level, the most she could do was inflict minor injuries on my body. Goo Seoryong couldn’t kill me no matter what she did. Like a cat overwhelmingly subduing a snake, no matter how much Goo Seoryong thrashed around in front of me, it only seemed curious. Even as fellow monsters, the gap between Goo Seoryong and me was too vast.

“Hmm… It’s annoying, but you’re cool, aren’t you? As expected, the male I’ll get offspring from has to be at least this strong.”

Goo Seoryong, as if challenging me, plunged her venom-tipped claws into my shoulder. This was a biological toxin, separate from her powers, produced by the monster’s body itself. Goo Seoryong, having injected a full dose of paralyzing venom that stiffened my entire body, toppled my stiffened body onto the bed, then licked the blood and venom from her fingertips.

“I’ve injected so much venom that even you won’t be able to move for about a day. How does this feel? It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

“Is it a tranquilizer?”

Indeed, my entire body felt thick and sluggish, like my arms submerged in industrial grease; I couldn’t feel properly. Frowning at the sensation reminiscent of the tranquilizers I received daily in the lab, Goo Seoryong snapped her fingers before my eyes.

Snap, snap… snap… The sound echoed, and circular ripples appeared in my vision. White and black visual information swirled in my mind, paralyzing my sense of direction.

“Ho-ho-how d-d-d-does th-this f-f-feel? D-d-d-didn’t th-th-this one w-work a l-l-little? I-it’s a t-technique s-s-s-s-s-specialized for m-m-m-monsters.”

“It’s… working a bit… How did you do it?”

I blinked at the echoing sensation, trying to stabilize my senses. Like balancing on a swaying boat, my senses repeatedly regained their footing, saw and heard properly, then lost balance and swayed.

“That’s a secret, CXI. If I tell you, you’ll adapt, won’t you? You can’t adapt yet, so just stay still.”

“Hmm…”

Goo Seoryong closed and opened her hand once, then plunged her claws into my neck again. Gulp, gulp. A new poison entered my body with an unpleasant sound. A dulling sensation in my mind, excitement, and the heavy spread of Goo Seoryong’s core vibrations, similar to the club music, throughout my body. Remembering the humans copulating in the club at the sensation of my entire nervous system twitching in sync with the sound, I looked at the distorted Goo Seoryong and said, “Is the drug sold at the club made from your venom?”

“That’s right. How about it? I told you it would work, didn’t I? How far will this composure last~ Ohoho, you’ll be so happy you’ll die soon, won’t you?”

“Hmm…”

I closed my eyes and focused on my monster core, which was slowly turning as if submerged in cement. The toxicity could just be digested… The current power, the paralyzing poison, and the effect of this ‘fixative’ could all be swallowed, allowing me to move freely. However, it would take some time to digest all of this.

“You’re stronger than I thought.”

“Oh my, so I pass? Will you give me your seed?”

“Not that strong.”

Goo Seoryong, who knew that fact just as I did, removed her tail and scales, wearing a triumphant expression on my body.

“Ahahaha! It doesn’t matter. You’re sufficiently intoxicated now, so I just have to squeeze it out…?”

Just then, a comet flew far off in the distance beyond the glass wall of the window. I frowned at the familiar shape, and Goo Seoryong also hardened her expression, looking out the window. The slowly approaching comet transformed into a human shape and stopped in front of the window.

“Ha, damn it, what now?”

[Kuryong Fortress Lord, no, Villain Organization Boss, Goo Seoryong.]

Starlight scowled, looking at Goo Seoryong and me inside the window, then raised a single finger and drew a large circle. The silently melting window glass slowly fell away, and a murmur rose from the ground as people spotted Starlight amidst the club music. Starlight entered the room.

“Bribery of high-Classing officials… murder, robbery, theft, prostitution… What more is there to say?”

Starlight, with a fierce expression I hadn’t seen recently, clenched her fist and ignited a bright white flame. Whoosh. Starlight blew on her fist, extinguishing the flame, then glared at Goo Seoryong and said, “By my authority, you are under emergency arrest. If you don’t want to die, you’d better come quietly, don’t you think?”