Soo-min knew her fate was sealed.
Even if Jody didn't kill her, there was nowhere for her to run. But that wasn't what made Soo-min tremble in fear…
It was the look in Jody Johansson's eyes staring down at her.
Jody bent down, then dug her fingernails into Soo-min's scalp and yanked her up by the hair, dragging her away.
"Jody!? What are you doing?!"
Sera rushed over, beginning to treat Jody's wounds while watching what she was doing.
"...She won't die right away... but if we just leave her corpse here, I don't think Sid would be too pleased."
"...So what are you going to do?" Roxxy asked.
Jody didn't answer. She just dragged Soo-min's body over to the edge of a five-meter-deep cement pit.
Soo-min's breath came in sharp, shallow gasps. Her heart pounded. Blood spurted from the hole in her neck. Her limbs flailed weakly in a desperate, animalistic fear of death.
No… no, this isn't happening, right?! She's not going to do what I think she's going to do! No—NO! She could just shoot me in the head, anything but this!
No matter how hard Soo-min tried to scream, all that came out were gargled, choked noises from her ruined throat.
"Ah… ahh… ah—AHHH!!"
Jody didn't care.
"Jody... Don't tell me you're…"
Still, she said nothing.
She laid Soo-min at the edge of the pit and, using her unbroken leg, nudged her.
Soo-min's body rolled and fell—alive—into the cement pit.
Roxxy and Sera stood frozen, watching as tears streamed down Soo-min's face while she writhed and thrashed helplessly, slowly sinking into the thick gray mixture. Cement began to pour into her mouth, nose, ears—every crevice of her body...
Until finally, her face disappeared beneath the surface.
All that remained... was the murky, reddish stain where she had vanished.
Sera was pale, her expression blank in horror. She turned to Jody, utterly shocked.
She didn't even want to imagine what Soo-min must've felt in her final moments.
"...Jody... you... buried her alive in the cement pit—"
"!!!!"
Before she could finish, Sera stopped herself. Because the look on Jody's face...
Was completely unaffected.
Still. Stone cold. As if what she'd just done was no more than tossing a used tissue into the trash.
Her eyes were empty—devoid of empathy, compassion, or even the faintest trace of guilt.
She stared silently at the rising bubbles in the cement... fading… fading… until there were none.
"...If there's no body, it doesn't count as murder."
Her words left both Sera and Roxxy speechless.
"..."
Jody turned her face away and began to limp away from the construction site, supported by Sera. The glowing red aura from Sid's buff slowly evaporated from the three of them.
Roxxy trailed behind, still staring at Jody's back—shaken, stunned...
She was finally starting to understand what Mickey had been trying to warn them about.
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Soo-min [수민]
Alias: Parasite
Nationality: Korean
Languages: English
Ability: Decomposition based on movement speed. The faster something moves, the faster it is decomposed.
The parasites determine what to decompose based on the "frame of reference" of the host they are attached to.
Power Type:
Her ability manifests as invisible parasites that spread through the air like a contagion, undetectable by the naked eye.