Hans called the man in the black hood. He smelled like a rotting corpse, but Hans didn’t care. It was because his sense of smell had been dulled by being so close.
“Master?”
Only after Hans called the other person again did the man turn his back.
Unlike the terrible stench that makes one dizzy when one approaches him, his appearance was surprisingly intact. Because it was the same as the appearance the gutter rat had had in his lifetime.
‘A shell made of human skin.’
Hans remembered something he had made once with the skin of a snake. He named the creature taxidermist.
Actually, he was a little happy back then. He was flattered. Because he felt like a god who created new life.
Then the gutter rat, who had been watching the process from start to finish, called out to Hans.
“Make me too.”
“Yes?”
“I want you to make me that too.”
A body of eternal life that does not die.
That’s what the gutter rat wanted. He decided that he would become a chimera himself, and ordered Hans.
“But, as the Master saw, that creature is unstable. Don’t you know that unless you swallow a taxidermist and nurture it in your body, you can’t survive?”
In order to keep the chimera moving, it had to inject endless energy. And it had to be in the body of a truly living being.
“At least in a few years it might be possible to make it perfectly. But now it’s too early…”
“Child. Please think hard.”
The gutter rat said, interrupting Hans’s concerns in the middle.
“Energy can be absorbed, and you can keep polishing the body.”
That’s a good way!
Hans, who had no conscience since getting a job in the gutter, found the last king of immorality that even Hans could not think of.
He said, ‘Oh, as expected the Master.’, and he was admired. It was just like that at the time when he didn’t do what he thought of and just continued living.
But now…….
‘Can you say that it is alive?’
Hans thought. He didn’t know he was going to be successful. It was the creature he helped create, but it was bizarre.
‘Human…… chimera.’
He had nothing else to say.
Neither alive nor dead.
“Now that you have absorbed enough energy, you must start.”
“Are you talking about it already?”
“Yes. It looks like our tail will be trampled on soon.”
Hans said after putting his fingers through the curtains and peering out.
“Hmm, I haven’t even picked a suitable shell yet.”
After that, the gutter rat said as if he found it genuinely pitiful.
Hans almost made a sneer without realizing it.
‘The gutter rat was obsessed with good-looking and beautiful things when he was alive.’
Even now, even now that the gutter rat had become a monster, he wondered if he still cared about the appearance of human beings. No matter how he thinks about it, it’s not normal.
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Becoming The Villain's Family
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