cannibal | wonhui

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I toss my bag onto the counter and shrug off my soaked jacket. When I left the hospital, it had started pouring rain and I didn't think to bring an umbrella. Needless to say, I'll have a bit if a sniffle when I go back to see Mr. Wen.

I slipped into warmer clothes and sat down on the hotel bed, pulling up the audio from our encounter. I imagined his room as I listened. The paintings of his victims' mangled bodies stared at me in my mind. I could hear their screams, then silence, and Mr. Wen devouring their flesh. I always tried to imagine it. Did he cook them, did he eat them raw? He knew how to cut up a body, maybe he was a butcher before. Did he kill them first, or did he eat them alive? I knew what he did when they were still alive, which surprisingly didn't scare me as much.

I closed my eyes and listened to Mr. Wen speak. He seemed so poised, as if he did this as a profession and made it look good. When he noticed me stare at the painting of Yoon Jeonghan, he seemed amused. When he mentioned Lee Jihoon, he spoke so nonchalantly, as if it were normal to explain how good his hands were. I didn't really want to know what he thought of Xu Minghao.

I was completely snatched from my thoughts when I received a Skype call from my boyfriend. I sigh and accept, not really wanting to talk to him, but I missed him nonetheless.

"Wonwoo, you look like shit."

"Looks are not deceiving in this instance, then."

"When are you coming home?"

I smile, "Soon, baby. How's work been?"

Mingyu goaned loudly, "Oh my god, Jihyun is getting on my last nerve!"

"Well, that's what you get for eating her son's birthday cake."

"That was three years ago! And that little shit took my keys!"

"You stole a child's birthday cake, Kim Mingyu. The entire cake, and you ate it on a Facebook livestream. You're gonna burn in hell."

"Yeah, yeah. Speaking of hell, did you get to talk to that guy, the cannibal?"

"I did! He scared the shit out of me, but it was a great conversation. I'm going back tomorrow morning, to talk to him a bit more."

"Well, don't let him eat your ass, that's my job."

"That was Sagawa Issei, stupid. He only killed one person. Wen Junhui was the one who killed and ate 76 people in 3 different countries."

"76? Is he obese? I imagine human meat is pretty filling."

"Surprisingly no, he's very fit. Very handsome, too, but his eyes have way too much crazy in them. I just need some background info on him, before I come back home. Then, I can finally finish my book."

"Yes, come home to me, my princess."