《ROAD TO SALVATION》|| A Sweet Home Fan Story

Episode 19: Sheer Determination

3rd Person POV

Back in the closet, Seon gave her husband a bag of chips and a glass of coffee.

"Is that it?" Seok asked his wife as she nodded. "Fuck. You're already treating me like a monster."

"..." Seon still said nothing as she scratched her head.

"Just be honest with me," Seok sighed.

"What?" Seon asked.

"You're glad that this happened to me, aren't you? Is that why you're doing this?"

"What? No, of course not."

"You're the first person I'll devour if I turn into a monster, got it? So do something, you goddamn pathetic bitch! How can you just bring your own husband a few fucking chips?! Huh?!" Seok ranted as he kicked the cup, causing the coffee to spill on the floor.

"But that's a day's worth of food," Seon admitted.

"Go get me something else right now!" Seok demanded impatiently. "Even if you have to steal it!"

"..."

"What if you turn into a mon...?!" he stopped when he noticed Seon's hand behind her back. "Hey, what's that in your hand?"

"..."

"What have you been hiding behind your back this whole time? Huh?"

What was behind Seon's back was, in fact, a kitchen knife.

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Hyuk's POV

I felt Jisu grabbed my collar as she pushed me to a wall in the men's bathroom.

"You sent the three of them by themselves? Are you insane?!!" Jisu angrily asked.

"You know this is the men's bathroom, right?" I tried to change the subject but I knew Jisu wasn't having it.

"Who do you think you are? Playing God with people's lives?!"

"We really need Dusik Hahn. And sending Hyun, who's in the process of turning into a monster, and Dae-shim, who seems unsure if he'll turn into a monster or not, on that dangerous mission was an extremely rational decision. Do you think I put myself in danger for nothing?"

"Urgh... You little...!!"

"Haven't you ever had to be cruel to stay alive?"

"But..."

"I guess you have."

Jisu continued to glare at me.

"Will you let me go now?" I insisted. "This is starting to hurt."

"Wasn't there any other way?" Jisu asked.

"I'm desperately trying to find a way out of this. I wish you would understand that. At the start of this whole monster incident, people were completely defenseless when they turned into monsters, but it's different now. People have already seen the monsters, and they know whether they turn into a monster depends on their own willpower and desires. That theory is almost certainly correct based on what Hyun and Dae-shim told us."

"But you sent Hyun and Dae-shim on a dangerous mission."

"Hyun has been resisting turning into a monster from the very start until now. And Dae-shim appears to have an iron will, which is why he hasn't shown any symptoms of becoming a monster. That confirms my opinion that monsterization has nothing to do with viruses because there's no such thing as a virus that can stop you with willpower."