I’m the Only One With a Different Genre

39 – He couldn’t overcome the shock and fainted.

Totogen had been a prisoner for a very long time. He stalked a woman he liked, got caught by the woman’s husband, took a beating until he was on the verge of death, and escaped.

Filled with rage, he drugged the couple on a night when the full moon was out, making them fall into a deep sleep before murdering them both.

Afterwards, he, who had just begun married life or sought women of his taste, started a series of murders.

Caught in the act, he was dragged to a place known as the worst prison, but as the prison collapsed due to a demonic invasion, he tasted freedom.

However, the sweet freedom did not last long. He was captured by a slave trader and became a slave.

Living each day as half a corpse without proper meals, one day a child approached him.

“Sir, please… eat this.”

The child kindly smiled and shared half of his food. Seeing the pure kindness of a child that could not be found in this filthy and grotesque world, Totojen couldn’t bear it, and a desire for flesh overwhelmed him.

Totojen killed the child. He immersed himself in ecstasy watching the child’s eyes fill with confusion, fear, and despair.

‘Ah, I want to kill a more pure and beautiful child.’

Already on the path of corruption from the beginning, Totojen was completely immersed in darkness at that moment. He killed the slave trader and began posing as a trader.

In the land ruled by the rising influence of despicable beings under the demon king, Totojen prospered, accumulating immense wealth.

‘How should I torment them this time?’

Totojen couldn’t hide his anticipation, tapping his wrinkled hands together and repeating the motion. The dizzying excitement lingered in his mind.

‘With two of them, it might be good to ruin them one by one. The other one will tremble in fear.’

Thinking of the two slaves who seemed like siblings, Totojen let out a shiver-inducing wicked laugh.

‘Or… make them fight stronger demons. Ah, yes, making them commit murder would be fun too!’

Totojen untangled his hands, and, with a slow, deliberate touch, repeatedly pressed and released his fingertips. How much time passed that way?

Knock, knock.

With a cautious knock, the door opened, and the two slaves he had been eagerly awaiting entered the room.

The first thing his eyes landed on was a stoic girl with long, white hair. She was beautiful even from a distance, and up close, she was a girl with eyes round as if surprised, yet there was one flaw – her pupils were empty, like those of a dead person.

He liked the idea of pure and lovely children either rolling in agony or becoming completely corrupt and dirty, not having a living doll.

“Oh…”

Unlike the girl, the boy holding hands with her had truly clear eyes. Eyes so clear as if he had never experienced anything dreadful!

Not knowing that those were the eyes of a clear-sighted demon, Totojen got lost in delight.

‘Ah! I want to see those pupils die!’

With excitement, he trembled, recalling the numerous children he had killed in his mind.

“Let’s go with this child.”

“What? Yes! Uh, understood!”

Ottugi nodded, putting a brochure full of fabricated product descriptions into his pocket, and Lian, the chosen one, blinked at the man in a robe.

‘What? Am I being sold?’

Lian rolled his eyes with a cold sweat.

“I finally met Iris, and now we’re parting like this? Ugh! Somehow, I thought he promised a full course!”

While Lian was internally screaming, Totojen pointed at Lian and said, “Bring him over here. I want to see him up close.”

“Oh, yes!”

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Ottugi swiftly approached Lian, moving like a silent lady rushing forward.

“If you behave rudely in front of him, your head will roll. This is not a warning.”

Ottugi whispered as he pushed Lian’s back. Lian reflexively tilted his head away and remembered the difficulty of attaching it the other way around.

“I should be careful if it falls off.”

Finding and attaching the head straight while the vision was on the ground was quite a challenging task.

“I want everyone out for a moment; I want to have a private conversation.”

“Yes?”

Click.

As Totojen took out a hefty money pouch and threw it, Ottugi bowed 120 degrees, picked up the money pouch, and quickly left the room.

The bodyguards and secretary also hurriedly left the room.

Iris didn’t want to leave Lian behind, but Lian assured her with determined body language that he would be fine, so she reluctantly left.

Only Lian and Totojen remained in the room. Totojen pulled Lian in front of him, chuckled, and pushed his robe back.

“Hehe, let’s see. What kind of reaction will you show?”

Burn marks, scars from a knife, and even eye sockets revealing empty holes. In addition, there was grotesque skin that seemed to be transplanted from someone else.

Tiny bumps the size of a baby’s fist grew on his face, jaw, and neck, with a gruesome smile lingering around his mouth.

The children who saw his appearance had two reactions. Most were frightened, either trembling in fear or showing sympathy.

Totojen looked at Lian with a face full of anticipation, and Lian also stared back at Totojen.

Silence.

“Why no reaction? Did you faint?”

There was no fear or sympathy on Lian’s face, just pure indifference.

It was a gaze, as if glancing at someone passing by on the street. Cold sweat began to trickle down Totojen’s face.

‘This can’t be happening. Surely if he shows a more sinister expression…!’

TotoGen grinned, revealing his fangs, and chuckled. It was a chilling smile that sent shivers down the spine. TotoGen had expected Lian to burst into tears or collapse to the ground this time.

Snick.

“…?!”

However, what returned was a wide, open laughter.

‘What’s going on? Is he a good person?’

In Lian’s world, not only ghosts but also zombies frequently appeared. After all, there was a Halloween season once a year.

They usually lived near cemeteries, working part-time during the Halloween season or dreaming of world domination.

One of the incidents the zombie horde committed that Lian liked the most was their plan to eliminate all couples. Lian looked at TotoGen, recalling the zombie friend she had dated back then.

‘He seems quite normal in comparison.’

Did his organs stick out? No.

Was his head crushed, revealing the brain? No.

Was his tongue extending more than a meter? No.

Indeed, according to Lian’s standards, TotoGen appeared to be a rather intact zombie. That’s why she responded with a smile when TotoGen smiled first.

Seeing Lian’s reaction, TotoGen shivered.

TotoGen enjoyed the despair of children because he was like a toy that responded as pressed in the hands of an adult.

Children who hadn’t grown up in the arms of adults couldn’t possibly withstand the torment of the cruel TotoGen. Well, at least not until now.

‘Am I not scared? Am I… saying I’m fearless?’

Like a clumsy criminal who seeks to kill the weak rather than the strong, he concluded that Lian’s laughter was her way of ignoring him.

“Arrogant…!”

He growled and pulled out a surgical knife from the space inside his robe.

“Dare you look at me like that!”

He thrust the knife deeply into Lian’s abdomen with a slash. Then he dragged it down. The red blood painted her face with a grotesque expression.

He shouldn’t have done that.

“What’s this, another punk?”

Turning his gaze to Lian’s frightened face, TotoGen froze at the sudden unfamiliar voice.

“Is this your living room? What’s with the fuss when we open the door?”

“Whoa, whoa, calm down, big brother. What does that kid know? Probably lacking in intelligence, judging by the way she can’t even use a knife properly.”

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to say hello first before barging in?”

“Hak hak! Virus, huh? Are you a virus too?”

Totojen stared at Lian’s abdomen with a vacant expression.

“What… is this?”

Totojen, who intended to frighten and terrify Lian, found himself pale and trembling, his lips parched.

He took pride in his monstrous face, knowing that anyone who saw it would stiffen in fear.

However, the eyes and mouths of the organs attached to his monstrous face seemed to be screaming at him, as if it meant nothing.

“Uh, impossible…”

When someone is too surprised, words don’t come out properly. Totojen was in exactly that state.

‘Is this a dream? Yes, it must be a dream. It’s probably the lingering effect of the medicine I took a while ago!’

Totojen turned his gaze towards Lian, hoping against hope.

‘She must already be in a dead state -…’

“We apologize. Our organs tend to get rough when near people with weak hearts. Oh, but still, you shouldn’t casually open someone else’s abdomen.”

Lian apologized to the rude zombie organs with a nonchalant expression, then educated the zombie lacking human manners on basic etiquette.

“Probably because the abdomen gets cold, organs can catch a cold -… huh?”

“Squirm…”

He couldn’t overcome the shock and fainted.

“Well, the organs did warn that their language could be harsh.”

As Lian muttered, the organs spat out curses. Ignoring the organs’ words, Lian pulled out the knife stuck in her abdomen and closed the exposed flesh.

As she gently stroked it, the wound quickly healed.