chapter 28
28 – 028. The Succubus Incident (3)
What happens to a person who is attacked by a succubus?
There are various symptoms such as anemia, hypoglycemia, hypotension, and lethargy, but the most prominent among them is definitely ‘Sage Time’.
“Younghan Lee?”
“… ….”
“Younghan Lee? Can I talk to you for a minute?”
“…… Swimming.”
After hearing about the incident from Chaeryeong Min, the three of us headed straight to the infirmary.
So now. Lee Tae-ho sighed heavily as he watched Lee Young-han, the victim of this case, who was half-leaning on the bed in the infirmary and idly chasing the air.
Lee Young-han was conscious. However, she was only conscious, and there was not even a hint of rationality on her face. If there is a substance that makes up a person’s reason, it looks as if that substance has been sucked out.
“Younghan Lee. I am Lee Tae-ho, a member of the Special Countermeasures Division of the Green House Guard. Can I talk to you for a minute?”
“Slight, hypertrophic…… ?”
After several attempts at conversation, Lee Young-han finally turned to us. I wondered if Magari still didn’t understand what he was saying, but Lee Tae-ho steadfastly tried to talk.
“I came here because of the raid that took place this morning. Mr. Lee Young-han, could you tell us what happened at the time-.”
“…… Ah.”
Lee Tae-ho finally shook his head at the still reaction. Then he insinuatedly looked at Yuri Cho, who was far away.
“Yuri. I think I will need your skills.”
“…… Do you really need it?”
“Yes. As it is, it’s a statement, and it doesn’t work at all.”
“………… Please?”
“Cho Yu-ri.”
At Lee Tae-ho’s determined call, Cho Yu-ri slowly approached the bed with hesitant steps.
“Poss, sis, sis, excuse me, excuse me, huh?”
Cho Yu-ri grabbed Lee Young-han’s right hand, which was hanging loosely. Hee from her mouth! A moaning sound leaked out.
I asked as I looked at Yuri Cho, who was trembling with her head turned, like a child receiving an injection for the first time.
“What is Cho Yu-ri’s ability?”
“…… Me, me and everyone else’s ho! Hor…… !”
“…… It is the ability to control the amount of hormones secreted in the body of oneself or those with whom one comes in contact. Now I’m trying to use that ability to awaken Lee Young-han’s consciousness.”
“Aha.”
I roughly nodded my head at Lee Tae-ho’s explanation in place of Cho Yu-ri. Being from a liberal arts department, he didn’t know anything about hormones or anything, but it was probably his ability to control the amount of things like dopamine and adrenaline.
“Huh, huh.”
Cho Yu-ri, holding Lee Young-han’s hand, looked almost crying. That level of male phobia went beyond being embarrassing.
“f*ck, it’s over.”
Cho Yu-ri, who took her hand away from Lee Young-han, quickly pulled her body away.
“Eh, huh?”
At the same time, the light of reason gradually began to return to Lee Young-han’s face, which had been blank.
“Younghan Lee?”
“Oh, you… ….”
“My name is Lee Tae-ho, a member of the Special Countermeasures Division of the Green House Guard. He has come to ask for a statement about the raid that took place this morning. Would it be all right for a moment?”
“Yes? Ah yes…….”
Lee Young-han had an attitude as if he had just woken up. However, unlike before, she responded and responded properly to the words of this side, so it seemed that Cho Yu-ri’s ability was working properly.
“First of all, could you tell us in chronological order from the movement of Mr. Lee Young-han before the incident to the incident?”
“Uh…. Yes, I understand. Therefore… ….”
Lee Young-han, who was deep in thought with his chin resting on his chin, began to make a statement.
“Well, I don’t know if you know, but I’m not a hunter, I’m a researcher. When I graduate next year, I plan to go to graduate school. So, he wrote a thesis in the lab until late last night and headed to the dormitory late at night.”
“The time must have been a little less than 1:00 in the morning. Because the curfew was on the edge. So I smoked a cigarette before going in and headed to the smoking area to go in.”
“I was smoking like that when a woman approached me from afar.”
“A woman’s impression? First of all, it was black with long, straight hair that reached her waist, and she seemed to be between 160 and 165 tall. Her face……. Yes, she was a universal beauty. A face that just makes me want to look at it, ah, pretty? It was not a face that left a deep impression. She was a face with a strong recognition that she was just pretty rather than features. Actually I don’t remember in detail. Maybe it’s because she lost consciousness, but my memory is hazy overall.”
“Anyway, he approached the smoking area, so I thought he was someone like me who came out to smoke before going to bed, but something was strange. That’s why, it’s a smoking room in a men’s dorm. The women’s dormitory is on the other side, and there’s also a smoking area on that side, so why bother here? The moment I thought, he was right next to me.”
“So it’s just a little strange, I was smoking while thinking, and suddenly he started talking to me. Things like who lives in the dormitory here, what grade are you in, what is your major. It’s like doing a household survey.”
“Did you answer that question? Yes, I have already answered all of them. Wow, of course it felt a bit suspicious! But that’s a bit embarrassing, but when a beautiful woman asked in a soft voice, I was relieved of my guard. She was also embarrassed. Even during the vacation, I was confined to the lab, so I was a girl and I didn’t have time to meet anyone. Ahahahahaha…….”
“After answering the question a few times, the woman suddenly came closer to me. How are you in your mind? What is this? What’s going on? In the meantime, we came close enough to touch each other. Yes. Then the woman like this.”
Lee Young-han lifted the collar of her hospital gown she was wearing. Two small teeth marks were clearly visible along the line from her neck to her collarbone.
“She suddenly bit me. Knock! I do.”
“…… Asked? Are you saying she bit with her teeth?”
“Yes. At that moment, her body suddenly became languid, and she felt a sensation as if she were floating, and she lost consciousness as it was. I don’t remember anything after that. When she came to her senses, she was in this hospital room.”
Lee Tae-ho’s expression darkened at Lee Young-han’s statement. It was the same for me too.
“Senior. Do succubuses bite people?”
“…… No. As far as I know, no such cases have been reported. Strange.”
“A succubus? Uh? Could it be that I met a succubus?”
I looked at Lee Tae-ho at Lee Young-han’s surprised question. He met my gaze and nodded slightly.
“I’m not sure, but that’s what we expect. It is because the conditions when Mr. Lee Young-han was found looked like a landing site for a succubus.”
“…… Yes? What do you mean?”
Lee Tae-ho silently took out a bunch of photos from his bosom. A hint of tension floats over his expressionless face.
“This is a picture of Lee Young-han at the time of discovery. It’s funny to say these things to the person in the picture, but it might come as a shock to you.”
“…… Yes?”
“Would you like to see it?”
“…… Yes. Show me.”
Lee Young-han received the photo with a dubious expression. As soon as he checked the picture, his eyes widened.
“You may be shocked, but please don’t worry. It was early in the morning at the time of discovery, and there were few witnesses thanks to the swift control of the scene-.”
“As expected! This is definitely the work of a succubus, so it’s suspicious!”
“…… Yes?”
Lee Tae-ho’s embarrassing answer. However, Lee Young-han did not even look at Lee Tae-ho.
“Look at the amount of semen scattered here! The amount of ejaculation far exceeds the average! No matter how superhuman I am, I can’t discharge this amount of semen all at once. That means there are variables caused by external stimuli!”
“…… Mr. Lee Young-han?”
“Have tissue samples been taken? The woman’s saliva or oral mucosal tissue must have been on the nape of my neck or on my cheeks! A succubus’ DNA structure is in the database, so if you analyze a sample based on that data, you’ll quickly know if it’s a succubus or not!”
“Younghan Lee.”
“Oh, by the way, that’s amazing! Aren’t succubuses now inhabiting Earth mostly in the Americas, but only in a few countries in Europe, including the UK? But no way a succubus was found in Korea!”
“Younghan Lee. Please calm down a bit.”
Lee Tae-ho broke into a cold sweat at the sight of Lee Young-han shouting in a heated voice.
‘Come to think of it, I thought I majored in monster ecology.’
Anyway, the fact that the attacker was a succubus seemed to ignite Lee Young-han’s research desire. Yuri Cho fled to the other side of the hospital room, frightened by his act of throwing photos of her naked body here and there.
“Younghan Lee. I understand Lee Young-han’s passion for succubus, but may I ask for a statement first?”
“Oh, excuse me. I’m a little excited. Because succubuses are rare monsters in this country. Ha ha ha.”
Lee Tae-ho and I both sighed at the same time, seeing the true Lee Young-han.
“In your statement a little while ago, you said that the other woman asked Lee Young-han a lot of questions. Could you elaborate on the content of your question?”
“As I said before, these were really normal questions. Starting with your name, your grade, your major, whether you live in a dormitory, what did you come here for, and things like that.”
“Are there any particularly memorable or unusual questions?”
“An unusual question? Well. I don’t have any specific questions……. Ah!”
“Did something happen?”
“Come to think of it, I asked this question. What did he say?”
He said, frowning as if trying to recall an obscure memory.
“‘Do you know a student named Ji Ye-won?’ That was definitely the question.”
………… What?
“Ji Ye-won, you mean?”
“Yes. It was such a name. Probably right.”
In an instant, the flow of thoughts stopped.
The conversation between Lee Young-han and Lee Tae-ho feels distant. Collecting my bewildered mind, I recalled what Lee Young-han had said earlier.
Do you know a student named Ji Ye-won? That was definitely the question.’
At first I thought I heard it wrong. However, there was no way I could have heard it wrong at such a close distance. Lee Young-han clearly put the three letters of the name in her mouth.
Ji Ye-won. The name of the current student I saved in the last quest, who is still waiting in the safe house with Chae-yeon.
‘Why does that name appear here?’
Succubus, a humanoid monster, has intelligence similar to that of a human. It was questionable as to why the succubus asked for the personal information of the landing party, but it was not impossible considering only the possibility and the impossibility.
However, it is safe to say that there is absolutely no possibility that Ji Ye-won’s name will come out of her mouth.
But the succubus said Ji Ye-won’s name. She asked Lee Young-han if he knew Ji Ye-won. How the hell does a succubus know Ji Ye-won? And why did he ask Lee Young-han about her?
‘No, was the succubus the culprit in the first place?’
With various circumstantial evidence, it is assumed that the culprit is a succubus, but nothing has been confirmed yet. There was always a chance that the culprit wasn’t a succubus.
For example, a pursuer of the Dawning Corps with abilities similar to those of a succubus.
The moment I thought about it, I felt a chill.
“Younghan Lee, do you know that student Ji Yewon?”
“I’ve only heard the name. She’s in the same grade as me. It’s probably a hunter aspiration.”
“Do you have any special contact with that student Ji Ye-won?”
“Nothing at all. Aspiring hunter and aspiring researcher have almost no overlap in classes, and there are almost 1,000 students even in the same grade in the first place. We won’t be able to meet each other anytime soon.”
“Yes. That too-.”
-Ugh.
At that time, Lee Tae-ho’s smartphone vibrated softly.
“Excuse me.”
As soon as he checked the screen, his expression became visibly serious.
“…… Is there a problem?”
“It is said that the second victim was found just now. The place is the men’s restroom on the 3rd floor of the 2nd shooting range.”
“You mean the culprit committed the crime before the sun went down?”
“No. Perhaps the discovery was delayed. It was vacation until yesterday, so there must have been fewer students using the training ground.”
“Then there is a possibility that you are the first victim, not the second.”
It was attacked before Lee Young-han, but it is possible that the discovery was delayed. As Lee Tae-ho said, it was not impossible as the number of visitors to the training ground decreased significantly during the vacation period.
But wait. The discovery location is the training ground bathroom?
That means…….
“Senior. If the venue is not outside the building but inside the training ground-.”
“Yes. They say CCTV is everywhere.”
Lee Tae-ho stood up from his seat. He said to me who stood up together in a hurry.
“Ahn Soo-ho. After hearing the statement from Mr. Lee Young-han, report it to the team leader. I will go to the second victim with Cho Yu-ri right now. Joe Yuri, let’s go.”
“Ugh, ugh!”
Jo Yu-ri followed Tae-ho Lee as he left the hospital room without hesitation.
When she turned her head, Lee Young-han had a bewildered face as if she was taken aback by the sudden situation.
“…… Mr. Lee Young-han.”
“Uh, yes.”
“I will end today’s statement here. You worked hard.”
“Huh? Turn off, are you done?”
I nodded at his question. After hearing the full details of the incident, there was nothing more to ask.
‘Besides, the important thing now is not the statement.’
After saying hello to Lee Young-han and leaving the hospital room, I immediately called Min Chae-ryeong.
“Team manager. This is Ahn Soo-ho.”
– What’s up? I got a text from Taeho. You said you finished your statement by yourself and came to report to me?
“Yes. I have something urgent to tell you about that matter.”
-What do you mean?
I quickly checked to make sure no one was around and said in a low voice.
“It seems that the Dawning Corps is involved in this incident. The victim testified that the perpetrator asked the victim if she knew a student named Ji Ye-won.”
– What?
Min Chaeryeong’s surprised voice. Soon, her serious voice rang through the phone.
-…… Come and explain Right Now.
“I’ll be right there.”
After hanging up the phone, I went straight to the team leader’s office.