Precautions of a Snakepit - Chapter 31 (R-19)
“F*ck.”
With a swear, Top Dog’s eyes rolled back and he began to stroke his c*ck rougher.
Won took a few steps back, glad he quieted down.
It wasn’t long before Top Dog shuddered and ej*culated. The gush of c*m soaked his large hands and the floor.
After a few moments of catching his breath, Top Dog held out his hands, covered in white c*m to Won.
“Do you want to lick it off?”
“Do you want me to put a hole in your head?”
“You can’t do that, so I’ll go and wash my hands.”
Chuckling, Top Dog left the room. Won frowned at the traces of c*m left on the floor. She didn’t want to be in this room, smelling the musty odor of a night affair.
‘Maybe I’ll go outside while he is in the bathroom.’
Won left his room and walked down the hallway. She had no particular destination in mind. Top Dog would be back soon, and it was too soon for her to go looking for Black Cat or Target.
As she wandered the dark corridors, Won realized that Target’s room’s door was slightly ajar. Sure enough, it was securely closed when she was making her way earlier to Black Cat’s room.
Feeling a strange sense of urgency, Won opened the door.
An empty bed came into view. Target was not in his room.
‘Where did he go? Had he woken up? Had he realized the CCTV was off and gone outside?’
Won tried to think of places he could have gone. If she were him, Won would be the first person he would go to in this situation. She would want to ask questions.
Won traveled back to her room, but he wasn’t there.
‘What happened? Did he go out to look for me because I wasn’t here?’
Confused, Won stepped outside and looked around the hallway, but Top Dog just came back from the bathroom.
“What are you doing, pretty?”
“Looking…”
Won was about to reply that she was looking for Target but stopped. She couldn’t divulge the information since she wasn’t sure if she could trust Top Dog or not. As she continued to search the area, he followed behind her.
“Looks like you are looking for something, but it isn’t an object. Is it a human?”
Won said neither yes nor no. She shouldn’t answer his questions. He’s a man with an animalistic intuition. The only way to avoid being read is to keep a poker face…
“Who could my beautiful girl be looking for… is it that asshole Jin?”
The voice whispered in her ear, and Won nearly jumped out of her skin.
‘Is this real?’
Even casting directors, who are supposed to be able to spot stars on pure instinct, can’t be this good. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up.
“Well, whoever it is will be in vain.”
Won froze at the implication.
“What do you mean by that?”
“It means that once you’ve been dragged into the Chamber of Secrets, you can’t come out again.”
“Explain it so I understand.”
“Is that the favor my pretty girl wants to ask?”
Top Dog asked with a smug grin on his face. Won bit the inside of her cheek. At worst, the wish she gained at the expense of her eyes was about to be lost, but the safety of Target was the most important thing right now.
Swallowing her irritation, Won nodded.
“All right, then. Explain it properly.”
“On nights like tonight, when we hear strange noises, sometimes one of our patients disappears. They’re taken to a secret room somewhere in this ward as a sacrifice.”
“A sacrifice?”
“If you ask the nurse tomorrow where they went, she’ll tell you that their guardian picked them up and they were discharged.”
Top Dog rambled on about how he wasn’t very good at explaining things, but Won was left uncomfortable as she tried to figure out what the “sacrifice” was.
The nurse’s reply about a patient disappearing overnight and their guardian picking them up was familiar. It was the repertoire she heard about before.
“The ‘snake roaming the ward’ myth.”
It was the same story of a young man who opened the door to his hospital room at night when he heard a snake slithering around, walked out, then disappeared.
“Yeah, that one. It wasn’t a snake, it was the hospital who got him.”
Top Dog added, as if pleased.
“As a sacrifice? For what?”
“I don’t know, I just heard them say ‘sacrifice.’”
“Heard who?”
“From my sweetheart, who wants to eat me to the bone.”
“I told you to explain it properly.”
“I heard it from the bitch who used me as a d*ldo earlier and I don’t know why they call it a sacrifice. I’m not Encyclopedia Britannica.”
Not a wiki, but an encyclopedia. Won was sure of one thing and that was this guy wasn’t in his 20s. She can dismiss the possibility that he might be presbyopic and look like he is in his 30s.
‘A d*ldo, by the way.’
He didn’t lift a finger so it seemed involuntarily.
“How did you end up in a relationship with a nurse?”
“A relationship?”
Top Dog laughed, amused.
“I woke up and she was up there f*cking herself, alone. I don’t know if she gave me some kind of drug to keep me asleep or what, but my head was dazed like it was broken. I told her if she wanted to do it, don’t use a drug and just do it because being f*cked with your eyes open sucks, but being f*cked without knowing sucks even more.”
Won was at a loss for words. Technically, it was a sexual assault, which is a felony because it’s adultery under parts of the law and involves drugs.
Unnecessarily pensive, she changed the subject.
“Do you know where the secret room is?”
“No matter how stupid that bitch is, she would never tell me. She stumbled over the word ‘sacrifice’ by accident, I just happened to pick it up.”
“Then…”
‘The nurse seems to like you, so next time, try to get information out of her in a more subtle wa-‘
Won stopped when she realized what she was about to say. No matter how important her mission was, she can’t lose her humanity.
“Pretty girl, she doesn’t come every day. Don’t you think she has something to do in that secret room?”
The sharp-eyed Top Dog read her thoughts and Won felt embarrassed.
“… I’m sorry.”
“Is that what you were thinking?”
What else would she have thought?
Won didn’t answer, pretending she didn’t hear anything. Top Dog chuckled and chattered away.
“But you’re more of an ‘okay, more’ kind of girl than a ‘sorry’ kind of girl, right?”
Isn’t the word “serious” listed in his dictionary?
Won summarized the information she had heard so far.
The day after a night when the hospital plays the snake-slithering sounds and turns off the CCTV, a patient occasionally disappears. The medical staff will tell you they’ve been discharged, but it’s likely that they have been taken as a “sacrifice” to a secret room somewhere in the ward. It was Target this time.
A “sacrifice” is something required for a ritual. Taken literally, it means that some kind of ritual is taking place in this asylum. If it is a human sacrifice, it’s not normal in any sense of the word.
‘But it’s usually used figuratively.’
Just as the word ‘scapegoat’ rarely actually refers to a sacrificial lamb.
What was the hospital’s purpose in taking Target? What was he being sacrificed for?
‘A sacrifice to please the K Group’s matriarch?’
Did the matriarch give orders to dispose of Target?
Is this not just a camp for troublesome people, but a facility where troublesome people are eliminated like rats?
Were the other patients who disappeared also disposed of at the will of the guardian who kept them here?
‘No. If that was the case, they could use drugs. Why drag them to the secret room?’
Why go to the trouble of dragging him to another location when a single injection will do the trick? It’s not like the K Group would sue the hospital for medical malpractice.
There was another reason, she just didn’t know what it was.
‘The most important issue is…’
The safety of Target. Was he safe or not?
Won was pacing around the hallways.
“F*ck, I don’t want to see you fidgeting over another man.”
Top Dog, clinging to her like gum, let out a curse.
“That asshole is still alive.”
“How do you know?”
“It’s a feeling.”
Won was speechless at the blunt answer. When she looked at him expecting more, he explained.
“Pretty girl, have you ever seen sashimi1 tbh i’m not 100% sure if this is correct, but i think he is referring to how fish will float in water if there is enough salt on it after thawing it before sashimi, and (alive) humans float on water too. i could be wrong though ahead of time? It floats before you eat it.”
The shocking analogy stunned her for a moment. She knew some people couldn’t hide their occupations, but to display it openly?
“… I guess you’ve somehow made sashimi before?”
“Somehow? It’s a hobby of mine. Do you want me to make you some?”
“I don’t need it.”
“Don’t you like it?”
Won likes plain sashimi, but definitely not with people on it.
Won felt a little better. It was just Top Dog’s one-sided assertion with no logical basis, but it made her feel like Target was still alive. Top Dog has a good enough sense to know her secret.
She needs to find the secret room as soon as possible before something happens to him.
Won’s pace quickened with impatience.
“Do you want me to find it with you? The secret room.”
Top Dog, who was still hovering around, offered. Won hesitated for a moment, wanting to borrow his hand, but she wondered if she could trust him. A possibility flashed through her mind.
“Maybe you have business there, too?”
Even if it was a deal, why would this man so readily reveal the existence of the room? Could it be because he was interested in finding it, too? Was he using her to get rid of some pesky fish without touching it?
“Right.”
Top Dog smirked.
“Now you know I’m not your enemy. Let’s work together, pretty girl.”
yeah im still not 100% certain about the sashimi reference HOWEVER i would be happy if you donated to my Kofi
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