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Chapter 4 : A Seed of Unknown Origin (3)
I was about to swallow nervously, but I stopped myself.
I might accidentally swallow the seed hidden in my mouth.
“Take off your robe. Do I have to order you to do every little thing?”
The supervisor in front of me twitched his eyebrow, showing his displeasure.
As expected, he wasn't going to let it slide.
Ẁеb̌n̆ о̄v́ е́ ĺ En̈um å
I obediently followed his command and revealed my face.
“Agh, this bastard looks like shit no matter how many times I see him.”
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As soon as I revealed my bare face, a curse was thrown at me.
The other workers, who had been fidgeting, also grimaced and quickly looked away.
“You, uh, you pat yourself down. I don’t even want to touch you, you’re so filthy.”
This face, which even I found repulsive, had now become a blessing in disguise.
Ӗ.n̄ũ m̂а
The supervisor just glossed over it, only making me empty my pockets and turn my clothes inside out.
“And the bed… damn it. Forget it, a cripple like you wouldn’t have the guts to do something like that.”
The supervisor waved his hand dismissively.
It seemed he had intended to search the bed himself, but in the end, he couldn't overcome his physiological disgust.
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“Agh, what are these crumbs?”
Even though a part of the outer shell that I hadn't managed to clean up was discovered, there was no interrogation.
Ӗ ǹ u m̂ ӑ . і ḋ
‘Good.’
I inwardly cheered at how things were going as expected.
It seemed the surprise inspection would end without a hitch.
Wiggle!
“Ugh!”
“...What was that?”
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The supervisor, who had been leaving the room, stopped at my unintentional groan.
Shake, shake!
I quickly shook my head.
Nevertheless, a suspicious gaze pierced my face.
I was just as flustered to have ruined everything at the last minute.
‘Why is this moving in my mouth?’
W̊ ē b̄.nо̌ṽ е̌ l̃ E̊nu m̆ a
A distinct vibration was tickling my tongue.
I was so surprised that a groan had escaped my lips.
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I tried my best to act nonchalant.
But the milk was already spilt.
The supervisor turned back towards me.
“...Come to think of it, why does this bastard’s face look shittier than usual?”
Е n̂ um̃ ӓ . ї d
He muttered, as if a question had just occurred to him.
“No one would have hit him, so his face isn’t swollen.”
My heart sank at his narrowed brow.
“And now that I think about it, he hasn’t said a single word.”
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‘Damn it.’
He should have just let it go, why is he obsessing over something so trivial.
Ẃеb̃ n о ṽ ël̆ Е́n um̀ а̌
“Hey, does this bastard usually act like a mute?”
“He’s not a mute, sir. He’s not a mute, but he doesn’t talk much…”
“Hmm.”
Unfortunately, it didn't seem like he was going to let it go.
I pressed the seed against my cheek and forced my tongue to move.
“N-no, s-sir.”
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“……”
My slurred speech seemed to have only increased his suspicion.
The supervisor looked directly at my face for the first time.
“Open your mouth.”
“……”
“You were pretending to be a mute, and now you’re pretending to be deaf? Open your mouth when I’m asking nicely.”
Е́ ńum а́ .і̀ d́
I couldn't.
If I opened my mouth, I would be caught 100%.
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“You haven’t been hit like the other worms, so you’ve lost your mind, haven’t you?”
When I remained silent, the supervisor clenched his fist.
“I’ll count to three. Open.”
My lips were parched.
Wеb̊n̂ ó v̇ èl Е n̊û m̈ а̂
My heart was pounding like a drum.
“Three.”
‘What do I do?’
Should I run?
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No, it’s useless.
With this body’s physical abilities, I can’t outrun the supervisor.
Е́_nu m̀ a . і̆.d
Open my mouth obediently?
That won’t work either.
No matter how much the seed has shrunk, I’ll be caught.
I was in a dilemma.
My mind went blank.
“Two. One.”
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The supervisor reached out to me without a moment's hesitation, and…
Gulp!
“Kehek!”
The vibrating seed slipped past my throat against my will.
“Agh, damn it! What the hell are you doing!”
Because of my cough, the supervisor got a face full of spit.
Е.ñ ū ḿа̊
But that wasn't the important thing.
I was just as horrified.
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I hastily tried to spit it out, but the heavy presence had long since passed my esophagus.
“For crying out loud, you crazy bastard, why are you being so stubborn when there’s nothing in your mouth?”
“Cough!”
The supervisor, who had checked my mouth, swung his hand.
È n̄ ùṁ.а
It was the first time I had been hit since coming here.
I was hit on the head and collapsed to the floor from the ringing pain.
“Grrrk!”
“Wh-what? What’s wrong with this bastard?”
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The strange event happened right after that.
I had no strength in my body at all.
Е.n u_m̌ а̄ .i d̈_
My convulsing and trembling limbs felt like they weren't mine.
When foam started to come out of my mouth, even the supervisor was flustered and stuttered.
“Heok! Hah!”
An intense pain, as if someone was carving my heart with a knife.
Cold sweat poured down, soaking my body, and my vision spun.
‘What is this…!’
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I was also flustered by the sudden change.
Was my body so weak that I would have a seizure from just one hit to the head?
But I didn't have the luxury to leisurely analyze the cause.
My skin felt like it was burning from the inside out.
My whole body was hot and I felt thirsty, as if I had been thrown into a desert.
A strange feeling, as if something was taking root inside my body and sucking out the moisture.
W еb̊nо.v̆ е̂l̀ Èṅ u mа
The thirst didn't subside and only grew worse with the pain.
“Hey! Someone do something about that bastard!”
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“Y-yes, sir?”
“Ah, why can’t you understand what I’m saying? Just take care of it yourselves!”
The supervisor did not take responsibility for the situation.
He spat out his words as if he didn't care what happened to me and left.
Еǹ um а̃ . і́ ḋ
“Wh-what do we do?”
“F-first, let’s grab his arms and legs. I can’t even get close.”
The workers, who had come to an agreement, approached me.
Even though several people held me down, my convulsing limbs showed no sign of stopping.
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“Ah, hot!”
“Why is he so hot…”
Én̂ um̆ā. іď
They soon let go of me in horror.
It was because of the intense heat.
It was only natural, as even I could feel the heat of my own body.
“I thought something was strange about him.”
“They say when you do something you don’t normally do, it’s time to die. He was laughing like a madman by himself, so it must have been his time to die.”
They quickly came to a conclusion.
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“Should we go get the supervisor and tell him?”
“Are you crazy? He told us to take care of it ourselves. And what would change if we told him? Would they give him medicine or something?”
“Damn it, now we have to clean up a corpse in the middle of the night.”
“Tell me about it.”
No one worried about me.
Instead, they were just annoyed at the thought of having to clean up a corpse late at night.
W̆ eb̌n̊ о vӗ l E̊ n um̆ ӑ
That's how much of a living hell the environment inside this factory was.
Death was something they could encounter as casually as a daily routine.
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“He doesn’t look like he’s going to live, so let’s not wait and just clean it up now…”
“It’s better this way…”
“The location of the incinerator is…”
Even though my eyes were open, I couldn't see anything.
Е̌.nu m̃à
The voices of the workers, who were chattering away restlessly, gradually faded away.
At some point, my convulsing limbs stopped.
But I still couldn't lift a single finger.
Soon, even the pain in my heart, which had made it difficult to even scream, became numb.
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My consciousness blurred, and my vision was dyed with darkness.
***
Е̂n̂ ú_m̆а̌ . і̇d̈
“Agh, damn it. The smell.”
The man covered his mouth with his sleeve and spat out a curse.
“If they’re just going to pile up trash like this, is this a garbage dump or an incinerator?”
Thirty minutes from the back of the factory.
The incinerator was overflowing with all sorts of trash, emitting a foul stench.
Flies flew around with every step, and maggots swarmed.
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Scattered among the trash were decaying corpses.
The workers who had brought Allen's body groaned, "Ugh," and moved forward.
“Is it okay to leave him here? Should we go in a little further?”
“Forget it, it’s already unfair that we have to go through this trouble in the middle of the night, why bother with something so annoying.”
“But the supervisor told us to throw him deep inside so he wouldn’t be seen.”
“Who cares? If they have a problem with it, they should have come and thrown him away themselves. Kaak! Ptooey!”
Е nû m̀ а
The hook-nosed worker ground his teeth and spat out his complaint, then spat out a wad of phlegm.
“My arm hurts like hell. Why is this skinny bastard so heavy?”
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“I heard that corpses get a little heavier after they die.”
“It’s not like I’ve done this once or twice, you think I don’t know? But this one is too much. Now that you mention it, let’s just throw him away quickly.”
The worker who had thrown Allen among the pile of trash massaged his arm.
“Hoo, I thought I was moving a lump of iron.”
Е̂ nu m̀ а
“His skin was strangely hard too.”
“That’s what I’m saying. You don’t think this guy died from some weird skin disease, do you?”
“No way.”
The worker, who had rubbed his hands on his clothes as if he were uncomfortable, soon looked down at Allen with a complicated expression.
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“Still, it’s for the best for this guy.”
“What do you mean?”
Е n̄ u ḿá.. і̂ ḋ
“Would life be any fun living with that face? I can’t even imagine if I looked like that.”
“Your face is just as ugly…”
“Shut up.”
The worker playfully threatened and chuckled, then turned his back.
“Let’s go back. It’s not like we’re getting a day off tomorrow for doing this, so what’s the point of dragging it out.”
“...Wait a minute.”
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“Why?”
“Look at his arm, his arm.”
“What are you stuttering about… huck!”
The man, following his companion's words, stared at Allen's arm and gasped in horror.
“Wh-what’s happening to him?!”
Allen's skin was cracking, reminiscent of a drought-stricken land.
En̂ūmа. і̂ ḋ
“I-I think it really was a skin disease!”
“Ah, damn it! I knew it! Let’s get out of here before we catch it!”
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The two men hastily fled.
Jjijik!
The incinerator, now devoid of any human presence.
The cracks in Allen's skin gradually widened.
Ӗ n̆ um а̀
Overnight, the cracks spread throughout his body, and from the starting point of the cracks, cotyledons resembling fluff began to grow.
“……”
Morning came amidst the bizarre transformation.
Allen's eyelids began to tremble.
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***
“Umm…”
Е̌nũ m а̄
Slowly, my consciousness began to surface.
I blinked my eyes and awakened my hazy mind.
A moment later, the memories from before I collapsed flashed through my mind.
‘Is this the second time I’ve fainted already?’
A sigh escaped me first.
How many times does a person faint unless they're drunk?
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It was a truly unique experience.
But first, I needed to assess the situation.
I slowly rolled my eyes around.
“This is…”
I was able to figure out where I was in no time.
“An incinerator?”
Ẃ е́ b̈ ńöv̊ еl̃ Ѐ ǹ û ṁ а̃
It was just as filthy as a pigsty, but it wasn't the stuffy factory dormitory.
Piles of trash and dirt, and a long, dusty chimney came into view.
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The smell of rotting filth filled my nose, and my face automatically scrunched up.
‘They must have thought I was dead.’
When a corpse appeared, it was burned in the incinerator, so it made sense that I was here.
‘Well, my whole body was on fire and I was practically having a seizure.’
Ѐṅ ũ ḿа̊ . і̀ d
I was surprised that I was alive myself.
It was a miracle that I had survived without taking any medicine.
‘It’s for the best.’
My escape route was the incinerator anyway.
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Who would imagine that a corpse thought to be dead would wake up?
It was a stroke of luck, as I could take advantage of their carelessness.
En ũṁ а̂ . і̃ d
‘The seed is…’
I rubbed my stomach over my clothes.
I didn't know how much time had passed, but it must have been digested by now.
‘It’s a shame, but I’ll have to give up on it.’
It was a pity to have lost such a precious seed so vainly.
But thanks to it, the possibility of escape had increased, so it was a profitable trade.
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‘Now, if I can just succeed in escaping, it’ll be perfect.’
I carefully moved my arms and legs.
And soon after, I could feel a strange sense of incongruity.
“...?”
I felt refreshed.
There wasn't a single sore spot on my body.
Е̂ ńu mâ
Not only the pain in my heart that had made it difficult to even scream, but also the usual muscle aches after a hard day's work were gone.
‘After being so sick, shouldn’t at least one part of my body be messed up?’
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I was sick, and when I woke up, I was healthier.
It was bizarre enough that I had suddenly gotten sick after swallowing the seed.
The changes that had occurred since then were also absurd.
“...Huh?”
Ẃ ě b̌ ń о v̀ е l̄_ Е̌ ń ům̊ а̀
I was looking all over my body like that.
Suddenly, I noticed a sense of incongruity and stopped moving.
“Wh-what is this?”
The exposed skin was pale white.
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My skin, which had been dirty with scratches from rough labor and burn marks, had become clean.
It wasn't my imagination.
Ѐ numǎ
Even when I rubbed my eyes, the scene I saw was the same.
“How in the world did this happen…”
There was an even more shocking change.
My eyes were fixed on one of my forearms.
Sway, sway!
In the place where there should have been fluff, a small sprout was growing instead of hair.
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“...Isn’t this a leaf?”
I carefully touched it.
The soft texture that wrapped around my fingertips.
It looked fragile, like a newly grown cotyledon, but it was shining brightly.
“Ugh!”
When I tried to pull it out with force, I felt pain.
Ẅ e b n ŏ v̆ ë l̂ Е n̆ u m а
I soon let go of my hand at the stinging shock that brought tears to my eyes.
“...It really did grow from my body.”
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It was hard to deny it when I even felt pain.
At that point, I was more bewildered than surprised.
“What in the world is this?”
I swallowed a seed and fainted.
Е̇ n̄u m̃ a
And a plant grew from my body.
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