First, Uichan clenched his fists, making up his mind: once the babies were stable, he’d quietly find the right moment to tell Hyde in advance—but only Hyde. Of course, the fathers’ identities would have to remain secret.“…Try finding your dad, kids. Hm? Don’t fight with each other.”He whispered softly, then suddenly remembered the moment Yeo Taehwon had taken his hand and walked him home. If Blacktan was the father of the third child… that meant he’d have to sleep with him again. Yet in Uichan’s memory, Blacktan had been fierce and ruthless.He couldn’t remember everything clearly, but recalling the ache that had spread through his hips, he was sure the man’s size had been on a completely different level from his own.Just thinking about the heavy flesh that had split him open, pressing deep enough to crush his testicles, made Uichan flush hot all over. Back then, he hadn’t been in his right mind—but now he’d have to face them all in full consciousness, and none of the three were ordinary.How had he even managed to hold on back then?By the time Park Rion came in, tossing aside his apron and holding a picture book in hand, suggesting they take a nap together, Uichan had already buried his burning face into the bed, clutching his ears.***The place looked like the bottom of hell’s fire pit—deep and endless, with blackened walls and the stench of rot. It was a dark prison. Inside, a man’s bloodied body was impaled like a skewer, his limbs bound. Blue blood dripped from him, pooling beneath the stake.“So, you’re looking for a lame young man, not even six feet tall?”A voice spoke nearby. The impaled goblin jerked his head up, glaring at the speaker. It had been nearly two days since he’d last seen another human. He thrashed desperately.“Let me out! Untie me! This body hurts too much! I’ve got no vessel left to move to!”“Well… if you answer me sincerely, I’ll let you go. That’s what I said, isn’t it? You’re the one who insisted on resisting.”“Heehee! What—what do you want to know? The lame kid? You already know that better than me! Did I take him? No, you did!”The creature cackled, twisting his face into a grotesque mask. Under the dim light, his mutilated, half-collapsed head came into view. He was a monster wearing a human’s skin. His neck, torn by a beast’s bite, hadn’t healed—his bones jutted through, hideous and pale.“You took him yourselves, so why question me? I found him first! Hah! Hahaha!”Every time the goblin kicked, the chains clanged violently, like a beast snarling. Behind him, Hyde dragged over a chair, sat down leisurely, and crossed his legs.“He’s a friend I’m quite fond of. But someone suddenly attacked him. So your claim about finding him first doesn’t hold up—because I found him long before you did.”Shhk. A metal thorn pierced deeper into the goblin’s chest. The creature screamed, eyes bulging as his limbs spasmed.“I-I don’t know! He said he had something! I just wanted to know if he was the one who took it!”“Something?”Hyde tapped his foot, watching him for a moment, then reached back. A white-gloved hand emerged from the darkness, handing him an old box. Hyde took it and tossed it lazily in front of the goblin.“Is this what you mean?”“The—thing! Ha! See? I told you! I found it! I found it first! I found it poking around those limping bastards! You laugh at me? Heehee!”The goblin chattered like a mad child the moment he saw the box, writhing as if to snatch it, though his bound limbs only flailed uselessly. But the box Hyde threw was a fake—the real contents had long been hidden where the goblin could never reach.At Hyde’s gesture, the chains loosened. The goblin scrambled, hugging the box to his chest and giggling manically, his eyes glowing red like a lunatic’s.“I—I found it! Lord Aengak! Brother Muhyul! I found it! Heehee! I did!”The goblin fumbled to open the box. Inside lay an ear, cleanly cut and wrapped in cloth. He lifted it and pressed it lovingly to his cheek.“Ha! The ‘Ear of the Paeryang Beast’! The ear of the Wolf Demon! I finally got it!! With this… heehee! Now Lord Aengak will…!”Suddenly, the goblin froze mid-laughter, like a puppet with its strings cut. His expression went blank, eyes glazed and hollow. Slowly, his pupils flicked around as if searching for someone.“It was… with him. He had it. I don’t need this kind of offering—if I just had that…”Still clutching the box to his chest, the goblin groped along the ground like a blind man. His hand bumped against the leg of Hyde’s chair.He looked up, eyes glowing green, and then split his mouth into a wide, ghastly grin. His eyes, however, remained cold and empty.“You know your friend, don’t you? Do you know what he had inside him?”The goblin clutched Hyde’s leg tightly and shook it ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) like a child, his face stretching grotesquely.“I saw something strange inside him! Hahaha, I saw it!”“……”“His wounds healed in an instant! The things inside his belly did it! Heehee! Forget the ear! With that alone, we can complete Lord Aengak’s will!”The goblin’s mangled hands clutched at Hyde’s trousers, trembling as he poured out what he’d seen—three souls.“Souls! I saw souls, hahaha! They were already protecting their mother! But—they devour, they devour everything! We have to tear them out before they eat us all—rip them out and offer them to Lord Aengak—ack!”“…That’s not for you to decide.”A handprint sank deep into the goblin’s throat. He kicked wildly, clutching at his neck, his body rising off the ground as if lifted by invisible fingers. The air tightened around him, crushing his breath.“That’s not your call.”Hyde rose calmly and approached him.“But why three? It used to be two…”“Ghk… guh—kugh!”“Does anyone else know this? Any of your comrades?”The goblin’s face turned pale; he shook his head frantically. But the unseen grip didn’t stop. It pressed harder, squeezing his skull as though a monster’s jaws were closing around him.“N-no one… knows—ack!”“You don’t know?”Hyde repeated the words lazily and reached into the goblin’s arms, pulling out the old box. Opening it, he examined the severed ear inside and chuckled softly.A second later, the ear exploded.“No!”The goblin screamed, trying desperately to reach for the fragments, his fingers slicing clean off with a wet snap.Shhk, shhk. His entire body came apart, limbs severed neatly before he could even cry out. The pieces hit the floor with dull thuds.A sigh came from behind Hyde.“Well, that’s that. Dead again?”“Will that be all right?”From the shadows, Phantom Thief Kill stepped out, clicking his tongue. “At that rate, no one’s going to survive your questioning.”Hyde laughed lightly and dropped the now-empty box on the corpse.“It’s fine. We’ll just catch another one. That thing was already insane anyway. You can’t get information from someone who doesn’t even recognize the ‘Ear of the Paeryang Beast.’”“Well, to the naked eye, it does look identical.”“A goblin should still be able to sense the energy leaking from it.”The Paeryang Beast—a wolf demon that had appeared around Yongin three years ago. Classified as one of the Seven Great Dongti, it was placed on the Hero Association’s extermination list. Hundreds of heroes had been mobilized to kill it. But in the end, it wasn’t the heroes who had slain it—it was Turn Hyde of In the Hell.His reason had been simple. In the Hell had been holding a gathering deep in the mountains when the wolf demon burst in and ruined it.That day, Uichan had turned pale as the roof collapsed, pulling his brothers behind him. Jekyll Jack had risen furiously to shield him, but falling debris had still grazed Uichan’s skin.Hyde had cut the wolf demon into one hundred and eighty-nine pieces. One of the severed ears had eventually found its way into Aengak’s hands. That was why Hyde had recognized the ear Uichan once presented—instantly and without mistake.Phantom Thief Kill flicked a playing card onto the floor; it sliced neatly into a crack, and from it, a swarm of otters burst out. They began gathering the corpse and stuffing it into the box. How all of it fit inside that small container was anyone’s guess.The floor was spotless within moments, thanks to the creatures’ quick teamwork. Watching them scurry, Hyde lifted his gaze toward the distant ceiling.This place was the Torture Hall—a dungeon he’d built himself, for interrogating the condemned.

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