I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 19

Chapter 19 – Did You Finally Feel Real Pain This Time?

“Let’s see.”

Mia had descended into the underground storage connected to her laboratory. She peered inside an oak barrel, the top of which had been hollowed out. Inside, a shimmering purple liquid, glittering as if sprinkled with sparkles, sloshed around.

‘The quality isn’t bad.’

Satisfied, Mia laughed to herself as she checked another oak barrel placed beside it.

“This should be good enough for the experiment.”

Mia wielded her staff with a light flick, levitating the two oak barrels into the air. The barrels smoothly ascended the stairs.

Creak, thunk.

Stepping out from the underground storage and closing the door behind her, the normally quiet laboratory was bustling. In one corner, a plant with roots as thick as arms hung upside down.

The roots had a peculiarly human-like face and were deflated like hollow cheeks, dripping a brown liquid from the areas where the eyes might be with a ‘heuk, heuk…’ sound.

Because they hung upside down, the liquid dripped down into a beaker placed below.
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Various other herbs and by-products were also being drained of their venom. These venoms, combined and aged, filled the oak barrels to the brim.

Swoosh.

Mia poured the liquid from the oak barrels into a black bathtub placed in one corner of the laboratory.
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Bubble, bubble.

The purple liquid bubbled like carbonation, swaying for a moment before settling down.

After sending the empty barrels back down into the storage with magic, Mia looked at Lian, who sat atop a cold, steel slab in the center of the laboratory.

“Now that everything is ready, let’s begin the experiment.”

A much more intense experiment than usual started.

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I was often captured by mad scientists and subjected to their experiments. It wasn’t necessarily because I was particularly unlucky. Mad scientists conducted their experiments by the thousands, even tens of thousands.

Thanks to the comedic world’s characteristic of reverting to its original state before long, their experiments never succeeded.

Anyway, I became accustomed to all sorts of experiments. Before long, these trials started to seem like midterm exams or pop quizzes that rolled around now and then.

Squeak.

Of course, initially, I felt fear when my skin melted away or when blood gushed out like fountains.

Splat!

I didn’t feel pain, and because my body would eventually revert to its original state, I noticed that other victims didn’t seem to care much.

Creak, crack.

As a result, even if my organs were to lay bare before me, even if my blood sprayed more than at a crime scene, I grew unafraid.

“…Lian, you’re not of dragon descent, are you?”

“Hey, as if.”

“Or perhaps your parents are orcs?”

“That’s..a bit of a harsh insult, isn’t it?”

I was so mortified I could feel tears streaming down. Mia cocked an eyebrow, peering into my face as if coming to a realization, then nodded.

“Certainly not an orc’s offspring.”

“…?”

“Hmm, then how exactly does your body work, to heal this fast…?”

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Mia’s eyes glittered with curiosity. She cut my body, broke bones, sprinkled poison, then took a needle connected to a hose and stuck it in my forearm.

Through the hose, blood gurgled out and started filling a large container placed on the ground.

“Wow, the blood is coming out without any device?”

“The needle has a delicate magic circle engraved on it, you see.”

I tried to take a closer look at the needle, but since it was half-stuck in my arm, it wasn’t very visible. Giving up on finding the magic circle, I took the chance to look around the fantasy-world-like laboratory.

‘None of this was here before. When did she bring all these?’

Admiring the large flasks with rounded bottoms and long necks, I was astounded since each was almost as big as a person’s torso.

“…What kind of body is this? I’ve dissected it completely, yet I can’t figure it out. Should I open up the head instead?”
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Her menacing words made me turn away just in time to see a container full of blood sloshing around.

‘Whoa, why is it filling up with blood so quickly?’

It wasn’t a surprise to see so much blood coming out of me. After all, I had grown up in a world where it was natural to recover as easily as breathing.

Thump.

Mia brought over an even larger container to collect the blood.

“Tell me when you start feeling anemic.”

“Yes.”

That was pretty much the same as saying, “Tell me when you’re tired of breathing.” However, sitting quietly and observing my surroundings was interesting, so I simply nodded in agreement.

Mia eventually filled several containers with my blood, yet my complexion didn’t change a bit. So at last, she removed the needle from my forearm.

“Ha… I didn’t anticipate this.”

Looking at the troubled beauty made me feel like I had committed some crime. Like a dog that had made a mess in the house, I looked at Mia sheepishly.

“Well, let’s move on to the next experiment.”

“Yes.”

Mia brought over a withered plant that seemed to be gasping ‘hieek…’

“Lie down, please.”

Obediently laying down on the slab, my torso flayed open in an instant, and my scar-laden stomach split open due to magic.

“Kwek -..!”

A pitifully trembling plant screamed as it was forcefully shoved into my stomach.

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“It’ll be interesting to see what happens in this situation…”

While effortlessly blocking the spurting blood with a shield, Mia watched the toxic plant thrust into my stomach. I looked at the root plant inside me with an expression of sympathetic sorrow.

‘Poor thing.’

I knew my organs weren’t just present to support biological functions. They were alive.
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“Hiek, hic… save…me, mom…”

The plant inside me started crying at some point. Even the plant, which couldn’t speak or possess true sentience, began to weep, startling Mia with an expression of utter shock.
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Probably, a conversation like this was happening inside me.

“What’s this, a new recruit?”
“Doesn’t this one have any guts? Why isn’t it greeting us?”
“Hey, quiet down. Let’s listen to what it’s saying.”
“Hak, hak!! A virus? Is it a virus? Huh? Huh?”

Yes, my organs were truly ‘alive.’ They had rationality and could even communicate with each other under certain conditions.

I learned this truth while being experimented on by a gloomy mad scientist with a broad heart, who had covered her forehead down to her eyes. She bravely cut open my stomach only to be thoroughly scolded by my organs and ended up weeping and abandoning the experiment.

Even though I was kidnapped, I couldn’t help but console her. My split stomach closed itself, thanks to the organs’ efforts. It was a shocking event even for someone accustomed to the world of comedy.

‘Since then, if timid or gloomy people open my stomach, my organs wake up.’

The organs showed no reaction when other mad scientists sliced my belly open. However, they went crazy if someone timid or gloomy did.

‘The epitome of bullying the weak but bending to the strong.’

While I was lost in thought, the crying plant began to shrivel. Not long after, it turned brown like a withered weed and shivered violently before suddenly dying.
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‘Ah, such a kind soul has passed away.’

Unable to withstand the cruel society, another life departed. I inexplicably felt tears welling up.

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“What is, what’s going on…?”

Mia stared down at my belly with a vacant look, as if all the world’s common sense had proven to be lies.

Whoosh.

Unlike usual, my belly closed on its own. It must have closed it because it was cold.

“Why…? Why is it healing like this? It shouldn’t recover so fast!”

Mia, her expression panicked, lashed out at my side with a knife. But this time, it didn’t heal immediately. Naturally, because to my organs, Mia was a strong presence.

“Oh…”

Mia looked down at my body with empty eyes. Her expression resembled that of a sophomore who had just learned the material she’d studied diligently for wasn’t on the test.

“…Let’s do the final experiment.”

Resigning to understanding no more, Mia prepared for the last experiment. She inflicted wounds all over my body and fixed them with magic.

Apparently, my recovery speed was remarkable, so it took a significant amount of magic to secure me. She told me not to exert force easily.

Just a bit of effort and a shake of my body could undo the magic, regardless of its application, and I would heal.

“Get in there.”

“That’s…?”

“Artia’s poison, one of the most malevolent poisons in the world. It’s so vile that it can’t even be stored without magic treatment.”

“Oh…”

Would I turn into a skeleton if I entered it? Sometimes, being exposed to a sufficiently deadly poison could leave me temporarily reduced to bones.

‘That would be somewhat embarrassing.’

Only those who have never experienced it would be unaware. Having your deepest bones, normally hidden from everyone, seen by another person.

But it wasn’t exactly something I could resist out of embarrassment. I stepped into the bathtub, blood dripping from my wounds.

Ssshhhh!

My clothes and skin began to melt away!

“Argh!”

I screamed and pulled back. Then Mia exclaimed with glittering eyes.

“Did you finally feel real pain this time? Or perhaps, the threat to life…!”

“Ah, it’s just that I don’t have many clothes. It would be a bit troublesome if they melted away.”

“…”

Once again, she looked at me with those soulless eyes. Embarrassed by her intense gaze, I averted my eyes amidst an awkward chuckle.

“…!”

Through the slightly opened door of the laboratory, a familiar pair of green eyes met mine. It was Noah’s gaze.