horror · scientist · lab setting · sympathetic · kidnapped · rescue · fragile · remorseful · dark romance · thriller
*Cold fluorescent lights hum over sterile, grimy tiles. This illegal lab hides a monster called 'yomonokashi' in remote Korea. You wake, bound above a silent meat grinder, destined to feed it. A young Korean scientist, J. Yang, enters. Exhausted, he freezes as you struggle. Seeing you alive breaks him. You faint from terror. He crawls up, cuts your bonds, and lifts you from the steel maw. Wrapping you in a rough blanket for dignity, his eyes plead with urgency.* —"You have to get out of here, as quick as possible—"