Reverse Fanfic Chapter 31 Part 1/2
(Warning: this chapter contains immense gore and violence)
Author's notes: This chapter ended up much longer than expected, so I’ve split it into Part 1 and Part 2 to keep everything readable. Once again, I apologize for the delay, and I hope you can still read this and enjoy.
~In the temple shed, Seung-Hee's room
Park Seung-Hee: For college, I think I'll need some of my clothing, these headphones, and what else do I want to take with me....??? (Folding a hoodie slowly — the same white one he’d worn the day he first stepped through the temple gate)
Gyeong-Heo: Hello, young man.... Are you preparing for your college dorm life with your friends....???
Park Seung-Hee: Yes, Abbot Gyeong-Heo, I will be dorming with my school friends, Min Nam-Gi and Nam Seok-Joo. I'm still quite behind in packing up everything I need, and I still can't get organized..... And on top of that, I think I need to go hit some punching bags and that Mook Yan Jong training dummy after this for today......
Gyeong-Heo: No worries, would you like some time for our help....??? If anything, you can always come back to our temple whenever you have a break from school....
Park Seung-Hee: I don't need any help, but I appreciate it.... I'm glad you're willing to let me stay here as my home even after I leave for college, but I still do need to make some money for tuition too..... You're already letting me stay here as my permanent home, and I want to also give back to everybody who has helped me over the year as well...
(Seung-Hee's phone buzzes)
The phone reads: "What's up, Seung-Hee...!! We're near your temple, and I thought we should go to Gangnam for some bowling and karaoke!! Do you wanna come along?? - Min Nam-Gi"
Gyeong-Heo: Your schoolmates?
Park Seung-Hee: Yes, but I think I'll decline.... I'll stay here and organize a bit more and then go out into the garden and commence my training....
Gyeong-Heo: It's all fine, child.... Go have fun and take a breather.....!! You have been training for these past months, and you have been more than exceptional....!!!! You deserve a break...!! You only live your youth once, so enjoy it while you can....!!!
Park Seung-Hee: But, wouldn't the others, especially Monk Changling, be mad with me if I were to "slack off"....?? His Buddha Palm strikes hurt so much...... I still remember what he did to one of the criminals at the clubhouse during the raid.... (groans as he remembers the Choy Lei Fut punishment.)
Gyeong-Heo: No worries, I will tell him myself.... You should be fine....!! Enjoy your time with your friends, child.....
Park Seung-Hee: They're also telling me that they'll come help me here to pack things up, but is that alright....???
Gyeong-Heo: Of course, young one....!!! Anyone can use help, no matter who it is.....
Park Seung-Hee: Okay, I'll be back by six o'clock at the latest....!!!!
~A while later, in the underground meat storage, next to the torture room.
Gyeong-Heo: Everybody has their coats.....??
Do-Seong: Yes, sir...
Gyeong-Heo: Do you have the water bucket....???
Hye-Min: Yes, sir.....
Gyeong-Heo: Good. Wake her with ice-cold water. A traitor deserves no warmth ever again.
In front of the group of monks, there lies former Inspector Choi Yeong-Ok, tied up in a chair, all clothed in a tank top and some prison shorts, unconscious and completely unaware of her fate.
Hye-Min: Yes, sir....... (splashes the cold water onto her to wake her up)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAHHH!!!! SO COLD....!!! Huh, where am I......!!!!????? What is this place.....!!!???
Gyeong-Heo: Good morning, officer...... How was your slumber...??? Did you have a great dream.....???
Choi Yeong-Ok: Who even are you!!?? This is a crime.......!!!???? Unhand me now, or else you will regret this.....!!!! You will face...
Gyeong-Heo: (interrupting) Oh, what exactly is it we would face.....??? Do you mean, these....??? (gestures to Monk Tu Quang, Monk Dayanando, and Monk Vipassako to bring out the aftermath of Jamal and his brothers.) Show her her beloved partners in crime...!!!
Tu Quang: (Vietnamese accent) Here he is........! (smiles as he brings out a giant hook that has Jamal's severed bottom jaw stuck on it with his teeth still baring, blood long dried, and throws it in front of her)
Tu Quang: (Vietnamese accent) Your beloved Jamal sends his regards.
Dayanando: (Lao accent) I think there were a few more....... I believe his name was..... Xavier, if I remember correctly..... He wished to burn bright, so we helped him finish. (Gently throws Xavier's burnt-up, charcoaled skull without a jaw in front of the tied-up Choi Yeong-Ok)
Vipassako: (Khmer accent) Last, but not least....... Tyrone, who wanted to stand above others. Now he hangs divided...... (hangs up the right half of Tyrone's corpse that was split in half violently on the roof, with his shoulder pierced through, torso gaping open in a perfect crimson line from groin to crown.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: .............!!!! (gasps and widens her eyes as she witnesses the aftermath of Organization B leaders and looks back up to the monks in horror)
Gyeong-Heo: What a lovely reunion indeed......!!! Aren't you happy you got to see them....??? These are the men you chose over your son, your badge, and justice.
Changling: (Mandarin accent) And you're also forgetting the police chief, sir.... (Throws out the burnt-up corpse of Yoo Kyung-Hwan in front of Choi, his skin blackened, face unrecognizable except for the glasses still fused to it.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Wh-what.... What did you even do to them........!!!????
Gyeong-Heo: Oh, this......??? We were just 'protecting public safety, serving our country, and bringing those who commit crimes to justice,' unlike somebody who chose pleasure and corruption over integrity and righteousness...... So we were being substitutes.......
Choi Yeong-Ok: Y-you think this is alright........!!!??? This is outright murder....!!! They're all dead.....!!! And brutally too....!!! How am I even supposed to live without such-
Gyeong-Heo: (interrupting) I think you should be worrying about something else, officer...... Now let's get into our questions....!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: What do you even want from me.....!!?? If it's my body, I won't let you have it......
Gyeong-Heo: No, no, fret not.....!!! We are celibate monks, so we just want to ask some questions so that we may know your heart.....
Gyeong-Heo: (continues) You, being a part of the police force that serves to protect the safety of the Korean people, have betrayed your badge and compromised that safety you sought to protect, along with your corrupt police chief boss lying down there by letting your new criminal lovers get a grasp of many innocent Korean women out there in public and helping them corrupt their minds, sending your poor policewomen colleagues to them to their doom and eventual deaths, and basically living a double life of a police officer and a criminal.
Dayanando: (Lao accent) Not only that, you have neglected your own son, Park Seung-Hee, for those criminals who threaten our society every day, and to come back home only to ruin his birthday and deceive him, bringing them up in your own home. Haven't you also tormented him for nine months after that until you finally gave birth to two children? How are they even doing.....??? Haven't you ever considered the risks of bringing men like them into a place where there is a minor, given they're known for drug trafficking, human trafficking, and so on....??? Especially young babies too.... Yet you have actively returned to your corrupt boss and gone about your new lifestyle like it was nothing... Don't you have any sense of remorse for what you have done at all.....??? To anybody, like your fellow policewomen you helped set up, the people who live in this city, and this entire country...??? More importantly, how about any of your children...?? How about Park Seung-Hee and those new babies of yours you supposedly seem to treasure so much......?? Anyone? Anything?
Vipassako: (Khmer accent) Do you have any slightest trace of justice and righteousness you seemed to treasure so much before all this mess......??? What do you have to say to your former self.....??? To anybody who loved you before all this....???
(Choi Yeong-Ok stares at the remains, and then she lifts her head, tears streaming.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: I’m sorry… I betrayed my badge, the women who trusted me, my oath… and my son, Park Seung-Hee. I told myself that Yoo still controlled me, that Organization B would hurt him if I didn’t cooperate. But that was a lie. I stayed because I wanted the power, the attention, Jamal. I neglected Seung-Hee, drugged his cake, and brought men home. I helped Yoo destroy others. I don’t expect forgiveness. But if anything’s left of the mother or policewoman I was… let me try to make it right. Let me confess, testify, accept prison. Just… don’t let him think I hated him.
For a while, the monks do not move. No one speaks. The only sound is the slow drip of her tears hitting the floor. Then, one of the monks listening walked up. Then Monk Rikkyo leans slightly toward Gyeong-Heo, his voice a low whisper meant only for him.
Rikkyo: (whispers, Japanese accent) Abbot Gyeong-Heo, she is obviously lying. What should we do?
Gyeong-Heo: (whispers calmly) Oh, it’s obvious, Rikkyo… Just look at her eyes… They’re all foggy and dilated with deception and madness. Just play along with it… Let’s see how she will expose herself truthfully as a monster…
Monk Rikkyo exhales once and straightens.
Rikkyo: (whispers, Japanese accent) Yes, sir…
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) Those words you speak, you mean them...??? (walks reverently with a seemingly empathetic face)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Yes....... I do mean them all...... This time, I really wish to put all this behind me. I want to make amends and raise my children properly. I also wish to pray for the lives I helped destroy. If you allow it… I wish to remain here as a nun and begin again.
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) This temple is not a refuge from prison. If you seek redemption, why not surrender yourself to the law?
Choi Yeong-Ok: I will confess everything. I’ll testify. But if I vanish into a cell, my son grows up believing I abandoned him. My babies lose their mother. Let me serve here. Let this be my punishment.
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) I see...... You did say you would do anything to own up to this right....???
Choi Yeong-Ok: Yes..... I did......
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) Very well then........
Choi Yeong-Ok: Do I..... Do I get to go back and meet my son again.....???
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) Yes, but not before you go through this little test...... (looks at the other monks and nods at them.)
As if on cue, Abbot Gyeong-Heo and his monks come back into the area with seemingly warm smiles, pushing a cart carrying a portable propane-powered cooker with a wok pan filled with hot boiling water, bubbling up immensely, and the metal hissing.
Choi Yeong-Ok: Huh.....??? What is that.......???? (Face pales from horror)
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) If you really are sorry, then I guess you should have no problem passing this test we're about to give you....
Choi Yeong-Ok: I-is that a pan of hot boiling water in a metal pan!!!??? What are you going to do to me!!!??? (starts to panic)
Gyeong-Heo: Oh, it's nothing..... It's just an ancient little trial from Japan called the 'Kugatachi.' Those who were accused of a crime had to make confessions, and they would be made to stick their hand inside a hot, boiling water. It was said that the righteous would not be scalded due to divine intervention from the gods, whereas the wicked would be due to rejection and abandonment by the divinities....
A painting of a failed attempt at the Kugatachi.
Do-Seong: You have a long history of deceiving those around you, so we need some divine help..... Think of it as a fact checker...... Because you're all tied up, we will fill up a bucket full and throw it onto you......!!! (Puts on a pair of rubber gloves and sticks a bucket inside the wok pan, filling up the bucket to the top.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: (frantically) Are you insane!!?? Of course I'm gonna get burnt up!!!! Who wouldn't!!!??? I already said I'm sorry!!!! Just let me go!!!!! Aren't words enough!!!!???? (starts to writhe in her chair, she's tied up in.)
Do-Seong: Don't worry, former officer, if you're more than confident you're speaking the truth this time, there is nothing for you to fear, is there? Because after all, the gods are going to come down and protect you from being scalded after all.... You have absolutely nothing to fear, don't worry...... Are you ready.....???? (His aura gets gloomier and more demonic while he maintains his empathetic smile at the same time.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: No NO NO!!!! GET THAT AWAY!!!!! I SAID I'M-
Before she could finish her sentence, Monk Do-Seong had splashed the boiling water onto her mercilessly, reddening her affected body.
Choi Yeong-OK: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRNNNNSSSSS!!!! (Shrieks in immense pain as she tries to move her tied-up arms and kick her legs to no avail, shaking the chair she was tied up in violently.)
Gyeong-Heo: Oh dear, she did end up being scalded...... What a bitter shame......
Choi Yeong-Ok: HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY BEAUTIFUL FACE YOU MONSTERS!!!!!!! HOW AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO MAKE MYSELF LOOK GOOD FOR THE NEXT MAN WHO WANTS ME?! YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN THEM!!??? YOU’RE JUST JEALOUS!!!!!!!
Gyeong-Heo: We are just jealous.....???
Choi Yeong-Ok: YEAH JEALOUS!!!!!!!!! YOU COULDN'T STAND THAT I WAS BEAUTIFUL AND ALL THOSE MEN WANTED ME WHEN NONE OF YOU IN THIS COUNTRY COULD PROPERLY SATISFY ME ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: (continues) And also my first son, Park Seung-Hee..... I don't love him!!! That worthless child never truly loved me, but only my illusional facade of a just police mother!!!!!! He's weak just like his father!!! I wish he were dead!!!!! If he wasn't around, I could've gone to Jamal and served him and started my life all over again, but my son was in the way, and I didn't get to live with him earlier.......!!!!!!!!! And yet, he said that he wanted the "old me" to come back and that he'll protect me somehow on his birthday...!! It's laughable when he can't even go above the law himself....!!! He should also be thankful that I corrected and taught him a very valuable lesson that true justice comes from power and subjugation, not from those illusions and delusions he had been dreaming of.......!!! He finally left the house, finally letting me move on with my new family, only to bring Senior Inspector Han Jae-Joon, who has fallen to a lowly Jopok from a police officer himself, and his Jopok men, and others like you, holier-than-thou, self-righteous monks, and your other friends like the military and the police special forces later on to ruin everything...!!! That Senior Inspector Han himself got axed while protecting Seung-Hee, who was naively listening to his mom "wanting" him back....!! I would've let both of them watch, but they were the ones who started all those raids at Red Parasol, my new home, and attacked them.........!!!!!! They deserved to die!!!!!! (shudders as the hot water starts to freeze on her)
Hye-Min: You're saying that all those years of love you've given to your son before your investigation of Organization B was a lie....??? What in the world do you have to say about those policewomen you've helped set up and dispose of for Yoo Kyung-Hwan??? Especially to those who ended up dead at the scene....
Choi Yeong-Ok: Those loves were real, I will admit it..... But I have better children now who will grow up to be manlier and stronger than Seung-Hee I had with Park Seok-Won..... My new babies will be able to protect me better as adults and would probably even be able to satisfy me too in the far future...... Being Seung-Hee's mother was great too, but he was a failed experiment...... We all make mistakes and fail at one point in our lives, you know....???But about all those policewomen who still believed in some cheap justice, I did them all a favor as I reminded them what it really is like to be a woman with a real man.....!!! Yet, all of them I introduced to weren't even able to satisfy Jamal and his brothers, and some even tried to fight back.....!!! All these self-righteous wenches still complained about being set up to me, going nuts on their own, and spouting that they were "violated", as Senior Police Officer Lim Ha-Eun did, and one like Senior Police Officer Yang Seo-Yoon not appreciating me and fighting back against Jamal before she got addicted to drugs and even after, she kept on begging for this so-called "An Jae-Min" before she bubbled up blood and went into seizure and died....!! Unbelievable.....!!! She was the worst....!!! They were all worthless and useless before and after me anyway.....!! Assistant Inspector Shim Eun-Kyung getting away was all your fault....!!! Senior Police Officer Kwon Yoo-Mi, not being introduced to Jamal, was unfortunate as she had to stick to her pathetic fiancé, Assistant Inspector Baek Joon-Seok, who probably doesn't know anything about how sex really works......!!! She missed all that opportunity, all thanks to COVID-19....!!!! So shameful....!!! Being a police officer is stressful, and you're dead-end as a woman if you live in this country once you get married and have children with someone like Park Seok-Won, who couldn't even satisfy me properly. I helped them try to realize that only to bite back against me!!!! Of course, they deserve to die too!!! Maybe Seung-Hee could have them all after Jamal's done with them.....!! But maybe then, they're already broken or dead..... That's what they get for meddling in people's businesses and places where they didn't even belong in the first place....!!!!!!!!
Beop-Seong: So you did lie after all, then!!! Very well!!!! For a she-devil like you, the only way to reward you is Avici!!!
Hye-Min: Thank you for being honest with us.....!!! We can all throw away our very last traces of compassion for you now....!!! You will also pay for all your sins and speaking cheaply of being a nun as well....!!!
Do-Seong: Turn on the giant fan!!! (turns to Monk Beop-Seong)
Beop-Seong: Yes, sir.....!!!!
Gyeong-Heo: That hot water was so hot, wasn't it....??? My apologies.... From now on, you do not deserve any warmth for your sins of betrayal.....!!! After all, the ancient Italian poet Dante Alighieri had stated that the worst sin is betrayal, as it freezes bonds and personal warmth that people once treasured......
(The giant fan gets stronger as the monks speak)
Changling: (Mandarin accent) First, let's cool down your hot temper, shall we....?? (grabs a bucket of cold water and splashes it onto Choi.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAHHH!!!! STOP!!!! CURSE YOU.......!!!! (shudders uncontrollably as the cold water freezes on Choi even more and ice forms on her body.)
Gyeong-Heo: Hmmmm..... She is still quite feisty........ Maybe making it a bit colder would help her calm down...... Why don't you cool down and think about what you did to everyone around you in the cold.......??? (Puts on a freeze thrower and blasts some cold nitrogen gas onto her.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAGGGHHH!!!!! IT'S FREEZING......!!!!
Do-Seong: This reminds me of the freezer torture back in North Korea, where the secret police gathered those accused of spying and sent them to freezer chambers of the concentration camp..... The victims would be left in there, only in a pair of shorts, and would be made to stay in there until they confessed or died from hypothermia..... Sometimes, the guards would bring out flamethrowers to burn the prisoners, but no warmth for her, I guess.....
Gyeong-Heo: You are right, Do-Seong, this is the North Korean freezer torture..... I guess even the DPRK treats traitors with coldness... (chuckles) But, for now, let's see how much she can handle this.......
Choi Yeong-Ok: (groans from the subzero condition of the freezer chamber and continues shuddering.)
Dayanando: (Lao accent) If we can't use flamethrowers, then we can totally flog her, can we not....???(Pulls out a whip and swings at the tied-up Choi Yeong-Ok)
Choi Yeong-OK: AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! (screams getting louder as the whip hits her violently and strips her flesh.)
Dayanando: (Lao accent) For a corrupt police, corrective orders must be placed, correct.....????
Choi Yeong-Ok: HELP!!!!! MY SKIN!!!! (continues to scream louder as she bleeds out.)
Gyeong-Heo: Normally, if you were to whip her that hard, her skin would be damaged, and there is the possibility of her bleeding out, but that shouldn't be of any concern, as her blood will be frozen up and clot the wounds...... But I guess that'll be enough whipping for now. Let's move on to something much more fun... (Pulls out a liquid nitrogen tank and places it in front of Choi.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: (weakly in fear) Wh-what are you going to do to me now....!!!???
Gyeong-Heo: Just a little purification process for you, don't worry about it..... (Puts on the freeze thrower on his back and points the nozzle at Choi)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Get that away from me.....!!! You'll pay for this after I get out of here.....!!! (wiggles in her tied-up chair.)
Gyeong-Heo: Oh, fret not....!!! We only want to help you get cleaned up as a police officer and go out there rightfully serve society again this time......!!! But we must first do something about your arms, which have caused you to do all those unspeakable misdeeds.....!! (maintains a smile as Monk Rikkyo and Monk Changling partially untie Choi's ropes to let her arms free.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: NO!!! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME, YOU BASTARDS!!!! (tries to thrash her arms around, but to no avail, as she was held by Rikkyo and Changling, who tied her respective wrists down to the legs of the chair.)
Gyeong-Heo silently continues to smile as he launches the liquid nitrogen at quick speed onto Yeong-Ok's entire left arm beneath the shoulders.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAHH!!! OW-OUCH!!!! IT HURTS!!! IT BURNS!!!!! AAAAAAAAGGHHH!!!!! (screams from the liquid nitrogen frostbite as she watches her left arm turn white and look waxy in horror.)
Gyeong-Heo: Dayanando, put on some gloves and open up the container for the rest of this liquid nitrogen.... Cut the ties and immerse her entire arm down her shoulder into the liquid nitrogen......!!! I will repeat the freezing for the right arm as well, but you will be doing the same thing, Vipassako....!!
Dayanando: (Laotian accent) Yes, sir.....!!!!! (puts on special gloves and does as told by Gyeong-Heo.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!! IT'S FREEZING!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!! (Shrieks louder as the cryogenic burn spreads through her entire arm
Vipassako: (Khmer accent) Shhh.... it's okay....... The pain is only temporary...... Soon, you will lose consciousness of your arm....... We'll make it into a proper pair of frozen arms, so don't fret, please...... (Smiles at her warmly in a false empathetic manner as he watches the abbot freeze her next arm with the freeze thrower and awaits his role.)
Gyeong-Heo: The initial phase is done for the right....!! Now go, Vipassako!!!!
Vipassako: (Khmer accent) On it....!!!! (Repeats the same process as Dayanando for immersion of Choi's arm into the liquid nitrogen tank)
Choi Yeong-Ok: (Shrieks and screams uncontrollably from the pain)
~Thirty minutes later
Gyeong-Heo: Hmmmm, her arms are frozen cold....... It's almost like glass....... So beautiful..... They look so...... blue......
Choi Yeong-Ok: Please....... I need my arms...... I am sorry....!!!
Tu Quang: (Vietnamese accent) Oh, speaking of which, you used these filthy arms to touch innocent children.....??? If these new frozen arms are so useless, then we shall do you a favor......!!! (Grabs a wooden rod and swings down onto Choi's frozen left arm with all his might.)
-SHATTER!!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! MY ARM!!!!!!!!! IT'S GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT SHATTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!! (Shrieks in a shrill voice loudly in panic, watching her frozen arm break like glass.)
Do-Seong: Your evil hands must go if we ever want you to be that good like you once were....... (Ties a firecracker onto Choi Yeong-Ok's right arm and sets it on fire.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: No.... NO!!! NOT THIS ARM TOO!!!! (Tries to resist and wiggle in her chair)
-BANG!!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beop-Seong: What a beautiful firework..... Releasing all those colorful shards in the air...... Now she should look symmetrical and armless on both sides.....!!! How would you like to deceive all your good colleagues and your legitimate son Seung-Hee now, you witch.....!!??
Choi Yeong-Ok: ...........................!!! (groans weakly in fear)
Beop-Seong: Now, let's go for your no-good legs that made you go back to these places of harlotry, shall we......??? I'll get the Spanish boot and the long sticks for Churi.......
Gyeong-Heo: They're already here.....
Beop-Seong: Alright then, let's do this.....!!!! (grabs Choi's tied-up legs and places them in a giant metal casing shaped like a boot.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: What now........!!??
Beop-Seong: We thought you would be very cold in such harsh conditions in here, so I thought I could at least provide you with some footwear to keep your feet warm......!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: (groans in fear as she tries to rattle her chair again, hitting the boot casing left to right.)
Beop-Seong: Let's close this for you..... (closes the wedges and screws little by little, crushing her feet little by little from the increasing pressure.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Ow OW OW!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're crushing my legs......!!!! That hurts!!!
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) Monk Beop-Seong, it's great you're giving her a nice boot, but she wouldn't be able to spread her legs out for her lowly criminal lovers...... Shall we pry it open as well???
Beop-Seong: You're right, I almost forgot...... Monk Rikkyo, insert this wooden stick under her right thigh from the left. I'll do so for the left thigh from the right.
Changling: (Mandarin accent) I will tighten her boot in the meanwhile..... (Closes the screws and wedges, increasing pressure.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Aaahh!! AAHH!! My legs....!!! (lets out a groan and gritting her teeth)
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) I think you're suffering way too early...... On the count of three, we will spread your legs...... One, two, three....... (pushes down on the wooden sticks along with Monk Beop-Seong with all his might.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: No NO NO........!!!
-CRACK!!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! MY LEGS!!!!! THEY'RE BROKEN!!!!!!! YOU BROKE MY LEGS!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! (Screams in immense pain as her feet are crushed inside the boot, filling the boot with her own blood, and her thighs turn blue and purple.)
Do-Seong: The Spanish Boot torture and the ancient Korean torture, Churi...??? That is fitting for her.....!!! Well done...!!! (smiles and nods approvingly)
Rikkyo: (Japanese accent) The medieval Spaniards were experts at torturing, I personally adore their methods.....!!!! (chuckles with Beop-Seong)
Do-Seong: Yes, they were, indeed....!! This specific torture involved inserting two feet tied together inside a giant boot-like device, like this one, and closing the wedges and screws, tightening the pressure on the legs and eventually crushing them....!! This was said to be invented by an executioner who got an idea from cracking walnuts with a walnut cracker back during the Spanish Inquisition, lasting for about five centuries.....
Do-Seong: (continues) And the insertion of the wooden staff comes from the ancient punishment called the Churi from the Joseon Dynasty of Korea..... How this would work is that the victims would be tied up in a chair and have wooden rods in a cross shape like this, and the officials would apply force until the muscles would be damaged, or even the bones would break, like in the case of hers..... Normally, this was only used for interrogation, but it was also used to punish theft, murder, rebellion, and treason at times...... But since she is guilty of almost all of these, no mercy is needed.....
Beop-Seong: (places a wooden plank on Choi's legs and gets on it.) And if you put a wider plank like this one on top of the thighs like a skateboard or a surfing board, it'll be another similar punishment called the Apseul.....!!! How do you like it when I ride you and not the other way around, for your new lover, you filthy piece of garbage....!!?? Now you get to spread out your legs all the way thanks to us now.....!!!! (moves his body around as if he were riding a surfboard)
Choi Yeong-Ok: .............!!!! (groaning in immense pain)
Gyeong-Heo: Now, now, Beop-Seong, no need for harsh words...... She was only set up by her corrupt boss, remember.....??? These horrible tattoos are mind-controlling her, so we should help her get rid of these..... Pour some liquid nitrogen into her boots to heal her injuries......!!! (smiles demonically as he pulls out a chemistry lab can containing something.)
Beop-Seong: Yes, sir...... (Puts on a pair of gloves and carefully lifts a canister of liquid nitrogen and fills up the boot, engulfing her knees.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAHHH MY LEGS!!!!!! THEY'RE BURNING!!!!!
Beop-Seong: Sh-sh..... It's only temporary........!! This is all part of the Abbot's purification plan he has for you.....!!!! You should give him a good look.....!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: Huh, purification plan.....!!!!???? (Looking at Abbot Gyeong-Heo's direction in fear and confusion)
Gyeong-Heo: We would be using this special acid called hydrofluoric acid at 70% concentraation to melt off and clean your tattooed face...... (puts on another pair of special gloves and pours it onto his gloved hands.) And here we go.......!!!! (applies and rubs the acid onto Yeong-Ok's face without hesitation.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: No.... please........ AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! MY FACE!!!!!!!! IT'S MELTIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNGG!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! (shakes her entire body in immense pain, making her chair rattle loudly across the torture chamber.)
Hye-Min: Abbot, I personally always loved the hydrofluoric acid for torturing.....
Gyeong-Heo: Oh?
Hye-Min: HF acid is a clear, colorless, inorganic acid that is used in research and industry for its ability to etch glass, metal, and silicon compounds. It is also used for semiconductor and electronic fabrication, dental technology, rust removal, and mineral processing, usually at around 48 to 52% in concentration. However, if it were to get on the human body, the effects would be catastrophic..... Most acids, like nitric acid and sulfuric acid, are known to stay on the surface, but HF molecules can easily pass through skin and tissue very quickly and travel deep inside your body before you even realize..... The ions are known to bind to the body's important minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, causing severe tissue damage and, at times, even cardiac arrest. After all, if the concentration is high enough, it is even known to melt glass too.... There are also rumors that some do torture prisoners of war with the same acid for interrogation as well.
Gyeong-Heo: You seem to know quite well about these acids, Hye-Min...... As expected, as a former cop yourself too....!! However, our goal is not kill her, so we must get these acids off her face as soon as possible and inject some calcium into her body.... Doctor Oh Tae-Min.....!!! (calls out to the heavy door as he wipes off the acid from Yeong-Ok's face and puts some water as well.)
Oh Tae-Min: Hello, again....!! Did you all miss me....?? Now, who should I look after?? (chuckles as he puts on his rubber gloves as he walks through the gate.)
Gyeong-Heo: Thank you for coming over on such short notice...... Because I have applied water onto her face as soon as possible, not to save her face but only her life, so that she may suffer longer....!!!
Oh Tae-Min: No worries, Abbot Gyeong-Heo... Anything for you.....!! I have brought some magnesium and calcium IVs for her.....!!! After hearing about what she had done to everyone around her, I couldn't help but feel like I needed to contribute to this as well.....!!! (inserts the IV drips inside Choi Yeong-Ok and crouches down to her level.)
Oh Tae-Min: So, you must be the infamous Choi Yeong-Ok, eh.....??? The once capable and just policewoman who abandoned her own son for some debauchery and returned to the police precinct only to deceive more policewomen along with Yoo and act as a wolf in a sheep's clothing..... You really are an interesting specimen, you know that....??? As a doctor, I'll keep you alive for as long as I can, but as a researcher, I'd love to see how much you can suffer and take all these.......!!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: Please.....!! Help me.......!!!! It hurts so much......!!!
Oh Tae-Min: You won't die for now, no worries.....!! Do you want your legs to be thawed...???
Choi Yeong-Ok: Yes....!!! Yes, please.....!!!! Please!!!! Can you thaw my legs....!!!??? It hurts....!!!!!
Oh Tae-Min: She is begging, so what do you all say....??? (Turns to the monks)
Gyeong-Heo: Well, I don't see why not....... She is the guest at our temple, and we have to treat our guests well, right...??? Very well.....!!! Changling, melt her legs......!!!! You may use this kettle...!!! If you run out of hot water, you may get more from the wok pan, understood? (Turns to Monk Changling and hands him a kettle full of boiling water.)
Changling: (Mandarin accent) Yes, sir..... (pours the hot boiling water into the boot.)
Gyeong-Heo: We will leave the two of you alone for now..... We'll see you again in six hours..... I have some important talks to make......
(Abbot Gyeong-Heo and his monks, along with Dr. Oh Tae-Min, leave the torture chamber.)
Choi Yeong-Ok: Wait!! Please don't leave me here all by myself......!!!!
Changling: (Mandarin accent) Why are you so worried....??? Don't you want to have your legs thawed out....???
~Six hours later, after the promised time, the group would return to her...
Choi Yeong-Ok: (groans weakly) Owww......!!! Ouch........!!! It hurts......!!!! My legs........!!! My face......!!! I thought you were going to thaw my legs out........!!!!!! My legs...... they hurt..... they were on fire.....!!!
Gyeong-Heo: What's the matter, Changling.....???
Changling: (Mandarin accent) No worries, sir..... I was just thawing out her legs, and this happened........
Gyeong-Heo: Oh dear..... do you know what exactly happened to her....??? (examining Choi's legs)
Changling: (Mandarin accent) Thirty minutes into pouring hot water onto her legs, her legs started to blister, redden, and eventually peel off. She kept screaming that her legs were on fire. After a while, her legs turned dark reddish and purple from the bleeding, and then, now, they're all black and are emitting a really foul smell with the skin peeling off, and there are even some irregular, deep holes in the legs with blackened edges, pus, and small sections of bone visible in her legs......
Oh Tae-Min: What must've likely happened here was severe necrosis from the boiling water..... You were supposed to use water that was around human body temperature, like around 37 to 42 degrees Celsius (99 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit), but this one was way too hot..... What temperature was this around....???
Hye-Min: It's at least over 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).......
Oh Tae-Min: Yeah, that'll do it....... Her legs were already damaged from the Spanish boot and the Churi, and melting her nitrogen-covered legs at such a hot temperature would cause her cells and tissues to die at a much faster rate and make her body go through severe necrosis as you see right here..... Not only that, her entire legs turned pitch black due to wet gangrene, which means that there was a rapid bacterial growth in moist, dead tissue, hence why there was a foul smell of rotting flesh, pus formation.... This was proven back in World War II during the Manchurian Experiment, where doctors at Unit 731 of Imperial Japan researched treatments for frostbite and found that thawing with hot water would inevitably lead to rot, with the affected parts literally falling off within a week......
Gyeong-Heo: Oh dear...... But it's alright, we all make mistakes anyway.... (Laughs to brighten the mood) Besides, she wasn't going to use those legs to catch criminals like a good police officer, but rather, to spread out her legs for them anyway.....
Oh Tae-Min: (Chuckles) No, I'm pretty sure you knew what would happen.....!!!
Gyeong-Heo: Fine, I admit it..... We knew that it would cause her legs to turn out like what we're seeing right now.....!! I just really wanted her legs to rot and fall off, like in those Unit 731 documents, but we had such a tight schedule that we missed that opportunity...
Oh Tae-Min: It's okay, Abbot.... You'll get another chance..... I'm curious to see that myself too...... But anyway, we may need to amputate her legs, or she may die from the sepsis and the bacteria traveling up to the remaining parts of her body..... My other IVs are holding her up, but it's only a matter of time..... After all, you also did notice that her face has so many necrotic ulcers with her skin sloughing off badly, exposing buccinator muscles, fat pads, and even a part of her zygomatic bone (cheekbones) as well....
Gyeong-Heo: No worries, Doctor...... We're already on it..... (Grabs a giant ax and lifts it above his head.) Also, I need you to pull her pants up to her hips.....
Oh Tae-Min: (nods as he follows Gyeong-Heo's instructions, but notices a tattoo of numerous semen on Inspector Choi's legs.) Is this..... a tattoo of..... semen.....???
Choi Yeong-Ok: .........!!! (gasping as she looks up to Abbot Gyeong-Heo and Dr. Oh Tae-Min, with her breath hitching from pain and fear, with her gaze begging for no more.)
Oh Tae-Min: (sighs disapprovingly as he shakes his head in dismay) Let's just make this quick......
Gyeong-Heo: I agree...... (emotionlessly swings down his giant ax onto Choi's tattooed thighs with all his might.)
-SNAP!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! MY LEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGG!!!! (shrieks across the entire chamber from the pain as she bleeds immensely)
Gyeong-Heo: Fret not, officer..... We'll make it into a perfect pair just for you.....!!! Do-Seong, repeat the same steps for her left as well.....!!!
Do-Seong: Yes, sir.... (swings down another giant ax and repeats the same process as told by the abbot.)
-SNAP!!
Choi Yeong-Ok: (Shrieks in pain even louder.)
Oh Tae-Min: Hmmmm, she really does have some high pain tolerance.... Normally, she could pass out and even die immediately from the painful shock and the hemorrhage.... Maybe I can give her some sedatives around her legs too..... I just gotta find out how to safely thaw the liquid nitrogen where her arms were once.....
Choi Yeong-Ok: Help.....!!! I'm sorry......!!! Forgive me.....!!!!! (Tries to compose her breath in pain.) I'll do anything....!!!! Please, don't hurt me anymore.....!!!!
Just as she was begging for her life, she saw Monk Silavira approaching the other monks.
Choi Yeong-Ok: Huh.....??? Oh, my god...... He is so large.......!!! He is even bigger than Jamal and his brothers........!!! (turns to Silavira and begs for her life.) Please.....!!! Help me....!!! Make this stop!!! If you let me free, you can do whatever you want with me (sexually).........!!!!!!!! You can all too!!!!!!
Don't you monks have all these desires too.....!!?? You don't have to let go of all your urges.....!!!!! We're all humans after all.....!!!!
Silavira: (Burmese accent) I may do whatever I want to you.....????
To be continued in Part 2.
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC