Toobo

A kind girl falls in love with a vicious killer. Unhinged Yuri story set in Seoul.

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“Like a prey waiting with a trap, I missed my predator. 

I missed her touch in the places I’ve never been touched. 

I wanted to hear her sing the songs that I’ve never heard.”

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As the blood dripped off the knife she held firmly in her pale hand, I saw my reflection in the cold blade that had just taken the life of a man. 

I dreamed of magical moments like this every day. 

Something - someone to come and free me from the suffocating monotony of normalcy. 

She stormed into my life brandishing death, and in the moment of madness, my heart fluttered.

Then she came to my place, uninvited. I treated her wounds and fed her. She slept on my couch like a cat. We started our lives together. Death bound us like the knot of tie I fixed for her as she left for work - to kill, kill, and to kill again. 

I spent countless nights sitting in darkness, on my couch hugging my knees, gripped with worry and excitement. I prayed for her safe return home, but I did not pray for the souls she’d be sending to hell. 

But she always returned, like a stray cat coming for food in the back alley behind a restaurant. I was the cook who put out the food for her, stroked her, and gave her shelter.

A stray cat. A great feline predator. She was mine and mine alone. 

Together we laughed, alone I cried. 

Together we laughed, alone I cried. 

But I think we also loved. 

I think. 

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This is a dark and twisted psychological slice-of-life romantic comedy with a sprinkle of inspiration from the noir genre. If that doesn’t make sense, it’s because it doesn’t.

Miho the Killer

Miho asked me incredulously. She certainly did pick up that it was a call from Shin, but it didn't seem to really register to her that there was no exit that we were promised.

"Miho… Shin played us. He's been tricking us all along."

"What do you mean there is no exit?"

"Don't you get it?! He has been LYING to us!"

"No-, why would he? This doesn't make sense."

I couldn't speak any further for it was my fault that we now had Detective Choi - and probably a whole lot of other policemen together with him - on his way up to the dead-end we are stuck in.

"Sohee, please. Calm down and explain the situation to me."

"I… I don't know the reason, or how…" I lied. I hated myself for it.

"But there is no escape tunnel here. We have to work our way out to the ground floor."

No Escape