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

After hearing the thud-thud-thud Miho swore and ushered me to find cover behind some piled-up wooden boxes that were the closest to us.

I looked up and also saw the police helicopters approach, four of them, with search lights searching for us like an angry landlord hunting down the cockroaches that infested his house.

It took them no time to arrive at the scene and I saw each of them throw down a rope. The Police Special Ops started to rappel down.

"Hiding here won't do us any good. We gotta run."

With that, Miho grabbed my hand and started running toward the opposite end of the rooftop from where Ilseong's mob was. They were now getting ready to fight the incoming police forces - probably a futile effort considering they can't swing and bat away bullets mid-air. Even my tigress couldn't do that.

Luckily, because the mob was getting corned to the other end of the rooftop, we could reach the opposite side with relative ease.

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