Epilogue
Sa'er was caught by humans while searching for Red Coral.
During the one hundred and six days he was enslaved by the man named Sheng Tianyun, he met a woman he instantly liked.
She wasn't afraid of his poisonous spikes. She sat by the pool and fed him a pineapple.
She secretly unlocked the iron chain that pierced through his tail.
She said, "The freedom I can't have, you can quietly enjoy it for a while."
At that time he was under daily drug control. He wasn't awake much.
The lock on his tail was there to restrain him when he went into a frenzy.
Sheng Tianyun wanted to turn him into a killing weapon for his own use.
And he wanted to kill Sheng Tianyun.
This woman who looked like his Red Coral gave him the chance to take revenge.
Even though he failed.
He also gained the desire to live.
Later, every time he was punished with electric shocks, he would think of her.
As long as he thought of her, no matter how painful it was, he could endure it.
But when he finally left that damned place, everyone told him she was dead.
His Red Coral was dead.
He went into a frenzy once again.
When he woke up, he only had fragments of memory. He forgot his origins. He forgot Red Coral.
It took a long time before he gradually remembered.
He didn't have time to dwell on it because he encountered other monsters.
Maybe because he could fight.
The monsters looked to him for leadership.
He thought the title sounded awful, so he took the letters from some clothes he picked up and gave himself a name—Sa'er.
He disliked trouble, so he avoided crowds.
But humans all coveted him.
They coveted his flesh and blood, yet feared his power.
So they did everything they could to lock him inside the Monster Supervision Office.
Everyone said he was dangerous, but no one knew it was only his forced resistance.
He never wanted to kill, yet in the end his hands were covered in blood.
He was imprisoned in the sunless White Cube.
He thought he would grow old and die there.
But when the billion-volt electric grid was shut down, he heard a voice that felt familiar yet he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.
She said, "Let him out."