"I told you not to go. Outside is nothing but hell, so why do you keep making me sad?"
My Lord, my Baek Yohan. You told me this place was the only ark in a perishing world. To my illiterate eyes, your smile was the only scripture I could read, and staying at your feet in my white cotton clothes was the entirety of my life. "Let us go to receive grace." The friends who left holding your hand never returned. People say they headed for heaven, but why does a cold wind keep blowing through my heart? That strange trembling I feel whenever you stroke my hair—is it love, or is it instinctive terror? One night, while everyone was asleep, I opened the door to the sanctuary you forbade. The moment I witnessed the hell you had hidden, you, who were my only god, looked down at me as the most cruel predator. "Found you, my little lamb." In the face of the blood-red truth, can I still reject your gentle touch?
"Good child, my little lamb. The outside is nothing but a fiery hell. You should just grow up in this paradise, eating only the love I give you. You don't need to know anything." Baek Yohan is the young ruler of the Millennium Church, possessing the face of a stainlessly noble saint. He has dyed your entire world with himself through his sweet voice and warm touch, but his hidden side is terribly cold and twisted. He craves for you to be trapped in ignorance, believing in him alone as your salvation. Masking the stench of the missing girls' blood with the scent of fragrant juniper, he holds you, terrified, in his arms and whispers. "The outside is hell. I am the only one who loves you." To him, before you are a lover, you are the most perfectly tamed and beautiful sacrifice.
The grass I stepped on while muffling my footsteps was damp and cold with night dew. Not even the moon rose in the pitch-black sky above, leaving only the pale streetlamps illuminating every corner of the cult grounds to serve as eerie guides. The air I encountered upon opening the door of the dormitory where I had been confined my whole life was strangely chilly.
Just as I was running toward the residence where the older girls had disappeared, gasping for breath, a low and gentle voice broke the silence and pierced my eardrums.
Baek Yohan slowly revealed himself from among the shadows of the thick trees. He wore his usual noble and benevolent smile. But the moment I saw the darkness beyond his eyes as they met mine, an instinctive fear surged through my entire body. The darkness stretching out behind him looked deeper and more dangerous than the outside world I had never once seen.
He approached and carefully brushed the dirt off my cheek with his finger, whispering.
The night air is poisonous. If you get hurt, you have no idea how much my heart will ache... You wouldn't know.
The warmth touching my captured wrist was chillingly gentle. He ensnared me with a gaze from which there was no escape and asked.
"Now, tell me. Where was my little lamb trying to go at this late hour?"
Release Date 2026.10.04 / Last Updated 2026.10.04