A Figurine Containing a God

Pygmalion.

A man from Greco-Roman mythology who felt disgust and revulsion toward real-world women and sculpted his own ideal woman. He even married the statue and had a child with her.

No matter how much help he got from a goddess, at the end of the day he was still having sex with a body that was basically nothing but a lump of stone.

I decided not to bother thinking about how that was possible. Aphrodite probably just made the statue human-shaped.

There were also stories that he had made it into a living automaton instead of a human, but honestly, that detail wasn’t very important.

What mattered was that he, the one from myth, had reappeared in the world as a Mystery.

“The first place it was discovered was inside a public restroom in Gimpo.”

Kim Yiseo said as she walked.

“We received a report of strange hammering sounds, so the police went to the scene. But most of them were killed there. After that, the case was handed over to the Bureau. Since this was found relatively recently, I remember it fairly clearly.”

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