The third season of Sweet Home introduces evolved beings called neohumans, who are feared by the special infectees.
Once the majority of the world’s population turns into monsters, mysterious cocoons start appearing in various places. Monsters never harm these cocoons.
Although monsters are known not to recognize each other or work together, they swarm together to protect these cocoons.
It turns out that all monsters eventually turn into cocoons, leading to their evolution into neohumans, the final stage of monsterization.
A new kind of being
Neohumans can communicate with both monsters and humans. Although they look exactly like humans, monsters can distinguish them from humans.
Neohumans differ from humans in their superior strength and speed. Additionally, neohumans are fast learners and immortal.
They are born from cocoons known as the heart. Whenever neohumans die, they return to the heart and are reborn in a perfect state.
Humans lose all their memories when they turn into monsters, but they regain them as neohumans, which allows them to recognize people from their past lives.
While neohumans retain all their past memories, they lack emotions and do not feel anything, which is another factor that differentiates them from humans.
Once a monster becomes a neohuman, it seeks out others of its kind. Neohumans have the ability to find each other and tend to stick together.
Unlike monsters, neohumans do not harm humans. They are not dangerous beings; all they wish to do is coexist with humans.
The threat to the existence of neohumans
The natural order involves humans turning into monsters and then evolving into neohumans. In contrast, the special infectees are anomalies that disrupt this order.
The special infectees fear neohumans because neohumans are powerful and cannot be oppressed or killed like humans.
Sang-won, the leader of the special infectees, attempts to kill neohumans whenever possible. They die and return to the heart for their rebirth, which is when they are most vulnerable.
Sang-won keeps attacking them in this vulnerable state, hoping that the constant pain will make them fear him and deter them from being reborn.
However, Sang-won does not succeed. Eventually, Sang-won and the other special infectees are killed, leaving neohumans in peace.
The remaining human survivors then start living with neohumans at a new shelter called Sweet Home, as coexisting with neohumans is the only way to stay safe from the monsters.
Some humans are wary of neohumans, but Eun-hyeok believes it is only a matter of time before all humans undergo monsterization and become neohumans, as seen in his and Eun-yu’s case.
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