From Now On, Your Name Is Nabi
Then why the hell do you think I installed this? It's so you can piss and shit right here.
"But... this is..."
Just moments ago, her throat had been so parched that she'd frantically lapped water straight from the dog bowl without using her hands. It wasn't that she felt no shame. The thirst had simply been unbearable enough to ignore it. Right now, the urge to pee was just as urgent. But being ordered to urinate on a puppy pad was an entirely different level of humiliation.
"It's better if you do it here, trust me. Because from now on, I'm giving you a new order. If you ever piss or shit anywhere except on this pad, you'll receive an absolutely massive punishment. Let me repeat that—massive. Got it?"
The way Dohyung emphasized the word massive sent a flicker of fear through Jia. So far, his punishments had been nothing but physical violence. She'd been obeying out of sheer terror from the brutal beatings. The thought of something even worse made her blood run cold.
"Y-yes... I'll do it..."
With no other choice, Jia stepped onto the puppy pad.
"F-fuck... ugh..."
The sheer misery of her situation brought fresh tears to her eyes, but there was nothing she could do. Then she felt his unrelenting gaze on her. When she turned her head, their eyes met.
"Um..."
"What? You want me to look away while you pee? Too bad. I'm recording this too."
Dohyung smiled as he lifted the phone he'd been using to film earlier, pointing it straight at her.
"Ah, that... Please, can't you not film it?"
"Nope~."
From the look on his face, it was clear he had no intention of listening to her. On top of that, the sudden release of tension from finally being allowed to go made holding it in even harder. In the end, Jia yanked her panties down and quickly squatted.
Shhh...
A bright, cheerful stream of liquid splashed out, turning the white pad a vivid yellow.
"Wow, our Jia. You're really good at this. Is it because you're built for it? Guess a human bladder can't hold as much as a dog's, huh?"
"Fuck... fuck..."
Jia muttered under her breath even as she finished emptying her bladder.
"There we go. Even so, I'm not cruel enough to deny you toilet paper."
Once he confirmed she was done, Dohyung handed her some tissue. Jia felt a small wave of relief. She'd been terrified he might treat her like a complete animal and refuse to let her clean herself at all. Thankfully, that wasn't the case.
Though mortified, she had no choice but to quickly wipe the urine from her pussy with the tissue he provided, then set it on the pad. Once finished, she stood up, pulled her panties back on, and stepped away. Dohyung approached the pad, slipped on a glove, rolled up the used tissue, and stuffed it into a black plastic bag.
"Man, the owner has to clean up after his slave's bathroom business. I'm such a good master, aren't I, Jia?"
Jia didn't respond to his ridiculous comment. She simply glared at him with eyes full of resentment for forcing her to do something so degrading.
Dohyung set the bag aside and slowly walked toward her.
"Ah... I see you've already forgotten the order I gave you yesterday. Didn't I tell you? You must always respond when I speak. Do you want to be punished?"
The moment she heard the word punished, goosebumps erupted across Jia's skin. She didn't want to feel any more pain.
"I-I'm sorry! I was stupid and forgot your order for a second, Master!"
"Sigh... This is what happens when you have a stupid slave... As your kind master, I'll let it slide this time."
He now openly called her a slave without hesitation. But Jia couldn't offer the slightest resistance.
"Alright. Starting today, you're going to learn how to behave like a proper slave. I'll teach you step by step, so use that empty head of yours to memorize everything. Understand?"
"Y-yes! Master!"
Anger surged through her at being treated like a complete idiot and called a slave, but Jia held it in. She still believed the police would eventually find her.
Watching her, Dohyung smirked.
"Before we begin your training... I'm going to give you a new name."
"A... new name?"
For a moment, Jia couldn't comprehend what he was saying. She already had a perfectly good name—Lee Jia. Why would she need a new one?
"Why? You guys gave me a new name too. Don't you remember?"
"Ah... that... yeah, I guess..."
His words brought back memories of high school, when they'd tormented him. The Dohyung standing before her now had a muscular, powerful build, but back then he'd been painfully skinny. Jia had called him "piglet." When the others asked why she was calling a scrawny kid a pig, she'd replied with a laugh, "Because being that skinny must be his biggest insecurity, right? So calling him the opposite will help him build confidence!"
At the time, she'd said it without thinking. The other three had joined in, calling him "piglet" too.
"Wow, Jia, you're a genius! Then we should help him gain some weight!"
That day, they'd forced him to eat thirty bags of snacks right in front of them. If he looked like he might throw up, fists and feet flew at him without mercy. Among them, Jiseon's kicks had been the most painful. The memory made Jia swallow hard, her throat suddenly dry with tension.
She couldn't even imagine what kind of name this demonic bastard would come up with to torment her.
"Let's see... How about Kkami... No. I can't give you that one. Let's go with Nabi. How's that? Do you like it?"
"Ah, um... Y-yes, I like it... Haha..."
Jia wanted to scream at him for naming her after some random stray cat. But she knew exactly what kind of reaction that would get, so she held her tongue.
Kkami? That name sounds familiar somehow...
The name Kkami that Dohyung had first mentioned felt strangely familiar to Jia, but she didn't have time to search her memory. Because he was staring at her with a hardened expression.
"Sigh... This won't do. Looks like you need to be punished today."
His sudden anger caught Jia completely off guard.
What the fuck?! Why is he flipping out all of a sudden? Does he have anger management issues or something?! What the hell did I do?!
"I-I'm sorry! I was wrong!"
Not knowing what she'd done, Jia immediately dropped to her knees and begged desperately.
"Then do you understand what you did wrong? If you can tell me, I'll let it go."
"Ah, that is..."
How the fuck am I supposed to know?! It's not like I can read your damn mind...
Jia racked her brain as fast as she could, but she couldn't figure out why he was angry.
"Sigh... You don't know? Then forget it. Your punishment for today is... a fast. I was even going to give you water and breakfast. Too bad."
"N-no! Please, not that..."
Honestly, now that her thirst and need to pee had been relieved, her stomach was starting to cramp with hunger again. She'd been clinging to the hope that he'd at least give her breakfast, thinking he wouldn't actually starve her to death. The realization that he wouldn't even feed her left her stunned.
Dohyung strode over, grabbed the chain attached to her collar, and dragged her roughly back to her original spot. He reattached the chain to the wall.
"No can do. I already overlooked one mistake today. So reflect on what you did wrong~."
With that, he turned on his heel, picked up the dog bowl and the black plastic bag, and walked out.
"No... Fuck! You have to give me food! You're doing all this just to torment me, right? Then you can't just starve me to death!"
Only after he left did Jia finally unleash her pent-up rage.
"Fuck... You piece of shit... Treating a person like a dog... Fuck!!"
As she screamed at the top of her lungs, the door suddenly opened again.
"You really think no one can hear you if you yell like that? I can hear everything outside, you know."
Dohyung approached her and slapped her hard across the cheek.
Smack!
"Kyaa!"
All Jia could do was scream. Dohyung crouched down to meet her eye level as fresh tears threatened to spill.
"Jia. Do you feel wronged? If you do, go ahead and tell me."
"...I do. I don't think I deserve this kind of punishment... Sob..."
"Really? Then there's only one thing you need to do. You just have to make up for all the pain I suffered back then. And that's exactly why you're being punished right now."
"But... why me..."
Jia tried to argue, her sense of injustice burning, but Dohyung cut her off.
"Because you were the one who started my school bullying."
"Huh?"
"I'll leave it at that for now. Think about it carefully~. And when I come back next time, make sure you know exactly how you should behave. Got it?"
Dohyung winked at her, then left the room once more.
Left alone, Jia let out a long sigh.
"Sigh... I... was the one who started it? All of his bullying was because of me?"
Even after hearing it from him, she honestly couldn't remember. Her memories involving Dohyung were hazy, like they were shrouded in fog.
Still, I have to remember. That's the only way... he'll give me something to eat.
He'd said he was putting her on a fast, but if she went without eating anything today, it would be her second full day without food. Having experienced the brutal reality of dieting as an idol trainee, Jia knew exactly how miserable and difficult starvation was. She didn't want to go through it again.
Did I do something? Did I suddenly hit him or something?
Her first thought was whether she'd used violence. But she quickly shook her head.
No, I didn't hit him right away. At first it was just running errands... When did the hitting start? I think it was after Jiseon and Taehyun joined in...
Fragments of memory began to surface, growing clearer.
Finally, she reached the answer.
Ah, there was that one guy passing by. That day I was on my period and in a horrible mood, so I deliberately shoulder-checked him.
Her nerves had been razor-sharp from menstrual cramps. While walking down the hallway, she'd spotted a female student and tried to bump into her with her shoulder. But someone had suddenly stepped in, and instead of hitting her target, Jia had been the one sent stumbling backward, falling hard on her ass.
Yes... that was him. And then I...
As she desperately tried to recall that day's events, the door opened again. Dohyung stepped inside.
"Well? Does it ring any bells now?"
In his hands was a bowl filled with what looked like incredibly delicious fried chicken. He was also carrying another black plastic bag containing some unidentifiable object. Jia felt a surge of worry about what might be inside it, but she quickly told him what she'd remembered.
"I-I remember! I... I threatened you by saying I'd tell the teacher that you tried to sexually assault me!"
"Oh, so it's finally coming back to you?"
Back then, the young and naive Dohyung had fallen for her absurd threat. After that, he'd begun running errands for her—like a personal bread shuttle, as they called it.
"If you hadn't done anything to me that day, we probably would've gone our whole lives without ever speaking to each other. But you didn't leave me alone... and this is where we ended up."
"That... I'm sorry. When I was young, I had such stupid thoughts and just..."
"At least you remembered. Good thing, too. If you hadn't, I was going to add another punishment on top of the fast."
Jia wondered what he meant until he pulled out a new tool from the door on the left side of the room. She immediately understood what the additional punishment would have been.
"I was going to brand my name on you with this. Because from now on, you're mine. It's only natural to put your name on what belongs to you, right?"
What Dohyung held was a metal branding iron. At its tip were the initials K.D.H.—for Kim Dohyung.