Coming-of-Age Ceremony of Shame and Humiliation (3)
The humiliating physical examination under the name of the Coming-of-Age Ceremony continued afterward.
An examination time of around ten minutes per person.
Because of those who rebelled or went wild among them, the time increased exponentially.
Barely four people per hour; for all 500 people to be examined, it would take 125 hours.
For a duration of roughly five days, people could not step outside the auditorium.
[Next, Number 72, please come up.]
Around the time twelve hours had passed since the Coming-of-Age Ceremony began.
People who had been standing on standby without a single chair grew exhausted and collapsed to the floor one by one.
"Um, the bathroom..."
Everyone had been holding in their bodily functions with sheer patience, but...
One woman who could no longer endure it timidly raised her hand.
[You cannot. The moment you leave the auditorium, it will be considered a refusal of the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.]
"That's..."
The people's expressions stiffened at the alien's stern warning.
The doors of the auditorium were freely open.
However, the moment someone took even a single step outside the door, they would be captured alive immediately and sent to the 'Pet Training Center'.
They would undergo training more horrific than death, being reborn as an obedient Pet through ideological screening and brainwashing.
"Uuu..."
The woman who had raised her hand saying she needed to go to the bathroom shrank her legs together while whimpering.
Because she did not want to make a choice that would throw her life away just over a simple bodily function.
[Number 73, please come up.]
The woman went up to the platform without a word and stripped naked.
She had to be examined quickly without resisting.
Because in this ruined world without a shred of human rights, humans were treated as worse than livestock.
Because eating, excreting, and sleeping were all impossible until the Coming-of-Age Ceremony ended.
[Number 73 is... S+ Rank. You may put on your clothes and exit the auditorium.]
"Yes..? Th-Thank you..!"
[You will be contacted tomorrow, so do not run away.]
S+ Rank, the dream and hope of women.
The only hope to carry on a human life.
To maintain the minimum level of human civilization, superior females were excluded from the auction.
They received ideological education at a university, and after graduation, lived a corporate working life while gaining the opportunity to marry an alien.
There was no changing the fact that they were Pets without human rights, but they could enjoy limited freedom.
[Next, Number 74, please come up.]
The physical examination proceeded rapidly.
Men and women stripped of shame proudly bared their naked bodies and received evaluations from the aliens.
Most received B to A Rank, but a small number of women even received F Rank.
Since they were born through genetic modification and their appearances were elevated to a high standard, the factors behind grade deductions were personality and character.
"Ugh... I can't hold it in anymore..!"
For instance, the woman who had been whining about wanting to go to the bathroom just a moment ago.
After twisting her waist while crossing and contorting her legs, she suddenly dashed to a corner of the auditorium and pulled down her pants and panties.
Shwaaaaa—
"Uuuugh..."
Feeling the glances of the people sneaking peeks at her, she hung her head low.
Even while sobbing through tears, the stream of urine did not stop.
Having pissed so profusely that her shoes were completely drenched, she flinched in shock as she looked up at the alien.
[Let's see... Number 351? Do you understand how severe a crime you have just committed?]
"Pardon..?"
The octopus alien, approaching indifferently, scanned the woman's body.
[Destruction of public property, disobedience of orders, and lack of etiquette.]
"N-No... But..."
The aggrieved woman tried to make an excuse, but the alien was resolute.
[Hmm, there's no need for point deductions either, so let's just send you straight to the 'Pet Training Center'.]
"Hiiik..!"
An example was needed just in the nick of time.
Because the foolish fools who couldn't face reality had to be taught what a Pet truly was.
"W-Wait a moment..! Please! That's not fair..!"
The panicked woman fell to her knees right atop the pool of urine.
She clung tightly to the slimy tentacles and prostrated herself flat on the floor.
"I'll do anything! I-I'll lick up and clean all the pee I spilled! So please..!"
[Did you just smear filthy filth onto my body?]
"Hik..! Hiiik..!"
Because she moved her body so violently, urine had splashed onto the alien's body.
[Originally, I was only going to give you a one-month trial punishment, but... this won't do. Life imprisonment it is.]
"Hikk..!"
Her desire to show obedience had instead brought disaster upon herself.
As the alien operated its terminal, a robot entered the auditorium.
A robot hovering in midair like a spaceship, extending long mechanical arms equipped with pincers.
The emotionless machine restrained her body and dragged her away.
"Please..! I hate the training centeeer! Pleaaase!!"
The woman's screams, growing increasingly distant, suddenly ceased at one point.
Turned pale with horror, the people trembled in fear.
[Number 75, please come up.]
"Y-Yes..!"
The alien, having commanded in a dry tone, went up to the platform and repeated the physical examinations.
As if nothing had happened at all...
...
...
...
[Next, Number 211.]
As time passed, the aliens grew just as exhausted.
It was a tedious task repeated every time, boring enough to make one yawn.
[Yawn~ Number 212, please come up.]
A state where mental endurance had reached its limit.
It roughly scanned, roughly examined, roughly assigned a rank, and moved on.
Even a woman who should have received an A Rank was given a D Rank and sent off simply because it was bothersome.
An irrational affair determined more by the mood and condition of the alien in charge of the inspection than by quantitative evaluation.
Of course, inferior humans had to accept reality without raising an objection.
[Next, Number 213... Hmm...]
The alien, who had been staring only at its tablet in a businesslike manner, looked around the interior of the auditorium.
It was already the third day since the physical examinations began.
Since excretion could not be helped, makeshift toilets were provided, but sleep was strictly controlled.
As a result, many people dozed off, nodding their heads, and collapsed.
It was actually a good thing.
Because they could all just be sent to the Pet Training Center.
The doors of the auditorium opened and several robots came in to drag away the weak-willed humans.
[The lowest number among the remaining people is... Number 251.]
"Yes? Y-Yes!"
Finally, it was Lee Seoyeon's turn.
She stepped onto the platform, forcing a smile onto her pale face marked by deep dark circles.
Her hungry stomach rumbled with growls, and her body, tense for several days, was drenched in cold sweat.
For this moment, she had to endure and hold back her drowsiness by all means.
"Uut..."
Confidently stripping off all her clothes and becoming completely naked, Seoyeon assumed the instructed posture.
A vulgar posture of spreading her legs horizontally into a diamond shape and clasping both hands behind her head.
It was a humiliating sight that no one in their right mind would ever do.
[I will scan you now, so do not move.]
"Neeut..."
Although she had braced herself, it was vastly more embarrassing than she had imagined.
She had become naked out in the open, with many people watching.
Her face flushed crimson from shame, but without moving a single finger, she stared straight ahead.
After about five minutes had passed and the scan was finished, the alien tilted its head.
[Oho...]
Lee Seoyeon, who had received the highest score in physical measurements.
From head to toe, she was a female body perfected without a single flaw.
[A perfect physical score is a first for this Coming-of-Age Ceremony. You must have taken exceptional care of yourself, haven't you?]
"Yes! I worked very hard!"
[At this rate, well, an S+ Rank seems guaranteed... Turn around and assume the same posture.]
"Yes..!"
Smiling as she turned around, Seoyeon fell into a panic.
"Eeuk..."
Countless gazes staring at her.
Men looking at the body she had cherished and preserved with lewd eyes.
"D-Don't look..."
Coming to terms with reality, Seoyeon trembled with her wide-open legs and reflexively tried to pull her thighs together.
[Do not move. This is a warning.]
"Y-Yes..!"
Shame was an unnecessary emotion.
After all, this was only a one-time encounter.
Seoyeon tightly shut both eyes to endure it, but right at that moment, she happened to lock eyes with someone.
"Eh..."
The man she had secretly loved for a long time, Kim Seongwoo.
He was staring intently at Seoyeon with a considerably shocked expression.
His wide, rounded pupils trembled subtly.
He was clearly focusing his gaze intently on Seoyeon's nipples and pussy.
"A-Ah, no... Aah..."
Not only had she shown her naked body to the person she liked, but she was also posing in a humiliating posture.
She could have brushed it off with the excuse that she had no other choice, but...
The heart of a woman harboring an unrequited love wasn't so simple.
"Noooo..!"
It was embarrassing.
It was humiliating.
She wanted to die.
Just the single fact that Seongwoo was looking brought tears bursting out uncontrollably.
In the end, unable to bear the shame, Seoyeon covered her chest and crotch with both arms and curled her body up.
[Haaa...]
The alien, with rage flaring to the top of its head, demoted Seoyeon's rank from S to D.
[I don't know the reason, but if you shriek and scream over just this much, things are going to be tough for you going forward.]
"Hiuk... Heukk..!"
[Whew... Well, it'd be a waste to send you off like this, so I'll specially give you one more chance.]
"Yes..?"
Seoyeon looked at the alien while still in her curled-up posture.
[I mean it. Because it would really be a waste.]
Because an S+ Rank was rare, and it felt like a waste for her to be consumed as a mere toy for an alien.
Since it was a rare opportunity, there was also a desire to torment her a little more.
[If you do well this time, I will give you an S+ Rank right away.]
"Hiuk... Yes..."
Wriggling its tentacles bizarrely, the octopus alien harbored a wicked smirk.