Gaslighting
Gaslighting
After changing clothes and coming out to the living room, Seoyun found Junwoo sitting comfortably on the sofa fiddling with his phone.
Junwoo, who had been watching her hesitate and fidget, grinned and patted the spot next to him.
"Seoyun-ah, come sit down quickly~ I was looking forward to this game too."
Junwoo, holding a controller in his hand, focused his gaze on the TV screen.
Seoyun hesitated for a long time before finally moving her feet.
One step, two steps...
She stopped in front of Junwoo sitting on the sofa, tightly clutching the hem of her clothes and biting her lip.
"I'm not in the mood to play games..."
"Why? Don't want to?"
"Mm... Give me back my phone..."
Seoyun looked at her phone lying next to the sofa and hung her head dejectedly.
She thought he had taken her phone to prevent her from running away, but Junwoo snorted and retorted.
"Ha! Who would think I stole it? Take it. You left it here and slept here yesterday, didn't you?"
"Mm..."
Seoyun snatched her phone and stared intently at Junwoo, mumbling.
There were many things she wanted to say, but her lips wouldn't part.
"What? Is there something on my face?"
"You know..."
"Yeah, what?"
"Why did you do that to me..? Why on earth..?"
Even if she asked tearfully, the answer that came back was always the same.
"Because I love you."
"Ugh..."
It was so infuriating she wanted to kill him.
She didn't want to hear his disgusting voice anymore.
Seoyun walked straight to the front door and put on her shoes.
Pouting as if sulking, she glared at Junwoo with resentful eyes.
"I'm leaving! I don't want to be here anymore!"
"What are you going to do if you leave? Report me to the police or something?"
"Th-that..! Well of course..!"
"Sigh, Seoyun-ah. You need to think calmly."
Junwoo, who let out a sigh, scratched his head and approached.
"Why do you think I waited until you calmed down? It was to let you cool your head."
"Uu..."
Although it was a situation where she could open the front door and run away at any moment, Seoyun couldn't actually bring herself to take action.
Because she felt intimidated by Junwoo's confident words and actions, making her heart uneasy.
Because nothing would change even if she ran away from here now.
"Our kind, innocent, and considerate Seoyun-ah."
"Don't touch me..."
Junwoo's hand stroked Seoyun's face.
She rejected the creepy touch but didn't resist beyond that.
"Seoyun-ah, I told you. I said I want to monopolize everything about you."
"Uu... So..? So what! No matter how nice you are to me... I, I won't forget what happened today..! I'll live my whole life cursing you, oppa..!"
"Yeah, I guess so."
What kind of crazy woman in the world could fall in love with her rapist?
Even if he was someone like family she had been with for over 10 years, it was an impossible thing.
"Seoyun-ah, I told you from the start. If I can't win your heart, I'll make you realize it through your body first."
"What..? Are you going to kidnap and imprison me? For life? Too bad, but even if you do that, I'll never..!"
"What are you talking about. Why would I do such troublesome things? I'll simply make it so you can't leave my side on your own."
"What does that..."
Junwoo shook off his hand that had been rubbing Seoyun's cheek and pulled out his phone from his pocket.
The phone gallery labeled [Seoyun♥] was filled with over 5,000 photos and videos.
From everyday photos that would be fine for others to see, to photos of her showering naked and videos of her masturbating with a dildo.
There was even a video of her pussy with semen flowing out, taken just moments ago.
"See this? Photos and videos I've secretly taken of you all this time."
"Ugh..."
Since he had voluntarily created and stored evidence of his crimes, if that phone was submitted to the police station as is, Junwoo would definitely go to prison.
Glancing furtively, Seoyun swung her arm trying to snatch the phone, but her wrist was caught, leaving her unable to do anything.
"Phew, I didn't think you'd try to take it."
"Let go! Let go!"
"Stop resisting and listen. I told you to think calmly, Seoyun-ah."
"What is there to think calmly about..!"
"You're trying to put me in prison, forget about my existence, and distance yourself from me, right?"
"O-of course! Who would be happy after going through something like this!"
"I guess so. But you know, calm down and think about your life."
"What on earth..!"
Seoyun only expressed irritation and yelled loudly.
She was always like this.
Her thinking was simple and one-dimensional, so she was always greatly influenced by the words and actions of people around her.
"If you report me to the police, your parents would be very happy, right?"
"Huh...?"
Seoyun, who had been stubbornly insisting, stiffened her expression and stopped resisting.
The image of her parents, which she had forgotten, filled her mind.
"Why? Haven't you thought about your parents? Their daughter, whom they trusted and entrusted to a man, not only got raped but became a victim of a sex crime? They'd be utterly heartbroken. Right?"
"Th-that kind of..."
"Moreover, they already seemed to have accepted me as a son-in-law... I was the one who knew you best since you were male, your parents trusted me that much, and they somewhat sensed my feelings and allowed me to date you. They even permitted us to live together using university rent as an excuse, right? If they heard about something like this happening... wouldn't it cause a huge emotional wound? A wound they could never erase in their lifetime."
There wasn't a single wrong part in what Junwoo said.
Her parents had already been deeply hurt after Seoyun became a woman's body.
Her mother, whose sighs increased, had wrinkles all over her forehead, and her father started smoking again after quitting and became taciturn.
Although Seoyun always said she was fine until her lips were worn out, her parents felt guilty, apologizing for giving her the genetic disease.
"I don't want that... That's... too much..."
Revealing Junwoo's truth in this situation and having him receive legal punishment?
She didn't even want to think about what emotions her parents would feel.
"Right? It's too much? But this isn't the end."
"Hoo..."
"About the photos and videos on my phone. Just in case something like this happens, I made a private backup on an internet cloud. It's set to simultaneously upload to various sites if I don't access and renew it once a day? If I end up going to prison, Seoyun-ah, you'll spend your whole life living as people's jerk-off material. Even after death, forever."
It was all lies.
Junwoo had a strong obsession and desire for exclusivity towards Seoyun.
There was no intention to upload the photos and videos to the internet later, and the claim about cloud backup with hacking concerns was also a lie.
The simple-minded Seoyun didn't even doubt it and believed it was true.
"Th-that kind of thing... is too..."
Seoyun, trapped in a thoroughly planned crime, lost her words and her eyes welled up with tears.
No matter how much she thought about it, there was no way to resolve this situation.
"Alright. If you want to go, go~ I won't stop you."
After finishing what he had to say, Junwoo returned to the sofa and picked up the game controller.
Having said this much, Seoyun would absolutely not be able to open the front door and leave the house.
10 minutes...
20 minutes...
30 minutes...
Seoyun was still standing in front of the shoe cabinet.
Junwoo, who had been glancing at her while playing the game, sighed as if annoyed and approached Seoyun.
"Are you going to keep doing that? Make a choice."
"Hoo... What on earth..."
"What do you mean what? Whether you'll become my girlfriend, or leave like this and report me."
The answer was predetermined.
Becoming Junwoo's girlfriend.
She didn't want to disappoint her parents any further.
She finally got a woman's body and was able to live a new life, she didn't want her life to be ruined in an instant.
She worked hard to get into a university in the Seoul area with a guaranteed future, she didn't want to give that up either.
Moreover, she absolutely refused to have her face sold on the internet and face social erasure.
"I... I'll be your girlfriend..."
"Yeah? But I don't like you anymore."
"Huh?"
Startled by the unexpected twist, Seoyun's eyes widened.
"O-oppa... You asked me to be your girlfriend? I'm saying I'll do it?"
"You're not sincere. There's no feeling. What good would it do to lie and swear love you don't feel in your heart? You'll hate and resent me your whole life."
"Th-that's..."
Since it was true, she couldn't possibly refute it.
Seoyun, whose emotions were clearly reflected on her face, mumbled and rolled her head.
"Junwoo oppa... Are you... telling me to leave like this?"
The worst possible ending she didn't want to think of came to mind, reddening the rims of her eyes.
Junwoo, unable to spit on her crying face, smiled bitterly and stroked Seoyun's head.
"Seoyun-ah, how many times have I told you. I said I want to monopolize all of you. I want to keep you by my side forever."
"Then why..."
"Why? Because you hurt me first, didn't you?"
He seized on the venomous words Seoyun spat out while slapping his cheek when she discovered the existence of the small room.
"I don't want to acknowledge you."
"Hoo..."
Seoyun hung her head deeply, blaming herself.
It was the moment the vicious gaslighting began.