Inner Conflict
Inner Conflict
"Ugh..."
Now that I noticed it, various parts of my clothes were damp and soaked, which felt unpleasant.
The underwear was soaked with the smell of semen to a level where I couldn't wear it, so I gave up.
Since it was a long skirt that covered down to my ankles anyway, it wouldn't show what was underneath.
"Hmm, going without panties? Are you interested in that kind of play?"
"No..."
Junwoo, who had watched Seoyun putting on her clothes right in front of him, smiled brightly and picked up the panties.
Plain white cotton panties with no patterns whatsoever.
From tomorrow onwards, it would be goodbye forever to such innocent underwear.
"Can I go now...?"
"Hmm..."
Even though I could leave anytime by opening the front door and going out, Junwoo blocked the way and didn't let me pass.
Seoyun, frightened, fidgeted with her fingers and avoided his gaze.
"Seoyun, do you know why I'm letting you go so obediently?"
"...I don't know."
"Right. You wouldn't know. Seoyun isn't perceptive."
Junwoo, speaking in a pressing tone while sneering, stood with his arms crossed.
Seoyun, feeling intimidated for no reason, couldn't say anything and just bowed her head.
"Seoyun, listen carefully."
"Yes..."
"I can restrain you anytime if I want. I could make you a completely nonexistent entity in society and confine you at home. Not just a pet in words, but turn you into a real pet."
"Yes, Master..."
It was a laughable threat.
But why did it feel so unsettling?
"It's real. You know it's not a joke, right?"
"Yes..."
There was no lie in Junwoo's words.
He could hire people to commit a crime disguised as kidnapping, confine Seoyun in a remote place with no one around, and cut her off from society,
Under strict surveillance and tight security, monitor every move and action, and under strict control, absolutely establish Master's presence,
Even if discovered, there were plenty of people prepared to take the punishment and go to prison instead of Junwoo.
Because he had the wealth and connections to realize all of this.
"Seoyun, I hope you don't disappoint me."
"Yes, Master."
"The reason I'm giving you freedom is because I trust you."
Seoyun was now just a frog that had barely escaped from the well.
A naive mental state, freely hopping around and enjoying the freedom of the world but unaware of the cruelty of reality.
Junwoo wanted to instill fear in the frog that knew no fear.
"I'm sorry to say this... but I've already given you irreversible wounds. Even if I say it's because of love, you wouldn't understand."
"..."
"But it's okay if you don't understand. My feelings of loving you will never change, and you'll come to like me like that too."
"..."
Seoyun responded with silence to Junwoo's arrogant words and actions.
Every time she saw his hypocritical attitude, she felt nausea rising.
"Alright, now I'll give you a choice."
"What?"
"You experienced being a pet today, right? From now on, it's about deciding what you'll do."
Junwoo, who passed off today's humiliation as an 'experience,' gave two options.
"It's simple. Either break away from me, or you come back to me, one of the two. You have until tomorrow morning to think about it. If you don't come to my house in the morning, I'll consider it as you rejecting me."
"Yes, Master..."
"Whatever you choose is your freedom. But you also have to bear the consequences of your choice."
"Ugh..."
If she didn't obediently accept the pet life, it was no different from a threat to distribute the illegal filming and ruin her life.
"You understood well, right?"
"Yes..."
Junwoo, rubbing Seoyun's shoulders while smiling brightly, moved his body aside.
"Go quickly~ Your parents must be waiting."
"Yes, Master..."
After hesitating for a while, Seoyun put on her shoes and grabbed the door handle.
A very simple thing—just open the door and go out.
For some reason, it wasn't easy to take action.
"Not going?"
"I'll go..."
"Alright~"
Seoyun was already a fish caught in the net thrown by the fisherman.
Even if she swims hard inside the net, ultimately she won't escape and will be caught helplessly.
But no one would easily give up their life.
Bang ─
Seoyun left, deliberately closing the door loudly.
"Ugh, always like that."
A young kid whose emotions are all revealed on her facial expression and who expresses her feelings through actions.
That's why Junwoo couldn't hate Seoyun.
"I'm looking forward to tomorrow~"
Thinking of Seoyun who would definitely come back, Junwoo harbored happy fantasies.
[Seoyun's Perspective]
Bang ─
Seoyun, who came out after closing the front door with force, went down using the elevator.
"Huuuk..."
The moment she became alone, emotions surged up, and the tears she had been holding back flowed down over the bridge of her nose.
Eventually, Seoyun, who slumped onto the elevator floor, grabbed her face with both hands and cried out.
"Huaaaang!!"
Many things happened throughout today.
She experienced things so terrible she wanted to die.
There was no one to confide her inner feelings and complain to.
"Huk... Hu-kk... I don't know..."
She wanted to report Junwoo to the police immediately and make him pay for his crimes.
But at the same time, the feeling of still not wanting to distance herself from Junwoo coexisted.
Because he was the person she spent more time with than her parents over her 22 years of life.
Because until yesterday, she had harbored happy fantasies of wanting to share the future together.
Because she had stubbornly held onto the desire not to part forever.
"Huuuk..."
Junwoo's influence in Seoyun's heart was greater than anything else.
She couldn't imagine a life without Junwoo, but she didn't want to be entangled with a crazy psychopath who raped her and treated her like a pet.
She wanted to pay him back as much as she suffered.
She wanted to return the humiliation.
But would her heart feel relieved if she took revenge?
She felt convinced it wouldn't be at all.
Because only loneliness would remain in the empty space left by all the precious people leaving.
"Annoying... Really..."
Seoyun, swept up in an emotional whirlwind she herself didn't understand, couldn't easily make a decision.
This feeling of liking yet disliking a bad man.
It was a feeling where she somewhat understood women who cling to violent men and ruin their lives.
Ding ─
Soon enough, the elevator arrived at the first floor, and Seoyun wiped her tears with her sleeves and went outside.
While walking along the path heading to the house in the next building, suddenly a throbbing pain in her lower abdomen was felt, and she slumped down in place.
"Uu..."
An unfamiliar pain she had never felt before in her life.
As the tension eased, the pain in her uterus arrived belatedly