Chapter 110
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 110
Chapter Title: Deal (5)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Massage?"
Cheon Seo-yun and I blinked at Hong Ju-a, who had suddenly asked for a massage.
Hong Ju-a's face flushed red, clearly embarrassed at having made the request herself, but she pressed on.
"I've been suffering from headaches lately. But after getting a massage last weekend, they went away."
Her explanation made everything clear to me.
The special effects of my massage had melted away her stress, taking her chronic headaches with it.
'But has the stress built up again in such a short time?'
It was probably due to her grades.
Unless she resolved that issue at the root, Hong Ju-a wouldn't escape those headaches.
'Or maybe graduate from the Hero Officer Academy.'
Graduation would eliminate the pressure from her grades, and with it, most of her stress.
In any case, it wasn't something I could fix right now, so I nodded and stepped over to her side.
"I'll keep it simple, so don't make any noises like last time."
"N-noises? When did I make any noises?"
I placed my hands on her without a word, looking at Hong Ju-a, who insisted she hadn't made a peep during last week's session.
'The instructors are probably watching.'
Fortunately, they'd said sound didn't carry, so I relaxed and started massaging her head.
"Haah!"
"I said no noises."
She was under less stress than before, so she managed to stifle her moans this time.
But holding them back seemed like such a struggle that her face scrunched up, her body writhing in a way that anyone would find erotic.
"The instructors might be watching."
"...!?"
Unable to help it, I warned her about the instructors, and she jolted in surprise—but only for a moment.
"Eungh..."
She let out a moan anyway, as if she didn't care, slowly surrendering herself to my touch.
If this were a deserted island instead of the clubroom, she would've been radiating an aura that said she wouldn't resist if I pounced on her right then.
'Hong Ju-a's easier than I thought.'
I hadn't expected two massages to nearly conquer her.
It threw even me off a bit, but with eyes on us, I didn't do anything foolish.
"There, all done."
I kept it strictly to a massage, but Hong Ju-a panted with the flushed look of someone who'd climaxed several times.
"Haa... Ah. D-done already?"
"Yep. How's your head?"
"Feels better now."
"Good to hear."
At my words, she ducked her head slightly, embarrassed about the moans she'd let slip moments ago.
Crunch—
"...?"
Meanwhile, Cheon Seo-yun—who'd been silently watching the scene—had gnawed the wild boar bone clean.
Her physical prowess extended to her teeth; she crunched through boar bone like it was nothing. I returned to my spot without a word.
"Anyway, points will start deducting soon. We should put some distance between us."
"Hasn't it been less than an hour yet?"
"I've been with Cheon Seo-yun the whole time before this. It's probably been a full hour."
Hong Ju-a looked disappointed but nodded without putting up a fuss.
"Got it. Thanks for the massage."
"If you want to rest, feel free to crash in that house over there."
"That house? What about you if I do?"
"I'll smoke the rest of the meat. I'll sleep once you wake up."
She shook her head at my answer, as if she couldn't impose like that.
"No, that's okay. I can't eat your food and take your bed too. Better if I stay here today and guard the supplies."
Hong Ju-a offered to watch the food while she slept instead.
Honestly, it worked for me, and it seemed like her way of repaying the favor, so I accepted.
"Alright, then I'll leave it to you."
"Just payback for the food and massage."
"Sleep well. Call if anything comes up."
Since I'd kept chatting with Hong Ju-a, Cheon Seo-yun got up first and headed back to her own house.
"...By the way, Lee Seongmin. Are you dating Cheon Seo-yun?"
"Not quite dating, but we're pretty close."
"Makes sense. It wouldn't fly if you were dating and groping other girls' bodies like that."
Hong Ju-a narrowed her eyes, scolding me.
Even I had nothing to say to that, so I just nodded and stood up.
"Haa... Haa..."
Della exhaled her feverish breath, wondering how many days it had been.
Two or three? She was bound to restraint devices, enduring hours of sexual conditioning every day.
'That bastard. Once I'm free, I'll kill him somehow.'
She could even think such thoughts because Lee Seongmin only tormented her for one or two hours a day.
If he'd gone all out for twenty-four hours straight, even Della would've surrendered.
"Just hold on a little longer. Ivy's probably sent people to rescue us by now."
Della spoke to Lydia and Lorella, bound in the same posture beside her.
All three lay prone on bed-like apparatuses, wrists, ankles, and waists restrained, hips thrust high.
"Rescue...?"
Lydia replied with effort.
Della forced her head up to glance sideways.
Lydia's face was buried in the hole at the bed's head, so Della couldn't even check her condition.
"Yeah. Ivy wouldn't just sit by. With our forces, taking the school would be easy."
"Della, still don't get it? That guy's just toying with us."
Lydia paused to catch her breath before continuing.
"If he really wanted, we couldn't hold out. Think you could last if he went at you for hours?"
"..."
Della had no response.
Lydia and Lorella had raged when they first woke, but neither lasted thirty minutes.
"He's enjoying watching us break. Honestly, I don't think I can hold out much longer."
Della urged Lydia against her defeated tone.
"No, this is good. Ivy will rescue us. We just have to endure."
"Wouldn't it be better if I surrender first and gather intel?"
"Even if you surrender, you think he'll unseal your innate ability or mana? I wouldn't."
The reason they were helplessly bound was the seals on their strength, mana, and innate abilities.
Their innate abilities hadn't been sealed at first, but Della's ambush led to those being sealed too.
"Sorry. If I hadn't ambushed him, we might've escaped by now."
If she could use her innate ability, Lorella could've summoned a monster to smash the restraints.
But with most of her monsters lost, Della had judged she'd have to kill him herself and struck.
"Lorella, you okay? Say something."
"...We shouldn't have come here."
Lorella had endured longer than Della and Lydia purely because she was S-rank.
Lee Seongmin tormented her for two hours; Della and Lydia got thirty minutes, Lorella a full hour.
"Like I said, just hold on a bit more. War with the Geneva Cult is coming soon. They won't abandon you."
"Abandon or not, my body's on fire and won't cool down. Feels like my brain's melting."
As Lorella spoke in half-resignation,
Thud, thud—
The footsteps they heard at this hour every day approached from outside.
The three held their breath at the sound, but the door opened right on cue.
Clank—
It was the healer who'd bound them like this.
The healer gazed at the three, still perfectly restrained, and spoke.
"Let's start with Lorella today."
Lorella flinched at his words, but she could do nothing.
Wanting to help even a little, Della called out to the healer.
"M-me first. Order doesn't matter, right?"
"You're right, order doesn't. Just surrender and come under me."
"..."
Della fell silent at the demand to submit.
The healer seemed to grasp her intent and continued.
"Waiting for the Villain Alliance to rescue you? Useless. No one can find this place."
"..."
Della knew this was a space only the healer knew.
Lydia's memory observation had shown him summoning a door-like thing, so she guessed that was it.
"If you don't release us, you think the Hero Officer Academy will survive? Let us go if you want to avoid a massacre!"
"If I release you now, you'll rampage for revenge."
The healer knew his conditioning was mild.
He wanted them to join him with their sanity intact, so he couldn't ramp up the intensity.
"You fucking bastard..."
Ignoring Della's curse, the healer approached Lorella from behind and placed a hand on her raised hips.
Twitch—
Lorella shuddered at his touch, trembling in anticipation of what followed.
"Wait."
Then Lydia, positioned right next to Lorella, halted the healer.
"I'll surrender. I can't take it anymore."
"Really?"
"Yes. If I become your slave, no more of this torture, right?"
"Of course. You might not believe it, but I'm generous to what belongs to me."
With that, the healer pondered briefly before releasing all of Lydia's restraints.
As her body was freed in an instant, Lydia looked at him in shock, but he shrugged it off.
"You surrendered first. You deserve the treatment."
He then unsealed her strength, mana, and innate ability entirely.
The moment her full power returned, Lydia felt a storm of conflict in her mind.
'If I kill the healer now and escape...'
But she didn't act.
It felt too much like a trap.
Fwoosh—
The healer, watching her, conjured a sheet of paper from thin air.