A Covert Little Game (2)
Min Ye-won kept glancing here and there at the ring case I'd handed her, furtively checking my reaction. It was plainly obvious that she had no idea what to do with it and was hesitating. I could easily guess what was running through her head right about now.
He thinks I'll assume he got us matching couple rings or something.
That was exactly the impression I'd deliberately cultivated by putting the gift in a ring case in the first place.
After all, by gauging her reaction to a confession at a moment like this, I could get a rough read on just how far along her conditioning actually was. And the simple fact that she hadn't turned stone-faced and shoved the case right back at me the instant she saw it was more than enough to tell me things were proceeding smoothly.
"Wh-what is this?"
"Open it."
"……"
Even at my instruction, she wavered, rolling her eyes around desperately as if searching for a way out of the situation. Judging by her current state, if I were to confess seriously, my odds of being accepted were about fifty-fifty.
Of course, the fact that I held her weaknesses in my palm, and that she needed my help to cut loose from Jo Jin-hyun, were playing a large part in that.
Still, even with nothing but humiliation and gaslighting conditioning from our very first date onward, she'd progressed this far mainly because Min Ye-won was simply too simple-minded, too rigid in her thinking, to process it any other way.
Cognitive dissonance always begins with the inability to admit you made the wrong call. If she decided my conditioning disgusted her, that would mean cooperating with me to escape Jo Jin-hyun had been the wrong choice. So even now, with me summoning her out under the naked pretense of doing something lewd, she had no choice but to come.
"Are you not going to open it?"
"I-I'll open it. Just a second…."
Imagining, perhaps, how she might refuse my confession, she stalled for an eternity before cautiously lifting the lid of the box. Sorry to disappoint whatever hopes Min Ye-won harbored for a couple ring or precious jewelry—the gift I'd prepared for her was not that kind of thing.
-Click.
"…Huh?"
Staring at the pink object nestled inside the case, she let out a baffled squeak and tilted her head. She gingerly picked up the round, capsule-shaped thing and turned it over, examining it this way and that—clearly with no idea what she was holding.
"What is this? A capsule?"
"It's not a capsule, so don't try to open it."
"…Then what is it?"
Instead of answering, I turned the wireless dial on my side of the table—and the Egg Rotor suddenly whirred to life, vibrating in her palm.
-Vrrrrrrmmm….
"Kyaaak?!"
Apparently having never expected the thing in her hand to start moving, Min Ye-won shrieked in shock and dropped it.
The pink rotor kept buzzing and rattling across the tabletop. Once the restaurant had gone quiet again, I met her eyes and informed her of the object's purpose.
"That's an Egg Rotor."
"…Wh-what's that?"
"A masturbation toy for women. Never seen one?"
"I-I don't know anything about this stuff! I-I've never even touched myself with anything but my f-fingers—not that I…! N-no, forget it! I don't know…!!"
She looks so innocent, yet it turns out she fingers herself. Or maybe it's a habit she picked up after sleeping with me. Either way, it made no real difference, so after a suitable explanation, I told her why I was giving it to her as a present.
"But you can roughly guess where it goes, right? You rub it against your nipples, or press it against your clitoris for stimulation. You can also use it inside your body. Since it's a gift, put it away and keep it."
"Wh-what am I supposed to do with it?! I-I don't need something like this!!"
"Don't need it or not, just keep it. Because I'm giving it to you."
"……"
I handed it over with deliberately loaded words that forced the choice halfway upon her—phrased so it implied there'd be consequences if she didn't accept it graciously.
"…F-fine. I get it."
With that, Min Ye-won gingerly picked up the rotor I'd given her and tucked it back into the ring case for safekeeping. At the sight of it, I wrinkled my face slightly and shook my head.
"No, Yewon. I told you to put it in."
"I-I did what you told me! You said just to keep it…."
"Mm. So put it in. More precisely—inside your body."
"…Wh-what?!"
The instant she heard my order to put it inside her body, Min Ye-won let out a yelp of shock that went beyond anything she'd shown when she first learned the thing was an adult toy.
I'd anticipated a reaction like this, so I carried on explaining as though I hadn't noticed.
"Stop making me repeat myself and put it in. Now."
"N-no… r-right now…?"
"It's a private room, so what's there to worry about? Nobody's watching. Do it under the table discreetly and no one will see a thing."
"D-don't be ridiculous! Wh-what if the server suddenly walks in?!"
"Which is exactly why you need to hurry and do it before they come back. They'll be bringing out the next course any minute now."
"……"
Told out of nowhere to insert an Egg Rotor inside herself, she had no idea how to respond, her eyes darting every which way. To help her reach a decision a little more easily—and to give her a gentle push—I quietly rose from my seat.
-Scraaape.
"Wh-what?! Why are you standing up all of a sudden?!"
"Because you keep dithering. I was going to put it in for you."
"…O-okay! I'll do it! A-after the next dish comes out, at least—"
"I clearly said now, Min Ye-won. Do you plan on disobeying me again?"
"……"
"Keep it up and I'll have no choice but to bring out 'the obedient Min Ye-won' like I did last time. Surely you're not thinking that just because you finally managed to meet me today, that's where it ends?"
"Hiiiek…."
At my open declaration that I would apply a "buff" (which was, in truth, Suggestion), Min Ye-won truly did look terrified this time, hunching her shoulders and shrinking into herself. The memory of that worst day of our first date had evidently been dredged back up, and she gave a tiny, resigned nod.
"O-okay. I-I'll do it now, so d-don't use the buff…."
"And you'll keep doing everything I tell you, quietly?"
"…Y-yeah. I will. Just… j-just never do that thing from before, please…."
It seemed the brainwashing conditioning from our first date had left a truly massive impression on her. Well, fair enough—she fully experienced the sensation of being a completely different person piloting her own body, and even kept the memories of it in her head afterward. If that didn't traumatize her, it would be the abnormal case.
No matter how strong a woman's mental fortitude, having her first experience stolen from her like that would force most into exactly that kind of reaction.
I'd have to restrict use of the Born Actor conditioning to villainesses from here on out. Thanks to Min Ye-won, I now had a decent grasp of the aftereffects.
"Hurry up. The main course is due out any moment."
"O-okay…. I-I'm going to do it, so stop rushing me…."
With that, Min Ye-won fished the rotor back out of the ring case and carefully brought it down beneath the table. Listening to the click of her pants buckle coming undone, I quietly fiddled with the remote control in my hand.
This guy is a genuinely, genuinely terrible bastard.
What kind of gift is this? He was just planning to torment me from the start. I was an idiot for getting my hopes up, even for a second. There's no way a guy like him would ever have prepared couple rings.
How am I supposed to put this in, here?
It's not like I've ever put anything in there besides my fingers.
And honestly, it's a little scary, isn't it? What if I put something like this inside wrong and it gets stuck and won't come out?
But I already said I'd do it, and if I refuse, he'll just slap a buff on me like last time and order me anyway—and then I'd have to obey without even being able to resist….
I truly, truly hate that part….
Under that gaze of Lee Seonho's that would not let me go, I carefully undid my pants buckle.
…Because if I don't do what he says right now, who knows what he'll do to me next.
-Click.
"……"
-Szzzzz.
"……Haa."
…I must be out of my mind. Am I seriously undressing in a restaurant right now?
This is all because of that perverted bastard Lee Seonho. What kind of lunatic strips her pants off mid-meal and shoves a sex toy inside herself, private room or not?
Maybe I'll just… pretend to put it in?
It's under the table, so no one can see. If I fake pushing it inside and slip it into my pocket instead, Lee Seonho won't know.
Putting it in here is definitely going too far. Even if I'd have to do it in the bathroom later, if I just hide it for now—
"If I check on it later, you'd better not have faked it and stashed it somewhere else, Yewon."
"I-I wouldn't do that…."
…The pervert has damn good instincts, doesn't he.
If I hear him say things like that, I really have no choice but to actually put it in.
If he catches me not doing it properly, he might slap a buff on me like last time and make me do something even worse….
-Sliiiiide.
"Ngh, hnngh…."
I carefully slid the hand gripping the Egg Rotor down inside my panties.
The moment the cold plastic touched my body, I flinched reflexively. In the strange tension of feeling Lee Seonho's gaze on me, as I pushed my hand as far inside my underwear as I could, my fingertips brushed against a particularly sensitive spot.
-Rub.
"Ngh, hnngh?!"
"……"
"N-no, that was nothing…! Th-that didn't mean anything…."
"Sure. Understood, so hurry up and get it in. Don't get yourself worked up and start masturbating in a place like this."
"I-I told you that's not what I was doing…!!"
Who got me into this situation in the first place?
Does he think I'm some pervert like him? Why on earth would I be masturbating here, of all places?
Refuting Lee Seonho's absurd slander, I slowly pushed the rotor further inside with my fingertips.
-Schlick.
"Ngh, hnngh…!"
With a wet, slippery sound from deep inside my body, I felt the small lump of plastic slide in.
Ugh… this is the worst, seriously….
I never thought I'd end up inserting something this bizarre into myself in a place like this.
If he'd ordered me to do it in a hotel room, I might have gone along quietly. But why here, of all places?
The moment I was about to pull my hand out, planning to push it in only up to the entrance so I could remove it whenever I needed to, Lee Seonho's voice rang in my ears again.
"It can't slip out midway, so push it in deep and make sure it's secure. If it falls out when I take your clothes off later, that's a punishment."
"…A p-punishment? Wh-what kind of punishment…?"
"You'll find out later. If you're so curious what the punishment is, feel free to verify it with your own body."
…As if I'd want to find out.
Saying something like that is no different from just telling me to push it in deeper on my own.
But still… whatever it is, it has to be better than the "punishment."
If Lee Seonho is calling something a punishment, it might genuinely be dangerous. He might make me do something like that naked walk outside in public like last time.
And he's capable of doing things even worse than that… so for now, I had no choice but to comply quietly.
-Schlup.
"Nnngh, hnnnngh…."
With that thought, I slid my withdrawing fingers back inside my panties, and the moment I pushed the rotor lodged in my body just a little deeper—
-Scraaape.
"I'll bring out your next course now."
"…!"
The door opened, and the restaurant server stepped into the private room.
Why does it have to be NOW of all times….
If I'd known this would happen, I should have just finished it faster back then….