Chapter 27
Chapter 27
## 27. Kim Seolhee
### -1-
"Kkeueueuk..."
Taesu came to his senses.
He had fainted from the pain in his dick, but ironically, he woke up because of the pain in his dick as well.
He looked around; it seemed the situation had already been dealt with.
Jihwan seemed to have already left the basement, and Minji was sitting in her spot, looking at her laptop.
'Fuck...'
Looking at his own dick, Taesu instinctively cursed under his breath.
Crushed by the protrusions on the wall attached to the chastity device, his dick was swollen red even though it wasn't erect.
The skin around his tender and sensitive glans was even torn, so it was unbearably painful even when he stayed still.
'What the hell am I supposed to do about this?'
Taesu was so furious about this situation, but with no way to relieve his anger, he felt so frustrated that he thought he might die from rage sickness.
"Minji-ya."
He called out to Minji first.
He wanted to talk to her about something, anything.
What had happened so far, why she had changed like this, why she had gone that far earlier, how they would escape this place, etc...
At the sound of her name being called, Minji turned her head and looked at Taesu.
Her gaze was subtly wistful, as if something was on her mind.
Taesu felt it seemed like pity directed at him, and it made him uncomfortable.
He was already in a bad mood, so he might have been oversensitive to something trivial.
'What should I do...'
Minji also wanted to talk to Taesu.
However, thinking about the aftermath if she got caught talking, she couldn't bring herself to answer and hesitated.
"When someone calls you, you answer!"
"Fuck, you spread your pussy for that bastard, have you become a real slave? Why can't you even answer!"
When Minji again gave no response, Taesu's anger exploded.
His heart was full of rage, and the only target to vent that anger on right now was Minji.
Given Taesu's prideful and hot-tempered personality.
Seeing Minji ignore his words and absolutely obey Jihwan's words, he couldn't help but get angry.
"Ah... no, why are you talking like that! Do you think I want to do this either?"
She had been holding back, but at the word 'slave', Minji's emotions also exploded, and she finally retorted to his words.
"Things you never did for me, you did for that bastard so well?"
The jealousy he felt from Minji's actions towards Jihwan and the anger at having Minji taken from him spilled out.
Once emotions flared up, he ended up saying things he hadn't intended to say, things he had been holding back.
"Th-that... if I didn't do that, I'd be tortured. What do you expect me to do... Do you think I want to be like that? If even you, Taesu, say that to me, then what am I supposed to do!"
Minji felt immense heartbreak and despair that even her trusted boyfriend thought of her that way.
"Fine, let's say that's how it is."
"But, in front of your boyfriend, begging that bastard for permission to reach climax—is that really something you were forced to do and couldn't help?"
"Th-that is..."
"That bastard came, and it could've ended there, but you, Minji, made it worse by asking for more. Fuck, am I wrong?"
"......"
For a moment, Minji couldn't think of a rebuttal.
As Taesu said, what could have ended with Jihwan ejaculating inside her, she had asked Jihwan because she wanted to feel climax out of regret.
'Really, have I... changed this much?'
Until now, she had comforted herself that all her actions were semi-forced and unavoidable, enduring that way.
But at Taesu's words, Minji realized that she had indeed changed from the beginning.
'Ah... no, I couldn't be like that.'
Upon realizing that she wasn't being semi-forced by Jihwan's gradual taming, but was to some extent voluntary.
Her strong original self couldn't accept her changed appearance, and she felt mental confusion.
"Fuck, really? Why aren't you denying it?"
At his angry outburst, when Minji couldn't even deny it, that fact only made Taesu more furious and wounded his pride.
"I'm... sorry. Taesu-ya."
Minji apologized because she felt the earlier situation was her fault from Taesu's words.
"Fuck! Wha, what are you sorry for?"
Even Minji's apology irritated Taesu.
The real target of his anger wasn't Minji.
But the fact that he couldn't vent his anger on that target made him even angrier.
So he ended up taking out his unresolved anger on Minji.
Taesu felt that if he didn't express his anger like that, he really would die from rage.
Their first proper conversation since being kidnapped was not about how to escape this place.
But already, misunderstandings about each other were causing friction between them.
### -2-
The next morning.
The conversation with Taesu the previous day had disturbed Minji's mind, but that didn't change her daily routine.
Minji prepared to greet Jihwan as usual without fail.
Taesu could only watch Minji with furious eyes.
And when the time came, Jihwan appeared in the basement without fail.
"You look haggard; did you not sleep well last night?"
'It's because of you, you crazy bastard.'
After being kidnapped here, his mind was troubled by Minji, so he couldn't sleep well.
Even when he managed to fall asleep somehow, the extreme pain from unconsciously getting erections during sleep prevented him from sleeping properly.
"Please take this off. I was wrong about everything. I'll live my whole life apologizing, please..."
Taesu suppressed the curses rising at Jihwan's words and begged pitifully.
Thinking of the pain he had suffered from the chastity device yesterday and today, even though anger surged to the top of his head.
The desire to end this pain was stronger, so he absolutely couldn't get angry.
It was a magical chastity device that could even cure his hot-tempered personality, which he had never been able to fix in his life.
"It's only just begun; how can you struggle already?"
Jihwan said with a sinister smile, as if he was very satisfied with the situation.
"Wha, what?"
Just wearing the chastity device was a living hell, so he trembled with anxiety about what more would be done.
"What, are you trembling with fear now? Are you really the Taesu I know?"
'Fuck, what am I doing to this loser bastard right now?'
At Jihwan's taunting words, Taesu finally came to his senses.
He felt a sense of self-loathing for being so pathetic as to succumb and be afraid of a loser like Jihwan over mere pain.
"Taesu, do you know Seolhee by any chance?"
"You son of a bitch. Don't you dare touch Seolhee! If you touch Seolhee, you're really dead! I'll kill you by any means necessary!"
As soon as Seolhee was mentioned, it was as if his anger management button broke.
Taesu immediately went berserk and spewed profanity.
"Seolhee has been causing such a fuss, saying she wants to see you. It's been quite troublesome for me. So I was thinking of granting her wish and letting you meet. How about it?"
"Ah... no! Please, really, not Seolhee! Seolhee hasn't done anything wrong. It's my fault. Take it out on me only, please!"
Like a patient with bipolar disorder, he was cursing one moment, then clasping his hands together and begging pathetically the next.
For Taesu, Seolhee was an even greater Achilles' heel than his girlfriend Minji.
It was only natural, as they were blood siblings who grew up relying on each other under a violent father.
"You don't appreciate my kindness in wanting to reunite siblings. Since you're so against it, let's do this instead."
"Wha, what do you mean...?"
Fear suddenly seized his heart about what would be said next.
"You like wagers, don't you, Taesu? You used to extort money left and right under the pretext of bets. Remember?"
"I'm... sorry about that. I was too young back then. I'll pay it all back, double, no, ten times over. Please forgive me. Or at least, please don't touch Seolhee."
Taesu pressed his head to the floor and pleaded desperately.
'The more he says that, the more he'll do it...'
Minji felt sorry for Taesu as she watched him beg.
From what she had figured out about Jihwan, if you told him not to do something, he would become even more persistent and dig in like a reverse frog.
"I don't need ten times the money. You can repay it by suffering ten times the pain like now."
"......"
Taesu was speechless at Jihwan's sharp determination.
He instinctively felt that whether he got angrier, begged, or did anything, the result would be the same.
"I don't know if you remember, Taesu, but you once locked me in a cleaning supply closet. Do you happen to remember that?"
"Yeah, I did that... I'm sorry, really. I mean it."
At Jihwan's words, a forgotten memory came back to Taesu.
Not a memory he wished to forget like Jihwan, but a memory forgotten because it wasn't worth remembering to Taesu.
A painful memory that the victim could never forget even if they wanted to, but for the perpetrator, it was so easily forgotten that they wouldn't recall it unless it was mentioned.
Jihwan opened the door to the storage room opposite the bathroom.
'Crazy, is he really a psychopath?'
Seeing the storage room filled with various torture instruments, Minji and Taesu were shocked and got goosebumps.
Jihwan took out a vertical iron coffin slightly larger than a person.
"I made this specially, recalling that memory. I hope you like it."
"Wha... what is this..."
Taesu was overwhelmed by the sight of the torture instrument Jihwan took out and couldn't continue speaking.
"In medieval times, they put people in here, and when the door closed, iron spikes inside would pierce the limbs and organs of the person."
"It's a torture device that pierces just deep enough not to kill, making them bleed slowly to death. But even in revenge, I couldn't go that far. So I made a slightly mitigated version."
"Crazy, you devil... you don't have to go this far. Are you even human after doing this?"
"Someone once said—there's a saying: to catch a monster, you must become a monster. To catch a devil, you have no choice but to become a greater devil."
Even Taesu, who had strong nerves, shuddered at Jihwan's cruelty.
"As I said earlier, this is custom-made with mitigations, so if you go inside and stand still, it's designed so you won't get pricked by the spikes."
Of course, conversely, that meant moving even a little would get you pricked by the spikes.
"The time you locked me up was 2 hours. Just endure 10 hours in here, exactly 5 times that. Then I won't touch your sister."
"So, that's my condition. You like bets, Taesu, how about it?"
Jihwan proposed a bet with his sister on the line.
"Crazy... this is too much. Do you think I'll just obediently follow your orders?"
"Ah, of course you can refuse, and if you want to come out before finishing 10 hours, you can leave anytime."
He responded to Taesu's opposition with a very relaxed tone.
"But if you refuse or come out without completing 10 hours, I'll consider it your loss and kidnap your sister."
"I even kidnapped you, a robust adult male. Do you think I can't kidnap a frail 20-year-old girl?"
'I have to keep being pushed around by a loser like this...'
Taesu raged at the reality of having no choice but to accept this fucking bet.
Even in his own mind, since he had been kidnapped so easily, it didn't seem impossible for him to kidnap Seolhee.
"Fuck. 10 hours? Fine, I'll endure that much! Don't you dare touch Seolhee!"
Taesu clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh, suppressing his anger.
"Good, you made the right choice. I always keep my promises, so just endure those 10 hours well."
To put Taesu into the coffin, Jihwan bound his arms and chest once more to prevent resistance, then released the leash.
Sure enough, as expected.
Just as Jihwan predicted, as soon as the leash was released, Taesu charged at Jihwan.
Due to the shackles, he couldn't even run properly with short steps, and his arms were bound so he couldn't swing them.
"Tch... did you think that would work?"
Jihwan easily dodged his charge and drove a fist into his stomach.
"Keu.. keueok."
Taesu groaned in pain from the hit to his solar plexus.
Taesu hadn't rebelled thinking he would succeed either.
It was just a rebellion he couldn't help due to his pent-up anger.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"If you try any more tricks, I'll just kidnap Seolhee without giving you this opportunity. Stop your nonsense and get inside."
"I'm going in. I'm going in! I'm Kim Taesu. Do you think I can't endure a mere 10 hours? Keep your promise."
Taesu had no choice but to enter the coffin himself, putting on a brave face full of pride and bluff to protect his younger sister.
"There's a footprint shape there, right? You have to stand exactly on it. Only then won't the spikes prick you when the door closes."
"......"
Jihwan kindly explained in a taunting tone.
Despite his anger rising at those words, Taesu had no choice but to stand exactly on the footprint to avoid getting pricked by the spikes.
"Alright, closing it. Good luck."
Ttak!
The coffin door closed, and an impenetrable darkness covered him.
He had entered boldly, but once inside, his confidence vanished.
'Fuck, I have to endure this for 10 hours?'
He only moved slightly, but the sensation of something pricking his leg was extremely painful.
If he had moved a bit harder, he might have bled.
Meanwhile, outside the coffin.
"Minji, I even gave you a reward yesterday for being obedient, but in just one day you've loosened up and disobeyed my orders?"
"I'm sorry, Master."
Jihwan scolded her for talking to Taesu yesterday.
"You'll have to be punished, right?"
"I'm sorry, Master. Minji was wrong. I will accept the punishment willingly."
Whether she begged or resisted, she now knew too well that she would be punished anyway, so she accepted the corporal punishment without further words.
'I knew this would happen, that's why I didn't answer... Why did he keep talking to me.'
Now that she was being punished, all the guilt from yesterday vanished, leaving only resentment towards Taesu.
"While Taesu is inside, you, Minji, also stand with your nipples hooked on the wall like last time."
"What? Th-that's too hard. Master, please forgive me just this once."
She thought the punishment would be light since she only said a few words.
But the punishment was much harsher than she expected, so she begged for forgiveness even knowing he wouldn't listen.
"If you want to stop being punished, make Taesu come out of the coffin quickly. As soon as Taesu comes out, your punishment ends immediately! Okay?"
A structure where the more Taesu endured to save his sister, the more Minji suffered.
As time passed, Minji would beg Taesu to please come out.
Taesu had to endure, ignoring his girlfriend's pain and pleas, in order to protect his younger sister.
Just enduring was hard enough.
He also had to endure the mental pain torn between his girlfriend and his sister.
'Just making him endure is no fun.'
Jihwan smiled sinisterly to himself and enjoyed the situation.