Chapter 28
Chapter 28
Jihwan attached a chain to the nipple piercing rings and fixed them to the wall, just like when he punished Minji before.
"Minji, you'd better convince Taesu quickly. Otherwise, your nipples might get torn off."
"Yes... Master."
'No way...'
Last time, just enduring 50 minutes was excruciating, and now thinking about having to endure 10 hours, Minji felt like the world was going dark.
'I absolutely can't endure this. Since I won't make it anyway, I need to end this as quickly as possible.'
She thought not only for herself, but since Taesu had to endure an even harsher environment, enduring 10 hours was absolutely impossible.
If he couldn't endure it anyway, Minji thought the right answer was to just come out quickly without suffering.
"Taesu, it's impossible to endure 10 hours in there. You'll eventually come out anyway, so don't suffer and just come out now."
Not wanting to suffer even a little, she started convincing Taesu less than 10 minutes into her punishment.
"Just seeing you being messed with by that bastard is this fucking awful. How could I let Seolhee suffer the same? I'll endure even if it means dying here, so don't bother convincing me."
Even though he was trapped inside the coffin, he could hear everything happening outside, so Taesu had a rough idea of the situation.
With his vision blocked, his other senses became more acute, and he couldn't help but hear everything.
"Then what about me? You talked to me yesterday, and because of you, I have to endure punishment until you come out!"
Minji actually believed she was being punished because of Taesu.
"Wh-what are you talking about... Don't you worry about Seolhee?"
Having dated for five years, Minji was also quite close with Taesu's younger sister Seolhee.
"Seolhee might not even get kidnapped if you give up!"
"But why are you only worried about Seolhee and not about me, who's suffering right next to you? I'm your girlfriend! Why don't you worry about me? Huh?"
Minji was getting angry because she was punished all because of Taesu, yet he wasn't worried about her, only about his little sister.
"Why are you being punished because of... Haah~ Forget it. I'm already struggling to death, let's stop."
Taesu flared up and was about to argue, but then realized this was exactly what Jihwan wanted, so he held back.
"Do you think you can endure 10 hours? Even if you can, I can't!"
"Does it make sense to leave your girlfriend in pain for 10 hours because of a sister who might not even get kidnapped?"
"......"
Thinking that responding would only escalate the fight and waste energy, Taesu didn't answer and let Minji's words go in one ear and out the other.
"Seriously, even a tiny movement feels like my nipples are about to fall off... heuk heuk."
"If I stay like this for 10 hours, my nipples really might fall off... Please, Taesu!"
Minji tried to convince him a few more times like this, but when Taesu didn't respond at all, she quieted down.
'Haah~ That stubborn bastard is really...'
Since Taesu now didn't even answer and ignored her, she started blaming and resenting Taesu more and more, rather than resenting Jihwan who had given her the punishment.
'It's still early, so no matter what I say, it doesn't work. Once it gets harder, Taesu will change his mind too...'
Talking now was just a waste of energy, so Minji planned to try convincing him again when things got harder.
It was still early, so Minji could manage.
Meanwhile, Taesu inside the coffin.
'Should I do as Minji says?'
As time passed, Minji's words kept lingering in his mind.
He had entered boldly, but now that he was inside, even 2 hours seemed difficult, let alone 10.
Just standing still in a confined space was hard enough, but this coffin had spikes on the walls, so even the slightest movement made the spikes pierce him, driving him crazy with pain.
If his body had been in decent condition, it might have been okay, but since he came here, he hadn't eaten properly and had been tied up continuously.
'Has it been 1 hour? 2 hours?'
His legs were trembling, and cold sweat started pouring from his entire body.
Since even a big tremor in his legs would get him pierced by spikes, he had to consciously suppress even his leg shaking.
With his vision blocked, his sense of touch became even more sensitive, and the pain and fear he felt every time he barely touched a spike was truly beyond imagination.
"Kkeueeuk!"
Suddenly, he unconsciously bent his leg, and the thigh just above his knee got stabbed quite deeply by a spike.
Because his heightened sense of touch could feel the blood flowing, he realized he was bleeding even though he couldn't lower his head to check the wound.
'I have to endure...'
His heart said he had to endure somehow for Seolhee, but his reason told him that enduring 10 hours was absolutely impossible.
"Taesu, are you hurt? See, I told you, 10 hours is absolutely impossible! I'm really in so much pain and it's hard... Just come out now, please... Taesu, heuk heuk."
And on top of that, Minji's earnest voice convincing him after hearing his scream.
'Haah... What should I do?'
Unlike when he first entered, Taesu's thoughts were gradually leaning toward giving up.
'He can't give up this quickly.'
Jihwan thought it was about time Taesu started considering giving up, so he added extra stimulation to make him endure without giving up.
His goal was to make Taesu give up, but only after suffering as much as possible.
"Hmm, let's see. Isn't this exactly the time when Seolhee returns from school?"
"Let's see~ The address is XX-dong, Gangbuk-gu. Oh my~ She lives alone, making it convenient to kidnap? Sneaking into her studio and kidnapping her would be perfect, wouldn't it?"
He even mentioned Seolhee's studio address that he had found out in advance, threatening Taesu to keep him from giving up.
Seolhee was 20, just becoming an adult, but she had a bad relationship with her parents, so she moved out as soon as she became an adult and lived alone.
Thanks to her decent face and body, she worked various modeling jobs like fitting model, so she had enough financial freedom to live alone.
'Seolhee is not allowed! I have to endure at all costs!'
At Jihwan's threat, Taesu resolved to somehow endure.
"Ah, no! Don't do it! You fucking bastard, I haven't come out yet! I'll endure, I'll endure!"
When he mentioned the address and specific kidnapping method, Taesu had a fit and shouted inside the coffin.
"Alright, then endure well. I don't want to go through the trouble of kidnapping either."
After taunting Taesu like that, Jihwan went over to Minji.
It had already been over an hour since the punishment started, so Minji was also struggling greatly.
"Euu..."
With every tiny movement causing pain in her nipples, Minji was desperately trying not to move.
"Minji, what to do? Taesu doesn't seem to have any intention of giving up."
"Master, I was wrong... Please forgive me. I won't talk to Taesu ever again."
Minji, with her legs trembling and the pain in her nipples, only wanted to end this punishment as quickly as possible.
The only ones who could end this pain were Taesu and Jihwan.
But no matter how much she begged and whined, Taesu didn't plan to come out, so she changed strategy and begged Jihwan for forgiveness.
"Minji is kind. Seeing you still call him Taesu so familiarly, even though you're being punished because of him, you still treat him as a boyfriend?"
"Taesu, while you're suffering like this because of him, he doesn't spare a thought for your pain and only worries about his little sister."
To make Minji blame and resent Taesu even more, Jihwan gaslit her into thinking it was all Taesu's fault, driving a wedge between Minji and Taesu.
"You're right, Master. It's all that bastard's fault. I'll never associate with that bastard again."
"Please, just forgive me once, Master. Minji is in so much pain... heuk heuk."
The human heart is truly strange and interesting.
The root of all this and the one who punished Minji was Jihwan, yet with just a few situational setups and words, all the blame and resentment was directed at Taesu, a fellow victim, rather than Jihwan.
Every time Minji begged Taesu and he ignored her, her heart gradually blamed and resented Taesu instead of Jihwan.
Because the trigger to end this punishment was Taesu, not Jihwan, she mistakenly believed that having to endure the pain of the ongoing punishment was because Taesu ignored her pleas.
"Will you truly become a good slave who listens well to Master now?"
And if Jihwan ended this pain here? Strangely, she would feel gratitude, not resentment, toward Jihwan, the root of all this.
The cause of her punishment and the one who ignored her pleas to end it was Taesu. The one who ended this punishment and pain was Jihwan. Her brain unconsciously made her mistake that.
If she thought calmly for just a moment, she wouldn't be fooled by this gaslighting and would know that Jihwan was the root of everything...
With her mental state worn down and weakened by the long captivity and 2 hours of punishment, she couldn't calmly discern this gaslighting.
"Yes, Master. It's true. I'll become a good, obedient slave Minji."
Minji, wanting to escape the pain of punishment quickly, forgot her shame and demeaned herself as a slave, begging.
"Right, it's all Taesu's fault. Minji doesn't need to be punished this much, does she?"
"Yes, that's right. It's all that bastard's fault."
"Yesterday, I kept ignoring him to avoid talking, but he cursed at me, so I couldn't help but answer. Please forgive me, Master."
Now she didn't even think of Taesu as her boyfriend, busily cursing and blaming him as 'that bastard'.
She didn't care about boyfriend or Taesu; she just wanted this pain to end quickly.
"Oh? Then can Minji do anything herself to punish Taesu, who is 'really' at fault? Minji didn't do anything wrong; he's the bad bastard who made you get punished."
"Yes...? Yes. I can do anything. That bastard needs more punishment, Master."
Minji felt something odd in Jihwan's tone, but she quickly affirmed, thinking it was more important to escape the pain of this punishment.
"Oh? Then I'll let you go now. Go punish Taesu, the root cause of your suffering, yourself."
After saying that, Jihwan unfastened the chain fixed to the wall.
As soon as the chain was released, Minji's legs gave out and she plopped down on the spot.
"Thank you, Master. Thank you."
And as soon as the punishment ended and she sank down, the emotion that arose was gratitude toward Jihwan for ending this pain.
Because she had shifted all blame and resentment to Taesu, unlike previous punishments, she could feel only pure gratitude toward Jihwan.
"Since all this is Taesu's fault, let Minji punish Taesu directly with this. You have to repay the pain you suffered because of Taesu."
"Yes...? With this?"
When Minji saw what Jihwan handed her, she couldn't hide her fluster.
It was true that she had developed feelings of blame and resentment toward Taesu while being punished, but she didn't think it was to this extent.
"Has your resentment toward Taesu already disappeared now that the punishment is over? Should I make you endure punishment until that resentment comes back?"
"Ah, no, Master. I can do it. Minji can do it well."
Fearing another punishment, Minji immediately said she would do it.
To her, it was more important that she didn't suffer than that Taesu suffered.
'Right, this is all Taesu's fault. If you hadn't been so stubborn... I wouldn't have to do this!'
Minji rationalized and justified the actions she would take against Taesu in her mind.
Because without that self-justification, it was something she could never do to her boyfriend.
'This will be fun. Hehe.'
Imagining the situation that would unfold when Minji did that to Taesu, Jihwan couldn't help but smile contentedly.
When Minji does that to Taesu, causing him to come out of the coffin, and then he kidnaps Seolhee...
Taesu would blame Minji, not himself, for Seolhee being kidnapped.
Of course, he would also blame Jihwan, who manipulated behind the scenes.
But even if he recognized that fact, it wouldn't cover up the fact that she couldn't endure even about an hour of pain and did something unforgivable to her boyfriend.
With Taesu's mindset of trying to endure 10 hours somehow, he would never be able to understand such a Minji.
Thinking about turning the lovers Minji and Taesu into bitter enemies who tear each other apart and want each other dead, he couldn't contain his excitement already.