Chapter 4
Chapter 4
'I can't just leave her untied.'
He felt the need to restrain Minji to some extent before leaving after assigning her the Reflection letter homework.
Just looking at the items in the toolbox in the corner, there were quite a few dangerous objects in the Basement.
If he left her free for no reason, she might ambush him when he came back.
Jihwan went back to the toolbox, put away the Switch, and took out a new item.
As soon as Minji saw the item, she trembled like an aspen leaf out of shame.
It was too obvious what he intended to use it for.
What he brought was a metal Choker.
It might be called a Choker, but in reality, it was a Dog Collar.
It was a custom-made product, designed with a small padlock on the detachable seam so it couldn't be removed at will.
The long, thin metal chain connected to the ring part was also integrated, so it couldn't be detached separately.
"You don't have to go this far... I'll stay still. Please."
"How do I know what you'll do if I don't tie you up? If you don't like this, should I tie you to the chair like before?"
"I'm not an animal; I'd rather be tied to the chair."
It seemed her noble pride wouldn't allow her to wear something like a dog leash, as if she were a dog.
It was quite the pride, considering that if she were tied to the chair, she wouldn't be able to move properly all day.
"Really? If you're tied up all day, you'll have to do your business while tied to the chair, you know?"
"Th-that..."
She seemed flustered, as if she hadn't thought that far ahead.
"You're going to have to endure even worse things in the future, so what are you going to do if you're already feeling this resistant to just this?"
Seeing her feel this resistance made Jihwan happier than if she had accepted it nonchalantly.
Jihwan forcibly put the Choker on Minji's neck as she recoiled in resistance.
The cold feeling of the metal gave her goosebumps, and she shuddered involuntarily.
Still, it was softly coated, so there was no risk of injury.
"It suits you well. Hmm, wait a second."
He had only put a leash on her, but the atmosphere changed completely, exuding a decadent beauty that wasn't there before.
Jihwan slightly moved the large mirror that had been against the opposite wall to a spot where it could clearly reflect her.
The space she could move in was just over 3 meters, as allowed by the length of the leash.
No matter where she was, if she looked at the mirror, she had no choice but to see her own reflection.
"Th-that's too much. Even if I did something wrong, it's not to the point of doing this. Why are you making me feel so miserable?"
Minji felt miserable, feeling so ashamed and humiliated as she looked at her reflection in the mirror.
Now she knew all of her wrongdoings, but even so, she thought her mistakes didn't warrant being kidnapped and treated like this.
"You've heard the saying, 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,' right?"
"What is that..."
She wanted to say, 'This isn't an eye for an eye, it's way worse!', but she swallowed her words, fearing the backlash.
"That saying is wrong. Even when you borrow money, there's interest, so revenge should naturally be repaid double, don't you think? Just paying back the principal is too idealistic."
"......"
She wanted to retort about what kind of bullshit logic that was, but she had to hold her tongue for fear of inviting a beating.
"There, all done."
There was a padlock at the end of the leash that could be connected to other places, and he locked it to the metal ring on the wall to secure it.
Leash length: 3m.
Now, this was the only space in this Basement where she could move freely.
She seemed somewhat resigned to the reality that nothing would change even if she resisted.
"Um, what about the bathroom? You said you were tying me up like this because of the bathroom."
"I'll bring you an Absorbent pad, so don't worry too much."
"N-no! You're telling me to just go here, not even in a bathroom? Between this necklace and treating me like an animal so openly, this is really too much. Sob, sob."
She wasn't crying her eyes out sorrowfully like before, but sobbing.
It was because as Minji questioned her treatment, the bleak reality hit her even harder.
"Crying won't change anything. Instead of crying, why don't you think about how to follow my orders well and how to please me? That's the only way to change how you're treated."
Jihwan said that, laid down a few Absorbent pads nearby, finished setting up the camera, and left the Basement.
Leaving Minji behind, who was squatting and crying.
Even left alone in the Basement, Minji's crying didn't know how to stop.
Tears flowing from despair over her situation.
After crying and crying until her tears dried up and wouldn't come out anymore, she calmed down to some extent.
She had been too out of it earlier to think, but now that she was alone, she had some breathing room to organize her thoughts.
'Where on earth is this?'
It looked like a Basement, but seeing these metal rings on the wall made her wonder what kind of space it was.
If it's the basement of a private house, was it designed for this purpose on purpose?
'They must have reported it to the police by now, right?'
She didn't know how long she had been unconscious, but she guessed her friends would have woken up, noticed she was gone, and reported it.
What if they still hadn't reported it?
Just thinking about it was terrifying.
Not even a day had passed, and she was already this devastated; she didn't have the confidence to continue living like this in the future.
'Let's hold on a little longer. You can do it, Kim Minji!'
An era where it's harder to find a place without CCTV.
Minji held on with the single hope that if she waited just a little longer, the police would come to find her.
'Let's start by writing the Reflection letter.'
Because she didn't know what kind of bullshit that bastard would pull if she didn't write it properly.
"Sigh~ A Reflection letter..."
She felt hopeless having to write a Reflection letter, something she hadn't even written when she was a student.
In her heart, she wanted to tear up the notebook in front of her right away, but she held it in and started writing the Reflection letter.
She wrote down every single mistake in as much detail as possible, starting with providing the trigger for him to become an outcast, which she learned from Jihwan today.
'What do I do?'
She was engrossed in writing for a while when the urge hit.
She hadn't had a drop of water here, but maybe because she drank alcohol the day before, she had to urinate.
'No, absolutely not!'
She didn't want to urinate on that Absorbent pad, even if it meant dying from holding it in.
Just peeing on an Absorbent pad was humiliating enough to die, but the fact that it was being recorded on camera made it even worse.
But as time passed, the urge to urinate only grew stronger.
To the point where she couldn't hold it anymore.
No matter how much she held it, she couldn't go against basic human physiological needs.
She hated it so much she wanted to die right now, but in the end, she had no choice but to succumb to her instincts.
The only consolation was that she was wearing a skirt, so she didn't need to fully expose her private parts.
Unable to hold it any longer, Minji finally made up her mind and moved the desk near the Absorbent pad.
She couldn't cover everything, but she wanted to at least hide the act of peeing a little bit.
Minji squatted on the Absorbent pad and urinated.
She felt so hot and had a headache from the shame of wearing a dog collar when she wasn't a dog, and peeing on an Absorbent pad like a dog.
'Did I get aroused?'
After she finished peeing and wiped with toilet paper, she realized that a tiny bit of Vaginal fluid had leaked out.
She felt like dying from the shame of just peeing on the Absorbent pad, but the fact that she had even gotten aroused in this situation made her feel like an even more vulgar bitch, making her feel even more miserable.
'It's okay, Minji. This is an unavoidable situation. Anyone would have done the same.'
Even as she tried to brainwash and comfort herself to move past it, the occasional smell of her own urine shattered the mentality she had barely managed to pull together.
She felt like she was going to lose her mind from shame, but after some time passed, her mind slowly returned.
Not long after overcoming the first trial of urination and barely pulling herself together, the second trial came to her.
Grrr.
Her body started sending signals that it was hungry.
Even when she drank, she rarely ate snacks, so she had barely eaten anything.
The only fortunate thing was that she hadn't eaten anything, so she wouldn't have to do a bowel movement on the pad?
'It's okay, I can endure it.'
The time Jihwan said he would give her was one day.
Not even a few hours had passed since he left.
It's bearable now, but as time passes, the hunger will torment her relentlessly and more intensely.
The only fortunate thing was that she hadn't eaten much, so she wouldn't have to defecate?
She was this hungry now, but what if a day passed and the Reflection letter was rejected, extending the fast? She didn't even want to imagine it.
As the hunger grew worse, Minji devoted herself even more to writing the Reflection letter.
'I wrote this much, surely he won't find some weird fault and reject it again, right?'
Even while writing the Reflection letter diligently, she couldn't help but feel anxious due to her distrust of Jihwan.
'I'm tired.'
After she finished writing the Reflection letter, the fatigue that had accumulated during that time rushed in all at once.
She had been through things she had never experienced before in just one day, so it was understandable that she was mentally and physically exhausted.
"Fuck, how the hell am I supposed to sleep in a place like this, seriously."
The 3rd trial arrived.
She wanted to collapse and sleep right now, but she absolutely couldn't sleep.
There was no bed, let alone a sleeping bag, and sleeping next to the Absorbent pad was worse than death.
The worst part was the smell of urine that rose whenever she tried to sleep.
She had no choice but to try to sleep sitting on the chair, biting the bullet, but it was so uncomfortable and she was so hungry that she couldn't sleep at all.
Not even a day had passed since she was kidnapped, but it was gnawing away at her mind, making her increasingly devastated.