Chapter 5
Chapter 5
5. Became a Slave.
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Jihwan's profession is a hacker.
And not just any, but one of the top talents in the country.
After dropping out of school, the means of revenge Jihwan chose was hacking.
His original dream was to be a programmer, so he had been learning computer languages, and he thought hacking skills were essential for perfect revenge.
Because even if he got his revenge, it would be meaningless if he ended up in prison.
By focusing solely on learning hacking skills while enduring hardship, his ability improved rapidly.
Once his hacking skills were backed up, securing funds for revenge was as easy as pie.
He targeted illegal gambling sites with weak security, manipulating their records to siphon off money, or attacking the sites to extort coins as settlement money. He aimed for the fact that since they were illegal sites to begin with, they couldn't report it to the police.
Luckily, as the price of coins skyrocketed, he ended up making billions while just sitting there.
After securing stable funds like this, Jihwan mapped out his revenge plan.
What Jihwan used for his revenge was the Dark Web.
A hotbed of all kinds of crimes that cannot be accessed with a general browser.
It is a place where all sorts of illegal transactions like drugs, counterfeit money, human trafficking, arms dealing, and corporate secrets are rampant, accessible only by using a special web browser and impossible to trace via IP.
Almost all of them are Western sites, but there are also sites operated by Koreans.
One Dark Web site Jihwan used was presumed to be operated by Joseonjok.
It is a hitman service that doesn't even shy away from murder if you pay enough money.
Because they connect on the untraceable Darknet, pay in coins, and pay the remaining balance after the request is completed after paying a down payment in coins, even the person receiving the request doesn't know who the client is.
Jihwan hacked Minji's phone by planting malicious code via a phishing text, grasped her schedule, and requested her kidnapping from the hitman service.
The Joseonjok in Korea kidnapped Minji based on the information Jihwan provided.
The Joseonjok who did the kidnapping left Minji at the location Jihwan designated, and after confirming they had left, Jihwan brought Minji to the current Basement.
Since it was a place without CCTV, there was zero way to guess that Jihwan had taken Minji.
Even if it was a bit troublesome and cost a lot of money, there was no safer method than this.
Even if the police started an investigation, the culprit would look like a Joseonjok, and since they return to China immediately after finishing the mission, it is practically impossible to catch them.
Even if they somehow caught the kidnappers in China through joint investigation, it was absolutely impossible for the police to assume Jihwan was the culprit because they also didn't know the identity of the client.
"Kim Taesu, it's your turn now."
Jihwan had no intention of ending his revenge with just Minji.
After assigning the Reflection letter homework to Minji and coming up to his room, Jihwan accessed the Darknet and made a request to the Joseonjok hitmen once again.
If Kim Minji was the starting point of Jihwan becoming an outcast, Kim Taesu was the peak.
Because Kim Taesu was the one who made Jihwan a full-fledged outcast and bullied him the most severely.
-2-
The day after Minji was kidnapped, her friends reported her missing when she suddenly disappeared and couldn't be reached.
"The last contact shows it was with Taesu-ssi, what did you contact her for?"
"Since my girlfriend went on a trip with friends, I called to check on her like I usually do. There was nothing special."
Because the last phone call before being kidnapped was with her boyfriend Kim Taesu, he appeared at the police station and was questioned as a witness.
Taesu and Minji had had a few crises since high school, but they had continued dating and were still together until now.
"Was there anything suspicious or strange in the last phone call?"
"Ha~ there wasn't. We just talked like usual, and I just said, 'Don't drink too much, have fun,' and hung up, that's all."
The detective asked a few more formal questions and finished the investigation without much success.
"Yes, I understand. If you find out anything additional, please contact us. You may go back now."
The detective finished the investigation and said while handing over a business card.
"Excuse me, Detective, we can find our Minji, right?"
"For now, the vehicle used by the kidnappers has been identified, but it's a 'ghost car'... we'll have to watch a bit more for now. We are doing our best, so please don't worry too much and trust us and wait."
"Yes, please, I beg of you."
Taesu left the police station and went home.
"Damn it, I should have stopped her from going until the end..."
Taesu, who didn't like that the girls were going on a trip, had fought with Minji once about her going on the trip.
In the end, Minji won and he allowed her to go, but since something like this happened, he felt a bit of self-reproach, regretting that he hadn't stopped her from going until the end.
-3-
Click.
Minji woke up at the sound of the Basement door opening.
Perhaps because she had been sleeping lightly in a chair in an unfamiliar and poor environment, she woke up at the slightest sound even though she hadn't slept much.
Extreme thirst and hunger felt upon waking up.
She tried to swallow even saliva due to the burning thirst, but even saliva didn't come out properly.
"Water, please give me some water."
Among the items Jihwan brought into the Basement, there was water. As soon as she saw the water, she begged for even some water due to the burning thirst.
"You want to drink water? Should I give it to you?"
"Yes, yes! Please give it to me."
"Is that so? Since you want it so much, I should give it to you."
Even in her completely haggard state, unable to wash properly or sleep properly for over a day, it couldn't hide her beauty.
Rather, it evoked pity and sympathy, radiating a slightly sorrowful beauty.
In this situation, he felt an impulse to ruin her even more, as she didn't lose her light.
Jihwan didn't just give her the bottled water he brought, but poured it into a bowl that looked like a Dog food bowl.
"Th-this, this is going too far!"
Noticing what it meant to pour water into a Dog food bowl, she shouted and protested with difficulty in a voice that barely came out because her throat was parched.
"Yesterday you sat like a Female dog and even urinated on an Absorbent pad, so why are you making such a fuss about something like this?"
Jihwan mocked her to the fullest with a gloomy laugh.
Thinking that Jihwan must have watched her pee on camera, she felt like she was going to lose her mind.
Biting her lip tightly at the humiliation she was experiencing for the first time in her life, her whole body trembled.
"You crazy psycho bastard! Y-you, are you even human after doing this? The beast is you, you! You crazy bastard!"
She knew she would be subjected to Corporal punishment again if she stood up to him, but she couldn't hold it in and spewed profanity due to extreme shame and humiliation.
"Heh, wow. Did you really become a dog after I put a Leash on you? You already forgot the etiquette training I ordered yesterday."
Jihwan said that and approached slowly, step by step.
She had stood up to him bravely, but she backed away, pressed by Jihwan's cold atmosphere.
Her body was restricted by the Leash fixed to the wall.
There was nowhere to run, and she hit the wall after not being able to go many steps.
"Eek!"
When Jihwan raised his hand, she instinctively squeezed her eyes shut and screamed, thinking she was going to get hit.
But contrary to her expectation, she felt no pain, so she opened her eyes slightly to check on Jihwan.
Jihwan wasn't hitting Minji, but raised his hand to unfasten the Leash fixed to the wall. And then he pulled it strongly toward himself.
"Aaaah!"
When he suddenly pulled the Leash, she fell forward, and this time a real scream burst out.
"This is the posture you should take toward me!"
Jihwan said, looking at Minji, who had fallen forward and was in a prone position like a dog.
And then he dragged her along like a dog being forced to take a walk by pulling the Leash.
"C-cough, cough."
Minji tried to resist by grabbing the Leash, but she couldn't overcome the strength of a healthy man.
After dragging Minji to the tool box, he took out a Flogger from the tool box.
The Flogger is a whip made of multiple tails, a tool for Corporal punishment to maximize the sensation of pain without leaving wounds.
Whack! Whack!
"Eek, it hurts, it hurts! You fucking bastard, stop hitting me, it hurts!"
After lifting her skirt slightly, he struck the Flogger mercilessly onto Minji's buttocks, and she screamed and resisted desperately.
However, it was Jihwan who was holding the Leash.
After easily subduing her with the Leash, he continued the whipping without caring about her resistance until she surrendered.
Whack, whack!
The whipping continued, and as Minji's buttocks became increasingly swollen and red, she writhed in shame and pain.
"I'm sorry. I won't do it again. P-please, just forgive me once."
Minji begged for forgiveness, rubbing her hands together like a fly until they were worn out.
At her surrender, Jihwan hit her a few more times and then stopped the whipping.
"Phew~ You're really not a beast, you only understand when you get hit. If you want to get hit more, you're free to resist as much as you want."
"Thank you. I won't do it again."
It was a result that was plain to see. It was not a pain that a young lady who had grown up delicately without ever being hit by anyone could endure.
Minji's pride melted away like cotton candy in front of the pain of Corporal punishment.
Jihwan dragged her like a dog to the front of the Dog food bowl where he had poured the water.
Minji, hating that the Choker would press on her neck and suffocate her when she was dragged forcibly, followed by crawling quickly on all fours like a dog.
"Now, drink. Don't use your hands."
"Yes, thank you."
'Ha~ What on earth did I do so wrong to deserve such humiliation... sob sob'
Now her tears were dry, and not even tears came out.
Minji cried inwardly, lamenting her situation.
Minji, whose face was bright red as if it would burst from the terrible shame, squeezed her eyes shut and brought her lips to the water in the Dog food bowl.
"Slurp, slurp, slurp"
'I think I can live now.'
Once she put the water to her mouth, her parched throat was moistened like rain in a drought, and driven by the instinct to quench her thirst, she forgot her shame and gulped down the water greedily like a real dog. Of course, she didn't lap it up like a real dog, but put her mouth in the water and sucked it up.
It would have been more perfect if she had lapped it up.
"You said you absolutely couldn't drink like a dog, but you're drinking better than a real dog?"
When Jihwan mocked her while filming the scene with his phone, Minji, who had finally come to her senses, took her mouth off the Dog food bowl.
"Pl-please don't film. I beg you."
"You even peed in front of the camera, so why are you making such a fuss about something like this now. How is it, did it film well?"
"Please delete it. Please..."
When Jihwan showed her the video, the shame she had momentarily forgotten due to the happiness of quenching her thirst raised its head again.
"This situation looks familiar, doesn't it? Do you remember?"
"Th-that is... I'm sorry. It wasn't me who did that, but since I was next to you at that time..."
Perhaps because the past event suddenly came to mind at Jihwan's question, she flinched for a moment and apologized again.
The memory of being forced to take off her pants and masturbate in front of the bully girls.
Like the current Minji, she had begged them to stop, please, please stop, but the male bully bastards including Taesu didn't care about Jihwan's pleas and wielded violence, threatening and forcing him.
The female bullies, including Minji, watched such a Jihwan, laughing among themselves and engaging in sexual harassment.