The Size (29)
"Haaah...♡ Ah♡"
I caught Eran's limp body as it collapsed onto the bed, snatching the shock baton before it could slip from her fingers. To think she had created something like this in such a short time—I was reminded once again of her talent. Still, none of that mattered anymore. Soon enough, even that talent would belong to me.
I crushed the final tool of resistance still in my grasp, shattering it to pieces. Brushing the black fragments from my palm, I looked back at her. She seemed to have blacked out for a moment, staring vacantly at the ceiling until—
"Khak...!! Huh...? What did I just...?!"
She drew in a sharp breath, chest swelling, pupils flaring wide with confusion as she scanned her surroundings. Her face burned crimson as her gaze darted around the room until it locked with mine. The instant she realized the position she was in, despair swallowed her whole.
"Why... how...?"
"How did I know? I'm not quite what you think I am."
"...What the hell does that mean...?"
Eran seemed to sense it dimly. That her plan had been exposed from the very beginning. That she'd been dancing in the palm of my hand the entire time. The realization that her meticulously prepared scheme was utterly useless, that everything had been under my control, hit her harder than the future awaiting her.
"No way. That can't be! People like you could never... understand me..."
"...I have no idea what you're talking about."
What was I supposed to say? Had Eran been relying on herself all this time? I didn't know her circumstances, but I'd seen that exact expression before. It was the face of someone who, after disappointment and despair, had turned to themselves for the answer—only to have that "correct" answer denied, realizing they were nothing special after all. The same look Hong Su-a had worn.
Those pathetic frogs in a well, drunk on their own talent and power, convinced they were special, different from everyone else.
"Single-celled plants like you, just basking in the sunlight, could never understand! Do you even know what human hearts feel like?! All you do is imitate them! A monster like you, toying with humans—how the hell could you possibly—!"
"...Then what about you? Are you such a magnificent human that you get to say that?"
"...What?"
"Your plan? I knew from the day you first installed those cameras. My instincts are quite sharp."
Every time I entered this room, the danger sense screamed. There was no way I could miss it. Once I realized the thing triggering it was a camera, I interrogated the hypnotized Eran and she spilled every last detail of her scheme. How she was behaving herself in this house only to wait for a chance to steal the petals and flee. How she planned to gather our information up close and sell it to the Ancient Weapon Research Lab. And even the true feelings she buried deep in her heart.
"...'It's disgusting to see non-humans living like humans.' ...What does that mean?"
"...You...!!"
The moment I repeated the words she had unconsciously uttered, Eran erupted in fury far beyond anything before, trying to surge upright. I slammed her head back down onto the bed.
"...Ugh...!!"
"...If you don't want to tell me, you don't have to. You'll be begging to talk soon enough."
"What are you—?! Ohhng?!♡"
Before she could finish, I drove a finger into Eran's pussy. My fingertip found her thoroughly developed G-spot and began circling it slowly. I pulled out, then thrust back in, repeating the gentle rhythm over and over.
"Ah♡ Ngh...!♡ N-no..!! I'm—I'm coming...!! Eh...?"
Her walls gradually tightened, muscles beginning to twitch and writhe. Right before her body, coiled to the breaking point, could release, I withdrew my finger. The swollen tension that had threatened to burst inside her drained away, leaving her empty.
Eran stared at her own dripping pussy and my glistening finger, looking like she wanted to say something. Her face twisted with confusion before she quickly lifted her gaze to me.
"...What's the matter? Got something you want to say?"
"...Die, you monster fuck."
"Oh, how sweet. Thank you."
At my question, Eran snapped back to her usual expression in an instant, flashing that signature arrogant smile before spitting curses and saliva at me. Her mind remained unbroken even though her body had already surrendered. I didn't know what was holding her together so stubbornly, but unless I shattered it, I wouldn't be able to make her submit completely. Of course, finding and destroying it wouldn't be difficult.
When I shoved my finger back into her pussy, her whole body jolted hard. She bit down fiercely as if fighting the pleasure, nails raking down my arm like claws.
"Mmm♡ Uh♡ Mmm♡ Ngh...!!♡"
Each thrust and withdrawal produced wet, obscene sounds that filled the room. Tears streamed from Eran's eyes as she desperately clenched her teeth to hold back her moans.
I repeated the process several times until her body began trembling violently again, just like before. Before she could reach the edge, I pulled my finger free once more.
"Aghk...♡ Ah♡ Why...♡ Why...♡"
She had been so close. Her tear-filled eyes barely focused on me, silently asking why I had stopped. Ignoring her, I pushed my finger back inside without a word.
"Ah?!♡ W-wait...!! Hold on...♡ Aghk♡ S-stop...!♡ It hurts....!!♡"
Her face was melted with pleasure, yet she claimed it hurt, covering her face with both hands while panting roughly. I continued tormenting her pussy without mercy. Her muscles contracted at a noticeably faster rhythm than before. As expected, I withdrew my finger again right before she could climax.
"Aheuuuk!!♡ Ah♡ You, don't tell me...!♡"
After the third repetition, she finally caught on. She wasn't stupid, after all.
"That's right. Until I fix that arrogant attitude of yours, you don't get to cum."
"...Heh...?"
"Don't worry. You weren't conscious last time, so you wouldn't remember, but half a day is perfectly survivable."
"Ah, no, wait, if you keep doing that I'll really die... I'll apologize, I'll do anything, so... at least let me—nghok?♡♡"
"Seriously? A supposedly superior human like you is begging monsters for mercy?"
Watching Eran's face drain of all color as she desperately tried to talk her way out, an inexplicable rage boiled up inside me. I'd originally planned to go easy and use hypnosis to drag out the knot in her heart, but I changed my mind. I'd toy with her until her mind completely shattered... Even now, the light inside her was still connected to mine. Even if Eran broke beyond repair, everything she was would become mine. There would be no need to fix her.
"Ah♡ A, n-nooooo!!♡♡"
From the time I was little, I was good at studying. I never once lost the top spot in my entire grade through elementary and middle school. My teachers even recommended me as a gifted child. Even my young self understood what that meant. Ah, I really am different from the others.
I could memorize an entire textbook after reading it once. I could even commit the contents of encyclopedias thicker than my own body to memory. The phrase "teach her one thing and she knows a hundred" followed me everywhere I went.
Everyone around me envied me, but I never envied myself. The things other people had, I didn't.
I had no parents. No memories of them, no traces, nothing at all.
I lived in an orphanage, studying every spare moment. I told myself that if I got into a good university and found a respectable job, I wouldn't feel ashamed if I ever met my parents.
But that opportunity came far sooner than expected, and I wasn't ready.
They said my parents had come to the orphanage. They were far more ordinary than I'd imagined. They weren't short like me, and their eyesight was perfect. Above all, the poverty that had clung to me my entire life in that orphanage meant nothing to them.
That day, I said goodbye to the people who had looked after me and left for "home."
A life with people more ordinary than I'd expected, and a daily existence even more ordinary than I'd imagined. I thought it wasn't bad. But in truth, it was terrible.
Men dressed in black stormed into our house and smashed everything inside. It turned out the man they called my father had borrowed money to start a business and then fled. Those men demanded far more than our family could possibly pay. Naturally, my father couldn't repay it all. So he tried to offer me as collateral.
The thugs opened the door to my room, but I wasn't there. I had been listening to everything through the listening device I'd planted.
I had slipped out of the house and sat on a park bench, sipping a warm drink while listening to my mother and father scream.
Pitiful? Heartbreaking? Not in the slightest.
They were the ones who had tried to sell me. I knew from the moment they took me back that they had been thinking of doing it again. Those people were my parents? Don't make me laugh.
When the screams coming through my earphones finally died down, I returned home. The house was in ruins. Red bloodstains splattered across the living room floor. That was my final memory of my parents.
Standing amid the wreckage, I thought to myself: Not every person in this world is precious. Not every life is worth living.
The thugs who broke in, my parents—they were all monsters wearing human skin. And the world was full of them.
I threw up right there in the living room, then went to my room, packed my things, and left.
In this world crawling with monsters, the best weapon to protect myself was money. And I possessed the talent to earn it.
University would be the same. Society after graduation would be the same. So I chose this path. If every road was identical, I might as well pick the one that paid the most. I could do it. Because the size of my life was different from theirs.
"...Stopppp♡♡ I, I was wrong...♡ S-so...♡♡ Please just let me cum nowww...♡♡"
"Not yet."
The tenth time I had denied her orgasm. Eran wailed and clung to me desperately. Doing this was starting to become genuinely entertaining.