Master and Servant (3)
Yoo Dahui was crying. Sobbing, sprawled on the floor, weeping as if the world had ended. It hurt to watch. I wanted to run over and hold her right away.
In the novel, Yoo Dahui had burst into tears multiple times. Crying from joy, crying from sadness. Yoo Dahui cried quite often. But this was the first time I’d seen her cry like this.
I stood up. I could feel her approaching. Her steps were very slow. Her legs were trembling. She’d walked all the way here with great difficulty. I moved slowly, waiting for her. Thanks to that, Yoo Dahui managed to grab my hand.
I roughly shook off Yoo Dahui’s hand. Then I looked down at her with a rather cold gaze.
“……”
Yoo Dahui pressed her lips tightly together. She tried to say what she wanted to say firmly. But her eyes were anything but. Her trembling eyelids, her gaze was precarious.
“Sniff…”
In the end, tears rolled down.
“I’m sowwy…. I’m sowwy, Jinwoo…”
Yoo Dahui mumbled. Saying she was sorry, she kept shedding tears. When she was about to burst into sobs, she gritted her teeth. She struggled not to cry in front of me.
‘Aigoo…’
My heart weakened. Unlike the other women, Yoo Dahui held quite a significant place in my heart.
Yoo Dahui was completely different from ordinary novel characters. The reason I saved her without abandoning her in the first round. The reason I threw my body even when Return by Death and such weren’t certain. It was repayment for the past ten years. Repayment to Yoo Dahui who helped me endure the hard times.
Of course, the author wrote the novel. But I spent those difficult past days with the living, moving Yoo Dahui in the novel.
‘Harden your heart.’
Still, wrong is wrong. This crossed the line.
Before Orihime revealed the truth, I felt a helplessness equal to the first round. In a situation where regression was impossible, the assumption that I absolutely couldn’t die tormented me. A helpless situation, a desolate feeling—it wasn’t easy to endure. If torture or something had been waiting, it would have been truly hopeless.
Some might ask, didn’t you do it too? But who cares. I have to make sure she can’t play around with regression again.
‘Anyway, none of that matters.’
It’s the fault of the one who gets deceived. Yoo Dahui tried to deceive me, but I wasn’t fooled. So. When I try to deceive her, it’s Yoo Dahui’s fault for being deceived.
I asked Yoo Dahui.
“What are you sorry for?”
“Uh, uh…”
At my sharp tone, Yoo Dahui stammered. She swallowed hard while rolling her eyes frantically. She seemed to be thinking about how to restore my mood.
“You… deceiving me and pulling this stunt…”
“……”
“Kidnapping me for no reason and tormenting me, staging a kidnapping situation…. making me suffer…”
The more she spoke, the more watery Yoo Dahui’s voice became. “Kkuk, kkuk.” She listed her wrongs one by one while desperately holding back her tears. I barely managed to suppress my hand that was rising unconsciously. Now wasn’t the time to wipe her tears. Rather, it was time to apply pressure.
“Also.”
“Also…?”
Yoo Dahui’s eyes shook violently. She seemed to think she’d said all her wrongs.
“Wow…”
“I’m sorry, Jinwoo. I, I was wrong about everything…”
“Ha…! So that was all you had to say?”
In fact, that was correct. She kidnapped me because she wanted to try rape play for no reason. Then, wanting to see me groveling, she had Orihime rape me. That was really all there was. The problem was that in the process, she used settings that were unpleasantly creepy.
If Yoo Dahui came out with a defiant attitude, I’d have nothing to say. But that wasn’t the answer I wanted. I had no intention of discussing detailed settings about a situation that had already passed. A solution that could go further. A path where our relationship could change more explicitly.
“…I won’t deceive you. I won’t do it again…”
“……”
“Your gaze is too scary…. Please, don’t look at me like that…”
Yoo Dahui avoided my eyes and lowered her head. Her pale breasts and pink nipples were visible. They looked quite soft if touched.
‘Brother, don’t move.’
My dick twitched. The desire to torment the crying Yoo Dahui surged. My expression was about to soften. Thanks to the acting so far, I could continue the situation.
“I think I was too selfish. Jinwoo, I should have thought of you first…. Thinking about how painful it would be, that wasn’t something I should have done…”
“…I came thinking only of you. In the situation where the camp was blown up, I came to save you. But you…”
I swallowed the rest. There was no way I could say she was masturbating. I didn’t say it, but Yoo Dahui understood. She was clearly feeling what she had done.
Yoo Dahui’s head shook. She looked like she was about to burst into tears. What on earth was she looking at that made her start sobbing….
‘Ah.’
Yoo Dahui’s hand flinched. The Mana Oath was clearly engraved on her slender wrist.
“Jinwoo, I’m sowwy…”
She tightly grabbed her own wrist and sobbed. Hic, hic. Yoo Dahui burst into tears. From Yoo Dahui’s perspective, she seemed surprised that the Mana Oath was still maintained even in this situation. Emotions she had barely suppressed welled up.
‘…Hmm.’
Watching Yoo Dahui cry as if the world had ended, I couldn’t do anything. I wanted to comfort her, but it was awkward because of what she’d done. But I couldn’t be cold-hearted either; it hurt my heart.
“Sniff…. I’m sowwy, I’m sowwy…”
Yoo Dahui muttered while wiping her tears. I stared blankly at her, then patted Yoo Dahui’s shoulder.
“Jinwoo…?”
Yoo Dahui slightly raised her head. Her eyes were bloodshot, her face covered in tears and snot, yet she was still cute. There was a look as if she was expecting something.
A change that flashed by in an instant—I was the only one who could capture it.
I said to her.
“Wait…. Let’s take some time to think about things separately.”
After hearing my words, silence flowed. Yoo Dahui reacted belatedly.
“J-Jinwoo. What do you mean…?”
Yoo Dahui alternated between looking at her wrist and my face. The Mana Oath was maintained, and it was correct that she loved me the most. She seemed unable to understand my words.
Honestly, it’s hard for me to explain too. In times like this, you just don’t give time to think.
“Jinwoo, Jinwoo!”
I resolutely turned my back. I let go of Yoo Dahui’s hand and headed toward the next room. Yoo Dahui was startled and grabbed me. Unlike before, I carefully pushed her hand away. Yoo Dahui didn’t back down from one rejection and kept clinging persistently.
“Jinwoo! Jinwoo, Jinwoo! Please don’t do that. Don’t go, don’t go!”
“……”
“I’ll do well. I’ll really do well. I won’t do this again. So please…!”
Strength began to enter Yoo Dahui’s hand. It went beyond desperation and approached obsession. Should I call it a scream? She showed extreme rejection toward my reaction.
“Let’s talk now. Okay? Don’t think alone, tell me everything you’re upset about. Please, talk to me here.”
She held onto me, trembling. Her crying stopped, and Yoo Dahui was feeling fear.
‘…Don’t tell me?’
It was an obsession that gave me chills. To the point where I could feel something.
Mind Reading
My head throbbed and hurt. Compared to other players who were easy to read, the barrier was incredibly high.
‘I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.’
‘Don’t abandon me. Jinwoo, don’t abandon me. Don’t go, please.’
‘I have to hold on, right here, I have to say everything and apologize. Otherwise, like during the trial…’
She seemed to have experienced a similar situation during the trial. The system deliberately showed such a situation, so it was very different from reality, but Yoo Dahui didn’t think that at all.
My head felt like it was splitting. I turned off Mind Reading. Yoo Dahui showed a reaction close to a seizure and grabbed my arm. I could feel her will not to let go.
“Jinwoo, Jinwoo…. Kim Jinwoo…”
“…Hey…!”
Yoo Dahui tried to kneel. I quickly approached and stopped her from kneeling. I didn’t want to see her pathetically begging. Yoo Dahui leaned on my arm, trembling, and muttered.
“Please…. I’ll beg like this. I’ll beg, so…. Talk to me, listen to what I have to say…”
If this continued, it seemed like something really bad would happen. Yoo Dahui’s state, her eyes, weren’t right at all. She was more broken than I thought.
“…Haa.”
But I have no intention of bending my will. I’ll make sure she can’t do this again.
“Jinwoo…. Sniff.”
When I stopped trying to escape, Yoo Dahui looked up at me with a mess of a face. Tears welled up in her eyes. I took out a handkerchief from my inventory. It was a high-quality handkerchief with impressive embroidery that Elena always told me to carry.
“Thank you…”
She accepted my handkerchief and wiped her eyes. She couldn’t wipe her snot and roughly wiped it with her gown sleeve. I took out a new handkerchief and pressed it against Yoo Dahui’s nose.
“Blow.”
“…This is a bit…”
Even I thought this wasn’t something to say. Treating a grown adult like a child and blowing their nose? But I had no intention of backing down. This too was punishment. Punishment toward Yoo Dahui.
Yoo Dahui glanced at me. Her swollen eyes, her pupils rolled around. A space for conversation was about to be created. Whether to break this harmony or not depended on Yoo Dahui’s choice.
“Huff, huuung…!”
“Harder.”
Yoo Dahui only pretended. It wasn’t refreshing at all. To the hesitating Yoo Dahui, I casually threw out a word.
“…I’ll keep waiting.”
“Jinwoo…”
“It’s embarrassing, right? I felt the same. So hurry up.”
Yoo Dahui’s eyes trembled anxiously. It was too ugly, way too ugly. But she had no choice. Yoo Dahui was the sinner. She tightly closed her eyes and cast aside her pride.
Kuuuuuung-!
The feeling was fucking weird. Leaving aside whether it was dirty or not, treating Yoo Dahui like a child made my heart feel fluffy and embarrassed.
“Really…!”
“Why?”
When I wiped her face clean, Yoo Dahui’s expression became clear. Her face flushed red. Meeting my eyes, “Sniff…. Huuk, hwaaaang!” She burst into tears. It was a different, loud wailing from before. She burrowed into my arms and cried sorrowfully.
“Huuk, uwaaang…?”
While sobbing, she slightly raised her head and looked at my face. Then she cried again.
“Hwaaaang! I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Really, truly, I’m sorry…!”
It didn’t seem like she was doing it to tease me. Crying as if the world had ended—could this be acting? She was just glancing at me.
I stroked her back until Yoo Dahui stopped crying. As soon as my hand touched her, Yoo Dahui’s crying showed no sign of stopping and continued. Her tear ducts seemed broken; the tears wouldn’t stop. I waited quietly.
‘Can’t be helped.’
It was such a futile ending that it made my thought of scolding her seem ridiculous.
Sniff, sniff-.
Yoo Dahui stopped crying. She was somewhat calmed down. I asked Yoo Dahui.
“…So, were you satisfied?”
Yoo Dahui, who received the question, stiffened. She couldn’t continue speaking. The crying she had barely stopped seemed about to burst again.
“You said let’s talk? So don’t cry. If you cry, I’ll get angry.”
“Huk…. Ah, got it…! I won’t cry…!”
Yoo Dahui bit her lips and held back her tears. The tears were going back in.
“Were you satisfied?”
“……”
Yoo Dahui couldn’t answer readily. She was still glancing at me.
“You caused such a big incident and you weren’t even satisfied?”
When I asked reproachfully, Yoo Dahui shook her head violently.
“N-No! I was satisfied. Thanks to you, Jinwoo, a lot…!”
“Ah, so you played with my heart and enjoyed yourself?”
“!”
Yoo Dahui was startled and popped up an exclamation mark above her head. Then she started squeezing out juice.
“It was a joke, a joke.”
“Sniff, hwaaaang! I won’t do it, I won’t do it again…!”
Yoo Dahui had no intention of leaving my arms.