Academy – Walk

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“After graduating from the academy and working, you will meet various races. But recently, it’s hard to see Beast-people and Elves. As you all know, the reason is….”

Jade listened to the professor’s words with one ear and let them out the other. Instead, he looked at the seat by the window.

Today, the golden hair that always sparkled in the sunlight was not there. Lena hadn’t come to the academy even though class had already started.

When is Lena coming? She has never been late during her academy life, what’s going on…?

Jade was worried that something might have happened to Lena because this was the first time this had happened.

—Creak.

Just in time, Lena opened the back door and came in.

“Huff….”

Jade was relieved to see that she looked fine.

‘Did she oversleep?’

Seeing her panting as she ran, she must have just overslept.

But as soon as he saw the person coming in after her, Jade’s expression hardened.

“Hurry in.”

“Uht?!”

Doran appeared from behind and wrapped his arms around Lena’s waist. Then he smiled brightly and apologized to the professor.

“Ah, I’m sorry. We went too hard last night and overslept, so we were late.”

At that moment, Jade, who was looking at the entrance, and Lena, who was flustered, made eye contact.

“!!”

Lena was startled to see Jade and turned her head away.

‘Ah….’

Jade stared at her for a moment, then lowered his head. Although it was heartbreaking, he understood Lena’s feelings, who had no choice but to do so.

“Okay. I’ll deduct points, so go and sit down quickly.”

When the professor finished speaking, Lena and Doran headed to their respective seats.

As soon as Lena sat down, she collapsed on her desk. She looked very tired, as if she hadn’t slept properly.

‘The fact that they were both late means that Lena eventually… with Doran last night.’

The image of Lena crying out under Doran flashed through his mind. Lena must have had to submit to Doran in the end, even though she tried to resist.

What was Lena thinking in that situation?

‘Did she want to die? Did she resent me, by any chance?’

Jade felt like his heart was tearing apart at the fact that Lena had been violated by Doran.

‘I’m sorry. Your life is like this because of a guy like me….’

**

After class, Doran began to demand more and more daring things from Lena.

“Come here.”

He grabbed Lena’s face as she came closer and started kissing her.

“Eueup?! Chwileup… Chwoo-oop, Chwileureup!”

Lena was momentarily flustered and tried to push him away, but then began to accept the kiss.

The sound of them kissing echoed through the classroom.

Lena kissing Doran was completely different from the usual Lena that Jade had seen.

Lena’s blue eyes were unfocused as if savoring the kiss, and a drop of saliva flowed from her lips, running down her fair neck.

Everyone in the classroom was captivated and couldn’t take their eyes off her, seeing her in a way they had never seen before.

Gulp—

The sound of people swallowing could be heard around them as they watched the scene.

Suddenly, Jade heard an angry voice.

“Why don’t you do that somewhere else?”

Annie, who had been holding back for a long time, couldn’t stand to see this and stepped forward.

At those words, Doran broke away from Lena, who he had been kissing passionately.

“Puhah—! Hah, haah….”

“What’s wrong? Just be understanding, my friend is just sharing some love with me.”

“Lena, you like it too, right? Don’t you?”

“…Yes, I do.”

Words of agreement weakly spilled from Lena’s mouth.

Annie looked at Lena with sad eyes.

Annie wanted to use Flame magic on Doran’s smiling face. But the person who would suffer the most from such an action would be Lena, not herself.

Making things even harder for her, who was already suffering, was something a friend shouldn’t do.

“Ugh….”

In the end, Annie gave up trying to stop them and trudged back to her seat.

“It might be against the rules to do more than this here. Shall we go somewhere else and get more serious? Come on.”

“…Yes.”

Doran and Lena left the classroom.

“Wow, I’m so jealous. Being able to do whatever you want with Lena.”

“She used to be so picky and expensive, but now she’s in that state.”

“I wonder if she’d lend herself out just once? She’s a slave, after all.”

The male students began to chatter as they watched Lena leave with Doran.

“…What?”

Jade, who had been sitting gloomily, heard the story.

‘Don’t those guys have even a shred of sympathy for Lena?’

Jade was furious at the sight of the other students who only saw Lena as an object of desire.

“How can you say such things after seeing that? Don’t you feel sorry for Lena at all!”

“What are you talking about?”

One student looked at Jade with a dumbfounded expression. And the words that followed stabbed him in the heart.

“Isn’t it all ‘your’ fault that Lena is like that? Everyone already knows. Do you have no conscience?”

“What…?”

Jade was speechless.

He wanted to make some kind of rebuttal, or even an excuse, but no words came to mind.

In the end, he clenched his fists, trembled, and ran out of the classroom.

Jade ran madly along the long road leading out of the academy.

The fact that he had been trying to forget somehow came back to his mind.

Lena applied for a duel to protect me. But she lost the duel and became Doran’s slave.

‘Lena is in this state because of me….’

I don’t want to admit it, but their words are all true.

I couldn’t deny that he was responsible for Lena becoming a slave in this process.

Suddenly, anger and resentment filled Jade’s mind.

Doran was the one who tormented him. Doran is clearly the one who should pay the price.

But instead, Doran is thriving, and he and Lena are having a hellish time.

‘Was my will, which simply tried not to succumb to unfair oppression, wrong?’

All Jade had done was persevere without giving up in the face of the nobleman’s bullying.

Jade wished that rain would fall to wash away this despair. But the sky before him was clear and cloudless, the opposite of his heart.

‘Why did this ordeal come to me?’

-Thud.

Jade sat down on the street and stared blankly at the sky.

Hoping that someone would answer his question.

**

I headed to the academy park with Doran.

When we arrived at the park, Doran rummaged through his pockets as if he had something he had brought, and took something out.

It was a red collar in Doran’s hand. And he immediately held it out to me.

“Put this on.”

Doran hands me the collar.

“Ha… you have a terrible taste.”

Even as I threw sarcastic words at Doran, I obediently put the collar around my neck.

—Click.

“Now, get down. Today, you’re going to be my dog. Got it?”

It seemed that Doran was trying to humiliate me and break my pride today.

The more pride and self-esteem a person like me has, the more damage they will take to their pride just by showing a humiliating appearance to others.

People are embarrassed just by accidentally falling in front of others. But if they were to show themselves crawling around as someone’s dog, then that person….

“You know you can’t resist, right? Just accept it comfortably.”

Doran’s urging voice was heard. He must have thought that I was trying to refuse because I was lost in thought for a moment.

“I will….”

As soon as I put my hands on the ground and slowly got down, I felt countless eyes around me.

“Hey, look over there. Who is it? They’re wearing a collar.”

“Isn’t that Lena?”

Today was a clear and cloudless day. That’s why many students were visiting the park for a walk or to relax.

‘Heua….’

The shame of showing this appearance to so many students in the middle of the park was already starting to make my body hot.

“From now on, you’re only going to bark instead of talking.”

“Wh, what! Even so, everyone is watching….”

“Did you hear me? Bark!”

When I hesitated until the end even after the order was given again, Doran raised his hand.

“Haa…. Lena, get a grip.”

As soon as Doran finished speaking, the mana inside my body began to run wild like crazy.

“Kkeuaaaaht?!”

A scream burst from my mouth and my mind became confused. It was as if thousands of needles were piercing the organs throughout my body from the inside.

Even though it wasn’t the first time, it was a pain that I could never get used to.

‘It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!’

I couldn’t even say the word “it hurts” out loud, and it stayed in my heart.

If a person has a stomach ache, they grab their stomach.

If their leg hurts, they grab their leg.

But this was painful not in one place, but inside my whole body.

Was Doran even imagining the pain I was feeling? He probably wasn’t, so he was doing this mercilessly.

In the end, my hands had nowhere to go and were just trembling.

But—

‘It feels so good….’

My body turns even this ridiculous pain into pleasure. I’m so happy that I want to keep feeling this moment.

-Thud.

When the rampaging mana stopped, I lost strength in my arms and fell forward.

“Are you going to keep refusing orders?”

“Kkeueu… This, the order is….”

‘Lena’ tries to refuse the order until the end, pretending to protect even a shred of pride.

“Have you been too comfortable lately? Let’s see how far you can go.”

“Kkyaaaaak!!”

But my will to resist was crushed mercilessly in Doran’s hands, making my efforts meaningless.

A moment later, my blurry vision caught sight of my clothes and hair, which were covered in dirt and a mess. It was probably because I had rolled on the floor in agony.

‘Heueu… I want to enjoy it a little more, but let’s stop here for now.’

Since my power is sealed, I might actually die if I’m not careful.

I expressed my intention to surrender to Doran in a trembling voice.

“Kehk, Keuhehk…. St, stop… I’ll, I’ll listen. I’m sorry….”

Doran was looking at me with a satisfied smile. He must have liked the sight of me being so miserably defiled.

“Now you look more like my pet.”

He pulled on the collar, urging me to get up, and demanded an answer.

“Now. Answer.”

In the face of unavoidable fear… I finally opened my mouth.

“…Me, meong!”

“Haha! What a cute puppy?”

Now I have to show everyone that I’m not even treated like a human. I can feel my lower body getting slightly wet from the humiliation.

I was about to witness the fall of my dignity.

“Follow me.”

Doran started dragging me around the park for a walk.

“Haeuh… Heuek….”

I was barely keeping up with Doran’s speed, crawling on all fours.

The feeling of the stones and dirt that I felt every time I put my hand on the ground made me feel unpleasant. Moreover, the aftereffects of the torture made it difficult for me to even crawl.

But every time I tried to rest for a moment, Doran would pull on the collar without fail.

“Keok! Kkeueuk….”

“What are you doing not following me quickly? I’m disappointed that you can’t even handle this.”

Doran showed off this appearance of me to others as he walked around the park.

“Everyone, can you see? It’s the great Head Student Lena. She’s my pet now, so please be kind to her.”

People around me were saying various things as they looked at my unsightly appearance.

“Lena is in such a state….”

“Even if she’s a slave, isn’t it a bit too much?”

“He can do whatever he wants with his slave, so what can we do?”

I lowered my head as if trying to ignore the words I could hear. But Doran doesn’t seem to have any intention of leaving me alone.

“Lena, what are you doing? Bark quickly.”

“……Meong, Meomeong!”

In the end, I barked in front of the students. Everyone’s expression was speechless at my appearance.

Just imagining what they would think of me made my lower body continue to get wet. The image of the student ‘Lena’ at the academy is as good as over.

Shock me and disappoint me even more. Drive me into an endless abyss.

“Our Lena must be in a good mood. Right?”

“Meong…!”

I had to endure the humiliation of being dragged around by Doran and making barking sounds.