episode_0040

Her mind was foggy, as if shrouded in mist. Club slowly began to regain consciousness.

Both her body and mind felt floaty. It was a pleasant sensation. But it was also a little warm. She also felt a bit stifled.

She couldn’t quite grasp her current situation.

Club was about to fall back asleep with that thought, but a voice roused her, forcefully bringing her consciousness to the surface.

“Wake up. Hero Club, wake up.”

The voice was soft yet playful. Yet, strangely, the thought that she shouldn’t disobey that voice arose, and Club’s eyelids, which had felt as heavy as lead, fluttered open.

“Ah, you’ve finally woken up? You sure kept me waiting.”

Beneath the blinding fluorescent lights, someone’s face filled her vision.

A beauty with neatly cut silver hair and striking peach-colored eyes.

It wasn’t anyone Club knew. Yet, for some reason, she felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

“Who… are you…?”

“Oh my. Have you forgotten me? Ah, now that I think about it, I wasn’t in this form then, was I? Hehe, to think I suffered so terribly back then, yet my opponent doesn’t even recognize me. It makes me angry in so many ways. So angry. Yes, I’m angry.”

The silver-haired woman murmured that, then reached out and tightly pinched and twisted Club’s defenseless nipple.

Just that caused Club’s face to contort slightly, and a pathetic gasp escaped her lips.

“What… are you doing…?”

“It’s retribution, retribution. We’re villains and heroes, aren’t we? So wouldn’t it be fine to do this to each other? What do you think?”

Ugh. Her head wasn’t working since she just woke up, but that person kept rattling on like a machine gun.

Club found it annoying and tried to reach out to her, but her arm wouldn’t move with strength. She couldn’t quite remember how to put strength into her body. …Was it because she had slept for too long?

“Club, who do you think I am? Want to take a guess?”

“…I don’t know… You’re… not someone I know.”

“Don’t be like that. Huh? Guess. If you guess right, I’ll give you a prize.”

Even if she said that.

Even if she said that, there was no way Club would recognize her. She really couldn’t remember.

With that thought, Club stared intently into the eyes and face that looked down at her.

Then suddenly, that strange sense of déjà vu she had felt just moments before washed over her.

Come to think of it, this way of speaking… this attitude… it’s somehow….

“Ch-Chief…?”

It was a thoughtless remark. She had no certainty, it had just slipped out involuntarily.

However, her opponent’s face lit up with joy at Club’s words.

It was as if bright flowers bloomed on that face.

“Correct! Thank you for guessing right! This is your prize!”

Saying that, the silver-haired woman, the Chief, pinched and twisted Club’s defenseless nipples, both of them this time.

Club gritted her teeth and grimaced as if to say ‘no,’ but the Chief’s hands did not stop.

She continued to fondle Club’s nipples, kneading them and rubbing them to make them erect, occasionally pinching or twisting them, tormenting Club.

Incidentally, even if Club had failed to recognize the Chief and given the wrong answer, she would have suffered the same treatment under the pretext of ‘punishment.’

“S-Stop it…!”

“If you don’t like it, why don’t you resist? Would a hero listen to a villain’s pleas? When I, a villain, pleaded, did you, a hero, listen?”

The Chief was smiling, but her voice carried an eerie resentment and anger.

Club tried to swat away the Chief’s hands somehow. But her body simply wouldn’t move as she willed.

She wasn’t specifically bound by anything, yet her body felt as heavy as waterlogged cotton, weighing a thousand pounds, utterly unable to move.

Why… why can’t my body move?

Why can’t I resist even a little?

And besides that, why are my nipples so sensitive? They’re just being touched a little, but I keep getting these tingling, shiver-inducing sensations rising up….

“Ah, ahh….”

Club sighed and blinked her eyelids, as if saying ‘no, no.’ But the Chief’s hands did not stop.

The fingers stroking her sensitive nipples felt good. They brought a thrilling sensation.

But just when she thought the Chief might indulge in the pleasure, the Chief quickly noticed her reaction and tightly twisted and pinched Club’s nipple.

Then, in addition to the pleasant, sharp sensation, a pain that snapped her back to reality spread through her, immediately stopping her consciousness from sinking into indulgence.

“Ah, stop… Stop it….”

Club was helpless. All she could do was speak those words.

The Chief’s hands touched not only Club’s nipples but also her modest and adorable small breasts. Though her chest was too embarrassing to even call it a bosom, as the Chief gently caressed and rubbed it, gathering them slightly… a pleasant sensation still washed over Club.

Why is it so sensitive… my chest… and my nipples….

A faint wetness appeared between Club’s legs. Heat rose in the place that was no longer virginal due to 13.

And then, the Chief released Club’s chest. Club, whose body had been dominated by the shameful pleasure, had her face flushed red and let out a strange sigh.

“What are you getting so excited about, you pervert, for a hero?”

The Chief said with a cold voice mixed with mockery. It was a tone of utter condescension, without even honorifics.

Club was indignant, but there was nothing she could do. No, she couldn’t even grasp the situation in the first place.

She opened her eyes to find an unfamiliar beauty before her. But then, for that beauty to be the very Chief, a man, who had almost killed her before?

Rather than accepting this as reality, it felt easier to think of it as a dream.

“Well, anyway, now that you’re awake, shall we move? I would have liked to torment you more, though.”

“Still, Master 13 is waiting for you. I don’t want to keep him waiting any longer.”

The Chief said that, looking down at Club, and commanded, “Stand up.”

At that command alone, strength returned to Club’s body, which had previously been powerless.

She supported herself with her arms, pushed her body up, and got down from the operating table she had been lying on.

Only then could Club survey her surroundings.

She was surrounded by various machines, glowing displays, and cylinders filled with various reagents. It looked like some kind of laboratory.

“Follow me.”

As the Chief commanded again, Club followed behind her.

She wasn’t wearing any clothes, so she followed her completely naked.

***

As she followed behind the Chief, Club slowly began to recall her last memories of what had happened to her.

The department store terror attack by the villain organization Abyss and Villain 13.

To suppress that attack, she had entered the department store with Senior Spade, and after many twists and turns, she was ultimately controlled by 13 and defeated… leading to her downfall.

Recalling that she had not only been controlled by 13 at the time but had also gone through her first sexual encounter with him, sacrificing her virginity, Club’s face flushed red.

That was more out of indignation than embarrassment. As a hero, she didn’t particularly cling to her virginity.

“Chief, you… weren’t you definitely a man? Your appearance is different, to begin with. Are you joking?”

“Oh my. But didn’t *you*, Miss Club, recognize me as the Chief?”

“…That was… just a feeling I had, somehow.”

Club also found it hard to understand why she had thought that. Why was it?

“We are Awakened, after all. Anything can happen, right? Don’t think of it as too strange. Don’t you know about an open mind?”

“…So, are you ultimately a man or a woman? Which is it?”

“I have no obligation to tell you.”

The Chief chuckled. Then, seeing Club’s expression souring as she followed behind, she cackled again and elaborated on her answer.

“Right. I have no obligation, but if I *must* explain, I am not a man. I merely used a man’s body because it was convenient as a shell.”

“……So, in the end.”

“Yes. So, you don’t have to worry about me harboring lust for your meager, pitiful body. Rest assured.”

“…!!”

Club’s face flushed red. She tightly gritted her teeth as if angry, but she did not attack the Chief.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t the type to resort to violence over something like that… no, it wasn’t that.

It was that she couldn’t perform any actions other than what the Chief commanded, ever since a little while ago.

‘Perhaps….’

She had an inkling. Hadn’t she seen Spade, controlled by 13, at that department store?

She didn’t know the specifics: whether it was a type of ability, the power of a drug, or some other kind of technology or tool.

But one thing Club did know was that her body and mind were no longer free.

It was truly infuriating.

“Well, we’ve arrived.”

Walking through the needlessly spacious building, they finally arrived in front of a certain room.

After a light knock on the door, a familiar voice replied, “Come in.”

The Chief opened the door, and without entering herself, gestured to Club and commanded, “Go inside.”

Just as before, Club’s body, again, did not refuse and walked through the doorway….