episode_0022

“Ugh… *sigh*”

How many hours had passed? The basement, devoid of windows and sunlight, made it difficult to perceive the passage of time. When I opened my eyes, she wasn’t in the room. I staggered upstairs naked. From the sounds coming from the living room, it seemed like she was there.

“Ms. Mitsuki…”

As I opened the living room door and entered, I found her intensely focused on her phone screen. She looked different, engrossed in something.

“Oh, you’re up? Come sit here.”

She patted the spot next to her with her palm. I sat down beside her and glanced at her phone. Sitting next to her, I asked, “What’s going on?”

“Minoru. Have you ever wanted to try something like this?”

She cautiously showed me the screen of her phone. The screen was filled with pictures of metal pieces resembling small dumbbells linked by chains. It seemed to be what I had in mind.

“This…?”

“Yes. Exactly what you’re thinking.”

Piercings. Nipple piercings, to be precise. It wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me. I had seen such images occasionally. Some people even used clamps or magnets for them.

“They use magnets too? It seems a bit scary to pierce…”

I subtly conveyed my reluctance to pierce holes. While I would do anything she asked, the idea of piercing my body felt somewhat daunting and repulsive.

“I don’t think they use magnets. It’s mostly about piercing and inserting… I like this.”

She had a silver chain-linked piercing. Just imagining it hanging on her chest made me shudder. The thought of her tugging on the chain to tease me made my little friend shrink further.

“I’ll do the piercing. You wouldn’t want to show this body to someone else, right?”

As if trying to emphasize the state of my chest, she cupped her breasts under her clothes. Besides her, these breasts that had developed like a woman’s were pointless to display to others. Lately, I sensed her attitude towards me had become quite cold.

“Well, I don’t want to do this kind of thing.”

This time, I expressed my refusal more firmly. Despite her recent assertiveness, she knew enough to back off when it came to preserving my well-being.

“I just wanted to see Minoru wearing them. I wouldn’t make you do it if you really didn’t want to.”

With a peculiar smile, she spoke to me. Then, she retrieved a box from under the table in front of the sofa. Even without opening it, I knew what was inside. Today, she intended to pierce my chest with these.

“You’ve been getting a bit cheeky lately, Ms. Minoru.”

“Cheeky? What do you mean…”

Calling me by an unusual title, she pushed me down and swiftly straddled my waist before I could protest. Her gaze was colder than before. I tried to push her away with my hands, but she easily grabbed my arm and raised it above my head. With her other hand, she took out tape from the box. It was the same tape as yesterday.

“Stay still.”

I released the hand that was suppressing mine and wrapped my hand with tape. Even after she let go of my hand, I couldn’t move it due to the shapeless pressure. The sound of sizzling and my hand were sealed. She took out surgical tools from the box one by one: an ear-piercing device, a scalpel, disinfectant alcohol, and a lighter connected to a chain linked to the protagonist.

“Ar… Are you really going to do this? Mitsuki, please stop! It’s just acting, right?”

“I’m still going to do it…”

She spoke with a heavily sunken voice, clearly uneasy, as she wiped the needle part with alcohol and then ignited it. Without a word, she inserted the needle between the left nipples. A clicking sound accompanied intense pain. My body twisted, breath caught in my throat. I couldn’t even clench my teeth or make a sound.

“That’s enough here…”

“Ahhhh!! Ahh… Ahhh… Ahhh… Ugh…”

After piercing through, some time passed before a scream emerged. Tears streamed from my eyes. However, she paid no mind, dabbing alcohol on the left nipple. The pain during disinfection was a separate torment.

“Let go, put on the ring.”

She removed her hand pressing mine with alcohol cotton and put on one ring. Indifferently sliding on the cold metal ring, she immediately proceeded to sterilize the needle.

“Mitsuki, I’m sorry! I don’t know what’s wrong, but I’m sorry! Please stop! Stop!”

“There’s no need to apologize. I’m just satisfying myself. This way, I feel at ease.”

Soon after finishing the disinfection process, she aimed for my right nipple.

“Eek!”

“You have to do the other side to finish.”

Like a butcher cutting off a rope, she pressed a button. Once again, a clicking sound followed, and a hole appeared in the right nipple.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh… Ugh… Ugh…”

Twisting in pain once more, eyes wide open, groaning with frothy breath and rough exhalations. The cocktail of adrenaline from the adrenal glands and dopamine from the brain overwhelmed me, leaving me gasping for air under her weight. Eyes unfocused, like doll eyes, rolled around as I turned my head.

“Hmm. No matter how much pain and chaos, you’re still here…”

What pierced her buttocks was my unimpressive penis. After a sigh, she descended from above me. My vision blurred as my head spun. The erect penis, previously lying flat, now twitched vigorously.

“I’ll tell you why you bled today, so wake up. If you stay clueless, that’s what happens.”

She slapped me as I faded away. When I didn’t respond, she struck me again.

“Are you awake?”

“Yes…”

Stroking my slightly reddened cheek, she spoke with a choked voice. The cheek felt warm to the touch. With tear stains remaining, I swallowed back mucus, struggling to breathe. Raising only my upper body, I took a deep breath and looked at her.

“I’m sorry first. I went too far today. I should have stopped.”

There she was, not the terrifying atmosphere from before, but a subdued version emanating regret and sorrow. I could only look puzzled, not understanding the meaning.

“Sigh…”

“I know apologizing won’t undo what happened. Today, I was forceful and caused you harm. Physically or psychologically, both.”

“Yes…”

“Did it unilaterally without consent.”

“Yeah…”

I sniffled and replied. The chain hanging on my chest shimmered as it reflected the light from the fluorescent lamp. Still lacking strength in my body, every time I tried to adjust my posture to maintain a sitting position, the cold metal touched my skin.

“I didn’t want you to be taken by someone else. That’s all.”

“Me…?”

“Yeah, because I didn’t want you to be taken by someone else. You might not have felt it at school, but I did while walking together. Well, if you don’t care about it, maybe I shouldn’t have interfered.”

She held a cigarette in her hand, but her hand was shaking severely. The end of the cigarette butt was shaking uncontrollably, mirroring her current state.

“Others don’t see you as ordinary. Even if you don’t care about the breasts or enlarged hips that came from having sex with me, others do care.”

“…”

I had nothing to say either. When I told her not to worry, it was from my side. She might not have heard the gossip of classmates taking the same class, but walking through the corridors, she would have felt it too. Not just ordinary gazes towards me, but unfavorable ones.

“So, I thought leaving a mark of mine or something embarrassing would ease my mind a bit. At least then, those trying to harm you would stay away.”

“I see…”

“Yeah. That’s all. But coming back and seeing this, this wasn’t it. This isn’t right…”

She clenched the hand that was holding the cigarette tightly. The cigarette in her hand got crumpled.

“For now, I’ll remove this… Sorry…”

She reached out towards my chest to remove the piercing. I lightly slapped her hand away. Then I held her lost hand.

“Why? I don’t want it…”

She made a face of incomprehension and moved her body back. I pushed her down onto the couch without a word and simply kissed her.

“Mmm… Huh…”

An unfamiliar whimper escaped her lips. Her legs, which were about to resist, relaxed.

“Sigh… Phew…”

“Why on earth…”

“I don’t want to take off what Mitsuki gave me.”

She only looked at me with a guilty expression.