episode_0091

“Oppa, this really isn’t right. This really isn’t right, okay?! Think about it calmly one more time!”

“Oh, oh, you mean you’ll adapt to your new home and live healthily from now on?”

“Don’t make me laugh!

This makes no sense… This is definitely crossing the line!”

I glared at Oppa through the iron bars.

I bit my lip tightly and denied the reality as it was.

Clang! Clang! I shook the iron bars and shrieked.

“Fuck, I just lost a gamble, did I commit a mass shooting or something?

Why are you locking me in this shitty prison?!”

I was imprisoned.

Unable to even change my clothes, I was arrested by the police and jailed as soon as the gamble ended.

It happened right after the game concluded.

Victor, refusing to accept his defeat, went on a shooting rampage, and after that, things progressed hectically under the guise of “cleanup,” until I, too, was dragged away.

Into this prison that looked like mice would crawl out of.

Without so much as asking, they took me against my will and locked me up, and now that bastard Oppa in front of me is even mocking my stinging wounds.

“Well, you bet everything and lost, didn’t you?

Since you lost the gamble, isn’t it natural to receive punishment?”

“You’re imprisoning your own sibling just for losing some measly dice game? Is this something a sane person would do!?”

“Then what sin did you commit to even kidnap your own older brother?”

I just bit my lip.

At the same time, I looked up with venom.

“This crazy bastard… Do you really think you’ll be fine after this?!”

At my threat, Cha Doyeon looked down indifferently.

He had been full of sarcasm, crowing about winning the game with the immense amount of money whose origin I wondered about, but suddenly he became quiet.

After quietly meeting my gaze, he whispered as if to himself, sounding disheartened.

“This… still needs a lot of education.”

“What?

…………Hey, where are you going? Where are you going!?”

When there was no answer despite my calls,

“Hey, seriously, where are you going?! Stop joking around and come back! …You son of a bitch! You fucking bastarddddd!”

Clang clang clang!

As he moved away, I violently shook the iron bars, but he didn’t respond.

The police officer guarding the entrance even saluted him, their relationship unknown, as he calmly walked away.

After that, I screamed about human rights violations repeatedly, unaware of how time was passing.

However, no one paid me any attention, which only intensified my frustration, and stress surged due to an ominous premonition.

So, when what felt like a couple of hours had passed, I spoke to that guy.

The guy sitting opposite me, whom I had originally intended to ignore completely.

“Victor, what the hell are you doing?”

“…….”

Apart from the police officers guarding like robots, he was the only one I could talk to in prison.

Perhaps because he was the one I’d “married,” Victor was inexplicably imprisoned in the cell opposite me, about eight paces away.

Anyway, since he was the only one in this space I could communicate with, I decided to break the ice, even though I didn’t feel like it.

“Victor, what are you going to do now? Are you just going to keep hanging your head like a defeated bastard?”

“…….”

“Even if your subordinate died at the casino, you’ve built up such a force, so you must have some means to contact the outside, right? They probably don’t know Korean anyway, so just tell me.”

“…….”

“Can’t you hear me?

Your hands must have stopped bleeding by now—”

“Shut up.”

A single word that cut me off sharply.

It was incredibly cold.

Feeling displeased, I frowned and glared, but Victor wouldn’t even meet my eyes.

“What, are you mad about what happened at the casino?”

“…….”

“That was largely your mistake too, borrowing my hand out of the blue!

You clearly said you were 100% confident you could clean them out using every method… Haa, never mind, let’s not talk about it.”

Muttering about him being a petty bastard, I also gave up.

Exhausted from shouting, I had no choice but to spread my coat on the dirty bed, which looked like it could give me lice, and lie down.

After that, time slowly passed.

The boredom of being unable to do anything passed, and the dawn that should never have come arrived, so I spent the night in this prison whose location I didn’t even know.

‘Ugh, why on earth am I…!’

In barely half a day, the treatment was utterly miserable.

It was the moment the Hwaryeong family’s pride completely crumbled, but this was only the beginning.

Because after this, I had to adapt to prison life.

* * *

At first, I thought I had just been dragged in as someone involved in the shooting rampage.

The morning of the second day dawned, when I thought I’d be able to leave soon if just a little more time passed.

“Are you telling me to eat this kind of trash!?”

After sleeping rough or getting a cramped, uncomfortable sleep in this beggarly place, a strange porridge even appeared for breakfast.

Besides that, there was only lukewarm milk and hard bread.

It was literally the worst breakfast, of a quality I wouldn’t eat even if given for free.

Clang!

Enraged, I threw what they had passed through the hole in the iron bar floor onto the ground.

After that, I shouted threats at the guy, whom I couldn’t tell if he was a prison guard or a police officer.

“This place is completely insane! Whether I lost a game or got caught up in a shooting rampage, this is human rights deprivation!

You, bring my phone right now. This is ridiculous tyranny, I’ll call my lawyer and my people! Hey Give me my cell phone! You’re listening, fucker, aren’t you!?”

However, even with my loud shouting, the male prison guard remained silent.

He just stared at me indifferently through the bars, then,

Thwack! Thwack!

“Hick!”

He struck the bars hard twice with something like a baton…

It was a threat that he would hit me if I messed around.

Once he showed that he could use force at any time, I couldn’t argue anymore.

So, I reluctantly shut my mouth.

I slightly swallowed my pride, fearing that if I shouted one more time, he might come in and assault me.

It was miserable.

I, a scion of the Hwaryeong family, had fallen to the point where I had to be wary of the police in some measly island nation, feeling as if my dignity had plummeted to rock bottom.

‘Sniff sniff. Damn it, my body smells terrible too….’

Tearfully, I sniffed my body due to the unpleasant feeling.

I’d never gone two days without washing in my entire life, and this kind of treatment was too much.

Grrrruggle….

However, the hardest thing to endure was hunger.

I had thought I’d be able to leave soon, so I endured by clutching my stomach on the bed until the end, but it must have been several hours after breakfast was served without a word.

They just threw me into prison without warning and now they’re even starving me.

This wasn’t some desperate diet; I never thought a day would come in my life when I’d skip meals.

“…….”

I tried to hold out by maintaining my pride until the end, but due to the pain of my stomach clinging to my back, I instinctively grabbed the bread I had dropped on the stone floor.

If I just bit it, my front teeth might shatter from its dry hardness, so I trembled and rubbed it against the cold porridge spilled on the ground before putting it to my mouth.

“Ugh!”

The worst taste, truly akin to food waste, spread through my mouth.

Reluctantly chewing the world’s most unpalatable bread, I carved my resentment.

That if I got out of here, I would definitely report Oppa.

I vowed that I would definitely repay this grudge.

However, four more days passed after this.

* * *

Five days had now passed.

Could it be that five days had actually passed in this shitty place? My hair was a mess, and I sat curled up on the bed as if I were going insane.

I showed signs of anxiety, nervously biting my nails, but there wasn’t a single person to care for me.

‘This is hell. Fuck, how can anyone live in a place like this…!’

On the first and second days, I had vowed firm revenge, but now all I wished was to get out.

No, in fact, the limit was reached from the night of the second day.

If only someone, anyone, would appear like a prince on a white horse and help me escape from here, I was confident I’d prostrate myself in a deep bow, no matter who they were.

But such a miracle didn’t happen, and all I gained was useless adaptability and knowledge about this prison.

First of all, this place was… as I expected, a very special detention facility where absolutely no one entered other cells.

The guards were clearly police officers and the atmosphere was that of a general prison, but apart from me and Victor, it was empty, and no one else entered.

It was truly a place to detain special ‘prisoners.’

However, despite being special, as I’d observed earlier, the treatment wasn’t good at all.

It was closer to a detention that perfectly stripped away one’s dignity, something you’d only see in movies.

A place where external access was blocked, making it seem like secret behind-the-scenes work was being carried out.

I wondered what kind of deal Oppa had made; it was an unbelievable place.

That the daughter of the Hwaryeong family could be buried here without a sound.

However, it seemed there was a basement below, as even here, the treatment was relative.

“…….”

Victor, opposite me, had become extremely gaunt.

His large physique was deflating like a balloon due to the inadequate meals.

I remained indifferent, but Victor was dragged away by the police whenever there was an opening.

When he returned, one by one, wounds appeared on his body, and his expression grew more severe with each passing day, indicating the verbal abuse he must have endured.

It seemed he wouldn’t get off lightly, being the main person who lost the most in the gamble and even caused a shooting rampage.

I didn’t know the specifics, but I thought they’d likely bleed him dry until he coughed up everything he had.

Well, honestly, I didn’t feel any sympathy even if he was being subjected to interrogation akin to torture.

This was merely me gaining energy to endure by seeing someone more unfortunate than myself.

‘…He’s just getting what he deserves, I guess.’

Anyway, I no longer had the mental composure to spare for someone like Victor.

The only thing I needed to focus on was this.

That was—

『How’s prison life? Seems you’re managing alright?』

“Oh, Oppa!”

As soon as I heard the voice from above, I immediately straightened my spine.

I clasped my hands together desperately and begged Oppa, who must have been watching through CCTV.

“Oppa, Oppa, please, I was wrong. Please, now… let’s put it on the table and talk like gentlemen, okay?

Please end this. I won’t seek any revenge for this. I swear. I truly swear, so please…”

In my haste, I poured out words like a rapid-fire cannon.

I was begging desperately in a musty-smelling dress I hadn’t washed for a week, when,

“HERE.”

“……?”

A police officer, who had appeared without me noticing, extended a phone through the bars.

It wasn’t my cellphone.

Wondering what it was, I cautiously took it, and it was connected to a video call.

『Ah, can you see me well now?』

“……Oppa?!”

On that screen was Oppa.

『It’s really true, isn’t it? This crazy bitch has really been confined in prison all this time? Kekeke…』

What’s more… Unnie was mixed in there too.

Cha Hwaryeon, the second daughter of the Hwaryeong family, who had an even worse relationship with me than cats and dogs.

“……??? What, what the hell… what are the two of you doing?”

Moreover, that second Unnie was embracing Oppa.

As if they had just… done *that*, they were embracing each other naked and sweating.