LLU 30

“Fuck, ing…!”

A tear-filled voice crawled out of my throat. It was the first time I realized that when I was too scared, my thoughts would wretchedly stop, and tears would pool in their place.

The crying, which seemed utterly unhelpful for escaping, kept bursting out. I deliberately bit down hard on my already torn lips. Don’t just sit there trembling like a pathetic fool. Please, get a grip.

I hurriedly gathered the clothes scattered on the floor. I didn’t want to see a single piece of Choi Junghan’s clothing, but my own clothes were nowhere to be found, so I had no choice but to put them back on.

First, I had to get out of this room. Even for Choi Junghan, he probably wouldn’t be standing guard right in front of the door. Seeing as I had woken up alone in an empty room, he seemed to have stepped out for a moment. So if I kept as quiet as possible… and tiptoed down to the first floor….

…Could I really leave his house without him knowing?

A low curse escaped my lips. It would be impossible. Even if Choi Junghan wasn’t guarding this door right now, there was no guarantee I wouldn’t be caught by him by the time I got down to the first floor, crossed the garden, and reached the main gate. This house was fucking huge, after all.

Besides, I could barely even walk properly right now. Choi Junghan had probably left me defenseless like this, sneering at the ragged state of my body. The last time, he had kept my hands tied for so long. The thought of his arrogance, thinking that even that wasn’t necessary this time, made my blood boil.

…Kim Junwoo. Mother. Chairman Choi….

Such names surfaced sporadically in my mind. They were a pathetically meager number of options, straws I couldn’t even grasp at. Which of them could I possibly ask for help?

Bringing Kim Junwoo into this house was the same as passing the misfortune that had befallen me onto him. That kind of thing must never happen, now or ever.

My mother had already made one short, impulsive outing just to see my face. Chairman Choi, who would be sitting by her side, would no longer tolerate her spontaneous behavior.

Then what if I contacted Chairman Choi….

It was a name that had crossed my mind for a fleeting moment, but that option was immediately tossed into the trash with a sneer. As if he would ever take my side over his own son.

What’s more, what his son had committed was rape and assault. As ignorant as I was about the ways of the world, I knew enough to understand that a man with as much to lose as Chairman Choi would never righteously expose his son’s shame and side with me, the weaker party.

Then how. How the hell could I escape this fucking situation?

“Think. Think, fuck, figure it out…!”

I muttered like a madman. At some point, I realized I was shivering so hard my teeth were chattering.

Extreme fear was like deep water. I felt like I was wandering through a dark abyss where not a single ray of light could enter. No matter how much I swam around, searching for a way to live, I would eventually lose my direction and use up all my oxygen in the pitch-black water….

The police.

That was the last place my flailing hands, parting the dark currents, came to rest.

“…Ha.”

At the same time, that was also the option Choi Junghan had sneered at before. Even if I couldn’t fully comprehend what he did or exactly how much he possessed, I had a hunch that what Choi Junghan had said before was not entirely a bluff.

However, if I could just somehow escape this situation.

I thought I had held on surprisingly well without breaking down until now. But in reality, I had been standing precariously on a tipping point. I realized that belatedly.

If I was raped any more than this, both my body and mind would shatter like dust. Even if I were to recover and piece my existence back together later, I would never find my former, whole self.

So, I would think about the consequences later. First, I would get out of here with the help of the police, and then I would have to conclude the matter somehow without my mother or Chairman Choi getting involved.

What I wanted right now wasn’t Choi Junghan’s punishment, but escape from this place. The rotten high-ranking officials might be on Choi Junghan’s side, but the low-level officers who would rush over after receiving a report and get me out of here immediately wouldn’t all be perfectly within his grasp.

My hand trembled as I picked up the cell phone that had fallen on the floor. 1, 1, 2. Pressing the numbers I never thought I’d dial in my life, I tried to calm my heart, which was pounding as if it would leap out of my chest.

There was nothing more to think about. Nothing was more important than my own safety. No matter how complicatedly my mother and Chairman Choi were entangled, I could not let Choi Junghan do that to me again. So, without thinking any further, all I had to do was press the call button. The aftermath, somehow….

“You’re awake?”

“Ah, aaack!”

My body shot up with a start. A sharp scream erupted from my mouth. Choi Junghan, who was suddenly standing in front of me, looked like a ghost. He, who had completely concealed his presence and entered the room while I was pathetically trembling and looking at my phone.

“Trying to report me? Hmm. You’ve made a boring move.”

Choi Junghan put on a blatantly bored face.

“I told you last time. It won’t work, you know?”

“Fuck you, you son of a bitch!”

It was truly a do-or-die situation now. The voice that defied him wavered, filled with indignation.

“Then… Then are you telling me to just keep letting you do this to me here?”

“Mm. Here is a bit… you know, right? This is supposed to be a new start for you and me. You wouldn’t want to live with a bunch of old people, would you?”

“……?”

His vague, cloud-chasing words were always a puzzle to me, but this time was especially so. I couldn’t even begin to guess what kind of bullshit he was talking about. Choi Junghan added with a kind face.

“You don’t understand? What bride would want to live with her parents at the main house when she’s a newlywed? Can’t even fuck freely. Originally, at the beginning, you’re supposed to be at it all the time, regardless of time or place. It’s a similar context, for you too.”

“Fuck, wha… what the hell are you talking about right now. What does that kind of thing have to do with me…!”

It felt like it would be easier to understand if he suddenly started speaking a foreign language. What main house, what parents, and fuck, what newlywed….

I had never lived thinking I had a stupid head. My comprehension and perceptiveness weren’t lacking compared to others. And yet, right now, I couldn’t understand a single word Choi Junghan was spouting.

“Why wouldn’t it have anything to do with you. Oon-ah, I told you. You and I are going to get very deeply and stickily entangled.”

He grabbed the doorknob, opened the door, and stepped aside.

“What are you doing? We have to get a move on.”

“…Fuck, what kind of bullshit is this. Stop with the fucking nonsense…!”

“Weren’t you trying to play? Just like last time.”

Hanging on his perfectly stretched lips was a smile that looked cruelly delighted.

“Now, let the game begin.”

Choi Junghan fired the starting pistol. At the same time, my heart leaped like a fish speared by a harpoon. The vivid sense of déjà vu unfolding before my eyes was horrific.

A few weeks ago at the villa, he had said the same thing with the same expression. The sweet words “let’s play” were followed by a brutal chase. It was a dark time that had pushed me into a desperate mire.

“Fuck…!”

That day, I had been mercilessly mocked and trampled before I could even move a few steps. Choi Junghan had delighted in slamming me to the floor again and again as I tried desperately to run away. A hopeless premonition that today would end with a similar result enveloped me.

However… even so, I couldn’t just wait for him to violate me. I couldn’t just meekly offer up my body for him to devour. I ran out of the room like a madman and dashed toward the stairs at full speed.

If it was impossible to not get caught by Choi Junghan, I had to delay that timing even a little. I had to report him somehow before the scruff of my neck was snatched by Choi Junghan’s grasp. Right now, that was truly the only way.

When I turned on the screen, the three-digit number I had entered was still there. It was the moment I was about to press the call button while frantically running down the stairs.

“You cute little mouse.”

With a creepy cackling voice, a hand shot out from behind me. The hand lightly snatched the cell phone and threw it to the floor. The phone tumbled across the floor with a sound like it would shatter. Despairingly, the call had not gone through.

I wasn’t given much time to choose whether to pick up the phone or just run away. My body automatically shot forward. But soon, a hand like a monster’s maw reached out and snatched my hair. My entire body was dragged along by the force pulling me backward.

“Ack!”

Clatter!

With a loud clatter, my worn-out body tumbled pathetically down the stairs. My physical condition was starkly different from the first time, when I had thrashed about desperately like a decapitated fish. Choi Junghan must have felt it too.

“Ugh, heuk… Ah….”

I curled my body up like an insect and groaned. I tried to get up somehow, but my trembling legs had reached their limit.

My calf, which had hit the edge of the stair, throbbed with a numbing pain. I could feel the laceration on my already torn perineum deepen. Far from a chase, I couldn’t even get myself up. Choi Junghan, who had approached closely, leisurely looked down into my face.

“Is this it? You’re a little boring today.”

“You fucking son of a bitch, get lost!”

Physiological tears poured down. I didn’t have time for this, I had to get up… The fallen cell phone was right in front of my eyes. I immediately reached out and snatched it.

But the next moment, Choi Junghan stomped hard on my hand. With a scream of pain, the cell phone slipped futilely from my grasp. He naturally picked it up and put it in his pants pocket.

“Give it back right now! You bastard!”

“Your language again.”

With a soft click of his tongue, he kicked me in the abdomen. A flash of light burst before my eyes at the dull pain that slammed into me. I groaned as I rolled messily on the hard stairs.

“Aaack! Ugh, euuk…!”

But the kicking stopped at one blow. Instead of beating me further, Choi Junghan began to undress me with a casual touch.

The skin all over my body flinched and tightened. My eyes flew wide open even amidst the dizzying pain. But his touch was surprisingly plain. He didn’t seem to intend to screw me right here. Then, why here, of all places….

“…Ugh, heut… You fucking… bastard. Let go of me. Why, why my clothes…!”

“Stay still. Let’s not add any more bruises to that pretty body.”

Choi Junghan gently soothed me as I struggled. He was just like a child who knew nothing of emotions, tearing the wings off a dying butterfly without a care.

Whenever I faced this side of Choi Junghan, I got goosebumps. On top of committing such acts without any guilt, he was overly proficient. Undressing, raping, defiling with his sharp tongue, and this… even his skill at binding a person so they couldn’t move a muscle.

His clothes, which were ridiculously large for my body, were easily stripped away. I used what little strength I had left to kick him and try to push his shoulders away. But the flapping of a dying butterfly’s wings had no effect on the cruel and bright-eyed boy’s touch.

Finally, after stripping me completely naked, Choi Junghan smiled in satisfaction. He hooked his long fingers into the knot of his own tie and pulled it off.

The soft-textured necktie soon bound my wrists tightly. He used the sweatpants that had been stripped from my body to tie both of my feet together.

After completely tying me up, he lifted me into his arms. My body floated up, and my vision heightened for a moment. The floor I had been standing on until now grew distant. Choi Junghan, who had slung me over his shoulder like a piece of luggage, began to descend the stairs lightly.

“Let go, let go, let me go. You fucking bastard!”

I screamed and struggled with my bound feet, but it was no use. Choi Junghan’s footsteps were even cheerful as he carried me down to the first floor and headed for the garage.

The chilly outside air instantly clung to my pathetically naked body. I shrank back as much as I could from the biting cold that fell like a shower of spears.

Choi Junghan’s car was already out of the garage. The engine was even running, as if a driver was waiting. Even seeing Choi Junghan carrying me, stark naked, the driver who quickly got out of the driver’s seat did not seem flustered.

“Help me! Please, help me! Report this, please, I’m begging you…!”

He was the man who had driven me back and forth several times. Unconsciously, a plea to him came out first. However, the man acted as if he couldn’t hear my desperate voice. He wore the expression of an emotionless robot as he silently opened the back seat door.

“It’s useless, so stop throwing a tantrum.”