Chapter 60 – 58. Betrayed (Prologue)
How should we accept Aris’ words?
Arthur thought that what had happened to her went beyond rape.
Although she had never actually experienced it, she decided that even if she were to be sexually tortured, it would not be to this extent.
Therefore, she rather thought that Aris had lied.
I don’t know why she protected the rapist, but she couldn’t just ignore it.
“Why are you covering it? “Why are you pretending to rape me, Aris?”
“Tell me quickly… Who is the real culprit?”
Arthur was sure she wasn’t Aris, and he continued to question her.
She quickly calls out the real culprit.
But Aris didn’t answer, and she showed an object.
And that was something she could never forget, even if Arthur wanted to forget it.
This is because she is a magic sphere containing aspects that she does not want to show to Aris.
“Well. Why did you do that.? Did you really see it.? No? No. Please tell me you didn’t see it, Aris.”
ㅡKick.
Why are you smiling?
Is this situation interesting?
Arthur began to feel an unknown sense of anxiety at Aris’ unusual appearance.
And Aris’ voice is heard.
“Arthur? “This is what I asked for.”
“W-what are you talking about.”
I must have heard wrong, right?
Was it Aris who ordered you to rape me?
Why does Aris keep telling ridiculous lies.?
“You look like you don’t believe it?”
“It’s worth it. Because I’ve always been very good at acting.”
Acting.?
You are not this kind of person.
You just keep saying things that don’t make any sense.!
“Anyway, if you go to the dungeon, you might get lonely, right? So I asked the people around me who coveted you. Instead, ask me to be cute.”
Aris.?
“And I was curious about how you made him so cute, so I asked him to take a video.”
“That’s why these videos came out! Arthur, you can see it came out well, right?”
Aris played the videos in front of Arthur, zooming in on the part where he cried out in pain.
“I liked this part, I wish I had cried a little more… Right?”
“… “
Arthur didn’t answer, and there was only emptiness in her eyes, but Aris didn’t stop talking.
“But when I saw the video, I saw that you liked it so much… I thought it was disgusting, so I wanted to educate you sometime, but I did it this time?”
“How did you feel, Arthur? As you pressed the button on the magic tool I gave you, did you get excited thinking that I would save you? Or did you hate me for not coming?”
“… “
“Giggle, it was so cute. I also liked the gesture of trying to hold on until I came! “I should have left a video like this.?”
“Ah, Arisu…”
Arthur’s tightly closed mouth opened again, and Aris was very excited to see what he would say.
“Are you being threatened by someone right now? My, I know you better than anyone else… But the person I know definitely can’t be like this…”
Haha… You still haven’t given up hope, Arthur?
Should we teach our naive Arthur some reality?
“We, the naive Arthur, thought that the image of me that she showed me from when she was young was real?”
ㅡSurprise.
Arthur, startled by Aris’ words, began to shake her hands.
“Arthur, answer what I ask. Then she will know the answer in no time!”
Aris could see Arthur swallowing his saliva at her own words, and she said, looking forward to seeing how Arthur would react to what she would say from now on.
“A boy appeared in a rural village…! But my hands are bad, my eyes are bad, I’m an orphan with no parents, and my body is so small that I can’t even fit in with my peers! Then the question here is, what kind of person would love that boy.?”
“… “
“Answer quickly, Arthur. “Isn’t it too easy?”
Aris wanted Arthur to tell her the correct answer out of her own mouth, but when she noticed that Arthur had no intention of answering, Aris decided to say it instead.
“The correct answer is ‘such a person does not exist in this world.'”
Upon hearing her correct answer, Arthur’s eyes began to tremble as if there had been an earthquake.
“Then the next question is… Why did such trash come to my house…! So how should we act?”
Even when she asked her next question, Arthur just kept his mouth shut and stood still, so Aris answered for her.
“The correct answer is, ‘I can’t disappoint my parents who are kind enough to take care of even such trash, so I act appropriately.'”
When Arthur heard the answer she didn’t want to know, her eyes became increasingly cloudy.
“Of course I’m sorry, Arthur.”
“I tried to take care of you without disappointing my parents, but you liked me too much, right?”
Aris approached Arthur, who was standing still, and continued her words while stroking her head.
“It was fun because you acted like you would give me everything, including my liver and gallbladder, if I just took care of it a little and acted appropriately!”
After laughing at her, Aris moved her stroking hand to Arthur’s cheek and gave it a light tap.
“And by lying about protecting you, she was able to learn high-level skills from Hilia, and thanks to that, she’s doing well at the academy, right?”
Aris lowered her head and kissed Arthur’s cheek.
“Thank you, Arthur. “For allowing me to live a life like this!”
“Giggles, if Hilia hadn’t died and had seen what was going on, she might have been beaten to death, right? Well, dead people don’t talk anymore.”
In the end, Arthur’s eyes died black at Aris’ words, and they became lifeless like her corpse.
“Don’t hate me too much, Arthur. But thanks to my parents and me, you’ve been able to live like a human until now, right?”
“If I hadn’t accepted you in my house, you would have been begging in a slum somewhere, and then you would have been caught by a slave trader and sold as a sex slave. This is too much.”
While speaking calmly, Aris secretly checked Arthur’s condition.
She thought that if she didn’t succeed even if she did this, it might be right for her to give up.
And Aris never failed. Because she saw a strange heat in the dead Arthur’s eyes.
Heat emanating from the abyss. Hatred like black flames was visible.
I guess I can see it if I just wait a little longer…?
“Are you making that face again? That’s the facial expression you make every time before you attempt suicide. Haha… Don’t bother me, can you please be patient this time? “It was so hard for me to stop you from dying on your own… It would be such a shame if you died so easily now.”
“Because it’s rare to find a man as fair-faced and obedient as you, so it’s good to be used as a punching bag or sex plaything.”
Aris stretched out her hand towards Arthur and fiddled with the magic tool she had given him as a gift.
“Ah! And from tomorrow, when your sexual desire builds up in that slut-like body, press the button like this time, and I will rape you like I did today. No? Because you like me, is it Hwagan.? Kkeut!”
Aris, who found it funny after saying it, burst into laughter in front of Arthur.
And seeing Aris like that, Arthur had difficulty opening her mouth.
“To you. Me, what was I.? “Have you ever loved me?”
To Arthur, these words were truly her last hope in her life, but Aris was just blatantly deceiving.
“Of course you are a toy! Arthur, do you even love toys?”
“Ah! You can’t say it like this… You should give me the answer you want, right? Hmm. Hmm. Arthur.? I really love you Enough to give up my life. Will you love me too?”
“I see.”
I was fooled again.
Well, the person who was fooled is a fool…
But did it really have to go this far?
Are you playing with my life just for that reason?
I was just a toy to you.?
Tears began to flow from Arthur’s eyes.
Arthur felt it was sadder than when Hylia died.
“Ugh. Arthur, our crybaby. Let’s stop?”
And seeing Aris’ disgusting appearance, more and more tears flowed from her eyes.
Aris wiped the tears from Arthur’s left eye, and then lifted her eye patch slightly to wipe her right eye as well.
ㅡTap!
“Ugh. These eyes are disgusting whenever I look at them. I should never take off the eyepatch, right?”
And she casually said things that broke Arthur’s heart.
ㅡSoftly.
Have we reached our limit? In Aris’ eyes, she saw Arthur clenching her fists.
Her face turned red, and she seemed quite angry.
And Arthur’s voice is heard.
“Lord, I will kill you.!”
“Really?”
Aris was happy.
Because I was finally able to see Arthur’s face.
I really felt more pleasure than I expected.
Those eyes full of hatred and even the life that is shedding little by little.
Everything was perfect.
Now I had to finish it slowly…
Still, since we’ve come this far, it would be nice to have some more fun.
“You me?”
Aris, who moved in an instant with an electric current, grabbed Arthur’s neck and lifted him up.
“Kekkek. Kehek… Ju. I will kill you. Kehek…”
“Arthur. I’m sorry, but you won’t be able to beat me even after a lifetime. So, why don’t you just give up and be satisfied with your life now?”
ㅡSharply.
As she spoke, Aris let go of her hand, and Arthur fell to her floor and coughed.
“… That’s right… But I still have something…”
Hmm. Is there such a thing? Let’s take a look and see what they’re doing.
But Arthur muttered to himself and passed by Aris.
“Huh.? “What, weren’t you trying to show me something?”
Aris thought that Arthur was so frustrated that she secretly followed him.
“… Ah, soon… Crab… “
It’s so small I can’t hear it clearly.?
Is her direction towards her room.
Aris continued to follow Arthur without him knowing.
Arthur could be seen entering her room.
She thought Arthur might not fall asleep right away and commit suicide, so she waited about 10 minutes, then put her ear to the door and heard a sound.
And fortunately, she was able to hear Arthur’s breathing while he was sleeping.
“It’s my first time being left alone, but… Will it be okay? “I can just gloss over the room change.”
Aris, thinking that the curse had been activated properly, thought about the things Arthur had shown her and headed to her room.
She felt that she would be able to sleep well today for the first time in a long time.
…
ㅡRattle.
Arthur returned to her room.
Because she could no longer be with Aris.
“Huh. Ugh. My head hurts so much.”
My head was pounding.
It was obviously a symptom of mana exhaustion, so the pain would go away if I took a nap.
Today’s day was so long and difficult that Arthur tried to sleep for now.
But she couldn’t sleep easily because of her growing headache, and her eyes turned to the gift box on her desk.
“Now that I think about it… What kind of potion is this…”
Arthur immediately got up and opened the gift box, and inside was a mana potion filled with blue liquid.
“Luckily it was a mana potion. If I eat it and sleep, the headache will go away.?”
ㅡGulp, gulp, gulp.
Arthur drank all the mana potion and felt her headache noticeably lessen.
“Huh… Okay, this can’t be real. If I wake up tomorrow, it’ll be like nothing happened.”
Arthur quickly fell asleep, harboring vain hopes.
However, I could only sleep for about 3 hours, and I woke up at 6 a.M.
“Uh? … Isn’t it a dream.?”
Just a few hours ago I,
I was betrayed by the person I trusted and loved the most.
In the worst way.
I am,
Now I’m alone…
“It’s okay. It’s okay… Because it hasn’t been taken away yet.”
Fortunately, Arthur thought, she had not yet had something taken from her world.
That is the freedom of death.
“Okay, I should just die. “I have nothing left now, right?”
Arthur decided to die.
The very fact of being alive and breathing and existing in this world was a tragedy, sadness, and pain for Arthur.
She thought it would be better to die sooner.
Still, if I’m going to die,
“I want to die next to Hilia.”
Arthur wanted to die next to the only person in this world who loved him.
“Let’s go back, to the village.”
There was no reason for her to be at the academy anymore, and Arthur packed his bags to leave.
In fact, since I didn’t have much, there wasn’t much to take care of.
A wallet and a large robe that Hylia bought me. And a necklace.
For reference, I tore up the magic tool that Aris gave me and threw it in the trash.
“I roughly cleaned up my room. Now I have to go and drop out.”
Arthur headed to her undergraduate office feeling lighter than ever.
…
“Okay…”
I looked at the clock, and it was 9 o’clock in the morning.
“Since Arthur worked hard, I think I should feed him something delicious today.”
Aris hummed and headed to Arthur’s room.
ㅡKnock.
“Arthur, are you still sleeping?”
ㅡKnock.
“Hmm… Strange…”
9 o’clock is enough time to wake up… I gave you some potion, so my condition will be fine.
ㅡKnock.
“Arthur?”
ㅡBoom! Bang! Bang!
“Open the door, quickly!!”
Something was strange.
It was loud enough to wake me up even if I was sleeping, but I couldn’t feel any signs of presence inside.
“Tracking.”
Okay, now an arrow will appear in front of you indicating Arthur’s location. Huh.?
However, what appeared in front of Aris was not an arrow, but a message in her status window.
[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]
“Track, track, track.”
[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]
[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]
[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]
Why can’t I use it? Is there a problem with my skills?
“Soul bond”
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ
[Bound of broken souls (S-)]
Designated Target: Arthur
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ
Huh.?
Am I half asleep?
Something strange is in front of you.
ㅡUjik.
Aris broke down Arthur’s door and entered right away.
However, all Aris could see was a cleanly organized room that looked like an empty room.
“Arthur.?”
Where did you go.?
Could it be because of me? I confirmed that he was definitely sleeping…
What happened? Why… Why…?
I really wasn’t going to do it from now on, so why is it today?
Aris, who realized that Arthur had escaped her, kept thinking about what she had done to him.
-Of course you are a toy! Arthur, do you even love toys?
“I. I didn’t mean it.!”
What did I say to Arthur.?
Arthur is everything to me…
Why did I do that?
“Arthur. I’m sorry. Can’t you smile and forgive me like you always did.? Oh, or I could just look at you…”
Aris knelt down on the spot and apologized to Arthur and asked for his forgiveness, but it was too late for her to turn back.
The room where Arthur’s warmth could no longer be felt only made Aris realize that this was reality.