Chapter 42 – Episode 42 Reward and Punishment
Do-hyung came down to the basement to feed me dinner.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
However, I felt puzzled when I heard someone’s screams coming from the basement and echoing through the hallway.
But when I thought about the voice I heard, I knew whose scream it was.
‘Taehyun, is this bastard being hit by Jiseon?’
Dohyeong smiled as if it was fun, feeling like he was doing something he wasn’t even asked to do.
Feeling the increasingly loud screams as if they were classical music pleasing to his ears, Dohyeong opened the basement door wide.
“Ah, master! Welcome!”
As they entered the basement, Ji-Ah and Ji-Seon, who were trampling on Tae-Hyun, found Do-Hyung and quickly bowed down to the first position and greeted him.
“What were you guys doing? Why is he like that?”
Dohyung asked the two, pointing his finger at Taehyun, who was curled up with his head in his hands and his body trembling.
“Ah, I was training a new female tater today! I thought she wouldn’t listen to the owner very well.”
“I will educate you well so that you will never disobey your master! So, please… Do not punish us.”
Dohyeong laughed as he listened to the two people speaking earnestly while lying face down.
This is because Ji-ah and Ji-seon, who now experience PTSD just by hearing the word ‘punishment’, are getting closer to what he dreamed of.
“Okay, then let’s see how well I was teaching him. Get up and help him up.”
“Yes, master!”
At Dohyung’s words, the two quickly stood up and shouted when they saw Taehyun, who was crouching.
“Hey, did you hear what the master said? Wake up now!”
“Don’t lie down, get up!”
When Taehyun was still curled up and shaking, Jiseon kicked him on the back.
“Ugh! Don’t hit me! Don’t hit me!”
Taehyun cried and screamed without moving, perhaps because he had already lost his mind.
“What? I said I educated you. But why don’t you listen to me? I don’t listen to you… I don’t think you’ll listen to me any more?”
Dohyeong looked at that and lowered his voice as if he was angry. Of course, I’m not angry. I just did it as a joke because I was curious how the two would react if they did this.
Ji-seon was startled by Do-hyeong’s angry reaction and rushed at Tae-hyeon before Jia.
Ji-seon grabbed Tae-hyeon by his hair and shouted.
“You bastard, you can’t get up right now!”
“Ugh! Okay, I’ll get up…”
Taehyun, trembling, barely got up after being grabbed by his hair and turned towards Dohyeong. However, without properly raising his face to look at Dohyeong, he just lowered his head and trembled.
Even though it had only been a few hours since Dohyung left, Taehyun looked extremely gaunt.
It was to be expected how much Jia and Ji-seon had tormented Tae-hyeon in that short period of time.
‘Well, they are people who have an outstanding talent for bullying others. ‘If you intentionally put the one that was originally at the top down, the resulting fall will inevitably be worse.’
“I heard you were training me… Should I test to see if you were properly educated? Have you memorized the entire declaration?”
“Well, that’s… Not yet…”
Taehyun answered Dohyeong’s words with a trembling voice.
“Really? Well, it hasn’t been long yet and I haven’t ordered Nabi or Kami to teach you, so you might not be able to memorize it. Then, memorize it by tomorrow. I’ll come and ask you in the morning.”
Ji-ah and Ji-seon sighed in relief at Do-hyeong’s words.
They were worried that Dohyung might get angry and punish them both because Taehyun couldn’t even memorize the declaration yet.
Fortunately, they were happy that nothing happened to them.
“But, if I asked you tomorrow morning and you don’t know, or even one word of the declaration is wrong… Nabi and Kami will know better what will happen, right?”
“”Yes, master!””
The two knew very well what would happen if what Dohyeong said happened, so they vowed to prevent that from happening.
“Now then, shall we talk about rewards and punishments before dinner tonight?”
Dohyeong called the three people to the front. Based on the shape, from right to left, they were Jia, Jiseon, and Taehyun.
After confirming that all three people were standing, Dohyeong turned his head towards Jia and opened his mouth.
“Butterfly is going to receive an award this time, what does she want to receive?”
“Well, that’s… I’m sorry, Master! She hasn’t decided what she’ll get as a reward yet…”
Jia quickly fell down and apologized to Dohyeong. For Jia, she didn’t even have to think about whether this was something she should apologize for.
I just hope that I don’t offend Dohyeong and cause harm to myself.
Now, the most important thing in life living in the basement was Jia, who had become Dohyeong’s mood.
“Really? Why are you apologizing for something like that? I didn’t even decide until dinner time. Wake up now?”
Dohyeong gently stroked Jia’s head as she lay face down.
Jia quickly got up from her seat, relieved that her actions did not offend Dohyeong.
“If you can’t decide, I’d like to make a suggestion. What do you think?”
“Well, I think that’s good too, master!”
“Then what I propose is… This.”
Dohyeong slowly approached Jia.
Then he released the chain on Jia’s leash.
“Lord, master… What is this?”
“From now on, I will let you live without these chains. There are a lot of slaves here, so I need someone to take care of them. I will give you that task specifically. How about that, can you do it?”
Ji-ah felt happy and anxious at the same time at Do-hyeong’s words.
But before she could even think about her own feelings, she had to respond to Dohyeong’s words.
“Yes, master! I will take good care of it!”
“Yes, yes. That’s how our cute butterfly becomes.”
Dohyung stroked Jia’s head again, who responded cheerfully.
In Jia’s heart, she felt uncomfortable, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
To put it conversely, Dohyeong’s role in managing slaves was because he thought that if other slaves did something wrong, he would be punished.
It was not an easy position for Zia, who was more afraid of punishment than any of the three slaves here.
However, I couldn’t refuse because it was something Dohyeong told me to do.
But Jia thought there were some good points as well.
Once the chain on his leash was removed, it meant that he could move freely anywhere in this basement.
“Of course… But you’re not thinking about escaping, are you, Butterfly?”
“That will never happen, Master! I, Butterfly, am not a fool. I would never do something foolish like escaping from here!”
As Do-hyeong said, it could happen that Jia escapes from the basement because she is no longer restrained from being there.
But Jia never thought of doing such a thing.
She already had a history of trying to escape, and she had long since erased from her mind the option of escaping from Jia, fearful of what punishment she would receive if she tried and failed.
Do-hyeong read Jia’s mind and deliberately mentioned her fear of her escape.
She feels good when she sees Jia crying desperately for her.
Besides, it didn’t matter to her Do-hyeong even if Jia changed her mind and tried to escape.
She surrounded the house with magic to begin with, so even if she wanted to escape, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to escape.
She may think Jia has memorized the way out, but she has a perception-impairing spell placed on her to prevent anyone except Do-hyeong from entering her mind about the layout of her house.
Therefore, unless you walk around the house following the shapes, the house is structured so that you have no choice but to wander as if you were trapped in a maze.
Tae-hyeon and Eun-ji may not have known at all, but the place where they were captured was right inside Do-hyeong’s house.
It was just that I couldn’t tell because there was a spell that prevented me from properly recognizing the inner structure.
“Yes, our butterfly has no intention of escaping. When she lost her senses in the past, she tried to escape once and was caught…”
Dohyeong smiled as she gently stroked Jia’s head.
“But if it escapes again… I think I’ll have to think about what kind of punishment I will give it. Do you think the butterfly will try to escape?”
After Jia heard Dohyeong’s words, she became even more determined not to escape.
Dohyung, who had given Jia some freedom as a reward, now turned his attention to Taehyeon.
“Okay, now that the reward has been decided… I need to tell you what the punishment will be for you.”
Taehyun flinched at Dohyung’s words calling him.
“Bee, bee…?”
“Yeah. You lost the fight. Don’t you remember when the guy got stabbed from behind by the girl and walked away?”
Taehyun didn’t want to hear Dohyung bring up memories he wanted to forget.
For Taehyun, there has never been such a painful moment in his 27 years of life.
It was a memory that I wanted to forget, but could not, because it was painful enough to tear my body and mind apart.
“But… That!”
“What? What do you want to talk about? It wasn’t your will? I didn’t want to cum, but I couldn’t help it. Are you going to say some bullshit like this?”
Taehyun was speechless at Dohyeong’s words. He wanted to say something, but he was so overwhelmed by Dohyeong’s atmosphere that he couldn’t get the words out.
“Well, if you don’t want to be punished… You should win the fight, right? Nabi? Kami?”
“That’s right! As long as you win the battle… You won’t be punished!”
“Master, you are right!”
In fact, it could have been argued that there was no need to have the confrontation that Dohyeong was talking about.
It’s not that those thoughts didn’t occur in Jia or Ji-seon’s head.
The fight that Dohyeong orders is in itself a means of punishing someone.
But the two people had already lost the courage to say what was on their minds.
It is difficult to get the words out of your mouth for fear of the repercussions that will come if you speak.
“Did you hear, Amta? Ah… Amta is just a temporary name, but it’s not as bad as I thought. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to just call it Amta all the time?”
Dohyung grinned to himself and pointed his finger toward Taehyun.
“Starting today, your name will officially be Amta. How do you feel?”
“Well, that’s…”
Taehyun didn’t know what to do with Dohyeong’s words.
Do-hyeong, who declared that he would call himself a strange name, now seemed like nothing more than a crazy person.
And Tae-hyeon realized that something was wrong with Do-hyeong’s expression as if he was looking at him as if he was expecting something from him and the decaying atmosphere of Ji-ah and Ji-seon.
The problem is that I don’t know what’s wrong.
After about 5 seconds of silence, Dohyeong spoke first.
“Hmm… Okay, I understand. Kkeut! I knew very well what level of Amta’s education was. We’ll talk about that later… Shall we start by talking about the punishment that will be given to Amta?”
Taehyun seemed to intuitively know that he had done something wrong based on the geometry.
He was frustrated that he couldn’t figure out what he had done wrong, when he could tell just by looking at the reactions of Ji-ah and Ji-seon who were helplessly sighing at Do-hyeong’s words.
And he was also afraid because he couldn’t predict what would happen to him when Do-hyeong smiled and said that he would punish him for losing that damn battle.
“As for your punishment… I need to give you some injections again. It’s time for the effects to start coming in.”
“Injection… You mean… What? If you lose the bet then, you’ll get it…?”
The word ‘injection’ reminded Taehyun of the injection he was told he would get if he lost a bet with Dohyeong.
“Oh, that? That’s already true. I gave it to you quickly while you were sleeping. This time, I’ll give you a large dose as punishment.”
“What kind of injection is that…?”
Taehyun swallowed hard and asked Dohyeong in a nervous voice.
“Rather than explaining exactly what it is, if I could just tell you one effect… If you get hit a lot, something happens to a man’s body.”
Dohyung pointed his finger between Taehyun’s crotch.
“Erectile dysfunction.”
