NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4 - Imprisonment (1)
Chapter 4 – Imprisonment (1)
“Good morning.”
“……”
The man strode confidently into Violetta’s bedroom as soon as day broke.
Violetta, who had been crouching in the corner of the bed, raised her head glumly to look at him.
Having spent a sleepless night, Violetta’s face was gaunt and the skin around her eyes had darkened.
“Did you stay up all night?”
As the man suddenly reached out to touch her face as if to examine her condition, Violetta flinched in horror and avoided his touch.
“Don’t touch my body…!!”
“How noisy. Don’t shout. I can hear you perfectly well when you speak quietly.”
How could someone who claims to understand so well trample on another’s free will and commit such atrocities?
Violetta glared at the man with fierce eyes.
Yet despite her gaze filled with intense condemnation, the man didn’t even blink.
“I spent all night thinking about what I should do with you. Like taking you for a walk in a shameful state, things like that… But I figured it’s better to start lightly on the first day. It’ll also help you recognize your situation.”
“…Lightly?”
“There’s no need to push too hard from the beginning. Licking my tongue or sucking my cock. We’ll start with simple foreplay exercises.”
“W-what did you say about licking…?”
“Fellatio. Kissing. If you don’t like that, there are other options. Like walking naked through the corridor. Or during the festival, gathering people and…”
The man prattled on with a delighted face like he was opening a gift box, but his words weren’t properly registering in Violetta’s ears.
Violetta’s head grew dizzy at his vulgar and utterly humiliating plans.
‘Is he really going to make me do such things?’
It’s absurd.
It should be absurd…
With a dizzying feeling, she rubbed her face several times. Violetta hugged her knees and muttered in a small voice, almost sobbing.
“Why are you doing this to me…”
The man stopped talking and answered with a gentle smile.
“As you know, I have the ability to control people.”
“So what.”
“But strangely, that ability doesn’t work on you. I wondered if the royal bloodline was special, so I experimented around the palace last night, but that wasn’t the case. You’re special.”
“Special…?”
“Isn’t it fascinating? That common sense that applies to everyone makes an exception just for you.”
“Fascinating.”
Violetta muttered exactly what he had said with unfocused eyes.
“So for such a trivial reason… you’re doing this to me…?”
“Do I need any other reason?”
“…”
Violetta closed her mouth.
The man also closed his mouth and stared at her intently.
It was then. Violetta, who had been frozen with a dazed and bewildered look, suddenly opened her mouth wide and stuck out her tongue.
“Hnngh…!”
She bit down hard, intending to cut off her tongue completely, but far from being severed, it only bled a little. A metallic taste filled her mouth along with a stinging pain.
Her eyes grew moist with pain.
The man let out a hollow laugh.
“What, trying to commit suicide?”
“……”
“The human tongue isn’t so weak that it would break just by closing your mouth. Even if it did break, you wouldn’t die immediately. Viola, open her mouth.”
As soon as the man gave his order, Viola, who had been standing at attention, approached and forcibly pried Violetta’s mouth open wide.
“Ah- ugh-!”
Under the rough handling, distorted sounds of pain escaped from Violetta’s mouth.
The man, paying no attention to her painful moans, began pouring the potion into her mouth.
When the potion touched the wounded area, there was a brief stinging sensation before the pain quickly subsided. The wound had been completely healed.
With even her impulsive suicide attempt ending in failure, Violetta felt a deep sense of emptiness.
“Even so, it would be troublesome if you continue to act so impudently. Viola, from now on, you’ll keep close watch on her. It would be problematic if she tries to harm herself again like just now.”
“Yes.”
Violetta pursed her lips tightly. She resented Viola for readily agreeing without any resistance.
‘You have no principles.’
Even knowing that Viola was under the man’s control, she couldn’t suppress her feelings of resentment.
That’s how emotions worked. It was easier to resent the guard who had been with her for a long time than to resent that strange man.
She thought it would be better to end her life than to be humiliated by a strange man, but now even that had become impossible.
She felt completely like a bird in a cage.
Not only could she not leave the room, but she was in a position where she couldn’t even put up a proper resistance no matter what that vile man did.
Even a beggar on the street would be better off than her.
Though it had only been a day since she was confined to this room, that time did not feel short to Violetta at all.
The higher one is, the greater the sense of loss when falling. Already, her hope was beginning to break bit by bit.
At that moment, she suddenly felt something covering her lips.
“Mmph?!”
Thin, blunt objects invaded her mouth without warning. Index and middle fingers. The man had inserted his fingers into her mouth.
The two fingers roamed freely inside Violetta’s mouth, stirring her tongue, teeth, and palate at random.
“Ahhh!”
Violetta screamed with wide eyes. Momentarily stunned, she couldn’t respond and blankly endured the violation of her mouth.
“Aaugh…!”
“What was that?”
“Ahhh!”
“I can’t hear you clearly. I’d like you to speak more distinctly.”
“…!”
With her tongue caught between his two fingers, her pronunciation was severely distorted. Saliva was dripping down her chin.
Violetta closed her eyes tightly and bit down on the man’s fingers with all her might.
Chomp-
Despite biting hard enough for her teeth to dig into his skin, the man didn’t even flinch. He continued to violate her mouth, and at some point, he firmly gripped her tongue and pressed it down. Violetta’s lower jaw naturally went limp.
“Ugh… cough, cough cough!”
As she bent her waist, she coughed slightly and her eyes turned bright red. Violetta glared directly at the man and then rolled up her right sleeve.
SLAP-!
With a sharp sound, the man’s face jerked sideways.
“Huh, huh……”
Violetta breathed heavily. She had slapped him so hard that her own palm tingled with pain. Needless to say, the man’s cheek had swollen red.
“……”
The man silently rubbed his cheek several times, as if recalling the pain of being hit.
Suddenly, the corner of his mouth curled up into a smirk.
Violetta, who had expected him to show at least some anger, involuntarily grimaced at that chilling sight.
“Why… why are you smiling?”
“Because it hurts.”
“That’s exactly my point! Why smile when it hurts? Are you a pervert?!”
“Even I don’t have that kind of fetish.”
If he had to specify, he preferred being the one doing the hitting rather than receiving it.
To Violetta’s eyes, the man simply looked like a deranged lunatic.
“I never authorized this kind of defiance from you. Yet you slapped my face. In short, this is an unexpected situation.”
“So what…!”
“Just saying, that’s all.”
An unexpected situation. Something that could never happen if everything were under control. The man found it oddly enjoyable.
But separately, it was also a fact that Violetta had climbed up to him and defied him. She had done wrong and needed correction. It would be troublesome if she started climbing up like this from just the warm-up. If he didn’t thoroughly put her in her place now, her defiance would only grow worse later.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. In this case, it was right to repay her with the same kind of injury.
The man struck Violetta’s breast.
SLAP-!
“Ugh…!”
Violetta let out a suppressed scream at the sudden, powerful blow that shook her upper body. Unfortunately, the punishment didn’t end with just one strike. The man continued to slap Violetta’s chest with a businesslike attitude.
Slap! SLAP! SLAP-! SLAP-!
“Ugh, hnngh…! S-stop…”
It hurt. And more than the pain, the shame and humiliation hit her even harder.
“Y-you pervert…”
When the round of violence ended, Violetta glared at the man and muttered with a tearful voice. She hugged her painful chest with both arms and trembled all over. Her eyes showed great shock, as if she had never imagined receiving such treatment. That defiant spirit from earlier was now almost gone, her will clearly broken.
“Hmm.”
Just then, the man let out a small groan. Perhaps because he had hit her so hard, the finger that Violetta had bitten earlier was now throbbing with pain.
Drip-
He poured potion over the wound for treatment. He carefully examined the wound, turning his index and middle fingers this way and that to check if it had healed properly. Indeed, the potion provided in the imperial palace was remarkably effective.
“But at this rate, she’ll get injured no matter what I put in there.”
Even so, he had no desire to have his tongue cut off while kissing.
He pondered for a moment with his chin resting on his hand, then called for Viola.
“You. Come here and open her mouth again.”
“Yes.”
She approached without protest and opened Violetta’s mouth.
“Ugh….”
Exhausted, Violetta seemed to lack even the energy to groan.
He quietly observed her helpless state, then uncapped the potion he was holding and poured it into Violetta’s mouth.
“…Gack! Gurgle…!”
As the liquid—too much to swallow at once—was suddenly poured in without warning, Violetta flailed her limbs while making sounds like someone drowning.
“This way, even if wounds form, they’ll heal immediately.”
He lowered his pants and immediately shoved his cock into Violetta’s mouth.
Even if wounds form, they’ll heal immediately. Understanding the meaning of those words, Violetta turned pale and squeezed her eyes shut. She newly realized that the man before her was truly out of his mind.