Chapter 125
Epe cowered her shoulders as if frightened and shouted.
“You’re trying to toy with me using dirty methods! That’s your way, isn’t it? You’re the worst kind of human scum, treating women like objects and taking pleasure in them!”
“Hmm? ……How do you know about my methods?”
“……”
Epe did not answer.
Under circumstances where she had been inscribed with an Implication that made her speak the truth without distortion in response to my questions, remaining silent was unnatural.
The only exception I had made.
It seemed she had fulfilled the condition that she did not have to answer when the restriction was triggered and her life was in danger.
She had known me for quite some time…….
Since I was young?
Since she knew about Seoyeon and my relationship, it was not strange that she also knew I had engaged in all sorts of depraved acts.
“As expected, you seem to know a lot of things you shouldn’t know about me. Don’t you?”
I took the necessary items out of the storage one after another.
I never thought the day would come when I would use all of this on a single person.
Epe’s complexion turned pale at the sight of the thick binding ropes that emerged endlessly from the storage.
“……”
“The reason you can’t answer is because even that fact would trigger the restriction……”
“……How do you know about the restriction?”
“You didn’t know because you were unconscious, did you? The restriction was activated once. I…… no, Bella saved your life.”
“What?”
Epe looked as if she could not believe it.
“Beleira used the Starlight Shell for your sake? That fiery, selfish goddess?”
“Hahahaha.”
Bella seemed to be well known even among the gods.
Quite amusing.
“That’s right. I made her use the Starlight Shell for my sake. In other words, she’s your savior.”
I’m not sure she even qualifies as a person.
Well, they say gods were originally human.
Since she was not some transcendent existence, Epe must be trembling in fear as well.
That excited me.
The fact that even a goddess had never experienced various perversions like these stimulated a man’s desire for conquest.
She had never had her own horns handled like handles, either, right?
I had never done it with a horned woman before, either.
But I had an instinctive sense of how to handle them, as though I had done it long ago.
Could it be an instinct embedded in my DNA from hunting horned animals while running through the wilderness thousands of years ago?
And that instinct was attached to a short woman whose tits had grown huge while she walked around like an onahole─a male masturbatory device modeled after a woman’s genitals─.
It was a match made in fantasy, wasn’t it?
Epe leaned against the wall and spoke warily.
“You could have simply made me your slave. Why didn’t you? Are you unable to?”
She was probing me with that, too.
“This is more enjoyable…… and the results are better.
That’s right. I think of you as an object. I like you, but you’re not that precious to me.
It’s the same with women. There are those I cherish most, those I value, those I find adorable, and so on.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”
Humans possessed a desire for ownership.
I did not know or care whether that desire being directed at people rather than objects was an innate part of my nature or the result of repeating perverted acts countless times.
“You’re a rare object with horns. If nothing had happened, I would have treated you preciously, but I resent you for using Park Seoyeon.”
“……”
“By the way, I hear goddesses are pretty sturdy. I don’t need to worry about you breaking, do I?”
Epe wore an expression that showed she truly did not want to answer, but.
「Implication」led her will wherever it pleased.
“I’m…… much sturdier than a human.”
“Good. That’s the answer I wanted to hear.
You’re going to become a slave in the end. By the time you leave this room.”
“You pervert! You piece of trash! I’m telling you to just make me a slave right away. That would solve everything!”
“You’re scared, aren’t you?”
“I-I’m scared.”
It was nice that she answered honestly.
She must have absolutely hated to admit it. After saying it so helplessly, Epe’s face flushed with shame.
It reminded me of the first time I trained Bella.
Goddesses tended to be prideful, since they believed themselves special simply because they were goddesses.
“Epe. I’m not your friend.
I have no intention of casually trading informal speech with you. When you address me, call me Master, and speak politely. Understood?”
“……I don’t know.”
I clenched my fist and struck Epe hard in the stomach.
“Ugh!?”
I did not hold back my strength.
Staggered by the impact, Epe bent forward and clutched her stomach.
“Shall we establish our positions first?”
“N-no……!”
I grabbed Epe by the horns and pulled her upright, then struck her cheek hard with my palm.
“Ah, aah……”
I used all my strength and struck her repeatedly to inflict pain.
As though mechanically repeating a predetermined task without emotion.
Epe’s cheeks gradually reddened, and her head snapped to the side each time she was hit.
I had placed an Implication that made 「pain」 into happiness and joy for her, but
that did not make the pain she actually felt disappear.
The pain was real. It was transmitted vividly.
It did not become weaker or more bearable.
I struck Epe in the stomach again.
“Oogh! Hah, stop, it hurts…!”
I knocked aside Epe’s arms as she tried to protect her stomach, then struck her again.
I hit her with all the strength in my arm, hard enough to make her body jolt, and Epe’s eyes gradually lost their focus.
“Stop, it hurts. Your speech is too informal.”
I seized her tits and squeezed and pulled them.
“Hngh! Ngh! Please stop…….”
I struck Epe in the stomach again.
“Agh! Hk! Hnngh.”
When I released the hand gripping her horns, Epe collapsed, drooling.
I kicked Epe as she sank into the perfect position.
“Hngh!”
While being beaten, Epe flattened herself against the floor and said.
“P-please stop. Please don’t hit me.”
“It seems being a goddess doesn’t mean you’re accustomed to pain.”
I had thought that anyone who had lived long enough to become a god would have experienced every hardship imaginable, but seeing fear already branded into her by violence, she was just like a little girl.
Epe glanced up at me, then immediately lowered her head.
Violence had injected a simple hierarchy between us.
I could do whatever I wanted to Epe, but Epe could not resist me.
She could not even use those vaunted divine powers of hers.
She could not inflict any harm on my body, either.
Because she 「could not defy my intentions」.
In other words, if I clearly demonstrated the intention to hit her and acted on it, even defending her own body was restricted.
All Epe could do was react to pain in its raw form.
“Use polite speech with me. Understood?”
“Yes……”
“Get up.”
I looked into Epe’s eyes.
She deliberately turned her head away without meeting my gaze.
She was terrified, and her rejection of me had grown stronger.
Up to this point, she was no different from a human woman.
But I learned that, goddess or not, she possessed extraordinary physical endurance like Bella.
An ordinary person would not have been able to stand.
After arriving in this world, my physical abilities had risen dramatically, and I wanted to know what would happen if I struck her with enough force to smash a Skeleton Warrior.
It was something I had not been able to test on Bella.
So at first, I had also intended to make some observations.
How much violence she could endure. Whether her body was all right.
This time, I approached her and carefully examined the places I had struck.
I gripped her chin and turned her head as I pleased, observing her reddened cheek.
“Open your mouth.”
“……”
Epe kept her mouth tightly shut and remained still.
I grabbed Epe’s large tits.
“Hngh.”
Epe shifted her body as if flustered.
I had not been able to tell because they were covered by her clothes, but they were bigger than I expected.
I abruptly tore apart the women’s clothing Epe was wearing.
The large tits hidden beneath her blouse jounced and spilled out.
“Ah……! No!”
By instinct, Epe covered her breasts with her arms and turned her body away from me.
“……”
I immediately seized the horn handles on Epe’s head and, pulling on them, punched her in the stomach.
“Agh!”
The arms protecting her breasts fell away, and her tits swayed back and forth.
I grabbed the horns of the doubled-over Epe and lifted her up, then seized the now-unprotected tits and pulled her nipples with my fingers.
“It hurts, it hurts……!”
“……”
I pulled as though intending to tear them off.
“It hurts…! I’m sorry.”
“Open your mouth.”
Epe hurriedly looked up at me and opened her mouth with an “Ah.”
I released her nipple and inspected the inside of Epe’s mouth. It seemed her cheek had split when I slapped her, and there was a little blood.
But it was already healing.
I calmly examined Epe’s skin.
Healthy brown skin, as though tanned. It was remarkably soft to the touch.
Her nipples were pale pink. A moderate size. The areolas were narrow.
There was no visible trauma around the stomach, which I had struck repeatedly.
I pinched the flesh of Epe’s stomach with my fingers. She had a little extra fat, though not enough to be bothersome, and her waist was feminine.
Below her curving hips were firm thighs.
She had a well-developed body, but was short.
Perhaps the nutrients meant for her height had gone to her chest and buttocks, because her hips were also quite well developed.
"……."
After finishing my observations, I looked at Epe's face.
It was a cute and lovely face.
At the moment, her mouth was hanging open, and she was looking straight into my eyes.
「Looking straight into my eyes」
That was not the reaction of a woman who had been kidnapped, imprisoned, or assaulted.
The reason she could do this was that the suggestion was gradually beginning to take effect.
The hypnosis of 「pleasure through pain」 had already begun.
Conditioning her through this suggestion required a certain technique.
That was because the brain's reward response to pain came with a delay.
My hypnosis could not implant some ridiculous suggestion like 「thirty times the pleasure in her pussy」.
That was nothing more than wordplay, and it was impossible.
But there was no need to do anything like that.
The brain would secrete narcotic substances far more powerful than pleasure multiplied several dozen or several hundred times.
That substance was endorphin.
It was released not when one was joyful or happy, but in situations of intense stress that exceeded the limits of the human body, numbing the sensation of pain.
Conversely, the substance released when one was happy was dopamine.
Since endorphins were released in extreme situations, even a minuscule amount of them was highly potent.
The moment the human body felt intense stress was precisely when it felt pain.
The reason the brain released more endorphins after vigorous aerobic exercise, producing feelings of happiness and euphoria, was the same.
Of course, it wasn't that the body released narcotic substances when placed in an extreme situation, so beating someone would turn into conditioning…… It obviously didn't work that way.
Doing that would only break the person.
Violence inflicted by another person had nothing to do with one's own will.
That was why a person's innate nature and state of mind were important.
Women who had built up sufficient trust with their lovers and enjoyed being tormented possessed this kind of 「disposition」.
At first, such a woman might timidly ask to be tied up,
but later she might beg to be treated more violently, as though she were being raped, and might even willingly come to prefer having her senses restricted, like with a blindfold, or being deprived of her freedom.
That was why, even though I had implanted the suggestion strongly, Epe was not reacting by panting in pleasure.
Even someone with such a disposition had to begin slowly, starting with weaker stimuli and taking time,
because being struck out of nowhere would only leave her bewildered.
By gradually conditioning her in the order of pain → stress → the brain's reward response, she could eventually be made to willingly endure and even feel joy from stress and pain, climbing back up the chain in reverse because of the 「brain's reward response」.
To condition the horned, large-breasted girl in front of me toward that sort of preference, I naturally had to begin by instilling that habit.
I had no concerns about whether she possessed the 「disposition」.
Something far more powerful than that had already penetrated deep into Epe's heart.
Returning to the beginning.
The reason she could look 「straight」 at the man who had suddenly assaulted her, despite being afraid of him, was precisely that.
She was not yet conscious of it herself, but it was proof that the terrible revulsion and despair that naturally followed a beating, along with her hatred toward me, had been diluted to an extraordinary degree.
What would she normally have done?
She would probably have wept and begged to be spared, screamed hysterically, thrashed about until her body was nearly destroyed, or put all her strength into trying to escape.
The fact that, after beating her while wearing a stern expression for quite some time, I could now meet her eyes while admiring her breasts and sensing that her hostility had subtly faded
meant that this was an abnormal situation impossible in reality, brought about because she had already fallen into a 「powerful hypnotic state」.
I was satisfied that things had gone according to plan.
Then what would be the best means of instilling such a habit?
Of course, I couldn't keep beating her.
Disciplining her by smacking her buttocks, as I did with Bella, was one method,
but in this case, there was a method that had been proven countless times.
A way of emphasizing a woman's body erotically while subjecting her to continuous pain and stress, thereby conditioning her through suffering.
That was bondage.
I stepped back and looked at the ceiling.
I had checked before drawing the curtains, and it was there as expected.
A protruding fixture meant to support a heavy structure like a chandelier.
A piece of iron curved like a hook.
I thought it was just right.
I tied a knot at the end of the rope, passed it over so that it would catch on the hook, then pulled on the other end to adjust the length.
Epe watched me as I calmly prepared.
"Curious? About what I'm going to do?"
"I'm curious……."
"I'm going to tie you up."
I checked whether the length was sufficient.
It had been a long time since I had done serious conditioning.
There had been a time when I was obsessed with the technical aspects. But after realizing it was all pointless, I decided to simply enjoy it.
"……Why go to such unnecessary trouble?
Because of your power, I can't resist anyway, and even if you hit me with your bare hands, all I can do is take it.
What are you planning to do by tying me up?"
"Come closer."
I spoke to Epe as though giving her an order.
She hesitated, then slowly lifted one foot after the other and walked toward me.