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Arc II - Many Firsts [Chapter 2: Dates]

Tamamushi: "Nghn..."

I hear...too much. Too explicit sounds that make my guts rebel.

Tamamushi: "Come on, don't be shy."

There's a threatening tone in his voice, but I don't want to see him. I don't want to see anything.

Tamamushi: "Open your eyes!"

No way!

I startle violently when he suddenly gives me a hard slap in the face. My cheek burns. But to hell with opening my eyes.

Tamamushi: "Open!"

He abruptly fires his fist against my temple and my eyes snap open from the shock. But I'm not that easy to crack and immediately shut my eyes again. Through my hero training, I've already had to endure a lot of physical pain and take some hard blows. His punch is nothing. Unfortunately, since the first blow is unsuccessful, he hits me with his fist a second time. As you would expect, he doesn't stop there and continues to hit my face. Again and again. I taste blood. But the physical pain is still nothing compared to my mental suffering.

How can you be so dramatically wrong about a person?

Everything I thought I knew about him, the image of him I thought I knew, shatters into thousand pieces in an irreversible process.

He grunts in frustration when he realizes that I'm still resisting.

Tamamushi: "Then...", *grabs me by the chin and strokes my battered lower lip with his thumb*, "...I'll just shove it in your mouth."

These words make my heart sink and everything inside me cry out in dread. I hope desperately that he's not serious about it.

He then holds my head and stabilizes it as before with the pillows, which seem to have gotten messed up by his previous rudeness against my face.

Tamamushi: "Well, what do you think?"

I register further movements from him that I can't place and thus make me panic accordingly. Under no circumstances do I want him to make his threat come true, so my eyelids fly open. Regardless of the pain and the now noticeable swelling on my face, I tear them wide open in sheer terror at the view that presents itself to me. This creep has positioned himself above me in such a way that his crotch takes up my entire field of vision. I try not to look directly at him, but to see through him. Nevertheless, I am not spared from noticing how he holds his penis in front of my face with his hand and stimulates it with up and down movements.

I hear the sound his skin makes. I smell him. My throat constricts and it's so damn hard to breathe. Please. Don't...

My tears fall freely again.

Tamamushi: *moans*, "That's a good boy."

He then moves even closer and brushes his wet tip along my lower lip. My mouth is half open due to the paralysis and I'm terrified that his disgusting taste might settle on my tongue. I gag violently, feeling like vomiting.

Not being able to defend myself against him, not even having the chance to do something about the violation of my body, even though I actually would have the skills to neutralize him, is the scariest experience I've ever had to go through.

Not being able to follow the deep instinct for self-preservation that screams so loudly inside me shakes me in a way I can't describe. My whole body trembles. A useless reflex that has remained with me.

Tamamushi: *sighs disappointedly*, "Well, I don't want to be awkward. It's our first time, after all."

This asshole is completely insane!