About to pick up her key once more, Yasuo had already snatched it from the ground just as she started to lean down.
"Look how much you're shaking. Hmph. Don't worry about the keys. I got it," he said as he guided her away from the door and inserted the key into the handle himself.
Twist. Click.
As if he lived there, he opened the door and held it open for her, gesturing for her to enter first so that he could lock it once she was in.
"...Haha." A nervous laugh came out of her as she walked through the entrance. Her home felt foreign to her at the moment.
It didn't feel like the home where she spent her time resting, eating, sleeping, and enjoying her time.
This didn't feel like home.
It felt like a trap. A trap that was going to clamp onto her leg, preventing her from leaving.
"Welcome to my home."
Taking off her bag, she hung it up on the wall.
"Not bad," Yasuo commented as he looked around.
Shinju walked towards the living room and when she reached the middle, she stopped and took a deep breath.
'Relax. Calm down. You just… You just have to get this done and it'll all be over.'
She tried to act composed on the outside, but Yasuo could see her shoulders nervously lift up and drop back down with each deep breath that she was taking.
Turning around, she nearly bumped her face into Yasuo's chest.
When did he get so close?
"So, you've brought me over to your apartment Now what?" he asked, pretending to be oblivious of her intentions. "Are we going to play video games? Am I going to help you study? What's the plan here?"
As he was talking, Shinju had bit down on her bottom lip.
Once Yasuo finished speaking and there was a moment of silence between them, she decided it would be now or never.
Lowering herself, eventually, both knees were down on the ground.
There was barely a foot of distance between her face and the middle of his legs.
Still feigning ignorance, he questioned her intentions.
"What're you doing down there? Picking up something?"
Perhaps it was the original Yasuo's influence but he felt like teasing her even though he could clearly see the turmoil that was on her face.
"Please… please don't torment me more than you have to. I… I know what I have to do to get you to stop bullying Hitoshi."
"And how do you know that?"
"...One of your previous victims informed me."
Shaking her head, that wasn't what mattered at the moment.
"I'll do it. I'll do what you want," she said as a tear formed in her eye. "So stop with these twisted games of pretending to be a changed man. Stop bullying my boyfriend. After today, leave us alone as you did to the other girls."
Yasuo was pulled out of the strange teasing/bullying mood that had suddenly taken control of his mind.
With clarity again, he gently placed his thumb on her face and gently dragged it, wiping away the tears.
Maybe he should try one more time to get his intentions across before she did something that she was going to regret for the rest of her life.
"Listen Nakatani, I meant what I said yesterday. I'm honest to god when I say that I don't feel like bullying your boyfriend or anyone else, for that matter. I'm not saying I'm a changed man who regrets my action. That shit just got boring to me."
Shinju heard everything he said but from her perspective, he was simply lying again.
He had said the exact same thing yesterday and still had the audacity to push her boyfriend to the ground, demanding his money (this is all one big misunderstanding).
"I don't trust you."
'It doesn't seem like I'll be able to leave this apartment. If I do, she'll probably go crazy thinking that she's still being strung along in some weird game that I'm playing.'
Caressing her chin, he lifted up her head so that her eyes, which had been staring at his legs, were now making contact with his gaze.
"You're such an idiot. I'm trying to tell the truth but you refuse to believe it. If this is what it'll take for you to feel convinced that I'm being sincere, then fine. Let's have it your way."
'I'm no longer going to try and stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life.'
Once he tossed aside the last bit of hesitation in him, his body began to react; the desire that he had been trying to suppress began to grow wild.
His eyes, normal just a second ago, now looked like they belonged to a predator; the desire in them was palpable.
It only aroused him even more as she looked at him with these pitiful eyes that belonged to a puppy that was begging for food.
Touching her bottom lip with the tip of his thumb, he slowly dragged it across.
'Soft.'
Then he pushed his thumb inside her mouth, coating it in a layer of saliva.
'I can't control myself any longer. You're so convinced that I'm lying that my hands are tied. I have no choice but to help put your mind at ease by playing the role of the me who you think I am. This will be for your own good,' he tried to convince himself, even though the excitement of his heart betrayed him
"Beg me," he ordered.
Shinju's shoulders trembled for a second before she responded in a near-whimper, "Stop messing with my boyfriend, please. I'll do anything you want in exchange."
Trying to avert her gaze, she was quickly pulled back by Yasuo's fingers that clutched onto her chin.
"Beg."
"Please."
"Nah. That's not good enough. That's not begging. That's asking for permission. I want you to beg me properly. Beg me like your life depends on it," Yasuo stated with a more dominant voice than normal.
The grip on her chin got tighter and it was starting to get painful for her.
Yasuo recognized that he was beginning to lose control of himself but he wasn't able to stop it.
In a quivering voice, "Please stop bullying my boyfriend."
Taking his hand off her face, he clicked his tongue, "You're not doing it properly. Shit is a turn off. I'm just finna leave if this is all you're capable of."
"No!"
She quickly grabbed his hand before he could drop it back to his side. As if it were made of precious gold, she placed it back on her face tenderly.
'I can't let him leave! He's going to kill Hitoshi the next time he sees him.' She was convinced of this
Desperate, in the most pitiful voice that she could muster, she begged with a shaky voice, "I beg you, please leave him alone. Please stop messing with me. I beg you. I'll do anything."
She placed both hands on the ground and bowed her entire body, her forehead placed on top of the hands.
Yasuo could see the defined shape of her buttocks that stuck out when she was bowing in that manner.
"That's better," he said as he lowered himself, rubbing her ear very softly as if he were her lover.
Grabbing her purple hair, he pulled it up and dragged her body off the ground with a gentle force.
"Show me then. Show me exactly what you mean by 'anything'. Come here."
With a nervous gulp, Shinju leaned her body forward and placed both hands on his pants.
First, the button came off.
Then, the zippers were pulled down.
Zzzzzzzzzzip.