Chapter 58: A Frightening Truth

"...Why are you like this? Do you think you’re invincible with that calm, centered attitude?" Nio speaks with a mocking tone toward Typhon’s demeanor, which is almost humiliating to her — that calm attitude of someone who has total control over everything frustrates Nio.

"Because I know I’m going to win, Nio. Whoever is certain of their victory has every right to be confident." When Typhon says this, Nio gets irritated.

"You think you can beat me just like that, no problem at all?"

"Nio, these are facts. I already beat the first Nio. You barely know me, you don’t even know what I have. I know you completely — I know how you think, your powers, every weapon you have, every spell you’ve learned."

"Isn’t that the same philosophy that kept you always at the top? Knowing your enemies guarantees your victory. You’ve always been strategic and you beat everyone except me, because I play that same game you do. Strategically speaking, I’m superior."

"Your arrogance is so—"

"If I’m arrogant, why are you hiding, Nio?" When Nio hears that, she freezes completely.

"Why don’t you reveal where you are so we can finish this once and for all? So confident in victory, yet you hide like a rat. Nio, the moment your first thoughts were to hide from me, that proved I’m going to win, and you know it."

"Just ignore that fact. I’m not being overly confident — I know you’re going to lose, you know you’re going to lose, and postponing your defeat doesn’t make you a better player on this board." Nio stands up from the table.

"Don’t act like you know me, Typhon. You don’t know anything about me. I just need time to adjust, nothing more. You haven’t won anything yet!! So don’t talk so much nonsense as if you’ve already beaten me." When Typhon hears this, she simply smiles.

"Nio, you really have no idea how well I know you." Typhon stands up, walking until she’s in front of Nio, her horns faintly reflecting the glow of the cosmos around them.

"Considering the exchange, you as my second wife are still a virgin, aren’t you?" Typhon grabs Nio’s waist and kisses her before she can react. Nio, confused, blushes at the abrupt "attack" she received.

"H-Hmm!!" Nio pounds on her chest with her hands while Typhon shoves her tongue into Nio’s mouth. Nio bites her tongue, feeling her blood begin to flow, but Typhon ignores it, letting Nio taste her blood.

Nio tries to move her tail, but her "trained" body simply begins to give up resisting, ignoring every mental command she gives it. Her hands stop hitting and fall limply downward as she is dominated by the kiss.

"Haaa...." She pants deeply when Typhon breaks the kiss, a thread of saliva and blood connecting both lips as Typhon licks her own lips, savoring Nio’s taste.

"What an adorable reaction. Your resistance is cute — it reminds me of our first kiss. The first Nio also resisted by biting my tongue, though instead of blushing, her expression was one of pure disgust, and she grimaced as if she wanted to vomit. It was quite disrespectful."

"That’s why I trained her body to be very sensitive to my advances. Did you enjoy feeling powerless and weak? It took years of practice to make Nio’s body simply panic and abandon all defense." Typhon’s words fill Nio with pure disgust for this aberration who just said she trained her own wife’s body not to resist.

’Why did I only create sickos among my characters in the Lore... Gap Moe betrayed me deeply...’

"..." Nio runs her hand over her lip, feeling Typhon’s blood. The taste is strange — an extremely strong metallic flavor, dense, heavy, and bitter, like trying to swallow liquid metal.

"Nio, I see you don’t understand... that saddens me. It’s a shame you don’t remember..." Typhon approaches Nio, pushing her down against the floor as she mounts her.

"Let me explain in detail what I did, how about that? I want you to understand something — loving you doesn’t stop me from hurting you badly so you behave." Typhon slides her hands under Nio’s clothes, lifting them and revealing Nio’s little belly. Nio shifts uncomfortably but doesn’t resist, despite trying to.

"You see this position? It’s hard to move, isn’t it? This was one of the first ones I taught the first wife. Do you know how I made her learn to stop resisting? Every day I would pin her down, mount on top of her, and every time she resisted, I would slice open her belly with a knife and pull her organs out." When Typhon says this, Nio’s entire body goes completely rigid, and even her heart stops beating for an instant.

"What... did you say?" Nio looks at Typhon as if she hadn’t heard correctly. By "training," Nio had always thought Typhon used rewards and punishments to create something like a Pavlovian effect.

"I said I would slice open her belly every time she resisted and pull out everything within my reach. When I touched her breasts and she tried to strike me, I would pierce her chest with my hand and squeeze her heart."

"When I hugged her and she tried to push me away, I would hug her even tighter until I broke every bone in her ribcage. When I gave her little bites on her thighs and she struck me, I would cut off her legs completely and force her to eat meals made only from them."

"Do you think I would go easy or do something sexual? Nio, you really don’t know me. There is no better teacher than pain. If every time Nio reacted in a way I didn’t like she was hurt, her body would naturally stop trying to resist, even if she wanted to."

"I never wanted to break Nio’s mind. I never wanted to turn her into some lustful girl. No, I’m not the type to use drugs or sexual training. I prefer... choice. You have the choice to resist, and I have the choice to tear you apart until you stop."

"Every reaction of Nio’s body is controlled by a different wound I inflicted on her. When she yelled at me, I would cut her vocal cords with several needles, piercing them one by one slowly. When she was too rebellious with food, I would let her starve until she was near death."

"But don’t get things confused — I respected Nio. If I asked for something and she refused, I would accept it. I’m not a tyrant. But there are things I don’t accept, and being rejected is the greatest of them all. Every time Nio rejected me, she was punished for it."

"There is a difference of an abyss between declining and rejecting. You have the right to decline, but you don’t have the right to reject. Do you understand that, Nio? If I call you to look at the stars and you decline, I will accept it. If I ask you for a kiss and you decline because you’re not in the mood at the moment, I will accept it. But if you reject me because you want nothing to do with me, that requires punishment."

"I will do the same with you. Every second, every minute, every hour, and every day of your life that you step out of line, I will punish you in a way your body will never forget." Typhon’s smile makes Nio descend into pure panic.

With extreme willpower and a surge of adrenaline, she shoves Typhon off of her and crawls backward in panic — a panic like she has never felt before.

"I’m gentle in the beginning. You’re new to this, so I won’t punish you for recoiling now. But in the future, when everything is more manageable, a refusal like this one will result in punishment... it seems it’s time to wake up. Time passed so quickly... goodbye, Nio." The dream world around her begins to crack completely as both of them wake up.

Nio bolts upright in bed, gasping and drenched in cold sweat. The sheet she’s on has become completely soaked. Time in the nightmare is quite disjointed — those few minutes there were hours in reality.

"U-Urgh..." Nio feels a deep nausea and the urge to vomit as her body trembles in fear before this revelation from her greatest enemy.