Chapter 26 - Nina

Nina grew up in a world of luxury. When describing her family, rich would be an insult. They were so filthy rich that if she wanted something, her parents would buy it for her.

But growing up, she was never happy. All the people she met ended up being friends with her only for her parents' money or her sister.

Things weren't all that grim, as she did have an older sister who loved her, but as time went on, they started to drift apart.

Perfect looks, perfect marks, perfect sports results, popularity... Her sister was like a perfect being, and she was always compared to her.

"Your sister can do this, so why can't you?"

"Your sister would have gotten first place."

"Compared to your sister, you are lacking."

Wherever she went and whatever she did, she was always compared to her.

Her sister told her to ignore those people, but the more she heard these things, the more she started to hate her sister.

Even her parents started acting like she didn't exist. They would let her buy anything she wanted and would give her a huge allowance, but that was it. Her parents never gave her love, only money.

When Nina was fifteen years old, she won a gymnastics championship, but when she showed her father the golden trophy, he didn't even look at it and sent her away in a bored tone.

"Your sister would have won ten of these championships in the time you won one."

'Sister this… Sister that… Not enough… Useless… Why are you not like her…'

Her mental state started to wither as she kept being compared, and to cope with it, she started to act rebellious.

Nina broke expensive paintings, ruined parties, destroyed her mother's dresses, skipped school, and the list went on. All of that was just so she could gain her parents' attention.

But since her parents were too rich to care about those little things, they just bought new things or paid people off to forget about whatever Nina did.

This continued until she eventually became eighteen.

At that point, she tried to do everything she could think of to get her parents' attention, but nothing worked.

Her parents stopped talking to her all together, only meeting her at the dining table.

Nina's sister still loved her and tried to talk to her every day, but she would always get ignored.

One time her sister lost in a golf match to show Nina that she wasn't perfect, but everyone saw through her and only wondered why she lost on purpose.

This angered Nina even more because she took it as her sister mocking her.

That is to say, Nina wasn't stupid or bad at sports.

At eighteen, she always had the best marks in her school, and she won multiple sports championships, but these things were always overshadowed by her sister's achievements.

First in her school? Well, her sister is the first nationwide. Won championships? Well, her sister could join the Olympics if she wanted.

As Nina grew up, she became closed off, ignoring everyone around her because there weren't any people interested in her as a person.

When Second Life came out, Nina's parents invested a lot of money into it, and with how popular the game became, they were getting an immediate profit.

But Nina didn't care about Second Life. She heard that her sister started playing, and that was the biggest reason she refused to play.

If she were to play only to be compared to her sister again, then there would be no point in playing a game that she was supposed to have fun in.

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One day she was stuck at home like most of her days, but she was bored of all the luxuries, so she decided to sneak out.

Whenever she went outside, she would have bodyguards assigned to guard her, though.

Her parents might not talk to her, but she was still their daughter, so they would protect her by always sending some bodyguards to go with her.

But Nina didn't want to go outside with a group of guys that had black suits and black sunglasses. Not only did they look like gangsters, scaring people away, but they would always forbid her from having fun.

So, after a weeklong planning session, she came up with a plan to sneak out of the mansion and have fun outside while wearing inconspicuous clothes.

She picked some clothes from her clothes collection to make her look like a civilian and not a spoiled kid.

Black long hair reaching her waist, brown eyes that shone like jewels, small pink lips, and a small but not too small nose. Her face was devoid of any blemishes, and her smile looked like that of an angel.

She was wearing blue sneakers, blue jeans that outlined her mouthwatering figure, and a black hoodie.

Nina also wore a cap to cover her face as much as possible, and with that, she prepared herself to go outside.

She lived in a mansion so big that someone would end up getting lost in it if he entered without someone to guide him. But since she lived there ever since she was little, she knew the layout perfectly.

Leaving the mansion, she entered the underground garage, where a butler was waiting for her in a car.

It was a luxurious black sedan that was one of the most expensive cars in the world, and it was the cheapest car Nina's family owned.

"I'm ready, Alfred. Let's go."

Alfred was a butler, and he was an old man who had served the family for thirty years already.

He would never normally agree to help Nina sneak out, but after she caught him having an affair with a maid, she blackmailed him into cooperating with her plan.

"I'm still not too sure about this young miss… If the master finds out about this, don't mention getting fired. I might even be killed and thrown into a river. Shouldn't we at least get one bodyguard to go with you?"

Tightening the grip around the driving wheel, Alfred looked at Nina in worry.

"No! And don't worry, father won't find out since all I will be doing is taking a look around the city and then coming back home. I don't want people to avoid me because of the bodyguards, so by going undercover, I will see how people treat me as a person."

"*Sigh* Whatever you say, Miss... Just don't take too long."

Alfred knew that his young miss wouldn't change her mind, but he still tried talking to her anyway.

Upon being rejected, though, he just sighed and prayed that nothing would go wrong as he started driving into the city.

The mansion Nina lived in wasn't inside the city but on its outskirts. This was because when her parents were building the mansion on the outskirts, they had more space for the construction.

The distance between the city and the mansion wasn't a problem since if they needed to go to the hospital, they either had multiple family doctors or helicopters that would take them there.

Not to mention shopping, since all of that was done by the maids.

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Alfred parked the car in an underground parking lot and agreed to wait for her. Nina left the parking lot and went to explore the city.

She bought ice cream at a popular ice cream shop and tried pancakes at the new café she had read about online.

Ending her trip with some fast food that she was normally forbidden to eat.

"This is bliss."

She was skipping in joy while on her way back to the car.

Her eating trip had ended, but she was happy to have had a conversation with one of the store employees.

It was just small talk about the weather, but to her, it was rare because normally everyone would be too scared to open their mouths when they saw the bodyguards behind her.

"MEOW"

While walking, she heard a cat in one of the alleys and decided to go find it.

Her parents hated animals, so she never had any pets, but she loved cats, so when she heard the meow, she wanted to find the cat and pet it.

"Come here, kitty, pspsps. Where are you, kitty?"

Nina kept looking around as she kept going deeper and deeper into the alley.

"What do we have here?"

When she heard a male voice behind her, she quickly turned around, only to have two men grab her and gag her.

A group of three men had followed her into the alley, and after throwing her to the ground, they started holding her arms and legs to restrain her movement.

"Mmmm!!!"

She tried to scream for help, but with the gag on, only a muffled sound came out.

Nina was good at sports, but with three grown men holding her down, there was nothing she could do but thrash around in helplessness.

'Sister! Alfred! Mother! Father! Anyone! Please help!'

She thought of all the important people in her life as she kept thrashing around, but it didn't help, and no one was coming to her rescue.

Nobody knew about her plan other than Alfred, who was still waiting in the car.

It was her idea to sneak out. It was her idea to go without bodyguards, and it was her idea to follow a cat into a dark alley.

"Oh! She is a beauty! What a lucky catch!"

One of the men laughed while eyeing Nina's body.

"Stop struggling so much! I will make you feel good soon!"

He shouted at her as he started tearing her hoodie off.

"MMMMM!"

Tears flowed from her eyes as she tried to scream and escape, but to no avail.

The other men held her down as they also started licking their lips.

She struggled with all her might and screamed with the gag on, thinking that someone might come rescue her, but nobody came.

Her hoodie got torn, and her bra was now visible.

She started to lose hope as her strength was slowly leaving her body.

Tears kept leaving her eyes and ruining her makeup as the men kept trying to get her naked, not caring about her sorry state.

'Somebody... Anybody... Pleas-'

CRACK

The sound of a bottle breaking filled the dark alley.

This was a sound that Nina would normally ignore as she went on with her everyday life, but at this very moment, when all her hope was about to be extinguished, it sounded like the god himself descending to help a lost lamb.

She didn't know who it was, and she didn't care. It might have been a fourth person belonging to the group of men, but seeing their angry reactions, she knew that was not it.

When she looked in the direction of the sound, she saw a young man with his fists tightly clenched and a carefree smile on his face.

He looked at the three men like he was looking at filth and opened his mouth.

"Hey, you fuckers. Why don't you play with me too?"