{AUTHOR'S NOTE: You can skip this chapter if you are not good with nsfw content. This chapter contains depictions of r*pe. You have been warned.}
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(Pearl POV)
… Huh? Where… Where am I? My head is splitting…
My vision is blurry… What happened to me?
I remember going to the adventurer's guild, getting my registration complete, and then I left…
Right! That familiar man, who I have never seen before, knocked me out!
As my vision started to clear, I saw that I was in a house, an unfamiliar one, on someone's bed. My body is… cold.
I tried moving my hands and legs, but they were… bound together? And handcuffs, too…
Realising the situation I was in, I started to struggle, and I exclaimed, "What the?!"
*Creak*
I heard the creaking of floorboards nearby, is it that man from before?
What is he planning to do to me? Sell me? Kill me? Or, is he someone that is trying to protect me? No, no, he wouldn't knock me out if that was the case. How'd I even come to that last one?
"So you're awake, huh?" The man's voice echoed through the room. He walked into the light where I could see him clearer.
I looked out the window behind him, it's pitch black outside? Have I been out that long?
I then asked the man, fearful and weakly, "What are you going to do to me? And, who are you?"
He seemed drunk, his face pink-ish with the smell of wine from his breath.
The man laughed at me, and then answered. "I can't say, you dumb bitch. And you want to know what I'm going to do, well why don't I go and begin it?"
He walked fully into the light of the lantern, showing that he was wearing nothing. Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck… is he going to… no! Anything but that!
I tried to free myself from the chains that bound my limbs, and the cuffs placed on my wrists, but it was all futile. I looked down and his… it's much larger than mine in my last life!!
The man laughed at me and then said, "You were supposed to die in that forest, you were supposed to be dead by now… But, since you somehow fucking lived, I'll be selling you to the slave trader that is in the next city when morning comes, but not before I get to have some fun with you."
His face turned into one of the devil, and he came over to the bed and lunged over me. His face was close enough to mine to hear my panicked breathing.
My heart was pounding, and it felt like I was going to have a heart attack at this rate.
Out of pure fear, I started to cry and speak through my tears, saying, "I'm scared, I'm scared, help me, please someone help me!"
The man laughed and removed the bed sheet from my body. He ripped off what I had on, and started to prepare himself for…
I can't let him do this to me… I have to kill him!
I started to pour mana into my left hand to shoot a mana bullet barrage at him, but something wouldn't let me.
But, the handcuffs that were on my started to absorb all of my mana. "Why can't I use magic??" I desperately struggled whilst asking him. He replied, "Well, your dear old dad went through a hell of a lotta trouble to get these. They're mana restriction cuffs! Your father isn't stupid, I've known that you've had the aptitude for magic."
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What? "Dad"? This is Pearl's, no, my father?!
And so, I lost the ability to use magic due to the mana restriction cuffs, and he started to insert it into me.
"Ah… NO, STOP, PLEASE DON'T!" I started to scream through my tears, and he just…
*throb*
He did it…
Father then said, "Jesus, you're tight!" Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… father… please…" I slowly started to lose all hope. I was being defiled by someone who Pearl probably loved before I became her…
His hand was put over my mouth to stop me from making noise, and I bit down on it as hard as I could.
"Ah! You fucking bitch!" He yelled at me, then punched me in the face. I didn't stop biting his hand, and his blood started to stream into my mouth.
He then grabbed something, and yelled, "Fuck you!"
*shatter*
*slash*
Huh? My head… my eye… did I always see red in my left eye…? Huh? Why can't I see from my left anymore…?
I then saw him holding a wine bottle that was broken. It was covered in… blood? Is that my blood? He seemed to have slashed my eye, permanently blinding it.
Through his hand came my muffled screams of pain, tears streamed down my cheek with blood all over the left side of my head. My left eye was completely destroyed.
And then it happened. My body shivered at the feeling. After that, I lost all hope in life, all ambitions I had.
The man removed his hand from Pearl's mouth and her eyes became dead. The light of life was no longer present in her.
He smiled deviously and said, "So, you finally decided to listen to me, huh? Only took this long…"
He continued, and continued to use me the entire night. He would beat me, punch me, use the broken glass to cut me.
He didn't let up, not once.
Tears eventually stopped as I blacked out from the beatings.
God, please help me…
-[The Following Morning]-
(Madison's POV)
I walked up to the residence that had several complaints from last night, and knocked on the door.
"Madison of the Ryubia City Knights is here to discuss something with you!" I called out.
I waited for the door to open, or a verbal answer to be said from the inside, but nothing came.
I waited longer, and longer, seconds turning into minutes, but eventually, I tried opening the door, which was surprisingly unlocked.
"Hello? Is anyone home?" I called out into the darkness.
After listening carefully, I heard a faint, familiar voice. It called out, "H-help.. me…"
I ran into the house, down a corridor, and into the master bedroom to see…
"Pearl…? Is that… you?" For what I saw was a bloodied, bruised, beaten Pearl laying on the bed covered in dry blood and… Oh my God. This can't be happening.
I ran over to her and she seemed to not see me at first. Her left eye is completely slashed open, the wound going from her upper cheek to the lower part of her forehead, and dried blood is all over her body and face. Her left arm also seems to be broken.
She had her tail over herself, trying to cover herself with it. I tried to get closer to her, reaching out my hand, and she flinched. I then wrapped her small body in the bed sheet and carefully picked her up. Her breathing became sporadic, and she tried to fight back. She just kept slowly pushing me away, but she had little strength left.
I tearfully told her, "D-Don't worry… Everything will be alright, P-Pearl."
Pearl, the once lively and nice little girl, was now a dead-eyed person with nothing left to love for. She had the look that a child should never have, nor see. She slowly started to lose consciousness, I knew I did not have the time for dilly dallying.
I ran out of the house carrying her light body to the medical wing of the Knight's facility.
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I ran through the door, and the people inside saw me carrying her in a bed sheet, covered in blood.
"HEY, I NEED HELP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!" I yelled out for one of the medics to come, and once one did, they saw Pearl's condition, and yelled back, "Follow me, now!"
He brought us to one of the surgery rooms and told me to wait outside. I laid Pearl down on the operating table and a few nurses ran into the room. I heard the medic say, "Prepare for surgery and healing. Nurse, go to the church, and get a healer, right now! Her left eye is done for, we have to fix what we can before she dies!"
I went outside to find one of the nearby knights looking dead at me. The knight asked me, "Miss Madison, what's wrong? I saw you carrying a child—"
I cut him off saying, "Prepare some emergency search parties, we need to find the man that did that to that child— to Pearl!"
He then ran off as I fell to my knees wondering what the fuck happened to Pearl, the things that led up to what ultimately happened.
Now, all I can do is wait.