[19] (EP-117.2) Gentle Prisoner #3

117 – Gentle Prisoner #3

Fortunately, my neck did not actually get broken or crushed.

It was just a temporary strain on the vocal cords caused by the strangulation.

I almost reached the climax of my life.

The real problem laid here.

“I won’t do that again in the future…! Really, I didn’t do it on purpose…! Please forgive me….”

Elga was trembling, with her face pressed against my knee and her arms wrapped tightly around my stomach. It had already been 10 minutes.

The fact that she had almost strangled me to death seemed to have shaken the girl greatly.

Although it was me who almost died, for some reason, Elga, the perpetrator, was the one completely out of her senses.

I had to comfort her by stroking her hair.

“It’s okay. Ultimately, nothing happened.”

“Uh, ughh….”

Elga’s tears soaked my lap.

If I were to leave or stop comforting her now, Elga might really fall into an endless abyss.

In hindsight, I played a part in this.

I thought that Elga enjoyed the prisoner role play, but looking back at it now, she was genuinely scared and actually resisting…

I didn’t know why.

Maybe there was something I was missing.

“I didn’t know that Elga-nim really hated it. In retrospect, I am also at fault. So why don’t we just forgive each other for what we did wrong? Let’s forget the choki-.”

“Ughhh…!”

She was completely panicked.

I shouldn’t mention anything about getting strangled.

After all, it must have been a huge shock to see someone choking right in front of her face. Especially when it was her hands gripping my throat.

It might become a severe trauma.

Then, Elga would become so broken that she ended up becoming a villain, and as a result, everything would go haywire, leading to an inevitable bad ending.

This spelled trouble no matter how you looked at it.

I thought about calming Elga down with a warm cup of tea, but when I tried to get up, Elga grabbed my waist tightly.

“Yo, you are abandoning me…!”

“No, I just think it would be better to pour a cup of tea….”

“Liar-. You’re just saying but you’ll never come back once you leave the door. It’s my fault…. Please forgive me…!”

This was why I couldn’t get tea.

I covered Elga’s naked body with a blanket to keep her warm. Then, all I could do was continue stroking her hair until she calmed down.

I wondered how much time passed like this.

“…….”

Instead of apologizing and constantly saying sorry, it seemed like Elga was able to calm down a bit and just remained silent. Of course, her body was still trembling, but it was an improvement.

“Are you feeling better?”

“…….”

Instead of answering, Elga embraced my stomach tighter. To be honest, it was painful. If she kept doing this, I might not be choked, but got squeezed to death instead.

However, without mentioning any of that, I decided to ask her something I had been curious about.

“I know that Elga-nim didn’t really mean it. There must have been some misunderstanding. Are you able to tell me why?”

“…….”

Elga didn’t answer.

“If you don’t want to answer, you don’t have to.”

I gave her space and waited patiently, giving her some time to relax. Eventually, Elga spoke softly, like a crying child sniffling between sobs.

“There was a guy who held me captive and forced me to have children….”

Elga started recounting an unexpected story.

“Viscount Baldimore….”

“Viscount Baldimore?”

It was a name I didn’t know. If it appeared in the original novel, I should have remembered it, or at least had some inkling. It seemed that he was a minor character.

“The man, he was a coward, at the negotiating table, he launched an ambush-. He took me as a prisoner. Of course, nothing happened….”

Elga told her story intermittently. What I did basically aligned with what that man named Baldimore did.

She said she was twelve years old at the time.

Experiencing such a shocking event at the young age of twelve, it was not surprising that she still carried trauma in her heart even after so long.

It was even possible to speculate that Elga’s s£xual preference might have been influenced by that traumatic experience.

After all, it would be common for people to be affected by things they experienced when they were young.

In other words, to summarize what Elga said, her childhood memories surfaced because of the prisoner role play. And thanks to this, she panicked and thought that I was a really bad guy and tried to kill me?

「You have calmly judged the situation!

You have gained experience points through the talent 《Calm Thinking》.

All job experience +5」

‘I see.’

“I didn’t do it on purpose…please believe me….”

I had no idea that Elga had experienced such a tragedy.

There were still many things I didn’t know about Elga.

I had a lot to reflect on myself. What I knew about Elga was largely based on the Elga I’d read in the novel.

But Elga wasn’t a fictional character, she was a real living person.

Even Baldimore who I’d shrugged off as no one important, in reality, occupied a very large part in Elga’s life and reigned as a nightmare.

I thought Elga liked to fight and was always a confident person. I couldn’t be more wrong.

“There are many things I didn’t know about Elga-nim.”

I glanced out the window. The darkness through the gap in the curtains meant it was already evening. We should eat dinner, but it wouldn’t be easy with Elga’s current state.

So I laid on the blanket with Elga, holding her. Elga also clung to me like a doll, not letting go.

Pukssin, pukssin.

Elga’s body was warm and soft. She also smelled nice.

“I didn’t know that Elga-nim went through something like that.”

“… Of course, I didn’t tell anyone.”

It must have been hard to open up to others.

For the iron-blooded Lioness Family, showing the wounds of the heart was no different from showing one’s weakness.

“Theo, I’m sorry. I didn’t do it on purpose. I was wrong….”

However, Elga was apologizing to me, even lowering her pride and revealing her weakness. I could feel that she really liked me.

I didn’t even know what I did to make Elga this way, but I knew what I had to do now.

Being here to hug her was enough. I patted her back and whispered in her ear.

“I was wrong too. I will be more careful in the future.”

“… in the future?”

“I’ll continue staying by Elga-nim’s side.”

“En….”

As time passed, Elga also gradually softened.

She even started rubbing her face against my chest like a kitten.

Seureuk-.

It was cute, like a big cat acting all-aegyo, but at the same time scary, because she could rip my neck like a tiger at any time.

Though, it wasn’t a bad feeling.

On the contrary, something fluffy bubbled up in my heart. It felt good. It was something different from when we just crave for bodily pleasure.

I wondered if Elga felt the same way? It would be nice if she did.

But suddenly a problem occurred to me.

Maybe it was because I drank a lot of water, but I wanted to go to the bathroom.

“Um, Elga-nim. Can I use the restroom for a bit?”

But Elga hugged me even tighter.

“Lies…. You’re just going to leave me.”

I struggled to break free from Elga’s grasp, but she wouldn’t let go.

“No, I’m serious.”

“Let’s go together, then.”

‘No, that’s a bit….’