Chapter 75: Slutty Fox [Knasch, 85%]
On He Yue’s optical device, Arnis’s chat interface ended with “Sorry, Master, I didn’t find any direct evidence.”
The heat of the art exhibition and the fire was diluted by new things, and no one discussed the regrettable fire anymore. Occasionally, an insect would post their thoughts on the exhibition on the optical network, but it was only a few sporadic messages in the information flow.
Without concrete evidence, the court would definitely not convict. A clear confession, and the risk of being accused of “coercion.”
The villa’s front door opened to a strange female insect, dressed in a formal suit, holding a file bag.
“Who are you?” He Yue opened the villa’s main door.
The female insect bowed politely and held the transparent file bag up to He Yue with both hands. The red seal in the bottom right corner was conspicuous, and next to it was the handwritten “Approved” and Oried’s signature.
An application for a for-profit art exhibition, which had already passed Oried’s final approval.
“Hello, I’m Speaker Oried’s assistant. I’d like to talk to you about the art exhibition.”
The long-awaited approval form appeared before He Yue in this form, at the cost of the destroyed paintings and the payment of a fine.
He didn’t take it, instead asking, “Is this the Speaker’s way of apologizing?”
“You’re the first insect he’s bowed his head to in all these years.” The female insect held the file bag respectfully, maintaining his posture even though He Yue didn’t take it.
“He’s not even willing to come in person, the Speaker is really insincere.”
The female insect didn’t panic, his good mental quality and work experience allowing him to speak calmly. “Master, the Speaker has admitted his mistake to the council on the grounds of dereliction of duty. This is the council’s notice of a three-month suspension of his duties and a reprimand.”
He took out another official notice from the council from the file bag.
“In fact, the entire council was surprised by the Speaker’s actions.” The female insect bowed to He Yue and said slowly, “Your evidence is not enough to convict him in court, but the Speaker has obtained punishment in this way and brought you sufficient benefits. Do you have any other requests?”
This female insect’s logic was much stronger than that of the irritable and rude Oried. He gave sufficient reasons to facilitate this reconciliation and proposed benefits that He Yue couldn’t refuse.
He Yue looked at him a few more times.
“I reserve the right to continue investigating for direct evidence.”
The female insect was a bit surprised by He Yue’s answer. He thought this reconciliation would be very smooth and didn’t expect that so many bargaining chips wouldn’t get He Yue’s direct affirmation.
His confidence faltered a bit, and he lowered his head and said, “Sorry, I may not be able to make a decision. Can you give me some time to ask the Speaker?”
“Of course.”
The female insect took the transparent file bag and went elsewhere, a certain distance from where He Yue was.
Oried’s sudden concession, and his methodical listing of conditions, analyzing the pros and cons for He Yue.
…It always had a familiar style of a certain insect.
When the female insect returned, his tense expression had relaxed a little. “Master, the Speaker has agreed. If you can really find direct evidence, you can sue him in court.”
“Is the Speaker so confident in his misdeeds?”
“President Arnis facilitated this reconciliation, I think he must have his reasons.”
As expected…
He Yue took the transparent file bag.
A highly intelligent insect was difficult to control when he went crazy. If Oried insisted he didn’t do it, and the content of the recording was obtained through threats, He Yue might really have no way to deal with him. But he had seen Arnis’s methods, and even if he was confident in his own misdeeds, he would want to settle the matter peacefully.
At least that’s what He Yue thought.
He Yue, who had obtained the documents, immediately contacted Arnis, saying he wanted to discuss the art exhibition again. The situation had changed, and now he didn’t have to rely on Yiai Group to hold his own art exhibition as he pleased.
He had just closed the iron gate when he turned his head and saw a fluffy white thing hiding in the bushes by the door.
The conspicuous white fox ears were exposed outside the bushes, incredibly eye-catching in a clump of green. The upright ears occasionally twitched, clearly eavesdropping.
He Yue walked to the bushes, crossed his arms, and said lightly, “How did a fox grow in the bushes?”
The pair of ears twitched, and was suddenly pressed down by a hand, completely hidden in the bushes. The act of trying to hide was comical, and He Yue couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Come out.”
The fox, hearing his Master’s command, released his hand from his ears and stood up from behind the bushes. His body was covered in scattered leaves, especially on the top of his silver-white hair and fluffy fox ears, looking very messy.
He shook his head, shaking most of the leaves to the ground.
“What are you doing here?” He Yue asked knowingly.
The fox, caught, was very guilty, his eyes darting around. “I… um, Oried’s assistant, what if he hurts Master? I, I’m here to secretly protect Master!”
“You mean showing your white fox ears is called secretly?”
“I… it was an accident.”
He Yue walked up to him, ruffled his fluffy fox ears, and shook off all the extra leaves. He wasn’t angry with the fox, but instead chuckled. “The fox doesn’t look like an assassin at all now.”
At least not in front of him, at home.
Knasch was good at using his fox ears and tail to please He Yue, and he no longer wore the hooded black hoodie as he used to, hiding his ears under the hood.
“Master… did you really agree to a reconciliation?” Knasch’s face was sad, looking even more concerned about the outcome of the art exhibition than He Yue.
“Do you have any other way?”
Knasch became anxious, his tone urgent. “But, he destroyed Master’s paintings! He should die, he should pay for his misdeeds, not just a three-month suspension.”
His azure eyes flickered, his urgent voice uncontrolled, rising a few pitches. “How can Master guarantee he won’t start another fire? He hates you, hates you to the bone, wants to crush you and kill you! This kind of danger, how can you let him live in this world? The fox has seen too much of this kind of hatred. In the organization, if hatred isn’t rooted out, something bad will definitely happen!”
His experience as an assassin had made Knasch see too much of the entanglements of love and hate.
In his understanding, there was no such word as “reconciliation.” Even if reconciliation was a win-win situation, Oried, more than anyone, wanted the dispute that affected his career to stop, and He Yue, more than anyone, wanted his art exhibition to continue.
But a killer’s thinking was always different from a merchant’s.
“What do you want to do?” He Yue asked him.
“The fox wants to kill him, to eliminate future troubles.”
He Yue took a deep breath.
He had to take back what he had just said about the fox not looking like an assassin.
Even if some habits changed, the killer’s way of thinking hadn’t changed at all. These insects all had their own ways of dealing with problems. Wien’s was a research institute project, Arnis’s was a business negotiation, and Knasch’s was a fatal blow.
The fox’s words were also out of good intentions, and He Yue didn’t pursue the mistake of him completely forgetting his command to “get rid of your habits from the organization.”
He patted the fox’s head and said, “Have you forgotten what Oried said? You’re a female insect with a Master now, even for your Master’s sake, you can’t be so reckless.”
The fox, his weak spot hit, swayed.
“Yes… I’m a female insect with a Master, and my mistakes will be paid for by my Master…”
He muttered to himself and knelt before He Yue.
The sex toy’s gear was held in his palm.
He gritted his teeth, trying his best to keep his voice from trembling. “Please, Master, cut off my imprint point, erase… your mental imprint…”
In fact, he still failed, the tremor in his voice making the last few syllables almost inaudible. It was very difficult for him to say these words, and the moment he said “erase,” his voice was already choked with sobs.
The courtyard was silent for a few seconds, only the sound of the fox’s soft sobs.
After a long while, He Yue’s voice broke the stalemate.
“…Say that again?”
His gentle eyes were now covered with a thin layer of frost, his cold, sharp gaze piercing, freezing Knasch’s skin inch by inch.
The gear was clenched tightly in the fox’s hand, the blunt teeth still able to hurt his fingers when he squeezed. He had used all his courage to say these words, which he had rehearsed countless times.
Now, he no longer had the courage to repeat them.
“I… request…” The rest of the words couldn’t be said, turning into soft sobs. Every word here could pierce his heart, and moreover, every knife that stabbed his heart was wielded by himself.
The pain was also his own fault, and he had no right to be pitied.
He Yue took the gear from his hand and pressed the switch.
The rotating gear in his hand left an afterimage, and the whirring of the machine could be heard. The gear and the noise together made the harmless toy in He Yue’s hand resemble a chainsaw that could hurt people and take their lives.
The similar sound dragged Knasch into a dark memory, the phantom pain in his ass and the muscle memory in front of him making his spirit tense.
The stressed fox bristled, his kneeling body trembling with fear. He hadn’t overcome his fear, nor had he emerged from the painful experience of having his imprint repeatedly cut off.
But he had personally handed the most feared torture device to He Yue, willing to step into the dark abyss, just to help his Master eliminate future troubles.
He Yue stopped the gear.
“Knasch, when did you get to decide to break up?”
His stern tone had no warmth, his suppressed anger seeping into his voice, every word a repressed flame. The suppressed anger made Knasch unable to breathe, the fear that filled his heart even more terrifying than the nightmarish gear.
Even so, Knasch still didn’t relent.
His voice trembled, his nerves, on the verge of collapse after much struggle, were now completely reliant on his deep love for his Master to stay sane. “As long as… the imprint is removed, everything I do will have nothing to do with you…”
Whether it was a private vendetta or arson and murder, everything would be borne by him, this masterless female insect, and had nothing to do with He Yue.
His mistakes would never be blamed on He Yue.
Knasch’s head was almost touching the ground, his forehead only a short distance from He Yue’s shoe.
“Please, Master… abandon… ugh!”
Before he could finish, He Yue grabbed his ears and pulled him up from the ground.
“Knasch, don’t you understand my words? I ask you, when did I ever give you the right to end this relationship?”
The pull on the fox’s ears was even harder, and the fox’s expression became even more contorted.
“Master… I…”
“You’re a slut I won back at an auction, your only rights are given by me.”
He Yue, as the enforcer, had rarely encountered such a situation. No one had ever asked him to leave them, only he had the right to abandon them. He had never made such a mistake in his life, and there had never been a disloyal slave by his side.
For whatever reason, his sex slave had no right to ask him to end their relationship.
This fox had even requested to end their relationship without discussing it with him, which had crossed his red line.
He couldn’t take it anymore and slapped Knasch across the face.
The fox fell to the ground with the force, the ringing in his ears and the swelling pain on his cheek proof of his Master’s anger. He fell to the side, his vision blurring for a moment.
He had thought He Yue would agree without a care, his greatest hope being that his Master would be willing to give him a shot of anesthetic.
He was a bit dazed by the slap.
Did Master… refuse his proposal?
Complex emotions surged in his heart, and Knasch, who had been determined to seek revenge, felt a little regretful. His Master refusing to abandon him, his secret joy at being kept by his side; his fear and anxiety in the face of his Master’s anger; and a little bit of a stress reaction to the chainsaw…
Countless complex emotions made the fox’s mind chaotic.
“Get to the studio, don’t embarrass yourself here.”
“…Yes.”
Knasch finally realized and covered his injured cheek, stumbling into the house.
Only He Yue remained in the courtyard, rubbing his numb palm from the excessive force, and sighing deeply.
Seeing the fox leave like that, did he also get a kick out of hitting the fox?
The conquest mission wasn’t over yet, and he didn’t plan on letting the fox go just like that. If it were in the past, for this kind of behavior that crossed his red line, He Yue would have definitely thrown Knasch out.
But in the end, it was for him. The fox was a bit foolish, but his intentions weren’t bad.
He Yue had to calm down a bit to be able to inflict a heavy punishment with a clear mind.
In the studio, Knasch was naked, kneeling on the cold, hard floor for a long time, his knees numb. There was a wool carpet on the floor, but kneeling there wouldn’t show his sincerity, so Knasch didn’t do it.
A severe punishment was inevitable, and Knasch planned to be as obedient as possible at this time.
The studio door opened, and the sound of leather shoes on the soft wool carpet, then on the hard, smooth floor, was clear.
He Yue had changed his clothes. The dark red shirt made his skin look very pale, and the shiny leather gloves clung tightly to his hands. He had tied his long, bothersome hair into a neat high ponytail.
He had even tied his hair up because he thought the long, flying hair would hinder his performance, the end of the ponytail falling to his waist.
“You’ve forgotten your place after a little bit of relaxation.”
The rod in his hand was electrified, set to a low level. The indicator light on the handle glowed a faint blue, reflecting on his palm. The sound of the electricity occasionally crackled, a slight tingling sensation at low levels, but at high levels, it could burn the skin.
“Get on it.” He Yue raised his chin and pointed to the wooden frame at the side.
Knasch, his hands and feet completely restrained, couldn’t move. The familiar scene was like a long time ago, when he had just come out of the cage.
His state of mind was completely different now.
The rod pressed against the fox’s ass, the micro-current very light, a friendly, static-like tingling sensation.
“Knasch, who gave you the guts to say such things to me?”
“I… I just wanted to… kill that slutty insect Oried.” His nerves were completely tense as his Master questioned him.
“Who allowed you? Didn’t I tell you to get rid of your stinking habits from the organization? Are you treating my words as a passing wind?”
Knasch gritted his teeth and said softly, “But…”
“But?” He Yue pursed his lips, suppressing the urge to beat his ass with the rod in his hand, and pushed the current up several levels.
“Ugh…!” The contact surface heated up, and the friendly tingling sensation turned into a stinging pain.
The pressure of his Master’s anger and the stinging pain on his skin both tugged at the fox’s defenses. He gritted his teeth and held on, his bound hands clenched into fists.
He Yue pressed the rod against his full ass, leaving a dent. His brow furrowed, his anger beginning to show, his bright eyes filling with it.
“You still don’t think you’re wrong?”
“Master, I was wrong… but, I… don’t give up on my request… ah!!”
The electric rod, pushed to the middle of the switch, crackled, leaving a burnt mark on the flesh.
Disobeying his Master’s command was wrong, but Knasch didn’t think his original intention was wrong.
He Yue lifted the rod and gripped the handle.
“Loyalty, submission, honesty, obedience… how long has it been since you left the cage? We’ve been together for so long, and you can still make a mistake on a matter of principle.”
He Yue raised the electric rod, his cold eyes like blades sweeping over Knasch’s body.
“Knasch, you’ve really disappointed me.”
The rod, along with He Yue’s disappointed words, hurt Knasch. His body was burning, the instantly scorched skin turning a charcoal gray. But his mind was completely blank, his thoughts frozen, even his breathing stopped.
The fox didn’t even cry out.
He Yue didn’t give him time to react and struck again.
This time, it was even harder than before, and the wooden frame shook. The fox instinctively cried out, his reaction bringing a suffocating heartache.
[The conquest target is experiencing abnormal mental power fluctuations.]
The electric rod left a mark on his skin, the red and swollen and burnt marks making everything a gruesome sight. The fox stared blankly at the ground, his face covered in tears.
“I’m sorry… Master, I’m sorry… I was wrong…” His voice lowered, and the fox still didn’t plead to stay by He Yue’s side.
Anger filled He Yue’s eyes, and he closed them, taking a deep breath. He ignored the system’s prompt and Knasch’s apology, striking down without hesitation, again and again.
“Remove the imprint? Even your life and death should be in my hands, what right do you have to dispose of this relationship?”
A sex slave so provocatively challenging He Yue’s control, Knasch was the first.
“So free, coming and going as you please, have you ever taken our relationship seriously?”
He Yue untied the leather cuffs on his wrists and ordered sternly, “Spread your cheeks, don’t move!”
The opening of his ass was far from being as durable as the skin on his back, and the electrified rod against the soft flesh was excruciatingly painful. He Yue showed no mercy, the rod falling cleanly and precisely.
The fox’s cries filled the studio.
The female insect’s pre-cum was secreted in pain, and the fox, whose bones had already been conditioned to be wanton, was in a state of frenzy. The pain of being denied by his Master, the stinging pain of the electric current, and the surging lust, all attacked Knasch’s reason.
His heart ached as if it were being sliced, even more painful than his ass.
[Warning, the conquest target…]
(You shut up too!)
[…Yes.]
The last, most brutal strike landed, and the wooden frame creaked, almost falling apart. The electric rod slipped from He Yue’s hand and was thrown far away, rolling a few times on the floor.
The studio fell silent, only the fox’s soft sobs remaining.
He Yue paused, then untied the leather cuffs on Knasch’s ankles.
“Knasch, you’ve never truly considered me your Master.” The fox froze, his eyes widening, his sobs stopping.
“You thought you could get away with killing Oried, and you thought I was a coward for accepting a reconciliation… I’ve been with you for so long, and I’ve repeatedly told you to forget your habits from the organization. Once you leave that place, you’re not just a lifeless tool.” He Yue flicked the ear clip under the fox’s ear. “The organization made you a killing tool, pointing and shooting. But now, you have to think about the consequences. You knew that not rooting out the hatred would lead to future troubles, then what about his female insects? His social network? You don’t know anything. Even if you could kill him, would the intensified conflict not be directed at me?” “This world isn’t as black and white as you think, it’s not like death is the only way to resolve conflicts… your world has no death, so you only know how to use it as a capital, to turn yourself into a tool.” He tore off the ear clip.
The fox’s gaze followed the swaying tassel, his eyes filled with terror. “No… Master, don’t take it away…” “Aren’t you leaving? Then leave cleanly, don’t take anything with you.” He Yue squeezed the ear clip in his hand.
“Master… I was wrong, I know I was wrong, I’m sorry…”
[Knasch, 77%.]
“My patience with you is at its end. A disobedient fellow, no matter how much effort I put in, it’s all in vain.” He stood by the wooden frame, holding the tassel in his hand, his eyes calm, without a trace of lingering affection.
“I’m sorry, Master… I was wrong, I really know I was wrong…” [Knasch, 80%.]
The fox fell from the frame, landing heavily on the floor, and He Yue didn’t reach out to help him.
“Since you know that cutting off the imprint point can free you from my control, why do I have to do it myself? If you don’t consider me your Master, I don’t have to consider you my fox.” The fox cried even more miserably than when he had been beaten.
“I only acknowledge you as my Master, I’m only your fox…”
[Knasch, 82%.]
He grabbed He Yue’s pant leg and pleaded, his head lowered. “I’ll only be your fox, please… give me one more chance, please don’t abandon the fox…” “Abandon?” He Yue smirked. “Isn’t this what you wanted? I’m granting you your wish.” “No, don’t… don’t abandon… the fox knows he was wrong…”
[Knasch, 85%.]
