Prologue
The desire to dominate people has always existed. Domination. Control. The desire to control others for the sake of one’s own fate must have been one of the important driving forces that led human civilization.
Control. In every era, the means to achieve it was physical violence. Through direct violence or restraint, one breaks the will of the other and reigns over them. Having control means being able to decide one’s own fate.
But my fate has always been in someone else’s hands.
“Fuck, what the hell.”
The person holding my fate grumbled like that. Neatly swept-back brilliant blond hair, and even more brilliant golden eyes that shone like melted amber glared at me irritably.
Just seeing them made me feel a cold fear that seemed to freeze my spine, along with an inexplicable heat. What was that? Hatred toward this man who had dominated others through violence? A clear premonition of pain? Or perhaps a trivial, insignificant, worthless, base desire?
…Whatever it was, it didn’t matter.
What mattered was that I might now be able to dominate this man. In a completely different way than before. In a way that only I could do.
“You came all the way to my house saying you had something to report, so what? If it’s useless, I’ll kill you, you fucking bastard.”
“Heh… hehe, Boss, I, I heard you’ve been more tired lately.”
The moment I said that, the man who had been languidly sitting on the sofa instantly approached me, grabbed me by the collar, and threw me to the floor in a clean motion. He collapsed my body—larger and heavier than his—all too easily, then naturally pressed his boot against my temple. I had grown used to his violence flowing like water. Right now, creating the opportunity before me was more important than that.
“Fucking bastard. You came just to say something like that? I let you in thinking you had news about cops or crackdowns. Am I your friend?”
“B-Boss, don’t be like that… I, I really found a good method this time,”
“Shut up!”
His voice was fierce, but I felt the pressure of the foot crushing my face as if to pulverize it ease up slightly. Heh, hehe, I laughed harmlessly. It’s true. When I added one more word, more easily than expected, the Boss pressed down on my face once more, then stepped back.
“Fucking insomnia. I can’t believe I’m playing along with your tune because of this fucking sleep problem.”
“I-it’ll really work.”
“If it doesn’t work, I’ll kill you. Oh, right. That soul healing influencer or whatever who came by last time—you buried that fucker too, didn’t you?”
Who should I have bury you? The Boss said while giggling. I lit the special incense I had brought and sat in front of the Boss, who was already dressed comfortably. Is that all? Is that also some savage tribe incense you brought from Mongolia?
“That’s it?”
“Just wait a moment. Boss, please look into my eyes for a bit,”
“Looks like shit.”
The Boss said that but looked into my eyes. Eyes with a honey-sweet color, yet from a mouth more wicked than a viper’s tongue, he poured out complaints and threats without rest.
“You’re big, so you’d be hard to bury too.”
“Boss, please focus on my finger here.”
“Ah, your finger. How about I feed it to the pigs? That’d last about a month, wouldn’t it?”
“One minute. Just don’t speak for a moment.”
“……”
Cold sweat ran down my neck. It wasn’t that I had no fear. I also knew what would happen if my plan failed. The Boss quietly closed his mouth and looked at me. Eyes like the brightest shining citrine looked at me, but there wasn’t time to appreciate that beauty. Don’t be nervous, I had practiced this hundreds of times. I took out a coin on a string from my pocket.
“Hypnosis?”
“……”
“You think that’ll work?”
“J-just look at this for a moment.”
I lightly touched the coin to make it swing side to side. The Boss’s eyes followed it. Slowly, but persistently following it—seeing that, I finally felt relieved.
“Boss, you know, don’t answer,”
“……”
“They say hypnosis is more scientific than you’d think… I don’t really know the principle, hehe… I’m uneducated, after all. But… they say there’s a theory to it….”
The scent spreading through the room was specially blended from the place where I learned this technique. Lavender and lemongrass, mixed with a few more herbs. It wouldn’t be necessary in the future, but there could be no mistakes today.
“First… hypnosis supposedly divides a person’s rationality….”
“……”
“It completely separates what you feel from what you think… making you listen well to what others say….”
“……When does this end.”
When the Boss asked languidly, I smiled faintly.
“Soon. Very soon. You can endure it.”
“……”
“The scent is nice and comfortable, isn’t it? Everything will get better soon.”
“……”
“You wanted to sleep, didn’t you? You want to feel comfortable, right? Your nerves have been sharp, and it’s been painful not being able to sleep, hasn’t it? Right?”
“……Yeah….”
“So let’s endure just a bit more, shall we?”
“……”
“Shall we talk a bit more? About the hypnosis from earlier….”
“……”
“Among the theories scientists came up with to explain hypnosis… there’s something called social influence theory. Actually, it says hypnosis has no effect. It’s just that the person being hypnotized focuses on the role of being hypnotized… and moves according to the hypnotist’s intentions.”
“……”
“So… the person being hypnotized… actually acknowledges the situation of being hypnotized. And they believe hypnosis itself actually exists, so they’re influenced by it… hehe, you understand? So… if that theory is true… the person being hypnotized actually wanted to be hypnotized… They were actually struggling. Each day was actually a burden, and they were tired of even thinking for themselves… and wanted to escape. They actually wanted someone to tell them what to do. Yeah, so the Boss wanted to have this done to him by the hypnotist, heheh… right?”
“……”
“Boss, no, Ruben….”
When I removed the pendulum from before his eyes, the Boss’s eyes continued looking at me. Unlike before, his eyes were hazily wet. His slightly parted lips, his tongue that didn’t spit venom—from these, I knew my plan had succeeded.
Heh, hehe… Desperately suppressing the stupid laughter that leaked from my mouth, I stood up. I wanted to go a bit slower. No, I thought it would take longer.
“How was I supposed to know the Boss had such a flimsy mentality….”
I pointed at the floor with my hand. The Boss’s vacant eyes followed that hand to look at the floor. Kneel down. I whispered.
“And suck my cock.”
## Chapter 1. Repaying Kindness with Kindness – 1
“Elbek, you useless bastard!”
The words I heard most often since coming to this country struck my ears. Of course, the person saying them was decided. The Boss. Ruben Rikov. The one and only emperor of Saint Sophia Island!
Of course, he’s not a real emperor and everyone just thinks of him as the emperor, but on this island at least, he certainly had authority equivalent to an emperor’s.
“B-Boss! You’re here,”
“‘You’re here’ my ass. What is this?! Explain why our bar’s sales dropped!”
The Boss, holding the ledger and trembling with excessive anger. Seeing his lovely face turn bright red with fury, I lowered my head in fear that wouldn’t disappear even with inevitable affection. How nice would it have been if the Boss was just strong and stupid?
But he was someone who obsessively tracked the sales of every business, squeezed out as much as could be squeezed, and when the results he envisioned didn’t materialize, he absolutely dried the blood out of his subordinates.
“W-well, I don’t know if you know, but Madison…”
“That stripper bitch? Yeah. With her, you should have easily pulled in twice the amount written in this ledger!”
“Madison said she wasn’t feeling well… I think she overworked herself paying for her younger sibling’s tuition lately… She said she needed to rest, so I let her….”
At those words, the flush of anger on the Boss’s face receded for a moment. His mouth that had been grinding his teeth and huffing instantly closed, and his raised golden eyes became quiet.
‘F-fuck….’
But having been by the Boss’s side for a long time, I knew this was by no means a good thing. The Boss actually looked least angry when he was truly angry.
“Urgh!”
The next moment, I was face down on the floor with sharp pain in my calf. The Boss had kicked my leg.
“Position.”
But before I could even groan in pain, when the Boss’s command fell, I took the designated position. Hands on the floor in a crawling position on all fours. I knew that if I didn’t do it promptly, my head could be stepped on and my skull could crack.
The Boss sat down heavily on my back. Though about a hand’s width shorter than me, the Boss was also a well-built muscular man over 180cm, so it was heavy… heavy, but I didn’t show it. I knew that if I showed even a bit of pain, I’d be beaten all day long.
“Elbeeek, who gave you, who managed the least-selling omega male prostitutes in the brothel, this decent bar?”
“B-Boss did.”
When the Boss spoke in a voice smooth as butter and sweet as honey, my heart constricted with learned fear.
“Who took in you, an idiot and moron who couldn’t even finish school properly, and on top of that almost became an illegal immigrant?”
“Boss, did.”
Ha, the Boss let out an empty laugh.
“So what you wear, what you eat, even the house you live in—whose grace is that?”
“Boss’s…sir.”
“That’s right, mine!”
Saying that, the Boss struck my head hard. I was used to being hit so psychologically I was okay, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt. I swallowed my groan.
“Hey, Elbek….”
When the Boss grabbed my hair and pulled it back, my face naturally grimaced in sharp pain. Fuck, so fucking ugly. The Boss spat out like chewing.
“Did I ask much from you? Did I tell you to make this place Las Vegas? Or what, to get us into <The Guardian’s Top 3 Cities to Enjoy Nightlife>?”
“N-no, that’s,”
“Right, you fucking bastard! I just told you to bring in good sales, didn’t I? I only wanted goddamn money, money, money, money!”
The Boss shouted and shook my head in time with ‘money, money, money.’ Being shaken like that right after being hit made my vision spin. Not satisfied, the Boss who had been shaking my head while holding it let go of my hair like throwing away something dirty.
“Hey. Moron.”
“Yes, ye-es….”
“Madison, that bitch—did she say her younger sibling was an omega?”
At those words, my heart sank. But I couldn’t lie to the Boss’s words. Before I could think twice, the answer burst from my mouth.
“Y-yes….”
“Hmm….”
As the Boss pondered something, my heart pounded hard. Madison was our club’s most popular stripper. Young, pretty, and though I wouldn’t know, people even rated her as ‘Lancashire’s best breasts.’ But to be clear, all the previous good sales were only obtainable because she overworked herself. For her sibling’s future, she came to the bar without days off and did increasingly extreme acts.
“B-Boss,”
“Hey, Aiden!”
But before I could stop him, the Boss called Aiden, one of his close associates. Aiden, a sturdy Scottish man with red hair as tall as the Boss, approached the Boss with a “Yes.”
“Approach that sibling. Find out if the kid knows what kind of work Madison does, and show them how hard their sister is struggling because of their tuition.”
“Yes, Boss.”
“You look like shit, so not you—there’s that popular omega bitch on South Street. Have her do it. And pull them in. Since they’re an omega, once they get a taste for men, they’ll spread their legs on their own.”
“Yes. Understood.”
When the sound of Aiden going out the door was heard, the Boss also stood up. Then he stood in front of me, whose limbs were already trembling, and immediately kicked my stomach.
“Kugh,”
“Elbek, you useless fucking moron.”
Laughter tinged the Boss’s voice.
“I personally filled in the mistake you made?”
“……”
“Answer.”
“Th-thank you, Boss! I won’t forget this kindness!”
Clutching my stomach in sharp pain, I knelt. In my trembling raised gaze was a beautiful man like sculpted platinum who, despite committing all these evil acts, was stunning in face and body, smiling.
*
“…Haah……”
A tremendous feeling of exhaustion washed over me. My head was dizzy until my quitting time at 4 AM. The Boss not only used violence frequently, but each blow was heavy, so I never got used to it no matter how much I was hit. But fortunately, I knew Madison’s personal number.
‘How much more will he flip out….’
Having warned Madison in advance, she and her sibling would have escaped Saint Sophia Island. If they took the fastest train, they might already be passing Manchester. Only the Boss, a few close associates, and I heard the Boss’s plan, so the Boss would definitely think I had a hand in it.
‘Will I really die this time….’
It didn’t feel real. But suddenly, recalling the sensation of the Boss’s buttocks I felt when I was on all fours, I thought it wasn’t a bad experience to have before dying. The greatest demon among the humans I’d seen, no, Satan himself to the point even demons would be horrified, yet the most handsome face I’d seen in my life. And as I felt every time I became a human chair, his ass was also voluptuous and lewd.
‘That rumor about being an omega… is it real?’
Thinking I might really die, useless thoughts kept coming instead. The rumor that the Boss was an omega was spread very secretly. When such suspicions reached his ears, the Boss expressed intense disgust and thoroughly hunted down and killed the source of the rumor, but rather because of that, the talk that he was more like an omega spread tacitly.
‘If only I could fuck him once before dying….’
When I was having such idle thoughts, my phone rang.
“……?”
Nervously, I stroked my chest several times before turning on my phone. Naturally I expected the Boss, but fortunately the message was from Madison.
<Elbek-ssi, thank you.
My sibling and I escaped safely.
We lost everything we had, but it’s okay.
The train stopped briefly at Urmston Station, so just in case, I withdrew all the cash too.
We’re going to head to the Fife region.
If it’s there, that bastard won’t be able to find us.
Thank you, Elbek-ssi.
It’s all thanks to you.
I won’t forget your kindness.>
“…Thank goodness.”
My heart, which had been churning with ominous emotions, settled. I’m not a good person either since I’m involved in the Boss’s work, but still, my eyes reddened at the thought of having done at least one good deed. I was about to reply something, but immediately a new message came.
<In response to that kindness
We’ll also give you the most valuable thing we have.>
<Attachment size: 52.8mb>
“Attachment…?”
I downloaded the attachment while wondering. The most valuable thing that Madison had—I couldn’t predict it at all.
‘It’s not like malware or something.’
Chuckling, I looked at the download item. What was saved was a PDF file. A PDF file…? Did it contain the Boss’s weakness or something? If so, my chances of survival would increase.
<The Most Certain, Accurate, and Perfect Hypnosis Primer>
“What is this….”
What I opened was a book with a crude cover I’d never seen before. None other than the book that would change my fate.
wow
morally fucked love interest? gong pov? i’m down