41 Diary 41: Ownership
Kim Min Soo is awake in the merchant cart, the sound of drizzles could be heard from the cart interior. The moment he wakes up, he can feel his hand being tied behind him. The fatty merchant douses him with strange chemicals. Min Soo growls at the merchant in hostility, his mouth was muffled with some sort of fabric.
Thus hindering him to use his ability to charm the merchant, his legs are also being bound by a rope. His grimoire was nowhere to be found, he can only speculate that the merchant hides his grimoire.
The merchant sits next to him, a creepy smile plastered on his fatty face. His perverted smile goes wider when he crawls nearer to the bounded Min Soo.
The merchant's hands start grabbing Min Soo's leg, the Idol can't understand why the merchant would stain his hand on his stained body already. Tae Min already touched him all over, but he gives consent to that man. Min Soo growls annoyingly at the fat merchant, his feet were tied up pretty tight.
"Caught you, my little butterfly" the merchant smirks menacingly as his hands travel to Min Soo's hips.
Min Soo kicks the fat merchant with his tied ankles, the man then crawls slowly toward the exit of the cart. However, his happiness quickly fades when the merchant stabs Min Soo's thigh with a knife. Min Soo screeches in pain, but his scream is muffled with the fabric in his mouth. The Idol's eyes tearing up, fear engulfs his mind the moment.
"Stop it!" Min Soo screams from his muffled mouth.
The man proceeds to touch the stabbed wounds on Min Soo's thighs, then his hand goes to Min Soo's pants. His intention is clear that he wants to defile Min Soo sexually, even Min Soo doesn't know why the merchant is acting this way. Mr. Hardy is a respectable merchant, was what everyone said.
However, the sight of Mr. Hardy in front of him trying to pull his pants down scares him.
"Stop touching me!" His muffled screams can still be heard from a distance.
"Min Soo! You're sp beautiful, I can't take my eyes from you! Please accept me!" Mr. Hardy smiles sinisterly.
Tearing his clothes apart, the merchant smiles at Min Soo's weakened state. Min Soo's body is now exposed for the merchant to see. His hand trails to Min Soo's slender body, caressing his belly flirtatiously. Min Soo had an urge to puke whenever the fatty merchant's hand tries to tingle him.
"Disgusting" Min Soo whispers when the fatty hands are on his body, he screams for help but no one
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The greyhound sniffs the ground, along with Crow who has a sensitive nose. David clicks his tongue, unsatisfied with their findings. Out of the blue, Crow calls up to David who is on the lookout for Min Soo. Crow's face grows pale when he calls him, there's Min Soo's grimoire lying on the street, masterless.
The wet soil tells where the cart goes, and from the look of it, someone threw away the book on purpose. David can only think that perhaps the bandit took over the cart and kidnapped both the merchant and Min Soo. However, the fact that the merchant has set his eyes on Min Soo makes him suspect the merchant as the perpetrator.
"Those bandits drop by at an unexpected time" David sighs. "Perhaps, this is planned since the beginning?".
"Doesn't look like it though" Crow replies. "Those bandits have always been here though, we're bounded to meet them especially that we have yet to apprehend the team leader".
Then the bandits just happened to be there, and the merchant uses the golden time to kidnap Min Soo and took him away for an unknown reason. David's negative thoughts still tell him that the merchant is behind the incident of Min Soo's disappearance. He's usually never wrong in his prediction since he can read people's personalities pretty well.
The merchant lies is as bright as the sunrise, the prince knows that sickly expression pretty well. David clenches his fist, punching the wet soil with his unoccupied right hand. Gritting his teeth in anger, the man then looks at the whimpering Greyhound next to Crow. The Greyhound might hold the key for Min Soo's whereabouts.
Crow and David's exchange looks of confidence, the trails are obvious so the perpetrator must have been in a rush. Moreover, it seems to be a work of an amateur kidnapper. There's no trace of the perpetrator covering his tracks.
"The merchant might be the reason he disappears" David looks sharply at Crow. "There's no way he disappears out of nowhere".
"You're accusing the clients of kidnapping? Are you sure about this?" Crow raises his eyebrows. "This doesn't sound like you".
David doesn't waste his time, the man rushes toward the greyhound. The dog takes its defensive stance but David doesn't care. He closes his eyes and focuses the power of nature around him to detect Min Soo's scent. David realizes the moment the dog's aura goes pink, the dog is mad for Min Soo.
The dog's sense of smell might be heightened now that Min-Soo's ability is affecting the dog's affection. Crow looks upwards as the drizzle keeps pouring, the man reminds David that if he stays in one place for too long; the rain will wash the traces away.
"I know that well" David growls.
David kneels toward the greyhound dog, his eyes as sharp as a predator; somewhat making the dog shiver in fear.
"Crow, can you help him trace the smell? The dog might know something, he's affected by Min Soo's ability"
Crow nods, the man is confident with his ability as an animal shifter. Unlike David, Crow is the same as Min Soo. The man had a special ability, he's one of the rare Visioners that has his own ability other than the elemental power the God has blessed him. Thus making Crow an excellent tracker.
Crow listens to the dog's whimper, dog ears show up from his head as he listens to the dog's complaints. The dog then runs toward somewhere, it seems like its nose catches a whiff of the mage's scent. David and Crow follow the dog, the skilled tracker enhanced smells help the dog figuring out the mage location.
After half an hour, the dog arrives at a certain location where the cart resides. The dog barks antagonistically toward the cart. David rushes in without thinking twice, the moment he sees what's inside the cart; he grits his teeth in anger. His blood is boiled and his sword is ready to kill, his bloodlust goes crazy.
