Rui's true colours(Drake poV part 5)

"Can you...protect me?" I asked the crazy woman, with a numb hollow face.

"What kind of question is that? Of course darling, I will protect you, always, I love you!" she uttered with her twisted sense of morality, as expected of a degenerate maniac.

"What about school?" I asked her, but the atmosphere suddenly changed with a murderous aura. She was emitting such a strange killer intent at me.

"And what if you can't go to school?" she said, staring at me with a terrific glow.

"I promise, I won't tell mom, Rui San, it'll be our little secret~" I replied to her with a slight yet emotionless smile, but that vixen became extremely overjoyed and flabbergasted listening to my words. Her laughs and giggles became more prevalent, it seemed too disgusting and repulsive, but I still bore it.

"Alright~" She released me from her chains, and took me to a bathing pool, after having a bath, I had my breakfast, the food was tasty, but It tasted less, as she kept feeding me like a baby. After breakfast, she proceeds to move with her bad touch, pathetic woman.

At night, I was about to sleep in my room alone, but now I'm curious about what's inside her head.

"Can I sleep with you, Rui?" I asked her, nonchalant.

"you read my mind, darling~" she glowed, such a disgusting response, but I desired to peer through her memories, just so that I'd gain an advantage against her.

We made up in bed again, and this time, she went into her deep sleep pretty fast, before I had been trapped here, I did learn a sinister technique at home, it's from a book called the soul searching, found this one at bookshelves of my Reina's shelves, it's very handful enough to peer onto memories, people usually do utilize it for interrogation.

Sadly she wasn't the kind of person who would do something like that if she ever knew she'd throw up or kill herself with the accumulated guilt.

Searching through her memories, I found out that she was quite the opposite. 10 years ago, her younger sister got kidnapped, and at the same time, her elder sister died of poisoning, in such a turn of events the Bernstein family captured her, and she gets a slave seal after 5 years.

At that moment, one of her close friends in middle school, who looked exactly like her sister, died right in front of her, being killed by the people who had been wearing robes.

They had put up a slave seal on her, which had a familiar symbol, the bear symbol of Bernstein popped right through my head as I remembered my biological parents.

Not only did they seal her, but the also a curse was put in, it had become pretty strong that she'd become a degenerate, twisted by her own ideals if there had been the slightest hint of resistance or hatred against the Bernstein family, losing sense of self-consciousness.

Like schizophrenia suffering from hallucinations. She'd have the same thing except her perspective doesn't align with her sub-consciousness or even reality, Rather the curse creates a memetic illusion thinking she's doing the right thing.

Even if they're depressed it'd be very effective to control them. The person who'd put this kind of curse must be at least a sage, what a vile curse, I want to smash that sage's head to a red mush. the thought of it somehow became my raison d'être.

"Now the question is, should I release the curse on her?" I asked myself, Rui was still beautiful, her true self was probably a charming young lady with greater hopes and dreams. Yet now she had become a p-word, plus the Bernstein's dog, all thanks to that curse.

"The world hadn't been fair, to begin with, so what's the point of curing her right now, if I remove the curse on her, the Bernstein family would keep their tabs on me, so it's futile to even try. The people who had murdered my biological parents would straight up chase me to death if they found me out of my existence" I said to myself.

"I'll have to get stronger then" again, my bottled-up emotions wasted as I erupted with tears. Doing my best to not wake her up, quietly pule about how useless I had been, instead of living a prosperous life, I ended up being caught by a misjudged predator.

A few days pass by, and this time I had to meet Reina, my step-mom. it'd be bad if she ever heard about the abuse I went through. meanwhile, Rui had been stalking me on the streets.

"I know you're hiding there Rui-san, let's go together," I said loudly, but not a single response came out of her, except she kept scrutinizing me, a while later she came out of her hiding spot, and suddenly appeared near me, as if she teleported from one point to another, at the close, menacingly staring at me.

"Rui-san, are you jealous?..don't worry I'll owe it up to you tomorrow, we can try something else if you desire it so.." I said, although I hated acting like her partner, I didn't have a choice but to calm her alternate deviant persona.

"Fine, I'll look forward to it" She beamed, her expression changed suddenly as if she had been a normal girl this whole time. The same friendly Rui I knew, back when I had met her for the first time.

The way she acted made my heart ache, it wasn't a feeling of affection or love, but disgust, pain, and futility.

"Drie~, where have you been my little bunny, I missed you, Are you alright?.." a familiar woman welcomed me with her hug, it had been long forgotten yet a warm sensation, I was about to tear up, but I can't show that in front of Rui. Reina had missed me, just after I joined that school, I missed her too, very much.

Of course, that eerie persona of Rui wasn't liking it.

"It's fine mama, school is kinda tiring me out," I said with a sigh.

"I see, that's good, you must study well little Drie, wouldn't you love to be a high-ranking warrior!" said Reina, while gently patting my head.

"I-I don't know, I'm thinking about it" I replied, at that moment, Rui coughed to interrupt the conversation.

"Oh Rui, what's up, it's been a while, how's little Drie, is he up to some mischief?" she asked her.

"Quit it, he's too pure for that, and besides, he's already mine now," said Rui, hugging me while gently taking me away from Reina's clutches.

"Oh my..that's interesting~," said Reina, and both of them giggled, hiding beneath their facades, I could tell that it's been the start of a cliched war over me, or maybe I'm just overthinking.

"Mama, Rui-san, let's not fight..mama, Rui San has been taking care of me for the past few days" I smiled, but the more I lied about it, the more I remembered the things she did to me, frustrated and anger got the better of me, yet again, I had to hold it off, or else I might end up getting caught by Bernstein family.

"Drie~..are you okay?" Reina asked, such sharp Instincts to discern my lies. She could tell from my fake expressions that I wasn't okay.

"I'm fine mom, you don't have to worry about a.." before I could tell her, she saw something in my neck. Nothing but a little bruise, but my whole body, it's scarred by that rod.

"Take off your shirt" she demanded with an authoritative voice, but all I could do was lie, there wasn't any other choice.

"No," I said while holding my tears. I could also sense Rui's killer instinct at the back of my head. but the moment I defied Reina, it gradually calmed down a little. If i make a single mistake she'd kill Reina.

"Drake, I won't forgive you if you hide something from me." Reina groaned at me with a slight scowl.

"GET AWAY FROM ME" I screamed at her, with tears. The killing aura of the maniac remained, luckily enough my telepathy bypassed her powers. If I didn't had this earlier I'd have been screwed.

"Mama, I'm sorry for making you worry, I lied about Rui, she's too strong for you, but this time I want to protect you, please be stay strong and protect yourself" I whispered at her using telepathy, as I hugged Rui, giving a fleeting look at Reina with overflowing tears.

Of course, I wasn't the only one crying, She was on her knees with a look of despair, tears had formed in her eyes. This time it wasn't a good reunion so I had to leave without a goodbye. I couldn't forgive Rui, even if she was forced to this.

Fast-forward back to Rui's mansion, inside a jail room.

"Why did you cry, you shouldn't have cried for that bitch..you're mine ! Why? WHY? WHY? WHY?WHY? YOU'RE MINE...I..OWN..YOU!" Rui yelled with her demented temperament, aggressively thrashing me, her scowls were funny to look at, it's even funnier how each "why's" had it's own Rhythmic lash, the whip she had been holding was most likely coated with iron or steel.

"...." she was expecting me to forgive her, but I don't forgive anyone for making Reina feel useless about herself. My whole body had been covered with bruises and blood, probably a bit of a broken bones here and there

After a quiet five minutes, I looked up in her eyes and said "You can have my body, you can torture me all you want, but I'll never be your's, so fuck off, Reina is my mother and I belong to her". After saying this, immediately her whips became faster with sheer force, to the point I eventually fainted.

A day passed, and with more chains locked in me, laying flat on the ground, All I thought about was Reina and how she had been doing. I cursed myself for making her cry.