I Was Just Enjoying the Discipline - Chapter 23 🔞

‘Any other human would’ve burst into tears, saying it felt like their nxxple had been torn off the moment I pinched them.’

Back in the interrogation room, he had always kept his strength within the limits a human could endure. Just now, however, even he knew he hadn’t held back much.

Her reaction left him thoroughly perplexed. What made it even stranger was how completely it contradicted the woman who had spent the past several days sobbing, apologizing, and begging for mercy through the pain.

‘Is she simply babbling in her sleep? Or does pain become dulled while she’s asleep, making that feel like stimulation instead?’

As one explanation after another passed through his mind, another feeling quietly took root. Interest.

‘Even so, this is fascinating. To react like this before I’ve even properly begun.’

He hadn’t truly done anything to her yet. All he had done was heighten her sensitivity to an extreme degree. He had never trained her to experience pain as pleasure.

Over the centuries, Yudel had harvested life force from countless humans. And humans, by nature, hated pain. To them, pain was something to avoid whenever possible, not something they experienced as s-xual pleasure.

That was why drxgs alone were never enough. The body had to be reshaped through alchemy, while the mind was conditioned alongside it. Only then would a person find pleasure in having their nxxples pinched and willingly beg for more.

In truth, however, that conditioning was little more than making the victim mistake pain for pleasure. And no matter how thorough the conditioning, it was impossible to engrave it so deeply that it carried over into the unconscious mind.

That was precisely why the woman’s reaction had piqued Yudel’s interest. The fact that her responses were completely different depending on whether she was awake or asleep made it even more intriguing.

‘Just to be certain, perhaps I should test it once more.’

Yudel withdrew his hand from her nxxple and quietly studied her face.

The moment his fingers left her, a crease immediately formed between her brows. Anyone looking at her would have thought she was deeply dissatisfied.

‘Then how will you react this time? Will you say it feels good again?’

He reached for her other nxxple and twisted it.

“Mmh… ah…”

“…”

As another faint smile spread across her lips, Yudel became certain his judgment had been correct.

‘This woman has an unusual constitution.’

The irritation he’d felt at being awakened in the middle of the night melted away like snow beneath the sun. In its place rose an intense curiosity—a scholar’s urge to investigate.

Which version of the woman was genuine: the one who was awake, or the one who slept? Did she truly experience torment as pleasure? And if she did, could that peculiarity be used to harvest her life force?

Yudel weighed one possibility after another.

If she truly experienced pain as pleasure, then under the pretext of harvesting her life force, there would be any number of ways to torment her. He could bite and chew at her nxxples until they were swollen and raw, strike her tender flesh with a leather paddle, or even lash her with a whip until his resentment was finally spent. And in every case, he would still be able to draw out her life force.

‘An excellent constitution. One well worth making use of.’

Now there was only one thing left to confirm. Whether she truly possessed such a constitution and whether it could, in fact, be exploited to harvest her life force.

‘Once morning comes, I’ll test it with my own hands. Not a bad prospect.’

Yudel’s vivid violet eyes glinted with dark anticipation as they lingered on the woman’s stiffened nxxple.