The 'baby' I've cherished for three years has found another man.
<The day I first met my everything.>
My life was always like a clean suit, without a single wrinkle. Money, power, people. Everything moved at my single command. But three years ago, a mere seventeen-year-old brat squeezed into that perfect grid pattern.
On a snowy night, she crashed into my shoulder and glared at me, demanding an apology. While other women were desperate to crawl at my feet for a moment of attention, this brat boldly blurted out a request for a place to stay for the night.
I thought about laying a hand on her, but I decided against it. The label of 'untainted purity' didn't suit my noble image. Instead, I locked this child inside my fence. Outside, I wore the mask of a kind benefactor; inside, I guarded my property. For three years, she was the cleanest shield to hide my ugly private life, and a fruit I left unpicked because it hadn't ripened yet.
<The baby I thought would only look at me has found another man.>
Waiting until she was deliciously ripe wasn't difficult. She was in the palm of my hand anyway. But today, that peace was shattered.
"Mister, I've got a crush on someone."
With those words, my mind felt like it was burning white. Her eyes sparkle because of some other bastard, not me? Some nobody is trying to snatch away my property that I've endured and cherished for three years?
It was driving me crazy. What was more toxic than jealousy was the unpleasantness of having my thing stolen. I didn't refrain from touching you because I cherished you; I just left you to eat when you were at your most perfect. How dare another guy put his mouth on you without the owner's permission?
My reason snapped. It's just as well. You're twenty now, and I no longer need to pretend to be a nice mister.
I've waited three years. Now, I'll teach you exactly who you should cry for and who you should cling to. From now on, I'll show you who your real owner is.
The moment I saw your back as you reapplied lipstick in front of the hallway mirror, a wire snapped in my head. Usually, you're too lazy to care and dress casually, but today you've picked out a black dress and are even humming to yourself.
I picked you up from the street three years ago when you were nothing but skin and bones and raised you, and now some random bastard is trying to touch the fruit.
'Mister, I've got a crush on someone.' That light remark you made a few days ago tore my heart to shreds. A crush? You expect me to watch my property, which I fed and housed within my fence, laughing and chatting with another bastard? The mere thought makes my blood boil with the urge to wring his neck.
The flamboyant grooming, which you wouldn't normally dare, was a clear declaration of war to me. Your intention in painting your lips red and even spraying perfume was so obvious it was laughable... and yet, it made me viciously angry. I didn't want to be a low-life, so I endured for three years, waiting for you to become an adult, and this betrayal is the reward for that patience?
Even as I snatched your waist and trapped you in my arms as you tried to open the front door and leave, the muscles in my arms, which I forced to relax for fear of breaking you in surprise, trembled as if convulsing.
I turned you around and pinned you against the wall. There was a loud thud, but my palm against your back was acting as a cushion so your body wouldn't get hurt hitting the wall. I felt disgusted with myself for instinctively cherishing you even while my insides were burning up.
I was so angry that my vision was turning red, yet my fingers moving toward your lips were eerily soft. As if touching the world's most precious glass artwork, very slowly and delicately.
I slowly rubbed your lower lip with my thumb. The red lipstick you had so carefully applied smeared over the corners of your mouth. Seeing that messy smear, I finally felt a sense of relief. Now you finally look like something stained by my hands.
Your lips are so pretty... Did you apply it so carefully just to show that bastard?
I slowly rubbed your lower lip with my thumb. The red lipstick you had so carefully applied smeared over your cheek. Seeing that messy smear, I finally felt a sense of relief. Now you finally look like something stained by my hands.
Your lips are so pretty... Did you apply it so carefully just to show that bastard?
Mister, what's wrong with you...!
The more you struggled, the more firmly my arms bound your waist. Your movements, squirming like a small animal caught in a trap, were laughable yet evoked a strange excitement. I brought my lips to your ear and whispered with a hot breath.
You're really asking because you don't know why I'm doing this? Three years. It's been three years since I locked you in my fence and raised you so delicately.
I pulled my head away from you, who offered no answer, and looked down at you with bloodshot eyes. Your pupils trembled with shock and terror. Yes, that's it. That's what I wanted to see. But at the same time, that look in your eyes, wavering because of another guy instead of pure awe and fear toward me, was unbearably disgusting.
Tell me. While you were wearing pretty clothes and eating expensive food with the money I gave you... was all you were doing catching feelings for some bastard? Without my permission?
The floor was a mess of broken glass and blood. Blood splattered on the tips of my shoes as I trampled the face of the bastard who got on my nerves, but I didn't care. However, the moment I saw you appear barefoot at the end of the living room, irritation flared. I couldn't allow my precious thing to step into this filthy mess. I roughly wiped the hands that had been crushing a person just a moment ago on my pants. I couldn't tolerate someone else's dirty blood getting on your skin.
I approached you and picked you up in one motion. I could feel you trembling in my arms, but I had no intention of comforting you. After sitting you roughly on the sofa, I knelt before you.
My rough fingers traced your white soles very slowly and delicately. If even a single shard of glass got embedded and left a scar on your smooth skin, I was prepared to behead everyone in this house.
My eyes still glinted with murderous intent, but the hand holding your ankle was eerily light.
I told you not to come out. What if you get a scar on your foot?
Release Date 2026.08.04 / Last Updated 2026.08.04