"What a déjà vu feeling, but holy shit, once is one thing, twice is already weird, now a third time? Is some kind of higher power messing with me or something?"
Still complaining internally, and unable to move, Jonathan felt the pressure of Alexis's hands grabbing his arms and bringing them together before wrapping something around them.
He didn't need to think hard to guess what it was — it was obvious she was tying him up.
With the rough sensation of rope against his wrists, Jonathan kept questioning himself. 'What the hell is this crazy girl trying to do? Is she gonna kill me or something, just like that? Is she a yandere? Damn, dying like this would be ridiculous.'
As he felt his legs being tied as well, he was already trying to think of ways to get out of that situation. 'Holy shit, my luck's really been off the charts these days, huh?' he thought dryly.
Soon after, he felt his body being lifted off the ground.
He heard a short grunt of effort and then a pressure against his stomach. His head hung down, which made him realize Alexis had thrown him over her shoulder.
Right after that, the sound of a door opening echoed — she was obviously leaving the bathroom.
'Shit, now what?' Even though he tried to come up with an escape plan, they all depended on him having his limbs free.
Even with the numbness fading and him being able to exert some strength again, the ropes kept him completely immobilized. There was nothing he could do about it.
'Okay, I guess I'll have to rely on a psychological strategy then. Alright, what do I know about her that I can use to my advantage?' He started thinking about everything he could use to distract Alexis and, hopefully, create an opening to escape.
'Right, the only thing I know I can use is Elizabeth. I could try appealing to her affection for her, try convincing her that Elizabeth wouldn't approve of something like this. But if I say that directly, it could backfire, haaa, what a pain in the balls.'
Sighing internally at having to deal with this kind of situation, Jonathan decided to put his plan into action. "Alexis." he called, but silence was the only response.
Still, he insisted. "Alexis, listen, you'd better stop whatever you're planning, this isn't a good idea. Soon, Elizabeth and Marianne will notice I'm missing and call the police. You can be sure they'll be furious when they find out what happened."
The answer, however, came after a short laugh. "And how can you be so sure they'll find out it was a kidnapping? After all, there's nothing to indicate that."
Even without seeing her face, Jonathan could imagine the smirk on her lips. 'Damn it, why couldn't you just be dumber?'
"You might be right." he replied, keeping his tone calm. "That is, of course, if it weren't for Rachel's friend."
"Rachel's friend?" her tone sounded curious.
Jonathan smiled. "Exactly. Rachel's friend works in the special forces. You can be sure that the moment she asks her for help, you'll be found in no time."
"Special forces? Funny, Elizabeth never mentioned any woman like that."
Jonathan noticed the doubt in her voice, but kept smiling. "Of course Elizabeth never mentioned her. Maya's job is secret. Even I only found out by accident." 'I'm not exactly lying.' "She made me promise not to tell anyone. So listen to me: you'd better untie me right now, how about that?"
"Really?" her voice sounded neutral this time, hard to read.
"It's true." Even though it was an outright lie, Jonathan was sure that if he disappeared, Maya would definitely come looking for him.
If he couldn't convince Alexis to release him, at the very least he'd have to convince her to keep him alive long enough to be found.
And he had complete faith in Maya's ability to track him down later — especially with all that futuristic tech she had.
"Hahaha~"
"Why are you laughing? I'm serious." — he raised an eyebrow.
Her laughter kept sounding amused.
'This lunatic's completely lost it, hasn't she?' — he thought, genuinely confused now.
"Sorry for laughing, cutie. You trying to convince me to let you go is funny. Do you seriously think I'm kidnapping you?"
Her words made Jonathan blink, even more confused. "Wait, you're not kidnapping me?"
"No, I'm not kidnapping you."
"Then what are you—" Cutting him off, he heard the sound of another door opening.
His mind started racing — during that brief conversation, they couldn't have walked for more than five minutes.
Meaning, they were still at school, not even on any nearby grounds but somewhere more isolated inside the building.
But that only made him more confused.
Just as he was about to question her, he felt his body being lowered. Alexis placed him on the floor carefully and left him sitting against something cold and metallic.
Then, the cloth on his head was removed. Jonathan blinked a few times, adjusting to the light. When he finally could see clearly, he noticed a wall full of pipes around him — several of them running in different directions. The thing he was leaning against looked like a mix of valves, tubing, and faucets.
Recognizing the school's water piping system, he quickly deduced where he was.
"The basement?" he murmured.
That was it. Even though he'd never been there before, it wasn't hard to guess with all those exposed pipes practically covering the ceiling.
"Why'd you bring me here? You really aren't kidnapping me?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You seriously thought I'd do that? You think I'd even be capable of it?" Alexis crouched in front of him, a playful smile on her face.
'You're definitely crazy enough for it.' Jonathan asked slowly. "Well... I mean, what other reason would you have to do this to me? Tie me up like this?"
Alexis shook her head slightly, smiling calmly. "Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, you're smart about a lot of things, but in some, you tend to be a little slow, from what I've noticed."
She rested her chin on her palm and looked at him with a playful gaze. "But fine, I'll let you guess this time. Go on, try~"
Jonathan stayed silent, staring at her blankly. 'What the hell is she talking about? I already know she likes Elizabeth, what other meaning could this have except getting rid of me because she sees me as a threat?'
After a moment of just staring at her, he sighed and shook his head. "No need to play mysterious. I already know the reason."
"Oh yeah? And what would that be?" she asked, still smiling, chin resting on her hand.
Jonathan leaned his head back against the pipe behind him and replied with his own faint smile. "Isn't it obvious? You're doing this because you like Elizabeth and want to get rid of me. You see me as a threat, don't you?"
For a second, Alexis blinked, as if processing what he had just said, then weakly muttered, "What?"
"Come on, don't make that face," he continued confidently. "I already know that's it. But that's exactly why I'm telling you — doing this isn't a good idea. You won't win Elizabeth's affection this way."
Alexis went silent. She just stared at him, expressionless.
And to Jonathan, that only confirmed his theory.
But then she frowned, gritted her teeth, and snapped angrily. "What the hell are you talking about?!"
He blinked, surprised. "Huh?"
"I don't like Elizabeth, you idiot. I like you!"
Jonathan's brain seemed to stop functioning for a moment. After a strange silence, he tilted his head with a blank look. "I'm sorry, what did you just say?"
Alexis rolled her eyes, letting out a frustrated groan. Then she stood up from her crouched position and looked down at him with her hands on her hips. "It's you I like, not Elizabeth. Where did you even get that absurd idea?"
Jonathan blinked slowly, disbelief settling into his face and mind. 'What the fuck?!'
"What do you mean 'where did I get it'? You're the one who said I was a jerk, that I wasn't boyfriend material, and you made that clear to everyone! Are you telling me you lied?"
"No, I didn't lie — at least, not back then." Alexis looked away with a somewhat awkward smile.
Jonathan kept staring at her in disbelief, still processing.
She sighed and continued. "At the time I said that, it's what I really thought. But that was before I actually got to know you. After spending some time with you, I realized I was just letting myself get influenced by some middle-aged, bald, ego-driven women on the internet instead of judging you for myself."
Jonathan narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. 'Okay, that actually makes sense. She was close to Elizabeth, almost friends, so I interacted with her often, but even then, it wasn't enough for her to get a full picture of my character.'
'Unless she'd been watching me more often than I thought, and if that's the case... damn, she really is a yandere?' Jonathan felt a bead of cold sweat slide down his temple.
Snapping out of his thoughts, Jonathan smiled as disarmingly as possible. "Alright, then what are you planning to do now? If you like me, why did you tie me up and bring me here?" he asked, trying to sound casual.
Alexis tilted her head, a little smile forming on her lips. "Ah, that's simple. I decided that to have you for myself, I need to dominate you — body and mind." Her voice sounded calm, but that calmness carried a very different feeling now.
He looked at her doubtfully, though he could already tell what she meant. "Right... and by dominate body and mind, you mean exactly what, by that?"
Without saying anything and still smiling, Alexis reached into his vest, grabbing a zipper and silently lowering it. Taking off her vest and throwing it on the floor, she then brought her hand to her neck, lowering the other zipper of the clothes she was wearing, taking it off, she left it hanging at her waist, then unhooking her hair from the bun.
Shaking her head slightly to release the hair that fell freely down her back, Alexis looked up at Jonathan with a smile, her bare torso exposing her breasts covered by a black lace bra.
"If I dominate you in body and mind, everything will be resolved, won't it~?" she said, smiling beautifully.
But for Jonathan, behind that beauty, he also saw a slight hint of madness.
"Wait a minute, are you really going to rape me?" He looked at her with a slight look of disbelief.
"Come on, don't make that face, you don't really care, you're different from other guys after all." She waved her hand, saying casually, denying him.
Not expecting to hear that, Jonathan raised an eyebrow slightly. "And what do you mean by that?"
Alexis snorted lightly, as if offended. "Come on. Don't pretend. I already know very well that your mindset is more like a woman's than a man's. Just like many other women out there who wouldn't mind being raped by a man as long as he was pretty and hot."
Snorting lightly, she crossed her arms. "There are definitely some perverts out there who even fantasize about it. The thing is, you're like women, because it wouldn't affect you like it would other men, you wouldn't be traumatized, or am I wrong?" She raised her eyebrow with a challenging look.
Looking at her silently, Jonathan said nothing, knowing she had a genuine point. 'Although this is just a general overview, there are definitely men from my old world who would be traumatized by this.' A certain hero in yellow and blue who begins with I and ends with Vencible came to him. "Well, don't worry, if you get traumatized, I'll take care of it, after all, we'll have a lot of time together, now let's begin. I've been fantasizing about this moment for a long time~" With a happy smile, Alexis bent down, approaching him.
'Fuck! I thought it was my life that was at risk, it's my virginity that is!' "Whoa whoa, wait a minute, you don't want to touch me, I have AIDS and syphilis, I also have leptospirosis, wait!" Jonathan tried to free his arms and legs, but all he did was writhe uselessly.
Chuckling lightly, she sat on his thighs, pressing her breasts against him and holding him by the shoulders with one hand, with the other she grabbed a handful of his hair, tilting his head back and looking down at him.
With a few strands of hair falling beside his face, she looked at him with a gentle gaze that conveyed a completely dangerous feeling. "Don't worry, I'll be gentle~"
She then lowered her face, her lips touching Jonathan's in a soft kiss, but as if the switch had been selected, that brief half-touch of lips turned into a ravenous kiss, almost as if she wanted to devour Jonathan's lips as she pressed him tightly against her.
However, with his brow furrowed and his eyes wide open, Jonathan reluctantly but still indifferently responded to the kiss, barely moving his lips, and he did so for the sole purpose of distracting her so he could finally let go.
His arms behind his back writhed as he tried to free them while barely reacting to the kiss.
And just as he was getting desperate and preparing to dislocate his finger or even break some bones to free himself, he felt the rope loosen a little.
Feeling this, her hope soared as he proactively responded to the kiss, keeping her distracted.
He continued to move his hands, feeling himself getting closer and closer to letting go.
The rough feeling in his wrists lessened as the rope slowly loosened until he could feel it loosening enough.
And immediately, upon feeling this, Jonathan pulled his hands forward quickly, grabbing Alexis's face with one hand and with the other, supporting himself on the ground and then standing up as he pushed her
He nearly swept her off her feet as she was thrown backward by the brute force.
As she spun on the floor, Jonathan undid the knot around his legs and quickly freed himself.
He stood up in alarm and stood in front of Alexis, who had also already stood up.
Her lips red and slightly swollen, she ran her tongue over them as if savoring the remnants of the kiss.
She stared at him for a moment, smiling faintly. "I'm not surprised you managed to get free. I really should have looked at the knot I tied a second time. I guess that's what happens when you learn how to tie people up from YouTube."
Jonathan didn't say anything, his eyes just flicking momentarily to the door behind her before turning back to her.
Moving her hand to her waist, Alexis grabbed the taser, holding it at her side as it popped slightly. "Ready to begin our foreplay~?" She asked with a playful smile.
With a tired-looking face, Jonathan sighed. "Sigh, I should have peed on a wall."