ive been watching Aggretsuko while waiting for my IPU album. i preordered the night ver .. still waiting for it :") nfnfdn ticket sellings on the 15th of July i hope i get a ticket. Hmu if u guys are planning on going to Wanna One's con here in the PH. id rly like some mutuals lolol (｡'▽'｡)♡

anyway i rambled, bc i missed u guys ♡ thanks for supporting my nsfw bts stuff hehe and also um for bearing with my rly slow pace with writing. but there's a typhoon now so im in an angsty mood!! (＊￣︶￣＊) hope u guys Likey ;)

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You didn't get paid enough for this kind bullshit.

A blood curdling scream cuts through the seemingly endless drip-drop of the sewers. You've long since tired of trying to fight against your restraints and you've long since stopped trying to understand Ryuunosuke. Still, you find it just the slightest bit difficult to tune out of the screams and his pleased laughter.

You hear movement by your side and you stiffen immediately as you watch that thing slink around you, quietly appraising you with its unsettling gaze. Truthfully, you have no idea what to call that thing Ryuunosuke calls Caster. It can't possibly be human. It settles right in front of you, mouth drawn in a grim line. The screams begin to die down and when all there is, is the sound of the sewers, it smiles.

You flinch; you can't help it. It felt so unnatural to see the monster that more or less led Ryuunosuke around displaying something human. You can't help but hold your breath as it slinks towards you, inching closer and closer until it stops all of a sudden. It's twisted smile still fixed in place. You notice that it's gotten quiet, your attention shifts for a moment. Ryuunosuke walks in, his hands bloodied and his joy palpable as he leans in to press a kiss on your cheek.

"Does Caster scare you," he asks, laughing a little as if he can't fathom why anyone would be terrified of it.

"You wouldn't let anything hurt me," you say. "Especially now that you've got all the toys you want to play with."

"That's right," Ryuunosuke hums, he sounds downright elated, that is until his fingers dig into the hollow of your throat. He applies enough strength to make it very uncomfortable for you to breathe, but not enough for you to thrash for fear of dying, you can feel the sticky texture of blood painting your skin. His voice drops down to a hiss, "I thought I told you to try to stop fixing me."

You gag, hands squirming, brushing painfully against the kiss of the rope binding your hands together.

"I'm not like one of those loons sitting on that chaise longue of yours, mouthing off their life stories in hopes that you'll fix them. Just because you chose to live in your birdcage doesn't mean that you can try to force me in there with everybody else."

"I don't know what you're talking about," you spit back.

"Don't play dumb with me, _____. It makes you happy, doesn't it? To have all those people coming to you with their problems, hoping you'll fix them just because it'll get your mind off your own fucked up life."

You blanch at the implications of his words, eyes widening as he grins at the sight of your strained expression.

"I hit the nail on the head, didn't I?" Ryuunosuke chuckles, "it's alright _____. I love you, after all. I accept you, all the fucked up pieces of you that you want to keep them from finding out, I love it too."

"Y-you're wrong, Ryuu- I-"

You scramble for the right words to say, the words that came so surely to you before, the words that could destroy his arguments. But they simply, didn't exist. His choke hold has ended, but you can barely breathe. A chill settles in your bones, you have no idea how to get rid of it.

Is this what breaking felt like?

You stare back at him, the confidence in his gaze, the blood spattered on his cheeks. He couldn't be right, no fucking way. Why? Why was he right?

You avert your eyes, unable to take anymore of his appraising gaze, refusing to let him lord his discovery of the truth for any longer.

He seems to understand, as he slinks back from that dark crevice he came from.

"He tells me that you're very precious to him," Caster says. "That's why he'll do everything he can to keep you here forever."

For a moment, there's a flicker of sadness in its face.

"I understand, I had someone very close to me as well," it whispers. "I would have done the same if I could."

What does a monster know?