Mansion of Desires - Chapter 16

Kaioshi had been in the same room for many days, a week maybe more. He wasn’t bound, he just couldn’t get free with the door to his room closed.

No one disturbed him or even brought him water or food.

For the first day or two, Kaioshi was able to deal with the situation calmly, so tired that he collapsed on the large bed and just slept. That is, until he was so plagued by hunger that he couldn’t sleep.

He immediately realized that the punishment Binh was talking about turned out to be this. So he had to rely on the cold water pipe in the restroom to quench his thirst. It’s not easy to solve the problem of hunger.

I don’t know how many days had passed, Kaikoshi never lacked of calmness and thinking, he calmed down, if he didn’t want to make himself suffer too much, he’d better sit quietly to save his energy.

Sometimes his mind recalled what he had learned at school, sometimes he thought over and over again of home–that small world where he had his fifth brother and himself together.

The house was really small, and was often messed up by Fifth Brother, and sometimes even saw creditors coming to the door. Since Fifth Brother’s appearance, apart from studying and exercising, cleaning the house and doing household chores had become Kaikoshi’s homework.

He tries to make the place more cozy, but when Fifth Brother drinks, he messes it up again.

Fifth Brother wasn’t really a considerate man, sometimes he lost his temper for no apparent reason, but he was the first person in the world to open his hands and help himself without asking for anything in return, and he was the kind of ‘family’ that Kaioshi had always longed for.

“Unrequited…” chimed Kaioshi.

Until then, they were just strangers, but for Fifth Brother to fund his education like that, ‘without asking for anything in return’…

That said, Fifth Brother was indeed a man of unknown origin. He suddenly appeared in life, and when he heard that Kaioshi was good at studying but couldn’t afford the tuition, he immediately decided to help him.

Thinking about it, Kaikoshi opened his eyes──What Fifth Brother did was indeed a bit strange. Could it be that, as Black Crocodile said, Fifth Brother was approaching him for another purpose…?

Then Kaikoshi shook his head—if he believed Black Crocodile’s words, he would be trapped. Kaikoshi certainly chose to trust Fifth Brother over the black boss who had caused him so much trouble.

He was so hungry that he couldn’t concentrate, Kaikoshi was a bit annoyed, he thought:

“I don’t think those family members will wait for me to die naturally before coming to collect my body, right? Lest they get a reputation for murder…”

After a few more days, Kaioshi believed that perhaps people had forgotten about him. He felt that he would never be able to step out of the mansion again.

Kaioshi lay still. At some point, there was a rattling at the door of his room, and for the first time in many days, someone stepped back in, and the person walked over to the bed.

Kaioshi was unable to open his eyes, and his consciousness was a little hazy.

“Fifth Brother…” he chanted softly.

‘Fifth Brother’s’ gentle big hand dragged him up, a subtle cool touch came from his mouth, the liquid slipped onto his tongue, the taste sweet and fragrant.

“Oooh…” he called out in a low voice.

His weak body was in desperate need of sustenance, so Kaioshi instinctively opened his hands and cupped the flavor and sucked on it, asking for it again and again. The other man gently gave it again and again as well, sending that delicious juice into his mouth.

“Fifth Brother…” he told him as he ate the sweet flavor “Help me…”

“Wake up…”

It wasn’t Fifth Brother’s voice.

Kaioshi woke up with a start, the voice so thick that it chimed in his ears like rolling thunder with the addition of a subwoofer. In extremely close proximity, Black Crocodile was staring at himself.

“Black Crocodile,” Kaioshi looked at him in amazement “what are you doing?”

“That’s what I’m asking you,” he said, “What are you trying to do by holding on to me?”

Kaioshi then realized that he was holding the black crocodile’s neck and asking for that sweet food from his mouth.

“What did you feed me?!”

“Glucose.” The man said as he got up and sat on the edge of the bed, still dragging the ceramic bowl in his hand “At times like this, it’s easiest to give you glucose to regain your strength.”

Kaioshi frowned:

“Waiting for me to thank you? Who did this to me…hurry up and disappear.”

“You can still be so arrogant after not eating for two weeks, watch out I’ll starve you to death.”

“Instead of becoming a perverted uncle’s toy in your public house, you should have gotten me killed earlier.”

The man smiled slightly:

“Saying such things at such a young age, you really don’t know how to value life.”

“Give me food.” Kaioshi demanded directly “Give me food quickly or I’m really going to die.”

“Good,” the man duh a mouthful of glucose “It tastes so good, sweet and refreshing. How about this: you hold my neck and kiss me like you did just now, and I’ll feed you the glucose. How’s that for an idea?”

“Dream on.”

“By the way, how’s that fifth brother of yours a good kisser? Does he have the same touch as me?”

Kaioshi froze for a moment—of course he hadn’t done anything like that with his fifth brother, not even a shoulder to hold on to, fifth brothers existed like family, who would do that with a family member.

Kaioshi looked away from him:

“Fifth Brother is not disgusting like you.”

The man stroked his jaw and kept quiet as a long silence fell over the room.

Kaioshi turned back to look at him, a strange signal was flashing in his eyes, and though he didn’t know why, Kaioshi instinctively felt danger:

“What are you thinking…what are you going to do…”

The boss then smiled slightly:

“Let’s make a deal.”

“What kind of deal?”

“Remember what I told you?” The boss looked at him, “I said, ‘If you can get out of the Desire Mansion, I’ll allow you to go to school.'”

“Of course I remember. I don’t suppose you’ll go back on your word.”

He shook his head:

“What we said before is null and void, let’s make a new deal–this one is simpler for you.”

“What…”

The boss then sat up straight and told him seriously:

“Go to bed with me until I’m satisfied. That way, I’ll let you go back to school.”