※ This time, it's from the point of view of one of the classmates, Nakagawa Hiroshi.
"Hakase......Hakase......"
"What? Haneda-kun......"
Haneda Naoto, who's locked up with me, keeps talking to me from the cell next door, and it's annoying.
"What do you think happened?"
"I don't know, but we should rest while we can."
"So even you don't know some things, Hakase......"
"There's a ton I don't know......Anyway, I want to rest, so stop talking to me."
"Sorry......but I'm scared. What's gonna happen to us......hey......"
Even when I push him away pretty coldly, Haneda keeps whining and talking to me.
Right now I can't handle my own feelings, so it's seriously annoying.
So, I switch the feeling of 'annoying' from Haneda talking to me into a feeling of 'don't care.'
Then Haneda's voice, which used to grate on my ears and irritate me, stops bothering me, like bird songs or the sound of a river or cars driving far away.
The annoyance toward Haneda is gone, but another complaint swirling in my chest hasn't gone away.
The soldiers' abuse of us, which I thought would go on forever, got cut off by a sudden commotion.
I don't know the details, but it seems several soldiers were killed, and nobody knows who did it or how.
The abuse stopped, and we were put back in our cells with the collars still on, and that's where we are now.
Me, Nakagawa Hiroshi, inherited my small parents' blood, so I was the shortest in my class ever since kindergarten.
Maybe it's my body type that doesn't build muscle even when I exercise, because even in high school I was mistaken for a middle schooler, or even an elementary school kid.
But I also inherited a smart brain from my dad, who's a university professor, so I always stayed at the top of my class without even trying, and people started calling me 'Hakase.'
Thanks to that, every time there was a test, I just had to tell the punks the points they needed to not fail, and they accepted me as useful, so I didn't get bullied.
When I got summoned to this world too, the first thing I thought about was how to protect myself.
The magic I got was 'Sense Conversion,' which can, for example, turn the feeling of spicy into the feeling of sweet.
I can even turn pain into pleasure, but it only works on me, not on other people.
And even if I can reduce pain, it doesn't heal wounds or restore fatigue, so I didn't think it'd be very useful in a fight.
When we split into the group joining the Evil Dragon Subjugation and the group staying at the castle to look for work, I chose to stay behind without hesitating.
One reason I chose to stay was that thanks to the fat otaku guy hyping things up, it looked like we wouldn't get treated the worst, but I read that situation wrong.
The two guys and five girls who chose to stay behind were made into playthings for the soldiers that very night.
I never even imagined that I, a guy, would be a target of sexual abuse too.
The merciless abuse brought intense pain, and to endure it, I used my Sense Conversion magic.
I had a collar on that limited magic use, so I couldn't use magic that affected the outside, but magic that worked inside my body worked fine.
And confused by a situation I never imagined, and probably wanting to escape the intense pain, I chose to turn pain into pleasure.
Right after, a powerful sexual pleasure shot through my body, and I ejaculated.
In that moment, I woke up to being a total masochist.
Pain became ecstasy, and I got drunk on myself screaming, and I came over and over.
The soldiers found that funny, and the abuse escalated even more, and I sank into a swamp of perversion.
That abuse got suddenly cut off, so of course I'd have complaints.
But I also have to think about when we get freed from this place.
These guys seemed like they were gonna use us up, but someone showed up to stop that.
The girl who ran away on the first day doesn't seem to have been caught either, so it feels like the chance of us being freed has gone way up from zero.
If we do get freed, I have to be seen as the same rational, talented person as before, not a pervert who wants abuse.
If people found out about the kink I woke up to, and I managed to get back to Japan, there's no telling how I'd be treated.
The fact that I woke up to being a masochist must never be discovered.
Even now, traces of the abuse remain on my body, and they keep giving off a stinging pain.
If I use Sense Conversion, I can turn it into sexual pleasure, but this level of pain isn't nearly enough.
Intense pain like my body being torn apart, breathlessness that feels like death, feeling those directly and then converting them to pleasure, switching back and forth many times during the act.
The tremendous ecstasy born from swinging from the extreme negative to the extreme positive can only be gotten from abuse that should be called torture.
The fact that I'm a pervert who looks forward to that kind of thing must never be discovered.
So even if I'm happy about the current calm, I can't complain.
"Ah, I see......so I can just think of it as teasing play......"
"Hakase? Did you say something......?"
That was close...... Since coming to this world, I've been living in a cell, so I've been talking to myself a lot without meaning to.
If I said something unnecessary and my kink got found out, that'd be terrible.
"I just said my body hurts......"
"Right......just going to the toilet is painful now......ugh......"
Haneda's sobbing goes in my right ear, passes right through my head, and out my left ear.
What's he talking about, that pain from pooping feels good......I can't let those words slip out.
I repeated in my head that I'm a pitiful victim, and laid down on the filthy bed in my cell.
Trivia:
1. Hiroshi's 'Sense Conversion' magic not only reveals his masochistic tendencies but also highlights his survival instincts, as he uses it to endure abuse.
2. The sudden cessation of abuse and the unknown killer of the soldiers create a sense of uncertainty and hope for the captives, suggesting a potential turning point in their situation.
3. Hiroshi's internal struggle between maintaining his rational persona and hiding his newfound masochism adds a layer of psychological complexity to his character.
Notes:
• Nakagawa - Family name of Hiroshi Nakagawa, the short, intelligent classmate nicknamed "Hakase" for his academic prowess.
• Hiroshi - A short, intelligent classmate nicknamed "Hakase" due to his academic prowess. Inherited his small stature from his parents and his intelligence from his professor father. Possesses the 'Sense Conversion' magic, which he uses to turn pain into pleasure, revealing his masochistic tendencies.
• Haneda - Family name of Naoto Haneda, a classmate locked up with Hiroshi who frequently seeks reassurance from him.
• Naoto - A classmate locked up with Hiroshi. Anxious and frequently seeks reassurance from Hiroshi, whom he calls "Hakase."