Chapter 27: Take Your Hand Off My Ass

Chapter 27: 27: Take Your Hand Off My Ass

The office building was deserted on Saturday evening.

The place was so dark and silent that it hardly seemed like the same building that bustled with people during the week.

Ed’s voice echoed through the first-floor lobby.

"I thought this office would suit you. What do you think?"

"Mm...! K-keep your voice down."

With no one around, every word seemed even louder.

"It’s fine. There’s no one here."

There was someone.

The security guard would still be here at this hour.

The desk was empty, perhaps because he was making his rounds, but there were clear signs that someone had been sitting there.

"This way."

"Ah..."

Whether he understood that or not, Ed put a hand on her shoulder and guided her forward.

She was walking into the office in a suit, with Ed beside her.

It felt like they were genuinely coming to work.

Even if this was only for pleasure.

Even if it would last only for the night.

This was too much...

Selena gathered her courage and stopped.

"...N-not here..."

Ed tilted his head.

"Couldn’t we go... somewhere else?"

Those were the only words she managed. She would accept almost anything else.

But doing it in their actual office was impossible...

Whether he understood how she felt or not, Ed scratched his head as though the problem were trivial.

"Mm. Then we don’t have a suitable office."

"There are plenty of other places. We don’t have to use this one."

"This is the only office I can enter."

He was practically announcing that he worked here.

...At this point, why bother covering his face at all?

"So let’s use this one. I think you’ll like it."

"..."

"Come on. We don’t have much time."

Ed grabbed her ass from behind.

"Ah!?"

"If you don’t move soon, the security guard may come back."

His hand squeezed and kneaded her through the skirt.

He was groping her like a pervert in the lobby of their office building.

Even if no one was here, the space was completely open!

He was sexually assaulting her in plain view...

"Mmh..."

"Are you coming?"

"...I’ll go. I’ll go, so this hand..."

Take your hand off.

That was what she should say.

But the words refused to leave her mouth.

Ed was touching her like a pervert.

Humiliating her with his hands...And it felt... good...♡

The strange discomfort of being touched against her will.

The strength of a man’s hand around her ass.

The fear that someone might be watching.

And the complicated fact that the man doing it was Ed.

...I can’t tell him to stop touching me.

"What about my hand?"

"..."

"Should I take it away?"

He continued squeezing.

This man...

He knew she couldn’t bring herself to tell him to stop.

He was playing with her on purpose.

She hadn’t thought Ed was like this.

He was unexpectedly good at handling women.

Or perhaps...

She was simply easy to handle.

"...No."

"Then let’s keep going."

In the end, she followed him toward the elevators with his hand still gripping her ass.

"I’ll scan us in."

Ed used his employee ID at the entry gate and led her through with him.

The card openly displayed Ed’s name and photograph.

"..."

Even after seeing it, she said nothing.

"You work in an office too, so a place like this must feel familiar."

"...It does."

Familiar was an understatement. This was her everyday life.

The lobby and corridor she crossed every morning. The elevators she waited for every day.

The only difference was that Ed was groping her ass while she walked through them.

"By the way, when are you going to start treating me as your subordinate?"

"...What?"

"I’ve been calling you Manager Selena for a while now."

"Ah..."

Right. That was the setting of the role-play.

His voice sounded exactly like Ed calling her Manager Selena at work.

Until now, it had barely felt like a game.

If she started treating him like her actual subordinate...

Would this still count as role-play?

Or would it simply become their ordinary relationship?

She might no longer be able to tell.

"What should I... call you?"

"I’m your subordinate. Whatever feels natural. Usually you’d add Mr. or use the person’s name, wouldn’t you?"

"..."

Was he asking her to request his name?

She did not want to.

If she asked his name here, she would be forcing him to reveal his identity completely...

"Not your given name... I’ll use your surname and rank."

"My surname and rank?"

"What is MonsterCam Guy’s surname? You can make one up."

That was the safest solution Selena could devise.

"Roth."

"..."

I told you to make one up.

Why would you give me your real surname, Ed...!

Did he truly want her to use his real name during the scene?

...That might be exciting too.

But if she did, she would never escape this.

This was her final line of defense.

She could not cross it...

"Then I’ll call you Employee Roth."

"Employee Roth. So I’m an employee. Understood."

"I’ll speak informally too."

"You should. You’re my manager."

"...Employee Roth."

It was the first time she had ever addressed Ed this way.

"Yes, Manager Selena?"

"I was only testing it."

...Ah.

Now it truly felt as though she were talking to Ed.

Alone with him in the office on a Saturday night.

While he continued kneading her ass...

"Take your hand off."

"What?"

"Your hand. Take it... off my ass."

She finally found the courage to say it.

She was his superior. Surely she could demand at least that much.

A subordinate had dared to put his filthy hand on his manager’s ass.

She should be able to tell him to stop...

"Manager Selena."

"...Yes?"

"I don’t think you’re in a position to say that."

"What...?"

"You were caught wandering naked in the street, and now I’m blackmailing you. Have you forgotten?"

"Wh-what are you..."

Startled, she turned toward him.

His sunglasses hid his eyes.

"...That’s the setting. What do you think?"

"Ah... The setting."

Of course.

It was only the setting.

For a moment, she had feared Ed was genuinely threatening her with what he knew.

But if it was only role-play...

Then she had no choice.

A manager blackmailed by her subordinate...

Her heart pounded again.

"I-it’s fine."

"Understood."

Ah...

What kind of blackmail would he use this time?

What perverted thing would he make her do in the office...?

Ding!

"First floor."

"Get in."

"...All right."

Selena struggled to contain her anticipation as she entered the elevator with him.

Once the doors closed, there would be no turning back.

No.

Perhaps she had crossed that river long ago.

"This office should work."

Ed spoke as though he had happened across a suitable room by chance.

Of course, it was their team’s office.

"Go in."

"...All right."

At this point, Selena had no choice but to obey him.

She was being blackmailed.

Even if this were not role-play, Ed could truly blackmail her if he chose.

He had taken so many photographs.

Videos too.

If Ed used them against her, could she escape? Could she refuse him?

...She wasn’t sure.

"This desk looks good. Plenty of space."

"..."

Selena stared at the desk he indicated.

Ed.

Even for you, isn’t this too much?

Still kneading her ass, he led her to the manager’s desk by the center window.

In other words, Selena’s own desk.

"You mean... here?"

"Yes, Manager Selena. It even says Manager. No idea whose desk it is."

Ed toyed with the nameplate attached to the partition.

<Manager — Selena Croft>

"..."

Her subordinate was touching her nameplate without permission, and she could not say a word.

This was not merely a night of informal speech.

Their entire hierarchy had reversed.

"Up we go."

"...!"

"Wow. Nice chair."

Now he sat in her chair as though it belonged to him.

The backrest creaked as he leaned fully into it.

Ed, haven’t you truly crossed the line now?

If he did this during work, she would have disciplined him severely.

But this was private. It was role-play.

She had no choice.

She stood demurely beside Ed while he behaved however he pleased.

"The manager’s desk really is nice. Plenty of room. You can put all sorts of things here."

"Mm... Is that so?"

"Employee desks are too cramped to do anything properly."

Was this what Ed had wanted to say?

Compared with what she feared, it was almost innocent. He only wanted to complain about desk space.

"Manager Selena."

"Y-yes?"

"That aside, it’s time for you to do what I tell you."

"What you tell me...?"

"I could always spread your nude pictures around the office, couldn’t I?"

"...A-all right. I’ll obey."

Answering him in this place made the threat feel real.

As though Ed were genuinely blackmailing her in her capacity as his manager.

...It excited her.

The insolent, domineering tone he used to blame her.

The casual way he invaded her place.

It felt as though she were falling to the very bottom.

Her heart pounded too hard for her to remain still.

"What... should I do?"

"What do you mean?"

"I-I agreed to obey you, Employee Roth. So what... do you want me to do?"

Even asking excited her.

Her heart would not settle because she was waiting to hear his order.

What will you make me do, Ed?

Will you force me to serve that cock again...?

But Ed answered with a mocking laugh instead.

"Do I have to tell you everything?"

"...What?"

"I’ll sit here. I want you to figure out how to entertain me."

"...How am I supposed to..."

"Explaining every detail isn’t sexy."

He wanted her to please him on her own?

That was not bad either, but...

She preferred being ordered and obeying.

"Once I’m turned on, I’ll decide what comes next."

"Once you’re... turned on?"

He tapped the front of his pants.

She understood.

He wanted her to make him hard.

Ed’s... real erection.

"...Gulp."

How could she arouse him?

Selena thought for a moment, then reached a decision and moved.

Ed glanced up in response.

Of course he had to look.

The manager he saw every day was undressing in front of him.

She lowered her suit jacket.

Then began undoing the buttons of her blouse.

"Haa... mm...!"

She was truly taking off her clothes in the actual office.

Her subordinate watched with a mocking smile.

She was undressing in front of him...!

"W-will this... do?"

Selena cautiously revealed her underwear.

Ed leaned back in her chair and looked her over.

"That’s all?"