2026-08-11: Yua Resists
- Cutscene: Yua Resists
- Cast: Yua Ijuuin, Kimitake Ijuuin
- Where: Kimitake's Residence, Konan
- OOC Date: 2026-08-11
- IC Date: Dec 23 2012 (backdated)
- Summary: Yua cooked dinner for Captain Shimazu, when Kimitake hosted him in his home... but when all was said and done, she tried to draw a boundary with Kimitake. He does not take her desire to stop liaising with the Blacksite well, threatening to use revenge pornography to further alienate her and Miho from their family. Yua almost divulges her own recordings -- but his hairtrigger temper reminds her what's at stake.
- Content warning: Blackmail, physical abuse, references to to sexual abuse
Once they've waved off Captain Shimizu, after he visited Kimitake's home for a delicious Christmas meal cooked by his wife, praising his subordinate for the contacts in research he'd made...
... Yua turns to Kimitake, in the silence which follows.
"Even if he's happy... Saturday was the last time," she tells him, then, quiet yet firm. "I won't debase myself for you any longer. If you force me, I... I'll tell!" Her hands curl to fists, as she looks up to him with determination burning in her eye.
"Hm." Kimitake -- who did, indeed, have a few drinks over dinner -- scowls. "An Ijuuin woman ought to have some steel to her. You behaved yourself around the Captain, so I won't punish you for that." Still, he steps closer -- Yua shifting back in fear, despite herself -- though all he does is pull out his phone. He flicks through it, a little, and turn it to let her see the photo of Yua, in a state of undress. The horror on her face strikes her dumb, as he flicks to a video, plays it --
And she hears that woman's voice asking, "Dear me, what would your husband think?"
And she hears her dull, cowed voice reply: "I couldn't care less about him."
Yua remembers saying more -- about how he was just using her, and how that woman insisted her disloyalty was why she needed help -- but the clip cuts at the most incriminating moment of her answer, leave aside her state of undress.
"... if you tell them, who will they believe?" He wonders, calmly. "Did you think Konishi-san wouldn't send me the pictures...?"
"I --" In anger and flushing shame, Yua almost forgets herself, thinking of the recording hair comb in her bun. "I have proof, too, so--!"
... in the end, it's Kimitake's need to punish her which interrupts the victory she might have handed him, as he grabs her by the shoulder to push her back against the front door. "What have you done?" He demands, and the impact -- and Yua's yelp -- is audible. "Tell me!"
Yua knows, deep to her bones, that she won't survive if she tells him, the danger of her defiance looming over her in the flesh. That she thinks quickly is a testament to her hunger to survive. "A--a rape kit," she chokes out, instead. "I got it done this time... I got proof. S-so, I... I can prove..."
"Is that it?" Kimitake almost looks disappointed, as he releases her, and she reaches back to steady herself against the sideboard. "All that proves is your infidelity, whore. Even so... I'll arrange for it to disappear. Tch," he shakes his head, stepping back. "You made me lose my train of thought... if you tell, I'll anonymously release those images to all the usual pornography sites. Even if they believe you... you'll have destroyed their reputation tenfold, after this. You'll not only have caused shame in the family... you'll have shamed the family in the eyes of the world."
Yua is quiet, trembling, as she looks down.
"You'll go where I tell you to go," Kimitake says, after granting her a moment to process, "when I tell you to go there, or Miho will be the one to answer for your loose morals. How do you think she'll cope with not seeing, it, anyway? Every time I've greeted her warmly, and she's welcomed me into your home... do you really think she'll feel safe enough to do something decent for once in her life and get married? It's pretty selfish, forcing her to narrow her attention down to you... especially if you run home right after this. You'll interrupt."
Yua spends the twenty third with Kimitake, Miho spends it with Tomoki... that was their arrangement. Letting them work out some more about their own affection in the home, since he'll come and live with them...
"Don't say mean things about Mimi," Yua says, and through the tears in her eye, her voice sounds reedy. "Leave her alone!"
"What I do to her is entirely up to you," Kimitake explains, quite calm. "So I do hope you'll see reason and stop saying such transgressive things."
"... I understand," Yua says, quietly, bowing her head. "Please... excuse me."
At least having a room gives her a place to cry, so she can get it all out of her system.