Ko-chan’s Chronicles

Some hours later, Matsuko took me downstairs to have a discussion with the others. She sat down on the couch and placed me on her lap. I saw Asami in the corner, still bound and muzzled and looking more deflated than ever. Hinari was sitting on the couch, bound and naked and blushing while Sakari had her arm around her shoulder. Naruyo looked the same as usual, sketching in her book.

"Ma-chan, Hinari-chan looks so cute, are you going to keep her like this from now on?" Sakari blurted out excitedly when Matsuko sat down.

"I told you, it's only for training!" Hinari tried to move away but Sakari held her tightly.

"So cute, huh? Are you saying you'd like to join her?" Matsuko looked on with a joking grin.

"Oh, you'd do that for me? How nice!" Sakari jumped at the offer in a way no one was expecting

Matsuko was stunned for a second "...Is that so? Well come over here then."

Sakari jumped straight up off the couch and came over to where Matsuko was sitting with me on her lap. Matsuko reached out and in a second Sakari was bound and naked just like Hinari.

"When Hinari is done with her training, she can release you both. Now go sit down" Matsuko seemed exasperated by this permanently horny friend of hers.

Sakari sat down next to Hinari and leaned her head onto her shoulder "Now, we're like sisters, Hinari-chan!"

"Go away, don't touch me, you'll rub your horniness off on me." Hinari shifted down the couch, while Sakari chased her to the other end.

"Carried Ko-chan? Can't walk?" Naruyo looked up with a note of concern.

Matsuko looked a bit triumphant "You could say that." As she exposed the fact that we were playing "games" my face turned red and I buried it into her shoulder.

Sakari couldn't take a hint and said the quiet part out loud "So, you played so hard with Ko-chan that her legs are weak and she can't walk anymore? I'm so jealous! Why couldn't it be me!"

I looked over at Sakari with extreme annoyance, but I was currently unable to admonish her.

"It's okay, Ko-chan, you know how Sakari is. It's nothing personal. She is always horniest right after she's experienced some improvement in power." Matsuko rubbed my head.

Sakari noticed something weird and went in for the kill, "So, little Ko-chan can't talk back right now, huh? How cute~"

"Ko-chan was being a little too cute, so she's being punished for a bit." Matsuko announced my current restraint to the rest of them, earning me a look of pity from Hinari, and a look of gloating from Asami.

Sakari continued "And, based on how much she's fidgeting and shifting around, it must be one hell of a punishment... I'm envious again!"

Now I kicked at Matsuko's legs and glared at her, causing her to laugh and finally relent "Fine, fine you can have your voice back, but play nice." I could feel the vibrators fade and the feeling of telepathy return.

"If you're so horny, why don't you do something useful for once instead of just cracking jokes, Sakari!" I lashed out at her for her earlier teases.

"Oh, is that a dare? Just what useful things can I do to Ko-chan, hmm?" She continued to tease until she saw Matsuko's unfriendly glare and immediately changed topics.

"So how's your training going, Ko-chan?" Sakari coughed and tried to act innocent.

"Hey, um.. I have a question, actually." I spoke up about what was on my mind. "Earlier My Lady called me an easy mark. I've also heard a bunch of students at school calling me an easy mark at various times. What does it mean?"

Hinari and Sakari seemed to take psychic damage from such an innocent sounding question coming from me. Asami looked like she was about to burst into hysterical laughter, while a pair of arms hugged me from behind.

"Oh boy...How do I explain this one? You know, Ko-chan-" Matsuko stumbled around the issue but Sakari jumped straight to the end.

"It means you get tricked easily, Ko-chan. You've been tricked so many times since you came here that I can't even count them. But here's the best part, Ko-chan. Do me a favor, please. Will you explain your name to me?"

"Didn't I explain it before when we met? My name is Kogamo, Ko means 'little', and Gamo means 'duck', put together, it means 'Little Duck' like the one my mother saw when she had me." I explained like I had done hundreds of times over my life.

"But Ko-chan, If you read it this way, Ko means 'young girl' and Gamo means 'easy to trick', then you put it together and it says 'Young girl that's easy to trick'. Isn't this name just amazingly perfect?" Sakari, with no sympathy at all, said it in the bluntest way possible.

"That...wait...that..." I couldn't believe it.. My mind was stuck on pause and wouldn't continue processing thoughts.

Matsuko hugged me again while laughing "Ko-chan, Ko-chan, wake up, everyone's name has alternate meanings."

After an unknown amount of time, my brain rebooted and I was able to think again "Why is it like this! Am I fated to be played around with my entire life?"

Everyone's eyes said yes, but their mouths said some fake words...

Matsuko said into my ear. "Don't worry, I'll protect you from these wolves and jackals." Which did make me feel better. Of course I didn't see Hinari's eyes which read "Matsuko. You're the worst of all of us!"

"So, who exactly was calling you this at school?" Matsuko dragged the topic in a different direction to keep her extreme hypocrisy from being exposed.

"Um, it was all those people that always followed me around and said nice things in my ear. Someone called them 'the fan club' once, I think?" I tried to remember who it was exactly, but things get fuzzy when I try to remember due to all the words and headpats.

"Oh, them again, huh?" Sakari seemed especially interested in this. "So they want to see an easy mark, do they?"

"Sakari? What do you mean by that?" What she was saying was a bit confusing.

"Oh, don't worry, Ko-chan. It's nothing, I'm just planning something useful, after all." Sakari dodged the issue.

"Alright, Ko-chan, you must be getting tired after working so hard today, shall we get to bed?" Matsuko didn't wait for my answer and stood up. I tried to answer but she had shut off my telepathy and all I could do was allow myself to be carried away.

* * *

"I think I understand, My Lady. I can gain a new kind of power when there's something I want to do, but can't." The next morning, I laid in bed staring into Matsuko's eyes.

"Oh, are you going to come up with a new way to get out of your costume again?" Matsuko smiled back at me.

"I already did that! You stole it! That power doesn't work anymore!" Every time she brought it up it felt like she was mocking me.

"It works just fine, Ko-chan, but only when I use it. After all, I can't just let you escape from a cage I made, can I? It would ruin my pride as the world's greatest cage maker. Surely you have another idea to escape, though?" She continued to push my buttons.

"I'm trying! I've got a new idea I've been working on. Inside me, I found another me. A very tiny Kogamo. She can move around just like me. Look." I released the tiny version of me made out of black light that I had discovered after growing used to my body. It floated around in the air and twirled like a little figure skater.

Matsuko looked stumped again. "...You just...discovered this while thinking about new powers?"

I smiled "I was thinking about how to escape, even if you stole my magic circle, so I thought, maybe if I want to move around unhindered, I could ignore my body and move around like this."

Matsuko stared in disbelief. "When this appeared, it didn't hurt or anything?"

I shook my head "No, at the start it was hard to move it, since it felt like it was part of me, but then I decided I wanted it really badly, and it started to move freely. Aren't you proud? I escaped again, you see! Even if you can lock up my body, my spirit still flies free~"

"He he he, I finally beat My Lady for the first time~" I felt amazing. It wasn't that I didn't like Matsuko, or didn't like that she kept me locked up, but the fact that she was always the one tricking me, no matter what I said or did, hurt my pride a bit. I may be a 'Young girl that is easy to trick' but I won't go down without a fight. I will prove to Matsuko that I am worthy of being by her side. I can also trick people!

Matsuko admired my spirit body wholeheartedly. "Seriously... This girl, she already reached the spirit body phase in just a few days. Even the ancient fossils in my family spent hundreds of years to accomplish this, and it was accompanied by agonizing, soul-crushing pain as you tear your spirit away from your physical body."

Matsuko pulled me into a hug, "Truly, my Ko-chan is the brightest star in the sky. If those ancestors back at the family heard about this, they would tear all their hair out in frustration. I almost want to take you back right now just to show you off."

"He he, tell me more about how great I am, I can take it" I fished for more compliments.

Matsuko's tone changed as she released me, "But, little Ko-chan, do you think you're the only one who can do this?"

From within Matsuko's chest flew out a tiny Matsuko with flaming white hair and tiny white phoenix wings.

"Tiny Matsuko, how beautiful... so you already knew about this kind of thing..." I sensed an ethereal kind of beauty from the tiny flaming Matsuko.

I approached her spirit body with my own and touched her cheek.

"Can I touch you like this? I feel like we're becoming connected in more ways than one.." I smiled softly as I felt her spirit through mine.

Matsuko held out a hand to cup the cheek of my physical "I have a lesson for you. Are you ready to receive it?"

"What do you mean? A lesson?" I was confused, and didn't know what she referred to.

The small Matsuko suddenly embraced the tiny Kogamo. A second later, they were both engulfed with flame. I felt pain, like my spirit itself was burning. It felt like an eternity, but then it disappeared like it was never there.

When the pain disappeared, the flames covering the spirit bodies disappeared as well. I gaped at the sight before my eyes. The white flaming Matsuko looked much more feeble and transparent, like it had exhausted itself greatly. It quickly retreated back into Matsuko's chest. What it left behind was the tiny Kogamo made of black light, but now she was adorned with white flaming garments. To be more specific, she was wearing a white flaming tutu, wings, boots, and a mask. She was wearing an exact copy of the outfit I was wearing.

"Wait.. what just happened? I feel..." I was confused, and I suddenly felt different than I did before.

Matsuko smiled weakly. "Here's the lesson. A spirit body is weak, in fact it's a huge weakness. You should never reveal it to anyone else, because they can cause immeasurable damage to your spirit with a single attack."

"I...was...attacked by My Lady?" I didn't understand what just happened but I felt cold suddenly.

"Ha ha, Of course not. If I had attacked, you wouldn't be here right now. Instead, I've marked you as mine, body and spirit. Now you can't escape, forever." Matsuko seemed overwhelmingly satisfied with herself.

"Then that means..." My spirit body twisted this way and that but the white flaming tutu was like a brand that I could never get rid of. I could feel a new feeling inside me. I could feel that I was owned on the deepest possible level, in a way that was impossible to escape.

"T..this feeling...its...so tight...my whole spirit feels constricted..." I suddenly felt like my entire being was restrained.

Matsuko watched me as I grappled with my new state of existence. "You should bring this back inside. Like I said, it's dangerous to let anyone see it. Of course, your loved ones are an exception. And, let me just say, you have the cutest spirit body that ever existed, with the cutest little tutu and wings."

"Ah, wait! You can't just ambush me like this!" I was caught off guard while I was focusing on making my spirit body try and fight against the restraints. Eventually I gave up and returned my spirit body to my chest.

"Wait! This means.. Wahhh, my victory... I finally defeated you... but it all got turned around in the end and I suffered the biggest defeat in my life..." I cried in frustration.

Matsuko smiled sweetly "Ko-chan, you know you don't have to defeat me to be worthy of being at my side, don't you? You are already here, and no one else can take your place. You couldn't leave me even if you wanted to, because your spirit belongs to me now. You should just accept your fate."

The words seemed to seep into my heart and fill the gaps. "I..belong..to you..."

Little blows on my ear sent shivers down my spine and we spent another heart pumping night alone.