Honoka woke up and looked around to see where she was. She saw that she was in some type of cellar. She tried to get up but something pulled her back. She looked behind her and saw that she was handcuffed to a pipe. Honoka struggled a little but soon gave up since she couldn't free herself on her own. Honoka notice that her clothes were different as well. She was wearing a grey tank top that looked like a training bra and a short grey miniskirt. She saw that there were shoes in the corner of the room. She saw that they were old white Mary Jane shoes. Honoka saw that she wasn't even wearing socks so the ground felt cold.

"Where am I?" Honoka asked herself

The last thing that she could remember was being ambushed by a thief in her own home. Honoka realized that she had just been kidnapped. She started to panic and wondered if anyone knew that she was taken. Honoka tried to free herself again but no matter what she did she couldn't break free. Honoka was started to feel despair because the situation that she was in seemed to be hopeless for her. Honoka started to cry and the tears started go down her face. Honoka was scared and hungry. She didn't know what this thief wanted her for but she knew that it wasn't anything good.

Honoka heard the door open. She looked up and saw that the man from before was coming down the stairs. Honoka remembered that the man's name was Almondo. The man was now standing in front her.

"Hello Honoka, how are you?" Almondo asked

"What do you want with me?" Honoka asked

"You're an idol and we need you for our plans" Almondo said

"What plans?" Honoka said

"Basically we're gonna use you so we can capture some people and sell them" Almondo said

Honoka's eyes went wide when she heard what this man was gonna make her do.

"You're a human trafficker!" Honoka said

"That's right and you're gonna help us" Almondo said

"There's no way I'm helping you do something inhuman" Honoka said

"You don't really have choice because of the situation that you're in" Almondo said

"I'm not gonna help you!" Honoka repeated

"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way" Almondo said

Almondo undid the cuffs but she made sure to keep a keep a strong grip on her so she couldn't struggle so much. Honoka's wrist were shackled to a chain that was hanging from the ceiling and her shackled to a ball and chain so that she couldn't kick her. With Honoka properly secured, Almondo brought out a whip and Honoka was trembling in fear.

"Please let me go!" Honoka begged

"Not gonna happen. Now it's time for your punishment" Almondo said

Almondo started to whip Honoka and Honoka was screeching in pain because it hurts her so much. After what felt like hours the torture finally stopped. Honoka had even more tears in her eyes than she did when she was crying on the floor earlier.

"Do you change your mind yet?" Almondo asked

"I can't help you do something so terrible" Honoka said

Honoka got whipped again and it hurt even more than the first time. The whipping lasted longer than the first session. When Almondo stopped he saw that the blood from Honoka's lacerations were dripping down to the floor. The tears were falling to the floor as well. Honoka was in so much pain right now and she didn't want to go through another round of flogging. She had no choice but to agree to Almondo's terms.

Almondo actually got a whip for the second whipping session. The whip was covered in old nails and that was going to make the second whipping session a lot worse than the first one.

Honoka's cries of pain were music to his ears. He was enjoying the torture that he was putting Honoka through. After he was done he decided to move on to the main course. He started to strip her of her clothing. Honoka was now in her undergarments but those were removed next and she was nude in front of her kidnapper.

Almondo soon took off all of his clothes and stood in front of her with a sadistic smile on his face. Honoka looked at him with a look of horror on her face. She knew what this man was going to do to her and she tried to beg him not to do it.

"Please no! Anything but that!" Honoka begged

"You should've thought about that before you refused to cooperate with me and now you're paying the price" Almondo

"Please don't do this! I'll help you! Please don't it!" Honoka begged

"It's too late for regrets" Almondo said

He plunged himself in her and that caused Honoka to scream in agony. She was being raped by her kidnapper and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

It's been a few days since her kidnapping and she was being tortured in almost every way. She was restrained most of the time and when she was locked up her restraints were almost always different. It went from rope to duct tape to chains. There were times where she was gagged with tape and sometimes she would have some type of ball gag in her mouth. Almondo would force himself on her several times and the pain was still intense. Honoka was broken and she doubted that anyone would come to rescue her. Almondo came down and looked at his broken toy. She was suspended in the air, spread-eagle, by some chains.

"Well, do you want to help me now?" Almondo asked

"I'll help you" Honoka muttered

"I'm sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you" Almondo asked

"I said I'll help you" Honoka said

"That's better. I'm gonna leave you like this for the rest of the day while I plan the events" Almondo said

Almondo left and Honoka was alone again. There were lacerations all over her body and the results of her torture.

"Someone please save me" Honoka begged

Meanwhile the rest of muse went to Honoka's house to look for clues on where she might be.

They were inside Honoka's house and they could tell that someone was going through their things. Umi and Kotori decided to investigate Honoka's room. When they entered her room they were shocked at the scene. Honoka's room was a mess which was a sign that she put up a struggle against her unknown assailant. Umi and Kotori were rummaging through the mess to see if there was anything that they could find. Umi managed to find something.

"Honoka's phone" Umi muttered

Kotori also managed to find something but what she found made her go deathly pale. She found a syringe. The syringe was obviously used to drug her to make sure that she couldn't put up much of a struggle. Kotori found something else and it was blood. Kotori was now very scared that her childhood friend was severely hurt and not receiving any treatment. The rest muse came up to see what it was that they found. When Umi and Kotori told them what they found they were starting to worry that their leader was in lot more trouble than they thought.

"There's something I don't understand" Nico said

"What don't you understand, Nico?" Eli asked

"This so called robber could've picked any of us, but out of all of us she picked Honoka. Why did she pick Honoka?" Nico asked

"Are you jealous that she didn't pick you as a target?" Maki asked

"Of course not! I'm just wondering why" Nico said

"They must've picked her because she's the leader. She was targeted because of she's our leader" Nozomi said

"What are they gonna do with her?" Rin asked

"I don't know but I do that we need to find her as soon as possible" Eli said

"But where should we start looking?" Hanayo asked

"May the syringe that Kotori found can give us a clue" Umi said

"Do you really think that it can help us locate her?" Kotori asked

"Any clue can help even if it's a very small clue with very little information" Maki said

"Maki's right. Let's go back to school and analyze this. Maybe there's a hidden logo on it somewhere" Eli said

The others agreed and went back to school to analyze the weapon that was used to drug Honoka. Muse hoped that this would work because this syringe was their only lead right now.