Yuki finally stands up to Kuzan after being kidnapped and Kuzan's manipulation goes higher...but leaves her undeterred.
Manipulated by a Monster
Yuki groans softly as she slowly opens her eyes, blinks them and finds herself in a different dark room and when she looks around, she notices that she's back in the same place that she was being held by Kuzan and she didn't want to stick around any longer and before she even ran off, she finds herself stuck and tries to move around, but she looks down and finds herself not only half-stripped from her clothes, but tied with some heavy chains and she found herself in that same position again.
Yuki groans at this and said, "Not again..."
Just then, the door opens and she sees Kuzan coming in with half of his surviving crew and from the looks of this, this was no good and Yuki knew that this was the point where enough was enough and as Kuzan came towards her, he looked very furious and filled up with rage and he said, "You should never had left me without my permission!"
"I didn't need your stupid permission! I left on my own terms because I can't stand to be with you!" Yuki exclaimed, furiously.
"How dare you talk back at me! I own you and I can do whatever the hell I want with you!" Kuzan shouted back.
Yuki growls in response, directly to his face and said, "You don't own me. I'm sick of being your little rag doll that gets played with or thrown around and free to do whatever you want with me in your own free will!"
Kuzan slaps her straight in the face afterwards because he was not gonna tolerate being talked back by her and he snarls at her and said to her, "I should kill you right now. And for you to tell anyone about what you did to me...you have crossed the line."
Yuki grunts and gained enough strength to stand up, despite being chained by him and said, "You crossed the line when you tried to rape me one year ago."
"I still might." Kuzan growled.
"If I wasn't in chains, I would whack you in the head right now." Yuki said, with an angry snarl.
"I dare you to do so." Kuzan replied, then proceeds to beating her up, slapping her and pinning her down to the wall, with his claws digging through her shoulder, causing Yuki to groan in agonizing pain, but then she used her toe claws to strike him in the ankles, making Kuzan roar in pain.
Kuzan kept beating her down and punching her in the face with his brass knuckles and brutally attacking her until she's black and blue, but Yuki spat out her blood as she stands up, still facing Kuzan and she said to him, "You can't rule over me...or any other girl."
"I can do whatever I want! Besides...your family should be dead right now. They probably died because of you and that they wished you were never born! Had you stayed with me and done what I wanted you to do, none of this would've happened!" Kuzan roared.
Just from hearing that her family was killed, Yuki did not want to believe every lie he could come up with and she said, "Lies! All lies! You're a liar!"
Then...he drops the biggest lie he could ever think of...
"Oh yeah? Well, I killed Ikuto. I wanted to make sure he would never live to see you again!" Kuzan said, with an evil smirk.
That completely shattered Yuki's world when she heard that her one true love was killed by Kuzan and even though it was a lie, she felt that this was the most painful feeling she ever felt before and she growled, "You're lying!"
"Am I?" asked Kuzan, when he shows her a little piece of Ikuto's chain pendulum, which 'confirms' his so-called murder.
Yuki felt completely stunned and saddened by this as she got down on her knees and just cried, leaving her totally devastated and entertaining for Kuzan with a cold smirk on his face and he said to her, "He got what he deserved. He's a rapist and a murderer."
He walks away from the cell, but not before looking at her and saying, "When I get back, you're gonna get the punishment of your life."
After that, he closes the door and locks it shut and afterwards, he walks away and brings out his sword and said, "She's so easy to fool. When that Ikuto actually does come, he'll be killed for real."
Back at the cell, Yuki was crying, mourning over Ikuto's death...but a deep instinct tells her that Kuzan's lying and that Ikuto's alive and that he will find her and she went from devastated to enraged about that lie and she swore that she will escape from this prison and find him still alive. She struggled to break through those chains as she tried to break herself free from there, but then she realized that she could use her claws to unlock them and as she did so, all of the chains fell down to her ankles, prompting her to be free and she immediately got her vest and pants, puts them back on and checks to see the coast was clear and luckily, there was no one walking around and she unlocks the door with her claws and escaped quickly.
As Yuki runs off to find escape, she heard a couple of footsteps and scuffling from a distance and as it got closer, she slowly pops her head up and sees Kira fighting off a couple of guards, trying to stop her and she wanted to get her attention, but not from the guards.
But then...Yuki found herself caught with that teenage panther Rex with a sword and she looked frightened by his muscular tall build and fears the worst that he might actually kill her, but as she looked into the panther's eyes, he didn't look fierce nor ready to kill. He was really scared to do this because he had shed too much blood before and just when she was gonna talk to him, in comes Kira, knocking him out.
"Run, Yuki! I'll handle this guy!" Kira shouted, as she fought with Rex.
I executed this next chapter in my head that Kira thinks that the young prisoner panther was one of Kuzan's army members. See how the next chapter turns out!