Re: Welcome to Castle Pandemonium (Clara;Flayer)
"Well, actual angels are known for their ruthlessness." he stated plainly, though he wasn't much to talk when Clara knew of the lack of forgiveness angels had for the tainted. Their argument would have been simple, 'those children will grow and attack people once they transform. Letting them live allows lives to be ruined.' Everyone claims to be on the good side.
Shimei blinked at her commenting on buying his contract. "Wha-? I... I'm the one who suggested you do it! Goodness Clara, I wasn't subtle about wanting to leave! I've had so many patrons that..." he shook his head. "Nevermind..." he sighed, going silent until Clara asked his wages. "I always went for ten silver for a full course, and lesser amounts for everything else. One silver for a massage like the one I gave you. Though I was always paid sufficiently less of a cut than that, and had to try and persuade the customer to give me a little more to make ends meet." he sighed again. "Especially when dealing with recent conversions, women used to a society where men pay for women, this was incredibly difficult. I was used, abused, and mistreated like trash by ninety-percent of the women who came in there to 'enjoy' me. Often times leaving the room after they had their fun having me fulfill their every desire without a single tip from them. I had only the meager wage my former manager gave me before I waited for another customer with the purse to afford me and the want to tip me. Every day was a damned battle." he cursed.
Then, Shimei turned to Clara with an earnest face, taking her hands into his own soft palms. "Clara, would it be too much to ask to... Be used as a personal servant than a whore yet again? I promise to make you happy, I will become your concubinus if you would have me. To serve you and only you, at your beck and call. I ask not for marriage, nor to be seen as your equal. I only ask for peaceful servitude." Shimei begged. Under the circumstances, it wouldn't be out of place to actually strike Shimei for what he was asking. The situation, and the society Clara stood in saw Shimei as a slave and nothing more, despite his kitsune appearance. A male kitsune is just a mating partner for whoever takes him. Just a whore. To speak in such a way, Clara would understand that he was overstepping his station. Even wanting to become a concubinus rather than a whore was being rude to the owner, as it means he was basically assuming he is worth more to Clara than society says he is worth.
She'd also detect it on his soul, especially after having had sex. He was tainted with multiple signs of other souls, other mamono under the succubus curse. As women lost their hymen, men lose what is effectively called their purity. A close inspection of a man's soul will show that he's been touched (or not) by a mamono. To some, being the one to become the one and only mark is important. As far as marriage goes, or even becoming a personal sexual servant, or concubinus, Shimei would be considered tainted and useless. Too filthy to be anything sacred. And indeed, even a man raped by a mamono is sometimes considered no more for marriage.
