Reincarnated as a Femboy Slave - Chapter 219: Flying Fingers

... violently I tasted copper where I’d bitten clean through the inside of my cheek. Every muscle screamed at once, a full-body rebellion sparked by pain that refused to be localized, refused to be reasonable, refused to be ignored.

And yet...

I kept smiling.

I refused—absolutely refused—to let the expression falter, even as tears spilled down my face in hot, involuntary streams, my body responding to trauma with the sort of honesty my pride would never allow.

Even as ...