I Thought It Was a Fairy Tale but the Genre Is Strange

Rapunzel (8)

Driven by lust, Gothel, watching the young Rapunzel, drooled like a beast before its prey. Terror and fear surfaced in Rapunzel’s eyes. No one to help her. A horrific, desperate situation she had to endure alone.

The one she thought was on her side had, rather, gifted her an unforgettable, disgusting experience.

“No, no!!! I said no!!!!”

A sharp scream echoed throughout the tower. Gothel’s massive arms move. The overwhelming weight of his fleshy legs and arms presses down on Rapunzel. Tears born of extreme disgust stream from Rapunzel’s eyes.

She cried out,

struggling and biting his flesh to get away, but Gothel, rather, enjoyed the situation.

“Eheheh! Yes, that’s it! Do more of that!! My princess!!!”

In an instant, the tower’s air shifted. Blinding golden light poured out from Gothel’s eyes. He frowned, shielding his face with his hands.

“Kuh! What, what is this!?”

An intense golden light that covered the whole room, no, the whole tower. The light endlessly radiated from Rapunzel’s hair. Hair strands writhing and creeping. As if possessing a will of their own, Rapunzel’s hair, strewn across the tower, was now directed at Gothel.

“Heh! Such vast magic power! Amazing! Did you even awaken a new power?! You could be used as a very good experiment!!”

A delighted smile on his face, Gothel began to chant a magic spell, as if to stop Rapunzel’s power.

“Shut up.”

A chilling, eerie voice. Gothel was startled by Rapunzel’s deep tone, which made his spine crawl and his hair stand on end. Golden strands of hair had gathered at his feet. Before Gothel could even use magic, the hair opened its maw and swallowed him whole.

The hair turned into sharp blades, easily cutting through Rapunzel’s shackles. Free, Rapunzel glared at Gothel with venomous eyes before flinching in surprise.

Her surprised expression slowly began to contort, then she was consumed by intense emotions. Rapunzel watched Gothel, swallowed by the hair, laughing in a defeated way. Her eyes burned with an unspeakable rage.

“Ha, haha… So that’s what it was?”

The mass of hair that swallowed Gothel twitched and then spat him out.

“Kaaack!”

The raw skin scraped against the floor, and Gothel let out a pained groan. Rapunzel sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at him with a chilling gaze.

“Funny. Very funny, Gothel.”

Rapunzel’s demeanor was drastically different. Gothel gulped, pushing himself up.

“Looks like you’ve awakened some new power. Princess, why don’t you test your new strength later, and we can finish the experiment we were doing first?”

“Good idea. Let’s start right away, then.”

*Snikt.* The sound of something being severed. A streak of light flashed in the air. It was a single strand of hair. Gothel tilted his head, as if something felt odd.

Blood gushed like a waterfall from his severed lower area. Gothel’s face twisted with pain in real-time.

“KYYYYaaaGGHH!!!!”

He clutched at his crotch, rolling around on the floor. With each roll, blood splattered the walls and the floor. Rapunzel smiled sweetly, caressing her hair.

“Cuts well, doesn’t it? Just one strand of hair, and the great grand wizard has his pathetic lower half severed like that.”

“Gghhh!! Rapunzel!! I raised you so kindly, and you dare do this to me!!!”

Still, as befitting the great wizard of the kingdom, Gothel used magic to stop the bleeding almost immediately and got to his feet. Only, his severed lower half didn’t grow back. Gothel trembled, glaring at Rapunzel like he wanted to kill her.

Rapunzel snickered as if Gothel was pathetic.

“You pervert, you talk too much. Do you know what my new power is?”

“Shut your trap!!! I’ll cripple you and then continue the experiment! I’ll cut off your limbs and make you my lab rat to obey me for the rest of your life!”

Flames erupted from both of Gothel’s hands, and a ball of fire formed. Without hesitation, he hurled the fireball towards Rapunzel’s legs.

*WHoooSH!*

A scorching wind engulfed the room. A hot blast and thick smoke spread. Gothel smiled, satisfied with his own power until he saw a faint silhouette in the smoke and flinched.

A few golden strands of hair shot out from the black silhouette and pierced through one of Gothel’s arms.

“KYYaaaGGHH!! My-my arm!!”

“Is that all you got? Huh? That’s so lame. Getting bit by a bug would hurt more.”

As the smoke cleared, Rapunzel stood revealed. Completely unscathed, not a scratch on her. She stepped gracefully off the bed, approaching Gothel, whose arm was impaled by her hair, rendering it useless.

“Ugh! Do you even know who I am?!”

A flash of blue light erupted from Gothel’s remaining good hand, engulfing Rapunzel. But his magic couldn’t pierce her hair. In retaliation, Rapunzel turned his other arm into a shish kebab with her hair as well.

“Ughhh!!!!”

Agonized, but whether from pride or ego, Gothel bit down on his lower lip until it bled, stifling his groans. Rapunzel met his gaze with cold eyes.

“Gothel, your magic is truly pathetic. Just like the weak desires you harbor.”

“Wh-what?”

“Just a desire to have a full head of hair. *Giggle*, that’s the most pathetic desire ever.”

At Rapunzel’s words, Gothel’s face flushed as red as a ripe apple.

“Y-you, you!!! H-how did you know that?!”

“I told you, I gained new abilities. I saw your memories. All of them, not the taste or firsthand experience, but I know what you’ve done. Even the reason you became a mage was just to regain your hair, lost from balding, right?”

“Sh-shut up! You cursed b*tch, what do you know?!”

“Using such petty superstitions, you locked me in this tower to steal my magical power? Truly pathetic. You could’ve at least had an ambition to conquer the world by stealing my power.”

*Shwish!* Countless thin strands of hair pierced Gothel’s thigh, exiting the other side of his flesh and embedding themselves into the floor.

“KYYYYaaahhh!!!!”

A desperate scream tore from Gothel’s mouth. Rapunzel, controlling her hair at will, spoke.

“Because of something so, so trivial, my life was ruined. Seeing your memories, I now realize. The people casually sing that horrible song, calling me a demon, and my royal parents wish for me to die.”

“Heh! Of course they do! You’re the demon itself that will destroy the world! Your immense power is the very evil force foretold!”

“So, you killed Merel?”

His one remaining, intact leg was now covered more densely than before with hair. Godel’s limbs were bound, unable to move, by the suffocating mass of it.

Just like when Meriel was murdered.

Godel’s face, soaked with tears and snot, was crumpled like a discarded piece of paper. Seeing him writhe in agony, Rapunzel spoke.

“I was such a fool. I thought I killed Meriel because I couldn’t control it. But it wasn’t that. It was you. You, who coveted my power, you, who only wanted hair, it was you who staged it like I was the one who killed her. Hahaha!”

Rapunzel let out a hollow laugh, covering her face with both hands.

“And I lived in so much regret and self-blame without knowing… ha. You shouldn’t have touched Meriel. If you had to torment someone, it should’ve been me. Why, why, why!!!”

Her voice was thick with uncontrollable rage. One by one, strands of hair slowly descended onto Godel’s body, beginning to pierce his flesh. Godel gritted his teeth and endured it, but his eyes were welling up with tears.

“You were that desperate for hair? Just that damn thing? Did you think you’d become handsome if you grew hair, you bald b*stard?”

“Shut up!!!!!”

Godel roared so loudly the tower seemed to tremble. Surprised by the leftover strength, Rapunzel’s eyes widened slightly.

“What do you know, you little wench, to be blathering like that! Yes! I want hair! A full head of hair! Do you even know the grief of losing my hair to the point of baldness while studying magic at just 15 years old?! Everywhere I went, I was met with contempt. People insulted and pointed fingers at me for not having hair!”

He spat as he yelled, clearly upset.

“Even after enduring all those harsh moments, all that remains for me is the status of a wizard, but my empty heart could not be filled by anything!!! No matter what I tried, no spell could bring back my hair! Until you were born, the prophesized one with immense power! So what’s wrong with using that power!”

“Do you really think it’s all about the hair?”

“What?”

Rapunzel moved closer, her face expressionless, and sniffed at him.

“Ah, the smell. I’ve always thought so, but you smell like garbage. Your face is like a flounder that’s turned human, and your body is so fat, looking at that disgusting blob of flesh makes me want to throw up everything I’ve eaten.”

“Wh, what are you saying.”

“Hair? Even without that you’re already a disgusting being. Do you understand? Do you think people hate you because you lost your hair? No. It’s because your existence, every moment of your life, is sickeningly repulsive. I want to puke.”

“N-no, I, I’m not like that!”

Gothell, trembling, his body wracked by Rapunzel’s brutal truth. His lips quivered, denying it, but he was already at her mercy.

Beside him, clumps of hair coalesced, transforming into the figures that haunted his past.

“Ugh, you’re a disgusting b*stard.”

“Hey, I told you not to wander around, didn’t I? You’re even more nauseating without hair.”

“Ew! Please get that hideous face of yours away!!!”

Gothell gasped, his mouth agape, unable to reply to the accusations. He was a mess, like someone trapped in a past trauma, unable to keep his head still.

“No, no!! This isn’t real!!”

Rapunzel whispered into his ear.

“Oh, but it is real. And starting tonight, you’re my test subject. I’ll make you beg for death. You ugly, grotesque man.”

A year later, Gothell met his end, his mind shattered, unable to endure Rapunzel’s experiments.