I only had pity for him. I looked at him and asked "What was your old name?" He blinked at me in confusion. I asked him the question again. "What are you talking about? Were you not paying attention to my story? We got our names for proving our worth and surviving the final test!" he snapped in annoyance. I shook my head and said "I heard all that. I wanted to know what you were called before that". "I was rank 16. We went by our ranks when we got them". "You got them at age 14, right?" I asked for clarification. He nodded as if he did not understand what I was getting at. "What were you called before age 14? How were you apart from the other twenty of you that were there?" I continued. He scoffed. "If someone wanted me, they pointed to me or picked me up. They were not at all shy in taking us places and checking on us". My mouth fell open. "What's your name now?" I whispered as my voice failed me in my shock. He pointed to himself proudly with a smirk. "My name is Chien. Isn't it nice name? Remember it!" he said.
The word "chien" was the French word for "dog". I knew this from my high school elective. I had a sneaking suspicion that I was almost scared to have confirmed. "What were the names of the the other comfort members with you in the group? I think you said ranks... 7 and 9?" I asked with hesitation. He smiled warmly and said "You were listening after all. 7 is Chat and 9 is Souris". I was fearing that. They were named Cat and Mouse. I looked at him and said "Do you even like being a Protector? I don't think you've been treated too well". He looked at me as if I grew two heads. "It's my job. I was trained to fight from the day I could hold a sword. I've trained with Souris and Chat in being a comfort man for our unit since the end of the test two years ago". "And in all this time, no one's even so much has touched your dick! Where do you get your "comfort"!?" I snapped at him and his eyes went wide. "We-we were told that it was unbecoming to use our dicks. We didn't earn it. We get off using our asses just fine anyway" he waved me off.
Hearing that, I couldn't back down. "Hell no! You're not telling me that in 18 years, you have never even once thought to masturbate with your cock!" I yelled. He looked defensive. "Why do that when it feels even better in my ass!? It's fine and normal!" I shook my head sadly and he looked confused before he snapped. "What!? Why are you looking like that? I can break you in half! How the fuck are you pitying me!?" I looked him in the eye. Slowly, and with pain in my voice, I said "Has it really not entered your mind? If it feels so good only using your ass, why do all the others use their dicks to fuck the three of you?" He looked at me in indignation and was going to say something. I stopped him with a hand and said "And don't talk about honor or rank! We already went over that you three practically failed the test. If using your ass was a high honor, you wouldn't be getting it. So why can they do it and not you?" He closed his mouth and began to think. As he sat here in silence tears spilled down his face. He didn't even notice them as he turned to me.
With a wounded look, he said "You don't know a single thing about me! How the fuck do you think you are to say that shit. I could gut you right here and leave". I stood up and said "But you won't. You don't have the answers and no one else is going to be able to talk through this with you". Chien hung his head in shame and screamed in pain as he clutched his skull. "You just ruined my whole life" he groaned. "Why don't you just quit?" I asked him and he looked at me in confusion. "What?" he asked. I facepalmed. "C'mon. The conditioning couldn't be that deep! You must have heard of at least one of the other Protectors retiring or quitting. Just do that". He looked at me with a piercing look. I felt my breath catch in my throat. "If I did that, what was everything for!" he snapped at me. "Could you run away from the facility you were in?" I asked. He looked at me in horror. "What do you mean? If I could 'run away'?" he repeated. "I wasn't there. I don't know. Could you, or not?" Chien closed his eyes as he breathing became erratic.
