Chapter 4 Enter Master Suzuki

Chapter 4

Enter Master Suzuki

When Joel awoke some time later, he was hoping that he would find himself in his own bed, where the flash photos of half naked women decorated the walls of his bedroom. But this was not to be. As he struggled to sit upright, Joel was greeted by a soothing voice and comforting hands. "Gently now," a serene voice admonished.

As Joel complied, the vision of a young woman handing him a steaming cup of fine china swam into view. "Here drink this," she said. He drank and glanced up over the rim of the tea cup, and Joel's eyes brightened with recognition. The young woman who was attending him was his would-be hostage earlier that day.
She was accompanied by two other female servants who sat behind, and off to either side, of her. Timidly Joel sipped the warm liquid. As it slid down into his empty stomach, Joel's body involuntarily shivered. In lieu of the liquid being hot, it chilled him to the bone. In an odd way Joel found the beverage refreshing.

"Where am I?"

"You are in Shikoku Japan," the young woman responded.

Only then did Joel realize how beautiful the young woman really was. Her large, intelligent almond shaped eyes cut through him like beams of emerald fire. She now had a regal bearing about her that hadn't been there earlier. Her oval face was outlined by two raven black bangs, and her generous lips were well formed.
Joel had a suspicion that the rest of her creamy bronzed body was just as equally proportioned. If it weren't for the colorful kimono that hid her bodily dimensions, and the major headache he was failing to ignore, Joel would've pursued the thought to its logical conclusion.

"Slowly," she admonished as Joel downed the rest of the tea in a single gulp and fell upon the steaming bowl of rice that she offered.

"Man, I don't know why I am so hungry," Joel mused as he shoveled mounds of sweet rice into his mouth. The other two women who accompanied the other woman chuckled, seemingly at some private joke.

"Up until now, you have been fed intravenously for the past two weeks," she said in response to his rhetorical question.

"Two weeks!?" Joel exclaimed, as he held a finger full of rice before his lips.