Resin Bath III [text]

Paul is a wealthy businessman in his 40s who works in the technology market. Several years ago, he founded a tech giant called “Resin-tech,” a company that manufactures and finds various uses for a liquid resin made from nanobots, which happens to be a very resistant material with diverse and mysterious applications. The company tends to be very discreet about what it does, and although its wealth and success are somewhat public knowledge, the reason for its success and fame is a mystery to most people.

Everything changed for Paul 20 years ago, when he was just starting out in the business and his company was just a startup. Then, during one of his adventures buying objects, patents, and inventions on the black market, he found something that would be equivalent to a diamond in the rough: he met a guy named John who was just a few years younger than him, who had discovered a new use for a liquid resin that was used to immobilize animals and turn them into trophies. This resin was not even a patented product on the domestic market, but rather a contraband and exotic product from an Asian country that was not even regulated in its country of origin. who would have thought that this liquid resin could also be used to make hyper-realistic resin dolls (just like mannequins or sex dolls) from real people? All Paul needed to make his discovery a success was to buy the mysterious patent that John had made for his discovery and tested after taking it to his trophy room and seeing the results of the liquid resin.

Once Paul bought the patent, he never saw John again, although after a raid on his home shortly afterwards in which nothing was found, it is rumored that he may have gone into exile on some Caribbean island with the millions he earned from the patents and took his dolls with him, but that is certainly a mystery, and the only one who remembers John clearly is Paul, who bought the patent from that boy and was left with more questions than answers.

After that, although it might have been difficult for anyone else to do something like that, for Paul it was all constant growth from that moment on, because with his decadent but realistic view of the world and his contacts in the highest echelons of politics, the media, and industry, he was able to popularize the advances of that patent for a society that was increasingly unscrupulous about the kind of trophies they could afford to have in their homes, The liquid resin that Paul traded and its various forms of application (such as a pressure gun that resembled a water gun connected to a pressurizer and a pair of tanks with the resin that were carried on the back) led to the sophistication of the methods and discoveries of the patent and turned Paul, a man who had been orphaned as a child, to understand how the world works and then, over the years, to become a multimillionaire based on the questionable fetishes and collecting habits of the rich.

In more recent years, after buying an island and building a mansion on it, he finally found someone to start a family with and marry, Angela, his secretary, and Pamela, his secretary's daughter. For Paul, nothing could be better in life, and he considered his life complete and his family formed (even though Pamela was not his biological daughter, even though Paul felt deep down that not everything could be so good, so he felt that both of them were hiding something, which is why he couldn't resist installing secret cameras everywhere to see what was happening in every corner of his mansion.

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It was terrible for Paul when, a few hours later, he discovered that, even in his most intimate life, his whole world was based on falsehood and lies, when he found out that Angela was cheating on him with another man and that Pamela, his stepdaughter, was only interested in appearing to be a good daughter and not so much in having a real relationship with him as her stepfather, as long as she could discreetly plunder Paul's wealth. Then something broke inside Paul and he discovered that, in some ways, family life could also be as dark, cruel, and extremely competitive as the business world, shattering his idea of the ideal family and driving Paul to seek revenge on his wife and stepdaughter.

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A few days later, Angela decides to relax a little and gets ready to take a bath. She has begun to notice how distant Paul has been acting, wondering if he has finally discovered her somehow, as she turns on the shower and her skin begins to get wet with that liquid that looks like water... Then Angela quickly discovers that the liquid is not water, but rather... a sticky liquid? Angela thinks the worst, although she doesn't have much time to react.

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The liquid spreads quickly through Angela's hair and back, running down her arms and legs, leaving an icy sensation behind it. Then, before Angela could do anything else or get out of the shower, she realized that her body was not responding to her commands, as if she had been frozen in time, while the resin captured the surprise and terror Angela felt at that moment as if it were a photograph taken to remain eternal, for posterity.

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Several minutes later, after closing the flow of resin from outside the bathroom so as not to breathe in the fumes, Paul entered to check if it had worked. In those last days of vengeful rage and meditation, Paul remembered the long conversation he had with John, the man who sold him the patent for the resin, and how he told him how he first implemented it, modifying a showerhead so that it released the resin instead of water. Paul wasn't entirely sure it would work, but after seeing the result, he was thrilled to see how Angela had been turned into a resin doll, a true trophy, with impeccable, pristine beauty.

So Paul took his new resin doll and dressed her in a gold dress made for her, with a synthetic fabric made from gold, and then placed her on his trophy shelf alongside his other trophies. Angela had finally become a trophy wife of sorts, but at least now she wouldn't cheat on him again, or so Paul thought.

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Meanwhile, in the lobby, Pamela is getting ready to leave the house. In recent days, she had sensed the tense atmosphere and, fearing that she too had been discovered, she had decided to leave her mother behind and escape to somewhere else, since she had looted enough on this last occasion to live alone for a couple of years while she figured out what to do with her life or with the money. However, Pamela felt real terror when she tried to open the door and it seemed stuck or locked from the outside, something that is unusual and inexplicable given that the door is always open (especially since they are on an island, it's not as if a thief would break in when only her family and servants live on the island). But she was even more surprised when she turned around and saw that she was suddenly surrounded by servants pointing water guns at her mercilessly, without knowing why or if it was a joke.

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However, she discovered that it wasn't so much a joke when she was hit by the first shot of that strange sticky liquid. Pamela found herself under a treacherous siege by her servants, who shot her mercilessly all over her body, until she suddenly realized that she no longer had any clothes on, as if that sticky substance, the resin, had disintegrated her clothes, piece by piece.

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In the end, it seems that Paul was able to take revenge on the two people who had deceived him, but now he wasn't sure what to do with her. Maybe he should add her to his trophy collection?

Paul believed that all his problems were finally over for now, but he doesn't know that someone else who is not loyal to his decisions (like the other servants) has observed what happened and plans to take advantage of it.

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Several hours later, Paul was able to make room in his trophy case for one more, so after improvising a nice outfit for her, he decided to place her next to his mother in the display case, making Pamela not a trophy wife but a trophy stepdaughter of sorts. Now all that remains for Paul is to find some other practical use for his new trophies, which he hasn't had time to try out properly, so he spends the next few hours testing in detail all the functions and amenities they offer as resin trophies

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Unfortunately for Paul, he can't take as much time as he would have liked to try out his new dolls, or at least not as much time as he would have liked to try them out properly, because someone is knocking imprudently on his door over and over again without stopping.

Surprisingly, the ones knocking on the door and waiting for him on the other side are two maids, Karla and her daughter Karen, who demand a large bribe from Paul in exchange for not reporting him to the police. This deeply outrages Paul, as it seems that no one is willing to be loyal to him, not only his partner and stepdaughter, but not even his own maids, who have decided to bite the hand that feeds them. Paul then realizes that there is only one way to proceed against them.

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He has finally decided not to punish them (although it depends on your point of view), but rather to “promote” them. Paul plans to turn them into test subjects for a new invention at his company, a brain implant that will help them become more obedient and less rebellious maids, but not before applying the resin to them.

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At the end of it all, just as Paul was getting ready to finally relax a little, he was approached and almost attacked by the maids' eldest son, a boy whose name he doesn't even remember, only that he works as a gardener for him. It seems that Paul will never get a break from these kinds of situations, although for the moment he decided to give the boy an exemplary punishment in front of the other employees to prevent a possible future betrayal: a silver bath, with the intention of turning him into an appliance. In addition to that, he has forbidden any of his employees from leaving the island from now on. Paul is not even sure that the boy is guilty of anything beyond attacking him, but he thinks he should have taken better care of his ambitious relatives before letting them come to him with threats.

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Hours later, now in true and complete tranquility after the exhausting march that all those betrayals entailed, he wonders, while pouring coffee into his cup using his new milk dispenser, if his life could have been different. Paul walks in complete solitude as he watches his trophy wife, temporarily turned into a fountain, from a terrace in his palace. Paul then sees the sunset behind the fountain, meditating on everything that has happened in the last few days, wondering if his life could have taken a different turn if he had made different decisions, at least, if he had been less impulsive and vengeful.

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