There are morally questionable actions that are justified. I was someone who had started to accept that belief. After all, I may not be committing a massacre right now, but my underlings are... which indirectly makes it my responsibility. But we're freeing all the slaves of this continent who have suffered for centuries.
'It is justified', That's what I believe. Those aristocrats, I didn't even care how they died... whichever way it was, they deserved it.
"Yes... I agree," she smiled. She took my hands and put them back on her shoulders. I massaged her for fifteen more minutes out of courtesy.
"Did you like your massage?"
"Yes, I love it~"
"Good." Since we had come to an arrangement, I was planning to leave.
"Ray-san," she suddenly muttered.
"What is it?"
"Would you kiss me?"
"..."
"Would you kiss me like you love me?"
Her request was not of the bloodthirsty fiend Kurumi, but rather... the girl Kurumi who felt melancholic being in this scenery.
"I am married, Kurumi," I sighed, trying to use the normal excuse that should deter any normal female. But Kurumi was no normal female.
She giggled and held my hands. "And yet you have 'pets' that you love?"
"That doesn't mean I can just kiss any girl."
"Am I just any girl?~"
"You are... you are my customer," I made it very clear.
"Do you not find me attractive?" She didn't stop. Rather, she got closer to me with that longing look. "As I am going to perish soon... wouldn't you find it in yourself to fulfill a pitiful girl's desires?"
"That's beyond the point. Do you even love me?"
"Of course, I don't love you~"
"...eh?"
I was actually expecting her to throw bullshit at me, but she was honest instead.
"I don't love you at all, Ray-san. Fufufu~ that is such a fickle and useless feeling to have. As I said, I am the most crooked and twisted of all my versions. This version of me doesn't believe in love."
"Then–"
"But this version of me who has only suffered... has also only known pleasure from you." She took my hand and placed it on her bubbly boob that fit my hand perfectly through the dress. I thought this was her ultimate move until I felt her palpitations... she wanted me to touch her heart.
"Love is vain and unexciting... but this pleasure that you give me transcends time and space, Ray-san. I want more of it and... I don't want to perish."
Her longing looks transformed into a deranged and possessive look. It was the look of someone who wanted to survive.
"I want to live and I want this pleasure daily... I want something more than a fate where I must die to defeat 'her' or to protect 'him'... over and over and over and over... over and over... I am tired; there has to be more to me than that." She bit her lips hard, and I could see... I had to caress her face to stop her from doing so and she looked up at me once more with a smile.
She's quite beautiful, not only in appearance but also inwardly.
'You either die a hero or live enough to become a villain.' I heard that before... and I guess that was her fate.
She was so good that she became bad.
"..." I didn't know what to say to her. It was as if this massage and the environment had woken up something in her that lay dormant. A will to live. But what can I do? I already have my hands full. I have too many wives and too many pets... I don't even have time to spend the time I would like with them.
"If I become your pet, can I live that reality?~"
"Y-You are insane, Kurumi. I already have too many pets!"
"But Ray-san, what is the problem of having one more? I am going this far... wouldn't you respect a lady's pride?" She pouted. For sure, it can't be that she suggests becoming someone else's pet every day.
"Kurumi..." I wouldn't lie to myself and say she was not compelling. She's beautiful, she's strong... the only thing that could make her perfect was if she was obedient, and that's exactly what she's promising.
"I would even be willing to wear a collar. Would you like that?~"
!!!
'N-Nani!?' I and Elysir screamed in unison.
'N-onononono that's impossible... from the start I don't see them as actual pets, they just like to call themselves that! I see them as my lovers, my equals... if I put a collar on her, she will be my actual pet!'
My mind entered into a status of chaos and moral dilemmas.
"Ray-san, you're flustered?~ I imagine you like the idea," she giggled. She was right... when I thought about her wearing a collar that made her into my pet, I felt... thrilled at the idea.
But that is wrong!
She waved her hand and a collar appeared like a manifestation of her dress. It was a beautiful gothic collar with an empty tag. She closed up to me, holding onto my neck and pulling me down to look at the collar more closely as she whispered sinful words to my ears with that beautiful and graceful accent of hers that could make men go crazy.
"You just have to put me a cute name and I am yours, Ray-san~"
"There has to be another reason," I said right away. She wouldn't make me believe that the reason she's doing this is just because of pleasure. I refused to believe it.
None have gone this far... even someone as deranged and pleasure-driven as Haku hasn't asked me to put a collar on her. I don't even think she'd like the idea.
Kurumi looked down and giggled. "Yes, there is."
"Tell me."
"I must become stronger."
"Why?"
"I never thought I could become stronger until I met you. I am a spirit, my power comes from a spirit even stronger than me who shattered herself to create many shards... we spirits are all descendants of her and we are all weaker than her. I have tried countless times and have never been able to defeat her, she would kill me every time," she mumbled seriously with a tingle of vengeance in her tone.
"I will help you."
"Really?~"
"Of course. You have helped me, I will help you... you don't need to become my pet or anything—" I declared, but she cut me off, putting the collar in front of my eyes once more.
"Ray-san, you're such a wuss."
She pressed her body against me until I could feel all the curves, and by the gods, they were very curvaceous curves. Her body reminded me of Anna, although my ice girl was still on the more developed side.
What Kurumi had was a grace and elegance that was unmatched by any of my girls, perhaps only Amaterasu could keep up and that was a lot to say considering Amaterasu was a ten thousand-ish years old goddess while Kurumi was not even a young adult.
"You clearly want me," she mumbled with that damned accent, that damned regal voice that seemed to want to compel me to remove her dress on the spot.
How can this monster, this killing machine, talk so sweetly!?
"All you have to do is give me a name~ once my task is accomplished and I have done what I must, I'll come to you. Wouldn't that be a wonderful life? My dear master feeds, massages and pleases me all the time. I would even bark if you want me to so long as I can get that pleasure. I would be spoiled like a proper pet~"
"Thing is... we would be doing more than just massages," he mumbled, trying to deter her... a big mistake.
Rather than be deterred, Kurumi's eyes shone with a lusty glint as if she saw a chance. She pressed her body against me further and licked her lips.
"Oh? Like what...? Would you perhaps wish to brand my body as well? I do not mind... but I am inexperienced in that regard," she muttered shyly.
"..." This girl knows what shame and shyness is?
"I am a virgin, Ray-san. So I will count on you teaching me everything that is to be known."
"Wait... are you?" I frowned, suspicious... for a virgin she's quite frisky and forward.
Kurumi frowned, feeling insulted. "Do you insinuate I look experienced?"
"I never said that. For a pet, aren't you being too willful towards your master?"
My words brought back a smile to her face. "Before I become your pet, you must give me a name."
I sighed and surrendered, there was no point in trying to convince her otherwise. I have come to like the girl anyway. And I couldn't keep my eyes off that collar too.
"Kurumi... you will stay as Kurumi."
The girl sighed in disappointment. "You could have taken this chance to have me get a cuter name. I guess my master is a bit dull."
She waved her hand and the collar changed. In the tag, now there was a name.
'Ray'.
I gasped. She gave me the collar and smirked at my nervousness, awaiting me to put the collar around her neck.
"Could it be that your relationship with your other pets is any different?"
!!!
I gulped another mouthful. Just having that collar with my name on it and being ready to put it around her neck—it was a completely different feeling from my other pets. Yes, I haven't gone that far with any of them because they're not actual pets goddammit.
"Can they be considered your actual pets if they haven't even done this much?~ Perhaps I am your real first pet."
"Kurumi, really... don't be saying these things in front of them, they can get a bit anxious."
I don't want her to get massacred by Haku and Yasaka... if their love for me is doubted, those two can get very easily irritated.
"Is it not the truth, ma-s-ter?~"
"..."
My hand shivered as I held the collar around her neck. I felt like I was crossing an invisible line, and the moment I put this collar on her, I'd be looking at her with different eyes. Seeing my doubt, Kurumi decided to put the last nail in the coffin where my moral standards were about to be sank underground.
"What is it that pets do for their masters huh?"
She lifted her dress and showed me her stomach. I saw gorgeous black lingerie that fired my spirit, her belly button, and the underside of her breasts where her cute nipples were poking through.
"Cute pups love to show their masters their belly, don't they? Woof woof~"
!!!
My veins popped and I felt my rationality slip off. This girl had to come and do this thing when I was sexually pent-up and stressed. She's looking to get fucking ravaged like the pet she is.
I growled inwardly and was about to hook the two ends of the collar around her neck when I felt three auras flare around us... more like they tried to conceal but by doing so, they became obvious to me.
I frowned and discarded the illusion of coming face-to-face with the three individuals.
My pet Solution Epsilon, the vampire Shalltear Bloodfallen, and finally Albedo.
"What are you doing here?" I asked with a frown. My question was aimed at Solution, but she was shooting a fierce glare towards Kurumi.
"Mast–cough! Osiris... and... nightmare?"
"Oh my, what are you girls doing here?~" Kurumi giggled in mockery, an action which put me in a daze as the three monsters glared at her like she had stolen their boyfriends.
Do these people know each other?