That day Yuuna was absent from school. No, to just say that day would be inaccurate. It would be more accurate to say that Yuuna was absent from school since that day. So far she has been absent for three days in a row. Since Sunday she has been absent for three whole days and her cla.s.smates are beginning to worry. Supposedly she is absent from school due to a cold. However it is actually from a psychological trauma, a sudden broken heart. Therefore, with nothing better to offer, her parents have said she has a cold. Not knowing what has actually happened, Natsumi and Mary head to Yuuna"s house on Wednesday as a pair.
"Excuse me for coming in~!"
"Please excuse out intrusion."
The two come up to the entrance. It is the younger brother Jun that comes down to meet them. Both Natsumi and Mary are friends from high school, but they have been to Mary"s home several times and they"ve had pa.s.sing conversations with Jun before, acquaintances as far as he"s concerned. As a junior high school student, it is rather difficult for him to talk to his older sister"s friends, especially face to face, but today he has to.
"I"m sorry, you had to come all the way to our house to visit my moron Nee-chan."
"It"s fine~, it"s fine~, Yuuna"s our friend."
"Yuuna has such a fine younger brother."
"No… that"s…"
Feeling embarra.s.sed by Mary"s praise, Jun moves away a bit. Jun seemed ill suited to being able to accept Mary"s compliment. Like this, he began guiding the two into the home.
"Well then, this way."
Of course the two both know their way to Yuuna"s room at the rear of the second floor. Nonetheless, Jun guided the two to his sister"s room while giving a dour face. However, once they were finally at Yuuna"s door and Jun opened it a crack, they understood while Jun had led them up here.
"Nee-chan"s room."
"Ahh, yeah, we know but… what?"
"Please just open the door a crack and have a look through."
The door opens slowly. It is dark inside. It"s still a while before the sun will set, but the inside of the room is still very gloomy. It might be because the electrical light is broken, but it isn"t that.
"Is that… Yuuna?"
"Yeah, that"s Nee-chan in there."
Jun replies to Mary"s quiet question. The little brother makes a sad face as he does so.
"She"s been like that for three days. She"s just sitting in the corner there clutching her knees."
"What is she muttering?"
"…yeah. It"s something about a heroine and crus.h.i.+ng and a ton of muttering and mumbling."
"Heroine?"
"What"s that I wonder?"
"I don"t know."
"Is she eating?"
"We"ve left food in the room for her, but she hasn"t eaten much."
"I see… well, we better go inside."
"…yes."
"Hey, Nee-chan, your friends are here."
The door was pushed all the way open and light from the hallways slightly brightened the gloomy room. The curtains are closed and the lights are all off. Worse than that, the air in the room seemed stagnant. Crouching in the corner, the owner of the room appeared as faint and sad as a ghost.
"Yuuna… you"re not feeling well… are you?"
Even when Natsumi spoke, Yuuna remained silent.
"We"ve been worried about you since you haven"t come to school in three days."
When Mary spoke, it seemed like Yuuna didn"t hear here. Her empty eyes are merely looking out without focusing on anything. After that they tried talking to her about school, Jun acting as a go between for them, but it didn"t help at all, Yuuna completely remaining locked in her sh.e.l.l without giving a single reply.
"I"m sorry, my Nee-chan is a real moron."
"Jun-kun, you must be nicer to your sister."
"No, Nee-chan, ever since the old days has been bad at studying, sometimes she can be really stupid… I wish she"d hurry up and get better."
As he"s saying that, the smartphone in Jun"s pocket begins ringing and, excusing himself, he moves away to answer it.
"What a good little brother."
"Does Mary have a little brother?"
"Yes, a little brother… I had one."
"Huh? …is that right?"
For a moment as she answers, Mary"s face darkens. This is the first time Natsumi has ever heard her mention her family. Natsumi wonders why she hasn"t heard about Mary"s family before. Then, thinking about it, Natsumi knows that Mary is a student from France, but how long has she been in j.a.pan? In fact, she"s never even heard what Mary"s life was like in France before she came here. Then, as Natsumi ponders this, her thoughts become hazy and it slips from her mind.
"Ah, sorry about that, I just got a call from someone on the way here."
"No, it"s no problem."
"One of Nee-chan"s friends is coming over."
"A friend… did Yuuna call someone over?"
"No, I called them. He"s a friend from ages ago. Oono Takuya, do you know him? He goes to the same school as Nee-chan and you guys."
"Ah, Oo… Oono is coming over?"
"Oono-kun, we"re friends with him too."
"Is that so? You"re friends with Oono Nii-chan too?"
For the first time, Jun shows a smile in front of Mary and Natsumi. Just because they know someone in common, it feels as if the distance between them has shortened somewhat. Tension gone, Jun gives Mary a big happy smile.
"Oono is coming here?"
"Yeah, I already said, he"ll be here in a minute or two."
"Is that right? We"ll meet up once again?"
"I see."
"Ahh, um, but… I think it might be better for Nee-chan if the place isn"t full of so many people."
"Ahh, I think you"re right. It might be better if we wait downstairs."
"Yeah, that"s probably better. Actually, yeah, it"s definitely better for Nee-chan!"
"Ah? Yeah?"
Jun pressures them strangely and Natsumi feels like something strange is going on, but then Takuya arrives. He seems rather surprised to see Mary and Natsumi there, but Mary quickly makes eyes at him to not give anything away seeing her here. Jun was now convinced that this problem with his older sister was going to be solved now. Takuya hadn"t visited the Sumeragi household in the last few years but he had always treated Jun like his own little brother and since they both were in soccer clubs, they still remained friends a little. Also, even though Takuya had never noticed, Jun knew his big sister had always been in love with Takuya, which was why he"d called him to come here to help his big sister.
"Takuya Nii-chan, don"t be surprised okay."
"Ah."
Just like Mary and Natsumi had, Takuya saw Yuuna from a gap in her door. Seeing his childhood friend with such a sloppy appearance in the corner of her room, her made a puzzled face.
"…what"s up with her?"
"I don"t know, but she"s been sitting in the corner like that for three days."
"Well I can"t help without knowing what"s wrong."
"Yeah, but my idiot sister won"t tell me what"s wrong."
Together the pair give each other puzzled looks.
"Sumeragi, I"m coming in."
Takuya entered Yuuna"s room.
"I don"t know what"s wrong Jun."
"Ah, yeah… Takuya Nii-chan, it seems it didn"t help."
Despite having Takuya meet with Yuuna, the situation didn"t improve. As Takuya had chattered the room had seemed to become even more gloomy and Jun realised that things had been getting worse, not better.
"Sorry I kept you two waiting."
"That idiot~."
"Shush Natsumi. Oono-kun, it didn"t seem to help. Yuuna seems to be hurting in her heart."
"A hurt heart… Jun, did anything happen?"
"No, not really."
"Natsumi?"
"Yeah~, not sure, something I guess?"
It is said that three people are wiser as a group. Thus with four, surely an even greater wisdom would appear. Natsumi christened the group as the "Heavenly Strategy Council", but it was unable to come up with any answers.
"Hm~, how about we try operation BBQ. Surely the delicious smell will drag her out of her room."
"We can"t do a barbeque inside the house. Are you sure you have anything inside your head?"
"What~!"
"Natsumi, please don"t make pointless comments."
Natsumi makes a suggestion, Takuya tsukkomi"s and then Mary finishes the trio of comments. There are numerous suggestions, from the feasible to the impossible, but by the end everything follows this pattern.
"Something that will work for everyone."
"Normally Yuuna would also be able to help with something like this…"
With those words, the group quiets down. With that sad thought, Mary smiles at Jun to try and speaks.
"I"m sorry. It"s getting dark."
"No, that"s…"
"Oh, Jun-kun. You can"t fall in love with Mary. As you can see, she"s the idol of all the guys at our school."
Natsumi interrupts making Takuya and Mary laugh, this laughter making Jun smile finally. Thinking that his sister would surely cheer up if she could laugh too, Jun keeps the thought to himself. After that first Mary, then Natsumi and finally Takuya left. At that time, Jun spoke up.
"Hey, hey, Takuya Nii-chan."
"What"s up Jun?"
Takuya Nii-chan and Mary-san, you… you two aren"t going out are you?"
"Hah, that"s not happening."
"Hahaha, that"s right I guess."
Having said that, Jun sees the three off and watches as they walk away. Finally, he spoke when all three were out of sight.
"So that"s what it was."
Yuuna was crouched in the corner of the room. She was sitting hugging her knees as if in PE cla.s.s. Sitting like this in the corner, she was mumbling and muttering to herself while not looking at anything in particular.
"Even though… I"m a heroine… Mary and… Oono-kun…"
There are no lights on in the room. The sun is setting and without the lights, the room is completely dim, but the owner of the room, Yuuna, didn"t seem to care. It had been like this since three days ago and despite several visits from her mother, father and brother, no particular change had been seen. Even the anxiety of her friends earlier hadn"t been enough to move her heart. Rather, it felt to Yuuna that her heart that was at the bottom of h.e.l.l had been driven even lower seeing them.
"…Mistress-sama."
Her voice echoes in the empty room. Looking around, you can easily see there is no one there and you would think that Yuuna has begun to go crazy. However, contrary to this impression, as Yuuna had expected, a reply is heard.
"What?"
A little girl with purple hair appears from nowhere.
"I"m… a heroine right?"
"That, I don"t know."
"I see… A girl who can"t even manage to win her beloved childhood friend isn"t even worthy of being a heroine, ha ha ha."
A dry laugh flows out from Yuuna"s mouth. It is a really inorganic and forced laugh.
Yuuna has realised that she isn"t a heroine. Even Dark Disaster had said she didn"t know. However, the statement "Sumeragi Yuuna is a heroine" is undoubtedly true. However, she has misunderstood. A heroine is an ent.i.ty chosen for her role, it isn"t something she can choose herself. Sumeragi Yuuna is a heroine, but she can never make herself a heroine. She can never choose what she wants and remain one. Yuuna cannot even choose to be with Takuya while remaining a heroine. However, with Dark Disaster being the villain and having targeted Yuuna, she is now definitely a heroine. Yet, even with this, Yuuna"s hopes have already been dashed.
"Yuuna, I looked into it… do you want to hear about it?"
"Yes."
"Alright, let"s explain then."
Having said that, Dark Disaster took out Sendai"s famous confectionary Baki no Tsuki from somewhere. Yuuna normally ends up tasting the sweets too, but today she doesn"t even seem to notice it. Smacking her lips with relish as she eats the custard cream filled sponge, Dark Disaster began speaking to Yuuna.
"First of all, Takuya and Mary have been going out since last Christmas. Their first date was on New Year"s Day. Cautious of being seen in the neighbourhood, they visited Omitsuki Shrine in the next prefecture. After that, they basically always choose distant locations for their dates such as Takamine Mall and Disneyland, especially there a lot.
Having done her investigation, the information pours out of Dark Disaster. Yuuna was vaguely listening to the content. Christmas was almost half a year ago. In other words, the two had been together and lying to Yuuna"s face for that long. As she recalled, the two had refused separately when she"d invited them to visit a shrine on New Year"s Day. In the end, she"d delayed visiting the shrine for three days so that she, Natsumi and Mary could go together so that the family-less Mary didn"t have to go alone.
"Their first kiss was at the beginning of April, it seems that they went to view the cherry blossoms at night and ended up sharing their first kiss."
"First… Kiss."
There should be no way this little girl could discover all this information. However, when she first met Yuuna she knew all about her, her address, her family name, her phone number and even her family"s relations.h.i.+ps with one another. The intelligence gathering ability of Abyss Gate was even better than Yuuna had imagined. However, for the first time, Dark Disaster then broke off here.
"Um, basically, they seem to have had a completely platonic clean relations.h.i.+p until very recently, well, actually, that is… Ahh~, this is hard to say…"
"Yes?"
It was something completely unknown from the young girl, she was making an embarra.s.sed face while frowning. However, she forced herself to go on after clearing her throat a couple times.
"Ahem… that is until their first time, this was about two weeks ago… ahh, Yuuna, your face looks like a Pica.s.so painting, are you okay? …You alright? Shall I continue? Ahem… well then, do you remember the Sunday when your Mistress took you for a walk? How we ran into Takuya while at the hamburger shop, apparently he was meant to meet with Mary that day. It seems that they met up to watch a movie that day… Ahh~ Yuuna, let"s take a break. I have some green tea that Darling loves. We"ll have some sweets too."
After about half an hour Yuuna, who had recovered from the dreaded Pica.s.so face, was drinking tea. The green tea that Darling loved had a slight sweetness to its astringent flavour that mellowed out and disappeared as it pa.s.sed from the mouth to the back of the throat. The scent of the tea helped Yuuna recover to the extent that she was also eating the sweets that Dark Disaster had brought along too. If she thinks about it, Yuuna hadn"t eaten anything properly since that night and nothing at all since last night. Food filling her belly, Yuuna"s mind was stabilising thanks to the feeling of fullness.
"It seems you"ve calmed down."
"Yes, somehow."
"Umu, that"s good, well done. Ahem, now then, ahem… let"s go on with the rest."
Pretending to ponder things for a moment, Dark Disaster then continues. Even so, she seems to be clearing her throat and coughing a lot today in Yuuna"s opinion. This makes her anxious about what the little girl is finding so difficult to say.
"First of all… ahem, that is, about Mary."
"Yes."
"Yes, have you noticed any changes about Mary recently?"
"Changes?"
"That"s right, well, that is. Well, to be more specific, does she seem better than normal, you know, more beautiful… that is, more erotic?"
"Ah."
When it"s said, there has definitely been that feeling. It was only recently that Natsumi had brought it up as a topic of discussion at school, about Mary"s changing feel. Of course no one had spoken to Mary about it.
"Actually… um, your Mistress is in the wrong. Remember when I added features to your bracelet before…"
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Yuuna looks at her bracelet. A little less than two weeks ago, when she"d offered up her male virginity to Dark Disaster, the little girl had tweaked and modified the transformation bracelet Yuuna had gotten from Mary. At first Yuuna had thought it would be some kind of curse, but surprisingly there had been no such effect and conversely there had been only positives such as having her magic power continue to grow. Because of that, despite being suspicious originally, Yuuna now had no doubts about it.
"In fact, the bracelet itself isn"t able to use magical power, it is activated with magic. Of course, it is limited by this to people who already have large amounts of magic naturally, isn"t that right?"
"Yes."
All of this is correct thus far. By contracting with Mary, Yuuna had become able to use magic and become s.h.i.+ny Angel. At the same time, she had heard from Mary that people in her world were unable to use magic naturally thus had to contract with people of another world, not only that, humans with sufficient purity were the only ones who could.
"Well then, at the time of the contract between Yuuna and Mary being formed, a line of energy invisible to the naked eye was formed between you two. This flow is one way normally and, even though Yuuna had a lot of magical energy, that princess had ten times the amount of magical power you did."
"There was that much of a difference…"
Originally Yuuna knew there was a difference, but hearing it so clearly quantified, she makes a sour expression. No beauty, no brain, so amazing dexterity, because of these things, her childhood friend had never even looked at her. Thinking like this, Yuuna was again caught up in her gloomy thoughts.
"Ah~, Yuuna. Don"t worry about that sort of thing too much. Even if it"s that strong, compared to me it"s like comparing an acorn to a tree. If Darling used just a finger on his left hand it would have more than thirty times that princess"s power."
"…Hah."
Mary had more than ten times, so compared to Yuuna, it would be more than a hundred times her power. Just using a single finger would be more than thirty times Mary, so something approaching thirty thousand times Yuuna. Just thinking about it, it was ridiculous. Her gloomy mood gone, Yuuna"s mouth hung open as she slowly tried to imagine how powerful that would actually be.
"Ahh~, um, anyway, the talk derailed… ahem, so then, thanks to this energy line Yuuna and Mary were unknowingly connected. So far, especially during battles, with things like just a single glance, were you able to communicate smoothly as if your hearts were completely connected and in sync?"
"Ah, there was."
"Yeah, that"s right. This was thanks to the connection of the energy line. Basically it was a by-product, but emotions are able to easily pa.s.s along this line. Even so, well…"
"Mistress-sama?"
"Ahh, sorry, ahem… well then, thanks to this energy line, Mistress"s energy was able to mingle with Mary"s. As I mentioned, mine is roughly one hundred times hers. That"s why… well. When Yuuna and Mistress were together, it flew back along the energy line, reversing its polarity or whatever."
"Hah."
"Ah~ah, that means you know. Every time Yuuna or I enjoyed erotic things, that erotic feeling was transmitted into Mary."
"Haa?"
"That"s it… I mentioned Mary"s energy was about ten times Yuuna"s, but, when Yuuna is copulating with her Mistress, the amount of energy she has increases. Such a thing is rare, but it seems Yuuna has that kind of const.i.tution. Now you have a tiny bit more energy than Mary."
"…Hah?"
"Well, like that, you see, the flow of the energy is reversed and then, when Yuuna is doing erotic things, Mary will be endlessly a.s.saulted with erotic feelings."
"Hah!"
It was at this point that Yuuna finally noticed the focus of what was being said. While being trained by Dark Disaster, Yuuna"s l.u.s.ts had been transmitted to Mary. While being trained, Yuuna"s energy surpa.s.sed Mary"s which further increased the l.u.s.t being transmitted along the energy line. On the day of Mary"s first time, Yuuna had entered the cake shop and had s.e.x in front of Natsumi after having her a.n.u.s teased by Dark Disaster all over the neighbourhood. Mary had been flooded by l.u.s.t and had become erotic. Like this, Mary had been alone with Takuya in the cinema.
"Despite the fact that princess is nothing compared to your Mistress, she unconsciously leaked powerful pheromones. Sitting next to her for two hours, that virgin boy couldn"t endure it anymore. Well, afterwards the two went to Mary"s place and, after that, well, you know. After that they"ve been doing it all the time. Since that princess lives by herself, they"ve always got a private place ready. Almost every day they"ve been going at it."
"Almost… everyday."
"Umu, almost everyday. I"m sorry Yuuna. Even if there were a lot of irregularities stacking up to cause this, your Mistress screwed up."
Dark Disaster speaks at length. However, Yuuna"s ears barely absorb any of it by the end.
"Daily… ahahaha, for half a year they"ve been going out, and for the past two weeks they"ve been doing perverted things everyday… ahahahaha… hah."
"Muu… it"s regrettable."
The l.u.s.tful Empress ponders. For some time Yuuna has been keeping her ego intact by defending her virginity. Mary"s best friend s.h.i.+ny Angel was Sumeragi Yuuna. Dark Disaster"s pet b.i.t.c.h was Sumeragi Yuuna. These two truths had been kept in balance on the point of her virginity. She hadn"t fallen as long as she still had her virginity, as long as she was a virgin she could bare it, this let her stay sane, but now Takuya Oono, who she was meant to save her virginity for, was s.n.a.t.c.hed away by Mary. The balance had been broken, and now she had no idea how to bring that balance back. Her pride and dignity as a human was shattered. She"d lost her best friend, her first love and her status as a magical girl all at once. There was little left for Yuuna. The pleasure on a.n.a.l s.e.x and being trained, her erect c.o.c.k and her body as a trained b.i.t.c.h were all that was left. Suffering and joy, shame and arousal, the pleasure of obeying, her b.i.t.c.h body was all that she had. Thus she could only think about these two things.
"My virginity… Jun, my a.s.s feels lonely…"
"Yuuna."
"Oono-kun and Mary… they left together… are they?"
"For now get some sleep."
"Mistress-sama… where are you going?"
"When you wake up, I"ll have something good for you."
"I, I"ll be a good b.i.t.c.h… Mistress-sama, don"t throw me away…"
Seeing Yuuna who had finally pa.s.sed out, Dark Disaster sighed. Her plans had gone completely awry. She"d originally begun the b.i.t.c.h training for fun, but now it had gone in a strange direction. This had been her first b.i.t.c.h training in a long while. To make matters worse, Yuuna didn"t break under sadism and abuse. This had made tormenting her much more fun and interesting than it would normally have been. Normally once a toy broke, it would be discarded and forgotten, but this time she didn"t feel like doing that. It seemed to Dark Disaster that she"d come to love this goofy little girl who"d become her pet. If you knew Dark Disaster"s past, this would be completely surprising. She was always a woman who took care of herself first and foremost while ignoring others.
"Jeez, I guess I have to praise her."
Looking at Yuuna, you can see she is sleeping comfortably on her own knees, her expression and aura making her look just a bit like a heroine of justice. Looking at her, the little girl couldn"t stop herself from unconsciously grinning just a little. Yuuna still doesn"t realise how terrible a person the little girl actually is, but that doesn"t worry her. Yuuna doesn"t understand what the little girl"s true intentions are. Thinking that, Dark Disaster"s expression hardens. As if the affectionate smile had been a lie, her expression becomes haughty and imperious.
"However, that liar princess. So truly dull. Normally I would have just left her alone… but I"ll smash her."