*Hours Pass*
Amelia and Grace have been sitting on the bed and watching the recommended show for a while.
Amelia: And that was the first arc. What do you think? Really cool and fun show, right?
Grace:… yes, it's really cool and fun to see words being turned into pictures.
Amelia: Don't be so mean!
Grace: I'm not being mean, it's just a show about Desire with a more complex twist and with very interesting characters like the 'Happy Birthday' man.
Amelia's mood suddenly turns sour as every word Grace said was true to a degree: You…are not 100% wrong.
Grace: Don't be like that… I can see that you got some inspiration for your outfit from the show. I read a lot, but I would never have thought of this as a way to portray Desire. The show has its flaws, but so does everything. I'm enjoying it so far and really like the actor playing the arm, really handsome.
Amelia immediately has a bright smile on her face: I'm so glad you like it.
Grace gets off the bed to stretch her muscles, then grabs their medal on the table: So, in the show, your coin represents the minion. What about mine, and has the character I'm supposed to represent shown up yet?
Amelia: Not yet, your medal shows up in the latter half of the second arc.
Grace: Long way to go. You said this has movie and side content too, right?
Amelia: Yes!
Suddenly, one of the phones on the bed lit up from a message, and Amelia immediately grabbed it and unlocked it… staring deep at the screen with her finger scrolling through it.
Grace: Something on my phone?
Amelia looks back at Grace: Not about your phone… but You! I never knew you sent these kinds of messages. First half is sweet and demure, the other half is you telling him to ask for your nude!
Grace starts twirling her medal between her fingers while thinking how to answer: Hmm… I never sent these types of messages, and I was only teasing him. I already have my fire, so I'm helping him kindle his fire and sustain it.
Amelia: That is an explanation… but why? Aren't you two future husband and wife? You both even got special nickname for each other.
Grace: *sigh* I guess you're right, I must be overthinking about this. I have been in this loop way too many times. I should learn to stop thinking.
Amelia: Grace, I am as invested in this relationship of yours as I want my niece and nephew, so you have to be honest with me so I can say something that might help you think clearly.
Grace: So selfish of you… I don't know why, but I always have the feeling that we will be separated, despite having gone through so many things and repeating this conversation too many times just to reaffirm that we both love each other.
Amelia: This… can't be cured instantly, so, *toss the phone at Grace* keep on worrying until you both walk down the aisle.
*jump off the bed and walk towards the door*
I'm going down to work for your privacy. Bug me when you're done talking to your Servant.
*leave her room and close the door*
Grace mumbles to herself (But this is your room.) looking down at her phone to see their message. The text she sent hours ago just got replied to.
*text chain*
Grace text:…
"Have you been enjoying your Summer?"
"Nothing much from me, but feel free to call for update."
"Also, don't be shy to ask for…"
"Other intimate requests."
"I'll reward you handsomely."
Sunz respond:…
"Summer is the same, just doing the same stuff for the past week."
Grace:…
"Anything strange happened after returning home?"
"I recently found out that my friend's mother knew your mother."
(This will definitely start the conversation.)
Sunz:…
"Strange, but I think mine is stranger."
"I remember that I have a pretty good relationship with a girl that somehow I forgot, and before I remembered her, I've been studying with her in the same class since the first day of high school."
Grace stared at the message for a minute, then immediately called Sunz, and he picked up a few seconds later.
Grace: Texting is fucking shit! I don't like it!
Sunz:… was that it?
Grace:… yeah.
Sunz: You really scared me there and nearly deafened my ear despite being on speaker mode, but I guess serve me right for that one time.
Grace: Speaker mode? Hey moron, don't your parents need to sleep? I know it's good to wake up early, but this is still a bit too early.
Sunz: I have my solution… fuck! How much do you know about me now after learning that coincidence information?
Grace:… that was such an unnecessary fuck. All I got was the surface information about you through your parents' internet profile, and most of it was you and them on vacation from a year or more ago.
"The more shameful and personal information about you has already been revealed during those two weeks."
Sunz: Fair point…
Grace: So, who is the girl you're trying to rekindle and cheat on me with?
Sunz: Don't joke like that. She's just someone I knew before and forgot… and she is the person dating Jihu, so that's gonna be a fun conversation when school starts.
Grace: Oh… I'm sorry for saying that. I shouldn't badmouth someone that used to be close to you.
Sunz: Is something wrong with you?
Grace: It was… it was just jealousy talking… but don't take my next question the wrong way. After that night, do you feel like… craving more of my body?
Sunz: Umm, shhh, tch tch… that is hard to answer.
Grace: Or you are waiting to hear my answer to respond. If that's the case… I… I don't want your body. I don't know why, but after having sex with you, it doesn't make me want it anymore… it just turns into something that I can do.
Sunz sighs: Glad that you said that first because I feel the same way too.
Grace: Don't steal my reasoning! Get your own.
Sunz: I do have my own reasoning. I don't crave it anymore because your first time should be special, and for me, it did feel special despite the split personality. So, any sex with you after that first time is just me fulfilling my duty of pleasuring you.
Grace: That, hehe, was quite sweet despite the sexual topic. So~ we both agree that sex is no longer a special thing for us, and it's just a tool for lust and pleasure.
Sunz:…
Grace: That does mean you still crave my body~ am I correct?
Sunz: I…I just like to see you in different outfits. I don't look at you with lust in my eyes.
Grace: That, is a lot worse. It just means you see me as a mannequin for you to play dress up however you like. But I'm just as bad as you are. I just love to manipulate your mind. So smart and witty, but have such a foul mouth and a lonely heart.
"Be glad that you were lucky enough to have me discover you first because I don't like sharing my one-of-a-kind toy."
Sunz:…
Grace: Come on, speak, my precious toy. One can't have a conversation all by herself~
Sunz suddenly has a serious tone to his voice: Can you shut up?
Grace: What are you trying to pull? You can't talk to your Wife like that, I'm gonna be mad.
Sunz: With the way you are speaking, you won't ever be my Wife.
Grace suddenly feels a sharp pain in her chest, but speaks with a happy tone to cover the sudden pain.
"Don't be so cruel to me, you know you can't be that cold and serious toward m…e."
Suddenly she remembers that nightmare about Sunz being happy with other women that isn't her. Her surroundings went black, standing in the middle of a black void and seeing Sunz walking, talking, sharing a meal each with a different woman, and being all happy with a smile she had never seen before.
(No! No! Don't come back! We are already over this! Fuck! FUCK OFF! NONE OF YOU DESERVE HIM!)
Then she felt an unknown force push her down on her knees, chains wrapping around both of her arms, connecting to the void to restrain any action she tried to make. Being trapped in her own nightmare, the only objective on her mind was.
(HE IS MINE! MINE! MINE! ALL OF HIM!... DEATH!)
An ice rapier appeared in her right hand, the chains wrapping around her arms were immediately covered in ice and shattered as Grace was standing up. Then she rushed at the nearest woman with the intention to kill her.
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Her attack was blocked by Sunz with his own ice blade. Surprised by the block from Sunz, resulted in her losing focus for a second and received a follow-up punch directly at her face, knocking her back to the center… looking at Sunz getting in front of the woman he was protecting, and without missing a beat, other Sunz also stepped in front of their woman and glared down at Grace.
Despite having the bigger physique, Grace suddenly feels so small compared to him, and with hundreds to thousands of glares at her, it was multiplied even more to the point that she can fully see her entire reflection through her ice rapier despite the size of the blade.
Messy hair, bloody nose on a female face that has no feminine features.
Grace's tone suddenly shifts from angry jealousy to playful mocking: My my, just look at how miserable and ugly I am right now. My beauty certainly can't be reached… so why reach for it when you can just beat it down and scrape away its beautiful flesh~ and put it on their face. Make them a bit more beautiful with a piece of myself.
"But why need millions of ugly bodies with a fragment of beauty when all you need is one beautiful body!"
Suddenly, every woman is pierced by an icicle of various sizes, bodies start falling, bodies hang in the air like scarecrows, bodies burst into confetti… all turning the black void into a red void with everyone standing on a large shallow blood puddle. Every Sunz just standing like a statue looking at what is left of their woman.
Grace: Now, it's only You and Me... but not enough of Me. *clap her hands*
Next to every Sunz appears an ice statue of Grace with red eyes and wearing the outfit of their previous woman.
"So much more beautiful now. I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! SO MUCH!"
*whisper*
(now you will learn to love me~)
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Looking at the perfect scenery she just created, suddenly her hands slowly move toward her face and catch onto something. Her perspective starts to shake, then stops, and she feels both of her cold hands on her face. Perspective glides forward a bit, then it turns 180 degrees to show Grace, her body with her beautiful, intact face with red eyes.
Then she was dropped on the floor like a mask looking at the face it was covering, and immediately after hitting the blood puddle, her face was constantly being stepped on by her own body. Seeing everything until her vision turned black from the blood all over her face. Blinded, but still feels the heaviness of the foot smashing into her face.
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Slowly gained back her vision and her body, but a sudden fatigue rushed through her while at the same time she heard.
Sunz: I'm not being cruel. I'm worrying about you.
Grace: what?
Sunz: You did not call me because you hate texting. You were jealous because I brought up another woman in a conversation about us.
Grace:… not wrong.
Sunz: Let's say we are both a messed-up couple because I love you like a mannequin. What about you?
Grace: Love? Yes, I love you… like a toy! But it's a toy that only I can possess, no one can touch it without my permission.
Sunz: I see… so our love really is messed up, haha.
Grace: hehe, I guess so.
Both let out a slight laugh that seemed to be a cover for something and also as an excuse.
Sunz: Well, it was a great conversation, despite being short. I've been awake for a while, so need to sleep, sorry.
Grace: No need for that. I also have an important job that I need to do a lot of research on, so I'm glad that I got to talk with you to keep me going… so we'll talk again?
Sunz: Yeah, but please text first. I don't want us to come unprepared.
Grace: Got it, talk later. Bye!
Sunz: Yeah… Bye!
Both put their phone away from themselves.
Grace immediately rushed out of the room to meet Ame, but when she forcefully opened the door, she hit something behind it… and it was Ame eavesdropping on her.
Ame: Ow! Hehe, looks like I was caught.
Grace immediately grabs Amelia's shoulders: Please help me! I don't want to kill innocent people!
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On Sunz's side, sitting on his chair with a weirdly serious expression on his face while mumbling to himself.
"Was that real? What was Grace Alter doing? Why did I suddenly have a vision of that mass murder? Is it what happens when you don't love someone as much as they love you…"
Suddenly, his body is hit with an overwhelming fatigue.
"Ugh! I nee..d to g..et......…"
He lost his consciousness, and his body sank deep into the chair while his mind sank deep into slumber.