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“……..”

Lulu looked up at Frey with lustful eyes.

“Lulu?”

Cradling his arm gently, Frey, who had been quietly observing her, tilted his head and called her name.

“Hah…”

Lulu, who had been nuzzling his arm, paused and exhaled softly while resting her cheek against his arm.

“I love you.”

Then, she spoke with a tense voice.

“I love my Master, no…”

Frey’s eyes widened in surprise as she held onto his arm and forcefully pulled him towards the sofa.

“I love you.”

With eyes full of desire, she whispered once more.

“Uh, um…”

It had been a while since Lulu addressed him without using the title ‘Master,’ perhaps the first time since all the servants had left the mansion.

“I, who is just a pet, dared to fall in love with my Master.”

“Hmm.”

“I should only receive one-sided attention and love from Master… but I dared to make it mutual.”

Seeing Frey’s puzzled expression, Lulu, who had been leaning against the sofa and rubbing her body against his arm, spoke.

“So, please scold me.”

“What?”

She stared intently at him.

“Please punish me. Harshly. You can hit me, starve me, even choke me.”

“……..”

“Please, Master.”

After saying that, Lulu tightly closed her eyes and began to tremble.

“Hmm…”

Frey, who had been blankly staring at Lulu, stretched out his hand with a slight smile.

“…Ouch.”

A moment later, Lulu, who had received a light flick on her forehead, flinched and cautiously opened her eyes.

“That’s your punishment, Lulu.”

Gazing at Lulu, Frey whispered in a soft voice.

“Is that enough now? Let’s get up. We need to prepare for our guests…”

“Master.”

Lulu rubbed her slightly pained forehead with her hands and contemplated what had just transpired.

“Can I… truly love you?”

She asked him with a trembling expression.

“… I can, right?”

At that, Frey paused briefly, then nodded quietly.

“Oh. Ah…”

Lulu looked at him with shaky eyes.

“…Waaah!”

With an awkward cry, she pounced on Frey, who was propped against the sofa.

“Lu, Lulu?”

“…..”

Lick, lick, lick.

Despite the flustered expression on Frey’s face, Lulu continued to lick his face.

“Ma…ster…”

After a moment, with her tongue still sticking out, she began to speak slowly.

“It was you… who saved me. You rescued me. You revived me. You dyed me in your color. So, I am yours. Only you can control me. You can dominate me.”

“Uh, um…”

“My life, soul, fate, future, life… Everything is in your hands. I will be your pet for the rest of my life.”

“Hmm…”

“I can do anything. If you ask me to bear a curse in your stead, I will. If you tell me to sell my soul, I will. If you tell me to die, I will do so willingly.”

“……”

“I don’t care how evil you are. If you tell me to kill someone, I will. If you tell me to torture them, I will give them terrible pain. If you tell me to fight against the empire, I will. Do you find the Hero Party bothersome? I’ll infiltrate them as a spy for you.”

Lulu whispered with a submissive look. If she had a tail, would have definitely wagged it vigorously.

“As you have sworn to me, no matter what happens… I will always be your pet.”

After speaking for a while, Lulu finally finished.

“…Ha ha.”

“…..!”

When Frey gave an awkward smile, she trembled all over and whispered in a low voice,

“Master, I’m sorry…”

“Huh?”

Then, her eyes gleamed.

“Please, pet me a little more…! It seems you haven’t petted me much lately…!”

With an expression full of guilt and immorality, she whispered in a low voice.

“”………””

And then silence ensued.

– Swish, swish…

As Frey began to pet her with a perplexed look, Lulu tilted her head.

“Huh? What’s going on?”

Then, she mumbled softly.

“…Why aren’t my eyes hurting?”

The terrible pain that usually came whenever she used her Magic Eyes, for some reason, didn’t come this time. Frey hadn’t explained it to her intentionally.

“Th-That’s strange…?”

Startled, Lulu clung to Frey and whispered.

“Please, like me.”

“Okay.”

Her Magic Eyes didn’t hurt.

“Please, please love me.”

“Okay.”

Still, her Magic Eyes didn’t hurt.

“I, just as I am… please love me with all your heart!”

“…I will.”

With her Magic Eyes no longer in pain, Lulu was overjoyed and Frey, gazing up at her, nodded with a wide smile.

“Wooh, wooh…”

Then, out of nowhere, she began to cry.

“Ma, Master. What do I do…”

Then, she looked terrified.

“My, my Magic Eyes… I think they’re gone…”

Her voice quivered as she looked down at her rightful master, Frey.

“Oh, no… I thought I could be of some use to my Master now… I did…”

“…Your Magic Eyes, they’re fine.”

“What?”

However, as Frey spoke with a calm look on his face, Lulu slowly raised her head and began to look at the window.

“Ah.”

Her eyes were still glowing with a ruby color.

“Ahhh.”

Only then did she realize.

Why he hadn’t followed every command she’d given.

“Aaah…”

No matter how much she thought about it, there was only one answer.

“Ma…ster.”

Her rightful owner, Frey.

He already liked her. He was already in love with her.

He loved her for who she was; not just as the pet he’d always called her.

“……..”

Realizing this, Lulu felt her mind go blank.

To an unmistakable degree, Lulu had fully become his possession.

Yet, she thought their relationship was ‘bizarre’.

If she didn’t receive love, she knew she would become depressed and anxious before dying.

The meeting of a fool and a wise man, unable to love others as they were, thus they could only express love in a distorted manner.

Even with such a relationship, Lulu was already very satisfied.

“…Ugh.”

Lulu’s eyes, looking down at Frey, suddenly changed.

It was because she realized that she had been mistaken.

Frey had already ‘sincerely’ loved her ‘as she was’.

This had been Lulu’s ultimate wish ever since she had been abandoned by her parents as a child due to her stigma.

The final obstacle that rendered her the ill-fated heroine of Dark Tale Fantasy 2…The one thing that made her survival impossible in any other route…

Just like that, it was gone.

“Wah, waaaah…”

“Lulu, Lulu, are you crying?”

Lulu was indeed crying.

She was in his arms; Not in the sense of a master-pet relationship, nor dominant-subordinate relationship, but in a relationship that truly understood and loved each other for who they were.

“Waaaahh…”

As of this day, she was completely saved.

“…Master.”

And with that, Lulu buried her face in Frey’s arms and sobbed.

“I love you so much.”

She fell to her knees in front of him, displaying her submission to his dominance, and spoke.

“Really, really, really, really…”

“Alright.”

“When you die, Master, I want to die with you.”

“…What?”

“I want to be buried in the same grave. You know how pets are. They can’t live without their owners. They miss them forever and then they get sick and die. And when I do, I’ll be buried next to you.”

Frey heard her words.

“…You can’t.”

He spoke sternly.

“If you say that again, I will really get mad.”

“…Uhh.”

Upon hearing this, Lulu flinched momentarily.

“Uh…”

Then she realized that he was worried about her.

“……”

He was worried about what would become of her after he died.

“…Master.”

Lulu, whose thoughts had wandered too far, mumbled with a sullen expression.

“I’m really sorry.”

“What? Lulu, you…”

Hearing that, Frey thought that Lulu was about to reject his words, so he was about to scold her, but…

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

Lulu covered her face with her hands and mumbled like a machine.

“I’m sorry…”

She peeked through her fingers at Frey, who was looking at her with a genuinely concerned look.

‘I don’t know why he’s like that…’

Lulu pondered to herself.

‘Master suddenly doesn’t seem like Master anymore…’

Her face, however, had turned a bright red.

‘Now, he looks like… a man…’

With that thought, she blushed and covered her face with her hands.

“…Dominate me.”

She whispered in a low voice, her Magic Eyes faintly aglow.

“Control me. Own me completely.”

She dared to issue orders to her master who owned her.

“Hold me… in your arms.”

She whispered, unbeknownst to him.

– Srrrk…

Frey then embraced her, carefully and gently.

“Mmm, mmm…”

Lulu felt the tenderness and the warmth of his embrace and thought to herself.

“Oh, this can’t be…’

Frey wanted her as a pet.

And she, too, was content to be his pet; Rather, she took pride in it.

She was delighted to be treated that way for the rest of her life.

Now, however, she realized something.

The most a pet could ever dare to feel for its owner was ‘love.’

She shouldn’t expect anything more than that.

If she wanted more than that, their relationship could be ruined.

And that meant…

“Mmm…”

Lulu’s body began to heat up.

She wondered what was wrong with her.

A new emotion, one she had never experienced before in her life, had abruptly taken hold of her.

– Swoosh, swoosh…

In this situation, Frey was literally ‘holding’ her.

Even though she was grateful and happy…

‘I’m sorry… Master.’

Lulu was now a bad girl.

An ungrateful child who yearned for more than just love from her master; From the master who had saved her. From the master who possessed complete control over her.

“Let me, let me, let me…!”

She was about to say something to Frey, who was smiling at her and holding her in his arms. She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, trembling while feeling ungrateful and guilty.

– Boom!!!

“Haaa…!”

Suddenly, she heard the sound of something exploding outside, and leaped to her feet, startled.

“…What was that?”

And, at the same time, she looked at Frey with sharp eyes.

“You stay here, it’s dangerous!”

Worried that Frey might be in danger, Lulu hid him under the couch.

“What… What…”

Lulu’s previously warm body suddenly turned cold, and she directed a frigid glare toward the source of the noise.

“…Growl.”

She growled and stomped towards the window, which was oddly slightly ajar.

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Meanwhile, at the same time…

“Uhh, uhhh!”

Roswyn, who had been hiding in the grass and quietly watching the mansion, jumped to her feet, startled by the magic that had struck her.

“No, no way…”

Realizing that her hair was disheveled and her clothes were in disarray, Rosewyn began to pale as she recalled the person who had often cast this spell on her.

“What are you doing there…?”

“……!!!”

She froze, unable to even think about running away as Serena approached her.

“Hmmm…”

Serena scrutinized her from head to toe.

“I heard you were taken and questioned by security the other day, but apparently it was because you wished to give flowers…”

Serena whispered, looking annoyed.

“…Would you mind not sticking your nose into other people’s men?”

Hearing that, Roswyn began to sob.

“Oh, no… This is weird…”

“Huh?”

“Frey… I… he liked me… but…”

For a while, she had been trying to convince herself that what Lulu had done was something that Frey had coerced her into doing.

Just a moment ago, she had witnessed Lulu and Frey in a genuine act of affection, and she had panicked.

“Why? What’s going on? It’s weird… I don’t understand…”

But, as usual, she tried to find another answer, to somehow avoid the conclusion that she had already come up with.

“I knew it…”

At that moment, Lulu, who had appeared from the window, glanced at her with a cold expression and whispered.

“…You should have done better.”

“……!”

Hearing that, Roswyn froze in place.

“Ah.”

“Ugh…”

And after a moment.

With her head down, she broke into a cold sweat and rushed across the yard.

“…….”

Serena gaze followed her.

“…You’re going as well, aren’t you?”

“Yes, yes…”

She pushed Aishi away, who was watching with a frightened expression from the bushes beside her.

“…Hold on, I’ll go open the door for you now.”

“Okay, thanks.”

She looked at Lulu as she rushed up to the front door and thought to herself.

‘…How impressive…For a pet.’

At least compared to Kania, the thieving cat who tried to steal Frey from her all the time.

If Lulu didn’t cross the line, Serena might be able to tolerate having her around after she married Frey.

‘She was good enough to be a watchdog for the house,’ Serena thought to herself and was actually quite pleased with Lulu.

– Squeak…

“Hey, you…”

Lulu opened the front door, as Serena tried to talk to her.

“Ha?”

But stopped abruptly and began to stare at her.

“…Ugh.”

She opened the front door and stood before her, every inch of her body covered in Frey’s hair, scent, and markings.

“”………””

A moment later, Serena’s moonlight eyes met Lulu’s ruby ones in a cold stare.

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