People's preferences are not all the same.
Everyone has their own hobbies.
Even if they are both masochists, the degree to which they enjoy suffering cannot be generalized.
Su Yuzu is very frank.
She likes good-looking things.
Beautiful and alluring ones that make people sink into depravity, or... a flawless Saintess like Lyudmila; as long as they are good-looking, she likes them all.
If she had to pick a particularly favorite scene...
It probably wouldn't be something direct and decadent.
It would likely be the straight, fair legs of a youthful girl moving and overlapping; or... a girl's slender, well-proportioned back.
Curling white like the moon, snowy smooth and fragrant like a flower.
So~~~ for Soga Yura, she has a near-natural advantage.
After all, for her, the front and back are both 'backs'.
At the Assault Department girls' dormitory, Su Yuzu maintained a vigilant posture, her right hand ready to draw the Collector's Tachi from the Material Inventory at any moment.
Even if it was just a 'Guide Mission'.
Su Yuzu also maintained one hundred and twenty percent vigilance.
After all, being reborn once isn't easy. Although she has the blessing of the [Operator System], she doesn't have Revival Coins.
If she dies... she might really die.
Su Yuzu must be vigilant.
Observing the room's door lock, there were no signs of it being pried open.
Click—
Su Yuzu completed the iris authentication, and the lock opened.
The girl's body was already taut as a bow, ready to draw her sword and retreat at any time.
Su Yuzu slowly pushed the door open a crack.
Then... a nearly pungent smell of blood rushed directly into Su Yuzu's nose.
Su Yuzu frowned.
That Aberrant seemed injured, and not lightly.
In other words, she might not have 'invaded' her dormitory, but 'fled' into her dormitory.
Maintaining vigilance, Su Yuzu slowly pushed the door open.
An even heavier smell of blood rushed into her nose.
Su Yuzu turned back to close the door, temporarily not locking it to facilitate her escape, and then stepped into the bedroom.
At a glance, she saw that black-haired girl who had collapsed in her bedroom.
The girl fell on the carpet, her body slightly curled up.
Her plain white, beautiful legs slightly overlapped. Beneath her, large patches of the carpet had already been soaked by nearly black fresh blood.
Su Yuzu looked at the girl's cute little feet.
The shoes fell off; she's a goner.
Of course—
Just a joke.
Drawing the Collector's Tachi from the Material Inventory, Su Yuzu approached warily.
The Aberrant girl lying on the ground seemed to be already dead, having no reaction at all.
But Su Yuzu knew she wasn't dead yet.
Aberrants above the Second Sequence would return directly to the Edge of Aberration after death.
Leaving only large patches of bloodstains representing that she had once been there.
However... Su Yuzu looked at the heavily injured girl in front of her. She knew that if she didn't save her, she probably wouldn't live much longer.
So...
Save her?
She hurt Lyudmila, hurt Mihou Sakai.
Raised a blade against the people around her.
Logically speaking, Su Yuzu shouldn't save her.
But Director Saionji also said, she is just a knife sent into Keigunen Private Academy.
The truly dangerous one is the person holding the knife.
Su Yuzu wouldn't say something like 'the blade is innocent'.
After all, the girl in front of her isn't a knife in the true sense.
Her will is clear; she could even bow to her.
Su Yuzu approached cautiously.
Save, she still has to save.
If the wielder is dangerous, then drag the wielder out.
As for the fate of the girl in front of her, it can be left to Mihou Sakai to choose.
But before saving... Su Yuzu took out heavy shackles from the Material Inventory.
She had to ensure her own safety first.
Su Yuzu had to lament the workings of fate.
The Aberrant girl in front of her hurt Lyudmila, and the result... the shackles locking her wrists and ankles in the end were Lyudmila's Favorability reward.
[Ascetic's Fetters].
Fetters capable of locking most Second Sequence Espers.
If one wants to lock a Third Sequence Esper, it needs to be used in conjunction with [Ascetic's Shackles].
Hmm... Su Yuzu also has the matching shackles.
Although it's hard to understand why this kind of thing would appear in Lyudmila's Favorability rewards.
But—
They did appear.
And came in handy just right.
Because they are products produced by the 'Holy Royal Court', the effect doubles when used on Aberrants.
So locking the girl in front of her is absolutely no problem.
Locking the Aberrant girl's ankles, and handcuffing her hands behind her back together, Su Yuzu then began to check the girl's injuries.
[Ding—]
[Mission Completed: Home Invasion]
[You have made a choice; the gears of fate have already begun to turn.]
[Congratulations on obtaining the mission reward: Blue Iris Ring.]
[Congratulations on obtaining captive: Aberrant · Zero.]
[...]
The mechanical woman's voice rang in Su Yuzu's ear at just the right time.
The [Operator System] defaulted that Su Yuzu chose to take a captive.
Ignoring the mechanical woman's voice in her ear, Su Yuzu touched cautiously.
Then... she encountered another difficult problem.
How to undo the clothes.
Rip—
The sound of fabric tearing.
Okay, now this isn't a problem.
The slender girl with her hands handcuffed behind her back was unexpectedly in line with Su Yuzu's aesthetics.
The girl's wound was a massive penetrating injury.
It was a huge injury that tore open the girl's body directly from behind.
The blood had stopped gushing, not because the wound healed.
But because there was basically no blood left to flow.
If she were human, she would have died.
But she is an Aberrant.
Aberrants' lives are particularly tenacious.
But even so, Su Yuzu still didn't know how the girl survived and fled to her bedroom with almost no blood trail.
But since she chose to save, Su Yuzu wouldn't give up easily.
Swiping open [Operator Development].
In the [Operator System], a girl marked as 'Captive' had appeared.
[Captive: Zero.]
[Rarity: --]
[Level.29 - Agile-type Aberrant]
[Talent: Remnant Soul]
[Talent: ■■■]
[Inherent Ability: ■■■]
[Favorability: 5 (Unfamiliar)]
...
[Status: Critical]
The rarity was directly displayed as [--]; she didn't know if it was because she was just a captive, or due to her own characteristics.
Picking up the girl's light and soft body in a princess carry, Su Yuzu walked straight to the bathroom.
Looking at the blood on the floor, she couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
If it were Soga Yura... she would probably have fainted from fright at the sight of the blood by now.
Vaguely, Soga Yura's tender and panicked crying voice suddenly surfaced in Su Yuzu's mind.
The crimson eyes paused.
But soon, Su Yuzu continued carrying the girl toward the bathroom.
She had to treat the wound slightly first.
Just then... Su Yuzu suddenly stepped on something.
She lowered her head.
It was a gear flickering with tiny black-purple lightning.
Su Yuzu suddenly thought of Yamabuki Nanako's words.
'Those Black Gears are essentially things similar to [Medical Units] that 'repair' humans into Aberrants.'
Without touching it directly with her hand.
Su Yuzu used the tachi to pick up that black gear.
While Su Yuzu attempted to save that Aberrant girl... within Zero's will, which was already on the verge of shattering, it seemed as if some massive and terrifying thing was trying to squeeze in.
Saying 'trying'.
It was only because that massive and terrifying existence was being cautious... for fear of directly crushing and squeezing her will to pieces.
"Gu—"
"Wu..." A nearly broken sound squeezed out of the girl's throat.
The dark golden vertical pupils were slowly covered by a pitch-black shadow, turning into that unfocused look as if broken from play.
"Hello there—"
"Little kitty."
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