[Abyss of Malice]?
Obtained a new Aberrant?
Su Yuzu looked at her [Operator Development].
Zero, who had originally appeared as a captive, formally appeared in her [Operator Development] panel.
However... the rarity, previously marked as [--], still hadn't changed at all.
She didn't know if it was because the game hadn't established a rarity rating for Aberrants back then, or... because of the girl's own uniqueness.
[Aberrant: Zero.][Rarity: --][Level.30 - Agile-type Aberrant (Awaiting Breakthrough)][Talent: Remnant Soul][Talent: Raptor][Inherent Ability: Fate Zero Point ■■■■, mass increases holder's luck.][Favorability: 21 (Awe)]
The originally hidden talents appeared one by one.
What Su Yuzu cared about most... was naturally Zero's Inherent Ability, [Fate Zero Point].
This Inherent Ability, which sounded very mysterious just by the name, looked at first glance like there was some conspiracy behind the girl.
Of course—
What Su Yuzu cared about wasn't any conspiracy at all, but... that line about 'mass increases holder's luck'.
What could possibly be more attractive to a bad luck magnet... ah, no, to a pay-to-win whale, than strong luck?
Especially with the description 'mass', which was rare in the game.
Just for this Inherent Ability alone, Su Yuzu was willing to rate Zero's rarity as six stars.
And... she would definitely enshrine the girl, grinding her Favorability until it reached 'Dependency' no matter how hard it was.
Of course—
The premise was that Mihou Sakai could forgive her.
Aside from this, Su Yuzu looked at Zero's Operator... no, Aberrant overview.
[Test Subject Zero of Project "Fate", an Aberrant girl with complete sanity.]
Fate, is it?
Without thinking about messy things anymore, Su Yuzu turned on the bathtub faucet and the showerhead, helping the girl clean off the blood and filth on her body.
It was her first time bathing someone other than Soga Yura.
The heavy shackles, aside from being very inconvenient during the bath, also made dressing the girl a nearly impossible task.
However... Su Yuzu had no intention of unlocking the shackles for the girl.
Even if she had already become her 'Operator'.
She was still an Aberrant.
A dangerous yet charming existence.
Moreover, she was an Aberrant who had just infiltrated the academy, wanting to pollute and harm the Little Rabbit and Mihou Sakai.
Su Yuzu did not consider herself qualified to forgive her on behalf of the Little Rabbit and Mihou Sakai.
The [Ascetic's Fetters], besides being able to lock her power and prevent her from escaping...
A girl locked in shackles while stark naked would also be very conspicuous within Keigunen Private Academy.
This greatly increased the difficulty of her escape.
And... if she wanted to reveal her Aberrant form and use the Aberrant's armament to cover her body, the intense Catastrophe aura would also leave her with nowhere to hide.
No matter how one looked at it, for Su Yuzu, it was all benefit and no harm.
Furthermore... the image of the slender, plain white limbs of a young girl paired with the dark brown heavy shackles also possessed extreme visual impact.
It looked pretty good.
After Su Yuzu slightly wiped the water droplets off the girl's body, she bundled the girl up in a bath towel and threw her onto her own bed.
It was just very weird.
But thinking about it, there seemed to be no problem.
She began to deal with the bloodstains in the room.
It was strange—
According to Zero's volume of blood loss, the room should have been a complete mess, but Su Yuzu quickly discovered that the bloodstains were all concentrated on the carpet.
It was as if the girl had appeared out of thin air and then lost consciousness the moment she fell there.
Because of the existence of the [Operator System], Su Yuzu didn't feel too surprised either.
Dealing with the bloodstains in the room was easy.
Su Yuzu placed her hand on the carpet, collecting the entire carpet into the Material Inventory.
While an item 'Blood-stained carpet' appeared in the Material Inventory, the bloodstains in the room were basically cleaned up.
Next, she just had to mop the floor a bit, and then take a shower herself.
Behind Su Yuzu, the Aberrant girl 'bundled' in the bath towel opened her dark golden vertical pupils, staring unblinkingly at Su Yuzu's back.
She watched Su Yuzu, who had finished cleaning the bloodstains, walk into the bathroom.
The girl wanted to shift her body.
The feeling of being tightly bound by the bath towel was very bad, not to mention... at this moment, her hands were cuffed behind her back, and her ankles were also locked by heavy leg irons.
The Catastrophe power in her body was completely locked, with no possibility of release at all.
A product of the 'Holy Royal Court'?
Feeling the scorching Holy Flame aura within the rough metal surface of the shackles, Zero could sense that if she dared to release even a bit of Catastrophe aura right now, those shackles would brand the Holy Flame directly onto her wrists and ankles.
The pain, akin to the soul being scorched, was enough to make even an Aberrant fall into unconsciousness.
Zero didn't want to seek death yet.
However... she sensed the power of these shackles on her body.
Why would shackles of this specification and shape appear in a place outside the Holy City of the 'Holy Royal Court'?
According to the data instilled in her, shackles of this specification and shape should generally only appear in the Inquisition of the 'Holy Royal Court'.
Connecting it to that day... when she launched an attack on her mission target: Saotome Yukina, that monster from the Inquisition appeared beside Saotome Yukina.
Zero felt the logic was sound.
Yeah, right—
It was only because she had lost contact with headquarters, otherwise... the researcher woman at headquarters would probably be cursing up a storm.
Even a monster from the Inquisition wouldn't carry shackles of this specification and shape around with them.
Is she some kind of Sadist?
Also... it's very weird for this kind of thing to appear beside Su Yuzu, okay?
Could it be that a monster who doesn't understand romance gave this kind of thing away as a gift?
No matter how one thought about it, it was strange.
But Zero didn't understand; she only knew that she had no possibility of escape right now.
Heavy shackles cuffed her hands behind her back; chains connected the collar, handcuffs, and leg irons of the shackles together.
If the length of the chains was shortened, she wouldn't even have the ability to move.
Fortunately, that girl had loosened the length of the chains, so she could still wiggle slightly on the bed and adjust her posture.
Listening to the splashing sound of water in the bathroom, even Zero, who had once viewed herself as a tool and a weapon, gradually began to develop a feeling bordering on panic.
When she was being treated, that terrifying... pitch-black... massive throne that seemed as if it would crush and squeeze her to pieces had obliterated her remaining will in almost an instant.
Now... as long as she closed her eyes, she seemed to see the image of the maiden sitting high upon the throne, legs crossed and head propped up, stepping on her as she was forced to grovel.
"Be my cat."
"Or—"
"Be my cat."
She had no right to choose at all.
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