Because no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't win against her own wife—Dark Seele.
In the end, Lunelle, who preyed on the weak but feared the strong, could only redirect her frustration toward a certain young master of capitalist descent—someone she'd long fantasized about personally killing.
The scene that followed was so gruesome, I won't even attempt to describe it in detail.
Still, Lunelle used methods like breaking bones, castration, pulling off fingernails, connecting nerves to the heart, gouging out eyeballs, and causing extensive compound fractures.
Unfortunately, her half-baked Creation authority wasn't something she could wield freely. Otherwise, she would've gladly let those pigs and dogs experience what it meant to "live a fate worse than death" and "wish for death in vain."
But after turning the man into a broken, twitching mess, Lunelle accidentally derailed the simulation herself.
Maybe she went too far with the violence. Ironically, the one more prone to bloodlust should've been Dark Seele—but this time, it was Lunelle who ended up showing signs of psychological instability.
Dark Seele, of course, only hoped her darling Seele would follow in her footsteps and kill anyone she disliked.
So when she noticed Lunelle's state, instead of stopping her, she gleefully added fuel to the fire, pushing Lunelle past her limit and straight into a massacre.
I think you all know where that massacre eventually led.
[You are dead!]
[Simulation Evaluation: Driven by power and incited by another "Seele," you lost yourself to bloodlust and died surrounded by official forces. You not only failed to change key fates—you murdered far more people.]
[Simulation Rating: F]
[Simulation Settlement: Pay the price—your body has been flattened like an airport!]
[A guaranteed talent has been activated.]
[Settlement Change!]
[Guaranteed Reward: The original penalty is void. The host obtains a minor resistance to Honkai.
Due to the F rating, the host has been granted a permanent special talent: [B→B+]]
[B→B+ (Unknown Quality/Permanent): A mysterious permanent talent obtained via the guaranteed bonus (Gold).
This obscure ability seems to increase the host's size by some unknown magical mechanism.]
[Affected Attributes: Charm +5, Honkai Energy Adaptability +5.]
As the familiar ending of getting shot by Old Ancestor Kevin played out once more, Lunelle's consciousness was kicked back into her body in a hospital bed at Schicksal's Far East Branch.
"Damn it, I only tortured that pig a few hundred million times, and I went crazy in the simulation? Got addicted to killing?"
After syncing with her simulated memory again, Lunelle was visibly frustrated by how quickly everything spiraled out of control.
Still, if she had to make the choice again, she wouldn't regret killing that vile capitalist in the most brutal way possible.
After all, her wife Dark Seele simply stabbed the man once and it was over. That scum didn't suffer nearly enough!
Lunelle had always believed that if she ever got the chance, she'd take care of him herself—anything less just felt wrong.
Strangely enough, as she recalled the gruesome scenes where she punished the beast who dared covet her wife, Lunelle felt oddly at peace.
"Sigh... whatever. At least I got to satisfy my desire to tear those pigs apart.
Worst case, I'll let my adorable and sexy wife Dark Seele handle the killing from now on. I can just be her human purification device—keeping her calm and focused."
Exhaling deeply, Lunelle let go of her obsession with slaughter and roughly determined the focus of her next simulation attempt.
"Though... why do I feel a little heavy somehow?"
But the moment she took another breath, a strange sense of discomfort hit her.
"...Did it get bigger?"
Then, recalling the talent she'd just been stuck with, Lunelle suddenly realized the source of her unease.
Her wife Seele's figure was probably a C+ grade—a stunning physique. If her size increased by half a level every time she failed with an F rating, then after two such failures...
"Systema, I'm already at B+. If this keeps going, I'll seriously end up the same size as my wife Seele!"
Lunelle turned red just thinking about how a 7-foot-tall woman like herself would have to face the world while carrying around a 149cm-tall frame with C+ level super-dumplings.
What the hell is happening here?! QAQ
Having made up her mind, Lunelle swore to never lose control again in a simulation. She had to keep her heart pure this time!
Even if she often relied on her possessive wife Dark Seele, she'd rather do that than let things spiral into madness again just because she killed one or two pigs.
Just as Lunelle considered curling up to sleep again and waiting for the simulation cooldown to end...
The door to her hospital room suddenly swung open.
Then—
Boom!!!
Σ(?Д?;)? ?
[What was that? An earthquake?!]
Startled by the sound, Lunelle's still-recovering body tensed in bed.
With her injuries making it impossible to move, she could only pray the ceiling wouldn't fall—otherwise, she'd be crushed on the spot!
"Ah! I broke the door frame again!
Ugh... I wonder if Grandpa will cover the repair costs. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have brought Judah along."
A childish voice grumbled from the hallway.
Hearing that unmistakable voice, Lunelle instantly knew who had come.
It was the shortest principal in the world—our magical girl Theresa Apocalypse of St. Freya Academy!
Before Lunelle could react, a tiny figure carrying a giant cross awkwardly walked into the room, looking rather troubled.
But the moment she stepped inside, Theresa sniffed the air and caught a sweet scent that instantly put her at ease.
And when she saw Lunelle sitting quietly on the hospital bed, covered in bandages, she found herself inexplicably drawn to the girl.
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T/N: I changed the cover, cause... why not? Changing things up makes me keep my interest. I swear to god im not ADHD. I'm just INTP.
Like things can't keep my interest long enough for me to invest, like I remember I was reading like 7-8 fanfic/webnovels at once, switching once I got bored.