She could already see her tomorrow: herself reduced to a limp little ball of plush.
"I-I-I-Iruka… Sister…" It was a sobbing voice, one that sounded ready to burst into tears.
In her panic, Su Yuzu didn't even have room to grumble inwardly at Kujou Iruka, or to regret not making her taste the power of the "Yuzu Card" right after Recruiting her.
She was even already weighing whether she had any chance left of turning the tables.
Iruka was definitely nothing like a stamina-hopeless case such as Soga Yura.
Even if Su Yuzu gave Soga Yura a ten-round head start, in the end it would still be Soga Yura who was routed, armor scattered, sobbing helplessly.
A Seventh Sequence Aberrant, the Empire's former Valkyrie—Kujou Iruka's physique was in a different league from any stamina-weakling like Soga Yura.
Unless Su Yuzu unfolded her Throne.
Su Yuzu couldn't see any path to victory.
But… but…
Even if she unfolded her Throne, Kujou Iruka was nothing like the Aberrants Su Yuzu had toyed with at will before.
She was a complete "Seat of Garan" as well.
She had the strength to meet the "Evil Karma Throne" head-on.
If Su Yuzu wanted to turn the tables, the only chance would probably be when Iruka let her guard down, believing Su Yuzu was trying to please her.
But even if the counterattack succeeded, wouldn't that just prove Iruka right?
Su Yuzu really had pleased her, hadn't she?
Her frazzled mind was racing, but at some point Kujou Iruka had slipped behind her—when, or how, she couldn't say—and was gathering the girl into her arms, bit by bit.
It was almost as if she meant to embed the girl into her own body.
This was nothing like Iruka's military-uniform look outside.
Right now, Iruka's posture was that of someone looming over the Abyss.
Su Yuzu could clearly feel the beautiful lines of Iruka's figure, and also that terrifying strength that could pin her down with ease, or even strangle her.
"Mmph…"
Arms like snakes had already coiled around her, and one even covered Su Yuzu's mouth.
Su Yuzu could feel the mist condensing from her stifled breath, and also… Kujou Iruka's chin, resting on her shoulder.
She seemed to have no escape from death.
Unless, right now—
Before Su Yuzu could finish the thought, the door to Kujou Iruka's room flew open with a bang.
Su Yuzu, who looked like she'd been bullied to the point of collapse, stared dazedly toward the door. Behind her, Kujou Iruka, who was sitting sideways and holding Su Yuzu tight, wore the same stunned look.
A hime-cut girl in an ink-black yukata stood in the doorway, expressionless, her damp long hair draped over the cloth. Her lifeless Dark golden vertical pupils seemed, in Su Yuzu's eyes, to shine with the radiance of a savior.
"Lian?" Kujou Iruka said, looking at the Aberrant girl who had just finished bathing.
Lian's gaze swept over Su Yuzu, who was nearly stripped bare, and her own boss in her full Abyss attire. Then…
She turned around and closed the door.
The room plunged into darkness once more.
But with Iruka's assault interrupted, that total, can't-see-your-fingers darkness faded into an ordinary dimness.
Kujou Iruka could feel the girl in her arms, whose body and mind had been drawn taut, loosen quickly. Only a faint trace of Shame flushed up in her again.
The Aberrant girl wore an expression that said, "Go on, don't mind me—I just need somewhere to sleep." Hugging her little bedding, she curled up in a corner of the tatami and lay down.
She didn't even glance at Su Yuzu or Kujou Iruka.
Kujou Iruka's hand was still clamped over the girl's mouth and nose.
Su Yuzu's hand was still gripping Kujou Iruka's wrist for dear life.
Both of them seemed frozen mid-motion. Besides the faint fragrance drifting off the girls' bodies, the air was thick with something strange and uncanny.
Su Yuzu had never felt this consumed by Shame.
Her ear tips burned like Lyudmila's, whose stigmata looked ready to catch fire from being bullied.
Even being thoroughly bullied didn't carry as much Shame as this scene.
Forget it. Compared to being bullied senseless, this was probably still better.
But if Kujou Iruka didn't let go, wouldn't it amount to a public execution?
That would be way too freaking much Shame.
Still, it seemed Kujou Iruka wasn't as vicious as Su Yuzu.
Su Yuzu was, after all, perfectly capable of bullying the little rabbit's roommate right in front of her, then watching Lyudmila's adorable, pleading face as she didn't dare let anything slip in front of the little rabbit.
Kujou Iruka wasn't that wicked.
Or rather…
She just wasn't that interested in such things.
She picked on Yuzu simply because squeezing Yuzu was fun.
When the girl was flooded with Shame, panic, cowering and trembling… Kujou Iruka, as an Aberrant, felt endless pleasure, and that was all.
As for anything beyond that, Kujou Iruka had never fully tasted it.
All she knew was that the girl in her arms had delicate, almost fragile features, and her eyes rippled with a watery shimmer that invited a taste.
She had already tasted plenty.
Holding Su Yuzu tight, she looked like a snake demon wrapped around a scholar.
Kujou Iruka wore a breezy, nothing-happened look, and kept Su Yuzu locked in her embrace.
"Sleep."
As an Aberrant, Kujou Iruka simply closed her eyes and slipped into her Aberrant dormant state.
That left only Su Yuzu, coiled in Iruka's arms, listening in Shame and helplessness to the faint breathing on her left and right in the room.
She was bound fast.
Never mind escaping; even freeing a hand to swipe open her Material Inventory was a struggle.
After enduring every hardship to finally open her Material Inventory, only one thought remained in Su Yuzu's mind.
Why could she change Kujou Katora's outfit in one tap through the "Material Inventory," but not her own?
Her knees seemed about to knock together.
Behind her, Kujou Iruka, in her dormant state, breathed softly, long and precise, and every breath landed squarely on the helpless girl's tender earlobe.
Su Yuzu's neck instinctively shrank back, only for Kujou Iruka to hold her even tighter.
Then…
Kujou Iruka, supposedly dormant, rubbed against the girl in her arms as she adjusted her sleeping position, and the faint breath hit the girl's weak spot again.
She had survived. She had clearly survived.
Yet Su Yuzu's eyes, fixed on the paper window, looked more helpless and hollow than ever.
"Help…"
"Heeelp!!!"
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