Episode 215
"......."
Lulu is looking up at Frey with eyes filled with warmth.
"Lulu?"
He quietly looked down at her, who was gently nuzzling her face against his arm while holding it preciously, then tilted his head and called her name.
"Hua..."
Lulu, who stopped nuzzling her cheek, let out a breath with a fragile expression while pressing her cheek against Frey's arm.
"I love you."
And then, she said that with a voice full of tension.
"Master... no..."
At those words, Frey's eyes widened, and she grabbed his arm and pulled him strongly toward the sofa.
"I love you."
With eyes full of longing, she whispers that once again.
"Uh, um..."
It had been quite a while since Lulu called him by a title other than 'Master.' Probably since all the servants left this mansion.
"A mere pet, daring to fall in love with Master."
"Hmm."
"I'm just a being that should receive one-sided interest and love from Master... but I dared to make it mutual."
Because of that, Frey had a strange expression on his face, and Lulu, who was carefully rubbing her body against his arm as he fell onto the sofa like he collapsed.
"So, please scold me."
"What?"
She says while staring at him.
"Please punish me. Painfully. You can hit me, starve me, or strangle me."
"........"
"Hurry, Master."
Lulu, who said that, squeezed her eyes shut and started trembling.
"Hmm..."
Frey, who was blankly staring at such Lulu, soon smiled slightly and reached out his hand to her.
"...Ouch."
A moment later, Lulu, who was flicked on the forehead, flinched for a moment and then carefully opened her eyes.
"It's punishment, Lulu."
Looking at such Lulu, Frey whispered in a low voice.
"Now it's done, right? So, let's get up now. We need to prepare to greet the guests..."
"Master."
Lulu, who was rubbing her slightly sore forehead with her hand and blankly thinking about the situation that just happened to her.
"By any chance... is it okay for me to love Master?"
She asks with a trembling expression.
"...Of course?"
At those words, Frey, who paused for a moment, soon quietly nodded.
"Ah... Aah..."
Lulu, who was looking at him with trembling eyes.
"...K, kyah!"
Making an awkward crying sound, she pounces on Frey who was leaning on the sofa.
"L, Lulu?"
".....♡"
Lick, lick, lick.
Lulu keeps licking his face regardless of Frey's flustered expression.
"Mas...ter..."
A moment later, still with her tongue out, she slowly begins to speak.
"The one who saved me... is you. You saved me. You kept me alive. You dyed me in your color. So, I am yours. Only you can control me. Only you can dominate me."
"W, wait..."
"My life, my soul, my fate, my future, my life... all of it is in your hands. I will become your pet, belonging only to you for my whole life."
"Hmm..."
"I can do anything. If you tell me to receive curses in your place, I will receive them. If you tell me to sell my soul, I will sell it. If you tell me to die, I will die with joy."
"......"
"It doesn't matter how bad of a person you are. If you tell me to kill someone, I will kill. If you tell me to torture, I will give them terrible pain. If you tell me to fight the empire, I will fight. Is the hero party troublesome for you? I will go in as a spy for you."
With an expression as if she would have been wagging her tail left and right enthusiastically if she had one, Lulu whispers.
"Just as you swore to me, I too... no matter what happens... will be your pet forever."
Lulu, who finished speaking that continued for a while.
"...Haha."
".....!"
When Frey made an awkward smile, she looked at him while trembling all over and whispers in a low voice.
"Master, I'm sorry..."
"Hm?"
And then, she suddenly started shining her magic eye.
"Please... pet me a little more...! Lately, it seems like you haven't been petting me much...!"
With an expression full of guilt and immorality, she whispers in a low voice.
"".........""
And the silence that began to flow.
- Swish, swish...
When Frey frowned and started petting her, Lulu tilts her head.
"Huh? What is it?"
And then, she mutters in a small voice.
"...Why doesn't my eye hurt?"
The terrible pain that came every time she used the magic eye, which she deliberately didn't explain exactly to Frey, for some reason didn't come.
"T, that's strange...?"
Thanks to that, Lulu, who became flustered, grabs Frey and whispers.
"Please... like me."
"Okay."
But the magic eye didn't hurt.
"Please... love me."
"Yeah."
Still the magic eye didn't hurt.
"Please... love me sincerely as I am...!"
"...I understand."
Thanks to that, even when the anxious Lulu shouted like that, the magic eye didn't hurt, and Frey, who was looking up at such her, nods with a generous smile.
"U, ugh..."
Then, she suddenly started sobbing.
"M, Master... what should I do..."
Eventually, she, who had a frightened expression.
"M, my magic eye... seems to have disappeared..."
She says in a trembling voice while looking down at Frey, her rightful owner.
"It shouldn't... I thought I could be of at least a little help to Master now... but..."
"...Your magic eye is fine, though?"
"Huh?"
However, when Frey said that with a calm expression, Lulu quietly lifted her head and started looking at the window.
"Ah."
Her eyes were still shining ruby red.
"Aah."
And then, she was finally able to realize.
The reason why all the commands she had given so far weren't working.
"Aaah..."
No matter how much she thought about it, there was only one thing.
"Mas...ter."
Her rightful owner, Frey.
Already liked her, and loved her.
Not as a pet as he always said, but loving her as she was.
"........"
Lulu, who noticed that, felt like her mind was turning completely white.
Even though Lulu had already become perfectly his possession to the point where no one could say otherwise.
She still thought that his and her relationship was 'abnormal.'
Herself, who would quickly become anxious and die if she didn't receive love.
And the meeting of a depraved young noble who could only give love in an abnormal way because he couldn't give love to others as they were.
Even with such a relationship, Lulu was already so satisfied.
"...Mmm."
Lulu's eyes, who was looking down at Frey, suddenly changed.
It was because she realized that she had been mistaken.
Frey was already loving 'herself as she was' 'sincerely.'
Her final wish that she had desperately wanted since she was driven out by her parents with cold eyes because of the brand she received when she was young.
The final obstacle that made her called the unfortunate heroine in 'Blacktail Fantasy 2,' that made her unable to survive in any route.
Just now, it had completely disappeared.
"Ugh, uuugh..."
"L, Lulu? Are you crying?"
Lulu, at least for this very moment.
Not as master and pet, not as ruler and ruled, but as a relationship where they sincerely understood and loved each other as they were, she was in his arms.
"Uuuugh..."
She was completely saved as of today.
"...Master."
Like that, Lulu, who had been sobbing with her face buried in Frey's arms for a while.
"I really love you."
She says that, lying prostrate in front of him, showing that she is obedient and dominated by him.
"Really, really, really really..."
"Yeah."
"If Master dies, I want to die together."
"...What?"
"I want to go into the same grave. That's what pets do. If they lose their master, they can't live. They miss them forever, waste away, and die, so I'll be buried by your side."
Hearing those words, Frey.
"...No."
He says with a stern expression.
"If you say something like that one more time, I'll really scold you?"
"...Mmm."
Lulu, who flinched at those words.
"Ah..."
Soon, she realizes that he was worried about her.
"......"
He was worried about what would happen to her even after he died.
"...Master."
Lulu, whose thoughts reached that point, mutters with a sullen expression.
"I'm really sorry."
"What? Lulu, you..."
Frey, who heard those words, thought Lulu was trying to refuse his words and was about to scold her strictly but.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
Lulu was just muttering that like a machine while covering her face with both hands.
'I'm sorry...'
While secretly looking through the gaps in her fingers at Frey, who was looking at her with a genuinely worried expression.
'I don't know why but...'
Lulu thinks inside.
'Master, suddenly doesn't look like Master anymore...'
Her face had already turned bright red.
'Now you... look like a man...'
Like that, she, who had been blushing and covering her face with her hands for a while.
"...Please dominate me."
She whispers in a low voice while shining her magic eye slightly.
"Please control me. Please own me completely."
Feeling the immorality of giving commands to the master who owns her.
"...Please... embrace me."
Without realizing it, she whispers like that.
- Slick...
Then, Frey carefully and gently embraces her.
"Mmm, mmm..."
Lulu, who was embraced by him, feels a soft and warm sensation and thinks inside.
'Ah, I shouldn't...'
Frey wants her as a 'pet.'
And she too is happy being raised as his pet, and even feels pride in it.
To the extent that being treated like that for her whole life is so joyful.
But, what is she saying right now.
The Maginot line of emotions that a pet can dare to have for its master would be 'love.'
She shouldn't hope for anything more than that.
If she hopes for more than that, the relationship could fall apart.
And that means...
"Mmm..."
Lulu's body started to become hot.
Why is this suddenly happening?
A new emotion she had never felt once in her life suddenly started to dominate her.
- Swish, swish...
In that situation, Frey is literally just 'embracing' her.
Of course, that too is very overwhelming and joyful, but.
'I'm sorry... Master.'
Lulu had now become a bad child.
She had become an ungrateful child who, as a mere pet, desired something more than love for the master who saved her and completely dominates her.
"Me, m-me me...!"
Like that, she, who was about to say something with her eyes tightly closed while feeling immorality, guilt, and trembling toward Frey who was embracing her with a smile.
- BOOM!!!
"Heek...!"
When suddenly a sound of something exploding was heard from outside, she got startled and stood up from her seat.
"...What is it?"
And at the same time, Frey's eyes became sharp.
"S, stay there! It's dangerous!"
Worried that Frey might be in danger, she hid him under the sofa.
"What... what is it..."
When her body, which had become hot for some reason, started to cool down cold, she looked at the place where the sound came from with her magic eye with cold eyes.
"...Grrr."
And then, growling, she moved her feet.
Toward the window, which was slightly open for some reason.
.
Meanwhile, at that time.
"H, heek!"
Rosewin, who was hiding in the bushes and quietly watching the inside of the mansion, was startled by the magic that covered her and stood up from her seat.
"N, no way..."
Rosewin, who realized that her hair was disheveled and her clothes were a mess, thought of the person who often cast this magic on her and started to turn pale.
"What are you doing there...?"
"......!!!"
Just as she expected, when Serena approached her, she froze without even thinking to run away.
"Hmm..."
Serena, who looked her up and down.
"I heard you were dragged to the guard station and interrogated last time? I heard you were trying to give flowers..."
She whispers with an annoyed expression.
"...Could you stop hitting on other people's man?"
Hearing those words, Rosewin started to sob.
"N, no... that's strange..."
"Hm?"
"Frey... liked... me..."
For a while, she, who had been trying to think that the behavior Lulu showed was forced by Frey's wish.
Having just witnessed the sincere affection between Lulu and Frey, she was in a state of panic.
"Why? What is it? It's strange... I don't understand..."
However, trying to somehow avoid the conclusion that was already out, she tried to find another answer as she always did.
"That's why..."
At that moment, Lulu, who opened the window and appeared, looked at her with a cold expression and whispered.
"...you should have behaved better when you had the chance?"
"......!"
Rosewin, who heard those words, froze in that spot.
"Ah."
And a moment later.
"Uuah..."
Lowering her head, she started sweating cold sweat and hurriedly ran across the yard.
"......."
Serena, who glanced at her.
"...You should leave too, right?"
"Y, yes..."
She even drove out Aishi, who was watching that scene with a frightened expression from the nearby bushes.
"...Just a moment, I'll go open the door now."
"Yes, thank you."
Serena, who was watching Lulu running to the entrance, fell into thought.
'...For a pet dog, not bad.'
Rather than Cania, the thieving cat who tries to steal Frey from her from time to time.
Someone like Lulu, who keeps her boundaries, might be acceptable when she marries Frey.
Thinking that she's suitable as a gatekeeper to watch the house, Serena was evaluating Lulu quite positively.
- Creak...
"Um, you..."
When Lulu opened the front door, she tried to say something to her.
"Hah?"
But soon, she stopped speaking and started to quietly look her up and down.
"...Ugh."
On Lulu, who stood in front of her after opening the front door, Frey's hair, scent, and traces remained in every corner of her body.
"".........""
A moment later, Serena's moonlight eyes and Lulu's ruby eyes crossed coldly.