"Urgh... O-ow..." I make sounds of discomfort as I sit up, finding myself covered by a sheet on a comfortable bed. My head hurts a little, but the worst part is this strange, uncomfortable burning sensation I'm feeling.

'Wh-Why is it like this? My puppet body doesn't have a menstrual cycle... so why this uncomfortable burning down there?' I look around, realizing I'm not in my room. I also don't remember almost anything from yesterday.

"...Good morning, Evelyn." I hear Esther's voice as she enters through the door carrying a tray. The sight is so unnatural that I'm left confused.

"G-Good morning..."

"Here's your breakfast. By the way, this is the rest area near the training grounds." She places the tray on my lap, and I see the beautiful breakfast. I look at the tray, then back at her.

"..."

"What is it, Evelyn? Don't you remember yesterday?" she asks as I shake my head no. She looks a little disappointed.

"You can eat. I'll tell you a few things... What's the last thing you remember?"

"K-Kissing, and me drinking that sweet liquid..." I murmur, picking up a roll from the tray and dipping it in jam.

"It seems you forgot everything after drinking the wine, then. It was strong wine, and even though it was just one bottle, it seems you really don't remember..." Esther's gaze is strange to me.

It's no longer that icy look of someone who's always annoyed by something. I wonder why, but I think I prefer her current gaze; it's calmer.

"Evelyn, after you drank yesterday, we had a... clarifying conversation. For me and for you. You made it clear how much you fear that I might kill you." When she says that, I drop the roll, getting jam all over myself. I didn't even have time to bite into it.

'D-Did I talk nonsense!?'

"..."

"I-I wasn't..." I try to say something, but I don't remember anything from a few minutes after drinking, and when I try to remember, my head hurts.

"Evelyn, just listen... You made me realize something I tried to deny with all my might... and you were right..." She starts saying things I don't understand.

"...What do you mean? Right about what?"

"I love you."

"..." When she says those words in the same sentence, I think I'm dreaming. That's it, I'm having a dream. After all, Esther would never say "I love you" to anyone, right?

"It sounds strange, right? But it's the truth. I don't know when it started. It was just a slight interest I had in you... but on the day we got married, I felt strange... and I hated that."

"I don't like not understanding something that's happening to me, so I tried to ignore and destroy this feeling, but your hopeful stupidity clouded my efforts."

"And yesterday, when I saw you so vulnerable and afraid of dying, talking about me, I realized that I love you. I can't say how much I love you, but it's true that I started loving you at some point."

"And because of that..." She takes my hand and kisses the top of my palm.

"Don't be so afraid of me. You said you thought I was changing, and you're right. I'm only patient, complacent, and lenient with you. You're the only one who has made me act so contradictory to my normal self."

"I... don't understand love, worry, or affection. Everything I know about it comes from observation and reading. This is the first time I've felt this, and I ask you to be patient. I believe I'm making progress, and I think... perhaps we can have a good relationship?" She literally confesses to me.

Not that forced declaration, but genuine words that leave me confused, yet make my heart race.

[Esther's Favorability +8 (Total = 72/100)]

The system appears before me, showing Esther's favorability rising. From 70, it means [In Love], meaning Esther is truly being serious.

"...A-Ah..." I try to speak, but nothing comes out. This feels like such a strange and alien situation to me. The darkest, most evil, and destructive character in the game is confessing to me, saying she's changing for me.

"I-I..."

"You don't have to force yourself to say anything now. I just ask for your patience. I won't lie to you by saying that just because I love you, I'll treat you well. I might say horrible things, hurt your feelings, and perhaps injure your body sometimes."

"But I ask that you understand I'm trying... to love you the right way. Now that I know I love you, I will try to act as a wife should... Do you accept this?" she asks, and I see something in her eyes I've never seen before.

In any route, in any version, and in any ending. I see hope. She has a hopeful look that makes her seem... so genuine. Not that cold, mysterious noblewoman, but a genuinely hopeful girl.

My face grows warm, and I can't speak. To avoid giving a real verbal answer, I just nod my head to her and give a shy kiss on her lips.

When I break the kiss and look at the floor, I can't see her reaction, but I think she seems happy.

'Sh-She's really changing... for real... I knew it... I can do this...' I feel good about this. I feel a joy I think I've never felt before. Because if I can make even a genocidal maniac feel love...

Maybe, just maybe, I'm slowly distancing myself from the failure of the past. I'm managing to achieve my wish of becoming a better and stronger person.

"...Evelyn, you slept for a full day, so it's already the next morning. How about we try something different? I said I would give you military lessons too. How about we try that? And around lunchtime, we can do the training where you drink my Hikishin," she says, returning more or less to her normal self as I look at her.

She has a small smile, and I nod my head in agreement. It seems nice to be able to learn new things.

"E-Esther, before that..." I move my legs uncomfortably against each other. The burning inside my private parts feels as if something had been rubbing around in there for hours.

Besides, the entrance to my womb is a bit sore, as if something had been hitting it repeatedly. And since I'm a puppet, I have an almost overly clear awareness of strange things happening in my body.

"I-It hurts down there... is that normal?" I ask, confused, wondering if this is because of the magic, since when I drank her Hikishin I felt somewhat weak.

"...That... think of it as a problem you created while you were drunk. But I won't say what happened. It should feel better in a few hours."

'Wh-What did I do while drunk?! Damn it, I thought about never drinking anything again, but yesterday I felt weak after drinking her Hikishin, so I thought alcohol would help...'

"I don't want breakfast. Can we start the lessons?" I ask, a little cheerfully. I think so far, this has been the best day I've had since we got married. Waking up to Esther confessing to me feels like a dream.

"Of course, come on." She pulls my hand, helping me up. I notice my mouth has an unpleasant bitter taste, which is strange because the wine was sweet.

'What a strange bitterness. What is this flavor?' My mouth is also a little dry, and this bitter taste doesn't remind me of anything specific, but it's kind of bad. Besides, I feel like the strands of my hair are a bit sticky.

"Y-You know, if I didn't know you, I'd think you did s-s-strange intimate things to me while I was unconscious," I say as a joke, but it's obvious she wouldn't do that.

After all, this is Esther we're talking about. Even though she's dominant in sex, she isn't that interested in it, mainly because she likes drawing reactions out of people, so someone who's asleep would be uninteresting to her.

"...Yeah... I would never do that," is all she says as she helps me. I almost stumble, feeling my legs are a bit too weak.

'This isn't the clothes I was wearing before, is it? Did she change my clothes? What... unexpected kindness...' She helps me walk, being so gentle it feels strange.

"By the way, Evelyn, you... hmmm... never mind, let's go. Time is limited, and I want to make the most of our time together," she says, giving up mid-sentence, leaving me wondering what she was going to say.

...

...

...

"By the way, Evelyn, you... hmmm... never mind, let's go. Time is limited, and I want to make the most of our time together," I say to Evelyn, but I give up on asking why she says such strange things.

'Why is drunk Evelyn so perverted?' Drunk Evelyn, while we were having sex, said so many things that were a bit too perverted. If I hadn't deflowered her before, I could swear she has more sexual knowledge than she should.

She moaned and murmured things that still surprise me, especially her murmured pleas for me to go harder or deeper. They were somewhat disjointed words, but on their own, their meaning was pretty obvious.

'Well, it doesn't matter. Evelyn will never know that I discharged all my magic inside her.' The drink was strong, so Evelyn was "knocked out" for hours and only started sleeping normally about 14 hours after she drank.

So, during those 14 hours, she and I had non-stop sex. And of course, I used up all my magic during those 14 hours. The relic is much more costly than I imagined—so much so that that's why I mentioned the military content lessons.

Because my magic is very low, and I can't let her drink my Hikishin. I'll have to request an improved version of that relic that doesn't consume so much magic.

Although I admit that maybe 14 hours was excessive, since Evelyn got quite red and the flesh of her private parts became irritated. I applied an ointment to soothe her, but I'll let the pain last a few hours as punishment.

And I was also uncomfortable, since the magic that gave me pleasure stimulated my body, so my body was also bothered by the unusual act. But Evelyn was so cute that I couldn't stop doing it.

'I hope she doesn't see the bite mark...' I ended up giving in a bit to perversion and bit her quite hard on the thigh. Since it's on the back, it's not so easy to see, but I drew quite a lot of blood from that bite.

'As my mother said, the blood of the one we love is the best... Her flavor seems even better than the bite from before...' I shake my head, ridding myself of these thoughts.

Love will not affect my daily life. I still have things to do, and I have to teach Evelyn. I also have to start training to get stronger to carry out my future plans. Liking Evelyn won't make me change my mind about killing everyone on the planet.

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