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How should I take Alice’s words?

Arthur thought that what he had experienced was beyond rape.

I have never actually experienced it, but I don’t think it would be to this extent even if it were sexual torture.

So, I thought that Alice had lied instead.

I don’t know why they were protecting the rapist, but I couldn’t just let it go.

“Why are you covering up? Why are you pretending to rape me, Alice?”

“Tell me quickly.. Who is the real culprit?”

Arthur continued to press, convinced that it was not Alice.

Quickly call the real culprit.

But Alice didn’t answer, and instead showed me something.

And that object was something Arthur could never forget, no matter how hard he tried.

This is because it is a magical tool that contains aspects of himself that he does not want to show to Alice.

“Why did you..? Did you see that..? No? No.. Please tell me you didn’t see it, Alice..”

-Kick.

Why are you laughing?

Is the current situation interesting?

Arthur began to feel an inexplicable sense of unease at Alice’s unusual behavior.

And then I hear Alice’s voice.

“Arthur? This is what I asked for.”

“What, what are you talking about..”

Did I mishear that?

Is it Alice who ordered you to rape me?

Why does Alice keep telling such ridiculous lies?

“You look like you can’t believe it?”

“That makes sense. I’ve always been a very good actor.”

Acting..?

You’re not that kind of person..

You keep saying things you don’t understand..!

“You might get lonely while going to the dungeon, right? That’s why I asked the people around you who were jealous of you. In return, to be cute to you.”

Alice..?

“And I was curious about how you made me cute, so I asked you to take a video.”

“That’s why these videos came out! Arthur, you think they turned out well?”

Alice played the videos in front of Arthur’s eyes, zooming in on the part where Arthur was crying out in pain.

“I liked this part, I wish I had cried more.. right?”

“… ”

Arthur didn’t answer, and there was only emptiness in his eyes, but Alice didn’t stop talking.

“But when I watch the video, you like it so much… I wanted to teach you some lessons because it annoyed me, but you ended up doing it this time?”

“How did you feel, Arthur? Were you excited by the thought of me saving you as you pressed the button on the magic tool I gave you? Or did you hate me for not coming?”

“… ”

“Kik, you were so cute. I also liked the way you tried to hold out until I came! I should have recorded it as a video like this..?”

“Ah, Ariseu…”

Arthur’s mouth, which had been tightly shut, opened again, and Alice was eagerly waiting to hear what Arthur would say.

“Are you being threatened by someone right now..? I, I know you better than anyone else.. The you I know would never do this…”

Haa… You still haven’t given up hope, Arthur?

Should we give our innocent Arthur some insight into reality?

“Our innocent Arthur thought that the image I showed him since he was young was real?”

-Ah.

Arthur was startled by Alice’s words and his hands began to tremble.

“Arthur, answer my questions and you’ll know the answer in no time!”

Alice saw Arthur swallowing at her words, and she spoke, anticipating how Arthur would react to what she was about to say.

“A boy appears in a rural village..! But he has crippled hands, crippled eyes, and is an orphan with no parents, and is small in stature, so he can’t even get along with his peers! So the question here is, what kind of person would love that boy..?”

“… ”

“Answer quickly, Arthur. Isn’t this too easy..?”

Alice wanted Arthur to say the answer with his own mouth, but Alice noticed that Arthur had no intention of answering, so she decided to say it instead.

“The correct answer is ‘There is no such person in this world.’”

When Arthur heard the answer, his eyes began to tremble as if an earthquake had occurred.

“Then the next question is… Why did that piece of trash come to my house..! So what should I do?”

Arthur just stood there with his mouth shut for the next question, so Alice answered for him.

“The correct answer is ‘I can’t disappoint my parents who are so kind that they even take care of such trash, so I act appropriately.’”

Arthur’s eyes grew cloudy as he heard the answer he didn’t want to know.

“Of course I feel sorry too, Arthur.”

“I tried to take care of you as much as I could without disappointing my parents.. but you liked me too much, didn’t you?”

Alice approached Arthur, who was standing still, and continued speaking while patting his head.

“I just gave you a little bit of care and acted appropriately, so it was fun because you acted like you’d give me your liver and gall bladder!”

Alice let out a laugh and moved her caressing hand to Arthur’s cheek, lightly tapping it.

“And thanks to the lie that she would protect you, you were able to learn high-level skills from Hilia, and thanks to that, you’re doing well at the academy, right?”

Alice lowered her head and kissed Arthur’s cheek.

“Thank you, Arthur. For giving me this life!”

“Kick, if Hillia had lived and seen the situation now, she might have been hit and killed. Well, dead people don’t talk anymore.”

In the end, Arthur’s eyes turned black and lifeless at Alice’s words, like a corpse’s.

“Don’t hate me too much, Arthur. But thanks to me and my parents, I’ve been able to live like a human being until now, right?”

“If our house hadn’t accepted you, you would have been living in a slum begging, and then you would have been caught by a slave trader and sold into sexual slavery. That’s too much.”

While speaking calmly, Alice secretly checked Arthur’s condition.

Thinking that if this doesn’t work, then maybe it’s time to give up.

And Alice had never failed. For she could see a strange heat in Arthur’s eyes even when he was dead.

The heat gushing from the abyss. A hint of hatred like black flames could be seen.

If you just do a little more, you’ll be able to see it..?

“You’re making that face again? It’s the same face you make every time you try to commit suicide. Haa… Don’t bother me, and can you be a little more patient this time? It’s been so hard for me to stop you from dying on your own. It would be a shame if you died so easily now.”

“Because it’s rare to find a man as handsome and obedient as you, so he’s great to use as a punching bag or sex toy.”

Alice reached out to Arthur and fiddled with the magical tool she had given him as a gift.

“Ah! And from tomorrow, when you feel sexual desire in that rag-like body, press the button like this time, so I’ll rape you like today. Right? You like me, so are you a pervert..? Hehe!”

As he spoke, Alice, who found it funny, burst into laughter in front of Arthur.

And looking at such an Alice, Arthur opened his mouth with difficulty.

“To you… What have I, what have I been…? Have you ever loved me?”

For Arthur, these were truly the last words of hope in his life, but Alice was only blatantly deceiving him.

“Of course you’re a toy! Arthur, do you love toys too?”

“Ah! You shouldn’t say that.. You should give me the answer I want? Ahem.. Ahem.. Arthur..? I really love you. Enough to give my life for you. You’ll love me too, right?”

“I see..”

I got fooled again..

Well, the person who got fooled is an idiot.

But did it really have to be done like this?

Are you arguing with my life just because of that?

Was I just a toy to you?

Tears began to flow from Arthur’s eyes.

Arthur felt sadder than when Hilia died.

“Oh my.. Our crybaby Arthur.. Should we stop now?”

And the tears began to flow more and more at the sight of Alice’s disgusting appearance.

Alice wiped away the tears flowing from Arthur’s left eye, then lifted the blindfold slightly and wiped his right eye as well.

-Tak!

“Ugh… These eyes are always creepy no matter when I look at them… I should never take the blindfold off, right?”

And then, without thinking, he said words that tore Arthur’s heart apart.

-Thump thump.

Has he reached his limit now? Alice saw Arthur clenching his fists.

His face turned red, so he seemed quite angry.

And then Arthur’s voice is heard.

“I’m gonna kill you..!”

“Really?”

Alice was happy.

Because I could finally see Arthur’s face.

I felt a pleasure that was truly beyond my expectations.

Those eyes filled with hatred and even the murderous intent that slowly seeps out of them.

Everything was perfect.

I should have just finished it now, but…

But since we’ve come this far, it might be better to have some more fun.

“You me?”

Aris, who moved in an instant with an electric current, grabbed Arthur by the neck and lifted him up.

“Kekeke… Kehek… I’m gonna… kill you… Kkeke…”

“Arthur… I’m sorry, but you can never beat me in your entire life. So why don’t you just give up and be satisfied with your current life?”

-Thud.

As she spoke, Alice let go of Arthur’s hand, and he fell to the floor, coughing.

“… Right, that.. but I still have something..”

Hmm… Is there something like that? Let me take a look and see what they’re doing.

But Arthur just passed by Alice, muttering to himself.

“Huh..? What, weren’t you trying to show me something?”

Alice thought Arthur had lost his taste for despair, so she secretly followed him.

“… Ah, soon… Ge… ”

It’s so small I can’t hear it well..?

Is the direction to your room?

Alice continued to chase Arthur without him knowing.

I could see Arthur entering his room.

Just in case Arthur didn’t fall asleep right away and committed suicide, I waited for about ten minutes and then put my ear to the door to listen for sounds.

And luckily, I could hear Arthur breathing while he was sleeping.

“It’s my first time leaving you alone… I guess it’ll be okay? I can just pretend the room changed.”

Alice, who thought that the curse had properly taken effect, headed to her room while thinking about the images Arthur had shown her.

I feel like I’ll be able to sleep well today for the first time in a while.

… … …

-Suddenly.

Arthur returned to his room.

Because I couldn’t be with Alice anymore.

“Ugh… Ugh… My head hurts so bad…”

My head was pounding.

It was clearly a symptom of manataljin, and the pain would go away if I took a breath.

Arthur decided to go to sleep for now because the day had been so long and tiring.

But I couldn’t sleep easily because of the headache that was getting worse, and my gaze turned to the gift box on the desk.

“Come to think of it…what kind of potion is that…”

Arthur quickly got up and opened the gift box, and inside he could see a mana potion filled with blue liquid.

“Thank goodness it was a mana potion.. If I eat it and sleep, the headache will go away..?”

-Gulp, gulp, gulp.

Arthur drank the entire mana potion and felt his headache diminishing noticeably.

“Phew… Yeah, this can’t be real, when I wake up tomorrow, nothing will have happened.”

Arthur soon fell asleep, harboring vain hopes.

However, I only slept for about 3 hours and woke up at 6 in the morning.

“Huh? …This isn’t a dream..?”

Just a few hours ago I,

I was betrayed by the person I trusted and loved the most.

In the worst possible way.

I am,

Now I’m alone..

“It’s okay… It’s okay… It hasn’t been taken away yet..”

Fortunately, Arthur thought, there was something that had not yet been taken from the world.

That is the freedom of death.

“Yeah, I guess I should just die. There’s nothing left for me now, right?”

Arthur decided to die.

For Arthur, the very fact of being alive and breathing, of existing in this world, was a tragedy, a sorrow, and a pain.

I thought it would be better to die as soon as possible.

But if I’m going to die anyway,

“I want to die next to Hilia.”

Arthur wanted to die next to the only person in this world who loved him.

“Let’s go back to the village.”

There was no longer any reason to stay at the Academy, and Arthur packed his bags to leave.

In fact, I didn’t have much, so there wasn’t much to pack.

A wallet, a large robe that Hilia had bought for me, and a necklace.

By the way, I took apart the magic tool that Alice had given me and threw it in the trash.

“I’ve roughly cleaned up my room.. Now I have to go and drop out.”

Arthur headed to the faculty office with a more relaxed mind than ever.

… … …

“Ugh…”

I looked at my watch and it was 9 o’clock in the morning.

“Arthur has worked hard, so I should feed him something delicious today.”

Alice hummed as she headed to Arthur’s room.

-Smart.

“Arthur, are you still sleeping?”

-Smart.

“Hmm… weird…”

9 o’clock is plenty of time to wake up… and I’ll be in good condition after taking some potions.

-Knock knock knock.

“Arthur?”

-Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Open the door, quick!!”

Something was strange.

It was a sound loud enough to wake you up even if you were sleeping, but there was no sign of life inside.

“Tracking.”

Okay, now an arrow will appear in front of you, indicating Arthur’s location. Huh?

However, what appeared in front of Alice was not an arrow, but a status window message.

[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]

“Track, track, track.”

[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]

[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]

[‘Tracking’ is currently unavailable.]

Why can’t I use it? Is there a problem with the skill?

“Soul Bond”

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

[Broken Soul Bond (S-)]

Target: Arthur

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

Huh..?

Are you still half-asleep?

Something strange is right before my eyes…

-Honest.

Alice broke down Arthur’s door and barged in.

But all Alice could see was a room that was as clean and tidy as an empty room.

“Arthur..?”

Where did you go..?

Could it be because of me? I made sure he was sleeping.

What happened? Why… How come…?

I really wasn’t going to do it anymore, but why did it have to be today?

As Alice realized that Arthur had left her, she kept thinking about the things she had done to Arthur.

-Of course you’re a toy! Arthur, do you love toys too?

“I… I wasn’t serious..!”

What did I say to Arthur..?

Arthur is everything to me…

Why did I do that?

“Arthur.. I’m sorry…Can’t you forgive me with a smile like you always did..? Oh, or I’d be fine with just looking at you…”

Alice knelt down on the spot and apologized to Arthur, asking for forgiveness, but it was too late to turn back.

The room where Arthur’s warmth could no longer be felt only made Alice realize that this was reality.