LIVE EVIL (II)

“Now then, since I’m here, might as well start looking around my new home.”

I decide to start actually taking in the look of Ariesa’s house and getting acquainted with my new lodgings.

“Wait. You’re planning to stay here?”

“Of course. Where else will I go? I mean, I do feel sorry that I won’t be using those accommodations you arranged for, but I’d rather not continue being stuck in one place and being monitored at all times. Now that I’ve started my new life, I want to be able to freely go wherever I please. In fact, maybe we’ll even go on an exploration adventure later.”

“Tch. That’s right. I put in all that effort to get you the best accommodations possible, and yet… ahh, I can’t believe I worked so hard for someone like you.”

“Hey, I do appreciate it though. And I said I was sorry. Can’t you forgive me?”

“If you want my forgiveness, jump off the roof 10 times and then give up on me forgiving you.”

“What’s the point of jumping off the roof, if you’re still not going to forgive me!?”

Sheesh, she’s being really crabby right now.

Well, not that I can blame her. I did make her my slave after all and force her to do a bunch stuff she didn’t want to do. She has every right and reason to be mad at me.

I guess it’s not possible for us to stay on friendly terms after all… that is a shame.

“Haah… and here I was looking forward to us living together… I thought it would be fun…”

“In what world would a slave and her master living together be considered fun?”

“W-well, you never know. You might surprisingly enjoy having a housemate, once you try.”

“The last thing I want is to live under the same roof as you. No, on second thought, even worse is the thought of letting you live in my home.”

“Oh, come on… You have such a nice place. Isn’t it too big for just you, anyways?”

Ariesa’s house was a nice, one-story home in a good neighbourhood. It was probably small for a full family, but it was more than spacious for just one person.

Apparently, many of the knights live together in the knight’s barracks, but Ariesa is one of the ones who has their own home. Perhaps it’s the privilege of being a commander.

“I do have to say though… your place is a lot more fashionable than I expected.”

I expected something brutally minimalistic for someone like her. But instead, the interior décor has a surprisingly comfy vibe to it. It’s full of soft soothing colors, homely décor, and a ridiculous number of pillows. It’s the house of someone who just likes to wind down and relax in their private time.

“Haha, as I thought. You really do have a soft side, after all. I wonder what your fellow knights would think if they knew their commander lived in a place like this.”

“Tch. Sh-shut up!”

Ariesa grits her teeth in frustration at my incessant teasing. Her body continues to shake in anger, but she is unable to act on it due to the slave crest.

Nice, nice! I don’t know why but seeing her like this makes me want to tease her more. Is this what they mean by wanting to bully the girl you like?

“Ah, don’t tell me you actually have a stuffed plushie in your room or something?”

“Huh? Stuffed plushie?”

Oh, I guess they don’t have those in this world. Or maybe she just doesn’t know the word.

“You know, like a soft sewn doll stuffed with material inside.”

“Oh. Well, I do have one of those in that room there…”

“You do!? Hahaha, I have to see this. What kind of plushie does the iron-blooded commander have?”

I excitedly open the door to the room she gestured towards—

“Eh?”

And inside, I find a grotesque room resembling a crime scene.

There is a humanoid figure strung up to a post, with numerous holes in its body and its insides spilling out uncontrollably…

“I’ve been practicing my sword thrusts on it recently, so it’s in bad shape.”

“It’s a Training Dummy!?”

Are you kidding me? That’s what she thought I meant by a stuffed plushie?

“It’s a new model that has fake blood inside. That way you can simulate where to attack to cause the most bloodshed.”

“Why would you buy that!? Are you a psychopath!?”

I can’t believe this. Is she the type of character who’s hiding a secret soft side or is she just a bloodthirsty musclehead after all? Pick a lane, girl!

“Geez, that was horrifying... Oh well, besides that room, this place is rather nice. It’ll make a nice home to live in for now. I think I saw a guest room I can use over there.”

“You’re really serious about this. You’re going to live here?”

“Of course I am! I mean… who’s going to stop me?”

With an abrupt shift in tone, I glare back at Ariesa and walk right up her.

I slam the wall behind her and lean right into her face.

“I think you still don’t understand the situation here, Ariesa. This place is no longer your house. You don’t get to decide who does or doesn’t live here; only I do. Everything here belongs to me. Including you.”

“I’ll never belong to you, bastard. Puhh!”

She growls as she spits on my face.

“Kakaka. You can deny it all you want, but it won’t change the truth. In fact, why don’t I show it to you right now?”

“Wh-what are you planning?”

“Isn’t it obvious? I have such a beautiful woman in front of me who will do anything I command. It’s obvious what I want.”

My eyes wander downwards and begin looking over her entire body.

Her hard metal armor makes her seem intimidating and rough at first glance, but a closer look reveals that she has quite the fetching appearance. In my past life, I would’ve never been able to approach a pretty girl like her. But now I can make her do anything I want.

Just the thought makes me lick my lips.

“Tell me, Ariesa… are you currently seeing anyone?”

“H-huh? Why should I tell you that?”

“Answer me!”

I order her with a command that activates her slave crest.

“Ugh… I… I’m not.”

“Oh ho. Then have you ever been with anyone?”

“I… haven’t… I don’t have any experience…”

“I see, I see. In that case, I feel a little bad about this… but I’m also a little excited. I get to be the one to take your first time.”

“Eh!? F-first…”

A look of shocked realization and terror sets into her face.

“Don’t worry now. I’ll be gentle…”

“N-no! No, get out off me, you bastard! Stop it!”

“Hahaha. Don’t think you can resist. Your entire body already belongs to me.”

She tries desperately to struggle and escape, but it’s no use. The slave crest compels her to follow my orders completely. There is nothing she can do but obey.

She is nothing more than putty in my hands now. And so, it’s time to dig in.

“Now then… here I go!”

At last, I fulfill my long-awaited dream and reach my hand towards her and—

“… eh? My… hand?”

“Ahhh, so this is what a girl’s hand feels like…”

I smile blissfully as I grab Ariesa’s hand with my own.

Hahahaha, I did it! I finally did it! My long awaited dream!

I’ve finally held hands with a girl!

And to do be at the hand-holding stage even before marriage…

How lewd! How degenerate!

I am truly a sinful, sinful man! The pinnacle of all evil!

Hahahahaha!

“Ahhh~ Your hand’s really warm. It feels nice to touch.”

I wonder if all girls’ hands are like this. Ariesa swings around her sword all the time, so her hands are probably a bit tougher than other girls, but they’re still pretty soft compared to my own.

Ahhh, what a blissful experience though. I’m glad I finally got my first hand-hold. And I even stole Ariesa’s precious first hand-hold too… I really am a deviant, aren’t I, kakaka. At this rate, I might turn into a real Killer Queen, if you know what I mean.

“You… you’ve got to be kidding me.”

“Hm? What’s wrong, Ariesa?”

“Nothing… just thinking I was a fool to ever take you seriously.”

She sighs with an exhausted look, as if she had just lost two years of her life.

“Well, I can’t have you looking down on me like that. Don’t think I’m just gonna stop at handholding, Ariesa. I’ve already come up with numerous lewd and debaucherous things I’m going to do to you!”

I announce madly, cackling with all of my malevolent intent.

“Now that we’re gonna be living together, there’ll be no end to the scenarios that can happen. Like having you wake me up in the morning or cooking me breakfast in an apron or accidentally walking in on you in the bath or accidentally finding your panties in my laundry bin… All sorts of lewd things are going to happen, you hear me!”

“Ughhh… please don’t tarnish my precious home with your ridiculous fantasties.”

“Oh, come on. Where else are they going to happen if not here? It’s not like I have any other house to go to…”

At that moment, I have a sudden epiphany.

“Wait… that’s right. If I don’t have one, I just have to take one…”

“Huh? Oh no. No, no, no, no, what are you planning? Don’t do it! Don’t think about it!”

“All right! Let’s make that one of my first goals for my new life. I’m gonna steal us a new home to live in!”

“Oh my god…”

“And you know what? If we’re going to do this, we should do it big. Maybe I can get one of those really big mega-mansions full of every luxury possible. Does that sound good, Ariesa? Or do you have any other requests for places to live?”

“Why are you asking me…? It’s your house.”

“Well, of course, you’re coming with me. I can’t move into my new home without my slave, now can I? Wherever I go, you’re coming too. We’ll be together forever!”

“Ahhh… someone please just save me from this man. I don’t want to live with him. And if you can’t save me, at least just kill me now. Someone please!”

Ariesa prays with all her might, but in the end, her cries are never answered.