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A fleeting moment.
It was the kind of moment where the word suddenly would fit perfectly.
A bizarre thought surfaced so unexpectedly that a sneer curled at my lips.
Not a sneer directed at Happy.
No, it was pure self-ridicule.
It felt like I was riding a roller coaster.
Over the past two days, my emotional turbulence had been severe.
Within a minute—no, mere seconds—I had plunged to the depths of despair, only to skyrocket again.
This must be the peak.
Just moments ago, I had been reminiscing about my days as the Queen of Darkmoon, clinging to my pride.
And now, I was laughing at myself.
But it was warranted.
Because the thought that had surfaced was absurd beyond reason.
Without any warning, a movie came to mind.
One that had nothing to do with my current situation.
I had no idea why I thought of it.
And it wasn’t even a movie I had seen recently.
Had I ever truly had leisure time since being chosen by the Quest Jewel?
I had always been too busy struggling to complete my objectives.
And even if I had tried to watch something, my countless deaths had numbed my emotions to the point where I could no longer empathize with stories.
After leaving the orphanage, watching movies had become something akin to a psychological test.
To see how broken I had become.
To measure how far I had deviated from normality.
To determine just how much I had to fake insanity to blend in as an ordinary person.
That was the only reason I had ever bothered watching them.
Still, there had been a few movies that left an impression.
A film about a criminal forcing people to play a deadly survival game.
A story about a clown who lost his mind and became a murderer.
Those had been entertaining.
Because, just like how I became the Queen of Darkmoon—
I could understand why they became villains.
But the movie I was recalling now didn’t fit into that category.
If it had, I could have justified it as my mind searching for an example—
A way to fill the empty void within me.
Instead, the movie that surfaced in my memory was something I had seen long before being chosen by the Quest Jewel.
Back when I was in the orphanage, watching it with other children who had lost or been abandoned by their parents.
It had been so long that I couldn’t remember the title, but I still clearly remembered the theme.
A story about toys that came to life when no one was looking.
Back then, I had been innocent enough to believe that all toys were like that.
Of course, reality didn’t work that way.
Not that I had ever owned any toys to confirm whether it was true or not.
But, as I said, I had been a naïve child.
And an exceptional imagination wouldn’t let me leave the thought alone.
I had probably reasoned something like this—
If magical girls and villains existed in this world,
Then wasn’t that kind of fantasy possible too?
So, I imagined toys that didn’t exist.
I wondered how they would move when I wasn’t looking.
“Yeres unnie.”
Ah.
I had let my thoughts wander for too long.
I shook my head forcefully, trying to dispel my distractions, and opened my mouth.
“Woof.”
Thankfully, Happy didn’t react in any extreme way.
After I had so defiantly declared that I would never love her,
After I had thrown away my pride and reduced myself to a dog—
She was merely sitting in stunned silence.
She sat in the chair made of solidified light, her eyes darting back and forth.
Eyes that had lost their usual magical girl shine.
“…Say it again.”
When she finally spoke, her voice was heavy with rough, uneven breaths.
Her movements, stiff and uncoordinated, were completely unlike the exaggerated gestures she had been using to overwhelm me for the past two days.
The same Happy who had suffocated me with theatrical displays of dominance was now buffering like a frozen screen, stuck motionless in her chair.
“Woof woof.”
“…This is driving me crazy.”
She was hesitating.
Why?
Didn’t she always give me only two options?
Wasn’t it just a matter of picking one?
So what will you do now?
Do you want to torture me?
Or do you want to pour your love into me?
Figure it out quickly.
Because if you don’t, I might be the one who devours you instead.
I was already drawing up plans in my head—
Not of love, but of how to break you.
From that moment on, my goal became incredibly simple.
I would make Happy feel exactly what I had felt since yesterday.
I would keep her mind tangled in knots, unable to process my erratic actions.
Even if it meant making myself look more pathetic than ever—
I would ensure that she never again believed she stood above me.
“Hah… this is ridiculous.”
Happy snapped her fingers, instantly dispelling the magic that had bound me.
Then, she reached into her skirt pocket and pulled something out.
A plastic 500mL water bottle, its cap still intact, never before used.
I could almost hear the crinkle it would make when opened.
“You want this?”
She shook it in front of me, trying to prove that she hadn’t been shaken by my behavior.
And yet—
Her breath was ragged.
A grin was plastered on her lips.
The body she had leaned away just moments ago was now pressing toward me again.
“Woof.”
“Then act like a proper dog.
I want to see how good you really are at it.”
I swallowed the laughter bubbling up inside me.
In the end, Happy hadn’t been able to torture me.
Nor had she been able to shower me with love.
Instead, she had resorted to bluffing.
Trying to redefine the collapsing balance between us.
She still wanted to dance above me, unshaken.
“Woof woof.”
I barked again.
Not figuratively—literally.
Slowly, I rose from my chair.
Then, I got down on all fours.
Without hesitation, I lowered my head to the floor and began eating the spilled fried rice.
The meal that had once been steaming hot from the microwave had cooled, making it easier to eat.
“Don’t leave a single grain behind.”
“Woof.”
It was chicken stir-fried rice, mixed with vegetables and red seasoning.
I normally couldn’t handle spicy food.
I had braced myself to force it down, but it wasn’t as fiery as I expected.
In fact, it was almost sweet—a flavor that teased my empty stomach.
The moment I took my first bite, a loud growl rumbled from my belly.
Just like the saying, hunger is the best seasoning—
A meal I wouldn’t have even glanced at before now tasted unbearably delicious.
“That’s enough. That’s disgusting.”
As I stuck out my tongue, about to lick the oil-stained floor, Happy reached out and grabbed a fistful of my hair.
She bit her lip, struggling to suppress the smile tugging at her lips.
“Woof.”
Slowly, I pulled back and turned around, raising my hands despite being bound by cuffs and my fingers still being ruined.
At that moment, I heard the cap of the 500mL plastic water bottle pop open.
“Good girl. I’ll heal you.”
Once again, Happy controlled the precise amount of water needed for healing.
It didn’t even make me shudder anymore.
Instead, I nearly gasped at the sensation of my twisted fingers slowly returning to their proper places.
For the first time, I was receiving something from Happy instead of having things taken away.
A wave of emotion surged through me—relief, gratitude, satisfaction.
But I didn’t let myself be content.
Compared to everything she had stolen from me, this reward was nowhere near enough.
I needed to figure out how to extract more from her.
It didn’t take long to find the answer.
As the last drops of water touched my left pinky, a fleeting thought brushed through my mind.
I barely managed to grasp it before it disappeared.
A moment.
The kind of moment where the word suddenly felt appropriate.
But the thought itself wasn’t strange.
It was something I needed to carve deeply into my heart if I wanted to survive.
Just because I had spoken the language of beasts didn’t mean I should abandon myself to primal instincts like they did.
At the same time, I couldn’t allow myself to become Happy’s marionette, moving solely according to her desires.
No matter what happened.
Even if I had to make a fool of myself.
I needed to discover the advantages of playing the role of a toy.
I had to surpass Happy’s expectations.
So, Yeres.
If you want to live, forget your shame.
Just for a moment.
Clank.
The sound of metal clicking against metal echoed in my ears.
The cuffs unlocked.
I pressed my now-free hands against the floor.
I imagined how a four-legged beast would move.
Then, I turned to face Happy.
She was still reaching out toward me.
Her expression was full of disappointment, as if she had just realized that our deal was over—
That she could no longer watch me behave like a dog.
But I didn’t stop.
No, this wasn’t just acting anymore.
I wasn’t just giving her what she wanted—I was clawing to take more.
“Ah…!”
I had never raised a dog before,
But I knew that owners liked when their pets did this.
My instincts had been correct.
I placed my chin against her outstretched hand, and Happy gasped in excitement.
Her fingers twitched, then clenched tightly, firmly holding my jaw in place.
“Woof.”
I wasn’t just letting her do as she pleased.
I accepted the touch that had once disgusted me.
Then, I went further—sticking out my tongue and licking her hand.
“Unnie.”
That was the moment Happy fell.
Just like how I had been broken yesterday,
Her mind was now a tangled mess of chaotic thoughts, unable to keep up with what was happening.
If… No, not if. Absolutely. If you’ve fallen this far, don’t reject me now. Yeres unnie. Please.
“I will.”
Her words were rushed, disorganized—proof that she hadn’t even properly processed them before speaking.
Even the way she spoke had changed.
Compared to before, her tone was completely different.
Was she ordering me?
Begging me?
It wasn’t enough.
I needed more.
I needed Happy to break further.
So, I did to her what she had done to me.
I tormented her.
“Woof.”
“Unnie!!!!!”
I yanked myself free from her grip and backed away.
Happy reached for me—too hastily, too carelessly—
And ended up tumbling from her chair.
“No! Don’t! Where are you going? Come back here!”
How tangled was her mind right now?
She could have just stood up and grabbed me.
But she didn’t.
I watched as she crawled toward me, knees scraping against the greasy floor.
She didn’t even care about the oil soaking into her clothes.
She nearly slipped a few times.
But she never stopped.
She didn’t stand up.
“I got you! I got you!”
Finally, she caught my wrist, stopping me from retreating further.
Then, she pulled me into a desperate embrace.
The heat from her body seeped through her magical girl uniform and into me.
“Don’t resist me.”
Resist?
That’s my line, Happy.
You’re the one who fell for me.
You’re the one who crawled to me.
“Yeres unnie, what do you want from me?”
See?
The old you would have hit me while saying that.
You can’t anymore, can you?
“What do you want so badly that you’re doing this to me?”
Never again.
Never act so high and mighty in front of me.
Never think about torturing me again.
“I’ll give you everything you want.
Just… please don’t abandon me.”
I’m not something you can control as you please.
“Unnie. Say something.”
When I didn’t respond, Happy gazed at me with a heartbroken expression.
At that moment, her eyes were shining again—
They were filled with light.
“Woof.”
“…Unnie. Why are you doing this?
Do you want to see me lose my mind?”
I barked one last time.
I, who had gone from human to dog—
Now turned back into a human, finally opening my mouth to speak.
“Aren’t you already insane?”
“You’re right.
I’m already insane.
I’ve lost my mind so completely that I would do anything just to have you.”
“So, Unnie—”
I didn’t hear the rest of her words.
But I didn’t need to.
I already knew what she was going to say.
What do you want from me?
The answer had been decided from the beginning.
“I want to leave this place.”
“You can’t.”
I expected that answer.
But I kept pushing.
“That’s the only thing I want.”
“How about letting me go, just for a little while?”
“No. Let me out with no conditions.”
“Yeres unnie.”
Happy tightened her grip.
A sharp pain spread through my waist, making me bite my lip.
“Then how about this?”
Luckily, she didn’t keep hugging me.
She loosened her hands around my waist, grabbed my shoulder with her left hand, and reached into her pocket with her right.
She pulled out a smartphone—the same model she had planned to give me.
“There’s a tracking app installed. This much should be fine, right?”
“You don’t like this either? Why?”
“I told you—no conditions.”
“If I did that, you’d never come back to me.”
“Of course not.”
“Then why should I let you go?”
“You will.”
“Yeres unnie.”
Happy frowned.
She tossed the phone onto the floor and moved to restrain me again.
“You think I’d actually do that? Don’t be ridiculous.”
“Happy.”
“…Yes, unnie?”
“Let’s make a deal.”
She froze.
The word deal stopped her cold.
I saw the way she gulped, recalling what had happened just moments ago.
Her face turned red.
“If you let me out of here, I’ll let you do whatever you want to me for the rest of the day.”
“I won’t listen.”
She smacked her own cheek, trying to snap herself out of it, then clamped her hands over her ears.
Just as I had predicted.
“Happy.”
“Look at me, Happy.”
“No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No!
Unnie has to stay with me forever!
I won’t listen!”
You don’t have to listen.
You just have to watch.
No.
You will watch.
I took a deep breath and let it out.
Then, I reached for the fabric covering my chest.
“What are you—!”
Slip.
“Unnie…!”
“I’ll take off the rest too.
Or do you want to do it yourself?”
The moment I made my move, Happy’s hands, which had been covering her ears, slowly fell away.
Her gaze was filled with unfiltered hunger.
Her trembling hands hovered over me, her hesitation barely holding her back.
I didn’t resist.
This was the path I had chosen.
Smiling, I leaned in and whispered into her ear.
“You’ve already done it, haven’t you?”
“Ugh…!”
“So, what do you want to do with me now?
Do whatever you want.
I won’t say no.”
“In exchange… you want me to let you go?”
“That’s right.”
“…Unnie.”
Deep down, I wanted Happy to break.
I wanted her to lose herself in the moment, blinded by temptation.
I wanted her to be so overwhelmed that she wouldn’t even realize what our second deal entailed.
“I didn’t want to do this. I’m sorry.”
Sigh.
But she didn’t.
Instead, she snapped her fingers.
Magic wrapped around my limbs, binding me once again.
Losing my balance, I fell backward.
She straddled me immediately.
“Our relationship… I am the one in control.”
“How dare you try to defy me?”
Yet she didn’t hide her desire.
Her hands squeezed my chest, her breath coming out in ragged gasps.
“It’s time for your punishment.
Close your eyes.”
“What are you going to do?”
She didn’t answer.
Instead, she slowly leaned closer, licking her dry lips.
“Close your eyes.
I’ll overlook today’s actions with just this.”
I was momentarily caught off guard.
Not because I hadn’t expected this.
I had always assumed that Happy would remain above me, untouchable.
And yet, just like a roller coaster—
She had plummeted to the depths in mere minutes.
She had always acted according to her plans.
But now, she had abandoned them, giving in to instinct.
Everything was unfolding exactly as I had expected.
Even Happy, the strongest magical girl in the world—
The one who had killed me 131 times—
Was just a human, just like me.
“Do you not want this?”
Even though our second deal had been ignored,
I had already achieved everything I wanted.
So, I decided to give her a reward.
Just like how she would whip me before offering a carrot—
“Do whatever you want.”
The moment I closed my eyes, I could feel her.
Happy’s tongue, slick and serpentine, curled into my mouth.
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