***
Reines no longer understood what was happening. One moment they were drinking and laughing in the living room, but now they were in one of the mansion's bathrooms, sticking their heads in the full bathtub to see who could hold their breath the longest.
Of all of them, she was the one who held out the longest. Even though she was already very dizzy, she kept a poker face the whole time. In fact, Trimmau was helping her walk, while Toru, Svin, and Flat were stumbling all the time and breaking everything in their path.
"Ten minutes are up!" shouted Flat.
Svin, having regained his sanity, was sitting near the toilet. He felt too dizzy and his whole body ached. The constant urge to vomit kept him close to that spot while Toru and Flat did stupid things.
Toru had already had his head in the bathtub for ten minutes. Until now, he was the winner, but even he couldn't hold his breath that long. Without cheating, this was the most he could achieve, so, defeated, he took his head out of the bathtub and fell backwards onto the tile floor.
"Hahahaha. Damn... I almost died," the water dripped down his face and caught Reines' attention.
"Is there any point in doing this?" she asked.
"Hm? No, there isn't. That's the joke. Have fun, ojou-sama."
"No. I don't want to get my hair wet."
"That seems reasonable to me. Svin? How are you?" he asked the boy, who was staring into the abyss with a lost look in his eyes.
However, he was suddenly overcome by an uncontrollable urge to vomit. "Hgggk... I'm going to die... Help—Bleeeeeewhhh," and in the end, he ended up throwing up. Fortunately, he was close to the bathroom.
"Hahaha. That's disgusting. I never thought you'd have such a low tolerance," he looked at Reines. "And it's only been two hours."
"Yeah. And you're falling apart."
"That's not true. I'm fine."
Reines, with her chibi poker face, shook her head. "Are you sure? Try standing up."
"Why don't you separate yourself from your Mystic Code?"
"Touché..."
That was a good argument for someone who was so heavily intoxicated. Reines continued to cling to Trimm in an attempt not to stumble or fall to the ground. At least she, among these three crazy guys, was the one in the best condition.
As for these three guys, they had already lost it a long time ago.
"Hey, Flat. How are you doing?"
Leaving aside Svin, who was hugging the toilet bowl in constant agony, Flat had his head stuck in the bathtub, but he wasn't moving or anything. He even looked like he had died...
Wait...
"Flat?"
Toru looked at Reines and vice versa. Then, the Assassin boy reacted quickly and tried to go help Flat, but he slipped and fell face-first onto the floor. This did not stop him from reaching his goal. He crawled over and pulled Flat out of the bathtub by the collar of his shirt.
Flat's eyes were rolled back and he had foam on his mouth. His lungs were probably full of water.
"He's dead. What do we do? Where do we bury the body?"
Reines sighed. "You shouldn't joke about that right now."
As twisted as it sounds, Reines understood that what Toru had said was a joke. In response, Toru smiled and put his hand over Flat's mouth. Using his control over air, he pushed air into Flat's mouth, and Flat woke up, spitting out all the water.
"Ahhhh!" Flat shouted. "Did I win?" he finished with that question.
***
Now everyone is in the backyard of the mansion. For some reason, fate wanted them to be here, so Flat, Svin, and Reines were present, looking up at the ceiling. There was someone up there, two entities.
Toru and Trimm. Trimm was holding two bottles of sake in each hand.
"Are you really going to do it, Assassin?" asked Flat.
"Why are men so stupid?" complained Reines.
Svin, on the other hand, stared at the sky with a lost look in his eyes. He even looked like he had been lobotomized. The truth was that he had reached such a high level of drunkenness that his mind had reached a new plane of existence. He was even heard whispering that this might be the path to the Spiral of Origin, but these were the delusions of a drunk teenager.
"I'll give you twenty pounds if you do it!"
"Make it forty and I'll do a backflip!" Toru replied to Flat's proposal.
The reason Toru was on the roof was because he was going to jump off the top and survive the fall.
"Assassin! Get down from there! You're going to hurt yourself!"
Reines' warning was in vain. Toru spread his arms proudly and smiled defiantly.
"Nothing can hurt me! I'm invisible!"
Reines put her hand to her face. It would certainly be very entertaining to see Toru crash into the ground, but the commotion this was causing was too much. Even she, who was as drunk as the others, had moments of lucidity in which she reflected on her own actions.
"It's 'invincible,' and you're not. You're just a drunk fool doing stupid things.
Get down from there."
Toru smiled, grabbed one of the bottles, and poured all the liquor on his face. Then he savored the sake and took a step back.
"No."
"It can't be..." She shook her head, but... "Well, I tried. Do it, Assassin!" her responsibilities as the daughter of this family finally took a back seat.
Then, Toru turned his back on everyone and jumped, doing a backflip. What you would expect from something like this is for Toru to literally crash into the ground, but that wasn't the case. A couple of inches before touching the ground, Toru stopped, floating in the air. His eyes glowed purple.
Seeing this turn of events, Reines clicked her tongue. Toru had tricked them all.
Toru descended to the ground and began rolling on the floor with her hands over her eyes.
"Aaaaah! My eyes! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Flat, help me! Heal me!" Toru cried, crying blood.
Seeing this ridiculous outcome, Reines began to laugh. Although Toru did not crash, he suffered from the use of one of his restricted abilities. She had never seen Toru so vulnerable, and she liked it very much. She felt a flame ignite in her heart.
"How pathetic."
***
After a while, in the backyard of the mansion, everyone was sitting on some rocks. They drank nonstop and without control, especially Toru. Flat's words were no longer as coherent as before, as if his tongue were heavy. As for Svin, he was sleeping with a rock as a pillow.
"Are you saying you can bring lightning directly from the clouds?"
"Of course, my dear ignorant friend. Let me enlighten you with my knowledge," Toru replied to Flat's question. He raised his hand as if to exorcise Flat, and Flat played along.
Kneeling, Flat looked at Toru as if he were looking at a god. "Oh, herald of destruction, guide this lost sheep to the right path."
"I see. Then that is what I will do. Stand up, humble follower, and appreciate the miracle of my power."
One of the daggers appeared in Toru's hand. He smiled, explaining the scientific part of why he could create lightning by striking the clouds with the dagger. At that moment, Reines, who had gone to the bathroom, returned accompanied by Trimmau. The mercury maid was helping her mistress walk, as Reines was already too drunk.
"What are you doing?" she asked innocently, with a strange softness in her voice and expression on her face. Like Toru, Reines' twisted personality seems to be reversed. Although in this girl's case, that's not entirely true.
"Assassin is going to summon lightning," Flat replied.
"Oh. Okay..." She went to sit down, but as she took her seat, she realized what she had heard. "Wait, what?"
"Hahaha! Appreciate it, filthy humans! This is a fraction of my intelligence! Accept it humbly!" shouted the servant. He charged the dagger with a negative electrical charge and took flight to throw it. As he threw the dagger into the sky, due to the force he used, Toru spun twice on his own axis before falling backwards to the ground.
Flat stared in amazement at the dagger that shot out, Svin was still sleeping, and Reines was behind Trimmau, who had become a kind of emergency lightning rod.
"Get ready, you uneducated apes!" Toru said, and for some reason that no one understood, he said it all in Russian.
The sky suddenly lit up and lightning was born, descending to the ground like a claw of death. Reines and Flat watched this in slow motion while Toru laughed like a mad scientist from a science fiction movie.
Sparks fell like rain, and the sight of the lightning spreading from above was majestic. Unfortunately, the majesty of the lightning was suddenly overshadowed by Toru, who realized something terrible and tried to stand up, but it was too late.
The thunder boomed deafeningly, and the lightning struck Toru. Dust and smoke rose. Following that, the loud noise caused problems in the ears of the others. They were stunned, and Svin woke up from his sleep after the earth jumped in his face. Despite that, Svin went back to sleep.
On the other hand, when the smoke began to clear, Flat looked at the crime scene.
"Assassin! Where are you?!"
"Give me more, Trimm," and Reines didn't seem to care. She continued drinking silently like a good observer accompanied by her faithful Mystic Code.
With the smoke cleared, Flat was able to find Toru. The guy was lying in the middle of a crater as if he were Yamcha. He wasn't unconscious, as something happened that confirmed that fact.
"You saw it... That's... my... my... my power..." Toru was muttering. The lightning paralyzed him, but it didn't hurt him much because, fortunately, his mind is so messed up that he didn't put that much electrical charge into the dagger.
"You're alive!"
"It's a shame," Toru replied to Flat as he struggled to his feet. His body was still flashing with small residual lightning bolts. "It would have been a good way to die."
"Hahaha. I'm really surprised by how you take things."
"Yes. I'm the best."
Leaving the staggering Flat behind, Toru approached Trimm and asked him for a glass of vodka. Reines looked at him with a soft, satisfied smile. Toru responded in kind.
"Amazingly adorable," he said before walking over to the sleeping Svin. He bent down and slapped the boy to wake him up. "Look, Svin. Drink this. You'll feel better." Because he was also drunk, he felt that the vodka was like water, so he didn't react.
"I don't think you should force him to drink anymore." Flat appeared, saying that.
Toru looked at him and smiled. Flat did the same, and the two said at the same time, "Naaaaaah!" and gave Svin another glass.
"Hah... Men are such funny creatures. Don't you think, Trimm?"
"That's right, mistress..."
Reines hugged Trimm tightly as she tried her best not to succumb to drunkenness.
***
Police sirens blared, screeching tires tearing across the sidewalk took over the quiet city, waking civilians who were resting late at night, and laughter and mocking shouts rose like a ridiculous chorus.
"They'll never catch me! Not even Konohagakure could catch me, do you think you can catch me?!" shouting in Russian and laughing behind the wheel, Toru maneuvered the double-cab vehicle to escape the police.
Where did the vehicle come from? No one has the slightest idea. Why was the police chasing him? It didn't really matter. Well, maybe because they stole a vehicle and then robbed a candy store. And Toru wasn't alone.
Svin was vomiting out the window in the back seat next to Flat. While Toru was driving, Reines was asleep in the passenger seat. She, of course, was wearing her seatbelt.
"We're not going to lose them, Assassin!" said Flat as he patted Svin on the back.
"Hahaha. I know how! Release the dog!"
After saying that, Svin covered his mouth, entered his anthropomorphic animal form, and jumped toward the police patrol car. Landing in front of the windshield, he quickly punctured the vehicle's tires with his claws and returned to the others by jumping on the hood of the police car.
"Way to go! Good boy!" Toru celebrated. "Flat. Give Svin a cookie."
"Okay!"
From among all the sweets they had stolen, Flat took out a couple of cookies and gave them to Svin, who remained in his animal form, as he apparently felt less dizzy that way. Thus, the Glascheit family's son ate the cookies, and they continued on their journey.
The thief's car disappeared into thin air after that encounter with the police.
***
Reines had only fallen asleep for a while, but when she woke up, she was in the mansion's parking lot. She was inside an unfamiliar car, and in front of the car, for some reason, was a brown horse.
The horse whinnied, which made Reines laugh. Now many things were funny, strange as it may seem. The horse's face was funny too.
Out of the darkness, Toru appeared with a rope. He approached and tied the rope around the horse's neck, saying, "Now you're ready."
...
"What are you doing, Assassin? Where did the horse come from?" asked Reines, poking her head out the window.
"Oh. Ojou-sama, you're awake. What am I doing? I brought this bad boy here. He's my friend, my friend Juan. Let him into your house."
"Your friend... Hehe... That doesn't make sense. Where did you get the horse?"
"Juan. His name is Juan. He's no ordinary horse. And it doesn't matter where he came from. I'm going to train him in ninjutsu, and he'll be the best ninja horse in the world," he said, hugging the horse affectionately.
Juan, the horse, reacted positively to Toru. He stamped his hooves on the ground and whinnied again. He looked happy. Wherever Toru had found this equine friend, it was clear that he hadn't been having a good time.
Flat appeared carrying something in his arms.
"Reines! You're awake! Look, look! I got a new friend!"
Flat lifted what he had in his arms, and it turned out to be a capybara. This little animal looked quite scared and dizzy. No one knows what horrors the poor thing had to go through to get here.
"You too?" Reines laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation. "Did you two raid a zoo?"
...
...
Neither Toru nor Flat answered. That was answer enough for Reines. These little bastards had been up to their old tricks while she was unconscious from the alcohol in her blood.
"Aah... So now everything that crosses Assassin's path becomes his friend... What other surprises do you have in store for me? Did you leave Svin in a cage?"
"No. Svin fell asleep on a piece of furniture inside the house," Toru replied. "He can't walk anymore. And since we went a little overboard with him earlier, we let him rest for a while. Later, I'll wake him up so he can refresh his throat with another drink. For now, it's time to take care of Juan."
"You have no mercy, Assassin," Svin denied, still staggering with the capybara in his arms. As everything spun around him, he accidentally fell backwards, causing the capybara to break out in a cold sweat, if that's even possible.
"Mercy is for the weak. In life, you have to be cruel, otherwise they will crush you over and over again until you break. Remember that, boy. This is the wisdom a dead hero can offer you."
"I accept your wisdom with pride, sensei. You are the best."
This had become a kind of theater in which Toru and Flat imitated a teacher and his student. With a weak body and a heavy gaze, Reines laughed at the two ridiculous guys in front of her.
"You are the perfect buffoons." Reines got out of the car and, with an elegant leap, climbed onto the horse's back. "Now I am the queen. You pathetic men will serve me for the rest of your lives. You will humiliate yourselves before me to please me."
Toru, Flat, the capybara, and Juan looked at Reines. Toru and Flat prostrated themselves before Reines in response.
"Oh. Hail Queen Reines."
But Toru realized what he was doing. He wasn't going to let anyone dominate him. Never again. So he stood up and challenged the queen.
"You are a very arrogant woman. I will not allow you to humiliate my friend Flat. Get off the back of the honorable Juan, tyrant, and fall before my power."
"Force me, buffoon," Reines replied, raising her middle finger. "You'll never be able to," but because she was so dizzy, she slowly slid off and fell from the horse.
Before she hit the ground, Toru grabbed her and they both fell.
"Damn..." the servant groaned. "You're surprisingly light."
Ah. Flat is still lying on the ground. He's looking up at the sky quite comfortably with his friend the capybara.
On the other hand, Reines smiled defiantly. She has been saved and is now in the arms of a man. Her flushed face twisted into a defiant smile. She refused to be a submissive lady.
"I think my fist in your face will be less light."
"Hahaha. You'll break your hand. It happened to the professor once."
Even the boy was reluctant to give in to this woman. Both of them have sky-high egos, and in this competition of egos, the one who gives in to manipulation will fall.
"Huh... How I would like to see you cry, Assassin," having the boy so close, she paused and finally let her emotions out.
The liquor was the key that unlocked all of Reines' sadistic emotions.
"Even if I can't hit you, there are many things I can do to make you bow down to me. From the moment I saw you, I dreamed of holding you in my arms and humiliating you as much as possible. I'd like to see that poker face turn into tears of obedience. I get nervous just thinking about it."
"Hm! Those are very bold words, ojou-sama. Don't you think so, Juanito?"
The horse whinnied in response. It even seems to understand Toru.
"Not only that. I get very excited thinking about how your fun-loving side will be shattered into pieces. I would love to see you show all that suffering that attracted me from the first time I saw you. Oh... what is hidden beneath the mask of the charming Assassin?" Unconsciously, she ran her delicate fingers across Toru's face. With sharp nails, she slowly made small cuts on his face. "Let me see you, Assassin. I can't take it anymore. I need to break you."
At that moment, Toru felt a chill run down his spine. He had encountered crazy people in the past, but Reines was on another level.
When this girl is sober, she is elegant, intelligent, and very demure, but with the aura of someone who is always hiding something. Now that her emotions had blossomed, this girl was insane and sadistic. She can't even stand on her own two feet, and yet, with the crazy, excited smile on her face, she managed to intimidate Toru.
"What you're saying is very serious, ojou-sama. If you play with my fire, you can be sure you'll burn to ashes. There will be nothing left of you, and there will be nothing to make me bend," he smiled defiantly. Although everything was blurry and he had trouble seeing clearly, he lifted Reines in his arms. "You will never see anything of me. You will not see my pain or my tears, but I challenge you to try, o-jou-sa-ma."
Those words, those simple words, ignited the demon hidden beneath the skin of this ojou-sama. She smiled, smiled with joy, for something she had been longing for for a long time was finally about to come true.
Reines always had to restrain herself because of her refined upbringing, but thanks to this crazy gathering of friends, she could finally spread her claws over the world. Everyone would fall at her feet, everyone would be humiliated, and she would laugh as she enjoyed the show.
"Are you sure you won't regret it later?" She grabbed Toru by the collar of his kimono and forced him to look her in the eyes. "Are you sure you won't break, little assassin?"
Toru began walking toward the mansion, saying, "I've endured worse things than a girl's weird fetishes. You won't succeed, ojou-sama."
That remained to be seen. At the same time, as this teenage couple walked back to the mansion, Flat looked up at the empty sky and sighed. His capybara friend was more relaxed because there were no more sudden movements or falls, and Juan began to eat the grass on the ground.
"Hey, capybara. Have you ever thought about all the times we could have met, but in the end we met tonight? You're adorable and a good guy."
The capybara didn't answer; it can't talk.
"The sky is full of many stars... Maybe all those stars are already dead. If you think about it that way, it's pretty sad. We are like stars, and at some point we will become extinct. It will be interesting to see how things turn out, but I don't think I will live long enough to see the end."
Drunkenness sometimes makes you wonder about the strangest things...
"Capybara. If you went to the Holy Grail War, which servant would you summon? I'm sure I could summon an Assassin. If it were the Assassin we know, I'm sure I would win that war. Assassin is a very strong guy. It would be amazing if I went to war instead of Sakura."
The more he talked, the heavier his eyelids became. He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep while hugging the capybara. Afterwards, Juan continued eating the grass next to the sleeping Flat.
***
Inside the mansion, in Reines' room to be more specific, Toru threw Reines onto the bed and lay down next to her. The boy looked up at the ceiling and sighed. Everything was spinning, and it was difficult to stay conscious. On the way, he dropped Reines twice before Trimmau appeared to help them both into the room.
"Wow... I'm in a girl's room. It smells nice... I'm so lucky."
Reines laughed at that. "You've been in two girls' rooms before. Don't act so lucky now."
"I had forgotten, but it's different when you're with a girl in the same bed."
"What are you implying, Assassin?"
Both of them, who had been staring at the ceiling, looked into each other's eyes.
"I'm not implying anything. However, I thought about what we talked about earlier. What are you planning to do to me? In fact, how did we get here? My head hurts. And Trimm's gaze makes me uncomfortable."
Trimmau stood next to the bed, waiting and staring into space with completely robotic dexterity. That was quite uncomfortable for Toru. Trimm sometimes looked Toru straight in the eye, as if waiting for some hostile move.
"Hahaha. Are you afraid of Trimm? That can't be..."
"I didn't say that."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. Trimm, wait for me outside. I'm going to be busy."
Trimmau nodded and left the room. Besides, the last thing Reines said sounded pretty strange.
Toru began to have strange expectations about what was going to happen. He had walked right into the lion's den, and now, despite having a chance to escape, his curiosity about what was going to happen outweighed his desire to flee.
This girl from the El-Melloi family is a real sadist. What kind of things are in the mind of someone like that? Toru had only a vague idea.
"All right. Where should we start?" Reines said suddenly, climbing on top of Toru and slowly sliding her hands down his chest until she reached his neck.
"You're making me nervous. You should be more subtle."
Reines smiled maliciously as she squeezed Toru's neck with her small hands. "Why should I be subtle?" she whispered into Toru's ear. "What I'm going to do to you doesn't require silly subtleties."
She knows she can't physically harm Toru, but she can humiliate him. Toru has proven himself to be a man who won't be dominated by any woman, at least on the surface. She has already confirmed that he is someone who still has a bit of the pride of men of yesteryear. In that case, Reines was going to dominate Toru.
By placing her hands on Toru's neck, what she wanted to show was that she is above him. She wants Toru to act like an obedient and helpless puppy, perfect prey for her darkest fetishes.
So she dug her nails into Toru's skin. This time she didn't make him bleed, but sought to provoke a deep sense of discomfort.
"You're trying with everything you've got, ojou-sama," Toru said sarcastically. He felt uncomfortable, yes, but he didn't think this would make him bow down to her. He continued to act confident, with a relaxed and smug smile.
On the other hand, this girl was very excited. She began to breathe heavily, thinking of all the things she could do.
'He doesn't seem weak to insults, let alone physical pain... Ooh... I have no idea how to make you fall,' in contrast to her thoughts, her heart was racing. Not knowing what to do was part of the experience. There were possibilities, but she didn't know which path to take.
Then, she got off Toru. The boy looked at her curiously as she staggered her way to the closet. Reines opened the closet and searched for something inside. Upon finding the object, she smiled and showed a very sharp magic rope.
Toru swallowed hard. He began to rethink his own decisions.
"I'm going to try with all my might," she said, approaching Toru.
In the past, she had tied Waver upside down. Well, her bodyguards were responsible for that; she just gave the order. This time she had to use her own methods to do the same with Toru, but with some differences.
...
...
With some complications along the way, Reines tied Toru to the bed. The rope was very tight and was uncomfortable for Toru's wrists and ankles. Still, before regretting it, he waited patiently for Reines to make her next move.
It was even funny to see her staggering around the bed and tying the rope. Reines could barely stand, but she was so excited that she didn't care if she fell before finishing the job.
"Ojou-sama is very interesting. Are you okay? If you want to give up, I'll accept without hesitation."
"Of course not. We've only just begun, Assassin," she said, smiling adorably. With that gesture, she took a candle and climbed onto the bed. She sat back down on top of Toru and looked him in the eyes. "Let me take this off," she said, opening Toru's kimono with one hand.
That revealed Toru's toned, scarred torso. All those painful marks made Reines' face red with excitement.
How much humiliation and pain are there in the stories behind those scars? She wanted to know everything and use it to cause him even greater shame.
"I already know this. Are you going to pour hot wax on me? Do you know that I can literally wrap my whole body in flames?"
"This is different, my child."
She brought the candle closer and dropped the wax, but Toru barely felt it, and that was the point. Reines' Mystic Eyes glowed and lit a small flame on the wax that had fallen on Toru's chest. In response, Toru narrowed his eyes. Magic could affect his body, and Reines took advantage of that.
Now Toru felt the burning of the flame on his chest. And Reines didn't stop. Breathing heavily, smiling at Toru's twisted expression, she dropped a few more drops and lit them with her Mystic Eyes.
"Are you having fun, ojou-sama?" Toru said, his voice a little strained. Sweat dripped from his forehead as his body unconsciously began to move in reaction to the pain of the flames.
"I already told you. This has only just begun."
Thanks to Reines' magic, the ropes began to tighten and Toru's limbs tensed, leaving a red mark on Toru's skin. If the ropes tightened any further, Toru was sure they would pierce the surface of his skin.
Instead of worrying Reines, this caused her sadistic smile to transform into something else.
"You'd better start begging me to stop," she said, dropping two more drops.
The flames of the Mystic Eyes were very powerful. At first, the fire element would not affect Toru that much, but he is not immune to it. Even though he can endure the pain, that does not mean the pain is not there. It hurts, it hurts a lot, but he can endure it. However, his body contaminated with liquor enhanced all the strong sensations instead of calming them down.
"If you don't do it, I'll keep going. Then I'll do something worse until you become my lapdog," she whispered into Toru's ear. "Come on. Beg me. Be a good boy."
Feeling this girl's breath, Toru felt a chill run down his spine.
"No. I won't do it, ojou-sama. Keep trying, you won't succeed. All you'll be left with is disappointment."
"Hooh..." Sitting on top of Toru, she dropped all the melted wax and lit it with her eyes, causing Toru's breathing to become uneven. "You say one thing, but your body says another. Who are you trying to fool?"
Toru was finally falling into Reines' game. This wasn't just about making him suffer, but about humiliating him and breaking his spirit. He continues to act unyielding, but when he shows remorse, Reines will have won this game.
"You're making me a little angry, you know?"
"So, am I right?"
Toru clenched his fist and refused to answer. His pride was beginning to crumble before Reines. It was humiliating, something he had never experienced before. Reines knew where the game was going, and that's why it was so irritating. Toru was dancing in the palm of Reines' hand.
"You're not going to answer? Then let's move on to the next level."