Novel Full Chapter 620: True Face of Grimm
Chapter 620: True Face of Grimm
"...Miss Eclipsya, Lady Azazel is in that room." A maid speaks to me as I stare at a door brimming with magic. I finished my training with Mama Tsukuyomi, so I came to try and kidnap Azazel for a date.
"..." I hear an extremely loud sound from the other side, like a thunderclap. I can’t quite place the sound; it’s like something incredibly hard is being punched until it bends, but the sound is... soft?
"Azazel, I’ve come to get you." I open the door, and immediately an intense smell of blood hits me. I even cover my nose. I have never smelled blood this strong before.
"A-Azazel!!" I see Azazel collapsed on the floor, bleeding. She’s panting and naked, lying in what is practically a lake of blood. I run toward her, but before I can touch her, I’m grabbed. I look back and see Grimm.
Her eyes glow red, perhaps reflecting all the blood in the room, while she wears a serious expression. Looking more closely, the room is full of limbs and organs floating and sinking in the blood that sits several inches deep across the floor.
"Do not interrupt."
"What did you do to Azazel, you bitch!" I scream at the one who hurt my girl.
"We are training, obviously. And you shouldn’t be here. My little girl needs discipline and power, so I am giving her both. I waited a very long time to train her."
"I let her enjoy her childhood. I spoiled her with all my love, but I also architected a training regimen I knew she wouldn’t withstand at first. But now, she is strong enough to endure it."
"You’re going to kill her!" I try to break free, but Grimm is much stronger than me.
"Kill her? Curious. If she dies, then it is her fault for being weak. After all, she is Pandora’s daughter, right? Pandora never died. I see the future, and I have seen Pandora die billions of times across various futures."
"But what a surprise. Pandora is alive. So if Pandora is like a parasite that clings to life even when she should die, then my daughter, like a good little leech, should also cling to her life with all her might."
"If that whore of a mother of yours doesn’t have the guts to train you seriously, that’s not my problem, sweetie. But listen well: what I do with my daughter is my business. Don’t meddle in my affairs." She shoves me down into the blood as Azazel seems to have passed out.
"I swear I’ll kill you!!" I say furiously, getting up from the floor.
"Really? You’ll kill me? Being this weak? Hehehehahahahaha, how amusing. [Charm]." When she uses that magic, I feel like my consciousness has been partially severed. Feeling strange, I fall to my knees, hearing her wet footsteps in the blood.
"..." She crouches down to my height, grabbing my chin and lifting it.
"Listen, sweetie. If I weren’t married to Pandora, I would kill you and use your corpse as my fun little toy. I may have even stopped my hobby at Pandora’s request."
"And that is all that shields you. Understand? You are alive by a very thin thread. However, as long as I don’t kill you, Pandora will never know what I do. So do not irritate me."
"Or I can turn your brain into jelly, and you will become a dumb zombie that only obeys my orders. You don’t want to know how terrifying I can be."
"Do you think my laid-back attitude and excessive affection for Azazel make me weak or a coward? Then try to cross that line."
"Try to go further, and let’s see if you’ll be okay after I’m done with you. Don’t forget: you only date my daughter because I’m not in the mood to anger Pandora by breaking you piece by tiny piece."
"Pandora is the only shield protecting you. However, she is an unreliable shield. Pandora loves her daughters, but you are not her priority. If one of you died, she would be angry, but she’d soon replace you."
"After all, an animal in nature doesn’t care if one or two of its offspring die, so long as she can produce new ones." She rubs my belly, then knocks me down into the blood, starting to remove my clothes as I just stay quiet.
"You are so adorable. I’d never paid much attention, but you got really pretty after becoming an adult. Maybe I should take a little piece~" Once she completely removes my clothes, she starts sliding her hand down from my belly.
"MOM!!" Until Azazel screams, staggering up from the blood.
"Don’t touch Eclipsya! She’s mine..." Azazel speaks in a broken tone, dragging herself over to the two of us. Grimm gives a small smile before pulling away, dispelling her magic, which makes me regain full consciousness.
"Y-You..." I quickly scramble backward, pulling my blood-soaked clothes up to hide my breasts and private parts.
"Alright then, Azazel... she’s yours anyway... Azazel, we’re done training for today. You can go with your little girlfriend for now. We’ll continue training at the same time tomorrow." Grimm starts heading for the door.
"And Eclipsya, I absolutely love doing precisely what others hate. If you hate me so much, I get genuinely excited to rape you. So don’t irritate me, or maybe I’ll end up betraying Pandora in a little slip-up and knock you up. Hahahahaha." She laughs cruelly as she exits through the door, after saying so casually that she would cheat on Mama Pandora with me.
’Disgusting, filthy witch...’ I look at Azazel, who collapses into my arms, hugging me.
"Azaz—" Before I can speak, she slaps me across the face. It’s the first time she’s ever done that to me, catching me completely off guard.
"Never again... show up in this room... when Mom is here... D-Do you know how worried I was when I woke up and saw Mom trying to take you from me?" She speaks with tears in her eyes.
"M-Mom isn’t trustworthy! You know that!! If something interests her more, she’ll do crazy things!!" She shakes me angrily.
"B-But I saw you hurt..."
"It’s training! It’s just training!!... M-Mom is making me stronger... even if in an unusual way... just... just please promise you won’t come here anymore..."
"P-Perhaps next time I won’t wake up to protect you... M-Mom really hates you... and her threat is serious! I don’t want her to make me have a little sister by getting you pregnant!! You’re my girlfriend."
"Sorry... I... I wasn’t thinking straight... I-I just wanted to come ask you on a date..."
"..." She gives me a little kiss on the forehead, even though her hands are trembling.
"Thank you for worrying... b-but Mom won’t kill me... she stops when I’m near my limit... she would never kill me... b-but she will do bad things to you if you interfere."
"And... you know... Mama Grimm is right... Mama Pandora, she loves us, but she can also always have new children... I don’t want Mama to hurt you... so promise me you’ll ignore Mama Grimm."
"...Alright. I didn’t expect her to go that far either... I guess I underestimated that woman’s insanity. Why did Mama Pandora choose someone so crazy?"
"Apparently it was more of an arranged marriage after a kidnapping, so Mama Pandora doesn’t really love Mama Grimm in the same way. And although there’s a little bit of love between them, a large part is just hatred and contempt... or pure lust."
"And... I think Mama Grimm tries to make up for that by taking care of me... Mama Grimm calls Mama Pandora her soulmate and adores her, but Mama Pandora doesn’t give her even half that love back..."
"So Mama Grimm doesn’t have many reasons to be truly loyal to Mama Pandora. She’s only loyal because she doesn’t want Pandora to hate her completely... but... Mama Grimm has some really dark desires and hobbies..." Azazel grows more and more limp in my arms.
"E-Eclipsya... could you take me to my room? I can barely walk... everything... hurts..." She speaks in a whiny tone. I quickly lay her down on the floor, get dressed in my clothes again, and pick her up, starting to carry her.
’Grimm really would have tried to do wrong things to me...’ As I carry her, I can’t stop thinking about that magic. I was conscious, but my mind couldn’t properly grasp the actions or the situation.
’...’ I am extremely disturbed by this, and somewhat afraid of getting close to Grimm again. She succeeded. For the first time since I’ve known her, she actually managed to scare me. Normally, she just seems kind of idiotic and chaotic.
"S-Sis... I won’t let Mom take you... don’t worry! J-Just don’t get close to Mom again if she’s somewhere full of blood... she gets more feral and dangerous when there’s a lot of blood near her."
"Okay, I’ll keep that in mind. Now stop talking. Your voice is really hoarse and it sounds like it’s hurting you. And thank you for protecting me..." I thank her. I never expected Grimm could be so troublesome.
’Mama Pandora made a terrible marriage choice with that woman...’ I will never understand why Mama keeps someone so disturbed around.
"Azazel, this training with Grimm... you know it’s cruel training, calculated to hurt you, right? I don’t know what it is exactly, but judging by the state of the blood in that room and all those limbs on the floor—which I assume were yours—I can only say this training isn’t healthy for you."
"...I know... but it’s from Mom, so I have to do it... B-Besides, she’s good to me outside of training. That’s never changed. She still loves me a lot... she just knows how to separate those two moments..."
’...’ I feel jealous of Azazel defending that wretched woman, but I understand. That’s her mother; of course she would defend her. But I’m also glad Azazel stood up to her mother to protect me.
"After you take a bath and rest, I’ll take you on an amazing date. I made plans for something I know you’ll like. We’re going to visit a lake... it has lots of things for us to collect together." When I say we’re going to hunt for things, Azazel’s eyes light up.
Just like Aqua and Lycoris said, I’m trying to make our dates into something Azazel enjoys. And now, more than ever after that terrible experience, I need a break too. I just need to be more careful around Azazel’s mother from now on. After all, she made it clear: she is the literal and perfect definition of a vampire, and I won’t ever forget that again.