The Price of the Bonus and the Looming Shadows

(Ting... clanc...!)

The fork fell to the floor with a metallic clang that vibrated in the deathly silence of the dining room, echoing like the alarm of a critical error in a previously stable system.

"Lyra?"

At that moment, noticing something strange, Sera asked, frowning with a childish confusion that quickly transformed into an instinctive unease as she observed the maid.

"..."

The white-haired young woman had frozen mid-motion, suffering from slight spasms as if experiencing some kind of pain.

"Eh!?"

However, any attempt by Sera to understand the situation vanished under the weight of a much more violent reality.

(Ba-dum... ba-dum!)

Almost at the same time as Lyra, an unbearable and sharp stomach pain—as if a thousand needles were sewing through her entrails—disturbed Sera's mind.

"Sera! What’s wrong with you?!"

The pain was so intense that it deformed her face, turning her expression of youthful vitality into a mask of pure agony, all while ignoring the heart-wrenching scream her mother let out as she clutched her own stomach.

"Ughhhhh... W-what is this...?!"

In an act of desperation, Gremory tried to stand up to help her daughter, but her legs failed her, forcing her to crouch and seek support from the table as the same conceptual poison began to claim her body.

"Aghhhh... Fuuuu... Fuuuu..."

Beside her, Lyra panted, clenching her teeth with such force it seemed they would shatter.

"My lady... what is... happening... to me...?"

The maid tried to take a step forward to protect Gremory, but her legs felt like molten lead.

(W-what... is happening...?)

In her mind, the memories of the afternoon blurred together; that unexpected kiss from Elara at the entrance floated in her memory like an anomaly she couldn't quite classify.

(... Now that I think about it... that was strange...)

She was too dazed, too naive to what was unfolding to notice that something was deliberately wrong.

(Did something happen to the young mistress?!)

She simply felt swept away by a whirlwind of physical sensations she couldn't comprehend.

"Mmmgh...!"

However, by the time she wanted to react, it was already too late to think clearly.

"Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! M-lady...! I-is s-something... wrong?!"

Her words overlapped one another, charged with a feverish energy that made the air in the dining room feel dense and heavy with static electricity.

(Zzzzzzzzt... Bzzzzzt!)

In turn, her eyes reflected a pinkish glow that seemed to flicker in rhythm with her labored breathing.

"...."

On the other hand, watching in silence the scene where her mother Gremory, her younger sister Sera, and her best friend Lyra froze, their faces contorted by the effort to remain conscious, Elara merely smiled faintly without any apprehension.

In such a state, a question faintly formed in the minds of the three present: who was this person standing before them?

(Crac... crack!)

However, unfortunately, at their limit, the minds of the three accelerated their breaking point.

"... S-sister... Ooogh... Help...?"

Sera, her gaze clouded by pain, desperately sought a sign of hope in her older sister; but seeing the empty, cruel glint in Elara's eyes, she realized there was no salvation.

"... M-mom... Ughhhhh...?"

Then she instinctively turned her face toward her mother, Gremory, seeking refuge, but what she found plunged her into absolute despair.

"Hmm...! Something cursed is oozing from the old hag's body!"

Watching the scene, Elara's shout, now transformed into a distorted mockery, echoed through the dining room.

"Pleasure with my master is much more intense than anything you've ever known! Hurry up and surrender! Abandon that hypocritical personality and become what you truly are: an empty vessel for his service!"

What young Sera beheld was the image of her mother Gremory, who was trying to maintain her dignity while some kind of jelly oozed from behind.

"Mom... you ate so much of my food because you were happy, wasn't it?"

Simultaneously, as if attempting to deliver the finishing blow, Elara whispered as she approached her mother with an icy smile.

"That's why your brain is formatting faster... (Belch)... Do you hear me, Sera?"

For the immature Sera, who after her father's death had tried to mature ahead of time to help, the blow was devastating.

"No way...! Oh?! Oh?!"

Seeing how the people who mattered most to her were behaving shattered her will...

"This is too dangerous! I feel like I'm flying... like I'm losing myself...! Help... please... someone...!"

As a result, she began to shake, feeling her consciousness detach from reality at a dizzying speed.

(Brrr... Bwaha!)

In this way, little Sera's nervous system was finally the first to give in.

"... Aaah... Aghhhh... Ehehe..."

Perhaps due to her young age, her resistance was minimal against the potency of the anomalous drug.

"One down."

Her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed onto the table, waiting for her mind to be rebooted under Kaelen's new order.

"S-ssseeeeeerraaa...?!"

Meanwhile, Gremory fought a losing battle.

"You'll be like that soon too, Mom~"

Through her elegant sweater and dark stockings, her body revealed the magnitude of the biological betrayal she was suffering.

"... I won't allow it?! The excretion of my will is so...! Eh?!"

However, her wisdom and purity were so vast that the "personality excretion" process resisted completion.

"Will the love for my daughters and my duty be erased?! Igui... igui... uu!"

But unfortunately, the impact of her eldest daughter's betrayal and the youngest's collapse were devastating blows.

(Njuryuryuryuryu~!)

Immediately after her daughter's collapse, the mother joined her.

"Hobibibibibibiiiiiiiin!"

Thus, letting out a final scream as the last partition of her consciousness was expelled, Gremory fell.

"That makes two... So only one remains..."

Finally, amidst the chaos of the dining room, only Lyra remained.

(It doesn't matter anymore...)

But for the maid, this betrayal was an error that shattered her soul.

(I am trash... an error can never be happy)

Watching Elara become the executioner of her own blood was more painful than death itself.

(... Someone raised to be a weapon... should never have had feelings...)

Therefore, she accepted her fate as a broken tool, but what actually burst from her lips were obscene and submissive words.

"Dick dick dick dick dick dick oo... I'm so horny and horny, and I'm rubbing my cunt while I let my personality out !?!? My boring former master can't make me feel masculine pleasure... I want someone to shove it into my female slut-cunt and make me understand nyooo Deryu!"

Lyra's final words broke out like a syntax error, charged with a mechanical lewdness.

(Pusshosho...!)

Releasing her final convulsions, she let her personality out.

"Aaaah... Ngogogo..."

When it all ended, Gremory babbled with her gaze lost in the ceiling of her own mansion, now turned into a prison.

"Ugyuuu..."

The dining room was in a deplorable state, a scene of biological and moral chaos.

"That makes three..."

However, Elara walked over the remains of the feast with a terrifying elegance.

"Master..."

She made her way to the main entrance and opened the doors to let her master in.

"I have successfully erased the original will of these women. Their personalities have been eliminated; only their capacity for service and their operational intelligence remain to fulfill your orders."

"Very well..."

Kaelen Thorne entered, observing the disaster with the cold gaze of a player who has just conquered a max-level map.

"Then, kneel and swear loyalty to the new owner!"

(Psh-sho!)

In response, the bodies of Gremory, Lyra, and little Sera reacted instantly.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

They rose with spasmodic movements and bowed so deeply that their foreheads hit the floor with a dull thud.

"Hey... married woman..."

Kaelen approached Gremory and lifted her chin with contempt.

"From now on, I am the only master of this house. Is that clear?"

Gremory replied with a vacant and feverish smile.

"Yes, my master... As proof of my surrender, I offer you the bodies of my daughters and my staff, in addition to my own remains. All my possessions, my rights, and my lineage belong to you. Come! Sera! Lyra! Repeat after me!"

""Yes! We want to be yours!""

To which both Sera and Lyra shouted in unison.

""We surrender our bodies and our souls to you. Use us as you wish!""

And so, several months passed since then...

(Doo doo doo doo... ba!)

Inside an immense king-size bed lay four heads of human livestock.

"It feels so good... to have your presence inside my mature woman's body."

Their faces were disfigured by nasal hooks that forced constant, noisy breathing, and their heads were covered with dirty rags. Gremory writhed with movements stripped of any trace of her former grace.

"I want you to put it in me too, brother... I also want to feel that punishment..."

Sera's voice broke in, competing for attention.

"Yes... Please, allow me also to fulfill my duty as a servant," Lyra followed, motionless like a cracked porcelain statue.

"Shut up!" Gremory shouted. "I'm in the middle of something that feels too good! I'm just a cunt and a moaning voice!"

(Psh-sho-shoooooooooo!)

Kaelen declared in a frigid voice as he finished.

"Finally, I'm done with the old woman... Hey... Sera, come closer."

He tossed Gremory's body aside as if it were nothing.

"I can't live without this! I have stopped being a girl to become your personal meat-toilet... Ohhh!"

"How foolish you are..." Lyra spoke with disapproval. "Moaning so pathetically just because you're being pricked... Eh? Master? You want me to turn around?"

(Zas!)

Kaelen lashed her with a whip.

"Ahhh! A surprise punishment! My body has been developed to an insane degree... RYUKARYAAAA! My capacity to feel pain has been completely rewritten!"

Kaelen forced the optimal position to intervene in both victims. Lyra and Sera emitted a duo of distorted ululations that no longer belonged to human beings.

"Igui... igui... Ugyuuu!"

(Psh-sho!)

(Zas! ★♡★)

The maid and the young girl collapsed from the immense bed. Their bodies remained in a grotesque position: their lower halves still on the mattress, while their torsos and heads hung lifelessly, grazing the floor.

"I'm sick of you all..."

Kaelen's eyes flickered between blue and red as they landed on Elara, who remained to one side, watching the downfall of her family with a vacant stare.

"But don't worry about your future utility. I've decided to use this mansion as a public restroom. I will redecorate this interior to fit your new function as flesh furniture."

Kaelen contacted a liquidation company to remove the valuables.

"So... do whatever you want with what’s left of them."

He cut the power to the mansion, plunging the rooms into a technical gloom. Without looking back, the boy who was once Kaelen Thorne abandoned the property.

"It seems the experiment worked~"

Watching everything through hidden cameras, two figures laughed.

"Of course it worked! After all, I am a genius!"

In some place, several lives were upended and a new monster emerged as the darkness deepened....