A/N: This chapter is… a rough one… A lot of issues and triggering topics in it. As a list: Extreme cruelty and violence, depictions of sexual slavery, assault of a minor, attempted sexual assault on a minor, a lot of discussion of past trauma stemming from rape and slavery as well.

Also this is for the one person who seems to think Ainz can solve everything: This story is not about Ainz or Nazarick, the answer is not always to ask Ainz for help. Ainz is very clear in even canon that unless it benefits him in some way he doesn't care. This is about a very imperfect person with far too much power going through traumatic events which can make people not think clearly and that often cannot be solved with her power. Not every problem can be solved easily, and if you want things to be more about Ainz I suggest you go read the excellent LNs or write your own fanfiction.

"Kyouko! Kyouko snap out of it and talk to me!" Emeril shouted as she shook Kyouko as she sat slumped in her arm chair after what ever mystery trip she took.

"You're men went through the trouble of getting me out of bed and watching the girls, so please just let me help you friend… I'm worried about you…" Emeril whimpered as she tried to remember any time she had seen her friend this down before. The only times she had gotten near that level of depressed were incidents that involved her daughter.

"E-emeril…" Kyouko mumbled as hugged herself, on the verge of a complete break down in Emeril's eyes.

"Kyouko, I'm right here, what happened?" She once again tried to get the wolf to speak and finally succeeded in at least getting the woman to look at her. The dead look in her eyes didn't make Emeril feel any better about the situation. "Ugh… why did I never bother to learn Message? First chance I get I'm learning it… Please… Kyouko, give me something to work with?" she pleaded.

"-n't win…" Kyouko mumbled, barely under Emeril's range of hearing. She lifted the wolf's eyes so she could look at her closer.

"I can't win this… There are no moves that lead to anything good…" Kyouko barely whimpered out before she pointed at a small leather bag that was tossed on the floor near her gear.

Emeril reached down to grab that and hesitated for just a moment. Opening up the air tight bag she was hit by a familiar scent. "Oh… oh no…" She didn't know Lorelei for very long before she was kidnapped, but she had been there with Kyouko through all the stages of her grief, so she knew the level of anguish her friend was feeling.

Truthfully she had given up any hope of getting Lorelei back for Kyouko, but wouldn't dare speak it out loud. "Kyouko, what did they want? They offered a deal yes?" Emeril asked and soon found Kyouko avoiding her gaze. That question seemed to just distress her further, enough that Emeril noticed Kyouko's claw-like nails begin to puncture her upper arms as she gripped them. It was clear to her that Kyouko was not in a state of mind she could think clearly.

Emeril was quick to grab a towel from the bathroom and rush back in to pull Kyouko's hands away from her arms. "Kyouko! You need to calm down! Have you contacted Akemi about this yet? At the very least she can help right? Where did you put those tools…" Emeril muttered after she got Kyouko to hold the towels to her bleeding arms, any pain didn't seem to even register to her.

"…Middle drawer… wands… instructions…" She was able to mutter barely loud enough for Emeril's benefit. After a few more muttered curses that would never be spoken in front of young and big ears, Emeril came rushing back over with a fancy looking gold wand.

"Lets see… Oh she had Ana write these, good. [Cure Light Wounds]." Emeril spoke as she held the wand at Kyouko and saw the item activate and those small stab wounds from Kyouko's claws faded away soon after. "There… Now Kyouko, you NEED to snap out of it!" Emeril nearly shouted and looked into Kyouko's eyes until she was sure there was someone home in there.

"I'm… I'm here, I just need a moment. S-sorry, I need to think about the situation first, and yeah I'll talk to Akemi about it, she'll need to know." Kyouko seemed to slowly come out of her shell shocked state with some deep breathes.

Emeril seemed to be relieved at that and would sit on the arm of the chair next to her and hug the woman tightly. "I know things are difficult, if you need anything I'm more than happy to help, you know I'll always be there for you. I'll come check on you in a while alright?" Emeril said as she eventually let the woman go, but was obviously still worried about her as Kyouko rubbed at her eyes.

Once the front door closed it was annoyingly quiet in her ears. "What do I even do? Lorelei… I need you back…" She knew what she wanted, she knew what would be the easiest way to get her back, but that choice was unthinkable…

"Five years… She has been trapped there for five years… I'm already a horrible mother, the worst. If… If I can at least get her safe, I'd be fine with dying, as long as she is safe…" She thought as she raised her head back up. Though tired, fire was in her eyes as lifted her hand and the ring Akemi gave her. "[Message]. Hello Hannyuu…"

Kyouko felt her heart break as she heard Hannyuu's own continue to beat out of her chest as the two of them walked through the forest, not a word spoken between them. While they both could see well enough in the dark, even without much light shining between the dense trees, they both seemed on edge once they saw the trees end.

"It won't be much farther I think, I'm sorry for disrupting your trip dear." Kyouko said and seemed to be forcing any kind of smile on her face.

"Its okay Mama Kyouko, if this helps you then it will all turn out for the best." Hannyuu said and tried to smile back at the wolf, but her own nervousness was clear to see.

Once they were closer to the city walls they noticed that where there would guards patrolling, there was just an empty strip of tall city wall, casting a long shadow with the moon past it. Deep in that shadow Kyouko could once again see many cloaked figures, as well one man in black and gold clothes with red hair and a silver sword at his side. "Who is that?" She thought and tried to analyze him from far away, It was easy to see they brought in some sort of enforcer if they weren't even disguised, while she was currently unarmed.

As both parties got closer she looked down at Hannyuu and felt a pain in her chest at the look in the girl's eyes. She saw the genuine fear there as her gaze shot between the men appearing. "K-kyouko? What is going on? You said Mama would meet us here right?" Hannyuu asked in a shaky voice, as the terror in those carmine eyes took hold.

She winced as she felt Kyouko's grip around her upper arm, holding her there as those men got closer. She held her there as the one who Kyouko had talked to first knelt down in front of her and was examining the girl as if comparing her to a piece of meat. "Indeed, I'd remember those defiant eyes anywhere, it took a surprising amount of time to break you, though everyone breaks eventually. You're regulars missed you, I'm sure they'll be delighted to see you again, and back in such excellent shape." The man said with a chuckle as he held up a small white object, a tooth at closer examination, and two scrolls. "[Divination: Tracking], [Detect Magic]." The man activated his scrolls and watched as Hannyuu lit up green. He then stood up and snapped his fingers, which prompted two other men get closer to Hannyuu.

"Indeed indeed, you've certainly kept up your end of the bargain. Take her." He told the men near him as one grabbed the child's other arm as Kyouko let go with an unbearable amount of pain in her heart. That couldn't even be compared to the look in Hannyuu's eyes as the girl turned up to look at her, those accusing carmine eyes glaring at her. "Traitor! How could you… do this to us?!" All of them could see the bitter tears that had appeared in Hannyuu's eyes.

They eyed Kyouko suspiciously for a moment when she tensed like she would attack, but they could already see she was missing her sword as she was told to do, and she had never been spotted with any small weapons.

"Hannyuu… I'm so sorry…" Kyouko choked out and looked away as Hannyuu was slammed into the dirt with enough force to make the girl visible choke for a moment, right as a gag was quickly slipped into her mouth and her arms and legs were bound up, her still recovering body easily overpowered by the men twice her size. She couldn't bare to watch as she could hear Hannyuu struggle against those bindings until a fist buried itself into her gut when she was lifted up. The noise she let out nearly made Kyouko attack then and there, deal be damned, instead she had to close her eyes, clench her teeth and try to not let those cries hurt her as much as they did.

"Well, I'm a man of my word. We'll take you to your daughter." The man told her, and looked far too smug at the face of despair on both Kyouko and Hannyuu's face. They both heard Hannyuu cry out through her gag as a bag was thrown over her, stuffing her once again in a sack like Akemi had once found her.

"Lets just get this over with… Take me to my daughter." Kyouko growled out, her fists clenched as she looked murderous over the situation, her entire body tense as she began to follow the group. They had subtly surrounded her, while the man that was called Malmvist walked in front of her.

Even from behind she had a hard time spotting any openings in his stance. Even if she had Desolation then, she wasn't sure if she could take him, or land a blow.

Time seemed to pass at a crawl as each step brought her closer to what she wanted, or so she so desperately wanted to believe. Her heart ached as she thought about how her daughter might look, if she even truly was alive, as well as the sounds of the girl she had called daughter as well.

The procession stopped as they had made their way back into the forest, and unlocked a very well disguised trap door. Built into the bark of a large tree. Like a hold into the underworld Kyouko proceeded like a sinner on their way to hell, and she certainly felt like one…

"We've certainly had a rough time since that abomination appeared, we're pretty sure she blew up one of our bases, nothing but a hole in the ground now… It is certainly frustrating to have an opponent you can't fight directly, but getting our property back should even the playing field. She seems to care for this whore, and she certainly seems the sentimental type, a few threats, perhaps a few fingers being sent her way and all her power can be ours to wield." The leader there said, heedless of the sound of grinding teeth as they all proceeded down that staircase, revealing a long tunnel of stone bricks.

"This was originally a Noble's escape tunnel, but it has really come in handy for getting around. Now, follow Malmvist here and he'll lead you to your daughter. Once you have her you will be escorted out of the country and are never to return." He sounded far too chipper as that path split.

"This way Wolf." The man named Malmvist said as he took the side path that had so many mixed scents leading out of her it made Kyouko's head spin. She was able to pick out one scent amount many, her daughter.

Kyouko bit her lip as she took one last look over her shoulder at the burlap sack slung over one of those men's shoulder, and the quiet and muffled cries coming from it, from the tiny girl she came to regard as a daughter, family. With tears stinging her eyes she forced herself to turn away and follow Malmvist down the hallway. "I'm s-sorry Hannyuu…" She choked out under her breath. Each step brought her closer to her five year goal.

She knew that they arrived as the door to the next chamber opened, revealing rows of cells that were disturbingly silent, yet she could smell live people inside. The first thing she saw when she looked into the first cell was a woman that was nearly unrecognizable as even human chained to the wall by the neck, staring into space and only being held upright by that chain, both her arms and legs merely stumps attached to her naked, bruised, and scared body. "W-will Lorelei look like that? Will Hannyuu?" She resisted puking by a hair as she covered her mouth tightly.

"I know, it is not a pretty sight, but these are the slaves that don't sell anymore, but are so broken down they are easy enough to put to use for the few nobles who like their toys still and mindless. I prefer my women to be able to actually move and make some noises, well… and for them to actually want it. The girl is in the last cell on the right." The man said as she stood where he was with his arms crossed.

Kyouko felt her heart pound as she tried to prepare herself for any sight she might see. Her hand tightened around the small item in her hand, easily unnoticed as she gripped her fingers around it.

When she heard the sound of movement and sliding steel behind just like she figured she might. Before she could snap the small stick in her hand she felt the rapier in Malmvist's hand touch her leather vest from behind, ready to slip between her ribs.

"Oh yes, I brought a couple of your old friends pet, we even set up your old room for you, I'm sure you're out of practice after all." The leader of that group grinned his yellow smile as they made their way down more hallways in that underground labyrinth.

It was a path any of the Eight Fingers knew though, and one quickly learned by any new recruits, the path to the break rooms, named as such as they broke new slaves in until they were more than cooperative, the first phase of which conditioned them to their future positions as pleasure slaves. "You still hold the record for the longest it took to break someone your age, hell, even older woman didn't last as long, we'll see if you got any of that fire back." He joked as he pulled open a cell door and let the two men with him in first.

The brute with Hannyuu over his shoulder roughly tossed her bag away against the wall, as she gave them a cry of pain from the collision. The bag was soon ripped open and she was dumped out like something bought at the store.

"You're all going to die… Mama is going to kill you all…" Hannyuu growled out as they forced the squirming girl into chains, one around each arm and her neck, choking her for just a moment. She spit up what ever bile was in her stomach as a foot lodged itself into her stomach hard enough to make her puke. Even still she glared up at the three men with feral rage instead of fear like they expected.

"Oho, I suppose you think you grew a backbone while you were gone? Well, there is plenty of time for us to break you again, but I suppose doing it as soon as possible will help deal with that troublesome abomination you call 'mother', perhaps we'll be able to collar that animal also. You two could share a cell even~ How does that sound?" He told her and closed the cell door and exchanged a look with one of the other men.

Hannyuu felt fear creep back into her heart as that man removed his cloak and exposed his stretched face over his skull, the long scar over his lip still there from where she put it who knows how many years ago. "D-Dathans…" She mumbled as her ears folded, her memory returned back to the time she was first captured, as far as she could actually remember in those hazy memories, the first one that violated her out of all of them.

"Oh so you remember me? Gotta love a reunion." He said humorlessly before he slammed his fist into her tiny face, and felt several things give way. The first that broke was her nose, and then a few teeth, which she spit out before he reached down to grasp her collar, and easily ripped her shirt off with just a few tugs. Her face rapidly morphed back into fear as she struggled against those hands as they began to try and wrestle her pants off. She still kept the defiant spark in her eyes as she struggled as hard as she could, even with blood dripping from her mouth and nose. "M-mama please… hurry…" She thought as she felt blood run down her chin as she bit through her lip with her remaining front teeth.

Kyouko rolled forward as soon as she felt that sharp point stab into her vest and her back. She quietly thanked Akemi for that Wyrm leather armor she wore as the tip of the rapier failed to piece it. "That strength… There goes a rib even through the armor…" She thought and winced from the pain of the cracked bone.

She snapped the stick in her hand and grasped the sheath of Desolation as it appeared in the stick's place. Drawing her blade she knocked away Malmvist's follow up stab and shaved just a hair of metal off that blade, which made him take a few healthy steps back from Kyouko's Nodachi.

"Well then, this will be much more interesting than I thought, It has been a while since I fought someone who could counter one of my blows, not that I'm going all out just yet. That is a very nice blade, I'll be sure to take it with me after I kill you and put that living corpse of a daughter out of her misery. I am Malmvist of the Thousand Kills." He introduced as he shifted into a dueling stance with his rose motif rapier pointed at her heart.

"This blade is going to cut your heart out, but not before you taste enough pain to match the suffering you all put my daughter and me through for five years… None of you are escaping today." Kyouko tried to take a few steps back to hopefully check the cell her daughter was in to confirm if anyone else was in there and could interfere, but had to keep her eyes on the man as he lunged at her.

With greater speed than she could track she felt at least three strikes touch her chest, and fail once again to piece her armor. "That is some tough leather! I'd love to meet the craftsman of that, stylish yet strong, it would be fitting for me to wear." He spoke with a strange calm as he obviously intended to keep toying with his opponent.

"S-so fast… Dammit… This is a going to be a painful fight… doesn't matter." She thought and gripped her blade harder, and felt comforted by the ring around her finger. "I just need to check that cell and just a moment more…" She thought as she pushed forward to swing at the man in front of her and felt like she hit a brick wall. For once her physical strength was not superior and winced just before she had to dodge her head out of the way of the blade heading towards her eye.

Getting her distance again she tried to look for any weakness in his stance. "You know, you're one of the few that can dodge by strikes, but we'll see how long your luck lasts Wolf, make this interesting for me. Demi-humans really do make interesting opponents, their reflexes are so much sharper."

"Come on Kyouko! Message me!" Akemi thought as she stood behind the three men in that cell, her tails poised to impale each of them while she waited there, disguised by the spell Perfect Unknowable, her heart breaking as she listened to Hannyuu's involuntary yelps as a few cuts were inflicted as the man was forced to use a knife to try and remove the extra secure pants she had given her, though they were a very tough pair which bought them some time. It was hell as Akemi had to just stand there and wait for the signal, and let her nails cut into her palms to keep her from throwing the plan entirely out of the window.

If those men paid more attention behind them instead of leering after Hannyuu they might have noticed the blood drops falling from midair onto the stone floor.

Hours prior…

"Hey Hannyuu, are you all available? It is an emergency… Please tell Akemi that all of you to come back right away…" Kyouko thought through her message as back in the settlement she paced through the study in their home, her lip worn and bloody already.

"Y-yes! I'll grab her, she is just talking to Hekkeran." Hannyuu told her right before Kyouko ended the message. Kyouko tugged at her hair with a pitiful whine as each second felt like an hour.

It was less than a minute before a Gate opened up right next to her and her Mates and their daughter appeared in a rush. "Kyouko, what is the emergency? Hannyuu said it sounded urgent." Akemi asked as her eyes focused on the smell of blood in the room, the bloody towel, and the utterly devastated look on Kyouko's face as she looked at them.

"Akemi… It is Eight Fingers… They contacted me l-last night with message, about Lorelei…" Kyouko said and slumped back down into her arm chair.

"Last night? How come you didn't say anything yesterday?" Akemi asked in a mildly frustrated and worried tone as she moved over to hug Kyouko tight. "What happened? Tell me everything."

"B-because I've gotten these deals and offers before, back when I didn't know who had her… but Eight Fingers gave proof… All the others times were fakes or traps meant to stop me from getting in slaver's ways, I figured this was no different… I'm sorry… I wasn't really thinking clearly." Kyouko said and her eyes drifted to the leather satchel on the desk. "They had hair with her scent, fresh, she is alive… T-they offered a deal…" Kyouko said and looked up at all of them, but couldn't bring her eyes to look at Hannyuu.

"T-they offered… Hannyuu dear, could you leave the room please?" Kyouko nearly pleaded as she bit her tongue after she nearly let the offer slip.

Akemi caught on to the possibilities Kyouko was implying with those two things in one sentence. "Agreed, we'll call you when we're done talking alrig-" Akemi tried to tell Hannyuu who just glared.

"No. This has to do with family… I consider you and Ana family Kyouko, that includes Lorelei, so if there is a way I can help the sister I haven't gotten to meet yet then I can't not know." Hannyuu said with folded ears.

They were all speechless, as this had to be the first time they heard her tell her mothers No before, especially not with that much defiance in her voice. Akemi had to think for a moment, but she knew the look in the girl's eyes, that fire… she reminded her so much of her brother in that moment.

"Fine… Please Kyouko, what was the deal? We can work out a plan." Akemi asked as she mussed up Hannyuu's hair to dispel the tension.

Kyouko still didn't look sure of it all, and just looked down. "They told me… to bring Hannyuu in exchange for Lorelei…" She said and seemed pained just by telling them.

First it was quiet, and then the room was filled with a mixture of fear and rage just waiting to be expressed.

"I-I know that is an unacceptable offer, I could never do that to any of you… even for Lorelei, I love you all too much for that. We n-need a plan." Kyouko said as her claws dug into her forearms as if to grip onto reality for a bit longer.

"We love you too, we'll figure this out… This is… my fault for not being able to find them still… My summons aren't the best for spying, and can be seen through with a high enough perception, it isn't a strong passive invisibility. I had been marking the places where they had been destroyed and keeping watch, but I think they noticed my summons more and the ones who could see them kept destroying any of them they would find… I should have gone to investigate those places in person, Ainz and the King be damned!" Akemi shouted as she rubbed the bridge of her nose as her mind worked in overdrive to figure out a solution.

"Dear, you couldn't have predicted this, we'll make the bastards pay… Kyouko, is there any more information?" Ana asked as she hugged Hannyuu as she felt the girl quietly shake.

"J-just that I am to come alone and unarmed… Even if they have her I can almost guarantee it is a trap of some sort… I still need to see her…" Kyouko said and pulled at her hair in frustration.

Hannyuu watched all this silently for a moment as her mother's tried to figure out a solution for this issue. Her own mind flashed back to the years of captivity there, the starvation and cuts, the bits of her that would get removed on a whim like her ears, or a tooth here and there… and the daily rape, all of which haunted her nightmares that were thankfully getting more rare.

"M-moms… Just hear me out… What if… We went through with the deal? Lorelei is in a really risky situation…" Hannyuu said as her ears folded after she said that. Despite what she said, her own heart pounded out of her chest.

"Dear… that is unacceptable… I need you to stay as far away from those bastards as possible… Though I could perhaps disguise myself as you and let them take me, and then turn the tables on them. This world doesn't seem to have ways to test DNA to tell if I'm someone I'm not, and I can all but guarantee my illusions are currently the strongest in this world." Akemi said as she began to pace around the room, her tails nearly knocking things off the shelves and her own desk.

"Hey Mama… Arche taught me a bit about Divination magic… and it made me remember the first time they took a tooth… I think they take one from every person they keep as a slave… And I remember sometimes they would talk about it as insurance… can a tooth can be used to locate a person?" Hannyuu asked as her eyes widened, as if she made a connection she didn't wish to make.

"It… can, it normally wasn't meant like that in the game, but that seems about right in this world…" Akemi mumbled and bit her thumb. "If I use anti-surveillance magic to mess with their spell and disguise as you…" Akemi's mind was in overdrive as she looked away from them all.

"M-mom… If the spell gets disrupted… they will know something is up… They need to know it is me there, or they might just k-kill Lorelei right there if they can get a message out… Or they might be in contact for the deal ready to respond if they're messed with… Mom… It n-needs to be me." Hannyuu said and leaned against the three of them as they all had gotten around her to hug her, a circle of motherly love as she tried to resist her worst memories.

"Dear… There is surely another way, we just need to keep thinking… Please just trust us." Akemi said and kissed the top of her head, but blinked as Hannyuu squirmed away from the three of them.

"No! I need you three to trust Me this time! I care about this family just as much, you three are all I have! S-so if there is someone important to Kyouko in danger I'm going to help! You're the one that taught me that… that helping someone in need is always the right thing to do… even if it is dangerous…" Hannyuu said and looked over at Kyouko and met her nearly dead eyes, the normally spirited wolf woman empty of life.

"Mama Kyouko… If Lorelei… Died, what would you do?" Hannyuu asked as gently as she could, unshed tears pushing up as she watch Kyouko's expression morph into something even worse than grief. "I've… I've seen that look before… a lot… You'd kill yourself… none of us want that… That itself is all the reason I need to go through with this, because I love you like a mother also and can't stand to lose you…" Hannyuu said as she wrapped herself around Kyouko as if she could pour love directly into the woman, but she knew the only cure for that feeling that rotted Kyouko from the inside was to be reunited with her lost daughter.

Akemi's hand's bled as she clenched her nails into her palm more as her lips also bled. "Hannyuu… I-I just want to keep you safe… but… dammit, where did you learn how to speak so well. What is your plan?" She asked and looked at her daughter with pride and fear, for her daughter's safety, and for Lorelei's.

"I'll… trust her also, you're a smart kid, and you probably know about these people more than any of us… You're going to give Princess Renner a run for her money I think if you become a princess…" Ana said and grabbed a fresh towel to bring to Akemi for her hands as she also gently unclenched Akemi's hands for her.

"H-Hannyuu... Please don't feel like you have to do this… I can't ask you to put yourself in that much danger… You'd get hurt, or raped, or even killed, none of them care about things like age or anything. You've already been through so much… I know how the memories of something like that stick with you… Fourteen years and I still remember every detail of the night the same happened to me. At the very least Lorelei came out of that, and… I was able to be fine with being a mother, even if I was pretty young… I can't ask you to ever have to go near a situation like that ever again…" Kyouko said as she sunk to her knees to hug Hannyuu tighter.

Hannyuu took a few shaky breathes as she held Kyouko right back and felt Ana and Akemi hugging her as well. "I… Yes I'm scared… but I'm not going to be scared of them, I'm not going to let them control me anymore…" She said before she lifted her head from Kyouko's shoulder. "Even if I get killed, I know I can be revived, I will want to live and have the strength to come back… We don't know if that applies to Lorelei… Mama, you said revival magic doesn't work if the person doesn't want to come back?" She turned to Akemi and asked.

"Yes… It is pretty difficult to force a target back to life and is… immoral… I have the means of reviving someone with very minimal loss in life force as long as they want to come back." Akemi clarified for her daughter.

"I thought it was like that… I can endure that if I'd have to, I took everything they threw at me so far and I've stood back up, all the beatings, the degradation and being treated as just some sex toy… all the r-rape, and I refused to let it stop me, even when they were going to kill me. Of course I don't want to die, not anymore… But I can almost guarantee Lorelei at this point… if they've had her for five years, she would welcome d-death, and I doubt she would have much life force at this point, we don't know how she is is what I'm getting at. I can come back if I die, and she can't, so if I have to risk my life to save the big sister I haven't gotten to meet yet then I'll do that." Hannyuu said as her tail whipped around as she collected herself.

"My plan… You're going to let them take me, I'm going to play along like you're betraying me Mama Kyouko, please don't think anything I say to you is real during the plan. They'll check with their spells probably and see it is actually me. Hopefully they'll take you to Lorelei, while Mama you'll follow me as they take me away, I doubt they could see through your magic if you hide from them. When you find her Mama Kyouko, you make sure nothing can hurt her and then, only then do you contact Mama, and then Mama can rescue me." Hannyuu explained as they all heard her little heart speed up.

"M-mama… I'm scared but… No matter what they do, you can't show yourself until Kyouko gives that message, we can't risk them killing Lorelei, even if I die, even if they do t-things to me… I know you can heal me or bring me back to life. Just… please trust me on this?" Hannyuu nearly begged as she saw a chance to finally heal that wound in Kyouko's heart.

Akemi saw strength in those eyes. "This is why I say… you're already braver than me…" She thought as she pressed her forehead against Hannyuu's and sighed. This girl had already been through so much, and yet went from the trembling small girl she found, to someone with such fire in her it made her both proud and scared for her. She had spent years in the fires of her trauma and only seemed now to be tempered by it.

"…Alright… I'll need to talk to Ainz first though, to tell him about the situation with Eight Fingers, since I did say I wouldn't interfere with them further but… this is a new situation." Akemi said and stood up to begin to pace again.

"[Message]. Sorry to bother you Ainz, but it is a bit more of an urgent issue this time." Akemi told him after she felt the call connect.

"It is not trouble, what is the issue? Does it pertain to me or is it another romance problem? Because let me tell you I am neither a therapist or romantic counselor." He asked with as much snark as a skeleton could provide.

"I mean, I swear I always have romance problems, but no I finally fucking confessed and I've been dating those two for a week now, remind me to tell you about it so you can get off your bony ass and accept those two floor guardians that want your non-existent… you get what I'm going for. No, why I'm calling is there is an issue with Eight Fingers that they initiated. As agreed upon I wanted to inform you of the situation." Akemi said in a near rush.

"Okay, first, congratulations are in order I suppose, you finally graduated from useless lesbian. Second, Fuck you. Third, You're just here to inform me, not to ask for assistance?" Ainz asked, almost sounding amused at her words.

"Because… I know this doesn't have much to do with you. Would you help even if I asked?" Akemi asked with a sigh.

"I'm sorry to tell you that you are right, it does not have much to do with Nazarick, or benefit me and mine in any way, the fact you only are informing me instead of asking for help tells me you already have a plan, if you have a plan then I'm confident you can solve this issue on your own. If we assisted we would risk tipping our hand to Eight Fingers before we are ready, or to the Kingdom as a whole. We have our own issues to deal with tonight as well unfortunately." Ainz said and sounded genuinely disappointed in the situation.

Akemi shook her head and groaned. "I… I figured as much, it can't be helped… Hannyuu is really convincing about her own plan, I just hate how she is risking herself… I should introduce you two, you might like her, she is pretty fiery and charismatic. Damn girl rolls good on perception and charisma…" Akemi joked as she turned her gaze to look at Hannyuu, her heart filled with motherly love for the girl, she was so worried about her… but so damn proud also…

"I wish you luck, tell me how it goes or if you might need any clean up, if it won't expose Nazarick I do not mind offering other services. If you capture these members I can make sure they endure any treatment you want, I need the information in their brains either way. You're daughter sounds quite interesting if she is able to even convince you of a plan." Ainz said and she wondered just what his angle was…

"Will do, I just might… I'm… not really made for getting revenge, which I'm very likely going to want… Talk to you after." Akemi said as she ended the message with a groan. "We're on. Get prepared everyone… You said you had to go alone and unarmed yes? Let me see Desolation." Akemi said and held out her hand.

Kyouko grabbed her blade from the side of her chair and tossed it over to Akemi and wondered just what she was doing.

Akemi reached into inventory and pulled out a small carved stick. "I don't have any cash shop items I bought myself, mostly the ones I do have were gifts from Guild mates, such as all those bottomless thermos bottles." Akemi said as she pressed that stick to Desolation's sheath, and watched as the entire thing vanished in a tiny flash, the name of the blade engraving itself onto the stick.

She soon tossed that stick to Kyouko and pulled Hannyuu over for more hugging to sooth both of their nerves. "That will let you conceal your sword on your person, when you want it you just need to snap that stick and it will appear, keep it close at hand." Akemi said and bit her thumb nervously. "Hannyuu… I can't guarantee I won't attack if they get too violent… I told you I'd never let them touch you again and now I'm having to break that…" Akemi said as she wondered how much drinking they'll all need after this incident, they'll need some quiet family time to heal…

"Lets just… all get home safe, lets get our lost family member, and lets make them all pay…" Akemi sounded positively murderous by that point, and none of them could blame her.

It was a very rough fight for Kyouko, and she knew she was being out played, the only reason she wasn't dead yet was that this man didn't want her to be, just like a snake toying with it's food.

"Be careful, you don't want to get nicked by Rose Thorn, oh dear~" Malmvist laughed as the tip of his rapier very lightly scratched her neck, and right away Kyouko felt that nick begin to burn.

"Shit… His weapon is poisoned… of course it is poisoned…" She said nothing as she tried to not let the start of that wound distract her, she had felt worse pain before, and she knew that Akemi could cure her just fine, and as long as she could rescue Lorelei she was fine with dying either way. As she desperately struck out at him she noticed he would parry every third strike instead of dodging it.

"[Possibility Sense]." Her eyes raked over his weapon and spotted several chips in his blade from their clashes as her Martial Art told her what she needed about her chances of winning. A plan started to form in her mind as she thought about how much it might hurt. She had to finish it before this man started to fight seriously, she had to use that arrogance against him… "Well… No choice, this might kill me but… Hopefully I can kill him… Please work!" She thought and went for two slashes at the man, and watched as he predictably dodged aside with a laugh. She lined up the edge of her blade horizontally in an obvious and easily blocked attack, as the man had already seen that his physical strength was more than her own.

"[Greater Ability Boost], [Severing Blade]!" She hissed out as her strength, speed, and reaction time increased, as did her slashing power. Her blade homed in on that chip she had slowly widened on his blade and watched as her Adamantite sword with all of it's sharpness enchantments sliced through the rest of the damaged blade, as well as the abdomen of Malmvist. Her Nodachi had a far longer reach than Malmvist seemed to anticipate, and so Kyouko felt her blade barely scrap his spine as it passed through his body, disemboweling the man in one swing without resistance to his own leather armor.

Kyouko felt the rush of the Martial arts fade from her body, as well as some blood leaking from her nose and mouth, whether as a rebound from the martial arts or the poison in her veins she didn't know.

She stumbled over towards the back cells and leaned against the wall, her will the one thing that kept her from passing out as she held her neck. She peered into the darkness of that cell and felt her heart start to shatter. She barely remembered to activate her ring "[Message]… Save Hannyuu and… meet me at my… location… We're in bad shape…" Kyouko muttered as she slumped down against the wall and kept her eyes locked on Lorelei, her first glimpse of her daughter in five years, yet she lacked the energy to cut through the bars and get to her on the other side of them, if it would do anything…

The first syllables were barely out of Kyouko's mental mouth before Akemi's tail impaled the man that had removed his own pants and pinned her daughter down, the one Hannyuu called Dathans. Hannyuu had already clenched her eyes shut and gritted her teeth, and found nothing happened besides blood splashing onto her stripped body as a familiar tail impaled Dathan's gut above her.

Without any time to react Akemi swung two more tails at the other two men, and let them collapse against the walls with a crunch, she threw Dathans at the wall as well. "[Cure Greater Wounds]." Akemi quickly cast as she healed every scratch on Hannyuu's body and leaned down to hug the girl as she helped her sit up. Hannyuu had yet to say anything and seemed to be flexing her jaw at the residual pain of her teeth being grown back near instantly. "I'm so sorry baby… Kyouko sounded frantic, put these on and we'll deal with these bastards later… [Stabilize Major Wounds]." Akemi cast on the three men, not willing to let them get an easy death, they had a lot to answer for…

Akemi pulled out a spare set of clothes as well as Hannyuu's favorite cloak as she knew she might need the sense of safety it gave her. Akemi hugged her close for a moment after she frantically threw on those clothes. As her mother she just wished there was time for the girl to get her bearings more, for her brain to realize she was safe. "We have to hurry. First… Just in case… [Widen Magic, Mass Hold Person]." Akemi cast as she let her magic echo through the underground area, and mentally counted how many of those men she had held in place for the time being. She would have to do a through sweep of those tunnels to be sure she captured each one.

She pulled Hannyuu close and homed in on Kyouko's location from her message and the connection between their rings. "[Greater Teleportation]!" With a small pop the two of them flashed out of that area.

When they emerged from the teleport in that cell block they were instantly hit by the smell of unwashed masses that was nearly overpowered by the stench of cut open bowels. Akemi knew Kyouko had it in her to beat that man, she likely wasn't as far in strength from him as she believed, and she felt justified in that confidence in her girlfriend at her opponent dead on the ground. Her worry increased though as she saw Kyouko slumped against the bars in the corner. "[Greater Cure All], [Cure Greater Wounds]!" Akemi quickly cast the spells she needed as she saw the discolored veins around Kyouko's neck at a glance.

She sighed in relief as she saw Kyouko take a large breath, but not look very revived. "Please… help her…" She mumbled, and looked still too weak to reach her daughter. Akemi wasted no time in cutting apart those bars and looked inside. As she cast a silent light spell she instantly regretted it.

Her mind shut down for a moment as she stared in horror at who she assumed Lorelei was. Hannyuu moved away from her and Kyouko's side and began to puke away from them, likely both from the sight and all she had been through that night.

It was a strange cold rage that gripped her heart as she quickly cut the chain that was around Lorelei's neck and laid her on the ground, yet not a peep of a reaction was heard from the girl. She could still hear a terribly weak heartbeat, as well as very slow breathing.

Those golden eyes that looked so much like Kyouko's stared at nothing, dead to the world. It was easily just as sick as when she found Hannyuu, if not more so… There was at least a trace of life in Hannyuu's eyes when she was rescued… as well as all of her limbs.

If she didn't recognize those eyes Akemi wouldn't even guess this girl was Lorelei, as so many identifying features were broken beyond natural recovery.

Akemi was afraid to cast diagnostic magic, and at a glance she could see it would be nothing good as already all of Lorelei's limbs were reduced to long since messily healed stumps, and there was more scar tissue on her than clear skin. Both wolf ears as well as her tail were cut off to add even further insult to her… yet she still needed to know if she was to heal her properly… "D-[Diagnosis All]… Wha-what the fuck…" Akemi muttered in disbelief. All at once she felt her own earlier meal come up as she puked off to the side as the information from her spell stuck in her brain whether she wanted it to or not, every failing organ, every disease and infection, and the years of malnutrition that had wreaked havoc on the poor child.

"I'll… I'll kill them all… T-this is… [Message]… Ainz… I am asking you a one time favor… I want you to have all of the men in this base… They… they need to suffer, I want them to suffer several times over what they did to this poor child! to all the people in these cells!" Akemi screamed as she stood up, while she felt another piece of her soul shatter. She was ready to tear the land apart in her wrath, she would show them a vengeful Goddess…

A/N: This chapter was really fucking hard to write… I hope I wrote it acceptably. Let me clarify that under normal circumstances Kyouko would not have won her fight, if she didn't have a sword like that she would have also lost, but Malmvist didn't take her seriously at all and it backfired for him. Well, one less 6 arms member that Sebas pops in a millisecond.