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… Well. Do you need to get Kaina to start thinking about other things? Because now you're – you're imagining what it'd be like to be pregnant with Kaina's child…

Your pussy twitches at the thought. You bite down on your lip as an aching pang radiates out from your belly, centered around your womb. A womb that feels so terribly empty all of a sudden...

"Hnn…" You mutter, burying your face in Kaina's shoulder. Your love tentatively reaches out to wrap her arm around your back, and you clutch onto her tightly.

… You're still blushing. And this close, you can feel Kaina's heartbeat. It's as frenetically fast as yours is…

"I'm sorry, Alice."

"No, you don't have to be, I was the one who brought it up," you stammer. "… And… Honestly, I liked that you were so intense, it meant that you really wanted to have a baby with me, and… And… I really want to have a baby with you too, so..."

"… Ah," Kaina hums, the noise vibrating in her throat. "… I see."

"Let's talk about something else before we get back to this topic," you say, settling down against Kaina's chest, letting her arms drape lazily across your shoulders. "Because otherwise I think we wouldn't stop talking about… About that."

"Yes, that's for the best," Kaina agrees.

"How about, I don't know… Pets!" You say, quickly warming to your new topic of choice. You do enjoy your lovely pets, after all. Your adorable, sexy maids…

An idea pops into your mind, spurred on by one of your memories. That time you had Kaina pet Lupe's ears...

"Pets?" Kaina asks. "Like a puppy? I… I used to own a puppy."

"… Oh?" You perk up. A puppy? Does Kaina like puppies? Well, that's grand, then! You can whip up a line of cute puppies for Kaina to coo over! Or maybe you can just have Lupe bear a litter and give them to Kaina…

"Her name was Hachiko. My… My mother gave her to me, before she passed," Kaina explains. "She was… Mixed-breed, that's what my mother said. I used to take her on walks, used to go to the park with her. Her fur was… Soft. Like you are, Alice. It… When I pet her, I felt… It was easier to..."

Kaina's getting all stuttery again like she does when thinking about difficult memories. You reach up to squeeze her hand reassuringly. "Tell me what happened to Hachiko, Kaina," you ask.

Because you would've known if Kaina still had her puppy, she would have brought it up earlier when you were at her apartment. And the fact that she didn't…

"… She died. There was a car, the driver was drunk and he swerved too fast…" Kaina's hand tightens around yours to an almost painful degree. "Mitsuko and I tried to get her to the vet, but… It was too late. She was the last thing my mother gave me, I should have taken better care of her..."

You wince. There's not much you can do to console your love here. This is clearly an old, old pain. Even now, there's a tightness to Kaina's voice that belies the grief she must have felt.

"I'm sorry that happened to you, Kaina," you say. "… Thank you for telling me about it."

"Mmh," Kaina nods but doesn't say anything else.

"Do you still like puppies?" You ask, trying to extricate yourself from this landmine of a tangent you wandered into. A bit of murderous, indignant rage curdles in your heart at the idea that your love's past was this tragic. Ooh, you want to destroy the source of her sadness now. Put an end to all of the stupid garbage people who might've had a hand in making her life this difficult...

Who was the drunk driver who killed Kaina's puppy? Hmm, it might be worth tasking your maids to find that bastard so you can personally strangle him, how dare he inflict even more injuries on your love by taking away one of the things she loves-

"… Yes," Kaina admits.

"Do you think you'd be okay with taking care of a puppy with me?"

"…?" Kaina shifts, her blonde hair brushing against the side of your face as she cranes her neck to look down at you. "I don't understand, Alice."

"I'm asking you if you want me to give you some puppies, Kaina," you explain.

"… Ah," Kaina considers your statement. "I wouldn't be adverse to this, but… Would I have the time to take care of them? I remember with Hachiko…"

"Oh, no, the puppies I have in mind can take care of themselves," you say.

"I don't understand."

"You know my maids, right? The ones with the cute cat ears on their head, and the floofy cat tails?"

"… Yes?" Kaina frowns, confused.

"And you know Lupe, right? We petted her together during one of our dates, when you stopped by I'm talking about giving you a maid that looks like Lupe! With puppy ears, and a puppy tail. Or maybe maids, plural. Do you want one puppy, or two. Or maybe three!" You say.

"Alice, you can't give me people. People aren't… Mitsuko said that people aren't things to be gifted," Kaina's frown deepens into one that's disapproving.

Mitsuko, Mitsuko, Mitsuko. One of these days you'll have to get to the bottom of who this Mitsuko was and what she meant to Kaina, if only because she put all sorts of weird ideas into Kaina's adorable noggin. Guh. It's been a while since you've felt jealousy, but that's something that's also begun to curdle in your heart at the mention of Mitsuko…

… Jealousy that you ruthlessly strangle in its crib. No, there's no point in getting jealous. No reason to either. Mitsuko was someone Kaina loved, so for the sake of your love and her precious memories…

You'll let it slide. Wherever in the afterlife Mitsuko is, she should be grateful that Kaina seems to have genuinely appreciated her. If that weren't the case? You'd definitely take up necromancy again and call up her soul to torture her because Kaina shouldn't ever think about other girls besides you…

"Alice?" Kaina asks, jarring you out of your dark thoughts. How silly of you, leaving your love hanging like this…!

"Ooh, sorry, just got wrapped up in my own head," you laugh, trying to play off your little episode. "And you're thinking about this the wrong way. The whole reason my maids are employed is so they can serve me. It's in the job description, it's in the contract they signed. All I want to do is transfer a few of them over to serve you, because you're my girlfriend."

"… You're talking about modifying their bodies, Alice," Kaina says slowly.

"It'd be consensual," you wave Kaina's concerns away. "The only ones I'd have modified are the ones who'd agree to it."

"Ah," Kaina hums. "In that case…"

Maybe she needs more of a push. "It'd be a nice bonding experience. Don't you remember how fun it felt to pet Lupe's ears, Kaina?" You implore. "Imagine having more fluffy girls we can pet together…"

"Nnh…" Kaina's hand twitches in an unconscious gesture. "… Alright. If everyone consents, and if it's really part of their job description, then…"

Excellent. Excellent. Hee. You're going to have so much fun in the lab this week…

"Great!" You exclaim, giving your love a quick hug, and the two of you share a brief moment of companionable silence before you bring up the next topic of the discussion you want to talk about.

"Now, Kaina, this next question's about our sex life."

"Sex?"

"Yeah, yeah, sex. Intimacy. What we're doing now. I want to know what your preferences are."

Kaina hums. "… I don't know. Steele said she was going to forward me some research material after… But… I do know I like you, Alice. I like how your body feels…"

You squeal as Kaina's hands come up to give your breasts a quick squeeze. "Kyah~! Kaina, you're so handsy~!"

"… Is it too much?"

"No, I really like it when you touch me," you say. "I really, really like it. You know it gets me all hot and bothered, and needy…"

"… Ah…" Kaina says slowly. You press your ear to her chest, and sure enough, her heart's begun to thump just a bit faster. "… I feel the same way. So you… You like it when I touch your erogenous zones in public?"

"Feel free to get as touchy-feely as you want!" You say. "My boobs, my butt, my hips…" You press against Kaina, molding your body against her contours, nudging your leg right in between her own. "Every part of me is yours Kaina, you should make that clear to everyone who sees us together…"

"…" Kaina's lips graze against the top of your head as she leans down to bury her face in your hair. "Nnh… Okay."

"I did have a list of kinks I wanted to talk about though, if that's okay. Like, we talked about the idea of having a baby before, but what do you think about the idea of putting a baby into me?" You prod.

"I…" Kaina says haltingly. "… I…"

You take her hand and press it insistently to your belly, right above your lust crest, shivering at the warm sensation that's begun to flood your groin, a pleasurable tingle centered right at your womb… "Because I think it'd be pretty hot. Don't you think it'd be hot? Just imagine what it'd be like to feel my soft belly as it swells with your child, the child we made together…"

"Ah…"

"And then imagine the other changes that my body would go through. My breasts? The breasts you like to squeeze…?" You press Kaina's other hand against your soft boob, letting Kaina get a real handful of your sensitive titty. "They'd get all swollen with milk, they'd be so sensitive to the touch, along with my nipples…"

"Alice's… Milk?"

"Yep. Milk to feed the baby with, and maybe you as well~!" You cheer. "So, how do you feel about that?"

"…" Kaina's hand press insistently against you, caressing your womb, kneading your breast… "I'd like that very much. Alice, we should make a baby together. As soon as possible. I… I find that image…"

"You like it as much as I do, don't you?" You whisper.

"… Mmh," You feel Kaina jerk her head in a nod as you lean back to rest your head against your girlfriend's chest. "… Alice, I want you to have my child. I… I…"

Well. Somebody's discovered they have a breeding kink~! And maybe a lactation kink too? Hmm…

"You know~" you drawl out. "We could give the whole… Milky thing a test run too."

"…?" Kaina peers down at your breasts, intently studying your cleavage. "You don't produce milk, Alice. I would have noticed when I… When I sucked on your breasts the first time we…"

"Ah, but you forget, I'm a Magical Girl too. And one of my fortes? Biosculpting," you explain.

"Oh. Oh…" Kaina says, realization dawning across her face. "Which means…"

"One quick mod and I can give you all the Alice-milk you'd want~! Wouldn't that be nice? Just a quick tweak to my glands, it'd take all of five minutes to implement…" You say with a saucy smile stretched across your mouth.

Kaina squirms behind you. A ragged pant escapes her parted lips. "… I'd like that. I… I enjoy touching your breasts already, it's very comforting so I…"

"You just want an excuse to suck on my titties some more, don't you?" You ask wryly.

"… Mmh," Kaina mumbles in assent.

Heh. Well, you don't mind that one bit. On the contrary, you're happy to have more excuses to have your love suckle from your perfect breasts… You kind of want to rip off your shirt right here and let Kaina have her way with you-

Later. Later. You've got other things to talk about first.

"And how would you feel about letting someone else have their way with me? Or you?" You ask, and Kaina…

… Kaina doesn't respond for a very, very long time. "… Alice, I don't understand what you're asking about."

"I'm talking about… Polyamory. The idea that we'd be able to have multiple sexual partners. How do you feel about having fun with some of the maids, or maybe your friends, or my friends, or…?" You ask, doing your best to keep your voice level and reasonable.

"Are you asking me if I want to be… To do the things I do with you with… Someone else?" Kaina still sounds confused.

"Yeah."

"I…" Kaina stutters again. "I… I can't…"

Uh-oh. You bite down on your lip nervously. Maybe it was a bad, bad idea to say it like that, so openly… "Kaina, is it th-"

"I don't want to do anything that'd minimize the amount of time I spend with you, Alice," Kaina says, the words rushing out of her mouth. "If there are multiple actors involved then… It feels like my time with you, specifically, would… And I don't..."

Ah. Ah! You see what the problem is here, you think.

"And just to clarify, are you against polygamy because you're not attracted to anyone else in the same way you're attracted to me, or is that not a concern?"

"I… Other girls are soft, like you are, and I can admit that I… I can find certain traits aesthetically pleasing. Steele is… Attractive, conventionally so. Cabalis is attractive as well. But I… I like you more, so if I had a choice, I would always…" Kaina mumbles, her voice petering off as she presses her mouth to the back of your head.

So. It isn't a question of if Kaina likes other girls. She clearly does. She just loves you specifically way too much to even consider other girls right now, and the lifestyle she was living left no room for romance or intimacy, so of course all of this is something she never would've considered.

… On the one hand, that makes you super happy~! Kyah~! Your love's being so… So adorably possessive right now! Ooh, she seriously loves you, she loves you, she totally loves you…!

But on the other hand? That sort of puts a damper on having fun with other people. Specifically the bevy of pets you've acquired and your other loves. And it's so much more fun when all the people around you are having fun...

"Alright, thank you for being honest with me, Kaina," you lean up to press a kiss against your love's jawline. "… If I asked you to though, would you have fun with another girl with me?"

"… Yes. Yes, if you asked me to I... I would," Kaina says. "But…"

"But it'd just be because I asked you to," you say.

"… Yes. Because I like doing things with you. But if another girl threatened to… To limit the amount of time I get to spend with you…"

You shiver as a hint of something darker enters Kaina's voice. Her mana reactor pulses and churns, and goosebumps begin to rise across your back as you feel Kaina's magic flare. Oh, how cute. She's discovered what jealousy feels like.

"… I don't know what I'd do," Kaina finishes.

"Kaina, you know I'll always love you, though," you pat Kaina's wrist, rubbing it in a soothing motion.

"… Yes. But I…" Kaina pauses. "Alice?"

"Yes, Kaina?"

"… I appear to be experiencing a negative emotion. It's not anger, or irritation, and I feel… Worried. But I..."

"That's jealousy, Kaina," you explain, looking up to peer at your love's face.

"Jealousy," Kaina's lips thin. "I don't understand."

"When I talked about polyamory and doing intimate things with other people, what were you imagining? Were you imagining some faceless girl who'd wind up stealing me away from you, Someone who I'd spend time with?" you explain.

"Yes, actually," Kaina blinks, surprise flitting across her features.

"And you began to feel resentment towards this faceless girl, didn't you? You resented the idea that I'd end up spending less time with you because of someone or something else."

"… Yes, I did. I… I apologize. I realize this has to be an irrational concern to have, but I…"

"Kaina, it's fine. This is why we're talking now, to figure out the nuances of our relationship and try to find common ground on subjects like this one," you explain calmly. "And it's not irrational. I think it'd be even more irrational if you didn't feel jealous towards this hypothetical girl who stole me away from you. And honestly, I'd be mad if you didn't make an attempt to get me back from someone who'd do such a terrible thing. You'd do that, wouldn't you? Try to get me back?"

"… Yes. Unless you made it clear that… That you didn't-"

Oh, no, no. None of that. As if you'd ever break off your relationship with Kaina! You'd die before you let that happen! Or better yet, you'd super murder whoever was telling you to break things off! Unless it's Kaina herself asking to…

No. No, as if you'd let such a terrible thing happen!

"Kaina, I'm not breaking up with you. I'm never going to break up with you. Not now, not ever," you pledge. "I'm never going to go somewhere where you can't follow me, so…. So if you ever feel like something's trying to take me away from you, tell me and we can talk about how to handle that together. Okay?"

"… Okay."

"… How about we put a pin in this topic and move onto something else? Just for now?" You ask.

"Yes, I think that's for the best," Kaina agrees. "I… I'd like to go back to talking about…"

You perk up. "Yes?"

"… Children."

Ah. That topic. The first one. You swallow, feeling a fresh wave of giddy need wash over you. "Sure. Let's talk about children. I promised to give you as many as you wanted, so let's put a hard number on that. How many children do you want?"

"… At least one," Kaina whispers. "… Two would be nice. One for each of us to hold. But I wouldn't be averse to… To three. Or four, five, six-"

"Alright, I get it," you interrupt, doing your best not to laugh at how earnestly baby-crazy Kaina's being right now. Not that you particularly mind; goodness knows you've talked at length about how much you want Kaina's babies before… "But there's more to making a family than just making children, right? So we should talk about that too. Like… What do you imagine a family would look like? What did your family look like?"

"My family…" Kaina pauses.

"Because I've got to admit, I don't really have any good experiences of family myself," you confess. "My mother…"

Your mother. It's been a while since you thought about her, and for good reason.

"My mother wasn't much of a mother at all. To her, I was… An obligation," you smile, but it's a terrifyingly empty expression. That familiar resentment begins to boil up within you. "I talked about her when we were at the beach, remember?"

"… I remember. Is she-"

"Oh, she's totally dead. I had to pay for her funeral fees and everything," you mention nonchalantly.

"I'm sorry."

"I'm not. She was a terrible mother. She didn't care for me at all. She let me swim in polluted water, and when I got sick she told me to suck it up and head off to school. When people bullied me at school, she sided with the bullies and took their side over mine because they paid her money," you continue. "She told me to my face that she never wanted me, and that the only reason she had me was so I could take care of her when she grew old. She told me that every week, up until the day she died."

"… That's…" Kaina's arms stiffen around you. "That's horrible, Alice…"

"It was. One of the best days of my life was when I finally managed to escape from my mother's house for the first time," you confess.

That was the day you Pacted and became Shining Heart. It was the day you received an acceptance letter from the corporation you'd slave away at. The day you realized you wouldn't have to live your entire life under your wretched mother's thumb.

It's beyond depressing that that was a day where you felt so much happiness it gave you superpowers, especially after you remember where you ended up following that path.

"So I don't… Actually know what a loving family really looks like," you finish. "And now you know why. I have an idea but… But I want to hear what your experience with family was like. What was your family like, Kaina?"

"I…" Kaina pauses, her throat bobbing. "… I didn't have a father. Just my mother, and my… And Mitsuko's mother. My mother and Mitsuko's mother, Naoko… I wouldn't learn this until later, but they were in a relationship. Together. After their husbands divorced them, they..."

Oh? Oh… Oh! Mitsuko was Kaina's step-sister then. You feel your heart ease a little at that knowledge. Not a competitor for your love after all. Well, you'll have to do something nice for dearly departed Mitsuko later, then. If it'll make Kaina happy, of course...

"They never married, but I remember… We shared an apartment on the outskirts of Terminus City. It was… A small unit. Eastview District. And I remember, my mother was… Kind," Kaina whispers. "My mother was very kind, and her hands were very soft. She used to do my hair. I remember, she said that… My hair was nice, so she loved running her fingers through it. That was the last thing she said to me before…"

"Before she died?" You ask gently.

"… Yes."

"She sounds like she was a lovely woman," you say, prodding Kaina to continue.

"She was…" Kaina sniffles. "… She was. So if we have a child, I'd… I'd like to raise them how my mother raised me. With kindness. And… And affection. Alice, I realize I'm deficient in these matters, but-"

"You're not, Kaina," you respond, maintaining that calm, even tone. "You've got more of an idea on how to raise a family than I do. You're not deficient at all."

"… But if we have a child..." Kaina pauses. "… Alice, I think a part of me is afraid."

"Of what?"

"That the child will turn out strange. Like me. My mother never told me I was strange, but everyone else always told me that I was… Mitsuko said that my mother was right and I shouldn't listen, but they still…"

Ah. Your lips thin as you realize exactly what must've happened. Kaina must've been very pretty, even as a child. And she probably also excelled at everything she did, just as she excels at anything she sets her mind to now. Add on her socially awkward behavior, factor in that children at any age can be outright sociopaths, add in a bit of Tall Poppy syndrome, and you've got a regular cocktail for disaster right there.

"You're not strange, Kaina. You just have trouble expressing yourself sometimes," you reply. "That's perfectly okay. And if we end up having a child who acts like you do… Honestly, I think I'd love that child even more, yeah?"

Having a little version of Kaina who acts as shy and clumsy as she does? Yes please~! Ooh, you'd dote so much on this hypothetical daughter… Okay, that settles it; you're going to have to find a way to have children with your girlfriend as soon as humanly possible!

"Ah. Then that's good…"

"And you'd love the child too no matter what, right? Because it'd be our precious child?" You ask.

"… Yes," Kaina admits.

"So then we can both agree that no matter the children we have, how they turn out, what they look like… We'll both love them and treat them with love and kindness. And we both agree that if we settle down and try to build a family together, that's going to include children," you conclude.

"Yes," Kaina says.

"That's all we really need to agree on, don't you think?"

"… Mmh."

Another moment of companionable silence passes before a thought crosses your mind. Well, actually...

"I mean, we should also start talking about other things now that we've agreed to get pregnant at some point. Minor details. Like scheduling. Do you want me to have the kids, or did you want to try getting pregnant too? How would we make time for them? Where do you imagine they'd go to school? Were you thinking of public school, or private school?" You prompt.

"Ah," Kaina sighs. "… I believe I was worrying about the wrong things."

"Yep, you sure were," you pat your love consolingly on the back. Because now you're stepping into something that's nitty, gritty, and beyond banal. The boring aspects of childcare.

You might be an evil, sexy succubus of a dark Magical Girl, but even you have to deal with inevitabilities. This is just one of those.

… How droll.

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Steele Maxima's corruption: 10 (25/100 - Stage 1)

Infinity Princess/Kaina Shikinami's corruption: 20 (100/100 - Stage 2 complete; 0/300 - Stage 3)