Compromise isn't something you're accustomed to, these days. You've lived a lifetime of compromise in the past, and what did that ever get you? A cold cubicle, a life where you spent every waking hour slaving away at the command of your corporate taskmasters, days spent downing stimulants and consuming flavorless ration bars to keep your decrepit body awake and nights spent downing medication to compensate for your body's poor health.

But you do like to make deals. You made such a lovely deal with dear Kisha and her delectable sister, which paid off in dividends. Your dear Naomi, your masochistic playtoy, why, she fell into your arms after you made a bargain with her, didn't she? And Sierra~! Ooh, you can't wait to share your cute dolly with Kaina…

So you're smiling as you consider your love, and the desperate hope flickering in her green eyes. Kaina… Wants you to say yes. Kaina desperately wants you to stop being a Bad Girl. Because right now she's stuck between the hammer of her duty and the anvil of her unwavering love for you. Kaina pretends she's a Good Girl, after all, and as a Good Girl she can't possibly be in a relationship with a Bad Girl.

She's under the impression that your relationship with her is somehow mutually exclusive with your dastardly deeds and, like a child who wants to have her cake and eat it, Kaina's clumsily searching for the perfect solution to her predicament.

It's so cute. She's really the cutest, deluding herself the way she is, desperately clutching onto the small happiness she's managed to find. Ah~! It's so sweet~!

Your darling love, how wonderful she is. Poor, simple, sweet Kaina with her childish heart clenched between your soiled hands. Hee~!

It would be so easy to corrupt her right now. So easy to turn her, to brainwash her with nothing but your words by weaponizing her love for you and shattering the crumbling edifice of her misplaced morality.

It'd be so easy to squeeze down right now, crush her fragile hopes, and break her to your whim.

… You're not going to do that, of course. And the reason for that is simple.

Kaina's just too adorable. She's really too cute, too innocent and precious. Broken as she is, with tear tracks staining her blotchy cheeks…

Ooh, you wanna hug her and squeeze her and whisper nothings into her ear while telling her everything'll be okay…!

… She's lucky she's adorable. Lucky that she shines even now, broken as she is, with tear tracks staining her blotchy cheeks.

She's lucky you like that she's broken, but still trying to put herself back together. Still trying to make sense of this senseless world, still fighting on for what she believes in. That's something that you can't help but find breathtaking.

Why, if Kaina were anyone else right now? You'd have broken her. Ambushed her in this, her moment of weakness, and utterly defiled her, reducing her to one of your playthings.

But Kaina's… Kaina's better than that. Kaina… Isn't a plaything to you. She's not like your pets, or toys. Kaina's a special girl, the purest of your loves, so she needs to be treated like the precious, irreplaceable existence she is.

You're not interested in making her beautiful anymore. Oh, no, no, no. Now, you're waiting with bated breath for Kaina to make herself beautiful, to corrupt herself, to willingly choose to fall into depravity and debauchery just like you have and transform from the pure princess she is into the dark queen lurking within her, the abyssal goddess you'd worship with every fiber of your being until the stars burnt out.

It's these thoughts that guide you as you speak again.

"I can't promise to stop, Kaina," you say, and you watch the hope gutter out of Kaina's eyes, to be replaced with corroding despair.

"… But I can promise that I'll try," you finish, and Kaina's eyes light up again with your words, lighting up with bright hope that's just as sweet and corrosive as the darkest depths of despair.

"… Elaborate," Kaina says.

"Oh, Kaina," you sigh. "I can't promise to stop doing bad things forever because I'm just not a Good Girl anymore. I… I left that part of me behind, Kaina. Being a Bad Girl is who I am, Kaina, and I don't think… I don't think you want me to change myself too much for your sake. Wouldn't you agree?"

"… Mmh…" Kaina mumbles, neither agreeing or disagreeing.

"But for your sake, well… I can promise that I'll try for now. To stop doing bad things, for the most part," you finish. "… Within reason."

Ah, reason. Motivation. Morality. Those dividing line between good and bad, between virtue and sin. This might come as a surprise, but you're actually an expert in ethical theory. You're acutely aware of whether or not an action is right or wrong according to modern moral standards.

That's all, of course, so you know exactly which lines to tap-dance over gleefully. Decency's for your loves and your pets. The smelly garbage people? You couldn't care less about them or their mewling, insipid desires.

It's adorable that Kaina cares, though. It's quite noble and gallant of her, caring so much about all the worthless fools who don't deserve her sweet, innocent soul. So if your love would prefer it if you started moderating your approach? Well, you're not a fan of moderation. Excess and unbridled hedonism are so much more fun.

But play-acting the Good Girl around Kaina? That has the potential to be fun in its own way. It just means you need to think about your actions more and come up with acceptable reasons whenever you invariably get around to being a Bad Girl again. After all, there are so many naughty actions that are morally permissible under the right impetus.

Murder's acceptable if you call it 'self-defense' and if you're 'self-defensing' against an acceptable target and in this city? Plenty of garbage people could use some 'self-defensing' for so many reasons. Kidnapping homeless girls and brainwashing them? Forcibly altering their bodies and transforming them into your cute sex pets? Why, look at how their lives have improved! Look at how happy they are, how content, how cute, fluffy, and adorable they've become!

So, no. You're not worried about the edict Kaina just passed down to you. You're not worried about play-acting as the Good Girl for a change. After all, you're acutely aware that it is entirely possible to do bad, awful things in the name of love and justice.

And in a way, this is something you can use too, something you can use to make Kaina promise something…

"Kaina, I want you to promise something else though."

"…?" Kaina blinks, looking a little confused as you reach out to hold her hand, gently cradling her fingers.

"I want you to start being a little more selfish. Can you do that for me?" You ask gently.

"… Selfish? I – I don't…"

"You've given so much for so many other people, Kaina," you say, staring into your girlfriend's eyes, gosh she has such pretty eyes… "But you clearly haven't been taking enough time off for yourself. It's okay, you know. It's okay to be selfish. It's okay to be greedy. It's okay to want more."

"…"

"I'll still love you, you know. I'll love you if you decide to be greedy, or needy, or possessive as you need to be," you reassure Kaina. "But it's okay to want to do naughty things, you know. In fact, sometimes doing a naughty thing lines up with doing the right thing..."

"Alice, what exactly are you – Are you suggesting?" Kaina asks, and you grin.

"Oh, nothing much. I just think we should do something together…"

You have the perfect test subject lined up for your, ah, couple's counseling. A naughty, bad, bad brainwashed cyborg who could absolutely use a spanking and some remodeling for her crimes. No, you don't care that she's already brainwashed, she hurt Kaina. The only reason you haven't had her guts for garters already is because of this. This moment, this idea right here, this idea where you can put her useless flesh to use for a change. An idea that sounds better and better the more you think about it.

… Wouldn't it be grand if Kaina decided Subject 001's fate?

If Kaina was the one who gets to remodel the bad corporate experiment who'd injured her so…? Boring girlfriends get their lovers chocolates and flowers after a bad argument. You? You plan on giving Kaina her very own customizable plaything.

It's the perfect peace offering after the little, er, disagreement you just had with your girlfriend. Heck, this is probably the perfect way to start tempting Kaina down the road to darkness…

Hee~!

And best of all, it's a morally permissible plaything. You're improving this poor girl's lot in life, after all, by any objective viewpoint…

Or you could do something else. It could be better to ease Kaina into an indulgent lifestyle. Something more innocuous, perhaps? Who says indulgence has to be limited to sex…?