"Hah," you sigh, shaking your head as you take a step away from Sanguine Descent and stop imposing on her so, er, physically. Tch, it's really a shame. You've spent whole hours away from a warm pet to molest, and there's a cute girl right in front of you, ripe for the plucking. You can practically smell the virginity wafting off of Sanguine Descent as much as her fear scent and the smell of her ruined panties.

But no, no… No, you probably shouldn't mindbreak this cutie. Right now, at least. She's more useful to you as a relatively independent operator in the short term. Even if she does make for some adorable rape-bait. Her and her sisters…

Her sisters! That's right! She's part of a series of clones! Cute girl clones, with cute personalities! Nothing like their atrocious gene-donor, thank goodness. Oh, gosh, how exciting. How exhilarating. The things you could do to a whole bevy of identical cute girls~! It's all your dreams about identical twins mixed with all your dreams about customization and modification. Perfect test beds for all the depraved experiments you can conduct because each of your subjects would be identical to each other!

What fun. Maybe you could link their senses somehow, too, the way you did with your darling Lea and Nea. Hee. How many sisters does Sanguine Descent have? A dozen? Two? Maybe a few hundred? Who cares?! You'll take the whole lot! More toys! More toys for you and Mia and your precious love, Kaina~!

"…" Your wicked, cruel smile dims as you start to think about Kaina again. That cool, golden-haired girl who would undoubtedly look at you disapprovingly because you're starting to act like a Bad Girl again. That's right, Kaina wouldn't approve of what you're thinking about, wouldn't she?

… Kaina would probably get super mad. And come to think of it, you did promise Kaina that you would, ugh, make an effort to be nicer. And you suppose bullying Sanguine Descent the way you just did isn't nice, and making plans to bully her sisters as well isn't very nice.

… And cheating by installing all sorts of masochistic urges into her brain so she gets off on being treated like garbage would probably be frowned upon, too, huh?

Gosh, being good is so irritating. Tch. How annoying. You find yourself well and truly pouting now as you step away from Sanguine Descent, letting the poor girl breathe momentarily as you study her with new eyes.

"Haaaah," you sigh, sheathing your claws. "… You're lucky, you know?"

"…" Sanguine Descent's eyes jitter as she looks at you, then at your hands, then off into the distance to try to figure out how she can escape. "… Lucky?"

"Yes, you're lucky that my wife – uh, girlfriend… Never mind," you exhale. Yeah, this will take some getting used to. You remember what being Good was like, but you didn't think you'd have to restrain yourself this much. Gosh, this cute girl's right here too, practically begging for you to carry her off and molest her mind into mush!

Except you can't do that because you made a promise to Kaina. And you promised you'd try to be Good. And Alice Takanashi doesn't break her promises, especially not the promises she makes to women she loves.

You pout, puffing out your cheeks, grumbling to yourself under your breath. Sanguine Descent looks on in confusion as you shift on a dime from acting menacingly to acting like a huffy child. It's not fair! Even that look of confusion's cute and dopey, and now you're wondering if she'd make that same face if you started teasing her -

Bah. Bah!

"Alright, how about this. I'll let you go, for now. I won't even touch a single hair on your body unless you ask me to."

Hope begins to glimmer in Sanguine Descent's eyes, and you squash down the urge to bully her some more. Ugh, but it'd be so easy to get her to fall into the pits of despair until she's left with no choice but to become yours…

Kaina better give you a lot of loving to make up for this disappointing evening. Hmph. Hmph!

"But," you stress. "You'll work for me. You tell me what the rest of your cute little team's planning. I want to know what they're doing at all times. I want to know when they go out to eat, when they need to have an idol meeting, I want to know what each of them drinks in the evening."

"…" Sanguine Descent starts nodding, rocking her head up and down like a Daruma doll. "… Yes."

"Good. If you're a good girl, I'll pay you from Mendesdyn's coffers once I'm through murdering each and every one of their executives," you promise. "I'll even throw in a few gifts of my own, if you want."

It's not like you care about money, and that amount's probably a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. Why, goodness, you care so little you won't even backstab her while handing out her reward. Not that you'd backstab another Magical Girl unless they seriously have it coming. You're a monster, but you pride yourself on being a fair and reasonable monster towards other fair, reasonable monsters.

Naturally, it's a whole other ballgame when you're dealing with someone who's duplicitous. Oh, what fun you've had in the past, rending apart arrogant upstarts who thought they could cheat you, breaking their minds and bodies, hollowing out their brains with tentacles and pleasure and turning them into your slavishly adoring pets. Hmm~! A part of you almost wants Sanguine Descent to renege on the deal you're making with her, so you have an excuse to 'self-defense' her into compliance...

"… Thank you for your generosity, lady Alice – Goddess – I mean -" Sanguine Descent babbles, and you wave her off impatiently.

"Oh stop that, I already told you, we don't do that here," you tell her crossly. "Now pay attention, because this next part's important. If you so much as look in Infinity Princess' direction, or Maxine Steele's, or any of the other Magical Girls in this city, our deal's off and I'm coming for you personally."

Sanguine Descent gulps and that malicious smile stretches across your face again. You sniff, taking in the scent of her unbridled fear and nervousness. Ah, fear. Wonderful, glorious fear. You do prefer to be loved, but it's nice to make a cute girl pee her panties from time to time…

"And, of course, not a word of this to anyone else. I do detest rats, and if I smell a whiff of betrayal in your scent the next time I see you, well…" Your cruel, empty smirk widens. "You remember what I did to your progenitor? I'll inflict a fate a thousand times worse on you and the rest of your silly little sisters, and I won't even give you the mercy of dying, oh no..."

"…" Sanguine Descent trembles as you reach out to pat her on the shoulder. She flinches upon feeling your touch, only for you to roll your eyes and affect a sunnier, goofier expression.

"Oh cheer up, things won't come to that as long as you're a good girl and you behave," you coo. "Capische?"

Sanguine Descent nods jerkily, and you pull away, wings flapping out to lift you into the air.

Hmm, hmm~! You're making great progress on this 'being good' thing! You didn't even give into the temptation to molest Sanguine Descent, even though she's so adorably molestable!

Hee. Kaina'll be so proud of you. Definitely!

"Well, I'm off then!" You cheer. "I'll see you around. Later!"

And just like that, you leave—though not without dispersing some additional safeguards of your own as you fly off into the sunset. Microorganisms are wonderful things. Bacteria, in particular, are ever-so-versatile, and this particular concoction of yours is a particularly useful tool for keeping tabs on your targets without their notice. All this bacterium you've engineered, secreting a harmless chemical in the presence of mana detectable with the right sense of smell?

Well. You said you'd sniff her out if she turned out to be a rat, and you were being literal there.

You let out a weary sigh as you fly back to your penthouse, taking a circuitous route across the city out of sheer force of habit. You don't want anyone to figure out where you live, after all! Part of the reason you've survived for so long is because you were able to slip under the radar.

That skill set is becoming increasingly important, mostly because things are shaking up in the city.

There's a USNA aircraft carrier in port, along with its attendant escort. The USS Benjamin Franklin, a modern supercarrier, a towering behemoth of neo-steel that dwarfs everything else in the harbor, laden with planes and toy soldiers and enough ordinance to level the entire city ten times over. It's not the carrier that's got you jittery, though. It's what's on the carrier.

Or rather, who's on the carrier.

There are new Magical Girls in town. Called in to help stabilize the city, called in to help fight against the supernatural nasties that've decided to take advantage of the chaos in the city. Demons and eldritch entities and monsters and who knows what else. Maxine Steele called for reinforcements, and they've finally arrived after a week to clean up the political powderkeg you've set off by dint of your mere presence.

And the fact that you've been interfering with Mendesdyn Security's dastardly plots.

Which means, more than ever, now's the time to lie low and wait for the passing storm to subside while the powers that be flex their might. Patience is a virtue, and it's one of the few that you've decided to keep instead of throwing away. There's nothing to be gained by acting in the coming weeks, and there's oh so much you could lose if you're not careful...

… Still. You should still have time enough for one or two more special events with your loves, before you're forced back into the shadows to while away your days. Maybe time enough to pay a visit to the first girl you decided to conquer when you first arrived in this squalid hive…

Or rather, it'd be more enjoyable to have Mia Cabalis visit you. You do have so many fun activities planned for her, oh yes you do...