F-Rank Puppeteer!! But I'll be Queen, and I'm not a narcissist!!!!!

Chapter 336: Back Home

"...So this is it." I’m on the last step of the children’s game and I can see Eve from here and my body waiting. Eve, who is also playing the game, sees me and gives me a big smile. Her smile is so genuine it makes me feel bad for not giving this incredible girl the value she deserves.

"Time to use my skill." Just one jump left. I just need to jump one more "little square" and I’ll return to my world. But if I do that now without creating the marionette, it’ll cause problems, so I need to do both at the same time: create the marionette and return to my world.

"Let’s see if this works... [Final Act: Maximum Release]." I start using the skill, feeling my vitality being drained at an absurd rate. It’s far more vitality than any other marionette has ever drained from me.

The number just climbs, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 60%, 70%, 90%, 95%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.99%, and it finally stops before draining 100% of my vitality. My whole body feels heavy, like I’m about to die.

"U-Urgh..." With great effort, I leap to the last step, nearly falling as a "door" opens, throwing me out along with a sphere of pure vitality. Shizuka’s soul, which was with me, merges with the sphere of pure vitality.

This is also the first marionette where the only material used is just my vitality. I didn’t know it would practically drain all my vitality. I’ll need a few days to recover from this.

"Evelyn-sama, are you alright?!" Eve runs over to me, helping me up while I feel a bit strange about returning to a physical body. I look at the sphere that has started to take shape. Eve also looks at the new marionette being born while I see some "purple stains" covering the soul. They are the curses Esther helped me place on her. Exactly 6 curses.

[Curse of Pleasure: Needs to constantly feel pleasure. Every 1 hour without feeling any form of pleasure, a counter appears, and this counter increases by 10 every hour after it starts. If the counter reaches 1000, she will feel an extremely high and uncontrollable lust that causes physical pain.]

[Curse of Blood: If she injures her master, her organs will explode, her blood will boil, and her mind will begin to "bleed," slowly consuming her memories, which will drain away along with the blood.]

[Curse of Games: Needs to play children’s games once a week. A way to maintain constant mental stability. Without playing at least 1 game per week, she will feel as if her brain is melting, stagnating, and her average intelligence will start to drop rapidly, but it can be recovered if she plays a game.]

[Curse of Conflict: If she fights with her master, whether verbally or physically, her entire body will implode from the inside out, turning her body into an empty outer shell while her interior is destroyed in a completely perceptible and slow way from within, organ by organ, piece by piece.]

[Curse of Restriction: If she betrays her master, all her limbs, both physical and spiritual, will gain shackles that will restrain them until her master allows her freedom. If he does not allow it, she will remain trapped forever in the same position and place she was in when she betrayed her master.]

[Curse of Link: Her master knows exactly her location, she knows exactly her master’s location, and it is impossible for her to move further than the distance of a planet from her master. If she does, she will be automatically teleported back.]

"!!!" As Shizuka’s body begins to form, I gain a small mental "list" of the skills she has. Shizuka only has 3 skills, and it seems her power is locked to that. It means she will never awaken more permanent skills even if she gets stronger, but the 3 are very powerful.

God’s Toy = Upon using this skill, the user creates a spiritual roulette that allows for infinite combinations. Through luck, the user can temporarily gain any skill that exists, but with a maximum of 5 skills at the same time, although it is possible to discard a skill before its time limit expires, thus allowing the roulette to be spun again.

Contamination = Allows causing damage that generates viral, bacterial, or parasitic diseases, infections, or plagues within targets that have been hit by her nails. However, it only works exclusively on wounds made by her nails.

Game Mode = Upon activating [Game Mode] for 42 minutes and 42 seconds, the user effectively becomes the natural Counter of the enemy in front of them. Thus, the user gains temporary skills that are effective against the enemy, not guaranteeing a victory, but guaranteeing a natural advantage over the target.

’What absurd powers... they are all extremely strong and effective... no wonder she’s my strongest marionette.’ Shizuka isn’t invincible, but it’s indeed a frightening level of power.

Even the Hikishin I feel coming from her is extremely high, much higher than Eve’s. Shizuka seems to have almost 5 times the level of Hikishin as Esther, and although Esther will become stronger in a few years, it’s still an absurd level.

"I-It worked!!" Shizuka’s body takes shape, and as expected, it’s a humanoid because of the soul that forced a suitable body. She is obviously naked because she was just created and doesn’t come with clothes naturally.

Now Shizuka has changed a lot. She became a short girl of only 150 centimeters, with long black hair and eyes with pearly white pupils similar to my eyes.

She has slightly reddish skin, pointy ears, and a long, serpentine tail of black color with scales. She has slitted pupils and a tongue like a serpent.

Having small breasts, a slightly thin but healthy physique, and a little below the navel on her lower belly, she has a circular tattoo joined to various characteristic strokes, as if representing an egg and spermatozoa, which somehow looks very obscene on her body.

’The Devil...’ Her appearance reminds me of the basic description of what the "Devil" would be. The only thing missing is horns. Perhaps because Shizuka saw me as the devil, and herself as a being who committed "religious sins" in her very conception, her appearance ended up reflecting a serpentine demon.

Obviously, I’ve never seen any demon with her appearance, so Shizuka is unique, and she is actually quite cute and adorable.

"Shizuka, what do you think? Is that you in there? Can you hear me?" I ask her, a little nervous that something might have gone wrong.

"It’s... yes, it’s me..." She looks at herself with strangeness, and when she tries to walk, she ends up falling because her body is now very different.

"..." She lies fallen on the floor, trying to move while I smile. It worked!! It worked 100%, of course it did! I’m amazing! And someone amazing like me would obviously plan everything with absolute perfection!! I didn’t learn so much from Esther for nothing.

"Eve, take care of Shizuka, I... wait, where are we?" I ask Eve, looking around. Eve gives a strange look at the place before looking at me.

"It’s been almost 2 years since you left, Evelyn-sama... besides, apparently Esther ’froze’ your other body so that you would be here when the baby was born so... yeah... the war is already well underway. We’ve advanced a lot on the angelic continent and no one even imagines you were gone." When Eve says that, I’m in shock.

’B-But I barely spent 4 months...’ It seems the time was quite different from what I expected, but two years isn’t a bad time. It would be bad if it had been 4 years. Ironically, since almost two years have passed, the current time of this world is almost the same time when the global war and the global genocide were happening in the game.

’...’ I feel happy to see that I managed to make Esther give up on the genocide. It’s proof that I can end the global war without needing everyone to be exterminated.

"Okay! I’m going to contact Esther. Take care of Shizuka, explain everything to her, and help her adjust. I really need to see Esther, or she’ll be furious with me... and Eve..."

"...I know, Evelyn-sama... I’ll take good care of her and handle what’s left. Don’t worry about it." I look at Eve. She seems so much more... mature. When did she change like this? She also seems so much stronger. And since almost 2 years have passed, Esther must be absurdly powerful now, and worse, absolutely possessive from not seeing me for so long.

’Haa... I need to go see her...’ Strangely, my heart is racing with a terrible fear. Because I told Esther it would take a maximum of 1 year, and that I would take care of everything with her, but much more than 1 year has passed, and I didn’t take care of everything I promised.

"E-Evelyn, w-whhat do I dowww?" Shizuka, face down on the floor, asks with a voice that sounds adorable as she stumbles over her words, like, absurdly adorable, but kind of desperate because she can’t get up.

"Just adjust to the new body. I’m not going to send you to fight when you don’t even know how to walk. Eve will teach you everything. Just take it easy." It’s a body with zero physical experience, of course she’s having difficulties.

"Alright, Eve, I’m going." I pick up the communicator to talk to Esther, because I really can’t connect to my body that is pregnant, showing that something happened to it.

"Esther, I’m back and—" I try to speak to her quickly, but I’m interrupted.

"Come back now. I won’t accept any discussion."

"...B-But the war—"

"..." The silence on the other end of the line is somehow more uncomfortable than if she had interrupted me.

"I-I’m on my way... c-could you w-wake up my other body?"

"...Wait one hour. That’s the time to disable the relic. As soon as it’s disabled, I want you here. Not even 1 second late." Her voice is icy and sharp, making me swallow hard.

"O-Of course... I-I’ll get there quickly..." I look at Eve, who seems tense, and at Shizuka, who turned her face on the ground and is looking at me confused, since she has never seen my more cowardly side that Esther always makes me show.

Soon, Eve starts carrying Shizuka’s body somewhere while I crouch down on the floor, fearful of what Esther’s state of mind must be like considering her madness and her Ghoul instincts.