Chapter 642: Grimm’s Bizarre Behavior and the Approaching Battle
"...Pandora, I’m so glad you came." Azraelith grabs my hand and pulls me along. She showed up out of nowhere at my castle and teleported me to Mom’s castle on the moon. It happened so suddenly that I can’t help but wonder what’s going on.
"Pandora, you seem so weak right now," she says without stopping, still pulling me.
"I know. It’s an avatar. Don’t worry, I’m going to give you an avatar too!" Azraelith looks at me with confusion but ignores it, dragging me toward some underground chamber in Mom’s castle.
Soon we arrive at a room where only Mom is, and there’s some kind of extremely advanced magical screen displaying an image of a giant beam of light cutting through the universe.
"Mom, is something wrong?" I ask her. She glances at me briefly before turning her attention back to the screen without saying a word.
"Pandora, I’ll explain. Mom is busy trying to pinpoint the direction. That beam on the screen is a release of Mana so massive it cuts across the entire universe from one end to the other, shooting out of it."
"We don’t know the location, but based on the magic, we’ve deduced it’s Elysia. Mom said that’s probably where we’ll be fighting. We’re trying to figure out its position, but since it’s a dimension outside the universe, it’s been practically impossible to find."
"On top of that, judging by the magic being emitted, not even Mom could break through it. And I can confirm that since I was sealed away in another dimension, and its resistance was beyond anything you’d expect from something created manually."
’Elysia has [Essence of Creation] just like me, doesn’t she?...’ It’s an incredibly powerful skill. I created my own universe using it, so I understand perfectly well that you can do amazing things with it.
"If that dimension is releasing that much magic, that means..."
"Elysia is going to pull us into battle soon. Probably in a similar way to how Aradia pulls the goddesses into meetings," Azraelith answers before I can finish, though I’d already figured as much because of Grimm’s warning that I should be ready.
"I guess I should wake up my real body then. Thanks for the heads-up—"
"Pandora, I doubt we’ll be near each other, so we’ll use the system to find one another in that other dimension. You remember our connection, right?" Mom speaks up, cutting me off. Her tone is dead serious.
"Yes! I remember." The connection we made so I could pull her out of the abyss. It’s more of a curse, but we can use it to find each other.
"Good." She gives me a nod, dismissing me. It seems like they just wanted to show me this.
’Another dimension, huh... Judging by the energy release, it looks like it was designed to absorb ambient Mana and disperse it outside the dimension...’ Kind of like certain stellar phenomena.
"Pandora, what did you mean earlier about an avatar?" Azraelith asks as the two of us leave the room. She knows a bit about my plan with avatars, but she doesn’t know everything.
’How to stop Elysia...’ I look at Azraelith, completely unaware of my thoughts, which are pretty dark regarding the future.
"I’m going to give you an avatar so you can do whatever you want with it. But before that... big sis, how about you get me pregnant?"
"...? Didn’t you say it would only be after the battle against the goddesses?"
"I don’t want to give birth. I just want to have the baby inside my womb in the early stage of formation during the fight."
"...You’re a strange girl. Wouldn’t fighting while pregnant be a bad idea?"
"Oh hahahaha, as if that would hold me back. Besides, since it’ll be in the initial stage of formation, even if I take hits to the belly, it won’t cause any problems. My body will handle it!"
"Hmmm... alright. But I thought you’d want to put a child in me, not the other way around." She doesn’t understand what I want with this and seems pretty confused.
"Hehehe, you wouldn’t get it. And I don’t even want you to get it, so I’ll refrain from saying too much. Just think of it as your weird little sister acting equally weird."
"Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be waking up my real body." I begin to "awaken" in my actual body.
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"Grimm, here are the last images you asked for!" A clone hands them to me as I smile. Such cute pictures I managed to get of Pandora, especially one that’s very "interesting."
"Great! Now, Pandora, let’s play—" I look at Pandora’s body, and suddenly her eyes snap open. For a moment, I freeze. All the clones freeze. We just stare at Pandora.
"...?" Pandora gets up from the floor, her legs shaking. She looks around, and her face twists into a grimace of disgust.
"What the fuck were you doing... b-blergh." She spits my semen onto the floor while looking at her own body, all filthy, stained, and covered in somewhat insulting scribbles.
"H-Hehehe, P-Pandora, good to see you... y-you woke up early, huh? I thought... I thought it would take another week..."
’Oh shit! Pandora woke up way earlier than I expected!’
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY BODY?!" She grabs me by the neck while using some kind of magic to completely clean her body and deflate her belly. What a shame. She looked so adorable filled with my essence.
"I-I don’t know what you’re talking about..."
"I can feel something weird! There’s something seriously wrong with my blood! Tell me right now what the fuck you put in my blood!" She looks furious. I get it. I’d be furious too.
"N-Nothing... just wait a little... in a week it should be gone."
"A week?! A WEEK?! There’s something bizarre in my blood that isn’t being eliminated! I didn’t let you mess around that much! You should know that!"
’Mess around? She thinks I modified her?’
"Oh no! No, no! Pandora, I didn’t modify your body or your blood. It’s just that this ’weird thing’ was injected into you, but it’s not a danger or anything... please, trust me! I really can’t say what it is!"
’If I tell her, she’ll kill me!’ I look into the future, my future, and all I see is Pandora killing me when I tell her what it is. She will REALLY kill me. It’s not a joke. She’s not trustworthy. The moment she finds out what it really is, she’ll butcher my body.
"Tell me!"
"I-I swear it’s nothing serious! I swear on my soul! Soon it’ll be eliminated naturally by your body! P-Please, just trust me! I’m your wife. I would never harm you!"
"...I can trust you... but in exchange, I want a room that slows down time by up to fifty times... so that one day outside is fifty days inside!" She offers a trade.
"O-Of course! I’ll do that for you! Obviously, like I said!"
"Grimm, wouldn’t it be better—" I destroy the head of the clone who almost said too much. I dismiss all the other clones so that no one besides me knows what happened here.
"...I know you did something disturbing to my body. I know it perfectly well. It’s obvious. You’d better take advantage of the fact that I’m being merciful. There won’t be another time. If I weren’t so busy, I’d investigate. Lucky you."
"Yes... I know." She’s leaving anyway.
’Haa... I think I crossed the line... I should have been more careful...’ Good thing she’s unable to detect what it is because it mixed into her blood. Besides, it’s not entirely my fault!
I wanted to run a test! While she was in suspended animation, I noticed that Pandora’s heart was practically stopped, but it was still pumping magic through her veins.
So I realized that Pandora’s body could biologically modify itself if the right magical signal was applied. So I tested it, and it worked. I just might have gone a little too far with one of the tests.
’O-Oh no! The photo!’ I look at the photo I dropped on the floor when Pandora grabbed me. A very clear image of what I did. Quickly, I step on it before Pandora notices.
"Look, Grimm, let’s keep this brief. I’ll be busy with my sister. I need a baby from her before the fight starts. You said it’s going to start soon, so I’m guessing a month at most."
"That’s all the time I have, so let’s just get on with it. Create a dimension. It can be small. I don’t want to waste my magic creating an entire dimension, so it’s better to ask you."
"Right away!" To get her out of here as fast as possible, I spend 90% of my magic creating a dimensional sphere. I compress it down to the size of an apple and create something very simple inside, focused solely on having time pass much slower.
"Here you go, hahaha... you can go now." I look down. The photo is barely hidden. Pandora doesn’t seem to have noticed. It makes my heart race. The thing that will make her kill me is just inches away from us.
"..." She stares at me, still with immense suspicion, but fortunately, she takes the sphere and teleports away. I immediately collapse to my knees, the tension and the weight of death vanishing all at once.
"Haaa... hahahahaha, that was insane... she really was going to kill me... thank goodness I got to enjoy it..." Since I’ll probably never see Pandora’s true body again, I’m safe.
"Hmmm... good thing she didn’t notice." I get excited just thinking about what now flows through Pandora’s veins. Even if it’s temporary, even if it only lasts a week, Pandora and I became one at the most fundamental level possible.
"Good thing Pandora regenerates fast... damn, I really am a depraved slut..." As strange as it is to admit, it was incredibly pleasurable to fuck Pandora’s heart.
"So warm and wet... that sweet, pulsing flesh... haaa..." I’d never tried something so new before, though it’s something I never want to repeat in my life.
"At least my semen is full of magic, so Pandora’s body chose to absorb it instead of rejecting it..." Just thinking about my semen traveling through Pandora’s veins makes me euphoric.
This was as much my personal depravity talking as it was my way of helping her, giving Pandora’s body a lot of magic to boost her regenerative power.
I drew a transmutation circle on Pandora’s heart and gave her a higher regenerative factor by sacrificing part of my own regeneration. So even though it was largely my depravity speaking up, my love was given to her too.
"I still can’t believe it worked." I fall to the floor, picking up the photo that shows me surgically opening her chest and using my nail to carve a magic circle into her flesh.
"I hope my regeneration helps you, Pandora... it’s all I can do for you... and I’m sorry for being such a filthy slut..." I couldn’t help myself, even though initially I only wanted to help.
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"Pandora, is something wrong?" Azraelith asks as I reappear with my real body in front of her, already wearing my divine weapon as a dress. I glance at my avatar standing beside her.
"Nothing, Azraelith... I just feel weird. That slut of a wife of mine put something strange in my veins. But it doesn’t matter. Look, I got a dimension where you can get me pregnant. And don’t worry! I have a plan!" I have plans for this baby, so I don’t have time to waste thinking about what Grimm did.
This baby will be the key to permanently defeating Elysia, in a way that will make Elysia regret ever being born.
Sniff, sniff.
"Pandora, you smell strange," Azraelith says, taking my hand and leaning in closer. She sniffs right above my veins.
"Yes, I know." It’s something weird and full of magic moving through my body. Since it has so much magic, my body absorbed it and is still absorbing it, so I have no idea what it is, since it’s fused with my blood.
"Just forget about it! Let’s go. Time is running out..." I’ll probably never see Delphina, Grimm, Zephyra, or my real daughters again. I’ll leave my avatars with them and set off on my own journey if I survive.
’Grimm has always been a sick person, so I’d rather not think about what she did. Either way, I feel great.’ My regeneration seems to have increased a lot. I even gained a new skill.
Primordial Regeneration Factor - Allows the user to regenerate using blood as a base, being able to drastically increase their regeneration through magic, starting it from drops of blood.
With this passive, regenerating will be much easier, and I’ll spend way less of my body’s energy! Something truly perfect.
"Then let’s go, Pandora!" Azraelith takes my hand as we enter the dimension Grimm created.
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Author’s Note from Galaxy
Hey there, readers! Yes, I know full well that what Grimm did was... disturbing in many ways! But Grimm has been bizarre since the very start of this story, and in any case, this work has always dealt with the grotesque and the disturbing. That’s one of the elements that made this story interesting for so many of you!
Also, I want to make it clear where the inspiration for what Grimm did came from... and it came from... MOSQUITOES (Also from a worm that lodges itself and lives inside blood vessels)! Specifically, mosquitoes insert their proboscis directly into blood vessels and inject saliva with chemical substances.
Grimm has always been portrayed as one of the most disturbing beings when it comes to fetishes, hobbies, and interests. So even as she tried to help Pandora by giving her something, she also took advantage of it to try something new.
And as has already been explained, Pandora’s blood is "alive" and attacks and devours anything considered an invader. Grimm’s "essence" only avoided that because it contains A LOT of magic and is a liquid, so Pandora’s body absorbed it just like it would absorb ambient Mana.
In other words, the reason Grimm did this twisted thing was as a way to show her love and become "one" with Pandora. It’s essentially the evolution (a more extreme one) of Yanderes putting their fluids into food (and yes, Grimm is a Yandere, she’s just not the jealous type who kills other partners).
So I came here to give you all a heads-up about that, and mainly that the battle against the goddesses will be starting soon. And obviously, during it, I won’t be cutting away to other perspectives unnecessarily.
That said, there will be no sexual content, no perspective from Pandora’s daughters or characters on the planet, and the focus will primarily be on Pandora, Azraelith, Echidna, and the other goddesses! So the focus will be 100% on the battle.
And yes, Pandora’s pregnancy is part of her plan! I wonder if you all can figure out what Pandora’s plan is with this baby? I just wanted to give you that heads-up, after all, this battle will kind of be the final battle of the work and will be relatively long.
I hope you’re all enjoying the story so far. And despite there being quite a lot of sexual content in the recent arc, the battle really will be a battle! And we’ll get to see Pandora at her peak against the goddesses!
I’ll try to make this battle even more frenetic, chaotic, and interesting than the battle against the heroes! Have a good read, and I’ll see you all in the next Chapter OwO.
