The Patty Torina remembered when she first joined the team was a sweet, cute girl who sometimes played a little coy.
But the Patty in front of her now was a monster with cold eyes, a fake smile, and a killer’s heart.
Yet this monster didn’t seem quite the same as the yandere she remembered…
“Uh, heh heh heh.”
Torina tried to put on a goofy grin.
Seeing her silly smile, Patty smiled too.
Her brows relaxed a little, and the corners of her mouth lifted slightly.
“Boo hoo, I’m so sad…” Torina squeezed out a few tears.
When she started crying, Patty’s just-relaxed brows immediately furrowed again, and her mouth turned down.
(So if I laugh, she laughs, and if I cry, she gets anxious?)
“Stop making those weird faces.
Want me to stab you?” Patty flicked her forehead, annoyed, and waved her dagger in front of her eyes.
Torina—
“…Do you want to hear about my love life?”
“Tell me!!” Patty’s expression instantly turned deadly serious.
“Uh, you’re a little too eager…”
“If you don’t, I’ll break every one of your fingers—”
“The bones?”
“—I’ll pry off your nails first, then rip off the hangnails one by one!”
“That’s terrifying!!!”
“So hurry up and talk!”
“I-I’ve had a lot of admirers since I was a kid, and after I left home for school, even more people chased after me.
Most were guys, some were girls…”
“And? Did you party with them every day?”
“No, I swear I’ve never dated anyone, let alone done that kind of thing.”
“Oh? How am I supposed to believe you? Show me some proof.”
“Wha—!?”
Patty suddenly lifted Torina’s skirt, her eyes turning blood red, staring inside like she had x-ray vision—
“…Yeah, you really are a virgin.
You weren’t lying.”
“W-what were you just looking at? Don’t just do that out of nowhere!! T-that’s the first time anyone’s ever looked at me like that!!”
“I watch you every night, you know.
I stare at your face all night long.”
“…You stare at me all night?”
“Because your sleeping face calms me down.
It’s good for my mental health.”
“…Don’t you not like me?”
“Because you don’t have any qualities worth liking.”
“Who stares at someone’s sleeping face all night if they don’t like them…”
“Candy tastes good, so I eat candy.
Exercise is healthy, so I exercise.
Your sleeping face makes me happy, so I look at it.
What’s the essential difference between those three?”
“Even if you put it that way…”
“It’s not just your sleeping face.
I pay attention to everything you do.
I’ve been collecting all sorts of details about your life just to see you more clearly.”
Patty pulled out her space-compression backpack and took out some weird stuff.
For example, this was an apple Torina had half-eaten.
This was a pair of shoes Torina had worn a few times and thrown away.
This was Torina’s missing dirty laundry.
This was a used sanitary pad.
This was a sonnet Torina wrote during a chuunibyou episode.
Each item was creepier and heavier than the last.
Torina’s face turned green as she looked.
After a moment, she finally asked the ultimate question:
“…If we really had a kid, what would you do?”
“If it’s blond, I’ll name it Kilimanjaro.
If it’s white-haired, Evelyn.
If it’s black-haired, Conrad Coz.” Patty answered instantly.
“…That was fast.”
“Why hesitate over something I’ve already decided?”
“…Um…Miss Patricia…”
When Torina was happy, she was happy too.
When Torina was sad, she got anxious.
She was obsessed with Torina’s chastity.
She could stare at Torina’s face all night.
She owned a ton of Torina’s personal stuff.
If anyone touched Torina, she wanted to kill them.
The moment Torina mentioned her love life, she got super interested.
She’d betray her own kind just to keep Torina from being handed over.
She’d even picked out names for their kids.
“All these reactions are usually called ‘being in love’… and a pretty extreme kind, too.”
Patty just snorted at that.
“Nonsense.
Don’t insult my intelligence.
How could I possibly like you?”
“…”
Torina was numb.
She realized Patty wasn’t just being tsundere—she genuinely believed this wasn’t love.
She’d read about plenty of yanderes in her past life.
But a yandere who didn’t even realize she was one and tried to deny her feelings? This was a first.
“What’s with that face? It’s really pissing me off.
Looks like you need a lesson.”
Patty dragged a chair over and sat in front of Torina, crossing her legs in tight pants that looked like yoga pants, then took off her obviously sweaty boots and socks, letting her slightly damp feet dangle.
Such beautiful feet.
Skin smooth as cream, toes white as jade, arches curved like a riverside bridge, nails pink and white like pearls from the deep sea.
“What are you doing…?”
“Hmm, what do you think I’m doing?”
She used the top of her left foot to lift Torina’s chin, and rubbed her right toes against Torina’s cheek.
“These shoes made my feet sweat a lot.
Can my cute little puppy help me clean them?”
“I’ll go crazy—”
“Ha, just kidding.
I know you’re into that.
You really think I’d reward you?”
She suddenly pinched Torina’s ears between her nimble toes and twisted hard, making Torina almost cry from the pain.
“You were right about one thing.
Every time I see someone touch you, I get super pissed off.
So pissed I want to kill someone.
How are you going to make it up to me?”
“I, I… ah!?”
Patty suddenly yanked her ears with both feet, pulling her in—Torina’s face slammed right into her crotch, her nose and mouth completely blocked! Before she could struggle from suffocation, Patty clamped her head tight between her thighs!
“Mmm—mmph—mmmmm—”
“How is it? Can’t breathe? Learned your lesson? If you talk nonsense again, this is how I’ll punish you… hey!”
Patty squeezed her thighs even harder, the sudden pressure making Torina pass out, eyes rolling back.
“Hmph.”
Patty let go, and the unconscious Torina collapsed limply to the floor.
Finally, this girl was quiet.
Her soft black hair spread out, her messy clothes clinging to her curves, her closed eyes like a moon behind drifting clouds… If only she didn’t talk, she’d be a graceful, elegant beauty.
Too bad she had a mouth.
“…You’re still cuter like this.”
Patty muttered to herself.
… … … So, what should I do now? Hand Torina over to Oroi? No way.
If Oroi hadn’t pressured them in the first place, she wouldn’t have taken this job at all.
Send Torina back to the adventurer party? That’s not possible either.
What if Torina rats her out after going back? This whole mess can’t be exposed.
She doesn’t want to hand her over, and she can’t send her back, so there’s only one option left.
“Torina, Torina, poor Torina, pitiful Torina, just stay by my side… I’ll go deal with those troublesome people outside, and then… I’ll take you far away, we’ve got plenty of days ahead of us…”
Of course, she’s definitely not doing this because she likes her or loves her or anything like that.
Absolutely not.
Love, family, friendship… all those so-called ‘feelings’ are just lousy lies.
