The movie she went to see with Kujou Katora was a late-night show.
Before stepping into the theater, Su Yuzu first bought some popcorn and spicy chicken wings.
In the game.
Kujou Katora's special golden favorability gift was the pair of tickets for the late-night show, and a significantly lower tier... purple favorability gift was the spicy chicken wings.
Since she had already decided to see a movie with Kujou Katora, Su Yuzu naturally wanted to arrange everything perfectly.
Gazing at the caramel-like sheen on the chicken wings and inhaling the captivating aroma that wafted into her nose.
Gulp—
Kujou Katora unconsciously swallowed.
She simply couldn't understand why everything Su Yuzu prepared for her managed to hit her weak spot so perfectly.
Seeing the girl turn her head as if she'd heard the sound of her swallowing, Kujou Katora, her face cold, felt embarrassed and tried to change the subject.
"Yuz..."
"Yuzu." She always addressed people by their first name.
Normally, it wouldn't be a big deal.
But... in this situation, Kujou Katora actually felt a slight sense of unease in her heart.
"Hm?" Su Yuzu tilted her head and looked at Kujou Katora.
"What... movie are we watching tonight." Her crimson eyes unconsciously fell upon the wingtips. Kujou Katora forced her gaze away, changing the topic.
"I don't know either~" Swinging the wingtip in her hand, she watched the 'big cat's' reaction.
Su Yuzu smilingly pushed the packaged spicy chicken wings into Kujou Katora's hands.
She really didn't know what the movie was.
The movie with Kujou Katora was from a favorability reward she obtained after Kujou Katora's 'Submission'.
"Precious Movie Tickets (for two)".
It should be a movie Kujou Katora would like.
Wait a minute—
Suddenly recalling the other favorability rewards she received along with the movie tickets—a "Sturdy Red Rope" and "Medical Anesthetic"... a bad feeling suddenly surfaced in Su Yuzu's heart.
It couldn't be some kind of strange niche film, could it?
Harboring that sense of unease, Su Yuzu took Kujou Katora to get their tickets checked inside the theater.
The gentle older lady checking the tickets showed a surprised expression when Su Yuzu handed them over. Her brown eyes darted back and forth between Su Yuzu and Kujou Katora before she gave Su Yuzu a 'you can do it' gesture.
A series of question marks suddenly popped up over Su Yuzu's head.
???
Then... when the movie started and she saw the large 'R16' symbol, even more question marks appeared over her head.
?????
Because of the advent of Catastrophe Beasts.
To encourage childbirth, people in this world could generally get married at eighteen.
So... an 'R16' rating was already a significant restriction.
The movie's title was The Flowers of Evil.
It told a story from a hundred years ago.
In the world of that era, a large part of the Atlantic Ocean had crystallized into Catastrophe, becoming the territory of Catastrophe Beasts and Aberrants.
And the protagonists of the story... were the legend from a century ago, the Seventh Sequence Esper "Seat of Evil", and her lover.
Mm—
Her.
Based on the idea that adaptation isn't just fabrication, and dramatization isn't just nonsense.
the movie's director boldly depicted the "Seat of Evil", whose face was always hidden behind heavy armor, as a petite, silver-haired, red-eyed loli.
The originally tragic story of a knight and princess instantly became... forbidden.
Su Yuzu suddenly seemed to understand what the gentle older lady's 'you can do it' gesture at the ticket counter had really meant.
She stiffly glanced around.
The theater was empty; aside from herself and Kujou Katora, there wasn't a single other person.
These "Precious Movie Tickets (for two)" were for a private screening.
Su Yuzu clutched the popcorn bag tightly.
She even felt a little nervous.
With Kujou Katora's strength... if things got heated and she decided to forcibly unlock her CG, there was really no way to resist.
She could only accept it with a mix of pain and pleasure.
Fortunately, though... although it was an 'R16' movie.
the entire film was more arthouse in style.
The most explicit scene was in the final chapter.
The "Seat of Evil" was on the verge of falling into the abyss of Aberration.
Her sobbing lover stripped off her wedding dress and, completely naked, slipped inside the "Seat of Evil"'s armor, holding that slender body tightly in her arms.
Then—
the heavy armor carried them both down into the endless, pitch-black depths of the sea.
[Ding—]
[Movie Watched: Kujou Katora Favorability +1.]
[Favorability Increase Reward Obtained: Thorned Whip.]
[...]
After the movie, Su Yuzu felt that even the popcorn in her hands had lost its flavor.
She didn't like tragedies.
She liked endings where everyone could smile.
The girl looked to her side.
Kujou Katora's crimson eyes were fixed on the screen, a complex look in their depths.
"Kujou-senpai?" Su Yuzu called out softly to Kujou Katora.
Kujou Katora blinked and looked at Su Yuzu.
Seeing Kujou Katora's complicated expression, Su Yuzu asked, "Kujou-senpai... what are you thinking?"
"If the 'Seat of Evil' had already fallen into the abyss of the 'Aberrants' and become one of them," Kujou Katora said with a frown.
"then she would have killed her lover without a moment's hesitation."
"She would be lurking at the bottom of the ocean, waiting for the right moment to strike."
"At that point... she would become humanity's greatest threat."
Hearing Kujou Katora's words, Su Yuzu almost couldn't keep a straight face.
As expected of Kujou Katora. Her perspective was always so bizarrely unique. "It's just a movie."
"How could the Seventh Sequence Esper, 'Seat of Evil', be that kind of weak, silver-haired loli?"
"Besides..."
"didn't the 'Seat of Evil's' lover possess the 'rule-type ability' 'Erasure', which could nullify any anomaly?"
"Although the movie was a tragedy."
"But in the end... the 'Seat of Evil' and her lover should have been buried at the bottom of the sea forever."
Su Yuzu gently took Kujou Katora's hand.
She knew.
Kujou Katora's seething hatred for Aberrants... it was all because of her older sister, Kujou Iruka.
The shadow that loomed over the land.
The ever-smiling empress of the abyss.
It was because of Kujou Iruka that Kujou Katora believed...
that if the "Seat of Evil" were to fall, she would kill her own lover without hesitation.
She squeezed Kujou Katora's hand.
But... were the "Seat of Evil" and his lover really buried at the bottom of the sea together?
Su Yuzu suddenly felt a little uncertain herself.
In the game... after raiding the world boss Kujou Iruka.
the name of the next expansion was clearly... Sunken Throne.
The silhouette of a figure standing alone on a steel throne, its dark golden, vertical pupils gazing coldly upward.
It wasn't until they had walked out of the theater.
that Kujou Katora realized she was still holding Su Yuzu's hand.
But... she glanced sideways at Su Yuzu, who seemed completely oblivious, still walking ahead on her own and even turning back blankly to give her hand a little tug.
Kujou Katora pressed her lips together and kept pace with Su Yuzu.
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At the entrance to the Assault Department's female dormitory.
A girl with deathly pale lips was hugging her knees, squatting on the steps and shivering from the cold.
She had been waiting since morning, and now it was late at night... yet Su Yuzu hadn't returned.
But... she didn't dare defy her father's order.
Grievance and anger built up in her heart, and the bitter bud of a flower of evil began to brew.
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