Late at night that same day, Ray was sleeping on the roof after his wifey got angry because he couldn't keep an eye on Jack and caused a big chaos that caused the Dungeon to be sealed while Loli Familia was on a wild goose chase to find this mysterious monster.
Of course, his wifey also ordered him to fix the mess or else.
Or else what? What is she gonna do? Beat him? No. Not really. Instead, she threatened that she will no longer be going to dress up in cosplay he likes and do kinky roleplay anymore.
Yeah, no. No way he wants that to happen. So, in order to appease Kuroka's anger, he is going to fix the mess Jack made. But instead of doing it himself. He had an even better way to do it which was to kill two birds with one stone.
After placing an illusion ward around the roof, Ray's Shadow opened up and spat out Pandora who looked confused and terrified.
"Whe—" Pandora looks around her in confusion and panic.
Pandora remembers being imprisoned inside a void where even time grinds to an indefinite halt, unable to sense the passage of time. A realm of nothingness devoid of any stimulus.
Then she was suddenly liberated from her hellishly prison. She can finally hear sound, smell the scent around her, to touch the rough tiles underneath her and to see the false avatar of her captor. The deceivingly cute and harmless cat which is hiding a terrifying being that shatters her mind with the unspeakable and indescribable knowledge the moment she laid her eyes briefly on the shadow of her true form inside the void.
Naturally, her first choice of action was to scream on top of her lungs in terror before trying to end her life with the quickest way possible as her surprisingly fragile mind for a centuries old witch, succumbed to madness induced by the forbidden knowledge of the Eldritch Truth.
"Haah… stop trying to kill yourself and scream. It's annoying." Ray summons his tentacles which swiftly shoot out from the Shadows and restrains Pandora in quite the kinky way, especially with how a thick and girthy tentacle shoves itself into Pandora's mouth to gag her from screaming incoherently.
"Ayo. Bro. I swear it's not me. It's the Author fault. Don't look at me like that." Ray said as he felt offended after being wrongly blamed.
Anyway, after fixing Pandora's mind. She calmed down enough but still very terrified of him enough to show some restraint.
"W-What do you want from me? To keep me as a trophy? To humiliate me? I'm just a weak and powerless girl right now. Just kill me already" Pandora said calmly despite her fear and wondered why Ray spared her and even fixed her mind.
She is terrified of what is in store for her future after knowing the true nature of Ray. That is why she would rather die than become his plaything.
"Trophy? Maybe. I want to turn you into my masterpiece after all. However, it's a waste to turn you into a normal puppet. That Witch Factor has turned your body into a perfect vessel after all." Ray walked closer to Pandora as she crawled back further until she reached the edge of the roof.
Pandora turned around and looked over the ledge and saw quite the height between the roof and the ground. With her current powerless body, if she falls from the roof, it's a guaranteed death from the fall. She gulped and prepared herself to jump, expecting him to interrupt but only to see him watching as she plunged down from height before her head smashed against the cobbles ground.
Surprisingly, Pandora opened her eyes, expecting she had died but only to find herself back on the roof with Ray sitting on her side and waiting as if to let her be satisfied with her foolish attempts.
It is a familiar scene for herself. The familiar scene where she used her Authority of Vanity to warp reality and Ray did just that to deny her death. It felt like an irony, to be toyed just like her past victim with the same power she once had. So, she laughed and laughed and laughed until she felt tired or insane. Whichever was first.
"Do what you want with me. Not like I could resist at all. To be your trophy, puppet, whatever it is that you want. After all, it's useless to resist." She had fallen into despair and simply wished that she could end all this quickly and as painlessly as possible.
"Well, I thought someone as strong willed as you would last a little longer. But it seems I was wrong." Ray broke his silence and willed his tentacles to appear and wrap Pandora into a cocoon.
"But before I can bestow you power, I must improve the vessel first." Ray produces a drop of his inky black blood and smears it on the cocoon before Pandora starts to transform.
As Ray said before, Pandora is a perfect vessel for power. However, she can still be improved. Mainly her compatibility. As long as he increases her compatibility to his power, her capacity can be increased and the final results would be even better.
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Inside the cocoon.
Pandora expected the process to be agonizing and painful. After all, knowing what Ray is and what torture she subjected before. She expects herself to be tortured. But it was the opposite.
She felt comfortable and warm, like she returned to her mother's womb. She can feel her body become stronger too. Her body was transformed and sculpted into perfection by the hand of the best artisan. Rather than torture, it felt more like a blessing.
After her body has finished being reformed, she can feel great strength coming from her deceivingly small and frail form. Then she suddenly felt something invade the cocoon. A boundless and grand power flowing into the cocoon and invaded her body. Despite that, her body didn't reject it and instead absorbed it with great compatibility as if her body was made to hold this power.
Just as the pleasant experience is about to reach its end, so does the process as she can feel her body is reaching the limit of the power she can contain. Then enter a cold energy that invaded the cocoon, replacing the warm energy and turning into a brand of tattoo that shackles her body and soul, a curse of obedience.
Then the cocoon burst open, waking her up into her new existence.
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"Hmn. Everything went flawlessly. How do you feel, Pandora?" Ray asked Pandora, who just rebirthed from the cocoon.
"Better than I could ever be… Master." Pandora lowered herself subserviently to her new Master and Creator.
She didn't lie when she answered him. While Authority of Vanity has limits and rules to how she bend reality, the new power granted to her doesn't. There's no limit or rules. It felt so easy and natural to bend the reality around her like it's her own instinct, an instinctive action like breathing air. Like she is born to bend reality to her… no, it's to bend reality to her Master's will.
"Good. Good. Now, your first assignment. Think of it as a test." He said as Pandora lifted her head up and looked at him, eagerly to accept his command, a full 180 compared to her behavior before, so eager to please him like a child to her parent as she should since he hardwired her mind like this to ensure her continuous and unwavering loyalty since he gave her quite a dangerous power. Dangerous enough to warrant such countermeasures.
"Please give me your instructions, Master."
"Well, I want you to remove all traces of Jack's mischief in the Dungeon. Preferably without erasing people from existence. Just the memories of what happened." Ray ordered.
"Yes, Master." Pandora said and got to work while Ray summoned Freya to be his cushion for tonight since his dear wifey banished him from the house for tonight.
Of course, Freya couldn't have been any more happy than she ever would have been when she heard what the order Ray had for her as she quickly dismissed her armor and wore comfortable clothes to serve as bed and pillow for her most beloved Master.
Meanwhile Pandora felt jealous and conflicted. Her petite form offered little for her Master to use as cushion like Freya did and she wished to change her body to be more mature. But to change this body he created for her is a blasphemy to the perfect form he sculpted for her. Such is her dilemma.
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