Castle of Glass Part 2

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  Maria POV
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Elise excitedly showed us her toys, what she called the slave girls, the first one was Tamamo, who was identical to the one next to me, even wearing the same clothes, the white girlapproached her and took her by the collar to introduce her.

"She is Tamamo"
"She is a very rare and hard-to-find toy!"
"I won her one day in a raffle! What luck I had that day!"
"But at the same time I don't like to play with her for the same reason, I don't want to lose her!"
"I feel that I am not worthy of having something like her."
"She is much more special than me"
"I don't matter as much unlike the others"

The chained Tamamo showed a happy face next to her owner and showed affectionate gestures like a cat, but the white girl just ignored them and returned her to her place. The Goddess next to me had a strange look of confusion and condemnation, but at the same time as if she knew where those words were coming from, all she was doing was holding the metal chain around her neck, she was probably affected by seeing her reflection inside Cesar. The burned boy soon after approached to talk to his sister.

"Hey, Elise! Where did you put Momo?"
"I can't find her anywhere?"

"Momo? Who is she?"

"The transparent girl, the one that looked like a sculpture."
"You said you were going to play with her for a while and since then I don't see her."
"Did you hide her again somewhere?"

"Hiding her!?"
"No no, nothing like that!"
"....."
"I just don't remember where I put it either."
"Wasn't it next to the broken stuff?"

The burned kid climbed up to the top of a small slide next to us and started looking around.

"I don't see her anywhere!"

"Check well, you dumb retard, it's just that it's hard to notice but she's always out there lost in the background!"

"Oh, I see her."
"Well her chain really, so it must be her."
"She was right next to Tamamo all this time!"
"She was covering for her!"

"Anyway, I'm bored of her, let's show her a better toy!"

"Yes, you're right! There are more interesting things than her!"

Both brothers got out and returned to the small ring where the girls were and took out one of them who was broken. The same was undoubtedly Levia, both were transporting her with problems, since unlike the other girls, this one was an amputee, the woman that the children were carrying had no legs, but neither arms, it was only a torso, although the girl seemed to dislike being carried by the small children.

"This one here is Levia, she's a toy we found lying around."
"Some idiot smashed her up and left her like this."
"I'm sure it was the ugly idiot's fault."

"Elise! I told you it wasn't me!"
"She was already like that."
"Besides, you won't even help fix her!"
"My idea of stuffed hands didn't work the way I wanted it to and all you did was make fun of me!"

"It's no use, this toy is damaged beyond repair!"
"There's no point in bothering."

"So shall we throw it away?"

"Of course not, you idiot! Why would you do that?"

"Why waste space on something that is useless?"
"Isn't it better to just throw it away?"

"You're the one I should throw it away first, moron."

As much as they argued and fought, the only thing the siblings did in coordination was handle her carefully. The girl seemed to be smiling despite her strange situation. The real mermaid however was behind me watching silently as well. The brothers moved the amputee girl onto a padded chair, posing her very carefully, not wanting to harm her, the girl purred as if trying to indicate that she was comfortable. Just after that, the white girl walked a little way to a table nearby and from there she came running to show us the next one in her presentation, it was Tifa, with her usual small size.

"Look! Look!"
"We also have this!"
"This is the smallest of our collection!" Said Elise showing it to the fairy as a small doll.

"Again you look like a little girl playing with dolls!"
"Fucking, cross-dresser!"

"Shut up, you crispy kid!"
"You're just jealous that I found it first!"
"...."
"Someone left her abandoned in a pile of garbage."
"Looks like she fell out of someone else's toy box and they never looked for her."
"I thought she was pretty cute and I felt sorry to leave her lying around."

"She cries easily, but not as much as my hindrance of my sister"

"What's wrong with crying?"

"You do it all the time!"
"You never stop crying like a little girl!"
"Behave like a real man at least for a moment!"
"Real men never cry!"

"If you keep bothering me, I will make you so much uglier that your mother will cry again like at your funeral!

"No man should ever play with dolls."
"It's weird and unnatural! It's not right!"
"Better look at this! A real man's toy!"

"The only unnatural one here is you!"

The burned boy went out looking for something in a trunk and then came running back with a strange cube, it glowed with a faint orange light, the boy seemed to be quite proud of this object because of how he brought it back.

"Look, it's a mysterious cube!"
"It talks strange but it answers a lot of questions!"

"You idiot, you don't even know what you have!"
"That's not how you use it!"
"Give me that," Elise said snatching the cube from his hands.

"Hey!"

"This is how it's used!"
"First you have to break it in two!"

"Don't do it!  Stop! That's not how you use it!"
"You'll break it!"
"Stop it! Stop it!"

But the sister continued to twist the device until she broke it in two, then she bent it in a strange way until finally after a few moments she revealed what was the mystery. They were two identical little robots.

"See! That's how it should be!"

"You're messing it up!"
"It's supposed to be one piece!"

"And what's wrong with two of them?"
"Isn't it better that way?"

"And what's the point of two?"
"At the end of the day, they are only one!"

"The one I'm really about to break in two is you fucking freak!"

"You want to try fucking horny midget pornstar!"

"What did you just call me, you piece of shit?"
"Now I'm going to obliterate you!"

The white girl's eyes turned bright red and her arms began to change into violent dragon claws, almost immediately she launched herself to attack her brother again, but Luna grabbed her head in midair and threw her to the ground, immobilizing her so that she would not do any harm.

"Hey, you two, please don't act like that!"
"Just watch! Your toys are afraid of what you were about to do!"
"Do you guys want your toys to feel bad!?" said the green dragoness

"Of course not"
"Of course not"

They both answered at the same time, so precisely that they looked like the android twins.

"Yes I thought so!"
"Now look, you're missing one of your toys!"
"Why don't you finish presenting the last toy instead of fighting?" Lune advises both of them.

The dragon pointed to the last girl that was in the enclosure, she... she .... well, she was without a doubt Lisa, she had the same blue skin, she was constantly panting with excitement when the boys passed near her, she even wagged her tail like a happy dog when she saw her owner, unlike the other girls she didn't have only the slave collar, but she was also much more chained all over, but in spite of that she seemed to be also the happiest with her situation.

"We just don't want that toy"
"They gave it to us but we are not really interested in her" Said the burned child

"She behaves very strangely"
"She is acting like a succubus when she is not." Added his sister.

"Well, I think she's a little thirsty" said Luna, clearly faking it.

Elise ran quickly to the table with the other things and grabbed a bottle of water and went to the chained Lisa, who became happier as the girl approached, she was so bound that she could not move at all. So Elise opened the bottle and put it to her mouth so that the girl could drink to her fill.

All of us were still watching in amazement at what was going on. It wasn't until Luna came back with us that we finally started to discuss everything we had seen.

"As you can see dad is arguing with himself a lot in a very aggressive and abusive way."
"I am very concerned about what this could mean" pointed out the green Dragoness

"The two of them argue worse than Cesar and Maria back home," said my mother worriedly.

"Cesar and I have argued and fought quite a bit in the past."
But never on a level like this."
"Everything feels so wrong."
"...."
"It's like the two of them really dislike each other to death."
"I feel like if we take our eyes off them for a moment they're really going to end up killing each other."

"I don't understand any of this."
"Everything here seems like nonsense to me" Said the demoness as she sat at a table eating quietly.

"Well, a Yandere like you is not the best person to talk to in this situation to begin with."

"I know I am broken and I am not as smart as you are."
"...."
"But I still think this whole thing is too stupid and complicated."
"...."
"Didn't we just need to talk to Darling about wanting to be a slime girl and that's it?"

"And how do you think we're going to do that with those two fighting constantly?"
"No matter how hard we try to talk to both of them, the way they are now, they'll never agree."
"Any progress we make, the burnt child will try to tear it down."
"He seems dead set against changing anything."

"So we just get rid of the ugly kid and that's it?"
"You know, make it look like an accident and a shovel."
"I doubt the white girl would even mind if that happened."

"Lisa! We can't do that!"
"We don't even know which one is the original!" Tifa said worriedly.

"Well, I prefer the white girl more."
"She's nicer than the other crybaby" 
"...."
"Not because the other one is a boy" Said the succubus.

"Wait a minute!"
"That makes sense!" Tamamo said a bit excitedly
"...."
"The burned boy doesn't have a name to begin with"
"Which is pretty weird, because if we follow a bit of logic and the white girl is named Elise, shouldn't the boy be named Cesar?"
"...."
"Also, Elise constantly mentions that she wants to eliminate him."
"However, he keeps bothering her constantly so that she doesn't change anything and goes back to the way she was before."
"...."
"I think it's clear that the boy represents his remorse, burned, deformed and full of wounds, he doesn't let the other girl move forward"
"Anchored in the past"

"Well, if that's the case, leave it to me!"
"I'll make an exception this time and I'll make it quick!" Said Lisa taking her scythe from the ground as if it had always been there.

"Stop! Hold it right there!"
"What the hell are you going to do?"
"This isn't the real world, hurting him won't do any good..."
"..."
"You're not a succubus? Can't you modify this as a dream to get rid of him?"
"Succubus are known for altering dreams, aren't they?" said Momo stopping the demon.

"Tell me, do you really want me to modify something in general?"

"....."
"You're right about that"

"Tamamo, you are the only one with at least a glimmer of an idea about all of this."
"What do you suggest we do?" said Adelis

"Well, as Momo said, this is not something that can be solved with violence."
"However, I am also in favor of Lisa to seek to remove the burned child."
"...."
"But instead of doing something, why don't we just talk to him and make him leave on his own?"
"Then when it's just Elise it will be much easier to talk to her and talk to her about her becoming a slime girl without the other kid constantly bothering her."

"So ...."
"What should we talk to him about?"I asked confused.

"Well, why not about the toys?" suggested Luna.

"Their toys?"
"You mean the girls in chains?" My mother said.

"Does Cesar really have such a twisted concept of us?" the fairy asked.

"Well, it's not like he's lying about our situation either." said the angel.

"As much as I'd like to."
"He's never treated us that way, he usually just didn't do anything unless it was an emergency" the siren added.

"...."
"Well, if we look at it all from a different perspective."
"Aren't toys the most valuable things a child owns? This is his way of expressing his enthusiasm for something"
"The fact that he's showing it to us in such a cheerful way means he has a lot of appreciation for them and wants to show it."
"...."
"In a way, stretching the concept too far, it could be seen as him showing what's in his heart."
"...."
"Even if they treat them like toys, they all seem to be cared for with great care."
"Even if the children say otherwise," said the perceptive goddess.

"Well, Tamamo is the one with the gift of the gab."
"Why don't we let her handle it?" Luna pointed out

"Tamamo, you are an expert manipulator and persuader, aren't you?"
"You have a whole legend all to yourself about that."
"I think you're the best person for the job" said my mother, surrendering to such a bizarre situation that was beyond her.

"Okay, that's fine."
"I'll give it a try, so that way I can introduce her to the idea of her being a slime girl."
"...."
"But if it goes wrong, don't blame me."

Tamamo walked towards Elise, who was on a swing trying to reach as high as possible, while her brother was playing in the playground. The Goddess approached her calmly and began to speak in the gentlest possible tone.

"Hey, Elise!"
"Can I talk to you about something?"
"I'm sure you'll love it!"

"Really? What is it?"

"As I noticed, you're someone who likes pretty things, aren't you?"
"That's why you dress like that, isn't it?"
"You like the way you look right now?"

"Are you looking for a way to make fun of me too?"
"My brother talks the same way before he says something ugly about me"

"No no!"
"I'm serious, you like to dress like that don't you?"
"Whether you're a real man or not, that's the way you really like it."

"....." Elise didn't respond, instead, she averted her with a side-eye glance reflecting regret.

"I heard from a little birdie, he told me there was something you liked even more, right?"
"Something about a character that I liked a lot recently"
"...."
"What was her name?"
"Melon something?"

"Melona" Elise replied a little annoyed.

"Yes yes! That's her!"
"I hear she's someone you like a lot, right?"
"You relly like the way she looks"
"You like her pretty erotic body don't you?"
"...."

"Tell me, would you like to be like her?"
"To be just as soft and bouncy?"
"Wouldn't you like to be made of just water like her?"

"!!!!!"
"....."
"Who told you?"
"Who told you!"
"It was supposed to be my biggest secret!"
"My sister told you, didn't she? Maria told you!"
"That fucking snitch!"

"So it's true"
"Tell me wouldn't you like to be exactly the same?"
"..."
"If you get out of here on your own, you can be just like her."
"Be made of water, be a slime girl."
"You could change your shape as many times as you wanted to."
"...."
"Just think about it, you can be as cute as you want."

"Is this for real?"
"Is true?"
"Can you promise me that?"

"If you get out of here, that's the way it will be"
"I'll take care of everything myself."
"All you have to do is get out of here."
"Easy enough, isn't it?"

"Hey Elise, don't be fooled by her"
"Kitsunes are known for cheating"
"Don't you remember the legend of Tamamo-No-Mae?"
"She tricked everyone into stealing the Emperor's life force until she killed him."
"She also tried to devour his soul until she was stopped by the imperial court magician."
"...."
"Besides, what do you think will happen to our toys if we leave?"
"Who will take care of them?" Said the bandaged boy angrily.

"...."
"You are right"
"...."
"Although I like to be one, I must take care of my toys"
"I can't abandon them!" 

Elise, although she showed great contempt for the burned boy, agreed with what he had said, got up from her chair and began to walk closer to where the chained girls were. Yet the Goddess did not give up and continued to walk behind her, waiting for the right moment to speak to her again.

"Elise, it's okay to care for your toys, but you also deserve to be happy,"
"Just imagine the freedom of being a slime girl, able to change forms and be as cute as you want."
"You don't have to be burdened by your past anymore."

Tamamo gently reached out and touched Elise's shoulder, trying to offer comfort and support.

"They are all my toys, they are very pretty, aren't they?" said the white fox girl changing the subject.

"Sure they're all pretty nice."
"But can I ask you something ..... why they are all toys?" Tamamo followed her conversation to see where it would lead her.

"Just look at them, they are so beautiful"
"What else would they be?"

"May I ask why they are chained?"

"Because they are my toys!" Elise said proudly

"Of course they are your toys, I'm not saying otherwise but I'm saying, why do you keep them chained to the floor?"
"Why don't you leave them with the collar on so they can walk around free?"

"What! No!"
"I don't want any of them to escape!"
"They are my treasures!"
"I don't ever want to lose them!" Elise replied in alarm.

"But you won't lose them!"
"They would still be here no matter what"
"After all,  just see how they love you"
"Why would they leave you in the first place?
"Instead you could play with them a lot more"
"Wouldn't you like to run with them and use this whole place?"
"Use the slides, jump on the trampoline all together?"

"No, I can't do that,"
"I might accidentally hurt them, I don't want them to break my toys!"

"But they'll be fine! You know how to take care of them, don't you?"
"You don't mistreat them in any way, you're not like that!"

"But what if something happens to them?"
"What if they hurt each other?"
"...."
"What if someone else steals them!"
"No no no!"
"I don't want to lose my toys!"
"Not that!"
"They're chained because I don't want to lose them!"
"I don't want someone else to take them from me!"
"Not again! "replied the white girl in panic, almost in tears.

"Again?"
"....."
"What does this mean?"
"What happened?"

"That whiny faggot of Elise is still feeling ashamed about what happened to her first love."
"It's one of the few things that Ladyboy does feel ashamed of," said the burnt boy sitting on the top of the room.

"First Love?"
"What do you mean?"

"My sister was supposed to marry Sharon, a friend of his."
"But that never happened."
"And she just made even more fun of Elise's foolish attempts."

"First love? Sharon?"
"Aren't you talking about Nanami?"

"Oh no, they are very different things"
"True love does not mean first love."
"With Sharon, they didn't even become a couple even though that was supposed to be the real story if nothing had happened"

"It sure wasn't as bad as it looks"

"It wasn't as bad as it looks!?"
"Our mother took pictures of me crying at the party!"
"She used the same ones to make fun of us for years!"
"In this year even!"

"Well, I'm sorry, I had no way of knowing."
"I wasn't there."
"But in this particular case I think that what happened, whether painful or not, is something that should be put behind "
"Well, there's no point in keeping a memory like that."

"That it is useless to keep a memory, you say!"
"What are you talking about, you fucking Vixen!"
"Doesn't anything that happens ever matter! Said the boy burned with fury, his voice sounding like that of a grown man, one as ugly as he looked."

"I'm not saying that no memory matters."
"I'm just saying that keeping one that is no lesson and alone is painful."
"It's better to leave it forgotten in the past where it belongs!" The Goddess stood firm in her respect.

"The lesson learned is not to trust a woman!"

"Shut the fuck up you malformed bastard!"
"I don't want to hear any more!"
"...."
"I.... I.....I just...."
"I want to be cute...."
"....."
"I wouldn't mind changing if I can be a cute girl" Elise confessed weakly.

"You don't care, you say!"
"You fucking degenerate pervert !"
"Are you really going to leave that behind just to get a pair of big tits?"
"Let's see if you can even prove you have balls!"
"Oh sorry, I forgot, you probably don't even have that!"
"Would you even be able to keep from running back to see what happened!?"

The burned boy snapped his fingers and a door appeared out of nowhere in the room. It burst open, revealing a school hallway, decorated with balloons and posters, that looked as if a party was being held because of the sound of music coming from the background. The boy ran out and entered the hallway, looking confident and mocking. He himself was inviting Elise to come in and show that he was not effective, to see if she would back up his words.