He was here again. Finding himself in another world in need of guidance.
Ainz was frustrated. A salaryman's wage simply does not cover the work hazards he currently faces. Just when he thought that the hard-earned life of a corporate slave was behind him, he had to get rolled over by the otherworldly gods. But he digresses, such a life in a wheel-chair might not be bad.
"Just act your character" here he was once again playing a part of someone else's life.
Just after summoning, the girl who called herself Alice told him of his condition to be crippled. While he knew that he could immediately get out of it by pouring a healing potion in his inventory to the ground and rolling around like the time he did while in the bed-chamber of his over-glorious room handpicked by his guardian's for his 'supreme' self. But again he truly has no motivations to do this just after relieving himself from the bane of his existence, albedo.
Just what demon had possessed the poor soul's mind to make her torment this lonely overlord.*sniff*
"Ainz-Sama" Everywhere he is, the name follows. "Ainz-Sama is so cool" Like a harbinger, trying to squish this overlord's soul. "Don't get in the way, Lamprey" Causing nothing but trouble with the forced expectation to which he always falls burden too.
or another of his overqualified servants "Surely Ainz-Sama is more than qualified to form his own plans" they say with admiration and respect "Everything is simply moving under his hands kukuku.." they revel in his sorrow but only this poor overworked corporate slave knows the true extent of his shortcomings "You have well divined my intentions, demiurge " But never had the heart to break their image.
Anyways, his mind again reeled to the present. The place he was currently in was a cabin with such ambiance that even the overlord thinks, "someone really knows how to set the mood". the high breeze of the soft wind caressed his cheeks delicately. The black linen and trouser were the current gear of this sentient being.
"It is such nice weather, Let's go for a stroll outside." the waifu said in a pleasant tone. For the nth time, Ainz again felt sorrow in his heart looking at his current caretaker. She a girl who lost everything in life just cause a shitty reason was something which irked the overlord to no ends.
But again he could not care more as he was just along the ride. The girl seemed to have a frost dragon of her own. Ainz did not on what broken reality had facilitated just phenomenon. Frost dragons were moody and bitchy. The last time Ainz made contact with those creatures, filled his mind with neverending headaches.
The sky was clear, the surroundings clean. Ainz declared in his mind that he liked the place.
Afterward, Alice was forced to work for the benefit of others and had to make do with a lot of stuff for him. It made him feel guilty. So started his plan in order to free himself from this temporary paralysis without disintegration of this new body. She slept beside him. His new caretaker was an enigma in itself. Whatever had she done was solely for his benefit.
She cooked for him, Feed him, bathed him. It took almost everything to not break not in embarrassment after she saw finished bathing him. It nearly broke his formidable overlord etiquette #36 and forced him to commit social suicide to ask his parent's forgiveness in hell for giving birth to this perverted son.
Ainz knew that those words meant nothing as he simply hijacked someone's body. But in the end, he would not care any less of such an individual for he is living his present, freeing the previous owner from this crippled life. For anyone, except for him, this would have been a nightmare. An existence left just to exist. It truly would be no different than a husk without the soul forever imprisoned in your own body. But for him its a blessing on its own.
Night approached. The time when evil is at work.
"hump" He threw himself out of bed in the cold chill of the night trying to lessen any possible noise for the fall while taking a health potion from his inventory. Later on, using [Astral hand] he opened the potion and dropped the liquid on his body, it seeped deep inside his pores and reinvigorated all the damaged veins of his body curing him.
Now again he contemplated what his actions would be. But then decided to simply just ignore the bothersome people and live life in a wheelchair. The slow life is after all the best life.
Alice POV:
She woke up fresh in the morning hearing the birds chirping on the horizon to call in arms for another new day. Her life nowadays was quite platonic, free from actions and duties to her nation. There simply just was one individual she had to care for now.
Alice did not know kirito for long for the boy was simply there to open her eyes to the truth of the world. She owed him and as such was her obligation to look after him. The poor boy who is traumatized by the loss of everyone he cared for was crippled in the following battles. She decided to look after the boy to protect the one fragment of memory to her past self.
Day after day went on like this. A new life with a new identity with no one to remember her as the former title but to recognize as a fellow human being.
A new start to a new life which she achieved at a staggering cost. Finding the warmth disappear beside her, she once again looked around in search of her fellow resident. The boy crept to her heart. She was in no means an easy woman but after spending so long with the boy in these peaceful times she grew on to like him.
Love was not something meant for a girl like her. She was but a machine working to protect her nation in the past without a free will of her own. But now she began to ponder on the future. The image of kirito in a bed kissing one another went on her mind. A red hue crept on her face as the notion began to get apparent to her, she quickly pushed away from her thoughts in order to look for him.
"Kirito" She found him just beside her bed sitting on a wheelchair. She remembered quite clearly that she had tucked him in the night. So how was he the impaired individual said to change location? She started to ponder on those thoughts then stood away from the bed. Thinking nothing of this situation she again went on to her daily actions.
Ainz POV:
The situations continued once more. Their daily routine falling in place at a calm rhythm. He wanted to ask for why was she so caring for him? For what reason is such existence even worth? or even to try and persuade her to another direction of life. It would be all to easy, just a single word I all he needed. But Ainz began to fear such actions, for it might break the continued relations between them. Humans are quite fickle. They at times call themselves the greatest but in another time wish to throw everything away for something worthless which does not even denote to a proper value.
"Kirito. Do you remember the first time we met? It was quite hectic. We both met in the battlefield fighting one another against our beliefs but at the end, I lost, for your beliefs was greater than mine."
"..."
"After Eugeo left. I truly felt alone. For what is my purpose? Is it simply to exist or for the greater good of my people. The monotony of such a life got to me and then I found out that even you would leave me. I got scared.." She held Ainz tighter in her arms in a proclamation to never let go.
"..lose you as well. For you remain the only one that can ensure my existence. " She went close to Ainz's face and locked her lips with his. She expected nothing out of this action. Just the expressionless facade but something happened akin to a miracle. He responded in exchange.
She could not care if it was real or a fantasy conjured by her mind but she explored the feeling even more. Tongues overlapping the other creating a furious sensation and before she knew it her body went closer to him in order to satiate her lust at this time.
Time stood still but to her at this moment it felt as if ages have passed. She held him tighter than ever before trying to find solace in his touch and succumbed to her everlasting dreams of misery and sorrow.
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