NOTES: The Mystery Fic returns with an anime fic for a series of which I have only seen the first four or so episodes. Couple semi-canon, sex non-canon. Good luck.

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Her name. I was foolish to think it would be mine. I deluded myself into thinking that perhaps it was me you loved. Maybe you respected me, cherished me enough. I mistook your gratitude at my freeing you for something it was not.

I fell in too deep. I should never have fallen in love with you. My obsession with you has become as deep as your obsession with her. I sympathize with your plight, and that makes it all the worse for me.

I should never have imagined that sex in any way represented love to you. For you it is simply another way to make sure that I am beneath you. You control me. I am nothing more than a slave to you, and you want to make me remember that. As if I weren't already as loyal as I possibly could be.

I need you. I brought you back because I need your help. You are the only one with the power to help me. But instead you are obsessed only with chasing her. You must prove that there is no one who can resist you, to feed your own ego.

You use me for physical release, because you crave her. That is why her name left your lips in the throes of passion. She is ultimately what motivates your desire, not my humble flesh. It is her mind and her body and her passion that you desire. I am nothing more than a mere stand-in, and a stepping stone on your way to her.

I should abandon you. I should find some way to solve this mess without your help, but I can't. Your essence, your wonderful, sacred, noble soul has ensnared me. I can't breathe without you, without your approval.

I should kill her. That wench. She is a distraction to you, and a danger. She is the only one who can match you in power, and she is a traitor. She should not be allowed to stay. But killing her would destroy you, wouldn't it? It would kill you if her death was not at your own hands. That doesn't stop me from wanting it.

Why can't you look at me like that? Why can't your obsession turn to someone who is not indifferent to your approaches? Why must it be her and not me?

Why?