After saying goodbye to everyone for a few hours, I decided it's finally time to leave! I have to go to the Abyss. I should say I'm really excited about it; meeting my mother will be thrilling!

And I have questions to ask that I couldn't ask when we first met because there was a time limit, but now that I'm going to the Abyss, there will be no time limit for how long we can spend together there.

"This sounds wonderful," I tell myself as I open my status screen, looking at the [Abyss Gate] skill I've had for a long time but never used because I always imagined the Abyss was far too dangerous for me.

Abyss Gate – Allows the user to create a portal to go directly to the Abyss.

'Let's see... it should work like a portal skill, right?' I try to use it, and immediately a black crack appears in space. It doesn't have the form of a portal.

It's more like reality itself has shattered in one spot. The fissure is so dark it seems to absorb all light, leaving a creepy, pitch-black void.

'It's different from the method my older sister used to go to the Abyss...' They're clearly different skills.

"Hmmm... It's a bit worrying that I don't know where I'll end up in the Abyss... but it's fine! I'll manage just fine and survive like I always have." I start entering the crack. The sensation, due to my heightened sensitivity, is strange.

It feels like a viscous slime is covering my body and clinging to my skin while all I see is darkness. As soon as I'm completely inside, the crack closes, leaving only darkness around me.

'Just have to wait, I...' Before I can even finish my thought, my head hurts a little and I seem to hit something, like a wall that won't let me proceed.

"H-Huh?" Before I even reach the Abyss, I'm teleported, appearing in a completely flat area. I look up at the sky, seeing how "starry" it is, with various constellations that remind me of something.

'Doesn't this look like the sky from that dimension where I gave Delphina that amazing date?' I look at the ground, seeing it's some kind of stone? It doesn't feel like stone, because the ground has no sensation, as if nothing is there.

"This isn't the Abyss!!" There's no way this place is the Abyss. After all, I would know why; the feeling of the Abyss is surely something dense and destructive, not this calmness like a motionless sea.

"I need to..." Before I can even think about escaping with teleportation, I'm hit from behind and knocked to the ground as something climbs on top of me. Quickly, this something grabs my hands and places something on my wrists while I hear a clicking sound.

"!!!?" I look up while trying to push this thing away with my tail, until I see her.

"Delphina?! What the hell do you think you're doing!" I say, trying to move my hands, but I realize I've been handcuffed. I try to break them, but they're strangely strong.

"I'm punishing you, Pandora! You got that dragon girl pregnant and had another child! We talked about this! You always put me on the back burner! And I said I wouldn't accept such a thing!" She speaks with frustration in her voice.

'Shit! It's because of that?! It's all that bitch Tsukuyomi's fault!!!' That wretched woman, before challenging me to a duel, went and talked to Delphina. I thought Delphina had let it go because she didn't come to talk to me.

"What are you going to do..." I ask, annoyed by this, while trying to remove the restraints with my tail.

"Don't waste your time, Pandora. This is made of Quantenebriun, an ore that you, without a shadow of a doubt, will not be able to break. Not even the Goddess of the Abyss is capable of damaging this ore."

Quantenebriun – An ore born from the solidification of primordial energy. It is the first wave of mana released by the Primordial Goddess, making this the most resistant ore in existence, granting it resistance to any magic and skill that emerged after its creation.

"You should feel proud, Pandora. This ore is ridiculously rare, and I didn't expect to use it making mere handcuffs, but for you, it's worth the cost."

"Can you feel it, Pandora? The environment? You can't use magic here. Likewise, all your passive skills and abilities have been temporarily disabled while you're here."

"You are now experiencing what it means to have no access to the System. This place is called Zone 0, or the Dead Zone, an environment where the System cannot interact."

"And without the System, most beings cannot use any powers. Of course, Goddesses are exceptions because we have powers from before the creation of the System that mortals use."

"But you, Pandora, weren't born in our era, so you're still bound to the System, being too weak..." When she says that, I understand I can't escape.

'If all my passives are deactivated... it means the only thing functional is the standard adaptive nature of my race... which is... far too weak for this situation...' My adaptation is also part of a passive that comes with the race, so my normal adaptation without the passive isn't that absurd.

Because it needs its complement... since the passive is like a racial passive, I had thought about trying to eat the handcuffs.

But my ability to devour anything is a Passive, and she just said I don't have them here.

"...What are you going to do to me?!" I ask with false vulnerability. Without any abilities, I'm completely screwed.

Although a large part of what she said is interesting, I didn't know there was an ore capable of blocking someone's powers so oppressively, just as I didn't know there were zones where the System stops functioning.

"First, Pandora, I want to say that time passes much slower here. One second on the planet is equivalent to 100,000 years here in this place, so you won't be late at all for your arrival in the Abyss."

"Having said that... I'm going to impregnate you," she says with confidence.

"...?"

"..." My look of confusion leaves her confused too.

"Is there a problem?" she asks.

"I don't really understand your logic? Weren't we going to have a baby at some point anyway?!" I say, not really understanding this punishment logic of hers.

"Yes! But I know you want to impregnate me! But I will impregnate you! I'm going to fill you up completely until you allow me to impregnate you! I know you only get pregnant if you want to, so I'll do this for as many years as it takes until you get pregnant!" When she says that, I think briefly.

'Well, I wouldn't mind her impregnating me, although I really want to be the one who impregnates her... I could still let her have this little taste of control... I think she's being a bit presumptuous... I'd love... wait...'

"W-Wait a second!! Delphina, let's talk?! I can't have sex right now!! I'm serious! I'll let you impregnate me later, but now is a really bad time!!" I say with real nervousness in my voice.

I just remembered that because of the hypersensitivity my body gained, having sex now is crazy. I'm having a hard time getting used to just normal, minimal contact with others.

Imagine sex, which has so much physical contact! I won't be able to handle this madness of sensations! My brain will literally start to fry! And even more so without passives?! I won't even be able to properly adapt to the sensations.

"It's far too late for that now, Pandora! You're not running away from me! If I let you go to the Abyss, I won't be able to see you for who knows how long! That's not fair to me!"

'This is bad! Bad! BAD!!!' If she tries to force me to get pregnant, my body alone will lock down the pregnancy. Delphina might think I control whether I want to get pregnant or not.

And she's partially right, I really do control it, but I only control it while my body is in "control" of the situation. If I'm forced, my body, which is very instinctive, will lock it down on its own.

"Hey, Delphina, calm down a little! Let's be rational here, understand?! I'm serious, I'll let you impregnate me another time! Just 3 years!?! At most 3 years! You can wait, right? Like, 3 years passes quickly for you," I say tensely while my tail fidgets uncomfortably.

"1!! I ask for just one year!!" I reduce the time upon seeing her look.

'Shit!!! What a horrible situation!' My body trembles while my heart races madly, the adrenaline making me uncomfortable and barely focused. My body truly senses the "danger."

My nervousness is clearly affecting my body, which is viewing this situation as a "life-threatening risk." It's a clear competition I can't win in any way.

'This is horrible! How the hell would I endure this?!' I don't even have a way of knowing how many years it would take for her to impregnate me in this forced way. She would have to overwhelm my body so much that it could no longer defend my womb against pregnancy.

And considering my high sexual stamina, everything just gets worse! If she had tried to do this with me a month ago, everything would be fine, since I didn't have this crazy sensitivity back then.

'Why the hell did this wretched woman wait until I was going to the Abyss?! Are you fucking kidding me?!' I try to negotiate.

"Hey, Delphina, you wouldn't rape me, right?! I really don't want to have sex right now! Hey, we have a relationship, right? Even if we haven't had a formal wedding yet, we're still wives, right?"

"I really can't handle having sex for now, so how about..."

"Liar," she says with a severe look, cutting me off coldly.

"You always lie to me. You put me on the back burner and then give me affection to compensate, only to do it all over again! This is very unfair to me."

"You know I'll always forgive you... but not this time! I won't fall for your lies again. Up until now, you've already broken 4 promises you made to me..."

"And in all of them, I never did anything beyond warnings, but it seems warning you didn't work, so now I will punish you to show you how serious I am."

"Pandora, do you know how lucky you are?! I've killed people for extremely trivial things. You are the only one to come out alive even after lying and breaking promises..."

"You taught me about love, affection, and care... but if you were going to teach me these things, you should have continued to show only the good sides!!! Not these ugly lies! I'm not some naive duck who doesn't notice when I'm being deceived." She starts taking her clothes off, stripping completely.

Soon she comes over to me and pulls my clothes, tearing them completely. My body shudders.

'...'

"So... you're going to do it?" I ask.

"Absolutely, and I won't stop no matter what you say, how much you beg, or even if you get hurt... I'll only stop when your belly is swollen with a child inside waiting to be born."

"It's the price for having lied to me so many times, and for you to learn not to deceive me anymore. I may be naive about sexual things... but I'm still an intelligent strategist who understands many things."

"And don't think you can dominate me. I trained! I developed skills and passives for this and used various potions to help me. You won't be able to take control," she says, not understanding.

She doesn't understand that I have zero chance of controlling this situation, because she doesn't know about my current sensitivity, and she won't believe me if I tell her.

'What are the chances of a series of events ending so inopportunely?!' I squirm uncomfortably, looking at her. All that remains for me, unfortunately, is to wait.

'This is so unfair! She won't believe what I say! And when she sees I'm not getting pregnant, she'll think I'm resisting, when in fact my body is locking down the pregnancy precisely because of her!' I feel wronged. Okay, I messed up with her, but still, the current situation is very... complicated for me.

'It doesn't matter... she... she's weak to sex... she'll lose after a few hours and crumble... she always crumbles... I just need to withstand a few hours without a sensory overload...' I don't take her supposed training seriously, hoping I won't regret this decision.

'If I didn't love you so much, you'd be in trouble, Delphina!...' All I can do is let it happen. In the end, I still love her, even if she's trying to screw me over right now.