Chapter 40: I Was Wrong! Master, I’ll Listen to Anything You Say!

The entire back garden was silent.

No one dared to make a sound.

The Servants trimming the flower branches froze, their scissors suspended in mid-air.

The metallic footsteps of the patrolling Magic Golem Guards vanished completely.

Everyone was stiff, staring at the center of the lawn.

There, a silver-haired girl in a pure white Catgirl outfit was lying on the ground, fully absorbed in chasing a red dot.

Sometimes she pounced, sometimes she crawled, sometimes she stretched out her small paw wrapped in lace gloves to swat at it.

With that hollowed-out white dress.

With the Silver Collar and Leash around her neck.

No matter how you looked at it, the scene felt wrong.

Lilia had already lost herself completely.

Her mind was blank.

Only the damned, bouncing red dot in front of her eyes remained.

Catch it!

I must catch it!

“Meow! Meow!”

She cried out, pushing off with all four limbs and lunged forward.

This time, she would definitely succeed!

Her claw tips were less than a centimeter from the red dot!

However—

The red dot “whooshed” upwards, landing right on her nose.

Lilia’s movement froze.

She stayed in a pouncing position, her eyes uncontrollably crossing as she stared at the glowing red dot on her nose.

She went cross-eyed, fixing her gaze on the dot.

Then, purely on instinct—

She stuck out her tongue, trying to lick it off.

A pink tongue lightly brushed her nose.

Cold.

She licked nothing.

The red dot disappeared.

Lilia remained frozen, eyes crossed and tongue slightly extended.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What was I just doing?

Memory rushed back.

She remembered how she’d lunged out.

She remembered the frozen gazes all around her.

She remembered the sound she’d made in her throat—

Her cheeks burned, heat flaring painfully.

It was over.

Not just social death.

This was public execution.

“It seems that’s enough exercise for now.”

Lucia’s voice came, laughter in her tone.

She withdrew the finger that had created the red dot.

With a flick of her wrist, the black Leash tightened sharply.

Lilia was yanked off the grass by a force.

She couldn’t even stand properly, stumbling as she was dragged back to Lucia’s feet, landing hard on her backside.

She hung her head, silver hair falling over her face.

She wanted nothing more than to dig a hole and bury herself.

The tail behind her drooped limply, motionless.

“You did well.”

Lucia praised her.

Lilia bit her lower lip hard.

“As a reward—”

Lucia raised her hand.

A palm-sized black crystal appeared out of thin air.

Memory Crystal!

Lilia jerked her head up, ice flooding through her veins.

This pervert!

She’s really going to record this!

“I’ve decided to preserve this precious moment forever.”

Lucia held the Memory Crystal up, waving it before Lilia’s eyes.

Lilia’s face appeared on the surface of the crystal.

Silver hair in disarray, tears at the corners of her eyes, cheeks flushed red.

“No! Meow!”

Lilia’s voice quivered with tears.

She lunged forward, grabbing the hem of Lucia’s skirt.

“Please! Don’t use that! Meow!”

“I was wrong! Master, I’ll do anything you say! Meow!”

Lucia swung the Memory Crystal in front of her eyes.

“A scene this memorable deserves to be preserved properly.”

She paused.

“In the future, whenever I want to watch, I can take it out at any time.”

Take it out?

Relive her rolling on the ground?

Lilia was about to go mad.

“No! I don’t want it! Meow!”

She turned to run, but the Leash around her neck was held tight.

She couldn’t even take a single step back.

All she could do was struggle in place.

“Lilith.”

Lucia ordered without turning her head.

The Head Maid walked over at once.

“Your Majesty.”

“You hold this.”

Lucia handed the Memory Crystal to Lilith, then lifted her chin.

She pointed to the Blue Flower Patch nearby.

“Find a good angle and get both me and my little pet in the shot.”

Lilith took the Memory Crystal.

Her fingers stiffened for a moment.

Your Majesty wants her to film this kind of… scene?

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

She bowed to accept the order, moved to the designated spot, and activated the Memory Crystal.

Light glowed on the surface of the crystal.

“Alright, little kitten.”

Lucia tugged the Leash, dragging Lilia to the Blue Flower Patch.

“Let’s begin.”

“Begin… begin what? Meow?”

Lilia’s voice was full of despair.

“Pose cutely a few times.”

Lucia’s tone was matter-of-fact.

Lilia’s mind buzzed, turning blank.

Pose?

“Like this—”

Lucia reached out and tapped Lilia’s trembling black cat ears.

“First, let’s hear a meow.”

“I won’t! Meow!”

“Mm?”

Lucia made only a single sound.

But the pressure made Lilia freeze.

She looked at Lucia, then at Lilith holding the Memory Crystal a short distance away.

She closed her eyes.

Tears of humiliation slid down her cheeks.

She forced a sound from her throat:

“Meow…”

Soft, tearful.

“Louder. Didn’t you eat?”

“Meow!”

Lilia screamed, her voice raw with frustration.

“Very good.”

Lucia nodded.

“Next pose—”

She paused.

Lilia’s breath caught.

“Chase your own tail and spin in a circle.”

Lilia’s body went rigid.

Chase her own tail?

That’s something only a dog would do!

This was the ultimate insult to her as a Catgirl!

“Hurry.”

Lucia urged.

Lilia stood frozen.

This was her last shred of dignity!

She wouldn’t do it!

“Is that so? Disobedient now?”

Lucia didn’t get angry.

She released the Leash, raising her hand.

Pa!

A sharp sound rang out in the garden.

A palm landed below Lilia’s skirt hem.

Right on the buttocks covered in white stockings.

Lilia trembled all over.

A tingling sensation shot up from the spot that had been struck.

Her legs went weak, almost collapsing to the ground.

She… she actually did it in front of Lilith.

In front of the recording Memory Crystal.

She spanked her!

Her bottom burned hot.

Not just pain, but a strange, unspeakable tingling.

Her tail puffed up uncontrollably.

The whole thing stood straight.

“And now? Will you move?”

Lucia’s voice carried a cold smile.

Lilia bit her lip.

Tears overflowed.

She knew that if she didn’t obey—

Worse humiliation awaited.

She bent over.

With trembling hands, she reached behind for the fluffy, disobedient black tail.

When her fingertips touched it, she shivered.

Then, under the gazes of Lucia and Lilith—

And the damned recording of the Memory Crystal—

She started spinning in place.

Chasing her own tail.

The white skirt swirled with her movement.

Revealing the edge of her stockings at her thighs.

And the patch of buttocks, now slightly red from the spanking.

She spun in a circle, then another.

Her mind was empty.

Only the mechanical motion remained.

“Click.”

A flash lit up from the Memory Crystal, recording the scene.