[Fake]
The word had many meanings.
A counterfeit product made to deceive others.
Emotions someone put on to fit in with a group or get along with other people.
Or a life without a soul, no different from a puppet.
Those three meanings differed, but they had one thing in common.
They were all products of something "false."
At the Remnant Star Society's former base.
Napomo held up a bag of something that looked like food and spoke excitedly to Dania.
"Be good, my dear Yaya. I went to all this trouble to bring you a present. You can't refuse it, because..."
Halfway through, she leaned close to Dania's ear and whispered,
"Because good friends should be happy to share with each other~"
Ever since Napomo had let Dania go to Star Torch Academy, this had become one of her favorite tricks.
She would lure Dania in with something unknown, then make her suffer for it.
"All right..."
Under Napomo's "affectionate" urging, Dania nodded softly and drank what she had been given.
"Ugh!"
It tasted awful.
Dania had known it might be some new flavor of Hee-Hee Jelly developed by the Academy, but she had never imagined it could taste this bad.
Could it be...
"Hehe~ Looks like the Void Matter nutrient solution I added is working nicely."
There she went again...
Napomo never tired of finding new ways to watch Dania frown in distress.
As Napomo put it, Dania was only a tool. A fake existence needed only to obey her.
But...
Napomo was the one who had given Dania a sense of self in the first place.
First she had given Dania a self, then she had trampled what little dignity came with it.
Calling her twisted was nowhere near enough to ease Dania's anger.
The woman