Smoke and mirrors.

Finally alone, Kira thought to herself, if she didn't believe Desmond to be a demon before, she had certainly been convinced, that smug smile of his had really managed to get under her skin.

Looking towards mischief, she slowly petted him while he was purring and slinging himself around like a worm, regaining some of her good mood she decided that getting some rest was likely for the better, heading towards the wardrobe to discard her currently clothes she got distracted by the mirror, or rather what she saw.

Her age was undefineable, she looked young, late teens?

but not just that, her former appearance was completely gone, not even a hint of it was left, she was short and could only describe herself as extremely cute, she had the same kind of perfect appearance as the two siblings if not somehow even more radiant, her mom had also been extremely mesmerising to look at, but she had a much more mature air to her.

Her hair was a deep silver, it almost reflected light back, atop her head was two cute ears, reaching up to where her ears were supposed to be she found nothing, just hair and more hair below, before she realized what she was doing she had already done several twirls to get a proper view of a small extremely fluffy tail the same color as her hair and ears, while Inari was a celestial white, was her color more of a deep silver.

finally settling on looking closer at her face to which her playful mood took turn, her eyes was absolutely mesmerising, 1 purple and 1 green, both of her moms eyes had been the same emerald green but where did the purple come from?

the color wasn't what stood out to her, it was something else, she couldn't put it into words but something about her eyes seemed distant and scary, she blinked and it was gone, she went straight from staring into the eyes of the scariest predator she had ever seen to once again staring into the eyes of what she would consider the cutest girl she had laid eyes upon, the irony wasn't lost on her that it was a mirror and that was how she was describing herself, but part of her mental psyche had simply packed up and left hence while she was physically capable of seeing herself in the mirror and the mirror ofcourse did mirror her movements perfectly she was completely unable to associate the girl she was staring at with herself, hence she simply shook her head, undressed, reclaimed the nightgown she had from last night, only to realize it was too large but too exhausted to care she put it on anyway and went to bed.

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"Report!"

Inari commanded the siblings who was now kneeling in front of her.

Ash was the one to take charge.

"Fiara have requested we stick with the name Kira, and I believe we should atleast let her keep that piece of her past.

She seemed resistent to us serving her, while she acknowledged our pledge she tried to worm her out of it by claiming that she saw no apparent value in our service, after my brother further prodded the subject it turns out that she have a rather negative view of servitude and status, while she freely acknowledged you as kin, she tried to reject her status of Princess, she further more requested we stopped using formal titles with her entirely, Desmond used this to see if she was willing to make it a command, which by her facial expression made it clear he struck a nerve.

Turns out she abhor the idea of any sentient being controlling another one robbing it of the ability to freely act and express itself.

we believe she might have some human influenced extremely negative opinions about the perspective of status.

To quote:

I don't particular get a high by making others do what I'm perfectly capable of doing on my own.

what I can gather from that sentence is regardless of how demeaning the work is for her status, she consider it an offense to even those of lower status of her to have them do it because as stated above it would be tasking them against their free will to do something she herself is physically capable of doing.

by this we can also assume she likely doesn't have the same issues having people do what she cannot, but you're more likely to see her form it as a request than a demand, no matter how much she desires it.

she proved that by refusing to demand us to call her by name even though she expressed clear desire to have us do exactly that.

currently we believe the best way to get her to accept us into her service is to start by using the fact she is willing to rely on others for things she cannot do, Desmond threw the bait in regards to our current ability to protect her and the fact we have knowledge she potentially would desire to rely on.

ultimately this isn't even remotely about our past failure to protect her, she doesn't seem angry or to even care, instead its the influence of likely having watched certain humans in positions of power behave unsightly to a degree that she expanded her distain to the act of being of a higher status and everything related to it, including servitude.

only positive we could gain was she didn't seem to hold any negative opinion about the fact you held power and status, she somehow disassociate that.

my final conclusion and status of action will be as follows.

Her refusal of our service is not an option on the disillusioned grounds she holds influenced by humans, we will step down if she had a valid reason, however we don't believe this to be valid.

we plan on first letting her rely on us for those things she is incapable of, as we believe forcing ourselves will only make it worse.

as she starts to rely on us will we slowly be taking up tasks that's clearly below her status, we don't dare delegate them to maids yet even if the tasks are even below us, because we suspect she will clamp down immediately.

Lastly we will do our utmost to slowly remove the human brain washing and influences she have been subjected to, especially to help her address her self denial, while we judge she accepts her situation it doesn't mean she isn't in denial and truly accepts herself, we believe its important to address this with the highest priority."

Inari nodded her head,

"thanks for the thorough report, to summarise.

Her human past is causing her to reject you as her personal servants because she believes being in a higher position than someone else would make her become like those humans she found disgusting and as such actively desires to distance herself with positions of power of any sort.

She doesn't reject any of us for past failure, and she is accepting of my kinship, but while actively accepts it part of it is rejecting all of this on a subconscious level due to years of human brainwashing causing her to still believe she is human.

To think my daughter would truly believe herself to be such a low ranking creature, I swear that bastard is laughing from beyond the abyss as we speak."

After a brief moment of quiet Desmond spoke up.

"My queen if I may offer a suggestion.

The princess is attached to the feline Demon, she even named it and observing it have it acknowledged the name and formed the familiar pact.

The feline demon seems to partly attach her to her humanity as ironic as that seems, and she seemed re affirmed by it mostly behaving like a regular mortal house cat, I believe if we helped it evolve to a point that it would gain the ability of speech, it could potentially help sever her human disillusionment and help her with her unconscious rejection of reality."

Inari hummed in acknowledgement, it wouldn't hurt to further strengthen her familiar either, if was an investment worth making.

"Indeed prepare a soul orb, give it to Kira and let her know it is a gift from me to her familiar, tell her the truth of what it is and let her know it would help strengthen her familiar and make it more capable of protecting itself in this environment, keep the fact it will vastly expand its intelligence vague however but let her make the choice to feed it to her familiar or not, don't in any way pressure her"

She hated using tricks, but she knew full well that her daughter couldn't stick around in self denial, pretending to be human.