>>21741859What do you know, you tracked my own inner conflict pretty closely. There's a reason this chapter took so long. I was absolutely not sure where to draw the line for the smut, because on the one hand there is some enjoyable worldbuilding that people told me they liked, but on the other hand this started as a slave rape prompt with pregnant Fubuki in the thumbnail - it was always going to be a fetish fic.
Ultimately I decided that trying to focus on worldbuilding and a slow-burn vanilla approach would be a misdirection of effort - not because there's anything wrong with it (and I am in fact channeling my worldbuilding autism into another story I'll post soon), but because the story is very much not designed from the ground up to be a high-concept, high-detail piece. I mean, Chapter 1 starts with Mori overdosing on lean and Chapter 2 follows it up with Kana waxing poetic about how she's OK with Anon raping his slaves and wishing they could fuck right in the auction hall... it was always more Evenicle than Fate/Stay Night, if you get what I'm saying, in terms of how serious it was supposed to be.
Also the incessant NijiEN yabs and the shitposting about them /here/ took a bit of wind out of my sails re:a fic involving Nijis multiple times during March. Nothing major, but my foul mood some days might have shown through once or twice in the quality of this chapter. 