The Genius Witch Master's Smug Triumph! Limb Severance Perfected – Slave Silently Picks Up His Torso-Only Owner
"Bella, does this really have to be so big?"
"Of course it's that size for a reason. Even though I couldn't finish it, I've been steadily tinkering with it through trial and error all this time."
"Does limb severance have to involve a person actually climbing inside for the procedure?"
"I have no idea what you're getting at. This method is what lets it maintain the limb severance state for a full five minutes."
Sylvia had already shifted into an air of intellectual poise. Even if the topic of debate was limb severance.
She called herself a genius, and she was. The confident glint in her eyes and the upward curl of her lips suggested she'd found a solution.
"The sensory block is brilliant, but isn't the core concept flawed?"
"Ha. You think I'm wrong just from a quick glance? If you're insulting my efforts..."
"Why would you think I'm insulting you? Who would dare mock a woman's dream of turning into a fleshlight onahole?"
Aigoo, my owner. I was momentarily stunned by her vocabulary, which didn't match her pretty face at all.
"Then what...?"
"I'm saying you just need to tweak one thing about your idea."
To the puzzled Bella, Sylvia tapped the leather belt pouch at her waist. James the slave, Bella, and even my eyes turned toward it.
"This is my subspace pouch. Take a look."
She unfastened it from her waist and plunged her hand inside. Her arm sank in up to the shoulder, the small bag swallowing it like magic.
"See? My arm's gone."
"Phew. Is that all? What are you gonna do with just one arm? And even if you stick your arm in a subspace pouch, you can still move it. Don't you want your limbs actually gone and immobile, not some half-baked trick?"
Sylvia didn't lose her smile despite Bella's incredulous jab.
"What if you did it for all four limbs?"
"...It's still just visual. The sensations are intact. That's not real limb severance – it's fake! Even temporary, you need the feeling of your limbs being severed!"
No way she's reacting this seriously. Can't we just half-ass it? It's not like we're actually cutting anything off.
I couldn't wrap my head around this conversation.
"For that, just combine it with the sensory loss magic from your research, right?"
"...Huh!? But that's... No, it won't work. Do you know why I have to chop limbs off inside this giant capsule?"
"Cost? Mana?"
"Both! You have a subspace pouch, so you know how expensive they are! One alone costs more than the whole Limb Severance Device. I can't use four!"
Are they that pricey? Well, yeah... it's like an inventory cheat. If four of them cost more than a magic tool painstakingly upgraded over years of budgeting, yeah, cost is a dealbreaker. I silently agreed in my head.
But Sylvia remained utterly confident.
"Heh heh. Bella, you run a workshop in Witch City, yet you don't grasp noble women's fantasies and cravings for limb severance sex? Cost is no object."
Sylvia smirked dismissively. Bella, stung by the look on her face, vented her frustration.
"Tch. Who doesn't know that? I'm a woman too! How much have I poured into this research...! At first, I got tons of funding."
She fondly stroked her Limb Severance Device, then continued.
"But after repeated failures, I got pushed to this rundown shack in the corner. Funding dried up, and now that there's a glimmer of hope, they want me to demand dozens of times more? Haha, I'd be lucky if they didn't just laugh in my face... And there's no guarantee it'll work like you say..."
"So you're giving up?"
"...Yeah. I don't want to show James something horrific just to chase my desires."
Bella leaned sadly against her slave James. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders sympathetically.
No way they're turning this into a melodrama.
Sylvia chuckled.
"For a noblewoman, that's the extent of your passion for limb severance?"
"What do you know! Don't talk like you understand. What would you do differently? Show your slave blood gushing from severed stumps?"
Sylvia flinched at that and glanced my way.
...Bella was right. If Sylvia's limbs actually got chopped off with bloody stumps, I couldn't stay sane. Sweet Sylvia would feel guilty over my reaction. One failure, and she'd never try again.
But I trusted her. She'd succeed. My infallible instinct told me so.
Seeing my unshaken expression, Sylvia must have sensed my faith. Her hesitation vanished, and she flashed a protagonist's dazzling smile.
"Phew. Sometimes I just don't get it. The gap in thinking between me and ordinary women."
Sylvia approached the Limb Severance Device, placed her hand on it with flair, and channeled mana. A storm of power engulfed it.
"What are you—?!"
Bella startled, Sylvia's hood fell back, revealing her confident face.
"I'll show you. My idea."
Sylvia had always known her brain was exceptional. While listening to Bella explain the unfinished device, she'd glimpsed how to perfect limb severance.
"Phew. So that's it? Definitely risky. But the passion poured into this magic tool has real value."
The intense scene felt eternal, but Sylvia dissected the magic inside and withdrew her hand in a flash.
"What? You reverse-engineered my invention in that short time?"
"Hehe! Not quite. I just copied the sensory loss part."
"Impossible."
Bella couldn't believe Sylvia's casual admission. But true or not, Sylvia had already made the sensory loss magic her own.
For her safe limb severance vision, Sylvia moved to the next step.
"You don't need four subspace pouches. Just alter the appearance."
Sylvia drew her wand and cast alteration on the belt pouch. The transformation magic spread it wide, multiplying the openings to four.
One simple spell made it big enough to cover a person and accommodate all four limbs. Bella stared in a daze, as if wondering why she hadn't thought of it.
"Ah..."
"One idea like that saves so much."
Sylvia told Jin Yuseong to remove her cumbersome robe.
"That subtle face...! The fatty tits and ass...! You're 'Livestock' Cliana's daughter!?"
Bella's sudden exclamation made Jin Yuseong stagger mid-robe removal. Without it, Sylvia's cadet uniform was revealed. She puffed out her chest.
"That's my mother. I'm her daughter, Sylvia."
"My god...! 'Livestock's' daughter in my workshop! Her Memory Seal headband is one of Witch City's top achievements!"
"Hehe. I'm proud, but let's save Mom talk for later. Focus on limb severance."
Why a subspace pouch over the Limb Severance Device? Once she grasped its structure, Sylvia realized the limits of temporary spatial severance. If shoving limbs into another space guzzled mana anyway, why not use a pouch?
Smooth stumps were out, but for seducing a delicate guy, it was perfect. Becoming an onahole meant compromises. Too gruesome, and weak-hearted men wouldn't bite.
She'd compromised once on real amputation; twice or thrice was easy. But the feeling of missing limbs was non-negotiable. That's why she respected Bella's sensory loss magic – a sharp void unlike numb paralysis, born of craft and obsession.
Success within reach, Sylvia gripped her wand with a scientist's ecstatic grin.
"Time to become one myself. A severed woman's form."
She cast float on the now-rectangular pouch, making it bob gently. Then she inserted her limbs into the four holes, right arm last. With her remaining arm, she set delayed activations twice.
Theory perfect. No doubt in her success, she sheathed her wand and slipped her last arm in.
Snap!
It transformed again. The pouch shed its bag form entirely, becoming a vest that hugged Sylvia's torso tight.
Visually limbless, but sensations lingered – until the delayed sensory loss kicked in.
"Nngh...!"
Only her torso alive, the utter helplessness ignited her masochism. She moaned uncontrollably.
The changes continued, morphing into her masochistic bitch design. Blackened over her uniform, it was utterly perverse.
"No way... It actually worked this simply... What was all my effort...?"
Bella's face mixed shock, joy, awe – and proportional emptiness.
The glossy black leather capped her shoulders and hips like a lid, leaving Sylvia a worm-like torso. She smiled benevolently at Bella.
"Bella, your work wasn't wasted. Seeing your Limb Severance Device here sparked my idea."
Even consoled, Bella shook her head.
"Still, you perfected what I gave up on."
"No. This perfect severance – unlike numb poison or paralysis – is your solo achievement. You are the mother of limb severance."
As they passed credit, Jin Yuseong stepped in and scooped Sylvia up.
"Hyah...!"
His arms around her empty sides and under her ass made her tremble. Limbs gone, her body felt hypersensitive.
Jin Yuseong sighed at his tiny owner's bizarre form – shoulders and hips erased. He'd grant any desire, but realizing her vulnerability stirred him slightly. He despaired at how far gone he was.