Technically speaking, Sapphire’s full name was actually not Princess Sapphire.

  

  Yea, weird right? Like, everyone called her Princess Sapphire or Sapphire. No one ever even once has mentioned her actual title. It’s really unnerving. I used to think she was a twist villain or something. Turns out she wasn’t. Quite the opposite in fact.

  Memories of her at the dock came to mind and I twitched. She had summoned a giant octopus and had it casually move ships around for the sailors. Absolute bullshit powers.

  Bloom finally found her way here, and by that I mean she just spawned next to me after getting lost in a one direction hallway with a light in the direction she was supposed to go.

  “Sapphire, this is Princess bloom. She is our newest member of the harem.. Team.. I meant team!” Sapphire had begun to blush and opened her mouth to say no doubt “I’m in the harem?!” Followed by lots of giggles.

  I stopped that right at the border. At least I tried to, it didn’t work. Sapphire blushed, and asked “Am I really part of the Harem?!” and then giggled before covering her mouth with her hands and shaking back and forth like a little girl showing off her pretty dress.

  Sapphire’s dress really was pretty, mesmerizing even. I stared into its deep blue oceanic swirls. Each only ripple of.. “Damnit stop that now Sapphire!” I snapped.

  Sapphire stopped moving and looked away sheepishly. Stupid charm skill. “, I said, eyeing Sapphire to make sure she didn’t try that again. Last time she did that, she had almost gotten me to sleep with her. She had fumbled the bag hard though in the last step.

  Picture this, she had caught me off guard in the throne room, back when I was still very new to this shithole. I had, of course, been enchanted by her dress and thought it was love. She had basically led me to their room, where she undressed and we were about to do it… When she began sobbing uncontrollably and saying “I can’t do this!”

  She then fled the room and I was snapped out of charm. Also, in case you were wondering. No, she wasn’t talking about the charm. She was talking about being around me.

  Which brought me to Sapphire’s biggest flaw. Sapphire had a Hero Fixation. Not, not a coded one, not like the other princess’s. It was real and it was obsessive, Hero Obsession. It wasn’t marriage, or sexual, or even logic. She was obsessed with to what I can only describe as a disgusting degree.

  She wanted to be in the harem because the Hero was in the Harem. She wanted to watch the fireworks because the Hero put them on. She wanted to sleep with the Hero because he was the Hero! It enraged me to no end.

  “I need your help with a plan.” I realized the moment I said it, that I had said it wrong. “I meant to say..!” But it was too late.

  Sapphire’s eyes went wide and she giggled like a child on Christmas. “You.. you need hero?! I am.. I mean I just..” She began to cry tears of joy and began shaking her dress again.

  The pretty… blue… such a pretty. “Damnit Sapphire stop!” I snapped again. She paused and the compulsion once again faded.

  “Wow, a real Princess!” Bloom said from behind me. “She is so pretty!”My eye twitched and I turned to look at Bloom, who was directly behind me, staring at a wall next to the door.

  “Bloom, the Princess is over here.” I said as I grabbed her and pulled her next to me. That was another mistake. Somehow, in pulling her, my fingernail managed to scratch her soft skin and she instantly grabbed her wrist and began sobbing. I hated this world so very much.

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  Instead of just healing the minor cut. Sapphire looked imperiously down on Bloom and with a straight face said the stupidest thing I had ever heard. “You should be happy! Not everyone gets to be touched by the Hero!”

  My eye twitched. Bloom seemed to pause, then after a moment she smiled and held the tiny cut to her chest like it was a memento. I had no words, I just walked over and grabbed Sapphire's shoulders. Mostly to prevent her from spinning her dress again. Such.. a pretty dress.

  NO, FOCUS. I looked into Sapphire’s deep blue eyes. The ocean of emotion inside of them was alluring and.. I looked at her lips. Somehow the erotic part of her. “Sapphire, you need to come with me.”

  She giggled even harder and I just rolled my eyes and grabbed her hand, dragging her, and Bloom as well, out of the room.

  I made my way back to the throne room. This time there were two mimics on the other side of the hall. I might have enjoyed beheading the Sapphire mimic a little too much. It felt cathartic. I ignored them getting stuck in the dark one way hallway and went to the king. “I am taking Princess Sapphire with me.”

  The man looked at me puzzled. “Who?” He asked.

  I sighed heavily. “One of your daughters.” I throw out weakly, knowing full well it wont work.

  The look on his face speaks volumes and I consider, for just a moment, just marrying any of the Princesses to get the doddering idiot off the throne. But then, I would have to rule. The thought sent shivers down my spine. It was almost as bad as thinking how the Royalty would act.

  There was a loud crash, and a ton of water came pouring out of the secret hallway, riding it, now soaking wet in a way that I could clearly see that neither Sapphire… or Bloom. We were wearing underwear. I was pretty sure Bloom had been wearing underwear when we left Peeptown. Then I remembered the plants and bears.

  What was most impressive was the fact that they had real time collision shape and advanced game engine graphics.. In a game inside a toybox.. In a massive lego castle. Yes, it did show every single part of their bodies in perfect detail. Because the only thing this psycho realm focused on was how realistic they could make the women’s bodies.

  I was decently sure if the Toybox were a person, it would be a cuck. Because it clearly wanted to watch me get it on with a bunch of different very high detailed women it created. I didn’t want to, so it kept trying to bribe me by putting me in situations where the situation got worse.

  I waited for them to get up and walk close to me. Then I turned on immolation. It did not dry them off. I frowned for a moment before an idea hit me. I turned off the immolation and after a moment where my eyes met Sapphire’s and my hand began to move towards her.. I snapped out of the trance and said “Sapphire, please.. Recall? Your water.”

  She looked at me puzzled, then realization seemed to dawn in her eyes. One of the few NPC’s capable of actual thought. The water then all flooded into her. Which would have been weird enough alone, but the fact it made a slurping sound and she moaned quietly as it happened made it so much worse.

  “Thank.. You” I said uncertainly. I was very aroused by that and I had no idea why. I would assume it was the Toybox itself, but if it had that kind of power over me, I would have already slept with all the girls here. Besides, it was fun when I was new here. Ruby was more than enough. She wasn’t even good at sex.

  I looked back at the King. “This is Princess Sapphire.” I said pointing at Sapphire, grateful I didn’t have to say the line again.

  The King squinted at his daughter and asked “Who are you?” I facepalmed hard.

  “I am the future fourth wife of The Hero!” She cried out excitedly.

  “Ah! Princess Sapphire, my dear daughter!” The King said warmly. “I can’t wait for the wedding!”

  I clenched my teeth before relaxing. “So, I will be taking.. Her” I pointed at Sapphire. “With me.”

  The King looked at me and asked "Why are you asking me permission to take your fourth wife somewhere?”

  I stared at the King for a long moment before I just decided to roll with it. “Oh, because I plan to do horrible, dangerous things to this woman. I plan to eat her, after using her body as my personal plaything.”

  I watched the King very closely for any reaction. There was none. Sapphire on the other hand was now hyperventilating and squealing. Nothing like being eaten and used as a sex doll.. Quite literally? In her case at least. To really get the juices flowing am I right? No, no I am not, this world is psychotic. I just left the throne room, Sapphire dreamily rushing behind me on the way to what she assumed was me having her for dinner with Bloom watching.

  That wasn’t actually the case, but it got her to follow quicker, so whatever.

  We had a wedding to go to.