Book 6: Chapter 23
The current Nier is very obedient. Actually, she’s completely docile and obedient. She used to be absolutely loyal to the empress and revered her. Now, she loves me, in a weird way. Nier doesn’t know what love is. Nier’s idea of love is pieced together information she receives combined with her own introspection.
From Nier’s perspective, love is absolute loyalty and dependence, as well as being more important than anything. Since we got together, Nier has even ignored the empress’ orders. As a matter of fact, she just shows her a form of respect, now. For the sake of being with me, she was willing to follow any order the empress gave her.
The empress couldn’t say anything, either because Nier rejected her for me.
While the empress didn’t like it, she was happy about that one thing nonetheless since Nier’s loyalty is meaningless to her. There are lots of Valkyries. However, Nier’s loyalty to me was of utmost importance.
But… Nier is far too loyal to me.
She holds my orders in high regards, to an excessive degree, so… naturally, she views my commands with absolute importance.
The command I happened to give her was, “Teach my guard unit swordsmanship.”
Naturally, Nier accepted the job with fervent joy. But… Nier is the Valkyries’ instructor. She was very well versed in training Valkyries. The issue was, they were my guard unit… not Valkyries…
Most importantly, Nier trained them like crazy to try and make me happy…