On reflection, she really should have asked some further questions of that strange blue-haired girl. She should have given chase. Should have asked what the hell sort of business she had with Kiyoshi, should have not left it alone, shouldn’t have listened to her better angels. Why? Well.
“You smell really nice tonight, Suzu!” Yukio said, pressing his nose rather uncomfortably into her shirt.
“You mentioned,” Suzu noted, trying to balance keeping him steady while keeping his busy hands from getting a little too busy, thank you very much. This was not as hard as it sounded. It was actually harder. His busy hands were really far too busy! “Move it or lose it!” she snapped, slapping his hand away from her butt.
“So~rry,” he replied, sounding completely tipsy. “It’s funny. Sometimes I forget you’re a chick, but tonight you’re so pretty.”
“Aaaand there’s your front door! Hope you recover from your sickness, and I mean that in more ways than one.”
“Bye bye, Suzu! See you tomorrow!”
She shuddered and quickened her stride just a fraction. Tomorrow, huh? God, who knew he could be such a creep? Well. <i>Malice of the Mystical Mummies</i> should have indicated that right away, particularly the manner in which Yukio’s “riffing” had died off during certain scenes involving attempts to hold off the “mystical” mummies with firehoses. At the very least Kiyoshi had kept right on riffing, not even skipping a beat. “They pretend not to enjoy it, but they’re just in de Nile.” “Water way to go.” “Clearly their chests are essential plot points. You can tell from the way the camera lingers…” and so forth.
Cheap and easy as some of the puns were, Suzu had still laughed at a couple in spite of herself. That movie was dumb. Dumb as a bag of rocks trying to take swimming lessons. It had the same artistic integrity as a fast food meal and was probably about as healthy. The slight modicum of fun that Suzu had that night was entirely because of Kiyoshi, and he was the only reason she hadn’t just left the room so the boys could watch the blatant porn and “riff” on it all they wanted.
She sighed to herself, but not because she had been thinking about Kiyoshi’s handsome face. Nor because she was worried about the possibility that he might have a girlfriend and never even told her about it! Nope. Not a chance of that. Suzu was marching off down towards his house entirely because - Because - Because!
Because there was something weird about that girl. She didn’t quite fit. Somehow. It was so infuriating! Suzu was trying to remember what she looked like and was only able to come away with this weird superficial impression that she was so pretty, had a body that could drive any man insane, and acted like she knew all about how to use it to that very end. Bluish hair, flawless complexion… And that was it. Try to get anything more specific than that, and she became uncertain. Fuzzy around the edges. Like a jigsaw piece that had been hammered in place until it fit.
Now, obviously there wasn’t anything supernatural about the girl or anything because that was an absurd belief on the face of it. Suzu nodded to herself. She was just heading right there for one reason and one reason only. She wanted answers. She wanted the truth! She wanted to know who that girl was and what was even her deal! Which led her right to Kiyoshi’s front door where she raised a fist to rap a quick beat out - And then she stopped, flicking her gaze up towards a certain tree that led up towards a certain window. It was impulsive. It wasn’t like her. But for some reason… Ever since she’d met that girl earlier, her thoughts felt a little bit hazy. It was difficult to think of a reason not to do what she was thinking. So she did it. She reached up, grabbed a branch and started climbing.
“What am I doing?” she asked herself, too frustrated to care that only the mad talked to themselves. “Climbing a tree to spy into his room. What am I expecting, exactly? It’s hardly likely they’re going to be dating or anything, and even if they were is it really any of my business? Pft! This is so stupid, I should just knock on the door and -”
And she stopped as soon as she glimpsed inside the room. The blue-haired girl and Kiyoshi were in there. Kiyoshi sitting on the bed. The blue-haired girl on his lap. Her arms around his neck. Her frankly impossibly perfect breasts pressing firmly against his chest. Their lips pressed together so tightly you’d need a team of horses to pull them apart. Suzu swallowed, her throat felt dry and she unconsciously ran fingers over her lips. She felt something damp trail down her cheek. She looked up. It had started to rain.
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“Got you again!”
“Sure about that? Aha! Reversal!”
“What?! How did you - Gah, no!!”
“No escape for you this time!”
Kiyoshi stared at the two of them, feeling rather dumbfounded. Not only had this weird blue-haired girl showed up in his living room - In his living room! - but she was playing with his mother. And! And this was the really incredible part! She was winning!
“My win!” the girl said. “Tiemaya wins!” she said, leaping to her feet and spinning around. “Flawless victory!” she said, flipping back her hair and reminding Kiyoshi that the girl was far too attractive to be real.
“Another round?” his mother asked.
“No thanks,” Tiemaya replied. “Maybe later, but right now Kiyoshi and I have a few things to discuss. In private.”
“Alright,” his mother said. “Make sure you have a safety power-up!”
“Whatever you say,” he said, not particularly paying attention to his mother right now. He grabbed - Tiemaya’s? - hand, stopped a moment to marvel at how soft and nice it felt in his, and yanked her off upstairs to his room. She was light as a feather. Didn’t seem to weigh anything at all. Like she was floating or something.
“Thanks a bunch,” she said. “I can’t actually enter a bedroom unless I’m invited in.”
“Okay, what’s the deal?” he asked, making quite certain the door was closed, thank you very much. “Who are you? What do you want from me?”
Tiemaya skipped over to his bed, perched herself on it with legs crossed, and rested on her arms. She flashed him the cutest smile he’d ever seen. Cute enough to make him forget how flabbergasted and confused this girl was making him.
“I’m a succubus,” she answered. “And I’m here to make aaaaalllll your dreams come true. Especially the naughty ones.”
Uh huh. Right. Sure. A succubus. That was actually less stupidly implausible than some of the other explanations his imagination had been working around. Especially since - Well, just look at her. She could probably melt ice by looking at it. It made a weird sort of sense when considering what she’d done earlier on.
That, and the fact that she was sprouting batlike wings from her back were kinda selling points on what she was saying.
Kiyoshi backed up against the door with eyes full of terror/arousal. “You’re - You’re not having my soul or anything!” he announced more firmly than he felt. The blue-haired succubus tilted her head as if he’d said something highly amusing, and then laughed. It sounded like an excitable puppy playing with a ball for the very first time.
“If I wanted your soul, I’d have taken it back when we first met!” she said. “Idiot. Succubi haven’t been in the business of taking souls since way before my time. I’m talking, like, when the island we’re on right now was still a peninsula. That far back.”
The scary thing was, he believed that as well. Was it a mind trick of some sort she was playing on him? Distract him with how completely and overpoweringly sexy she was, then make him think thoughts that weren’t really his at all?
“S-So what are succubi in the business of?” he asked.
“Draining life energy!” she said in far too enthusiastic a tone. Right. That did it. The spell was broken, his mind was clear and he was pulling open the door to make a quick exit.
Out in the corridor, he leaned against the door to keep it closed, knowing that he had at best bought himself a little bit of time to really think about things himself. Should he head back to the shrine? Maybe a different shrine. Definitely needed help here! He was being stalked by an extremely effective seductress that wanted to drain his life away!
Which left him wondering at what point his life had become one of those movies Yukio liked to torment Suzu with. But that was a digression from the main thing his mind should be worried about right now, like the arms circling his torso and the pleasant soft things pushing into his back.
Kiyoshi lifted his head and realised that he was somehow not out in the corridor, but back in his own room. Which meant that the soft presence, the enticing aroma and the lips nuzzling his neck belonged to -
“Mmm, it’s just like earlier,” she said as a sudden dizzy spell took hold of him. “Why do you taste so good? What did you do earlier to that miko? That wasn’t my doing. That was you. All you. Don’t you want to find out why? That’s why I’m here.”
Kiyoshi nervously swallowed. Again. It was so easy to believe what she was saying. Even though it could so easily be a trick to seduce him, even though she could be doing something to his mind to make him more amenable to filling her hunger. Suddenly she backed away, and for a terrible moment he missed having her close to him.
“So here’s the deal,” she said, spinning him around and pushing him backwards towards his bed. He felt too weak and dizzy to physically resist and besides which, she was suddenly so strong she could probably push a tank out of the way. “One minute-long kiss a day, preferably before you go to sleep. That shouldn’t even come close to killing you. It’ll feel like you just spent ten minutes flat running. In exchange -”
He flopped backwards onto his bed and she crawled into his lap. He should resist. He should fight. But looking into those eyes, he knew it was impossible. He knew he had already lost the moment he’d touched her hand to lead her into his room.
“In exchange, I’ll give you every girl you ever wanted. On a silver platter. Like the girl climbing the tree just outside your window… Hold on one second.”
And suddenly, bliss. The dizziness got worse, but the longer it went on the less the word ‘worse’ seemed to apply to it. After what had probably been only a minute but felt far, far longer she pulled back. It wasn’t nearly long enough for him. Kiyoshi flopped back onto his bed, staring at the ceiling with a smile on his face. He was barely aware of Tiemaya strutting over towards the window, or of her leaning out. He didn’t really pay much attention at all until the succubus yanked a yelping Suzu inside.
Because that’s when things got <i>really</i> out of the ordinary.
- Tiemaya uses magic to strip away Suzu’s inhibitions.
- Tiemaya directly possesses Suzu.
- Tiemaya seduces Suzu.
- Meanwhile, Makoto struggles with her new powers.
- Later that night, Sachiko wonders what has gotten into Suzu. She’s behaving very oddly.
- Something else
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