Within Academy City, an as yet unidentified threat was growing stronger and stronger with each passing moment. While the city took care to monitor potentially dangerous individuals, this one had completely slipped by everyone's attention. This allowed it the room to grow, and grow, and grow to its heart's content while the people around it were totally oblivious to the danger they were in. Even now a trio of cute girls were approaching this threat of their own volition. A trio of Espers who were... not exactly powerful per se, but as a group capable of holding their own against most individuals the city could throw at them. They saw no danger here. How little they knew. If only they could have imagined that this menace was beyond terrifying, beyond fear, beyond intimidation.
"Awwww, look at the cute little kitty!"
"Grooming yourself little kitty?"
"Hold on, I think my lunch has some fish in it today..."
Sphinx looked up at the three cute girls. Then it licked them all simultaneously. All over their faces. It also licked their lunches right out of their bento boxes. Then it hopped off after noticing Index coming out of a store.
The trio of girls fell down in wide eyed shock. That tends to happen after experiencing a non-euclidean tongue bath. Total shock. Especially from students in this city, who are trained to a level of mathematical and scientific standard that the rest of the world could only possibly dream of. Because it meant they understood full well exactly how impossible that was.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew! How did it do that?! Ew!"
"Sphynx!" a voice called out. A voice so cute that a heart trailed after it in the air. "I'm done eating, so come on!"
Sphynx understood the girl well enough to know that she was never truly done eating. Nonetheless, he strutted off in the way that cats do tend to. Possessing the confidence that only a being that thought itself the master of all it can see could possibly have. Head held proud and gaze lazily wandering throughout the streets of the city, until his eyes finally found the girl that had taken him in.
"My wallet..." Junko whined, staring at an extremely luxurious looking pink wallet. "It's never been so close to being empty before!"
Elsewhere, Touma was likely feeling a mite irritated for some reason. Something to do with Tokiwadai students being ridiculously well off. The thought of the time when biribiri had caused him to drop his precious eggs he had bought in the supermarket came to mind. Truly, the super rich haven't the faintest understanding of what it means to be dirt poor! Such misfortune!
"Such misfortune!" Junko cried. "But... I couldn't resist that cuteness, the way she whined and me and stared until I paid for her food… to resist would be like kicking a puppy! Ahh it was so unfair! Even the vendor was feeling sympathy towards -" she went on, then trailed off. "We could have aimed that cuteness at the vendor!"
"No, no!" Index wagged her finger. Even this simple action was too adorable for words. "You should always pay for your food."
Said the girl who got Junko to pay for her - Gah! Right at the moment of maximum annoyance Junko felt every single inch of her body (inside and out) getting licked by... something. Couldn't be the cat. It was still ten feet away.
"Hey girls, what are a pair of cuties like you doing later on?"
That... was the single tackiest, lamest pickup line that Junko had ever heard in her life. Ugh! Someone that unimaginative wasn't worth either of their time. Best for them to blow these boys off and then -
"I'm going to have fun with my friend Hyouka!" Index said to the boys. Right to their faces. Smiling brightly. Gah! "And oh! I want to introduce my new friend Junko to her too!"
The leader of the group twitched slightly and little blood started to trail down from his nose. Now that Junko bothered to take a closer look, these guys looked sort of like delinquents. With piercings and bleached hair, plus the occasional leather jacket. The sort who would boast and get into fights for dumb reason. But the way they were staring at Index right now, well it looked very much off for that sort of group.
"W-Well gee babe, how about the three of you hang out with use for a bit?" the probable leader of the group said. "I know this nice karaoke bar we can all head off to, get to know one another a little better."
"Really?" Index gasped, and Junko had to shield her eyes. Too cute! It was too cute! Even though she wasn't able to see Index's face from this angle, everything about her was far too - Yeuch! What keeps licking her?! Junko's clothes were soaked through already! "That's sooo nice!"
"Um, Index maybe we shouldn't go with them?" Hyouka hurriedly suggested, tugging Index away with great haste.
“Ehh? But they are so nice, why wouldn’t you want to join them to have some fun.” The petite girl said, turning towards Hyouka and looking at her imploringly. Immediately once could see the rather busty girl shrinking, almost whimpering at the sheer cuteness targeted in her direction.
"I don't think these are the kind of boys you want to..." Junko began. Then looked at the boys again. Yet again she trailed off in shock. They were standing there, stock still. Breathing heavily. Smiling in a weird way. If Junko didn't know any better, she'd swear they were lovestruck rather than merely lusting after Index. "Um?"
“W-we wouldn’t do anything bad, right guys? We just thought we could spend some time with you babes. Have fun together, that should be alright?” The leader was stuttering slightly by now, but it was clear that he wasn’t willing to give up.
"Hey, isn't that the girl who appeared in the background of Uiharu's site in a couple of pics?" One boy whispered to another. "Man, she's even cuter in real life!"
"I hear she's getting her own spinoff site," the other boy whispered back. "But even that cuteness can't hope to compete with Uiharu's... Uiharuness."
Oh. That's it. Now Junko understood. She completely understood what was going on. She'd gone completely and totally off the fucking rails. Something had snapped inside her mind and this was how her psychosis was manifesting. Yes, that did rather explain quite a lot -
"But if you're crazy then so is everyone else," the boys all said in unison. With stars in their eyes. They made a simultaneous gesture that, yesterday, Junko would have called 'cute'. Today her standards had been raised. "Aww! Junko's not impressed anymo~ore!"
Well once you have had the sweetest of chocolate sirup coated ice cream, the sweetness of an fresh fruit just doesn’t stick out anymore. Wait a moment. Stars in their eyes... Weird simultaneous behaviour... responding verbally to the thoughts in her own head...?
The curly haired girl turned her head until she found a blonde girl in a Tokiwadai uniform, pointing a remote control in their direction. Or more correctly the direction of the boys who had been hitting on them just now.
"Gosh, you're slow on the uptake today," Misaki said, flicking back her luxurious blonde hair. "Ooh, luxurious is it? I like that. Now, as for -"
Slurp. Even a level five wasn't immune to the effect of the mystery licker. In a heartbeat Misaki was completely and totally drenched, to the point that her blouse was sticking to her breasts. Junko, of course, made a point of looking away. Mostly so she didn't feel envious but also because Misaki would <i>know</i> that she had been staring. Even if she had stopped reading her mind, there was always later.
“Oh, is that a friend of yours Junko? And what about the invitation to the bar?” Index who had been looking at her friend Hyouka so far, turned towards Misaki and Junko. This at last released the strange, busty Hyouka girl from the clutches of that bottomless well of cute and appetite. It was like the girl had temporarily forgotten how to do that whole breathing thing for a bit there.
"I rather think you have other things to worry ab-" Misaki began. Then her eyes fell upon Index. The starry eyed girl blinked and stared at her for a moment. "Cuuuuute! No wonder Touma likes having you around! You're such a cute pet!"
"I'm not a pet!" Index protested. Then Misaki began to stroke the supernaturally cute girl's head as if she was a kitten. "Mmm... Not a pet!" Index continued to protest, little knowing how easy it would be for Misaki to make her think she was a stoat for the next hour. Or year.
Of course with her mind filled with the magic equivalent of nuclear waste, looking at the wrong part could just as easily backfire badly. Or she could trip a magical landmine meant to dissuade mind readers from pulling exactly that sort of stunt. Not that either Junko or Misaki was especially aware of that.
“Hehe, sure you aren’t. But your cuteness ability is just too much to think otherwise. Oh, I am kind of tempted to take you to a nice place myself and treat you to all sorts of things.” Oh, and wasn’t that an interesting thought? She could send Junko to search for Touma, as she didn’t have the stamina to run through the city anyway. And if she went to the dorm outside school garden, there was a chance of running into that delightful junior from earlier coming home with Mikoto. Why, imagining that bothersome Railgun being targeted by the erotic photography ability and this girl’s cuteness skill was rather delightful.
Slurp!
"Guh!" Misaki jumped. Her underwear! "Who did that?" she asked, looking around frantically. How strange. She couldn't quite... Impossible! Touma was the only one whose mind she couldn't read! Could it be... could Touma have somehow found a way to lick her without her noticing? Oh dear. Oh dear, but she did feel faint all of a sudden.
Little did she know that the one who was doing this to her was indeed immune to her power. Just like all animals were.
"Oh, hello miss.. Misaki right?" Hyouka said. "Are you looking for Touma as well?"
"I don't think we've had the pleasure," Misaki said. "According to Junko, you would be Hyouka. A friend of Index, right?" The Level Five looked the other girl up and down, eyes particularly lingering on the bust. "I do hope you're not getting ideas on moving into my territory, right?"
“Ehh?"Hyouka gasped. "I mean.. it isn’t like I am trying to take someone else’s role or anything.” Misaki tilted her head as she watched the very busty girl shrink into herself. She had been reading everyone’s surface thoughts for a few minutes now, but this one was odd. At a glance, just a perfectly ordinary and naive girl, but there was something subtle about the way she reacted to things. Like a little girl for whom everything was new and exciting, but with a more mature mind.
Well it wasn’t her concern, as long as this Hyouka didn’t plan to take her role as the ‘talented’ heroine anyway. Everyone had their little secrets after all. If she checked everyone who seemed to have something curious, she would never get a minute of free time after all.
"Anyway! Let's find Touma! He seems to be in trouble and with your help we can find him way faster!" Misaki cheered. She then spun on her heels to leave - Only to realise that several random people on the street had stopped to take pictures of Index.
"So cuuuuute!" Snap, snap, snap. Which made Misaki wince a bit. She'd had enough of photographs and cameras for today, thank you very much. The mind reader pulled out a remote, clicked the button and sent the fanboys/girls packing -
Slurp!
"Ew!" Misaki yelped. "Cut that out! I am warning you now!"
"Mrowr!" a little kitty mewled at her. The little thing rubbed up against her legs. Showed it had good taste. But where was that mysterious force with seemingly unlimited licking power?
"... Do you ever get the feeling you've accidentally stepped in something bigger than you're ready to deal with?" Junko asked Hyouka. The busty girl looked at Junko and quirked an eyebrow.
"I wouldn't even begin to know how to answer that... Let's just find Touma."
And so the four girls went on their quest to locate that boy with the mysterious power to solve problems that he stumbled blindly into. Little knowing or expecting that within their ranks a terrible power was growing stronger and stronger, becoming more and more of a threat to the city. If they didn't stop it, then before long the entirety of Academy City would be licked into submission.
- The party meets their first challenge on the way: A mage seeking to kidnap Index.
- The party finds Misaka trailing Kuroko, trying desperately to keep her boobs under control.
- The party runs into another Level Upper user en route.
- The party finds Touma, against all the odds, pretty much immediately.
- Something else
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