The twins stumbled through the street in a tizzy, images of their inevitable future flitting through their minds. Of dancing, of serving, of wearing naught but the skimpiest apparel. Of accepting the truth that a harem was fine too. A harem they must join. A harem they must help to grow. For Ataru Moroboshi was a veritable God of sex, and both of them knew this to be an unshakable truth of reality.
"Koiki. Saeko."
That voice drew them back to reality. One very quickly learned that to ignore Ryoko Mendo in the slightest was to invite misery into your life. The twins turned and saw her quickly approaching them, mischief dancing in her eyes. Well, that was a redundant statement. The only time mischief wasn't dancing in her eyes was... They'd have to get back to you on that.
Once she was close enough to them Ryoko leaned in and whispered an unusual question to both of them: "What is your opinion of... a harem?"
A broad smile broke out over both twins' faces. This alone seemed to satisfy Ryoko. Or mortify her. It was a little hard to tell, her emotional expressiveness was rather different from most humans because of how pliable she'd made it.
"That's quite enough," Ryoko said. "You don't need to utter a word." looking around, Ryoko seemed to be checking if the two of them were alone. The rich girl then snapped her fingers, and her Kokuro appeared as if from nowhere to set up four plywood walls around the three girls. Ryoko made to sit down in thin air, and then a Kokuro pushed a chair right under her without missing a beat.
"Please sit down," Ryoko instructed. The twins looked nervously behind themselves. There were indeed chairs there. They hadn't even seen the Kukoro deposit them. By the time they looked back up there was a table with a projector on it and a white screen in front of it. "This is Ataru Moroboshi."
The white screen suddenly showed an image of a sex god being electrocuted by the alien babe he'd tamed. Ryoko snapped her fingers, and the image was replaced by the image of a sex god indulging in a crossdressing girl's sadism. Another snap of her fingers and this time there was a beautiful priestess who had covered the sex god with ofuda, no doubt in reverence for his holy presence upon this Earth.
"This is not a man who attracts a harem!" Ryoko insisted, slamming her hand against the screen. Over Ataru's crotch, both twins noted. "He is a buffoon! An oaf! Burn this image of him into your brain, and purge those harem fantasies so you may return to sanity!"
The twins were confused by this for a moment. Ryoko seemed to be suggesting something completely insane - Ah! But then they understood. She was trying to trick them. A prank. That was so very like her. Well, if they tried to insist that Ataru Moroboshi was clearly the kind of man who did absolutely seduce a harem on a whim then Ryoko would inevitably move onto the next stage of her prank. Which meant that the smart move was to play along to see where this was going.
"Oh gosh, you're completely right!" Koiko said.
"Ataru Moroboshi is no stud. No hunk. No handsome dreamboat with a great big -"
Koiko put her hand over her sister's mouth. If that thought completed she wasn't entirely sure either twin would be capable of coherent thought for the rest of the day.
"Well, I'm relieved that you saw sense so easily," Ryoko said. "Now we need to do the same for the others. Lest they fall in too deep, and cannot be saved."
Saved? What was she talking about? Saved from what? Oh. She must mean 'saved from the fate of not being a sexy harem girl' which the twins were well on the path to avoiding already. Yes, that would be a terrible thing for their friends to experience.
"Mmmmf mmm...mmf!" Saeko said, then pushed her sister's hand away from her mouth. "Miss Ryoko, Moroboshi is holding a party with several girls."
"Oh! Good thinking!" Koiko nodded. "That's the perfect opportunity to set things right. He just gave the two of us an invitation each, he's bound to be happy if the others come as well!"
"I already know about the party," Ryoko waved it off. "And I quite agree. This is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate that Ataru Moroboshi is not a sex god. Which he's not. It's just an idea put in our heads by the hypnosis. A harem is not fine. It's not fine at all, too!"
Ryoko then coughed into her hand and if the twins didn't know any better they would swear she was blushing. Ryoko didn't blush... sincerely. She had simply mastered using her teeth to pinch her cheeks and make it seem like she was blushing cutely.
"I've already been setting up a few... tricks and traps along the way," Ryoko said. "Now that we know the mixture has an effect, we can induce a few interesting commands into Moroboshi's mostly female guests." She then stopped to mull that over. "Make that his entirely female guests."
"Gosh, you'd almost think he was a master of seduction if a whole bunch of girls want to spend time with him!" Saeko said.
"Yeah..." Ryoko took a ragged breath. "No! I mean no. To assist with the 'fragrance' I have left some hypnopourri at various points in the funhouse contraption that alien girl Lum is setting up. By the time this night is over all the girls there will be under our spell for my own personal amusement."
"And then we'll let Ataru have his wicked way with us," Koiko said, matter of fact like she was talking about the weather.
"Right!" Ryoko nodded. "I mean... Right! I mean, god yes I need it so badly... I mean... no! No, definitely not. Absolutely not."
“Right of course not, we’re just joking around Miss Ryoko.” Saeko said, and the two sisters laughed. Ryoko promptly gave them the stink eye. And let me tell you, when that happens don't even bother bathing. That stink ain't coming off any time soon no matter how you scrub.
"More to the point, I am looking for suggestions for the commands we'll put in their heads," Ryoko said. "I'll thank you for not suggesting anything to do with harems."
"Well... we can always get them talking about their deepest darkest fantasies," Koiko suggested.
"Oh! That's a great idea!" Saeko nodded. "We can even have them act it out and record it! Instant blackmail fodder."
The dark grin that fell upon the three girls might almost make you forget their predicament. It was just like normal for the three of them, coming up with plans to humiliate and belittle other people. It was their stock in trade. Their hobby. Their reason for living. Put in those terms it's kind of hard to feel bad that their latest little adventure was coming back to bite them on the butt.
"Everyone has that kind of thing," Ryoko said. "A deep dark secret fantasy they'd never admit to." The rich girl began to unconsciously wiggled her hips in a manner much like a belly dancer. "They may not even be able to admit these kind of things to themselves. Those dark twisted secrets."
The twins exchanged a glance, and began to copy Ryoko's movements. Quite deliberately dancing while imagining themselves wearing quite a bit less than they were currently.
"Even you, Ryoko?" Saeko asked. "Even you have something like that?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Ryoko said. Then twirled around in place. "I am the exception. I certainly don't dream of being made to join a harem of girls, helplessly charmed by that affable buffoon."
"Eh? We didn't say anything about a harem being fine too," Koiko said.
"Ah, good point Koiko!" Ryoko said, suddenly stopping her dance and in so doing prompting the twins to stop as well. "Not only can we find blackmail material, we can discover if any of the girls attending the party have been hypnotised into thinking that a harem is the best idea ever!"
"And then we can deprogram them!" Koiko gasped.
"You're so smart Ryoko!" Saeko swooned.
Though it must be said that 'deprogram them' meant something different to the twins than it meant to Ryoko. For the latter, it meant getting rid of the compulsion to join a harem. For the former, it meant ensuring that those who didn't have the compulsion were quickly given it.
Now, normally Ryoko is quick enough to pick up on this kind of misunderstanding. She lives on exploiting this kind of double talk. But right now her mind was rather... elsewhere. Preoccupied. Fighting a losing battle. A battle that it wasn't sure it wanted to win in the first place. As such the fact that she would be working cross purpose to the twins completely escaped her notice... Or maybe unconsciously she had noticed, and was acting to encourage it to ensure that she and as many others fell under this spell - this wonderful, glorious spell - as possible.
"I shall locate the others and inform them of our scheme," Ryoko said. "The two of you, go to that party and seek out opportunities for practical jokes."
Whatever the case may be, whatever roll came down on the dice one thing could be guaranteed. There was going to be utter chaos tonight, no matter what.
- Ataru runs into some more of Ryoko's friends.
- Ryoko finds some more of her friends on the cusp of giving in.
- Ryoko runs into Ataru.
- The twins seek out opportunities to expand the harem.
- Back with Lum and Ran, they’re putting the finishing touches on the sleep-over
- Something else
No comments:
Post a Comment