Within the world of yokai, the name Shuzen carries a weighty power. No, that's not quite right. It carries something more potent than mere power. It is a portentous name. When the name Shuzen is dropped into a business dealings of any kind amongst yokai, the matter becomes more serious than a mass funeral. Each member of that family could kill you on accident if they got into a bad mood. The clan produced nothing but first class assassins and warlords whose reputation was known across the supernatural world.
The head of this family was, naturally, most feared of all. Not because he wielded those other mighty vampires like minions, subject to his every will. Rather because a casual wave of his hand could bring an army to its knees. Only a fool would pick a fight with him. Only a fool would cross him, or dare to waste his time.
"Master Issa, a telephone call."
Issa looked to the maid holding the phone with a warning look that sent her back a few steps from sheer mortal terror. "It had best be an emergency," he said. "This deal is too important for me to step away from for even an instant."
"It is your daughter, Moka."
He was by the phone in an instant.
"Hello dear!" he said, his mood completely flipped around. "How are you fitting in at yokai academy? Are you making friends? Are you enjoying yourself away from those wretched humans?"
Even the mightiest of warriors have their weaknesses. Issa's was his favourite daughter. Not to mention, due to the current situation in which her harsher traits were sealed away, she was far more delicate than normally.
“Hello father, I am doing well.” The calm voice of his third daughter, sounding so much like his late wife… wait a moment..
“Dear, why are you not wearing your Rosary?"
It had been a gift from Akasha, a precious heirloom that was used for the sake of keeping this aspect of her personality under control. He knew for a fact that removing it would be quite tricky even with someone of considerable power on hand to try it. Or at least that was the “official” reason.
"There has been a minor complication," Moka said. "Do you think it possible to send another?"
Another sealing Rosary? That.. that was not a question he had expected to be asked. Akasha had never told him how she made it. Reproducing the power suppression wouldn’t be that difficult, but the personality related aspects were another matter entirely.
“I would have to ask around some of my business partners.” Issa answered after some pondering. Touhou Fuhai perhaps, he was good enough in sealing that he could perhaps recreate it.. perhaps he was even involved in the creation of the original. “It should be doable, but this could take a while.. dear, you didn’t lose the rosary, right? Did someone steal it?”
“No father.. There was an incident and I had to lend my rosary to.. a friend to suppress.. A troublesome problem.” Oh, to think his sweet daughter had found a friend whom she trusted well enough to give her rosary. "Her own powers were running rampant, and she had to be contained before she harmed someone."
Well that was about the only good reason to give the rosary away that he could think of. Naturally, any other monster whose abilities were running rampant would be no concern to Moka with her full power and personality unleashed. But the same couldn’t be said for the rest of the student population, so they had to create a temporary fix..
“Very well, I will see if I cannot get something.” Perhaps he should also ask the headmaster if he had any ideas. Mikogami was not as skilled in magic as Touhou, but he was still well studied. And getting him to help would be easier than forcing that old coot to leave his mansion and actually do something for once.
This was all such a pain, if Alucard awoke because his daughter decided to lend her rosary to a friend his late wife would probably come back from the grave to kill him too. He had better hurry with that. “Anything else dear?”
"Not for the time be-"
<i>"Hey, Moka! Put that phone down, we need to practise making out."</i>
... He must have misheard that. Perhaps they were using slang that he was not so familiar with? That had been a girl's voice, after all. Young people had such odd ways of talking, it seemed every few decades they would reinvent the entire dictionary!
“I am sorry <b>father</b>, it appears that another friend of mine has a twisted sense of humour. I shall teach her what her proper place is shortly."
Ah, a joke, nothing more than a joke. If he were religious, he would be thanking whatever gods exist out there at this revelation.
"H-hey Moka, what are you doing with that feather duster - Oh... Ohhh... Ohhhh yes!"
"It might take me some time to impart this lesson," Moka said. "We shall speak again later. Kurumu! You shall pay for humiliating me!"
Then the line went dead. Well, that gave him a few things to think about. Much though he didn't want to admit it, there was something about that call that was likely to keep him up at night.
... No, not the mental image of his daughter engaged in lesbian shenanigans with some Kurumu girl, or what they might be doing with a feather duster to cause those kinds of lewd noises. Something else. Call it a father's instinct. Call it the instinct brought forth by being the head of the Shuzen family. Call it the foresight of a powerful vampire, it doesn't really matter. Something itched under his skin and he had to figure out a way to scratch it.
“I wonder if Nurari has time for a night out drinking, I think I may need it.”
He stalked out of the room, waving off the meeting. Then just as he was about to leave, he brought his shoulders up and spoke to apparently nobody.
"Don't get any funny ideas, young lady! Leave your sister be."
"But father!" a petite redhead replied from the shadows. "Wouldn't it be safer if I delivered the Rosary to her personally? We wouldn't want anything happening to such a powerful item, now would we?"
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Meanwhile, a certain boy was thinking to himself about his situation. He wasn't human. He had two sexy monster chicks perfectly happy to share him in a polyamorous relationship. And due to his monstrous ability he was probably going to seduce more such girls into joining that relationship.
Kinda fucked up.
Unfortunately he couldn’t just go and get someone who could help him suppress his new powers. Sure, he disliked the idea of ending up seducing some girl against her will, but he was kind of trying to avoid dying painfully. Even with Kurumu and Moka as allies, he may very well be outgunned if enough people teamed up to take down the “harem knot” as they called him.
It made him feel rather worried about his own moral values, but he may just be forced to get more allies using his seductive abilities.
There was no question of it. The three of them needed to learn to control these powers. He could tell, if he focused a little he could easily become a freaky vampire-incubus hybrid, and that felt like it would cause all kinds of trouble. Especially if the incubus powers accelerated his harem's growth.
"Ohhh!"
Huh? What was that? Tsukune was on his feet in a moment, dashing into the next room. That had been Kurumu moaning! Don't tell him, had Moka and Kurumu got into some kind of argument? They had been gone for a while!
"What's going on here?" he yelled, then his face fell red as he caught sight of what the girls were up to.
"I-Is this to your liking?" Kurumu asked. For some reason wearing a maid outfit. She was leaning over a table and dusting it down. The trouble was, she wasn't holding the feather duster in her hand.
"Yes, this is much more appropriate," Moka nodded. "You should know your place better, Succubus. Recall that you have control over your Inner Succubus at my pleasure, and that I am plainly Tsukune's favourite."
Where did she even find that costume in the first place? Tsukune raised his hand and made ready to ask - but then thought better of it. Some things, a man is better off not knowing.
- Rumours start to spread about the nature of their relationship.
- Tsukune accidentally entices another girl into his harem.
- Inner Moka adjusts to being out and about. Badly.
- The trio experiment more with controlling their powers.
- The anti-harem-knot group prepares another attack on them.
- Something else
I'm torn between 2 and 3
ReplyDelete2 because Inner Moka doesn't get that many slice of life moments
3 because the HAREM MUST BE FED.