Story: Negima C+S

 

This was a test. A battle of wits and wills. Fun fact, while writing this, the author almost wrote 'twits and wills', which works just about as well. On one side, we have Zazie: Already corrupted by Chamo before the others even got here, with cameras hidden in very sneaky and unobvious places around her room. On the other, we have baka-ranger Red, Asuna leading the way. Alongside her arch nemesis, Ayaka, half demon bounty hunter Mana, and journalist extraordinaire Kazumi!

All five girls were clad in snug fitting leotards. In a sense, it was like a game of Mafia or Werewolf: Who is the pervert? Can you catch the liar out? Can the liar deceive everyone else, and become a wolf among the sheep?

"Let's start with some warmups!" Zazie clapped. Instantly, the word conjured connotations for everyone else present: Warmups. Working up a sweat. Stretching out your bodies in these snug fitting leotards, making it all that much easier for you to accidentally do a perverted thing!

On the other hand a warmup was perfectly reasonable to start with. You wouldn't want to pull a muscle, right? If they were about to engage in gymnastics, they needed to make sure they were limber enough to do it properly. They needed to prove it, and to do that, Asuna had a brilliant idea!

"Alright! Let's start by touching our toes!" Asuna loudly announced, turning around and bending over right in front of Zazie - while her head was turned, so she was looking into the reflection on the window to see Zazie's reaction! Of course! Ayaka nodded in appreciation, even this idiot could have a good idea at times. She and Kazumi set about bending over right next to her -

While Mana did some lunges.

As for Zazie, she was watching them with a smile on her face. Aha! Was that signs of perversion creeping through? Oh! Wait, she was now frowning. What was - 

"Kazumi, you should be careful, if you do it like that you'll hurt your back," Zazie said. "Here, your legs are a bit too close together. Ayaka's got the right idea - Asuna, your legs are too far apart, you might fall over if you're like that."

That was genuine advice about how to properly touch your toes. In other words, an inconclusive test result.

As for Zazie, what was her take? Obvious! Come on, girls! Show some imagination here? Touching your toes? Really? She had left it wide open! If anything she had to praise Mana for not only doing those lunges like a pro, but also? She was super hot while doing them! Oof! If Zazie didn't have cameras recording this for posterity, there was a very good chance she'd be on her knees trying to crawl in between the hot and spicy demon hunter's legs at this very moment!

"Alright, I can already see that we need to help you build your flexibility!" Zazie fistpunched the air. "Alright! Pair up, girls! We'll do some exercises to help you get those muscles nice and loose in no time flat! Hooray!"

Pair up...? Pair up! That was something that led naturally into two girls being 'close' with one another! There was nothing more inherently erotic than two girls wearing very little touching each other in a particular way, and gymnastics training seemed like the perfect opportunity to -

"Eh?" Asuna asked, finding herself sitting on the floor, legs spread apart, with her feet pressing into Ayaka's thighs. "What's with this pose?"

"Now try leaning forward," Zazie said. "See? Mana has the right idea!"

Mana was practically flat against the floor! She was kind of freaking Kazumi out a little, too! "Ah! Ah! Mana, my thighs!" Kazumi grunted. "You're kind of pushing my legs apart while stretching! Ooooh!"

"Huh? You can't take this much?" Mana asked from down on the floor.

"Ohohoho, do you think you can go that low?" Ayaka asked. "Low enough to make me stretch out my legs?"

Asuna knew that Ayaka was only doing that to stay in character. She knew that. She knew that in her head. In her heart? She didn't care. Down she went like she was digging for gold, except digging out of spite instead of greed. Pushing Ayaka's legs aside and making her arch nemesis wince in barely restrained pain.

"Is - Is that all you got?" Ayaka asked. "You can go <i>lower</i> right? Right?! Bow before me! Hohohoho!"

She pushed down on Asuna's back to make the girl bow lower, heedless of her thighs registering complaints hither and yonder. Such was the nature of their playful little rivalry.

"Girls, girls! Remember why we're here!" Kazumi said with a rather hoarse throat. 

"Quite so! Remember what you're here for!" Zazie wagged her finger, and gently pulled Ayaka's hands off Asuna's back. By the wrists. No attempt to touch Asuna or Ayaka in anything like a perverted way at all. That seemed quite positive, didn't it...?

Well, in one sense, certainly! That was a good hint that she wasn't under the spell! But it wasn't enough. No, she might be hiding the pain quite well. They would need to go a bit deeper to figure it out, one way or the other! You don't call a single test result the entire experiment, you repeat it until you are satisfied that the results show a trend!

As for Zazie? She was a little frustrated that they forgot their tests, and had been compelled by the spell to remind them - because that would lead to them doing more pervy things in front of her.

"Now I'd like you all to try a glute bridge!" Zazie clapped. She lay down on the ground and lay her arms flat by her side, then arched her legs up and up until she was resting on her shoulders and arms. The effect? As if she was humping the air!

Once again the girls were left confused: This was a genuine exercise, anyone could tell at a glance. Yet it also had a hint of perverseness about it! Lifting your hips while wearing a skimpy leotard?!

"Are there other exercises we could try?" Kazumi asked. "My legs are a bit sore, I don't think I could manage it."

"Oh, that's fine too!" Zazie said. "Do you think you could maybe squat onto a chair?"

"Uh... I could give it a try?" Kazumi said. Zazie rolled over, and pulled up a chair, and didn't even make an effort to leer at the reports as she experimentally squat down. If anything, the other girls were paying more attention to her than Zazie was!

Which was because Zazie had a camera built into the chair at the perfect angle to catch sight of Kazumi's butt as it lowered and raised up and down over the chair, over and over again. Thus, ignoring it was giving her a pleasant tingle, because she knew that ignoring it was giving her more footage to look over later on! Meanwhile, she paid more attention to the other three girls, who were -

Well, Mana was perfect just the way she was. She even had a foot in the air to make things more interesting. Meanwhile, Ayaka and Asuna were both struggling a little, forcing Zazie to get a bit more hands on.

"You put your pressure her, on your shoulders..." Zazie said. "And then your legs need to be at an angle... Otherwise this won't work at all."

Both Asuna and Ayaka scowled at one another, then looked towards Mana, who was nodding her head. They nodded back. The way that Zazie was touching them was... not perverted. At all. It was more like she was genuinely trying to show them how to get into position, and at least one of them was watching her face at all times. She didn't wince when pulling away, or smile wider when she was touching them... she was simply behaving like a teacher would with a struggling student.

"Okay, I think we're happy with this," Asuna said. "Any objections anyone?"

"For once, we are in total agreement! Even so... One last thing." Ayaka sniffed, and rolled over onto her feet. Then, she hugged Zazie nice and tight. "Any response? Anything at all?"

"No, she's still smiling, but her hands aren't doing anything weird!" Kazumi said, now sitting on the chair. Unaware of the concealed camera staring right at her crotch. What, it's a really well concealed camera! "I think we're in the clear."

"In the clear?" Zazie asked. "It feels like I am missing something. Perhaps a running joke?"

"The only running joke around here is Chamo! The snake!" Asuna yelped.

"No, no, he's a stoat," Zazie corrected patiently.

"We have reason to believe that the perverted stoat is using a spell to brainwash girls to become perverts," Mana said. "Please accept our apologies, but we had to test that you weren't a pervert. That is why we were behaving strangely."

"Eh? You were behaving strangely?" Zazie tilted her head in apparent confusion. "I had not guessed at all! How are we defending ourselves from this most insidious and devious form of attack?"

"We're recruiting girls that haven't been hit yet!" Ayaka said. "Somehow, Baka Ranger Red over here managed to avoid it so far. So long as we watch each other's backs, and figure out who else is a pervert, we should be able to warn everyone left - and then corner Chamo when he inevitably makes his play for us."

A fine strategy, but it was a shame. These girls wouldn't be nearly as good at Mafia as they might expect. That's a game where betrayal waits in every round - and in making their solid assumption this round, they'd guaranteed their eventual defeat!