The rogue succubus was flying much faster than I anticipated. She was a speedy one for sure, but I was gaining on her. Long, fiery hair fluttered as she weaved through trees to escape . She glanced back. Piercing eyes as red as her hair glared at .
This was almost too easy, and I realized why as soon as I sensed the auras of two other succubi to my left and right. They succubus I was chasing whirled around, and the other two erged from the trees.
An ambush. The red-headed one had led right into it.
"Take this!" She smirked.
I flew right into a barrier. The way I ca in from sealed up, enclosing completely within a magical shield in the shape of a cube.
"We got her!" a succubus with a scar down her lips exclaid.
"You did, but I wanted to be led into your trap. Because now, all three of you are right where I want you." I summoned the Blade of the First Temptress and thrusted the sword through, shattering the barrier.
All three succubi recoiled in shock. They gasped as I enveloped each of them tightly in my aura. The red-head shook it off and escaped before I could seize her mind. She left the two behind, who were quick to fall under my control.
"Who said you can leave the party early?" Mio erged from a portal in front of the succubus and sucker punched her across the face, sending her crashing into the forest below.
"What did I say about hurting them?" I sighed.
"Uh. Oops?" My girlfriend shrugged. "Got a little carried away!"
We dove into the forest with my two mind-controlled thralls. The red-head was lying in the dirt, eyes spinning and unconscious. A wild pig was sniffing her until we landed nearby, spooking it into the foliage.
Mio blew her index finger like it was a smoking gun, then carved into the empty space to open two separate portals. Layla and Selene ca out of them, each with their own succubi thralls. Adding the three Mio and I just defeated, that made eight in total.
"This is the last one?" Selene asked, bending down to check the red-head.
"Yeah, that's all of them. But is it just or has it been getting worse? These succubi are just popping out of nowhere. Do any of you recognize them?" I asked the others.
They shook their heads.
"Not from my nest back in Elza," Layla said.
"I sent pictures of these succubi to Clerissa. She just got back to and doesn't recognize any of them as the Okinawan nest either," Selene added, showing a text from Clerissa to confirm.
All of us sighed. To make matters worse, they appeared to be leaderless. We chard them enough to spill their greatest secrets, but there was no na to give.
However, they did share one common desire.
Mio restrained the conscious red-head from behind and pushed her up to us. She was snarling. Dirt caked the right side of her face.
"You think this is enough to stop us? There's more where we ca from! One day, Beatrice will return. The true queen will turn this kingdom our feeding grounds, and we shall feast like the succubi of old!" she exclaid.
"Yeah, yeah. Heard that a million tis." Mio stepped back as a portal opened up.
Shayle and Yumi were waiting on the other side in Elza to take them off our hands.
"Wait." I stopped Mio from kicking the red-head through. "This is the first ti I'm hearing about 'succubi of old'. Is that supposed to an anything?"
"Just a boogeyman story succubi hatchlings are told to behave in the nest. Cry too loud, and the ahari will co to drain your soul," Selene explained with a dismissive scoff.
"They aren't just stories! You have—"
Mio hip-bumped the red-headed succubus through the portal. We corralled the rest through to finish up and head ho. As we were flying back to Tsukiji though, another thought ca to mind instead.
"You guys go on ahead. I'm going to take a detour," I said.
"Where to? I'll co with!" Mio insisted.
"Library, to look for a book I need for class. You're just going to get bored, so head ho first. I'll bring you back sothing to eat!"
"Sothing spicy!" she shouted to my back as I flew off.
The library was a lie. I touched down in a street lined with love hotels. A couple jumped when I landed, then scurried away.
I entered the freshly-painted, bright pink love hotel with a neon sign of a succubus lying down. Her tail swung up and down to greet patrons. All part of Hana's consolidation of the establishnts she owned to create an enterprise out of. The loud-mouthed proprietress was chatting up a man in a suit when I got inside.
"Looks like we'll have to cut a deal next ti, Kuga. Better not show your face up here again, or you'll be swimming with the fishies," Hana threatened him.
"Eh? But we just completed… Why are you suddenly so hostile?" the man nad Kuga asked.
"Co on, play along! Run out of here while screaming. Go! Get! Or I'll take your facking head off!" she howled.
Kuga bolted out of the love hotel, screaming at the top of his lungs.
"Why did you just make him go out there screaming? People are going to think soone got murdered in here and call the police." I put a hand to my head and sighed.
"It's my new gimmick! Lately, I've been acquiring all this real estate. Figured I should adopt a new persona while at it. The mafioso! Nyeh, see? Fork ova the moneh. Where's mah cigah? Spaghetti!" Hana leaned over the counter, making incoherent hand gestures at .
"Hana, please… I wanted to ask you about sothing. Does 'succubi of old' or 'ahari' an anything to you?"
Hana twitched. It was so brief, that I wouldn't have noticed had she not been doing those silly hand gestures. She definitely knew sothing.
"Those scary stories? Just a bunch of—"
"A succubus ntioned it today. One of those who were loyal to Beatrice, but it's the first ti it was brought up. Then Selene ntioned 'ahari'. I know you're one of the oldest succubi alive. The other being my mom. They're more than just stories, aren't they?" I asked.
The pink-haired helion opened a drawer to pull out a cigar and sniffed it. Her eyelids fluttered, taking in the scent.
"Ahari's an ancient word from our world. Not Elza, but the one us succubi ca from. Roughly translated, it ans dryad," Hana said.
"Dryad? Like plant monster girls?" I pictured a female humanoid with green skin.
"Close, but no sugar!"
"Cigar… it's right in your hand!"
"Close enough!" Hana retorted. "But nope, not like that at all. Dryads predated succubus. Hell, they're pretty much our progenitors. Your world gets pretty close to dryads. The plant parts? Nah. But the whole drains your vitality stuff? Yeah. Thing is, they were a lot stronger. Unlike us, they can suck a succubus dry. Wring ya like a towel. It's why we nad 'em 'succubus of old'. You feel ?"
"So, they were real. Are they… a threat?" I gulped, sowhat fearful of the answer.
"Nope," she answered promptly.
"How can you be sure though? It's not a coincidence that after my sword got the crystallize treatnt, succubi loyal to Beatrice started popping up. Now they're ntioning succubi of old like—"
Hana vaulted over the counter and slapped my breasts like drums.
"Chillax! I'm sure, because Queen B put in charge of the fight against the dryads at the ti, and we won," Hana explained.
A weight vanished from my shoulders. I could breathe again. Hana had a knack of being a little twat, but her beaming smile was a welco relief this ti around.
"You're right. Maybe I'm just getting worked up over nothing. Guess I'll buy so spicy wings for Mio and head ho," I said.
"Saeko!" Hana hollered to as I got to the door and looked uncharacteristically ta.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for letting be . Used to be so boring. Here on Earth and around you guys, I've been having a lot of fun." Hana grinned.
"You bet. But what brought this on? You flipping a switch on playing a sentintal role now?" I asked.
"Hehe. Maybe I am feeling a little sentintal," she mused aloud.
After buying so hot wings, I flew back to the apartnt to eat with Mio. The rest of the week was quiet. I almost selfishly wanted things to stay this way. No rogue succubi or world ending event. Just another peaceful Monday. Would it be too much to ask if every day was like this?
"Mio, we're going to be late. Hurry up!" I shouted from the living room.
"Hold on, bitch. I can't find any clean underwear!" Mio fired back.
"Why are you… just go without. You're probably going to end up losing it by the end of the day anyway."
My aura suddenly went haywire. The sensation of a dozen other unique auras entered my field in an instant. I threw open the door to find Yumi and Selene at the head of a squadron of succubi, their deanors wrinkled with worry.
"What's going on? Don't tell a bigger group of rogue succubi showed up?" I asked.
"It's Hana," Yumi began. "She's nowhere to be found."
Mio hopped her way through the living room and said, "It's Hana we're talking about. Probably hightailed it to soplace to research her next project."
"We thought the sa. However, it seems Hana closed up every one of her love hotel establishnts from Tsukiji to Kobe. That's never happened before. We also have witnesses. Bring them," Selene ordered the succubi behind her.
A pair of succubus ushered Layla and Shayle forward..
"What the hell? Does soone want to explain to what exactly happened to Hana?" I demanded a little too strongly, choking every succubi with my aura out of impatience.
Everyone grew tense.
"Hana ca to a few days ago asking to be taken to Elza. It isn't an unordinary thing for her to do. I figured she wanted to fetch so more enchanted sex toys sitting in the vault," Shayle explained.
"I-I'm sorry, Mistress!" Layla bowed her head repeatedly. "I was accompanying her, but I took my eyes off her for one mont and she just… disappeared. My aura couldn't sense her. If… If you intend to punish , c-can I suggest the shibari rope?"
I rolled my eyes. "No one's getting punished at a ti like this. I'm worried about Hana. It isn't like her to just up and vanish. Mobilize all the succubi at Queen Elendir's manor. Split them into two groups. I want Selene and Layla to each lead a squad in search of Hana. To the succubi here, fan out from Kobe to Hiji in case it's rogue succubi's doing."
"Understood!"
Shayle opened a portal with the mirror artifact for Selene and Shayle to follow her through. anwhile, all of the succubi here, with the exception of Mio and Yumi, took flight to fulfill my command.
"I don't get it… It's not like Hana to just dip. She would have at least told ," Mio said while chewing on her thumbnail.
"It isn't a coincidence that this happened around rogue succubi acting up and after I asked about ahari. Do you two really not know anything about it?" I asked them.
"But those are just ghost stories! No damn way they're real. Right?" She searched for answers, but I was already looking at Yumi.
We both turned to her, who among the still living succubi, was likely the next eldest after Hana and Delilah.
"Saeko, Mio… If Hana left, then I believe we should leave her be," Yumi said seriously.
"What…?" Mio snapped and grabbed Yumi by the arms, sinking her fingers and nail into the at enough to draw blood. "How the fuck can you say that? Hana's our best friend! If you're telling those monsters are real, then she's in danger right now. You want to just leave her?"
"Yumi, please. Hana's one of us, isn't she?" I pulled Mio off her and gazed at her in earnest.
"You have no idea," she muttered.
A portal to Elza suddenly opened in front of us.
Selene and Layla had a troubled look on their faces.
"Queen Saeko, we've run into a problem," Selene said, beckoning us to co through.
We entered Elza only to be confronted by Queen Elendir and an army of ard dark elven won.
"Mobilizing a nest of succubi? Have you lost your mind? The armies of Everlight will think we are launching an invasion. I will not allow it," Queen Elendir stated firmly.
"But one of ours is missing—"
"No. You forget your place, Queen Saeko. We already established the hierarchy. You are my subordinate in this alliance," she reminded .
Not even a half a step forward and every dark elven soldier raised their spears. Several walking along the manor's upper landings had their arrows trained on . The succubi at my side bared their fangs and claws.
"Sorry, Elly. No one's stopping from looking for Hana. Not even you," Mio said.
"Stand down," I ordered my succubi.
A visible wave of relief washed over everyone, but Mio turned to with a look of betrayal and hurt.
"I'm glad you understand." Queen Elendir sighed.
"No, actually. I don't. It's ti for a rematch. I challenge you for the leadership of this alliance!" I declared to the shock of both sides.
"Fuck yeah!" Mio whooped.
The dark elven monarch briefly flashed with indignation. Fortunately for , they were fierce sticklers about their customs. I might be strong, but sothing told Queen Elendir would be a lot harder to fight in actual combat.
"Very well, but it will not be without an audience this ti." Queen Elendir snapped her fingers.
A powerful magical force yanked us forward. Next thing I knew, I was naked and standing by Elendir's side in an underground amphitheater. Nurous dark elves and succubi sat in the half-circle seating area, Mio, Selene, Yumi, and Layla among them. They were all confused about what happened until realization set in, and a roar of cheers erupted from the spectators.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Underneath the manor, in a chamber dedicated to punishing wayward subordinates," Queen Elendir said as she turned around.
I followed her gaze and gasped. At the back of the stage, shackled to the half-wall by chains on their necks and blindfolded, were naked succubi, elves of both factions, and even beastkins. They all had sex-crazed expressions, tongues hanging out and panting like animals in heat.
"Which can only an I'm joining them if I lose this ti?" I threw an uneasy look at the dark elven queen.
"Then you best not lose," Elendir said, casting off her robes and drawing even louder cheers from the audience. She popped a potion into her mouth. A large, erect cock as hung as a horse sprung out.
"Co on, Saeko! Fuck Elly to the next century!" Mio shouted.
"Awww! I want to be punished like those people trapped in the back." Layla squird like a horny bitch in her seat.
I summoned the Blade of the First Temptress. Queen Elendir faltered montarily, and the crowd drew a gasp. However, I tossed the sword over my shoulder. It plunged tip-first a few inches into the ground several ters behind .
"If you're going to use a sword, then I will too. It's only fair ga, right?" I asked.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." Elendir smiled.
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