Everything happened so fast. One moment, I was looking at a yellow beam of magic coming towards me. The next, Julia just jumped, right into the beam's path. There was a blinding flash of light that forced my eyes shut. When I opened them, Julia was standing right there, but a strange-looking holographic clock going counter-clockwise was right underneath her.

"What is this?!" Julia yelled to the old man who cast the spell.

The Old Man just laughed. "So it appears you are also a former human considering that it has an effect on you. If this works, I could turn the tide of this war."

"You didn't answer my question! Wha-" But Julia didn't finish her question because she soon got her answer. All of a sudden, she just stopped talking. Her voice didn't even trail off, she just without warning stopped talking. The next thing I knew, Julia was on the ground writhing and screaming her head off. I've heard Julia scream before, but it was usually while we were doing that thing she called sex. Those screams were from the immense pleasure she received on her end. This scream, however, wasn't from immense pleasure. It was from immense pain.

"W-what did ou d-do to her?" I stuttered to The Old Man.

"What did I do?" The Old Man gloated mockingly, "The same thing I was going to do to you before she decided to intervene. I'm curing her!" And it didn't take long for me to find out what he meant by that. It started with her horns, they appeared to be... shrinking?

At first, I thought I was imagining things, but it soon became very clear that they really were getting smaller. Then I noticed her wings do the same, followed by her tail, her pleasure runes, and finally, her sexy boobs and hips. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks: Julia was turning back into a human. Of course, I knew Julia used to be human, but I just couldn't imagine how she looked then.

All I could do was helplessly watch as Julia, the same girl who saved me the day we met and made me happy every night, was on the ground screaming as she was slowly transformed. Only when all of her succubi features shrank down to nothing, and the holographic clock underneath her vanished, did she finally stop screaming.

"It worked..." The Old Man said before laughing, "It worked! I've finally done it! I reversed monsterization! Take that Overlord!"

By this point, Julia had already gotten up, having finally recovered from her immense pain. She looked at me before saying, "Ash, what just happened?" Her voice now sounded less seductive than I was used to hearing. She put her hand to her head and as soon as she felt her horn missing she said, "Wait? What?" before frantically trying to feel for her missing horn as if someone told her a spider was on her head and she was trying to squash it. She then noticed her wings and tail were also gone, and as soon as she down at her torso, she noticed her pleasure runes missing along with her smaller boobs and smaller hips.

"No, no. How-"

"I see you're noticing that I saved you." The Old Man said, smirking.

Julia looked up at The Old Man, "S-save me? What are you talking about? What happened to my horns, my wings, my tail, and my pleasure runes?"

"They are gone now. I turned you back into your rightful human form"

"What?! But that's impossible! Turn me back now!"

"What?"The Old Man looked confused, "Turn you back? I cured you! I restored your humanity! I freed you! You should be thanking me!"

"Thanking you?! You expect me to thank you after- ?!"

"You should be normal again!" With that, The Old Man turned and ran to the bridge and off The Floating Island.

"Hey! Come back!" Julia tried to run after him but stopped when I grabbed her by the shoulder.

"J-Julia no! What i-if he tries to h-hurt you?"

"But I can't be human Ash! Didn't you like my beautiful succubus body?"

"W-well, I mean, it was h-honestly really n-nice to look at and-?"

"How will I work at Tricoromille without my succubus body?! I will be transferred to trash duty! Or worse, cleaning duty! I don't want to do any of those! I want to be a waitress!"

"J-Julia, please c-calm down! You'll turn b-back, we'll find a w-way, I promise!"

"How?! I mean..." Her voice trailed off and she began to look down. I followed her gaze and noticed she was looking at my crotch. "Oh my gosh, I just remembered!" She said that as if she found a way to make monsters give birth to males. "And I was so freaked out, how stupid of me." She bent down and began unbuckling my pants.

"Uh, J-Julia, what are y-you doing?" I asked, even though I knew what she was probably going to do.

"Well you're an incubus, aren't you?" She had already begun to pull my underwear down together with my unbuckled pants, exposing my dick.

"W-well, yeah. You told m-me I became that o-on the night m-my dick grew bigger."

She had already started taking off her heavily cropped tube top with a heart-shaped hole in the middle, exposing her boobs. "And when a human woman has sex with an incubus, she gets monsterized." Her boobs may have been smaller, but that didn't stop her from engulfing my dick with them. "Therefore, I just need some of your cum, and then I will turn back into a succubus."

Using her hands, she began to move her boobs back and forth around my dick. I was now feeling pleasure, just not as much as I usually did. Of course, I wanted to help my beloved turn back, so I also put my hands on her boobs and began to stoke them around my dick.

"Ooh! Ash, looks like you really did like my succubus body better if you're helping."

"Uh... w-well, I mean yeah. I-I do."

I certainly enjoyed it whenever she gave me titty fucks. Eventually, when my dick became fully erect from it, she immediately engulfed as much of it as she could into her mouth and began to suck really hard, moaning excitedly as she did. Julia gave me blow jobs before, but usually, I would use her horns to move her head back and forth to give myself more pleasure. Because she didn't have horns, I just gently grabbed her head instead and moved it back and forth. As as I doing this, I noticed Julia using her finger to move away from the part of her panties covering her pussy and then sticking 2 fingers in it to give herself more pleasure.

After a couple of moments of seeing Julia titty-fucking, sucking, and masturbating, I suddenly felt my dick twitch.

"Uh, J-Julia, I think I'm g-going to cum."

As soon as she heard that, Julia then began rocking her head back and forth even harder as my dick twitched even more, and let it all out.

Before I knew it, my semen was both in Julia's mouth and all over her face.

"Haah, that tasted good Ash, thank you. So how is my newly restored succubus body looking?"

"Uh... W-what?" I was confused, Julia still looked human, I didn't see any of her succubus parts reappear. It was like she somehow became immune to the monster mana in my semen.

"Is something wrong?" Julia asked, seeing my confused look, but then she also noticed that she still hadn't grown back her succubus body parts. "What?! But I should have, I mean, why aren't my-"

I grabbed her by the shoulder, "J-Julia, please-"

"No!" Julia snapped before regaining her composure, "Oh my gosh! Ash, I'm so sorry! It's just, that should've monsterized me again, but it didn't, I mean..." Her voice trailed off. "Xhymza." She whispered.

"W-what?"

"We have to go to Xhymza." She said nervously, "She knows a lot about magic, maybe she can help me." She began tugging on my arm, "Come on! Let's go!"

(000)

"J-Julia," I said as we were walking through the forest surrounding Belfort, "why are we going around Belfort? I-isn't it faster t-to go through B-Belfort?"

"I know, but I can't have someone see me like this." She was walking right behind me, hiding in case someone comes. "I mean, the last thing I need is somebody seeing this unattractive body of mine and-"

"Good afternoon Julia! How are you and Ash doing!" A familiar voice called out from behind us.

Julia just froze "Aw great..."

I turned around and sure enough, there she was: our old friend, Hazel the holstaur, holding a basket full of mushrooms. Clearly, she was picking mushrooms for something.

She looked at Julia with a confused look, "Hey Julia, why do you look like that? Weren't you a succubus before?"

Julia just put her hands to her face and groaned, "I'm ruined..." she managed to let out.

"Uh, why?" Hazel asked.

"B-because she's been t-turned back. B-back into a h-human." I answered

"What? How? Everybody knows you can't turn back once you turn."

"Tell that to the jerk who did it." Julia muttered, having mustered enough strength to look up at Hazel. She told her what happened at The Floating Island, how a mysterious man tried to turn me back using a mysterious yellow orb but ended up turning Julia back instead, and how he, for some reason, expected her to thank him before running off and even when she tried to turn back by giving me a blowjob, she still stayed human.

Hazel couldn't believe her ears, "So let me get this straight, this "mystery guy" came out of nowhere and used some kind of "magic orb" to not only reverse your monsterization but also make you immune to it?"

"Yes, Exactly!"

"So what are you going to do now?"

"W-we're going to X-xhymza." I chimed in, "S-she knows E-everything about M-magic."

Hazel looked around "Well you go on ahead, I'm going to find Arthur and catch up with you later."

"Okay." Julia whimpered, having calmed down. Then we were off.

(000)

Xhymza's house was located on the outskirts of Belfort. It didn't look like the other homes in town though, it looked as if it was long neglected. Several windows were boarded up and the front yard had dead trees all over it. Many planks appear to be rotting as if no one used them for years. Not a good place for any normal person to live, but perfect for undead monsters like Xhymza.

As soon as we got to the front door, we could hear moaning coming from within the house. Moans of pleasure to be exact.

"Oh, she's home all right," Julia whispered.

"And it s-sounds she's doing an e-experiment," I whispered back.

"Yeah, with Jonathan."

We heard footsteps behind us and turned to see Hazel and her husband, Arthur, walking towards us.

"Oh, you c-came?" I said to them

Hazel nodded.

"Hazel told me what happened," Arthur said, "did the man hurt either of you?"

"No," Julia answered, "he just ran off after he... 'cured' me."

I knocked on Xhymza's door.

A feminine voice, whom I recognized as our other friend, Xhymza, came from somewhere inside the house. "Come in, the door's unlocked!"

I opened the door and we walked inside. Much like the outside, the inside also appeared to have been long neglected. There was plenty of furniture, but it was dusty and covered in cobwebs.

It was because of the house's unkempt appearance that nobody ever tried to break in the house to steal anything, the very reason Xhymza always kept her door unlocked.

There was, of course, the occasional lonely traveler who would take shelter here. Xhymza usually didn't mind as long as they bother her in her cellar where she does her usually, well, lewd experiments.

"Xhymza!" Arthur called, "Where are you?"

"Downstairs!" Xhymza's voice came from a trapdoor in the middle of the room, the one that led to her cellar. "I'm coming up now!"

A moment later, the trapdoor opened, and out came the lich, Xhymza.

"Hey everybody, what brings you all here?"

"Xhymza?" Hazel looked puzzled, "You okay? You don't quite look like yourself."

It didn't take long for me to realize what she meant: Xhymza wasn't her usual calm self.

Her usually dead eyes blazed with lust, and she had a smile that said "I want to fuck someone right now". Semen leaked out of her pussy, and a trickle of it was coming from her mouth as well.

"D-did you break your ph-phylactery again?" I asked.

"Yes," She huffed, "it happens. I should really remember to put it somewhere safer. I don't even know how long I was down there and- Wait, Julia? Why are you using an anthropomorphosis spell?"

"What?"

"I mean, even your aura feels human. You must've improved on your magic skills."

"But I really am human Xhymza!"

Xhymza just stopped and stared at Julia. Suddenly, a snicker escaped her lips, which turned into a burst of full-blown laughter that echoed throughout the house.

"Wow Julia, that's a good one!" She said when she stopped to regain her composure, "For a second there I thought you actually turned back into a human."

"But she really did turn back!" Hazel yelled.

"Alright, joke's over, Julia please uncast that anthropomorphosis spell. I don't have time for this."

"It's not some disguise spell Xhymza, it's real!"

The fire of lust that was blazing in Xhymza's eyes was now extinguished by a downpour of confusion and dread. "C-come on Julia, l-like I said before, joke's over so uncast your little spell, p-please." As much as Xhymza wanted to believe that what she was hearing wasn't true, the look on Julia's face said otherwise. The next thing I knew, Xhymza was putting her hands on her head while shaking it in disbelief. "This isn't happening! This is impossible! This goes against everything I've ever known, everything I've ever read!" Immediately, she lunged over and grabbed Julia by her arms. "TELL ME HOW THIS HAPPENED!"

Julia told her about the incident at The Floating Island. "...that's when I figured we should come and visit you. You're an expert in magic, surely you should know about that orb and how to reverse its effects. Right?"

Xhymza looked as if she knew the world was ending tomorrow, "But-but..." she let go of Julia, "I don't know any magic artifact that does that. I don't think I can help you, Julia."

Julia sniffed, "So you're saying that..." her voice began cracking, eyes welled up with tears, "...that I could be a human... forever?" At that very moment, my beloved Julia burst into a violent stream of tears. Sobs escaped her throat and through her hand-covered face.

Hazel rushed to comfort her, "Hey, don't cry Julia, it's not the end of the world."

"Not the end of the world?" Xhymza yelled, "Hazel, it might as well be the end of the world!"

"Exactly," Julia managed to let out through her sobs, "without my succubus body, Ash and I will never enjoy thag immense pleasure ever again, and he will never enjoy staring at my immense beauty ever again, a-and-"

"No Julia!" Xhymza interrupted, "If that man could reverse monsterization, he could reverse entire monster realms! It's the expansion of those monster realms that is bringing the Overlord closer to her goal of unifying the humans and monsters into one race! If that orb can not only reverse the effects of monster mana, but make anything it touches immune to it too, it would mean The Order now has the perfect weapon to use against mamono! All those sacrifices people made against The Order so they could live happy lives would've been for nothing!"

"Hey guys," I looled behind Xhymza just in time to see Jonathan climb out of the cellar, half dazed from what must've been hours of sex, "what's all the ruckus abo-"

Xhymza immediatley ran to him and grabbed him, "The Order found a way to win!"

"What?" Jonathan looked at Xhymza as if she just said something bad, which she did.

"I said the Order found a way to win Jonathan! Do you know what this means?! It means we will all die! We will all get exterminated and the Chief God will bring back the original monsters! The flesh eating ones!"

"Well look on the bright side," Hazel chimed in, "even if Julia's body is back to normal, her mind is still the same."

"W-well," I stuttered, "that man did think Julia was going to t-thank him after he turned her b-back. O-of course she d-didn't and she ended up y-yelling at him."

Hazel just shook her head "Of course she wouldn't thank him. Monsterization doesn't destroy the original you and replace it with a hedonistic rapist like those damn theocrats think, you're still you when you're monsterized, you're only more lustful. You also prefer your new monster form because it's more beautiful and also because you want to feel that immense pleasure you get during the process."

"Yeah," Arthur added, "monsterized women only reject the teachings of the Chief God because they realize out they lied to them about the mamono, not because they are being mind controlled or anything like that."

"Well," Julia stood up, her eyes having exhausted their tears supply, "shouldn't we at least get the Overlord to know? You heard Xhymza, that man could be a big threat to everyone."

"No!" Xhymza yelled, "Do you know what would happen if the public knew, let alone the Overlord herself?! Panic Julia, a mass panic! Many monsterized individuals could only find happiness through monsterization. Do you want to know how they would react when they find out it could be taken from them at any moment?!"

"Will someone please tell me what exactly is going on?" Jonathan asked irritably as he walked over.

"Come on Ash," Julia tugged on my shirt, "lets go home, they cant help me."

We began to walk to the front door.

"You sure Julia could still take care of that kid?" I heard Arthur say, "I mean, he's still traumatized from what his fa-" he stopped when he realized what he was saying, "I mean, 'that other crazy man' did to him. I mean, he still can't talk properly."

"I think Julia should just look on the bright side," Hazel said, "she could now have all the children she wants and can even make sons, unlike us. Her disease is gone too so she shouldn't have to worry about that."

"Will somebody please tell me why my wife is freaking out?!" Jonathan yelled, "And why the heck is Julia using an anthropomorphosis spell when we are clearly in pro-monster territory with not a Order soldier in sight?!"

As we walked down the path to Belfort, I couldn't help but stare at Julia. Since the day she saved me from "him", I always thought of her as a brave girl who would do anything to make me happy. She would always make sure I was well fed, unlike "him", and would do all sorts of sexual activities with me that would give me as much pleasure as possible.

To me, Julia was like my guardian and I loved her for it. But now that she was sad, I felt like I had to take responsibility for her.

No matter what happens, tonight, I'm going to make sure Julia was happy.