-Meanwhile in Hellgondo-
Diary of Tamamo-no-Mae, entry #340,674:
Something about Luka had felt very off putting recently. Ever since he slayed Ilias and woke up from that month long coma, he'd been under the weather. Sometimes he'd randomly space out and look directly at walls and change his facial expressions, as if he were giving someone who didn't exist a dirty look. If his goal is to creep me out, he's succeeded in that regard, however I'm worried about his mental condition. Over the years I've witnessed many fallen heroes who were enslaved as sex slaves adapt various mental disorders, but I've never seen what Luka is going through right now. Just what happened in Heaven six months ago?
"Helloooooo~ little Tamamo~ "
The pen in my hand dropped as I heard an all too familiar voice call out my name. I slammed the diary shut.
"What do you want, Alma Elma?"
The succubus queen just hovered in place so as to prove her point that she was better than average in the art of wind magic.
"I'm waiting for Luka boy to show up. You know he's been very reserved recently, he even denied my advances on him. I have to say, I'm more than impressed at the amount of willpower loaded into that little boy."
Hm. It's strange for Alma Elma to mention Luka right after I finished writing about him. This probably meant only one thing.
"Damn it Alma Elma, I thought I told you I didn't like you eavesdropping on my diary! There's one condition I put into place and you go and break it again!"
I clenched my fists as Alma Elma floated around next to me. The vibrations of my anger must've alerted her, because she started talking about them.
"Oh my little Tamamo, even if you wanted to hit me, you just couldn't. Besides, that entry was nothing compared to your usual self-loathing nonsense you fill those pages up with. You need a lover."
"I've had over 50 lovers! I don't need any more soft feelings for anybody. You'll be a skeleton by the time I'm a quarter of the way through my lifespan."
I let out a loud sigh. Maybe I said something I shouldn't have, but I can barely keep my eyes open after doing six months worth of paperwork needed to maintain race relations with the angels and humans.
"...I'm sorry, I might've gone too far. What is it you want?"
Alma Elma turned her head to face me. Her horns had always made her look like a sheep in my eyes, I wonder if they're real or just for show?
"I think something is wrong with Luka boy as well. I can feel a disturbance in his wind. He's not flowing freely anymore, it's almost as if something has chained him down, not allowing him to get off the ground."
I figured as much. Alma Elma always was very perceptive about these things.
"Well, if his wind is being interrupted, why don't you ask the wind itself what's interrupting it? Draw Sylph out of Luka and ask her what's going on inside of him."
Alma Elma just looked at me with a disinterested gaze.
"I already tried that, but Sylph was unwilling to cooperate. It seems that whatever is going on inside of Luka's head he doesn't want anyone else knowing. He probably told the four spirits not to say anything to anyone outside his brain."
"Hmmm… but that means that something is occurring in Luka's consciousness that even the spirits are afraid of. This is very troubling news. It might be even worse than I originally thought…"
I'd thought of a few possibilities of what could be happening. Luka's brain may have overloaded when he took all of that holy energy into his body, forever rendering his consciousness shattered. Another possibility included the chance he may have died and returned from the dead, and now he's some kind of zombie. I continued brainstorming possibilities and writing them down as I spoke to Alma Elma.
"Hey Tamamo, when was the last time you had someone poke around in your small honeypot?"
The succubus queen knew no boundaries for a conversation topic. To her, and probably most other succubi, this is a totally normal thing to talk about with your friend. To me, however, I can't answer without a hint of irritation in my voice.
"...Around 2 or 3 years ago, but I'm sure you must've cleared at least four or five humans today alone, am I wrong?"
It seemed as though my petty insult was totally ineffective, as Alma Elma just laughed at my response to her question.
"Kyahahah! Oh man you really are a granny! You really can't score it with any humans because you look like that? Hyahahaha!"
"I-I'm not that childish looking! Nobody had time to have sex because of the angels and the probation Ilias put up!"
Alma Elma just gave me a smug look as if to say, "Whatever you say, fox granny."
"You damn dick-guzzler! You may have tits, but I outnumber you in both lovers and towns that idolize me as a goddess!"
Granny? That's it you little shit, I'll make you eat your words by beating you at your own game.
"You haven't had a human male inside of you in 2-3 years? There must be cobwebs in there! Kyahaha~!"
"Grrrr…! Shut up already! You are the queen of whores, you can screw any dude on the planet and outlast him just because of your stupid genes!"
Alma Elma turned her face to look at me with her eyes. She seemed to be trying to quietly whisper some sort of temptation incantation upon me. She can try, but any amateur spell cast by her will just bounce right off of me.
"Hey little Tamamo."
That was a weird response to a volley of insults. I put my pen down to stop drawing up conclusions for Luka's current state of mind to turn and face Alma Elma.
"What do you want now?"
Alma Elma was sitting down in midair with her tail poised in my direction while opening and closing it's disgusting entrance. It seemed to be lusting for someone to 'play' with it as it was dripping strange fluids out of its entrance onto the floor as well. Damn succubi making a mess out of my room.
"Wanna fuck?"
The bluntness of her question made me blush in surprise. I didn't expect Alma Elma to offer that to me, despite her explorations with Granberia. I probably should've, but I let it catch me off guard.
"Hahaha! Your cheeks lit up bright red! You still can feel things after all, can't you? I wonder what you'd feel as the succubus queen pleasures your insides?"
I can't mess around with Alma Elma, doing so would put me in the same position as Granberia and I'd be a partial sex slave to her until she dies.
"No thanks."
Alma Elma stuck out her tongue and used her fingers to pull her mouth wide open and show me the inside of her mouth. She looked at me once again, and began speaking in a seductive tone, trying to entrance me still.
"Aw come on, just imagine how good this would feel rubbing all up against your juicy insides. I know you're dying for someone to fill your tiny hole, it's only going to be a few minutes and then we'll both feel amazing."
Alma Elma put her hands on my shoulders and began rubbing them up and down. She probed her fingers beneath my kimono and attempted to make a grab for my bare chest. Before she could do that, I simply applied more gravitational force to my body with the power of the Earth.
"H-heavy…"
Alma Elma's hand was stuck in my kimono at my mercy, however since I have a heart of gold I let her out without even teasing her.
"Listen. You're right about one thing, I do want sexual affection, but more than that-"
I stopped and paused for a minute. Was telling Alma Elma my life issues really a good idea?
…
"I can't allow myself to enjoy these peaceful times. I have been working for over a thousand years, monitoring each and every Alice since the first one was banished from this realm. To be frank, despite my hatred towards Ilias, both Alice the 1st and the other 5 ancestors deserved to be locked away. We had too much blood stained on our hands. It didn't matter if Ilias was commanding the angels and humans to fight for her, we slaughtered them in the most violent and barbaric ways possible. Women and children, old and young, it didn't matter to us, the only thing that mattered was victory in battle. I still hear the screams in my dreams, and I still regret following Alice the 1st's orders to dodge the seal. I should've died then and there along with those killing machines of the past."
I didn't look back at Alma Elma, I may have gotten a bit choked up self -pitying myself, and I didn't want to look that pathetic. I felt a warm embrace around my shoulders and nape as the succubus queen wrapped her arms around me and brought her face right next to mine.
"Oh Tamamo… my cute little Tamamo…"
Her soft words and soothing tone brought a sense of relief to my consciousness.
"You're not like the other 5 ancestors, that's why Alice the 1st trusted you the most. You've saved so many lives, even while Ilias was ordering the persecution of monsters, you still stood loyal to humanity. You're not a bad person, you were the only good person during a time of tragedy."
The succubus queen always knew what to say when the situation got worse. Despite our differences, she's a loyal friend through and through. And that isn't something you find very often these days.
"I'm forever grateful to have met a person like you, Alma Elma. However-"
I used the power of the earth to put more gravitational force onto my body again. Alma Elma's hand was now stuck underneath my kimono skirt, millimetres away from slipping her fingers into my special spot. Since I don't wear undergarments, she would've most certainly have easily slid right inside of me, but Lady Luck seems to have been on my side today.
"Gah!"
I pulled Alma Elma's hand out of my skirt and put it back on her lap before releasing the pressure on myself.
"I'm not interested."
-Outside of the Monster Lord's Castle, At the same time-
"..."
The sun was setting, and the land was beginning to become covered in darkness. The teleportation sequence was incredibly fast, it seemed as though no angels were lining up to come to Hellgondo unsurprisingly. Most monsters here still held grudges against angels ever since Ilias tried to erase them all. Cupid and I were disguised as impoverished human travelers in order to avoid any unnecessary conflict. Our actual outfits were covered over in ragged brown ponchos with hoods big enough to cover our halos.
"Hmm…"
I had finally figured out my stand's potential, and I used it to find out exactly where Tamamo would be in a few hours. While she was speaking with Alma Elma, she thought of taking a little walk around the castle, outside of the Monster Lord's sight to do who knows what. I didn't really care, I just needed Tamamo dead so I could claim what was mine.
"...Hey Mariel? What are we doing?"
We had been waiting outside in the forest for a couple hours now. She probably wanted to know what my plan was, however I didn't want to risk speaking about it, and then Tamamo overhearing something with her giant fox ears. Who knows how wide a range those things have?
"We're waiting. Just trust me on this one."
I didn't have time to explain how I knew that Tamamo would be here in a while, or how my ability worked to Cupid. It was too complicated for her small mind to handle (hey!) so I figured I'd just get this over with as fast as possible.
"I'm going to rest for a little while. Cupid could you watch over me?"
Cupid put on a pouty face and gave me a "Yeah, yeah whatever." Of course I wasn't actually going to rest, I was going to check up on Tamamo's location with my new ability again. The sun had totally gone down, and now me and Cupid were isolated in the pitch black with nobody but ourselves present. The main reason I told Cupid to make sure I "rest" was so I don't just get up and walk away like I did last time, but my movements seem to be based on an unconscious sense of primal seeking of shelter. If I am outside and isolated in the middle of a forest, there shouldn't be too many places for my body to find protection at. At least that's what I think.
"「Mary Jane!」"
I activated my stand's ability and entered a subconscious state once again. My mind was no longer bound to my body, instead it was bound to the one who I was thinking about the most recently, Tamamo. It was right around the time that she said she'd go on a walk so she must be heading out soon. The darkness began to fade, replaced by a blurry vision of what I assume to be what Tamamo was seeing.
"..."
A dark night sky quite similar to the one I was just gazing at before appeared in my sight, but everything around Tamamo's body was pitch black. She wasn't talking because she was with nobody else on a trail in the dark. I had also done some previous scouting around the surrounding area and discovered that there was only one trail around the area she was in right now, the same one I'm on.
"Hmm…"
The grass brushing by and crunching of leaves beneath Tamamo had stopped. She was now standing still, staring at something in the dark I couldn't make out. I heard movement again, it seems as though she's pulling something out.
"Mfufufu."
It seems she was… laughing? Why would she be quietly laughing in the middle of a forest? Did she just think of a funny joke? I heard more movement, despite her standing still, she was definitely up to something. I listened carefully to every small detail of the transmission being played through my stand.
"Hahh~ "
Tamamo's vision had shifted so that she now seemed to be sitting down. I could hear a loud fleshy noise ring out throughout the forest around her. The best way I could describe it is if you took a banana, mashed it up, and then stuck your fingers in the residue. Whatever she was doing, she wasn't being quiet about it. I wonder if Cupid could hear her? I decided it was time to return back to my body. I was greeted with buzzing in my ears again, but my vision quickly returned. It might take a little while to get used to this ability.
"Hey, Cupid. Did you hear any kind of-"
I turned around only to find that Cupid was nowhere to be found. On top of that, I didn't hear any noises from Tamamo, but low growling noises instead. I felt that many pairs of eyes were locked onto my very soul from somewhere in the dark forest. This is bad, really bad. What kind of horrible feral monsters would attack someone who can't even fight back? I silently whispered an incantation, and soon my magic seal was swerving around my right hand. The beasts grew closer, growling like that of a tiger. Finally, they emerged from the darkness, dozens of chimera beasts all lined up in packs! I shot out a ball of fire from my fist to try and scare them off.
"Get lost you damn freaks!"
This didn't seem to scare them, rather it appeared to make them even more vicious. On all exits, they slowly made their way towards me, as if I were a piece of meat dangled in a kennel. Time froze still. I could sense that there was no getting out of this without a few lost limbs. An overwhelming sense of wanting to protect myself came over me. It was then that my stand finally awoke.
"「Mary Jane!」"
When I summoned my stand again this time, it felt different. I could feel a manifestation of my soul besides me, with a strong energy radiating from it. When I looked at my side, I saw it for the first time. A humanoid figure stood next to me, it's head elongated to about three feet long, and a big hole in it's hair. A pair of red horns stuck out of its forehead. Its body was slim and muscular, with pieces of its limbs being connected by smoke. It had a folded hand and a peace sign symbol on each of its cheeks, and a heart shaped engraved into its abdomen. Smoke constantly protruded from inside of itself into the surroundings. I felt this power course through myself, I could move it as if it were my own puppet.
"ZARA ZARA ZARA ZARA ZARA!"
I unleashed Mary Jane upon the chimera beasts. The smoke seemed to solidify when it was about to come into contact with living matter, smacking into whatever threatened me. Before I knew it, the chimera beasts were being pummeled left and right. Flung into trees and pounded into the ground, the remaining beasts ran away before they'd meet a similar fate.
"Well… I suppose that sol-"
A remaining chimera beast had hidden itself in my blind spot. It pounced on top of me, and stuck it's disgusting salivating four tongued mouth inside of my own. I was in shock from the sudden attack, and I had let my stand become unsummoned.
"MMPH! MMMMPH!"
The chimera stuck her tongues down my throat in what I assumed was an attempt to suffocate me. At the same time, she pulled at my pants with her strange tail. It seems she wanted to connect the gross end of it to my reproductive organ. As the lack of oxygen caught up to me, I began drifting off. I smacked the chimera with my magical seal, but it didn't even flinch. What a way to go. I suppose it's only just that I be raped to death as I have done to so many others, and how ironic that the perpetrator be a demon we angels created. I stopped pounding against the chimera, and let it do whatever it wishes. My vision began fading out, as I accepted the horrible fate that awaited me.
"Be gone."
The chimera beast withdrew its tongues from my throat, and quickly fled from me. I quickly inhaled as the air returned to my brain.
"UGAH! AGH! *cough* *hic*"
My savior stood close by me and knelt down by my incapacitated body. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Standing at no more than five feet, was the legendary last of the Six Ancestors. The blonde kitsune gave me a shrill smile as she looked at my pitiful state. It was at this point I realized my hood was down. Uh oh.