Twice now, you have looked upon a young succubus in the rosy bloom of her mind-warping power, and twice now, your will has not been sufficient to resist the impact of her allure. Some would take this as a sign that they ought to change their approach, but you? You see it as a challenge. You will not suffer a weakness of this magnitude to exist in yourself, nor will you shy away from that which triggers its manifestation. You will confront them both head-on, with the full force of your mind and spirit bent to the task of resistance. You will ignore the succubus's aura, and observe the final match of this division. You will overcome this hazardous vulnerability, and seal a dangerous breach in your mental defenses. You willmetaphorically bash your head against this barrier until something gives, and-

Cute girl.

Rose-tinted haze.

Confusion.

World fading into murmurs and blurs.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the winner of the Twenty-First World Martial Arts Tournament's Under Fourteens Division Finals, Hikaru!"

-once again miss the entire bout, because you charged straight into the succubus's allure and got lost somwhere in your own mind. It's very much not a case of the third time being the charm, but rather, the third strike resulting in an out. There is a slight silver lining, in that this time, you were actually kind of vaguely aware of something going on in front of you, which might even have been the fight in question. And repeated exposure to the succubus's enthralling aura is giving you a better sense of what goes into it, and how you might go about replicating it, should you want to. That's progress, right? Right?

Gained Allure (?) F
Gained Mental Defense F+
Gained Totem of the Raging Boar F+++

"You could have asked me to put up a mental ward or something, you know," Briar chides you as the awards ceremony gets underway.

"Yeah, yeah," you sigh.