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The surprised blue-haired succubus jumped up from her bed. She looked warily at her unfamiliar surroundings, before remembering she was now in Luka's pocket castle. It took her several seconds before realizing there wasn't anybody in her room, and that the voice she heard was Astaroth calling her telepathically.

"Hyu, what's up sis?"

She could hear a relieved sigh.

"Thanks the Founder, you're fine. We've been trying to contact you for several hours now. We were starting to think that the succubus queen actually managed to get you."

"I'm fine, sis, she came in right after our last conversation, the hero beat her, and then recruited her. As usual"

Morrigan held her head as she was still feeling a little sick from the last evening. Why did her sisters have to call her for and make that much noise right now? She could hear Astaroth resume her blabbering.

"That was probably one impressive fight, considering how much difficulty she gave us. It's no surprise then you're still recovering."

"Pfff, nah he did take her on the spot and then beat her as if she was a sack of potatoes."

"Even coming from you that sounded horribly wrong." Oh, great, Lilith now had joined the conversation.

"Still, we have the confirmation that the hero is indeed getting stronger. So we will make sure to properly integrate him in our plan for saving this world's inhabitants from now on." The red haired succubus definitely sounded passive aggressive in that last sentence.

"Wait, did something happen back home?"

Astaroth sounded clearly annoyed. "Well, apparently, lady Saja already did contact him when this Heaven's buffoon Raphaela try to show him their ideal world to convince him."

Morrigan was dumbfounded for a moment. There apparently were a few communication problems back there.

"Wait, where- how- when did that happen ?"

"When the hero's team was in Esta, not long before they started their move toward Grangold."

"Hyu, so much for making a first good impression."

"Didn't you attack him beforehand ?"

"That was before we knew someone already had plans for him."

Astaroth was clearly still not over that issue. She continued :

"Besides, if the hero couldn't have proved himself to be strong enough, he would not have been useful to us, and he would have met a nicer death than this world's population."

Lilith took back the opportunity to change the subject.

"Back to the point, we wanted to check on you and find out if you managed to get some insight on the hero's future moves. We also want to make sure the apoptosis going undercover as Sonya isn't creating additional troubles. Lastly, we wanted to ask you to improve our image in the eyes of the hero Luka. We want to make sure he will fully support us in due time."

"Meh, Luka's currently training and gearing up in a pocket dimension called the Labyrinth of Chaos with a few other team mates including Sonya, I accompanied them a few times, and it gets boring after a while. Nothing to write home about, really."

Morrigan stumbled for a bit around before finally lying back on her bed.

"Are you alright, sister? We have difficulty keeping the link up."

"I'm just feeling tired, that's all."

The youngest of the Lilith Sisters could hear some form of mumbling as Lilith was thinking out loud. The former could only make out the sounds "not" several times, before Lilith asked in a falsely light hearted tone.

"Morrigan?"

"Yes?" That wasn't boding well.

"Did the lack of ability to properly satisfy your craving for human essence while indulging in the most fatal form of sadism proper to your person lead you to transfer your desire onto ethylic substances which resulted in a decision to make your body absorb said products under liquid form until you no longer could and are you currently suffering from its aftermath?"

"Whaaat ?" Lilith was talking way too fast and too loud for her.

"You got drunk." That was Astaroth. More straightforward.

"Yes."

The tension was palpable between the sisters. Even if they were separated by several kingdoms, it felt like the two older sisters were ready to lunge across the world at their younger sister to slap her in the face. Several times. With a club.

"Given our predicament, and how much our future rely on the hero wanting to help us get back home, that was probably one of the worst decision you could make." Lilith didn't even sound mad, just incredibly jaded.

Astaroth sighed. "Give me my concern back."

"Please tell me you didn't do anything rash or destructive." Lilith was now sounding definitively concerned.

Morrigan suddenly felt a wave of discomfort as she prepared to recount the experience. It was better to tell everything now rather than to wait for it to pop up at an inopportune time.

"Weeeell, I might have wrecked his castle's bar after those twins named Lilith and Lilim said Morrigan was a named given to rash succubi."

"Great." Even behind the veil of politeness and the motherly tone she used, Lilith's sarcasm was palpable.

"I might have temporarily incapacitated several of his close friends, as well as one or two queens."

"At least you recovered some strength."

"And the last thing I remember was fingering a naked Eden until she passed out. But hey, if they brought me back to my room without chopping my head off, so it means they like me at least a little."

"Riiiiigh-. Wait, Luka recruited Eden? When did that happen?"

Morrigan was no longer listening and kept going on.

"And besides, don't read me the riot act! I still remember that time we had to deal with Kanon's new flowery splices!"

"Morrigan!" Lilith was clearly getting annoyed at her sister's antics.

"Or the one time Hiruko tested the wine-sake-gold cocktail mix! We had to brainwash the whole population of Gold Port to make them think it was the result of a hurricane!"

"MORRIGAN!" Astaroth was about to blow.

"And let's not forget the one time mother and Tamamo had a contest within Esta! Even the local cattle got caught in it!

"Morrigan."A new sensuous voice made itself known.

"And… KYAAAAA!"

Morrigan suddenly jumped up, shaking, as she sobered up in an instant. She was laughing nervously as she talked.

"Mother! Hehehe! I didn't think you would be able to join our little conversation! When did you manage to?"

"It looked like communicating with your world suddenly became easier just barely ago. I dropped in when Lilith was asking if you did any damages in your inebriated status."

Morrigan gulped loudly and started sweating heavily. She was dead. She was so dead. Minagi's sensual voice could be heard again.

"You told that you pleasured Eden until she fainted, and although I wish you kept doing it until she died, I would prefer to learn more about how the hero made her join his team after she fought you."

The succubus replied unsteadily.

"I'm not sure myself, it's neither this world's Eden nor the one from the angel's world, and she apparently joined a long time before me. I didn't get the full details and Luka remains evasive on the subject."

"I see."

The succubus ancestor fell silent for a moment.

"Then it might not be the first world that is seeing this story. That hero likely already went on an adventure where he favored angels to the point of recruiting Eden. I will tell the others about it. We now want to make sure our actions are coherent following a few… strategic changes."

Her tone became more lighthearted afterward.

"Also, behave like a proper succubus in the future. It would be a shame if the hero decided to go against us because he thinks of us as ill-natured life wreckers, and pass up on the pleasures we would gladly offer him as soon as he asks."

"Yes mother!"

"I will see you all soon!" She ended her message in a singsong voice.

Morrigan sighed heavily as she could feel the communication ending. The worst was out of the way for now, but she really had to become extra cautious. How did their mother manage to contact them like that from another world anyway? She was powerful and her own closeness to Luka, who was an anomaly between world, could explain it, but there had to be another reason…

Deciding she needed a breath of fresh air, she stepped up and left her room. She really wanted to change her mind from this conversation and from her family for a second. She heard some commotion as Luka recently came back from an expedition in the Labyrinth. Apparently he had made a more-than-usual dumb choice.

Ah, well. Time to tease the hero.