Megumin and Darkness sat at their usual booth at the guild hall. By itself, this wasn't too unusual, the two regularly hanging out when Kazuma and Aqua went on dates. The oddity was in just how tired the two of them looked and the fact that Luna hadn't seen either of her employees in three days now.

Strolling up to the table once she had a break, Luna sat down with the duo. "You two alright? And where are Kazuma and Aqua? I haven't seen them in days. I'm covering for them since they do so much around here, but they still have debt to work off."

Megumin let her head fall down onto the table, barely missing her food. Turning slightly to look at Luna, she had the thousand-yard stare of a woman who'd seen hell. "They're at the mansion. They haven't come out of their room since they went in three days ago."

Luna looked shocked. "Three days? Did you deliver them food? Are they okay? They're not sick are they? I didn't think a goddess of healing could get sick."

Darkness chuckled lightly, clearly tired despite her great stamina. "Oh, they're not sick. If anything, they're a bit TOO healthy. We haven't been able to sleep for two days because of their… rigorous activities."

Luna was finally putting two and two together as she blushed, covering her mouth. "You're telling me that they're-"

Darkness and Megumin answered together, "Yup."

"And that they've been at it for-" Luna tried to elaborate.

"Yup" the mentally defeated duo answered.

Luna took a moment, closing her eyes as she gathered her thoughts. Taking a deep breath, she slammed her hands on the table before pushing herself up. "Alright, that's it. Three days is more than enough for anyone to do… that. I am going over there and reminding them that there is a world outside of the bedroom!" Luna finished the sentence, almost shouting in rage. Not that the duo had done the deed or anything, but that Kazuma had left her to work by herself on all the backroom paperwork without so much as a warning. Aqua was just lucky that nobody had been seriously injured during her absence or she'd be getting an earful too.

Darkness and Megumin perked up slightly as the guild leader started storming out the door. Taking only a moment to look at each other, a rapid conversation passing between the two of them, they hastened after her, wanting to see the fireworks and explosions sure to occur.

-Ko-No-Su-Ba!-

Luna and company stormed through the gates of the mansion, questionable nosies already audible. Luna was red as soon as she could hear it, torn between rage and embarrassment. Not at all motivated by her own inexperience in such matters.

By the time the trio reached the master bedroom, Darkness and Megumin were too embarrassed to even keep their eyes up. That didn't stop Luna though, the guild worker rolling up her sleeves before kicking in the door.

"What the-?" was all Kazuma got out before chaos ensued.

Megumin and Darkness hid around the corner as shouting, yelling, and objects being thrown around echoed.

"Three days!" A loud bang came out of the room. "You horndogs left me alone for THREE DAYS!" The obvious sound of shouting and screaming came from Aqua as she dived to try and protect herself. "All because you two didn't know how to exercise any restraint! NOW GET BACK TO WORK!"

"Mercy! Luna, please!" Kazuma begged, Aqua's crying in the background.

"I'm not even dressed," Aqua whimpered, having always been very fragile when it came to being yelled at.

Luna finally came out of the room, one idiot ear held in each hand as she dragged the naked duo behind her. Were it not for the blankets and pillows they'd grabbed, Megumin and Darkness would have gotten more of an eyeful than they needed.

Tossing the lovers into the bathroom, she shouted, shutting the door. "Get clean, get dressed, and get your ass to the hall! Aqua can stay behind long enough to clean that nightmare of a room." Luna added as an afterthought, knowing the goddess could clean fairly well when she could and not wanting that to simmer.

It was the final comment that piqued Darkness and Megumin's curiosity. They both cautiously looked around the door, their responses polar opposites. Megumin looked like she'd just glimpsed into the aftermath of a sadistic demon's fun. Looking at each surface, her mouth hanging open in disgusted shock as she tried to process what she was seeing. Her eyes eventually roamed up, going even wider. "How- how did they get it on the ceiling?" She whimpered, falling behind Darkness for safety.

Darkness… had a different reaction. "Oh my. I knew our fearless leader was perverse, but I didn't know he had such prowess… do you think they'd be open to-"

"Shut up! I don't want to hear what perverted thoughts are going through your mind right now!" Megumin shrieked, running away with her hate pulled over her face as she was mortified by what she'd seen and the thoughts that Darkness had inflicted upon her.

-Ko-No-Su-Ba!-

An hour later, a slightly bruised Kazuma stumbled into the guild hall. Luna looked at him, leveling the best glare she could at him from behind the front counter. She'd beaten him by quite a bit, but based on how he was walking, she was fairly certain she knew why. "Aqua insisted on a final go in the shower?" She asked, fairly certain she was spot on.

Kazuma nodded, gently sitting in his own spot. "Turns out the goddess of water was super into it. Had to remind her you'd come back if I didn't hurry."

Luna smiled, patting her junior on the head affectionately. "My condolences. At least you've learned restraint… Eventually."

"If I'm being honest, I was done after the first night, but she didn't want to stop. She just kept going. I don't even know how many days passed while we were… you know" he admitted, resting his head on the desk for a moment.

"Huh… I honestly expected you to be the aggressor there," Luna mused, humming as she signed a few payout documents. Sliding a stack over to Kazuma, she tried to make it clear he was mostly forgiven.

Kazuma sat back up, taking the top of the stack. "Hah, I wish. She was insatiable. I think she was less into booze before her intervention. I wonder what could have caused-" Kazuma's rambling stopped as he saw Missy in her human form. "Ah, that explains it."

Luna turned to Kazuma, tilting her head in confusion. "What does?" She asked, noticing Missy too.

Missy walked up to the counter, shuffling nervously. "Um, have either of you seen Aqua? I was told to get her," she asked, clearly uncomfortable.

"Uh, she should be here soon. Why? What's wrong Missy?" Kazuma asked, more than used to acting as a go between with the succubi.

"Well, um, you see… something weird happened at the cafe," Missy tried to explain, fidgeting more uncomfortably by the second and avoiding eye contact with the adventurer-slash-merchant.

Kazuma scratched his cheek, worried now. "Something 'weird?' Are you okay Missy?"

"Perfectly fine Sir! Please tell Aqua to come by. Okay? Thanks! Bye!" Missy shouted, dashing out of the guild hall and covering her face with her hands. If Kazuma didn't know better, he'd think she was embarrassed.

After a minute or two of quiet working, Kazuma asked Luna, "She seem off to you Luna?"

"A bit," Luna admitted, stamping another form. "But she's a succubus. It could just be a sex demon thing. Could you grab me another ink pad? This one, much like you, is almost dried out."

"Yeah, sure," Kazuma started to get up, but stopped, his body frozen in some weird mixture of feelings.

"Kazuma?" Luna asked, wondering what was wrong with him. Looking up, she saw the problem. Aqua had finally gotten to the hall… and was dressed in a frankly dangerous maid outfit. "Oh hell no!" She shouted, shooting up and stomping over to Aqua, who was already eyeing her counter boy. "No! Bad horny goddess! You go change right now!" Luna ordered her, slapping the blue haired goddess with a small pile of papers.

Kazuma let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding as Luna efficiently herded Aqua to the backroom. It wasn't like he didn't enjoy their fun, it was that he had but a squishy (and currently bruised) mortal body. He just couldn't keep up! After a few minutes, both girls came back out, one pouting and the other looking victorious.

"Are you done now Aqua?" Luna asked, the pouting goddess, motioning for her towards Kazuma.

Aqua only huffed, crossing her arms and looking away from Kazuma. "Sorry I didn't take into account your feelings" she mumbled, only half feeling it. After all, it wasn't like he was innocent.

"Apology accepted? Though, we probably owe Luna more of an apology for going AWOL. Sorry Luna," Kazuma added, bowing slightly to Luna.

"Sorry Luna," Aqua mumbled in agreement, now looking more ashamed than petulant.

"All is forgiven. Alright then, Kazuma is already taking care of the backlog, but you have a few minor injuries I'd like for you to take a look at. After that, Missy stopped by. It seems your girls need you to stop by for some reason," Luna explained, handing Aqua her checklist of patients to check in on.

Aqua nodded before heading back to the infirmary to check up on the wounded adventurers.

-Ko-No-Su-Ba!-

Aqua, finally no longer in horny mode, had herself wrapped around Kazuma's arm, her head resting on his shoulder as they walked towards the succubus cafe. The goddess had reasoned that, since Missy hadn't just waited on her to show up, it couldn't be that urgent. So, she'd just waited until Kazuma could come with her.

"Sooo, did Missy say what the girls wanted?" Aqua asked, gently nudging Kazuma.

Kazuma shook his head, turning them towards the cafe. "Not really? It sounded important and she was weirdly flustered, but I didn't get the impression they were in danger or anything, though."

That was enough for Aqua, so the two of them maintained a peaceful silence until they reached the alleyway. Since the public reveal of the cafe, there were usually a few adventurers milling about, but today it seemed almost more like a mob.

Before the duo could try to find out what was going on, Dust was thankfully able to answer from the front of the line. "Let us in damn it! Why would a succubus cafe be closed?!"

Aqua and Kazuma made their way forward, the local adventurers familiar enough with them to let them through to try and handle things. "Guys, if they say they're closed, they probably have a reason. There's no helping it, so go home and check back tomorrow, okay? You can go one day without getting off! Me and Aqua are already looking into it," Kazuma promised, squeezing his way to the front.

"One day my ass!" Dust pouted. "It's been three! Wait, Kazuma, that you? Help a brutha out will ya?" Kazuma assured him they'd get to the bottom of things and while, clearly disappointed, Kazuma reminded him that he wasn't married and there were plenty of other 'clubs' in the town, cheering the pervert up a little. With a collective grumble, the mob took their cue from their loudest member and sullenly left the alley, sparing mournful glances for the couple as they watched them file out.

Once the alley was empty, Kazuma sighed, rubbing his head. "Can this day get any weirder?" he asked before knocking on the locked door.

"Go away! We told you, we're closed!" came an unfamiliar voice. Not too surprising. There were dozens of succubi and he couldn't be expected to know all of them by name. Aqua on the other hand…

"Treya? Hey! It's me and Kazuma! Missy wanted me to come by," Aqua explained, removing her head from Kazuma's shoulder finally. After all, she had to be somewhat professional for her girls.

"Lady Aqua? At last, heavens bless," came the relieved response as the door unlocked, shot open for a moment and the two of them were yanked inside.

The journey from door to Marigold went by in a seemingly deliberate blur. None of the girls seemed able to look at their goddess or her lover for more than a second before turning away red and giggling.

Marigold sat in her luxurious armchair, arms crossed and angrily puffing on her long pipe. That was all normal enough, but the succubus had, for some reason, deigned to put on her human disguise for the first time either had known her, and she was blushing slightly as well. "Finally, I thought Missy told you it was an emergency?"

Kazuma and Aqua exchanged an embarrassed look, chuckling slightly. "Sorry, we had to keep the peace with Luna after not showing up for three days for work," Kazuma explained, hoping that would be enough.

"Oh, we know you weren't at work. ALL of us know in excruciating detail exactly why too!" Marigold seethed, her teeth clenched as her grip came close to snapping her pipe in frustration.

Aqua smiled, clapping her hands together. "Oh, then you understand? I never got the whole sex thing, but I feel like I understand you girls better than ever now. I'm so sorry I use to be so rough-"

"We know, you idiotic, loveable, horny, considerate, useless goddess!" Marigold shrieked, holding her head in her hands as she leaned forward onto her desk, breaking slightly.

Kazuma and Aqua blinked in confusion, tilting their heads in unison. "Huh?"

"Lady Aqua, you don't understand. We felt it happen," Marigold tried to emphasize, looking between the two, hoping at least one of them might get it.

Kazuma got it first, his face going bright red as he figured it out. "You… huh?"

Aqua still didn't seem to get it, looking back and forth between the two as Marigold let out a dramatic sigh. "Well, that brings us to the actual emergency. Aqua… sealing the deal, so to speak, had an effect on all of us. We- well, we're not exactly succubi now," Marigold explained, finally letting her glamor drop.

Marigold was always beautiful, that was just part of being a succubus. What Kazuma saw now though, was different. The well aged woman didn't exude sexuality as he was used to, but instead seemed to have an ethereal beauty to her he couldn't properly explain. Almost as if all her flaws were airbrushed away, while her strengths were accentuated. It took a moment before Kazuma noticed what should have been more obvious changes, such as her wings and tail all being gone. Her ears were now pointed like he'd imagine an elf, and her eyes… her eyes were mesmerizing dark blue-black pools, dragging him. If he didn't blink hard, shaking his head, he knew he might have gone too far and had an issue pulling back out.

Beside Kazuma's slack jaw, Aqua gasped, clapping a hand across her mouth as her eyes suddenly filled with emotion, the goddess hiccupping and sniffling slightly as he asked, "What the hell happened to you?"

"You and Aqua doing the deed happened! I don't know the specifics, but after we what we was assume you two starting, a wave of dizziness hit all of us and we collapsed paralyzed as-" Marigold got cut off as a crying Aqua leapt over the desk tackled the matron in a hug, tipping the armchair over and causing the two to topple to the floor with a crash.

Aqua clung onto the shocked former succubi, rubbing her cheek against the woman's bemused face. "My babies! My babies are back!" she cried, holding on tight.

"Aqua! What the hell's gotten into you? Get off her! We need to figure out what happened to her and the other succub-" Kazuma was cut off by a tearful, but absolutely giddy Aqua.

"Water Nymphs! They're nymphs now. I lost all of them centuries ago early in the Demon King's War! I never thought I'd have my babies again and now…" she teared up again before wrapping Marigold, who'd just gotten back up, in a bone cracking hug.

Marigold pushed down on the weeping goddess, trying to get free, her face slowly turning blue. "Can't… breathe..!"

Aqua eventually let go, kneeling on the ground and looking up at the transformed succubus, tears still in her eyes, but a radiant smile lighting up her face.

Marigold took a moment to catch her breath before righting her chair and sitting back down to collect her thoughts. "So… we're nymphs now? That might be problematic for our business going forward, you understand," the frustrated owner sighed, trying to think of what that meant for her and the girls going forward. At least things had been explained now. She'd been keeping a brave face on things for her girls, but yet another inexplicable change on top of everything else since Aqua had come into their lives, had almost been the last straw for her strained nerves.

Aqua waved a hand, a beatific smile now gracing her face. "If anything, this will make your jobs easier! Nymphs aren't vitavores like succubi; they're emotivores! So, any extreme enough emotion is enough to sustain you. Sure, the person feeling it won't experience it so intensely, but they won't be harmed at all, even the minimal drain you took from them before. You can still do dream stuff too, since nymphs were originally fey creatures before I claimed them as mine. Hmmm… I think you should have some other basic magic and healing inherently too. Oh! And all of you will have some form of artistic talent! I'd tell you more, but I honestly forgot it's been so long," Aqua apologized at the end, laughing lightly.

"That's reassuring at least. I'll miss my wings, but thankfully we don't need to invade homes for our appointments anymore, so we'll make do." Marigold finally picked her pipe back up, relighting it as she took a puff to calm her nerves. "Well, it shouldn't be too harsh of an adjustment period for us then. Though, we could do without the feelings."

This time Kazuma spoke up, curious, "Feelings?"

"Oh! I know this one! Nymphs have enhanced empathy. Considering the weirdos that always come here, they were probably experiencing second hand horny. Weirdly enough, succubi don't really have a sex drive, so much as hunger, right?" Aqua answered, turning to Marigold for confirmation.

Marigold nodded, looking away from the couple. "Yes, it is quite unpleasant, to say the least."

Aqua realized what Marigold meant, covering her mouth in shock. "Oh, sweetie, I am so sorry! Feeling what scumbags like Dust feel must have been the worst! We'll have to try and find a way to change the cafe, won't we?" Aqua asked, knowing that such feelings would continue to be an issue otherwise.

Kazuma's mind started whirling at that, thinking just how he could repurpose the girls if that was the case. "Uh… Well, it won't be the same, but we could always try opening up bath houses?"

Aqua clapped her hands together, smiling gleefully. "That sounds perfect! The girls that can handle the Dusts of the world can bring in customers while being separated enough that they can walk away when they need to."

Kazume scratched his chin, thinking further. "Now that the Axis cult isn't seen as quite so crazy, you might be able to finally found a church in town too, if the girls want to do that. Could sell their art pieces to pay for it and stuff."

Marigold and Aqua looked at each other for a moment, a silent conversation occuring before they nodded. Marigold smiled at Kazuma, pulling out a pen and paper. "Get to planning it all out then please. Boss."

Kazuma let out a groan, mentally cursing himself for giving himself yet more work.