Gremory Enterprise Estate

[Bloodedge]

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The Gremory Enterprise's hold on Kuoh Town in the human world is represented by a single estate. It functions as a multi-platform office, as well as a large-scale hotel complex. The size of the building itself is so massive that a full mansion sits atop the skyscraper in the middle of Kuoh, as well as a guest house, zen garden and multiple pools both inside and outside the mansion. The top ten floors all count as basements for the mansion above, and contain various training facilities and other such additions. While most of the building has existed for years, the upper half was added only by the Szavelneas Beelzebub by his and Sirtreize Lucifer's wish to push Eira Gremory and Yasukawa Takumi together by sealing them in a building until they managed to produce the desired results.

[Apollymi]

In response to why he would do such a thing, the question posed by Eira, Sirtreize only looked at his sister with a grin. Takumi was clearly quite confused as to why specifically Sirtreize and Eira were here, why this was something to note, and why it would be happening in the first place. Sirtreize took a moment to place his right forefinger in front of pursed lips in an effort to silence Takumi before the lad even spoke. "As I was saying: no questions," he said both to Eira, and to the unspoken clause of Takumi. To Eira in particular, he had a few more things to say. "Oh, did I forget to mention? You're evicted too. Are we ready to get going then? Alright!" Without further ado, Sirtreize used a form of teleportation magic which required no seal or circle. It would happen instantaneously, transporting the trio to a new location where they would have to start calling home at some point.

Eira was soon teleported against her will and all but silenced by her brother and his rather pushy messing about in her private life. Beyond the fact that he did things like this way too often, she was already not in the best possible mood. These things combined together in a maelstrom of fury which had the girl staring at the man even as they landed in a rather lavish place. She couldn't speak as she stood here, her fingers were trembling with unknown tension as she opened and closed her fist. It was taking every ounce of self-control not to lash out in a way which could be considered a tantrum which her brother more than likely expected from her at this point in her life. Her eyes soon closed as she waited for the real explanation of this, because she'd already not had her questions answered. 'Why... why... why? I live in a different dimension to avoid this kind of shit exactly, and yet when everything is said and done... Here. You. Are.' this thought wasn't necessarily malicious. Eira loved her brother, and was quite fond of him when he wasn't interfering in her life. As she stood in this new place, she could only wonder what it was that he had planned this time and why he'd felt the need to bother her at this point. By the time her thoughts cleared she opened her eyes once more, it was like a blink that had lasted an eternity only for a slow exhale to follow, the look on her face became one of silent burning ire.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi, still as confused as ever, also appeared in what seemed to be another location at ground level, given its natural ground and buildings, yet obvious walling around the property. The sky was certainly that of the familiar realm, but something felt odd about this. "Wait, no. I don't understand... What's going on here? Why would you get me evicted, and where even are we now?" Takumi asked, seeking for any form of clarity for the situation he'd been thrown into.

Sirtreize took a moment to be surprised by the amount of restraint Eira showed before reacting to the young Dragon. She was indeed on her way, even if she wasn't quite there yet. Taking a few steps forward, he chose to finally explain this pair's situation, as well as the location they now were. "Welcome to the headquarters of the Gremory Enterprise. For all intents and purposes, this is your place, Eir. For now though... you two live here. Just you. There is also a barrier between here and - I believe - five floors down, so don't bother trying to leave. Apparently you'll have a bad time if you do make any attempts to break it." As his explanation continued, Sirtreize found his path leading him back around to Eira's fore. He paused there to look at the younger devil while wearing an expression far from his normal joyous one. He was serious; quite so. The next words from his mouth would be ones of utmost importance, spoken low enough that distance from Takumi would not allow the boy to hear. "Your job isn't done. The underworld isn't happy with such a rising star also being an empty vessel; they want something more solid. As your brother, I just want you to be happy and safe. But... as a Satan, there's no way I can argue against the benefits this could have. Szavel's numbers have only lied twice before."

[Apollymi]

Takumi's state of confusion was one which Eira could understand, after all his morning had started out rather normal but had rather suddenly transformed into something very different than he likely set out for it to be. Strangely there was no comment from the Crimson Satan about the girl's forced state of calm as he went on to explain exactly what this place was, which was technically Eira's real base of operations the business she owned as heiress of the Gremory Clan. He went on to explain that this pair of individuals would be living in this space alone for a waiting for a predetermined outcome. Eira's gaze turned to her brother as if she intended to stare daggers through him, this would continue as he approached her more directly his own demeanor shifting to one of a much more serious nature. His words were ones which cemented the malice of this girl's look, it was if the entirety of the world burned behind her eyes. Her tone was quiet and measured as if any increase in volume would make her anger bubble over into something explosive.

"No matter what way you slice it, you all are just being nosy," she muttered carefully. "We're not science experiments, and he doesn't owe the underworld anything... they don't deserve him," there was outrage in her tone but it was kept at the sort of whisper which would keep the conversation between herself and her brother. In these words though was the selfishness bred from her investment in Takumi. "And my job isn't done? Haven't I done enough?" she finished her eyes closing again, this entire situation was almost laughable considering what she now knew. She could respect her brother wanting her to be happy and safe, and even Eira herself realized the amount of potential danger associated with the Red Dragon Emperor being unsure of himself. Granted she'd only realized a bit of why that was the case, and as she realized that she'd been involved with this lad's younger life, she realized she was at fault. That was enough for her, she didn't care about anyone else, it was only for him... her eyes cut in Takumi's direction and her heart thumped at the sight of him, this was exactly the sort of thing she'd been trying to avoid when she'd initially left him behind as a child. And yet here he was now by her own doing anyway.

[Bloodedge]

"And you're just being selfish," Sirtreize replied as a matter of fact. "Nobody wants anyone to be turned into some sort of experiment, but even I agree that it's a far better alternative to losing the rest of our kind. Would you rather have reincarnated dozens of humans and other creatures for no reason other than to kill them again? No," he continued. Perhaps Eira thought too much about her own opinion in this matter, or perhaps Sirtreize himself was too loosely considering his own standpoint. Either way, there was more to what he had in mind, and he did not think ill of sharing this information. "The consensus is clear. The Red Dragon Emperor is a devil, and the Power of Destruction is the greatest weapon our world has. You might think this is too much, and I might agree to an extent... but the war could return in full force at any moment. I won't always be here, so... well... Szavel is calling for the creation of something he's naming DxD based on your Heavenly Dragon and the Gremory family. From my perspective, I don't think it's something you would actually mind."

[Apollymi]

"You have no idea..." she commented at the mention of her being selfish about this lad. He'd probably have no idea why she felt that way, but the rest of his explanation was the PR version of the lesser of all evils. It was indeed true, that Eira wouldn't have reincarnated humans or other creatures just to have them die, her Peerage was testament to this. It was truly laughable as an idea that no one wanted this done, mostly because her standing in this place by force was proof of the exact opposite. But the more her brother shared the wider her view of this thing became, her face shifted just a bit as the light of realization came to her eyes. "DxD? You're fucking kidding me right?" she whispered incredulously, snapping harder than she'd done in days. "This is just another arranged marriage and by definition a science experiment..." she said her tone fading as she exhaled, how she'd managed to hold this much of herself to not simply rampage at the idea was speaking to her current level of control. That and her own thoughts and misgivings about this entire situation, most of them stemming from what she now understood and the sting of rejection she'd felt so recently. "He already turned me down. Besides that... we have history and he has no idea who I am... there is no saying he'll even like me if he does remember," she said. What she wanted now more than anything was a hug and the support system she'd built around herself but as it stood, perhaps guilt had taken over for her anger. Whether she liked the lad or not wasn't the point. She didn't even know how to make this entire thing work, nor did she understand why this lad didn't remember her, nor why he was even alive to need to be reincarnated by her.

[Bloodedge]

"No, I'm not kidding," he said sternly. Of all the things he could advise, Sirtreize had one crucial bit of information which Eira would likely find more suitable to her situation. The calculations of the Satan Beelzebub were hardly to be argued as far as probability of success was concerned, but there was a single hole, and Sirtreize had long since been an expert in exploiting small holes. "Look... Szavel has determined that our family is the reason someone like Revil exists so easily, despite his own many attempts to produce the same effect. He studied the Red Dragon Emperor in our Rating Game, and he has dragon deeply rooted in his soul essence. Our two halves mixed with someone who's part dragon, and originally human with the ability to possess a Sacred Gear... That's something that would have the power to protect or destroy anything. The only reason I didn't keep fighting this is because I know you. If you don't like this... if it doesn't work out for you... then find something else that'll shut them all up for good. Besides that, it's unlike you to have these sorts of problems. As Satan, I give you something a little short of an ultimatum. As your brother, though... I'm giving you the freedom to figure out something better, and the chance to fix yourself and your... servant."

[Apollymi]

Eira listened to her brother and while he spoke on the apparent calculations of one Satan Beelzebub, she had the very stark reminder that she didn't like this man at all and it was exactly because of him seeing things like this as a way to exploit his own desires and force them upon people. 'This is exactly why you can't think of people as materials, what of their actual needs, freaky science man?' Eira thought to herself. Still there was a bit of hope in her brother's words, or perhaps it was simply a well-placed bit of temptation. One that sparked within her the desire to do everything she could not to give this man his desired outcome but a different one all together. One which would leave her Peerage in the best possible shape and her Dragon boy whole, while also not forcing her hand beyond what she was willing to give. This was just the type of thing that Eira would do when given such an opportunity and it seemed her brother was willing to provide her the means to be this way. "Well when you say it like that, it doesn't seem like I have much choice. But you do know how I like to be contrary..." she said there was still fire in those crimson eyes of hers and rebellion on her soul. "I am very tired of you all interfering in my life though... there are other young devils for all of you to meddle with," she said calmly. "I'd appreciate if you all left me alone after this. No disrespect intended of course," again she wasn't necessarily upset with her brother but at the whole of the world as was her general take on things. To her it was as if the entirety of the Devil World simply couldn't leave her to live her own life. "Also can you let Izuna know... though he and You-nee are used to my erratic behavior, I disappeared for a week day before yesterday and he worried pretty badly about it," she said seeming to be resigned to this current bout of fate she was seated with. She felt bad dragging Takumi along for the ride this time but she aimed to help him this time too.

[Bloodedge]

Still, Eira was clearly discontent. Sirtreize didn't quite appreciate the expression of rage being projected upon him, but he wasn't exactly placed in a situation that allowed him to care much. Even so, he sighed before bothering with a response. "Yare yare. Don't be so simple and assume you're the only one being made to do anything. What you're going through doesn't even compare to what some of the others have to deal with, so no, you won't be left alone at all until we are at peace; no exceptions. At some point, you just have to suck these things up and do what's best for everyone." With that said, Sirtreize turned away from the young heiress and waved over his shoulder. A single glance was sent Takumi's way, but no words or gestures at all. "They already know what's going on. Some of them even suggested it. Besides, anyone else can get in and out whenever they want... on a time limit of course; can't have them inside the barrier for too long. Ja," he said, utilizing his teleportation magic to disappear immediately after sharing these words.

[Apollymi]

'I wouldn't assume if it you aren't always showing up and bothering me...' Eira thought as she let off a huff. She was quite done with devil politics and all for the day. If she was being honest the thing she hated most in dealing with these moments was the outright hypocrisy which was implied by the idea that she and those she chose were supposed to serve the greater good for Devil-kind while no one above her did anything remotely interesting towards the one end which could potentially mean peace for everyone. Perhaps someday, they'd all realize the thing she'd figured out a long time before now... or maybe, they'd never realize it and be stuck trying to figure out how to out war all sides forever. 'Peace, huh?' she ran a hand over her face and nodded as her brother waved. "Ja, Nii-sama." Whatever her current feelings, she had been at least trying not to direct every bit of rage she possessed at her older brother, though he was an admittedly easy target considering he'd come to bear the bad news. The one bit of relieving news she'd received was that at least her Peerage wouldn't be left to worry about her current disappearance.

Eira for all the swearing, screaming, and anger she normally would have let out at a time like this, simply found herself incapable of it right now. Instead she turned, walking towards Takumi. She was tired enough at this point that she just didn't have it in her to deny herself what she needed. She opened her arms aiming to wrap herself around the lad and give him a hug, in this case much more for her own comfort than his. "Gomennasai, Takumi..." she apologized for a great many things with this single moment, and she was quite sure he wouldn't understand most of them. At present though she was simply apologizing that he was now stuck with her for an extended period of time for no reason other than the Satans being nosy individuals.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi had taken to standing around lackadaisically while appraising the place they were brought to. It had become quite obvious that the Crimson Satan intended to have words with his sister alone, so he kept himself distant and used the time to consider what apparently had to be his new living conditions. That is, until he received confirmation that Sirtreize was gone, which he got in the form of Eira suddenly being upon him with her arms around his person. The boy was shocked, then tense. He felt both fine with this, and opposed to it simultaneously, but in the end... he made no movements. All he could do at this point was wonder about this apology he was given. "Why?" he asked. "What's there to be sorry for? I don't have to worry about how I'll pay rent now, and this place looks like more than wages around here could afford anyway. Is everyone else inside already?"

[Apollymi]

Eira had taken to hugging this boy, and though he was shocked and tense she simply continued on in this way for a few moments longer. During this time he managed to question why she would be sorry and pointed out the apparent extra ease his life would possess by living here instead of in his apartment. Now though she was confronted with the fact that he'd truly heard nothing of her conversation with her brother and it made her sigh ever so slightly, she didn't willingly let him go for a few moments longer and squeezed him a little tighter as she explained. "There is plenty for me to apologize for," she started. "This place belongs to me... technically it has for a very long time, but the top half here didn't exist before," she said thinking about how best to word this. "And if anyone else is inside they won't be for long. Apparently this space is barrier protected for the two of us. And we can't go out, but the others can and can visit for a short while," she tried to find the right words to explain what was truly going on here. And in trying to think about it more, she found herself relaying the information in a rather strange way for her now, but had once been very common.

"Satan Beelzebub, is a strange man and very obsessed with my brother. He is concerned about the general livelihood of Devils in general a lot too, because of the war. He's really smart too, probably the smartest. So he makes a whole bunch of calculations about stuff and basically he realized that your powers could grow to be penultimate for devils. Because of this... he and the other Satans decided they couldn't really wait to see how it turned out. This meddling is their answer, they want to force us into the situation which could lead to the outcome they are searching for the fastest, and it has to be me and you because it's our combination of powers that make it work out the right way," she finished thinking about it more.

"So for the most part, I was apologizing because you're stuck in here with me until we either produce what they are looking for, or I figure out an alternative which will make them leave us alone..." she said finally loosening her hold on the lad. "And it is a headache for me, but I'm used to them doing this kind of thing to me... It isn't really fair to you though, and I know being around me is weird for you, so... that too," she finished her explanation, admitting quite a bit. She wasn't really sure if it covered enough to be completely clear or not, but she'd hit all the major points. They were stuck in here, just the two of them (mostly), and basically they were trying to produce some unknown outcome though Eira had a more than reasonable idea of what was called for by her brother's words.

[Bloodedge]

There was allegedly much for the crimson-haired devil to apologize for, at least in her own opinion. She said this place belonged to her, which made sense considering its title. If they were to be sealed in until something special occurred, it wasn't too much different compared to what Takumi felt was happening already. There was more though, mostly in the form of information regarding one of their previous Rating Game's announcers. Everything he had heard about his Sacred Gear from devils, and now angels as well, pointed to this sort of thing. Regardless, he had already resigned himself to being someone's weapon. If his power was required in conjunction with Eira's, he associated it with the mark he was given in that very awkward situation between them over one week prior to this day.

"Sou ka. Then why don't we get started on what they want from us?" he said after coming to his own conclusion about this scenario. Having been released by Eira, he turned to face her while clenching his left fist. "Dragon Booster!" the voice of Ddraig spoke as the Boosted Gear appeared on his left arm.

[Apollymi]

Eira readied herself for any great number of reactions, but she found herself surprised by this lad. His immediate response wasn't the one of outrage nor the one of pure rage, it was instead the idea that they should start on what they wanted from them. It was in this moment that Eira realized she hadn't been clear enough in her explanation to the boy, because what came next wasn't the proposition of potential baby-making, nor a potential strategy discussion, but instead the boy called to himself his Boosted Gear Gauntlet. Her eyes widened in this moment because she couldn't believe she'd taken this entire situation completely the wrong way. This kind of misunderstanding, made her wonder if he was constantly just misinterpreting the things she said to him. 'Ano, that isn't what I meant at all... they don't want us to fight,' she thought only to have a small smile appear on her face. To be fair she was all about sticking it to these people who were always trying to force her into these ridiculous situations, and not just doing what they wanted was one of her prime directives. Not one she was given per se but one she intended to go through with because she didn't appreciate being bothered at every turn by the elder Devils.

"Hm, the mark I gave you should allow you to use one of my powers. I have two, the Power of Destruction, which I used exclusively during our very first Rating Game, and my abilities of Energy Manipulation which come from being a Succubus... have you noticed anything new?" she asked of the lad knowing he would likely know more about his fighting skills than she would. This would be in large part due to the fact that she hadn't had a hand directly in anything he'd done since the first week she'd picked him up. Still there was the matter that she wasn't sure how this was going to play out just yet and she hadn't really decided what she should be doing about Takumi should he choose to attack her in the moment. 'Hmm, what to wear?' she thought to herself as she tried to find something in her arsenal that might help mediate and give her a bit of time.

[Bloodedge]

As he faced the woman, Takumi heard something specific regarding the mark he received from her. Apparently, he would be capable of using one of two powers Eira possessed as if it was his own somehow. Now that she mentioned such a thing, there was perhaps a link to something he had been told in the Familiars Forest. "Sou. In the forest, she mentioned something like that. I shouldn't have been able to control all those dragons so quickly, so it might have been that second power. I haven't done anything with it yet though," he replied. If anything, Takumi was currently more invested in chasing another power entirely. He'd acquired something from the White Dragon Emperor, whom he now sought as a goal of sorts. Even though he wasn't interested in the battle between their dragon partners, he felt a certain uselessness within himself after seeing the vast gap between himself and his angel counterpart with his own eyes. It was undoubtedly a thing he intended to change, even if seeking such a goal saw him unknowingly fall into the same pattern as those that came before. For now however, there was to be something between his own power and that of Eira, so he started putting his brain to work right away. "Oh, yeah. I guess I can take the powers of dragons now. That ability and Boosted Gear Gift are kinda closely connected, I think."

[Apollymi]

Takumi was soon using his mind, mentioning the events of the Familiar's Forest as a starting point for the idea that he had a bit of the power of the Succubus or in his male case, Incubus. Eira thought about this for a moment and came to the same conclusion, she in general didn't have a problem getting people to like or agree with her, if Takumi gained such an ability and it was applied to how he interacted with dragons then his feat at the Forest made more sense. "Hm, I suppose that would make a great deal of sense. The ability to tame such creatures is one which is generally elusive. I would have been willing to believe it was a naturally occurring one from you but, it would make sense if it started there and ended up specific to your needs in the moment. Demonic powers do require imagination to use after all..." she mused knowing this to be the truth of their universe.

What would come as a surprise, would be the idea that he could take other Dragon's powers. Eira's eyes widened at this particular revelation, as she remembered that before this lad had returned to his apartment he'd been in the company of the Vanishing Dragon. "Right you met Cassie this morning, and you took a power from her?" this question was mostly rhetorical and implied by the lad's own words. "Sugoi!~ That's really impressive..." there was quite the interesting skill difference between them presently, it wasn't Takumi's fault as Cassiel had been training with her Sacred Gear her entire life so far. The fact that he'd gotten something out of their exchange was beyond optimal as an outcome. "Show me!" she was very interested in this development, because of what she'd seen of the Divine Dividing she knew that if he'd taken such a power for himself he'd be capable of something amazing with it. While she waited for this a magic circle appeared beneath her person, which would change her attire completely. She'd end up going from the little black dress she normally wore to a new full suit of armor. This armor was predominantly dark red in color, but also had orange and black parts, with the orange parts being shaped like flames and the other parts being reminiscent of Dragon's limbs. It consisted of: a breastplate, gauntlets and greaves. The breastplate didn't have pauldrons, making it reveal Eira's shoulders, and extended down to cover her groin, showing her legs, in a manner similar to a one-piece swimsuit. The black parts were mostly decorative, with the exception of the one covering her groin. The breastplate also possessed a pair of Dragon-like wings attached to it. The gauntlets sported prominent orange decorations, along with small claw-like protrusions on the hands. The greaves were shaped like Dragon's claws which possessed orange-colored knee guards and black parts which extended up from the knees to the upper part of the thighs. In addition to all of this, in putting on this armor, Eira's hair was tied into a pair of high, long pigtails by clips, resembling Dragon's horns. After doing this she opened and closed her hands, getting an innate sensation for the kind of energy Takumi provided her.

[Bloodedge]

"I... think I took a little more than just a power," Takumi said about his interaction with the White Dragon Emperor. True, he did take and make use of the White Dragon's power, but there was a bit more to it than that. "I made a copy of her Sacred Gear, more like my own. She did the..." His clause was cut short. He'd responded in the way that only felt natural given the topic of discussion, but he had something of a late realization as to what they were actually discussing. As Eira accessed a power within her that stemmed from his own dragon influence, Takumi looked at the woman and wore an expression that did nothing but question everything surrounding her. "... Huh? How did you know I went with Cassiel?"

[Apollymi]

Eira was still inspecting this dragon armor as Takumi answered the question revolving around his earlier meeting with the Vanishing Dragon. She'd been ready to hear him out when his sentence rather suddenly stopped, and she looked up at him to find confusion in his face. This confusion was soon voiced aloud as a question about how she had the information regarding his interaction with the Miracle Child Cassiel. "Shit!" Eira gave this young man the blankest of stares for several moments, after this swear left her mouth. It was quite rare for her to even remotely appear bothered or disheveled but around this lad it was beginning to seem normal. 'Lie!' her mind told her this and she shook away the thought a chuckle escaping her, as she rubbed a hand over her face. "I am really not even a little dishonest, not really..." she mused to herself. She didn't realize that her brother had basically saved her from exposing herself earlier, and she was now in a strange place mentally. This was mostly the case because she never thought she'd actually have to confess to this at such an early junction, she didn't know if she'd ever really need to do so. "Look, I was the kitten at your apartment."

This was an interesting confession for her to make but she felt the need to explain. "It wasn't malicious or anything. I just wanted to hang out with you and it was really awkward, but I figured I could use that form and check up on you and it'd be less stressful for both of us. Because, if I am being honest here, I am a total mess when it comes to you and I don't even really get why..." she said giving a full confession of her actions. "Sumimasen."

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's query seemed to take Eira by surprise for whatever reason. Soon enough, this reason was given, and Takumi was more shocked than he may have ever been. To claim she was the cat who entered his apartment, and even give her reasons for doing so... she couldn't have known what this meant to the male. He felt a great many things about this, most conflicting with the rest. He'd spent the last of his funds to be properly capable of adopting this random cat into his home, freely altered his own regular diet, and most importantly, he'd named it after Eira herself. He didn't seem to be taking this information very well. "It wasn't malicious? Are you kidding?" he asked. "What sort of reason could you even have to just hang out or check up on me? If you want me to do something, give me an order and it's done. Just do that; I don't need maintenance."

[Apollymi]

Eira found herself staring at this young man for a lot longer than she needed to given what was happening here. He didn't take the news of her spying on him very well at all, but given what she'd been doing she could for the most part understand his anger. It prickled along her skin in a very strange way but she'd promised to leave this lad his emotions so she didn't feed on him directly. "It wasn't malicious. I'm not kidding, it was the best option to find out what this you wanted," she said as her form returned to normal. "You want orders when I want you to do things? I can do that for you... but I can't order you to be my friend," she mentioned even more calmly than she'd managed to be most of the time she'd been speaking with her brother. "You say you don't need maintenance, but you were a completely different person last week. I looked into that person, decided to give you space, and you manage to look disappointed that I've done it," she said giving him her observations of the situations which had happened before now. "And I can't say one way or another what you've been through... but you feel like a person in constant conflict. You won't let me help you... but you don't want to leave me either. I don't want you to leave me, but I don't know if I can help you directly... even though it's my nature to do exactly that," she said this softly as if thinking over every word carefully. "It's confusing. I don't want you hurt, maimed, or broken by me or my actions... but I legitimately have no idea how to act around you," she spoke these words but knew there was more to it than that. "Tell me Takumi... if I am trying to be your friend right now, if I am trying to help you... what do I do? Because everything I've tried since making you seems to blow up in my face."

[Bloodedge]

"The best option!?" Takumi had no idea what this woman thought she was even getting at. Why did it matter to her what he wanted? He had long since pledged his servitude to her, and that was something which applied to both versions of the lad whether one wanted it or not. He did want orders from her, but this was a subconscious matter for Takumi. He knew she had the power to order him in a way he could not resist. As such, even the voices in his head could be silenced... especially one voice in particular. However, Eira claimed what she wanted was for him to be her friend. Easily this could have been demanded of him; he could feel that much. And yet, she spoke of him being a totally different person, and that her reactions were based on who he'd been before. All of this together only became more confusing. What did she want? More importantly, what was the purpose to her every action and follow-up? In the end, this discussion became a matter of Eira asking Takumi what she should do if she was trying to be his friend.

'Just... let me know what you are,' he thought. This was what he would say... or rather, what he expected to say. The words which came from his mouth however, emerged as his eyes became orange once more. They were once again the words of the one who'd been Takumi prior to his use of Juggernaut Drive. This one was in some sort of tear-filled outrage. He'd had quite enough of this roller coaster between himself, Eira, and his other self. "Stay the hell away from me! It's all your fault, you know!?" he screamed as energy flowed out from his being. This was not the energy of Takumi as a devil, but rather that of the dragon within. "I know what you did! I've always known, and I'm the one who sees it clearly now! You destroyed everything!" he continued. As he spoke and his rage grew stronger, so did the energy being emitted from him. The Boosted Gear's green jewel glowed brightly, and his eyes did the same. There was only one way this one understood now to save himself, and his other self, from this devil.

"I, who shall awaken..."

[Apollymi]

Outrage, yet again, but it seemed for a short time, after her explanation that Eira might have gotten through to the lad. He seemed to be thinking about this entire situation rationally, it seemed that he was well on his way to asking the sort of question which could have set them straight. She could see it in his eyes, on the tip of his tongue even as he opened his mouth to speak, but just like that something else changed. "Nani?!" Eira came face to face with the orange eyes of the previous Takumi the softer form of him. And he was spewing hate-filled rage at her. His words, even alluded to the fact that he knew who she was properly and he'd just not been saying anything. "Taku-mi..." she said his name as if confused but the amount of energy coming off his person was exactly the sort of thing she had to avoid.

"TAKUMI! STOP! DON'T FINISH THOSE WORDS!" it was an order full of power meant to stop him from speaking the words that would trigger his Juggarnaut Drive. Eira thought well of her abilities, but she had no desire to go toe to toe with the Welsh Dragon at his full might. 'I don't really know if it will work, but, his words imply the other one doesn't remember. I wonder if I can order him to...' she thought, but she didn't have much time to speculate on it, she gave the second order which would correspond to the glowing mark on the lad's left hand. "TAKUMI REMEMBER ME!" it was an order of the strangest kind, and she didn't know if it would actually stick, regardless, she couldn't let him rampage all on his own. This Takumi wanted her to stay away from him, but she couldn't do that when he was on the verge of rampage. She approached him eventually opening her arms to slip them around him, her full intention to take this extra energy off him just in case a further struggle would be necessary. She didn't know what to do in the case, but she was very certain that this wasn't the intention when they'd made her come here. "If you remember that, then why don't you remember the rest... I came back for you and you didn't need me anymore. I went back to change your mind, and I was told you died, I mourned you... the biggest mistake I ever made was leaving you behind," she said these words and didn't even know if they could be heard.

[Bloodedge]

An order was granted for Takumi to cease the incantation he started. Sadly, it would have no effect. Takumi's willpower was great enough to overcome an order through this mark if he truly did not want to go through with it, and this one most certainly did not want to stop. "... Am the Heavenly Dragon who has stolen the principles of domination from God. I laugh at the 'infinite', and a grieve at the 'dream'. I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination..."

Another order came. This one targeted the other persona within Takumi. At this point, the speaking ceased, and the young male stood with wide eyes aimed at Eira. The dragon energy hadn't gone anywhere, but it hadn't continued growing either. During this silence, Eira encroached upon him and took him into another embrace which aimed to drain this excess energy. Such a moment left Takumi with only one thing to say, which he spoke after a smile appeared on his face. "... And I shall sink you to the depths of the crimson purgatory. Juggernaut Drive." These final words heralded the production of his full armor suit, which immediately began growing and morphing into the same dragon-like form it had the night he felled the fallen angel Sachiel.

While this all happened outside of his subconscious, the red-eyed persona of Takumi stood within his mind on a platform of sorts. Around him was a circle of chairs in multiple layers, forming a sort of auditorium. Many bodies were positioned in these seats, each cloaked and hooded to obscure their bodies and faces. 'Why... am I back here?'

[Apollymi]

'Damn why is that one the willful one... well I guess they both would be, or else I wouldn't like them,' she thought as the chant continued. But for a moment there appeared to be reprieve. It seemed that there was at least a pause when the second order was issued and that could potentially make it okay. Eira took the secondary risk to approach and attempted to drain the energy off this lad, but it seemed this wasn't going to work this time either. The boy smiled eyes wide and finished the chant. "Why?" she asked aloud to the universe at large as the boy's body began to transform. She didn't have much choice but to try and move away from this lad's body, her own wings sprouting as she aimed to put a great deal of distance between her and this dragon. 'Okay, locked into this spot with a rampaging dragon as one lonely little devil. I need to restrain him and stop him... how... how... how...' she thought. Given she was now running for her life, there wasn't much time for her to start singing unless he stopped moving.

[Bloodedge]

Within himself, Takumi looked around in the hopes of finding one of these strange figures surrounding him in a state of responsiveness. This accomplished nothing, but one other figure joined him in the center of the room. He stood literally before himself, staring into eyes that were simultaneously his and another's. 'Everything's going to be fine. I'm doing what you wanted... and fixing our problems,' the other Takumi said. The red-eyed one was taken aback by this. Only now did he realize what had been happening to him for so long, in so many situations. Extra voices in his head had been nothing new to him in recent times, but this one in particular didn't show up in combat-related scenarios; he only appeared when Takumi questioned the potential outcomes of certain situations. 'What problems? I'm awake again. Isn't your job done?' he asked of his 'false' self. 'No. But... it will be. We'll be free of our fears soon.'

'Wait. You can't mean...'

In the outside world, the Juggernaut Drive reached the same semi-complete state it had been in before. Eira created distance between them, but she was the primary focal point of the Dragon's wrath. He flew toward her, drawing back his left arm to then thrust forward with a clawed strike at the woman. Interestingly enough, Eira herself would not be needing to defend against this. A magic circle of Dragon origin appeared between Eira and Takumi, and from it came a Dragon's wing made in an ethereal-looking form from energy. This wing managed to reroute Takumi's attack, allowing the white-haired woman at the center of the circle to speak with the Devil heiress. "Pardon my intrusion, Gremory-dono. This is my master in the Red One's form, is it not?"

[Apollymi]

Whatever was going on within Takumi wasn't something Eira herself could help him deal with. She supposed overall, there could be many worse places for him to be having this moment of discontent. Still in her own eyes she saw herself as being a constant source of this lad's disposition. Her own selfishness wouldn't allow her to get rid of him for his own good and he claimed he didn't want to go, even so, right now she was beginning to wonder if he'd be able to overcome whatever issue he had with her, aside from the ones he apparently didn't even know about yet. While she thought mostly about how to contain the potential damages the dragon form of Takumi lunged at Eira, as she moved away from him. She turned back to defend herself only to find strangely another individual entirely between them. 'Why are you....' she started to question this, but there was too much relief in her person for her to properly care why this one had appeared so long as she didn't intend to add to the woman's already full plate. "It's no intrusion. Actually, I'm really happy to see you. Thank you," Eira said as she came to a halt mid-air. The question of this white dragon was one which Eira could respond to only one way. "Yes, that is Takumi... you wouldn't happen to know if it's possible to force him back to normal, would you?" she asked of the dragon as she stayed at the ready to erect a defense to use against this lad's current assault.

[Bloodedge]

'The time has come. You have assumed the mantle of Red Dragon Emperor,' said the voice of one figure in the subspace Takumi found himself in. If this was supposed to be something of importance, it was precisely not that for him now. All that mattered was the implications made by his copy. He lunged forward, taking the other version of himself by the collar with his left hand, which became clad in Boosted Gear. 'Stop it! Your job is done; go to sleep!' he demanded as the Boosted Gear increased his power both inside and outside this plane. The orange-eyed Takumi reached up for the arm which held him, using his right hand instead. 'No, it's not. It can never be done! I'm not going away!'

At the second Takumi's outcry, the dragon form outside took its powered-up state to the air and circled both Eira and its other new target. In conjunction with its inner struggle, it made use of another ability while the females readied themselves. "Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide!" the body itself called out in the voice of Albion, turning the green gems in its wings to blue ones. Its mouth opened then, unleashing a beam the likes of Takumi's Dragon Shot. The Dragon who sided with Eira for the moment took it upon herself to take the frontal defense, beginning to form a large pair of energy wings as shields to guard her current charge. "There may be-" she tried to say, but the blast hit her barriers before they were even complete and shattered them instantly. Somehow, it seemed almost as if the barriers themselves were nothing more than a fraction of what they could have been. The beam was still dispersed as a result, but the pure concussive force of it launched the white-haired woman back toward Eira. "Ah! Sumimasen! He's in Outrage. If he taps into too much of Ddraig's power like this... well, you know the legends. Has he done this before?"

[Apollymi]

Eira was soon stunned mostly because she saw now the true use of what Takumi had taken from Cassiel this day. Calls of Divide came one after another weakening her in a way she could feel. Even the other dragon with her tried to defend her only to have the barriers she'd created be shattered though with the pair of them no worse for wear. Still, with this female dragon defending her, Eira could do nothing but open her arms and catch this woman as they both flew backwards from the power of the concussive force. This was too much, obviously to be dealt with in such a way, and even as Eira came to a stop the words from this Dragon were ones which made her sigh as she recalled a certain bit of information about dragons. "Outrage means they don't stop pursuing their targets, right? This is not at all ideal, considering it is me he is after," Eira mentioned. Still her body felt weak enough that she needed something more. "No need to apologize by the way, it's definitely my fault he's like this. He has done this before, he... used this form to kill a Fallen Angel about a week ago. I managed to sing him down after her death but... I also had the help of the Vanishing Dragon..." she said as she reached out with her power towards a specific mark, the one belonging to Izuna wherever he happened to be, would begin restoring the power Eira needed by taking it directly from him. Since she could also speak in his mind this would come with a message. 'Sumimasen, I need this so we don't die today...' she murmured to him, such was the extensive power of this particular mark. It would return Eira back towards what she had been at the risk of tiring Izuna a bit.

[Bloodedge]

'What the hell do you mean you're not going away? Nobody's sending you anywhere, just stop messing with my head!' said Takumi. The other one wasn't having any of this nonsense. He very much knew better, and now he bore a Boosted Gear-style variant of Divine Dividing on his right hand to free himself from his other half's grasp. 'That's not how it works! My only purpose is to keep us from dealing with that ever again! If you take over completely again, I just disappear over time. I felt it starting the last time...'

At this point, the two versions of the lad were facing one another again, one with a red-clad left arm, and the other with a white-clad right arm. The one wielding Divine Dividing's power seemed to have an upper hand as various chants of 'Boost' and 'Divide' were called out between them. The cause behind this advantage was another figure in the form of a male standing at that Takumi's rear with a hand on his right shoulder. 'I'm taking control again. I have Divine Dividing's support, and you have nothing. Just leave me be,' he pleaded. This clause of him having Divine dividing's support made the 'true' Takumi realize what sort of place he was in. This location was only seen within himself during Juggernaut Drive, after many other voices were heard within him. Boosted Gear was passed down through the ages, and those voices knew just a little too much to not be exactly what he thought: the previous wielders of his Sacred Gear. 'Sou ka. Only one then?'

"Sou ka," the Dragon woman said as she released herself from Eira's hold with an appreciative nod. "Singing is calming for our kind. Ability to do that sort of thing while being the target, though..." Once again, she would have an incomplete sentence occur. This time, it was once again because of the Red Dragon Emperor who managed to reach her before a barrier was erected. Into the Dragon's hand she went, forcing her to take her own true form as a Dragon just to avoid being crushed. She flapped her wings, boasting a size greater than that of Takumi's Juggernaut Drive, though she still managed to be obviously overpowered the longer they pressed against one another. "I can't be as useful as the White One in distracting him. Do you have any other ideas?"

[Apollymi]

Eira had to agree, the reason she hadn't started singing in the first place is that it required a great deal of concentration, more so from her, since the sound of her voice was also imbued with the power of a siren. It wasn't at all a thing that she should be attempting to do while being the target of a dragon's rage. "Hai hai, there is a reason I hadn't done it yet. I want to have faith in him to pull himself together assuming that the one which is more stable is in there and alright, but... I can't be sure, given that I can't take the risk of letting my guard down," Eira said as she moved away from the coming dragon hand. It seemed for a moment the target of the attack had shifted to the white dragon herself. This was a bit of a boon as the dragon body could withstand more damage than Eira herself, still the heiress did feel a bit bad that the boy's familiar was being abused in such a way. As the pair of dragon's clashed Eira was left with a singular idea and she wasn't sure at all if it would work though it was one of the best uses of her powers she could come up with in a moment like this. "If I could get past the armor I could send a pulse of my own power into his body directly. Doing so would mostly likely nullify his output while fully stunning his physical form long enough for me to properly restrain him and start singing him down. It would probably also maim him internally but I can fix that myself later..." as far as Eira could tell if she couldn't reason with the lad or make him sit still to hear her voice with magic, she had no choice but to try a more physical approach. This use of her powers would likely be considered a strange one, but she had to try and stop Takumi without having to kill him or lose herself and potentially Izuna to this rampage.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's familiar struggled against the Juggernaut Drive of her master. It didn't take long for her to easily be pushed down, but she refrained from letting go of Takumi's hands for the sake of keeping him in place for as long as possible. Her mouth opened toward Takumi, releasing a beam of light Dragon energy unto the lad. However... "Reflect!" was called out, causing her attack to be returned to her torso. She was taken aback with her scales open, though she was given no reprieve whatsoever. As she leaned away, Takumi freed his left hand of her grasp and thrust it forward, breaking through the other Dragon's already-exposed torso as a result. With that out of the way, his attention shifted to Eira again.

Though there were two of Takumi in this mental space, there was only one former wielder of Divine Dividing brought in from the gem he took from Cassiel. He managed to piece this together due to the presence of only one missing seat in this room. Obviously Takumi himself wouldn't fit in with the dead holders of the Sacred Gear, and neither would the lone male who stood beside the version of him wielding the Gear based on Albion's power. 'Listen...' he started. The other one however, did not intend to do anything of the sort. 'No! You can't stop me now! I don't wanna die!' This clause seemed to enrage Takumi ever so slightly. He came to realize how long all of this could have been avoided, but the state his other self was in now wouldn't lend to any sort of rational discussion before he took action. 'Alright... fine. If you don't wanna die, don't die... but this is my head, so you're gonna start doing things the way I want. That goes for all of you!' he announced to bring a red glow to the eyes of every former Boosted Gear wielder in the room.

Suddenly, a shift occurred in the body outside. As it moved toward Eira, the energy being emitted changed slightly in consistency. He even stopped moving forward, taking all the exuded energy back into himself. As this happened, the form of his Juggernaut Drive seemed to be slowly changing to a more controlled state.

[Apollymi]

This white dragon struggled against the red one, and even after being pushed down, she didn't back down at all, hanging on to the hands of that dragon to by Eira more time. 'Shit, there is literally nothing I can do without risking way more...' she thought, her own plan was one she could take on without much of a problem, even so, she couldn't guarantee it would work. Eventually the white dragon was downed by an attack call that Eira wasn't at all familiar with, "Ano... I never got her name," she mumbled. Things like this always happened around her, and when this happened, Eira became the focus of this dragon once again. She couldn't just blast it with energy or magic if she risked herself to do it. She couldn't hope to take it on with brute force, she didn't have that kind of physical fortitude. What could she do? As she considered this in a few seconds the dragon moved towards her once more, she held up a hand in front of herself making the tactical decision. 'If I get grabbed I guess I can try and melt the outside and stun his body before I die... this is a bad way to start. Gomen, it's risky but I don't want to kill him,' she thought in passing. But much to her surprise the energy coming off this dragon soon changed. Her left brow rose but she didn't stop thinking about what she wanted to do, she couldn't let go of the idea to attack him before she was sure he wouldn't attack her first. But then his movements stopped. 'What the hell is going on in there?' she questioned knowing the state of Takumi's mind and not knowing how to interpret this sudden change of heart.

[Bloodedge]

The Juggernaut Drive would never see its full evolution to a controlled state. Instead, it crumbled away before gaining any sort of solid form, shattering around the body of a Takumi whose eyes glowed deep red. 'Don't leave. That's not at all what I want you to do. Just... let me find what I'm looking for...' These were the parting words of a boy who'd forced his will on all former wielders of the Boosted Gear in one shining moment of conviction. Back in his normal form, he wore the Boosted Gear on his left hand just as he had before, though he now also had his Divine Dividing equivalent - something he wasn't wearing previously - on his right hand. The energy within Takumi seemed more stable than it had been in years, and yet it was now waning for entirely different reasons. Within his own subconscious, he had simultaneously triggered the powers of both Heavenly Dragons to silence his other self. Doing so costed him greatly as well, but it was all worthwhile in the end. His descent toward the ground left him looking upon the fallen body of his Dragon servant. 'This is what happened? Sumimasen... Kisara,' he said to the husk of a Dragon that had already reverted to a child-like form. 'Are you listening now, Ddraig? Do something about that for me. I don't think... I'm gonna make it.'

[Apollymi]

Eira felt strangely at the boy's sudden energy shift. It felt more stable and consistent as time went on, but strangely the boy's Juggernaut Drive didn't last even as it felt like he'd completed it. No, instead everything fell away and in one brief moment, the crimson haired lass caught sight of a pair of glowing crimson eyes. Still it was quite obvious that whatever he'd done aside from his rampage his body had taken quite the toll. Eira had been plotting a tactical retreat or even a straight forward attack, but instead of either of those things, the young heiress moved forward opening her arms to catch the lad before he could get too close to the ground. "Yare yare, you gave me a bit of a scare that time, Takumi..." she whispered to the lad as she landed. "It's okay though, rest now... I'll take care of you," she murmured, knowing he'd lost a great deal of energy she'd take it upon herself to make sure he was looked after until he was better. He seemed to have many problems this day, but she wanted nothing more than to witness him conquer his issues. There was also the fallen dragon to look after who was now a child-sized body. But her first priority was taking care of Takumi, she could handle everything else after that.

[Bloodedge]

'You're still there, right? I'll keep you around. If I never find what I'm looking for, then I guess it'll just be the two of us,' Takumi thought in passing while on the verge of unconsciousness. While his eyes were still open, his fall came to a sudden stop. It was once again the face of Eira he saw during such a time as this. The Dragon his Juggernaut Drive put out of commission was left as nothing more than an empty shell, as Ddraig had indeed handled the situation by moving the female Dragon's soul into Takumi's body. His eyes didn't widen for once when viewing Eira from that same usual angle, though they did fixate rather quickly. This was the most conscious Takumi had been while seeing things in such a blurry manner, and in such a situation, he saw Eira the same way he repeatedly saw a certain memory. In linking the two, a single moment of recognition became present on his visage. "You..." he said. Something crossed his mind right away, but... it couldn't be. Surely there was no such fate that would produce such an outcome. He couldn't discard the idea completely, but he also couldn't act on it. "... Sankusu."

[Apollymi]

There was a moment after the lad was caught where he seemed to be acknowledging her presence properly. She'd seen him from this exact angle several times since she'd met him and maybe even a few more than that. She felt a strange pang within her own chest in looking at him like this once more, on the verge of exhaustion and he managed to thank her just for this. She looked down at him her eyes widening slightly. "Iie, don't thank me for this..." she murmured to the lad. And with that she was content to carry the boy into the residence. The main house was quite large and way more extravagant than even the girl's apartment but she didn't care about any of that. She'd take him inside and walk him towards one of the bedrooms. Unlike her previous things to do, she'd lay him into one of the beds of a room not the one she intended for herself. She'd take a moment and magically strip the boy of most of this clothes and leave him under the covers. "It's really alright you know... I see you like this more than I'd like," she said kissing him on the forehead as she left. "Remember my last order though, that one was important," she said. Her last order to the lad had been for him to remember her. She had no idea if it would work at all, but it was worth it to try. With that she was willing to let him sleep for a bit while she went to the kitchen. While she walked away her clothing shifted into pajamas and a tank top, her hair put up in a messy bun as she seemed to reach general comfort for household wear. 'How is it him? Why is it him?' she wondered as she began wandering about the kitchen for ingredients to cook a meal mostly just to give her something do to while she thought about her Dragon boy who'd originally been just her first human friend.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi racked his brain in an effort to figure out what this connection meant. He didn't think it possible that this vision of Eira actually lined up with the vision in his mind. The more he thought about it though, the more it almost made perfect sense. There was something else that connected the two... something very solid, yet something he couldn't quite place. Before he knew it, he was in the house, and in a bed soon after that. Eira may have left him there, but the image did not fade in spite of its lack of clarity. 'Last order? Was I given an order?' he wondered of the final words spoken by Eira. He couldn't recall anything regarding an order since the one which resulted in his familiar. And, while he was thinking about his familiar, he decided to sit up in the bed and call upon the female Dragon. "Are you well enough to be sitting, master?" she asked upon materializing by the foot of the bed. Her form was somewhat ethereal, much like the wings she'd previously made to defend against Takumi's Juggernaut Drive. Even with his blurred vision, the lad could tell this state was not 'fully' physical. "Not really. It doesn't matter though. You seem fine without a body."

[Apollymi]

Eira on the other hand had rice in a rice cooker and was making dumplings out of minced shrimp and several other things. She didn't know why she had a taste for the things she was making, but she thought they could be at least partially attributed to the time she'd spent as a cat. Even so she was warming oil and waiting for it to heat up with a look of extreme concentration on her face. 'I still don't know why he doesn't remember me,' she thought as she watched the movement of the oil across the pan. 'Maybe I'm wrong... maybe that dream was just mine. Maybe I'm projecting again...' she thought her own doubts beginning in a way she hadn't let them before. But in this moment with nothing else to focus on it was easy for her to spend too much time in her own thoughts. 'But that picture in his apartment... was definitely Shouki,' she thought to herself. Did she get to feel hopeful about this? Did she think this would turn out okay this time? 'No, of course not. He literally just tried to kill me...' she thought as she palmed her face. 'I'm so stupid!' she said to herself in this moment as she finally began cooking in earnest, the meal she'd wanted to eat.

[Bloodedge]

"It's nothing to worry about. I'm not the sort of Dragon who needs a physical body, or to be sealed in something to keep myself," she replied. Takumi had seen this Dragon's power only once, but from what he saw then, he could understand why this was the case. "Sou ka. You're a interesting one, Kisara. I wish I didn't bind you to me the way I did, but... I had an order," he said. In speaking these words, Takumi returned to thinking about whatever order Eira could have been talking about most recently. His right hand rose and pressed aganist his forehead as he thought it over, coming up with nothing solid at all. "Order..." Whatever it was, he felt he was under its effect even without knowing exactly what the order might have been. It was as if he'd managed to hear the order, but it was trapped somewhere inaccessible in the recesses of his mind. A splitting pain struck his head as he tried to get a grasp on the order. "... Tou-san," he said for no reason whatsoever, even seeming to have no idea what had just left his mouth.

[Apollymi]

Eira was putting together her bowl of food, rice first then dumplings and then a combination of strange sauces atop both of them. One a pale green in color which was spicy and one white in color which was savory and a little sweet. After a moment or two she looked at this bowl and frowned deeply as she picked up the meal and the chopsticks and headed over to the breakfast nook. She sat in what appeared to be a pillow covered open window which overlooked multiple stories of the city. Her stare intense as she thought over the events of the day and her connection to Takumi. 'What if he isn't the person I think he is? What if he is and he hates me? What do I do?' she thought as she had the first bite of this meal. She enjoyed her shrimp shumai and rice but wondered if it was enough food to properly curb her appetite so that she wouldn't need any energy from Izuna again before she potentially crept in to heal Takumi again, something she was going to do, regardless of her doubts. 'Why does he make me so indecisive?'

[Bloodedge]

"Tou-san?" Kisara questioned. Upon hearing this, Takumi set his gaze upon the white-haired woman, seeming rather confused. "Huh?" he replied. In that moment, it became clear to Kisara that Takumi had spoken without knowledge of his own brain's contents. "You said tou-san just now. Does your father have something to do with this order of yours? I was under the assumption it was Eira Gremory who ordered you." Hearing this only further perturbed Takumi. 'Why would I say that? Why do these questions only pop up in my head when... when..."

[Apollymi]

Eira couldn't know why she felt so strangely around Takumi. If he was the lad she thought he was after witnessing his dreams and snooping around his apartment then she was almost certain that there was a good reason for her innate interest in him, for her faith in him as a being. 'But if it is him, then I abandoned him...' she thought to herself, a single tear falling from her right eye. 'I wouldn't have done that on purpose, I went back for him I just...' she couldn't bring herself to finish even her internal monologue. She ate out of her bowl allowing her mind to quiet if only for a moment. Each bite of food she took seemed to calm her down a bit. 'I didn't know he was still alive, but knowing that he is... makes me happy,' she thought a smile coming to her face right before she finished her next bite. She'd done so much for that lad's sake, having him disappear before she could get him had been the bane of her existence. It was also the reason she wore so many black clothes and looked for lonely people. This boy made her a better person and she'd never gotten a chance to tell him. Perhaps, if he ever remembered she could, and maybe that small hope was enough.

[Bloodedge]

'There's something I'm supposed to remember... I just...' Eira wasn't the only one who couldn't even manage to finish an internal monologue. Takumi was in the exact same situation, albeit with separate thoughts entirely. His thoughts however, finished in the form of a statement which may or may not have even been related to what he thought. "I can't. Why can't I do it?" he wondered aloud. Kisara seemed confused by this statement and question to the universe at large. "Suman, Kisara. You can go now; I can't bother you with this stuff," he said to the Dragon. In response, she bowed and began vanishing. "My soul is inside you now, so I'll know about everything you go through regardless. If it gives you a sense of privacy though, I'll go away now," was all she had to say before she disappeared completely.

Meanwhile, in the midst of Eira chewing her food, one Kagimi Izuna would literally appear right in front of her whilst floating in his Youkai form. In appearing this way, he looked Eira directly in her face while instantly making his thoughts known. "The fuck!? You said you were dying! Did you choke on shumai so hard you needed my energy to survive!?"

[Apollymi]

Eira had been mid-chew only to be assaulted by the image of her kitsune Queen in full youkai form. Her eyes widened immediately and in this particular moment she did choke. Her face turned red and she began beating herself in the chest, sitting down her bowl of food and managing to look stunned. Her eyes watered and she stumbled over to the sink to grab a glass and have a drink of water before she finally managed to get herself together enough to speak. "Shit! Izuna you have no sense. I almost died..." she said pausing briefly. "Again." she sighed before a couple of extra coughs ensued and she was finally able to get herself together. "And no, it wasn't the shumai, I was the target of an Outrage'd Dragon in Juggernaut Drive," she said seeming to take this in stride even though a short while before now, she'd been in real fear for her life, and Izuna's. "Takumi can use the dividing ability of the Vanishing Dragon. I might have been divided down to child strength and needed the energy. Gomen, I was so relieved when he got control of himself I forgot to mention I was alright..." she mumbled still leaning against the counter, she'd take a break after this and a moment later she'd be aiming to slip her arms around Izuna's neck. "You came over here in full fox form though, huh? I'm surprised, arigatou na~"

[Bloodedge]

The reaction of Eira to Izuna's actions was actually something the latter hadn't considered a possibility at all. At this point, he'd gotten used to her not reacting one bit to his sudden appearances. He had even begun thinking she just always knew when he was around. Regardless, it was apparently the case that the woman had been in very real danger. After explaining the situation briefly, Eira wrapped herself around Izuna's neck. Though slightly uncharacteristic of him, he responded in kind by wrapping his own arms around the female Devil's midsection. "Woah, woah! I'm glad you're fine and everything, but what are you even talking about? How'd he end up with that kind of power, and what the hell made you an Outrage target?"

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Izuna was surprised by Eira's reaction to his sudden appearance. And while it was true, that she generally expected him to be most places, she'd figured she was alone with a passed out dragon for the duration of the day. The fox youkai's random appearance was a genuine surprise to her. Even more surprising than that, was the fact that her normal affection was met with affection. "The Miracle Child Cassiel may have taken an interest in her rival and thought to fight with him. I am fairly certain she meant no harm in approaching him as such and at the end of it he apparently stole the Vanishing Dragon's ability. I didn't get to have that full conversation with him though..." she said explaining that she didn't have the full explanation of the boy's morning. "And I am not entirely sure, we'd been having a civil conversation before he snapped," she said. "His familiar showed up to defend me though... it didn't make sense at all. It was like he wanted me dead, but also didn't at all..." she said thinking about Takumi even more over the last few moments. "I've been noticing his contradictions more lately, his eyes even change color when it happens. Like he's stuck between the previous him and this him at random intervals and in that moment the orange eyed one wanted me dead," she murmured squeezing this lad a little bit tighter. "He said he knew who I was, that he'd always known and that I destroyed everything..." she stated, and she knew what he meant but didn't know why he didn't seem to remember everything.

[Bloodedge]

"Cassiel again, huh," Izuna said during a gradual release of Eira. "Is she gonna keep popping up? It's like she doesn't have friends of her own or something at this point." Continuing to float about, Izuna accepted the idea of Takumi gaining the Vanishing Dragon's ability. The information Eira gave him from that moment on gave him a bit more to work with than he needed to draw his own conclusions about the situation with Takumi. Most importantly, Izuna himself had been inside the boy's mind... at least, one of them. "Well, if he wanted you dead, that makes sense. You know, now that you mention it... there was something weird when those red eyes popped up. I guess the dreams I looked into were the ones of the orange-eyed one then. They only went back maybe a couple of years, and they were still pretty fuzzy the farther back they went. The other one doesn't sync up with the dreams I saw at all, and... I'm only just realizing that it's probably a completely different soul in that one. The Red Dragon probably stopped me from noticing it earlier. I don't get the whole part about him knowing who you are though. Why wouldn't he? He's still your servant."

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Izuna also saw the potential for Cassiel's constant reappearance. A small smirk came to Eira's face in this moment because she'd already thought the same things. "She has the eyes of a lonely person... and kindred spirits tend to find each other. Regardless of their affiliation," Eira stated as she found herself back on the floor and as such returned to her breakfast nook to finish her food. In all honesty she didn't see any real problem with it as keeping the peace of this area was something that Eira already had to do, and the standoff/neutrality established by the cooperation between the Angels and Devils of this area could only be beneficial. As Izuna went on to speak about the discrepancies in Takumi's dreams he came to the conclusion that the souls of the lad's different personalities were separate. He even theorized that he didn't notice before because of the interference of the Red Dragon Emperor. "Hm, fuzzy memories huh..." she mumbled as she finished a bite of food she looked towards Izuna to think about how to answer his question. "I was in Takumi's apartment before we were brought here, and I saw a picture there of him when he was younger. I also experienced his dreams directly..." she said carefully. "I am fairly certain the other Takumi said he knows me because they do know me, from before..." she said calmly. "But he wasn't Takumi then... he was Shouki." Eira mentioned the name of a friend she'd thought died a couple of years prior to this one. One who'd influenced her decision to settle in this area, one that asked to go with her before she could have taken him. It was a great point of contention in her life and for a while it was the source of her depression. But now there were a whole host of other questions. "But if he is Shouki, I don't know why he doesn't remember, why he can't remember."

[Bloodedge]

"Oooh, another one gets thrown in the mix! How will she fare against Loli Boobs and Angel Booty? Find out in the next episode, ladies and gentlemen!" Izuna's teasing and instigating was relentless, even in times such as this. He was quick to bounce back from this though, and did so when Eira claimed proof of Takumi being the young human named Shouki she once spent a great deal of time with in this very town. "Shouki, huh? That's the kid you were summoned by a few years back. I wondered what really happened to that guy. They definitely have separate memories though. Like I said, the one we've dealt with the most only has a few years worth. Something made him more recently than when you started hanging out with Shouki, so it probably got mixed up. It doesn't really make sense though... Why is that one the one who said he knew you, but not the one who was there before?"

[Apollymi]

"Baka!" Eira chimed, Izuna's words and teasing were exactly what she expected from him, and as such she laughed at this. His constant instigation and diversion often helped give Eira other things to focus on. "Yare yare, I thought maybe you'd ended up a bit too affectionate because of me... but when it's all said and done... there you are," she stated rather calmly. Taking a few moments she finally finished her meal and stood up to place the bowl in the dishwasher and put away the rest of the food she'd left while, Izuna floated about. She heard out what Izuna had to say and his words did make sense. It didn't make sense at all for Takumi himself not to remember if he was the original. "I know it doesn't make sense. I still don't get it... But I know I can't ask directly, minds are too fragile," she mumbled. Eira herself had the ability to alter memories, so she fully understood that it would be a tough maze to navigate. Takumi's newer self seemed to know and understand who she was, so what if it was simpler than that. 'What if he exists because of me?' Eira wondered. She stared off into space going quiet as she thought this over. The newer Takumi had only properly existed for a few years, that aligned with the time frame in which she left Shouki the first time.

[Bloodedge]

"Pfft!" was Izuna's immediate reply. "I'll never be too much of anything because of somebody else. It's not my style," he continued. Whatever the case, Izuna realized Eira's issue was one that he couldn't interfere with too much, lest he make the problem worse by forcing it. As such, he was content to let most of this work itself out, with only a minimal amount of guidance offered. "Maybe you're just not thinking about the right questions to ask? All questions aren't direct, y'know. Anyway... I'm gonna head back now. The stuff you guys had should have all been dropped off in the living space already, so have at that whenever. Ja ne!" he said, taking this moment to vanish before anything else would drag him further into this pair's ordeals.

[Apollymi]

"Hmph..." Eira made this noise as a direct response to the idea that her fox boy didn't think himself capable of being too influenced by anyone else. Whatever the case, it seemed that her quiet had brought about a bit of advice from the lad, and though it wasn't directly helpful she could almost see what he was getting at not asking direct questions and all. "Hai hai, ja ne... Izuna," she finally managed. It seemed that everything they'd had from their previous dwellings had been dropped off. After Izuna disappeared, she found herself wandering to the front of the house to have a look at her own stuff and move it about, but she didn't end up doing that. Instead she just looked at the collection of items and sighed. 'Wow, he bought a lot of cat stuff...' she mused. 'Maybe he actually really wants one. I want one, and taking care of something small could be fun for both of us....' she mused making a note to herself to ask Takumi about it the next time he woke up so she could have them a kitten brought by someone.

Soon after this thought she wandered back towards the room she'd laid Takumi in. She fully expected to find him unconscious and thus hadn't entered with any pretense other than helping him heal. In fact, she was so preoccupied by that thought that she'd crawled towards the bed her own clothing disappearing as she aimed to tuck herself in bed with him for a few moments. She didn't intend to sleep here with him, only to use the skin contact to heal any damage he'd sustained while in his dragon form. She wrapped an arm around him tucking herself into his body in the spooning position as she always did. 'Yare yare, I spend so much time like this with you. I feel like it's becoming habit,' she mused to herself. Whenever she felt the stop of energy flowing between them, she'd go to remove herself from this bed to take over her actual bedroom in the master suite.

[Bloodedge]

By the time Eira appeared in his room, Takumi was deep into a state of unconsciousness. He felt nothing as she moved around and placed herself against him in bed, and all of the woman's intentions went off without a hitch. Of course, her leaving this room was not to the intentions of the house's design. As a creation of Szavelneas, the building itself had a certain level of sentience, and it could not tolerate anything that went against its purpose for too long. What Eira thought was the master bedroom was nothing more than another guest room, and now that the house had pinned its targets' energies, it could go through with its work. Any activated powers and abilities belonging to Eira and Takumi would cease working indefinitely in a matter of minutes. What's more, the moment both parties were asleep in different locations, they would be teleported to the 'true' master bedroom deep within the building. The pair would appear in the same heart-shaped bed lined in roses, in a room with no doors - only a single ventilation shaft large enough to crawl through on one's knees and elbows - and dim lighting with a red mist spread across the floor. Just the same, built-in magic would be applied to each person based on the house's idea of the other individual's preference. Because of this stipulation, Eira would be placed atop this bed and made to wear a black and red lacy, crotchless thong, along with matching bustier and thigh-high stockings with garters. Additionally, there would be a red pair of open-toe heels placed on her side of the bed. One final alteration to the couple came in the form of their placement, as Takumi had been placed on the outer side of the spooning position this time, leaving him pressed closely against Eira's backside with an arm draped over her midsection.

[Apollymi]

Strangely, Takumi would also find his own appearance changed a bit to suit the liking of Eira. Though admittedly there was much less involved with his general attire, the boy was changed from whatever standard under garbs her preferred to the silk boxer briefs that Eira herself would have preferred seeing on him. These had dark trim but were also exceedingly form fitting, as if they meant to show off all that he had but also leave a bit of it to the imagination. Beyond this part there was also the boy's own hair which was left to look quite messy and frame his eyes. Moreover this amount of clothing would show off the lad's muscular form. Though Eira had managed to fall asleep very comfortably in what she thought was a room for herself, this particular building had other ideas about that. She'd soon find herself teleported and dressed very differently than she'd been when she'd fallen asleep. Beyond that she also felt the warm heaviness of a body wrapped around her own and though this was ideal to the heiress, she knew she hadn't fallen asleep this way and thus would be eventually stirred into consciousness by it. Her eyes would open first and she'd look around this room, anything she had that seemed to be a good mood began to fall as she realized what a room like this had to be. 'Why am I here?' she wondered aloud, moreover the heavy feeling of an arm across her midsection made her turn her head, and upon seeing Takumi's face behind her, her own eyes immediately widened. 'SHIT!' it took everything in her person not to simply scream and flee but that was mostly because she had no trust for what was going on here. She had no idea how long she'd slept nor, when this shift in her own position and Takumi's had occurred, and if that wasn't enough she knew she hadn't fallen asleep wearing anything so there was that new sensation to take in. As if that wasn't enough she learned soon that the ceiling was lined in mirrors and caught sight of what she was actually wearing which made her eyes widen drastically. 'Don't panic. Don't scream. Stay calm... just change clothes...' she thought to herself trying to remain as calm as possible only to discover she couldn't alter her own clothing.

[Bloodedge]

The alterations to Takumi's undergarments were completely unknown to him. The way he'd fallen asleep was not at all disturbed by this shift; there was only the addition of a person under his arm. The minor movements made by Eira also didn't seem to have any effect on him, though something else would over time... just not in any way immediately. The red mist lining this room was in fact an aphrodisiac designed by Szavelneas Beelzebub, and refined by Eira's own brother Sirtreize's knowledge of such functions. It was potent enough to even affect a Succubus form of Devil such as Eira, but to both people in this room, it would take quite some time to even start showing its effects properly.

[Apollymi]

'Shit!' the curses in the mind of one such as Eira only seemed to get worse as time progressed. The only saving grace of this situation is that Takumi seemed to still be sleeping, this gave her a bit of time to try and plot her way out of this room. But as she looked around, she noted that there was no obvious door and that the red mist coating the floor didn't seem to be dispersing at all. Coming to the conclusion that she couldn't simply change her clothes she tried one more thing. She opened up her hand in front of her aiming to create a ball of the Power of Destruction, but regardless of how much she concentrated nothing came of the exercise. After a few moments her arm fell back to the bed and she felt demoralized completely by the feeling of helplessness that this situation caused. Slowly she started trying to extract herself from Takumi's grip without waking the lad, lest she have an entirely different problem to deal with, but as she started to shift away she looked back at him. Though normally she would have gone out of her way to avoid seeing the lad in such a state with any more than the intention of helping him, her mind seemed to be changing just a little. She found herself staring at this lad with a light red tint coming to her face. 'Did he always have this many muscles?' she thought as she tried to pull herself away.

[Bloodedge]

During Eira's attempt to shift away from him, Takumi began to stir. Before he reached a proper state of consciousness, reflex forced him to tighten his grip on whatever he was holding, keeping a grasp on her as a result. Only a few seconds passed then before a yawn escaped him. Then, his eyes opened. Takumi once again had his vision filled with crimson, but the blur clearing away made him realize what this was. "Ano..." he mumbled as he loosened his hold. As far as he was concerned, this must have been another effort to heal whatever damage had been done to him earlier. After all, Takumi hardly had any memory of actually falling asleep. "Did I black out? Suman. I think I'm fine now though."

[Apollymi]

Eira was suddenly met with the sensation of Takumi's tightening grip, which caused her eyes to widen in surprise. Even if it had only been a reflex she might have enjoyed it a bit too much. But in the same instance that it happened, soon enough this moment ended and it would be ended as this boy made his way into proper consciousness and spoke. Strangely he asked if he'd blacked out and apologized saying he felt better. Eira was quite glad to know he was feeling alright but that wasn't at all the greatest issue to be faced presently. "There really isn't a need to apologize. And yes, you probably blacked out but that was a while ago. I'm glad you're feeling better, Takumi~" she said pushing herself up into the seated position. She meant this of course, but as her eyes looked around the room she found them drawn to the lad's form again. "A bit of a problem though, I don't know how we got in this room. Nor do I know how to get out. I can't use my magic and I assume you can't either, and I didn't choose this outfit. So, I am going to assume this house is really fucking weird," she said not having a proper vocabulary to describe what she felt this house was actually like. She was likely filled with rage but she hadn't noticed yet the shifts in her own thoughts nor her behavior so right now she was only making the assumption that they'd been moved and nothing else was truly amiss. Moreover she didn't want to worry the lad with her, given what had happened the previous day when he'd freaked out.

[Bloodedge]

The widening of Eira's eyes sparked confusion in the male. He hadn't even felt what he did, so the reason behind this was odd enough that he only considered it to be a reaction to his sudden waking. It seemed he had been out of commission for some time now, though that was far from the thing to be worried about in the moment. According to Eira, they were now in a room that wasn't her choice, and she was in an outfit that was also not decided by her. Only the mention of this combined with her movement to sit up did Takumi see anything but the woman's face, and in that exact moment, his eyes widened and his nose sprung a bloody leak. Surprisingly, there remained enough blood to fill his face as he looked upon the beyond-provocative form boasted by the Devil. He reached up to cover his nose and mouth while averting his gaze, only to have it return to her within mere moments. Takumi somehow still managed to keep up the conversation, albeit in a slightly different manner to the norm. "Uh... well... It looks nice. How are we supposed to develop the way they want if we can't use our powers though?" he asked, still believing the Satans' desire here was to have their powers grow.

[Apollymi]

Eira was soon confronted with a vision she'd seen a couple times before this one, of the physical reaction a lad like Takumi had to seeing her in a provocative light. Soon the lad was turning his face away and covering both a nosebleed and an intense reddening of his face. This made Eira look at him with one brow raised, she even managed to look more than a little surprised when he eventually turned back to face her. His commentary wasn't at all what she'd come to expect from the lad, and he simply commented that she looked nice and wondered how they were supposed to develop if they didn't want them using their powers. "Arigatou na~ You aren't bad to wake up to either..." she said having taken this moment to notice she was actually staring again she refocused her attention and apologized. "Gomen... I've been having a hard time holding those back lately," she commented managing to look a bit abashed. There was also the matter of what they were actually here to do and Eira realized that the lad still had yet to realize what the Satans actually wanted from them. "You're taking all of this pretty well... and I don't really want to lie to you or anything so I figure I might as well explain properly. The Satans don't really care so much if we grow individually, they kind of put us in here because they want us to make a baby..." she said rather quickly moving on to explain the thing which would be obvious if one looked around the room and realized how it was designed. "But like that's ridiculous right? So I have been trying to think of a way not to do that but still get out of here because I don't want to force something like that. Us getting stronger together was my plan, which I only thought of because of how you took the first statement I made about this whole thing. If we are strong enough they can't really oppose us and they'll go back to minding their own business... maybe," she said managing to seem completely unsure of that in this moment and a tad distracted, mostly because she had gone back to looking at Takumi with more directness than she'd managed before.

[Bloodedge]

The response to his blurted compliment took Takumi by surprise. He wasn't at all sure why he said what he did, but it seemed to have been taken well enough. "A... Arigatou," he said, paying no mind to the apology which followed. He didn't seem at all bothered by these close quarters, least of all given the strange way he felt at the time. Regardless of how he responded at any given moment, he'd always found this particular Devil worth viewing, but now was a special case. Perhaps it was simply because of what she was wearing.

Finally, Takumi received the truth about them being trapped in this building. The Satans wished for them to conceive a child who bore their powers, not for them to gain their own individual strength. Once again, the shock would pile up for the young Red Dragon Emperor, as he expected nothing of the sort to be suggested by anyone besides Izuna... and yet, it somehow didn't seem like the worst idea he'd ever heard. Eira was apparently very against this though, and had been making a marked effort to get the two of them strong enough to make the Satans' idea obsolete. Takumi, having never let his gaze waver from the woman since returning it, scratched his head with curiosity on his countenance. "Ano... but... what do we do if we can't get strong enough?"

[Apollymi]

Much to Eira's own surprise, Takumi took the flirty compliment she'd offered in stride. This might have been one of the most surprisingly developments she'd come into contact with in quite a while, having not at all expected this lad to ever reach this level of acceptance of her as a person. But here they were, chatting away in their underwear, feeling strange and looking at each other in a very direct way. He'd even taken the information about what the Satans actually wanted from them pretty well, the curiosity on his countenance couldn't be ignored though as he questioned what they should do if they couldn't get stronger as individuals enough for them to be left alone. "I hadn't really entertained failure as an option..." she said thinking to clarify after giving it a bit of extra thought. Surprisingly this would become something closer to the kind of introspective thoughts she had when alone instead of being a simple answer to a question. "I realize it would be easier to go along with what they want. But I don't want to do something as extreme as having a kid, just because someone ordered me to nor do I want to force myself onto someone who isn't really interested. I don't want to give them the satisfaction of thinking they are right to enforce their will on everyone else," she said carefully. "But honestly, I am not really opposed to trying to make a baby with you. It's everything else that makes it annoying for me," she said, in a bit of conversation that was far less guarded than she usually was, where was all this coming from and why did she suddenly feel the need to be this open? What she hadn't noticed was the entire time she'd been speaking she'd been angling herself closer to Takumi only to end with her right hand against the side of his face by the time her sentence ended. She felt very strangely doing this right now and realized that she was being far too compliant. 'Why did I do that? Why did I say that?' she asked herself.

[Bloodedge]

Eira may not have considered failure when thinking about her desired outcome, but it was something that entered Takumi's mind rather easily. The reason behind this was a strange one. He didn't exactly consider failure as something possible, as much as he considered what would come of it if it did become a possibility. Eira however, seemed to have no such thoughts, and it appeared that the reason was her interpretation of what Takumi himself wanted, or rather didn't want. The way he was feeling at this point, he nearly blurted out his first thought then and there. "But I..." Just then, Eira said something incredibly strange. She claimed her annoyance of the situation targeted everything except the idea of conceiving a child with the lad. This was surprisingly along the lines of what he intended to say. At the same time, her hand touched the side of his face, stilling his every attempt to move. "You... what?"

[Apollymi]

Eira's confession seemed to be taken a lot better than any one she'd managed previously and that was also strange. She'd questioned why she'd even bothered speaking these truths aloud, but with her hand on the side of this boy's face she couldn't bring herself to move away from him properly. Nor was she capable of doing anything but providing him the truth to the questions he posed. She couldn't know that he felt the same way about her that she felt about him, nor did she realize how much her actions hadn't really been obvious to him. And how many misunderstandings had occurred between them. "I said I'd make a baby with you... that I don't mind that if you don't," Eira repeated as she found herself leaning closer to the lad but stopping shy of his face. It was as if the last time she'd been this far away from him was replaying in her mind. "But I don't want all this outside interference, compromising something that could be simple and sweet... Are you okay with that, Takumi?" she almost whispered this question against the boy's face. At the present moment the desire to press her lips into his was almost undeniable and given she couldn't even use her powers she couldn't figure out what to blame this urge on. She wanted to make sure in this moment that he understood, she wasn't turning him down nor did she consider this task a burden she simply didn't want anyone influencing her interactions with him. She wanted to do what she wanted at her own pace and if it came to making babies between her and Takumi she'd do that too if he agreed to it.

[Bloodedge]

He heard her correctly the first time. This sort of thing couldn't have been a mistake at all. Before, there was a great deal of confusion about this situation between Eira and himself, but this clause alone was clear as day. What's more, he once again found himself with the crimson-haired Devil in such close proximity to his face, with her hand still touching him. "I..." Even now, he wasn't entirely sure what to say. What could he say? His mind was too flooded for him to even think clearly, but there was one thing he noticed: the voice was gone. Eira made it known that she had no intention of letting outside interference influence whatever they happened to have going on between them, but even with that being the case, Takumi was elated. Every time he faced this situation thus far, that other version of him appeared in his mind to dissuade his efforts and make him question what he thought. Now though, the simple fact that no such voice existed let him push forward by bringing his right hand up to Eira's face and bringing their lips together briefly. Since he still didn't know what to say, this was all he could do to be sure... if not about how Eira felt, then at least that he could somehow portray what was in his mind. At the moment of separation, he began speaking into the woman's face, seeming surprisingly taken by the action he'd just committed. "I... agree. We should just find a way out of here."

[Apollymi]

Eira was soon given to yet another surprise. Takumi was normally very standoffish, choosing to back away from her in all but one instance. As such it wasn't very surprising to her that the lad didn't initially have a reply to what she'd said to him. She would have felt herself shrinking away from him, except that the lad's hand was soon on her face as well. Eira's crimson eyes widened just a bit in this moment and she seemed surprised by this action in and of itself, what followed was enough to garner a thump from the girl's heart as their lips touched by not her own doing. This was indeed something she'd been pondering before this moment though, and as such she could be nothing but pleased, in fact her entire body relaxed over the course of this kiss no matter how brief it was. Perhaps she understood the message conveyed by such an action when coming from Takumi. What was more was that he spoke into her face after they separated not aiming to put a ridiculous amount of space between them again. His words were ones she could agree with and when she opened her eyes her entire face had softened. "Hai," she said about the pair of them getting out of here. She double checked their surroundings visually but it was still just as she imagined it was. "Ano... there isn't a window, and there are no doors. As far as I can tell..." she started as her eyes travelled across the space. "That vent is the only visible place to go, but... this red mist is coming out of that and... I don't trust it or this house," she said. Even so there wasn't much to be done, she eventually swung her feet over the edge of the bed to begin approaching the mentioned vent and aimed to unfold her wings only to find that she couldn't. "Shit... no wings either... why?"

[Bloodedge]

In the next moment, Eira was on the move. Takumi followed behind, finding himself immensely distracted by the view of Eira from the rear. 'There's so much skin. That curvature is...' His thoughts cut short when his ear picked up what Eira was saying. He looked to the vent, which did indeed seem like the only potential exit. Takumi wasn't sure why Eira would consider the mist untrustworthy, but he did suppose this entire building had forced them together and into such a state of undress. According to the heiress, they were also rendered incapable of using their Devil wings. Takumi made his own attempt to access any ability he could, but to no avail on all counts. Looking closer at the vent, he sighed. "If that's what they're trying to force... I don't think there's much choice. If we can't use our powers, we can't just break out."

[Apollymi]

Having determined that she couldn't use her wings, and having already tried to use any of her other abilities, she came to the conclusion that there was nothing to be done but entering this particular vent. She'd try and do this, even though she didn't trust the red mist, but it seemed that Takumi was content to try his own luck, and while he did this, she watched him, her eyes trailing over his flesh as she appraised him. 'He's got such a good build with such an unassuming face. And those boxers are so...' Takumi's voice disrupted her thoughts in this moment and she blinked away the sudden shift in her attention, bringing her eyes back to the lad's face. "So, you wanna lift me up there and I can take the cover off the vent so we can climb in?" she asked the lad. This seemed like the only real way to do this, and while she previously would have suggested only one of them go up, even in this altered state or maybe because of it, she didn't want to separate from him if she didn't have to.

[Bloodedge]

If Takumi could have noticed where Eira's attention had fallen, he didn't. This was likely the case only because his own gaze had fallen to Eira's curvaceous figure with so little in the way of his view. 'The only things that are there... are more like accents,' he thought. Soon enough, the flustered lad was able to snap back to reality and take on the idea of hopefully finding an exit through the vent. It was a rational idea as far as he was concerned, and was realistically the only one they had. "Sure. I'll give you a... lift," he said, placing an awkward pause in the statement only because it had ended quite differently in his head. Frankly, he wasn't sure what he was thinking this entire time, but it was only intensifying as he stepped closer and closer to the vent. 'Climb on top of me...'

"Hop on. I'll be careful."

[Apollymi]

Eira didn't experience shame by virtue of who and what she was. Even so, she could almost feel as if Takumi's eyes were on her and she wasn't opposed to this in the least. Soon after this the boy's attention seemed to return to the task at hand, while Eira's own seemed to wander a bit, 'A lift huh?' she thought as her gaze subconsciously fell down the lad's body giving her a view of his manhood through those tight boxers which seemed to suit her taste so well. 'I could just brush against it a little right?' she didn't know where this thought came from but Takumi getting into position under the vent allowed her to remember it was their aim to escape this place and not fall into the trap it was designed to be. "Hai, arigatou gozaimasu..." she said as she stepped up. Her only idea was to shift her body until she was atop the lad's shoulders with her thighs around his head. Such a position would put her within arms reach of the vent and she'd begin trying to free it, but it would take much more dexterity than a single pull would manage. 'Hell, they really don't want me to get out of here...' she thought as she fiddled. 'Though... I don't really want to leave,' she mused inhaling the mist in a very direct way while near the vent's opening.

[Bloodedge]

"Iia. It's the only way, right?" Takumi asked in rhetoric. He kept his stance strong as Eira approached him, and was dumbfounded by every single thing he saw as she climbed onto his shoulders. From below, Takumi did not receive any additional exposure to the mist, but he was already at a certain point by the time they began this effort. A simple attempt to keep Eira steady so she wouldn't fall off his shoulders brought Takumi's hands up to the thighs enveloping his head. What was strange about this was that his wrists were the things on top of her thighs, allowing his hands to take their grip on the interior next to either side of his face. 'Those underwear had an opening. If that crawlspace is big enough, then... I wonder if that would be alright.'

[Apollymi]

"Yeah, the only way..." she repeated. Keeping in mind that they were trying not to do what the Satans wanted was a primary concern of Eira's. She still couldn't place why but she was already feeling very strange as she tried to pull off this vent. This feeling of strangeness only seemed to increase as Takumi aimed to help keep her steady. In doing so she felt his wrists on her thighs and more over his hands clamped around them. Her eyes widened at this sensation and the smallest of sounds escaped her mouth. "Ah," was said aloud as her mind wandered to something else. 'I wonder if he'll move his hands more?' she questioned mentally, as she finally popped the vent off the hole it covered and threw it off into the distance of the room. "I got it, if I climb in first will you be able to get up?" she asked the question itself more suggestive than she meant. If she was answered affirmatively she pull herself into the opening and crawl forward on he elbows and knees placing her rear fairly high up in the air and revealing the whole of her undercarriage to the lad behind her given the opening of her clothing.

[Bloodedge]

Though Takumi was only partially conscious of what he'd done, the utterance of Eira which came as a result was a very pleasant surprise for the young male. In fact, it could easily be called arousing to the point of Takumi's very loins tingling in the aftermath of it. 'Sugoi! I wonder if I can make that keep happening if I...' Another unfinished thought. Eira managed to free the vent cover, and brought up her ability to get inside, assuming he would be able to make it up himself if she did. With a grin and a flushed face the likes of a man in the early stages of intoxication, Takumi looked up. "Hai. I can get up whenever you're ready," he said, responding with a similar amount of suggestiveness to what Eira projected. As she made her way up into the vent, Takumi found himself transfixed and watching her body wiggle its way in. He crouched immediately, needing to leap up to make it inside. A single jump took him high enough to grab the bottom of the vent's opening and lunge his way in, but he was a bit too early... whether accidental or otherwise. As a result of this timing, he would be caught at a strange point of being unable to get his whole body inside... because his progress had been stopped the moment his face rammed into Eira's undercarriage. However either party would react to this, the only thing keeping Takumi as far into the vent as he was, was his arms hanging on to the edge keeping up his attempt to move forward despite being both blocked and smothered, still forcing his breathing.

[Apollymi]

Eira had been given her affirmation that the lad would be able to climb into this vent without assistance. The way it was mentioned though made a bit of a chuckle fall from her mouth, as it was outright just as suggestive as what she'd said before that moment but she obviously had no problem with it. "Ufufufu~" the sound left her mouth as her thoughts wandered as she began moving through the vent. 'I wonder if I can hold him to that?' she thought to herself, but before she could move any further forward, she was soon surprised beyond anything else she'd been. As she tried to wiggle her hips past the opening, Takumi soon jumped trying to make his way into the vent as well. But Eira hadn't managed to clear the space completely enough for him to get his body all the way inside. This would leave the lad's face buried in her undercarriage which caused her eyes to widen and a moan to fall from her mouth directly. "Aaaah~" the feeling of this lad's forced breathing against her exposed flesh brought an unknown flush to Eira's face as she appreciated the sensation more so than most others she'd felt recently. 'Sugoi! It's so warm~' she mused finding it in herself to move a bit further forward, but not before her hips reflexively moved backwards, as she tried to remember that someone was behind her and she needed to move. "Gomen... it's harder than I thought..." she murmured as she finally cleared the distanced necessary for the lad to properly enter the space.

[Bloodedge]

'Ah... it even smells so great,' the thoughts of Takumi continued even as he literally smothered himself in the crimson-haired Devil's crotch. Her reaction did not escape him, nor did the sudden backwards movement of her hips which only made Takumi push forward even harder. Soon though, Eira moved forward enough to give him full access to the crawlspace. He panted while following, subconsciously licking his lips before any sort of response came from him. "Yeah," he agreed. Interestingly enough, Takumi had no issues getting fully into the vent the way Eira seemed to... but that wasn't at all what he was referring to in the heat of the moment. Little did Takumi know, the added labor to his breath was forcing him to inhale a much greater quantity of the red mist, which was already far denser than it had been in the room they so recently escaped. Worse yet, the vent shaft was long and just as sentient as the rest of the building. The farther into the darkness of the shaft they went, the more both of them would succumb to the effects of the drug. 'It's dark and tight here. Anything could happen...' Takumi thought while moving forward, ignorant to the fact that the vent behind them had shut itself off completely to seal them and the mist from being able to reenter the room.

[Apollymi]

Eira was left to experience a whole mess of sensations due to this lad's reactions to her own actions. She didn't disagree with any of them and in fact found herself panting as she tried to move forward having to catch her breath and deal with the ever so slight tingling sensation in her legs after she finally managed to clear Takumi's face. As she moved forward she inhaled more of this mist, and her thoughts began to deviate from her original intention. 'I wonder if I should stop again...' she thought but the darkness now came from both sides of them, and as she moved forward she'd been hoping to find another vent to push out, but at present there was no end in sight. 'This space is so small, he'd have to touch me if we needed to switch places...' she thought. Unbeknownst to her, every movement of her body forward came with a small moan or grunt she couldn't control and that she could barely feel. "Uh, I didn't expect it to be so long..." she mumbled about the vent. Her body felt hot and more than that she'd come to realize all of her thoughts were sexual. In doing this, there was something going on which she hadn't initially considered due to her own known immunity. 'Was I drugged? Is this what that feels like? It's pretty great~' she wondered as her breaths continued to be labored and her body began to burn. Her face was flush even as she aimed to keep pushing forward, there was only one way out and she intended to find it at the end of this tunnel.

[Bloodedge]

'I wonder if she'll stop again,' Takumi thought at the same time Eira was wondering if she should. While every movement of Eira's resulted in some moan or grunt, every one of these occurrences provoked a similar response in Takumi. The only thing that could have made this worse - or perhaps better - would have been a bit more light to let him see what was right in front of him. Little did these two know, they were only on their way into another trap of the house. The tunnel they traversed was actually closed on both ends, and it was very slowly rotating. Gravity would eventually begin to pull the pair backwards until it developed into a chute meant to drop them in reverse order into a special room filled to the brim with the mist. What made this room special was not just the concentration of mist itself, but the amount of other things found within. The chute, when triggered, would aim to land the first person out - in this case Takumi - in some strange form of swinging harness, where the second person to fall would land atop the first. This was destined to be an odd occurrence triggered the moment they reached the would-be end of the tunnel, especially when considering the very physical response Takumi had to this aphrodisiac during their journey through the vent shaft.

[Apollymi]

It seemed there was no light to be found at the end of this tunnel. In fact there wasn't an obvious end to the tunnel until of course, Eira began to feel like she was falling back. And strangely there was nothing to stop her as Takumi fell first. Her initial instinct would have been to use her wings but instead she was left to land very directly onto Takumi after their switch in position, facing away from him with her legs spread fairly wide apart so that she was straddling his manhood and could feel it pressing against her undercarriage. "Gomen..." she said as she found herself rubbing against his manhood in this position as she tried to remove herself from atop him. "Aaaah~" she moaned. This might have been too much, she'd never felt anything like this before, but this room had an even higher concentration of the mist contributing to the idea she'd had. 'They really drugged us...' she thought, even so, she'd yet to be able to move past Takumi's manhood in their current position. Every time she tried a jolt of sensation simply caused her to moan and relax and in so doing she caused their harness to swing with the two of them in it.

[Bloodedge]

Down the tunnel Takumi went, only to be ejected at its new end and land in a suspended harness. This wouldn't have been too strange a thing to deal with, but he knew what was coming next - he could even see it happening before him. Lo and behold, Eira emerged immediately afterward and landed in his lap, rather succinctly against his groin with her legs open wide enough for this to have almost become intercourse in a way. The extra inhale of mist Takumi had immediately before left him having no problems whatsoever with this. Even if he did take issue at all, there was no arguing with the way he felt as Eira tried to move around. Her doing so didn't seem to work out in actually removing her from him, though it did cause her to continuously rub against his manhood in a very stimulating manner, forcing its repeated pulsation against her exposed nether. The only thing that had been keeping this exchange any level of tame was the fact that Takumi had been wearing boxers, but the constant movement had now brought about the tip of his member erupting through them. All the while, Takumi could only inhale more of the mist drug due to his hastening breath.

[Apollymi]

Every time she moved her hips, Eira came one step closer to something immense. She knew she should stop but everything in her body told her to keep moving, even as she felt the pulsing of Takumi's manhood against her body. 'I... can't stop~' she mused as she tried to remember why she should. Hadn't she mentioned that she didn't want anyone interfering in what was going on between herself and Takumi? Hadn't she already realized exactly why all of this was set up this way? Hadn't she already done the work towards clearing up the misunderstandings between them? The answers to all of these questions was yes, even so, it wouldn't be until she moved against him one last time, when the tip of him had emerged from his boxers that she felt skin against the smooth wetness of her nether. The sudden shift in sensation sent her over the brink of a thing she'd been approaching for quite a while, and a first sensation for her. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH~" the moan left her mouth at the loudest it'd happened. Her body twitched and moisture leaked from her person as she reached a flourish in one blinding moment. As she did this her body seemed to erupt and lost all sensation causing her to gain the necessary freedom to get off of the swing she'd been attached to. "The fuck!? Is that what that feels like?!" she managed as she finally caught herself beneath the swing and her vision began clearing.

[Bloodedge]

In the midst of all this movement, even feeling something unusual happen with his own undergarments, Takumi could only hold one thought in his mind. 'Don't stop,' was all there was. Takumi didn't have the same hangups as Eira at all. On his end, he'd always been seeking some sort of answers as to Eira's standpoint, with or without the drugging. Having any semblance of that answer to his desire here was a positive only amplified by the effects of the drug itself. Suddenly, the strange occurrence with his boxers became known as the bare skin of his member was moistened while rubbing itself against a smooth and foreign part of Eira's body. This seemed to be something rather intense for Eira while being the start of something else for Takumi. He felt a sudden burning need to go further. The way they were positioned now with both of their loins exposed to each other, he could easily insert himself right away. It was more than obvious that Eira was physically ready for such a thing, and her audible response to his emergence would lead Takumi to believe they were on the same mental wavelength as well. 'This is it, isn't it? I can...'

Not at all. Eira wasted no time before freeing herself of him and hanging onto the harness from below. Takumi was left above, reaching out at nothing for a moment before he registered Eira's open query. "... Huh?"

[Apollymi]

Eira's body had reached the pinnacle of sensation, but her body's immediate acclimation to the feeling had freed her from the position they'd assumed after falling. In this moment, she realized she'd spoken aloud and it still took her a moment to pull herself together. Now that she was on her feet she reached out for the lad to free him from the swing as well, while her eyes still managed to wander down his body and his exposed manhood. "I just experienced something very new... and my whole body went numb for a moment so I fell," she explained, her voice still wasn't steady and this place was still full of the gas which seemed to be affecting them so. "It was amazing~ Takumi do you want to keep going?" she asked her voice still came out almost a moan, her body still tingled and it was obvious that she could keep going, but she didn't know if they should. Technically speaking it would mean doing what the Satans wanted, but in this moment Eira didn't really care about that, if her body hadn't gone numb she couldn't have said they wouldn't be continuing already.

[Bloodedge]

"... Sou ka." It was interesting that the apparent only reason Eira moved from her position was that her body went numb from what happened. This news started Takumi's train of thought anew, and as he accepted her help out of the harness, he both saw where her gaze traveled and had his own travel up and down her form. Now that he was standing, the rest of his manhood emerged from his boxers. He took the moment of contact that would have broken after Eira's helping hand and moved in closer, pressing their fores together in a tight enough embrace that his member would naturally slide between the woman's legs just below her naturally-hidden lips. He kissed her right away, and a few steps around during would position them in a way that left the harness at Eira's rear. It seemed Takumi fully intended to guide them this way until he could lean Eira against the harness in a similar way to how he'd been moments before.

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Takumi had no problem accepting her help out of the harness and beyond that he didn't seem too put off by the fact that she'd fallen off so to speak. In fact, he didn't allow the natural break between them and moved towards her closing the space between them in seconds. He'd also matched her gaze and form and the feeling of that alone was enough to bring a blush to her face, "Aaaaah~ Ta-ku-mi~" her voice came out as a moan as his member slid between her legs, though no penetration occurred it was the sort of sensation she enjoyed quite a bit. But she could say nothing else as the rest of her moans were fed directly into the Red Dragon Emperor's mouth. He even went on to switch their positions around which put her against the harness she could have fallen right into. She couldn't help but enjoy the situation and the control Takumi took it over. She could practically feel the next step with anticipation. And at present she couldn't remember why this was a bad idea, it was already so good, how could she really say no?

[Bloodedge]

It seemed to be an easy enough task for Takumi to guide both of their movements and reach the end result of having Eira draped over the harness this time around. Everything managed to fall in line more than perfectly. Even the building itself got involved by magically moving the harness about to take Eira by the arms and legs, and spread her limbs for the absolute easiest access. Takumi was far too lost in the moment to even realize this was happening. Eira would be nearly brought to a horizontal position, yet just upright enough that their faces never separated. He eventually broke the kiss intentionally, but only to lower himself as both of his hands busied themselves fondling the female Devil's breasts. Suddenly, Takumi's mouth enveloped Eira's entire left areola, initiating a sucking motion as he pulled away to leave only the nipple between his lips for a moment. The follow-up to this was a few simple flicks of his tongue against it whilst his right hand traveled gently down her side, then slid toward her core until it was able to perform a single gliding movement down her crevice.

[Apollymi]

It seemed this building was indeed designed to help them along. Eira found her arms and legs spread quite a bit giving Takumi complete access to her body but she didn't seem to mind it at all. In fact, the crimson haired Succubus was experiencing several new things all together including the sensation of their broken kiss which led to Takumi's mouth finding her left breast in a manner which was entirely new. Her eyes widened at this action and a moan fell from her mouth which only continued as his actions progressed. She couldn't remember why she hadn't done this before but she was enjoying this far too much to stop now, and it didn't seem like she'd have to. Her mouth fell open and she found herself gently aiming to move against the hand found below her waist. 'Don't stop!' she thought enjoying all of these sensations more than she'd enjoyed anything in her life. It might have been the drugs, it might have just been her nature, it could also be something else entirely, regardless this attention was something she experienced with elation.

[Bloodedge]

Eira moving against his hand left Takumi with a single natural response, that being the insertion of only his middle finger into her person. In it went while curling itself, and then, he removed it. He'd caught a semblance of something in the vent shaft earlier, and he thought to gain something else of it here and now. As such, Takumi brought his finger to his mouth and licked Eira's bodily fluids from it in one elongated stroke. "Haah~" was the sound which escaped him as he did so, the heat of his breath blending into the air around his dampened hand. Now that he had this experienced marked, Takumi brought his hand back down and took hold of his member, leaning closer to Eira once more. His tip would meet the very edge of her person and begin to push against it. Just as he began to feel Eira's opening stretch around him, he let his face rest in the area next to her left ear, and spoke with a whisper. "Oi... give me..." Just then, Takumi stopped everything he was doing. His movements, his speech, and even his breathing halted entirely. 'You can't do that! Neither of you are being yourselves; what if it's not real?' he heard within his mind. Just then, a single movement occurred in Takumi, in the form of a weak smile. 'There you are...'

[Apollymi]

Eira found herself in a very precarious position. Takumi's middle finger slipped into her nether and curled against her, sending a jolt of sensation up through her person which brought a sigh from her lips. Of course, this entire experience seemed to be exacerbated by the actions of Takumi himself, as he soon licked that finger letting out a noise which allowed Eira to believe he'd enjoyed what he tasted. What was more he was leaning into her with his member in hand, Eira's eyes opened wider than she thought possible as she waited for this painstaking moment. 'Here it comes!~' her mind was alight as this progressed. As Takumi sat right at her opening he began to speak to her and the sound of his voice so close to her ear made her moan her excitement. "Give... you..." she started to ask him what he wanted, but strangely he stopped. Her eyes widened and she reached an internal panic she didn't really understand. 'Why? Why did you stop?' she wanted to question directly. The weak smile on his face didn't match with all that had been felt in the moments before this, what was it all for, what was happening.

[Bloodedge]

Time seemed to stop entirely for Takumi as he once again met himself within his subconscious. 'What do you mean when you say not ourselves? You're always here doing this, but... why?' he asked of his orange-eyed counterpart. 'I'm doing what you made me for. Didn't you never want to feel that way again? You might be right, I might go too far... but you go too far too! I won't stop you this time, but you'll only be right back to how you were before if you let this happen and it doesn't mean anything in the end!' This other Takumi seemed quite bothered by the potential of Eira, in this moment, not truly sharing Takumi's intentions. In a shining moment of clarity, Takumi himself came to a single conclusion. 'Shou...'

"...ki." His phrase finished outside of his mind. Finally, he understood the purpose he should have taken from his other self all this time. It was never for the sake of keeping anything away from him that the other Takumi did what he did. Instead, it was to make sure he never again knew the pain of loss for responding too much to only what he himself felt. There was only one thing he could bring himself to do after having this revelation. He never removed himself from the precipice of Eira's being, but he did withdraw his face to look her in the eye. "Give me an order. Tell me exactly what it is you want from me."

[Apollymi]

Eira was on the cusp of something amazing and she knew it. It would take nothing for the lad to push forward to end this... what was the word for this again. She'd tasted something so sweet she could hardly deny herself wanting it, but now that it was right on the cusp of being properly offered to her she felt the need to take. 'Why did you stop? Come on... I want...' if time had frozen for Takumi it'd also frozen in a very different way for Eira. The extra time gave her what her own mind wouldn't allow her to take after being so fresh with feeling. It gave her time to remember, time to think. By the time she opened her mouth to speak Takumi was looking her directly in her eyes and it was like he could see through her person. Her body demanded further satisfaction, but her mind, her soul, even her will demanded it be on her own terms. She demanded reciprocity and how could she be sure of that, if this was the situation they started from. When asked what it was she wanted from this man she found herself paused, her mouth opened. 'Fuck me!' but this thought was too much not one of her own. It was too different from who she was for her mouth to let it happen, for the first time or maybe like always she felt like she couldn't say this sentence. "I want what I've always wanted, but..." she paused in this moment remembering what was important to her. They'd been drugged and she had no intention of taking advantage of this as such. How had she become so weak-willed in such a moment as this? "Not like this... Get us out of here. That's an order!" she managed one which wasn't overtly sexual but she didn't trust herself not to say or do something crazy. Why was it like this? Why did they have to interfere? Why couldn't they let her find her own happiness? These were all questions which allowed the girl to begin to think, to push past the overwhelming emptiness her body currently felt. 'I'm... starving.'

[Bloodedge]

Takumi needed only one thing: an answer. It didn't matter what order Eira gave him, but it did matter what she said. The words she spoke were ones claiming she wanted what she always did, albeit not like this. What could she have meant? Was the thing she wanted after all just some feeding of herself as a Succubus? It seemed he was right back to square one, but that didn't matter. He had a job to do by order, and in pulling himself away from the woman, he resolved to do just that. "... Ou," he said as a gleam crossed over his eyes. He stood straight with Dragon energy pulsing from within his body. His left arm returned to its Dragon form, which began to spread further onto his shoulder - and a bit of his pectoral - due to his forcing of a greater power to the surface.

"Penetrate!" the voice of Ddraig called out as Takumi somehow freed himself from that which ceased his abilities. This also brought a strange glow to Takumi's eyes, which he used to see through the walls themselves. A raised hand unleashed his Dragon Shot beam technique, blasting through the vent they entered thruogh and even more space around it. Takumi grabbed Eira and sprouted a Devil wing on his right side, and a Dragon wing on his left side due to how far the Dragon part of his body had stretched. He didn't hesitate further before flying into the hole he'd made. He may have been taking Eira and himself back through the highest concentration of aphrodisiac mist thus far, but he seemed totally unfazed by it. The only thing that concerned him now was his task of escaping.

[Apollymi]

Eira felt hollow, rather suddenly, but her order though vague was indeed accepted. The gleam to Takumi's eye now was entirely different than before, but just like times previous she wondered if giving orders at all was the right thing to do. In this case, she needed to not be under the effects of this red mist, it warped her brain too much for her to acknowledge herself. That being said, she'd meant absolutely everything she'd said to Takumi while like this and needed to express that properly. She didn't know how. Instead she got to watch with stunned amazement as the boy's dragon half grew quite a bit more to encompass most of his left half's upper body. This was an interesting sight for the lass but even now as she was carried through the worst of the mist he seemed uninterested while her body burned worse than anything she'd ever felt before. 'He doesn't feel it now... he's fine?' she wondered as she looked up into the boy's face from this position. 'Was it just the mist? Was I projecting... again?' she was left to wonder this as she fought with her conscience. Surely all of it couldn't have been outside interference, right? This kind of extra confusion was exactly why Eira wanted to be left alone. Who cares how long something takes if everyone understands each other in the end. Still as their escape was properly mounted she only ended up transfixed by the sight of this partial dragon transformation.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi was not at all actually unaffected by the mist. He was, however, entranced by the order he was given to escape, and by the negative state of his own mind brought about from Eira's answer. It wasn't long yet before he blasted another hole through the structure, clearing a path to outside the building and taking it right away. Once outside, he continued flying upward, higher and higher until his movement didn't seem to be getting him anywhere. He'd been stopped by the barrier around this property. As hard as he may have been trying, he was making literally zero headway. This wasn't good for the order he'd received so vaguely. He held Eira against his right side while pressing his left palm against the barrier, aiming to destroy it just as he had done with the house... but this barrier was made in a different way. The longer he made contact with it, the more energy he lost to its superior draining ability. Even as he mustered enough strength to blast it, he lost far more than what he put into the effort within mere moments.

[Apollymi]

There was more confusion in store for Eira as they soon were blasted clean out of the building they'd been inhabiting only to find themselves against the outer barrier as Takumi tried to fly off. In a matter of moments he tried harder to escape than he likely should have. This was probably due to the order she'd given the lad, which was a surprising thing to have still affect him given the circumstances. 'Shit, it was too vague,' she thought as she opened her mouth to speak placing her hand on Takumi's body. "Takumi, you can stop now, we're out. Lower us to the ground before you lose too much energy," she made this an order as well way more specific than her last one. If that took the way she wanted it to, they would find themselves less affected. Outside of the house she felt better but was still unable to use her magic to change her clothes which wasn't something she understood fully. 'I need to finish clearing my head so I can think...' she thought to herself. Outside of the range of the house she couldn't help but wonder exactly what it was about this entire situation she wasn't getting. Why couldn't she use her magic? What had they done to trigger both of them ending up in that bedroom? Why couldn't they be left to their own devices?

If she were to make it to the ground she'd apologize to the lad just a bit for the extra roughness of the end of their escaped. "Sumimasen, Takumi... that order was too vague... it wasn't the first one I thought of. I am surprised it worked at all," she said as she looked towards the house, amazingly all outward damage seemed to be fixing itself. Her eyes widened at this because it meant the house was in a constant functioning state.

[Bloodedge]

The effort to free them of this entire space was one which wasn't at all working out for Takumi. As he continued to expel unnecessary energy, he received something processed as another order - one to cease his efforts. His teeth grinded and his muscles tensed, but he stopped eventually. With no more effort wasted, he gradually descended to the ground outside the house, retracted his wings, and situated his undergarments at last. It then became apparent that the order he received to escape was not the first order Eira intended. This was something shocking, and made him wonder what the first order could have been. "Huh? Why? What was the first one?"

[Apollymi]

Eira got to be relieved when the lad finally let her down and managed to situate himself properly. She now at least understood the mechanics of the barrier and also how the how functioned at least a little. These were all small pieces to a greater puzzle she'd been trying to put together in her mind. But she didn't want to do that without at least acknowledging that she'd messed up in giving Takumi such a vague order. That being said, the boy didn't accept her apology and instead asked aloud what she'd intended the order to be. "Kuso!" she muttered to herself. For the third time in a very short span, she'd said something which had given away her intentions more than she would have outside of this situation. She had no idea what was going on here. It could have been the extra bits of her personality filled in from Izuna, telling it like it was without a filter. It could have been this house for all she knew, given the level of thought that was obviously put into it, or Eira could be sabotaging herself simply by virtue of maintaining anything close to a guilty conscience. Regardless, she managed to look more than a bit abashed but she owed him the truth, she wasn't dishonest enough to lie about something when she'd been caught. "I... well... the first order was 'Fuck me'," she said. It was obvious to her why she couldn't have said such a thing, but in trying to avoid telling on herself too much she didn't say much past this point. It was quite a strange sentence for her to let hang in the air, but she couldn't think of a follow up that would make it sound better in or out of context.

[Bloodedge]

Perhaps there was something else behind the first order he would have received from Eira. Perhaps it had something to do with what she claimed she 'always wanted' before giving the order she settled on. Perhaps... Takumi was very right in this assumption, yet again very wrong in an earlier one. "... Sou ka," he said upon hearing the initial order. This was exactly what he'd been made to expect by his other self. For Eira to think of demanding such a thing specifically while under the influence of the mist drug was all the proof Takumi needed. 'I hate it when you're right,' he thought as if trying to communicate with his other self. To Eira, sadly, he reacted in a way which reverted to a quite lesser version of himself. "That stuff was pretty powerful after all, huh? Well... it's good that you were strong enough to fight it in the end," he said, forcing a smile with every intention to cover the fact that he had already overcome the drug in a way when demanding an order. Just the same, he had the intention of rejecting her order if it had been such a statement as what she claimed it was, but it seemed that would never matter now. Leaving it at that, he turned away from Eira and stepped toward the house. He would not enter, instead stopping just outside of it to stare at the front door. "I can't use my power again. I don't think this house is going to stop," was the last thing he had to say. As he stood there, he lifted his left arm to see for the first time just how much the Dragon skin had taken over his body. 'Chikushou...'

[Apollymi]

'Why can't I lie to people...' Eira thought cursing herself because she could see the distrust on the lad's face. His words about her ability to be strong in the moment, seemed a tiny bit insincere as did his smile. Eira found herself staring at the lad in this moment and shook her head from left to right. She'd gone without further explaining herself but in this case, being strong had nothing to do with her deciding on a different order. "Iie, it wasn't a strength thing. I couldn't give that order for the same reason I couldn't order you to be my friend," she said calmly, knowing it was possible for her to give those orders but knowing she didn't for a reason. "It isn't the same to make someone do something I want if they don't want to," she finished up, knowing such a thing had caused their separation in the first place only made that statement truer. The girl's realest conviction in life presently was trying to trust in others to decide for themselves how to deal with her. This all sprouted from some insecurity she developed from knowing she was a Succubus for so long. Even so, she felt like she accomplished this goal with everyone except Takumi and felt guilty about this because it was obvious to her and likely everyone else that she simply wanted to act selfishly with him. In realizing that he was also the person she'd become closest to before and that he didn't remember her, she didn't want to take his devotion if he wasn't sure of it himself.

But all of that would be let go as Takumi walked towards the house stopping in front of it. He claimed not to be able to use his powers and noted that the house didn't seem like it would be stopping its efforts. "Doesn't seem like it. I still can't change clothes," Eira said as she inspected the growth of the lad's dragon half and found it to be more massive than she'd remembered. She looped around him and found herself staring at a patch of dragon skin reaching out to his peck and going all the way down his arm. "Sugoi!" she stated at the growth, she stepped up to it in this moment and she looked him with wide eyes she reached out to touch this patch of skin and found the power of it prickled across her body. "Ano... my magic shouldn't be working but I can feel this..." she said as her index finger traced the outer edge of the dragon scales. 'I can taste it!~' her mind chimed this statement and her eyes widened just a bit. "I might be able to fix this... but you haven't eaten in days. It would be bad to have you pass out again," she said aloud very carefully. "Come on, lets go in, get something to eat, and have baths. I could use the time to try and figure out how this house really works before it does anything else."

[Bloodedge]

Eira apparently 'couldn't' give the order, just as she couldn't order him to be her friend. This was hardly an answer to Takumi. Frankly, he didn't care what reason she had for not giving the order. It didn't matter if Eira didn't want to force something on him; it only mattered if it was something she actually wanted... or rather, why she wanted it if that were true. The thing that made this horrible for the lad was the simple fact that there was no way to ask. This whole Succubus situation was more than troublesome, and it seemed as if he would never have his true answer.

Soon, Eira was upon him and touching his scaly arm, stating that she could feel the Dragon energy despite being rendered incapable of using her powers. She could allegedly fix his Dragonification again, but the mention of food halted the idea of her doing so. "Hai," Takumi said, taking the initiative to reenter the house and make way for the kitchen. He also took it upon himself to begin whatever meal they would be having, since he'd simply become accustomed to cooking his own food. A brief look into the fridge preceded him pulling out a carton of eggs before gathering the cookware. "I'll cook," he said blandly after already taking the reins of the kitchen.

[Apollymi]

It seemed that Takumi and Eira were going to forever have hang ups that seemed to be two sides of the same coin. Regardless it didn't seem like a problem which could be solved immediately and as such Eira wouldn't try and force it anymore. There were more pressing matters to deal with, like the house which didn't seem to care if these two got along outside of the moment of passion it wanted them to have to create life. Still though the lad didn't seem to be on the same level of acceptance that he'd managed in the moments prior, he did at least still do what she said. They entered the house once again and though she couldn't magically change her clothing she could at least have a bath and physically change her own clothes which she fully intended to do. Less surprising than most things, Takumi claimed he wanted to cook, and as such she simply nodded trusting his culinary skills already based on the meals she'd enjoyed in cat form. "Hai hai, not like you made it an option. I'm going to have a bath. I'll be back..." she intended to give the boy time to himself to think while also taking time for herself to think about this house which was the bigger issue.

'So, haunted houses are like my specialty right? I shouldn't have much problem thinking this through...' she mused as she swung by and picked out some regular clothing from one of the boxes dropped off for her. These were clothes to wear around the house, just a pair of black leggings skin tight and a tank top also black in color. 'So, the house obviously wants us to make this baby,' she thought as she headed for the bathroom. 'It will move us, redress us, and even drug us... but I wonder if there are limits?' she thought as she finally entered the bathroom. Considering what it wanted from them, it was possible it was simply reacting to their behavior. Yesterday they'd physically fought maybe the answer was simply to make them be together in a non-violent scenario. She would have been content to simply start running the bath but... strangely the water would come out. "What?" she questioned aloud.

[Bloodedge]

"Suman. It's a habit," Takumi said to explain the fact that he hadn't left any options open. With Eira stating that she would go forth to take her bath, Takumi started the stove. He had a few other things to grab and throw together while it heated, and this was for the best in the end. Something was fated to happen, and Takumi wouldn't even be in the process of actually cooking by the time it did. In fact, he was reaching out to grab an egg the moment Eira attempted to start her bath water... which happened to be the very same moment Takumi was teleported, clothing aside, to the space right against Eira's backside while she was bent over the bathtub. Takumi would also question the universe aloud. "... What?" he asked. In that exact moment, a stream of the same red mist from earlier would erupt from the drain toward the face of Eira.

[Apollymi]

Eira was confused by the lack of water coming from the bathtub, but more confusing than that was the sudden appearance of a nude Takumi right behind her. Beyond this she was also sprayed in the face by more of this red mist all before the water started to run. Her eyes widened and she coughed just a bit but it was too much and her body absently pushed back against Takumi's. "Gomen... this isn't what it looks like. I promise I was just trying to run a bath... did you just get teleported in here, naked?" she asked, of Takumi figuring the lad wouldn't have been cooking breakfast suddenly naked. 'I mean on demand is kind of cool, but why?' she asked her thoughts almost immediately only half of what she intended them to be. If she could have, she would have been on the verge of tears, she straightened up to try and put some space between them finally noticing that she'd been rendered naked by the most recent teleport as well. 'This is too much right? We aren't even... on the same page... why doesn't anyone get that?' she asked of the universe at large within the confines of her mind. She didn't know how to make this better but she felt like this house was going to keep doing things like this regardless of how she felt about it.

[Bloodedge]

It seemed Eira was just as confused about this situation as Takumi. He hadn't even realized his own nudity until the moment he noticed that his bare groin was against Eira's bare bottom for a moment. "Uh... yeah. I was trying to cook, but..." he started. A single step back was taken to produce space between Eira and himself. "There's still doors here, so I'll just... go," he finished, taking an additional step away with the ultimate goal being leaving the bathroom. The more he stepped away though, the more quickly the water pressure in the bathroom would decline, until it stopped flowing entirely and drained whatever had already been collected.

[Apollymi]

The water had started to flow when Takumi entered this room, but as he moved away from her, claiming that doors still existed, the water flow began to decrease. Eira had been stunned but there were several things she wanted, one of which was a bath and the other of which, surprisingly enough was for Takumi to stay. It seemed that in order to have one of these she had to have the other. "Takumi, don't move away. Come back..." she murmured after he'd taken a few steps away and she could be certain of what was happening. "This house really isn't going to stop. The water won't run if we aren't both in here... if you leave this stops," she mused becoming annoyed enough by the happening that she managed to keep her less than decent thoughts to a minimum. 'I don't want to be without you...' she thought only to rub her hand over her face. "Let's just have this bath together since we're already naked," this made the most sense to the crimson haired lass. It would seem that they'd be in for this a lot. "Maybe if we do stuff together the house won't be so forceful about everything. I mean I can't be sure, but I am fairly certain that if we don't do stuff together it will get worse," she surmised, from the information she had, and given the most recent happening. The house itself wanted them to spend as much time together working towards their goal as possible. If they did this the house would have less to do, it would give them time to come up with an alternative and hopefully not get them teleported into drug central again.

[Bloodedge]

As Takumi made his attempt to vacate the bathroom, he was told to do otherwise. He was quickly made curious as to why she'd say such a thing, having not even seen the mist which struck her. However, it became clear that the reason was the house yet again. If he left, the bath would cease. One could only assume the same would be the case if he tried to bathe himself. Eira's idea to fix this issue was for them to bathe together. He stood there looking at the woman with a deadpan expression the likes of which would normally be seen on the face of Youmu. "So you think we should just do things like bathe together just because the house is trying to force us to? I guess it makes enough sense to be worth a shot. Fine," he said while stepping forward again, prompting the water pressure to return.

[Apollymi]

Eira's idea for the fixing of this issue was indeed for the pair of them to simply bathe together as the house apparently wanted them to. And while this might have seemed a bit far-fetched giving something small in order to keep ones self up wasn't really that big of a deal. As it stood, this bath was the least invasive thing the house had tried, aside from Eira's red misting. Still the deadpan expression on Takumi's face as he processed this was one which made Eira stare at him and in staring her thoughts began to drift again. 'Sugoi! I always wondered what that would look like on an actual man's face~' she chimed mentally. "Haunted Houses are one my specialties and eighty-five percent of the time they are fixed by doing what they want..." she stated, the water pressure returning with Takumi's forward steps. "What kind of temperature should I aim for?" she asked. When she'd turned on the water it had been all hot, now she was adding just enough cold that she'd be able to step into it, but it was still probably way hotter than most people would appreciate. 'I don't know, if it's hot enough his whole body will flush. Cute red muscles~' she had this thought and found her eyes wandering around Takumi and felt the need to try not to be so direct about it. She needed to get a grip or risk ruining her bath.

[Bloodedge]

"... Sou ka." Something about Eira's claim to specializing in haunted houses seemed vaguely familiar to Takumi, but he wasn't at all sure why. Either way, if she was such an expert and saying that fulfilling the house's desire to an extent would be the most likely fix to the problem, he could only accept it. Nothing seemed amiss at all, so it didn't matter to him what Eira wanted to do, or how she intended to have it done. As such, he stood akimbo while waiting for Eira to finish preparing the bath. "It doesn't matter. Whatever you think is best, I'll go with."

[Apollymi]

Takumi didn't take that well to the truthful joke she'd made but it didn't really matter. She found herself chuckling and shaking her head as she let a single finger dance across the water. "That all sounds good until you're cooked like a lobster... no complaints~" she chimed. 'Red chiseled body and adorable blank face~' her mind sang. Though Takumi claimed not to care, she still lowered the temperature of the water a few more degrees, lest the lad over cook in the water. Soon enough Eira had a filled tub and with that taken care of she stopped the flow of this water and stepped over to shower off and bathe properly before hand. "Come on, I'd rather not risk this too..." the girl said figuring if one thing in the washroom didn't work while they were alone it would work like that even for the shower heads attached to the walls. This place like her home was stocked with soap and shampoo for all types of people and there was bound to be something for everyone here. Eira didn't decide to pick one thing or another, so she was content just to physically drench herself in water, if it worked.

[Bloodedge]

"Hai," was all he said regarding the joke of him being cooked like a lobster if she filled the tub to her preference. She didn't seem to be running water that was 'too' hot, so it apparently didn't matter regardless how their exchange turned out. Eira first intended to shower as normal, inviting Takumi along to avoid any situation in which the shower would refuse to function as well. "Hai," he said again, taking a moment to properly inspect the temperature of the tub's water. The moment Eira stepped into the shower, the shower head would mist her once more. However, it would not turn on until the moment Takumi also stepped inside, at which point the shower's walls and glass door would also draw closer and closer together by the moment.

[Apollymi]

Eira would find herself misted in the face again, but she didn't know that was what it was, because her eyes had been closed in the hopes of gaining a bit of warm water flow. This warm water happened a few seconds later when Takumi finally made his way up to the shower himself. Her eyes opened in time to note the closing of shower walls around them both. "Water to your liking?" she asked the lad with her a small smirk coming to her face. Still, she found herself to looking at Takumi's body once more before allowing her attention to wander elsewhere. 'Soap dripping down his body, and foggy glass...' she imagined in this moment which was too real for her to voice, aloud she said something else. "If they put this kind of effort into peace talks there wouldn't be a war," she said of this house created by the Satans which just kept setting up situations for this pair of individuals to end up in together. As she finished that line of speech her body turned away from the water to wet her hair leaving water to fall down her body further stimulating her wandering mind. 'I wonder if it'd be too much to get him to wash my back?'

[Bloodedge]

"It's fine," he said about the bath's temperature. It was just shy of scalding, but the time spent showering would surely let it cool off enough to be just about perfect. On the topic of the shower, the two were soon inside and very much shut in by the shower itself. The water poured, and the steam of it filled the shower much quicker than Takumi would have expected for the temperature it was. Soon enough, he came to realize that the wall was against his back and pushing him toward Eira. The same could be said of every wall surrounding them, as it was the house's intention to leave them in as tight a space as possible while leaving just enough room for the intentions of the house's creators. "Hngh!" he groaned while being slowly shoved against the woman. "I thought this was supposed to stop happening when we did this kind of thing?"

[Apollymi]

"Ufufufu~" a chuckle came from Eira firstly because this shower behaving this way was about the sort of thing she expected. There was an entirely different issue soon enough as the walls of the shower kept closing in and filled the space with steam. She was now close enough to Takumi that there was no real space between their bodies. 'Yes! This is the best!~' she thought to herself seeming to enjoy the closeness of this moment. The Red Dragon Emperor on the other hand seemed to take issue with something like this happening when they'd basically agreed to what the house wanted by bathing together. "I did say maybe. Eighty-five percent is not absolute or anything... and this is way less invasive than before. I don't mind it," she said as she reached for the soap leaving her own wet body to move across his in this moment. This action sent a wave of sensation through the lass which made her pause as she looked up into Takumi's eyes and she couldn't resist the desire to bring their lips together for just a moment. "Don't worry about it too much..." she said of their current predicament. They could make it through without much problem if they didn't try to go against anything. And to be perfectly honest the lass really wanted to see this boy covered in soap so going with the shower would help with that. Soon after this she poured liquid soap onto her bath sponge and went about the process of washing with a soap that lightly smelled of cucumber and melon.

[Bloodedge]

True, Eira had not given any information that was absolute thus far. It was still somewhat bothersome to be in this situation given current circumstances, but at least the shower was still functioning, and it obviously wouldn't shrink to the extent of being dangerous or anything. Something else odd would occur before Takumi was able to reach his soap. In slipping by and telling him not to worry too much, Eira also took a moment to kiss him. He was rendered immobile for a moment in trying to process what happened and why, but to move on from the creeping flush to his face, he took his position under the water and grabbed the second set of bath utensils. "... Hai. I guess it's not dangerous or anything."

[Apollymi]

Eira had a smile on her face as the lad moved into the line of the water. She saw the reddish tint to his face and it made her happy to see him like that. 'Sugoi!~ He's amazing~' the girl thought. Moreover she was left to watch the lad put himself into the water. She awaited the change in his person and found herself simply enjoying watching droplets of water fall from his body. This was something she'd started watching with enough intensity that she'd gone completely silent in doing it. Her body was completely covered in soap and she seemed to be waiting for her turn under the water, one hand absently circling her belly, but as it stood she was now looking at the broadness of the lad's shoulders. The curve of his back muscles and the taper down to his waist. 'He's perfect!~' she chimed. Takumi was so exactly her type that resisting the urge to touch him was somewhat beyond her, as such she allowed a hand to pass him by touching the side of his body as she reached for the shampoo. She'd go ahead and begin washing her hair after exchanging her bath sponge for a hand full of shampoo, even so, she was content to watch this lad shower danger to her eyes be damned.

[Bloodedge]

Silence ensued, but Takumi didn't mind. He was content to properly begin his shower by applying a rosewood soap to his sponge, then applying the suds of said soapy sponge to his person. In this way, he went about cleaning himself after stepping just out of the water's reach. This happened just about flawlessly until the moment he felt Eira's arm brush against his side, during her attempt to reach for shampoo. "Suman," he said, willing to take the blame for how close he'd gotten. "I didn't realize it was so tight." True enough, he only needed to get out of the water to avoid having his soap washed away before he was clean. What he didn't realize at the time was how little space was between himself and the wall for Eira to occupy, but his back remained turned to her nonetheless. 'Why did she do that then? I still don't know what to think, but I guess that one was my fault.'

[Apollymi]

Eira had this lad apologize to her as she washed her hair, apparently for being in her way when she reached for the shampoo. Since his back was still to her and he'd moved out the way of the shower's water fall, Eira wanted to move around him and into it. Before doing this though she made sure that she touched him again, she couldn't resist the pull of hard soapy muscles. Both of her hands resting on either side of his waist before she moved. She squeezed herself against his back allowing her right hand to slide up reaching across his chest and rest just atop the start of his scales. "Iie, you don't have to apologize for stuff like that. Besides, I touched you~" she said in a sing-song tone. She added a bit extra for the lad. "And I won't apologize. Well, unless you want me to," she finished these words her eyes closing for the first time as she tilted her head backwards and allowed the water to rise both shampoo from her hair and the soap from her body. Strangely the mix between the two things smelled generally of a fruit salad, but such was fairly normal for Eira. She might have said she had no idea what this lad's issues with affection were, but she already kind of knew. The only thing perplexing to her, was that he couldn't remember how freely she used to offer such things to him.

[Bloodedge]

Following his apology for the contact, Takumi was exposed to the free-moving hands of Eira which rested on his waist before one traveled up the front of his torso. These subtle, yet not so subtle movements were stimulating at an astounding level, but Takumi still couldn't fathom why these things were happening. She claimed she wouldn't be apologizing for the contact while touching him in a way that was so obviously on purpose, and went further by stating that she would if he wanted her to. "Well... I uh... I don't really mind," he said as she slid by him again. In the time it took for Eira to get under the water and begin her rinse, Takumi turned away to create more space where possible. It was at this exact moment that the building itself decided things may have been progressing toward the desired goal, yet not swiftly enough. Because of this, Eira would this time be blasted in the face with a liquid form of the aphrodisiac mist during the time water should have been hitting her face, while Takumi was bathing and conveniently unable to see it happening.

[Apollymi]

Eira's words this time seemed to have been taken a bit better than the last few times she'd spoken. Surprisingly enough Takumi mentioned that he didn't mind that she touched him in the way she had. It was quite a strange thing to say, because while it wasn't a ringing endorsement, it also wasn't a flat out no. 'Yare yare... still confused,' she thought of the lad within her head while she tilted it back eyes closed rinsing soap from her hair and body. She was sprayed by the liquid form of the aphrodisiac while this happened. After this a grin came across the girl's face, as she didn't know about this burst either but still felt happy about his words and a bit devious. "Sounds like permission~" she chimed seeming to find the humor in this but being very serious at the same time. Now that her entire body was rinsed and all the shampoo was gone from her hair she was content to move out of the spray of the water, "It's all yours..." she mentioned as she twisted water out of her crimson locks her eyes gently opening for the first time while droplets of water fell away from her face. She'd watch the lad from behind until he took to the water while quizzically having more of those wayward thoughts, 'That soap covered body of his would be really easy to slide against...'

[Bloodedge]

"..." Takumi couldn't think of anything to say in response. Instead, he just stood there staring at the shower wall. Clearly, he would be free with such permission if Eira wanted. He just couldn't know for sure why she would want such a thing. Did she have some sort of legitimate interest in him, or was it because she was a Succubus and he had the power of a legendary Dragon within him? Perhaps he'd never know for sure, and would continue to be torn within himself because of this. Regardless, Eira eventually finished her rinse, offering Takumi his turn at the running water. "Hai," he said while backing himself against the wall with intentions of sliding past Eira and into the water, assuming she would move in the opposite direction at the same time.

[Apollymi]

Takumi said nothing to the lass as she mentioned how she'd chosen to take his statement. It made her wonder implicitly what his hangup actually was. Obviously this version of the lad wasn't just averse to her presence as his previous one was, but what had made him so unsure of her in these moments? She couldn't really be sure, what she did know is she'd been thinking and staring off into space. Well, if space included Takumi's nude soap covered body as he aimed to move past her. Her own body didn't move in this moment forcing contact between them. And after this happened, Eira took it upon herself to move with him instead of against him. 'Sugoi! It's so nice!~' she thought of the feeling of her soft flesh bosom contrasted with the hardness of Takumi's muscles and allowed to slide easily along his skin because of the soap. A small sound fell from her mouth before she spoke. "Ah~ That... didn't turn out the way I thought it would, but that isn't a complaint~" she mused more than content to keep this distance between them right now. She'd do this simply because she felt like it and she enjoyed it and because the lad had said he didn't mind. Somehow she felt that there wasn't much point in fighting against such a feeling when a moment like this presented itself.

[Bloodedge]

It was Takumi's assumption that his movement would be met by a movement of Eira's, allowing them to trade places and bring an end to this ordeal. She did move at the same pace as him, as expected. What he didn't expect was the direction she moved in, which happened to be the same direction he was going. She also pressed against him during this time. Having this soft and slippery body moving against him was an even greater form of stimulation than he'd received moments earlier. If he had been drugged at the time, he could easily assume where this would have gone already. But... he wasn't drugged, and neither was Eira as far as he knew. So then, what exactly was this exchange now? Takumi found himself fully soaped and sandwiched between Eira and the wall behind him, with the former seeming to think positively about the experience. "I..." he said, his face reddening again. "I don't know what it is you want from me."

[Apollymi]

Eira seemed to get what she'd been aiming for out of this moment of contact, her eyes widened just a bit because the difference in sensation was so nice. She moved herself backward a bit but didn't let go of this lad aiming to pull him into the water as well. But she looked up into his face to find it reddened as he stumbled through an insecurity. 'Kawaii!~' her mind shouted at the sight of this face. Even so, what she wanted from him was simple and complicated and because she was the type of person she was, she wanted to reassure him. That being said she wasn't sure if it would work the way she intended to, but... she wasn't as preoccupied with herself in this moment as she had been previously. So perhaps what she had to say would explain enough. "I want you," she started to say, her right hand coming up to the lad's face. "That was too vague, not like a possession. I want you to like me, the way I like you. And I want you to understand and I feel like you don't. Or rather you just said you don't..." she explained. "Some things can't be rushed so, just try for now, okay?" she asked as she leaned up on her toes to kiss his lips. Nothing Eira had said to this boy today had been a lie. In fact, she'd been trying to tell him how she felt about him properly since the day she made him, it just never seemed to come out right. She still wasn't sure it had come out right but she'd tried.

[Bloodedge]

There was his answer. In a way, it was the exact thing he wanted to hear. In another way though, it was the exact opposite of what he wanted. He settled on the latter during Eira's motion to pull the pair of them under the running water. As she kissed him again, he could only continue wondering the same thing that had remained unclear to him up to this point. 'But how do you...' Whatever it was, it didn't matter. Eira said things couldn't be rushed, so he would comply. In the end, he supposed there were only two potential outcomes anyway. Either he'd have exactly what he wanted all along, or he'd become exactly what a Succubus wanted and feed her greater need for some emotional bond that didn't match his own desire. Takumi's right hand trembled before rising to Eira's chin, which it aimed to lift as their lips parted so he could look her in the eye. "Oi. Do you have an order for me?"

[Apollymi]

A few moments after her speech and Eira felt strange. She didn't know how this lad took what she had to say, but by the time her lips moved away from his he was reaching for her face with a trembling hand. It was a stunning moment really as her chin was lifted, Eira found herself staring into Takumi's eyes and being asked once more for an order. These words were still very strange to her, and in the moment they were uttered her entire brain froze. On the one hand, she wanted nothing more than to be with him, on the other she didn't like ordering people to do things, that could potentially contradict their own desires. But, in this moment hadn't she already realized that he couldn't really mind what she wanted from him? 'How do I...' her thought didn't complete. As she stared into his eyes her mouth opened and what fell out was an order which demanded something most would consider strange. "Takumi, kiss me. Then take me how you want me. I want to belong to you..." she said these words and meant them fully and in every imaginable sense. She didn't care about making a baby or not. Nor was she in this specifically to feed her Succubus. She wanted this boy to understand that he was the one she'd wanted and the one she'd chosen a long time before now, irrespective of what else he was.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's request for another order was met by an elongated stare from the crimson-haired Devil, but her lips eventually parted to speak. She did indeed have an order for him. The words which passed her lips came with such clarity that Takumi just about had his every question answered... just about. He stood before her, frozen with wide eyes as he processed these words. 'But that's... it's so much. Do you even know what you're really saying?' he wondered in his mind. It was in such a moment as this that the other version of Takumi stirred. 'No. Why would she say that? She can't be the type of person to mean that! he said. This garnered the true Takumi's reaction immediately. 'What do you mean? What do you have against this?' was his response. 'You still don't remember? She was the one. She left us, and then I was born. I'll show you...'

Meanwhile, outside of Takumi's mind, his body leaned forward as if he intended to kiss Eira then and there. However, he lost consciousness rather quickly and fell forward instead. His entire consciousness was now within himself, where he would be given the memories held only by his other self. All the while, he received an explanation of the goings-on. 'I know you've seen it. I saw it too. That blurry picture was always Eira Gremory, the Devil who became everything to you, only to leave you alone on what became the worst day of your life.'

'That box... I kept it. What was in the box?'

[Apollymi]

Eira was left standing in anticipation waiting on an answer from the lad before her. She'd given an order right?And she knew it wasn't too vague. His eyes had widened and for one sweet moment it looked like the lad was about to kiss her, but alas it wasn't to come to pass at his moment. Takumi's forward movement became that of a fall which made Eira open her arms and catch him atop her plush bosom. She was surprised enough by this occurance but it also made sense. "Yare yare, I figured you'd pass out from hunger not exhaustion," Eira mentioned a small chuckle escaping her. "Ufufufufu~ It's alright though, I'll look after you until you wake up, and then you can tell me properly..." she said as she made her way out of the shower. She figured as long as they stayed together the house didn't have much of a reason to interfere and as such dried herself and Takumi off with towels before moving on to one of the bedrooms. 'Still don't trust this house though... my solid eighty-five percent is about to drop,' she mused. Though she was a bit wound up given that she hadn't received an answer, she was quite happy to have made her stance known properly.

[Bloodedge]

'You remember the box, but not what was in it? That was the most important thing,' the other Takumi stated. There was a great deal of uncertainty in the lad's true self regarding the contents of the box from nearly three years ago, but there were more words to be spoken. 'Remember... all that allowance you never spent went into that box. You didn't say it then because you were nervous of her finding out, but... that was a lot of allowance. Since you were eight, right?' The realization struck Takumi all at once. Suddenly, he knew exactly what was in the box he never opened, yet knew was one of the most important things to him.

'I saved my allowance for five years because there was nothing for me to spend it on. But then... I spent it all on a gamble,' he said. In response to this, the other Takumi nodded. 'And you lost.' Takumi heard this and lowered his head, but then shook it. 'But I couldn't have lost. She's here again. She had to remember me, right? I shouldn't have been able to be reincarnated without a contract, so that was her fulfilling the conditions... right?'

In the physical world, Takumi was caught by Eira and dried off. She may have thought to carry him to any old bedroom in the house, the house itself still had its own intentions. True, it did force them closer when they seemed distant... but it also thought to give them a little bit of a helping hand even when they seemed to be moving closer together. It was this logic which caused the opening of the door to this bedroom to trigger a trap of sorts. Thousands of microscopic needles would emerge from the door and enter her skin from this simple touch, and that alone would be enough for the house to inject her with its concentrated drug, at such quantities that an absolute overdose would be only another brief exposure or two away. After all, the house's last effort seemed like it would have been successful without Takumi blacking out, but that wouldn't stop the continued attempts at all.

[Apollymi]

Eira had gone to open a door only to get stabbed by thousands of small needles. She didn't notice this feeling at all but still managed to feel strangely after stepping into the bedroom with Takumi in her arms. 'Ugh, it can't even understand what it's doing to me...' she thought as the lad was placed in the bed, spending a few moments too long staring at his unconscious body. Unlike times previous to this one where she would have tried to leave him, she simply climbed in as well, though it would take her a great deal longer than normal as she looked over his form. 'Wake up, Takumi...' she thought to herself.

[Bloodedge]

'Is that what happened? I was the one there when it happened. How would you even know how she felt regardless? She could still just like being around you because you're a Dragon,' the second Takumi stated clearly. This battle was an endless one between a version of Takumi who cared only to do the things he wanted by any means possible, and the version who didn't want to do anything for fear of the consequences. 'Look, I understand how you are... and I get that it's what I need, but I can't keep torturing myself one way or another. Sure, if we do too much, something bad will happen... but nothing good will happen if we don't do anything at all,' he said. In a moment of clarity, he looked into his counterpart's eyes and smiled. 'Besides... deals with Devils aren't as optional as they seem. Even if I don't get exactly what I wanted all this time, I'm stuck here forever... and I think I could be fine with that regardless. Are you?'

[Apollymi]

Eira's slow movements up Takumi's body left her drugged mind to begin to wander. These thoughts were the same type she always seemed to have but at this point they weren't interrupted by anything. With Takumi asleep in this bed and her working on climbing in she was left to explore his body without shame. Her fingertips traced the scales leading up to his chest as she held herself suspended over him. She flicked this line of difference with her tongue tasting dragon energy in addition to feeling the texture with her tongue, as the softness of her body brushed against his while she moved. 'Sugoi!~ He's so yummy!~' she mused as her finger traced down his chest to his abdomen where she traced each individual muscle to be found there. 'Sugoi! Sugoi! Wake up, Takumi... I don't know how long I can stop myself...' she sung this in her head innocently but she'd truly gone astray. She wouldn't have been so interested in his body while he wasn't capable of using it himself. She easily assumed this was a left over from her earlier drugging and really wanted to convey how she felt to Takumi before anything happened that got out of her control.

[Bloodedge]

'... Gomen,' the other one said. 'I can't say I'd be fine with that. Now that you know who that woman is, if you two fulfill that contract... I have to go away. I've been in control all this time because I don't want to go anywhere. I want my own friends, my own life... my own experiences. I can't have that while you're in control, and you being in control keeps pushing you two closer together again. It's almost time for me to go because I couldn't stop this.' Takumi's eyes widened at his other half's claim of disappearing again. He didn't want that at all, but he absolutely couldn't be held back forever from something that gave him such purpose in life. 'I... I don't know what to do. As much as we disagree, you've done a lot for me. I want you to stay, but I... I don't want her to disappear again either, and I know that's the only thing that'll satisfy you.'

[Apollymi]

Takumi's internal struggle wasn't something Eira got to know or understand. Instead she was still exploring his body with childlike glee and unadulterated joy. She'd traced his abdomen with her fingers and now her tongue had begun exploring, she couldn't taste the energy from his point, but she didn't seem to dislike it regardless. The lad smelled nice and clean and his skin was soft stretched over hard muscles. 'I am really enjoying this...' she thought as tongue lashed out. 'I can't explain this if he wakes up...' she mused as her chest brushed against his manhood. 'Maybe he won't mind?' she thought as her fingers began a rather tentative exploration of his manhood.

[Bloodedge]

Within Takumi's mind, the two versions of him stepped closer to each other. The orange-eyed one didn't seem to be budging very easily - a trait he'd taken from his counterpart - but the red-eyed one was no different from his perspective. 'Don't kill me,' one said. 'If I don't let you go, I go back to being nothing. Then I may as well be dead,' replied the other.

'If you may as well be dead... why don't you just give me control? I don't want you to be nothing; you could be my friend!' The original Takumi took exception to this clause. His fists clenched within this mental space, and his eyes closed tightly. 'Don't you get it!? You weren't even supposed to exist, but I don't want you dead! You're not the first person to say that sentence to me. I decided what kind of life I wanted to go for a long time ago, until you showed up and started making me question everything. So... no. You stay, but this is my body and my life. If you want your own, go get your own!'

[Apollymi]

Eira's musing and the perverted wanderings of her mind had her in a strangely accommodating but compromising position. Her very ample bosom was now wrapped around the cock of the lad and she was flicking over the tip of it with her tongue enjoying the sensation. But also fighting with herself about her actions. 'I should stop doing this...' Flick. 'I can't really keep this going...' Lick. 'There is no way I can keep touching him while he sleeps,' Swirl. These actions were far too close to amusing for her, and because of the fun she found in this she remained in this position for quite a while, enjoying the sensation of pressing her breasts against his manhood as a contrast of sensations.

[Bloodedge]

'... Get... my own?' was the question asked by the orange-eyed persona. He seemed to be thrown into an outrage at the thought of this, and such an occurrence resulted in the Divine Dividing gauntlet appearing on his right arm. Takumi saw this and reacted reflexively by summoning the Boosted Gear, just before being charged at with an armored fist that was stopped only by one of his own. 'How do I get my own life without a body!? You're so caught up in yourself, even your suggestions are stupid!' the rejected one screamed. Again, Takumi was taken aback. It didn't take maximum effort to fend off the other version, but it also wasn't nearly as simple as it had been to overpower him the previous time. As the stronger one, it almost seemed as if the proper Takumi had become weaker despite no use of Albion's power occurring beforehand. 'What the hell are you talking about!? You're so caught up in why you were made, you're failing at your only job! Didn't you first pop up when I wanted to drop off that curse so I'd be ready if she came back again!? Nobody told you to start feeling!'

The other Takumi pushed harder until both parties launched each other back. Before anything else could be done, the red-eyed one scoffed. 'Stop it! We'll worry about how you can get your own life later, but for now it's time to finish the job you started years ago! Come on... we both know I won't be able to do this if you really don't want me to, but I want your approval here. We'll get you a life, I promise. I'm a Devil now, so you can even be my first contract... and I'll try my best not to screw you over. What do you say?'

[Apollymi]

Eira's amusements had been long lasting, but it seemed she was closer to being able to properly stop herself. She moved her breasts with both her hands against Takumi's dick while speaking within her own mind. 'Wake up, Takumi... I can't wait any longer~' her mind chanted this as she dragged her body up his, loosening her grip on her own chest to kiss back up the lad's abdomen. Her tongue languishing between the grooves and ridges all the way until she reached his pectoral muscle where her taste buds were teased by dragon energy once more. She kissed this spot over his chest, while her body moved subconsciously to straddle him. She left herself hovering over his body with strange intent as she looked at his closed eye lids. 'Please open your eyes, Takumi~' she mused.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's other self fell silent for some time. He clearly wasn't going to win this struggle, but he couldn't lose either. Would he continue an endless battle against his original self, or would he find a happy middle that would work out for both sides? There was only one suitable route to take in the end. 'A deal with a Devil, huh... I guess that's the most I can ask for without us fighting each other over and over again like this. Just remember that I'm a Devil too, so I won't let you cheat me,' he said. At the end of this exchange, both versions of Takumi grinned at one another and stepped forward. Boosted Gear and its Divine Dividing counterpart met in a single fist bump, and the orange-eyed Takumi began to fade away... for the moment.

When all of this was finally over, Takumi's consciousness returned to his physical self. He was in a very different position to what he'd been in before, and very interestingly, Eira was atop his nude form. The opening of his eyes turned into shock immediately, and that red tint returned to his face. "O-... Oi," he said hesitantly, seeming to have no memory whatsoever of the order he was given before blacking out. "What's happening?" he asked. Something had certainly occurred here. His member was erect and moist, throbbing as it were even before he got an eyeful of Eira's appearance from this angle. He wondered if perhaps he had been drugged again and done something that he, frankly, would rather have remembered happening.

[Apollymi]

Takumi's internal struggle finally came to an end, and surprisingly enough Eira's wish for the lad to open his eyes finally happened. There was much relief in her person as she wasn't sure how much longer she could have held out. Touching him, tasting him, experiencing him in this manner had driven her quite wild and she likely looked a bit crazed. But beyond that point she also looked caught, she looked down into Takumi's face and saw the red tint forming there and a smile came to her face. "Kawaii!~" she mused, as for what had happened, it was now her turn to look embarrassed. Her face flushed and she managed to look away as she explained the positioning she'd just been caught in. "Well, I gave you an order and you passed out standing up. So... I caught you and dried us both off and brought us here. And I tucked you into bed, but I..." she looked back at him in this moment seemingly ashamed of herself. "I couldn't help it, you looked so cute while you were out, and I wanted to wake you up, but you wouldn't. And you said earlier you didn't mind if I touched you... so I did... probably a lot more than I should have while you were sleeping...but I was excited, gomen," she apologized of her own accord in this case because she felt like she might have gone a bit too far for her own comfort, but he'd taken so long to wake up she didn't know what to do with herself. She didn't know she'd been drugged, and felt like she'd just lost control of herself in her own excitement.

[Bloodedge]

The woman atop him gave a relatively clear explanation of what happened while he was unconscious. She even brought up the fact that he'd been given an order, and though he remembered the most important clause that had sent him into the recesses of his own mind, he couldn't remember the exact wording of the whole thing just yet. It would surely come to him soon, but the important thing here and now was that Eira had been behaving rather strangely during Takumi's unconsciousness. 'Excited?' he repeated in his mind. Also looking away for a moment, Takumi stumbled his way to an eventual response. In spite of the fact that he was now free to pursue the woman as he'd intended to for years, actually seizing the moment was proving more difficult by virtue of nervousness alone. "Well... I did say it was fine. I'd rather have been woken up, but... you should be able to do whatever you want, right?" he said, working his way toward remembering the exact order he was given.

[Apollymi]

"Well I was trying to..." she mentioned of waking the lad, but his words about her being able to do whatever she wanted made her scoff. "Iie, I also want to do what you want. But next time I need to wake you up, I suppose I'll put a bit more effort into it~" she teased. In this moment Eira allowed her body to relax a bit in this position atop Takumi. She stared at him intently for several moments finding his face and nervousness to be different from what she'd expected given how he'd been immediately after receiving his order. "Are you alright, Takumi?" she asked this question with deep curiosity in her person. The boy had passed out in the shower after receiving an order, if he wasn't really up for this right at the moment she could understand, though her body almost demanded satisfaction right now, she wasn't at all callous especially when it came to this lad beneath her.

[Bloodedge]

"Sou ka," he said to the thought that Eira would try harder to wake him if such a thing were to ever be necessary again. More to the here and now, the woman questioned his well-being. Takumi wasn't quite sure himself about his situation, but there was one thing he was absolutely certain of, now without even a shadow of a doubt.

He knew what the box meant.

Pushing himself up onto his elbows, he shifted in a way that produced a surprisingly unexpected sensation for him. His manhood rubbed against Eira from underneath, bringing an immediate pause to his movements. In that moment, he figured it was probably best not to try moving as long as she was on top of him this way, unless he had other intentions. "Ah... suman. I'm fine I think, but... I need to get something. I left something really important at home, and I can't not have it now," he said, knowing that there was one way he could begin to believe Eira was the one he thought she was, as well as the person he wanted her to be. He had to have that box at all costs, even if he had to tear down the outside barrier himself to get to it.

[Apollymi]

Takumi seemed fine with the joke she'd made, though it'd been quite serious. Beyond this, the lad's movements seemed to shift beneath her body just a bit and widen her eyes. In this moment, it became obvious to her, that she'd enjoyed trying to wake him up, about as much as his body seemed to enjoy the attention. "Ah~" the noise escaped her, but Takumi soon stopped moving letting her known that this wasn't about to continue immediately. He claimed there was something he needed from his apartment and that it had to be with him right now. Her eyes widened but she took the opportunity to shift from atop him, kissing his lips as he found himself in the proper position. "Don't worry. Everything that was at our apartments was moved into the living room here until we go through it. Your boxes have your name on them..." she confirmed. It had been news she'd had since the day before that she'd been meaning to bring up but had forgotten among all the craziness presented by this day.

[Bloodedge]

Seeming to acquiesce to his need to move, Eira took only a moment between shifting about to kiss him before mentioning that all of his belongings were in this house. His eyes widened at the realization that he hadn't been far from his most important possession at all this whole time. No further hesitation came from the lad. He hopped up immediately and ran out of the room. Whatever his desire was, it seemed the house had no intention of getting in his way as he ran about to find the items belonging to him. He rummaged through each box of his with reckless abandon, until eventually he pulled out a small present box that he once had in hand on the day Eira left his younger self behind. With it in his possession once again, he ran directly back to the bedroom and stood before Eira while holding it out in his right hand. His brows were furrowed, conviction bleeding through his gaze. He had but one question. "This. What does this mean to you?"

[Apollymi]

After hearing his things were so close, Takumi jumped out of bed immediately running through the house and searching for his items. Eira was stunned by this and a bit curious about what he thought he'd find there. She relaxed on the bed waiting for his return managing to not look stressed or embarrassed about her current state of nudity as she waited patiently for Takumi's return. When he finally did he held out a box before her, his eyes shining with purpose. This sent a tingle up Eira's spine, but also warmed her heart quite a bit. In her own mind in the same moment that she saw this young man standing before her as such, she also saw the young boy who'd clutched this very box for a week waiting for her to return from the Underworld. Both with the same intention burning in their eyes, for all of what Eira was though she still didn't know the contents of that box, but the conviction in Takumi's eyes let her know that he remembered far more than he had. "Sou ka... I haven't seen that in a really long time. I still don't know what's in it. But... just like now all I see is the conviction of someone who is most precious to me," she said this and meant it. Even before this moment she'd cherished her relationship with the small boy known as Shouki.

[Bloodedge]

What Eira said may have been a response to his question, but it was not quite an answer. No, he needed to know something far beyond her acknowledgement of his conviction. He knew what this box was to him, what he'd lost, and what he didn't intend to lose again. What he needed to know now was what the box would mean to Eira. As such, he stepped forward until he was nearly touching the foot of the bed, stretching his fingers to leave the box resting on his open palm. "Iia. I remember now. I looked everywhere... just for this. I always meant to give it to you, but... you left. But here I am now, so take this and tell me what it means to you!" he said, nearly demanding an answer. Inside this box, one would find something a thirteen year-old boy should not have been in possession of those years ago: a ring, seemingly one of engagement. The ring in this box was once purchased using Takumi's savings over years, costing nearly 600,000 Yen at the time. It boasted an sizable diamond at its center, surrounded by slightly smaller rubies, with the collective being sided by multiple tiny diamonds. A younger Takumi would have referred to such a thing as a symbol of Eira herself at the time: a beacon of purity and flawlessness, wrapped in a crimson shroud and surrounded by a greater, less-conspicuous radiance. Now though, he was more concerned with what she would think of seeing such a thing.

[Apollymi]

Takumi moved forward, standing almost at the edge of the bed holding this box out to Eira. She was slightly afraid of it, she still didn't know what was in it, and had a bit of anxiety around the idea of opening it. He claimed that he'd looked everywhere for it and it was meant for her. She'd spoken to the lad about this box on the night she'd left and what she'd gotten out of him hadn't made sense. What could be in a box that he thought would change things forever. Whatever the case, it seemed she was about to find out. She reached out for this box taking it into her own hands, with Takumi demanding she explain what it meant to her. She opened this case with marked effort and within she saw, the single most beautiful piece of jewelry she'd ever laid eyes on. "It's beautiful..." she murmured. A ring. A diamond engagement ring, surrounded by a row of rubies and then a row of smaller diamonds. A setting so perfect, so expensive it shouldn't have been in the possession of a young boy. 'He bought this for me.' His own words. 'He searched for it.' His conviction. 'He never wanted me to leave again.' His face. 'He loved me.'

Eira's processing of this information came in complete silence, with the exception of the sound of her heart beating in her chest and her eye lids opening and closing. She couldn't stop it from happening, tears welled up in her eyes. She felt for this boy so much, she wanted to save him from her, and he was trying to marry her. The object itself was priceless to her, but more so than that, she looked up with tears in her eyes and streaming down her face to see this darling young man. This boy who'd been such a light in her life, for such a long time. This boy who'd made her into a better person than she could be alone. She was so choked up in seeing this she hadn't immediately been able to give this lad the verbal response he was looking for. "It means you want me to be with you forever," she said as she began to move forward ring still in hand. "You don't want to lose me..." she said reaching out for the side of his face. "You're so nice to me, I don't think I deserve this..." she said it but continued after. "But I want you forever, Takumi. I won't ever let you go again," she said there was fierceness in her crimson eyes she truly didn't believe that she deserved a boy as sweet as this one. But she wanted him without question and felt her heart swell every time she thought of him.

[Bloodedge]

There was much silence coming from Eira as - and after - she opened the box. Eventually, tears began streaming down the woman's face, yet still... silence. Even after holding onto that ring for years, Takumi didn't know what he should actually expect as far as reactions were concerned, but when the silence ceased, it was replaced by her words after all. It wasn't so much the answer Takumi sought at first, as much as it was Eira's interpretation of what the ring meant to him. However, after her assertions were made, she spoke words which gave a fair enough implication of her desires. The ring was still in her hand, and her other hand was touching his face by the time these words escaped her. At that time, Takumi remembered the order he'd been given while his own eyes began filling with tears as well. "Sou... desu ka," he said as his face inched forward, eventually resulting in his lips pressing themselves against Eira's. This was the first act of her last order being executed. The second half would not be so normal, though. Eira had ordered that he take her in whatever way he desired, but he had quite literally just done that, just in the wrong order. Now, there was still an order to complete... and the only desire he had left was to know Eira's. "Then... by your order... give me another order. If you'll never go again, give me an order that tells me how much you mean it," he said with unknown force, yet also with the most tender touch of his right hand upon her face.

[Apollymi]

This moment became overly emotional, apparently for both individuals, but it had also been years in the making and as such it was to be expected. It seemed though she'd been a bit more vague than she'd meant to be, that Takumi understood completely what she meant in accepting his engagement. His words of understanding were uttered from a face that approached her own inch by inch before finally their lips made contact again. At the end of this Eira was left with trembling lips and a heart which thumped harder than it had in her entire life. He then claimed that by her previous order, he wanted another one, this order he wanted to confirm Eira's own feelings and allow him to know that she truly never intended to leave him again. From a technical standpoint there was only one thing that Eira could offer this lad to make him understand how real her promise was to keep him forever. She looked him in the eye and and gave another set of orders from a very close distance at this lad's face. "Takumi, slide this ring onto my finger and mark me as yours. Then make love to me, so I can give myself to you fully. I need to bind you to me forever..." she said as she looked this lad in the eye. In this moment, she didn't care about making a baby for the Satans or all of the strange things done by this house. She cared only about completing her bond with Takumi completing his mark and tying their lives together was as deeply as she could give herself to this lad. In addition to offering him the one thing she had left, her virginity. She waited for the acknowledgement of this order with great anticipation and wondered when he'd completed his previous order at all.

[Bloodedge]

And so, Takumi received one more order since coming here. This order also came in two stages, both of which were easily met. However, he didn't understand the stipulation behind the second half. The result of this was the lad taking the ring into his left hand, and taking Eira's left hand into his right hand while gazing into those crimson eyes of hers with ones that interestingly matched them. "How do you mean?" he asked, seeking only clarification as his body reacted to the first half of the order. "You make it sound like there's more than what I know." Before the ring met Eira's finger, he fought against the impulse. If he was to do this, he would do it the way he believed was proper. If he had to wait for clarification to come before going through with part two of the order, then he would also hold off part one if only for a moment.

[Apollymi]

Eira soon found her hand within that of Takumi's while he stared at her with eyes just as crimson as her own. It was as if they matched in this way and it was perfect, but as she waited for this action the lad with her sought clarification. Her eyes widened slightly because she'd completely forgotten something important while being swept up in this moment. Still she meant it, but she wondered if he would be alright with what she had to say. "Well, there is... that mark on your neck has a final level. It will bind our lives together but it requires an exchange a physical one like this one. I couldn't give it out because I am a virgin and I didn't want to potentially force anyone to live and die with me. Except for Izuna I didn't have to this sort of thing with him because of tricky fox magic. If it goes up that far, you're mine forever, you literally can't escape me..." she explained carefully. "It's why I left before, an exchange like this with a non-magical human is dangerous, it could have killed you. Feeding from you could have driven you mad, but I wouldn't have been able to control the urge if we ended up like this back then. I didn't want to risk you, because of my powers..." The end of Eira's sentence came with a pause which made her look at the lad her expression still soft and waiting. Subconsciously, Eira needed this lad to accept this facet of her. She'd denied it herself so long she wasn't a fully functional devil without half of her power at her disposal. "Is that okay with you, Takumi?"

[Bloodedge]

The explanation given by Eira as to what she truly meant was an astounding one. Now that he thought about it properly, it was only reasonable for the powers of a Succubus to go well beyond the energy manipulation shown in the mark he achieved from some simple kiss. Everything about a Succubus screamed more than something so minuscule. This, though, was something quite irreversible with a very high requirement, bar however it managed to work out for Izuna. What's more, Eira explained this as the reason she couldn't bring him with her years before now... but that didn't matter at all. Takumi would have easily allowed that risk she wished to avoid, but now, he was well beyond even that. "... Sou ka," he said after a moment of hesitation. As for whether it was fine with him or not, he had nothing to say. What could he say? Nothing. All he could do at that point, all he decided to do, was slide the ring onto Eira's finger and move himself forward until he occupied the same bed she sat in. In doing this, he also began kissing her again in earnest. The house seemed to respond quite positively to this by transporting the pair to the same sealed bedroom they were placed in on the first night here, onto the very same heart-shaped bed.

[Apollymi]

Eira had mentioned everything she'd needed to in her explanation. She didn't know how the lad would respond to knowing that she would bind their lives together if they happened to go through with this in this very moment. She'd asked him if this was okay with him. But the only answer she'd gotten was an affirmative to the fact that he understood exactly what it was that she was offering him. Strangely he didn't verbally respond otherwise, instead he simply moved. First by slipping that ring on to her finger as she'd ordered him to, then by moving himself into the bed. And beyond that their lips met again and this time, the lad did so in earnest. Eira's eyes widened and closed as she sank into this moment, the softness of the lips and the lack of answer to her question seemed to reassure her. Her eyes had closed so she hadn't noticed their shift in the house, instead she simply settled further into this embrace, wrapping her arms around the lad and pressing their bodies closer together.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi, too, did not know about their sudden change in location thanks to having closed eyes. However, it didn't matter where they were at the time, as there was only one thing which mattered to the lad in the moment. Takumi's arms moved to wrap around Eira just as he felt hers moving around him. Still, the kiss remained unbroken. There was a long period of time somewhere between an instant and an eternity in which Takumi had no acknowledgement for anything else in the area, even the world itself beyond the personal space bubble now shared between the two.

[Apollymi]

The kiss remained unbroken but as she sank into the moment Eira began to desire more from this lad. As they kissed her hands wandered the expanse of his muscles. Her mouth opened gently as exhaled while their lips touched like this. The whole world was small in such a moment but she finally felt like it was full of something in this moment where she had him. Her tongue slid from within her mouth as she aimed to enhance this moment as her hands found their way to his hips where her finger tips tightened around him. 'This is what I wanted. This perfect thing...' she thought as she well and truly enjoyed herself for the first time in forever.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's eyes remained closed for longer than they ever had without him having some intention of falling asleep. In this time, he found a certain level of comfort previously unimaginable, and a level of elation to match. Eira went on to progress the experience into something greater by letting her tongue escape from her mouth, and into his by association, and gripping his hips with the tips of her fingers as if they were some sort of claws. Takumi's physical response was both simple and instantaneous. He gripped her tightly by the midsection and used his own tongue to massage hers, using only the times in which there was space between their mouths to catch a breather and have his breath caress the face of his partner. Two hands began gliding along Eira's bare back, one of human flesh, and one of Dragon scales. Eventually, they settled on her rear while his arms enveloped her torso.

[Apollymi]

Takumi accepted the extra movements of Eira matching them in his own way. In this form of exploration Eira found extreme satisfaction. As their tongues danced between their mouths and breaths escaped to touch each other, the crimson haired lass found her face tingling with redness. Takumi's hands even moved to caress new parts of her body causing unknown joy. She even seemed to enjoy the difference in texture between the two hands, being unable to decide which grip she preferred on her bottom or perhaps she simply enjoyed both because of the contrast they provided. Irrespective of this an eventual break would come to their kiss in which Eira's face would shift, pecking the lad on his lips once more before shifting to the side of his face. Her tongue trailed down his neck on the side of his human arm right down to his collar bones before her motions moved and she repeated them on the other side. The smallest of noises escaping her mouth as she trailed her tongue across the line between his scaled and regular flesh along his pectoral. "Ah~" As her tongue progressed in its motions the dragon energy would be sucked from this spot leaving his flesh unmarred and feeding Eira its energy in exchange, and likely providing Takumi a rather stimulating sensation. Though this didn't completely remove it, Eira used this to confirm that she could still use at least some of her powers within this house. "Takumi, all of you is really tasty~" this fell out of her mouth as she finally looked back up into the lad's face. If she noted the change in this room she didn't care enough to mention it initially.

[Bloodedge]

After some unknown amount of time spent kissing between the two, Eira decided to separate their mouths and apply hers instead to his neck and collarbone. Stimulating though this was, the end result was her repeating the motion down the side of him that had become Dragonified. Her very tongue drained the Dragon energy from the end of its growth, and Takumi felt every ounce of it as it flowed from him and returned that area of skin to its normal human appearance. "Hngh..." he groaned, albeit in pleasure. This strange sensation felt like some incredible massive and immediate exfoliation where it took effect, and beyond this was the feeling of Eira's tongue and the words she spoke to quantify her efforts. Meeting her gaze so quickly after hearing such a thing was slightly embarrassing, if anything, but he continued staring into her face even as his own reddened again. "Haah... don't say that. I don't know how to take something like that."

[Apollymi]

Eira's work on Takumi did exactly what she expected. She was rewarded for her efforts with a favorable groan and by the time the lad was meeting her gaze and acknowledging what she'd said, there was a red tint to his face as if she'd embarrassed him. "But your face is so cute when I say it~" she mentioned innocently though nothing about the look in her eyes implied innocence. In fact, draining that little bit of energy had left Eira a bit ravenous and she was in just the sort of mood that she wanted the rest right at that moment. As a consequence of this desire she lifted his Dragonified arm and held his hand in front of her face. She was making very direct eye contact with the lad as she drug her tongue purposefully slow across the tip of his middle finger. As soon as this was finished she swirled her tongue around the tip, tasting all that cinnamon flavored sweet dragon energy before the pressure came form her jaws and she sucked it down. In this moment the energy would be drained from this arm completely. Not because she didn't like it, but because she did and wanted to taste it while giving Takumi the full erotic sensation of it while he could fully enjoy it. Her throat moved with each swallow and her eyes closed for the moment while she enjoyed the sensation of it overtaking her body, filling her stomach with warmth and her veins with power. Her own body responded to this random influx of energy by turning her face red and if it had worked his human hand in her own she'd look to him with those crimson eyes of hers, her entire face flushed and wink at the lad before kissing his finger tip with every bit of the implied act she'd just committed in her mind. Her body tingled with power and anticipation and she felt well and truly drunk from it.

[Bloodedge]

"Ah..." This utterance passed Takumi's lips as one of surprise by what Eira had to say regarding his expression. Of course she would claim such a thing. Takumi should have saved his shock though, as the sample of Dragon energy Eira took from his arm returned her to the sort of state she'd been in the first time she took the excess from him. He saw what was coming as she lifted his Dragon hand, but this time there was much more energy to be absorbed. What's more, the specific method she chose was so blatant, so deliberate even, that Takumi couldn't have avoided seeing the underlying message if he tried his hardest. The entire painstakingly long build to her actually absorbing the energy through his middle finger, as Takumi saw with his mind's eye, didn't involve his finger at all. In fact, he could almost directly translate the image of his finger to his shaft, and the mere attempt to do so made him virtually feel it on both ends. His member throbbed as if it wished to burst through its own flesh, almost painfully as he locked eyes with Eira throughout this extended moment of suggestiveness. At the same time, he felt the far more powerful version of what happened with the Dragon skin on his torso, albeit traveling from his chest all the way through his arm this time. Eira's intoxication notwithstanding, Takumi was now left panting away the strange sort of release he'd just been given in a way that felt far, far more sexual than he knew it needed to. After all that, he did indeed need a moment to catch his breath.

[Apollymi]

"Go-chi-sou-sa-ma-de-shi-ta~" came out in the young woman's sing-song voice as her head tilted back. If Takumi needed a moment to catch his breath, Eira simply felt energized by the amount of power which flowed through her in this moment. Still, she did at least acknowledge that the lad might need a breather, so for a moment she simply allowed herself to relax. And take in the view of his body with an appreciative stare. "Sugoi!~" she chimed as she watched the lad try and gather himself finding his countenance to be more attractive in these moments. She knew what she'd done didn't compare to a proper release for the lad, she'd only meant to imply one, but the way her body was feeling she now felt like she needed one too. She still didn't care where she was, but she could almost see how this sort of interaction could drive some people to madness. With her body overflowing with power and her face flushed she felt the need to initiate skin contact, she pressed the front of her body against Takumi slipping her arms around his neck in this moment. She leaned her head into the left side of him, and kissed his neck there gently. If she had anything else to say she couldn't find the right words to express it, she could only hope it would convey her meaning.

[Bloodedge]

As Takumi took the time to catch his breath and Eira used said time to inspect him, he viewed her as well. Something about this drunken stupor she seemed to be in was appealing, even arousing in its own right. Perhaps it was such a thing which made their earlier drugging such a powerful and difficult thing to fight against - he would now be having a difficult time doing so whilst sober, if that happened to be his desire. Of course, his desire at this point was the exact opposite, and Eira's ideas seemed to match. The redhead took initiative by moving toward Takumi and planting her face against his neck to kiss his flesh, bringing them in close enough quarters for him to take hold of her by the torso. He remained sitting as he grabbed her by the waist and met her efforts with his own in a mirrored fashion, beginning to kiss her left shoulder and turning his head until he extended a series of pecks and tongue lashes up her neck to just beneath her ear.

[Apollymi]

The kiss Eira placed upon Takumi's neck was soon mirrored by the lad on her own. This of course was expanded upon by the use of the lad's tongue as it drew progressively closer to her ear. During this time, she'd done something slightly different as well. She choose to move her lips down the lad's neck resting her mouth over his pulse and sucking on this section of skin, her tongue moving across it adding pressure. Until the movement's of this boy's tongue caused her to release that spot as she moaned in pleasure against him. "Ta-ku-mi~" she moaned his name. This sent the heat of her breath across the lad's neck, her current state made this situation more intense for her, it was like she could feel everything without the need of limiting herself. It pushed her body against his letting him feel the softness of her chest as she wiggled against him in such a pleasurable moment.

[Bloodedge]

A pair of efforts combined seemed to be satisfying both parties, every movement from one leading to a response from the other. Suddenly, the gentle motions of a moist mouth along his neck evolved into a tightness and pull against his pulse, combined with the motions of a tongue against the affected area. This was something entirely new for the lad, and akin to a pinch which somehow elicited a reaction of pleasure. The feeling alone brought about a new tension to his body, which resulted in his grip on Eira's waist dropping to her hips and tightening as his fingertips pressed into her buttocks. This evolved into something greater, as the tension of the muscles throughout his arms would have him naturally pull Eira's lower half closer to him whilst his head dropped and allowed his lips to envelop her left nipple.

[Apollymi]

Eira's efforts were again rewarded and taken to a new level. Added tension from Takumi's body made the grip upon her hips even tighter, they even shifted to involve her bottom moving closer she seemed to surrender to such a movement. The feeling of being trapped in his grasp while his head shifted down lower on her body to her breast which had a nipple then disappear into the lad's mouth elicited an utterance of surprise, and a moan of outright pleasure. "Aaaaahhh~" She felt as if her body was at his mercy and she didn't seem to have much of a problem with it. In fact she'd taken to watching him as he acted this way while biting the index finger of her left hand to quiet her own moans, content in the moment as her right hand found its home sliding down the boy's shoulder onto his back feeling the depth of the muscles there.

[Bloodedge]

'Sugoi. Everything happening is by choice now. Nothing's interfering. Even...' Whatever thoughts Takumi was having, he silenced them without even meaning to as his mouth began to suck on the nipple it claimed for itself moments prior. Every sucking motion was followed by its captor being freed briefly, only to then receive a lashing of tongue and be encapsulated yet again. All the while, Eira's hand slid along Takumi's back in a manner that felt somewhat encouraging. As a result of this sensation, his hands gripped tighter even as he lost tension in his arms, though their grasp shifted entirely to her rear end. Her cheeks would be spread whether this was Takumi's conscious intention or not, simply by virtue of the grip itself as if a moment in the middle of a glut massage became frozen in time. Like this though, the genitals of the Devil pair would be returned to casually rubbing against one another thanks to Takumi's movements forcing slight alterations to the placement of Eira's body.

[Apollymi]

Each motion of Takumi's tongue seemed to gain a new sound or noise whether muffled or outright from Eira. It was like the boy intended to tease her to the point of madness with the things he aimed to accomplish. At the same time she couldn't stop the movement of her hand along his even seeming to try and clinch to make a fist only to have her nails graze the lad's back just a bit each time it happened. Beyond this the movements of his lower body seemed to cause an entirely new issue, as his grip tightened and her cheeks were spread farther than she expected. If this was not shocking enough a minor alteration of her body by Takumi and the most intimate parts of them were now touching once more. Eira herself had nothing but accommodating wetness to offer this exchange which would made the lad slide very easily back and forth against her. 'Every time he moves... I feel it... I...' her thought cut off. Each of these motions was like her earlier ones but more tantalizing, they made her back arch in surprise but she couldn't bring herself to bring a stop to this gentle torture.

[Bloodedge]

If the other things Takumi felt weren't enough, something triggered a reaction in Eira that caused an interesting scratching sensation along his back. The first of such moments was enough of a new thrill that Takumi's mouth opened before Eira's bosom more than intended, and its closure brought about something of a gentle bite against the nipple he'd recently been teasing. To follow this, he opened his mouth on purpose and gave it a long stroke of his tongue, carrying that very movement up her breast and back onto the left side of her neck. Surprisingly, these sensations were far from the most prevalent to Takumi. No, what took this title was the return of that familiar moisture surrounding his loins with a soft rubbing that virtually basted his member. The arch of Eira's back gave the lad's thumbs an interesting bit of room, letting them fall into the space created in an effort to influence a hold in position, or perhaps something more. The ultimate goal of this was to see the altering grip of Takumi's hands cause Eira's hips to move in a grinding motion, seeing to the continuation of their rubbing genitalia.

[Apollymi]

The scratches along Takumi's back, however unintentional caused an effect that Eira had no way to anticipate. During one such motion the lad's mouth closed around her nipple leading to a gentle bite that sent a shock wave of pleasure from the point up her spine. Her mouth fell open and the noise which escaped her was a combination of surprise and pleasure. "Ooooooo!~" This noise would come from her mouth before the sensation of the lad's tongue traveled up the full length from nipple to the side of her neck. Such was an amazing feeling for her as well and since his head was on the left side of her body she used her hand to touch his face her hand sliding back into his hair as she looked into his eyes in this moment. All the while her nether reacted to the constant stroking of their bodies together and worked towards an action which mimicked the one they would eventually delve into, but shied away from it just enough to make the anticipation build. It'd been doing so in such a steady manner that what fell from this woman's face as she found her first flourish and her body simultaneously tensed and relaxed was a plea for Takumi, which was made while looking him directly in the eye. "Aaaah!~ Takumi, please, I need you..." she practically begged for them to progress further than this, though she enjoyed it she needed more and she was quite sure he was ready too.

[Bloodedge]

There was a certain amount of anticipation to be seen in both young Devils by this time. The mix of sensations drove Eira to speak a sentence the lad known as Takumi had never heard before, giving him great pause as he looked with surprise into the woman's eyes. As powerful as this moment was, he made a decision then and there. He leaned forward with aims of guiding Eira down back first onto the mattress. Doing so freed his member of the odd position that kept it from insertion, yet he did not take advantage of this. No, this meant too much... so he had to do something else. With that in mind, he brought not his manhood to Eira's womanhood, but instead his very face. If he was to claim this woman as his, then it was his goal at this precise moment to first claim her place of utmost vulnerability using his mouth. Lips were parted by the fingers of each hand, revealing Takumi's prize and allowing him to tentatively kiss this woman at her very core. This simple peck was followed by the smallest of withdrawals and slightly-widened eyes. He returned in the very next moment and let his tongue protrude from his mouth to repeatedly lap directly at her 'devil's doorbell' so to speak.

[Apollymi]

Much to Eira's surprise her pleas to this lad were met with surprise. It was as if some unknown decision was made as Takumi withdrew to place her back against the mattress. This action only built more anticipation in the young woman, but after this action was taken he didn't immediately follow it up by aiming for the completion of the act. No, instead his body moved even further down her own, and there was a light curiosity added to Eira's anticipation. As he settled between her legs, the crimson haired lass had her eyes widen and felt the slightest of shudders as her lower lips were spread to expose her most vulnerable asset. This action was followed by Takumi placing a gentle kiss to this space, causing a sigh to escape her lips. What came next was an obvious progression as the lad's tongue lashed out at the peak of her womanhood causing the girl's eyes to widen before fluttering to the close, at the gentle sensation. "Aaaah!~" her mouth fell open as she propped herself up on her elbows to see one of the most satisfying erotic images of Takumi's face hidden behind the curve of her own body while her own face flushed from the attention.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi had no earthly idea what he was doing, but it felt right at the time. The sound he heard from Eira as he buried both his mouth and attention into her womanhood urged him to continue, though even without that, Takumi himself was quite taken by what he'd chosen to do. It was almost as if he couldn't stop himself if he wanted to once he tasted the woman. His eyes eventually traveled up her body as he continued to lick away, and when this happened, he saw her looking back at him. The expression he found on her face was greater motivation than he previously knew, pushing him to continue his tongue's efforts even as he wrapped his lips around the redhead's pearl.

[Apollymi]

Eira stared down her body into Takumi's eyes feeling the attention he payed to her nether with his tongue. She could hardly believe the amount of sensation by this sort of interaction, and as he continued a moment of eye contact would lead the young woman's eyes to widening. If not because of the sheer look of just the lad's eyes then by the feeling presented by his mouth upon her pearl. In fact as his mouth closed around it, her own opened, she sound of pleasure escaping her was longer and louder than she expected. "AAAAAAAHHHH!~" she moaned. The pressure building in her lower body was well beyond what she'd experienced the first two times it had happened. In fact, she could barely control herself as her face fell back but her left hand found itself buried in Takumi's hair, her fingertips tracing his scalp as she enjoyed the sensations provided by his mouth.

[Bloodedge]

There was apparently many positive vibes to be taken from what Takumi managed, at least according to how Eira was reacting at the time. Over time, Takumi found that every movement of his mouth and tongue was becoming easier than the last, simply by virtue of the added moisture below Eira's waist. He still assumed this wasn't enough. In fact, he outright knew it wasn't enough for him, but he couldn't bring himself to stop regardless. There was something within the idea of providing this woman some amount of pleasure which gave Takumi his own sense of satisfaction. But, he needed to do more. His lips pressed against her enough that his hands could move freely, and he took this opportunity to slip his left forefinger into Eira's being while his mouth slurped up the excess moisture she produced.

[Apollymi]

Eira's body reacted to the movements of Takumi's tongue, in turn making those movements easier and thus making her feel them more. She didn't have an explanation for how this felt, but knew she enjoyed it more and more with every movement. "Aaaah~ It's so..." there was a pause in her speech as Takumi slipped a finger into her. The sounds of Takumi slurping up that which her body produced, in addition to the movements of this seemed to cause something great within her. Her entire body tensed up, sending a tingling sensation that started in her face and simply spread across the rest of her body. It would have been similar to a blush but a wave of pleasure which she rode with an incidental movement of her hips, complete with extra fluids leaking from her person. "GOOD!~" her statement finally finished but she wasn't done. This flourish was powerful, too powerful. The feeling which pulled at her so simply continued, her first thought to escape in the moment, her hips aimed to shift backwards out of this lad's reach. "Ta-ku-mi..." his name came out of her mouth as a combination between a moan and a whisper.

[Bloodedge]

The way Takumi enjoyed himself during this exchange made it seem as if he'd partaken of some addictive mythical nectar. Eira's physical response gave him even more to take in, along with an audible statement moaned in two parts. He was immersing himself very easily in these actions, but Eira seemed to have something else in mind. Just as he was planning to begin moving his finger and perhaps add another, Eira shifted away from him. As a result, he was left with an open and unoccupied mouth with its tongue protruding, and a lone finger pointed forward. "Ano..."

[Apollymi]

Eira had successfully escaped Takumi's grasp as the feeling of her most recent flourish rushed her. Her legs twitched her arms nearly buckled, even the center of her being pulsed with unknown pleasure as the waves subsided. And then she looked down at the boy who's face she'd abandoned in the middle of what would have been the methods which had driven her to something so close to madness. The whisper of his name so previously made would soon be added to as she reached forward to pull him towards herself. "Takumi, I can't wait anymore..." she started as she leaned forward to press her lips against his and in this moment tasted herself from his mouth and enjoyed it enough that she moaned her pleasure. "I need you inside of me..." she said as she pecked his lips gently thereafter. "Please." it seemed like a simple request, like something he could say no to if he wanted, but the look in her eye implied that it wasn't negotiable, her tone and the glowing crimson of her eyes demanded to be filled after the tongue lashing she'd received.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi wondered what warranted this escape from his attentions, but Eira was quick to explain herself in a roundabout way. It seemed she'd been rendered incapable of waiting any further, and she made this known as she brought them together and kissed him, in spite of her own fluids being upon his mouth. Since she'd initiated, he returned the gesture in kind without hesitation. The woman's request led to him positioning himself over her, where he held himself up by using his right arm as a prop. His left hand rubbed against Eira's right thigh during this time, before taking hold of his member and placing it against her. Once more, he kissed her by lowering himself a bit, finding his manhood pressing against the cusp of her being. However, he once again stopped himself the moment he felt himself starting to stretch her opening. He broke the kiss just long enough to speak. "Iia. Give me an order, like you always do," he said, pausing his efforts just for this even though Takumi himself could hardly wait another moment.

[Apollymi]

It seemed they were close to finally beginning. Her kiss was met with this lad not rejecting her. Eira found her thigh being rubbed as they moved into position. She'd almost begged for this and for the second time this day, she found herself waiting just at the cusp of something great. She could feel the push of his manhood right at her entrance, but just like before it stopped just short of crossing the threshold. Given her already maddened state, she could almost feel it pushing past this point. She could imagine it. But as their kiss broke, Takumi himself looked at the lass, choosing not to take her pleading as the start of them. No... just like before, Takumi wished for an order. One could wonder where obtained this necessity for being bossed about in these moments, and perhaps if she remembered she'd ask him about it later. But right now, there was only one thing she needed and one way for her to get it. "Takumi, come inside, take me, and make me whole." Eira's words were a demand for the boy to join his body with hers. She was a virgin Succubus with incomplete powers and a girl with an incomplete heart, until this lad. She wanted and needed him within her body to feel complete in life.

[Bloodedge]

Though there seemed to be a moment of hesitation, but a fleeting one succeeded by Eira delivering her order to the Dragon lad. Unlike most times when he received an order, he did not enter a trance-like state at all. No, instead he merely smiled. "... Hai," he said. Without further ado, the long-awaited moment occurred, but it was no sudden happening. The virginity of Eira alone resisted Takumi's forward movement, but he persisted in what became a slow forward thrust to make his home within her. It felt like an eternity of forward moving for Takumi, but in that, there was also an eternity of building pleasure consuming his entire manhood over its course. As he reached the greatest achievable depth this positioning offered him, Takumi felt something very different from within Eira. What had once been tight enough to resist his entry now felt as if it aimed to trap him inside. As such, he took a moment of rest where he was while his member throbbed throughout the Succubus' interior.

[Apollymi]

Unlike times prior to this one, an order given by Eira didn't make this lad a slave to her will. No, in this moment he smiled at her, accepting what she'd said simply as something he'd do. Her anxiety would have ceased at this point, but their journey was far from over. The only relief initially was that the lad finally started to push forward, though her body still resisted just a little she got not pain from this sensation, just unwavering tightness. As if being filled required this agonizingly slow push forward. "Aaaaaaah~" this exhaled sound was accompanied by the grip from within her body seemed to pulse as Takumi finally made it to the absolute depth he could reach within her. Her back arched and she accepted this. A flood of emotion seemed to overwhelm her. Her mind reached near blankness but all she could see, was Takumi above her catching his breath. She saw in him, in this moment that which completed her and she leaned up to kiss him content to sink into this.

[Bloodedge]

"Haah," Takumi exhaled a long and satisfying sigh, finding more pleasure in being enveloped in such a way than what his wildest dreams could have produced. Eira took advantage of these motionless moments and rose to kiss him, which he returned with gusto. His tongue was the one to enter Eira's mouth this time around, and his mouth produced another sigh as their lips separated. "Ah... it feels like I'm being swallowed," he said. Even so, he put forth the effort to withdraw his member - albeit not completely - and then begin pushing forward again. At this point, he was hardly moving consciously... it just felt completely right to move in such a way, and he felt full mighty waves of tingles stemming from his member and rolling back through his body.

[Apollymi]

Eira got to hear some pleasurable noises from Takumi as she rose to kiss him. And when their lips did meet at this junction, he was soon slipping his tongue into her mouth, returning the gesture and turning it into much more than it had been. Eira swooned. It was such an interesting amount of intimacy combined with their long standing history it made the entire moment sweet. Takumi sighed as their lips separated and what he had to say about this moment now brought a hint of embarrassment to Eira's face as being on the receiving end of such a statement while making eye contact was something she hadn't expected. "Umm... if you say it like that I won't know what to say..." she'd moan though she still hadn't forced her eyes to move away from the lad. If she had anything else to say she lost it as a slight withdrawal would being he proper movements of the lad within her person. This plunging sensation was one which was entirely new to the crimson haired young woman and brought a delighted squeal from her person as it seemed to press just against the right place within her. This feeling was like pressure building behind a dam which was ready to burst, and unconsciously her body began to seek this feeling as her hips shifted slightly to meet Takumi's thrusts.

[Bloodedge]

Eira seemed quite capable of dishing out such statements as what Takumi most recently said, but on the receiving end, she faltered to embarrassment as well. In seeing this expression and the aversion of Eira's gaze, Takumi reached out to touch her face as if to draw her gaze back to him. At this particular junction, his smile had widened, and he felt compelled to give the woman a bit more of her own medicine, so to speak. "Ka-wa-ii~" he said as he brought their lips together again. At this point, his hips were moving without thought. A steady cycle of thrusts were delivered without foreseeable end, each coming as the result of an oscillating movement that started about halfway up the lad's spine, and ended somewhere in his legs. He wasn't at all conscious of how he was moving, but there was no ignoring what he felt from the woman surrounding his manhood. Moreover, he could feel every intense pulse taking place with his own member, almost at the level of a pain which influenced him to keep moving toward its only solution.

[Apollymi]

It was true that Eira was used to teasing, but not as used to being teased in the way she normally did it. Strangely, Takumi took over in this moment of her embarrassment touching the side of her face and bringing her eyes back to him. When this happened, he followed up by calling this moment cute in the way she would have done it. Her eyes widened and if it was even possible her face flushed even harder. Still, something about this exchange left the girl feeling a warmth within her chest the likes of which had no real comparison, and as she sank into another kiss she found herself simply letting go to enjoy the moment. Even as she did this though, the movements of Takumi's hips and those of her own and that ever filling dam within her person seemed to push her closer and closer to the abyss. The pulses in Takumi's manhood were felt not only by him but by Eira herself who had her nether clinch in response. Her breathing became heavier and unsteady even as they kissed and overtime it would only become more and more unsettling. "Ta-ku-mi~ I can't fight against this feeling..." she moaned this utterance at a near whisper in his ear. Soon after the dam broke and the flood ensued, not just the physical moisture which would leak from her body, but also her power, her desire as a Succubus which aimed to pull him in. Her body aimed to pull him in adding pressure to him as she rode the wave of her pleasure and her body demanded the same from Takumi's.

[Bloodedge]

What Takumi said managed to make Eira's face even more of a sight to behold with its added redness seemingly trying to match her hair. The sudden increase in tension within Eira served the additional purpose of adding to Takumi's feeling, once again making his movements both more difficult and more pleasurable to perform. She muttered the clause that she couldn't fight against her own feeling, which Takumi took to mean she was on the verge of something rather great. He was beginning to feel as if the same could be said of him, but as Eira reached her own peak, it became something far greater than that. He felt himself being sucked in by the groin, and more prevalent than that, everything he felt became far more intense. That growing sensation within his loins became something greater than he could fathom all in that one moment. "Hah... It's coming out..." he said while making every possible effort to fight against the feeling. He wanted to continue, but the pleasure, the wording of his last order, and Eira's power were all too powerful to be bested by even his will to avoid doing what the Satans wished. He lasted only a few moments from the start of this sensation before he felt a great mass of fluid erupt from the deepest reaches of his manhood to spray outward through the tip. In having this happen so suddenly, every muscle in his body became tight, and his member throbbed with ridiculous vigor.

[Apollymi]

Takumi's words reached Eira's ears, and her body tingled with anticipation in addition to the wave of pleasure she rode. Takumi may have been trying to fight against this sensation but Eira's order and her body all but demanded this exact outcome. And what a wondrous moment this became, Eira had been flourishing without cease experiencing the most excellent peak her body had known only to have added to it the fluid which emerged from the tip of Takumi's manhood. She felt this within herself and her whole body responded. "Sugoi! It's so warm!~" she mused, but it wasn't just the explosion of Takumi in this moment. Her own power flowed outwards, claiming this lad in a way only she could. As he emptied himself within her, her own pleasure raidated outwards, brushing his mark into finality altering it visually. Beyond this the feeling of their lives and powers bonding was itself orgasmic, when done the way her powers intended. Her body seemed to vibrate with this feeling and wouldn't release the hold on Takumi. The look on her face was one of absolute pleasure as her body absorbed the power offered to her by the lad in this exchange. But more than that as her crimson eyes opened she would aim to meet Takumi's gaze her eyes alight with emotion, "You're mine." she said softly, claiming him.

[Bloodedge]

This unified orgasm wouldn't be the only thing happening between the pair. Over the course of the pleasure-seeking, Takumi managed to completely forget about the mark Eira stated would develop to its final stage from them undergoing this exchange. It happened much to his surprise, but also much to his added satisfaction. One could say it was akin to a second release all its own the way Eira's power and his own began intermingling within him, passing through from him to her and vice-versa. The added stimulation from this caused further expulsion of his seed, until not a drop remained connected to him the moment he pulled out of Eira's womanhood. This claiming of Takumi was something he accepted with a chuckle amidst his panting; he could have easily said the same. All he managed to do now though, was remove himself from Eira and flop onto the space beside her on the bed... surprisingly with a still very erect and throbbing member. "Ou," he said with a cheeky grin. "I'm not going anywhere."

[Apollymi]

The exchange between them had now ebbed and Takumi fell to the side of Eira taking a well deserved rest. This required the removal of his manhood from her person, which made her twitch and her mouth open slightly as this happened. He'd chuckled when she claimed him and something about that alone would have been satisfactory. Beyond that he had no complaints about the expansion of his mark, nor anything else that had happened between them. More so than that, he his cheeky grin and the mention that he wasn't going anywhere made Eira's face redden slightly. "Hai!" she affirmed. She'd never felt happier than she did at the present moment, and as her breathing returned to normal and she lay beside Takumi she pushed herself up onto her elbows once more to see his still throbbing member. "Sugoi... there was so much, but it's still like this~" she mused, with a single finger tracing the tip of his still throbbing manhood. Though they'd just finished, Eira rather easily found herself in the mood to go again. Maybe she subconsciously really just wished to enjoy the lad fully.

Strangely within a magical computer room within the deeper reaches of the house sat a white haired young woman with crimson eyes. She watched a map of the building which seemed to be magically enchanted with several items lined up around it. She mused over the couple in the bedroom with subtle aspirations. "Alright. Romance has been taken care of... Time for round two," this young woman said in a voice which seemed to be content. At this point the room remained the same and she was content to just observe without interference, everything she'd learned about this pair over the last 24 hours told her that now that they'd settled they would be able to take care of themselves at least for smaller intervals. "Papi is going to be so proud," she mentioned, looking over the boosted status of one Eira Gremory which she could see. Her connection to the Red Dragon Emperor and the full use of her Succubus power had sent her Demonic Power skyrocketing into a completely new tier. Given this, she and Takumi had all but earned the respite. For now at least.

[Bloodedge]

Yet again, Takumi looked over to witness a blush upon the face of Eira. Seeing this here and now caused the very same reaction in the lad himself, and that only intensified as her finger caressed the tip of his phallus. He, too, was shocked by the stiffness he managed to maintain. It was most likely nothing more than a side-effect of his excitement. After all, whether he ever even attempted to act on it or not, what he and Eira had so recently done together was something he'd been specifically desiring since the day puberty struck him. Now that he had her here like this, there was no telling what the limits of his arousal were. "Well, yeah," he said bashfully. "It's because you're here with me... that it's like this."

[Apollymi]

Eira had been a bit embarrassed by what Takumi had to say initially, but she likely should have saved that. As a single finger stroked his still stiff manhood the lad seemed to bashfully appreciate the good fortune that befell them. He claimed that his maintained state was due to Eira being here with him, and her eyes widened at his words. She felt her heart thump within her chest as she looked at this young man and found herself moving to straddle him while looking down in his face with nothing but outright adoration. "Takumi..." she said his name while she pecked his lips. "You're too sweet..." she stated with this softened expression. "If you say things like that... I won't be able to stop myself," she explained as her body took to new action. In these moments she found herself easily lowering her body onto his tool from above him. She took this fall slowly, maintaining eye contact as she did, until a few painstaking moments later she could feel the lad within her to her very depths. "Aaaaaah~" the moan that escaped her was pleasurable even as she leaned in causing her hips to lift just a bit. Her lips would meet Takumi's neck just below his ear and she'd speak to him directly in this moment. "I'm all yours~" she mentioned before her hips lowered a new. This slow rise and fall of her hips would continue as she worked herself up face to face with Takumi. In this way she was in charge of both of their pleasure for this moment.

[Bloodedge]

Somehow, Takumi managed to say what was apparently the perfect thing at the perfect time. That is, it was perfect when considering the outcome of the statement, producing a response from Eira which left her straddling him the way she'd been when he last woke. This came with the mention that she'd be incapable of stopping herself because he said such a thing, and indeed, she mounted him properly just after saying so. "Uh," escaped him as a small utterance bursting from his throat. He'd previously been in the controlling position, but now that Eira took the reins, he had an entirely new experience. His own body wasn't preparing itself for everything it would feel this time, so even insertion came as something more fresh and exciting. Slowly she went, down to the base of his member to enshroud it in her pit of moisture and body heat. The claim that she was all his to mark the start of her movements thereafter hit his ear following a kiss to his neck, and with it came the gentle caress of her breath along his flesh. "Huu... hai," he said with a grin as his hand reached her face, aiming to guide her by the chin into another kiss he wished to claim. In this moment, Takumi decided to make use of something he'd said only moments prior. "And you can't go anywhere."

[Apollymi]

Presently in charge of this endeavor, Eira's movements became continuous as she searched for the feeling she'd had before. Her movements were slow, but the moisture building up within her depths proved she was having a good go of this. Moreover the grin seen on Takumi's face seemed to make her heart light, as he guided her by chin down to his face to claim a new kiss from her, she accepted without hesitation. She enjoyed this moment more than one could possibly understand, only to have her face reddened by Takumi, in his statement that she couldn't leave. And while it was true, that he'd planned to marry her, and wanted to be with her forever, something about the claim that she couldn't opt out either. Knowing that he expected the same of her, gave her a deep sense of satisfaction. She throbbed internally at the thought of this, her face flushing as she withdrew from the lad. "Huuuuu~ Hai!~" she moaned initially as she shifted the angle and movements of her hips. Though the movements themselves were still slow, there was a subtle bit of grinding added which sent a tingle up her spine. She arched her back in response to this, adding more depth for her to sink down on. Each stroke which happened this way seemed to catch her internally making her squeeze at Takumi from within herself.

[Bloodedge]

In response to his assertion, there was an agreement. This, in conjunction with the assertiveness and pacing of Eira's movements virtually placed the former human on cloud nine, where he would stay for quite some time. The repeated squeezing of his groin from Eira finding a deeper angle for herself was nothing to shake a stick at either, but at that time, Takumi had something extra in mind. From this angle, he had no requirements whatsoever. As such, he was free to appreciate Eira physically in a way he couldn't while holding himself up. His hands were both unoccupied enough that he could - and did - begin exploring the redhead's body while she sought ecstasy. As both of his hands caressed her thighs, hips and torso at various intervals, he wondered if this meant anything to her. It certainly meant quite a bit to him, what with the visual stimulation and direct feeling to go along with every new sensation building below his waist. "Sugoi!" he said betwixt a rub here, and a squeeze there. The next words from his mouth interestingly began with the crimson-haired Devil's name, spoken in a way he hadn't even considered since he was thirteen. "Eir.. your everything is amazing."

[Apollymi]

Eira's work atop Takumi's lap seemed to be going just fine for both of them. Much to her general pleasure the lad's previously unoccupied hands found themselves wandering the soft expanses of her body. She'd liked this as an idea when they were drugged, but now she simply got to enjoy the sensation as her body rose and fell within his lap. Small moans and sounds escaped her as she moved in such a way but as she kept this up and searched for the feeling she sought, Takumi's praises of her reached her ear. But surprisingly it wasn't simply his compliments that gave her great pause and satisfaction, but instead the fact that he'd called her by name. Specifically the shortened version of the name she'd given when she'd introduced herself to him several years prior. The sound of it leaving his lips gave her great pause, but internally it was nothing but satisfaction, in fact her body tightened at it as she slid down close to him again. "You just said my name..." she said this softly as if completely surprised. She kissed his lips in a manner akin to her most recent tone, in this moment. He'd referred to her by name, said her name even, but she hadn't heard this reference to her that only family and friends got to call her from him in ages. It struck a nerve in her which she enjoyed greatly. "Say it again~" she practically demanded as she moved her hips up again this slow grinding finally seeming to help her reach the level she'd intended to.

[Bloodedge]

Of all the things to be taken by, Eira seemed quite enamored by the fact that Takumi had spoken her name. He'd first assumed compliments paid to the woman caused this moment of additional tightness he felt, but it was apparently not at all what he thought. The pause she took was just shy of confusing, but she made her reason known quite easily. "H-... Hai," he said, wondering why this was such a big deal to her. Years ago, he knew her only as 'Eir' and called her as such exclusively. It just so happened to be the case that Takumi in this moment did so as a reflex, possibly due to the strong feeling of closeness and general familiarity being produced between them at the time. As she kissed him again, he was rendered capable of relaxing at a greater level, thus feeling the sensational clamping around his groin at a higher magnitude when she rose again. She wanted him to repeat what he said, specifically her name. Takumi would have liked to question this, but in actuality... he understood. His mind briefly flashed to every time Eira had spoken his name, both as Takumi and Shouki throughout their years knowing one another. Some hidden form of pure elation had been all he felt, and it had only been recently that he realized it was even there, bar during his younger years when he sought that feeling daily. Takumi propped himself up with his elbows, smiling into the woman's face while whispering. "Sou ka. How about this then?" he asked in rhetoric to lead into his next statement, which was preceded by him pressing his lips against Eira's with much greater purpose and intensity than he previously managed. He had but a single message to deliver, and with such a simple thing asked of him, he chose now to offer said message after years of waiting. He separated his lips from hers slowly, and spoke from such a distance that his lips brushed against hers again as they moved throughout his speech. "I love you... Eir. I always have."

[Apollymi]

Whatever Takumi seemed to be processing it was obvious he understood at least a bit of why this moment had been so important to her. It had been a long time coming and such a reference in a moment of closeness like this one was more than Eira could have hoped for. Strangely this wasn't over yet, as Takumi propped himself up and smiled into her face while she continued to ride atop his lap. From this distance she could see everything about him but still what came next was an absolute surprise. He kissed her with great intensity and she kissed him back, until the point that their lips just barely separated, before he spoke to her a sentence she'd never thought she'd get to hear. His words. This combination of words. 'He loves me.' Thump. 'He said my name and he loves me.' Her lips moved back to his. 'I can't believe he loves me...' She kissed him with such deliberate tenderness as her hand met the side of his face and her pacing came to a halt. When she pulled away she was looking at him with tears glistening in those crimson eyes of hers. "Takumi..." a knot formed in her throat. She pecked his lips as she tried to clear it. "I." a soft bite to his lower lip. "Love." A slight retreat as she opened her eyes again. "You." she kissed him more with the insertion of slow strokes of her tongue. She needed him to understand in this moment that she wasn't just repeating it. She couldn't just say it back, she'd always loved him. Her body was still moving slowly, her nether pulsed as she tensed within each movement of her hips in these tiny little circles as she remained close to him. She needed to feel this as she pressed her chest against him until that tingle broke her and her power and body pulsed pulling him in again. Her body reached this epic finish as her hips slid in and her body stopped moving externally but internally she gripped him as if she didn't ever intend to let him leave her body again, while waiting for filling satisfaction.

[Bloodedge]

Eira kissed the lad back, and that much was to be expected given what they'd been up to all this time. However, the freeze which came from her as a result of his words gave Takumi an equal amount of pause. She didn't have to return the statement. At this point, Takumi didn't care if she never did. It only mattered that she knew what he felt, and anything beyond that was nothing more than something he was hopeful for as an eventuality. And yet, as she kissed him again, as her eyes filled with tears, as she nibbled on his lip and slid her tongue into his mouth, those unmistakable words were inserted in a way that made his heartbeat stop noticeably each time pause was given. By the time she said the word 'I' his hopes, even his prayers from years ago became realized. Suddenly, nothing else existed. There was nothing in his mind but these words spoken in this voice, and an image of Eira finally made clear as day within the mind of Takumi. The realization struck him like a tidal wave - one which manifested beyond just his subconscious and escaped through his eyes. "You..."

There was nothing more to be said. Takumi's desires were fulfilled in one grand moment, and there was still more to come. Eira had begun moving again, with the emotion of the moment guiding Takumi with a greater force than he could even understand. What's more, she drew from his nether once again, and he had a bit more understanding of the feeling this time. When she tightened around him this way, it was as if something within her demanded that he eject himself by pulling at the fluids within at some supernatural level. And of course, this force of nature would have exactly what it wanted as Takumi embraced the moment by literally embracing Eira, encasing her midsection with his arms in a similar manner to how she enveloped his member.

[Apollymi]

Eira got to feel all the tenderness she'd ever wanted. In the moments after her confession Takumi looked like he saw the world in blinding clarity. And the crimson haired lass also felt herself lost in this moment. As she reached the peak she'd been searching for, and her body and power made Takumi do the same, she was able to feel full and fulfilled at the same time. Such a thing brought her an immense amount of peace. So much in fact that even after the moment had ebbed she laid on Takumi's chest wrapped in his arms for just a bit longer. Her body relaxed and she eventually leaned forward to kiss his lips while extracting the lad from the confines of her body. She felt so content in the moment that she could hardly want or claim to care about anything else. 'I'm so happy...' she mused as she looked at this lad while lying flat on her belly with her head looking towards him. She'd caught her breath and found herself basking in the glow of her happiness, a grin spread wide across her face that she couldn't seem to get rid of.

As this pair lay in the aftermath of their most recent coital activity, the white haired woman in the blue maid's outfit found herself staring at the pair of them from her control room. "Sugoi! Isn't that sweet..." she mused finding this entire set up to be a very interesting one. She would have wondered why she was even needed for this sort of thing if the two of them obviously felt this way about each other. But given what she'd learned of their personalities she knew it would have taken them much longer to ask the right questions and get the right answers without at least a little outside help. "Oh well, at this point it looks like they'll make that baby sooner rather than later..." she stated, mostly talking to herself. Still, this was a young virile dragon and a now fully blooded succubus, surely another round wouldn't hurt? She sat thinking about the calculations and knew that if he managed to finish within the lass three times in a single day then the likelihood of her becoming pregnant was rather great. "They are actually in love right? One more won't hurt anything... let's see how they enjoy wild when they properly give it a go~" she mused seeming to find this to be the best possible outcome. Her hands would move across the projected map she controlled. Causing the Red Mist to spew out of the single vent in the room at volumes the pair certainly wouldn't be able to ignore. Her intention of course, to stir them both into a frenzy that would result in the conception of the DxD Child.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi sat with labored breath that was only paused long enough for the kiss Eira sought to claim before extricating and lowering herself from his person. His arms relaxed easily enough that he hardly had to move for such a freedom to be gained by the woman, but he couldn't bring himself to lie down just yet. He couldn't believe what happened to him, to everything that defined his existence on this day. Everything seemed to fall perfectly in line all at once, leading to one miraculous outcome.

But, it wasn't over yet. This house, or whatever was controlling it, had other ideas toward the creation of the DxD child deemed necessary by Szavelneas Beelzebub. These ideas clearly involved another use of the red mist which plagued the pair before, and here they were again in the same room they had such trouble escaping the first time they had it forced on them. Already winded, Takumi inhaled a great deal of the mist before he even became able to see its color filling the sealed room. His heartbeat was powerful enough for him to feel each instant of each beat throughout his torso, and he found himself rather quickly erect... even more so, in fact, than he was before. Frenzy was a good word to describe the effect of this sudden overdose, but there was perhaps a better one for the state Takumi first entered. His eyes widened, slowly shifting toward Eira as she basked in the afterglow of their second round. 'Again... I'm not ready to stop yet.'

[Apollymi]

Eira's happy grin became a look of confusion as the red mist began pouring in between a set of her blinks. This had been a problem for them before, when they had no idea what this stuff was, but now with some knowledge it could be easier to resist. But it wouldn't be. Eira's state of relaxation had her taking slow deep breaths as well, several before it was really noticable and by the time it was, she only wanted to know why someone felt it was necessary. Of course, before she could even manage to question this, she locked eyes with Takumi and then her gaze shifted down to his still throbbing manhood. A cheeky grin crossed her face as she too felt the effects of this drug but had no intention of fighting against it. "Oh? Well how can I say no to that face..." she managed as she rolled over to reveal herself in her full naked glory. "Come here." Those two words seemed to be an order, and perhaps they were but she'd have him now, again if he wanted her.

[Bloodedge]

If the two word command spoken by Eira was indeed meant to be an order, Takumi was far beyond even considering resistance. In fact, had she avoiding speaking for only another second or two, he'd have been doing exactly that regardless of whether she presented herself for the opportunity or not. Perhaps this would become known when he didn't respond to the 'order' with affirmation as he typically did, but he still began to move until he was on his knees and shifting to open up a space between Eira's legs. Whatever she intended to happen, Takumi had intentions of his own. These would be made known the moment he reached out to grab Eira by the legs, lifting and spreading them in a single movement which was also meant to pull the woman's lower body into his own from afar. His intense stare of a gaze never left her face as he performed these movements, even as he decided to thrust to his absolute limit into her nether right away. This was something very new for the lad, but he felt it was the only way to sate how he suddenly felt. It seemed to be paying off to his satisfaction already, so he didn't hesitate to begin delivering these sorts of thrusts in succession while holding Eira's legs over his shoulders.

[Apollymi]

Eira's words to the lad didn't seem to register as an order for him. This truly didn't matter as their goals were aligned regardless, but the intense stare she got from him in this moment made her feel strangely. She would have squirmed under this look but she wasn't really given the opportunity to do so. In fact, her legs were soon lifted and spread over Takumi's shoulders as he grabbed her lower body and plunged into her without warning or restraint. This first thrust at maximum depth came to her too quickly and made a hiccup like noise fall from her mouth. "Huyuck..." this was soon followed by an outright moan as this continued and she looked to find his crimson gaze upon her in that same intense manner. "TA-KU-MI!~" she said his name again as he plunged in and out of her body repeatedly and though she thought this exceedingly rough, she was slick and more than ready for it. Each thrust was met with tightness and exited moistened. It was as if instead of building and filling a dam he simply intended to hammer away at it until it broke and it was working...

Knowing this shift had taken place and that the two people in this house were back to the act of baby making again, the woman with the silver hair simply nodded and sat back with her hands folded demurely in her lap. "Yes. Papi is going to be proud of me!~" she mused seemingly satisfied that the work was in order she was content to leave this duo to their work again.

[Bloodedge]

Whatever he was doing seemed to be working. It began with shock and a strange sound escaping the woman beneath him, but it didn't seem to be a negative response at all. This was good, considering Takumi had only just begun. "Oi. You said you wanted to belong to me, right?" he asked before a single thrust mightier than all others before occurred. At this junction, it almost appeared to be the case that Takumi wished to hear Eira's response while she dealt with the suddenness of the movements at hand. The more forceful thrust was followed by others keeping the pace with its predecessors, but he went on to slip in extra forcefulness at sporadic intervals thereafter. "Right now... this is how I want you. By your order," he stated. There was a certain missing link to the order Eira gave him during their time showering together. When the order had been given, he'd been freshly recovering from unspoken thoughts of how he could claim this woman, and the drug at this level only exacerbated those ideas in making them return to the forefront of his mind. He'd become almost ravenous because of this, needing to reach a physical peak when mating the crimson-haired Devil... and again, he was only beginning.

[Apollymi]

Takumi's newfound forcefulness was something Eira didn't expect. For the most part the boy's nature was fairly level. He was neither exceedingly docile nor hyper-aggressive but in this particular moment she didn't really mind it. In fact the more he rammed into her, the more her body seemed to respond. He asked her a question going back to her earlier statement of wanting to belong to him. "Huya...Hai!~" she managed a hiccup occurring as she tried to answer him through the intensity of his movements. He went on to claim that this was exactly how he wanted her right at the moment because of her earlier order. "Ooooooh~" she moaned. Her eyes widened as he claimed her in such an aggressive way, still as her heart pounded and her face went red she couldn't help but appreciate it. Her body tightened around him even as she seemed to be past the point of no return her entire body went numb in a blinding moment of flourish as if the damn he'd hammering away at had simply cracked and burst of its own accord. Still she could do nothing but enjoy the attention as her hands were soon buried within the covers and sheets scratching away at them as she tried to hold herself to the world while experiencing something so world shattering as this.

[Bloodedge]

Eira didn't claim any issues to what he suggested - and happened to already be doing - so Takumi continued without hesitation. If anything, he could make the assumption that she enjoyed what was happening just as much as he did at the time. His gaze finally averted from the woman's face, but not from her at all. He looked upon her body, the swaying of her breasts with each lunge forward, the core of her being as he battered away at it with newfound consistency and vigor, and her hands as they reached out for the sheets. This final thing to take note of was something which sparked even newer lewd thoughts in the young man's mind. "You like it then?" he asked, his movements finding a steady pace to the forceful thrusts he only previously used on occasion. In doing so, he also leaned closer to Eira, and by association pushed her legs farther back. "I can use you then... right? However I want?"

[Apollymi]

Eira found herself an object to be used by Takumi. She might have thought this to be too much, but she remembered very clearly how much she'd molested him while he was sleeping so she knew exactly the sort of feelings which could drive someone to behave this way. As an aside, she truly didn't mind being dominated in such a way by the boy she was with, in fact, the assertiveness of this lad in this moment was exactly the kind of thing she adored about him. And in this moment it was all aimed at her so it was like she was winning. He leaned into her, moving her legs back as he continued to pound into her nether at rapid pace, asking her if she liked this. "Aaaaaaah!~" she moaned. "I." Thrust. "Love." Thrust. "This!~" the steady motions this lad laid down were well beyond what she'd expected when asked if he could use her however he liked she could do nothing but agree, staring into his face wide eyed as her body became the object of his desire. "Hai! I'm! Yours!" her words came out in staccato, but she didn't care, this entire feeling was more than she could bear, her body again reached a flourish her entire body tingling with sensation, grabbing at the sheets was no longer enough she grasped the lad instead her hands clamped around his back as he continued his dive in and out of her body.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi had become absolutely crazed for what he was feeling now, and not entirely because of the drugging. The act at hand rested in the recesses of his mind, shut out by his more deep-rooted inhibitions until the mist brought it to the surface. Normally, he'd be apprehensive about such a thing even with Eira claiming she enjoyed it so, more because of what he found himself saying than what he actually did. However, the surge of lust coursing through his mind and body robbed him of his ability to think twice before blurting something out. No matter the case, Eira accepted the notion of him using her to relieve himself of this situation, just as he'd mentally pledged to do for her every desire whether carnal or otherwise. So, one additional thrust which slammed their pelvises together - timed immediately after she grasped at his back - preceded Takumi stopping in his tracks and releasing her legs. He looked into her face then with a grin most lecherous, albeit with an underlying tone of affection that he could no longer rid himself of. "Then... order me again. Wrap yourself around me..." he paused briefly, taking a moment to kiss her lips again. "... and order me... before I start having second thoughts about how I'm being now."

[Apollymi]

Takumi's body continued working in hyper drive to send wave after satisfying wave of intense pleasure into Eira's body. Each one seemed to push her more and more and the feeling of it was one Eira couldn't deny as aligning with her more perverted thoughts. After a while though, Takumi brought their bodies together in one massive thrust, when she grabbed onto his back. In so doing he was soon looking at her with lecherous intent though it still held the affection she'd become used to over the course of this afternoon. He released his hold on her legs and all but ordered her to give him orders while telling her to wrap herself around him. She looked at him in this moment feeling completely filled and after their kiss completed she spoke. "Takumi!~" she said his name while closing her legs around his back leaving them latched together while her hands gripped his back. "Fuck me like you want to and use me until you're satisfied. It's an order!~" given her current positioning he was free to move within the space of their bodies while she was wrapped around him as such and she was more than willing to even accept his aggressive domination because he'd already accepted all of her.

[Bloodedge]

At long last, Takumi received the order he needed most: the order which would keep him from ceasing what he had already begun. This was more than necessary for the lad who sat with years of sexual frustration unknowingly aimed at this specific woman, yet did not previously have the wherewithal to act on for himself. The words spoken by Eira received the immediate physical response of his cock pulsing, as if it intended to grow beyond what the skin around it had allowed thus far. Furthermore, with Eira properly wrapping herself around him, he took advantage as intended by wrapping his own arms around her lower torso and lifting her into an upright position. His knees supported the pair of them atop the bed as he took this pose with Eira in his lap, but he did not begin moving quite yet. No, this time needed affirmation. "Hai. I'll fuck you until I can't move anymore," he said, once again directly into the woman's face. With that out of the way, he began moving again in earnest. Not only did he start thrusting into her with the greatest force he could manage, but this position also allowed him to lift and lower Eira's body to counter each of his own hip's movements, creating a fabricated form of an even greater thrusting power. Some time into this action, Takumi released her back and took hold of her buttocks, gripping her cheeks with great enough vigor to keep them as separate as they had been before. In doing so, he once again created a greater opportunity to drive deeper and deeper into her being while retaining the same force he'd been going for all along.

[Apollymi]

After giving her order, Eira felt within herself the pulsing of Takumi's cock. It was satisfying enough to receive a sigh from the lass even before he started moving properly. "Ahhhhhhhh~" she moaned. Soon enough she was waiting for this lad to begin and he would do so, but only after taking her order properly. In this moment he claimed that he would fuck her until he couldn't move anymore and something about this notion seemed to tantalize her just a bit. It was as if all her life she'd been waiting to surrender control to someone like him and he'd come to take it. "Huu, hai!" she affirmed, more than ready to take what he had to offer. Strangely he'd shift their position ever so slightly leaving her upright and willing he even took control, shifting her movements and his to give him a greater depth within her body. Eira moaned her content as Takumi took for himself all that he wanted from her. She apparently didn't mind being used by him in this way and her body responded with extra moisture and several noises she couldn't even quantify as speech as each powerful stroke met her body and caused her extreme pleasure to go along with the roughness and domination he presented.

[Bloodedge]

"Iia," Takumi said as Eira affirmed his claim. Somehow, he now felt it wasn't enough for her to simply agree. He had to know more for absolute certain. Rather... he needed to know this was fine, that Eira got as much out of these intense efforts as he did. No... deep within, he needed her to be even more satisfied by it than he managed to be, and if that wasn't already the case, he needed to make it so. "I want to see every side of you, Eir. I can't be satisfied... until I know this is what you want... and everything else you want to go with it," he clarified. All the while, he continued to find an even greater thrusting power, as if it was completely his intention to pummel Eira into nothingness before he himself finished here. She was a Succubus, after all. Perhaps it was secretly his desire to ensure he overcame her natural affinity and reach the woman hidden below with certainty.

[Apollymi]

No? Eira was the object being pummeled by the activities of Takumi. Him saying he didn't agree with her affirmation didn't initially make sense to her. As he continued though and continued to break down every barrier she possessed, the lad claimed he wanted to know every aspect of her and make sure of what she wanted. Her eyes widened, for several reasons, not the least of which being that he used her name in this exchange. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh~" the sound which escaped Eira was one of pleasure and relief, it was as if she could finally let go. Strangely enough, Eira was exactly the type of young woman whose intentions were always veiled. It was a complete toss up whether she wanted show someone who she really was or not, or whether she'd even try. She'd always felt like who she was would be too much for any singular individual to handle. She gave pieces of herself away, but never the entirety of her as a being in this moment the lad claimed he wanted her, using her name and that made her entire heart swell in a way she hadn't known was possible. She even opened her mouth to speak without thinking she was so stunned by this occurance. "All I ever wanted was for you to fuck me like you owned me... This is what I've waited for!~" she mused. And this statement was indeed true. A great deal of her nature was suppressed by her own hangups about how she'd be reacted to. In such a moment as Takumi demanding from her the realest aspects of her, she was allowed a freedom she'd thought she'd never know, and she could do nothing but fall into it. Her nether tightening and loosening rapidly as the lad pounded her thoroughly, gave her the ability to simply accept that this lad wanted all of her, to submit to this level of domination without any hangups, and be amazed by the idea that he was willing to be part of her life like this. Moreover while she'd been speaking her hand grasped him more firmly nails digging into his back with every stroke as if she meant to cling to him infinitely, she could only hope he truly didn't mind as she didn't have a mind to stop herself properly.

[Bloodedge]

"Hoh?" Takumi muttered. In the midst of feeling every change in Eira's undercarriage, the woman claimed this sort of thing was all she wanted in the first place. A wicked grin crossed Takumi's face. This was in-line with his desire, but even so... it wasn't quite to the extent he wished for. His left hand rose from Eira's rear, taking her by the hair with a firm grip meant to hold her face against his own. "Then tell me more. I need to know... always. Don't leave me with any questions. I want to know everything... about what you are, what you like, what you want... and what I need to do for you," he said against her face. As he spoke his very last word, his tongue escaped from his mouth to enter the mouth of Eira instead. Once there, it thrashed about like an angry eel, which was similar in concept to the way he had begun forcing his member through Eira's undercarriage as if he intended to swim his way into her womb. The sensation of nails clawing into the flesh of his back only forced him into an even more ravenous state. From that moment forth, not a single thrust was stopped by anything other than the fact that he could literally go no farther, and each one was only started with the greatest intensity he could manage.

[Apollymi]

Eira's body went limp as a forceful grip found itself within her hair. She had no idea that Takumi could be this way but she was absolutely delirious by this level of domination. The wicked grin on Takumi's face was an entirely different matter and one she didn't expect but upon seeing deciding she liked more than anything. "Huah," the sound that escaped Eira in the midst of this moment was all that could escape her. After which, Takumi gave the girl a list of his demands. Things he wanted from her, to know about her, what she was, how she was, what she wanted, and by his own claim he wanted this always. What he truly wanted was to not have questions concerning his role in the heiress' life. His ravenous state though was something entirely different as soon enough his tongue was thrashing about in Eira's mouth and it was all she could do to keep up with the movements using her own. It was all she needed to As he forced himself within her twice she accepted this with nothing to say immediately and the reddening of her own face to account for how she felt. "I won't leave you in the dark again... whatever I know about me, you'll know... but all I need and all I want is you!~" she mused as his forceful movements distracted her just a bit. "I don't know that much about myself, but when I know... you'll know... you'll never have to question anything again" she said the closer this boy was to her, the more she acted, as a matter of their metaphysical ties. Her body reacted to his work without her having to force it at all. In fact, her own magic wasn't even active in this moment, he claimed her as if she was a normal girl and she enjoyed that above anything. Her nails found their home in his back as her body ceased up completely and utterly, she couldn't even bring herself to feed again in the face of such a forceful finish. Her body clinched but there wasn't an immediate pull it was simply the most natural reaction she could have in a sexual situation. "OOooooooooooooohhhhhhh!~ TAKUMI!~" she couldn't help but moan and practically scream this boy's name. If it was his intent to claim her, he'd done so very thoroughly already and anything else was simply extra at this point.

[Bloodedge]

Takumi's efforts never ceased, and never even wavered. The way Eira's nails dug into his back managed to elicit a response of forcefulness Takumi couldn't have otherwise found possible. The sheer adrenaline rush made it so, and the humanoid Dragon loved every single moment of Eira's reactions to his attention. Still, he sought more. "That's good... but... what is it you want here and now? More? Less? Something different?" he asked with a steady stride and more of a gyration to be found in the movements of his hips. "Earlier... I was wrong," he said, slowing his pace by a ridiculous amount even while maintaining force of effort. "I want to own you and everything you are... but not that way. I want to be yours, too... so what I need..." Once more, he kissed the woman, letting a sigh escape him into her face as he felt that powerful tingling sensation begin naturally in his loins this time around. "... Is to know the best way to take you, right here... right now."

[Apollymi]

If Takumi's efforts never wavered, then Eira's reactions never stopped either. "Haaaaaaah~" it seemed by virtue of what Takumi was saying, he wished to have more information from Eira. In fact, he claimed he wanted to know more about their present moment. If she liked what was going on. If she wanted more or less? Did she want something different? Eira hadn't initially imagined all of these choices, even so, she felt good to have them offered her. As the slow rotation of Takumi's hips started, the crimson haired woman's eyes widened she hadn't expected this sort of change but it was amazing now that she was experiencing it. The forcefulness was the same the only thing that changed was the motion and even her very core responded to this with differing clinches. "Hummmm~ Well if you keep doing exactly what you're doing right now... I won't be able to control myself," she claimed as she bit her lower lip in a manner most suggestive as her body almost couldn't take this level of stimulation. These words came after a kiss and heart felt plea to know what this young woman wanted. She never loosened her grip and never stopped herself from experiencing this moment and instead simply enjoyed every gyrating stroke as her body would eventually be pushed over the edge of an apparent cliff with a tingle that spread throughout her body as her whole mind went blank and her entire body went numb.

[Bloodedge]

Apparently, Eira fancied Takumi's most recent choice of pace and angling. She made this known quite clearly between a series of clenches and moans, and Takumi felt quite satisfied by the knowledge. On one hand, he wanted to please the woman in her most preferred way as some claim to fame for himself, but on the other hand, he was elated to have simply provided some satisfaction by his own idea. "Don't control yourself," he said in response to her appreciation of this movement, which Takumi most certainly kept up for the redhead's sake and his own. "That's just another side of you I want to see. Show it to me, and then..." His statement was paused by a grunt. Without any application of powers influencing him, Takumi reached his physical limit. "Huah!" In the wake of Eira's climax, Takumi found his own and spread another load throughout her core. Only at the point of being halfway emptied of his flourish did he find himself able to finish speaking. "... If it's what we have to do, and if you're actually fine with it... have my baby."

[Apollymi]

Eira had to been asked not to control herself and that was amazing. She'd never thought it would be possible for her to feel properly free, but in this moment, alone in this room with Takumi she felt exactly that. The moan that escaped her, she might have initially tried to quiet but it would be heard by this lad as he moved his manhood around within her. What was more, her entire face showed nothing but pure elation and her nailed reached the pinnacle of Takumi's back digging in to the point of drawing blood even. At the point where his load was half blown within her without her powers to influence her, she felt filled in a special sort of way.... "Sugei! It's warm... so warm it almost burns~ This feeling is the best~" she moaned as she caught this and felt its warmth within her body. She seemed to be completely out of it but she wasn't her entire body simply did what it wished in these moments. He claimed at the end of his statement that he wished for her to have his baby. She couldn't help but feel mystified by this entire ordeal but she knew if there was anyone she'd have a baby for it was Takumi. Her mind made a conscious decision to do this, and her powers drew upon it. "Hai!~ I'll have your baby... Takumi!~" she mused as she aimed to accept the rest of his load and unwittingly set into motion a completely different sort of conception. If gratified her face would end up with her eyes rolled back in her head, her tongue hanging out and to the left and her body completely numb of all feeling. This was the ultimate flourish with the ultimate intent behind it.

[Bloodedge]

Out came every ounce of seed Takumi had to offer, apparently much to Eira's appreciation. Takumi also gained a greater sense of satisfaction than this alone, thanks to the very interesting feeling of Eira's fingernails clawing through his back enough to draw blood. Something about this made the lad feel as if his efforts were worth it, as if he'd made the female Devil lose herself in the moment enough to produce this effect. More importantly though, there was an agreement made in the following moments. Eira decided to produce his offspring, something Takumi never quite expected to hear from anyone. A wide grin passed his face even as his eruption of a finish came to an end and left him unaffected by the drugging - something which also finally let him feel every bit of exhaustion he had built up. The final thing he saw consciously would be the rather lewd face showcased by Eira in their last moments of this exchange. "... Hai. You're the best. Even a face that lewd... looks great on you," he said to share his final moment of happiness - both for what he saw and felt, and for the notion of Eira taking on his child - before collapsing forward where he was, not even having the time or energy to remove himself from Eira at all.

[Apollymi]

During her bout of lewd face, Eira heard the words of Takumi and was eventually able to recover. Well as much as the situation allowed, as she went from having a lewd face to having one which was simultaneously satisfied and ridiculously embarrassed given what Takumi had to say to her about that previously mentioned face. Strangely Takumi collapsed forward after this causing Eira to go wide eyed as she caught this lad yet again in the manner she did most often. He bounced off her bosom just a bit as she went on to lie down in bed taking him with her but leaving them attached by the groins and cuddling for the duration. "Yare yare, you can't embarrass me like that and then pass out," she mused as she tucked them both under the covers. "It isn't really fair I don't have time for a comeback..." she mused as she lowered herself a bit and took to being wrapped in his arms. She yawned in this moment as her left leg twitched slightly. "Though, I could go for some sleep myself to be honest..." she mused. "I love you... Takumi~" she murmured as she drifted off to sleep. While this happened her body committed to a very strange act. Magically forming a body most like the one she'd been thinking of. In particular the old face of Takumi, maybe at some point she'd question why he looked so different from his child self but for now she'd sleep through the night, until she'd be woken hours later to see the effects her magic had taken.

[Bloodedge]

During the time in which both individuals were unconscious, something strange happened indeed. The subconscious activation of Eira's powers after taking in the energy of Takumi produced a body with the likeness of a slightly younger, yet very different Takumi. It formed between their bodies, forcing them to disconnect at the groin at last. Interestingly enough, this being had a full consciousness of its own, separate from whatever it may have had in the moment of its conception. To know this though, one had to know Takumi.

'My own life... Sou desu ka.' This was both the final thought of Takumi's alternate personality, and the first thought of a new existence entirely. This body just under two years younger than Takumi himself at its full growth became the host of his other self: the version of Takumi with a timid nature and a desire to live beyond his original and only purpose. This 'soul' as it could have been called was pulled from Takumi's body by the lad's desire to keep his other self alive, and by Eira's willingness to bear a child combined with her latent ability to produce a proper vessel. He would come into proper existence not completely as his already broken self, but as a complete being by absorbing the soul of that which would have lived otherwise. This freshly-spawned adolescent was the child of Eira and Takumi, and yet it was also Takumi himself, in a different manner of speaking. But no, that was a matter for the new couple to discover whenever they woke to find another sleeping person between them and facing Eira specifically.

[Apollymi]

Eira was asleep, for quite a while longer than she normally slept. That being said the activities of the previous day seemed to have caught up to her in a manner which made this amount of rest alright. Though she'd fallen asleep cuddled up to Takumi basking in his warmth and the feeling of him within her. She woke up rather empty though still surrounded by warmth. 'Sou ka... I wonder if he'd be mad if I woke him up...' was the first thought of the young woman as she reached out with her left arm. Strangely though this arm brushed against a body much closer and a bit smaller than she remembered. Her eyes were closed at the time but as her hand came to rest against the more adult form she'd been looking for she realized there was indeed an extra person in the bed with them. Her eyes remained closed for several seconds longer. 'Oh shit! What is this... why is there someone else here?' she asked herself, slowly opening her crimson eyes she looked down into the face of someone who looked a great deal like the young version of Takumi she remembered and looked over him to see the one she'd professed her love to just a few hours ago. 'I... uh...' she thought to herself but aloud she said. "What?"

While Eira was busy waking up to find the extra body between herself and Takumi, their observer and interferer was busy being astounded by this new body not previously seen within this dwelling. She had been watching and had seen just the moment where this being came into consciousness, it had created another tab of information for her to take in. And it hadn't been immediately booted because it technically fit all the criteria of being the offspring of Takumi and Eira. With this her orders were technically unclear and as such she needed more directives and of course to inform at least one of the people who'd set this up of what had happened. "Papi, you might want to get here quickly. I think... they've done it and not the way I thought..." was the mental message prayed to the Crimson Satan Sirtreize Lucifer.

[Bloodedge]

Being brushed against caused this younger male to snuggle up against Eira's fore, almost as if it was where he belonged in the first place. He didn't seem ready to wake quite yet though, but someone else was able to stir. Takumi himself felt the grasp of consciousness when Eira touched him and spoke aloud, causing a stalled opening of his eyes as he yawned. "Ohayou... Is something..." By the time his eyes opened and the blur cleared from his vision, Takumi saw the back end of whatever Eira had seen. His eyes widened as well, as he had no clue whatsoever why he was seeing this collection of black hair instead of the deep crimson he had come to expect when he woke. "... wrong." What was meant to be the end of a question came out instead as its own statement. He couldn't at all fathom what was happening here, but from his point of view, there was just some strange black-haired person between himself and his fiancée. "Who... is that?" he asked.

Meanwhile, the Crimson Satan received a summons during his leisure time in the Underworld. He appeared in the control room of his caller in little to no time at all, and seemed to be in quite a good mood at the time of arrival. Behind the woman's chair was where he materialized, very immediately throwing his arms around her in a way that was somewhat beyond friendly. "Aime-chan! Ohayou! To what do I owe the pleasure of you calling on me like that? Did you need my attention that badly?" the Satan asked while his right hand moved from exploring her torso to gently touching her chin.

[Apollymi]

Takumi's reaction was more than enough to let Eira know he was also just as confused as she was. But as she looked into the face of the sleeping lad who managed to snuggle even closer into her person she simply couldn't keep the shock from her person. She whispered her problems with this situation, in a subconscious need not to wake the one sleeping between them. "Uh... so... this kid looks like you. Younger you... you know the you I met the very first time," she said seeming to find it strange. "And while I wondered why you didn't look like your younger self, I didn't expect to find him snuggled up to me when I woke up... so..." she pointed at the lad sleeping between them with all the confusion her person could manage to have. "I don't know if I should wake him or not. He's kinda cute sleeping like that..." she admitted, having not the faintest idea of how this thing had happened.

Meanwhile, the young woman sitting in the chair in the control room was approached from the rear by the Crimson Satan. Such a greeting as the wrapping of his arms around her person was quite normal for this man, and so was his rather flirty way of speaking. That being said as her chin was touched she allowed her eyes to meet his and began explaining the exact reason she'd called him in such a way. "Ohayou gozaimasu, Papi." she started still looking at the game board before her and not being able to properly fathom what she was seeing. "I wish I had called you for something like that but see... I have a problem..." she mentioned beginning to explain herself. "You and the Creator put me here, to make sure your younger sister and her new fiance, congratulations by the way, made a baby..." she said with a nod. "Now, I have done my part in making sure that they got down to business and worked out their problems, and I was supposed to look for signs of pregnancy and all, but there is a whole new being in their room and it reads like it is their child and I... don't know what do about that. Are my orders over? Did they make a baby? How did it get there? Papi, I am confused... I wasn't prepared for this!" she said this while producing magical readouts for Sirtrieze that he could read by virtue of being within this room as well. This would show Eira and her stats, Takumi with his, and this new person's stats according to how this woman read him.

[Bloodedge]

From the angle he was at, Takumi could not see the face of this newcomer joining the pair of them, also in his birthday suit. Eira however had full access to view the lad's face, and claimed it looked like Takumi did when they first met. His eyes widened in light of this assertion, and even his mouth became agape. "What? But... how?" he wondered aloud. "Mmm..." this other person mumbled. He came to fully embrace the warm body in front of him, burying his face in her bosom before consciousness properly came to him. When it did, his eyes peeled open ever so slightly. They were grayish in color, almost as if they belonged to an empty vessel. Because of where he was, Eira was the first face he saw upon waking. A gentle smile appeared on the face of this barely-conscious lad. "Okaa...san."

Sirtreize was content to begin the full molestation of the woman named Aime, but she had other things to discuss. "Well, if it's a problem you're having, then..." No. Aime's issue was clearly with something completely different, which she wasted no time bringing attention to. Many things Sirtreize had not come to expect from this call were mentioned. Firstly, his younger sister had apparently become engaged. Secondly, she had also actually mated with the Red Dragon Emperor. Thirdly... there was already a new life spawned in the room with them. "Fiancé!?" was Sirtreize's initial reaction. While he hadn't expected Eira to actually progress to her full Succubus form with Takumi so quickly, he had entertained the possibility enough that it wasn't too surprising. This new being though, as Sirtreize viewed what data Aime had on it, was certainly the spawn of his sister and a Dragon. Of this, there was no doubt in the Crimson Satan's mind. How was it already born though? More importantly, how was it just shy of the same age as its apparent father? Most importantly... "That's an adult! How long was that party I went to!?"

[Apollymi]

Eira maintained the same level of confusion that she'd had since waking. It seemed Takumi had no real answers for this particular happening either. "I don't know... but he definitely looks like, you," she said. If she needed anymore confirmation of this the young boy wrapping his arms around her and squeezing her reminded her implicitly of how Takumi behaved the first time she'd met him. In fact this lad practically buried himself within her bosom before speaking. Strangely, his greeting words were to refer to Eira as his mother much to her own surprise. She stared down into his vacant eyes and gave him a small smile, not being able to resist the urge to hug him back. "Ano... I'm your mother? You seem pretty sure about that... what do we call you... hm?" she asked of the lad who seemed to have all the faculties of a well formed brain. At this point Eira was mostly just trying to keep herself from panicking as she heard out why this extra individual was in the bed with them though it was becoming more undeniable by the second exactly what this person was.

Aime, was on the other hand being molested by Sirtreize while she relayed news of her problem. Beyond that the Crimson Satan's questions would be answered in turn by the woman who didn't seem to mind very much at all that she was being touched in such a way. Her face was flushed but she seemed otherwise fine as she explained. "Yes, Fiance. Apparently he wanted to marry her when he was still a child, and she didn't know that but worried for his safety and left him behind. They made up and came to the agreement to marry rather easily. It's quite cute and her ring is gorgeous," Aime explained the shorthand version of the love story between Takumi and Eira. Moving along from that bit, there was the problem of the almost adult progeny of the duo in the bed with them. "It is a teenager, a young one, 14 if I am not wrong. And I'm not. And this being was created and grew to that size in the last 12 hours. Do you understand my problem, Papi?" she asked, true enough she'd last updated him before the duo had started mating. It was obvious to her and all data pointed to this dragon child being an offspring of Eira and Takumi. But it'd gotten to nearly adult size in less than 12 hours, and Eira had spawned him in no way which could be considered natural. This boy was some kind of miraculous being for existing in such a way.

[Bloodedge]

"Hai!" the boy said. Indeed, the crimson-haired woman he latched onto was his mother, both in his mind and in actuality. Takumi couldn't keep the shock from his face. How could this person be the son of a virgin Eira? Surely it had to be from a time before, since he was just about the same age as Takumi himself. Yet... for him to also look like Takumi, it could only mean there was something afoot that he didn't understand at all. "Wait... but does that mean..." he thought aloud as Eira asked the newcomer what he should be called. Interestingly, he had already been named by both of his parents, and technically by his grandmother as well. His smile beamed at his mother in what would be a familiar way as he spoke. "Shouki desu!"

Madness. Sirtreize had faith this plan would end well in some manner, but he couldn't get over the shock factor that was his sister's sudden engagement to someone who'd been waiting for such a thing since age 13. "My sister... got engaged... finally embraced herself... and immediately had a child who grew to age 14 overnigh--" He took an abrupt pause. A switch flipped in his mind, and suddenly, the Crimson Satan understood at least a few things that had to be at work here. "... Lilith." This single word, this single name, was all he needed to make a proper link. "That child is 14... just under Revil's age, and he's just starting to enter his proper adulthood. He's 14 because he's an immature Incubus... and he exists already because he's... a Calamity Child."

[Apollymi]

Eira got to be surprised once more as the younger lad in the bed with her confirmed he thought himself to be her child. She had a pretty reasonable understanding of his energy so she knew for a fact that he was about what one would get if Takumi was mixed with her. Even so, him having grown to such a state was more than a bit amazing. Before she could even open her mouth to question this, the lad answered her question about his name and her eyes could get no wider by the time he finished. "Shou...ki?" she said this lad's name and looked to Takumi as if amazed by this fact, and overcome with nostalgia at the speech pattern presented. "Kawaii!~ Ohayou, Shouki... or I guess, Okaerinasai~" she said to the lad, choosing to simply be kind in the face of all her own confusion. "Still confused though, Shouki here definitely feels like what I would expect a kid of ours to feel like. But... babies aren't made over night and they definitely don't instantly grow to Incubus puberty... I ah... need to ask, Nii-sama about this," she said. For the first time since bringing Takumi into her Peerage, Eira was truly out of her own depth. She'd never been more confused by anything in her life.

Meanwhile the Aime and Sirtrieze were having an in-depth discussion about the very being so recently introduced to Eira and Takumi. The terms Sirtreize used to describe this happening were ones normally unheard by this young woman. Things pertaining to Eira and Takumi though were her current complete knowledge base, so while she understood the shock of how fast his sister had developed to this point, it was a bit more understandable to her. "The speed of those developments isn't shocking. Most of her hang ups around accepting herself and potential romantic relationships had the same cause... once addressed she was fine," she commented absently. But while Aime knew lots of things and had a great depth of knowledge, somethings were outside her normal boundaries. "Lilith is a legendary Succubus yes? Said to have birthed hordes of Devils... but what is a Calamity Child?" she asked, this term was something she'd never heard before, and well beyond her general understanding.

[Bloodedge]

The name of this person between them was even more confusing for Takumi. He wondered how the other lad in the room could have had such a coincidental name, but then the way Eira spoke that name in response to hearing it made Takumi remember the last time he'd said the word. "Shouki..." he repeated as well, prompting the lad who took the name to look toward him. "You're... me," Takumi stated. Shouki shook his head, knowing exactly what Takumi was talking about, but also knowing there was something... more to what he was now. "Iie, Tou-san. I was, but I was broken then. I had to use you to even act whole for a long time. But then, Kaa-san came," said Shouki, who then looked toward Eira again. "This body was here, so that you came through and got caught up in the space between the two of you here. There were two souls for this body then, so... I happened. Tadaima!"

Sirtreize wasn't necessarily bothered by the suddenness of Eira's engagement. At least, he wasn't bothered by it happening so much as he was bothered by not knowing. Still, he was happy beyond the other oddities happening here. The only thing to be concerned about was this 'Calamity Child' and the fact that Eira was capable of producing one. Speaking of Calamity Children, Aime expressed her lack of knowledge concerning them. This much was to be expected since one hadn't existed since the days of old. "Well... You know what a Miracle Child is, yes?" he asked, believing that if she knew about the Miracle Children of Angels, she'd be able to piece this together easily.

[Apollymi]

The longer Eira looked at this child the more confused by its existence she became. Even as Takumi seemed to have some recognition for the name of this lad, there was the matter that Takumi thought this directly connected to his other self. Eira went wide eyed at this, as the lad went on to explain that he'd apparently moved out of Takumi's body and into the space between Eira and Takumi taking on the body which Eira would have produced regardless. A couple of blinks came from Eira in this moment because she had no real way to quantify anything she was hearing. "So... you're only partly Takumi's other personality?" she asked almost rhetorically. "You don't still want me dead right? That'd make being your mom pretty awkward..." she mentioned as she looked this lad in the eye. Regardless of how he'd gotten here she was sure of at least the combination of herself and Takumi in him and thus felt an innate need to care for him.

Aime was soon given a bit of a working puzzle about what a Calamity Child was and her eyes widened at the realization. "She spawned a child just because... she has that ability?" this was quite stunning even if just in theory, because the ability to produce offspring overnight could have the lass form an army under the right circumstances. Such a thing was probably very distressing if considered for different purposes. Still there was the matter of the child existing as it did. "Okay, well, then new thing I suppose. Neither of them really understands what has happened either. They are awake and given that the child exists have technically met the requirements to be released Papi. Will you go and tell them the good news?"

[Bloodedge]

"Hai. I have my own life now, just like Tou-san said," the boy replied. He seemed alight with joy to be here in his own form, freed even from his own internal bindings by the fact that he was something more than the original personality resting within Takumi's subconscious. Even though he had the memories of the other Takumi, he felt no direct connection to them as if they had to influence the way he was now. Such was the benefit of the infant spirit being merged into him. "Ano... I don't think I want anyone dead. I was still only just born. I have memories from before, but... that's it."

"That is exactly what happened. Why it was able to happen is what concerns me." Sirtreize released his hold on the woman and rubbed his chin in thought, pacing around the room he'd been summoned to. There were an infinite number of unknowns to consider about the creation of this Calamity Child, but more worrying was the fact that it existed as a product of two people the Underworld already expected too much from. "I'm not sure if telling them would even be for the best. We certainly can't let the rest of the Underworld find out about this, or Eira will become the instant key to restoring our forces and winning the war. But... at the same time, I should want that as a Satan. Yare yare. I keep being forced to decide which job I believe is more important to me."

[Apollymi]

Eira was still too confused by this entire situation. The lad claimed he finally got his own life, as his father said he could. And this statement made Eira shift her gaze to Takumi. She wondered exactly the amount of complexity dealing with more than one consciousness would represent. "I take it there was a conversation internally during that time you were passed out then?" she asked of Takumi in an offhanded manner. Information was key here, as was figuring out how they ended up with a fully grown child who was so happy and spirited. To be honest, Eira was quite pleased this child could be so happy, this was only added to by the idea that he apparently no longer directed all of his frustration at her. This meant she could relax quite a bit as far as her life was concerned. She propped herself up on her elbow and turned to face the young man who'd been wrapped up in her embrace. "So you have new life, your own life, what did you want to do, Shouki?" she asked of the lad. She had no preexisting notions about what this lad wanted if he was both the same and different people his tastes, desires, wants and dreams could all be very different... and she was keen to know these things and help the lad find what he wanted out of life. As she would do for Takumi or anyone else she considered close to her.

Aime on the other hand, was soon let go of by Sirtreize as he began to ponder the situation of his younger sister and her fiance. "That is worth being concerned about I suppose..." said the lass as she went back to watching the charts and numbers. From what she could tell, this trio of individuals was well past what anyone would consider standard and as Sirtreize paced the Crimson Satan was left to ponder whether he thought his job as a Satan was more important than the life and happiness of his little sister. To this... Aime had something to say, "The fact that you have to think about it, means you know which one you think is more important, Papi." she said with a firm nod of her head. "To be honest we don't really know what happened and it wouldn't do to spread around unreliable information, nor an unrepeatable event as if it is factual..." she said feeling like it was the potential best way to handle the situation. She knew the Crimson Satan adored his younger sister, and being so well connected in the lives of Eira and Takumi, Aime herself wasn't too keen on the potential bad outcomes of letting this information go to freely. "That being said, it wouldn't do to make them think they have to keep trying to make a baby. Can I release their magic to them now, Papi?"

[Bloodedge]

With Shouki's explanation of having his own life as instructed, Takumi understood the exact meaning. Eira remained uninformed however, but she managed to piece together the information well enough. "Hai. We had a little disagreement," he said about the two versions of himself. "We had a fight!" Shouki added. As far as what he wanted to do now that he had his own life, the boy frankly had no idea at all. Feeling no real need to fulfill any desires he may have had as only a persona, he'd yet to develop aspirations of his own. "I'm... not sure. I just wanted to live at first, and you guys made that possible... so I don't know what else to do besides find out more about what life has to offer me."

Sirtreize stopped his pacing abruptly when Aime made it clear what his question had to mean. At the end of the day, he couldn't say she was wrong at all. "Yeah, you're right. It's still tough being this way though. She seemed pretty upset with me when I brought them here, and here I am sacrificing the good of our kind just to keep her happy. I guess I'll choose this job every time, even if it is thankless. Let them be free, and let them keep the house. I can't actually bring myself to tell them another thing," he said, content to watch from the obscurity of this room while the two youngsters enjoyed themselves without further exposure to his meddling.

[Apollymi]

According to Takumi he and his other self had a minor disagreement while he was passed out, according to Shouki this was a fight. The contradictory statements made Eira giggle as she found the whole thing to be a little funny fun when presented this way. "Yare yare, well it seems like you eventually worked it out at least~" she said of the pair of individuals. Beyond this Shouki claimed he didn't really know what he wanted he just wanted to experience the things life properly had to offer him. A smile came to Eira's face in light of this statement because she remembered hearing something similar once before. She leaned forward and pressed her lips against Shouki's forehead before speaking. "Hai hai, then, I'll make sure you see and experience all the stuff you want~" she affirmed, all for helping this young lad find his way in the world.

Aime found herself looking at Sirtreize in the moments he spoke about his sister. Apparently she was cleared to free both Eira and Takumi from their hold within this place. She supposed she could see the dichotomy of having to deal with the wants and whims of a teenager and trying to balance that with the overall status of their society. "Honestly you're being too hard on yourself Papi. And she wasn't actually upset with you... I could tell that within a few moments of being here. But if you insist, I'll go on and introduce myself..." she said standing up for the first time. Before she left this room, she looked at the master bedroom and spun it around on its axis, doing so would reveal a door on the far wall. She also completely released the magics of all beings within the building before teleporting herself into the bedroom and bowing at the foot of the bed, directly in front of the closed bedroom door. "Ohayou Gozaimasu, Gremory-sama, Yasukawa-sama, Waka-sama..." she said addressing the trio in bed in order in a manner most respectful. "My name is Aime Lucifuge. I am your Chief Maid, yoroshiku onegaishimasu."

[Bloodedge]

"Hai!" Shouki said, accepting his future as one who would experience as many things as possible. Takumi remained silent and blown away by this entire ordeal. Before he blacked out, he came to anticipate having a child as a result of what he and Eira had done the previous night, but this was far from expectation. On the other hand, it was something worth taking in a positive way. Not only had a child been produced, but it had done so in a miraculous manner and given a host body to his alternate self, who only wanted to continue existing. The lad now named Shouki had also been freed from his previous bindings, and could seek his own destiny apart from Takumi if he wished.

As they all came to terms with what happened, they were visited by someone who was very much a stranger, at least to Takumi and Shouki. This woman introduced herself as their maid. Strange as this was, Takumi took note of a previously nonexistent door behind the woman, and figured the building would perhaps no longer be against them in light of her appearing. "... Hai. Ohayou gozaimasu," Takumi said, being followed by Shouki. "Ohayou!"

[Apollymi]

Eira got a warm feeling in her chest from this moment. When she'd agreed to have a baby for Takumi, she'd thought of it in a more traditional way. That being said, it seemed more helpful in general to the lad's extended psyche that the birth of Shouki was less traditional than initially intended. Besides that it meant they could skip out on any more majorly life altering events, which given the state of Takumi's life was about what he needed. Strangely before she could say anything else a door appeared at the far wall of the building and beyond that a young looking woman with silver hair in a maid uniform appeared bowed at the foot of this bed. She started by greeting the group at large introducing herself as their maid. She wanted to be angry but in all actuality it was quite relieving to see someone who was an actual person in this building. "Ohayou," Eira managed, though it didn't maintain the politeness or excited utterance contained by Takumi nor Shouki. Aime noted this and began explaining. "I am sorry for the intrusion, but I have good news. Your obligations to this house have been met, and you are all free to return to your lives. You also get run of the house, with me as your servant. I'll take care of it for you," she mentioned. "Oh and you are free to use your magic now as well," she said which made Eira look at this woman strangely.

It wasn't at all outside of the normal realm of reactions for Eira to become belligerent after the kind of meddling she'd just been put through. Strangely though, the crimson haired lass, simply used her magic to dress herself, in the over-sized shirt of a black silk pajamas which were obviously made for a male. The bottoms of this outfit were fitted onto Takumi, along with a white a-line t-shirt which fit his musculature and showed off the mark creeping over his neck and shoulder. Meanwhile the Shouki was fitted in a pair of silk periwinkle and white pajamas which she liked because of the way they looked in combination with his eye color. "Arigatou gozaimasu," Eira said, seeming to not worry about anything too much. There was also a bit of an explanation needed so Eira would give it. "The Lucifuge are an old family meant to serve Satans. Aime-san is the Queen of Satan Beelzebub's Peerage... but apparently she's our maid now. Is it safe to assume the house won't teleport, drug or lock us in anymore?" she asked which gained an affirmative nod. "Hai! I am no longer under such orders anymore. And I'm at your command... and his." she commented, looking to Takumi. Eira felt like it was sketchy to just accept a servant from the household of Satan Beelzeebub, but when she looked down at her hand and saw her engagement ring she smiled and couldn't really argue with the results of the maid's obvious influence.

[Bloodedge]

This newcomer had interesting news to share. Apparently, they had met the requirements of the house even by having Shouki come into existence in a non-conventional way. Though this was good news, it made Takumi wonder about the lad named Shouki, and if he actually had become this powerful child the Satans expected. He supposed they would all find out eventually, one way or another. For the moment, Takumi was finally able to move about with clothing applied to him by Eira's returned magic, and the same applied to Shouki. In Takumi's case though, he found a very strange fact to be taken from his current ensemble. More specifically, he noticed Eira spawned only a shirt for herself, and it happened to be the one belonging to the bottoms he wore at the time. Something about this sight and the thought to go with it could be called arousing by the lad, and though it showed clearly in his face, he thought not to bring purposeful attention to it with present company.

Aime, apparently the Queen of a Satan's peerage, was now to be their maid indefinitely. Takumi wondered why such a thing could even be possible, but that didn't matter much. She claimed there would be no further drugging or other such things in response to Eira's query about that exact matter, but considering what happened when the drugging was accepted, Takumi became curious about such a thing for the sake of leisure alone. Moving on, there was a matter of utmost importance which Takumi was being reminded of by his body as they spoke. "So we just live here normally now? I guess I've got no complaints about that, but if you're our maid now, I need something to eat. I'm starving."

[Apollymi]

Eira had a casual glance in Takumi's direction after dressing everyone and in so doing took note of him noticing her choice in clothing. A smirk appeared on her face at this point but she had nothing else to say immediately due to present company. Meanwhile there was still the question of them living in this space normally following their last few days of near torture at the hands of this maid, as well as Takumi confirming that he wished to eat. "Yes, you can just live here normally. And of course, I can make any individual food items you'd like, or I can use the information I have about you to make a large array of meal choices for you. Whatever you prefer..." she stated seeming to be quite serious. Eira looked at this woman and upon hearing what she had to say, offered a bit of advice. "Aime-san, make the spread. He hasn't eaten in days and I've seen how that works out already..." Eira said, remembering the first time she'd seen Takumi go without a meal and remembering what had happened to the spread at her previous dwelling when he'd settled on eating. "Hai. As you wish, Gremory-sama." said Aime, which made Eira's brows raise. "Yeah that isn't going to fly, either. If you're one of my servants, my name is Eira." she mentioned. Aime managed to look surprised by this but given she was allowed to call Sirtreize 'Papi' she supposed this was hardly that much of a leap. "Hai, Eira-sama," said Aime, before she teleported out of the room to immediately begin working on the food, leaving the door for the trio to access. "Alright, we have a bit before the food is going to be ready... come on then~" she said crawling out of bed for the first time today. That black silk shirt by the time she was standing hanging just below her bottom with high divets on the sides of her hips buttoned on its lower half to cover her lower parts but open at the top around her bosom.

[Bloodedge]

Before Takumi opened his mouth to speak, Eira made a suggestion from the choices given by Aime. It happened to be the case that Takumi was about to suggest the same thing, but in having it noted by someone else, he seemed slightly abashed. "H-... Hai," he said, knowing he felt as if he could eat a mammoth at this point. Shouki nodded repeatedly, having a similarly massive appetite after recently being born of so much pure energy. With the departure of Aime, Shouki hopped off the bed and made way for the door immediately. It seemed some parts of his mind had yet to catch up to his physical age as he ran ahead like an excited toddler. "I'm gonna check out the rest of the house!" he said while leaving both of his parents behind. Takumi was the last to exit the bed, doing so behind Eira at a pace that was slowed by the distraction her current appearance caused him. "I guess that leaves just us then. So... why did you give me the pants, and yourself the shirt?"

[Apollymi]

"Hai, be careful, Shouki," Eira said of Shouki's exploration of the house. She hoped the lad didn't find himself in too much of a pickle at the very least he should have enough extra memory to keep himself out of serious trouble. Still, she couldn't help but feel lightly amused by the idea that he was running around, having fun and trying new things. But given that their child of sorts had left, it meant that Eira and Takumi were alone again for the first time. "I guess it does..." she said offering a smile to Takumi, as she noted the distracted state in which he followed out of the bed. It seemed this distracted state came with outright questioning of her clothing choices for their first round in the day, Eira chuckled at this but would answer nonetheless. "Ufufufu~ Well, I figured you'd like this... seeing me in something that's yours. And I wanted to wear something of yours, but I didn't want the whole outfit... so just the shirt," she explained, knowing she'd done so partly because she enjoyed belonging to him and partly as a way of claiming him. "And the other way around would have been been too revealing for the moment~" she joked finally with a grin spreading across her face.

[Bloodedge]

Now that the two were alone, they began a discussion about Eira's choice in attire for both of them. It seemed she just wanted to wear something of his that wasn't too revealing, though she also believed it would be something he appreciated. She wasn't wrong at all. "Uh... well, I do like it... a lot, actually," he said, bashfully scratching the back of his scalp. Stepping forward, Takumi set his gaze upon the exit of this room, which he figured would be their usual bedroom henceforth - such a thing would only make sense. "You said it'd be awhile. What do we do while we wait?"

[Apollymi]

Eira found herself turning to look at Takumi, just in time to see him bashfully scratching the back of his head while admitting that he did indeed enjoy the look she'd chosen for herself today. Her smile spread wide and her heart thumped in her chest at this sight. "Kawaii~" she mused as she took a few steps towards Takumi wrapping her arms around his neck and putting their bodies in close contact with one another. "Arigatou na~" she said of compliment paid to her by this lad. Then there was the matter of what they could do in the time they waited for the food to become ready. Eira's first and immediate thoughts were those of simply closing the bedroom door and disappearing for another few hours while they enjoyed the freedom of their house. "Well, my first thought was finding out exactly how much you like me in this shirt..." she teased knowing that having slipped her arms around him, it'd drawn up even more to the point that her rear was close to being exposed. "But... I don't think we have that much time. And I don't want to rush," she mused leaning in for the first time to press her lips against his in a moment of appreciation. "Really, I have no clue," she stated. "Is there anything you want to do while we wait? Or ask me that I might be able to answer... I have everything but Shouki as a being covered~" she teased, as she finally released the lad to begin walking to the door as well.

[Bloodedge]

After what he had to say, Takumi was both approached and embraced by Eira. Since her arms were around his neck, Takumi met her embrace on the lower end with his own arms. In doing so, he felt how much higher the shirt Eira wore was than before. This easily resulted in a reddening face and a twitchy member for the lad, both of which worsened when she mentioned her first idea for their pastime of choice. It was not to be the case that they would spend their waiting moments this way, but it honestly wasn't something Takumi expected anyway. "Eheh... well, it's been days. What's another addition to the wait?" he said, knowing he'd gone much longer without eating before. Even so, he supposed Eira had a point. As much as he would have enjoyed whatever she had in mind, he could concede without too much of an issue. So, he accepted the single kiss she offered before moving along. "It's fine though. There's nothing I can think to ask or do really. I'll just go for a bath."

[Apollymi]

Eira enjoyed the embrace she'd started and the touching of this pair's lips. Beyond all of this, she also got to feel the twitching within this lad's pants and looked into his reddened face. All of these things she met with a smile and a deep sense of satisfaction, happy to have caused this sort of reaction in the lad and relieved to know he still felt the same way. Regardless of all of this, he also seemed to understand the type of constraints they were currently under. Besides the fact that he might have gone longer without eating, he'd also had his energy drained and manipulated to extremes in the day prior. He settled upon having a bath which was something Eira herself could agree with. "Hai!~ I'll join you~" she invited herself along without further ado.

Sometime after the baths were taken Aime was standing along a giant dining room table with the entire thing set up as if a buffet. There were all manners of breakfast foods, fish dishes, rice meals, shumai, fruits, and even desserts like strawberry short cakes and pies. This entire spread was gigantic and laid out with three proper place settings among them. One for Eira complete with the sort of high backed throne style chair that she liked, and one slightly smaller one for Takumi to her right and one even smaller one for Shouki to her left. Within a few moments of the places being set all three extra people would be teleported into their chairs as Aime manipulated a small pocket watch. "Eira-sama, Yasukawa-sama, Waka-sama... your meal is served," she said giving a small bow. When Eira next showed herself post bath, she was surprisingly wearing just a pair of leggings and a different over-sized man's t-shirt. Her hair pulled up into a messy bun. She looked to Aime with a raised brow following this teleport. "Hm, so that really was all you... huh, Aime-san. Arigatou gozaimasu... it looks amazing," she said of the food.

[Bloodedge]

"Hai!" Takumi said. With that, the two were off to bathe before breakfast. Eventually, they - and Shouki - were brought before the prepared meal by the same method that had forced Takumi and Eira together. Because of how they'd been brought in, the massive display of food was the first thing seen by both males, and both had the same reaction of a gleam crossing their eyes as they entered a trance of sorts. One such as Eira had certainly seen this before, following Takumi's state of unconsciousness resulting from the Rating Game against Sirtreize's peerage. Nothing would be said, by Takumi nor Shouki. The pair of them both stepped forward as if they weren't in control of their own bodies, ignoring any seating arrangements and picking up masses of food at a time. They seemed to almost be trying to one-up each other as they gnawed at lumps of food in one hand, then another while filling their empty hands with more food to consume. They didn't even seem conscious of what they were eating. At the very least, one question could be answered by the current event: Shouki was most certainly a Dragon.

[Apollymi]

Aime waited to see everyone start on their meal, but no words came from Takumi nor Shouki. Instead she saw the strange gleam in their eyes at the same time as Eira. The crimson haired lass to her credit didn't seem at all bothered by this, and as the pair began to eat literally everything in sight regardless of what it was. Eira navigated the whole of the table coming away with a plate that included reasonable portions of everything she wanted from eggs and bacon to shumai which she began eating with all the dignity and grace one would expect her to have. The silver haired maid was stunned by this sight. "Ano... Eira-sama is this sort of thing normal? They don't seem all there..." she said of the pair of young men. This made a chuckle come from Eira between dainty bites of her own food. "Hai, Dragon problems, I wasn't sure about Shouki but... now I am. Takumi destroyed eighty percent of a buffet spread at my place after our Rating Game against Nii-sama," she said with a curt nod. "Remember to breathe you two..." she said to them while taking a sip of water from a glass like this was the most normal thing to witness in the world.

[Bloodedge]

The feast of Takumi and Shouki went on without pause. There was, however, one odd moment that eventually came about, in which the two took hold of the same fish at once. They locked eyes in this moment, seeming to have a great deal of animosity toward one another to the extent that even their energies flared in opposition. This could have become something major, but the fish between their hands broke before anything occurred. Having an even enough split, the father and son pairing returned to their feasting without further ado. Such would be how they continued until they collectively devoured everything in sight that hadn't already been taken from the table by Eira. At such a time, it would conveniently not be long until school started for the day.

[Apollymi]

Eira ate her entire meal quietly and with class while Takumi and Shouki seemed to simply devour everything in sight. Aime to her credit had simply begun watching this eating competition wondering how on earth these two lads put so much food away in a single sitting without getting sick. During one particularly tense moment she seemed to become exceedingly antsy as the two had a battle of wills of a single piece of fish. Her eyes widened when it split and the two seemed to calm down immediately to go back to eating. She looked to Eira who'd started in on dessert in the form of an ornate piece of strawberry shortcake and pointed and gestured unable to make words due to what she'd just witnessed. "Dragons." Eira said in that single word encompassing the explanation of everything. By the time Eira finished her cake, the lads had demolished the rest of the table between them minus the food Eira herself consumed. At this Aime began to clear the table shaking her head, but going about the task with a strange sense of satisfaction based on the fact that there was not a single scrap of food left. A grandfather clock went off within the house alerting Eira to the time of day it was and making her brow raise in surprise.

"Hmm... we can go to school today," she said aloud remembering the birth of their son today Eira looked to him with a raised brow. "Shouki do you want to go to school?" she asked of him. Technically speaking it wasn't a member of her Peerage and she didn't want to force him if he didn't want to go. At the same time, he was all about having new experiences so she figured he might want to, and if he did, she could get in the paperwork right before classes started.

[Bloodedge]

By the time the two males calmed down from their feeding frenzy, the clock chimed. Both Takumi and Shouki already understood what time it was, but the query from Eira reminded the latter that he technically didn't exist to attend school before today. If he was to return, he'd be doing so as a new student with a different name from what he once answered to. "Hai! I was doing well in school before, but I wouldn't mind starting over to earn my own grades and make friends for myself," the boy said. Little did he know, he would in fact have a very different schooling experience to what he had as the other Takumi. Perhaps this was for the better, or perhaps it would be far worse... but he was keen to find out regardless.

[Apollymi]

Eira heard out what Shouki had to say and apparently he didn't mind going to school and wanted to make his own friends and his own grades. A wide grin crossed the crimson haired woman's face as she reached out for the smaller lad to pull him into a hug. "Kawaii!~ That's so cute... gambatte!~" she chimed her encouragement. Of course there was something else to think about and it would be the name and story for the lad to go by when introducing himself. "Hmm... we can't tell people you're our kid... that would be weird," she said staring at the small boy for a few seconds, and then allowing her gaze to shift to Takumi and then back to Shouki. "He could pass for your younger brother, Takumi. If we give him your surname, and claim he was the little brother still living with your parents, no one would really question it. And he could be a first year student so as not to have too much overlap," she said coming up with this strategy and cover story rather easily, but this was something Eira did quite a lot. "Hmm... the only thing is... if we do this, you can't call us mom and dad anymore, at least not around anyone else..." she said to Shouki waiting for agreement to this strange plan of hers from both of these young men.