A Night Without the Hosts

Z lead the demon and Nox back to her assigned bedroom in order to get the ancestor's urn. The demon could've just summoned it, but the oni chose to go back to her room so she could see what the heck moving the dojo had done. Upon getting back, she found both her bedroom and Janessa's bedroom, to be inside of a very strange reception area. It combined the stuff you would see in a church with what she sometimes saw in the more upscale homes of rich clients in the Yakuza. In that clash of styles, where stained glass windows shared space with sliding doors, she found the urn. It looked like it was in a place of mourning, the kind that would have photos of the deceased all over it if it wasn't for how Nox's ancestor predated photography by several generations.

After adjusting to her surroundings, and ensuring there were no traps, Z picked up the urn holding Nox's ancestor, and laid it on the floor in front of the group. She had met with Nox's ancestor a few times before this, but this meeting was different. Rather than just being another status update like every prior time, the oni would have progress to report that was more than incremental. One of the ancestor's three conditions would get fulfilled, another was quite close to being completed, and the conditions required to allow Nox to learn leadership would soon be in place.

So Z took the top off the urn, with the demon and Nox right behind her. "It's time to, once again, meet your ancestor Nox. Maybe this time it will go better."

The memory of how Nox, as Hanson, had been screamed at and humiliated by his ancestor was one Z had as well. It was something she remembered well from when Hanson was stuck in her head. It made the oni wonder whether Hanson's transformation into a goblin would matter in person? Her prior conversations with the ancestor hadn't caused it to come up, for the simple reason that Nox was already such a failure along every other metric. What did it matter if they were still human or not? Besides, the other times she had met the ancestor, it had been through a dream, or otherwise in a meditative state where she met him in a different realm.

All of those thoughts raced through Z's head as she waited for the ancestor to appear. Even though he had been dead for a very long time, and no longer aged because of that, he could still act like a cranky old man one had to drag out of bed. "Yes yes, I'm here and..."

The ancestor trailed off seeing Nox. "Why is she here? For that matter, why is the demon here? Our deal has not been concluded."

"Nox has shown great skill when it comes to fighting," Z said. "They are also well on their way to understanding the sexual arts, and a solution has been found for teaching them leadership. However, that solution requires an alteration of our deal."

"I will be the judge of whether Nox has any skill in fighting," The ancestor came into being, looking and sounding as irritated as the last time he had met the last member of his bloodline. "And if you want to alter the terms of our arrangement, you better hope the goblin has improved enough for me to consider your instruction to be worthwhile."

Z just smiled in response. Others were always trying to be deferential or similar to men like him, but the oni refused to be. Not only because this man was once a mere human, but also because she found it better to gain respect from people like him through refusing to bow to their pressure. Doing so could be risky, but he would never truly respect a servant, only an equal. What she did not expect though was for Nox of all people to try and do the same.

"If you want to test me, then do so yourself," Nox said. "But unlike last time, we're not doing it with your ghost bullshit. I understand you can be reached in the realm of dreams, we'll do it there."

Everyone turned to look at the goblin, who just glared at her ancestor. There wasn't the normal defiance Z had seen from others in that glare, but something else. Something much darker, the look of someone who had decided they had nothing left, and would rather die than be humiliated again. The oni, and the demon before her, had broken Nox. Whether she could heal correctly in the aftermath was an open question without an easy answer.

"You dare stand up to me?" The ancestor scoffed. "You're a goblin, how can you stand to me?"

"Because I am being done being lectured by a mass murdering noble," Nox said. "Besides, there is nothing you can do, including ****, that hurts me as much as what I have already been through. I'll meet you in my dreams, if you dare to show up..."

"Not really Felix," Castelilise said, realizing this date was going to be more complicated than she had planned. "What I remember was that I hated my human self so much that when someone promised me an alternative, I leapt at the opportunity without hesitation."

That admission she could tell touched him, but not in a way he found pleasant. His reply confirmed that. "I remember, but only because I told Cammy about it. We got into a fight in middle school and.. well, gave us both a bad reputation that'd haunt us for years afterwards."

"The way I remember it, I picked on a kid, and then a teacher showed up because someone had reported it with video evidence," Castelilise said. "After that, well, my human went to shit."

"Do you remember your name?" Felix said. "I can-"

"That name is dead to me," Castelilise said. "I'm not that guy anymore, and you should respect that."

That startled Felix, but he nodded in response. "Well, you have shown that you love being a nereid, so I guess shouldn't be too surprised by that answer. Do you want to grab dinner first?"

"Of course," Castelilise said while hopping back into the canal. "I'll wait for you there."

The nereid swam off, and before she knew it, was already in the mess hall. Castelilise plated up some fish and chips while thinking about her conversation with Felix. What did he want from her? Lovey-dovey stuff? She had thought that Cammy would give him his fill of that, and besides, he was a teenage boy. Why couldn't sex be enough for him? Or perhaps he wanted to resolve things he hadn't before? Closure on what had happened before they had arrived at Harem Hotel perhaps?

When Felix showed up, he got out his usual combination of fitness stuff. Castelilise was thankful that her body's resting caloric consumption was high enough that as long as she focused on getting protein, and she gobbled down various vegetables as necessary, she didn't really to think about her diet. If she was hungry, she should just eat whatever was available, not think about how it would make her body look going forwards.

"Why were you asking about why I was here?" Castelilise asked after they both settled into their dinners. "It doesn't feel like something you cared about before now."

"Jamina introduced the possibility of bringing back memories from prior timelines," Felix said. "I didn't like the idea and it sounds like you don't either. But it would be nice to get closure on some things."

"Closure is often elusive," Castelilise said between mouthfuls of fries. "But I'll do what I can to help you find it in the future. In the meantime, lets do something even better with some relentless fucking after we finish dinner..."

Nox had prepared for the meeting with her ancestor the way she would prepare to kill someone, even though that wasn't on the table. She loathed him, to such an extent that even if it was a dream, even if it ultimately didn't matter in the material world, the goblin was determined to kill him. So when she fell asleep, she did what she probably should've done in the second challenge: Lucid dreaming.

On the surface, it seemed like she was going to give the man a fair fight. Nox made a floating platform like one would see in a fighting game, with enough space for two people to charge at each other, and otherwise duel comfortably, but not enough space for much else. Said platform floated in the middle of a gigantic endless void, so as to focus everything on the fight between the two of them. Leading up to the platform was a long flight of stairs that went off into the distance endlessly. The steps would disappear behind whoever ascended them, once again to focus everything on the fight between the two of them.

All of this preparation seemed to pay off as Nox saw a man in samurai armor climb the steps towards the platform. Despite the length, he showed no complaint, not that it was easy to tell with the helmet on. Did he suspect that the goblin would pull a trick? He should have, as she had no intention of playing by his rules.

"So tell me, are you really prepared for-" Before Nox's ancestor could finish speaking, the goblin whipped out a Glock 19, and unloaded the entire fifteen round magazine, plus the extra bullet in the chamber, into him.

Despite being a handgun, and despite Nox having limited practice, she managed to land multiple hits, including a shot to the head. Her ancestor fell to the ground, lifeless.

"Are you familiar with this thing called guns?" Nox asked while staring at the corpse of her ancestor. "Maybe you just saw muskets in your day, so were unprepared. You were right when you said I was spoiled, but I also get the benefit of centuries of advancement over you."

Her ancestor got back up, angry. "Alright, so you can use weapons I didn't have access to with some competency. That hardly makes you capable in a real life."

"No?" Nox asked. "Tell me, what do you think happens when swords meet guns? You come from an age that ended a long time ago. But hey, I can demonstrate more if you want. We have all night after all..."

Dinner wrapped up, and Felix was guided back to the master suite by Castelilise. They both knew that tonight, the nereid was going to graduate. The real question was how she would get the VP to do so, and whether anything else was going to happen except relentless sex. When they got to the door of the master suite, he found out the answer.

"I'm in some ways your deepest fantasy Felix," Castelilise looked Felix in the eyes. "Not in body type, that was more Kei Winter's thing, and in some ways Noah's thing. Rather, it is that you will never have to wonder whether I want your body for an ulterior reason, because I assure you with every fiber of my being it won't be. I will just want to fuck you, no questions or bullshit about it."

The master suite door opened, and to Felix's surprise, Castelilise guided him in gently as she continued her monologue. "I cannot give you the emotional warmth of Cammy, or the close friendship of Noah. Nor can I provide the guidance that Jamina might be able to offer now in her current form. What I can give you, that no one else can, is reassurance that whatever happens, I can fulfill your carnal needs without any baggage. I won't make you feel conflicted the way Kei Winters could, or ashamed of yourself like when Janessa exploited the rules. Even when I **** something from you, it is because I know you'll enjoy it, and because you can be so far up your own ass that only fucking your brains out can get you back to the here and now."

As she finished her monologue, Castelilise gently guided Felix into the water. "I say all of this because I want to show you tonight how much that can be worth. How much getting things back to basics can help you when it most matters."

Castelilise then turned around in the water, and stuck out her ass for Felix to enjoy underwater. "Now come over here, and fuck my ass like you mean it. I'm not some pathetic human woman who needs gallons of lube to enjoy anal sex, after all, just for us to do it underwater."

The way she said it lit a spark for Felix, as he bolted over as fast as he could and took Castelilise up on her offer. It should've been agonizing for her, but no matter how hard he thrust his dick into her asshole, he only heard moans and sighs of pleasure from the nereid. Her ass was glorious, not only being heavenly levels of tight, but also squeezed back on him in a way that showed she was in control, even during an act like the one they were doing. It also felt glorious on the outside, as he held onto her hips while thrusting in and out. Best of all, because of Ladies First, he got to enjoy the anal sex for much, much longer than most men did.

Soon after they started, even though it felt like a glorious eternity for Felix, Castelilise's open enjoyment of the reaming she was being given by him proved not to be fake, as she cummed. That drove him over the edge, not only from the built pleasure of fucking her in the ass, but also from the sheer enjoyment of the fact that she could cum from anal stimulation alone, something very few women could do.

Anal Sex with Master: +15 VP

As they relaxed on the side of the canal in the master suite, Castelilise spoke up again. "Great, now let me show an upgrade I got from the personal transformation kiosk. One could say I can now extend your breath underwater for much longer than before."

-500 BP

Once Felix slid out of her, Castelilise turned around, and brought him into a deep kiss... while also bringing him underwater. This should've terrified him, but perhaps because of her Kiss of Oxygen upgrade, he didn't feel worried at all. In fact, once the kiss was finished, he didn't even notice he was underwater in terms of breath. It was like he could breath, or like something was feeding him extra oxygen from some other location.

Castelilise spread her legs, which Felix saw were much longer than the ones he saw her with on land, and she motioned for him to eat her out. Before hand, the idea of doing this underwater would've been absurd, and dangerous, but he felt confident enough to try it. So he swam over, and put his face between her long legs, while the nereid put her hands around his head to guide him in what he was doing. While it was a little tricky to get into rhythm, his face still felt the warmth of her pussy as she got revved up by him, and he realized there was a kind of sticky slime that even the water couldn't remove, showing she was getting wet from his attention.

Over the course of a few minutes that felt like much longer, Felix felt Castelilise rev up more and more, growing ever more excited from his licking. As she got more excited, the nereid fucked his face underwater, something that scared him when it first happened but that he was able to get used to in time. All of this attention, and Felix's experience with all these other women, culminated in Castelilise cumming in his face, giving him a unique taste in the process that was nothing similar to that of human women.

Eaten Out by Master: +5 VP

They both rose to the surface afterwards. "So what did you think?"

"That was amazing," Felix replied to Castelilise. "But lets get to bed."

Before he could get out of the water, the nereid held him in. "Lets go to the special bed the demon prepared for me. We didn't use it last time, and that feels like a waste..."