I guess...

I hate to admit it but right now I am completely at Sylphid’s mercy. At the very least she sounded genuine in her offer. Besides, if she really wanted to end the match she had two chances to do so already. At this point, Sylphid very much resembles a naughty cat that wants to play some more with her food before eating it.

And if I wanted to have any chance of turning this around I had to play my role as interesting food as best as possible.

I started to pull my pants off.

“Slowly”, Sylphid demanded. “No sudden moves, Handsome. Stay on the ground and keep your hands where I can say em!”

She tried to sound stern but it was so obvious Sylphid was just doing this to mess with me. And yet I could do nothing but obey.

Once my pants where fully slipped off Sylphid nodded pleased. “Now say “Bye, Bye pants” and throw them as far away as you can.”

I gasped outraged. “That wasn’t part of the deal!”

“I altered the deal, pray that I don’t alter it further.”

Ugggggggh!!!!!!!!!!

This was so mortifying!

...

“B-bye, bye pants.”

I threw them away and Sylphid guffawed. “Alright, Handsome! Thanks for the show! You can get up now!”

Grrr! I will get you for this humiliation, Sylphid!

Coughing once, and now reduced to my shoes, socks and boxer-shorts, I sheepishly got up. Sylphid did indeed stay true to her word and waited for me. “Good job”, she praised me with a mocking grin. “This look really suits you, Handsome! You should walk around like this more often!”

That elicited more laughter from the audience. “Y-yeah.” I could only stutter out I definitely felt way under-dressed.

“Look at the bright side”, Sylphid leered at me. “You have a way better chance of seducing me like that. How about you give me a sexy, little dance?”

I took a deep breath to calm myself down. “No.” I stated resolutely.

“Are you suuuuuure? The crowd would love it. Right?”

Of course they do. A loud chant of DANCE DANCE went up.

This was getting ridiculous. Nobody was taking me serious anymore. I’m nothing more then a clown.

This isn’t a popularity contest. I don’t need the crowds approval to win this. But I couldn’t help but feel extremely self conscious about everything. If I could I would just crawl into a hole and die.

And Sylphid was absolutely aware of this and ruthlessly abused it. Mental strength is perhaps even more important then anything else and I was losing badly.

Is there anything I could do to still turn this nightmare of a battle around?