No other option.

When you wake up. You find yourself in a dark, but familiar place. You work yourself to your hands and knees and squint. You’re right outside the deserted shack that hides the hatch to the hideout below.

You groan, feeling a little sore around your ankles and side, but it isn’t as bad as you expected it would have been considering the fall you took. When you stand up, you find some bags with some miscellaneous items, as well as some lose bullets. There’s a note written with fine blank ink on top: “Don’t say I didn’t do anything for you~”

Without a doubt, this was given by that succubus. You take the bags with one hand and then slowly enter the shack. You place the bags down and place your hands on the hatch. Before you get far however, you feel something press from behind you. It jabs uncomfortably on your lower back.

“Where are you?” A voice hissed from behind. The voice is Scarlets, so all your tension breaks.

“It’s me,” you reply. “I’m back.”

“Oh!” She chirps. “Well, sorry for the scare. Glad to see you’re not dead. That would have been unfortunate.”

You turn and see her. She’s human, and is as beautiful as you remember her being. She tucks away the knife she was using to poke you. “What took you so long? We were debating whether or not we should search for you.”

“Lots of places to explore. Just got lost in that maze.” You lie, but gesture to the bags. “Find a few things that were left behind by the last goons staying in there.”

“As expected - not a lot. Find anything fun while you were lost?”

“Yeah. I found a succubus.”

Scarlet chuckles. “Oh wow! How impressive! Where is it?”

You shrug. “Well, she was the one who dropped me off, so some place close, I’m sure..”

A perverted light goes eye to eye on Scarlet. “Oh wait now! Are you suggesting something?”

At first, you don’t know what she’s talking about, when you take a closer look at her eyes, you quickly realize she’s becoming a little...frisky? The thought of piping her up here while everyone is below enters your mind, but you’re a little spoiled from the whole succubus encounter. Before she can get too close, you kindly decline her offer and tell her you are tired.

“Ugh,” she groans. “Fine, but we won’t get a chance to be alone often - partners or not.”