The Fractured Soul of a Warm Winter

Kei Winters after breakfast motioned to have Jamina follow her back to their room. She knew Felix would be working out soon, but that was something she could enjoy later. It was time to have a discussion with a Jamina. A real, actual discussion, unlike the futile screaming matches they had been stuck in before.

Once they got back into their bedroom, Kei Winters asked a simple question of Jamina. The one that was inspired by Jamina's petulant behavior that morning. "Do you want to end up like Austin?"

Jamina replied. "No, but how the-"

"Because whining about wearing skimpy clothing, and otherwise throwing a tantrum whenever I try to help you with the contest we're in seems like a sure fire bet to put you on the road to that," Kei Winter's reply was swift and certain. "How are you going to-"

"You fuck your own students!" Jamina screamed to cut her off. "Oh wait I guess you actually didn't because you aren't even fucking real!"

"Not real?" Kei Winters asked. She remembered the phone conversation, and could guess where this was going. Rather than interrupt Jamina, she decided to let it play out, like a teacher waiting for a child to tire themselves out.

"You claim to be a better teacher, but that's bullshit," Jamina said, picking up steam. "You never taught any students, it's just a bunch of memories created by the demon. There's no possible way that you could have a bunch of kids happily going off to college while also taking advantage of your position to **** THEM!"

"We've been over this, they were eighte-"

"They were your students!" Jamina yelled, now sobbing. "They can't consent, you have power over their grades, their future, everything!"

"So either they were fake, in which case you're screaming about nothing," Kei said shockingly calm. "Or they were real, and it worked out. Which is it?"

Jamina stopped, looking at Kei incredulously. This woman was impossible to hold accountable, whether it be to herself or anyone else. Except the thing she was mad about didn't even actually happen, because she was furious over an illusion created by a demon, and Kei Winters just didn't care. She didn't care that her memories were fake, that she didn't exist until a week ago, and so on. Why?

"Why don't you care?" Jamina asked. "You're-"

"You were kidnapped by a demon that can transform people in ways that make a mockery of all known laws of nature and science," Kei Winters said. "I may not really exist, and I do know someone I hold dear does not exist. If I don't want it to get even worse, I have to ignore all of that. If I hadn't ignored all of that, if I had hesitated because I thought I didn't exist, or worse because I had a qualm about fucking Felix, do you think either of us would still be here?"

She thought she had seen a crack in Kei's armor. But Jamina had to breath, had to gain back control, if she wanted to take advantage of it. That crack would be tiny, and she had to pick the right question to exploit it. "How are you any better than Austin White?"

Before Kei Winters responded, she gave an expression that showed she thought that was an absurdly childish question, so naive as to be barely worth addressing. "Austin didn't play the game, just like you. He whined, threw tantrums like a spoiled child, and when push came to shove, couldn't even do the bare minimum to avoid elimination. How am I similar to Austin White?"

This brought back all the rage and frustration with Kei Winters. Jamina couldn't help screaming even though she knew it wouldn't do anything. "You don't care about consent, and just like Austin, you **** your position for sex!"

"Ah, ethics," Kei Winters replied while looking at Jamina as hopelessly naive, "I thought you were going to talk about something that mattered here. Tell me, what is the use of morality when it is clear, as an objective fact, that we do not live in a just world? And not because it is cold and uncaring, its worse than that. It’s actively absurd, and that absurdity is played to make an audience we cannot see laugh, cry, and cum."

"You dragged me through the mud in front of Felix, and yet you're telling me morality doesn't matter?" Jamina asked, incredulous at how infuriating this woman could be. "I... I can't be like you. I'd rather die than-"

"Than what?" Kei asked, her anger building while she approached Jamina. "I don't exist, therefore I never harmed any students, and so my memories are no different than a harmless sexual fantasy. You on the other do exist, and therefore, the harms you did to your students are very real. And not just Felix, as after all, I remember everything you do. There are many other students that you fucked over because you were too stubborn to meet them halfway. And now that same stubbornness will DESTROY US BOTH!"

There it was, the tiny hole in the armor Jamina thought she had seen. But it wasn't from morality. Kei Winters was playing the game, and unlike Austin, she had the emotional control to accept the situation she was in, while also being perverted enough to enjoy doing things with Felix. In other words, Kei was a monster that was perfectly suited for Harem Hotel. Austin White had lost because he was unwilling to play the game, and the only thing bothering Kei was the possibility that she would suffer the same fate because of Jamina's behavior.

“Look, hate me if you want,” Kei Winters offered after calming down. "Rail against how unfair the universe is, and that behavior is arbitrarily punished in one instance while being rewarded in the next. But just keep in mind something very, very important."

Kei Winters came very close to Jamina, so she could whisper the next part. "When we last did badly in competition, it mainly benefited me. And I would bet the demon will punish you a lot more than me if we get eliminated.”

That was not an idle threat. Jamina knew that, as despite doing terribly in the competition, Kei Winters hadn't suffered at all, and all of the blame for her poor performance had landed on Jamina. It didn't matter that Kei had chosen a reckless route through the competition, as they had needed to make up time. The transformation itself had left Jamina with a massively increased libido, sexual fantasies about young men and women just like Kei Winters had, all in a body that wasn't her own. While she wasn't as disoriented by it as she would've been getting it the first week, she still felt out of place.

"Lets go see Felix workout," Kei Winters said while dragging Jamina with her. "You need to let the side of you that is attracted to Felix be the one that's in control while we're here. The rest of you has only lead you astray..."

Z after breakfast dragged Nox back to the dojo to get trained. Given how long it would be until their date, today would because focused on the kind of unarmed combat training that left bruises, and would not be fun for Felix to see.

"I bet you're mad at me, aren't you?" The oni said while tossing Nox into the dojo. "I give you permission to try to hit me as hard as you can. If you manage to land any significant hits, I'll even you give some privileges for the day."

The second she was granted this freedom, Nox charged Z, trying to replicate the charge one did in football. All that resulted in was Z kneeing her in the face, and the goblin almost being thrown to the ground while nursing a splitting headache.

"That was me holding back," Z said. "If I had chosen to respond at anything close to full ****, your head would've exploded, and I would've been punished for hurting another contestant. Even barring that, if it wasn't for goblin regeneration, you would have brain damage."

This was when Nox was reminded that, at four feet, she only just about came up to Z's crotch level. The height difference was going to make attacking her difficult, on top of that the oni was a skilled opponent, whereas the only training Nox had was some grappling from football and whatever experience one got bullying others. None of that experience was useful for fighting someone this much bigger, taller, and stronger than them, much less someone with actual combat training.

"I'm waiting Goblin, or are you too scared now?" The teasing question by the oni motivated another futile attack...

Noah thought about the conversation she had with Hailey that morning. Hailey's transformation had them very curious about what it was like to be a slime in a sexual sense, and, after much prodding, she had grudgingly agreed to answer those questions where she could. The thing was, she didn't really understand what it was like to be a slime either. She hadn't had to deal with that many sexual impulses until her most recent transformation, and once she had them, she was confronted by that she had no idea how to masturbate.

It was after breakfast Noah chose to retire to her room, and try masturbating, to try to clear out the constant hum of sexual frustration throughout her body, along with understanding this strange new slime body she had. However, she soon found a problem. If she tried using her hands to touch herself, they would just form back into her mass without rubbing anything. She couldn't masturbate the way humans did, much less women. It didn't help that her only guide to trying to figure out how to masturbate was porn, was already inaccurate, to put things mildly, and was proving to be useless as a slime girl. The only thing she could judge that by was hentai, and they didn't show too many slime girls masturbating in that kind of thing.

All the while, Noah's sexual frustration was building and building without any sign of release. It manifested in that her mind would drift to elaborate sexual fantasies. Fantasies of enveloping Felix, or heck, any of the harem members, in her massive pile of goo, until they cummed inside of her. She knew to the core of her being, in her bones if she still had them, that she would very much enjoy cum, either from men or women, getting inside of her. More than that, she knew that she would love to encase someone in her slime, and feel them struggle until they gave into the pleasure. That-

Noah managed to stop herself, frustrated by these fantasies. She decided that it was time to shift her efforts from the prior week that were about her ability to shapeshift to researching her ability to pleasure herself... and others...

Janessa Smith after breakfast chose to go to the gym after seeing what Z and Nox were up to in there. Not wanting to see Felix, the angel chose to make this a short, intense workout, although exercise was strange for her compared to other beings. It often didn't feel like she got anything out of lifting weights, or any other exercise, not even strained muscles, perhaps because her strength didn't come from said muscles. She whaled on a punching bag, trying to get out all the anger, frustration, and guilt that had crashed into her after her most recent transformation, but it was for naught. The activity didn't give her the relief she was seeking, just tiring her to no end.

Frustrated, Janessa flew from the gym, and back to the dojo. Peaking in, she saw Nox repeatedly try to charge, or otherwise hit Z, but fail. Over and over again, the oni would either dodge, block, or did a single strike that utterly crushed the attacking goblin. While an interesting display, it left nowhere for the angel herself to practice, and so after watching proceedings, chose to go elsewhere.

The truth was, Janessa needed something besides exercise: She needed to cum. The angel was less perverted now that they weren't fallen, but they were just as horny. Sex was no sin to this heaven, and she knew the person that would be more than willing to indulge that. So, she drifted back to the gym, as while Felix would be there, a person far more pleasant was also available: Kei Winters.

Upon entering the gym, Janessa could tell that Felix was in the middle of his workout, as he was doing pullups. Seeming him naked did no favors for her sexual frustration, nor did seeing his perfectly formed male ass do anything to quell her desire to have her way with him. He was apparently under the almost adorable delusion that if he faced away from the women in the gym, there would be nothing sexy for them to stare at. All this lust made her feel alienated from herself, a she was once James Smith. It wasn't just that she was once a human man, but that she once thought Felix was soon going to be expelled, if not go to prison, over the incident. As the assistant principal, she had laid the groundwork for his expulsion, with his various detentions and the multiple months of suspension he got all helping to build a case. Instead of that plan coming to fruition, she was being transformed against her will by a demon, and was an angel serving a heaven that thought it was just swell that she was on a reality dating show that encouraged fucking him. Or...

No, she couldn't think about that. Janessa knew it was because of the demon, and so refused to think about what she had done to Felix in a moment of frustration. So she tore her eyes away from the sight of his glistening back muscles to find Kei Winters. She and Jamina had settled into doing some basic calisthenics that required nothing more than a yoga mat for comfort, and that the angel suspected started as a way to tease Felix.

"So..." Janessa trailed off, because when she looked at Kei Winters, she saw something strange.

Kei's soul was a composite of several separate souls. This wasn't something Janessa had noticed before, despite having lived Winters for awhile, but it meant that she couldn't quite bring herself to seduce her. Jamina noticed this internal struggle, and took the chance to come up to the angel.

"Meet me near the pool. We can talk there while Kei drools over Felix's workout..."

Hailey was doing what she did a lot of the time now when she wasn't eating or hanging out with Noah: Swimming. The massive pool downstairs provided her plenty of exercise, and it made her feel better than filling up on snacks. Besides, she could tell from the look in Noah's eyes that she was not going to be wanted in their shared room for some time. Nor did she want to be near Felix today given Cameron had essentially called dibs on him, and she did not want to interfere with a woman getting her man, to say the least.

After being lost for a little bit, Hailey found the stairs in the east wing of the bunker, and went down to swim. The floor with the water based facilities was mostly the same, although a door that had been closed before on the other side of the pool was now open. It was too far away for her to see anything, but she suspected it was the hot springs she had heard so much about. After she got changed into her green bikini, she ran out to the pool and jumped on in.

Unlike before, because of the aid she had bought in the BP shop, Hailey was able to get into an extremely optimal front crawl freestyle. So once again, after a minute or so, her body was able to swim on autopilot and she was trapped with her thoughts. Instead of thinking about her family, Hailey was stuck thinking about where she was going to go from here. She had only just survived the last challenge, and had burned through all the VP getting forgiven by Felix was going to provide.

The solution was obvious, as much as Hailey didn't want to admit it. Castelilise had told her as much when she first showed up, and she had a date coming up in two days that would fix this. She just needed to fuck Felix. After all, she found him attractive, this wasn't a problem of incompatible sexual orientation or her being grossed out by him. Was she just too much a good girl, and so couldn't be the one to initiate sex? After all, she had become a nerd to rebel against her parents, not a party girl, much less a slut. Having sex was already tricky, but having to initiate it? How could she psyche herself up to do that?

These thoughts stirred in her mind as she swam. But then when she reached the edge of the pool, and paused to take a breath, she saw that Jamina and Janessa had come downstairs without Kei Winters. Curious about this, she swam over to them, and as she got closer, she started to hear their conversation.

"... She doesn't have real memories," Jamina said to Janessa. "I'm honestly surprised she has a soul or that it isn't like, blackened or something given what she did in her memories."

"Soul?" Hailey asked once she got closer. "What you are talking about souls for?"

Jamina looked down, embarrassed by Hailey's question, and then explained, "I'm talking with Janessa about Kei Winters and I guess you should as well."

As Hailey exited the pool, Janessa took the opportunity to say, "I can see souls, and I just noticed that Kei Winter's was a composite of several different souls."

"A composite?" Hailey asked as she came to join them. "As in multiple joined together?"

"Yes," Janessa replied surprised Hailey understood so fast. "I didn't notice before last week I was in this... haze from being fallen, but now I'm noticing things I didn't before."

"What is this about her memories being fake?" Hailey asked Jamina. "Is it because the demon created her?"

"Yes," Jamina replied. "She's an artificial creation. And her memories... they make her as bad as Austin, but because her memories are fake..."

"She's nowhere as bad as Austin," Hailey finished for Jamina. "What would make her as bad as Austin anyway?"

Jamina looked angry for a second before she calmed herself and answered, "She fucks her students. That's ****, even if the students are eighteen, pure and simple."

"But it never happened," Janessa replied, "So it isn't the same. I should note that Z is not a creation of the demon the way Kei Winters is."

"How do you know that?" Jamina asked, while Hailey returned to her usual role of fading into the background while others spoke.

"Z has a single soul," Janessa said. "Not pieces of multiple souls stitched together. That means the oni, whatever you think of her, is not an artificial creation, or at minimum, is not in the manner Kei is."

"So basically, Jamina is stressed out by something that didn't happen, from a person who didn't exist until last week, and who has pieces of multiple souls stitched together, which seems to have no impact on any of us other than our resident angel," Hailey said, increasingly frustrated. "Do I have it right?"