Try to go it alone

“I’m sorry… but I think… I think I need to go alone from here…”

You turned and walked towards the exit after saying that. You felt bad… a part of you felt like you were making a mistake. The aching in your heart mirrors the emptiness between your legs, not knowing which was stronger you keep walking. You were not only sleeping with the enemy, but you had feelings for her… for Cassiopeia. And this… was this betrayal? You still didn’t know.

After leaving the room you picked up your pace and soon exited the temple at a run. For a moment you thought you had managed to get away, stealth led you back to your camp without incident, but then you froze. Cassiopeia was standing there, having got there ahead of you. Her arms crossed and an inscrutable expression on her face.

You tried to walk past her, but she held up a delicate arm barring your way causing you to stop.

“What’s this about?” She huffed.

You hesitate before holding out the shield and sword, not threateningly, but as evidence.

“Ok… so they have demonic and celestial magic? Is that a problem?” She said, barely looking at them.

“I think I am corrupting the holy artifacts… I worry it’s because of my… ahem… association with you.” You blush, but you see rage in her eyes as they burn brighter.

“It didn’t happen to the sword when you were with me, did it?” Cass asked sharply.

“No…” She was right, it only just happened.

“But you don’t blame just Cygnus, you blame me as well?”

“No…” Maybe you did, but that was looking less likely now.

“Then what Parsa? Why?”

You had to think, what was happening… her words came back to you… ‘See, I think she will join us eventually’.

“You were telling Cygnus that I may… I would join you and the demons. That was right after the shield turned black… I got scared… maybe I was becoming a demon… maybe this was a trap.”

“I would love if you joined us… I would be lying if I said otherwise... but that isn’t the only reason I am here… and I did nothing to you, and I am sure Cygnus didn’t either… you know Demons are just people like Humans… with good and bad in each of us…”

“I didn’t until I met you… I…” It was hard to articulate, but you felt more and more that this was your fault. “I blame myself, I let this go to far…”

“And you think that, what? Throwing away what we have and running off alone is going to what? Make them pure again? Or were you just using me and having the two artifacts means you don’t need me anymore.”

The accusation hit you like a blow.

“What! No! that’s not…”

You watched as tears pooled in her eyes. Unable to stand it, you dropped the relics on the ground and went to her. The embrace was warm and loving and she cried into your shoulder.

“Please…” She sniffed loudly “Please don’t leave me, I will do anything… I will fight the Demon King with you, I will leave Cygnus behind… just please…”

“I won’t leave you behind…” You finally whispered.

“Do you mean that?”

“I do now… I… I wasn’t sure until now.” You had to trust her… something told you she was the only one in this world you could trust.

The two of you kissed. For the first time since you met Cass you spent the night in each other’s arms without having sex, just holding each other.

And the next morning the two of you sat down to talk.

“Why are you so devoted to me?”

“Isn't loving you a good enough reason?” She returned instantly.

“But you clearly were infatuated with me before you even knew me.”

“True… but that doesn’t matter cause I love you for who you are now.”

She tries to stand up and you pull her down, starting at her until she speaks again.

“You will think it’s silly.”

“Maybe, but I am in this for the long haul now... so I want to know.”

Blushing she said in a fast whisper that you almost didn’t catch “Your statue was the first thing I ever masturbated to.”

Your jaw dropped open and you sat there gapping like a fish.

“See, I knew you would think it was silly, but seriously I had a huge crush on the original Hero Parsa… I know you only have her body... but you see… our legends are different than the ones humans tell, in fact the only thing we really agree on was that Hero Paras defeated the original Demon King.”

“The key word is defeated, not killed. Although concrete records are hard to find, from what I pieced together the Demons of old were a two gender species like humans originally. But after our defeat, we disappeared only to reappear as we are now with both genders in one. I believe that Parsa did not fight the Demon King, she conquered him sexually. After which she returned the Relics to be sealed and instead of going back to heaven with the goddess she returned to the Demons and shepherded the last of them into hiding.”

“With her power she did slay many of my ancestors and the human armies behind her slew the vast majority that remained. That left the king and a handful of Demons left who I believe were all male. Paras then slept with all of them, bearing them hermaphrodite children with the powers of humans, demons and the goddess. She became the Slut Queen of the demons, who we do have records of.”

You are shocked… could all this be true…

“I don’t have solid proof, but you may have noticed I am a healer. I have been using the goddess’s own power to heal you in combat. I have always worshiped the Hero, while masturbating, and that lead to me becoming a priestess.”

She was silent while you chewed on this new information. You realize that it all could be true but that wasn’t the shocking thing she revealed.

“You know I am not the real Parsa…”

“Right… yes when I first met you, I had hoped I could talk to you and learn the truth. But when you said they called you Parsa… I realized that they hadn’t summoned the real Paras into that holy vessel instead getting some heroic soul from somewhere else.”

“Did you tell the other demons?”

“No one knows but me, and honestly it doesn’t matter, you are the Hero and you don’t hate Demons. You are cute and sexy and I don’t mean your body. The way you talk, the way you use what you have, it is captivating.”

You blushed under her praise and didn’t resist when she leaned in close and your mouths met. The kiss was long and passionate. But eventually you returned to the topic at hand.

"The original Parsa... the Slut Queen, she is the reasons all demons have celestial and demonic essence. She turned our race into succubi who feed off sex. We are part human now, so we can survive off sex with each other however human sperm and milk will keep demons young and healthy, the same way monster semen does for humans."

As you talk you learn that from a young age Cass dreamed of being like the original demon king, able to seduce the hero, be the one that turned an enemy into an ally... but at some point she fell in love with not just the concept of Parsa, but this new girl named Parsa.

It was clear Cass was your ally... and if everything she said was true... you had many decisions to make.