Game Second Autumn - 27 Still family

Hell, Palaces’ graveyard. It’s the neighborhood name for the rich guys.

There, MI just got out of a black limousine and her high heels hit the marble walk. Instead of following her guide she greeted the guard dogs, who wagged their tails and wished her a good return home.

Continuously teleporting made it so she only had to stop to greet the chief of security, who was a giant fire colossus living in the moat around her parents’ house.

It actually had an amazing Wi-Fi connection, they offered him food and he slept on heavenly sheets, so it is actually the opposite of what you might imagine about someone living on a moat.

-Ojou, you might want to reschedule your visit. The madam has been… negatively excited about your choices, and the wine she likes was “accidentally” wasted by one of the servants. The deep, rock like voice of the fiery demon resounded in her ears.

-I’d love to, but she was the one marking this. I don’t want to throw more fuel to the fire. She said before thanking Carl and stepping inside.

…

-Hello? A weak and old male voice said through the phone.

-Dad? Guilda softly said.

-Guilda? Daughter!? The man started screaming with excitement  that one would never believe came from the same person from before I normal circumstances.

-DAD! I am so… *Muffled groans*

-Hello mister Turley, this is Aki, your daughter’s friend, I just wanted to tell you that she only has thirty minutes to talk, so please, talk!  And so he was punched in the face before giving the cell phone back to Guilda, who had to explain lots of things.

Thankfully his warning at least served something, for the man remembered to call for his wife. Their son was stuck in his bed since everything happened, so it took a while, but even he got to talk to his sister.

There was a lot of crying, snot and screaming, but she managed to get the situation through to then. At least the parts that made sense for a citizen in the 21st century.

They wanted to say more,  but a ringing sound interrupted then and Guilda informed her family that she had to go, but she would call tomorrow at the same time, then told then to please not waste much time if they wished a proper investigation to be held by the police and that would not come to much fruition, she’d go home by herself with some time.

-How you feeling? Aki put an arm around her shoulder and gave his friend a hug.

-I am sad I can’t talk more with them, but also releaved I can do it at all. It’s just… She started sobbing while at it.

-The feeling you may never meet your loved ones again but that glimpse of hope doesn’t let you totally fall for that? Yeah, I know. We just need to do our best. And so he was used as a pillow to cry for a bit.

-You know, you should go eat something. You want to cut this hair later ? Bet you’d look two times more amazing with a dress right now though. He said breaking the mood, getting a weak punch on the arm for that.

-I don’t like to wear those. Let’s go get some meat. She chuckled and said.

-And I think it’s a waste for you not to try one, even I look amazing in the right dress. Did that sound too gay? He noticed.

…

-You want to go see her? Asked a tired voice behind Tina. Which made the bunny girl leap away from the startlement.

-Sis! Please don’t do that! You know I get scared easily. Whatever could you mean though? Said the woman averting her gaze.

-Guilda. She got back while unconscious from a battle, slept for a full day and them left her room looking like she had cried. I understand you might be worried. Although you’re not together officially, she doesn’t seem adverse in being chummy and you two spend a lot of time “together”. Said the elder sister while prolonging the last word, which made her sibling bright red.

-I… we… I don’t know what to think. She crouched down and hugged her knees while leaning against the wall.

-It’s ok, we never really met people who were good to us, you didn’t tell me you were into girls until now, we got an actual job… So much happening in so little time. You don’t have to know everything now, just make sure to be happy. Hugging her baby sister assured Mina of what she was saying once again.

Giving her a kiss on the forehead, she helped Tina get up.

-Well, I don’t know where this is going, and normally I’d do a sex joke right now, but I think you could try talking to Guilda right about now. She seems quite shaken quite everything even with my intervention, so maybe you two could go on a date. Aki chimed in after appearing through a curve and surprised both bunnies.

-Oi, that was scary! The difference between twins is do big in these two…

-Sure, anyway, Tina, I know we don’t interact much, but believe me when I say that I want what is best for Guilda. At this moment I think both of you could use some distraction and I don’t mean that in the euphemistic way. Use the chance while she has that hair and convince her to get it longer. He whispered at the end before pulling her to the living room, getting the attention of the one being spoken about.

-You sure about this? Asked the elder sister.

-In the worst situation they will grow up a bit and pass a period of weirding out around each other, at best I get two new sisters in law. Grinned Aki.

-You mean… they… I need booze. Said the bunny girl full of conflicts in her idea of what a relationship normally is.

Not  everyone is as accepting as Aki to new concepts. Granted, that is not the the right word to describe what he does, but still, do you know anyone else who constantly doubts everything around them and continuously attacks his idea of what reality is like?

If you do, them hug them to a hospital for crazy people who are a danger to themselves. They will try to get your eyes out of their sockets though, so you might want to take some precautions.

…

“Where the fuck are we!?” Thought the hurting Mina, who was being held  upside down in a house full of marble, gold, and other precious materials.

Aki was there together with their drinks, but those were sprawled on the ground and the young man was tied up just like her.

The chains around his mouth started smoking, and he when they finally fell he spat a red liquid on the ground. It was definitely not blood, for the ground started smoking as well.

-Ok, I have some theories about where we are, and I can only say you’re most likely not supposed to be here, I am sorry. He hurriedly said.

-That is correct. Whoever you are, you should not be here, but I certainly am interested in finding out whether… a booming angry female voice shot from somewhere in the room and Aki didn’t wait for it to complete it’s sentence and turned into lighting, coursing through the sound system of the place until he found her.

This may be a good time to say it actually, but hell isn’t a physical plane. Normally all you’d “see” is the energies and constructs all around raparzadly in random places, sometimes a “solid” thing can be formed too, but it can also be created.

That is to say, everything you hear me talking about in this marvelous place, is actually a huge soul server that can support an ever bigger number of soul constructs.

Think of it like a God creating a mass of land and them getting creatures to live in it and populate the place. Or maybe those palaces you hear the great elementals make in their planes as if it’s their territory.

In scientific terms, it’d be like a place with enough pressure to make gas turn into semi-solid material.

All this falatory is, of course, so that have what to say while Aki finds the correct way. It’s not like he suddenly got green spiked hair, but the voice from before is trying really hard to lose him.

All this mambo jambo is thanks to the high demon lords sustaining the place and the president organizing things so that the demons don’t do as their like.

This is not a democracy, but he sure as hell likes the title.

Oh, let me tell you, the memes you’d get from what demons identify as…

You see, all these strange bodies are neither random nor totally left to the demon who owns it, they are formed to look like their soul shapes.

While there’s plenty of thing you can easily change, such as your hair, nails, eyes, skin color… nothing can really deviate too much from your original looks.

Some souls are basically amorphous, while others are extremely detailed. You can have something special inside your soul, or maybe be extra empty.

All of that is like a genetic code that will help you determine who you are and what you can do.

Obviously though, as insinuated before, soul shapes can be changed with many, many ways. Your disposition can always change, become stronger of weaker, get another characteristic.

None of that shit stops you from using magic though. That’s what Aki is doing.

That also doesn’t stop his possible mother-in-law from using her presence as a higher soul form to put pressure against his consciousness and try to wipe his ego like she did so many times before.

Not that it’s working. She just keeps getting strange responses whenever she tries to impart something to his soul and those make it harder to concentrate.

The concept is similar to “if you look at the abism you should be prepared to have it look back”. Or simply to say that she is getting weirded out by his craziness and ripples are appearing in her ego instead.

“How can I not hate myself! I should kill him fast. But he is good enough. Is he? Is it a he? I, Mardona Guisapteliunask… will not… let my pride… what am I so proud of again… NEVER!!!”

As Mi can testify, her mother was having a big emotional breakdown and burning high flames, which she used to get some popcorn done, because fuck if this bitch doesn’t deserve it.

It was her idea to kidnapt her boyfriend and ignore her when she said she’d get hurt attacking someone so confusing, and them her idea to try and taunt him with the house’s control system, which she thought he wouldn’t even know how works because he is “just a human”.

-And that’s why you suddenly were teleported to our basement. By the way, nice to meet you Mina, popcorn? Explained the succubus to the newly teleported girl who Aki was helping untie.

-What’s popcorn? She was totally bewildered by everything around her though.

-Uhm? Strange, the reports say, oh… sorry, I forgot you lived as a slave since young. Popcorn is a snack you make by heating corn, you put butter and salt than chew it. She said as if not minding at all about who the girl was or having any ideas about insulting her.

-That certainly sounds like something I wouldn’t eat before. So, we are in hell, you and that noble lady froating on the floor are demons and I am not dead. Mina looked at Aki for confirmation.

-It is not the Hell your thinking about and most demons around actually have intelligence around human level, but yes. It’s like one of those stories where the heroes go to a elemental plane to ask for help from the higher forces, we just don’t have to go on a quest to open the gates between the realms. By the way, this is Mi, my girlfriend. Ignoring the period of shock of the bunny girl about all these groundbreaking statements for someone who hasn’t had advanced education, Aki started to strip her.

-What are you doing? Asked his totally not offended girlfriend. Normally she’d think a human doing that would be suggesting a menage, but if it’s Aki…

-Ah, this, I still have some costumes I’d like to have her dress, but she refuses to play doll for me recently, so I thought this might be a good chance and would distract her from all these “strange things”. He grinned and made a V with his fingers.

Though it was not like he was completely undressing her, that much would still be offensive. While Mina’s sense of shame has been deteriorated, even she’d think it strange.

-We better not. Mother should wake up soon and this is the perfect excuse not to meet her. Put her clothes back. Mi ordered.

-Hai… Aki meakly pouted and put the girl’s pants back.