《Monster Girl World》 Prologue: Taking the explorer exam Monster girls, what are they? (7 marks) Easy enough. Monster girls are concentrations of pure mana, they naturally come into existence when there are any magical phenomena. Their origin is unknown to us. Monster girls can exist by consuming the ambient mana but this leaves them starving especially for ones that are on the stronger end of the spectrum, but they can consume human sperm or milk from men and women respectively for sustenance and growth which has led many researchers to believe they were originally man-made though there are a few contradictions to that theory. Foremost of them is the monster girls themselves, as some predate all known human history. This has many researchers stumped as they seemed to be designed specifically for humans, not only do they actively hunt people for food but they can also breed with the men to produce more of themselves. That is not all, every single one of them has a torso that in basic principle is identical to the female form and all of them will have a mouth, vagina, and anus in one form or the other despite the fact they do not excrete or egest any waste matter like humans but can naturally produce products like milk or honey that are in general very nutritious for humans. Upon death, they do not leave a body but disappear into the ether leaving only a spherical gem known as the monster core. What are the grades of monster girls? (3 marks) This is rather basic. Monster girls have ten grades, they are E, D, C, B, A, AA, AAA, S, SS, and SSS. Lower grades up to B are divided into more subcategories based on the monster''s personal power:-, basic, and then +. Why must you not leave the walls unless authorized? (5 marks) This one has five marks? Means got to add a bit extra. Outside the normal dangerous mana-infused animals that make the wild home, there are both monster girls who have turned feral out of hunger and monsters that have escaped the confines of their dungeon. Any civilian trying to explore and not use the teleportation network will be ravaged, in some cases within minutes of leaving the magical dome that protects every city. Most commonly you will be targeted captured and sucked to death which in most cases is a mercy for if you survive the chance of you coming back to civilization is next to nil. Explorers or military personnel all are trained to have enough mana to activate a failsafe teleportation device if the situation becomes untenable. These devices have become inexpensive over time and anyone with enough mana can use them, however, civilians do not have enough mana training to have the mana capacity to use them and outside the truly rich it is very difficult to afford ones that have their own magical supply, even those that do tend to be very bulky and inflexible. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Describe the bond that people form with monster girls. (15 marks) What the fuck, this is way too many marks for this question. That means an in-depth explanation, well got to earn the license I guess. Now, where do I start? First of all, bonding is the process by which repeated feeding a monster girl from the same person makes the monster girl imprint on that person. There are many benefits to this on both sides, most commonly imprinting grants the monster increased sustenance from the person, and the human gains a loyal companion. That is not all, for that is only the initial gain. Bonds are divided into a leveled ranking system known as the star ranks each providing more benefits while still having all the benefits of the previous. After a bond is formed we say that the bond is at zero stars and it can reach up to three stars. At the zero star rating, the monster girl becomes supernaturally loyal and outside of being charmed will always put you above everyone else including herself. Then we come to the first star which is arguably the most coveted because to become a mage of any renown, this bonding step is necessary with at least one monster. This step of creates a mana well inside the human that has properties of the monster girl whose main purpose is to allow the feeding to become much more efficient. However, the reason it is so coveted is that it grants you abilities for example bonding with a D rank dog girl tends to give faster reflexes and sharper senses especially smell and hearing. The second star is often considered the weakest benefit though still has its uses as it allows both the human and monster girl to know where the other is, sense their emotions to a certain extent, and can always find their way to each other, it has been documented that it works even across different planes of existence which is another anomaly that has our greatest minds scratching their heads. The final star creates one of the most powerful abilities for the monster girl and the human, the benefit is decent as it extends the human''s lifespan by how long the monster girl can naturally exist but it pales in comparison to what is granted to the monster girl. A shard of the monster core is formed inside the mana well which allows the monster girl to survive even the destruction of her core and complete annihilation of her own body as long as the person is still alive who can nigh infinitely resurrect the monster girl, the regenerating mana well insuring the human will always have enough mana to do so. There are some minor drawbacks to this, the prime among them is that the monster can no longer change bonds and also can only gain sustenance from the chosen humans. On the human side, every 3-star bond they make is harder to make another one though through time and practice these can be overcome. Outside of these though, it is generally considered to be universally good and anyone of note that exists has multiple 3-star bonds. The amount of time it takes to form bonds and ascend the star rankings differ from species to species and even the individual being bonded but as a rule of thumb the higher the rank the longer it takes and the same if you have a lot of 3-star bonds. "Time is up, please put your pens down" The examiner for my room called loudly ending the written test and with it, the fate of whether I got to be an explorer or not was cast. Chapter 1: A friendly conversation "Simon, how did you do?" "Best I could. How about you Arnold?" "So so." Like a social butterfly, my friend pounced on me the moment the exam was over and our scripts were collected. The giant holographic projector at the end of the exam hall and the speakers fit all across the room were encouraging the students to create single file lines and leave and not rush out. But to most teenagers, it was equivalent to telling a feral not to jump a human; absolutely futile. Over a thousand students gave their exams in this massive auditorium turned temporary exam hall and now a veritable sea of bodies lined the exits pushing each other to get out. As veteran examinees both me and Arnold knew the struggle and found it better to simply wait for the crowd to die down. "Finally over, huh?" I said as I stared at the crowd filled with nostalgia. "Not yet. We still have to pass to get the license cards." My friend retorted. "Please even if we fail this one, it is not like we will not get our licenses." I bit back. "Yeah, but we won''t get the starter pack or the ''Delver'' title nor its benefits." came the immediate reply. "Please, you are rolling in cash just ask ''mommy'' to foot the bill. I need it more than you and I am not worried." "Yeah... Why aren''t you? Did your parents finally get their shit together and decided to act like parents for once." "Ha. Ha. Very funny but no. still stuck at each other''s necks and deep into their monster girls last time I checked." "Fuck. Does that not ever get old? Why are they even together anymore? Just leave and move on." "The term you are looking for is ''divorce'' and no; the government gives them too many benefits for them to consider leaving and actually start working for a living." "Then why not get other lovers? One thing your parents have going for them is that their genetics are out of this world. Their magic is average if you are being generous yet they look like S-tier explorers or idols and they have that unique ability that shoots them even higher." "For the millionth time, this is a contract the government has dubbed ''closed marriage''. The stipulations are that you cannot have sex with other humans outside this contract, you must share your wealth and have the same living space." If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. "Why would the government even make such an asinine rule? My mom and dad fucks a different dude or chick every day of the week, most of the time together, and see how happy they are. Marriage is supposed to be two adults coming together to form a deeper sense of love not be bound by it." "The rule was not made for people like my parents. It was made for those uber-powerful explorers or ex-soldiers who tend to hook up with others of the same caliber. They believe that if you force them together, they will inevitably make ''super babies'' that will populate the newer generation." I said the term super babies in air quotes. "Our evil overlords being evil overlords, huh? I mean it has not even been a decade since the last uprising, and they are already trying to push a new fucking class system on everyone, only this time in the guise of ''benefits'' instead of; do your duty soldier." "Let''s just drop this topic. I will give you some juicy info on my sister if you do." My friend''s face visibly lit up. One could understand his enthusiasm as there are two things everyone in the Starborn family had, one was extremely good looks. The second reason was why my lazy ass parents even got sponsored in the first place. While I did not lie when I said our parents were not any retired elite, they both have a bloodline skill that had the genetic makeup to merge and create something ''powerful''. The result was me, my younger brother and youngest sister, I did not like advertising this ability we children as it made me feel like a lab rat. My ''special ability'' also soured most relationships I had with people which I know was one of the few things I could not blame anyone for but god damn did it suck. My friend wore his heart on his sleeve and though it pushed some people away it endeared me to him in a way I could only feel to my siblings. "Alright, spill." "So you know how her 17th birthday is coming up?" "Yeah?" "So the word is, she wants to go to that new fantasy park that opened near the City Hall but our parents being our parents are too stuck in their own worlds to give her that and the money I get from my part-time job does not pay nearly as much to get tickets." "Oh really?! Thanks, man. Umm... how should I approach her?" "Like a friend, cause you know; you are friends. Or if you want to be forward just say you wanna take her on a date. And if you want to be really forward, ask her to go on a date with the prospect of becoming a couple in the future." I was rooting for him and my sister, even though I knew he had a snowball''s chance in hell. The line of dudes that formed wherever she went could attest to that. I simply wanted to push the issue so he could get fucked, then dumped, and move on with his life. My sister was a great many things, sadly a whore was on that list, her words not mine. She changed boyfriends more often than she changed clothes. She did not do commitments of any kind, even if it was only heart as fucking others while being a couple was allowed and practiced by everyone except those contracted by the government and my friend was too lovestruck to get that through his head. Sadly my friend was too much of a pussy to ask her out so I had to play wingman. Our conversation turned into the usual, him gushing about my sister and me listening about things even I did not notice about my sister which generally made me even sadder when the breakup eventually happened. In a bit, the crowd finally dispersed. As my usual ritual, I tuned my mana-dampening bracelets up, put up the hoodie and wore a facemask, and then said to my friend. "Let''s leave." Chapter 2: M.G.P Just outside the hall, we were standing on a metal disc hovering so high that I could see the ground because the monolithic structures cast their immense shadows. My friend was standing next to a Digit Terminal, the magical technology for digitization of solid matter to keep in smaller spaces is still relatively new but with space becoming more and more of a premium its widespread use is becoming adopted at breakneck speeds. I had seen this numerous times but the site of a 3D projected hologram solidifying in front of your very eyes had yet to become old to me. So, when my friend rematerialized his top-of-the-line aerial bike I looked at the scene with awe. "Wanna ride?" "Na." "Still afraid of heights?" "Not what I am afraid of, I just do not trust my safety on a joy rider while being driven in a device that looks way too flimsy to support a human body so high up in the air. Besides using the teleporter is just faster." "Yeah, but super expensive." "Not, if you have high enough mana capacity." "Show off." "Says the dude with the most expensive civil class aerial bike money can buy." "Pfft... Please, You can get..." A musical note interrupted our banter as my friend received a call from mommy dearest. The saccharine sweet way he addressed her and the teasing cute tone of the exchange put a soft smile on my face. From experience I knew the feeling was genuine from both ends, something I cherished and wished I had with any human, the best I got was from monster girls and even then I cheat. This dude was too pure for this world and I am already sad thinking how the world will most likely grind him down. "And back to brooding. Man, Simon, I turn around for five minutes and you turn into a negative Nancy." "Sorry, got lost in thought. Anyway, I am pretty sure that is your mother. I swear, she treats you like a doting lover in all ways outside of outright fucking you." "I get she can be a bit overbearing at times but she loves me more than even you dude. So fuck off and do not say mean shit behind her back." His tone got harsh at the end which signaled our departure. He hopped on his back gave me a dismissive wave and took off, the genius vehicle showing off its high-end design by not creating even a single gust of wind as it rapidly gained altitude. I gave him 3 hours before he cooled down and called me for some sort of concession, the dude was overly sensitive on this one thing and was an easy way to get rid of him if you used this tactic and as a bonus, he tended to bounce back very quickly. This suited me just fine as it stopped the conversation from going down the awkward route of where I know it was headed. Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. Reducing the level on my mana dampeners I went into the giant metallic dome contraption that stood at the end of every disc like this, a small stream of people moving in and out. The inside was much larger than the outside suggested, a gift of spatial manipulation that was becoming less and less relevant as digitization keeps encroaching on its space. My S.A.I watch immediately linked with the Teleporter the moment I passed the open gates of the building-sized device. It vibrated and blinked trying to get my attention, bringing it up to my chest, an automatic hologram that looked like a menu in fast food listing all the sites I was allowed to teleport to popped into existence. People were winking in and out of existence like it was anybody''s business, statistically, only about 38% of the population could use a teleporter without having to pay for the mana tax but looking in this room one would think it was much higher. On the top right of the 3D screen were the locations I listed as my favorite and since right now I did not want to deal with human interaction but still craved companionship I chose my poison of choice; Monster Girl Park. Tapping the screen I looked around immediately to realize I was at my destination. I had read up on the side effects of using any form of instantaneous travel to cause a plethora of not-so-pleasant effects to you but the miracle workers at G.T.F corporations have optimized it so thoroughly that you are there as soon as you click the button and the only thing that even makes you realize in a different dome are the change in neon signs, no side effects or anything. The population in this dome here was significantly lower which made sense as this floating park/pick-up center catered to a very niche audience: losers with very little money but with a desire for monster girls, people with bleeding hearts that thought they made a ''difference'' by coming here instead of buying from official site and perverts. I fell a little in all columns. Moving out of the dome the first thing to bombard my senses was the massive blinking sign that read M.G.P and below it the quote that defined the brand, "all monster girls need your love and sincerity". M.G.P tried to market itself as some activist for better conditions for the lower class monster girls but when every park and many stores all across the city was riddled with their own overpriced branded merchandise those words wrung hollow. It did not take away the fact the living conditions in these parks were better than anywhere else but they were still a money-hungry corporation, this was more or less publicity for their relatively small but diehard core audience. Sadly I was one of them because this service probably was the only thing that kept me from going insane. I passed the security gates the price of entry was automatically deducted from my account. As I entered a row of holograms depicting the mascot of M.G.P spaced around 30 feet apart kept saying on repeat using the speaker on my S.A.I watch. "Sir, you must bring your genitals or breasts out at all times while you are inside the boundaries, and remember, all monster girls need your love and sincerity." Chapter 3:A fateful encounter Keeping your privates out in the open was frowned upon, not because of any social taboo that was bred out of us a long time ago, nudity was very accepted. No, the reason for men to keep the dicks hidden, women to keep their breasts hidden, and the extremely rare other that keep both hidden using specialized gear known as underwear was because of how many weaker monster girls ran free inside the walls, they were generally harmless but to most civilians, they were still a nuisance, especially when they pounced on an open nipple or dick for a quick meal. The experience in general was not entirely unpleasant but they tended to disrupt their daily lives. To keep the number of ''attacks'' down localized mana-dampening clothe known as S.P. underwear was invented. M.G.P was one of the few places inside the city that were keeping your resource generators outside in the open. As a regular, I had clothing in a locker gifted to me because I had over 100 visits to this specific park and bought quite a bit of the merch. All the buildings were located at the edge of the park next to the entrance known as the safe zone though most of them were just housing for the staff who lived on-site combined with a few sit-down restaurants and bating options, all the products and storage were done by digitization terminals, one of which I was next to conveniently enough. I simply removed my lower garments and shoved them into the console which with a glitch-like shift turned them into holograms and then absorbed them into the console. Many people like wearing fancy clothing that only left the desired parts out in the open they usually bought in the stores available in the park itself, I too had a few of those clothing on hand but after coming here so many times I found it faster and easier to just go without. With that out of the way, I walked right into the woodlands where they regularly just threw in D and E rank monster girls and called it a day, with next to no regulation. The only reason they could get away with so lackluster protective measures was that the whole park was in a localized teleportation field that recorded your vitals in real-time using the S.A.I. watch which was mandatory for access not that they needed to make that rule, the watch was essentially an I.D. on top of everything else so any official place pretty much required it. If the readings fluctuated too much out of acceptable ranges you were teleported into the medical suite in every single one of these, checked and treated for free then had to file a report as to what happened and the problem was handled, now if the problem was your fault they charged you a small fine made you pay the hospital bills and sent you on your merry way. My musings were cut short with something wet and soft engulfing my manhood. I looked down to see a rather emaciated flower girl greedily engulfing me. Unlike humans, many monster girl variants showed a different way to show poor health and starvation, the plant ones being one of the easier ones to spot. When healthy they look like a woman in her prime, when starving they reduce their overall size and often look like a growing girl at the end of her teens. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. Due to the use of my dampeners I was not an appetizing target to any monster girl as I looked as mana starved as them based on the ambient mana I was giving off. That meant I was not bothered by any monster girl and traffic was healthy which meant monster girls got to eat and usually passed their fill also many were simply taken in by the enamored clientele on the daily so overcrowding is never an issue. All the evidence pointed to the fact that she was a very recent addition, so she was currently a fish out of the water and starving besides. My rationale told me to push her off and go to my destination, at most she would be starving for a week before she found a lucky donor not hounded by the longer-standing monster girls already, and this woodland is always kept saturated with enough mana to keep any of the monster girls from going into a frenzy. But I was no robot, and I had a soft spot for these mystical creatures and to just leave one in pain when I could clearly help it was out of the question, I just hoped it would not come back to bite me in the ass. "You must have been starving, little one. That is okay drink as much as you need." "High!" Slurp! She started to sloppily lick and suck my manhood. I could say I was very seasoned when it came to getting my dick worked and her clumsy blowjob would keep us here for hours but lucky for the both of us she was a flower-type plant which meant aphrodisiac spores, and my dampened ass had no protection against it currently. To help the process along I inhaled deeply allowing the feeling to wash over my body. The effect was immediate I could feel trickles of cum slowly rising to the tip. I felt a small lick on my slit moaning despite myself. More and more aphrodisiacs started to flood my system as she used the mana she gain from me to accelerate the process. Then without warning, she took the entirety of my 8-inch pasty white penis inside her sealing it with plush her emerald green lips. Her cute light green nose was lost inside my bush and I saw her crystal green eyes glowing. "Glowing...?" My release was coming on and it became harder and harder to think but something in the back of my mind kept telling me something was wrong. Then at the apex of my release, I felt that post-nut clarity that usually comes with some sort of regret when it clicked, this is an E-class monster and I was a B-class human with a unique bloodline power besides, see mana dampening only weakens the flow of mana not the quality of the mana itself. An interesting bit of titbit is if a human is 3 class levels apart and consumes sperm, which has the highest concentration of mana desired by monster girls, there is a very likely chance they evolve and gain a 1, 2, or even 3 stars bond. "Fuck..." Chapter 4: lewd pants "Bad girl. stop sucking, come on." Those not in the know would think I am crazy because from the outside looking in, it looked like I was speaking to my green wooden greaves that extended from wooden pants but it was just a shifted monster girl. Just my luck, on a single ''meal'' a most likely newborn monster girl evolved two classes and got imprinted to directly a 3-star bond. C-class monsters and above can transform into what people called ''equipment'' if they have a 1-star or higher bond which strengthens the benefits a 1-star bond gives you on top of being a form of protection. Another reason why people believed monster girls were man-made. This feature became very necessary especially if your bond count entered double digits. A bonded monster girl upon reaching the C-class the first thing she does is shift into a gear piece, usually one that covered the genital or chest area depending on the individual. The second thing they did was feed on mana to hasten the stabilization process of their new forms. A small problem occurred if they class up and start up at the same time. You see, based on research, classing up gives a shit ton of positive stimuli to the monster girl, starring up gives similar levels of stimuli but directs that to where they got it from, namely the dick or breast. If both happen at the same time, there is a small chance it overwhelms the monster girl and she becomes a slave to these sensations for some time, the longest recorded being 78 days. What these monster girls do is shift into an ''equipment'' state that covers the part that normally feeds them and then feeds on it till their minds can catch up. This was supposed to be very rare but weirdly enough this was the third time this shit was happening to me. There was a way I could get her into some sense of normalcy but that would require me to remove my limiters, and that was something I could not risk. I tried that shit once and did not like the outcome so the dampeners stay on. This would not even bother me much, I could feel her emotions through the bond and there was so much contentment there that I would let her be but as a side effect she was pumping inhumane amounts of aphrodisiac into my system, and if it were not for the fact I gained so many benefits from her leaping to 3 stars I probably would have been teleported out. Sadly she did not have enough control for me to just ignore her and go on my day while my dick was being milked before addressing her hunger issue. With great apprehension, I dropped my mana dampeners, something that was surprisingly hard. It was not because inside the pants was a mouth that engulfed my penis and was working it like a baby on a pacifier. No, I got used to that a long time ago, every monster girl that can shift will do this constantly, what was fucking me over was that improved aphrodisiacs that she was unintentionally pumping into my system. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. The moment my powers came online I was bombarded with emotions that were not my own. Two felines were currently very grumpy combined with a heavy dose of loneliness. Their distance, however, made them close to background noise. What I was feeling most prominently right now was an onslaught of feelings of desire and hunger traced with happiness and comfort. I did not want her to stop feeding, that was good for her and a pleasant distraction for me, all I needed was for her to stop injecting me with her powdered drugs. With the ease that came with a lot of practice I cooed at her telepathically giving her assurances, the ministrations on my cock became even more voracious and her happy feelings got even more pronounced. I started to feel other presences coming closer, no doubt feeling the residue I was now giving off which meant I needed to hurry up, I was pretty sure my hungry plant was warding them off but they lived with little fear here and soon my enticing ass would overcome their instincts. This had to work by the first go or I would have firsthand experience of what the perverts called a ''tongue bath'' so with a deep breath I sent my ''pants'' images of the powder-like substance and then images that resembled her to stop releasing it. To my surprised joy, it worked. Normally C-class monsters who have newly gained a sort of partial sentience needed a lot more time to understand what I was showing them because they usually lacked context. As a visual representation, the green dust the ''pants'' kept spouting out stopped and I felt her going into a sort of half-asleep state while the undulations in my soft wet prison became a strong constant. Immediately I put my dampeners back up and I was the multitudes of monster girls that were slowly encroaching on my stop in confusion. They were not smart enough to realize that their ''food'' had gone into hiding and they slowly dispersed and I heaved a sigh of relief. Now I studied my new permanent companion with incredulity, despite my best efforts I would be starting my professional life with three permanents. Many would say that was a good thing, getting a 3-star bond was a rare and precious thing, and best of all the one on a lower class gets bumped to the higher one naturally overtime with no outside influence so I technically had 3 B-class monster girls right from the get-go which many would envy. But one could only have so many of these as it got harder to get new ones the more you had, the highest ever recorded was 22 but the average was 10 if you could call getting 10 3-star bonds average by any metric. Well, no use crying over spilled milk, my destination may give me a super powerful monster girl, it was a long shot but if I could convince her my future was set. With newfound determination, I awkwardly walked to my destination while my dick was in some pocket space having the time of its life. Chapter 5: dolls domain Now that my personal problem was no longer at the forefront I could take stock of my surroundings. The first thing that caught my eye was a crowd of monster girls completely engulfing something. This made me chuckle, perverts were the rarest of the bunch to visit monster girl park but it was always a spectacle to see every inch of open skin getting sucked on. Another thing that was probably true was that the person in the center was probably female, the high-level difference made anyone with a dick circumspect to a low-class bond, something they did not want most of the time. That thought made me look down at my own, if this was some sort of anime then my cheat would be that I had it much easier with bonds, classing up a low-level bonded monster was just a matter of attuning the monster to you(something that normally took years) and I could skip the hard parts. This brought a small smile to my face as I headed deeper into the woods, overgrowth became commonplace the deeper I went and people became sparser, eventually, I reached what looked like a massive bush taller and wider than a small house. As I approached the giant shrubbery, I tried to psyche myself going over all the points I made for my argument. After a little too long of procrastinating, I put my hand through the bush. The surface vibrated like water shimmering as the illusion stabilized, it felt like I was putting my hand through gelatin though there was no pushback whatsoever. I blinked and I was in this bedroom with a techno laboratory aesthetic. Machinery was strewn about, and the back wall was just massive computer screens displaying static, at the center of it all was a massive circular bed with neon purple sheets that were tinged with a metallic sheen. The whole room was dimly lit with a mixture of soft lights. At the center of the bed lay one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen that rocked the tech android look like it was made for her. I just entered the domain of a boss-tier monster girl. "Oh my, it seems you are back, little one." The woman was puny with her lithe five-foot frame to my towering six-foot-one. A lot of her flawless skin including her midriff was exposed with not a once of visible muscle just smooth alabaster white skin. Despite all the physical differences, a single flick from her could turn me into meat paste, and now that I knew, I wondered what lucky star had saved me during my first encounter. "Your dampener is working fine I hope." Her eyes stared at my pants and now I noticed wooden tendrils wrapping around every bit of it and I felt agitation through the bond. I turned off my dampeners and let my power seep over her calming the scared and concerned monster girl. "Beautiful, is it not? She has no hope of even scratching me and yet her first instinct is protecting you from a perceived threat. Such devotion..." "Mom... will you quit it?" A playful smile danced across her artificially perfect face, her eyes flickering like a computer screen. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. "Why, I am simply a worried mother who is concerned about her son''s choices is all. I thought you wanted to climb the ranks quickly by ''bonding the strongest ones around." A blush bloomed on my cheeks and I looked away. "Stuff... happened..." "Awe. Is my son embarrassed, do not worry your mom is harmless." I could not help but snort. Boss-tier monsters are any monster at S-rank or above, they were so powerful that reality would warp around their domicile to match their taste. So mighty was their innate mana that hunger was a thing of the past, they ate for fun and not much else. Case and point this room, it was nothing but undergrowth till she came along and turned it into her hidden home, and I knew for a fact she had not taken a master in all the years I have known her and I have known her for three years now. My mother gave me a mock pout. "It is true! I am harmless to you and your friends." While our banter was going on My plant girl calmed down and went back to feeding, though some agitation remained. "I want to be bound to you." I dropped the bomb knowing the conversation would get derailed quickly otherwise. "Ahh..." She said before her whole tone became a lot more maternal, I did not like that one bit. This meant a lecture was coming along with what was most likely a rejection. She got up and came to the edge of the bed before patting the spot next to her. I sighed, came up, and sat next to her. My plant girl visibly flinched at the proximity but her actions remained constant. "Do you remember the first time you came here?" "Yeah..." She answered for me still spinning up a story. "A boy who could no longer bear the multitudes of emotions that everyone projects. Disgusted and confused by emotions possessed by their own family. Who used this place as an escape because, for the terrible things monster girls do, they are still simple animals who only wanted love." I settled down listening to the recounting of my past self. This was the safest place I could be and for a moment I could get lost in her soothing voice. "The boy started spending more and more time in the park, it reached a point where he spent more money to sleep among monsters than in his own home." "A doll took interest in the boy, lost and forgotten as she was she felt a small kinship with the boy. She started to take an interest and keep an eye on the boy. One day, out of pure happenstance the boy came into contact with the doll''s home. Instead of turning him away like all the others, she accepted him in." "The first sensation the boy felt was pain from the emotions from the doll, do you remember that?" "Yeah, but you made me these dampeners and my life has been immensely better afterward like now I am a functioning human being." "Do they protect you from your bonded?" "Not much... But they feel good, not overwhelming or mind-breaking." "Yes, but they are natural monster girls. I am a doll created from human experiments. My mental matrix is more complex than most humans, our first encounter is proof as such." "So I take that as a no?" I was expecting this but still sucked, I called her mother but that was just a pet name, if there was anyone that I genuinely loved in this life, it was her. Being on the receiving end of rejection sucked. Arms wrapped around me, and I felt soft kisses all across my scalp. "My boy, I swear if I was any other monster girl or if you did not have your gifts I would accept you in a heartbeat. But to knowingly hurt you so terribly would go against everything that I am. I simply cannot." Tears came unbidden to my eyes, I felt the loneliness in her words which were so profound that I could not stop myself from sobbing. She was not wrong, the only deep emotion monster girls could feel was devotion towards their bonded master everything else was very surface level. But that did not make it easier. I felt consoling caresses and thoughts from my little plant which helped more than I realized. "I swear... I will reach the S-class, gain complete control of my powers and then come back for you." A small lonely chuckle rang across the room. "And I shall wait for that day." A small ring from my S.A.I watch broke the moment. Frustrated, I brought up what could be so important that the watch overrode my silence. On the holographic screen blared a message, "Congratulations, you have passed with exemplary marks! As such you have been chosen for the ''Brighter Future'' Program". Chapter 6: Orchid Normally, I would be over the moon. Right now, the news about my grades felt like a ''fuck you'' from the universe. "Awe! Good job." I tried to laugh, but all that came out was a choked sob. Mom grabbed me by the cheeks making me face her and said. "Hey. I am not rejecting you, my dear little boy. There is a big world out there, and I know in my heart of hearts that you will make a truly big splash. If by then, when you are at the top of the world you still remember little old me, I will be waiting here, just for you." There were a few things in there that made me angry. But I felt both the sincerity in her voice and her soul, sometimes my power did have benefits. I nodded meekly finding myself rather weak at the moment. "Good boy. Now run along, I am pretty sure you have things to prepare. Is this not exciting, you have been chosen as the top 5% of examinees. Of course, I knew your potential all along, now the whole world will know, make sure to give them a punch to remember." I could not help but smile. Sure, it was an ugly one covered in my snot and tears but only mom could make me give such a heartfelt one. "I wish you were there with me every step of the way. See me grow into a man that deserves you." "You already are, and my sweet little boy you have a lot of life left to live and a lot of burdens to carry. I will not add to that when you are still finding yourself." I opened my mouth to argue. Only for her to put one of her delicate fingers over my thin lips and said. "Do not argue, you have all trusted your mother, and have I ever steered you wrong?" Reluctantly, I shook my head. "Good, now hop to it." I was gently pushed off the bed and in a blink, I was somewhere in the woods. I nearly had a heart attack as I turned the dampeners back on. The world once again felt duller, easier to understand, and fewer things to feel. The emotions from my pets at the house were all but gone and even my plant felt like she was under the sea, her feelings felt fuzzy. She was still going at it and if it were not for the benefits I got from my cats, I would have been completely dry at this point. This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. My own roiling emotions also felt more muted and I could think more clearly. I felt slightly embarrassed at my earlier outburst, calm rationale made me see just how right she was and acting emotional was usually only detrimental, I would know. But now I had to face a truly difficult daily challenge, my own home. I distracted myself by using my severely crippled powers to check on my plant girl, putting my journey on autopilot. First, I needed to name the girl, calling her plant girl would be a disservice to her and Ebony and Ivory. But to give her a perfect name I had to see what species she classed up into. In the case of my cats, I fed monster cores with specific properties to influence their evolutions turning them into variants, holy cat and shadow cat. But this one was completely natural, meaning no new abilities but in exchange, her core ones are going to be much stronger. Practice made it very viable for me to create a profile of my newest monster girl. I could not help but chuckle, for most naming a new monster girl was any bond at all, for me it was 3-star. I took a bus for a more scenic route and more time to myself before I entered the hellhole. I took out my S.A.I. watch and hovered it over my pants before activating the M.G. scan feature. I hovered it right over the constantly shifting green bulge at my crotch area knowing the core was near that area. Within seconds there was a ding. I activated the hologram
Monster base type: Nature Monster base variant: Plant Monster base class: E Monster base plant variant: Flower Monster base combat class: Support, Control
Monster current type: Nature Monster current variant: Plant Monster current class: B- Monster current plant variant: Flower Monster current combat class: Support, Control Star level: 3-star
Scanned Traits Aphrodisiac Vine manipulation Chlorophyll Regeneration Possible shifts(legs/Torso) hardened Thorns Poison(up to same class) Healing Sap mid hydro absorption
Warning you are a civilian with a permanent bond with a B-class monster. Please register at your earliest convenience for training in managing such a monster. Records of training of different variants of B class monsters have been taken into consideration, you have one month to register for appropriate training, and failure to register may result in a fine of up to 5000 credits.
I whistled, a triple class up with what was probably her base traits, monsters do gain more unique traits and some universal ones but most were at A class and higher. It is very unlikely she gained in new ones meaning I wasted some of her wide potential, but that meant her core traits were that much stronger which I guess was an okay trade-off especially since plant types generally had a higher quantity of base traits. Having a three-star bond was very expected, the one thing I was extremely good at and good riddance too, for civilians registering B class or above monsters was astronomically expensive as they incentivize you to sell the monster but if it is three stars that is free because they cannot remove the monster girl from you at that point. Putting all that aside looking at my new permanent companion, the was one name that kept knocking at me so I decided it was good enough. "Orchid." I said rubbing my pants gently over the bulge because I knew that was where she was partially unshifted despite how it may look in public, which honestly was not all that weird. "Your name from now on will be Orchid." Chapter 7: Home sweet hell I stood before the door that led into my domicile, I took a long breath before pressing the watch to the scanner. The door clicked open leading to the main living room that doubled as the dining room as well as the kitchen. Sitting on the dining table chair that faced toward the entrance was the last person I wished to see, my younger sister. If I looked at her objectively, I would say she was 11 out of 10 on the attractive scale and she had a gift that manipulated emotions in some way like the rest of us. Unlike me who hid my traits as best as I could, she was a flaunter, granted everybody in this household was the same, I was just the black sheep of the family. Now for the parts that I did not like, even in a world where sex was so freeform, she was considered a slut and a whore and she reveled in it. I knew she fucked every able body in this entire housing unit which housed around 120 families. She had a diary of everybody she fucked and the real kicker, she enjoyed how men would destroy their lives pining after her, she desired and craved attention. Maybe she would change if she found someone she fancied but that was the real crux she did obsess over a bloke, and this was why it was very creepy that unfortunate person was me. The 17-year-old girl that over the last two years downed over 400 bodies in the last two years if you believed her diary lusted over her brother like nothing else. To prove my point, her eyes lit up and she left her unfinished meal and bounced to me. She leaped onto my arms in what she called a family hug which she did to no one else. She was not fat by any stretch, the word people would use to describe her body was voluptuous, she squeezed me tight rubbing herself on me very inappropriately squishing her massive breasts on my chest. In the house, all she wore was her birthday suit. Nudity was very common and there were no laws against nudity only that you are required to protect parts that a feral monster girl can attack and feed on if you are in any outdoor environment. Clothes existed as a fashion statement and to protect you from the elements. The one thing I knew was that she did not love me in any way shape or form. I was simply the pinnacle achievement in her eyes, with similar levels of good looks, similar power, and social standing but most of all I was a taboo one that did not break under her yet. At 9 our youngest sister was not someone she fancied and our dad banged on more than one occasion. After a hug that lasted way too long, she let me go and I booked it to my room. I could feel her influence rubbing on me and despite my resistance she was strong and I was currently crippled, my house was a pigsty with some of the most depraved thoughts around and was the original reason I practically lived at the monster girl park. Thankfully both my parents were out otherwise I would have had to subject myself to their thoughts. Inside, both my cat girls in their cat forms jumped on me and unlike my sister, I did not feel uncomfortable. They started purring and brushing themselves with the occasional meow. Mostly, though, they were very pampered, and right they wanted a snack which I could not provide them. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "Not today." Being B class and taught for long enough both understood the human language with a great degree of proficiency. Both made an irritated meow but did not pester me anymore, these two were very well-disciplined despite all my pampering. My room was rather bare with a wall closet, a bed, and a desk with my most expensive property X.L.L Mk.IV a super high-end laptop bought using money from a very dark time in my life. I sat and started registering my entry to the ''Brighter Future Program'' of B.F.G. for short. Upon the 10s of thousands of people giving the exam every year only the top 1000 students are given that privilege. I did not care all that much about what they had to teach in that six-month program but you are given a lot of starting benefits based on how well you do in the program, the pinnacle of which was an A-class monster girl to the top 10 finishers. The small matter of being given a B-class license if you just passed the program did not hurt either where people start with an E-class license. I just had to click yes on a lot of legal documents for liability and consent reasons. Sure I was expected to read the 100000+ word documents but very few people did. While I was doing it, Ebony my white cat with black stripes jumped on my lap to take a nap while Ivory who was colored the exact opposite lay across my neck like a scarf. All three of my monsters oozed content lethargy and that did wonders on my mood. I sighed lost in my little slice of heaven when all of it came crashing down with a knock on the door. The sudden wave of lust washed over me and made me turn the dampeners off immediately because I knew who was on the other side of the door, my birth mother. Without waiting for my answer the woman walked in she was the sin of lust made manifest and she was a rare exception who liked dressing modestly. Exaggerated curves that tapered in a perfect hourglass, wide hips, a large bust, and rear, a flawless, heart-shaped face that housed puffy naturally ruby red lips, large blue eyes, a natural blush, and long eyelashes, even her nose was perfect. In higher classes, you get naturally more beautiful as your mana makes you a more perfect version of yourself and many people mistake both my mother and my father for S-classes. What I liked about my mother, she was like the perfect housewife and she acted the part with machine-like accuracy. Now for what I did not like, she groomed me from a very young age and my first sexual experience and every sexual experience with a human since was with her. One might ask why I did not blow the whole thing off. Two reasons, my little sister had done no wrong and the contract was giving us a cushy life, all of that would go down the drain, my mother and father would go to prison and I did not even want to think of what would happen to my sisters with their powers and looks, the system was very dark, I knew firsthand. Second, my mother suffered from that very system, her mental scape was a jagged mess and she hung on to me like a drowning mess. I had looked into her past, something I had to dig into because it was kept very well hidden and if I had to describe it in two words it would be ''extremely brutal''. My father was very abusive and got away with way too much with his looks and charisma alone. Needless to say, my mom was a hair''s breadth away from snapping and I was pretty much the last straw. From her look, she got catcalled again and needed her blanket, me. "Come here." I sighed, I could not get away from this house fast enough. Chapter 8: A new lease on life Now with my mom squared away I got back to my future which would bring me out of this hellhole. Only if I knew what I left behind. Maybe things might have been different then. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goodbye was fairly simple, it was just normal goodbyes all around with a tear jerking one from my mother. I on the other hand was feeling slightly suicidal, every student in the program had to live in a dormitory and though classes were still a month away, I had to be present within a week. I could not go without telling my folks which meant a very sticky mother which meant no dampeners which meant being bombarded with very bad thoughts. Both my other options namely M.G.P. and my best friend where out of the picture which took all my excuses. Their thoughts were not normal and being subject to them was despair inducing, I only made it through using my pets as a buffer. Leaving the house, the first thing I did was turn the dampeners on and the sweet embrace of dullness hit me making me sigh. I felt annoyed mutters from my black jacket, white tea shirt and dark green pants but even their thoughts were downed to a whisper which made it super easy to ignore. All my belongings were in a backpack and suitcase and on I went to a bright future. I might look a bit funky but it was not half as funky as most explorers. For the first time in my life, I got to go to the fifth level of the city which was a rather exciting experience. The city built upwards and was divided into vertical ''divisions'' with the more important stuff higher up. My family lived on the third layer while my best friend was on the fourth. Thinking of my friend made me think of the last call I had with him, he did not get into the program which led a bit of an argument. He thought I would accept the program and start our professional lives together just like we had promised, but this was a once in a life time opportunity and I could not pass it by. I told him as such, one thing led to another and we were currently in a bit of a funk, but knowing him he would come to understand my point as well and when I get out, I would use my elevated status to boost both of us to the stratosphere. My thoughts in order I walked down the set of stairs, my home was a massive apartment in a row of massive apartments in a 10-story tall housing complex hanging hundreds of feet in the air. The teleporter was at the ground floor with all of the many stores and store consoles while the garage console was on the roof. These complexes were built so the people staying in there never needed to move anywhere, even the jobs usually were inside these very complexes, in my opinion these were just gilded prisons built to keep the lower middle to upper middle class happy but I wanted more out of life than the lot assigned to me otherwise I would not be taking an occupation as dangerous as an explorer. This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. My musings carried me to the dome and in I went. In the holographic screen a golden icon popped up that depicted a high-resolution image of the facility I would call home for the next six months. I clicked on it and a host of identification enquiries popped up including but no limited to biometric scans psionic scans and good old passwords. The exam halls had scans but this felt excessive, I knew domes had multiple level of checks and scans but this felt like what I sometimes watched in military movies. My agitation was picked up by my bonds and I had to send soothing waves of calm before they did something stupid and I suffered. Soon enough it was over and the teleportation sequence started. Coming out of the dome was a surreal experience. It did not hit till that moment but I was in the fifth level of the city, there were only two levels above this but no level was so encompassing as the Institute of Monsters and Magic. Arguably the best academy in the whole world and certainly the largest it was one of the world''s greatest marvels. Its radius was 3 full kilometers and unlike most buildings this thing was a mobile fortress in the shape of a perfect sphere, it was surrounded in this glasslike material that apparently could be psychically controlled and was strong enough to withstand full-powered blows from SSS-class monsters. Not only that but the transparent material could imitate any weather, had super advanced temperature and a whole host of other things I had no idea about. What was inside was no less magnificent, there were a very and I mean very long series of domes that lined the circumference of the sphere at an alleviated position that gave you very good view of the whole place and the tabloids could not capture how good the place looked. The did the ''technology meets nature'' theme perfectly with the futuristic architecture combined with strategically placed plants and trees that gave it more of a garden feel with terraces and even trees growing out of certain sections of certain buildings. "Ahem." My gawking was cut short by a cough. I noticed a diminutive woman wearing some sort of formal robe looking at me. "Yes?" "Sir, you have been standing at the entrance of the for a prolonged period of time which is thoroughly discouraged. My I ask for your identification?" I blushed and gave her my credentials. I knowing smirk came across her cute face as looked over my identification holograph. "Well, that explains it, if this vista had you stumped. Well, you have seen nothing yet." Chapter 9: New living space "This is where you shall stay till orientation, rules shall be sent to your watch in a moment. As well as the timetable. Please read all the stipulations as failure to comply with given rules will result in strict disciplinary action taken against you." The guide doll that I was saddled with took me to a quant-looking house while I took in the atmosphere, which was easy to do as low-level dolls acted completely like machines and the journey was quiet but not awkwardly so. The population was sparse and the scenery was breathtaking with high-tech gizmos strewn about in a calming park-like setting. By the time I reached the building I was sure I was being guided by at least 10 different people who had entered the same one which left me confused, it was a one-story house big enough to comfortably fit maybe 5 five people on the high end. I wanted to ask but an E-class doll does not have a complex enough matrix to give me those answers. Dumped at the door she gestured for me to enter then promptly left. Confused but with nothing better to do I entered. I did not know what I was expecting but the inside of the house looked like ones you would find anywhere in a cozy home. Something I did not find where the other people were, there was no one in the house outside of me. I heard a notification ding and a blue holographic screen popped up in my face.
Welcome to the C1 level-2 housing unit, you have been given student-level access to all our facilities. Please read the rule book at your earliest convenience. If you feel uncomfortable with holo-tech, an assistant doll shall be assigned to you if you so choose. Please note, the extra service is not free and you shall be charged for the service. Also as per the agreement, your S.A.I. watch will not be able to send or receive information from outside the academy. If you wish to contact anyone please use the designated consoles assigned to your living quarters. Please remember that they are not able to contact you using this console and you must speak with administration if you wish to have an open channel with anyone.
There were still some people out there scared of ''super A.I.s'' but I had no problem with such things heck like low-level dolls they had no emotions whatsoever. Also, no communication with anyone outside the dome I could understand why they do it but it still was shit being cut off from the internet outside of ''official channels, they are pretty strict but the no interaction with the outside world thing. Speaking of which, I completely dropped my dampeners, and outside of the familiar minds of my monsters who start making gestures of happiness, I felt no one. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. I was in the god damn a pocket world, a very expensive feature that only people of the fourth level or above could afford, but here we were completely cut off from the world and that meant no ambient emotions bombarding me out of nowhere. So I simply basked in the pleasant breeze that was monster affection, non-complicated, and easy to lose yourself in.
Warning! Warning! Warning! The current user has gone 24 hours without sustenance of any sort. The user has been given light to sustain as the chlorophyll trait has been detected. However, consuming regular food and water is highly advised to not cause any health deterioration. Please, move to the kitchen and either order a free meal up to your level, pay for a meal of any level, ask for ingredients up to your level or pay for ingredients of any level if you wish to cook.
The loud blaring woke me up, including my cats who were hissing at the source of the sound. Completely disoriented I took stock of myself to get the world in order and found that I was still standing at the entrance but I was not supporting my weight. A web of vines surrounded and held me in a place like a baby. The moment I moved the entire structure slid back into my pants like the entry hall was not a jungle moments ago. Surprisingly, I was not feeling hungry or even shocked of any sort, just happy laziness, these machines are usually not wrong but at that moment I found it very hard to care. Instead of going to the kitchen I looked around and found my bed that had a window frame next to the bed with light streaming. I jumped on and started rubbing myself across the sheets feeling the false sun bathing my skin. Then I felt the hunger slightly hit, it was just not anything drastic as the notification might suggest, it was merely a slight peckish feeling. What was nagging at me was that a full day had passed but even caring about food felt hard enough, so I pushed the other problems to the back and ambled to the kitchen.
Welcome to A.H.K. Mk. IV Do you wish to cook or be assigned a ready meal?
"Meal." A full-course meal just popped into existence on the table, so it was space manipulation and not digitization, there was some significance there but the sight of food seemed to amp up my hunger to an unreasonable degree. The food was scrumptious but picking up flavor profiles was hard as I wolfed it down like an animal. Again, I felt like something was off but found it hard to care. The moment I finished though, something happened that made me groan.
A meet and greet have been prepared for students to socialize. This has no bonus grading, however, students will be marked if they do not show up for more social training in the future.
"Well, shit..." Socializing meant the dampeners went back on and it was tempting to just ignore this. I slapped myself before getting a change of clothes that were more in fashion than my hodge-podge gear, it was time to meet my colleagues for the foreseeable future. Chapter 10:Meet and Greet The world got dull once more, leaving the house I had no idea where I was supposed to go. As if the dome''s A.I. could read my mind the message popped up.
A Wayfinder arrow has been added to your watch as well as a map for all locations as well as icons for events. Please use these for your convenience.
My directional challenged memory being quelled, I simply became an NPC and traveled to the designated location my thoughts lost in my head so much so that I barely even appreciated the aesthetics the architects of this place tried so hard to cultivate. I wanted to figure out why I felt so lethargic, to the point I had lost a whole day. I did a lot of research on monster girl bonding because of how fast I bonded thinking there had to be some backlash but every bit of research ever done said that the bonding itself had no mental influence. There was the matter of the monster girl trying to influence you, but outside the boss tier, that was supposed to be impossible. I did not take them out of the question entirely but they fell on the list of suspects. Another theory I was cooking, maybe dampening my powers had more of a mental impact than I thought. Slight suppression of emotions was a side effect but all studies I read online claimed it was never to the point of debilitation, but they were put on criminals mostly so maybe the research was biased. But I had been using them for a long time now and this was the first time something like this happened, granted every time I had turned it off I was immediately hit with the massive traffic that was errant thoughts and feelings. My thoughts were interrupted when I saw a crowd of people in the distance, Now that I was looking at the whole event looked like an outdoor music concert with the stage and everything than a meet and greet destination. I checked over my clothes once more. For whatever reason, this institute had strict no nudity in open space policy which was to my benefit. But that meant I would be judged on my clothing and to quote my sister "Your fashion sense was horrible". Till this point, I had relied on my natural looks and my cheat power to supplant my crippling social skills but this was where the elite gathered, and to get higher in life I need a good first impression. Giving myself a moment to breathe I walked to the ever-enlarging crowd. The stage was massive and was probably meant for a crowd ten times the size present with a row of food stands on either side that was as long as a leviathan. People were forming standing around and talking in groups of around 5 strewn about randomly across the whole space. As per the rules, no monster girls in natural forms anywhere to be seen though I suspected there were quite a few that had them on their person, this was the elite after all. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. Now came the part I was very bad at, starting a conversation. Never in my life did I ever need to start a conversation usually I was the one approached, and that left my conversation starters empty, I wanted to Arnold but the social butterfly was currently angry at me, not to mention the communication blackout was very strict. I needn''t have bothered though because within minutes of just standing there I was approached. "Excuse me, but you look lost." The voice brought my focus from out of my head and onto the source of the sound. The voice was bright and flirty, so it took a second to take in the fact that it belonged to a goth-looking girl. I do not mean the goth clothing style that was so popular in certain groups, I mean hardcore down to the dark makeup with black lips and heavy eyeliner with an armament of accessories that somehow were all tasteful yet felt random and half-hazard. My thoughts must have been given away in my expression because she had a grin on her face as she said. "Shocked? I know most people are, think of it as my rebellious teen phase." She jutted her chest out and pointed her gloved hand at herself trying to bring attention to the heavy metal graffiti on her crop top. Instead, it brought attention to her comically large chest which was at odds with her extremely slim frame. I might have been quiet for a bit too long because she asked. "No reply? Damn, I thought my first impression was perfect... Are you mute?" "No! sorry, just a bit of an overload." I tried to get some footing in this conversation but then immediately got sucker punched by the next line. "Holy shit! even your voice is hot. Like damn, the divine has his favorites. No offense, but you look like a work of art brought to life." I was thrown off kilter, honestly flattered by the compliments, there was no tip-toeing or anything. From the little waves of emotion, I could still feel, her words were very sincere. So I tried to return the favor. "You do not look that bad yourself." I tried to continue but was immediately cut off. "I look alright, I mean I can consider myself attractive. But I got nothing on you though, you look like a god-made manifest. Like, my chest is my best feature, you are the best feature." Not even Arnold was this blunt and I was honestly stunned at her raw praise. I would think she was trying too hard but she was being completely sincere, her emotions aligned with her tone and words, a telltale sign that she was being completely herself. I could not help it I gave out a massive laugh. One that broke through my suppressed state, one that escaped my control, something that escaped my control. This was my first meeting with Alice Faith Fallstar, the youngest A-class to ever be recorded. Chapter 11: A peculiar group "Look look, like I said I can make new friends. I found the hottest guy and brought him here." It had been only 30 minutes since I first met her. Somehow in that small time window, Alice gave me her life story, and we became friends...? and now it was time to show me off to friends. I could not keep up, gave up, and allowed myself to be dragged along thinking what could be the harm? I did not know what family she came from one of the few things I did not know at this point, but she was an A-class, something I was still trying to piece together. Now I was brought forth to a group of three other girls, all looking wildly different from one another. All of whom were showing different levels of surprise and exasperation looking. This was my first meeting with any of these people, but I already realized they were dragged around by the tidal wave that was Alice. "Hello, next victim." The voice was monotone and was at odds with the cheerful attire of a girl who looked no older than 13 if that. "Hush now, Stephany. Sorry for her, she can be a bit hard to get to know but assure you she has a heart of gold. Anyway, introductions are in order, my name is Victoria." To follow the same theme, the voice was graceful and had the air of a high-class noble. Her attire though, all I could say was that she followed the rules and covered her lady bits but nothing much more. She wore a latex micro skirt that extended past her wide hips just enough to cover her genitals, same with her chest, with a shoulder top that only covered her nipples showing her ample cleavage from both above and below. I did not have enough time to register her as the final voice pulled in another direction. "Sup, the name''s Claudia. So, this might be a tad forward but do you fancy a girl who can show you a good time?" Like the rest, her voice was very sultry, her words inviting but her posture and dress up as 90 degrees to her suggestion. She looked like a modest noble maiden made manifest with only her erotic face with her extremely plump lips, large pink heart-shaped eyes, long pink eyelashes, what seemed like a natural blush, and pink hair visible. Every other inch of her body was covered in a graceful dress and like Alice, she had skin-tight gloves on. To say I was whiplashed was an understatement, My brain could not discern what I was hearing or seeing. I said the first thing to pop into my head. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. "Is this a skit?" "That is a normal response than I expected." Alice replied surprised at my rather impassive expression. "No, no I am plenty surprised but too shocked right now." "Huh. This is different." "A rather unique reaction I must say." "...So is that a no on the hookup?" "Guys, please give him a minute to adjust before bombarding him." "He will find out eventually, the last victim disappeared rather quickly and I rather not waste my time." Right now logic far surpassed any emotional response which was very aggressively suggesting I turn my back and wash my hands of this weird bunch. But an A-class was part of this group, so some idiosyncrasy would be worth the connection I could potentially make. No to mention I was not the most pleasant company. Thinking of a reply, I replied. "I have seen worse." "Really? who." Alice snapped on to it curious, the rest looking at me disbelieving. "You should meet my family." "How are they weird?" Alice was leading the conversation, the rest nodding along. This looked like a group of cronies that I thought only existed in acting. At this proximity, my power held all of them and all of them were being themselves. I got caught by some rather unique people. "I will give you one example, my sister is a slut." "That is not a bad thing." Claudia retorted her tone defensively. "How many people have you slept with?" I asked simply. She looked confused and slightly offended, she said. "Around 50 give or take." She looked proud of her achievement. "That is nothing to be proud of," answered Victoria "Yes, on average a person will sleep with 62 others, not including monsters," added Stephany. "434," I said simply before I could be drowned as Claudia got ready to argue. All of them looked like they were frozen by a spell as they looked at me. "Bullshit," said Claudia. "For her, Saturday is All-Fuck day with a standing record of 19 dudes. I would know, I counted." "I need to meet her, she must teach me her ways," said Claudia. "She is S-class hot and can cause lust to build up by just her presence." I deliberately mislead with my statement because if I outright told them it was a genetic power, they could be interested in mine, something I did not want to know. "Damn... How about you? Do you have anything, or are you a normal guy with extremely good looks?" Alice asked, the irony was not lost on me but this was my moment to make a good first impression, Alice had her achievement now it was time to show mine. "I have three three-star bonds," I said. "..." All of them were silent for a moment. "What?" I said, a tad defensive. "I realized something, you are like Stephany," answered Alice. "Alice! He just dropped a bomb, and you are worried about its color," said Stephany, for the first time showing emotion in her voice. "That is a great achievement, to the point, it is a tad unrealistic," said Victoria. "Yeah, I call shenanigans." I grinned, finally pushing the conversation to my flow for the first time. "Want proof?" Alice and Claudia nodded rapidly while Victoria and Stephany had a more reserved look. This was not so bad, I could get used to this. Oh, how wrong I was. Chapter 12: Incident The initial greetings were very awkward but I felt I did not fuck it up too much. All of them had enough weirdness going on that my own was lost in the crowd. One thing I did notice, however, was that conversations kept going on tangents till the original subject got quite lost. One overarching theme remained constant though; they loved monster girls. Every idea seemed to get whipped back to monster girl talk one way or the other. Listening to them made me realize how little I knew about the creatures for all my supposed love of monster girls. "So what about you?" "Huh?" I blinked in surprise my mind trying to come back to the present. "Sorry. I zoned out a bit." Alice looked immediately apologetic. "No, no. I am sorry. We can get kinda get lost in our little world." I shook my head. "Don''t worry. I also got lost in my head so it is fine." I took a double take on what I just said, that was too much to share so early. "Yes, that is something I do often. Hmm... maybe you will be a permanent and welcome addition." Stephany pointed her stony gaze at me. I could judge nothing from her face but her emotions spoke volumes. "Hush, Stephany. It is uncouth to do so for it is bad conversation etiquette. However, it is our folly for him to resort to such behavior." Victoria chimed in, though her words had a certain bite I could feel no malice from her statements. The contrast between her bearing and her outward appearance was probably the starkest out of all of them and it was really hard to take her words seriously. But she was being very sincere. As Claudia was the only one yet to chime in, it felt prophetic as she spoke next. "Victoria, like I keep telling you people are not monster girls that you need to constantly guide. Like, geez your stuck-up ass is the reason half the people leave our group." This group even had the diametrically opposed friends trope covered. I shook my head trying to get my head into the now. I knew loosening the shackles would help but I was scared of brushing with the deeper emotions of such characters. My current self, however, was in no condition to carry a conversation. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. Making a snap decision I loosened the hold of the shackles a bit, and with it came a cacophony of emotions. Immediately I realized I made a very big mistake. "Is that a mana shackle?" Stephany''s sharp eyes caught onto it. Surprise invaded an already very crowded mind. This was the first time anyone recognized the ornate bracelets as anything but ornaments. I choked my thoughts sharpening but I was still not all there yet. All I could do was a grunt. My thoughts spiraled. "Wait, really?!" Alice exclaimed curiosity submerging her whole being. Now I was sweating. The universe felt like that was not enough shit on my plate because Victoria exclaimed. "Oh my Lord! You are an empath. Oh heavens, no wonder my little darlings were feeling so amorous around you." This caused the other two physically jerk in surprise. Everything was happening too fast. It started getting harder to breathe, I started intaking air rapidly but nothing seemed to enter my lungs. I felt green wooden armor covering my body as both my cats shifted to their large combat forms growling. "What is happening..." "My guess, emotional overload combined with a panic attack..." The words and everything felt distant as I felt the soft plant material engulf me giving me the sweet darkness I craved. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beep. Beep. Beep. I woke to a strange white room with monitors that resembled the ones I saw in television so often. "Where am I?" I was groggy, something was different but I could not pinpoint what. All I felt was blissful silence. I was in no pain but there was this haze that made it hard to think. I gave up and tried to go back to sleep. That slight beeping noise was very loud especially in a room that was void of any such sound. "How are you feeling?" My eyes snapped open to see a flawlessly beautiful woman in a nurse outfit, not the practical ones but the slutty ones that existed more for cosplay and extracurricular purposes. My brain started connecting the dots at this point finally deciding to work for a change. "What happened?" "We believe you suffered a panic attack." That made me confused, my shackles dampened my emotions too much for any rise like that which made me realize, at this moment I had nothing on me. The only articles of clothing were my monster gear and nothing else which included my mana shackles. I leapt up to my legs so fast that I disoriented myself but still could keep perfect balance. "Keep calm Mr. Simon you are in safe space, protected from all form of harm including the empathic." I was now crouching on the bed looking straight at her in only green undies, white jacket and black shirt. Before I could speak or even think why I did what I did she replied. "Yes, we know of your empathic abilities. Though, till a couple of hours ago did not realize just how strong they really were. Your current condition was caused by what is referred to as an psychic overload. Yours was caused by an onset of panic combined with uncontrolled intake of emotional data." Her voice had soothing lilt to it. So much so that my spiraling mind latched on to it like a drowning man to life jacket. I did not want to think right now and her calm and friendly voice kept me sedated. That I was pretty sure I was on some sort of medication. "Please lie down. It will take some time for the medication to truly leave your system and I shall accompany you till then." I listened to her and lay down once more. I felt like I was forgetting something but with all the chemicals that were raging through my system, I could deal with it later. Right now I was in a safe space.