Angelica nods. "Agreed. Izanami does not seem like she would want to involve herself unless she's needed." "I only ever heard Dakki, so your hypothesis seems reasonable to me." She offers her own input. "Do you...want to use me as bait to find Yoko's bearer?" The girl asks hesitantly.
"It's not exactly Champs Elysees, but it will have to do." Adam shrugs, holding Destiny tight as they go through the throng. Clearly, clothes shopping isn't a foreign experience for him, as he takes her from store to store, having her try on outfits, making conversation about her life prior to Carly's cult. Despite what his condition may have suggested, his clothing choices are actually rather good, picking out outfits that are stylish and attractive without being too provocative, though his choices do get more risque as they pick out some swimwear, lingerie and workout gear. Spoiler: Picks Overall, Destiny gets the impression that her master enjoys dressing her up for more than just the opportunity to eye her up in various outfits. Still, he's not immune to her charms, as she discovers when admiring herself in front of a change room mirror after picking out a casual outfit. "Maybe I do like you calling me master more than I admitted before." Adam gropes her ass, his breath on her neck. "You were a sub before, you said?"
"Yeah...unless you're alright with me being around a while longer?" Michio asks optimistically. "Just to hang out. Doesn't have to be about sex." She clarifies.
"Sure, I guess we can hang out for awhile longer." Felicia replied with a nod, moving to sit back down on the couch to tidy up her notes, and books on the coffee table. "So, how's living with Dinah been?" She asked in a curious tone, "I'm surprised you didn't use your magic to teleport to my room directly."
She picks out some clothes for herself too, apparently a fan of black dresses. Spoiler: More Clothes Destiny happily poses for him in every outfit, especially as they grow more revealing. She tells him about her family--two parents and a brother back home in America--and how she came to Japan for university. The cult forced her to join shortly after she graduated a few months ago. "Ah!" Destiny gasps in surprise. Adam's hands dig into her pliant flesh. "Yes, master." The woman says with anticipation, bracing her arms on the mirror. She leans forward and arches her back, using the mirror to support herself. The act makes her ass even more arousing to see and feel.
"Fine. Like I said before, I haven't had much of a chance to really use her." Michio answers. "Speaking of teleporting, Dinah, Plan A." The woman bound to Felicia disappears, the bond alerting the redhead to the magic being used beforehand. Dinah reappears a minute later with a bottle of red wine and a trio of glasses. "Here you are, mistresses." She intones politely. "Ever drink before, Felicia?" Michio asks, pouring a glass for herself, Dinah, and then Felicia.
"I wouldn't recommend it. I don't think it will be entirely necessary She already knows who we are and is likely going to come here on our own, whether we welcome it or not. My assumption is that this is what this is for." Looking at the charm again, she wasn't too sure the purpose. "Clearly that can reach us in dreams though and she knows what we look like....but it may be a signal of sorts. I don't know. I get the sense trying to get rid of it would end badly though." She thought on it a bit. "A lot of the other yokai are less actively malicious than Dakki herself, so they may be less too worry about even if they are generally more powerful. Gashadukro is likely the strongest...but I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's more like a mindless animal that the yokai put on the leash than anything with actual thought into what it does as monstrous as it is. But....I'm gonna just go ahead and say, I really don't want to run into the mortal whose soul it reflects. Yuki is too naive and relatively harmless without other Makyashi to trick it. The Tengu might be an issue....but Hanjun is usually there to balance them out and keep them sticking to their own territory unless the other yokai call them. The main risk is mainly going to have to be Yoko who would be the only one all of them would possibly even listen to. But whether that role can actually translate into the physical world with her handler is different or if they even know of the other users." Julia took a breath. "Bottom line. There's still way too much we don't know to have an actual idea of what to do about it or if they will necessarily even want to bother continuing Dakki's grudge."
"Huh, plan A?" Felicia was surprised as Dinah suddenly disappears, only to reappear with wine, and glasses. "Where did... you, you didn't steal those, did you?" She asked in a curious tone, unable to believe that such magic was being used as a booze carrier. "Er, thanks, and yeah, I've drank before... just not much since I didn't like the taste of beer." The red-head replies, taking her own glass then taking a sip.
Concerned, Adam asks her as they take a short break for bubble tea. "Your family... Are you in contact with them? Did you talk with them when you were in the cult? You can use my phone if you want." Later on, in the change room, Adam continues to grope his servant, his manhood poking against her thigh. "Then this is the kind of thing you'd be into even before being bonded to me?" His other hand reaches around her leggings to stroke her from the front. "Urgh... But if this isn't what you'd normally want..." He reluctantly pulls away. "Once we've undone that bond, or at least figured a way for you to properly consent, I'm going to fuck the shit out of you." He growls, unused to walking away from a willing woman. "Alright, let's move on. Are you satisfied with your new wardrobe?"
Spoiler: Magical Resonance Roll 35+20(Sorceress)=55 weak success Julia, now that she's more awake and actively thinking about the little mask, notices that it has a spell of some kind tied to it. She can't discern what the magic does, however. "I see..." Angelica is relieved. "All we can do is wait and pray that Yoko finds us interesting enough to leave us be. It is out of our hands."
"Yeah! Plan A for Alcohol!" Michio playfully punches Felicia's shoulder while Dinah is gone. It stings a little. ----- "Nope. I bought it last night. I don't steal things." The eyepatched girl informs her companion. All three of them have a taste. The wine is fruity, fairly acidic, and doesn't seem overly alcoholic. "Oh, this is French style Merlot! Surprised I manged to find something this good here."
"I imagine. If nothing else, she's not overly attached to her sister enough to bother outside of her own interests....I'll have to come up with a way to convince her that ours align in the worst case scenario. I'd rather not deal with them at all....but there's no real way to properly deal with them yet. There's no way she can be brute forced and just banishing her from her host in this realm won't prevent her from being able to contact others in the spirit realm, if I'm right. What's more, I'm not even totally sure duel spirits really can die even if they weren't....spirits of ghost monsters to begin with. Valkyrus had the conflict with them, but it's not clear to me what happens if a duel spirit dies. I'll have to check with him soon."
"Good to know." Felicia replied, gently rubbing her shoulder, as they taste the wine. "Mmh, it's fruity." Was all the could comment with no real knowledge about drinking wine. "Well, I'm glad you found some wine you like." She comments, taking another sip. "Hah. Oh, how'd your other classes go?" The red-head lets out a relaxed sigh, before asking Michio about her day to make small talk.
"I did stay in touch." She nods. "They would have known something was wrong and alerted the cops if I couldn't stay in touch. I...had to convince them that I got hired just after graduation since...you know. Can't disobey Carley. She was careful." ----- "I think so..." Destiny answers as the young man touches her. She seems disappointed as Adam moves away, but she doesn't protest. "Yeah. Thank you so much!" The woman turns around and hugs him. "You better figure this bond thing out soon." Destiny releases the hug, but locks her arm with Adam's. "It'll only get harder for you to resist me~"
"I can imagine." He groans inwardly as he feels her body against him. He heads home, getting the two of them some dinner and working on his deck for Yumi's class before heading to bed.
"Do you know what her interests are?" Angelica asks. "I will pray to Izanami tonight regarding the nature of spirits. She must know..." The student looks sorrowfully at the floor. "...but this is the sort of secret which can be dangerous. I...do not think she will trust me with it after..." The girl trails off, fighting back tears.
"I got something light that I thought you might like. Consider it thanks for saving my ass." Michio says, her confidence eroding as she takes sips from her glass. "They were fine." She shrugs. "Most of them are pretty boring. I liked Julia's, though." The eyepatched woman considers for a moment before continuing. "Biology was alright too. Professor's good eye candy." Dinah quietly downs her entire glass in one go, remaining silent while the other two talk. "How about you?" Michio asks in return, unfazed by Dinah's gusto.
"Are your walls soundproof?" Destiny grins up from beside him as they walk back to campus. "I don't want to distract you too much while I'm jilling off in my room." ----- While hard at work thinking about what type of deck he's going to make, Adam receives a text from Yumi, coincidentally. The cultist you bound to yourself--she was not named by the other one, Dinah, as a devout member, correct?
Placing a hand delicately on her shoulder, Julia smiled reassuringly. "Don't put yourself at risk unnecessarily. She'll tell you when she feels you're ready. It's just a matter of proving that."
"I suppose we'll find out, won't we?" He grins back. --- She wasn't, no, maitresse. He responds as he sits on his bed, laptop in his lap as he researches cards.
