I am Succubus!
Chapter 264

Following the intensely close call that was the temporal anomaly, Gerdell sent us to a beautiful bathhouse that made up an entire floor of her tower. I just wanted to go home. She insisted that we cool off for the sake of sanity.

As I sat submerged up to my nose in the steaming hot waters, all I could think of was if that timeline would be okay. Saeko, meek as she was, had the advantage of being Hatsumi's little sister. I knew my big sis wouldn't ever want to hurt me in a million years. Heaving a sigh blew bubbles out. When I sat upright, Shayle was just treading over the water up to me.

The dark elf woman's form was a sight to behold. Shayle wasn't as busty as Queen Elendir, but that didn't mean she was any less attractive. Full breasts, plump thighs, and the curvaceous body of an adult woman who might have eaten a bit more calories than she was used to… shining from the moisture that coated her.

"How are you feeling? I can't even imagine how hard it must have been for you to see all that," Shayle said and sat down next to me.

"It was definitely hard to swallow. You know, that my home got so messed up like that because of me. But, well… I'm seeing something else right now that's making me feel better," I replied flirtatiously.

"Oh? Come to think of it, we were interrupted before. As your subject, my queen, may I proceed?" she asked.

Shayle didn't even wait for an answer. The dark elf weaved her fingers and cast some sort of spell on herself. She sank into the water, and the next thing I knew, two hands found purchase against my inner thighs to push my legs apart. I suppressed a moan when she licked my clitoris. Her tongue proceeded to make circles around it.

Layla and Hana were on the opposite end of the bath, just beyond the curtain of steam. If I made any noise, they were definitely going to hear me. But Shayle… I shuddered from her lapping at my pussy like a dog. That magic must have been to allow herself to breathe underwater. She should have come up by now.

"Yo, Saeko! Huh? Where'd Shayle go?" Hana asked, swimming up to me with Layla in tow.

"Sh-Shayle? Maybe she already left," I answered nervously.

The bubbling waters disturbed the surface enough that they couldn't see clearly below it. Shayle was eating me out, and neither of them had any idea.

Both of them suddenly sat down to either side of me. At a time like this? Shayle had to know, and she was just screwing with me from down there. Her caressing hands slowly moved up my body until they reached my breasts. Thankfully, the water was up to my chin when I was seated. She cupped them tenderly for a bit, then squeezed my nipples hard.

"Hauu!" I slapped both hands over my mouth.

"A-Are you feeling okay? You're looking a little red." Layla leaned in close to my face.

"I'm fine. It's just the steam heating me up… mmm… probably. Hana, are you— Hana?!"

When I glanced over to my other side, Hana was face-down in the water. I panicked, thinking she had found us out. But the pink-haired succubus was unmoving, and gentle current slowly carried her deeper into the pool.

"Uhhh. Layla! It looks like Hana's out cold. Can you help her out? Your queen commands it. I'm thinking of staying for a few minutes longer," I said.

"Yes, Queen Saeko!" Layla saluted, obediently fetched Hana out of the waters, and ferried her from the bath.

I exhaled a breath of relief, only for Shayle to pop out of the water with a smirk on her face. She carved open a small portal with her finger and pulled out a dick potion. Before I even had a chance to protest, the dark elf plugged the potion into my mouth. The contents slid right down my parched throat.

Immediately, a penis grew erect from my crotch— right into Shayle's pussy, since she was sitting on my lap.

"Layla and Hana will have to wait a while longer. After the last two temporal anomalies, I've found you exceedling irresistible." Shayle planted a kiss on me, and I reciprocated with a ravenous appetite of my own.

"Oh, yeah? What about me recently did you find irresistible?" I asked.

"For one, you've certainly matured." She started grinding on me and squeezed my dick harder with her pussy. "Not the same succubus from when I tried to steal the blade from you way back when. Although you thoroughly defeated me then, you didn't have the mark of a true queen at the time. Now? It soaks me like no other. So, take me. Take this elven subject, your majesty!"

Goaded on by Shayle, I pulled her in for another tongue-lashing make out session and thrusted back. Our fucking kicked water out the edge of the bath. The two of us stayed like that until I brought her to climax, and I shot my load into her.

We emerged from the bath, shining from not just being squeaky clean, but also from the afterglow of sex. The two of us were taken by surprise coming out of the bath house floor. Crossing the door brought me and Shayle to a large dining hall. Hana and Layla were already at the circular table, gorging themselves on the copious amounts of food presented.

"Welcome!" Gerdell threw her arms out to us. "I hope you enjoyed your bath. I prepared a grand meal to celebrate your job well done."

All of us, Gerdell included, gorged on the feast. After only having junk food during the last temporal anomaly, the hearty courses of meat and vegetables tasted divine by comparison. That wasn't to say the food wasn't incredible.

Modern pop music from what I was used to hearing in stores played seemingly out of nowhere. Gerdell probably wanted to set the atmosphere. She treated us to more than just the entrees on the table. There were desserts, too. Cake, pastries, ice cream, candy, pudding, and more. I had enough after one dish, but Hana and Shayle really stuffed themselves full of sweets.

Layla might have over-exerted herself flying all over the place with me. She was so tired, she had fallen asleep on the table. As a greater succubus, too, I trusted her to keep up. Keeping our auras hidden and using invisibility for most of the way took a lot out of us. We didn't even get to have sex to refill our sexual energies either. I only just recharged a little off Shayle earlier.

"Hey." I turned to Gerdell. "So… thanks for giving me some time in the temporal anomaly. I seriously expected you to just pull us out right then and there. Did you know we would succeed?"

"There are some things even I cannot see, for I am not omniscient. But you, Saeko. You and your companions did see a path forward. You all believed in each other, and they wholeheartedly believed in you. Credit yourself this time," Gerdell said.

After dinner, I carried Layla up to the cabin and tucked her in. This succubus might be a masochistic fool, but I couldn't thank her enough for those moments of wisdom in the other timeline.

I joined Shayle and Hana downstairs, where they were playing a fighting game on a gaming console Gerdell must have generated. Suddenly, the chronomancer herself appeared out of nowhere and gave me a big scare. I almost jumped out of my slippers.

"Geez. Can't you use the front door?" I sighed.

"In my own tower? Need I remind you this is my Timeless Eden? At any rate, I'm here to present to you my gratitude for aiding me in those temporal anomalies— a time dilation device." Gerdell graciously offered a pocket watch resting on a silken red cushion.

Nothing about it seemed particularly special. The pocket watch was gold in make, but the chain was made of silver. Popping it open revealed your average quartz-powered watch, although this was likely powered by time magic.

What did stick out to me was the lack of hands. No hand for an hour, minute, or second. Yet we could very clearly hear the ticking sound from its internal mechanisms.

"Thank you. I'll take care not to misuse it," I said.

"Oh, I doubt that." Gerdell grinned knowingly.

"What… Something goes terribly wrong in the future, doesn't it?"

"I can't say. You're welcome to try and keep an eye on it, but I'm confident you won't let anything extraordinarily bad happen." She shrugged.

This chronomancer… I totally understood being careful not to spoil the future for someone, but now Gerdell was being vague just to tease us.

"So, how does this work?" Shayle asked and went down eye-level to peer at the item. "Is it similar to the time reversing artifact I once wielded?"

"Compared to that little toy?" Gerdell erupted into laughter. "It would be like comparing a clocktower to a sundial. The time dilator functions by you setting the time frame, conditions, and parameters. Doing so allows you to slow time or reverse it at will. But I've disabled the function to fast forward or shorten time. I encourage you to test it a few times on a harmless event to get a better idea."

Recent events had put a damper on my libido, but I still felt it roiling somewhere deep inside me. Slowly but surely, it was going to bubble back to the surface. In fact, it always seemed to get a little worse after a stressful spell.

With this device, we could finally put the plan to overload me with sex in motion. While we were away, the others should have been recruiting people for just that.

"How much time elapsed while we were in here anyway?" I asked.

"Only a single hour, I assure you. You're welcome to leave any time, but I do insist that you experiment within the confines of my tower for safety reasons," Gerdell suggested rather strongly.

If the chronomancer herself insisted…

"Then it's probably a good idea," everyone said in unison, having reached the same conclusion.

Gerdell quite literally gave us all the time we needed within her Timeless Eden. I practiced using the time dilation device while we stayed at the cabin. Shayle and Layla were eager to help. Hana, on the other hand, still had PTSD from being repeatedly hit by a ball of sand when we first met the chronomancer.

I thought it was going to be a piece of cake. After all, setting the time frame, conditions, and parameters sounded like something I did on a normal basis just simply being alive. I woke up, went to work, and came back home to rest. Boy was I wrong. The particulars were in the fine details.

One time, I accidentally slowed Shayle down so much, she moved and talked at a tenth of the normal speed. It took forever for her to speak a single sentence. In trying to correct my mistake, I overcompensated and granted her haste to move at ten times the normal speed. Shayle hurt herself because she wasn't used to moving so fast. Suffice to say, she didn't enjoy either experiences and developed a bit of PTSD from time magic, too.

Since Shayle retired to the cabin to rest after dislocating her arm from simply pointing, all I had left to help me was Layla. The masochistic succubus was the best test subject. She welcomed abuse in all forms, even if I messed up.

"Okay… Let's try it this way. When Layla flies twenty meters, return her to the point where she started. No increases or decreases in the flow of time. End effects if I snap my fingers," I spoke into the pocket watch.

The dials that were originally missing spun into existence, then stopped at once at noon. Layla shuddered a little as the time dilation device extended its effects to her. I nodded to Layla to begin, and she unfurled her wings to fly upwards. As soon as she reached twenty meters, she vanished and reappeared on the ground.

"Hmm. New condition, slow down her speed after flying ten meters by half, then reset once she's returned to the starting point. Repeat only four times and return to the original state," I said.

As Layla flew, she slowed down in the latter half of the twenty meters. This went on three more times before her next resets didn't slow down in the first half anymore. I was beginning to get used to this. Just one more test. I snapped my fingers to reset the time dilation device. Layla stopped flying, no longer stuck in a time loop that I trapped her in.

"New condition, I want to create a temporal microcosm in a ten foot radius. Time moves normally inside as it would outside. In the time it takes for an entire day to pass within the microcosm, only one hour should elapse outside it."

While I stood outside, Layla remained in the microcosm. There was nothing to indicate where it was or where it started. Both of us started a timer on our phones. Things got a little weird. Naturally, if time progressed faster inside the microcosm, I should be seeing Layla move faster. I couldn't. The space she was inhabiting turned blurry, with a very clear line drawn like some sort of boundary. It was as if my brain couldn't fathom the microcosm anymore.

"Layla, you can come out now!" I shouted.

"Okay!" Layla popped out of the microcosm, and I was able to see her clearly now.

We checked our timers. There definitely was a disparity in the passage of time. More time had elapsed for Layla than me. That was exactly what we wanted: for time to move normally in both areas, but stretched in one. This way, I'd be able to create a microcosm where time was stretched similarly to Gerdell's Timeless Eden, or in Dokuko and Uta's shrines.

"That's it. We did it, Layla!" I exclaimed.

"We did? Yay!" Layla cheered.

The two of us grabbed each other's hands and jumped up and down. After calming down, I ended the time dilation device's effects and went to tell the others. Shayle was overjoyed because that meant we could return home. Hana groaned. She wanted to stay in Timeless Eden longer to avoid going to school again.

I wanted to get home though. Because not only was this an exhausting experience, but we finally got the thing I had come here for. Not to mention… it meant I'd soon have copious amounts of sex with a bunch of people I didn't know yet…

Gulp.

The very thought got me so wet, and I was itching down there already. Mio and a few others were in charge of finding participants. I wondered who she had in mind? Or maybe she gathered them already while we were away. But Gerdell said only an hour elapsed when we returned from the temporal anomaly. That was a few days ago though. 

"Uhm… S-Saeko, you're squeezing them…" Layla stammered breathily.

I came back to my senses and realized I'd been hugging Layla, but my hands were firmly cupping and clenching her ass. It wasn't unknown to me that she had a nice body, but groping her was firing me up and— I shook my head and let go.

"Sorry! Should we get the others and head out?" I suggested.

We gathered Shayle and Hana, then went to tell Gerdell that we were ready to leave. The chronomancer was lazing around, getting a sun tan on a floor that was just an entire beach. Real waves crashed against the shore, and the heat of sunlight beamed down on us.

"I see you're ready to leave." Gerdell lifted her sunglasses. "Meaning you have mastered how to use the time dilation device."

"Thanks for everything, Gerdell. How do I reach you to give this back when I'm done though?" I asked.

"Ah. Don't worry. I'll come to fetch the device when the time is right." She smiled mischievously.

Why didn't I like the sound of that?

Fortunately for us, we didn't have to leave here the way we came. Shayle produced the mirror artifact that opened a portal directly back to Tsukiji. She was eager to leave first. Hana and Layla followed her right after.

"Remember, Saeko. The time you spend is a precious thing," Gerdell said.

I nodded, then followed my friends through. We came out the other end back in Yumi's apartment in the afternoon. She was taken aback by how quickly we returned. For us, it felt like a month-long excursion.

Layla, Shayle, and Hana flew home, so I could drive straight back to my apartment. Night had fallen by the time I got back. Upon opening the door, I found Mio on the couch reading an erotic manga.

"You're back already?" Mio asked, putting the book down and stretching her arms out to welcome me.

"I got what I needed, so we can start anytime," I said.

The last temporal anomaly reminded me how precious these moments were. I let myself be enveloped in Mio's embrace.

"Hehe. And I got a list of people ready to run train on you. Until then though… You hankering for a Mio special tonight?" she asked.

"I was hoping for it." I leaned in to kiss her.