“Miss, would you mind taking a look at this stone?” A blonde woman approached Bliss from behind. She held her right hand out, a smooth, gray stone sitting on the palm of said hand.

Bliss turned to her, meeting the woman’s peculiar, gray eyes. Why does she seem so familiar? The currently human-looking succubus looked over the blonde’s features. Said blonde had a cream complexion a tad darker than Bliss’s ivory and short hair done up in twintails. She was quite clearly taller than bliss and wore red light armor and simple, brown shoes. A sword was sheathed at her left hip.

Bliss reached out. “Sure, I’ll take a look.” The ivory skin of Bliss’s hand lightly pressed into the stone as the succubus made to grab it. Said stone instantly lit up. Oh hell.

[Name: Bliss

Race: Bunny Succubus

Skills:

Soul Absorption: *Censored*

Charm: You are charming and can charm men.

Incubation Ritual: You cannot get pregnant unless you first use Incubation Ritual.

Flight: You have wings and can fly. You lose your flight while using Natural Disguise to look human.

Demon King’s Guard: You are stronger in the Demon King’s Castle.

Running in High-Heels: You can run in high-heels.

Night Vision: You can see well in dim lighting.

Shadow Step: You are stealthy in shadows.

Inventory: You have access to a pocket dimension for storing items. Your inventory has five slots.

Natural Disguise: You can change your form into that of a human.]

Damn it! That was a status stone, wasn’t it? Bliss withdrew her arm, pulling back, her status having been revealed. She promptly found her backside pressing up against the alley wall.

The blonde’s gazed hardened, and she drew her sword. “Stay back if you care for your friend.” She pressed the tip of her blade against Bliss’s neck as she addressed Lati. Lati, for her part, backed up, her hands up.

“Just relax.” Lati’s tongue flitted out. With Bliss’s cover already blown, there was really no reason for the snake woman to suppress the flits of her tongue. “We mean you no harm.”

The blonde glanced at Lati and then returned her gaze to the succubus she had pinned against the wall. “Alright, succubus, I have a question for you.” She reached into her armor with her left hand and pulled out a photo. “Have you seen this woman?”

Bliss’s golden eyes went to the photo and then widened in a mix of disbelief and recognition. That is why she seemed so familiar. The picture the blonde held was of another blonde who also had gray eyes and cream skin. Though the pictured blonde had longer hair than the blonde who stood before Bliss right now, the two blondes had more than a passing resemblance.

“Was that a look of recognition?” The sword-wielding blonde pressed her blade a bit harder, drawing a hint of blood. “What do you know, succubus? Did you take her?”

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“I-I didn’t take her.” Bliss nervously glanced down at the offending sword, beads of sweat forming on her face. “I saw her yesterday.”

The blonde sighed and withdrew her blade. “My name is Alila.” She sheathed her weapon, transferred the picture to her right hand, and then held said picture up in front of Bliss’s face. “This is my little sister, Vivian. She has gone missing.” Her hand shook slightly as she spoke. “Where did you see her?”

“Y-Your sister?” Bliss sweatdropped. Oh hell. That was her sister, and Lati is over there literally wearing her dead sister’s dress. She glanced to Lati, who had quite-clearly gone white in the face from the information. At least she is wearing that cloak, so the dead little sister’s dress is not actually visible.

“Yes.” Alila nodded, her gray eyes still on Bliss. “She is my dear little sister. I don’t know what I’d do if anything were to ever happen to her. Please tell me where you saw her.”

“She … Uh …” Bliss sweatdropped again, uncomfortably shifting her weight. “She is kind of dead.”

“Dead?” Tears rolled down Alila’s cheeks, the picture slipping from between her fingers. She grabbed the hilt of her sheathed sword. “How? If you harmed one hair on her head, I will …”

“Wait a moment!” Bliss cut Alila off, frantically waving her arms. “She was already dead when I came across her.”

“I will … believe you for now.” Alila removed her hand from her weapon before picking up the fallen image of her little sister. She wiped away some tears and then returned her troubled, gray eyes to Bliss. “Where is her body?”

Bliss awkwardly pressed her fingers together. “We kind of … melted her corpse.”

“M-Melted her corpse?!” She dropped the picture yet again, tears now dripping from her chin. Shakily, her gray eyes went to her weapon. She reached for it but then stopped short, deciding against it.

“Sorry for your loss.” Bliss crouched down to retrieve the dropped picture before handing it to the troubled blonde.

“Thank you.” Alila spoke, almost in a whisper, as she accepted the picture from the succubus. “I must go.” She turned and ran, fleeing from the alley, her short twintails bouncing with her frantic footfalls.

Well, that was incredibly awkward. Bliss felt at her own neck, her hands coming back with a bit of red. I feel horrible for Alila, but did she really need to do that.

“You OK?” Lati walked up, her crimson eyes wide with worry. She leaned closer, her tongue flitting out. “It does not look that bad, but maybe you should use one of those potions I gave you.”

That is not a bad idea. Bliss retrieved a potion from her inventory and popped the cork. She brought the glass vial to her lips, and the white, milky contents began to pour into her waiting mouth. A pleasantly sweet taste came to her as she downed the potion. Soon, a warmth washed over her body, and the damage to her neck became a thing of the past. That is a relief. The wound may not have been that bad, but it did hurt.

[Inventory:

1. Potion

2. Potion

3. Rock

4. Pocket-watch

5. Empty]

Well, I have an empty inventory slot again. That is good, I guess. Bliss looked to Lati and smiled. “Should we get back to looking for the sect complex?”

Lati nodded and smiled back. “We should be close actually?” She started examining the walls, eventually making her way to the wall behind Bliss, the same wall that Bliss had been pressing up against while the succubus had a blade to her neck. “Kind of ironic that it was this wall the whole time.” She pressed a brick in, and a hidden door swung open, leading into the Sect of Sneak’s complex. “Let’s go in.”

Bliss smiled and headed in after the snake woman, the two disappearing down the passage. Unbeknownst to them both, a certain blonde woman with teary, gray eyes stepped back into the alley as the secret door swung shut. Said woman stepped up to the wall possessing the hidden mechanism and made note of the mechanism’s location.