Me and Nyx enter the first place we see that looks like they serve food in the main street. As we enter I see two elfs in a fist fight over one of the two tables there. The place is really small.
“Looks like a fine place.” I say half-joking.
“He-he-hello?” A white girl and boy, probably not much older than Alfina say trying to get our attention. They both had short black hair.
“Yes?”
“Do you want to eat?” The boy asks me.
“Yes, what can I eat here?”
“Fish.” The girl shouts.
“Alright, I will take that. Get two plates of cooked fish, with some salt if possible.”
Both of them run towards the kitchen where I see a man and a woman through the window.
Me and Nyx sit on the free table and I turn to the elfs.
“Gentleman, may I inquire about the reason for this brutish behaviour?” I say in a really stuck up tone, like I am better than them.
“Boobs.” One of them says in a really drunk tone.
“No, ass.” The other one says in the same way.
The good old question, boobs or butts.
“Gentlemen, we all know that the correct answer is the face.”
They both look at me like I pissed on their god’s statue.
“What do you mean?” They both ask.
“Would you bed a woman with the body you want if her face was that of a boar?”
They look at each other for a moment.
“She has a point.” One of them says.
“Yeah, I never saw things that way.”
“Then, why instead of fighting over your beliefs, you two just accept that you like different things but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy other things besides that. Too much of something makes it go stale.”
“You are right!” one of them shouts.
The other looks me dead in the eye, puts some coins on the table and leaves the place pulling the other one.
“You have a way with words.” Nyx says to me.
“You have no idea how many times I had this exact conversation.” Drunk people in the places I had to go in my old world would default to this or just blacking out most of the time. The best way to stop two drunks from fighting over something stupid is to give another option that they both can either agree or disagree together.
Just after this the woman in the kitchen comes to see us. She is not that tall, probably 170 cm, short black hair, white eyes, average looking, using a small dress and a big apron.
“So, what do you girls want?”
“The best thing you can cook.” I say.
She looks surprised at me.
A few minutes later we receive a big fish enough to fill the table. Takes some effort but we both finish it. It was really tasty.
I pay around 200 Kir for the thing but it is worth it,I feel energized.
After that me and Nyx go to the bar that leads to the casino we were before. We spend a good hour doing nothing as she is still processing what happened at that gym or whatever it was.
“Are you ok?” I ask.
“No, I still hear the screams.”
“If you want we can go back to your house. I really don’t care about where I wait at this point.”
“That is a imposible right now.”
“Why?”
“I was told just a few minutes ago to stay with you until tomorrow at least and to not come back until told.”
“...I hope I get my book.”
“You probably will. Don’t worry.”
“Ok, let’s find an hotel.”
We walk around for a little more than an hour until I find a place that is just a hotel and isn’t in the main street.
I get a room for each of us and spend the rest of my day doing any training I can inside the room. Some yoga, mana circulation and meditation.
Nyx goes out but comes back from time to time to check on me.
As night hits she I can see the city coming to life through the windows. Nyx goes to bed as she partied enough.
I take care of my needs myself and go to sleep soon after. If I didn't know a spell to pretty much destroy things up, anyone who would come to clean this room would be in for a big surprise.
As the sun is almost showing up Nyx shows up still in the same dress in my room shouting.
“They found it!”
“You don’t need to shout.”
“Sorry. Force of habit.”
I put on my fancy dress and go back to Medias’s place.
“There you are. Did you two have a good day at the city?” Medias say to us.
“She is no fun.” Nyx says.
“My idea of fun is not really sustentable for this city. Speaking of that. How much control do you have over the things here?”
“I just make sure no one goes around killing their competition.”
“Ok.”
“May I ask why you are asking that now?”
“A casino tried to cheat against me so I would lose and some random place owned by someone owes me money now and they didn’t seem really keen on paying it.”
“I will take a look at this later. Something tells me that would be for the better if I resolved this.”
“Do as you wish.”
“Nyx, you can go home now.”
“Ok, bye Lucia. I hope next time we can actually do something.”
“Sure.” I lie to her. The party life is not a life for me.
She goes up some secret stairs and I follow Medias to the one from before. We sit down in his office and there is a big black book almost the size of my head locked with chains on his table.
“This was inside the wall.” He explains to me.
“I hope that you can fix that wall.”
“No worries, it was an old wall anyway. Are you going to take a look?”
“Sure.”
I pick the book and remove the chains. It wasn’t keeping the book closed or anything, they are just part of the book cover.
I begin to quickly scan some pages and I almost begin to laugh.
“This is written in a language we never saw but we are pretty sure is about demons.” He explains to me.
The book is written in languages of my old world. It has at least 1000 pages but only because the same thing is written in almost every language that could be written there. I counted 7 just by skipping to random pages.
I find the index and look for something about succubus or incubus. I find the Desire Demons. Those seem to fit the description.
I also take a look in the first pages of the book to see if the author left anything written there.
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“I leave this book to anyone who finds it. Only someone in the same situation as me will be able to even read this but it’s not my problem, no one told me how to write in this world language. There is also a guide for the other races but I am pretty sure I used it to hit something that flew away with it.”
Medias is intently looking at me but I am ignoring him for now. I go to the page shown in the index. And begin to read.
“Pleasure demons are demons related to the seven deadly sins. This is a concept even in this world. These demons have the unique characteristic of not being able to reproduce unless engaging with another being that has been corrupted by the desire that he represents, they can’t be detected like normal demons and they don’t hate other species by nature. Due to that fact they plant seeds of corruption in people so their children will be more disposed to partake in those sins. These are the leading causes of Demon Flesh and Demon Blood curses in members of other races.”
I stop here.
“Here the rest of your money.” I give him another 4000 kir.
“This should be enough to cover the shitstorm about to come your way and the book.”
“I hope we can do business again.”
“I hope we don’t. I don’t have anything against you personally but the idea of this city is not something I get behind completely.” I understand the need, I just don’t like it.
“As long as you are not antagonistic against us I respect your opinion.”
He accompanies me outside where I give him a farewell and fly away.
I stop in the middle of the plain between the city and Sagrada and continue to read the book.
“In case you have one of those seeds in you or is the offspring of someone with those seeds, you will need to fulfill your desire for sin or your body will do it for you as if it is a natural instinct.”
Just my luck. Would be good to know this a year ago. I skip the other demons and go straight to lust demons.
“They are just called demons, for the most part, in this world but the term succubus, incubus, lillim and similar all were used at least once to describe these lust demons. They have the ability to shapeshift, making their body change appearance to match any preference, be it race, color, height, age, etc… of the people they go to bed with without the use of any spell as it is a natural function, this happens automatically and after that the demon goes back to its natural form. That ability can be used at a cost of mana so the demon can change its appearance to something they want if necessary.”
Wish I could do that.
“These demons gain energy, be it mana, stamina, vitamins, proteins, etc… from sexual pleasure, both from themselves or people around them. Under extreme circumstances they are able to survive with anything but masturbation.”
I know the feeling.
“It is said that having sex with a Lust demon is more addicting than the strongest drug, due to that those demons choose their prey carfeully. The ones that talked to me only did so because if I explained this part. They only go after the really fucked up people, the one pretty much no one cares, so unless you are the King of Perverts you are safe for the most part.”
Not becoming a degenerate is sounding more like something I have to do instead of something that I should opt not to be.
“Now to offspring. Pure offspring of lust demons become adults in just two weeks. Half-breeds are beings from other races that got too much of the seed from their parents. They get part of the abilities of the demons that planted the seed while still being a member of the race of the people who had the seeds. The body of these half-breeds will try to get as near as it can to the body that the demon had when the seed was planted as it grows up.”
I guess that explains my body somewhat.
“Half-breeds are actually not something not desired by these demons as they get unique abilities. The race of vampires was actually created by selective breeding of half-breeds of lust demons that had the ability to drain energy of people and animals without the need of sexual activities. Vampires are also classified as demons, you can find more about them in their on section”
I guess my ability to drain energy from other people is due to that.
“There is not much about half-breeds as the church pretty much kills all of them. The few that actually survive are mostly in the demon country. How they survive is beyond me, I will not go into the middle of a place where everyone wants to kill me just to find out.”
The author really had his shit together by what it seems.
“Another important thing about half-breeds is that they can only have children with other half-breeds of the same demon or the demon who planted the seed that created them.”
The book then proceeds to list the most common tactics these demons use to plant seeds or kidnap people to feed on them.
For seeds they usually just walk down a street and lightly touch people on their skin. For kidnapping they usually just bait their prey out of the public view by feeding their desires or promising to do so if they follow them.
After all that there is a little note written in a part of the page without anything printed on it.
“Out of every desire demon, Lust demons are the most common to find living among other races openly. They usually live normal lives based on the place. The best way to find one among a group of people is to look for really beautiful people. Lust demons are incapable of being ugly by their own choice.”
After this note there are a few pages with just annotations that wouldn’t fit anything in special, mostly trivia. Out of everything there two things got my attention.
“Lust demons can’t understand love the way other races do. The concept of loving just a few people or being monogamous is just not something they can understand.”
The other one is.
“Lust demons have the shortest life span out of any demon. They live naturally around only 10 years but if they feed on the desire of others they can gain more years. The average lifespan of a lust demon is around 30 years”
After this I put the book into my bag and fly back to Sagrada. By the time I arrive there everyone is eating breakfast.
“Hello.”
“Hello.” Everyone says to me.
“You came early.” Sophia says.
“Took less time than I thought.”
“Did you get my doll?” Alfina asks.
“That place didn’t have any dolls.” In fact I didn’t see a single shop. At least on the main street.
Alfina is visibly upset.
“If you want I can take you somewhere another day.”
She lights up a little. I join the table and soon after I go take a bath.
As I am in the tub Monica comes in. How, I don’t know, I locked the door.
“Did you find what you were looking for?” She asks me.
“Yes, it's in the bag.” I point to my bag near the door.
She takes the book and lightly glows for less than a second before putting the book back there.
“Did you have your fun there?” She asks me with a grin on her face.
“Not really.”
“In a place like that you could have as many women as you want and you didn’t take it?”
“How many times do I have to tell you that I am not a degenerate or some kind of sex addict. Also looks like it would be for the best if I don’t have many partners and do it in moderation.”
“What do you mean?”
“Let’s just say I am not very keen on becoming food.”
“I find it hard to believe what I am hearing.”
“Look, if you don’t want to continue doing what you do for me, just find someone who can take your place. I could help myself during the night but who knows how long it will be enough.” I already tasted the forbidden fruit, it’s going to be hard to relieve myself alone for long periods of time. I have to constantly remind myself that I need to have sex not that I want to have sex.
“I don’t know any other woman who wouldn’t be a danger for this city or place that could do this. If not for the fact we lied about what happened last year all of us would be in a really bad situation.”
“What did you tell people? I didn’t really ask anything about as I had other things in my mind and it didn’t seem to be relevant.”
“That a curse was put into a girl and that she would leave in a few months as there was no one who could hold by force besides Sophia. You probably don’t remember but there you looked like a monster with all the fire coming out of you. I used a spell to cast an illusion on you when we were able to put you in that house. So no one actually knows that you are that person.”
“Ok. Anything else?”
“No, have a good bath.”
She leaves. I finish my bath and go down after putting on some clothes.
Mess is staring at the wall surrounding the city intently and Alfina is stretching like I told her. I join her. Today I will train without swords.
I run, do some push-ups and sit-ups all while controlling my mana circulation so I didn’t burn anything. Alfina tried to copy me but after a few minutes she gave up.
I just took a bath so I clean myself with a spell and do the same to her.
Alfina after drinking some water goes out to play with some kids that showed up. I go to the office where Sophia is and stay on standby in case she needs. I pick up the book again, this time going from the beginning.
Skipping the part of the opening words I already read, I continue.
“I am someone who came from another world to this, I was sent to this world when I was 25 years old and all I remember is someone giving me the ability to know almost everything there is to know. This ability had its uses, I survived this hell hole fleeing every monster that tried to kill me until I found a city. I never learned the language of this world but pointing to things was enough to let me understand things.”
I feel bad for this man.
“I was a writer in my world and I came to know a lot of different languages so this book will be written in all of them in case someone else from anywhere there finds it if they find themselves in the same situation as me.”
I flip through the summaries.
“Demons are a sentient race of really unique beings. Unlike other races where their different characteristics mostly boil down to hair and skin colour, demons are a race of beings where someone could have the head of a chicken and still be able to reproduce with someone who looks like a wolf and get a child that looks like a human.”
“Demons have a unique curse that is put on them the moment they are born making them hate any other intelligent race and have the desire to conquer them. This can be removed but the process is beyond me.”
“Pure demons are separated in four types. Animals, Elementals, Humanoid and Desire. Excluding Desires demons, all other types are defined by their natural demon arts.”
“Demon Arts are a type of blessing unique to demons that gives them the ability to do some unique things. Some require mana like spells, others just stamina.”
“Animal type demons normally look very human, two legs, two arms, a head, etc… They have some animal characteristics like bigger teeth, tails, claws instead of nails, maybe some part of an animal in the body that doesn’t change the body enough to not look human. These demons have the demon art of Animal Transformation, making them a were-creature of some random creature in this world. The lucky ones get strong creatures like wolves, even drakes but it’s not uncommon to have demons becoming insects. They all maintain a proportion similar to that of humans. If trained one can grow bigger.”
“Elementals are demons without a true physical body, they are mass of energy that can solidify themselves. Their appearance changes drastically from one to another as their mental image of themselves dictates what they will look like. These demons are born just as smart as the average human adult around this world. The demon art of these demons is called Emanation. They are able to create and control any magical element at will, that element being the element his energy is based off. These demons are incapable of using magic.”
“Humanoid demons could be the most dangerous demons there are. They are pretty much human just with horns and strange skin tones. They live and can only get as strong as a normal human could normally but their Demon Art is what makes them so dangerous. Conquest, an ability that allows him to learn everything another intelligent being knows if they eat most of them, even if they can’t use it”
“Desire Demons have their own part as they are special but in relation to this part of the book, their demon arts are their entire existence.”
Guess that demon I killed in the capital was an Elemental Demon.
There are some parts about what types of food demons eat but I really don’t care.
“Hey, is that the book that you went after?” Sophia asks me out of nowhere.
“Yes.”
“Can I see it?”
“You won’t be able to read it.”
“Then how are you reading it?”
“I know the language.”
She stands up from her table and goes towards me and whisks away the book. After a few seconds of trying to understand anything she gives it back to me and goes back a little red, probably because of shame.