Kaito has to admit that he is quite a lustful person. Although it is not usually very noticeable in his attitude, the fact that he has had several girlfriends in the little more than a month since Gaia started, or that he never rejects the advances of others who clearly like him like Nino, is a pretty clear clue.
Mio is a demon with desires above the average human and whose lust is amplified by a succubus's curse.
Chika is a novice succubus with great lust and who had never had a moment of release.
And Hakari, from what Kaito knows, is simply a complete pervert.
This created the situation where, although the main objective was simply to reduce the curse, the four of them spent the entire night having fun. God knows how much it cost Kaito to resist going all the way and hold back without penetrating any of them.
This led to the current situation where, having returned to their senses, the four of them were sitting on the sofa facing each other, embarrassed among themselves.
Clap
Finally, the awkward silence was broken by Maria after about ten minutes with a clap that drew everyone's attention.
"Honestly, you're amazing. The whole night? That's worthy of a hentai. I don't know how you still have enough energy to remain awake" she said with a teasing smile.
"As if you weren't there most of the time too" Hakari told her.
Maria simply looked away, pretending ignorance, with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"With the curse calmed down, how about we put that aside and talk about the mission?" Kaito suggested.
"Wait, what do you mean put it aside? Kaito, you should know that I'm the young lady of the Hanazono family, a family only below the Four Great Families in Japan. You have to take responsibility" Hakari immediately said upon hearing his words.
"I'm not saying I won't, but… do you know who I am? Do you know that things like that wouldn't work on me, right?"
"Should I know you?" Hakari asked tilting her head in confusion. "Could you also be from some rich family?"
"Is it just my ego? I thought most Lords knew my face" Kaito wondered.
"Well, I'm not very informed about the situation of the other Lords. I'm part of the Sacred Forest resistance group, whose objective is to stop Lucifer.
To do that, we usually focus completely on our goal without paying attention to the others" Hakari explained and even put on a proud expression while saying it, expecting surprised looks.
Instead, Kaito and Chika looked at her as if she were an idiot, while even Mio and Maria sensed something strange and looked at her confused.
"Isn't he…?" Mio quietly asked Maria.
Kaito didn't need to explain, Chika leaned toward his ear and whispered a few words.
"Lu-lu-lu-Lucifer?" Hakari's face immediately paled as she stared at Kaito in shock.
"N-no way. Actually, the thing about us not paying attention to the others is a lie, it's just me. How is it possible that the only person in the entire alliance who doesn't know Lucifer ends up meeting him? Is my luck really that bad?" Hakari began muttering more to herself than to the others in disbelief.
'To be exact, I'm the one with good luck' Kaito smiled internally but decided not to explain.
"So, are you supposed to be famous or something?" Mio asked while observing Hakari's reaction.
"How much do you know about the Lords?" Kaito asked.
"Everyone from your world who awakened powers and can travel between worlds while getting stronger" Mio answered after thinking for a moment.
"That's a good summary" Kaito nodded. "I'm the strongest among them."
"Th-the strongest?. Maria" for some reason, unsure whether to believe him, Mio decided to ask Maria, her mostly reliable maid.
"He passed through hero metal with ease, and he didn't even force it, he completely ignored it using his abilities."
"But isn't hero metal made specifically to deny all demon abilities?! It's what most hero weapons are made of!"
"And yet he did that anyway" Maria shrugged as if it didn't surprise her.
"Why doesn't that surprise you?"
"I'm a succubus. In our race, the better someone is in bed, the stronger they are, so it's not strange that he's very powerful."
"Then, do you think I could defeat 'him'?"
However, Maria clicked her tongue and shook her head at her question.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Mio, think bigger. Does that even matter? Now you're Kaito's girlfriend, he'll take you to his world."
"Wh-what?! Who's whose girlfriend?! I'm not going to another world."
"What's the point of staying here? Not only will it be destroyed, but after they leave it'll enter a paused state" Maria said.
While those two argued, Kaito looked at Chika beside him, and as if she knew what he was about to say, she already looked nervous.
"So you just told her everything about the Lords and everything else?"
"Well, are they my friends?" Chika answered with a little guilt but no regret. "I can't let them die. I wanted them to come with me later, so I told them the reason."
"I guess that's fine" Kaito sighed.
Although this time it didn't matter because they were trustworthy people, if he ever met fake people somewhere, simply telling that kind of information to anyone would be dangerous.
Not everyone is like Kaito, whose mix of 'Negative' and knowledge of the plot lets him know who to trust with almost one hundred percent effectiveness.
"Don't do that again, at least not until you're completely sure you can trust them" Kaito warned her.
Chika only nodded firmly in response.
"Alright!" Mio's sudden voice drew everyone's attention. "I decided I'll go with you, but it's only because of the current situation, don't think I'm your girlfriend or anything."
"Alright" Kaito simply nodded.
"Eh? That easy?" Mio asked in surprise.
"Did you expect me to refuse?"
"No, but… whatever."
"Kaito, I thought you needed a good relationship with someone before being able to summon them?" Chika asked confused.
"Well, things changed. We're enemies of the world, so the more allies the better. Besides, I recently discovered a new method to bring people to Gaia" Kaito explained.
Although of course, he still didn't know how to bring Megumi here at first, but between that method and the normal one, Kaito was sure he'd eventually find a way to summon them at some point.
"A new method? What is it?"
"That would be me" before Kaito could answer, a female voice sounded from behind, startling everyone.
"She's with me" said Kaito, preventing the demon-succubus duo from reacting aggressively.
"Megumi? How did you get here?"
"I couldn't finish explaining yesterday" Megumi replied. "Like I told you, I received two rewards. One is that one of my skills improved, the other is an original skill."
"Yeah, your void skill improved and you unlocked the ability to bring semi-real beings, right?"
"No. What improved is 'Lord of the Void', a skill with multiple skills inside. By improving it, I obtained two new skills."
"I understand" Kaito realized.
It's something similar to 'Demon King's Body' or 'Original Demon: Movement'. Skills that have multiple skills inside.
If you improved a skill like 'double jump', for example, it would simply improve the use of it, like perhaps turning into a triple jump or reducing the cooldown between jumps.
However, with both 'Demon King's Body' and 'Lord of the Void', improving them allows you to unlock new skills inside them, so unlocking two at once from one improvement isn't strange.
"So, is the second skill the one that allowed you to follow me here?"
"Yes" Megumi nodded. "This skill is called 'Outside of Everything'. My void is a space that exists completely outside of everything, only anchored to me. By activating the skill, I become similar. I have no kind of origin or foundation, which allows me to exist in the same place as those called 'linked', people I linked previously."
"That's... pretty broken" Kaito acknowledged. Besides its current use as a search ability, using it against special enemies capable of teleportation would be even better.
"According to the description, there are specific places I can't enter, but I still don't know what it refers to" Megumi added.
'Although it's still just as broken anyway' Kaito thought.
"Well, did everyone understand the general situation?" Kaito asked while looking at the others.
"She transports us to a strange space and then to Gaia?" Mio asked.
"Correct!" Kaito nodded. "Then, goodbye."
"Wait, what...?"
Before they could finish reacting, Megumi made a movement and everyone disappeared from there, except for Kaito and Hakari.
There was a reason Kaito moved them away so quickly.
[You have been summoned by a sin candidate to their sin trial]
[You inherited the mission: Survive Lust]
[Due to the summoning conditions, the mission: Lust Theft has been added]
[Missions:
Survive Lust: In Progress
Lust Theft: Completed]
The reason was the second mission: Lust Theft. Its objective was literally to "steal the protagonist from the world."
Kaito wasn't sure whether "steal" meant simply taking her out of the world or conquering her, but Kaito had to take advantage of removing them from this world now that they wanted to leave.
It might sound prejudiced, but Kaito saw that Mio, that tsundere girl's, affection level toward him was at 75%. That was literally beyond being in love and one step away from marriage. How much can a girl fall in love after just one night of passion? Considering that, Kaito really feared she might see Basara and fall in love with him again, since it seemed they still hadn't met in this timeline.
Of course, Kaito didn't actually think something like Mio being stolen or anything like that. He simply didn't think that kidnapping someone who was in love with another person and wanted to stay outside would be a good idea for the mission, which would make the mission get delayed even a little longer due to complications, something Kaito wanted to avoid.
In short, Kaito was too lazy.
If he could complete the mission quickly, why would he want to stay longer?
Besides that, because Kaito took her mission, Chika was able to leave too.
Finally, after that, Kaito shifted his attention to Chika's stolen mission: Survive Lust.
The mission was simple: while carrying the curse that makes you enter a strong state of arousal from time to time, defeat the demon Zolgear.
"Literally, they reached the point where they couldn't even react, how could they resist such a curse while fighting Zolgear at the same time?" Kaito complained.
[The system is fair. The curse should be resistible through sheer willpower. My theory is that a perverted succubus modified it for her own amusement]
"Yeah, that sounds exactly like something Maria would do" Kaito had to admit.
Besides, since the system's curse is a copy of hers, modifying it would be extremely easy for her.
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