Reborn as a Succubus: Time To Live My Best Life!

Melisa leaned back on her chair, watching Isabella make a confused, mildly irritated face.

"So let me get this straight," Isabella said, her ears twitching with agitation as she laid her head on Kimiko's lap. "Your new nim rebel buddies are planning to attack my house, and you want us to just sit here and wait for it to happen? I told you about what I saw already," Isabella continued. "They were scouting out the house. We really can't go on the offensive?"

Melisa sighed.

Kimiko, scratching one of Isabella's fox ears with her massive tits practically spilling out of her robe, snorted.

"I think Melisa's right to want to wait, actually."

"What? Why?" Isabella looked up at her.

"Because us," Kimiko gestured at all of them, "walking right into a nim bar and turning it to ash along with everyone else there would probably not do much to rehabilitate Melisa's image in the eyes of her people, Bella."

"Ugh," Isabella groaned, turning face down her voice now muffled by Kimiko's thick thighs. "We really can't just blast 'em? This sucks!"

"I didn't say that," Melisa replied. "You're just gonna have to wait to blast them until they come here. That's all."

Raven, standing off to the side with her arms crossed, spoke up.

"Are you certain they won't find out who you actually are? How do we know they haven't figured you out already?"

"To be honest, I've asked myself the same a few times. But, well, if they know I'm actually Melisa Blackflame, nothing they've done has shown that to me."

[I can't rule out the possibility that they're just playing along to put me in a shitty position, though. Gotta watch my back even more from now on.]

Melisa leaned forward, her elbows on her knees.

"So, to summarize this circus act, the plan is for me to go with them when they attack this place. That way I can sabotage them from the inside and make sure nobody gets hurt. They walk up, you guys hit them from the front, I hit them from the back. Get me?"

Raven raised a brow.

"And if they decide not to bring you along? There's always a chance they get too excited and come here ahead of time, right?"

[Oh shit. That's a good question.]

"I'm pretty sure they're starting to view me as their secret weapon, so I doubt that'll happen, but if it does... Then you guys need to be ready." Melisa looked over at Raven. "I hate to ask, but...would you be willing to stay here for a week? Just in case?"

Raven blinked. Melisa could see the gears turning in that stoic little head of hers for a moment. Then, with a shrug, she replied:

"Sure."

Isabella rolled her eyes.

"I suppose it would be nice to have her here for some extra firepower, but, holy fuck, Raven, could you please not be so boring?"

"Hm?" Raven turned toward her with a genuinely confused expression.

"I mean, this ENTIRE LAST WEEK I've been trying to get you to suck my dick at least once and you're always like 'no, I need to jog' or 'no, I need to study'. If you're gonna be here with me and mom, the rules are at least one cock-sucking session per day, alright?"

Melisa looked to Raven for her response.

Again, still genuinely confused, Raven just replied:

"You were trying to have sex with me?"

Melisa snorted.

"Melisa, this girl is going to KILL ME!" Isabella exclaimed as Kimiko burst out laughing.

"Okay, okay, calm down, you horny freak," Melisa cackled. "Look, you guys figure this shit out between yourselves. As for me, I need to get ready to go to the bar again. Raven, try not to make Isabella throw herself off a bridge from pure frustration, alright?"

Raven gave the tiniest hint of a smile.

"I guess," she said quietly.

As Melisa headed for the door, she heard Isabella go:

"Seriously though, how could you not tell I was flirting with you?"

"I'm not used to such things."

[Ain't that the truth.]

As Melisa stepped out into the warm Syux night, her amusement slowly faded, replaced by a cold knot of worry in her gut.

[Alright. Koros, you bastard,] she thought, inhaling slowly and slipping into her Melanie act. [Let's see what info you've got for me tonight.]

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{Vira}

Vira leaned against the bar, watching the evening crowd filter in with half-lidded eyes. It was shaping up to be another busy night, the kind where the booze flowed like water and the sounds of moans and skin slapping against skin would soon compete with the music currently dominating the atmosphere.

[Just how I like it,] she thought with a smirk.

Maybe tonight, hopefully, she'd stop thinking about that damn girl. The girl who it felt like had just walked into her life and sprinkled a bit of... whatever-the-fuck onto it.

As if summoned by her thoughts, the door swung open and Melanie sauntered in, wearing a skirt that showed off her supple thighs and a black top with long sleeves. Vira's smirk widened.

Maybe she'd get lucky tonight too.

But before she could even throw out a flirty greeting, Koros's voice cut through everything.

"Melanie! Over here!" Both Melanie and Vira looked over at him. "We're talking!"

That was, apparently, all he needed to say.

Melanie glanced at Vira, a brief flicker of...something in those red eyes, before she turned and made her way to the backroom where Koros and his goons were waiting.

[Well, that sucks.]

With a sigh, she turned back to the bar and grabbed the day's newspaper, hoping for a distraction. But as she unfolded it, she realized it was last week's news. Or last month. Damn, had time really been moving that fast?

In any case, the front page was still splashed with coverage of the attack on the queen's conference. The one she'd given at Syux Academy, and the nim girl who'd helped stop it.

Melisa Blackflame herself. As Koros would put it, the humans' prized little pet.

Vira squinted at the little sketch of the girl. It was a black and white sketch of her in a power pose, turning some indistinct nim into dust.

A nagging sense of familiarity tugged at the back of her mind, suddenly. There was something about those eyes, that smirk...

"Hey there, gorgeous."

Vira looked up, blinking, as a nim couple sidled up to the bar. The guy was leering at her tits, while the girl was giving her a once-over that was only slightly more subtle.

[Really?] Vira raised a brow, aiming her smirk at them. [The night's only just gotten started and you two are shit-faced?]

But she set the newspaper aside.

"Hey yourself, handsome. What can I get you? Anything behind the counter? Or, is what you want currently in front of the counter instead?"

Both the boy and the girl blushed intensely.

[Oh, come on. Don't step into the kitchen if you can't take the heat.]

They opted for what was behind the counter, for now.

As the couple started ordering, Vira let her mind drift back to Melisa Blackflame. There was something odd. Something that didn't quite fit. But what?

[Eh, whatever,] she thought, shrugging mentally as she poured the drinks. [Not like it's my problem.]