After confirming with Detect that the two of them were far away enough, I called out to the other person that I’d detected earlier.
“They’re gone.” Well, I guess Ariya’s just in the other room, but whatever. Close enough.
The window opened and a cool breeze blew in, along with a woman. She had beautiful silver hair that danced in the wind and twinkled in the moonlight. Beneath it, I caught glimpses of the long ears that were unique to her race.
She giggled lightly. “So you knew I was here? Thank you for chasing those two away.” Furuth’s smile was enchanting, but my eyes were drawn to her clothes.
“What’s up with your outfit?”
“I came for a night visit. I needed to be dressed appropriately.”
She’d been wearing thin clothing when I met her previously, but now she was wearing clothes so delicate that they may as well have been transparent. I could easily see the lines of her body. Suddenly she trembled, and gripped her body with both arms. Did she feel my eyes on her or something?
“That cold stare of yours is so good...”
“Uh-huh.” I hadn’t intended to look at her like that. If anything, I’d thought I was looking at her with fiery lust, but I guess not.
Furuth’s cheeks were a light shade of pink as she approached me on the bed. “I’ve used spirit magic so that nobody—not even the girl next door—can hear us.”
“Good to know.” It was certainly perfect that she’d come to me at night. I took off the eye patch covering my left eye.
“You’re very handsome...” She got on the bed and leaned up against me.
“You’re not too bad yourself.”
“Oh, how honest.”
“I’m not one to spurn a woman’s advances.”
She began to stroke my body with a slender finger. Thanks to my training, I’d put on some muscle. I looked straight into her eyes, and she looked back at me. Our faces were so close that we could feel each other’s breath. I reached around and placed my hand on the back of her head, and she moved her hand onto my back. Still staring into each other’s eyes, we drew so close that our eyelashes almost touched. That was when I used my Eye of Sigils.
This close, at a moment like this, there was no way she could avoid it or flee. Plus, I was holding her head in place. I activated my hypnosis spell. My eye released a bright yellow light, and I began to enter her mind...or not? I could tell that this wasn’t a matter of her having a resistance to it—rather, it just didn’t work at all.
Impossible! It doesn’t work on her?
“Wha—”
Just as I tried to say something, she pressed her lips against mine, and I felt my consciousness sink deeper and deeper into darkness.
When I opened my eyes, I found I had to shut them again right away because of a bright white light. I slowly opened them again, squinting as I waited for them to adjust.
“Where am I...?”
The place was unfamiliar. I was in a field, and each one of the blades of grass was glowing. The light they emitted wasn’t man-made. It was as if they’d captured the light from the stars and were emitting that. Because of its brightness, I couldn’t even tell what color the grass was.
The scenery above me was just as mysterious as the grass. The sky definitely wasn’t blue. It was just as white as the space around me, but not white like clouds were white. It was a little too bright for it to have been cloudy, anyway. It’s seriously bright here.
Looking around, there were no clues as to where I was. The last thing I remembered before losing consciousness was Furuth pressing her lips against mine. Wait, had she kidnapped me? Drugged me? What was going on?
“How are you feeling?” Suddenly, there was a silver-haired beauty dressed in raiment in front of me.
“Who are you?” Given context clues, this was more than likely Furuth. But her face was slightly different from what I remembered. Furuth was already gorgeous, but this woman was somehow even more so. Her beauty was almost unrealistic.
“I suppose this is the first time we’ve met me in this form, so I can’t fault you for not recognizing me.”
“So you are Furuth, then?”
“Well, more accurately, I am a spirit that’s taken over her body.”
Oh, right. She is Spirit Possessed.
“I am Sylph, the highest-ranking wind spirit.”
Appraisal.
Sylph Spirit (Wind Spirit of the Highest Rank)
HP: 23/23 / MP: 9653/10291 / STR: 9
VIT: 12 / DEX: 9821 / AGI: 7853 / INT: ?
Divine Blessing(s): Ordinance of the Chief God, Oracle (greater)
Titles: Spirit Priestess
She really was a spirit. Her stats were all over the place, though. I bet if I sneezed, she’d be blown away. Get it? Because she’s a wind spirit.
“So what does a great spirit like you want with me?” I asked.
“I told you—a night visit.”
This felt different from the night visits I was familiar with. Usually, those were all about getting into somebody’s pants, not abducting them or whatever this was. Seriously, where was I?
“It would have been fine for me to engage in these activities in my other form. However, I thought it would only be proper for me to be in my true form for our first time together.”
“That doesn’t sound like any kind of etiquette I’ve ever heard of.”
“Never mind that. I invited you into this spirit realm in order to show you my true form.”
A what now? “Okay, Google, search for ‘spirit realm.’”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about...but a spirit realm is a separate dimension. Everyone has their very own spirit realm.”
Still not getting it. “Can you explain it like I’m five?” I asked.
“You’re in something like a dream.”
“Got it.”
So, in essence, this was a space that connected our dreams. Or maybe I’d been swallowed into her dream?
“Well, I certainly hope you don’t fully understand.” Why not? “Moving on... We won’t be interrupted here. We can take all the time we’d like. And the pleasure you’ll feel here is incomparable.”
“Yeah, about that... Sorry, but I have no plans to participate in whatever this is.”
“Oh, really? I thought you weren’t in the business of spurning the advances of women.”
“Yeah, but I’m also not in the business of picking something poisonous up off the street and popping it in my mouth.”
“How disappointing,” Sylph said with a smile. “But you don’t have a choice in the matter.”
She snapped her fingers, and suddenly, I couldn’t move. It reminded me of what had happened to me with the Mario brothers from one of the worlds I’d been summoned to previously. This was a lot stronger, though.
“This isn’t your dream. It’s my world. And I can move your body however I’d like.” She began moving her fingers, and my body moved with them.
“Mm, not really a fan of being on the receiving end. I’d much rather be in the driver’s seat.”
“Don’t worry. Soon, you’ll just be experiencing pleasure so good, you’ll lose your mind.” Sylph walked towards me, an eerie smile on her face. “Doing it with your clothes on sounds fun, but...let’s take them off.”
“You really think I’m gonna do that?”
“Do you still not understand how much control I have?” Sylph snapped her fingers and my shirt immediately disappeared.
Oh my. “Uh, wait. Seriously. What the hell?!”
“I have control over this entire space...and that means your clothes too.”
That’s not what I’m asking about. Sylph snapped her fingers again and my underwear disappeared from inside my pants. It’s so breezy down there!
“Heh heh. So you’re naked under there, are you?” she giggled, teasingly.
“Don’t laugh. What the hell kinda role-play is this?”
“‘Role-play’? What is that?”
“You’re enjoying slowly stripping me and getting turned on by my reactions.” What was this, anyway? A stripping game?
“Sure, I am certainly having a good time, and getting aroused.”
I couldn’t care less about your fetishes.
“Well then, last to go will be your pants... I suppose it’d be better to leave your socks on?”
“I don’t need whatever form of pity that you think you’re giving me! If you’re gonna strip me, strip everything off! Not that I want to be stripped in the first place!”
It’s not like there was a huge demand for that kind of thing, anyway. Plus, I hated the idea of being naked except for socks. She snapped her fingers again, and this time my socks and pants disappeared along with her clothes.
“Yours too?”
“It wouldn’t be fair if you were the only one naked.”
I really do not care about what’s fair right now. But then again, this was an image I wanted to remember, so I used Photographic Memory to save her naked body for later. Meanwhile, Sylph latched onto me and rubbed my abdomen softly with her cold fingers. I could feel her warm breath in my ear. I felt biological arousal, but even stronger than that was my displeasure.
“Stop,” I said.
“No way.” An enchanting smile spread across her face. “I’m going to put your soul under my control.”