Cursed Heroine

Chapter 49: Being human is overrated

“Good morning, Mistress.”~me

“Lily, what exactly happened last night? I remember getting into bed with you and Susan, then you started to barrage me with an intense kissing session and I blacked out at some point thereafter.”~Sofy

“Hehe, I activated my newest trait! You were quite interesting while in a drunk-like, euphoric state.”~me

“Love serum? Wait, didn’t I order that you were to never dose me with succubus blood?!”~Sofy

“You did and I didn’t. I only smothered you with my saliva drenched kissing techniques, not blood. It turned out to be a very enjoyable experience for both of us.”~me

“But I can’t even remember it! At least tell me what we ended up doing last night that has you in such a good mood.”~Sofy

“No way! You never told me exactly what happened after I drank that succubus blood the last time.”~me

“Ah ha! So this is revenge for not telling you about that night? Fine, keep your secret. However, you are ordered to not make use of your new trait to the point that I can’t remember from now on.”~Sofy

Next, she tried to get Susan to tell what happened, but was only rewarded with a schadenfreude smile from her, to which I gave two thumbs-up. Seeing our antics, Sofy decided to try forcing the truth out of us by using tickle torture. Susan was immediately double teamed as I was ordered to turn on my ally. She put up an excellent fight though by expertly using her tail to strike our weak points. Her shop only managed to get opened up around noon thanks to us exhausting ourselves during the giggle fest and subsequent cuddling.

Me and Sofy barely made it to the restaurant on time for our planned lunch with our new business partners. I told the girls about the potions and we discussed their desired changes for hours over lunch. We had to keep ordering snacks to keep from getting kicked out. They weren’t at all reluctant to change race since they never wanted to return to the human kingdoms anyways and wanted to gain acceptance from the locals of the Magic Forest.

After I revealed what the different hair and eye pigments mean for the demi races, Mary decided on having blue hair, similar to what Tiff has. She’s hoping to get an increase for ice affinity by doing so. I helped out by sketching out her desired figure as she dictated her desires to me. We had to spend some time talking her down on the breast size though. Her current small size caused her to want way too big of an increase to be reasonable or manageable. She chose a dainty yet curvy frame with the looks of an ice queen. The final draft resulted in an icy beauty with an unapproachable vibe.

Alice was a lot less picky and left most of the details for the rest of us to decide. The one thing she was annoyingly adamant about was her choice of hair and eye color. She chose a unique bright pink color, which doesn’t even have a corresponding affinity! Her final sketch ended up with a supermodel build: slender and doll-like facial features, slim waist with a full rear and a chest size almost too big for a melee fighter, height taller than average for women in this world with legs that are nearly long enough to break physical body proportion rules.

The girls were eager to take the potions immediately, but ultimately agreed to take a night to sleep on it and burn the images into their minds at the same time. It would be terrible if a mistake were to happen and they got stuck with some undesired features. A night’s rest would also give them some more time to think up of any alterations that might have slipped their minds the day before.

We would meet them at their place the next morning so they could take the potions privately, in front of Lauren and Brea who didn’t come to lunch with us. It would be unfortunate if they couldn’t recognize each other, after all.

That night, Susan and I ended up completely ravaging Sofy. A little revenge from the both of us for her earlier tickle inquisition. After putting her to bed with an utterly satisfied smile on her face, me and Susan had our own little duel. I lost miserably and became her plaything for the night, not that I particularly mind. We were only evenly matched at the start since she was resistant to my love serum trait. My loss was because she’s just too skilled with her tail! Really, really need to convince Sofy to get me one of those for my disguise, instead of my current furry one!

We arrived at their little house in the morning, just after breakfast. All I could think when I saw it was that it was really shabby. It was literally just four walls and a roof. One side of the room had a fireplace with a chimney for heat and cooking. They didn’t even have proper beds and were sleeping on their usual adventuring bedrolls at night.

“Good morning, Sofy and Lily.”~Alice

“Good morning, Alice. Mary. Are you two ready?”~Sofy

“Morning, Sofy. Yea, just a few small changes and we’ll be good to go.”~Mary

I quickly redrew their sketches to match the changes they wanted. Nothing major was altered, just a few touch ups on the finer details. Then they both took the potion together.

Mary’s new race turned out to be a half fairykin-human and she got a blessing to amplify her ice magic just like she wanted. She now has some very pretty clear butterfly-style wings like Susan’s and gained the glamour trait. I had been expecting her to be half-elf, but fairy also fits well with her demeanor.

Alice ended up with the race I’d expected, rabbitkin. Nothing else could possibly fit better with her outgoing personality. She received the blessing, [Energizer], which enables her and allies near her to function at full capacity until their stamina is completely drained. Instead of getting slower during battle due to exhaustion, you can continue at full strength until you simply collapse. For some reason, I have this sudden urge to buy her a big drum.

A great idea for the uniform of our soon to be auctioneer popped into my head, bunny girl costume with a real bunny girl! I started to sketch a butler vest styled leo with a short tutu skirt and shiny fishnet leggings. Fufu, excited male bidders won’t stand a chance of keeping their money!

“After you get used to your new bodies, let’s go find a nicer place for you to stay that’s closer to the auction house. Lily has suggested to loan you the money and you can pay us back slowly.”~Sofy

“Mistress, Mary should use her glamour trait to pretend to be an elf. Also, we can introduce her to Susan later so that she can be exposed to the fairykin community in Namiir.”~me

“Good idea, Lily. What are those clothes you started drawing?”~Sofy

“Uniform for Alice. Rich idiots will definitely squander their money trying to impress a sexy auctioneer.”~me

Sofy was reluctant at first to allow her fellow woman be objectified in such a way. That was until Alice came over to offer her own ideas on how to optimize the outfit, including making the back have a low plunging design. Thereafter, I ended up as the live model until Mary finished getting familiar with her wings and glamour.

I actually enjoy trying on new clothes. It was just exhausting the first couple times until Sofy and the other girls got over their initial excitement.

It didn’t take long to find them a better place since they’d already had a good idea of the available houses from their previous home shopping. The new place is a much nicer two-story home. It has a kitchen, sitting room, dining room, downstairs master bedroom, four upstairs bedrooms and a bathroom with a big bath dug out of the ground.

We spent most of the afternoon furnishing the new place and said our farewells after eating dinner together. Our next meeting wouldn’t likely be until the next academic season is over.

I gave Susan the design for Alice’s uniform when we returned to her place and asked her to deliver it in person so she could get to know the new half fairy in town, Mary.

“Can you get more of the potion I bought last time?”~me(note)

“Sorry, Lily. I thought you might ask about that, so I’ve already checked with the apothecary who made it. She’s missing the main ingredients which are extremely rare. However, I managed to buy the recipe from her since it’s so difficult to gather the ingredients anyways.”~Susan

“I’ll buy it!”~me

“Are you sure? Three of the rarest ingredients are things like mermaid pearls, flow from a virgin succubus and the core of a snow lotus. These three ingredients need to be of fourth grade as well.”~Susan

“Pearls aren’t too rare since the merfolk frequently trade at the seaside towns. Succubi are uncommon north of the demonkin lands, but not unheard of since they’re relatively harmless compared to other demonkin. Finding one that’s still pure is the difficult part.”~Sofy

“A snow lotus core is the hardest one to get due to the fact that the lotus will die once the core is removed. The first two ingredients can be supplied repeatedly from the same sources, but the core will need a new snow lotus for each core needed and they only grow at winter temperatures.”~Susan

“We have a few snow lotuses growing in our herb garden’s pond. It will be many years until they are ready, even with Flora’s assistance. Might even take decades due to the usual warm temperatures most of the year.”~me(note)

“Couldn’t we use freeze and barrier enchantments to help them grow better? Just leave a small opening in the barrier so that the pond doesn’t eventually freeze completely.”~Sofy

“Ah, why didn’t I think of that?! We could probably use the same work-around method to control the temperature in the house as well!”~me

We finished our discussion and exchanged for the recipe. I then wrote a short message for Mary to keep an eye out for the rarer ingredients and asked Susan to give it to her when she delivered the uniform for Alice as we would be headed back to Aerylothniir early the next morning.