Cursed Heroine

Chapter 52: Body art

“Hahaha, that was hilarious!”~Sofy

“Yeah, real funny. Haha. Of all the dances she could pick for the mid-quarter evaluation, why’d she have to pick the ribbon dance of all things?!”~me

“You nearly completed the dance and only messed up the ending. At least you didn’t have to start over like some people. How you looked after accidentally tying yourself up with the ribbon was adorable! Yes, we definitely need to buy some ribbons on the way home.”~Sofy

Ugh! She always does this whenever she finds something new and interesting. Completely blows it out of proportion! I’m going to have ribbons everywhere for at least the next week!!

“Mistress, can we not buy ribbons?”~me

“Ah! You’re right! I can just set them up in your attire menu. How silly of me to forget.”~Sofy

Not what I meant!!! *Sigh* It’s a hopeless, lost cause.

“Quite sassy today, aren’t you?”~Sofy

“No comment! Plus, why didn’t you quickly help to untie me?”~me

“Isn’t that because I was picked next to perform? The instructor even offered to untie you herself so as to not damage the equipment.”~Sofy

“Like I’d believe her excuse! Clearly, she had an ulterior motive. She spent the entire rest of the class with me on her lap, ‘trying to untie me’. While she watched the performances, her hands wandered all over my body and she didn’t bother with the knots at all until the very end!”~me

“Oh? Maybe she wanted a little payback for the kiss from your falling incident? Or, even better, she might have wanted to repay you for that incident? You’re only upset because you were the one getting played with and not the other way around. Besides, based on the few little moans that you let escape, you were actually enjoying it. You could have broken those ribbons at any time if you didn’t like it.”~Sofy

Because of my small size, I end up being ‘pushed down’ a lot, but I prefer being the ‘top’. I tend to just think meh, it’s still fun either way and just give in. This is my truth, but I’ll never say it.

As we were chatting, we had arrived at the restaurant for lunch. While we ate with our small circle of girlfriends, I got to relive my embarrassing episodes all over again as Sofy tells the rest of the girls about my latest blunders in what they’ve taken to calling the daily incident report. Most of the time it’s just small things. Since we just finished a weekend, there’s plenty to tell and the girls end up out of breath by the end of it. Thankfully, there’s really only one other incident in this retelling that can be considered major. It was an incident that happened yesterday morning:

Sofy and her mother were sitting at the table as I was making breakfast. Yea, it’s yet another incident with Camille. For some reason, I have an unusually high blunder rate around her. Anyways, my apron got stuck on something while I was turning towards the table with a couple of dishes in my hands. As I was trying to get unstuck, the apron just vanished. Like my nighty does when I take it off at night. Somehow, the attire function felt that I was trying to undress! I ended up fumbling towards Camille and only regained my balance because my breasts ended up planted in her face, giving her a bloody nose. This incident allowed me to learn that healing skills do NOT work on ‘that’ type of nose bleed.

I made it through the rest of the day without any more major incidents and once again prayed to Kat. She hasn’t been answering at all and I’ve already waaay overpaid what I owed to her. Tonight, she actually answered!

“Okay, okay. There, the curse is gone. I’ll admit that I got a little bit distracted while implementing the dungeon items feature you had previously mentioned. If you’ve really suffered as much as you’re currently thinking that you have, I’ll make it up to you. You’ll have to wait for me to watch the recordings though.”~Kat

“Oh, how is that going? Are the items ready yet? The recordings are your way of getting back at me for my sketchbook, aren’t they?”~me

“Just finished and already active. The craze over the changes should die down a bit before your next dive. This time you probably won’t end up having to deal with an overcrowded dungeon. As for the sketchbook...since I was developing cursed items anyways, it’s no longer an issue.”~Kat

“NOOOOooooo! My treasures!! What did you do to my sketchbook?!”~me

“Relax, I just made it a soulbound item with infinite capacity, but only viewable for the owner.”~Kat

“Oh. Well, that’s fine then. Is there any way to get rid of some of my curses?”~me

“Getting harder to cultivate, huh? Well, I suppose I could give you a removal price for the two that are slowing down your cultivation and skills, but I get to add something in exchange.”~Kat

“Wait, I have to pay to remove them, yet you’re still adding stuff?!”~me

“Don’t worry so much, it’s just a small item for one of your submenus that I thought Sofy could enjoy with you. I randomly thought it up while I was making the dungeon items.”~Kat

“I agree! Somehow, I feel like you’d add the item even if I didn’t agree.”~me

“You know me so well! Anyways, I’ve got an epic blunders reel to make. So, tata for now.”~Kat

Waking up in the morning, I can’t help but groan at the thought of this ‘blunder reel’ being shown to the various priestesses I know. Knowing Kat, she’d probably hold an astral projection theatre showing in her divine realm if I should get on her bad side again. The good thing is that I can now get rid of those two annoying curses. Bad thing is that it’s EXPENSIVE! She set the price at ten times the original gain that I received by having them. I can’t afford to remove even the cheaper one right now and it’s the other one that I want to remove first anyways.

[Glass Cannon(remove: 200sp)], [Slow Learner(remove: 500sp)]

“Good morning, Lily.”~Sofy

“Good morning, Mistress.”~me

“Huh, I got a new item? Is it something that Kat newly developed?”~Sofy

“Yea, I spoke to her last night. She said that it’s something she thought up while implementing the dungeon items idea. Which is now active. What exactly did she give us, I can’t see it from my side.”~me

“She added a tattoo section to the attire menu. Some even have magical effects.”~Sofy

“That’s actually pretty useful. And cool! I could use them to enhance my combat ability.”~me

“Not exactly. The magical tattoos currently only have a single category available.”~Sofy

“...”~me

“Not even going to guess?”~Sofy

“I’m hoping it will go away if I don’t acknowledge it. Knowing her, there’s only one possibility anyways. Not something that really requires any guesswork.”~me

“Haha, that’s so true! It’s exactly as you’ve surmised, only the lust category of magical tattoos are available.”~Sofy

As Sofy started to experiment with the tattoo submenu settings, the tattoo manifested itself on my lower belly as expected. There are design selections to control the sensitivity of various parts, wetness values, arousal baseline, pleasure intensity level, climax build-up requirement and there’s even an option for an instant climax pattern. That last option just needs some mana inserted and bam! And it keeps repeating as long as mana is supplied.

After two weeks of experimenting, Sofy finally settled on a tattoo design. My ‘optimal settings’ as she calls it. My skin is now three times more sensitive overall with the usual sensitive areas being doubled again. She set the arousal baseline fairly high though. That way I’m not turned on with a simple caress. Of course, she also opted for the instant climax pattern so that she can easily get me going with my ‘on switch’. As for wetness values...Well, I’m starting to wonder if it would be a good idea to waterproof the mattress. Pleasure intensity is increased by four and build-up requirement is increased fivefold. That basically means that it takes five times more effort, but when I do get there, it’s five times longer and four times more pleasurable.

I made sure to record the tattoo designs as she was experimenting. Each setting basically controls one specific element of the tattoo. The tattoo starts off looking very ordinary and each element of the design gets more intricate as something is enhanced more. I now basically have drawings for every variation up to ten times for each of the settings. Ten times is already too much to use for any of the settings, so there’s no reason to go further. It’s pretty much a sensory overload when used. If I didn’t have my mental protection blessing, I might have experienced ‘mind break’ several times during Sofy’s experimentation period. Though, I think that same protection might also be preventing my abuse clause from triggering.

I’m hoping that the magic tattoo isn’t something that can only work on me through the attire submenu. Otherwise, I would have wasted my time and money to record Sofy’s experimental results and make some semi-permanent magic ink. Things will be much more lively when I finish drawing one on the rest of the girls. And the ink I mixed up can only be removed with a specific solvent. Muhahahahahaha! *Cough cough* I promise not to break them...hopefully...