«Why does life have to suck so damn much… why?» Aoshi Toya — nineteen years old — whines. He staggers through the narrow backstreets of Ueda, dragging a huge bouquet of roses behind him.
«My sweet Miori… why did you do this to me? Why did you dump me today, of all days — our one-month anniversary? Sure, it's only been a month, but I'm totally falling apart — I've never loved anyone the way I love you!» — not that it helps that she was his first and only girlfriend.
Her last words — barely an hour old — keep replaying in his head like a broken record:
«This month together was fun, really. But, well… sorry to be so blunt, Aoshi. You were just a way to make my ex jealous. When he saw me replace him so quickly with someone like you, he came crawling back. You're a nice guy, I'm sure you'll find a nice girl someday—but that girl isn't me. Bye-bye.»
«Not even a lifetime would be enough to fill the hole you left in my heart! My sweet Miori, what did I ever do to deserve this? And worse — how the hell am I supposed to tell my friends, after bragging for a whole month that I was dating a bombshell like Miori Yukinaga…»
Aoshi lifts his eyes to the night sky and sighs in defeat. «I really am an idiot… thinking that someone like her — the most popular and desired girl in the entire university — could ever fall for a total nobody like me. Well… it was nice while it lasted. Time to come back down to earth.»
Aoshi turns right, heading back toward the main street — when...
CRASH!
«Hey, watch where you're going, you idiot!» Eliss shouts, landing right on her butt after colliding with Aoshi as they round the corner at the same time.
«S-Sorry… I was kinda lost in thought,» Aoshi Toya mumbles, offering her a hand to help her up.
She swats it away with an imperious flick of her wrist.
Ugh, here we go again — another pathetic pervert who's gonna see this as an excuse to flirt with me, even after I yelled at him. Humans are all the same… boring, predictable...
But...
«Sorry again. Have a nice evening,» Aoshi Toya says, giving her a small, polite bow. His voice is as flat as a dead heart monitor, his eyes just as empty as his wallet — especially after dropping fifteen thousand yen on that massive bouquet of roses he's dragging behind him.
He simply walks past her, leaving Eliss frozen on the pavement, still sitting there in total disbelief.
Is he kidding me right now?! Me, the gorgeous Princess Eliss Narkhalis, ignored — by an ordinary human?! No way! Maybe… maybe he didn't see me properly! Yeah, that's gotta be it!
Eliss springs to her feet in an instant. She pops open her blouse, widening her neckline until her absurdly large breasts are practically begging for attention. Then she hikes up her miniskirt, leaving her thighs completely bare — so much that even her lacy red bra and matching panties are perfectly visible.
Okay, that loser's definitely going down this time! Still… the fact that I had to go this far means he's earned at least a tiny bit of respect. Without a doubt, the toughest human I've met so far.
«Hey, you — where do you think you're going?» Eliss calls, raising her voice toward Aoshi, who's already several meters away.
He turns slowly — his eyes as empty and cold as the Siberian tundra.
Not a twitch, not a flinch, not even a spark of reaction. Zero. Absolute zero.
Even though Eliss is one step away from standing there half-naked right in front of him.
«Do you need something?» Aoshi Toya asks, his tone calm and detached. His body's here, but his mind's clearly light-years away.
Eliss freezes. No — she's more than shocked. She's devastated. Never, in her entire twenty years of life, has anyone ignored her like this. This is beyond insult — it's humiliation.
«Well…» Her voice turns warmer, softer, dripping with sensuality. «…after bumping into me, the least you could do to make it up to me is…»
She doesn't even bother finishing the sentence — just lifts her skirt higher, right up to her navel.
A divine, irresistible sight beyond imagination. Eliss, standing there in her underwear, could drive anyone insane. Anyone… except, apparently, Aoshi Toya.
«You're a friend of Miori, right?» he asks flatly. «Did she send you to comfort me — or maybe just to make fun of me? Look, it's really not my day. You should head home — it's late, and there are plenty of creeps around. It's dangerous for a girl to be out alone.»
Miori? And who the hell is this Miori?! Of course… dead eyes, bouquet scraping along the asphalt — there's only one possible conclusion. This loser just got dumped! I don't know who this Miori is, but I'm at least a million times hotter than her! And yet, even now, he's still thinking about her?! What's wrong with this idiot?! I've never felt so humiliated in my life! Alright then — it's time for the big guns!
Eliss strides toward him, determination blazing in her eyes. Now they're standing face-to-face.
«You've done well to resist me, but know this — I never lose! Now you'll fall at my feet like everyone else! Game over, loser!»
Her eyes flare with a sinister violet light — and Aoshi's reflect the same glow.
She's casting a powerful charm spell — a signature succubus enchantment that amplifies any spark of attraction inside the victim's heart until it becomes a full-blown, uncontrollable obsession.
Even if his mind's still clinging to his precious Miori, as long as there's even a tiny flicker of desire for me, this magic will make him fall head over heels in an instant! And with someone as irresistibly gorgeous as me, that's basically a given! Just one second, and...
The violet glow fades from both their eyes. The spell went off perfectly.
And yet… Aoshi Toya looks exactly the same — still drowning in his dark little pit of depression, staring blankly with the same lifeless eyes.
What… what the hell just happened? Why is he still just standing there like nothing happened? Everything should've worked perfectly — so why… why is my heart suddenly pounding like crazy?! Why are my legs shaking… my breath getting heavy… and this awful weight in my stomach...?!
Eliss's eyes shoot wide open. She's frozen in place, terrified.
No way… it can't be that?!