"I am Shirayaa, and I don’t really have much to say about myself other than I happened to cross Traytora one day and I now owe her also."

"Hmm... I see. Well, nice to meet you all, but I’m afraid we’ll have to talk some other time. I have to prepare for the meeting and call everyone." Krytaraa nodded as she started to leave.

Before she could though, I told her this, "No need to bring everyone back, just the Emberin Ladies and the Futaris. WE just need to make sure everything is going according to the plan I remember."

"Right, I’ll be sure to let them know." Krytaraa thanked as she slithered off, likely to her office to contact the Emberin Ladies. "Oh, please take our guests to the guest quarters."

The Custodians nodded and then led us deeper into the Sect and into their guest quarters, leading us each to our own rooms, though Ash and Asty requested to share one, which was easily granted.

After the Custodians left, they all convened in my room to chat.

"So... That was the Empyric Coil?" Shirayaa asked after some awkward silence.

"Yup." I answered plainly.

"I was..."

"Expecting more from her?"

"Kinda?" She said hesitantly "I mean, she’s supposed to be second only to the Futaris, and yet she obeys you? What’s that even about?"

"Oh right, I guess I never told you directly. I’m uh, I’m the Goddesses descendant. I thought I mentioned that earlier?"

"W-Well, you did say that, but I thought you were bluffing about it." She exclaimed.

"Why would I bluff about something like that? Besides, you clearly felt the effect of my Bloodline back in the slums when I used it on those guards." I retorted.

She became more defensive with the way she spoke, "I did, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with what you said earlier. I didn’t connect the dots like that."

"You! Ugh... You know what? It’s whatever. Don’t worry about it." I thought it would be best to simply not bother having this discussion. I also just didn’t want to deal with it right now either.

Shirayaa looked like she wanted to discuss this further, but decided otherwise for whatever reason.

"Sure, you do that." I responded whilst looking off to the side, with little real interest in what she did.

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure why I’m even helping her. From what I remember, she was just an annoying and overly obsessed brat. But now, she seems like... Well, almost like me and Ash. Far too competent and put together for her age... How old even is she?

"Soo... That was something." Ash commented, trying to clear the awkwardness that was left in the air.

"Uhh... Yeah, it sure was. So, why’d you all come in here anyways?"

Asty then stared intently at me as she spoke up, "I wanna talk about the Empyric Coil."

"Uh, sure. I don’t actually know that much about her though, I never really got to talk to any of the Emberin’s all that much apart from Zatyra, the Emberin of Fire."

"But, you’ve spoke with them before, right? You said as much after you recounted what happened you were kidnapped." Ash inquired.

I responded, "Well, that wasn’t in any personal capacity and more so just to sort things out and plan for the future. I didn’t really get to talk to any of them. Besides, I didn’t really want to stay for that long because I wanted to return home to see you again as I didn’t want to worry you, so I streamlined it as much as possible."

"Oh... I thought you would’ve gotten to know at least one of them." Ash said somewhat deflated with her ears dropping slightly.

I threw back, "Why does it matter anyways? It’s not like I need to know them."

"I guess... I dunno, I just kinda thought you would’ve gotten to know at least one of them at the very least." She muttered somewhat dejectedly.

This whole time Asty was just kind of staring off into the ceiling, seemingly not having paid attention to anything since she came in and got onto my bed. And we only just noticed now.

"Asty, you okay?" Ash asked, putting a hand on her shoulder and rustling her a little in concern.

"Huh? O-Oh, yeah, I’m fine." She responded rather blankly.

"You sure? You looked spaced out there for a minute." I then asked, making sure that she wasn’t just saying that to throw us off.

"Yeah, I’m fine. Really. I just... That was the Empyric Coil?" She asked in disbelief.

I nodded, "That was indeed her. Trust me, I should know."

"Wow..." Was all Asty could muster up in response to this knowledge.

Then silence fell once more.

And to break it, I asked, "Soo... What now? Do you wanna like, go out for dinner or something?"

"Uh, I’d rather stay here for the night if that’s okay. I’m not entirely sure if I want to go out right now." Ash mumbled lightly as she fidgeted in place, her arms shifting up and down as she looked away from us.

"That’s fine, I was just asking. I don’t really know what to do now. To be honest, I don’t even know if I, or we can even go back to what we had." I muttered with a dejected tone.

"Well, maybe this is an opportunity to start anew? After all, what is it that’s tying us down there? Nothing really, except maybe David. So, why not take this chance to make a better life for ourselves." Ash suggested, now somewhat optimistic about our current situation.

I thought about it and I had to agree, the prospect of living a new life here in the capital was appealing. Maybe, just maybe, this is a good thing.

’Though, with me, how long will that last exactly?’

"Anyways, I’m going to go back to our room for the night, since there’s not much for us to do right now. Asty, you coming?"

Asty grabbed Ash’s hand and the both of them headed to the door out of my room. But before she left, she said one last thing, "Oh, and maybe you could give us a tour of the city tomorrow."

It was only said as a passing remark and I wasn’t able to respond and say that I haven’t actually seen the city myself.

I sighed. They all just came into my room and then all left not too long after. Why’d they even bother coming in at all then?

’Whatever, just means that I’m going to be here alone for the night.’ I thought as I flopped back onto the plush sheets and pillows on my bed, just staring up at the ceiling.

And for a fair while, that was all I was doing. And then I remembered something.

’OH SHIT! I still need to summon Lily up!’ Immediately after I scrambled up and off my bed to perform the summoning ritual, creating a pentagon in a circle with lust runes surrounding it and pulling Lily’s demon core out to summon her specifically and quickly.

Not long after, a flash of sensual pink light filled the room for a second before it fades and Lily was now stood in front of me with her eyes closed.

I could tell that something about her had changed. Whereas before she was turned into a True Succubus, this time she had transformed into something greater once more.

She was of course naked, like all lust demons prefer to be, it just makes fucking a lot easier. Anyway, I could tell that her chest had gotten a lot bigger, now at least an F-cup, a bit smaller than mine now. The volume of her hips was now equal to mine also, giving her a juice fat ass that just looked so fuckable. Her thighs too looked like the they would make the best pillows. Almost makes me wish I had legs like that.

But aside from her body, there was now a crown of horns adorning her head, each of them sharply scaled yet curved oh so pleasantly. Her wings had also changed in more ways than one. From growing large enough for just one of them being enough to completely cover her up completely, to gaining a second pair of them.

Even her tail had changed, seemingly growing to be half as thick as her arms at the base but slimming down to a finger or at most a thumb towards the tip, which was still spaded, but something about it was different now, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what, but it had changed somehow.

Finally she opened her eyes revealing pure amethyst pupils within a red orb that shimmered like purple moons on a bloody night sky.

She bumped one of her hips out and placed a hand on it as she spoke with a smirk, "About time, I’ve been waiting to show myself off. Anyways you done checking me out?"