Chapter 69: First contact

"Umm... Rana?!?"

Every tamer in the continent was conditioned to be fearful of succubi, and Simon was no exception.

He looked at the orc with quite a bit of panic in his voice.

If there was any monster girl Simon had more knowledge than he knew what to do with it would be the succubus.

His dad drilled it into his head just how dangerous those demons were, even though his own mother happened to be a part of that collective.

The gravity of his memories made him shake in his boots and his eyes had turned to the group's most experienced one. His green and buff supervisor happened to fit that bill.

The succubus, for her part, approached with a bubbly countenance.

"Hi everyone! I heard through a little eye that someone needed..."

She started very upbeat but stopped midway...

'Are you alright?'

The demon was in his mind! Only a matter of time before he was turned into a mindless slave!

Simon was now hugging his monster girls with a mixture of extreme apprehension and fear.

Both his monster girls almost immediately stopped their whining and whimpering.

Their eyes were now locked with the red-skinned devilishly attractive demon in her black pencil skirt and office blouse, straining to keep her enormous breasts inside.

A low growl and silent hiss escaped the mouths of the two girls as they took on a more feral edge.

"Woah! Woah! Wait! what is happening?"

The succubus put her slim arms forward, her delicate naturally manicured hands moving left to right and back rapidly, trying to show that she was of no threat.

This barely flinched the two monster girls as their glares turned more and more hostile.

At this moment Rana decided to intervene.

She stood in between the succubus and the hugging group.

The hostility dropped a level at the intervention of someone their master trusted but it was still present bubbling beneath the surface. A very very welcome reprieve to the existential dread they had been feeling till then.

"You're scaring the kid."

She said still staring at the aggressive party.

"Eh?! Why?!?!"

"If you haven't forgotten, outside these grounds, your kind happens to have a very terrifying reputation. Even the mention of your kind can trigger a visceral response."

"But! but! Everyone knows we are harmless! Heck! I will have you know that succubi have won most of the best awards in the past decade! To top it off, We have not had a single incident since our inception, not a single one! In fact, students are the ones who have to be constantly reprimanded to not bully us!"

"Yes, I know that the succubi inside the planar university are 'special'! But you see this little student here joined late, so he was not initiated like normal."

Neither Simon and his party nor Rana could see but the large beautiful eyes of the succubus widened further her eyelids, with their long plush black lashes, blinked rapidly.

"...And judging by his reaction... I think he has dealt with succubi before..."

The casual banter between Rana and the succubus did a lot to calm his overactive imagination.

He was a lot more calm when he asked.

"She is safe?"

Rana shook her head in amusement.

"Every succubus in this entire university is safe, a little too safe if you ask me. The institution gets hoards of applications trying to register for permits to tame one of these and the number keeps increasing every year. This is despite the fact that less than ten get the necessary permissions which have stayed a constant."

The more he heard the more calm he felt, although it was more adverse for his monster girls. Losing their anchor they started spiraling back into that blackholes of hard to understand and cope with emotions.

A loud sniffle could be heard from behind Rana.

Rana raised an eyebrow before stepping to the side and looking at a crying succubus.

"Poor thing!..."*sniff*"...on behalf of my evil sister I am sorry... I know it is not much but I swear I will try to better..."

"...And there is the overtly caring attitude..."

Rana mumbled under her breath... The things the university subjected succubi to make this 'product' was evil even if it was justified. No monster girl in their right mind would subject themselves to it.

Still... She could not help but be jealous of her ability to feel genuine empathy for someone that was not their tamer.

That combined with her natural gifts and it was no wonder why her kind was so popular among the students. The reason more were not bonded off was that the process by which they were made was slow and resource intensive.

Less than ten were 'manufactured' each year and under a strict rule so that their not able to bond with anyone before the yearly school term was over. Yet they scooped up the moment their first-year term ended... Then there was her, unable to get a bond even after so many years in service...

Rana tried to clear her head, she was not the type to self-wallow. But these 'beings' were designed with a purpose in mind and they were very good at it. So much so, that she was fucking feeling sad and thoughtful!

Neither Simon nor his monster girls seemed adversely affected by her emotions, another 'modification' by the blasted maniacs.

Instead, he asked, much calmer now.

"Are you safe?"

The succubus clasped her hands between her melons as she said in a very maternal tone.

"Oh... Honey... Of course, I am safe!"

She tentatively approached, the earlier sexy sway was nowhere to be seen replaced with slow deliberate, and delicate steps.

"Can I come closer?"

"Yes?"

"Was that a question or an answer?"

There was a soft giggle accenting her retort. Her black plump lips should have made the action at least slightly sexually arousing but Simon found it to be instead very disarming.

As quick as it came the sorrow she held was gone, replaced with a soothing motherly aura... a feeling of home.

"Yes."

"Alright... I assume I was called to calm your monster girls?"