Ch 332: Weaponized familiars.

"You're half-way through your sentence, Giada." smiled Jinah as she hugged her newest, naked maid from behind. "But somehow, I do not think that after you're done, you will want to return to the Chaos Empire… am I wrong?"

"Mopph…" replied Giada, her long green hair waving as she slowly shook her head, trembling in repressed desire.

She couldn't reply with words, as the molded black leather panel pressed against her lips sealed the penis gag filling her mouth. A gag she couldn't remove, bound as she was, spread-eagled to the wooden frame keeping her standing, and arms and legs wide apart.

"Good girl." praised Jinah with a smile before kissing Giada's gag.

Jinah's hands squeezed Giada's butt as the pressed herself tighter against Gaida's naked body, the dark purple latex bodysuit she wore rustling pleasantly.

"Mphiss, phiftreph…" pleaded Giada.

Jinah only smiled and snaked a hand between Giada's legs, using two fingers to slightly rub Giada's lower lips, making her tremble.

"When was the last time you earned an orgasm, Giada? Was it five days ago?"

Gida groaned, but nodded, trying to appear pitiful. She probably would have come from Jinah's ministrations already, if not for the Stop rune under her navel making sure she would only orgasm when Jinah allowed her to.

"Well, you have been a good girl and finally accepted your training, so I suppose you deserve one." mused Jinah. "Of course, you will first have to…"

Jinah's words trailed off when two women dressed in skimpy maid uniforms, Shirona and Yukari, the two former heads of the Lion King Organization, appeared directly inside the Sanctuary's dungeon.

"Jinah-sama, there is an emergency." declared Yukari with a grave expression. "The Warlord's palace in Europe has been razed to the ground, the Warlord is presumed to be buried under, and Queen Zana is urgently requesting our assistance."

Jinah frowned and removed the Stop rune from Giada's body. Although the green-haired girl barely paid any attention, as she was greatly shocked by the news.

"Crap. Shirona, untie Giada, please. Giada, quickly relieve yourself then take a shower, and get dressed." said Jinah as she started removing her bodysuit. "Do we know who did this?"

"I am not certain, Jinah-sama." replied Yukari. "Mash-sama asked us to go warn you before Queen Zana had time to say more."

Jinah nodded, forgoing taking a shower herself after she was done removing the bodysuit and put on her school uniform. The self-cleaning clothes would deal with most of her sweat.

Thanks to the time dilation, she emerged from the Sanctuary barely fifteen seconds after Yukari and Shirona entered it. She jogged with Yukari to Natsuki's apartment on the building's lower floor, where more people of her group had gathered.

Inside, Natsuki was facing the large TV screen, her face grim, with Mash and Gudako, Misaki and Mikoto, and the former members of Tartarus Lapse, Carly, Rahn and December. And of course, Astarte was standing in a corner.

"Jinah, you're there." said Natsuki with a nod.

"Zana, what happened?" asked Jinah as she came into view from the TV's camera.

"We've been attacked by a giant flying fortress coming out of some kind of spatial rift. Some kind of ancient weapon, from the description of the people who saw it. It launched something, and a powerful familiar appeared and destroyed the Imperial Palace."

"I am sorry to hear that. What about The Warlord himself?"

"It seems he didn't have time to do anything. The attack was very sudden." sighed Zana with a rare expression of helplessness. "Once the Palace was destroyed, the flying fortress flew away toward the East. I do not know where is it now, who even who just declared war on the Empire.

"I see. Where are you now?"

"At the capital, organizing the rescue efforts and maintaining order."

Jinah nodded, already thinking about the most optimal way to find it.

"I will gather a few of my companions and go to the Aldegyr Kingdom just like last time, then fly to your capital. We should be there within an hour. We will heal the injured and search for that fortress."

"Yes, thank you." nodded Zana.

Jinah nodded and turned to the others.

"Gudako and Mash? The others should stay there and be ready to intercept if that fortress suddenly appears above Hitogami Island?"

"Fine by me." nodded Gudako.

"Yes." agreed

"If something is about to create a spatial Rift around Hitogami, I should be able to feel it coming at least a few seconds in advance." sighed Natsuki. "Good Luck, everyone."

"Thank you, we're going." nodded Jinah as she left the room, Gudako and Mash following her. They took the Sanctuary, Mash and Gudako entered, and Jinah used her Shadow Exchange Skill.

…

Queen Polifonia Rihavein raised an eyebrow as a shadow soldier emerged from her shadow. She knew Jinah had left her and her girls with a shadow soldier each, just in case, but seeing it suddenly appear still surprised her for a moment.

And then, the Shadow soldier suddenly was replaced by Jinah.

"Hi, Jinah." grinned La Folia beside her.

"Hi, La Folia, Poli." nodded Jinah as she took a look around, saw that they were in some kind of command center. On a large screen was the picture of a roughly spherical object. It vaguely looked like a lightbulb, with its upper half covered with huge square panels aside from a golden castle at the very top, and its lower half, uncovered, revealing upside-down structures looking like large buildings.

"Hello, Jinah. I assume you know what just happened in the Warlord's Empire?" asked Polifonia.

"Queen Zana just called us, and replacing one of the Shadow Soldiers I left with you was the fastest way to get there. Is this the flying fortress?"

"Yes. Queen Zana just sent us this picture. It flew toward the South-East after destroying the Warlord's palace, at a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour."

Jinah nodded and put another Shadow Soldier in Polifonia's shadow.

"I'll be on my way then. See you later."

"Good Luck."

"You have received a new quest."

Jinah blinked at the message suddenly appearing, and consulted her quest tab.

"Quest 7: Seize control of the Devas' ultimate weapon, the Shito. Reward: The 6 452 weaponized familiars will be sent to Hagun Island."

"A Deva weapon, huh?" muttered Jinah as she took to the skies, thinking about the mention of the third villain they had been asked to tame in the fifth quest, a woman named Ladli Ren. She guessed that she would be found inside the Shito.

She didn't use one of her black dragons as she could fly faster by herself.

About forty minutes later, she reached the place where the massive Imperial Palace once stood, now replaced by rubble.

Without a word, she landed near the ambulances that had not yet departed, got Mash and Gudako out of the Sanctuary, and they walked from one injured to another, healing them. She also summoned a thousand Shadow Soldiers of various sizes, from tall human to giant, and sent them to help clear the debris and extract any potential survivor.

It didn't take long for Queen Zana to find her.

"Should have figured out you were with the injured." sighed Zana as she gave Jinah a quick hug. "Thank you, Jinah."

"Zana, those are my friends, Gudako and Mash. The three of us, as well as my Shadow Soldiers, should be enough to deal with those who attacked you. Do you know anything about their motives?"

"No. This came out of nowhere. The Empire has enemies, of course, but no one who could get access to whatever this flying fortress is."

"I see. Where is that thing now?"

"It flew in the direction of the Empire's South-West border." sighed Zana. "But it should be about to enter lands that haven't been settled, and that fortress shot down the aerial forces we sent after it, both planes and vampires. And it doesn't return any radar echo. We may already have lost its location."

"Shot down? What kind of weapons does it possess?"

"It threw more giant familiars at the response force. And each of those is about as powerful as one from Ki." replied Zana, looking back at the debris. "He's probably all ticked off under those debris."

"You believe he is alive?" asked Gudako.

"Of course. Progenitors aren't that easy to kill. The familiar who destroyed the palace would have needed a direct hit at the very least, not simply collapsing the palace on the Warlord's head. But we still lost many good subordinates. Whoever did this is going to pay."

As if mentioning the Warlord summoned him, a shadow soldier approached the ambulance, holding the upper half of Ki Juranbarada, the Warlord. His lower half was missing, but he was still conscious, his face twisted in pain.

"Hey, Jinah, and friends. Thanks for coming."

"Hi, Warlord. I am sorry about your losses." sighed Jinah, deciding it was too soon to make a joke about how awful he looked. "…I am about to bring out all two hundreds of my dragons and spread them out with a fifteen kilometers interval to search for this thing. Queen Zana, can you warn your troops at the border? My dragons won't retaliate even if they are fired upon, but it would still make things better."

"I will. I will also go with you." declared Zana with a tone that brook no argument.

"Okay." nodded Jinah.

…

Almost an hour Later, Jinah saw the flying fortress with her own eyes, over fifteen kilometers away, and landed to let most of her dragons enter her shadow. Some were still on their way back to her, but she ordered them to simply land where they were and wait for her next command. She didn't want whoever was in the fortress to notice them if she could.

It was for that reason that she had ordered her dragon to stay far away from the fortress as soon as they found it.

Alone in the forest, Jinah quickly changed into the Light Rune-enhanced black leather bodysuit she had used against Tartarus Lapse, then activated the runes, making herself invisible before flying again, slowly closing the distance to the flying fortress.

Since the quest had given her the mission to seize the Shito, she wanted to try infiltrating it rather that turning it into an aerial fight.

She slowed down as she came near and put an arm in front of her, half-expecting to impact an invisible shield, but there was no such thing, and she reached without issue the Shito's lower half. The golden structures really resembled upside down buildings from the outside, and she entered through one of the many open 'windows'.

Where the exterior was golden and illuminated by lights located on the inside of the outer shell, the inside was dimly lit and made of a dark gray material that Jinah couldn't immediately determine if it was metal or stone.

Jinah took the Sanctuary from her spatial ring and let Gudako, Mash and Zana out.

"What is this place, Jinah?" asked Mash as she looked around.

"We're inside the flying fortress, near its lowest levels."

"Those are people?" asked Gudako, pointing out the obvious.

They were standing at the bottom of a space shaped like a reserve Aztec pyramid, and the wall at each level held coffin-shaped alcoves every two meters. The inner surface of those alcoves gave off a dim blue light, and were the room's only illumination.

And floating inside each of those alcoves, was a girl. There were hundreds of them in this room alone.

Their features and hair varied, but they were all of similar height, and all dressed in a rough gray robe. Their eyes were open, but they blankly gazed forward as if they were not conscious.

"…I think those girls are the Weaponized Familiars' hosts." guessed Gudako.

"You mean like December and Avrora are the hosts of two of the Fourth Progenitor's familiars, Senpai?" asked Mash.

"That is quite correct." replied a smug voice coming from one of the hallways in the room's upper levels, and Jinah and the others lifted their heads.

A young woman walked in and stopped at the top of the stairs, looking down at them. She had long, dark gray hair reaching the back of her knees and amethyst eyes. She was dressed like an idol, with knee-high brown leather boots, blue stockings, a white shirt with short sleeves, a short wine-colored tie, and a wine-colored skirt with white frills. A small top hat with a white handkerchief was sitting on her head at an angle, and she held a gray staff ending with a red crystal ball.

Overall, her outfit looked like that of a muted magical girl, without pink and bright colors or exaggerated bows.

"I was wondering why one of the alarms had been triggered. It seems rats have managed to find their way inside my residence."

"So it was you! You old hag!" spat Zana, her expression contorting in fury.

"Indeed, this is my doing." chuckled the woman. "I am exceedingly honored to have an audience with you, Queen Zana Lashka, even if you are the seventy-second, the very bottom of the queen litter".

"Seventy Second?" asked Mash with a raised eyebrow, and Zana shrugged.

"Ki had other queens before." said Zana through gritted teeth. "Not that I am going to let the ramblings of someone seven millennia my elder get to me."

"Hah?!" exclaimed the woman, and Jinah could almost see a vein pop on her forehead. "Elder who?! Time flows differently inside the Necropolis so I'm every bit as young as I physically appear! And you don't age so you're in the same boat!"

"My age isn't even one tenth of yours!" countered Zana.

"Tch." spat out Ladli. "Your insolent and brash behavior hasn't changed since last time. But this is just fine."

Ladli took a dep breath and smiled.

"I will be as gentle as possible when I break you, Queen Zana, because I want to enjoy it for a long time. Did you think children who haven't even lived a thousand years could win against me, Ladli Ren?"

"So I assume you two know each other?" asked Mash.

"She's the leader of MAR, Magna Ataraxia Research. She plays at being a CEO, but it's actually a cover this old hag uses to do some shady stuff!" spat Zana.

"I see." shrugged Jinah. She had vaguely heard about it since they had a branch in Itogami Island, but they hadn't really done anything to bring her on her radar.

"Why did you even attack the Warlord's Empire?" asked Jinah.

"When you defeated the Chaos Bride, you proved that Progenitors aren't all that strong." said Ladli, recovering her smug expression. "I guess I should thank you for that, Jinah Sung. Now, it is time for the world to be returned under the rule of the Deva, and I have the means to do it."

Jinah stared at her for a few seconds, then sighed heavily.

"Such a basic and crass motive. I am actually disappointed. And you aren't afraid that the very person who defeated Giada Kukulcan is right there, and about to give you the mother of all spankings?"

"I am not!" snorted Ladli. "Your dragons aren't there, and I won't give you the time to summon them!"

Ladli swiftly aimed her staff in their direction. As Jinah created several layers of Light Shields, each large enough to cover herself and her three companions, she saw a notification of her system.

"You have resisted Crystallization."

Mash, Gudako and Herself were unaffected, but Zana turned into a red crystal version of herself, as if petrified.

As Ladli's eyes started to widen in alarm, seeing that only Zana had been affected, Jinah put a hand on Zana's shoulder, activating Purge, and the thin layer of red crystal shattered, revealing an unharmed Zana inside.

"How?"

"Someone didn't do her homework." smirked Jinah before activating Shunpo. She didn't intend to just let Ladli pull off another trick.

Jinah reappeared just in front of Ladli, tore the staff off her hands, and took her down with a sweep of her legs.

"Ouf!" cried Ladli as she impacted the ground. Before she knew it, her arms were grabbed and forced behind her back. She struggled, but couldn't stop Jinah from cuffing her and engraving a Stop Rune on her nape.

"Stop, Zana." said Jinah as she saw the Queen about to pounce, silver sword in hand.

"She tired to kill Ki and killed a lot of my subordinates!" growled Zana.

"And she will pay for it, you can be sure of that. She will be broken, thoroughly. But the gods ordered us to keep her alive. She won't be able to make up for what she's done if she's dead. I do not mind if you participate in her punishment, though."

Zana breathed heavily, but eventually nodded, her silver sword changing shape and turning coiling around her waist, turning back into the belt Jinah had assumed was just an accessory.

"You! Release me, and I'll give you anything you could possibly want!" tried Ladli, her face pale. "Do you desire money? Power?"

Jinah sighed again and pulled Ladli on her feet.

"How many more are in this flying fortress?"

Ladli didn't answer.

"We'll do things the hard way, then." shrugged Jinah before stuffing Ladli inside the Sanctuary. It was a pity that Medb remained in Itogami. In hindsight, it was a mistake not to bring her.

"Let's start exploring this thing. We need to find the control room." said Jinah, and the others nodded.

In the end, it only took a few more minutes for the girls to find the control room, as well as threaten the 6 men inside to stand down and surrender. Jinah received confirmation that the quest had been completed, and 6452 catatonic girls appeared in Hagun Island.

Jinah didn't have any direct mean of contacting Noah to inform him, as none of the seven representatives were present, so she did the next best thing and called Chaldea. She knew Akeno had recently returned from her timeline and would be able to relay the news.

…

"Noah-sama, your phone is ringing repeatedly."

Noah heard Arianna's voice and logged off. He was pretty sure he was about to exit the Ghastly Grounds and enter the Lonely Spirit Ridge, and was looking forward to fighting better monsters than Zombies, Poison Zombies and Running Zombies. They simply weren't interesting as monsters, and Little Grey didn't do anything with their corpses.

He logged off, seeing the girls still connected to Mystic Moon, and smiled at Arianna as she handed him his phone.

"Thank you, Arianna."

"You're welcome, Noah-sama." nodded Arianna as she left the room.

Noah watched the screen, seeing calls from Akeno and Aria.

He decided to directly teleport to Aria, and looked in surprise as the garden of his main palace was a beehive of activity. Thousands of the sisters and other members of his harem were in the process of dressing many other despondent girls with maid uniforms.

"Ah, Noah, you're there." grinned Aria.

"You called. What's happening?"

"All those girls suddenly appeared. And the Island also grew three more palaces. Those girls haven't said a single word, but they also follow our instructions obediently. They're healthy, but seem to have no education or social skills, and they couldn't even give us their names. Grayfia and Mom suggested we assign a member of the harem with each of them to teach them what they need to live independently. Well, as independently as other members of the harem, of course."

"I see. Great job, everyone." smiled Noah.

"Eheh, thanks." grinned Aria. "They're all cute. I look forward to seeing how their personalities will develop. And it's good training for when the island will be full of kids. How are things in your new world?"

"I pissed off some rich young master, so he used his family's money to mobilize some of the strongest humans of that world against me. They will likely try to ambush me soon." shrugged Noah.

"Sounds like fun. Do they know that you know?" grinned Aria.

"No. I completed my preparations this morning to counter them. Spent close to a month in my Sanctuary doing nothing but creating twelve hundred large combat golems, and that was so tiring I considered just cheating and teleporting to my foes to take them out one by one, but that wouldn't have been fun for Lilith-sama and her peers."

"Anyway, now I'm just grinding in Mystic Moon while keeping my eyes open… Hi, everyone." smiled Noah as many of his girls started gathering around them, each holding the hand of one of the newcomers.

"Greetings, Noah-sama." smiled Grayfia. "It seems we have been given many new maids."

"It seems so, yes."

"Noah, I just had a chat with Akeno!" declared Rias as she gently made her way to the forefront. "Those artificially created girls are hosts for weaponized familiars, and the gods sent them to us as a reward for a quest Jinah's team fulfilled. They can summon a huge monster that will rampage and destroy anything around it, but doing so will also kill them. Jinah captured a villainess that was using them as literal ammunitions!"

"I see." sighed Noah as he eyed the despondent girls. "Everyone, please take care of them, but also put a Stop rune on them for now, just in case. I would like for Tabane to talk with the Sisters and recreate the Testament devices that were used on them to give them basic life knowledge. After that, those girls can decide how they wish to live on the Island."

"Understood, Noah-sama." nodded Grayfia.

"Well then, since it seems you all have things well in hand. I'll be back this Sunday afternoon and leave Monday morning. This way, I will also visit a few of you in your dreams. I may do that several times a week if I can afford it."

The girls cheered, and Rias, bolder than the others, walked to him and gave him a hungry kiss.

The floodgates opened, and Noah left a half-hour later than he had expected.

…

"Damn it. This is more torturous than I expected." admitted Esdeath, tugging on her bonds. With her strength sealed by that strange rune magic, she felt as weak as any random woman, and her efforts were futile.

Darkness, sitting near her, nodded with a satisfied smile on her face.

Esdeath was in one of the rooms of the Sanctuary's house, as the basement was crowded. She had been trussed up in a very tight hogtie with white rope, had a black leather collar around her neck, and a leather blindfold covering her eyes.

But the source of her torment was the chastity belt, made of an unknown material. She had scoffed at the blonde pervert when she had put it on her, not understanding why she counted something so tame as torture.

But soon after it was locked on her, Esdeath's eyes had bulged in surprise and disgust behind the blindfold as she felt tendrils touching her crotch. The belt was actually a living thing!

Esdeath had felt only disgust when it started, but slowly, despite herself, her body had grown more and more aroused. And whenever she started thinking that something was about to burst, the belt stopped moving, leaving her deeply unsatisfied.

And she was growing very frustrated!

"You are starting to understand." nodded Darkness. "Torture that causes injuries is stupid, wasteful, and shortsighted. The best torture is the one that makes the victim choose between her desires and her principles. The one that makes the victim beg for being humiliated."

"You pervert." snorted Esdeath. "Still, you have a point… I am imagining Najenda in one of those belts and begging me to lick my boots to get it removed, and… it is quite satisfying. I would still whip the skin off her back afterwards, though. Just like I will do with you, once I get out of these."

"Eheheh." chuckled Darkness, her cheeks reddening.

Esdeath couldn't see her, but she could guess from the sounds, and she sighed.

"I shouldn't threaten a freak like you with torture. It only makes you more excited…"

"It does!"

"And don't think I am not aware that you used more rope to tie yourself up. My ears are working just fine. But you know that this belt isn't going to make me submit to you, right?"

"I know." nodded Darkness. "And yes, I tied myself up with a vibrator, because I was envious of you."

"An irredeemable freak… But why? You should either not torture me at all, or use real torture. Start with the pincers and the needles, if you dare!" challenged Esdeath.

"No. You are a special case, Esdeath."

"Of course I'm special. I am Esdeath, the Empire's strongest." replied Esdeath with pride.

"But the Empire is just a little backwater country." shrugged Darkness. "There are many who are stronger than you in Master's harem. But I said that you are special because we do not put you through the Bad Girl treatment, the one meant to break villains and turn them into obedient and submissive sluts. Master has something entirely different in mind for you."

"Something different?"

"Yes." smiled Darkness. "Master will bind you to his Throne of Domination. Once that magic takes effect, you will be unable to disobey any of his orders. You will be bound to him for eternity, and that magic is irreversible… Ah, I want Master to do the same to me!"

Esdeath shook her head and sighed, trying to ignore the belt's persistent ministrations. If Darkness wanted it, it probably was really bad.

"Master decided that it is fine if you remain a sadist, as long as you are unable to hurt others without his approval. That doesn't mean he will not punish you and humiliate you a lot, of course. You did a lot of terrible things, and he will make you pay for your bad actions. He just will refrain from twisting you into someone who would love being punished."

"It is actually worse, you know? You will be one of a handful Master will use when he is in the mood for rough plays, and for a reluctant plaything... Just thinking about it makes me want it so bad!"

"Then why did you put that damn belt on me, if your so-called Master possesses a magic to make me obey him, and you're not trying to break me?"

"Oh, that is just to play with you until I bring you to Master!" grinned Darkness.

Esdeath sighed again. Darkness certainly was a pervert and a masochist, but it seemed she could also be a bit of a sadist as well. That made Esdeath respect her just a tiny bit.

…

Jinah opened the door of the basement and dragged Ladli inside, followed by Zana, Gudako and Mash.

The flying Fortress, the Shito, had ben set to remain stationary, and Ladli's accomplices has been locked into a room. With them neutralized, Jinah had decided it was time to secure Ladli more properly, and brought everyone inside the Sanctuary.

"Is this where you will start making that old hag pay for her crimes?" asked Zana as she looked around.

"Yes." nodded Jinah. She used her item creation ability to create a latex swimming cap and stretched it over Ladli's head, then started gathering her hair inside.

Ladli remained silent, since the red ball gag would have made her words meaningless, and simply glared at her.

As she did, she glanced at Zana for a few seconds, considering.

She got along well with Zana. She didn't want to part with her when the time to leave this world would come. And she knew the crest engraved on her body gave her a desire to add beautiful women to Noah's harem.

And this was a rare opportunity, as the Queen was away from the Warlord, and her people wouldn't worry about her absence for a day or two. No one in the Warlord's empire knew that they already had found and neutralized the flying fortress. Jinah and the others could easily delay things a little.

When she was done gathering Ladli's hair under the swimming cap, she took from a shelf a black leather discipline helmet. Ladli flinched at the sight of the ominous accessory, but she was handcuffed, and Gudako grabbed her, keeping her in place.

As Zana stared with anticipation, Jinah put the leather hood on Ladli's head, adjusted the breathing holes, and started on the lacing. As she did, he exchanged a glance with Gudako and Mash, quickly signaled to Zana with her eyes, and taped with her index twice on the hood's surface.

Mash and Gudako understood, and they thought for a few seconds, then exchanged a glance. Mash made a small nod with a smile, and Gudako grinned.

Mash walked away to take a black leather collar from one of the shelves and engraved Stop runes on its inner surface.

Zana saw her do it, but didn't look at her for more than a few seconds, assuming the collar was for Ladli.

"What are you going to do to that old hag, Jinah?" eagerly asked Zana. "How will you punish her?"

"We will dehumanize her completely.  She'll remain hooded for a long time. We will keep her tightly bound at all times. And we will subject her to strict training, punishing any rebellion or hesitation until she breaks. By the time we are done, this arrogant and power-hungry woman will be gone, and a very submissive and obedient slave will be born. Then, she will make up for her actions with her worship, and by doing humanitarian work."

Ladli, who had heard Jinah's words as the hood didn't stop sounds, flinched and protested loudly, but the gag and the hood were effective in reducing them to unintelligible sounds, and she felt Jinah's hands removing her clothes.

Zana didn't notice anything strange as Mash and Gudako stood to her sides, ostensibly watching Jinah's actions.

"Do you want to help me tie her to the St-Andrew cross, Zana?" smiled Jinah.

"Sure." nodded Zana, walking towards the device and reaching for the first leather cuff, opening it.

"Oh? Did you already know its name, or did you guess from its shape?" asked Jinah with a grin.

"I've lived for three centuries, Jinah. I experimented a bit about BDSM a while ago. Not as a lifestyle, however. Just as some bedroom fun."

"And did you like it?" asked Mash.

"I did. But Ki and I couldn't agree on who would be on top, so we stopped this kind of play."

Ladli struggled in vain as Jinah and Zana bound her securely to the cross, fastening cuffs around her wrists and ankles, then belts around her waist and collar.

Zana stepped back with a satisfied smile… and felt soft leather against her nape.

"What?" blurted out Zana trying to life her hands to her neck as she felt a wave of weakness hit her, but Gudako hugged her suddenly, pinning her arms against her body.

"Is that some kind of play? Release me right now!"

"It's not a play, Zana." smiled Jinah. "It's a reward. We'll make you an Agent like us, and you will go with us when we leave this world. We're friends, so we want the best for you. And the best is for you to join us."

"It is as she says, Zana." purred Mash. "Being part of our family is the best. You won't like it at first, but you will change your mind. We became very good at this."

"Yeah! We're going to have a lot of fun together!" added Gudako.

Zana stared at them for a second, dumbfounded, then opened her mouth to protest. She was too late noticing the ball-gag.

"Mmmpho!" screamed Zana as it was forced into her mouth, and Mash fastened the strap tight, pushing it deeper.

Zana struggled, but she was stripped of her power, and soon enough, stripped of her clothes as well, police cuffs encircling her wrists.

"Let's take her to the largest room upstairs, we'll be more comfortable. Ladli can wait a few hours." grinned Jinah.