Tales of a Seductress

TOAD – Chapter 16

TOAD – Chapter 16 AnnouncementI switched the release to monday. No specific reason other than I wanted to stagger my released more. I think haven't something come out every day is preferrably to ten things coming out in one day. Not sure if it matters, but there it is. P.S. You guys may not know this, another thing mentioned in my site, but this was supposed to be a Triology originally. The third book did not finish the story. This will end up being a quadrilogy. It will be done in the 4th story. In reality, Book 2 ended up a bit long and Book 3 actually ends where book 2 originally was supposed to, so Book 2 ended up turning into Book 2 and 3... and Book 4 will end it. It hasn't started writing yet, but it will be named Tales of the Sex Goddess or something to that affect.

There were many reasons I wanted to travel with Bradrick. The most obvious one was to escape the stifling conditions under his little brother and mother. However, I also had a desire to push against the barrier of my second tier and become a third tier. How many levels would I gain from the sudden influx of store up experience? It left me fairly interested.

I stretched out my naked body luxuriously in the bed. A light moan occurred from the girl next to me. I looked over at Beedle, who was lying naked next to me. Our night together had been rather eventful. It didn’t take too much before she opened up for me. By that, I of course meant her legs. I knew nothing more about the girl than what I had already heard the night before. However, when it came to her body, I had gotten very intimate.

She was still sleeping now, her eyes flickering in a fitful sleep. I rose out of bed and quickly clothed myself. I found it always best when it came to sleeping with people I had to work with after to maintain a professional distance. If I remained next to her when she woke up, we would need to snuggle. I would need to calm her down and reassure her that she made the right decision, and whisper sweet nothings in her ears. If she was receptive, we might even have another go while she was less tipsy, solidifying her awakening as a lesbian.

Well, I didn’t care to awaken her in any way, and I didn’t want to soothe out her confusion and discomfort. I wanted it to be like a happy dream. I wouldn’t talk about it, and I wouldn’t treat her any differently. She might be nicer to me, and maybe we could even be friends a bit. As she saw me flirt around with men, she’d eventually convince herself that it never happened. Maybe she had imagined the whole thing? Then, she’d move on with her life.

By that point, her obsession with Bradrick would be over, and so I wouldn’t have to deal with a bitch trying to get in my way or threaten me in battle. That’s why I ultimately did what I did. With her feelings for me wrapped up in her heart, my place at this party was already safer. Of course, I’d similarly seduce Rio when I had the time. Well, he was already feeling me up last night, so it wouldn’t take a lot to bring him to that point. It might not be at the stage where we slept together, but it would at least need to be to the stage where he’d die to protect me. With both of them emotionally loyal to me, even if Bradrick was reckless, I should be able to get out of most situations intact.

At least, that was how I planned things these days. Was it cold? Possibly. Every relationship was engineered and manipulated, but when you could get what you wanted from people, wouldn’t you act in a way to maximize your own benefits? Everyone does, I think. I’m just better at it to the point I can be a realist. Besides, this world had taken too much from me already. I couldn’t allow myself to treat relationships as anything else than an arrangement.

As I finished getting dressed, I could hear more whimpering and shifting from Beedle. She had woken up as was just sitting up in bed as she rubbed her eyes. Damn. I was a few minutes too slow. If I slipped out quickly enough though, I could maintain the status quo. That was what I was thinking until the door opened and Bradrick poked his head inside.

“Hey, are you guys ready to-“

I was already decent, or at least as decent as I cared to be. Nothing, in particular, would have revealed what we had been doing all night. I had already put my toys back into the storage ring Bradrick had given me. However, the issue here was that Beedle was still naked in bed. His mouth froze as his eyes fell on her. As she sat up, her blanket had fallen, exposing her bare chest. She stared at him, one hand up rubbing her eye.

The situation slowly started to dawn on the pair. Beedle’s expression slowly turned red. Meanwhile, Bradrick was stuck staring at her, unable to turn his eyes away. Had it been me, I would have invited him into my bed. As for Beedle, she picked up a pillow and chucked it at Bradrick’s head. As he ducked, his senses returned to him.

“Ah! S-sorry!”

“You pervert! Pervert!” She screamed.

He ran out the door and it slammed shut before the second pillow was released. She threw it anyway, striking the door before letting out a roar of anger to no one in particular.

“I never understood why you’d get so upset. Don’t you have a crush on him? Seeing your body in this way, it’ll be the only thing on his mind for days.” I observed.

Beedle spun to me, and then the shock in her eyes melted away. She covered her chest and blushed, looking away again.

“It’s... not the same,” she said in almost a pout.

I shrugged and then started walking to the door.

Our words ended up catching the ears of several other tables. These were all adventurers, who were here getting early morning missions or getting ready to set out on missions they had started the night before. Some of them had drunk with us, while others had just arrived. Either way, they were mostly a rough lot.

“Hey! Can you cure my headache too?” A man asked, stepping forward and pursing his lips in a kiss.

The other men around him made a laugh. As for Bradrick, his expression turned sour. He didn’t seem to like that I was getting attention. I didn’t know if it came from some protectiveness over the girls in his party, or simply because it meant that he didn’t get to be the center of attention.

“Sure...” I flashed him a smile, walked over two steps, and then pecked him on the lips.

He was stunned as he stumbled back a few steps. Then, he took one foot and stomped it on the other. Then let out a cry, followed by a laugh.

“Well, shit! The petrification in my right foot is gone!” He cried out.

I had done the kiss to get Rio and Bradrick a little jealous, but I hadn’t predicted he had real problems. All the men in the adventuring guild suddenly grew more animated as they heard this. The man had pulled out his foot and was twinkling his toes, showing people. Honestly, his foot probably would have looked and smelled better when it was stone. However, hearing someone cured a headache was one thing. Hearing they cured a rare petrification curse was another.

“Hey, can you cure this?”

“Oh, kiss me.”

The men started to crowd around me. I had been in enough gangbangs with feral men driven to lust by my pheromones. This kind of crowding didn’t worry me. However, Bradrick was another story. He stood up, his expression quickly turning to anger.

“Hey, baby, why don’t you kiss this?” One of the adventurers who were probably still drunk from last night wiped out his dick.

Before anyone could say anything, Bradrick slugged the man. He fell back, hitting a table and knocking it over. Bradrick jumped on top of him and started hitting him again. The man let out a scream as he finally realized he was being beaten, but Bradrick didn’t lighten up. He didn’t say anything. There was no lesson to be learned. It was just brutality.

“Brad!” Rio cried out.

Bradrick froze, and then finally stood up. The drunk was a bloody mess. The other men, even those who had come with the man, hadn’t moved against Bradrick at all. They all knew his status. He spun to the rest of them.

“None of you will touch her.” He snarled, blood dripping from his fists.

“What happened?” A quiet voice came from the stairway.

We all turned to see Beedle standing there. She was dressed now and had only seen the end where Bradrick was beating a man, so her question was an honest one. No one dared to speak up though. Bradrick’s face smoothed out and he cleared his throat.

“We’re going.” He turned around and left the guild, expecting the rest of his form to follow him.

The other parties of men quickly turned away. A few men went to care for the drunk, whose face was ruined and he might need medical aid to recover. This was Bradrick’s true nature slipping through. I had finally seen the man underneath.