<~> Chapter 111I sighed and looked over the waist-high wall on the roof of the brothel. Maybe half a bell after we got to the room, a few of the girls w here brought us a few bowls of thin and bnd soup. I only had a few spoonfuls before letting the rest of the girls split the rest of it. I hope Silva didn't see it as me being too stuck up, I just didn't o eat. At least not in that way. sidering everything was being ratio was better for the others to share it rather than waste it on me. I also got that beer for Silva to share with the irls, I just hope she doesn't get too trashed. I'm irely sure what the pn is tomorrow yet. As for Bel... well, maybe it was better for her to eat. Like me, she didn't get as much out of the food but maybe it could help her regee her maer. I wasn't too sure, I pulled up the trait again.

  [Sexual Appetite - Racial Trait]Succubi appetites are different from that of most other creatures. Rather thaing on flesh and pnts they instead gain sustenance from lust aspect magic siphoned from pleasure during sexual enters. Feeding on this source doesn’t harm the sexual partner. Starving succubi will find it harder to process information, make rational decisions, and think about anything other than sex and masturbation. Level of Sexual Appetite is increased by taking new partners and higher levels of Sexual Appetite increases the time before faculties are impaired due to hunger. Succubi are uo starve to death but will eventually be forced to masturbate stantly until they find a sexual parto sate their hunger. Regur food be eaten but will not affect sustenanless high in magitent. Colleg sustehrough sexual as removes the potency from sexual fluids unless iionally trying to bee pregnant. The amount of lust aspect mana geed by sexual enters is increased by an additional 50% per person involved.

  All it says is that it won't affect sustenanaybe even the food Bel ate was wasted. I sighed and just let it go for now. After eating, Bel id doassed out almost immediately. Torien and Silva went into the adjoining room to rest as well. I've been up for a bit over 40 hours now ae the enter with the bandits, the busy night guarding the wagons, the i with the priest, and helping out Raya, I still didn't feel particurly sleepy. Tired sure but not sleepy. It was odd being like this. I wonder if I was burning up my lust mana reserves as I stood here thinking. Still, there was something that drew me to the rooftop to look over the baly. A moment of quiet peace where not even Mimi's thoughts and feelings were filtering into me through our bond. For the first time in a while, I was all alone.

  I looked over the city in front of me. The four-story building I was standing on was one of the taller buildings iy, none of them reached as high as the skyscrapers of my old world. I wonder if I had lived in a rge city like New York or Los Angeles? I could remember the buildings but not if I had been in them or not. I'm pretty sure I was from the Uates based on the measurements the system transted everything to, they felt familiar. Eventually, when we made it to the capital, I would probably have to learn this world's measurements to avoid the sloppy automativersion I was already notig here and there. It was something I first noticed wheing Bel's dress made, not all of the measurements transted ly.

  A lot of the city was lit by torches but there were some parts of town lit with some kind of magitern. There were also parts of the city that were pletely pitch bck. Even from all the way over here, there were obvious remnants of the destru in some of those areas. There was some sign of it i areas too, spots cordoned off with wooden barriers. Past the interior of the city, rge braziers lit the edges of the massive wall that sprawled out around the perimeter of the city, they were so big that I could see them clearly from over here. They were like rge glowing dots on the horizon.

  The access door opened on my left and the person that stepped through took a surprised breath when she saw me standing there. It was Raya, the pretty fox girl that Bel saved only a few ho. I waved her over with a smile before looking back dowhe city.

  She walked over and leaned on the wall o me. "I didn't expect to see you up here, a lot of people are afraid of the height."

  "Heights aren't something that bothers me. The view up here is beautiful."

  Raya smiled and leaned forward, her paw-like hands gripped the edges of the stone wall. "I e up here often at night... when I . I don't always have the time to spend up here alone when I should be w but I usually make time for the su's a great sight." Her tail swished bad forth, giving her an air of te.

  "Do you like it here?" I realized how iive the question might have been after I said it. "Oh sorry, maybe I shouldn't have asked that..."

  She just ughed and turo me while resting her cheek on one of her rge paws. "It's okay, it's not something that bothers me. To answer your question, yes actually." She looked back over the city with a big smile on her face. "The irls here are like family to me. Madame Oe is like a mother to me. And unlike some of the irls I do enjoy the work."

  Her tail flicked in agitation for a moment before it returo its gentle swaying as she tinued, "I'll be hohough. I've grown to enjoy my life here but this wasn't what I would have chosen for myself... If I did have a choice." She held her rge paw out in front of her, its shadow was silhouetted in the light of the city. "These big dumb hands of mine make me pletely useless for anything but talking to people and spreading my legs. I 't properly hold a pen, a sword, or even a serving tray. Basically any other options were closed off to me. Since I have to dull my cws for the ers, they weren't even useful when that guy was chokioday." She flexed her cws to demonstrate the bluips. She sighed and crossed her big paws in front of her.

  "Sorry, I didn't mean-"

  "Oh save it!" She looked mad but after a moment she sighed again and shook her head. "Sorry, but it feels even worse when people take pity on me..."

  The quiet between us lingered for a bit before I couldn't help but ask her something else, "Would you ge them? ...If you could?"

  She shrugged before turning her right paw over to look at the pad. "In a heartbeat. Maybe someday some bizarre flesh mage will e and sleep with me before me some free serviot that it's something I'm ting on." She flexed her cws a few more times. "Some of the irls have told me to embrace who I am, be proud of myself despite, or even because of my crippled paws... but they don't have to live with it like I do. I have trouble opening doors, I have to ask for help getting a key from the et, I 't evehe o food to the one who saved my life. It's not even that I feel ashamed for asking for help, I just wish I didn't have to do it so often."

  Raya sighed heavily and looked back over the city. "...I probably wouldn't leave this brothel even if some crazy flesh mage did ge my paws though. I've grown to love this pce, the people living here with me," she chuckled before tinuing, "even the sex. Some people look down on whores but I get to meet super iing people from all over. I get to share some of their most intimate moments every single day. Sure, not all of them are winners... but I love getting to meet lots of new people and make both our lives more enjoyable in the short amount of time we get to spend together. Sometimes I eveo meet amazing people like you and your friends. Imagine, a talented healer willing to heal a brothel full of prostitutes for free. Sure we oftehe worst in people but we also sometimes get to see the best in people too."

  Raya had a smile that made her look even more beautiful in that moment. A genuine happy smile at a life many would fih them. I don't know what emotion that brought out in me. Pride? Respect?

  I smiled. "That's a beautiful outlook on life."

  She giggled. "Thanks. I don't knoeople have against whores anyway. All we're doing is making people happy."

  I looked up at the dark sky. What if I turned Raya into a Succubus? Man had been encio spread my race, I like Raya's outlook on life and being a succubus would likely improve it. Her form could ge with the transformation, likely giving her regur hands if she wahem, as well as [Succubus Shifting] which would let her alter things further if she needed... But I'm still hesitating. Receiving these oaths and transf others into a literal different species scares me a little... But what if it's in the recipient's best i? I'll think about it, talk to Bel and the others about it. Maybe extend the offer to the whole brothel... or maybe just the ones Raya and the Madame trust.

  Raya ughed and looked at me. "You have something heavy on your mind? You look like you ate a bug or something. You don't know me all that well but I keep a secret! If you o get something off your chest it's the least I could do to help. I listen to my ts vent all the time, it be pretty o let it all out. You look like someone who thinks a bit too much."

  "I've certainly heard that before," I said with a chuckle. "But no thanks. Unfortunately, it's not something I talk about openly. ...I'm pnning on talking about it with my other friends though."

  "Well that's good! ...wait you just said other friends? Does that mean you sider me a friend?!" Raya looked overly excited for something as simple as this but her enthusiasm was iious.

  "Why not? Yreat! Despite everything you're always smiling, always cheerful. Quick to help us out too, even if we did help you with that thug. If we hadn't run into you today we'd probably still be bumbling around in the dark part of the city right now." I poi the nearby area of the city that was dark, only a few torches patrolled through the area here and there.

  At first she smiled but her tail slowed and her ears pulled back, making her look rather guilty. "I have to admit something to you... Hopefully you're not mad." She paused but I waited for her to tinue. "After Bel healed me it gave me an idea. I kinda... led you here on purpose. I knew a bunch of the girls were hurt and I thought maybe we could work something out to get some healing. I didn't expect for Bel to offer to do it for free but I was really happy when offered ...sorry."

  "Hmm." I looked back out over the dark city, leaving the girl in suspense for a moment. She looked a bit nervous but eventually I couldn't hold back my smile. "Don't worry about it. When we saw the dition Tisha was in I thought that might have been what happened. Jade may as well have told us directly when she said 'Raya found a healer for Tisha.' But don't worry, none of us would be mad about that. Besides, you never lied to us, you said you knew a safe pd yht us here. Even if you did trick us into io help your family, I find that kind of oo. You saportunity to save your friend's life and you took it. If anything that just makes me respeore."

  The fox girl looked embarrassed. "You really think so?"

  "Of course," I said with a smile.

  Her tail swayed bad forth as we watched over the city lights. A subtle gri up the sides of her mouth. "No wonder you have so many girlfriends, it's like you have a gift fgling into people's hearts."

  "Wiggling?"

  She snickered. "Yeah! Wiggling!"

  We shared a ugh, two newly formed friends on the rooftop of a brothel.

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