“Agh!” I gasped, jerking away when a pain shot through my thigh.

  “Sorry, Master!” Zoe excimed, kneeling by my hip. Her tail raised from my leg and shed down toward my thigh again.

  I pulled my leg back just in time, and the heart-shaped tip struck the bed.

  “Zoe, what the fuck?!”

  “Don’t move!” she gasped, leaping at my legs. A naked succubus wiggling on top of me was distracting, but I really needed to know what was going on.

  Suddenly, Zoe gagged and pulled away. She sat back, coughing and choking even harder.

  Then I felt it - a wet and sticky sensation caused a shiver to run through my body as it shifted along the underside of my thigh.

  With the new knowledge from Gemma, it made sense. I had more mana than Hannah, and the slime changed its host during the night.

  “Zoe, are you okay?” I asked, as she was still coughing.

  “It’s disgusting!” she gasped, sticking her tongue out.

  “What’s going on?” Amber asked, rubbing her eyes as she woke up.

  “You really thought you could bite it off?” I asked Zoe with a smile, but didn’t wait for her answer. “Tilt your head back and open your mouth.” The slime settled somewhere high on my thigh, just below my ass, and I really hoped it would stay there.

  When Zoe did as I asked, I finally found a use for my skill. I summoned mana over her mouth and transformed it into water straight into it. She closed it quickly, and shifting to the edge of the bed, spat it out on the ground.

  “I’ll clean it ter,” she said, wiping her mouth with her hand.

  When I summoned my mana, the green goo quickly shifted to the top of my thigh, but when I turned it into water, it hid just as fast again.

  “The green goo moved from Hannah to me during the night,” I expined, looking at Amber and Azura while sliding out of the bed, trying to see it.

  I only caught a glimpse of it, and I wasn’t even sure what I had expected. It was just a coin-sized blob of green goo clinging to my skin. Then it shifted again, slipping out of sight.

  “Master, let me try again. I’ll take it away,” Zoe said, moving out of the bed after me. Her naked tits jiggled, fuller than when I had met her. I wanted to grab and squeeze them, press my lips against them, and-

  I needed to focus on the slime.

  “Let me try something first,” I said, averting my gaze from Zoe’s tits.

  If Gemma was right, the slime wanted mana. And having already dealt with one mana-sucking creature, I figured the best solution might be to give it what it wanted. A bit like feeding an animal to tame it.

  “Amber, do you have something that we could close it in?” I asked, gesturing at her bag.

  “Yeah,” she replied, moving out of the bed, just as naked as Zoe. I really should introduce a policy about clothes when we do important stuff. My gaze followed her long legs and firm ass as she pulled out a gss container with a lid.

  She tossed dry leaves out of it onto the table and passed it to me.

  “Zoe, hold it while I try to lure it off my body,” I said. Giving mana to it sounded a bit risky without knowing what would happen, but I assumed that one point shouldn’t cause any problems.

  When I summoned the mana in my hand, the slime’s reaction was immediate. It moved to the front of my thigh and higher, but I pushed the mana to the ground by Zoe’s feet.

  The slime slid down my leg, stopping at the top of my foot. It certainly sensed my mana but seemed reluctant to leave my body.

  “What is it doing?” Zoe asked, holding the container with both her hands, her tail unduting slowly behind her.

  “It wants mana. I summoned some by your feet,” I replied. “But it must know it's a trap.”

  I could try to summon more, pushing it to take a risk. Or I could offer it a little first. Shifting the mana orb closer to my legs, I watched as the slime began to bounce and wiggle, though it still clung to my body. No matter how close the mana came, it refused to leave my foot.

  If I gave it mana, it shouldn’t hurt me. First, if Gemma was right, it couldn’t suck it out of me on its own. And even if it was some sort of parasite, the smarter choice would be to cling to me and keep me alive. Not only did I have a lot of mana, but I was regenerating it. I was a stable food source for the slime. It really shouldn’t want to harm me.

  When I shifted the mana to my foot, the slime rushed into it. At the contact, I lost control over it, but it didn’t disperse as always, rather, it was sucked into the slime, where it vanished.

  The green goo shivered, wobbling from side to side like jelly. It seemed… happy. Maybe even excited. Then it started to bounce up and down, moving around the top of my foot quickly.

  “I gave it a point of mana,” I said.

  “And?” Zoe asked.

  “It ate it.”

  “So… it’s like me?” she asked with a cute frown.

  “Kind of,” I replied, wondering if I should give it more. Crouching to see it better, I reached my finger to touch it. On contact, it shifted from my foot to the palm of my hand. Looking at it up close, it was just a slightly transparent green goo.

  It seemed harmless. What could that small creature really do to me? Well… with magic involved, probably a lot. Then it was better to make sure that it would be friendly toward me. I summoned another mana point next to it. The slime again absorbed it quickly, and then wobbled.

  “Azura, Amber, you should wash,” I said while summoning a new point, feeding it to the slime. “Zoe, can you go find if Zelda is awake and bring her here?” I asked. She hadn’t been able to do much about the slime before, but she should know that it had changed hosts.

  “Yes, Master,” Zoe replied. All three women put on their clothes and left the room, as I was feeding the slime one point at a time. Waiting for Zelda and watching the slime, I realized that Amber had been really quiet from the moment she woke up.

  I had even told her to go wash, and she just did that… without any snide remark. Was she just groggy after sleep? Or was something else wrong? I should talk with her.

  When I summoned a seventh point, the slime didn’t rush into it like before. It slithered closer but seemed hesitant. Was it full? In the end, it absorbed the mana, but I decided to stop, not wanting to give it too much.

  It wobbled again for a moment, but then just stopped moving at all in the palm of my hand.

  I put on my pants just a moment before Zoe came back, with Zelda right behind her. The day before, she had been in her traveling clothes that covered her body, but this time she was only wearing loose shorts that reached halfway down her thighs and a casual shirt that emphasized her generous breasts.

  “Hey, I hope you weren’t asleep,” I said.

  Zelda’s gaze lingered on my naked chest and stomach before she raised it to my face. “No, actually I couldn’t fall asleep anyway.”

  “A new pce, or are you nervous about healing Mari?” I asked.

  “Both, though mostly I was thinking about healing Mari. I had never done a kitsune’s tail or ears before. But I have done a lot of arms and legs,” she added quickly. “And I’ll take care of her teeth today, which I have done thousands of times, so you don't have to worry.”

  “I trust you’ll do a good job,” I said.

  Zelda nodded with a smile. “The creature moved to you during the night?” she asked, stepping closer to me.

  I reached my hand to her, with the slime still sitting in my palm. Was it sleeping? Does it even sleep? Or was it just resting with its belly full… or whatever was equivalent to its stomach?

  “It seems calmer than yesterday,” she said, pulling a small metal rod out of her shorts and poking the slime with it gently. It just jiggled but didn’t really react. “Actually, it was running away all the time, and I was barely able to touch it,” Zelda said, raising her gaze to my face.

  “Um… I fed it, and it calmed down,” I replied.

  “With what?” Zelda asked, with a surprised tone.

  “Mana. I mean Zoe gave it her mana,” I corrected quickly, realizing that it was already too te and again I had revealed my css to someone.

  Zelda rolled her eyes with a smile. “Sage already told me. I wanted to wait, but since the topic came up, could I ask you for something? Actually, both of you,” she added, gncing at Zoe.

  “You can ask.” I shrugged.

  “I had never met a man with mana. Or had a chance to talk with a friendly succubus. And vampires are rare too. Mutants even more. So… I wondered if perhaps you would be okay to answer some of my questions?” she asked, looking between the two of us, but her gaze lingered longer on Zoe.

  “I doubt I’ll have answers to your questions,” I replied. “And I’ll need to talk with Gemma first.”

  “Of course,” Zelda replied. “What about Zoe?” she asked, looking at me.

  “You must ask her,” I said.

  Zoe looked at me with a confused frown. “I don't know,” she murmured. “Maybe… What are you gonna ask about?” she asked, looking at Zelda.

  “About your races. I don’t have prepared questions, but if you would be interested, I could write them down and give them to you, so you could think about them in your free time.”

  Zoe grunted softly, gncing at me.

  “We will think about it and let you know,” I said, sensing that Zoe wanted my help.

  “Okay, no pressure. Besides being a doctor, I’m a scientist, and you just piqued my curiosity. More than anything has in a very long time,” she said, then prodded the slime with the metal rod again. “So, it ate your mana?” she asked.

  “Yeah, I tried to lure it off my body with it, but it preferred to stay on me rather than eat.”

  “How did it eat? And how did it react?” Zelda asked.

  “It just rushed into the mana and sucked it in. Then wobbled and bounced happily.”

  “Happily?” Zelda snorted with a smile.

  “It seemed happy.” I shrugged.

  At that, Zelda frowned, looking from my face to the slime. “And can you tell how it feels now?” she asked.

  “Agh… calm, I guess. But you were able to tell the same from just watching it.”

  Zelda nodded slowly. “How much did you feed it?”

  “It ate six points eagerly, and the seventh one reluctantly, so I didn’t give it more.”

  “I can try to take it off now,” Zelda suggested.

  I looked at the green goo, wondering if I really wanted her to try. It didn’t seem dangerous, just resting in my hand. What if it got angry at me trying to get rid of it? The whole pn of taming it could be ruined.

  “Do you think it's dangerous if it stays on me?” I asked.

  “I don’t think so,” Zelda sighed. “Honestly, that’s another subject of research I’d want to pursue. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I can’t even tell if it’s an animal, a demon, or some strange magical fungus. I’d rule out a monster… but even that with a question mark.”

  “Let’s let it stay,” I said. Hannah had it for the whole day and nothing happened to her… Unless she was dead in her bed, and that was why the slime had shifted to me. “Umm… Did someone check on Hannah? If she’s okay?” I asked.

  “She was in the kitchen cooking something,” Zelda replied. “How much mana do you have?”

  I hesitated, unsure if I should tell her.

  “You were worried that it hurt Hannah and that’s why it moved to you,” Zelda said. “But it was much closer to her daughters. Or Mari. Or me. And even then, there were four people in your bed to choose from. I suppose it’s you because you have the most mana in the whole house.”

  “Over a thousand,” I told her. She already knew I had mana and probably suspected I had more than her. And we were both working for the same person.

  “More than me,” Zelda said with a nod. “That makes sense. I don’t think it would want to hurt you. If it was going to harm its hosts, it would’ve harmed Hannah before leaving her.”

  “I thought the same.”

  “Are you gonna feed it again?” she asked, pointing the metal rod at the slime.

  “Most likely.”

  “Can I watch?”

  “Sure.”

  “Great,” she said. “I don’t have the tools to examine it any further than I already have. I’ll go start preparing for Mari’s healing, if you don’t need me anymore.”

  When Zelda was leaving the room, Azura returned from the bath, with her bck hair completely drenched and only a shirt on that barely covered her crotch. I really hoped her mother or sisters hadn’t seen her like that.

  “Master,” Zoe purred behind me. “A bath together?” she asked, looking at me hungrily.

  “I would love to,” I replied. Zoe leapt onto me, wrapping her legs around my waist and her arms around my neck. I caught her instinctively, only then realizing I was still holding the slime in my palm. But it had already moved, sliding onto my shoulder and trailing slowly down my back until it settled somewhere along my spine. A shiver ran through me, but once it stopped moving, I could barely sense it anymore.

  “Azura, maybe you should dress and go to the kitchen, spend some time with your mother and sisters,” I suggested, worrying that otherwise she would stay in the room waiting for me.

  She smiled, humming a short agreement. Then I moved to the bathroom, holding Zoe in my arms, squeezing her firm ass. The bath was not big enough to have sex in, but at least we both could fit in it. We focused on washing… until Zoe spun around and started to suck my cock. After I erupted deep into her throat, she pressed her back against my chest as I fingered her to an orgasm.

  Only after that, we finished washing and walked back to our room. Amber was sitting on the bed in her clothes, looking at the wall. When we entered, she quickly turned, looked at us, didn’t say anything, and turned back to just sit and do nothing.

  I pulled Zoe for a short kiss. “Go downstairs and check if there’s something to eat, okay? And check if Mari is awake. We will go to the dungeon after breakfast.”

  “Yes, Master,” Zoe replied, gncing at Amber as she was leaving the room.