The Sword Saint Also Has A Succubus Class

Vale didn't get an answer to her question, so she chalked it up to cultural differences. Or even just her social cluelessness, since she knew that existed. Even before she'd started her six years of near-isolation training with Master Northstar, she'd been a somewhat awkward girl, so obviously grueling routines in which she talked to her sword more often than a human had only exacerbated the problem.

After the event had concluded, and a number of people had come up to chat with Vale, some friendly, some curious, and some slightly suspicious of her, she and Suzi broke off and headed to Mirabelle, the [Apothecary]. Suzi didn't spend long there, speaking and setting up whatever she had planned. Then the two of them were headed back to Suzi's cabin, with the sun starting to dip over the horizon, the sky taking on an orange hue as night approached.

The two of them chatted as they trekked down the lightly used trail, leaving Silverdale behind, and Vale was surprised how easy the conversation flowed. Vale wasn't hopeless when it came to talking to other people casually, but she wouldn't call herself especially good at it either, and often she would find herself lapsing into silence, struggling to come up with something to say.

But no such thing happened with Suzi. There was something about the other girl, and it wasn't just her cheerful nature, that made it extraordinarily easy to talk to her. And even more surprisingly, Vale liked talking to her too. She was pretty sure Suzi could ramble on for hours about nothing in particular and Vale would enjoy listening. How strange was that?

Halfway to Suzi's cabin, the witch slowed, then came to a stop, her eyes widening.

"Is that—?"

She jogged off the trail without finishing her question, bee-lining for something she'd seen. Vale wasn't sure what.

"Oh, wow, it is!" Suzi exclaimed. "Right on the trail, too, I pass through a dozen times a week. How'd I not see it earlier?"

The item of interest that had snagged Suzi's attention, Vale saw, was a patch of mushrooms a bit off the trail. Vale might have taken her own look at the curious fungi, but she was distracted by something else.

Suzi had bent over, both hands on her knees, to peer at the unexpected prize.

And her dress had ridden up.

Suzi liked wearing short dresses; Vale had already taken notice of that on a few occasions, even if she wouldn't admit to herself that her attention sometimes lingered on the soft thighs and shapely legs her clothing didn't cover, and in fact quite nicely highlighted.

Which meant, bent over to study an interesting patch of fungi, Suzi's short dress was now not so much slightly revealing as completely so. Because it had crept up past her butt, giving Vale a very liberal view of what Suzi would normally prefer to keep hidden.

She was wearing green panties. That wasn't something Vale had expected to find out on their walk home.

Worse, Suzi had a nice ass. She couldn't see the whole thing, of course—the dress was ridden up but not that much—but what she could see of it, Vale very much appreciated.

Where that thought might have only been given away by a blush once upon a time, there was now something else of Vale's that could betray her interest.

Between her legs, something stirred and started to harden.

It had been easy to ignore, when surrounded with such a flurry of activity: her class, hunting in the woods, Suzi, the Affliction and the Quest, and then her spar against Erik. Only sitting alone in Suzi's cabin had Vale grown flustered by its presence, because there hadn't been much to distract her. Otherwise, she'd been doing quite well putting Lust's 'bestowal' to the back of her mind.

But with a cute girl bent over in front of her, panties and ass on display, Vale's mind was forcibly directed onto the topic again: Lust and her blessing. Her cock announced her appreciation of the unexpected view in front of her. She stayed frozen to the spot, as surprised by the sudden indulgent image as by her reaction to it—the intensity of it. Heat flashed through her, abrupt and powerful, and Vale wondered how much of it could even truly be blamed on Lust's bestowal. Because while Vale hadn't had time for romance or anything adjacent to it while studying under Master Northstar, that didn't mean she had never had urges: she'd simply been exposed to very few other young women, and almost never in a context that would encourage anything… untoward. And on the few times she had, well, Vale had also found it surprising then how hard her heart would start stuttering.

But this time was even worse, because there was a feedback loop. She saw Suzi's cute ass bent out toward her, green panties on display—the same color as her eyes, Vale idly noted. Had that been intentional?—and her cock started to swell in satisfaction. And with her swelling cock came a flurry of such new sensations that it fed pleasure back in on itself. It felt good when her cock got hard, and not just that, it forcibly spawned questions inside her head.

Like, what would it feel like, to step up and grab Suzi by the waist and— and— to pull her panties aside, grab her cock in her hand, and—

Vale clamped down on the lurid images, dispelling them with all the self-control she had. Half because of the mortification of ever just grabbing Suzi and doing what she wanted without permission, but also because Suzi's 'oohs' and 'ahs' as she peered down at the fungi had ended, and she had turned to glance over her shoulder, mouth opening to undoubtedly call Vale to 'come look!'

Only to see her partner standing there, frozen, blushing red, and worst of all, her pants starting to stiffen as a very large intrusion tried to swell to full length.

Suzi stared at her for a frozen moment, then shot upward, straightening out and tugging her dress down to cover herself—though straightening out had accomplished that on its own.

"Oh, shoot," Suzi squeaked. "I just flashed you, didn't I?"

"N-No," Vale lied, for some reason. "I just— what are you looking at?" She forced her feet to move, to come stand at Suzi's side, trying to awkwardly shift her hips in a way that brought her cock into a less noticeable angle, without outright grabbing and situating it herself.

Suzi was equally flustered, but that also only mortified Vale more, because of course Suzi would be embarrassed when her traveling partner had gotten hard staring at her ass. Vale scolded herself furiously. The absolute last thing she wanted to do was make Suzi uncomfortable, and yet she'd gone and done that.

And then because when it rained it poured, something else happened to further throw Vale's thoughts into disarray:

***

[Succubus] class has advanced to level 2.

A new skill has been earned.

***

"It's a starcap," Suzi said, with the distinct tone of hurried babbling, to cover up the awkwardness of what had happened. "They're pretty useful reagents, and they also sell well if I don't need them myself. A lucky find, especially on the same path I walk every day. So I got carried away and ran over to them, didn't think much about bending over. I don't have company usually. S-Sorry about that."

Vale's attention was split in too many directions: her embarrassment, the lingering arousal she couldn't quite get rid of even after the event had passed, the ridiculousness of Suzi apologizing to her, and of course, the level up of her class and the arrival of a new skill.

***

Succubus

A disciple of a carnal aspect.

Rarity: ???

Skills:

Level 1 - [Curse of Restraint]

Level 2 - [Temptatious Fate]

***

It was an ominous name. Vale hurried to inspect it.

[Temptatious Fate]: "Some of my brothers and sisters would be upset with my meddling of the primordial tapestry just to get someone laid, but I've always been a bit of a rule breaker." Fate has been manipulated to more frequently put the User into implausible scenarios in which their carnal nature can flourish.

Like with her previous Succubus skill, the name and formal description were read by the usual male System, but the quote was spoken by Lust's feminine and teasing voice.

Vale was briefly astounded. Fate itself was affected by this skill? Except not in any way controllable by her… and only in ways that would, what, somehow thrust her into lewd scenarios? What did that even mean?

Suzi was still babbling to her side about the mushroom's uses, unaware of the second half of Vale's plight—reasonably assuming her blush and flustered silence to be the fault of having shown her ass and panties off. She'd crouched down to pick the mushrooms, wrap them, and stuff them into a pouch on her belt.

Vale stammered out her own responses, and as flustered as they both were, it only took a few minutes of walking before they calmed, and conversation returned to normal.

Again, Vale wondered why it was so easy to talk to Suzi, how they could smooth past the event so easily. She'd have been dying of embarrassment for hours afterward with any other girl. Heck, with someone like Suzi, it should've been even worse, because Suzi was…

Well, Vale wouldn't think about her hostess in that way. She needed to keep careful control of her thoughts. So she wouldn't admit even in the quiet of her own head that Suzi was very, very attractive, and that a good portion of why her reaction had been so intense for just a flash of green panties had been because it had been Suzi that had done the flashing.

She was distracted while she chatted on the way back to the cabin, for obvious reasons. Her class had leveled up so randomly. Or, had it been random? It'd come on the tail of ogling a girl's ass, and she guessed it made sense that would count as 'experience gain' for a class like Succubus. As absurd as it all was, it made some sense. Still. Fantasizing about Suzi's ass could level her up? Ridiculous.

And the skill she'd gotten. The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to break out into a sweat. Just what would be happening in the following hours, days, and weeks, if fate itself would be bending over to 'help her carnal nature flourish'?

More importantly, did she need to be worried for Suzi? Would she be dragged into these 'mishaps', somehow, and if so, in what manner? Did Vale need to warn her, regardless of how she wanted to keep her class a secret? And it wasn't just a want; it might be necessary for Vale's own safety to keep Lust's bestowal private. It was a difficult dilemma, and her mind was too muddled to make sense of it.

She would sleep on it. Surely nothing would happen before tomorrow morning; it was already almost night. Besides, even with Fate twisting around to make implausible scenarios more likely, it still had to operate within the realm of reality: and if Vale kept to good behavior at Suzi's cabin—and Suzi obviously wouldn't be doing anything untoward herself—then there wouldn't be any problems.

She nodded to herself. Yes, she was just overthinking things. The two of them would be fine.