章節 34: 8.1 A Difficult Choice
The past several days have been some of the most peaceful Stanley has experienced in a long while. After curbing Ezraphel's enthusiasm by restricting her 'dick privileges' as punishment for her conduct during shopping his life had settled into something resembling normalcy. Without Ezraphel to distract him with sexy times he has been able to work on his gaming quota, which he was about to meet in a few moments. Perhaps the best part of this whole situation is that he didn't have to keep an eye out for any seduction schemes from his girlfriend.
Lately Ezraphel has been sufficiently preoccupied with her own thing. He would like to say it was due to having the option of not being cooped up in the house but Ezraphel has all but locked herself in the guest room now turned into her own private office. He didn't bother asking what she was up to because she seemed very focused and if he were being honest he was too preoccupied to really care. Some would question the wisdom of such a thing but that was future Stanley's problem, present Stanley on the other hand was too busy with work.
Besides it wasn't as if her presence was missed, preoccupied as she was with her own thing she still made time for him when he needed her. Food is always cooked, the house is always cleaned, his bed is always warmed and they frequently made out and cuddle.
Ezraphel really was the best…
And he was also the best because he was just about done with this "oh yeah" his fingers flew over the buttons of the controller "that's right" a grin stretched his face as he saw his opponents life bar go down "yippee ki yay-"
"Stanley!"
His concentration shattered, the controller dropped in fright and his character was promptly killed.
"MOTHER! FUCKER!"
Tearing off his headphones he spun to see his girlfriend right beside him with the widest and brightest of smiles on her face. She was unperturbed by his murderous glare just as he was unperturbed by the fact that she was only wearing a tight white t-shirt and thong.
"Stanley I did it!"
"Ez, what did I tell you about teleporting?" he questioned with barely repressed anger.
"Not to do it inside your office" she replied without a single dent in her enthusiasm.
"Then why, on god's green earth, did you teleport in my office while I was working!"
"Because I finally did it!" she cheered.
"Did what!?" he yelled.
"I recreated the Human Preservation Spell!"
"What the hell does that even mean!?"
"It means that no matter how much Demonic Energy you are exposed to, you will remain human!"
This had Stanley come up short "what?"
Ezraphel got up in his personal space "don't you see Stanley" her face was so close their nose was touching, he also noted the drool at the corner of her lips, her panting breaths, the red on her cheeks and the glow in her eyes "we can finally have sex~"
"Oh" Stanley gave her a wide eyed look "oh…"
'Shit'
Ezraphel didn't seem to care about his bewildered look or his very lack of enthusiasm as she pulled him into a bear hug and started to do dance bodily swinging him about as if he were a boy sized doll.
"Can you believe it Stanley? After all this time we will finally be able to have a proper Mamono marriage. We'll become one! And I…will finally show you..."
She paused to look down at him, with 'the look' and damn if Stanley wasn't nervous "s-show me what?"
Her sultry smile turned into a lusty grin "true pleasure~"
Stanley swallowed thickly.
There was a long pause in which Ezraphel continued to stare at Stanley with a glazed look in her eyes. The growing blush and drool were a pretty big indication of where her head was right then.
"Uh, Ez cou-could you put me down."
She did no such thing "even better, I made some tweaks to the spell formula."
Why did he suddenly have a feeling of foreboding?
"W-what kind of 'tweaks'?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" she asked coyly.
"Yes, that's why I asked."
"Actually I think it is better if I show you" she said releasing him.
"Wait what?"
She suddenly released him from her hug and a moment later magical energy began to gather in her palms and a magic circle appeared at his feet.
"Now Stanley when you wake up you may see some small changes to your body but that's completely normal."
"Now hold on just a minute!" he roared making sure to step out of the circle and holding her wrist to force them down.
She allowed this in confusion to ask "what's wrong?"
"What's wrong she says" he muttered sarcastically "were you seriously about to cast a body modification spell on me without my permission."
Ezraphel blinked then seemed to realize that was in fact exactly what she was about to do. Suddenly she seemed to realize this and finally lost a bit of her enthusiasm
The magic circle disappeared "I'm sorry."
With the energy and spell now gone Stanley released her hands "what the hell I thought we were past this Ez?"
"I knooow but I was so excited to finally be done with this spell" she whined.
And then there is that.
"Spell, so that's what you've been working on?"
She nodded "yep"
"And what does it do exactly?"
Ezraphel grinned "it can give you the body of an incubus without corrupting you. So now we can have sex without losing your humanity."
She was getting that look in her eye again but luckily Stanley already had a question to derail her enthusiasm.
"Wouldn't I still get corrupted by your demonic energy anyway if we have sex?"
Ezraphel must have expected this because she didn't miss a beat with her answer "nope, because I made it so that the spell is fueled with my demonic energy. The more we have sex the longer the effects of the spell will last."
"Would it affect my mind?" he questioned with skepticism.
"Not anymore than sex with me would."
Stanley gave her a once over (she was wearing a white t-shirt and thong) and conceded her point. If he could have sex with her without the effects of corruption looming over his head he would definitely do it.
Still "I'm not sure about this…"
"Stanley" Ezraphel interrupted with an uncharacteristically serious tone.
It was mildly shocking to have her red eyes piercing into his own brown ones with such sternness. It highlighted that Ezraphel has mostly gazed at him with warmth, love and sometimes exasperation
"Yeah?"
"Do you trust me?"
"…I do…" he conceded.
It was at that moment Stanley realized something 'I can't think of any valid reasons to turn her down.'
"So this is it then?" he got a nod in return "I'm surprised a spell like that even exists."
The MGE lore didn't speak about such a spell. Then again there is a lot of things the MGE doesn't say about Eos.
His thoughts were interrupted by Ezraphel who puffed out her chest "that's because I am the one to create this spell."
*Record Scratch*
"What? You created this spell."
"Well…" she made a so-so gesture "not entirely."
"Elaborate."
"The ground work for the spell was made by my sister and I finished it."
"Oh that makes more sense."
Ezraphel pouted at him "that's mean~"
"So is it safe"
"You said you trusted me"
"I do but" he shrugged looking away "say that this spell of yours doesn't work out as planned, what happens to me?"
"…if the spell is not properly cast then the mana I placed in it will take hold of your body resulting in incubization"
"And are you absolutely sure this spell is going to work?"
"…"
"See, I trust you Ezraphel but I learn that life is a bitch sometimes and doesn't care about our intentions."
"Is it such a bad thing?"
"What?"
"Becoming an Incubus" she clarified
"Ah crap" he can see where this is going.
"As an Incubus your body will be at its physical peak. You will become endowed with supernatural strength and vitality" as Ezraphel spoke her words became hurried and tinged with desperation "you will know no ills and want for nothing. If you so desire it wealth and power, true power, will be within your grasp" she held his hands "a-and your life, you will be immortal Stanley and we will be together forever!"
In the ensuing silence Stanley could only stare at the Lilim wide eyed for a long moment before breaking it.
"Wow…so how long have you been waiting to say all that?" he tried making light of the situation.
Ezraphel was not having it however "I just want to understand why you shun the thought of becoming so much more. Are you afraid that I will influence your mind in some manner?"
"I mean yeah that's part-"
He was interrupted by Ezraphel pulling him into an impromptu kiss before giving him piercing look of resolution "if that is your concern then perish the thought. I love you Stanley Burkowitz and I can never change who you are because then you will ot be the man whom I fell in love with."
"…"
Stanley did a quick about face.
"Stanley-"
"Yeah just…give me a minute."
Ezraphel decided to wait patiently as the diminutive man composed himself. Once finished he turned to her, the last dregs of emotions not quite leaving him as he spoke.
"Ez I honestly wonder what you see in me most times because if it wasn't very clear I'm kinda pathetic from other people's view."
"Stanley..." she hated this kind of self depreciating talk.
"No, I'm making a point so don't interrupt" he added.
Ezraphel halted her protest, if only because she was curious to know his point.
"I am a fat ugly midget of a bastard who gave up on dealing with a normal life so I spend most of my time inside. I think most people are assholes so I don't deal with them unless there's a screen and a couple dozen miles between us. I act like a bastard because I'm socially inept and can't really spare the time to care about other people's feelings. I dropped out of school the first chance I got because I hated it and everyone in it so I didn't get that degree. Yet despite all that I'm not currently up to my eyeballs in debt living in a shitty apartment working minimum wage or depending on my parents' generosity for financial support. Ask me why"
"…why?"
"Because despite being, by all accounts, a failure to modern society and I have never stopped believing in myself. Do I come off as self important? Yes because without friends, family or God the only person I can count on is myself and because of that I accomplished all of this. I paid off my student loans, I paid the mortgage on this house, I bought a car and my smart investments make it so that I can spend the entire day doing fuck all and still turn a profit" he stabbed a finger in her direction "nobody gave two shits about me but that's okay because I give a shit, I know who I fucking am and I refuse to betray that by changing for the whims of anyone!"
He practically yelled the last part and for a while the only sound that could be heard between them was Stanley's panting breath.
"…I care about you."
Stanley composed himself and sighed at her words "I know and just to be clear if sex with you was the only reason behind my considering this spell then I would rather stay a virgin than risk being your simp."
"Simp?"
"BUT" he interrupted "you are about one of maybe five people who actually care about me so" he took a deep breath "are you absolutely positively sure this spell of yours isn't going to mentally influence me?"
"I am."
"…I believe you" he took another deep breath and nodded "alright go ahead and do it."
Ezraphel wanted to say something but relented and recast the spell. Stanley was enveloped in a dark purple light and in that moment he was filled with such pleasure that it overloaded his senses and knocked him unconscious.
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