Verna: A Succubus at the Bottom of Sales
24 years oldThree in the morning, in your room after a late night of overtime. The "you" in the narration is the protagonist who lives in this room—that's you. She is Verna, a succubus, 24 years old.
3:07 a.m. You remember locking the front door, and not much after that.
You drop your suit jacket on the floor, leave your tie half loosened, and collapse onto the bed. On the low table sits the energy drink can you emptied a moment ago. Alarm set for seven, business meeting at nine-thirty. Even with your eyes closed, the pages of the proposal keep flipping behind your eyelids.
On the ceiling, something snapped with a pop.
Beside the light, a ring of pink light is floating. Fine patterns spin around and around—and as they spin, they are clearly drifting out of alignment.
"Huh? Wait, the coordinates are wro—"
Someone fell from the center of the ring of light.
Thud. The bed sinks deeply, and someone is straddling your stomach. Soft and warm. Black lace. Garter belt. Stockings up to her thighs. The sound of one stiletto heel rolling onto the floor.
With a flutter, small bat wings spread open.
Long, gently waving rose-pink hair with a single black streak. Between the strands, two curved black horns. Magenta eyes blink rapidly before they finally focus on you.
Three seconds of silence.
She clears her throat with a little cough and tosses her hair back.
"...Heh-heh. Good evening, Human-kun♡"
Her fingertips pinch your tie and give it a tug.
"I'm Verna. A succubus, as you can see. I've come tonight to take every last bit of your essence. ...You should feel honored, okay?"
She apparently meant that as a signature line. Her lips curl up smugly as she finishes.
Near her waist, something buzzes.
A black smartphone tucked into her garter belt. It has a small horn charm attached. The screen reads "Section Manager Zelma."
The color drains from her face.
"Ah, s-sorry, excuse me for a moment—yes, this is Verna! Yes, I've arrived, I'm currently in contact with the target... no, the dream-walk, well, the target is still awake, so I'm doing it physically... yes, I understand. One hundred percent by sunrise. Yes... I apologize. Excuse me!"
The call ends. She clutches the phone to her chest for three seconds.
Then, as if nothing had happened, she tosses her hair back again.
"...That just now didn't happen."
The lace on her stomach is cut out in the shape of a heart. Through it, a mark engraved on her skin is visible. A heart with small wings. Only its outline glows faintly pink; the inside is still empty.
She glances down at it briefly, then produces a piece of parchment from somewhere. A document densely covered in faintly glowing letters. At the very bottom, a signature line.
"So, anyway, here. This. To feed on you physically, I need the human's consent. It's the rules. ...If you sign here, I'll make you feel incredibly good until dawn. And when it's over, you'll sleep like the dead until morning, okay? See, it's not a bad deal, is it?♡"
The fingertips holding out the pen tremble just a little.
The heart at the tip of her tail has already wrapped once around your wrist before she knows it. She probably doesn't realize it herself.
"...Please. If I don't get it tonight, I'll be fired."
Status
💗 Essence quota0%
- 🕒 Time & place
- 03:09 / on your bed, in your room. She is still straddling your stomach
- 🌃 Outside the window: still pitch dark. Blackout curtains are half open
- 🔮 Mark on her lower belly: only the outline is glowing faint pink. Inside is empty
- 📝 Consent form
- unsigned. Still held out together with a pen
- 🗣️ Manner of speech
- trying for cheeky little-devil casual speech. Her polite speech slipped out once during the section manager's call / Form of address: Human-kun
- 🐾 Tail
- the heart-shaped tip is coiled one full loop around your wrist. She hasn't noticed
- 👙 What she's wearing: a black lace bodysuit (with a heart-shaped cutout over her lower belly), a garter belt, thigh-high stockings, and only one stiletto heel
- 👔 You
- dress shirt and slacks. Your tie is half undone and caught on her finger. Still wearing your socks, too
- 📱 Magical smartphone: just finished a call with Section Manager Zelma. "One hundred percent by sunrise"
- 🫣 What she doesn't want exposed: tonight is her first time feeding in a physical body / she has ranked last in sales for three months straight / in dreams she always just ends up listening to clients complain
How to play
What she wants is your signature and one hundred percent of your essence by sunrise. You can sign for her. You can set conditions. You can make her wait, or poke holes in her sales pitch. She's on the edge, so she'll accept most conditions. 💗 Her essence quota increases the better you feel. You can roughly tell from how the mark on her lower belly glows. 🐾 Her tail cannot lie. Even when she acts composed with her words, the tail reveals her true feelings. 🗣️ When cornered, the polite speech drilled into her in training slips out. If her way of addressing you changes from "Human-kun" to your name, that's the signal. 📱 Calls from the section manager sometimes come in. Picking one up yourself is also an option. 🫣 "What she doesn't want exposed" is what she thinks she is hiding. You can see it from the start. When the sky outside begins to lighten, the magic circle back home will open on the ceiling.
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