Chapter 234 - The Final Climax

"So I've been thinking…." Ilias said casually.

"Really?" Allison asked. "What have you been thinking about? Not that I really care. I would think that what's happening to you right now would be the only thing on your mind."

Indeed, Ilias was already missing most of her legs as Allison was slowly drawing her into her lower mouth. Allison had never enjoyed using the lower mouth before, but she had to admit it was a nice change of pace, and Ilias seemed to particularly enjoy it. Either way, it got Allison fed, so she didn't mind indulging her victim's preferences.

"If you're not going to be the Monster Lord, you need something to do," Ilias answered.

"Am I not doing something right now?" Allison asked, her countless purple tongues just beginning to reach Ilias' groin.

"You're having a meal, that's not a job!"

"Why would I want a job? Monsters don't use money unless they live among humans. And even then, we can barter sexual favors to get just about anything we want, now that you no longer forbid that sort of thing."

"Okay, stop!"

"What?" Allison asked, confused. Her tongues were just about to really make Ilias happy!

"I said stop! This is important and I won't be able to speak in a moment!" Ilias exclaimed.

"But you have no legs!" Allison countered.

Ilias fixed that problem in an instant by restoring her own legs and freeing herself from Allison's grip.

"You've eaten enough for now!" Ilias scolded. "And I'm grateful for everything you've done for me. That's why you need a proper reward. Not just the privilege of consuming me every few days. Something more…. Gainful. Like employment."

"Again, I don't need a job-"

"You don't NEED a job, but I think you'll like what I've got in mind," Ilias said with a sly smile on her face.

"I'm listening."

"You see, I have this business plan….."

Cory ran towards the source of the explosion as fast as he could, which wasn't all that fast. He was in pretty poor shape, and already winded from flailing wildly against the slime girl that had attacked him. His encounter with the slime had gone through a several stages:

1) Oh my God, I'm actually here!

2) Wow, that slime girl is hot!

3) Oh shit, she's gonna rape me and if I lose it's over for me!

4) What do I do? What do I do? Oh yeah! Flail wildly!

5) Oh wow, it worked!

Not that losing to the slime girl, who he presumed was Lime, was a terrible fate. It's just that as beautiful as she was, he desperately wanted to meet Alice. Alice was the woman of his dreams, or so he imagined. He couldn't wait to see what she looked like as a real person, rather than a drawing.

Cory was sucking wind hard by the time he reached the crater. He looked down. He nearly fell to his knees, not so much from exhaustion but from her sheer beauty. As good as her artwork was, nothing could compare to the reality. Alice was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. Okay, maybe Ilias, who had appeared to him first, was more traditionally beautiful, but she was so… ordinary. Cory hadn't come to this world for ordinary. He'd come for the exotic, the alien even.

Cory's breathing slowed to a more normal pace as he stared at the unconscious form. The beautiful blue skin…. The lovely silver hair. The slightly parted lips. The large, but not ridiculously humungous breasts, covered by a very thin top. She was a vision of heaven.

"YES!!!" he exclaimed quietly, pumping his fist.

Alice's eyes snapped open. Cory jumped back, even though he'd expected this. After all, he knew every part of the game. Next she'd ask him who he was.

Alice rose smoothly to tower over Cory.

"Who are you?" she asked threateningly.

"I…. I'm Cory," he replied truthfully, hoping to avoid a dose of eye magic.

Alice sighed. "No, you're Luka, you idiot! Remember?!"

"Oh… oh yeah… Luka. I'm Luka. Sorry, I was so excited I forgot. I'm a little confused about this though. Can I ask some questions?"

"Questions?!" Alice asked in disbelief. "You're supposed to direct your questions to Ilias at the introduction!"

"I tried, but she just said some blah blah about a hero and all that and slaying the monster lord and yada yada and never responded to anything I asked."

"Ugh," Alice muttered. "Did she use the automated hologram again? For a business she's supposedly running, she can be so lazy sometimes. Oh well, I guess she must have something important to do if she wasn't present for your introduction. So go ahead and ask your questions. But I'm warning you, if you keep slipping out of character, it will trigger your game over clause."

"Game over clause?"

"Did you not read the terms and conditions, idiot?!"

"Um… I… skimmed them?" Cory said, embarrassed.

Alice looked Cory over carefully. She sniffed him.

"Are you even old enough to be doing this?" she asked.

"Of course I am!" Cory said indignantly. "Do you think somebody's mom would pay for this? I had to save up months to afford this experience!"

"I guess that's true," Alice conceded. "I'd taste you to determine your actual age, but you might like it too much. I'll take your word for it, since a minor is unlikely to have access to whatever insane amount of money Ilias charges for this."

"So my first question is…" Cory said. "Are you the real Alice?"

"I'd say that's an idiotic question," Alice replied. "As why would the actual Monster Lord do something idiotic like this? But the truth is, I am genetically, an exact copy of the real Alice."

"So you're a clone?"

"No, I'm not a clone, you idiot!" Alice raged. "I'm a variant."

"Oh… I get it! I've seen Loki!"

"I don't know what that is, but I'm glad you understand something. My real name is Allison. Since I'm a variant of Alice that is not a Monster Lord, I have time to fool around with idiots like you. But rest assured, you are looking at what the real Alice looks like. I feel like her as well, although chances are you'll never find out."

"You're certainly as tsundere as the real Alice," Cory pointed out.

"I don't know what that is either," Allison replied. "If you don't want to trigger your game over clause, I'd suggest you speak human."

"What's the game over clause again?"

Allison smirked. "It's when I eat you."

"What, you can just eat me?! Whenever?!"

"Whenever you annoy me," she said, the smirk growing wider.

"Apparently there are a lot of ways to annoy you," Cory pointed out. "Being out of character, using game terms you don't know, and I'm sure a myriad of other things."

"I'm pretty forgiving if you're annoying in ways that are in character, actually," Allison explained. "If I'm calling you an idiot after this point, that doesn't mean I'm annoyed, it means I'm performing in character."

"So I skimmed mainly to the parts where I can't actually die?" Cory asked. "I wasn't clear on what happens when I lose. Do they stop short of killing me? You eating me doesn't sound like stopping short."

"The terms of service are clear if you'd actually read them. You can absolutely die here. It's just not permanent death. You will experience the pleasurable agony of death, in whatever manner you happen to die, and then you'll be resurrected and sent home. If you wish to play again, and believe me, you will, you'll have to pay again."

"Well, I'm hoping to win the entire game," Cory said.

"Oh, an ambitious one!" Allison said approvingly. "Not that you're the first. Some guys just surrender to the first monster that touches them a certain way. Some annoy me and become a meal. If you want to actually win, you'll have to resist the temptations of well over one hundred different monsters, as well as stay on my good side."

"There's also the possibility I could just lose," Cory pointed out.

"Yes, that happens as well," Allison agreed.

"I don't really know how to fight," Cory said plaintively.

"Don't worry about that," Allison assured him. "As the adventure goes on, I will teach you what you need to know. Your opponents here are all beatable if you work hard and practice what I teach you. Of course, if this was completely real, you'd lose early anyway because you're a mere human with no special abilities. But we're supposed to all pretend you're Luka here, and later on you'll be able to use special attacks of his, if you make it that far."

"Like Daystar!? That would be awesome!"

"Yes, like Daystar. Anyway, opponents only fight to the level that you should be expected to handle. It's a very realistic game, but it's still a game."

"So is this like… a virtual world?"

"No, it's quite real," Allison answered. "It was created by the goddess as a gaming world, but everyone here is a real person with real lives, and they all get paid for their work. Think of it more as…. An amusement park. Of planetary dimensions."

"This is so awesome! Totally worth the fifty thousand dollars I paid for it!"

"So does that take care of all your questions?" Allison asked. "Can we start actually playing the game now?"

"Um….. I do have one more."

Allison sighed. "Okay, let's hear it."

"Do I have to win the whole game to have sex with you?" Cory asked.

"Yes, you have to win the whole game!" Allison yelled. "You know the drill. Iliasburg, handjob, Natalia, tailjob, Sabasa, tit job, Grangold, blowjob, Goldport, sex with my human form, and then if you win, and ONLY if you win, you get to have sex with me for as long as you want, up to three days."

"You left out a couple…."

"You're not having sex with me in loli form, you pervert! Also, I don't have a working flower and my hair isn't agile enough to give you the hair job."

"Oh, that's okay, I was mainly interested in the last one."

"Then win."

"Is there ANY way I can get that early?"

"NO! Although if you want to feel really good, you could just get eaten. Nothing feels better than that."

"Well, I'm going to win, so let's begin our journey!" Cory said confidently.

"Thank Ilias," Alice muttered. "So do you want to begin the journey now, or do the whole thing where I ask you questions, follow you back to the village, yada yada. I'm sure we can skip that step."

"Yeah, that's fine, we can get started now. Next is the slug girl, right? Let me make sure I have salt."

"Idiot, you're supposed to be roleplaying now!" Alice yelled. "You don't know about the slug girl!"

"Oh, yeah, we're starting! Okay, cool, cool. So, fearsome Monster Lord…."

"You don't know I'm the Monster Lord! I swear I'm going to eat you if you mess up one more time!"

"Okay, Okay… I'm sorry… Alice."

"I haven't told you my name is Alice yet!" Alice raged, her jaw unhinging as she lunged at Cory. Cory screamed and cowered. A moment later he was screaming in ecstasy as he was swallowed alive.

"I regret nothing!" he said as he slid down her throat.

"What did I miss?" Ilias asked, returning from her daily shower.

"Cory met the same fate you did," Lucifina answered.

"Allison, again?" Ilias asked.

"Of course."

"She really needs to stop eating the customers," Ilias muttered.

"In fairness, he sexually harassed her," Lucifina pointed out. "and she did warn him to stay in character."

"Well, I guess it's not a problem," Ilias sighed. "All of our Yelp reviews are amazing, 5 stars for every one, even if they get defeated right away. Especially when Allison eats them. Pretty soon we'll be getting customers who pay just to have Allison eat them."

"I thought we were trying to get her to stop doing that?" Lucifina asked.

"She's been eating people too long," Ilias replied. "Besides, she's so good at it. It would be a shame to waste such talent. So we'll just keep her fed, between my body, and the customers who piss her off."

"Why are we running this business, anyway?"

"I've explained it a hundred times!" Ilias said with exasperation. "I can create any world I want now. So what I want now is to be the richest being in the multiverse!"

"I… don't understand why this is important."

"It just is! You wouldn't understand! I want money… and I want to experience all the pleasures life has to offer!"

"Why not just create money?"

"Because that's cheating!" Ilias exclaimed. "I'm an honest businesswoman. I offer people from Earth the chance to live the adventure they love playing so much for a small fee, and they get exactly what they pay for! Besides, I have no power on Earth, so if the Yelp reviews are bad I can't change them! My reputation is important to me."

"Of course, goddess."

"Now, I really must be getting to the baptism. It's my birthday, after all! When I get back I'll resurrect Cory and return him to Earth. So much to do today!"

Ilias teleported out of heaven, into the skies above the surface. She looked down, admiring her creation. It felt different knowing that she had actually made all of it. Actually, now she was the creator of two worlds. The one below her, as well as the one she created to simulate the game. She delegated most of the latter job to Lucifina. Ilias herself wouldn't be needed unless someone actually completed Part 2 of the game. Once she'd created the world, it had become the easiest business to run in history. Receive the wire transfer, bring Earthmen to the world, resurrect them, send them back. Allsion had to do all the real work, but since it got her a steady supply of semen and whole male bodies if they triggered their game over clauses, Allison was about as happy as she could be. And the best part was that players had to pay for in game food! Which meant also feeding Allison, which would account for 90% of their food expenses during their journey. One had tried to refuse to pay to feed Alice. He learned the consequences of traveling with a hungry, unfed Alice shortly thereafter. Yelp review: 5 stars.

Ilias extended her holy senses outward. A part of her still expected Alice to intercept her and punch her, just for old time's sake. But Alice was nowhere to be seen. Ilias was almost disappointed. She focused on Alice and Luka. They were in the midst of wedding preparations. Ilias had already planned it all out, so all they had to do was pick their outfits. That was a few weeks off. Today,, Ilias had to take care of a more pressing issue.

Ilias arrived at the temple in Ilias Village. She was impressed. There were nearly forty prospective heroes assembled to receive their baptism. Since there had never been an angel war on this world, the story terminating at the end of part two, current rumor was that Luka had tamed the Monster Lord somehow. That gave a lot of ambitious males ideas. Ilias intended to encourage those ideas, although perhaps not in the way these heroes imagined.

"Oh, brave heroes!" Ilias declared, descending to the floor of the temple in all her glory. "I am so proud of you for seeking to live lives of service to your goddess!"

"We will slay many monsters for you, goddess!" one particularly large man responded, raising his sword in the air. The other assembled heroes roared their agreement.

"You will slay no one," Ilias ordered calmly.

"Slay… no one?" another hero asked, confused.

Ilias smiled at the one who had expressed confusion, although certainly he was not alone in his perplexity. The one who had spoken, unlike the mountain of a man who had expressed his eagerness to kill, was no bigger than Luka. He had blue hair and was of slight build. He didn't look a day over fourteen, although Ilias knew, being a goddess and all, that he was actually nearly twenty. And with a very short life expectancy. Heroes like him were a bite sized snack unless they possessed special powers as Luka did, in all of his variations.

Ilias felt a pang of regret for all the brave young men who had died for her. Alas, many more would die for her. All of the assembled heroes would die very soon, actually. She simply had to break the news to them.

"I was wrong," Ilias said plainly. Gasps of shock echoed through the cathedral. The high priest fainted.

"Let me explain," Ilias continued, realizing she'd have to make this good. These men couldn't handle the actual truth, and in any case it was a very long, complicated story to tell. So a lie would have to do. "I sent the hero Luka to slay the Monster Lord. And he did. He captured her heart. I have to confess I did not see that coming. It made me realize, in my infinite wisdom, that there is a better way. Therefore, I rescind my commandment against sexual relations with monsters."

Another priest fainted. The heroes gasped again. Ilias sensed at least half of them getting erect, however. Perverts.

"In fact, you now have a new mission as heroes," Ilias continued. "Have any of you heard of the hero Elias? Has word spread here yet?"

A rather plain looking hero prospect answered her question. "We've heard rumors of a hero by that name, yes. He defeated an entire ant army by himself…. Using…. His penis?"

"You heard correctly," Ilias confirmed. Another priest hit the floor. "You shall not raise your sword against any monster ever again, unless the monster is attempting to harm a human. In that respect, you are still the defenders of humanity. However, monsters have legitimate needs as well. Most important among those needs is the need to be fed. Therefore, baptism from this day forward will mean something much different than it did before."

"What exactly did baptism do before?" another hero asked.

"Oh, it made your semen taste like shit," Ilias replied bluntly. Another priest, shocked to hear profanity from the goddess, made a loud thud on the floor.

"So that's why heroes didn't get raped much," another hero mused. "But they sure got eaten a lot."

"Since monsters need to be fed, and since we don't want them preying on innocent humans who do not consent to being fed upon," Ilias said. "Your baptism today will actually make you more delicious."

"But…. Then we just get eaten…. Or raped to death," the small Luka-like hero pointed out, noting the fall of the last priest in the temple.

"Yes. You are all going to die," Ilias said.

Now some of the heroes fainted.

"But don't worry," Ilias assured the still conscious heroes. "You will all be automatically resurrected when you die. And you will continue to be resurrected until you die natural deaths. From this day forward, it shall be your duty to feed monsters to keep them from hurting innocent humans, at least until all monsters learn to be nice. That may…. Take some time. But you shall be my emissaries, treating them with kindness as they rape and/or eat you. In return, you will teach them to be kind as well."

"We will follow the example of Elias!" the big, brawny hero yelled with enthusiasm. Ilias sighed in happiness. That one reminded her as much of her male form as the little one reminded her of Luka.

"Whatever happened to that guy, anyway?" another hero asked.

"Oh, he got eaten," Ilias answered. "And he gets eaten at least once a week. He is going his duty faithfully. He is truly my greatest hero. Now, receive my baptism, my beloved heroes, and offer yourselves up to the monsters of this world."

"For Ilias!" the assembled shouted.

Ilias giggled to herself. It was so easy to talk men into lewd things.

"As much as I respect what you have done, goddess," Micaela said. "There are not nearly enough heroes to keep all of the monsters fed. There will still be a great deal of rape and consumption of humans by monsters with bad intentions."

"That's where my legions come in!" Ilias said. "Except for you, Lucifina, and Eden, I'm going to grant all of my angels the gift of mortality when they descend to the surface."

"Why not us?" Micaela asked.

"I need you three to be the responsible ones," Ilias answered. "Experiencing such hellish pleasures…. It changes you. Some ways it changes you for the better, but like any addiction it makes it harder to focus on duties. When you get older, if you want to experience it, I'll grant you the ability to do so. But for now, I need you three running Heaven and keeping an eye on the surface."

"As always, I serve you faithfully, Ilias."

"I know you do, Micaela," Ilias said tenderly. "And I hope to never give you a reason to reconsider your devotion."

"Never, Ilias!"

"Anyway, gather all the angels," Ilias said. "We're going on our first field trip to test out our new…. Abilities."

Plansect Forest was peaceful. Luka had never settled the war in this world as he had in his previous adventure. He would have been surprised to know that the war was on the verge of being settled anyway. The final plant offensive against the insects had met with disaster, but both sides had taken such heavy losses in the final battle that neither could continue offensive operations for quite some time. That created breathing space for the peacemakers of the two tribes to get together and hammer out an agreement for coexistence. Word of the Monster Lord's subdual by a human also made the Plansect inhabitatnts wary of a new threat. If they fought each other, they would be unable to resist a human invasion. And the humans had proven themselves to be strong. Or at least they were led by one who was powerful indeed.

But for now, there was a peace to celebrate. The two sides engaged in much drinking and inhaling of strange gases, aromas, and pheremones that various species could produce. Alas, therewas not much to eat, so feasting was at a minimum. For awhile, the plants and insects were so high that they didn't mind having little to eat. The euphoria of peace and the pleasure of the pheromones and exotic fumes produced by some of the plant girls made everyone forget their hunger. That is, until the munchies set in and the peace was risked as both sides look at each other not with hatred, but sheer hunger.

Just as the peace of Plansect was about to be shattered, there was heavenly intervention. Countless beautiful males slowly descended from the sky. As the first of them broke through the canopy of trees, they were sighted by some of the Plansect iinhabitants, who pointed upwards.

"Mana from heaven," a mosquito girl breathed.

The first several men never even made it to the ground, consumed in seconds by the more voracious of the monsters. The first few who did land were immediately set upon and gang raped by monsters who only ate semen. The euphoria of peace was enhanced as insects and plants alike worked together to drain these strange males who had descended from the sky.

As more and more men landed, it quickly became clear that there was enough for everyone, and the gangbangs transitioned to one on one pairings. Soon, the males became so abundant that the carnivorous monsters were having seconds and thirds. Many of them already lay on the ground, unable to move due to their gluttony.

The cries of the males keened all through the night as one by one, they were consumed or drained to death. By the time it was over hours later, nearly every monster in Plansect Forest lay on the ground, exhausted yet sated.

The returning angels, their heavenly bodies restored upon their mortal deaths, were beside themselves.

"I just… can't even!" many said.

"How have we lived so long without experiencing that!?" others said.

"We need to go down there again! There are more monsters that need us!" said others.

"In good time," Ilias announced, addressing the assembled angels. "You've done a good deed today. The peace of Plansect was about to be shattered. Now it is stronger than ever. We won't need to do another mass feeding like that for awhile. In the meantime, I leave it up to you as individuals to take care of individual monsters as needed."

"We won't fail you, Ilias!" many angels roared.

"Hooray for Ilias!" others cheered.

Best idea ever, Ilias thought. If I'd known being pro-monster would make me so popular I would have changed eons ago!

Taguchi was eating dinner, but his mind was not on the food in front of him. Ever since Luka had disappeared from their world, to supposedly go to a better place, the food just hadn't been as good. The Pocket Castle's automated magical staff were competent, but Luka had been a wizard in the kitchen. Still, it beat prison food, and Taguchi had subsisted on that for over forty years.

It wasn't that Taguchi lacked gratitude, nor had he grown used to fine dining all of a sudden. No, he was nervous. He'd never dreamed he'd be in the position he found himself in. In love, sitting next to the woman he loved, trying to work up the courage to ask her a very simple question.

Fumi, for her part, had no issues concentrating on her food. Due to her even tougher upbringing, she'd never learned table manners, and since monsters had such a wide variety of ways to eat, no one was going to correct her. Fumi sat next to him, shoveling food into her face as fast as she could. Taguchi smiled at her. She looked so much healthier these days. When she'd first arrived from Angel World, she was a twenty year old who looked fifty. Good nutrition and her natural monster physiology had her looking like she was in her thirties. The lines on her face were gone. Yet all she could talk about was the fact that her tail had become so much fluffier.

Taguchi could only wish that he'd de-age so well, but alas, he was in his fifties and looked it, although he was far more physically fit than an average man his age. That had kept his semen flavorful and the monsters in the castle had appreciated it very much. But the only monster he had eyes for was Fumi. And after today, Fumi would be the only one to eat his semen ,or so he hoped.

Fumi noticed his stare and faced him with a mouth full of food, both cheeks bulging.

"Mwhat?" she asked quizzically, pieces falling out of her mouth.

"I just can't get over how beautiful you are, Fumi," Taguchi replied honestly.

He wasn't lying. Even when she'd arrived, utterly famished, her fur mangy, she had been quite pretty. Not a knockout by kitsune standards, of course. She would never be that attractive. But ugly monsters were rare and she was far from ugly. And her heart was the most beautiful part of her.

"Fumi," Taguchi said.

"Uh huh?" she responded, shoveling another forkload into her mouth.

"I…. I just wanna say," he began. He'd rehearsed this, and yet he struggled with the words. "I just wanna say that our love means so much to me, Fumi. We both came from a world where we were oppressed, me for my religious beliefs, you just for being who you are. And I feel like we've grown really close in the last couple of months, y'know?"

"Uh huh," Fumi replied, chewing her food carefully now instead of shoveling more in before the first mouthful was finished.

"And I just thought…. Since you and I have so much in common…. And we love each other, right?"

"I love you a lot, Tag!" Fumi replied, finally swallowing and able to speak clearly.

"Well…. How would you like to get married?" Taguchi asked.

Fumi's eyes lit up. She leaped into his arms, squealing excitedly.

"Is that a yes?" Taguchi asked, returning her embrace.

"Yes! Yes I'll marry you, my uchi uchi!" Fumi declared.

The two had already had the attention of everyone at their table, but her squealing attracted the attention of the rest of the cafeteria. The men clapped. Many of the women(all monsters), went, "awwwww…." Well, most of them.

"You and Taguchi are getting married?!" Melk asked. "that's so incredible! Can I get married too?"

"Well… I guess…" Taguchi responded. "I'm sure you'll find a man…"

"No, silly, I want to marry you!" Melk said excitedly.

"Um…. Melk, marriage is between one man and…"

"Of course you can marry him too!" Fumi exclaimed, now getting even more excited. "You're my best friend, Melk! Now you can stay with me forever!"

"What?" Taguchi asked.

"Isn't this amazing, Tag?!" Fumi screeched. "You, me, and Melk, together forever! We won't be able to have carpet, of course. Or anything made of fabric for that matter. But it'll be worth it to have Melky with us!"

"I'm so excited!" Melk squealed. "At last, I've found true love!"

"Melk, you don't understand," Taguchi tried to explain. "I've really enjoyed your sticky lovin', but that wasn't personal. I thought you were just hungry…"

"Now you can have her sticky love whenever you want!" Fumi screamed. "And after you wash all that mucous off you, you can have my fluffiness! Oh, we'll be so happy, the three of us!"

"Did you say you were getting married?" a small voice asked.

Taguchi looked down. Standing there were the three imps, Rami, Rumi, and Remi. Rami had spoken.

"We want true love too," Rami said plaintively. "Will you marry us too?"

"I don't think-" Taguchi started to say.

"Oh, you adorable little imps!" Fumi laughed. "Of course you can marry him too! I love my friends here so much, it would be so amazing if you came to live with us! And Rami, you bring something to the table that neither I nor Melk have!"

"What's that?" Rami asked cluelessly.

Remi and Rumi began to bounce Rami's boobs.

"Oh. Oh yeah," Rami giggled. "Stop that. Those breasts are only for my husband to be."

"Fumi, do you really think-?" Taguchi started to ask, before being interrupted again.

"Can I marry you too?" an alraune asked.

"Do I know you?" Taguchi asked.

"Tag, that's Melon!" Fumi scolded him. "How can you not know Melon?"

"We've only spoken once," Melon replied. "And I've never touched him."

"That's excellent!" Fumi exclaimed, getting more and more excited. "That means that when you touch him for the first time, it will be on our wedding night! Oh, that's so romantic!"

"Fumi-" Taguchi tried to say, not really seeing the romance in this situation. Did Fumi even understand what a marriage was?

"I want to marry him too!" Kimuro yelled.

"Oh, that would be wonderful!" Fumi replied. "I'd hate to be the only kitsune in the house!"

"Me too!" Candy yelled out.

"Ooohh…" Fumi said, finally looking a little uncomfortable. "I think we're going to need a bigger house. And a lot more food. "

"Don't worry, Fumi!" Candy assured her. "I can create frosting out of thin air! I'll just dip Taguchi in it and lick him to feed myself!"

"Oooh, can I lick off the frosting too?!" Fumi asked eagerly. All of the monsters who had expressed a desire to marry Taguchi agreed that licking frosting off of him would be great fun. Candy was almost unanimously accepted into the family. Almost. Taguchi noted that he had not gotten a vote.

"Hee…" the mantis girl said.

Everyone stopped to stare at the large mantis girl.

"Hee…" she repeated.

"Does that mean…. You want to marry him too?" Fumi asked.

"Hee…" mantis girl confirmed.

"Anyone else?" Fumi asked. "He's a really great guy…."

Ratty looked like she might raise her hand, but then decided against it when another man pulled her close to him. The men were starting to get antsy, fearing that the old guy might make off with most of the Pocket Castle's women. Taguchi, for his part, was a lot antsier about the prospect.

"Then if that's everyone, let's do this!" Fumi yelled. "Oh… how do we get married?"

"Well, if it was just you," Taguchi answered, finally getting a complete sentence in, and also trying to give her a hint. "Then you just make me have three orgasms and we're married. That's kitsune tradition."

"I know that now!" Fumi scolded him playfully. "But we can't have all the girls make you come three times!"

"Exactly," Taguchi said slowly, hoping she'd get it.

"Hmmm…. Maybe I didn't think this through," Fumi said thoughtfully. "Girls, this might not work…"

"No, there's another way!" Rami shouted, waving her arms to gain everyone's attention.

"What way is that?" Fumi asked.

"Any Heavenly Knight can officiate a marriage between man and monster!" Rami answered. "And I happen to know that one Heavenly Knight in particular is here, right now, in the Pocket Castle!"

"Is it Tamamo?!" Fumi asked, looking as if she might burst with excitement.

"Even better! Alma Elma!" Rami replied.

"Oh…" Fumi said, deflating a little. "Well, if she can do it, then I say we go do it! C'mon, everyone, let's go find her!"

"But…." Taguchi said futilely as he was carried out of the cafeteria by multiple pairs of hands.

Taguchi wasn't sure how they found Alma Elma so easily. Must have been their superior sense of smell. But find her they did.

"Oh, thank you!" Alma Elma said gratefully. "I guess you guys knew I came here to feed and so you brought me one of my favorites!"

"Actually…" Fumi said. "We wanted you to marry us."

Alma Elma looked skeptical. "I know Heavenly Knights can officiate marriages," the queen succubus said. "But monogamy is against my religion. Sorry, wait until one of the other Knights is here."

"What's mono…. Gamey?" Fumi asked.

"You don't understand!" Rami protested. "This isn't that kind of marriage! We're ALL getting married to him!"

Alma Elma froze, speechless. She glanced at Taguchi, who was still being carried. He shrugged helplessly.

"Well then!" Alma Elma said happily. "That's a whole different situation! Of course I'll marry you all! Put him down first. We have to make sure this is all consensual. That's a rule noawadays, you know."

Reluctantly, the three monsters holding Taguchi placed him on his feet. He brushed himself off and faced Alma Elma.

"Now, Taggy uchi uchi," Alma Elma said. "Are you willing to take…. All these women as your lawfully wedded wives?"

"Well you see, there's been a very funny misunderstanding here…" Taguchi started to say. Then he saw Fumi's eyes. They were big and round and pleading.

And that's when it hit him. Fumi loved him. Fumi wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. But Fumi had lived her entire life alone, hunted, with no one to rely on. Fumi craved the security of being part of a larger group. As much as she loved him, she would always be skittish if it was just the two of them against the world. It wasn't that Fumi didn't understand marriage. Even for one such as her, the concept was simple enough. It was that she feared not having her pack around her.

"Actually…. I do," Taguchi said, smiling at Fumi. "I do take these women to be my wives."

Some of the monsters cheered. Others shed tears of joy. Fumi looked at Taguchi with complete devotion on her face. I have no idea what I'm getting into here, Taguchi thought. But that look on her face made it all worth it.

"Then I guess I have only one more question to ask," Alma Elma said. "Do you, laides, take this man as your lawfully wedded husband?"

"We do!!!!!" they all said joyfully in union, except for Matis.

"Hee," Matis said.

"Then I now pronounce you man and wives!" Alma Elma said happily. "We may now fuck the groom!"

"Wait, right here?!" Taguchi exclaimed.

"First off, I came here to eat," Alma Elma answered. "Secondly, you must not know how succubus weddings are conducted. The one who officiates the wedding gets to join in the consummation. As a matter of fact, I get first shot at you!"

Alma Elma leaped at Taguchi and tackled him. The other girls piled on, trying to lick or grope whatever part of him they could reach. Taguchi wondered for a moment if he'd made the biggest mistake of his life. And then he felt his penis enter the queen succubus and he had no further coherent thoughts that day.

Alma Elma sighed in satisfaction. Taguchi was always a good meal and despite having to share him with several other women, today had been no exception. Alas, it would be Alma Elma's last taste of the man. He was now married, and therefore had to be loyal to his wives. And if he wasn't… well, Alma Elma would get to taste him again, except it wouldn't be nearly as pleasant for him the next time. His wives would be feeding him with a spoon and a bib for the rest of his life if Alma Elma had to punish him.

Alma Elma was so absorbed in her thoughts that she walked smack into a very large pair of breasts. She looked up to see the face of the owner of the breasts.

"Eden?" Alma Elma asked. "What brings an angel here? All the angels left the pocket castle months ago!"

"Alma Elma…" Eden asked uncertainly. "Would you consider us…. Friends?"

"Not exactly," Alma Elma answered warily. "I mean, we had maybe two conversations during that whole Paradox quest thing, and we passed each other in the halls and nodded on occasion. We aren't enemies, which I guess is quite remarkable when you think about it. A Seraph and a succubus living in the same castle for months, and not trying to murder each other? Historic."

"Well…. this is embarrassing, actually," Eden said uncomfortably. "I could have asked the Alma Elma on the new world Ilias created, but I don't know her like I know you."

"Which Is not much."

"True," Eden admitted. "I guess I should have been friendlier. I was just so devoted to the quest, as you can probably understand…."

"Yeah, yeah, I get it," Alma Elma said impatiently. "But we were allies, and monsters and angels are supposed to be getting along now, so if you want to call that friendship, fine, it works for me. What did you need from me?"

"Well, I don't know if you've heard, but Ilias….. she's… different now."

"Yes, she's horny all the time," Alma Elma replied.

"Ah, I guess it was a very poorly kept secret in the castle," Eden said ruefully.

"So what of it?" Alma Elma asked.

"It's just that…. I had always thought Ilias and I to be close," Eden explained. "And I am quite a beautiful angel, if that doesn't seem too immodest. And yet…. She seems to be after every woman, and even a man here and there…. Except for me."

"Wait a minute, hold on," Alma Elma said. "You're telling me she's running around fucking everything in sight and hasn't been hitting that?" Alma Elma gestured at Eden's incredible body.

"Well, no, we have done it a time or two," Eden admitted. "In the male form. But the Ilias I know and love, you see… she's female… and I…."

"And you…."

"I…. I was created to be every man's dream, and from thousands of years of experience I know how to please a man as well as any succubus."

"I'd dispute that, but go on."

"But I now nothing about pleasing…. A woman," Eden finished, blushing with embarrassment.

Alma Elma's mouth opened in a cute O shape. "Oh, I see!" Alma Elma said, amused. "Well, so what did you need from me? Advice on how to make a woman happy?"

"Yes, I assumed you were the best in that regard," Eden confirmed.

"Okay, so look," Alma Elma replied. "There's not really much to it. If you can please a man, you can please a woman. I could go into all the technical details, and technique is important, but the most important advice I can give you is just to be sexy."

"I'm very sexy!" Eden said defensively. "Do you see all this?!"

"Oh, that body is impressive no doubt," Alma Elma said, her voice tinged with a small amount of jealousy. "And your face…. You are truly one of the most beautiful women in all of creation. Perhaps the most beautiful."

"Then what in Ilias' name are you talking about?!"

"You're not sexy."

"Of course I'm sexy!"

"No, you're lovely," Alma Elma explained. "You're the kind of woman people want to marry. I'm the kind of woman people want to fuck. There's a difference."

"Men want to…. Engage in sexual relations with me!" Eden said hotly.

"Sure they do!" Alma Elma agreed. "They want to make love to you! But that's not what Ilias is into right now! She's like a horny teenager! You don't need to be beautiful for her! You need to be bangable for her!"

"Bangable?"

"Eden, honey…." Alma Elma said, putting her arm around the much taller Seraph. "Let's go to my room. I'll give you a few pointers on technique, but what you need more than anything else right now is a makeover. So you can control your own form?"

"Yes, this is not my true form," Eden answered.

"So you're not limited to just human or angel, right?" Alma Elma asked. "You can be… anything?"

"Well… yes. What are you getting at?"

"Just come with me and I'll explain everything!" Alma Elma said excitedly. "By the time I'm done with you, Ilias won't be able to keep her hands off you!"

"Welcome to heaven, bitches!" Ilias exclaimed.

"Wow," Luka said. "It looks familiar, and yet.. I know I've never been here."

"Ah, but you have!" Ilias said. "You just can't remember! Don't worry, we're going to educate you on who you really are."

"It's quite a story," Alice agreed. "But trust your gut, that sense of déjà vu. You've lived a long life and you've seen a lot of things. If something seems familiar, that's because it probably is. A lot of your memories are gone forever, but there are still a few locked deep within that brain of yours. While I don't mind teaching you about your past life, it's better to remember what you can than just be told."

"So, do you want the tour?" Ilias asked.

"Isn't this place as big as the world?" Alice asked.

"Not yet," Ilias said. "In theory heaven is infinite. It's a pocket subuniverse that can be as large as I want it to be. But right now it's pretty small, no larger than Grand Noah. That will change of course, once Eden builds her garden, and once we build the section for the souls of the good to find eternal paradise here. Eden's been working on that as well."

"So what's here now?" Luka asked.

"Let me show you!" Ilias said excitedly.

Ilias led the two to her scrying pool.

"Ah, a scrying pool!" Alice said, recognizing it immediately. "Far more advanced than anyting I've ever used."

"Oh, I don't even need this!" Ilias said. "it's mainly for my Seraphs to keep an eye on things, although I do use it from time to time. We used this scrying pool to monitor you two during your quest. You were always under my protection. Except when you weren't."

"You mean when you were… transformed," Alice said.

"Yeah, that's most of it," Ilias confirmed. "There was also the small matter of those offworlders risking a new paradox, which would have been very bad. It meant I couldn't rewind time for Luka anymore if he died."

"Does this thing record?" Luka asked.

"It can do anything! It's god level magic!" Ilias answered.

"Could you show me a few of the things I missed?" Luka asked. "Like when I was unconscious?"

"Absolutely, my brave hero!" Ilias answered, waving her hands over the scrying pool.

Many scenes played out before Alice and Luka. Luka battling Yamata no Orochi. Alice defending Luka from Sariela, and Emma, who she initially perceived as a threat. Alice bathing, her perky breasts floating in the water…..

"Ilias, did you record me bathing?!" Alice exclaimed.

"Oh, it records everything!" Ilias said quickly, waving her hand over the scrying pool to dispel the images. "I totally didn't record that one in particular, or watch it while it was going on!"

"Good to know," Alice said skeptically.

"So how about I show you my sleeping quarters?" Ilias asked, trying to change the subject.

"I'm not having sex with you again, Ilias!" Alice said firmly.

"I wouldn't dream of asking you to have sex with me again!" Ilias protested, knowing full well that she would. But her evil plot had not yet been fully formed yet, much less put into action. But oh yes, Ilias though. You will be mine! For eternity! Bwahahahahaha!

Ilias showed the couple to her bedroom.

"I think I remember this!" Luka exclaimed.

"I've never showed you this," Ilias said. "But I read that that other world's Ilias did. Quite an honor, to be shown the goddess' bedroom. Did she have sex with you?"

"I don't think so," Luka answered. "Maybe. I know she did, I just can't remember the context."

"She took your virginity, Luka," Alice informed him.

"Oh…. Okay then."

"Wow, I'm jealous," Ilias said. "Anyway, do you notice something different about my room compared to that other version of me?"

"I….. something does feel different, but I can't quite place my finger on it," Luka replied.

Alice looked around. For the most part, the room looked about as Luka had described it to her so long ago. Then she noticed it.

"There are no pictures of you, Ilias!" Alice said. "And no statues out there, either! Have you suddenly discovered modesty?"

"Sort of, I guess," Ilias said. "Some of these pictures are of me. At least in my male form."

Alice looked at the photos on the wall. Most of them weren't of Ilias in any form. There were a few pictures of Luka, and Alice. Cindy was prominently featured on the wall, as well as the Akaname sisters, a mimic Alice wasn't sure she remembered, a large monster named Candy who Alice remembered was a bigger glutton than she was, as well as a few other monsters and angels who had occupied the castle with them during their quest. The few of Ilias were indeed in his male form. There was one with Albert, who Ilias had briefly mentioned to her. Alice looked at the picture, fascinated.

"So what's what I'd look like as a man," Alice said in wonder. "I wouldn't wear that facial hair though. And I'd grow my hair longer."

"That's because you were born a woman," Ilias said. "I've chosen to be beardless in my male form as well, with slightly long hair. Some women dig facial hair, but I've never been one of them."

Alice continued to browse the pictures of Elias. There was a picture of Elias with a petite elf, another of him with a blonde lamia, and one with a mermaid who appeared to be….

"Ilias, did you go fishing for mermaids!?" Alice exclaimed.

"Well… yes, I did in fact go fishing for mermaids," Ilias answered honestly. "Mermaid fishing is one of my favorite hobbies."

"That mermaid is dead!"

"What? No! She's just playing! We were posing for a picture!"

"Are you telling the truth, Ilias?"

"Of course I am! I can take you to that mermaid right now if you don't believe me!"

Alice breathed a sigh of relief. Ilias was going to be a handful, but at least she wasn't trying to murder monsters anymore. Still, her perversions were mildly alarming to Alice, and that was saying something, given Alice's own proclivities.

"She may have been a little criticalled…." Ilias conceded.

The rest of the day was spent going over wedding plans with Luka and Alice. Ilias was even more excited about the whole thing than they were. It would be the biggest wedding in history. Everyone who was anyone in the heaven or the monster world or the human world would be there. People from multiple worlds, actually. Many people would be meeting their own counterparts at the wedding. That would be fun, Ilias thought.

Ilias returned the happy couple to the surface, whereupon Alice immediately announced that she was hungry and hurried Luka to a private room for a feeding. Ilias clicked her tongue. While she enjoyed feeding monsters, a part of her rankled at the thought that someone as worthy as Luka could just be Alice's food sometimes. Luka deserved so much better. Why, if Ilias had married Luka, every time they made love would be like the first time! Of course, Ilias had no intention of being loyal to Luka. Luka couldn't eat her. Actually, he wasn't even very good in bed. A goddess had needs, after all. And speaking of those needs, who should she go visit today?

Ilias checked in on Allison. Allison had become her favorite for being devoured, but Allison, like Alice, stubbornly resisted having sex with Ilias. Allison was also full, parts of Cory still churning in her stomach.

Ilias began running through her other favorites .Some were available, others were not, but even the available ones she decided she wasn't in the mood for that day. Having Alice and Luka visit her up in heaven had made her long for something more. More intimacy. More affection. More love. And of course, multiple, intense orgasms. But who could fulfill that need? Albert, maybe? Albert was beyond her sight, and it was a lot of work to cross all those worlds, and she had to bring him here. While she could easily mop the floor with that inferior male version of herself, she knew that Albert's pride required him to be the one to eventually tame the genocidal god. Men, she thought. Black Alice didn't mind when I took care of her Ilias for her.

"Ilias," a deep, sultry voice said behind her.

Ilias had sensed Eden's presence, of course. But when her actual eyes took in Eden, she gasped.

Eden stood before her, stark naked as usual, but looking vastly different than she normally did. Her pure white angel wings had been replaced by two large black, leathery wings. Monster wings. Power tattoos covered parts of her left side, with a particularly noticeable one just above her crotch. Horns had sprouted out of her head.

"Eden?!" Ilias breathed, as if seeing her Seraph for the first time. "Eden, what happened to you?"

"A certain someone explained the difference between beautiful and sexy to me," Eden replied, advancing on Ilias.

"You are certainly both right now," Ilias whispered.

"Goddess," Eden said with authority. "I am going to make you come so many times that even you won't be able to count. I hope your wedding plans for our favorite couple are complete, because for the next week… you're mine."

"Yes…. Mistress."

"And when it's all done," Eden said. "When you think you can't come anymore…. I'm going to eat you all up."

Ilias nearly collapsed as her knees started to shake.

"Eden…. Do whatever you want with me. For the next week, I am yours to use however you wish," ilias croaked.

"Oh no, Ilias," Eden said, shaking her finger back and forth. "We have the whole week. The first few days, I'm going to have my way with you. But the second half, before I eat you. You're going to fuck me with that huge, hard cock of yours."

"Yes… Yes!!! Whatever you desire of me, Eden, I obey!"

"Oh yes you will, little goddess," Eden said in a commanding tone. "Now, let's go to your room. I intend to make that pristine room very messy and dirty over the next week."

Without hesitation, Ilias teleported them both directly into her room.

So folks, that's the story. Oh yeah, I'm back, I know the change in perspective from third person to first person can be jarring. But as I said, this story wasn't really about me. And I was unconscious for a good portion of it, so I would have been a very unreliable narrator. But for this last part of the story, I figure it's time to let me tell it. And I wouldn't miss this part for the world.

Because I got married! Okay, I know I've been married before. It's just that…. I don't have a first hand memory of either one of them. So for me, it had all the excitement of being married for the first time. Alice, for some reason only dimly understood by me, did get all her memories back, or at least the ones she wanted, so she remembered, and yet…. For some reason she seemed more excited about this one than the first one.

Now from what I've been told(and read), Alice was a reluctant participant in our original wedding ceremony. Being a monster, the marriage "ceremony" was having sex a certain way. Different tribes have different rules. Kitsunes marry by making men ejaculate three times. Her tribe marries by making men ejaculate for three DAYS.

But us humans, being a bit prudish, love our pomp and ceremony. Apparently goddesses do as well, because this wedding…. Ilias had gone all out, and since money was no object, only her creativity, it was a bit much.

For me, the most noticeable bit of excess was when the bride arrived in a golden carriage pulled by unicorns. Alice was glowing as she descended from the carriage with an assist from angels, who spread rose petals on the ground in front of her after helping her out of the carriage. Her dress was beautiful, pure white, and her bridesmaids had equally lovely dresses. Granberia was the only one that didn't seem delighted to be dressed so.

I could feel Alice's excitement as she stood next to me. The first time had been a concession for her, an acknowldgement that her human husband's culture deserved as much respect as her monster culture. This time it was no concession. Alice was beside herself with joy to be able to participate in the ceremony. Somehow she'd turned into a romantic. I'd heard that our marriage had been rocky at times. Seeing her face at that moment, I realized the second time around would be much, much better. She had an understanding and appreciation for who I was that was not fully present in our past life.

Everyone who was anyone was present, brought to Ilias Village by Micaela, second only to Ilias herself in the magic of transportation. And when I say everyone, I don't just mean people from the Easy Mode world, as you readers have come to know it. Looking out at the sea of faces, many were identical to other faces, because they were variants of the same people from different worlds.

Ilias herself was going to perform the ceremony. Like Eden the first time I got married, Ilias wanted all of the leaders of the world, political and religious, to know that she not only didn't forbid monster/human relationships anymore, but encouraged them. Given Ilias' nature, I was sure she had to be counseled not to make having sex with monsters mandatory. Her heroes were already giving themselves to monsters at her orders, and there were rumors of more men descending from the sky to feed monsters. Attacks on human travelers and villages had dropped by 90% overnight. The last remnant of bad monsters would hopefully be deterred by the example of the Monster Lord herself marrying a human male as an equal partner.

Alice and I stood before Ilias. Ilias and Alice shared a look. I could see on Alice's face that she had surrendered her skepticism. Her memories of questing with the diminished version of the goddess had convinced her of Ilias' sincere evolution. The two powerful beings shared a smile. And then Ilias began.

I won't share the speech here. If you've read the wedding ceremony from the original Luka's Story, you know that Eden had made her speech all about coexistence and love. And it was short. Ilias did cover those subjects in her long winded sermon, but mostly the focus was on how great the goddess was, and how lucky the wedded couple was to have Ilias watching over their marriage, which turned out to be quite literal because the goddess was a voyeur. After about thirty minutes of sermonizing about her own greatness with occasional references to everyone getting along better, Alice quietly mouthed, "Ilias! Get to the good part!"

"And now, we join these two in most holy matrimony!" Ilias declared, which drew an audible mass sigh of relief from the assembled. "If there is anyone who objects to these two being wedded, speak now or forever hold your-"

"I object!" a screechy voice exclaimed from the crowd.

"Oh, for fuck's sake," Ilias muttered.

Sariela pushed her way through the crowd until she stood in front of it. She had her own speech to give, apparently.

"You two don't deserve happiness!" she screeched. "I've lost everything because of you! My wonderful job at the prison! My status as an Archangel! My powers! The love of my goddess!"

"I still love you," ilias said quietly, although Sariela couldn't have heard her. "That's why I'm trying to help you instead of punish you."

"Um…. Didn't you plot to destroy them?" Albert asked. "I mean, that wasn't very nice of you. From all I've been told, Luka's a pretty good dude. And Alice, well…. she's me! So we know she's cool!"

"Luka's a pretty good… dude?" Sariela asked, turning to Albert, a look of smoldering rage on her face. "You don't even know this man! This man…. He raped me!"

The crowd gasped and looked to me to answer the charges. Now let me make something clear. At this point I hadn't read my own books, so the only thing I remember is my recent adventure, and only the parts I was conscious for. I had never seen this woman in my life, but then I knew that didn't mean much, because I had forgotten 99% of my life. Had I done such a horrilble thing to her? I couldn't imagine that I was ever that kind of person. But how could I deny something I couldn't remember?

Alice spoke up for me.

"Sariela, you are an utterly delusional idiot!" Alice yelled. "You raped Luka!"

The heads in the crowd turned to Sariela.

"But…. But…. He enjoyed it!" Sariela shot back.

The crowd's heads turned back to me… then turned right back to Sariela. The crowd began to grumble. Sariela was NOT winning this argument, apparently.

"No, you don't understand…." Sariela stammered. "I was raping him to punish him for misbehaving in my prison…. But he tampered with my magic, so it wasn't a punishment anymore…. Damn you all, he took advantage of me!"

The crowd wasn't buying it.

"Sariela, please stop…." Ilias said quietly. Sariela didn't hear her.

"Luka must have tricked me!" Sariela said, as if realizing something for the first time. "Yes, yes, he deliberately misbehaved, knowing that I would punish him with my body. But he secretly craved my body, so he tricked me into using it on him! Yes, that's what happened! That pervert over there…. He raped me… by manipulating me into raping him!"

The crowd still wasn't buying it.

"You all think I'm the bad guy here!" Sariela continued. "I am not the bad guy! I am the victim! I was simply doing the job my goddess assigned me! Punish sinners!"

"I never told you to dabble in black magic," Ilias said, finally audibly enough for Sariela to hear in her diminished power state. "While I did encourage my angels to punish sinners with their bodies, the sex itself was always supposed to be pleasurable. But it was supposed to purify, not torture. I was wrong to let you do what you did for so long. It didn't rehabilitate anyone, and it turned you into…. Into what you became."

"You let me learn black magic to use against our enemies!" Sariela said accusingly. "I was doing it to serve you!"

"As I keep telling you, I have accepted responsibility for who you have become," Ilias responded. "And I also accept responsibility for rehabilitating you."

"I am not one of your sinners to be rehabilitated!" Sariela exploded, her black staff appearing in her hand. "Nor am I some mere lackey who can be depowered by you at your whim! You may have stolen my angel powers from me, but my knowledgeof black magic is beyond your reach!"

The crowd gasped. Some ran for cover, expecting imminent violence.

Alice put up a magical shield in anticipation of a black magic attack. Since black magic is really just dark magic, except an unnatural version of it, Alice knew all the counterspells and shields to protect us.

"Tamamo held me back from destroying you both!" Sariela exclaimed, a sneering snarl forming on her face. "But we are partners no more! Now I can simply kill you as I originally planned!"

"As if I'd allow that," Ilias sighed.

I braced, waiting for the black magic attack to come, although I fully expected Alice and Ilias to protect me. But the attack never came. A dimensional portal opened, or at least I had to assume it was a dimensional portal, because buses don't exist yet on the Easy Mode world.

And what a strange bus this was. It looked almost like a transformer, with a beautiful metallic female face on the grill. That face had a wicked grin as it slammed into Sariela, shattering her staff and her body. The wheels bumped as they rolled over the crazed angel. All that was left was a crumpled heap of of white robes with tire tracks on them.

"Oh my God," I breathed. "is she?"

"Yes, she's dead," Ilias sighed. "I depowered her so she couldn't withstand even that. I'll resurrect her after the ceremony. It's apparent that she's going to quite the project for me. Now, where were we?"

"I do," Alice said without prompting.

"I haven't gotten to that part yet," Ilias complained.

"Sorry, the moment's been ruined," Alice muttered. "The only way to salvage this is with food. Lots and lots of food. Skip ahead to the reception, okay?"

"I do too," I added.

"Okay, fine!" Ilias sighed. "Go ahead and kiss."

Alice kissed me deeply, passionately, and clumsily. For all Alice's insane sexual talents, she still couldn't kiss worth a damn. I believe that was the second real kiss she'd ever given me, and would probably be the last. It just wasn't her thing. Kinda like cooking.

"Okay let's eat!" Alice proclaimed.

I stole a glance at the occupants of the bus, who had disembarked to gather around the body of Sariela. They were all men. One of them returned my gaze.

"Hey, are you… Luka?" he asked.

"Um… yeah."

"Holy shit, he's not a sandwich!" another one of them yelled.

"A sandwich?" Alice asked, confused. Then she licked her lips. "My, what an… interesting idea."

We left the men behind to join our reception.

The reception was as gaudy as the wedding had been. Foods I couldn't even identify were sitting on tables that seemed to be the length of a football field. Alice eagerly dove in, trying everything. Normally I'm willing to do the same, but some of the food was moving trying to get off the plate, so I left the monster attendees to their…. Gourmet offerings and found a crowd of humans gathered around more familiar fare.

After trying a few things, I decided to go find Alice again, but I was blocked by the most enormous bust I'd ever seen, at least at eye level.

She was beautiful, and what I didn't know at the time was how rare it was to see her actually dressed. Now I throw around the word beautiful a lot in these books, but I think you know who I'm talking about her. Eden is top tier, second only to the goddess herself, although depending on your tastes, she might exceed the goddess. Since I love tall women, I would probably say I preferred Eden.

I slowly looked up at her.

"Do you remember me, Luka?" Eden asked, smiling down at me.

"I'm sorry….." I stammered. "It would be very hard to forget a face like yours, and yet…. I don't remember you."

"I am intimately familiar with your circumstances, so I don't hold it against you," Eden said graciously. "But perhaps…. This will help?"

Eden bent down and kissed me. A deep, long kiss. Unlike Alice, she knew how to do it. I just stared back at her, stunned.

"Now do you remember?" she asked slyly.

"Um….. that definitely felt familiar," I stammered. "Which Eden are you?"

"The one you knew first," she replied. "The Goddess Eden. It's a long story, you'll know it soon enough. Suffice to say we were…. close. I even officiated your first wedding."

"Did we…?"

"A time or two, yes," she said, a warm smile on her face. That jogged some memories. Eden was as lewd as any non-human being, and yet somehow when she did lewd things it seemed…. Right, somehow. Romantic, even if she didn't know you.

"Just… how many people at this wedding have I had sex with?" I wondered.

"Let's not think too hard about that," Tamamo said, sidling up to us along with Promestein, Ben, and Emma.

"Which….?"

"I'm also from the world you were originally transported to," Tamamo replied. "I'm the first Tamamo you ever knew. Don't worry, I'm a nice girl."

"Aren't you all nice?" I asked.

"Oh wow, you really don't remember much," Promestein said.

"Pardon me for being blunt, but you are a monster," I said. "Did I… did we…?"

"That, my beloved, is a very long story," Tamamo replied. "And we'll discuss it when you're ready. You're going to need to sit down for that one. For now, enjoy your marriage. We can think about complicated things in good time."

Ben and Emma giggled. Promestein rolled her eyes.

"And did i… with any of you?" I asked.

"Yes for me," Promestein replied. "Ben, obviously not. Emma…. I don't know. Did you-?"

"Oh, I just licked him, that's all," Emma replied.

"Okay then," I said. "I'm…. going to go find Alice now."

"Try not to get licked by too many people on your way back to her!" Promestein called jokingly. Or was she joking?

The crowd was huge, so I tried to follow the sounds of loud eating. That didn't help much. Alice wasn't the only loud eater. Fly girls loudly sucked in liquefied food through proboscis, even though they had very human faces and mouths for that purpose. Some of the less cultured kitsunes picked up plates and licked them clean. I gagged a little when I noticed a punch bowl filled with a thick whitish liquid that the succubi were gathered around. A fight started when a wolf girl plunged her face into it, leaving hair behind. As the succubi and the wolf girl fought, a raccoon girl stole the entire semen bowl.

Alice! I saw her and rushed to her. I hugged her fiercely.

"Well, you're friendly!" she said.

Wait, this wasn't Alice. The tattoo patterns were sloppy, not touched up. She wore no insignia of royalty. There was no flower in her hair.

"Ariana?" I asked tentatively, the name coming to me from a memory I couldn't recall.

"Allison, actually," she replied.

That one didn't ring a bell.

"I'm afraid to ask how we know each other," I said warily. Even though she looked like my Alice, something made me skittish around her.

"Oh, I tried to eat you when we met," she said.

"That's…. I…."

"Oh, I'm totally changed now!" Allison assured me. "I don't eat men anymore. Well, not unless they can be resurrected. Hey, I just realized, Ilias would totally resurrect you if I ate you, wouldn't she?"

"I…. I guess?"

"Want to find out what it's like?" Allison asked.

"I'm guessing Alice can already do that for me…" I stammered.

"She doesn't have the practice I do," Allison said, licking her lips suggestively.

"I…. It's been great to meet you, Allison," I said, quickly retreating. "Enjoy the food! Just… please don't eat the guests!"

I continued to search for Alice. Now that I was aware that not every Alice was my Alice, the search became even more confusing. It didn't help that Alice had changed out of her wedding dress into her usual fare for the reception. Blue lamias were everywhere, since Alice had invited her entire family over. Many looked quite similar to her, and from behind, with the long silver hair, it was even tougher to tell them apart.

Then I encountered a blue lamia that was very easy to distinguish from the others. Because this blue lamia had a barrel chest and a beard. He was male. I'd seen him in the audience and been quite taken aback, but chalked it up to my lack of knowledge about the monster world. I believed Alice had mentioned that male monsters were rare, not nonexistent.

"Luka, my boy!" this male lamia said jovially, putting his arm around me. "You sure are a ladies man!"

"I think it's more that the ladies of this world are really…. Thirsty," I responded modestly.

"Heh heh, true, true," he conceded. "I've had some experiences with them. Very…. Memorable…. Experiences…. Sigh…."

"I imagine being a male monster, you must be quite in demand," I said.

"You know, you're right! By the way, the name's Albert! I've been dying to meet you!" he replied.

"You have? You're not going to eat me, are you?" I asked

"Eat you! Yikes, that sounds disgusting!" Albert said with a grimace. "No, no, definitely not gonna eat you."

His arms tightened around me and he brought his face in closer, which did not reassure me that he had no plans to eat me. But his body language was not predatory. Rather, it was conspiratorial.

"Tell me your secret!" he whispered.

"My secret?" I asked.

"Yeah, man, how do you get such powerful women to throw themselves at you!" he said eagerly, still whispering.

"Um…. I have no idea. I guess….. they get hungry and I taste good?"

"That doesn't explain that hot tall angel," he pointed out.

"Apparently we have history, but…. I don't really know what that history is," I said sheepishly.

"And how did you land that nine-tailed fox?" he asked.

"Land?" I asked, confused. "I wouldn't be surprised to find out that we'd had…. Relations, but I assume she would just have found me tasty as well."

"Oh…. OH! Oh shit, you don't remember, do you?"

"Remember what?" I asked suspiciously.

"I'd better not say anything more," Albert said, backing away. "But you and me…. We're gonna talk once you know what time it is. You feel me?"

"I…. have no idea what you just said."

"I'll call you…." He mouthed as he backed away and rejoined the crowd.

I felt her presence when her attention was turned to me. Without even being introduced, I knew I was looking at the Dark God, Alipheese. She had chosen a more monstrous form for this event, which didn't diminish her sinister looking beauty in the slightest. Not my type, but damn…. I'd seen Albert hitting on her earlier, even though he'd supposedly come to the wedding with that nice Tamamo I'd met as his date. Alipheese had shown interest, but ultimately gave him the cold shoulder. From what I understood, he'd been making progress. Until he started rapping a love song he made up on the spot.

But for now, this incredibly powerful being, equal to Ilias herself(at least most versions of her), had her attention turned towards me. Accompanying her was a tiny little fox child.

She looked familiar. Oh yeah, this was a Tamamo! I'd met the loli version of Tamamo in the Treasure cave, but if anything, this one was…. Even younger looking.

"Hi, Tamamo!" I said cheerfully.

She snarled and bared her teeth at me. I instinctively backed away.

"Now Tamamo, is that nice?" Alipheese scolded. Tamamo pouted and looked down.

"Did… something happen between us to make her angry at me?" I asked.

"I'll let her talk," Alipheese said. "Tamamo, you have something to say to Luka, don't you?"

For a moment, Tamamo just pouted and looked down at the ground.

"Tamamo…." Alipheese prodded.

Tamamo mumbled something.

"He can't hear you, Tamamo," the Dark God reminded her. "He's human."

"Sorry," Tamamo mumbled.

"Sorry for what, child?" the Dark God asked her.

Tamamo looked up at me, resentment in her eyes, but also some remorse. But mostly resentment.

"I'm sorry for turning Sara into a succubus so that she had rough sex with you…"

"And?" Alipheese said.

"And I'm sorry for tricking Alma Elma into screwing you into a coma," Tamamo said.

I looked at her, confused. She had been somehow behind all that? This little thing? Then I realized Tamamo was ancient regardless of her form, and she may have been bigger at the time she did those things. Still…

"And….." I replied. "Why am I supposed to be mad at you for that?"

Alipheese faceplamed. "Pervert," she muttered. "Tamamo, tell him the rest of it."

"I did those things to ruin your relationship with Alice," Tamamo admitted. "I hated you and I wanted to get back at you by ruining your life."

"Oh…." I said, nonplussed. "Well, that's not very nice, I have to admit. But I forgive you, Tamamo. I don't know what I did to make you hate me, but I'm sorry for that and I hope you'll forgive me too. Deal?"

Tamamo looked at me with childlike eyes. I dimly remembered hearing that no matter how ancient the being, if their form was childish their minds also functioned in many ways like a child's. That had to be an interesting existence, possessing both thousands of years of wisdom and knowledge, as well as the immaturity of someone so young.

"You forgive me?" Tamamo asked plaintively. "Even after all I did to you?"

"What you described wasn't so bad, really," I insisted. "You got me… laid really good, you tried to break up my relationship with Alice, but you failed, so no harm no foul, right?"

"But I also tortured you."

"Excuse me, what?"

"I bit your nipple off," Tamamo said. "And a toe. I also tortured your penis with a drill."

"I stopped her before she pulled out the chainsaw," Alipheese said.

"Um…. I guess I owe you for that one," I replied uncertainly.

"Oh, I did it all because she told me to," Tamamo said, looking up at the Dark God meaningfully.

"Wha…. But why would you torture me?" I asked. "Did I do something to you guys?"

"No, you didn't do anything wrong," Tamamo said, now speaking loudly and clearly and looking me directly in the eye with confidence. "She just wanted me to force you to use your power to commit genocide."

"Ah, the things children say!" the Dark god said, laughing uncomfortably. "Come, Tamamo, let's go enjoy the party! It's been really nice meeting you again, Luka."

"And that's why most of you is in the atmosphere of the Paradox world!" Tamamo shouted as she was yanked away by the Dark God.

My hearing was human, but I could still hear the Dark God whispering angrily to Tamamo as she twisted her ear that she'd gotten another thousand years added to her sentence.

"I'm sure this must all be very confusing for you," Alice said behind me.

"Oh Alice, thank goodness!" I said, hugging her tightly. "you are my Alice, right?"

"Sounds like you've met some people while I was filling my face," Alice laughed.

"Yeah, and I don't know any of them and they know me, and things happened between us…. " I blurted. "It's as if everyone at this wedding either loved me or had a vendetta against me!"

"Some had both," Alice said. "There are friends here, former enemies, and even a couple of recent enemies who still hold a grudge. But know this, my darlng. I'm going to tell you everything. Whatever you've been told by those other people, there are things you're going to learn which you won't believe. But together we'll get back up to speed and live our second lives even better than we lived our first life together!"

"And I'll be watching over you both!" Ilias said proudly, joining us with a drink in her hand. "Every… single…. Minute."

"When you're not in someone's stomach, anyway," Alice retorted.

And we all lived happily ever after.

Well, that's the end of the story. Finally. I hope so, anyway. I've had enough adventures. On this world, where Ilias has tried to create a paradise for us, there shouldn't be anything left to stress me out, at least not on the world destroying level. I live in a giant castle surrounded by beautiful women. It's a pretty great life. And I'm completely protected by the goddess, who would never let anything permanent happen to me.

As far as happy endings go, I'll take it. Thank you all so much for following me on my crazy, lewd adventures. Bye now.

Epilogue 1

"Ilias! Ilias, are you hearing me?" Allison yelled.

"Ilias! I'm hungry! This is the third straight time you've missed our weekly feeding!" Allison yelled, both with her mind and her voice at the heavens.

A voice, not Ilias' answered back.

"Ilias is…doing very important goddess work at the moment."

"Eden?"

"Yes, I am currently servicing… I mean…. Serving her holy will," Eden said evasively.

"Eden, stop talking to whoever you're talking to and finish eating me!" Allison heard Ilias yell in the background.

"Sorry, I have my Seraphic duties to attend to!" Eden said. "Keep up the good work on the game world! Business is booming, or so I've been told!"

Eden cut the telepathic connection. Allison grumbled.

"Business is booming, but I'm still not eating," she groused.

She couldn't complain about the pay. That pay got her all the best gourmet foods, and she'd been taught how to teleport, so she could instantly go anywhere in the world to get whatever entrée she wanted. Except the one she wanted most: human meat. That wasn't sold anywhere, not on any planet the goddess watched over.

She'd tried to quit, she really had. But Ilias had enabled her addiction by feeding herself to Allison, both in male and female form. Allison had modified her addiction somewhat, vowing never to take a life again in the process of devouring a human. She'd learned the value of human life. That change in her was sincere.

Maybe she could eat one of the random humans on this world and tell Ilias about it later, so that she could resurrect them? No, that was wrong too. Most humans didn't actually want to be eaten. Even though it felt amazing and they all surrendered to the pleasure quickly, they were still fearful and miserable during the process. Allison simply could not in good conscience do that to a person. At least not one who was undeserving.

"Excuse me, Allison?" a thin, reedy voice said from behind her.

"Why are you out of charac-!? Oh, it's you again."

It was indeed Cory. Allison cursed. She'd been thinking so much about her unsatisfied appetites that she had forgotten to crawl into the crater. She had even missed the fake explosion that informed her that a new customer was about to appear.

"Okay, Cory, are you just made of money?" Allison asked, annoyed.

"Actually, I could only afford to do this once," Cory admitted. "But Ilias said you had no call to eat me for such minor rules violations, so she gave me a free life."

"Ilias gave away something for free?" Allison asked in disbelief.

" I know! I left five stars on Yelp anyway, but she emailed me and said I was entitled to a free game! I certainly wasn't about to turn that down!"

"Ugh… fine," Allison said. "Just let me know when you're ready to start playing for real and I'll get into character. I guess I'm not allowed to eat you just for breaking character a little anymore, so … good luck on the adventure."

"Actually….. I don't want to go on the adventure," Cory said.

"Then why are you here?" Allison asked irritably.

"I was kinda hoping…. That you'd….. maybe… eat me again?" he asked.

Allison's stomach grumbled and her mouth watered. Cory wasn't attractive, but he smelled good and had tasted delicious, which was what really mattered to her. He wasn't her boyfriend. He was her prey. But something about it still bothered her.

"Why would you waste your free game just to get eaten right away?" Allison asked. "There are like two hundred monster girls to meet, monster girls that will touch you, play with you, tease you. And I thought you wanted to have sex with me? To make it to the end. To win."

"I… did want those things," Cory admitted. "All of it. But you see, Ilias also told me that I get unlimited lives as long as I lose them only to you. I loved you eating me so much that I don't want to risk losing to some other monster, which is certain to happen. I only want to lose to you."

"You…. Really? You'd keep coming back, just to feed me?" Allison asked, looking at this young man with new eyes.

"Yeah… I really like you… and I know you need to eat…."

And apparently Ilias knew that too. Allison had assumed that the goddess had grown bored with her and was no longer feeding her. But the goddess had provided. Allison smiled at Cory.

"Cory… I think we are going to be great friends," Allison said. "And since we're such good friends, I'm not just going to eat you. I'm going to give you the full prey treatment."

"The full… what?"

Allison snatched Cory with her tail and brought her close to him, whereupon she tores his clothes off easily. His eyes went wide when his stiff member was plunged into her vagina without warning or foreplay.

"Someone as weak as you I can just swallow," Allison said, her face inches from Cory's. "But when I was hunting men in the wild, I couldn't be sure they were weak, so I had to subdue them first. I did it this way."

Cory's eyes rolled back as her vaginal walls squeezed and stroked him rhythmically.

"But I thought… I had to win," he stammered.

"We're not even playing the game anymore," Allison replied. "Now you're my prey. And my prey gets…. Certain benefits in exchange for their lives. But you're special. Ilias is going to let you experience this again…. And again… and again. As many times as you want."

She smiled in satisfaction as his semen blasted into her. Since he was so nice, she decided she'd give him every kind of pleasure she knew how to give before she devoured him. With luck, he'd be her new weekly meal.

Epilogue 2

Ilias, flanked by her Seraphs, strode through Ilias Village. Bodies lay everywhere. It was total carnage, although there weren't any dead. The people, humans and monsters alike, were merely unconscious, exhausted from strenuous lovemaking.

"How did this happen?!" Ilias roared, turning on Micaela.

"Offworlders appeared here a few days ago!" Micaela informed her. "They were only here for a moment, so I thought nothing of it."

"Thought nothing of it?!" Ilias raged. "How long do you think it takes offworlders to corrupt my innocent people?! I worked so hard to find a better way, to not make the mistakes so many of my counterparts did! I made them forget all about sex, and semen and preying on male energy! I gave them the gift of hugs!"

"It was indeed an amazing gift, Ilias," Eden said helpfully. "Would you like a hug?"

"No, I don't want a fucking hug!" Ilias yelled. "I want my world to go back to the way it was!"

"We'll have to quarantine this village," Lucifina suggested. "If the forbidden knowledge should reach Iliasburg…."

"Yes, yes, definitely do that!" Ilias ordered. "And wipe each of their minds… Indiviually and thoroughly! And find me the offworlders who did this evil thing!"

"Ilias, what shall we do once we find them?" Eden asked.

"War! We will wage holy war on those perverts!"