Ten minutes before midnight, Princess Yuna was still awake, waiting for her mysterious visitor.
*Knock *Knock
Someone knocked on her door.
Yuna answered, "Coming!"
"COMMING?" a woman's voice responded.
She opened the door and it was Anna.
"Anna! What are you doing? Didn't we talk about this?"
"Yes, I know. That's why I wanted to give you this."
Anna held a glass of water and a small white pill with a leopard's paw embedded on it.
"What is that?" Yuna slumped out of irritation.
"It's a new thing that's trending for rich people nowadays. They call it Circe. It enhances your senses and amplifies your libido in the best way. It's not addicting and very safe according to the scientists."
"According to who? Libido?"
"I thought it would be a good addition to your special night, your Highness. Unless… You're lying to me?"
*Knock *Knock
There was a loud tapping sound coming from Yuna's window.
"What's that noise?"
Yuna quickly answered. "Ummm! That's the porn…"
She giggled in embarrassment.
Anna gave her a malicious teasing grin. "Oh, you dawg… you!"
*Knock *Knock
"Let me see… I want to watch this part!"
"No!!" Yuna made sure not to let Anna in.
"Give me that!" She drank the pill, swallowed it with the water, and locked the door while saying, "GOOD NIGHT, ANNA!"
Yuna tried to puke the pill, but she couldn't anymore. She had fully swallowed it. "It's fine. Probably, a placebo drug," she said.
She opened her window, and a tall, fair-skinned young man in a formal suit was floating outside her window.
"Good evening, your highness," Yuri gestured a bow. "May I come in?"
"Yes, please do, my Lord."
Anna curtsied for her handsome visitor.
"It seems I've chosen the right dress for the occasion. I did have some expert help." Yuna smiled, thinking how proud she was of her sister/maid's taste.
"Indeed, your highness. Your purple dress very much reflects your undeniable elegance and privilege."
Yuri teased her a little bit with this.
"Well, it's not like, I've had a choice. But I do now, my Lord. And apparently, we have arranged this meeting for me to have a new choice. One that only with you and me, working together, could make it available for me."
"Of course, your Highness. Now let us sit, and have these discussions."
"Are we going to sit on my bed? I only have one chair, prepared… in my room."
Yuna subconsciously wanted this scenario to occur. "Yes!" she thought.
Yuri then with another bow, grabs a customized Magitek chair out of his suit's pocket. And takes another one and aligns them in front of each other, along with a customized Magitek table.
"What???" Yuna thought. Trying not to act so surprised by the magic she is seeing, "Well, that is better, my Lord."
Yuri with his good manners assisted the Princess to be seated well. Then sat on the chair too.
Princess Yuna started to feel the effects of the pill a bit, but it was negligible.
"Now, I have prepared three ways, I can assist you, my Lord. But in return, you will help me. Once we agree on these terms, our political alliance will be made official."
"And what are these three ways you can make my life better, your Highness?" Yuri asked her.
Yuna grabbed a folder from her purse and gave it to Yuri.
"Please take a look at this, my Lord. And so that I may make it brief."
Yuri took the folder, "Thank you, your Highness." Then he took a look at the folder's contents.
He smiled as he continued to skim through all its contents.
"My! My! Your Highness. These files are very confidential information that you are handing over to me."
The folder that Yuna handed to him was a compilation of blackmail content for almost all of the National Diet and highest-positioned government officers of Japan.
"This will guarantee three things. First, is Akira Abe's position as Prime Minister. I will help him build a powerful faction in the National Diet, with my power, influence, and strategies."
He looked into Yuna's eyes, and he was very impressed.
"Second, the Mazoku will not be touched by any government agency. Not even the PSIA, will be able to touch them."
He nodded.
"And lastly, your startup business, which is now being run by the Yakuza. That without my help, would surely never pass the standards of Japanese Bureaucracy, let alone get extended business licenses."
Yuri's eyes were suspended, looking at the beautiful and powerful young girl before him. He was just mesmerized.
"These are all sound and reliable promises, your Highness."
Yuri stood up and bowed before her, then asked for her hand.
"Will you dance with me, your Highness, as we continue our conversation?"
Yuna extended her hand, "We may, my Lord."
The music of Yuna's television suddenly turned on and played slow classical music perfect for the atmosphere.
"So with all that you are giving me, your highness. What are you asking in return?" Yuri said.
"I want Change, my Lord. Real Change. But this change will only be achieved with a strong hand to return Japan to its former glory."
"You mean, your family's former glory," Yuri interjected.
"Well yes, that too. Is it wrong to have ambitions, my Lord?"
"No." Yuri smiled as they swayed along the room with the music.
"Not at all. I find that will for change, very…" Yuri tilted his head and struggled to find the right word.
"Sexy," he completed his sentence. Then closed his eyes after a moment of pure unexpressed regret.
"Oh? Is that so, my Lord? So is that a yes?"
Yuri stopped dancing and thought about it, still holding the Princess by the waist in his left hand and his right hand holding Yuna's hand.
"Well, I'd like to make some amendments to your proposition, your highness. As this is a political negotiation. May I?"
He asked the princess to take a seat on the chair again.
He took the seat after her, then they were in front of each other with the Magitek table between them.
"Have you watched the Disney movie Aladdin, your highness?"
"Yes, I have. Why do you ask, my Lord?" Yuna was surprised at the sudden change of topic.
"Are these magic chairs and tables? I've never seen them before, do they fly or something?"
"Well, in a way… Do you want to give them a try?" he asked her with a confident smile.
"Is it safe?"
Yuri extended both his hands, gesturing to the princess to hold them, and said, "Sure." Yuri gestured his hands again.
"Do you trust me?"
"What?"
"Do you trust me, princess?"
"Yes."
Yuna grabbed his hands with hers.
[Omnipresent Surveillance Mode Activated]
[Multi-user Mode: On]
[Scanning Users]
The Magitek chairs and table scanned both Yuri and Yuna's bodies and clothes.
[Uploading Users Data]
[Creating Users Avatars]
[Users Avatar Creation Complete]
Yuna's vision changed, and she was no longer receiving visual stimuli from her body's senses. She was sensing the world from a different kind of source.
The world started warping and refreshing like everything was made of codes, waves, and accumulated dots.
The world began to gain color, texture, and structure. She still felt Yuri's hands but it wasn't her physical hands that she was touching him with now. It was her avatar holding Yuri's avatar.
[Omnipresent Surveillance Process Complete]
[Constant Visualization and Animation Mode: On]
Yuri now knew that they could start moving around in their avatars, with the AI's virtual recreation of the real world.
"What is this? Yuri?"
"We're in a virtual copy of the real world?"
Yuna could feel as though all her senses were heightened. And her avatar's movement was limitless. Not limited by gravity, mass, or drag. She felt like she had accessed an astral realm and is in the form of a ghost.
"Are we dead?" Yuna asked.
"No," Yuri chuckled. "We're not. Ready?"
"Yes?"
Yuri held tightly to her hand and they flew straight into the palace ceiling.
"Aaaaaah!" She thought they would crash, but they didn't.
They were outside the palace, flying above the clouds. And the night sky. The stars couldn't be seen, but flickers of light from above could still be seen.
"Why are those stars moving so fast?" she asked. "Are those satellites?"
Soaring thousands of feet above the sky, for a moment, Yuri and Yuna could only see each other, and everything around them was like the voidness of outer space.
"What would you do…" he asked her, "if it was just you and me, left in the universe?"
"You and me?" she blushed. They both held their hands and spiraled slowly downwards into a seemingly endless pit of nothing.
"What would you do, Yuri?"
"Me," he lifted her avatar and carried her in both his arms, then at the speed of light, they traversed the vastness of space in the direction of the center of the solar system.
"If it was just you and me… and nothing else, Princess."
They stopped at a vast fiery plane. The AI could not fully process the celestial entity as it had too much data and kept processing it, to no full avail, making the star itself, disappear and appear, like a celestial Christmas light.
"I would create a beautiful universe in your image, my princess. A vast kingdom spanning the stars and reminding you that you will no longer be lonely, afraid, or ever want of anything else."
She blushed. "You flatter me too much, Yuri. That is impossible."
"Then let's take one small step first, we have all the time in the universe."
Their avatars then traveled back at the speed of light, and they rested themselves on the moon, near the American Flag from Apollo 11.
Earth was constantly being processed by the Artificial Intelligence. An unlimited amount of stimuli were being received from the blue planet.
"This is my proposition to you, princess."
"What do you mean, Yuri?"
"Dream not just of being Empress of Japan. Dream of being the Empress of the entire world!"
Yuna felt shivers even though she wasn't in her physical body.
Though left speechless she mustered up the courage to say, "Okay."
"Okay?" Yuri then laughed. "That's a very interesting way to answer, my question."
"Okay. I'll marry you. And after, we take over the world, no?"
Yuri was now at his most absolute certainty that he is in love with this girl.
Yuri kissed her while the earth spun slowly in the background.
[Omnipresent Surveillance Mode: Off]
They went back to their normal physical senses.
Yuna jumped towards Yuri and kissed him. And dragged him to her bed.
And you guessed it, this night Yuri had gained his manhood and lost his... You know it.