MGCA: Restless Skys [Episode 100054]

Haruka Tenou –no, Haruka Ketchum– had trouble getting to sleep that first night.   She tossed and turned in the futon trying to get comfortable, yet not succeeding although it was far more comfortable than the padded cell in which she’d been caged during her retraining.   It took her a while before she figured out that it was because she was not restrained in any way.   She was not securely held in tight bondage.   Nor was she lovingly embraced by rubber, but left naked save for flimsy cloth.   The door to their bedroom wasn’t even locked.

She’d spent long months in the institute yearning for freedom yet, with only little taste of it, she suddenly discovered how thoroughly she’d been thoroughly conditioned to crave being controlled.   Damb them.   At least she had her control collar and her bracelets, which fit snuggly as a constant, and strangely comforting, reminder that her handler held her on an invisible leash of electronic control.

Type II Control did not just negate her powers until he chose to release them, as Type I did, it also gave her handler a certain amount of control over her body as well.   At least, over her limbic system.   She could be made to feel pleasure or pain in a variety of interesting ways and levels of intensity that were designed to be used for both classical and operant conditioning.   It seemed clear that the Pavlovian conditioned response worked well enough.   She yearned for to be strapped in to bed at lights out as though that alone would stimulate the pleasure.

Her thoughts turned towards her handler, Ash Ketchum.   He was younger than she had expected, or perhaps just short for his age, but certainly he had an air of uncertain naivity she wouldn’t have believed of someone trained to handle a team of four magical girls.   The screening process made sure that her legal owner would be responsible in his handling of her.   She might be a slave, and deemed too dangerous to society to remain uncontrolled, but she still had certain legal rights.   However, with his responsibility came privilages, such as an unwritten right to do almost anything he wished with them.

Yet, he hadn’t.   He’d been flustered by the very suggestion that he sleep with them.   He was been interested in her though, that was clear enough.   That thought sent a thrill of excitement through her that wasn’t entirely a conditioned reflex.   It seemed he wanted something more from their relationship than just business or pleasure, and more than just domination and submission.

Haruka concluded that meant that he could be manipulated.   Oh, not in any way to which monitoring espers might object, but he could be encouraged to do nice things for her if she was extra nice to him.   The only thing was, she hadn’t thought about using her feminine wiles to manipulate men before being retrained, and they certainly hadn’t taught her any such thing in the institute.   Still, thanks to the Rhoem process, she did have the propper equipment.

Thinking such happy thoughts finally let Haruka drift off into a sleep filled with preprogrammed erotic dreams.

The only problem would be that she was in competition with the spoiled princess, the pet, but she was sure she could handle them easy enough.   It was the domesticated tough girl that Haruka would have to watch out for.