[Episode 30796] [Episode 30796]"That was Glinda," Ray said, as he closed his phone. "It seems we might have made some slight miscalculations."
"Well then," replied the mage known as Lord Mokkori, "let's see just how slight those miscalculations really are."
The two of them, summoning mage and romantic tentacle demon, downed the remainder of their drinks and headed into their cabin.
Glinda ignored the tone and began bringing up some files on the computer. "It seems that old Queen Serenity was a whole lot cannier than we ever could've imagined. That, or she had a bunch more paranoia than smarts. In any case, it seems that when she played with the worldlaws to ensure that the magic wielded by her and hers were the most potent, she also slipped in a little extra. A feedback loop which would ensure that the strongest power in the world would be that which was wielded by her and hers. Combine that with that Time Gate and, well..."
He winced. "A feedback loop. It figures. The error checking routines would've flagged it as a recursive loop and deleted it before it hit the analysis program. That's what comes when you decide to adapt off-the-shelf software for a situation which happens to be nowhere near the shelf."
"Right. In any case, we've disabled those routines and are running everything through again. I can show you what we've got so far."
Sigh. "Go ahead."
The projector was switched on, showing a tridimensional image that was soon recognized.
"Sailor Moon's debut?"
"Right. First change, of course, is that since sex is the greatest source of power around, the Dark Kingdom and their likes are draining sexual energy rather than life force. Now, take a closer look at the victims."
The image zoomed in, and it soon became clear exactly what Glinda was alluding to.
"Are those... radiation burns?" Ray asked disbelievingly.
"They are. It seems that all of Reich's theories on orgone and how sexual energy is linked to courage, inquisitiveness, creativity, and boldness, and how radioactivity is the antecedent of all that is true. Those radiation burns are the classic symptoms of having their sexual energies drained from them by force."
The image zoomed back out again, encompassing the entire store. Just in time for Sailor Moon to make the scene.
"Whoa!! Now there's a girl who'd win beauty contests back home, easy."
Considering where Ray came from, and all the succubi and such, that was saying something. She wasn't any older, apparently, but between her looks, her costume, her moves, her everything, she wasn't just oozing seduction.
She was blazing with it.
The fight itself was practically anticlimactic. Especially when compared with the aftermath.
"The burns are healing."
"Yes. The sexual energies Sailor Moon is generating are helping them to recover. And more."
"More?"
The question was quickly answered before them. Naru, the last to be attacked, was also the first to recover. When she did, she rose and moved towards her saviour. As she did, she visibly became more confident and sultry, even as her beauty and sexual attractiveness grew.
They watched, fascinated, as her blouse strained from her blossoming bosom, before finally surrendering to the inevitable and releasing the bounty within.
The others were following suite. Even those who weren't seductively svelte found themselves thinning down or thickening up to a more sexy build.
As for Sailor Moon, she showed no inclination to abandon them, accepting the reward for her endeavours.
"Obviously, this version of Usagi enjoys her duties as Sailor Moon far more, and practices them much more eagerly."
"Those effects. Are they permanent?"
"Those? Oh no, they dissipate after a number of hours. Though that can result in some amusingly embarrassing situations, since none of them are at all concerned with things like modesty or public decency while affected. Well, unless they decide to pledge themselves as eternal sexslaves."
"Sexslaves? No, wait... Naru?"
"Who else," she chuckled, "would get into trouble that much? Though it turns out there are some real benefits to the deal, beyond the obvious."
The image shown flickered, then changed, showing the same Naru from before, only now she was puttering away in some workshop, putting together some Rube Goldberg contraption none of them could begin to fathom.
"Remember what I said earlier about sexual energy being linked to creativity? Well, this is a perfect example. Thanks to all that, not only is Naru now the sort who considers a public gangbang the perfect way to wind down, but she's also become a sort of super-gadgeteer."
"Great. So these Senshi don't just have to depend on their magic attacks."
"Actually, they don't have those elemental attacks. It's all sex magic and gadgets."
Blink blink. "So what happened with the Dark Kingdom?"
Glinda winced. "Well, after they finished seducing Beryl's Generals away from her, there really wasn't much left."
"No, I don't suppose there would be."
"Although, since nobody got killed in the end, Moon never had to pull that stunt and use that energy released from Metallia's death to rewind the timestream. Instead, it all got dumped right back into the Earth where it originally came from."
"Okay, that had to leave a mark."
"You've a gift for understatement. They effects were by far the strongest near the ley lines and nexii, but sufficient to say that the maternity wards were all ridiculously over capacity some nine months later."
"Now I know some people couldn't have been pleased about that."
"True, although surprisingly not the people who were directly affected."
"Oh?"
"Biggest spoilsports around? The Church."
"You've got to be kidding me?!"
"Nope. Seems for the past couple millennia they've been quietly siphoning off the sexual energies from their congregations and using that energy to further their own ends. Like a shepherd and his flock."
"Isn't that just the same sort of deal the Dark Kingdom was pulling?"
"Not quite. They were just draining their victims dry. The Church treats them as a crop to be harvested and replanted. Much more efficient in the long run, and far more potent."
"Well, I'm really glad we decided not to bother with that whole 'evil always wins because good is supremely stupid' idea. I shudder to think of the Senshi we'd've ended up in that case. Probably've made Morgoth look nice."
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