In The House Of The Succubus

Un's Apology | Chapter 3

"There you are, Fii. I was wondering where you were when I woke up," Sevara greeted as Fii entered their room, "you look a bit depressed. Did something happen?"

"I-I don't want to talk about it!" Fii cried and hid under her blanket.

"Fii, you can't go back to bed! If Un finds out you're slacking off he won't allow you to eat dinner!"

But Fii didn't react to Sevara's words and stayed under her blanket. Sevara began to worry about Fii once she heard sobbing from beneath the blanket.

"Fii...? Are you alright?" the false lamia wondered as she slowly pulled the blanket away, "why are you crying?"

"*sniff* I hate this place! *Sob* *sniff* I hate it!!!" Fii cried, her face overflowing with tears.

Sevara hugged Fii to comfort her and said, "It's okay, let it all out. Can you tell me what happened? I've heard you'll feel better if you tell someone what's troubling you."

Fii hesitated for a bit, but eventually she opened up and told Sevara everything that had happened to her.

"I see... Viridia caught you... *sigh* that's so typical for her. But why did you try to run in the first place?"

"You're asking me why I tried to run?" Fii asked surprised with dried up tears on her face, "I was trying to get back home! I don't want to be in this place!"

"Does that mean you don't want to be with me either? A-am I that bad of a person?" Sevara asked, her eyes showing signs of worry.

"W-what, no! You're perfectly fine! It's just the place! And that succubus!" Fii apologized, "And also, my family and friends are probably searching for me in the entire mountain forest. They don't even know I've been caught. I want to go back to them."

"I see... So that's why you wanted to leave. I was worried it was because of me," Sevara said relieved, "you acted so afraid when we first met. I honestly thought you had something against me."

"Don't think that. Out of all the people I met in the past few days you're the nicest one."

"Hearing that makes me happy," Sevara smiled.

Their conversation was abruptly stopped when Un suddenly walked into the room. His massive ogre body barely fit through the doorframe.

"Un? What are you doing here this early? We usually have fifteen minutes left before we have to go. Is work starting earlier today?" Sevara asked with Fii covering behind her.

Un noticed Fii hiding behind Sevara. He also remembered hearing someone cry just about half an hour ago. It didn't take long for him to put one and two together.

"Has the mistress caught you during an attempt of escape?" he asked. His unnaturally high voice and manner of speech for his race made it hard to believe he really was an ogre.

"Y-yes," Fii stuttered nervous, "d-did she tell you to punish me too!?"

"Hmm? No, she did not. I happened to hear certain 'noises' coming from the throne room earlier this day. And since you seemed rather unhappy to have been caught and sold I concluded you were trying to escape and failed."

"Th-the mistress already punished me! P-please don't hurt me!" Fii begged, but Sevara comforted her.

"Don't worry. Un is a nice guy. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Not on purpose at least. He also won't do the things to you that mistress Viridia did. Not like he could anyway."

"I have castrated myself many years ago," Un revealed.

"W-what!? You castrated yourself!?" Fii exclaimed shocked, "But why!?"

"Before Viridia took over the house of Vandela I was serving her parents. They were both incubus and succubus. Even as an ogre I simply could not handle the physical toll that some of their requests had on a certain part of my body. So I ripped it off with my own hands."

"With your own hands?!! Didn't that hurt?!!"

"The moment I ripped off my testicles and shaft I was filled with excruciating pain, but I was finally freed from most requests of the Vandelas. That realisation was somehow enough for me to ignore most of the pain afterwards. I don't particularly regret doing it, but that might just have something to do with my job," Un stated.

"I-I can't imagine doing anything similar... You really don't regret it? You aren't able to have children anymore," Fii asked.

"For once, it would be hard for a female of any race or species to castrate herself in the same way I did for obvious reasons. Secondly, I never wanted to have children anyway, so it was a small price to pay."

"See, Fii? You don't have to worry about Un. He's a nice guy, trust me," Sevara told Fii, "even if his sense of reasoning can be a bit drastic and too direct at times."

"But don't think every ogre is like me. Some are, but most that are in the forest or swamps are uncivilized soloists without any sense of decency... But we have digressed far enough. I have come here for a different reason," Un said and took out a small collar with a red gemstone embedded on the front, "The Mistress has tasked me to put this collar on you. It will negate your flight abilities."

"W-what...? My... Flight?"

"Yes, I am afraid so. It seems after your escape attempt the mistress decided to be extra careful with you."

"I-I see..." Fii stuttered with hope audibly leaving her voice, "b-but how do I put it on? It seems too small to fit over my head, and it doesn't have anything to open up the chains."

"That is because it is a magic collar," Un claimed as he held the collar. His hand began to glow and the necklace opened up.

He then went towards Fii and put the collar around her neck before closing it again. As soon as the necklace was around Fii's neck she felt great resistance whenever moving her wings. Flying was impossible.

"I am sorry that it came to this, but it is only a safety measure to ensure your cooperation and to prevent further escape attempts," the ogre apologized with a deep bow, "due to recent events I will allow both of you to have the day off, but be warned. Viridia does not know about that, so if she catches you slacking off she might punish you."

"So in other words, we still have to work..." Fii sighed.

"We... could just pretend to work though," Sevara figured.

"I guess we could do that... I'm not really familiar with this place yet... Since I won't be leaving anytime soon, could you show me around, Sevara?"

"*Gasp* You're asking me to show you around!?? I'll gladly do that!!" Sevara exclaimed happily and full of excitement.

"Is she always like that?"

"Sevara is usually rather quiet and mostly by herself. I guess she enjoys your company, Fii," Un figured as he prepared to leave the room, "I will return to my duties now. Have a good day."

"You too, Un!" Sevara waved.

Fii found it hard to believe how nice Sevara and Un were treating her. During that conversation she had almost forgotten that she was still nothing but a slave. But even after receiving the collar she stayed determined to flee. She simply couldn't leave her family like that. At the very least she wanted them to know what had happened to her.