Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28365753-20161211192930/@comment-29325824-20180110133752

I contemplate Druella's offer for a few moments while she patiently looks at me. Considering the way my life's going right now, it wouldn't be such a bad deal, in priciple. Eventually I ask her a few questions: where I'll be living, what posessions I can take with me, what comforts I'll be able to retain in their world... While most of these answers are satisfying enough, something's still gnawing at me.

So I ask Druella why exactly I'm not allowed to know my future wife. She tells me it's a surprise to keep things interesting, but I don't fully buy it. I tell her that she must know that I love a lot of types of Mamono. In fact, the only ones I don't like are the ones I really despise. So, if she's unwilling to tell me who my bride would be, it must be one of those I'm guaranteed to dislike. After all, considering how desperate Mamono are for husbands, there is no way they would decrease their chances of getting a willing one in any way by being secretive.

Druella tells me that there is no way for her to even know what my type is, especially since she's not even after me herself. But I don't buy it and ask her why I, of all people, was chosen unless I had something the Mamono in question desires. And if they know that, they must know the rest as well.

Druella relents a bit, and tells me she had (married) Mindflayers and Nightmares visit men in their sleep to find a suitable candidate. That's how she knows so much about me. But she turns up the seduction a bit and tells me that, even if I don't know who, my bride to be will still give me inhuman pleasure and satiate my deepest, carnal desires. Even that one, she says with a wink, as I start to get embarrassed.

Still, I refuse to be impulsive and make her an offer. Tell me who she is, and even if I don't like her (but not enough to hate) too much, I'll take her if I'm allowed to form a harem of my favorites to compensate. Druella scoffs at this and tells me the deal is non-negotiable, with a small hint of frustration creeping into her voice.

Still trying to outbluff her, I decide to throw all my cards on the table. Druella, and by extention my bride to be, clearly isn't giving up easily. So I must be more important to her than she pretends. I tell her that, either she can tell me who it is and risk refusal, or don't tell me and be guaranteed refusal, in which case she'll be going back empty handed and there will be a very dissapointed and sad Mamono. And I doubt she'd want that.

After a tense silence, Druella finally relents. She tells me there is no Mamono that wants me specifically. Hell, outside of her and her scouts, nobody there even knows I exist. As I look at her bewildered, Druella tells me that, simply put, one of her sisters is very lonely and shy, and is very interested in the same things I am (from what she heard from Druealla's scouts). So Druella, genuinly loving her sister so much, wanted to surprise her with a husband. But since the powerful Lilim can easily sense when a person in the area desires her more than usual, Druella wanted to keep me out of the loop to maximize the surprise. Bitterly she now asks if I'm happy.

Without responding, I walk up to her and hug her. Telling her I'm sorry for being overly cautious, and say that I'd love to meet her sister. Even if it means forever losing my chance of a harem of my favorite Mamono. Druella smiles and tells me that, when it comes to desires, nothing is impossible in their world. Before teleporting me and my chosen possession to her mother's castle, where I proceed to meet her Lilim sister and we eventually get married.