Chapter 149 – Diving into Kana’s Dream
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio and Iid down on either side of Kana on my bed. I was to his right, and Mio was to his left. Usually, a subus diving into someone''s dream was a solo job. The greatest thing about dreams was that anything goes. For a subus and the person involved, that meant as much sex as possible for a seemingly infinite amount of time, no consequences, as creative as one wanted, and guilt-free.
<span style="font-weight:400">Back when Mio first invaded my dreams, I was a coward. I could admit that now. As a boy who was trying his best to be as masculine as possible, there were reservations within me that stunted more than just my growth. My maturity as well. That was why I ended up refusing her. I hadn''t been able to mature, and it wasn''t until Mio who came along and transformed me into a subus to really show me— in more ways than one.
<span style="font-weight:400">Here Iy with two of the most important people of my lives, a deep hole of my own misdoing, the repercussions of my failures. I stood to lose both of them if I failed again.
<span style="font-weight:400">ncing around the room were Selene, Yumi, Hana, Hatsumi, and Shayle, all ready to act if that happened. Hopefully, it wouldn''te to that.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you two prepared?" Yumi asked from the foot of my bed.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah," we answered together, then held Kana''s hands tightly.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko." Hatsumi walked over to my side of the bed and pressed a hand to my forehead. "If at any point if something goes wrong, just jump out. Okay?"
<span style="font-weight:400">I nodded, but not to agree with her. There was no scenario that I''d leave without saving Kana. If my sister knew that, then she wouldn''t be alright with me going.
<span style="font-weight:400">Breathing slowly, I turned my gaze over to Kana, who was fast asleep. Over to his other side was Mio, with a look of conviction on her face. As I shut my eyes and let my aura envelope Kana, another presence bumped against mine. Mio''s aura. Both of us slowly dozed off, feeling the gentle tug of slumber take over.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then I woke up sitting inside a cafe. A single white mug of steaming coffee sat on the table in front of me that smelled of mocha.
<span style="font-weight:400">The chic coffee shop was empty. Large paintings of coffee bean fields hung on the wall alongside motivational posters with pedantic quotes, probably thought up by a millennial. Lights hung from the ceiling on a long string that ended in a luminescent bulb. I was the only customer here.
<span style="font-weight:400">Whenever I entered a dream, it would always put me in a ce that was familiar to the host. So this was nothing to panic about. Dreams differed from person to person, with some more vivid than others. Although not as versed as Mio, I delved into my fair share and saw plenty of different ces from different people.
<span style="font-weight:400">One thing was for certain. The dream normally reflected one''s innermost desires. Kana''s… was a coffee shop?
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hey, what the hell is this?"
<span style="font-weight:400">I turned in Mio''s direction to find her behind the counter and register. Framed to either side were ss disy cases of baked goods, snacks, and container sds, and behind her were coffee machines and bottles of vored syrup.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Pfft. Nice new look." I pointed to her brown apron, underneath which was a metrosexual style snugly fit maroon shirt and skinny jeans.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Maybe you should take a look at yourself first." Mio grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">When I looked down, a long ck skirt down to my shins and gray cardigan over a blue shirt made me out to be a picture-perfect suburban housewife. If that wasn''t enough, I had a baby harness attached to my chest. Thankfully, with no baby.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Why is <i><span style="font-weight:400">this</i><span style="font-weight:400"> on me?" I unbuckled the harness and tossed it aside, then saw Mio do the same with her apron.
<span style="font-weight:400">"So, we''re in Kana''s dream now? We''ve jumped in like dozens of times before, but this is the first time I''m seeing this ce. Have you seen it before?" Mio asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">I shook my head. "It''s my first time, too. Usually we just end up in ces he wants to have sex with us at, but this is a lot more detailed."
<span style="font-weight:400">We walked outside to an empty mall za I didn''t recognize. The warmth of the sun and shade from clouds were real to the touch, but not a single soul existed out here except us. That was until Mio pointed to a table in the distance, upied by two people under the shade of the table''s umbre and enjoying an icedtte. One of the figures was making my danger sense go crazy.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Shuten! What did you do to Kana?" I shouted.
<span style="font-weight:400">Both of them turned in our direction, each sitting in the seat across from the other. They were both Kana, but the human one had his eyes zed over and seemingly lifeless. On the other side was a Kana with red skin and horns. That one, with a leg crossed over the other and sipping merrily on the coffee, smirked at us.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I didn''t do anything. When I entered this body, his mind went nk. He''s been really nice about serving me coffee though. Makes a really good cup of joe," Shuten said, standing up to walk behind Kana and massage his shoulders.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Get your mangy paws off him." Mio snarled under her breath as the yokai did that.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You subi are strange creatures. There are yokai that cause nightmares, and there are those that eat nightmares. You''re neither, straddling the line between benevolent and malevolent. Totally unlike yokai. Where you''re from, you should be demons. Like me! Why care about this boy when you can be with a real man?" he asked, now patronizingly patting Kana on the head.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, I know all about trying to be a real man, and you aren''t it. All I see is a weak demon who''s about to get his ass kicked by two subus." I scoffed, unimpressed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Shuten sighed. He took his hands off Kana and began walking in our direction. We tensed up, and I summoned the de of the First Temptress.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m so tired of whores like you mocking me. If you think bying here you have me beat, then allow me to prove you wrong. At least in here, I can show you my true form!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kahahaha! What are you? Mr. Last Boss of a shounen manga? That line is sooo cringe!" Mio cackled.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uh… Mio…" I tugged on her shirt as Shuten began to actually transform.
<span style="font-weight:400">The demon oni grew in size to the height of a street light and enough to tower over us. His muscles bulgedrger than a professional weightlifter, underbite thick enough to crush stone, and the horns sprouted out like gnarled branches. The massive spiked club he had used to fight us before appeared in his hand and crashed down head-first into the ground. His face was like a cross between lion and gori, embodying all their bestial fierceness.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Every waking moment of my life," Shuten began, the long draw and snarling undertone in his voice sending shivers up my spine. "I have been met with scorn. How dare those lesser than me treat me below dirt? They call me a monster and think to dictate how I should behave? A monster should not hide in fear of its own shadow. Now, tremble in fear of Shuten Doji!"
<span style="font-weight:400">The color drained from Mio''s face.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, shit—"
<span style="font-weight:400">We sprouted our wings to fly up before being crushed by the massive iron club. He struck the ground so hard that the ground fissured. My eyes immediately went to Kana. Thankfully, the cracks didn''t go that far, and he was sittingpletely still in ce.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio chucked a volley of spells at the demon until there was nothing but a dust cloud shrouding the za. With a wave of my sword, a gust of wind blew by and cleared the dust away. Shuten remained standing and unscathed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Clutched in his hands was a ball of red lightning. He shot it at Mio, but I came between them and deflected it with the de.
<span style="font-weight:400">"This ce doesn''t belong to you!" Swinging the sword at Shuten fired des of purplish energy in his direction. He raised his own weapon to block the magical attacks but was only pushed back on his feet.
<span style="font-weight:400">Charging the de with blinding magic, I dove straight down to meet him head on. Shuten reared back the club.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Nu-uh, bitch!" Mio snatched the club with her whip, pulling it taut to keep him from swinging it down.
<span style="font-weight:400">Without anything to block me, I carved a diagonal cut across Shuten''s chest.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Did that do it?" I asked myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Do what?" Shuten grinned, scratching his barrel of a chest with his free hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">I should have dealt a deep wound, but it didn''t seem to have fazed him one bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What are you waiting for, Saeko? Sashimi this bozo!" Mio shouted, struggling to hold onto the whip.
<span style="font-weight:400">I snapped out of it and thrusted forward, but Shuten buried a knee into my gut. The blow sent me crashing across the za, then he yanked his club forward and threw Mio into me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I thought… we were supposed to have the advantage… in dreams?" I asked Mio, who was lying on top of me and groaning in pain.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Only to an extent… but this guy is controlling Kana''s body, so that means he''s also a host. We''re being rejected, that''s why he has the upper hand," Mio exined as she winced getting up.
<span style="font-weight:400">All around us the dream world was beginning to shatter and crumble. Only the cafe behind us and the za which we were fighting in remained. The ground under my butt cracked. Mio and I rolled away just as it copsed into a swirling abyss like a whirlpool.
<span style="font-weight:400">We were losing our control of Kana''s dream because Shuten was rejecting us. This must have been what Mio was going through in mine when I rejected her. The dream became unstable and unsuitable to stay in.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko, help!" Mio cried.
<span style="font-weight:400">I nced behind me to find the cafe gone and my back to the edge of the broken za. Mio hung onto the ground, her feet dangling from the abyss like she was about to be sucked in.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mio, no!" I tossed my sword aside to grab hold of her hands just as she lost grip of the edge.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What the hell''s going on?" she asked, voice growing more desperate. "I can''t fly! I can''t get outta this shit!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Damn it.
<span style="font-weight:400">It felt like I was pulling against the weight of the universe. I didn''t dare think what would happen if we get sucked in.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hehe… If you beg, then I might allow you to live. I want to hear the sweet howls of a woman pleading for her life again. Sing for me! Sing or else!" Shuten raised his club high over his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">If I let Mio go now, she was going to get sucked in. If I keep holding on, we''re both going down.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kana…" I squeezed my eyes shut waiting for the inevitable blow from Shuten''s club.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, the impact never came. ncing over my shoulder, there Kana was with both hands out to block the club.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kana?!" Mio and I cried.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?" Shuten faltered briefly, then pressed down on the club with his other hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">Even against the yokai''s monstrous strength, Kana wasn''t budging. He was somehow pushing back, too.
<span style="font-weight:400">"How are you able to withstand me? You''re nothing but a puny human!" the demon bellowed.
<span style="font-weight:400">"In case you''ve forgotten, this is <i><span style="font-weight:400">my</i><span style="font-weight:400"> dream. And those are <i><span style="font-weight:400">my</i><span style="font-weight:400"> girlfriends you''re hurting!" Kana roared and pushed Shuten away.
<span style="font-weight:400">The partially shattered world began to repair itself. The za, the cafe, the entire city… All of it was returning to normal. Thanks to the reprieve, I was able to drag Mio back onto solid ground. She was just as speechless as I was.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Damn it, you two. I told you to finish it, not go and do something stupid like jumping into my dreams." Kana sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Overwhelmed with relief, we dogpiled onto him. Tears streamed down Mio''s face, the most I''d ever seen her cry.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Man, don''t go getting us all worried about you again!" Mio wept and choked up.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m with Mio. What are we going to do without our cum hydrant?" I teased, unable to hold back my own tears.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, god… I don''t need <i><span style="font-weight:400">you</i><span style="font-weight:400"> calling me that, too!" he groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">Our reunion was interrupted by an enraged yokai throwing a tantrum, smashing his club all over the ground. This time, however, the cracks were instantly repaired.
<span style="font-weight:400">"This has to be a mistake… You shouldn''t be able to face my strength. Especially not as I''m an oni!" Shuten growled.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I told you: this is my dream. Anything goes as long as it''s ording to what I want. Which means…" Kana let go of us to charge ahead like a bull and knock Shuten down.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mine and Mio''s jaws dropped. While we couldn''t so much as budge him, Kana toppled him like a jenga tower.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kana wasn''t finished with Shuten yet. He got on top of the demon and with two clenched fists, started wailing into the yokai. Punch after punch, mming into him without rest until the yokai bled from every hole on his face, with blood just as crimson as his skin.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''ll teach you never to mess with me, Mio, or Saeko ever again!" Kana yelled, then sped both hands together for one final smash onto Shuten''s chest that cratered the ground beneath his back.
<span style="font-weight:400">We tiptoed up to the demon who was beaten up to a pulp. It wasn''t just a look of defeat on his face, but one that was filled with humiliation from having been defeated by a human boy.
<span style="font-weight:400">As Kana got off of him, he staggered back and fell into Mio''s arms.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m… so lightheaded… but I''m really d I got to do that," Kana said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I gotta say, you getting all Hulk smash up in this bitch was pretty hot. Got my panties soaking wet." Mio cackled.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Damn you! Damn you!" Shuten frantically screamed as he started disappearing. "It''s not fair. It should be me! I deserve them! Every woman in the world should worship me! How does a brat like you have two beautiful women like them?"
<span style="font-weight:400">The yokai''s body started to disintegrate. Since his hold on Kana was gone, his spirit must be returning to Takamagahara.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eugh, man. Even the thought of giving you a pity fuck is disgusts me." Mio gagged.
<span style="font-weight:400">I knelt down to Shuten''s head and frowned. A part of me felt sorry for him, but only because of how pathetic he sounded right now. The other part of me didn''t care one bit. Seeing him slowly disappear brought me as much joy as an orgasm.
<span style="font-weight:400">"The reason the three of us are together is because we care about each other. Mio and Kana mean the world to me. As for you, you could never love anyone. All you want is for girls to worship you, but no one cares or wants a perverted freak. Spend the rest of your sealed life jerking off to the thought that me, Mio, and Kana will be having steaming hot sex for as long as we live, and you only have your hand," I taunted.
<span style="font-weight:400">That really pissed him off, and the demon yokai bared his fangs at us.
<span style="font-weight:400">"When Tamamo seeds, I''lle back and ruin that lovely rtionship you have going on! Nothingsts for—"
<span style="font-weight:400">The rest of Shuten''s head disintegrated entirely into dust before he finished his sentence.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uhm… thanks," Kana awkwardly began. "If it wasn''t for—"
<span style="font-weight:400">I grabbed Kana by the cor of his shirt and pulled him into a deep kiss, shoving my tongue down his throat until he choked on it. When I was done, Mio did the same, then she dragged me in for a three-way, tongue-tying make out session.
<span style="font-weight:400">When our lips finally parted, dizzy from ack of oxygen between the three of us, Kana nced up and gasped. I followed his gaze to the cafe.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I think you have some exining to do." I ced both hands on my hips. "Why did Ie into your dream with a baby harness?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, yeah! Why the hell am I wearing this boring ass style?" Mio asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kana turned bright red. "Y-You guys… saw the cafe? Great… I guess there''s no point in hiding it. Being with you two for so long got me thinking about our future. A lottely. It''s a little embarrassing… but one day when we really settle down, I kind of want to open a cafe with you two."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?" Now my face was burning up.
<span style="font-weight:400">I had no idea he thought that far about our future. I was squirming in ce like a lovestruck maiden, heart throbbing like crazy.
<span style="font-weight:400">"A-Anyway… we should probably get going. There''s got to be a lot left to do." Kana cleared his throat and tried to slip away.
<span style="font-weight:400">Before he could go any farther, I pulled him back and hugged him from the front, squishing my breasts against his chest. My subus lust was rising to uncontroble levels of horny.
<span style="font-weight:400">"We have all the time in the world in here… and I''m out of sexual energy. Do you think we can stay a little so you can fill me up?" I cooed, ncing up to him with moistened eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Look at her!" Mio sandwiched him from behind and nibbled on his ear. "Saeko''s practically begging for it, but that makes two of us. You ain''t gonna leave our pussies high and dry, are ya?"
<span style="font-weight:400">My eyes snapped open back in my room. Kana and Mio were just now waking up, too.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You three are alright!" Hatsumi eximed, throwing her arms around me.
<span style="font-weight:400">The others became animated as soon as they saw that we were awake, all of them d that we were alright.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I take it you seeded?" Selene asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">When I took a look at Kana, his oni features were gone and back to the normal human self.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah. Shuten''s gone, so that only leaves Tamamo no Mae left. Unfortunately, we didn''t learn anything from him about where she might be. All we know is that she''s trying to unleash all yokai from Takamagahara into Japan," I exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">While Hatsumi fixed us some much needed lunch in the kitchen, we reconvened in the living room. Everyone sat around the couches to figure out the next n.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Well, we beat Shuten— never thought I''d say that about an evil oni yokai. Any idea how you''re going to deal with Tamamo?" Kana asked, and it took a second for him to realize our eyes were all fixed on him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"The only idea we have involves you," I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?" He blinked a few times as the words sunk in. "Wait, wait! If you mean you need me to fight another powerful evil yokai, I''m not it, chief! I only beat Shuten because we were in my dream. I''m a pacifist in real life— If I find a bug inside my house, I scoop it up and put it outside!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Having known Kana since we were kids, I knew that wasn''t entirely true. <i><span style="font-weight:400">I</i><span style="font-weight:400"> was the one who used to freak out at bugs, and he would squish them to save me without hesitation. He left a trail of sin paved in the guts and husks of insects. But I understood where he wasing from. Kana wasn''t the type to seek out a fight unless he was forced to, like the encounter with Shuten.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio put an arm around Kana''s shoulders.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Throw us a bone here. Your world''s cunt goddess said humans are the only ones who can defeat her. I''m obviously not human, and neither is Saeko. That leaves you." She poked his chest with her other hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">When Kana turned to me for answers, I nodded to confirm what Mio had said.
<span style="font-weight:400">"We''re not letting you fight her alone, but I think you have to be the one that deals the killing blow. If we fail, she''s going to flood Japan with yokai. And who knows what kind of havoc that might lead to," I added.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You ain''t fighting alone. Ya got my muscles to back ya up!" Hana leapt to her feet and punched the air in rapid session.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yumi ced a hand to her cheek and frowned. "We would need to find Tamamo first. Despite all the subi scouring Tsukiji and nearby cities, you think they would have found her already. Until then, you have time to give it some thought."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ahhh! Okay, fine!" Kana sighed so much, his soul must have slipped out if we hadn''t sucked it out of his dick already. "Just not on weekday nights. I''ve recently been hired to do some tutoring, and I could really use the money!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio dragged him tighter under her arm. "Outta money from splooging on us, I bet. We could just change ya into a girl again to do some morepensated dating."
<span style="font-weight:400">"N-No… I-I think I should stay as a boy…" he said, blushing bright red.
<span style="font-weight:400">All the subus and I simultaneously sucked in a breath. My whole body shuddered from a dreadful tingle creeping up my spine.
<span style="font-weight:400">Over by the window, Shayle pulled aside the drapes to nce outside and glowered.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I don''t believe we have as much time as any of us would like. Whatever that fox demon is up to, I think she is close to seeding," Shayle warned, beckoning us to the window.
<span style="font-weight:400">I drew the curtains aside and witnessed churning clouds forming an unnatural vortex of darkness in the sky. The phenomenon was unlike anything I or anyone in the room had seen before. One thing was for sure, we all knew that it was a bad omen.