The room was vibrating.
Or maybe it was just Rei.
The Luv Pulse 3 was currently operating at a frequency that shouldn't be legal. It wasn't buzzing; it was drilling. It felt like the device was trying to fuse with her pelvic bone.
Rei was slumped over her desk. Her forehead pressed against the cool laminate. Her hands gripped the edge so hard her knuckles were white. Her breath came in short, jagged gasps that fogged up the inside of her black surgical mask.
[ HEAT: 62% (RISING) ]
[ STATUS: OVERSTIMULATED ]
The chat was a blur of speed-scrolling text. The 5000-bit donation from PayPig4Life had acted like blood in the water. The sharks were circling.
Chat:
Anon23: 5k? holy shit.
GoonSquad_420: do it. beg.
Rika_Tan (MOD): Pog. We love a financially irresponsible king.
Pixel_Perv: take the mask off. let us see the drool.
Rei squeezed her eyes shut. The shame was a physical weight. Heavier than the hoodie. Heavier than the debt.
"P-please," she whimpered into the microphone. Her voice was wrecked. "Thank you for the... the bits. But I can't... it's too much."
She tried to sit up, but the movement shifted the toy inside her. A jolt of pleasure-pain arced up her spine. She collapsed back down with a wet sob.
[ SYSTEM ALERT: WHALE DETECTED ]
[ USER: PAYPIG4LIFE ]
[ CLASS: FINANCIAL DOMINANT (LVL 15) ]
A new message appeared in the chat. It wasn't standard text. It was highlighted in a shimmering, gold border that paused the scroll for everyone else.
PayPig4Life: Look at the camera, pet. Look at me.
The command hit Rei like a physical slap. It wasn't a request. It carried weight.
Nyx, standing in the shadows behind the monitor, leaned forward. Her tail twitched with interest.
"Eyes up, Asset," Nyx hissed. "The Whale has surfaced. Do not ignore him."
Rei forced her head up. She looked into the webcam lens. That unblinking, mechanical eye. She felt small. Pathetic. A mess of sweat and fluids wrapped in oversized cotton.
PayPig4Life: Good girl. You're shaking. You're ruined, aren't you?
"Y-yes," Rei whispered. She couldn't lie. The System wouldn't let her, and her body was screaming the truth anyway.
PayPig4Life: I want to see. Stand up. Turn around. Show us the stain.
Rei's heart stopped.
Show the stain.
Show the dark, wet patch on her gray sweatpants where her dignity had leaked out. Show fifty strangers that she was uncontrollably, humiliatingly aroused by their attention.
"No," Rei breathed. She shook her head frantically. "I can't. I won't."
Chat:
GoonSquad_420: DO IT.
Anon23: show us.
System_Enjoyer: refund if no stain.
The pressure was suffocating. The toy buzzed angrily, punishing her hesitation.
PayPig4Life: 10,000 Bits. Right now. Just stand up.
Ten thousand. That was... that was serious money. That was a chunk of the principal.
Rei's hands trembled as she pushed herself up from the desk. Her legs felt like jelly. She started to turn.
"Wait," Nyx said sharply.
Rei froze, half-standing.
Nyx stepped into the light of the monitor. She was invisible to the camera but loomed over Rei.
"Don't sell it cheap, Asset," Nyx warned. "If you give them everything now, they stop paying. You are not a vending machine. You are a Succubus."
"I'm not!" Rei hissed, off-mic. "I'm a disaster!"
"You are Level 2," Nyx corrected. "You have tools. Use them."
Nyx tapped the side of Rei's head.
[ SKILL REMINDER: PERSUASIVE EYE (LVL 1) ]
[ EFFECT: +20% SOCIAL INFLUENCE / GLAMOUR ]
[ COST: +5% HEAT ]
"Look at the lens," Nyx commanded. "Don't show him the stain. Make him pay for the privilege of imagining it."
Rei looked at the camera. She looked at the gold text from PayPig4Life.
She hated him. She hated that he could buy her shame. She hated that he was right—she was ruined.
But she needed the credits.
She took a deep breath. She fought the stutter in her chest. She didn't stand up. She sat back down, leaning close to the camera until her masked face filled the frame.
She focused her intent. She channeled the heat boiling in her belly. The friction. The desperation. She pushed it all into her eyes.
[ ACTIVATING SKILL: PERSUASIVE EYE ]
[ HEAT: 62% -> 67% ]
A subtle amber glow ignited in Rei's irises. It wasn't bright enough to look like special effects; it just looked... intense. Captivating. Like a predator catching light in the dark.
The webcam signal glitched. The pixels around her eyes sharpened, becoming hyper-real while the rest of the stream blurred slightly.
"You don't want to see that," Rei whispered. Her voice dropped. It lost the squeak. It gained a sudden, terrifying texture. It was raspy, intimate, and dripped with forced intimacy.
"You don't want me to stand up," she murmured to the lens, staring directly at PayPig4Life. "You want me right here. You want to know that I'm sitting in it. You want to know that I can't move because you pinned me down."
She tilted her head. Her amber eyes narrowed.
"You want to pay me to stay seated. Don't you?"
The stream was silent. The chat stopped scrolling. The skill filtered through the digital connection, carrying a packet-loss payload of pure, supernatural suggestion.
Rei held the gaze. Her heart hammered, but the Heat gave her a strange, dizzying confidence. She felt like she was holding a loaded gun with trembling hands.
PayPig4Life: ...fuck.
[ USER 'PayPig4Life' TIPPED 25,000 BITS! ]
Message: Stay. Don't move. Good girl.
The notification sound exploded. A jackpot noise that nearly blew out the speakers.
[ THIRST GENERATION: CRITICAL MASS ]
[ DAILY GOAL: EXCEEDED ]
Rei slumped back in her chair. The amber glow faded from her eyes. The skill deactivated, leaving her drained and panting.
Chat:
Rika_Tan (MOD): HOLY SHIT.
Anon23: what just happened?
GoonSquad_420: mommy?
"I... I have to go," Rei gasped. She reached for the OBS controls. The toy was still vibrating, but she couldn't take another second. "Stream over. Bye."
Click.
[ STATUS: OFFLINE ]
The room plunged back into silence. The ring light hummed.
Rei sat there for a long moment. Staring at the blank screen. 25,000 bits. Plus the subs. Plus the earlier tips.
She had made more money in twenty minutes than she usually made in a month of data entry.
She slowly reached down and pulled the Luv Pulse 3 out. The relief was instantaneous, but it left an aching emptiness behind. She dropped the toy on the desk. It was sticky.
"Gross," she whispered. Her voice shook.
"Efficient," Nyx corrected.
The demon walked over to the monitor. She checked the analytics.
"You utilized the Glamour perfectly," Nyx noted. She sounded almost proud. "You manipulated the target. You extracted the value. And you didn't even have to stand up. That even got me a little wet, darling."
Rei looked down at her hands. They were trembling. She felt dirty. She felt like she had just tricked someone. Robbed them using magic she didn't understand.
But when she looked at the Debt bar in her HUD, the black sludge had receded.
[ INTEREST PAYMENT: READY ]
"I feel sick," Rei said quietly.
Nyx turned. Her red skin glowed in the dark room. She offered a smile that was all teeth and sharp edges.
"That's just the adrenaline, darling. Drink some water. We have to do it all again tomorrow."