<Nocturnal Harmonia>

[Bloodedge]

"Well you've got one~" Yugi flirted shamelessly. She'd absolutely end up with balls in her chest region at some point; it was just a matter of time. Actually, she'd been talking about a 'sucker' following the coming doctor visit. Perhaps he'd make use of that opportunity? However it happened, first came the delivery of that ball into Miyuki's mouth. That managed to take his attention away from Miko's chest. "Whoops~" Yugi said. Kaguya patted the blonde's back, effectively helping him dislodge the ball. As it bounced onto the table, Miyuki was coughing as a simple matter of reactivity. "Kiriya-kun tried to assassinate me!" he shouted, all in the spirit of good fun... from his perspective.

Miyuki tried to recover and serve again, but... there was a hiccup in his swing when Miko mentioned wearing something even more revealing than that yukata. A thousand mental images went through Miyuki's head as he swung the paddle. The ball... hit the table after a total whiff. "... Gomen. Still a little dazed after that assassination attempt~" he joked. Yugi knew better. He sent a smug grin Miyuki's way as the serve was reset. "You're welcome." And with that, the game would begin again. Perhaps though, it wouldn't end with the same four players that were present at the start. . .

[Apollymi]

Yugi and Miko's perversion around each other couldn't be limited. What was more, it was starting to become standard for them not to care about the opinions of others. Perhaps Yugi had always been that way, but Miko was starting to show a freedom with her mouth and body that had been previously unseen. By the time, Kaguya was helping Miyuki recover form almost swallowing a ping pong ball, she was amused by his ability to try and pick back up, and Yugi's deviousness. "I thought this was supposed to be a friendly game♥~ I'm sure assassination attempts aren't part of it~" Kaguya laughed lightly find it amusing. Technically speaking this was still a pretty upbeat moment.

Ah but as she questioned Miko's openness, she stated she'd been in something more revealing than her current yukata. "Oya?♥~ What kind of dress up were you playing?~" Kaguya asked teasingly. "Eh, I'll just show you later, it's hard to explain and I forgot the name♪~" Miko chirped. It was ridiculous but Kaguya made an assumption as she watched Miyuki whiff a shot. "Chii♪~ It's no problem, leave it to me♪~" Miko chirped about any remaining play. She was definitely able to keep it up, while Kaguya helped Miyuki go off to relax away his daze, like a good doting girlfriend. "There there, recovery time!~" Kaguya offered teasingly, she imagined several things were too much, only to think about what Miko said! "You took pictures?!" she seemed surprised. Miko had more sense than most, and definitely wouldn't put herself in danger or anything, the idea of her taking lewd pictures in a crazy outfit seemed a bit crazy. "Well, I put it on, I had to make sure I looked cute♪~" Miko asserted with a playful pout on her face as she looked at Miyuki. She knew why he'd missed and she also now knew the first extra image she'd be sending him. As he moved to sit out, Miko herself moved into the whole of her side of the table, Kaguya would usher him away and though she thought about rejoining them... she decided the better of it after a few moments? Why... well because when Miko launched that ball back across, her eyes were closed and it bounced with precision towards the far left side of the table opposite her, still she didn't seem worried that her eyes were closed and her movements had become even more relaxed.

As that game of ping pong became a moment of the two players, having a quick cometition, one Takemi Tae made her way into the resort. Since she already had a key, she and her little overnight bag made her way to the necessary room without any real hints of something problematic. Once she arrived she slipped inside the Players room, slipping into her system yukata, a short black one with long sleeves and a flower design it had a hood which she pulled up. She gave herself light pink lips but smokey eyes and she'd already equipped herself with the piercings she normally had but that had been missing from their previous encounters. One tongue ring, and a pair of bars through her nipples. Soon enough she was checking around the room, but she didn't see the players. So she sent a text message. The Doctor's in, where are my cute little patients?~

[Bloodedge]

Miyuki wasn't going to recover from that whiff, the ball in his mouth, or any of his ongoing thoughts. That was fine for Yugi. The blonde could instead bear witness to something he couldn't possibly compete with. Finally, Yugi saw what he'd been waiting for. It had been clear for several turns that Miko had been limiting herself by using her eyes instead of her superior ears. When she rejoined with her eyes closed... he grew a very wide grin. What came after was a masterclass in retaliatory assaults from both sides. Each Player's arm looked like blurs as the popping of that ping pong ball being slapped around became quicker and quicker. One side used ears and the other used eyes, and suddenly... neither was giving an inch to the other. "That's what I've been waiting for! Fucking show me something!" Yugi said excitedly, his entire body curving to attack the ball at different angles.

While a seemingly endless round progressed, the Players' room was entered. Takemi Tae had finally arrived. In the time she took to don her ensemble for the evening and realize her 'patients' weren't around, that single round was still going strong. Miyuki watched, awestruck. This was the kind of sight he expected of two Hunters ─ two strong Hunters. "Hon, what am I not seeing right now?" he asked while sitting at the edge of his seat. Just then, Yugi had a notification come through. The System display was in his periphery, but he didn't pay enough attention to actually read it. The game was finally interesting as a challenge; he wasn't going to let go just to read a text.

[Apollymi]

Miko would be boxing her thoughts concerning that picture of her in a slingshot bikini bunny get up. Mostly because the challenge in front of her, was fully worth devoting one hundred percent of her focus. Eyes closed and ears fully devoted to being her sensory organ. Even the parting of Yugi's lips as he grinned about the coming challenge made the brunette's lips purse with cheeky indignation. "I can hear you smiling, O♪~ men♪~ kun♪~" Miko said in a teasing sing-song voice she often used when flirting most directly. As they began assaulting the ball and each other at breakneck speed with true accuracy, Kaguya and Miyuki were left to the side seeing something most shouldn't have been able to witness. "You'll see everything, I promised♪~" Miko sang as her arms moved.

Every hit got an equal hit. That ball was unseen as it bounced back and forth across the table and arms were bent, paddles switched between hands that kept the players from stopping. They were locked in a battle that others couldn't touch. Kaguya from her part, could see their arms movign at least, and she had seen them in combat earlier and it wasn't as smooth as this, and that was saying a lot considering they moved together like a well-oiled machine. When asked what he wasn't seeing Kaguya explained her eyes still bouncing as she watched each reach and strike. "You're not seeing their arms moving. I'm barely seeing it, and I only know where the ball is still being hit because of the pops. But those are hitting like drumbeats at this point!~" Kaguya narrated the scene. "It's spectacular actually~ Even more interesting when you know Mi-chan's eyes are closed and she's moving like that in response to just the noise," Kaguya claimed. She knew of Miko's superior hearing and wondered if the girl truly had limited herself on purpose by watching and getting the hang of it the more natural way.

But while a couple were in awe of the Players battle, a young doctor, was being hip and waiting for them. With a whole minute passing since her message went in, an no sign of a reply. She decided to be a bit more forceful and teasing. She posed, taking a selfie in her new attire with her tongue sticking out. Perhaps that would get a response? It would go through to Yugi, right as Miko was serving back with a backhanded slap to that ball as she responded to the sound of it tapping his paddle.

[Bloodedge]

Miyuki could hardly see a thing. He could see the Players' bodies moving, but not their arms nor the ball. In fact, it looked like a couple of mobile streaks with the impression of paddles appearing at the briefest moments of pause. One had closed eyes, and the other had eyes moving beyond Miyuki's ability to track. Those two had to be Awakeners... and good ones! "I... think I lost. Hard," Miyuki stated. In truth, there was already a loss for his side of the table. He'd been the weakest link, and even he would admit that if given the opportunity. He wouldn't get it, however.

Yugi was pleased beyond belief. The only thing better than the sort of competition he was currently getting, was some kind of ridiculous sex. In fact... the idea of ridiculous sex was the only thing that could hope to distract him. Lo and behold, he would eventually receive a second notification through the System ─ one that appeared in his periphery as an image of Doctor Takemi in the best getup he'd seen all day, fitting her personality to the letter. His eyes were drawn to that photo, to the visible tongue ring she had... and in that moment, he clipped the ball with his paddle and accidentally sent it rocketing into Miyuki's forehead. "Gah!" the blonde reeled, his head falling back. It even looked as if steam was emerging from the ball that almost looked lodged in the center of Miyuki's forehead, but Yugi had bigger priorities. "...God damn! I lose. Game over. Gotta go now," Yugi said as his paddle fell onto the table ─ which seemed to have quite a few scuff marks upon it after the game.

[Apollymi]

Kaguya knew by the end of this, that the Players were currently the strongest people in this room. It wasn't a question it was an earnest understanding of the difference between them and others. "You and me both~ They're something else♥~" Kaguya said from a point of pure appreciation. She was happy to see others shine, and these two had to be among her favorites. No matter, they were busy having the time of their lives playing a game which was showing off exactly how strong they could potentially be.

Still, as all things happened this would eventually come to an end. And this end would happen when Yugi's distracted eyes caused an incident where the ping pong ball was launched into Miyuki's forehead. Such speed, none of them could have stopped it and Miko heard the impact and flinched lightly. "Ooooh♪~ That's gonna leave a mark," she said cringing lightly. She finally opened her eyes, slowly to avoid blinding herself only to hear Yugi's urgency. "I won?" Miko seemed confused by that, she figured she could hold her on but actually winning any game against the Genokiller had to be some sort of fluke. "Is it time?!♪~" Miko seemed excited while Kaguya was plucking that ball out of Miyuki's head and checking him. "Oya? Where are you two running off to, like you didn't just attempt a second assassination♥~" Kaguya questioned while Miko waited. It seemed they were moving and she wouldn't be one left out of anything. There were a few more things going on as well, but the Players urgency was an odd thing to see.

[Bloodedge]

The only thing farther back than Miyuki's head, were his eyes as they rolled back behind open lids. That was for the best overall, as there would be questions and answers he didn't need to see directly. It all started with Miko expressing surprise over her victory. "Yes, congrats, now let's go!" Yugi shouted. It was time indeed. Yugi reached out for his System display, deciding after hearing from Kaguya that it would only make sense to share that image he was witnessing twice.

"Don't care, let him die. Priorities! Doctor's appointment!" Yugi announced while sending that image of Tae to Miko and Kaguya. Both girls needed to see this prime specimen in a yukata that could have been a shirt. Actually, it was quite similar to some shirts he wore, hood and all ─ albeit significantly tighter for all the right reasons. "There! Everything make sense? Everybody on board? Going now; fucking bye!" With that final announcement, Yugi would be darting out of the room with every intention of bursting into the room he shared with Miko. Alas, he'd have to wait for her since his key had been given to Tae already.

[Apollymi]

Miyuki took quite the hit. His eyes were rolled back in his head and everything but that was technically a fortuitous moment for the Players as they needed to make a quick exit. Miko's congratulatory statement was even just a bit of impatient chatter to get them moving. "Okay," Miko asserted. Still there was the matter of what they were laving for, and soon enough both Miko and Kaguya would be receiving an image.

Both girls gasped, but it would be Kaguya to speak first. "Goddamn♥~ Y'all gotta go!♥~ Don't worry about anything have a great night~" Kaguya hummed as she looked over the image. "And you have a type," Kaguya said with an eye roll. "Squee♪~ Too much!~" Miko chimed her brain in overload by a single image. Still, Miko was getting herself together and headed out as well. "Right box open. Put ice on his head. And here is the outfit I was talking about..." she said quickly sending it as she also left the room, slipping the room key out of the back of her phone case. "Holy shit! That's hot♥!~" Kaguya mumbled mostly to herself, as she went to close the door behind the pair and get ice for Miyuki's head. "Hangout tomorrow?" she asked of Miko as she slipped out of the door. "Yep text when you wake up!~" Miko asserted, she didn't sleep enough for it to be a problem. No matter. She was soon pushing past Yugi and opening the door with just as much excitement as he had to get going.

When the door opened, Tae was standing near that couch looking at the door surprised. "That was way quicker than I expected," Tae said. Standing up and having a look at the pair for reasons of both medical concern and fondness.

[Bloodedge]

Much to Yugi's annoyance, he had to wait for Miko to unlock the door, lest he break through it and cause some sort of incident. It only took a second or two, so it wasn't such a big deal. He'd be the first one bursting through, however, finding the doctor already within his line of sight. That Yukata she'd chosen was shorter than any human society would allow for such a thing; there was more thigh on display than there was skin being covered overall. Beyond that, Miko was officially no longer the only person showing 100% of her cleavage.

According to Tae, the appearance after that picture arrived was quick. Of course they were only a room over; they could have just burst through the wall if they wanted to. No matter. They were here now, and Yugi's Sharingan was working overtime, as though he were trying to see every cell on the doctor's body. One might note that he'd developed a third tomoe in his second eye during that ping pong match, bringing it to a complete state already. "Full disclosure, that might not be the only thing you can say that about tonight. Difference? I'm only greeting you once," was his reply. "But who cares about that? I need every kind of urgent care in the fucking book right now! Don't let me get started on the swelling!"

[Apollymi]

Miko didn't leave Yugi waiting for long, she wasn't the type to do such a thing especially not when something exciting lay ahead. Whatever the case, Miko had a tentative date to spend time with Kaguya the next day and a current 'check-up' to undergo with Yugi. Upon opening the door Tae was confronted with the Players. Yugi was the first one in. Miko though excited herself closed the door behind herself and made sure her keycard went back into her phone case to make sure it wasn't misplaced. Meanwhile, Miko was definitely no longer the only person showing off the goods.

Tae stood in the 'common room' of this suite approaching Yugi with a smile on her face. She looked into his eyes quite directly noting his complete Sharingan. "Oh? My little guinea pig is so excited to see me~" she mused in response to his verbal vomit. "Every kind of urgent care is extreme... and with you there's always swelling~" she claimed as she leaned in. One greeting was fine, she'd kiss the lad and say hello with a bit of tongue including that previously unseen tongue ring. Whenever they separated from that, she'd smirk pleased about the situation. "So are we settling in to get clean for full physical exams or is there something else on the table?" she wondered curious about what the teens plans for tonight were.

[Bloodedge]

Yugi needed every kind of urgent care possible. He wasn't backing down on that. In fact, he'd even say the list was getting longer as he continued looking at the doctor. That term 'little guinea pig' coming from her was among the best things he could hear on any random day, given the implications attached to it. "There's often swelling. But this is a special medical kind of swelling. If only there were an S-rank Healer that could do something about it, you know?" he joked. Tae didn't even wait around before she leaned in to initiate a kiss ─ one Yugi took greater interest in due to the presence of a tongue ring.

Such a new sensation it was to feel that metal bar rubbing along his own tongue. He'd call it neither positive nor negative for the purpose of kissing, but... the sample did give him plenty of thoughts related to its more deviant use. Yugi hesitated for a moment to soak those thoughts in, well after Tae pulled away. "... Yeah, I'm gonna need to find out everything you plan on doing with that. Also... yes. But you're due a lot of explanations that I'll try to give before my dick explodes. So... showers." Though Yugi intended to get clean before entering the baths, he wasn't going to use the establishment's normal facilities. He snapped his fingers to replace just the showers themselves with stone waterfalls that had no physical source, but did have a small standing pool that drained into... the System itself, as far as anyone could tell. "Where to start? I guess..." Yugi took only a few moments to figure out how the coming topic should be broached. The decision was easy enough to make as he backpedaled from Tae, inching closer to that waterfall with both arms outstretched. "Get to work," he ordered. A trio of Shadow Soldiers rose from his shadow in that moment. One of them lifted Yugi by the waist and loosed his obi, while the others each took a side to pull his jinbei open by tugging the sleeves. "Let's start with the Shadow Monarchs part~"

[Apollymi]

Yugi claimed to need medical treatment urgently and Tae thought that was a bit ridiculous. Still, she'd be the first to go along with his pretense given she quite enjoyed him. His joking mannerism was also one of those things, for instance his specification about the nature of his swelling seemed to be something hilarious. "Ehehe~ I might be able to find one of those~" she claimed. "You really have to, I tried reducing the swelling with my mouth but it persists♪~" Miko added.

Ah but soon she was quiet, if only because she was witnessing a new kind of makeout which came with a new kind of sound. There was something quite interesting about the tongue ring in Tae's mouth, that barbell likely came with new sensations as well. Tae quite enjoyed her oral piercing though she didn't often wear it for professional reasons. She quite enjoyed making out with it in though and figured a lot of that would be going on given the 'threesome' that would obviously be taking place here. Ah, but before that, there was something else, the apparently explanation she was owed. And falls set up indoors which were much more in accordance with how the teens liked things. She followed seeing shadows rise from Yugi's own shadow and the creatures helping strip him of his clothes. "Help me out~" Miko also had one undoing her yukata so she could get naked as well. Tae was astounded for a few seconds, silent and blinking before her hands came up in surprise. "That might be the most edgelord shit I've ever heard of... is this why you two feel so different?" she questioned directly. Shadows were creatures they were in control of, they were monarchs and as such were in charge of shadows. That all made a lot of sense. "Though there is a logical connection to the whole, Concubine thing now I guess..." she worked her way through thoughts, but she supposed she also needed to get ready to shower so she aimed to join the other pair as Miko tested waters and was willing to be mostly quiet unless an interjection was necessary.

[Bloodedge]

"I hope you can. It's becoming a huge problem," Yugi continued. It seemed Miko would once again be supporting his ridiculous clauses, mentioning that she'd tried doing something about his 'swelling' to no avail. "She did! She tried with a lot of things. Gotta teach the next generation of Healers how it's done, I think. It'll be better for everyone. Probably~" he added before calling upon those Shadow Soldiers to visually start a point.

In a few moments, Yugi was being raised like a champion by Shadows that took the liberty of doing away with his robe. Miko joined the moment of 'aura farming' by having a Shadow strip away her yukata as well. Tae was stunned, as anyone in this world would be. "It's part of why we'd feel different," Yugi answered. "We had an... ascension. Becoming the Monarchs of Shadows gave us a Skill called Shadow Extraction. If something's dead, we can turn it into one of these. You should recognize these guys," Yugi explained as another pair of Shadow Infantry were brought forth to encroach upon Tae. He wouldn't have them do away with her Yukata, but they did stand by intending to lift her by the arms like some sort of messiah. If anyone was going to take that thing off her, it was going to be Yugi. "Nobody's taking off their own shit today. Sensei has no assistant to get her in proper uniform, so I guess a guinea pig will have to do~"

[Apollymi]

It was becoming a huge problem, Yugi claimed. The incidental swelling of his body was indeed a problem but it was... "I think a problem like that is still mostly psychosomatic~" Tae said teasingly. Still, she had to give much credit to brunette for backing up her partner. She played excellent support to the men in her life, even when their goal was coitus with someone else. In the same vein, Yugi was just as encouraging for her sake, it was oddly wholesome considering what their goal was, "You two might be enabling each other, but it's kind of cute~" Tae observed. "And I guess, I didn't think I'd end up with someone willing to learn from me or anything I do have a responsibility to the youth~" she mused. She didn't think Miko wanted or needed any help with her actual healing abilities, but Tae could actually help her, and she'd have some fun.

But before the fun, there would be a few more layers of explanation. Part of why they felt so different was this change. According to Yugi they'd experienced something called an ascension. And that ascension came with a skill that allowed them to extract shadows from dead people. "Dead people? You are making shadow zombies? How fucking metal are you two planning to get!~ And that means these are the guys from the Job-Change Quest," she exclaimed. "It's more or less like energy of them. We need the bodies to raise them but their bodies aren't like that... Remember this guy?" Miko chirped as she pointed to Igris who was deftly disrobing the girl as she sat in the arms of a different infantry man. "That's the guy that you said almost kileld you two?! Fuck that's crazy!~" Tae explained. Ah but she wasn't being left out, she was being lifted and carried towards Yugi. "I mean if that's the kind of day we're having... I'm not opposed. It's just a different kind of experiment. So are you two actually okay? This amount of power for a couple of people could be really dangerous, you might end up locked up... Oh and what kind of perks did your ascensions come with? I assume physical things, sensory upgrades maybe? I noticed your Sharigan is fully developed now as well... I'm trying not to geek but it's really hard." Tae commented absently, knowing through the grapevine about a few missing formerly famous individuals.

[Bloodedge]

"Maybe it is, but that's no reason not to treat the symptoms~" Yugi argued playfully. The Players would continue to support one another in random moments, even sexual ones it seemed. One would even find Tae herself offering some assistance ─ apparently the sort that involved teaching a younger 'Healer' the ways of dealing with such... issues. "That's the spirit. Nothing better than helping and healing the youth~"

Following the explanation of the Players' new title and its associated power to extract Shadow Soldiers from the dead, Tae was being brought closer by a Shadow escort. Miko brought attention to Igris, who Tae recognized just as Makima did. Yugi nodded along. "The guy who killed me, yeah. We're fine now. Everything feels different, but better. Oh and... being locked away isn't an issue. We saw one of those places earlier. Fucked an inmate. We've got nothing to worry about," he said as the Shadows finally brought Tae within range. His left hand extended to grab her obi, after which he'd pull loose is knot. Tae brought attention to his completed Sharingan as he did so. Yugi wasn't aware of that. He'd noticed some improvement, but he hadn't been able to see the tomoe himself of late. "Is it? Nice, that was quick. Geek all you want. Big Titty Goth GF gets to do anything. Everything. All of the whatever things."