I woke up because something was off. Giana was sleeping next to me, and the room was covered in Noelle's polygonal bullshit. Did I ascend to manhood or is something else going on here?

  I wanted to leave it be but something was seriously off. Some details in my room didn't add up. I am not normally a perceptive guy but I do know how reality looks like.

  The more I scanned the room, the more seemed to be off. I tried to wake up Giana, but nothing seemed to wake her up. Is this because she's a deep sleeper, or something is preventing her from waking up? Also, this polygonal bullshit… it doesn't look anything like the last thing Noelle did. It's as if… this was created based on a description. This polygonal bullshit has mana runes that I can read.

  I checked for deception. There was deception, but everything seemed to be deception, including myself. Either the illusionist those cultists had was way better than they made it out to be or I put myself into an illusion. The latter would make the most sense but why would I do such a shitty job? I didn't even deceive myself.

  I tried to cancel the illusion, but I couldn't manage to. I would have known if they would try to hypnotize me or attempt to manipulate me, unless.

  I thought about the list of weaknesses. Charm magic… If someone charmed me and told me to put myself in an illusion and gave this scenario as a description, I would have no way out. These cultists knew what my weaknesses are… Maybe the gas they were talking about induced it. Or maybe I got hit by a charm attack even before that. There weren't many women in that cult, and I spent most of my time talking to Mel.

  Ugh, I try to be nice to humans and this happens. Although she wasn't a full-blood human, humans aren't good at charm magic as far as I know, and elves are neither. There is a possibility she lied to hide what she really was. The problem is that a skilled charm user can more or less mind control their targets, so there's no guarantee I can get out of this because I would be fighting the me that’s [charmed].

  Fighting yourself isn't a good idea if you have no idea what’s going on, but the other self does. I’m unsure what the worst-case scenario is, they try to kill me or go with their crazy experiments.

  What's even worse is the scolding I’ll get if I get out of this mess. How do I keep this hidden? I don't even know how long I've been in this state. My Elgards eyes said it's 8:74 which is obviously bullshit. There is a possibility my subconscious sabotaged the [Charmed] me to make me realize something is off. I tried to get my tails out, but I couldn't.

  I guess they don’t want me to have access to their processing power. I can still use my Elgards eyes. I tried to use magic and this didn't work either. Primal magic did, though.

  I closed my eyes and focused. Everything I knew was archived by my tails, losing access to my tails means losing the archive, but the information of the primal language came into my head when I got possessed by that demon, because it’s such a unique experience I should be able to remember the correct words and runes.

  It took 17 minutes of rolling around and banging my head to remember the correct runes and words.

  Note to self: put more effort in remembering primal language.

  The runes got dawn with the air as a medium.

  Bagpe me nie ade idac mohasi chet reverhitum me kad reavika!

  I ordered the charm and illusion to disappear.

  The area twisted, and I woke up in one a large container filled with fluid and had some things that looked like electrodes stuck to me. Some cultists were sitting at a desk with Mel and the mathematician and running some calculations. A huge pile of discarded paper laid to the side of the table. I assessed myself, and it seems nothing was done to me yet.

  I guess I got lucky and they didn’t manage to finish any important calculations yet. I teleported to my hotel room and I ran various scans to make sure this deception didn't have extra layers. I found another incongruity and repeated the same primal language stunt.

  Another container with fluid in it. This time it seemed like they were about to start. I ran some scans after creating an illusion. This seemed to be reality. I teleported to my room and collapsed on my bed exhausted. I took a sample of the fluid on me, let one of my tails analyze it and dried myself off. I ran more scans to make sure that I was in reality and this time everything was real with no margin of error. It was 6:57. I waited several minutes to make sure. It turned 7:00 so no weird stuff like 6:60 or other nonsense.

  I got a rude awakening.

  Ugh, give me 4 more hours.

  Giana what’s wrong with him?

  “I’m not sure…”

  Please tell me he isn’t dying!

  What are you guys talking about? Hey, why can’t I move?

  “I had to immobilize you because it seemed that something compelled you to move somewhere while still asleep.” Noelle was leaning against the door with her arms crossed, and she was quite upset. “You sneaked off during the night, didn’t you? I tried placing Giana in your bed, but you were not in your room, and you never returned.”

  Uhm, I took a midnight stroll.

  “I waited for 2 hours and Yvonne couldn’t find you. Don’t tell me you met up with another woman even though you have Giana!” Noelle stomped.

  Calm down Noelle, he is not Raishin, he’s more likely to get himself killed than having a secret date with a woman.

  “Hmm, you’re correct, I apologize.”

  Hey guys that’s not true! Can you release me now? I’m fine.

  “You’re not fine Agnis… where were you last night. I can’t find what is wrong with you, but somehow my intuition tells me a woman was involved. What did she do to you?” Giana asked as she mounted me.

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  Hey, why is it when I have an encounter with a chick you ask me what I did, but if its Agnis you ask him what they did!

  Because he doesn’t make it a habit to pick up women, and he also doesn’t like to deal with people. No matter how reckless, most of it has a good reason.

  “I...I'm just concerned b…because he didn’t leave a trace behind. This is my fault, if only I could find him” Yvonne said as it seemed as she was getting close to getting a panic attack.

  “Don’t be sorry, being impossible to find is a 9t thing, now Agnis fess up where did you go and who did this to you! I have some [Crystal Punches] with your name on it!”

  Is there any chance that you guys would let me off the hook and let me sleep longer?

  Giana was grabbing on to me and on the verge of tears.

  I guess not…

  I told them about my meeting with the cult, the useful information I got and the possibility that I got screwed over by a charm magic attack.

  A stomp shook the room. "Who in their right mind walks into a cult!"

  Yeah, Agnis are you insane?!

  Yeah, take me with you next time!

  "Yeah, me too!"

  "Giana, w…what do you mean with 'me too' that's da…dangerous!"

  Giana wiped a tear and started blasting me with charm magic.

  Hey! What are you doing?!

  I tried to fight against it, but I was no match.

  "I just found out what's wrong. He is still affected by that woman's charm magic, and that's unacceptable! I'm overwriting it with my own! Also, the fishing trip and the info of that diary, even when he saved Noelle and me made me realize something. He always goes for whatever is the most efficient and best for us, we can continue to complain about it but he isn't going to change, because most of us would probably be dead if he didn't. So, I decided to be there with him when he does this, especially if someone dares to charm him!"

  "Ooh this is the first time I’ve seen Giana this passionate, it also has a spicy tone of anger and jealousy, I knew Agnis was perfect for you." Noelle said as she relaxed.

  That made me hungry…

  "Wanna grab a bite?"

  Sure!

  "Good let's go!" Noelle grabbed Raishin's hand and they left for the door.

  "W…Wait! What about Agnis?"

  "What about him? It seems Giana has everything under control."

  Help!

  "See!" Noelle released the restraints on me and left with Raishin.

  Calm down Yvonne, everything seems under control. I think we should leave too. I'd love to scold him, but I think I'll leave this to Giana. Because of this cult, he's painfully aware of his weaknesses, so he can't dodge much of what Giana is probably going to say.

  Yeah, just go Greg, spend some time with Yvonne!

  Giana, show him no mercy.

  Greg and Yvonne left and I was alone in my room with Giana.

  “You know what I want to say right?”

  Yes…

  “You know that I don’t do this to be annoying but because I care right?”

  Yes…

  “You are aware of your weaknesses and how I or Greg, Noelle, Yvonne, and Raishin… maybe not Raishin… can help you with those right?”

  Yes…

  “You are aware that if you end up dying, the situation will worsen in more than one way, right?”

  Yes…

  “Good! Now do you hate me?”

  No.

  “Do you think I want to hinder you in any way or form in how you fight or do things?”

  No.

  “Then at least take me with you next time, it doesn't matter if I’m asleep or tired, I’d rather help you in that state than going through this over and over again.”

  I’m sorry.

  “That is not the answer I want, I want to hear a ‘Yes’, I know you’re not sorry, you’re only sorry that you got caught.”

  I will try my best.

  “Good! Now I made sure that you can only be charmed by me!”

  Uhh, sure?

  “But first you rest.” I felt drowsy. I think Giana cast [Sleep] on me and not just once but multiple times to make sure I really fell asleep.