A few hours later, Hikari yawns and stretches her arms, closing her laptop as she rolls her chair away from the guest desk.

“And Uzume says I shouldn’t do homework while drunk,” she says, tossing herself into the bed and rolling around in the sheets. “Doesn’t she know that you can’t do your best at uni if you’re afraid of alcohol?”

Then again, maybe Hikari shouldn’t complain. Since she moved to Tanegashima and started attending Kadai last year, a lot has happened! She made some great new friends, in fact. Three great friends, new besties for a new life!

A chance encounter at the Tanegashima Space Centre introduced Hikari to Zumi-chan – that is, Kazumi Sternbach, an American from Southern Sun doing exchange work with the JAXA. She’s way smarter than Hikari is, like a Shiorin with social skills, but she can’t hold down her drinks. It’s fun to hear what kind of secrets she has, like about what she does without a boyfriend.

Then there’s Seong Na-ri, a volunteer and migrant social worker with the refugee districts in Tanegashima. Kind, generous, efficient, precise. Great partner for gaming, too! If she has any weakness, it’s that she’s a total pushover – seriously, even if she says no, all it takes is a tiny bit of pressure and she caves! It’s way too easy to bully her!

And last but not least, Akatsuki Uzume Imanis, a local and fellow Kadai student who loves to show off in the karaoke box. She’s got muscles for days, Hikari has no idea how she doesn’t have a boy toy. Girl like her must keep a lot of secrets though; if only Hikari could convince her to down a few drinks.

(…why does Uzume keep calling Hikari ‘Misato’ when she’s drunk, anyway?)

Really, the only thing to complain about is how they’re pretty flaky when it comes to social arrangements. But even then, they always have these exciting stories and great excuses that just make her wish she was there with them; Hikari almost feels normal around them, seriously! They’re way too cool. But finally, she’s got something to brag to her best friends about! Zumi-chan is going to be so fucking jealous.

Now that it’s late enough that mom and dad have retired, Hikari tosses her hand into the paper bag she hid that tentacle toy in. The plastic is stained with whatever weird lube it has; hopefully it washes out!

Where Shiori got this, Hikari has no idea. Maybe her friend Mie gave it to her? It could totally be a boyfriend, but Hikari doubts it. The kind of guy who would date her precious Shiorin would probably worry about getting replaced.

It’s not like Hikari is into this sort of thing, but she’ll try anything once.

Hikari pulls off her skirt and pantyhose, then her lacey panties, keeping her top on as she looks at the tentacle toy. It’s…

big.

Then again, Zumi-chan told her that it’s mostly air and fluid inside, so it’s not as big as it looks. Besides, some girls like that kind of thing. Hikari doesn’t know any, though; this kind of thing seems more like a Shiorin’s-theoretical-boyfriend appeal. Some kind of guy who doesn’t know what sex is or how it works and has all kinds of nonsensical ideas about anatomy. Gonna need to knock some sense into Shiorin’s-theoretical-boyfriend later, clearly.

Well, who knows. Clearly these must sell to someone.

Hikari pokes and prods at it, unable to find the charging port. Must be some kind of hidden bit, or maybe wireless charging. For all intents and purposes, it’s indistinguishable from something made of flesh and blood. Wirelessly powered tentacles that give girls orgasms! What a time to be alive.

(It’s…almost cute? In a sad sort of way.)

Well, it’s already lubed up, so it should be fine. Zumi-chan says they’ve got AI programs that help them get inside you without human intervention, so all Hikari needs to do is place it between her legs, lift and spread and…

A-ah! It’s warm!

Well, that’s probably more ‘realistic’…or maybe, it’s to be more comfortable, rather than having something cold and lifeless push inside you. But it’s not rushing to stick it in, more like, just…rubbing against Hikari’s folds, the lube having a strange tingling sensation to it. It’s kinda…

pleasant?

It’s really not what Hikari expected. AI tentacle sex toys that can do foreplay? As Uzume might say, has human technology truly progressed this far?! It’s…

aah, maybe Hikari really did have too much to drink today. It’s almost loving. It’s…nngh. It’s clearly just a phantom sensation. Clearly just the anthropomorphization of artificial intelligence which imitates life. But something about it feels so friendly. Like a lover, a friend, a family member…

W-wait, what is Hikari thinking? She has to stop before she gets all weird! She has to stop letting it suck on her labia, gently undulate against her, even rub her clit just a little, not too much, don’t wanna overstimulate her. She has to –

nngh!

As soon as Hikari tries to grab it, it pushes inside her, and

it’s wonderful

It’s wonderful how it gently pushes in, so small and courteous, not overtaxing Hikari’s muscles, but it just expands inside. Oh, it’s going deep. It’s wriggling and writhing and that weird black lube it secretes is just so perfectly made, there’s no pain, no worry. S-size totally matters, huh…

It’s expanding inside her, even as it pushes deep. Hikari has never felt anything like this! Her hand tries to feel how deep it is inside her on her stomach, and the tentacle wriggles so happily – no, not emotion, no magical thinking Hikari – as it burrows into her. Curling inside her. So long…

so thick.

Hikari can’t even describe it like a penis. It’s more like a tongue. A long, huge, muscular tongue that’s far too large to be human. Its warmth is seeping into her, and Hikari bites her lip, reaching up to grasp her breast. It’s already just a tiny little tail dripping black onto the sheets by the time it gets deep inside her, and Hikari can’t…nngh, possibly describe how this seems nearly impossible. The Sunset Corporation’s technology is something else.

H-how could Shiorin stand this? How could she not go mad? She’s a blushing virgin! But she didn’t look like it hurt or she was crying at all…

I-it’s…

oh, it’s just impossible

Is Hikari just that drunk? With her fingers, she measures herself gaping. That’s…that’s like almost as thick as one of Uzume’s arms. That can’t be right. She’d break! She’d definitely break! And if she’d break, Shiori would break even more! There’s no bulge inside her guts, either! That just wouldn’t be right at all! Hikari’s just going delirious…

Shiorin is…

really growing up, isn’t she

she’s growing up so fast that she can take something like this, something wonderful. I-it shouldn’t feel like it’s burrowing toward Hikari’s womb, Hikari has spent so many hours with the girls online ridiculing that kind of dialogue, but that’s how it feels right now! I-is it filled with some kind of drug? D-did someone try to drug Hikari’s precious Shiorin? When Hikari figures out who it is, s-she’s going to…

she’s going to

she’s going to scream

she’s going to cover her mouth and keep from the noise escaping so no one knows she’s having a massive, squirting orgasm or two from a fucking tentacle toy for degenerates, so no one knows it’s the best sex she’s ever had, so no one knows just how lifeless all her boyfriends feel now, so no one knows how she wants to steal this from Shiorin and keep it all to herself, not even tell Zumi-chan, she needs to keep it, even as it pushes against her erogenous zones, even as she writhes in the bed, even as her eyes roll up and her nipples ache and she rubs her breast with one and her clit with the other and just

how can Shiorin stand this

pleasure this good could break anyone! S-Shiorin will be ruined for her boyfriend! S-she’ll grow up an unloved girl because tentacles provide for her every need! A-and Hikari…

Mama and Papa forgive her, but as Hikari passes out mid-climax, as she feels something burrow deep inside her and take root, all she can think of is how she wants her friends to know how this feels…

and how wonderful her Shiorin is, for teaching her about this pleasure.