My Succubus Health Bar Runs on Girl-Crushes

“I don’t want to!” Tessa protested, her face bright red, almost screaming.

That refusal, soaked in unbearable embarrassment, drew an ambiguous and sweetly sticky period at the end of Friday night.

Saturday morning came without Riley’s demonic training alarm. For once, Tessa slept until she woke naturally. Sunlight spilled through the gap in the curtains and warmed her face. She narrowed her eyes comfortably, rolled once across the bed like a lazy cat, and the thin blanket slipped down, revealing her camisole nightdress and one smooth, snow-white shoulder.

Unfortunately, that peace did not last long.

She had just sat up while rubbing her eyes when three dark shadows surrounded her from three different directions with lightning speed.

“Time to get up, my sweet little Tessa!”

The leader, Vanessa the “temptress,” wore an almost transparent black lace nightdress and held a brand-new dress in her hands. A wicked smile hung on her face.

Chloe and Iris blocked her escape routes from the left and right like two loyal guardians.

“Today is Room 407’s first team-building day!” Chloe announced excitedly, holding up her phone. “Destination, the busiest shopping district in Halewick City, Starlight District! Theme, the ultimate fashion awakening makeover for our darling Tessa!”

Tessa’s sleepiness vanished in terror. She weakly raised a hand and tried to make one last struggle. “B-but didn’t the agreement say weekends are… Seraphina’s time?”

With a sharp snap, Vanessa caught Tessa’s small chin and forced her to lift her head. Her alluring peach-blossom eyes narrowed slightly, and her warm breath brushed over Tessa’s face. Her voice was low, sweet, and wicked.

“Silly baby. Agreements are dead. People are alive. We’re taking you out to buy battle outfits today. Isn’t that also so you can better ‘serve’ Seraphina and show her even more beautiful sides of you?”

For a moment, Tessa actually had no way to refute that twisted logic.

And so, for the next half hour, she became a soulless doll. Her three predatory roommates pressed her down in front of the vanity and gave her a full makeover. In the end, she changed into a pale-blue dress that was relatively casual but still cute, revealing her delicate collarbones and a pair of straight, snow-white calves.

Before they left, the usually cool Iris took four matching baseball caps in different colors from the closet and said, concise as ever, “Today, team caps.”

And so, an extremely eye-catching scene appeared on Halewick University’s campus.

Four girls with completely different styles, each beautiful in her own way, walked shoulder to shoulder down the tree-lined path wearing matching baseball caps. Everywhere they passed, every gaze was drawn firmly to them. The turn-back rate reached two hundred percent.

Once they reached the mall, Vanessa’s wicked heart still refused to die. She dragged Tessa through all kinds of bold, revealing clothing stores, trying to make her try on those “ultimate weapons” with dangerously little fabric.

“Baby, look at this one. The whole back is open! Seraphina won’t be able to take her eyes off your back for even one second!”

“And this one! Super short skirt! There are safety shorts underneath, but when the wind blows… hehehe…”

Tessa blushed furiously at the scenes Vanessa described and shook her head like a rattle, refusing with absolute determination.

In the end, under her roommates’ looks of bitter disappointment, she ran into a minimalist clothing store by herself and instantly fell for several loose T-shirts with cute prints and comfortable sweatpants. She held them up against herself, liking them more and more the longer she looked.

But when she instinctively reached for the tag to check the price, a cruel reality froze her hand in midair.

She could not afford them.

The light in Tessa’s eyes dimmed. Silently, she put the clothes she liked back where they belonged.

That tiny movement was caught by Vanessa, who had been watching her the whole time.

“What’s wrong, baby? Don’t like them?”

Tessa shook her head and said quietly, “I… I’m not buying them.”

Vanessa was far too sharp not to understand. She immediately guessed the reason. Without a word, she picked up the clothes Tessa had just put back and turned toward the register.

“Vanessa! Don’t!” Tessa hurried after her, her little face flushed red. “N-no, Vanessa, I… I don’t have money yet. I can’t take them.”

Vanessa did not pause for even a second as she swiped her card. She turned back, pinched Tessa’s cheek, and smiled like a sly fox.

“Silly girl. Why be polite with me?”

“I want to… earn money and buy them myself.” Tessa’s voice was very small, but her tone was unusually firm.

“Good. Ambitious!” Vanessa stuffed the packaged shopping bag into her arms, then leaned to Tessa’s ear and breathed ambiguously. “Then I’ll front the money for you. Think of it as an advance from the company to its ace streamer. Once you make money from tonight’s stream, pay me back with interest. As for the interest… you can use that soft little…”

“I know! I’ll pay you back!” Tessa cut her off before she could finish, hugging the clothes and fleeing as if her life depended on it, terrified that more dangerous words would come out of Vanessa’s mouth.

Chloe looked at Tessa’s “spoils of war” and remained heartbroken. “Tessa! You’re wasting your once-in-a-lifetime beauty!”

Tessa, however, hugged the new clothes that finally belonged to her, and an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and fighting spirit welled up in her heart.

At noon, they went to an all-you-can-eat grill. Vanessa deliberately picked up a sizzling piece of pork belly and brought it to Tessa’s lips. Her breath was warm and fragrant as she said, “Come on, baby. Open up. Let me feed you some hot, juicy meat.”

Tessa’s cheeks burned. Before Vanessa could make another move, Tessa snatched the tongs away and stuffed the meat into her own mouth like a snack-guarding hamster.

In the afternoon, they went to the arcade.

Chloe dragged everyone to play claw machines. However, after contributing over a hundred arcade tokens, the four of them still left empty-handed. A total defeat.

Just as they lowered their heads and prepared to leave, energetic music sounded from not far away.

Chloe’s eyes lit up as she dragged them toward the dance machine.

A while later, Iris, wearing a black crop top, stood on the machine. Following the rhythm of the music, her feet stepped through dizzyingly precise footwork. Every movement landed exactly on beat. When the song ended, the screen flashed [PERFECT COMBO]. She jumped down from the machine with effortless coolness, setting off screams from the girls around them.

“Tessa! You try too!” Chloe immediately started cheering her on.

“I can’t, I can’t!” Tessa waved her hands frantically. Her limbs were completely uncoordinated. How could she possibly play this?

Just as she resisted with all her might, the familiar little devil UI popped up in her mind with flashy effects.

[Ding! Detected an excellent chance to display your charm! Let everyone see what true “softness” means! Limited-Time Quest issued!]

[Quest Name: Sprite of the Dance Floor!]

[Quest Objective: Receive no lower than an S-rank evaluation on the dance machine.]

[Quest Reward: Affection Points +50!]

[Quest Failure Penalty: Random Succubus Debuff [Drunken Babble] activates! For the next 24 hours, you will randomly and uncontrollably say the most absurd and embarrassing nonsense to people around you!]

For those 50 Affection Points, and more importantly to avoid that terrifying social-death punishment, Tessa hardened her heart, squeezed her eyes shut, and forced herself onto the dance machine.

With trembling hands, she flipped through the song list for a long time before finally choosing the slowest ballad with the simplest beat. She only hoped she could muddle through.

The music began. When the first arrow appeared, Tessa stepped down nervously.

But the moment her body moved, a strange feeling surged up inside her.

The succubus body modified by the system, with its top-tier coordination, seemed to possess a will of its own. Deep in her soul, Evan’s sense of rhythm fused perfectly with the extreme flexibility of this body.

Her movements did not have Iris’s strength, but they carried an ultimate softness and a lethal allure.

When she did a simple squat, the hem of her pale-blue dress lifted slightly, exposing a flash of firm, snow-white upper thigh and drawing a wave of suppressed gasps from behind her. Her waist was so soft it barely seemed human. One seemingly casual twist of her hips created a breathtakingly sensual wave through her curves.

Every simple leg lift, turn, and backbend landed precisely on the most tantalizing beats. The accidental clumsiness and innocence she showed became the deadliest attraction of all.

The song ended.

The whole arcade went silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the three golden letters that appeared on the screen.

[SSS]

After the silence came applause and screams a hundred times louder than when Iris had finished.

“Holy crap…” Vanessa stared, dumbfounded, and muttered to herself, “So… this is our baby’s final form. That waist, those legs, that butt… I’m done. I’ve switched sides.”

That night, after returning to the dorm, Tessa collapsed onto the bed almost instantly. She felt like every bone in her body had fallen apart.

“You wicked little thing. Still pretending to be dead?”

Before she could catch her breath, a wave of fragrance rushed over. Vanessa had already pounced, pressing Tessa down against the soft bedding. Her suspicious hands went straight for the place Tessa feared most, her waist.

“Confess and we’ll go easy on you! The way you moved that little waist almost made me lose my mind! And you still said you couldn’t dance? I think you’re the best seducer here!”

“Ah! No! Vanessa, mercy! Hahahaha… It tickles!”

Tessa instantly laughed so hard she could not breathe. She struggled desperately like a fish out of water, but she could not escape the temptress’s claws.

“Right, right! Tessa, you were so cool!” Chloe also pounced excitedly into the battle, copying Vanessa and trying to tickle Tessa’s underarms. “That SSS nearly blinded me! Come on, show us again! That squat move was incredible!”

“Hahahaha… help! I really don’t know how! My body moved on its own!” Tessa’s laughter and pleas mixed together until tears came out.

Even the usually aloof Iris leaned against the bed, a rare smile touching the corner of her mouth.

A pillow fight and tickle war broke out in the tiny dorm. For a while, feathers flew together with laughter, and the whole room filled with the warm, playful scent of teasing and chaos.

In the end, all four of them laughed until they had no strength left and collapsed across the bed in every direction. Tessa was pinned in the very center. Although she was too tired to move even a finger, her heart was filled with an enormous warmth and happiness. The corners of her mouth lifted without her noticing.

That night, Tessa forced her exhausted body to complete her second Saturday night stream. Maybe it was because she had so much fun during the day, or maybe it was because she kept thinking about paying people back, but she was clearly less nervous this time.

Following Vanessa’s [clean-plus] script, she read a gentle lyric poem. Before ending, she even softly hummed a short piece of the slow song she had danced to during the day.

The effect was explosive.

The stream’s popularity slowly climbed from dozens of viewers to over five hundred. More importantly, after converting the gifts she received in the backend, she had actually earned several hundred credits.

After the stream ended, Tessa stared at the income in the backend, a fortune in her eyes. For the first time, something called confidence flickered in her gaze.

Without the slightest hesitation, she withdrew the money and immediately split it into two halves.

First, she opened Molly’s chat and transferred half of the money over, then carefully typed a message and sent it.

[Tessa: Molly, thank you for always taking care of me. Please accept this. I can’t keep eating your food for free. This is the first money I earned today. It isn’t much, but it’s my way of saying thank you.]

After doing that, she felt as if a heavy stone had been lifted from her chest.

Then she opened her chat with the “temptress,” Vanessa, transferred the remaining half of the money, and added a note.

[Tessa: Vanessa, this is part of the money for today’s clothes. I’ll pay back the rest after I earn more from my next stream.]

Less than three seconds after the message was sent, Vanessa’s reply popped up.

[Vanessa: Oh my, our little darling is so good. You transferred money to me right after earning it. As for the rest… why not pay me back with that soft little body of yours? I wouldn’t mind at all~]

Tessa’s face turned red again. Humiliated and angry, she threw her phone aside and pulled the blanket over her head.

Even though Vanessa had teased her until she wanted to disappear, Tessa’s heart was filled with a steadiness and pride she had never felt before.

This was the first time she had truly relied on her own effort to grasp even the smallest bit of control over her life.

Just as she was about to fall asleep with a satisfied smile, her phone screen lit up.

It was a message from Seraphina, and the tone was as gentle and irresistible as ever.

[Seraphina: Tessa, rest early. I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning at nine. I’m looking forward to our concert.]