God damn it.

People are starting to file in for the next class. He gathers up his stuff and heads for the bus, eyes glued to his phone screen.

Another five minutes later, on the dot, he gets one that’s just the one word.

more

How the hell does he turn on push notifications, anyway. He has never wanted to do this before in his life.

Happily for him, his phone does have a way to selectively enable these for Sultana.

Sultana itself has a vast array of things he can choose to be notified about, in submenus upon submenus. Maybe he could find this in there somewhere.

Or he can just turn them all on.

Well. He wouldn't want to miss anything.

Camillo turns them all on.

Then in another five minutes, he’ll get a polite notification with Dorothy’s face attached.

💭 deeper than that, make it hurt

Oh, jesus.

Okay. This is wrong.

He puts his phone on Do Not Disturb and pulls up Cookie Run and falls into bottomless pits repeatedly until he's home and he can jerk off furiously, imagining Dorothy -- Kyou -- both of them together --

Camillo showers, afterwards, and turns notifications back on. Presumably this is now safe.

He gets a neat little pile of missed notifications.

The most recent one, three minutes ago, is

💭 don’t fucking slow down

(It was, apparently, not safe.)

Seriously? This whole time??

He reads the other notifications. To confirm.

Every single one is like this.

The human body is an amazing thing.

Well, he tried. He leaves his phone on his bed with Sultana open, while he listlessly attempts to invert matrices next to it.

💭 there

💭 his hair on my shoulders

💭 yes yes yes yes

💭 We’re going to miss the bus.

Fuck his life.

He doesn't get a lot of homework done. After a while, he gives up and goes out to the common room to take a picture of a random guy, make some nice safe slow-onset edits no one could complain about -- more muscles, more impulse control, an extra inch of height, two extra inches below the waist. Curlier hair, because he'd look cute with it, and sometimes people's hair just gets curlier. Softer hands.

It should pay off his investment in a couple of days.

He gets an achievement for having three people in his Stable that nets him 250 Pearls, three outfit gacha tickets and a Diamond.

Outfit gacha!!!!!!!!!

Wait. Are there special events. Does he need to save his outfit gacha tickets for special events.

Whatever. Outfit gacha!!!!!!!!!!!

His first pull is “Bespoke (Tea Rose)”, a close-fit suit with a rose pattern and a pair of pink diamond drop earrings to match.

His second is “Got Milk?”, a classic cow print bikini with ears and tail and a collar with a bell.

His third is “Riding Leathers”, a full motorcycle outfit with very form-fitting leather jacket and pants, scuffed boots and gloves.

Camillo immediately previews Dorothy in the riding leathers and sighs with respectful longing.

This is a good app.

...huh. He has a decent amount of spare change now -- enough to do some rollbacks if he needs them

Camillo texts Z.

hey

weird question

suppose that

hypothetically

i could shapeshift you and fuck with your brain and stuff

for points. that let me do magic stuff

but i couldn't tell you

how would you feel about that

holy fuck is that what’s been going on?

Z’s profile locks down, and his Pearls per second drop to zero.

God damn it.

okay yeah

i have to erase your memory of this if it's going to keep working

if that's okay with you

❍︎♋︎■︎📬︎ ♍︎♋︎■︎❼︎⧫︎ ♌︎♏︎●︎♓︎♏︎❖︎♏︎ ❍︎♋︎♑︎♓︎♍︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ❒︎♏︎♋︎●︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ⬥︎♏︎ ♎︎□︎■︎❼︎⧫︎ ♑︎♏︎⧫︎ ⧫︎□︎ ⧫︎♋︎●︎🙵 ♋︎♌︎□︎◆︎⧫︎ ♓︎⧫︎
⍓︎♏︎♋︎♒︎📬︎ ♓︎ ⧫︎❒︎◆︎⬧︎⧫︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎📬︎ ⧫︎❒︎⍓︎ ■︎□︎⧫︎ ⧫︎□︎ ❍︎♋︎🙵♏︎ ❍︎♏︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎■︎🙵 ♓︎❼︎❍︎ ●︎□︎⬧︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ❍︎⍓︎ ❍︎♓︎■︎♎︎ □︎🙵📪︎ ⧫︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ⬧︎◆︎♍︎🙵♏︎♎︎

Well. All right then.

Sultana: roll Z back.

For fifty Pearls, it is done.

Z is rolled back, and the messages disappear from his phone.

Okay -- now he can --

-- uh.

What ... did Z say.