--- Chan Wei Lik <weimin@pl.jaring.my> wrote:

Third, if Megumi's possession required this kind of
follow up, what about 
Keiichi? He was possessed by by the Lord of Terror
before!

One can imagine Bell's followup there was, well...

---

Temptation.

Belldandy had never felt it in such raw, pure form
before.  Even at her worst, Mara had never been able
to
come near what the goddess now felt, and she had come
the closest.

Yet Belldandy was quite certain that no demon was the
ultimate source of what troubled her.  Certainly,
there were the remnant strands of the Lord of Terror
she now faced in Keiichi's soul, but they were almost
dormant now, unable to do much more than give Keiichi
an occasional nightmare.  While they would have to be
removed, and soon, they could no more affect Belldandy
than an ant could direct a hurricane.

No, she knew she herself was the source of the
near-demonic urges that reverbated in her heart.
Keiichi trusted her completely, and had opened his
soul utterly and explicitly to her every whim.
Nothing she now did could arguably be against his
will.

Even remaking him into a better lover.

It took little will to recast her vision of his soul
to highlight every little fault, every little
annoyance she had ever seen in him, and to trace down
its cause.  That, at least, did not itself implement
the changes, just made the prospect easier, more
compelling.  But the further she got, the more the
beast in her heart hungered to go the rest of the way,
to impose her will on him, to reject the Keiichi that
was and instead build up an idol, a puppet of her
projections of...

---

"YAAAAAH!"  Belldandy pushed herself away from
Keiichi, sailing across the room from the reaction and
crumpling into a shivering heap when she landed.

"Oniichan?"  Skuld blinked.  "Whoa, this must be bad!
Hold on, Keiichi, I'll-"

Urd put her arm in Skuld's way.  "Wait.  Hey, Bell,
what'd you see in there?"

Belldandy did not dare look at any of them, though her
disgusted sobs at what she had seen in herself, and at
the utter wrongness of what she had almost done to
Keiichi, were audible to all.

"Uh-huh.  Thought so."  To Skuld, she added, "Let me
handle it.  You wouldn't even be able to see what
she's afraid of until after it got you."

Keiichi blinked.  "Is the demon's influence that bad?
I don't feel anything."

Urd smiled.  "Don't worry.  I'll have you all better
in a jiffy.  With your permission, of course."

"Of course.  But..."

"And when I'm done fixing you up, you need to fix our
sister up."

"Huh?  I can't enter souls."

"You entered hers."  Urd smiled and set to work before
he could ask more.

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