[0887] Second Circle Consulting
└ posted on Thursday, 18 May 2017, by Novil
- Cloud: I can’t give Sandra sexy lingerie for her birthday!
- Larisa: Of course you can, Cloud! You just have to go step by step, then it’s quite simple!
- Cloud: She’d think I’m a pervert if I gave her panties like these!
- Larisa: Correct. Only this product will meet the needs of the client.
- Cloud: The store wouldn’t sell me such scandalous clothes anyway….
- Larisa: A clerk who hasn’t yet met his sales quota can become your best ally!
- Cloud: You bewitched me, nefarious demon!
- Larisa: We from Second Circle Consulting prefer to speak of “reorganizing deep neural networks by supervised training.”
![[0887] Second Circle Consulting](/comics/2017-05-18-0887-second-circle-consulting.png "[0887] Second Circle Consulting")
Second Circle “Consulting”…
What as subtle way of hiding the second circle of hell.
Ah Larissa, so good at your job. Now you just have to seduce both Cloud and Sandra at the same time. After all being a Succubus is an equal opportunity predatory business. We are in the modern age.
Larissa remembers. Does that mean she is no longer a mortal?
Huh, I guess she does remember, at least in part or subconsciously, her deal with the devil.
Surely Larisa should have said in the 4 panel… “A clerk who hasn’t yet met their quota….” rather then “A clerk who hasn’t yet met his quota” as 99% of the time when I go to a shop that sells lingerie it tends to be staffed by women.
Well, it’s notably tagged under “The Divine Comedy”…
Wait a moment… does Larisa have anything connected to her retina?
I’m pretty sure that those lingerie are more than %20 off. More like %70 off.
Not going to end well.
Cloud’s best choice would be to turn back and try to return his purchase.
Second best would be taking the loss and hoping he can afford something else to give Sandra. Which is possible because what she genuinely wants most — having him as her boyfriend — is free. (OK. Taking a girl on dates is not free, but that’s a separate matter.)
Since I don’t expect the strip to end with a disaster, the only question is whether Cloud will still be friends with Larisa when the smoke clears.
Cloud and Sandra cannot be broken up. (And someday she will have many kits.)
Well. Someone have done their research, I see.
The second circle of hell, according to Dante, primarily deals with those who have commited the deadly sin of Lust. Rather fitting, for a succubus.
“Deep neural networks” and “supervised training” (or learning) are machine learning terms, and therefore likely to be used by consulting firms.
@ Edda:
Don’t bet on that.
Many of us thought that about Kari and TK or Tai and Sora from Digimon, and look how that turned out.
Is it just me, or does that sales clerk look like Viviana from “Gaia”?
Victoria’s Secret is big on the Star Trek: The Motion Picture look this year, I see…
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY POWERS OF LARISA!
@ Peridotdreams:
yep, its just you.
@ Edda:
I think you might have a wrong image of Sandra. May I remind you of http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/09/15/0821-the-divine-comedy-page-19/ ?
That mannequin looks really weird. Probably because it has a face.
@ Edda:
I doubt Larisa would cause them to break up. Then she would corrupt less souls! That sounds like a better outcome for everyone, doesn’t it?
@ Edda:
@ mhw:
mhw wrote:
May I lazily quote this comment so I can remind you without having to look for the comic istelf ?
I see Larisa is expanding her repertoire. This definitely can’t go wrong.
Larissa cannot remember any of that story arc, she just knows she has to corrupt innocents, and has certain inside information of the workings of hell, yet she has no idea how she knows it.
@ Lolikiano:
It’s %20 off the price, %70 off the material…
Edda wrote:
I don’t think they are returnable, especially because they were purchased while Larisa is nearby.
@ Jamtex:
Well, to say, “A clerk who hasn’t met their quota” is incorrect English. Since most of the clerks in a lingerie store are women, then you should say, “A clerk who hasn’t met HER quota” to me grammatically accurate. (Yes, I know. Today, it’s less about grammatical correctness than is it about political correctness. LOL.)
Cloud senses something…
Jamtex wrote:
It doesn’t matter what happens 99% of time: Larisa KNOWS the clerk.
hkmaly wrote:
He works for her.
Oh yeah, succubus.
@ Darkarma:
Actually, that is pretty correct in terms of demonology, as Succubi and Incubi can technically be one and the same demon depending on who they’re trying to seduce.
Now that Cloud’s been hoodwinked, the important part is the reaction of Sandra. How will Cloud wrap such a thing?
Nice to see Larisa settling into her role as a succubus.
Am I the only one kind of squicked out at the idea of giving a 13 year old girl lacy, revealing underwear?
DUDE SHE’S 13 FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
@ Stephen:
Nope, I would ask why they even have it in her size, but looking at the cup size on that thing… not sure if it is?
what will ye thuza say about it ?
@ HMRC4EVR:
Funny you should say that, it turns out the only person who knew the twist with sora and tai was the director himself. For the dub actors who basically went from episode to episode, that came out of no where for them as well.
It’s probably for the best that Cloud doesn’t know how right he is….
Brian wrote:
nah she does not remember… thats just Larisa as usual…
Thats why we all love her.
but in general she in essence has the best contract ever for all eternity…
I just hope they will eventually get Odin out…
@ Lightmaster677:
well the solution usually is to punch an arcane blast down ones throat in either case.
So THAT’S how it works! xD
How can this possibly go wrong?
“A clerk who hasn’t yet met his sales quota can become your best ally.” – So that is how you got that flame-thrower.
@ Stephen:
She’ll be 13, not 8. Girls that age usually do go around buying lacy Bras and underwear (only if they’re not interested in it – then at a bit of a later age). Sorry to burst your bubble, but it was already like that 15 years ago.
It’s the start of puberty. Why wouldn’t they?
I can understand being a little bit creeped out by someone else giving them to her (or planning to), but it’s her boyfriend, he’s manipulated by a succubus and they’re both full of different kinds of feelings and hormones and all the problems causing that. So with regards to that, it’s relatively normal. (not to say that girls that don’t go shopping for sexy lingerie aren’t normal, but just that this specific case, besides demonic intervention, is not that much of a fantasy)
Sorry Stephen, but this is actually pretty realistic. Who do you think shops at Hot Topic? Not adults, that’s for sure.
Run Cloud, RUN! Take Sandra to a fancy restaurant.
Play video games. No, don’t let her win. She’ll be able to tell if you do it on purpose.
Sandra’s probably better at it anyway.
@ Jamtex:
Not when she is standing infront of the person they are talking about … that would just be rude.
@ Glenn:
how is “their” grammatically incorrect? “their” is gender neutral, and would work no matter what percentage of people being referred to are male or female.
@ axxerr:
Their is plural. The correct word is his.
I’d say I am surprised that they are going through with this… but then I remembered that they have pages like this:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/12/08/0332-fashion-tip-ii/
and this:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/04/17/0573-next-step-ii/
and this:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/08/07/0605-teenage-pregnancy/
and ENTIRE story arc that stemmed from this:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/08/24/0712-send-to-all/
and let us not forget this moment with an alternate version to it:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/09/08/0819-the-divine-comedy-page-17/
and let us not forget that Sandra isn’t very shy about the idea of this kind of thing:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/09/15/0821-the-divine-comedy-page-19/
So, it is safe to say that they will never go too far.
And again I’m surprised to read comments that defend us getting soon-to-be 13 year old girls in revealing lingerie… Guess one just forgets his in the internet when one spends so much time in there…
Oh, you silly perves and your desire to explore underaged nudity.
Stephen wrote:
No, you aren’t the only one a little squicked by this.
And to others, yes, sexuality of children is a real thing. However, I think the other posters are missing the point. What’s a little squicky is that among an infinite number of topics the author could choose, the author *chose* this one for a comedy topic.
Now the emphasis is on *little* in the “little squicky”, but honestly, I’m not always entirely comfortable when the author chooses to veer in this particular direction. I keep reading because I enjoy much of the rest of the comic a lot.
@ oledakaajel:
“Their” is perfectly acceptable English for a single person of unknown or indeterminate gender. Maybe you should check a dictionary or two before you start ‘correcting’ others.