Ch.189The NPC’s Sister and Santa Riding Practice (5)

Hmm, what should I do? Should I run?

The angry superior demon who was cursing loudly and the arrogant superior demon who was so confident have both disappeared. Not just their magical energy, but I can’t sense their presence at all.

Even if they concealed their magical energy, I should still be able to find them if I tried… and moreover.

“…Hahaha. The barrier’s gone, and the sky is visible again.”

The darkness barrier that the arrogant demon had proudly claimed would cut off this mountain as his own space had been transformed to look ordinary due to the Chancellor’s interference—which apparently shouldn’t have happened. And now even that has been completely dispelled, returning to a normal clear sky.

Wait, is this Chancellor really human? No matter how I think about it, he seems capable of tearing apart two or three superior demons by himself. Even ten superior demons of my level wouldn’t stand a chance against him!

Here I am, lost in thought—a superior demon of lust.

But honestly, while I’m called a superior demon, I’m just a weak, cute, and adorable one who was pushed to come here first because Lord Luxuria said I needed less blood and magical power for summoning to the human world, so I should go ahead and “prepare.”

I’m Lilida the succubus!

…So, what am I supposed to do now?

“Heung♡”

“Miss Lili♡”

“Please step on me♡”

“Woof woof♡”

“Yes, yes. Wait a moment.”

After pacifying the humans crawling at my feet, I return to my thoughts.

This mountain, which humans call the Academy Training Ground. It was good that I turned all the humans who control the monster population into my servants, but all the monsters here have been castrated, and even the tendons in their arms have been cut.

The strongest creature here is supposedly a troll, but even it has powerful recovery-suppressing magic cast on it, making it no different from an oversized goblin. I can’t even dispel it with my magical energy! It would take days to remove just one spell!

If I try to make these creatures go berserk with my mind control, that monster of a Chancellor would instantly obliterate me! Honestly, if I, a superior demon, were to die without killing even ten of these young humans, what could be more humiliating? (She doesn’t know that the other two superior demons didn’t kill anyone.)

The original plan was for Pride to take control of this mountain, Wrath to cause havoc in the meantime, and for me to unleash monsters to slaughter humans unrelated to the contract. But since both of them died right at the start, there’s no point in me continuing the plan.

“…Right, it’s not my fault if I escape from here.”

*Snap!*

*Thud, thud, click, thud, thud, thud, thud.*

With a light snap of my fingers, all the humans who had slept with me and become my servants collapse like puppets with cut strings. Now no human will remember being under my control, and no one has died. So no one should be tracking me! At least that monster of a Chancellor won’t be chasing after me!!

I did suck quite a bit of life energy, leaving some men looking haggard, but that’s because Lord Luxuria isn’t sharing any life energy with us! I have to survive too!!

“I’ll hide quietly here, then escape when all the humans are gone. But how will I get past that native barrier? I don’t think I can break through alone…”

*Creeeeak*

“Huh?”

While I’m pondering how to escape, suddenly I see the cages holding the monsters starting to open.

Eh? Why are they opening? Huh?!

[Keeeee!!!]

[KUOOOO!!!]

[KEEEEEEC!!!!]

[WOOOW!!!]

“Huh? Huh? Why are they coming out? Wait, they shouldn’t be eating those people!!”

The cages containing orcs, goblins, trolls, and even the most dangerous-looking werewolf have all opened, and the creatures are instinctively rushing toward the collapsed humans… no, wait, they’re coming for me too?!!

“You crazy bastards?!!”

I don’t know how they all got out, but I have no intention of sucking life energy from monsters. Having sex with monsters isn’t about sucking energy—it’s just getting raped!!!

Startled, I fly up into the air to avoid them. The creatures grab some of the collapsed humans and start rubbing against them or trying to sink their teeth in, howling almost tearfully.

“Ah, right! They’re castrated! And their teeth are blunted too. So even if I leave them, nobody will die…”

[WOOOW!!!]

*Slash!!*

“…Why is that one standing tall?”

The werewolf has sharp teeth and claws. Sharp enough that it just tore apart an orc blocking its path. With a single claw.

And between its legs, it has a proper dog’s thing attached. And impressively large at that!!! *Gulp* That’s quite… No, that’s not the point!!

If I leave things like this, all my collapsed servants will definitely die or become monster breeding stock!

Wait? The werewolf kills humans and uses them as breeding stock. The werewolves multiply and the situation escalates. The monster of a Chancellor who killed two superior demons much stronger than me tracks me down? …Oh crap?

“Hey! Hey!!! Stop that!!!”

The werewolf pushes aside other monsters and approaches a human male. It seems to be trying to make him breeding stock right away…!! Ah, that’s the one whose life energy I completely sucked! It was delicious!!!

“Oh shit!! Why does everything keep going wrong?!!”

*BOOM!!!*

I blast the creature away with magical energy and gather the collapsed servants to protect them more easily. And in the process, I realize why the cages opened.

One of my servants who I had prepared to open the doors before starting the operation pressed the lever as he collapsed when my control was released!!

“Ahaha!! This is insane!!! It’s my own fault?!!”

Monsters that have been caged up with their sexual and hunger urges piled high, plus me, a superior demon of lust who arouses desire just by being seen. And then the fallen feast (humans) too!

My fierce battle to protect my servants (?) for my own survival dragged on…

“Phew! Those punks, I’m a superior demon—mere monsters are no match!”

Even though I’m a superior demon with almost no combat ability, I was able to drive them away. Phew, now there won’t be anyone tracking me… wait?

“…If I drive them away, where do they all go?”

The cages are completely empty, and the number of monster corpses I killed in the vicinity doesn’t even amount to 20% of those that escaped. Plus, the walls of the building called the laboratory are riddled with holes from the magical bullets I desperately fired. So where are they all…

“Oh no, I’m dead.”

From the top of the mountain, all the monsters from the research facility where they were kept for training are now overflowing toward the mountain where the first-year elementary students are.

*

“Aaaah!!”

*Clang!!*

“I-I’m next!”

*Clang!!*

“Kyaa?!!”

“Both of you did well!! Spirit of wind!! Bind the enemy before me!! Now! Ira!!”

“Uh?! Ah! Ice Lance!!”

*Clap clap clap!*

“Good coordination. You’re finally starting to look like a proper four-person team!”

When I applaud Ira’s group after they defeat the orc, they all smile shyly, which is incredibly cute. Especially…

“…Ugh. I bit my tongue.”

“It’s okay! You still chanted properly right after!”

“Th-that’s right. I can’t even use ice magic like that.”

“Y-you were cu…”

When Ira mispronounces “ice” and gets a little depressed, Grace immediately hugs her, Latina gently strokes her head, and Rock Bell blushes and hesitates behind them—it’s all so innocent and adorable!! Jack once told me that cuteness is justice, and I think he’s right!!

“But quite a few groups have gone ahead of us.”

“…S-sorry. Even among F-class, my skills are lacking…”

“N-no, Rock Bell is working hard! You’re properly defeating monsters even though this is your first time seeing them…”

“That’s right! I bit my tongue even though Grace let me have the finishing attack! Rock Bell, you’re doing great!”

“I wasn’t saying it was Rock Bell’s fault. I just meant everyone’s been moving up quickly since we passed the beech tree. …But at this rate, I won’t be able to get Ira any merit points…”

Grace’s final comment, spoken quietly enough that only I could hear it, reached my ears.

Hmm! Ira really has good friends. It’s wonderful that the top student (actually second place) cares so much about her. But this is group cooperation training, party unit training, so I hope she won’t be too hasty.

“Now then, shall we have Latina take the lead this time and track monster traces as we go up?”

“Ah, yes!”

“Ira, I’ll finish them off this time. Please handle the binding?”

“Okay!”

“I’ll keep watch from the rear as we go!”

I follow along in the middle, smiling contentedly at the steadily growing children. After confirming that both Latina and Rock Bell are properly checking their surroundings…

‘…What exactly was that earlier?’

I begin to think about something else.

When the sky suddenly turned black. The children were too focused on coordinating against their first orc to notice, but I saw it. And simultaneously, the explosive sound from below. It was loud enough that the children wondered what had happened after their battle ended, and I diverted their attention by telling them it was the sound of another party training. However…

‘A situation where Ragni would fire his gun, and something was doing something to the sky… or more precisely, under the barrier. Is it right to continue like this?’

Additionally, though she seemed to hope no one would notice, I saw Gorr briefly grow gigantic on the middle slope before quickly ducking down. To be precise, I was certain it was Gorr because I’ve never seen any human-shaped being nearly 10 meters tall except for her and the Seven Deadly Sins of Wrath, but that gray texture and giant was definitely Gorr.

‘Please let me know quickly if there’s a problem. I don’t want to put the children and Ira in danger!’

At times like this, I regret not buying a communication crystal. Of course, small communication crystals cost nearly 10 million cen each, can only be used once a week, and have a short range—even Jack, who loves Ira, didn’t want to buy one. It’s very inconvenient that we have no means of long-distance communication at times like this.

So, as I climb the mountain with heightened tension, Ira’s group reaches the destination point after dealing with two more goblins.

Upon arrival, the waiting teaching assistant gives me a slight bow. I note the number of monsters they defeated on the paper he’s holding, thinking that since everyone defeated similar numbers, the final ranking will be determined by arrival order, and I relay this to the children.

Phew, now we just need to descend and we’re done, right? Let’s see, Ira’s group is… 6th place?

“Aww! If only we’d climbed a little faster!!”

“Hehehe, but we’re 6th place! We climbed quickly! Thanks to Grace!!”

*Hug!!*

“Huh?! I-Ira! C-cute… I mean! People are watching…!! Oh, whatever!! Ira did well too!!”

*Squeeze!!*

“Well, I was in last place last year. Now 6th because I repeated? No, this is thanks to Grace and Ira, not my skill…”

“We’re 6th even with me from F-class. Plus, the rumors about Ira and Grace were completely false. Somehow, I feel like I’m the only one benefiting here…”

“Alright! Everyone, attention~!”

“”””Yes.””””

“Ira’s group… I mean, Grace’s group did very well! Now we’ll rest here before descending, which is also part of the exercise, so don’t let your guard down!”

“”””Yes!””””

Grace looks a bit disappointed, while the other three seem satisfied. I felt a little disappointed too, but decided to be content with the fact that we could descend without any problems.

So, after our rest, as we prepared to go down…

[K⎯eeec!!!]

[KUOOOO⎯!!!]

[KEEEC⎯⎯!!!!]

“Huh?”

“””…Eh?”””

Just as most were about to start descending, monster roars echo from the mountain, and suddenly I sense a considerable amount of killing intent coming down from higher up.

What’s going on? Could it be that a real problem has occurred?!

“Wh-what? What’s that?”

“M-monster sounds? But just now…”

“Goblin, orc, and the last one sounded like a troll’s roar…”

“…Eh? Troll? W-wait, the students here are elementary…”

Even the instructors around us seem unsettled, talking amongst themselves. Having seen Gorr and Ragni fighting something earlier, I recognized this wasn’t a normal situation. I was about to make the decision to send everyone down before they panicked…

“…It’s a bonus.”

“Huh?”

“It’s a bonus!! Instructor Ray! This is a time for bonus points, right?!”

“…Eh?”

Amid the target point that had gone quiet due to the sudden surge of monster killing intent, the one who raised her voice sharply and drew everyone’s attention was none other than the top student, Grace Mueller. But what bonus?

“I’ve heard about this! During Academy practical training or skill exercises, when the records of the top classes are all similar, they add a time to clearly distinguish scores!!”

Eh? There’s such a time?!

“Rock Bell! Latina!! Raise your shields!! Ira, get ready to bind their feet!!”

“”Uh, eh?””

“Okay!”

“W-wait…”

Grace, who had been disappointed about being in 6th place, quickly summoned both her lesser spirits and her eyes began to shine. Led by her enthusiasm, not just her group, but…

“Th-there’s really a bonus?!”

“…8th place was a bit disappointing anyway!!”

“We arrived at the same time as 3rd place, but the instructor wrote us down as 4th—that was really unfair!!”

“We’re 1st place, this isn’t right!!”

“Let’s go!! Top 10 ranks!! Let’s gooooo!!”

“”Wooooah!!!””

All the students who had reached the destination began to burn with warrior-like fervor in their eyes. Uh, is this okay? Is this right?!

I turned to check with the other instructors, and they all nodded awkwardly, seemingly thinking this was better than letting the children fall into panic.

“A-ahem…!! B-bonus time is correct! But! Everyone must train under the ‘protection’ of their instructors without getting hurt!!! Th-this is a training exercise in fighting while retreating!! D-don’t panic and respond calmly!!!”

“”Yessss!!!””

No, you’re clearly the one panicking!

After the teaching assistant who had been recording scores raised his voice to everyone, he waved to the assistants waiting in the trees, signaling that this was an emergency situation he didn’t understand.

Urrrgh!! No choice!!!

“Grace!”

“Yes!!”

“Y-you want to raise your rank during this bonus time, right?!”

“Of course!! Merit points for Ira!!!”

“Yes! I want merit points!!”

“Ugh! Th-then! I’ll take command!! All four of you, follow my instructions!!”

“But…”

“No!! Other groups will do the same!! Right!! Teaching assistants?!!”

“Y-yes!! That’s correct!!”

Raising my voice unintentionally due to the forced development, the other groups’ instructors also chimed in with expressions of realization, agreeing that this was the right approach.

“They’re coming!!!”

As the assistant watching from the treetop shouted while looking up the mountain…

“””Wind Cutter!!!”””

“”””Ice Link!!!””””

“””Spirits!!!”””

The children, their eyes fixed on scores, began unleashing attacks with all their might toward the monsters.