Bernatore, Bernatore

“Shield!”

Clang—!

Clatter—!

If it hadn’t been for Luna’s sword, which came in through the slight opening Sophia’s shield magic had created, I would have been killed with a hole through my back.

“T-Thank you…”

I was the one who almost died, but for some reason, the three of them seemed to have their fighting spirit boosted.

“That bastard!”

Flare’s mana was gradually condensing, gathering as if trying to imitate the sword aura I had shown.

‘As expected of the Hero.’

Luna looked at me with worried eyes before joining Flare in the fight against the Demon King.

Clang!

Clang!

[Not bad. Hero.]

“Shut up and die!”

Even if Flare’s sword was slow and easy to dodge.

“I’ll help!”

Luna’s clumsy swordsmanship cleverly disrupted the Demon King’s escape route, assisting Flare’s attack.

“Grrr! Just… die.”

“Die a thousand cuts!”

On top of that, Sophia’s timely interference magic piled up whenever the Demon King tried to ambush or evade, gradually chipping away at the Demon King’s HP.

[You damn rats—!!]

With an immense surge of mana, the three of them quickly gathered beside me.

“Shield! Shield! Shield! Shield! Shield!”

Sophia’s five-layered shield and Flare and Luna’s swords aiming at the Demon King from the left and right had never felt so reassuring.

[Next time, I’ll kill you all—!!]

The Demon King recited his retreat line, his shadow turning into bubbles before disappearing.

And in the spot where he had been, a sub-boss appeared…

A king slime wearing a crown.

‘…?’

Kyuuing!

“Tch. He ran away like this.”

“I… I should have made him into a mess. Luna.”

“Still, we defeated him. Whew. But what is that?”

Why is a sub-boss that appears from the second playthrough showing up? Is it because I have an inheritance skill?

‘Either way, this has become troublesome. Of all the sub-bosses the Demon King could have summoned, it had to be a king slime.’

If it’s an all-female party like now…

“Hati, I’ll quickly take care of that pathetic crown slime for you!”

Fortunately, Flare seemed confident, as if she knew how to deal with it.

‘She knows? Then should I rest a bit?’

My legs were shaking from just facing the Demon King a little, so I sat down.

“I’m counting on you, Flare. And Sophia and Luna…”

It would be okay for Hati to know everyone’s names, right?

“…Slime. Smells fishy.”

For some reason, Luna muttered while looking at me.

“Flare! I’m counting on you. I used up all my mana at the end!”

Sophia leaned on her staff and sat next to me.

“Leave it to me! Sophia!”

“Slime cuisine.”

While the two of them went to face the king slime, Sophia brushed her hair behind her ear while looking at me.

‘Why is Sophia suddenly like this?’

“Ahem. What’s your name, Hati?”

Looking at Luna and Flare facing it in a textbook manner, I didn’t think I had to worry.

“I’m Hati. Sophia.”

This was the first time I had encountered Sophia in this form, so I was about to formally greet her when…

“You have a really nice—”

“Sophia! Help me!”

Flare and Luna, who had been distracted for a moment, had their feet caught in the king slime’s tentacles.

Huh? They don’t know how to deal with it?

Kyuuuuuu!!

The king slime sprayed a thick green fluid from its body at the two of them.

‘That…’

It doesn’t hurt.

Instead, the area of the school uniform Flare was wearing melted away as if it were natural.

The Hero’s clothes Luna was wearing had some magic resistance, so they didn’t melt as badly as Flare’s, but…

“Wh-What is this!”

“Don’t look! Cover your eyes! Sophia! Hati, cover your eyes!”

At those words, Sophia’s short skirt suddenly appeared in front of me.

“Did you hear that? Stay still over there! What kind of slime is that!”

“…Yes. I’ll stay still.”

Leaning back slightly, I could see their struggles between Sophia’s legs.

As soon as they realized their clothes were melting, Flare and Luna, still clinging to the tentacles, were somehow moving to avoid the flying fluids.

“Aaaaaaah!”

“Kyaaaaah!!”

Even though they were screaming like that, they were both protecting their vital parts well.

The areas that had just melted were mostly parts close to their arms and legs.

That was the king slime’s unique hunting method.

It decomposes the fibers to widen the surface area for absorption… well, never mind those miscellaneous settings.

Gamers called it the king of service scenes, the so-called clothes-stripping slime.

‘Why am I watching this between Sophia’s legs…?’

In the first place, it was an event boss that appeared for service scenes, and it appeared as a sub-boss with a slim chance when you met the Demon King from the second playthrough, so some gamers desperately searched for it.

The experience was also decent among the sub-bosses…

If you applied a special dye called sneeco oil to your weapon, it would melt away instantly without dealing any damage, but if you just tried to beat it mindlessly, it would take longer than the Demon King who appeared as a boss.

‘But then all their clothes would melt.’

I had to get rid of it before something bigger happened.

I had regained some strength, so I was about to get up when…

Kyuuuuuu!!

Feeling hostility towards me, a long tentacle suddenly stretched out and grabbed Sophia, who was in front of me.

‘Huh? I was the one who emitted killing intent, though?’

“Wh-Wh-What. Kyaaaaah!”

Sophia, who was dragged away in an instant, was also covered in fluid.

Sophia, who was only a magician in a thin wizard robe, had more than half of her clothes disappear in one hit.

“S-Save me! Hati!”

“Don’t look! Don’t look this way—!!”

“Kyaaaaah!”

Kyuuuuuuu!!!!

“Again! It’s coming again! Dodge!”

“Don’t look, Hati!”

“I can’t dodge like you, Lunaaaa!!”

The two Heroes were somehow dodging, but Sophia, who was soaked, was half-naked and barely covering her vital parts.

I blankly stared before coming to my senses.

‘…I might get a bad ending for seeing Sophia naked.’

I took out the sneeco oil I had prepared in case of this from inside my robe and poured it on the broken Lion sword before rushing forward.

Kyuuuuuu Puuuuuuuu!!!

“Hati, dodge!”

“That sword won’t work! Run away!”

“Get support! Get a female magician and knight from outside instead!”

How could they have been so confident when they didn’t even know how to deal with the monster they were seeing for the first time?

‘I need to educate them to be careful, especially the two of them, even if Sophia doesn’t need it.’

Without even dodging the flying tentacles, I brought the broken sword close, and they melted away without a trace.

Kyuu?! Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!!

The enraged king slime shot more than five tentacles at me in an instant, but it was useless.

‘As long as I apply sneeco oil, it’ll be effective for five minutes!’

There was no need to use skills; sneeco oil and inheritance passive were enough.

And the robe I was wearing also had some magic resistance, so a little fluid splashing on it didn’t do any harm.

‘If you know how to deal with it, it’s a boss you can easily catch even with your stamina depleted like this.’

The experience was too good to waste on me.

‘Flare seems to have gotten stronger through the event, but Luna and Sophia still seemed weak…’

Did Flare leveling up alone mess up the party balance?

In that case, the king slime should be used as experience to level up the two of them.

I stuck to the king slime to prevent it from moving any further and rescued the three of them.

Actually, it was harder to take my eyes off the three of them, who were swaying back and forth and entering my field of vision, than it was to neutralize the king slime.

Wriggle!

The king slime’s core gasped for air.

“I’m going to kill you, even if you’re just a slime!”

I quickly looked up because of Sophia, who was flailing around without covering her body.

Even if I tried to look elsewhere, Flare and Luna were in a better condition than Sophia, but they were still more battered than before.

‘I can’t just send the three of them out like this… Wait! I can do this, right?’

I felt like I was really going to be dragged to the execution ground for insulting royalty if I stayed any longer, so I took off the robe I was wearing and threw it in Sophia’s direction.

“Sophia! Wear that! I didn’t see anything! I’ll call for help!”

Without waiting for an answer, I looked at the ceiling and ran out.

I found an empty room, canceled my transformation, and returned to Scarl’s appearance.

“Sigh. What am I even doing?”

I took out the expensive decorative sword I usually carried and counted to one minute in my head.

‘As Scarl as possible.’

I steeled my heart and re-entered the hall where the three of them were.

The king slime’s core had already been destroyed, so only the three of them remained.

“…Who’s here. Oh.”

Sophia, I even gave you a robe.

“S-S-S-Scarl?!”

She hurriedly covered her body, but I had already seen everything I needed to see.

‘It’s a relief I didn’t see her in Hati’s form.’

“Scarl! Get out! Get out now!”

Flare was less exposed than Sophia, but more exposed than Luna.

‘And the school uniform skirt…’

I frowned a beat late.

“Who’s calling a professor by their first name so carelessly, Flare?”

Luna, whose Hero’s clothes’ magic resistance worked well, was less exposed than Flare, but she was covering her body and blushing, as if she was ashamed of her bare skin.

“…Scarl.”

She was the most intact, but her destructive power was the strongest.

‘The outside is a battlefield right now! The moment you become conscious, it’s over!’

“Luna, I’ve been looking for you for a while. Sophia, what on earth is going on?”

Sophia, who had tightened the waist tie of her robe to cover her front completely, stood up abruptly.

“An unfortunate incident happened while dealing with the demons that appeared here! Forget everything you just saw! Scarl!”

Okay. That’s good for me then.

I twitched my eyebrows and approached Flare, taking off the coat I was wearing and giving it to her.

“I understand… but she’s my student, so shouldn’t I take care of her, Sophia?”

Flare quickly took the coat and covered her body.

“Th-Thank you. Professor. I was just too surprised just now.”

Ignoring Flare’s thanks, I quietly pondered in front of Luna, who was not wearing anything.

‘What’s different between me and Scarl?’

“Scarl?”

“Professor?”

Something was contained in Luna’s eyes as she looked up.

“…Scarl?”

I didn’t know what else to do, so I grabbed Luna’s hand and led her away.

“W-Wait?! Scarl!”

“I didn’t see anything.”

Avoiding the two people following me, I ran with Luna into the room where I had canceled my transformation earlier.

“Wh-What’s going on with those two!”

“Scarl!”

Scarl!!!

Professor Scarl! Where are you!?

Ignoring Flare and Sophia, who were calling my name and searching for me, I locked the door.

“Wh-Why?”

Why indeed.

“…Don’t walk around like that, Luna.”

The outfit with holes here and there was lewder than the two of them.

“Huh?”

‘She wouldn’t hate it, would she…?’

“Hoo-”

I took off my top and handed it to Luna.

The cold air wrapped around my body, and my abs tensed up.

Luna’s pupils, which had grown enormously, rolled around on my body like lost sheep.

“Hngh?!”

Embarrassingly.

“…Wear it.”

Hurry up and wear it.

“Huh?”

“Hurry!”

Luna’s dazed expression and the sound of footsteps getting closer with a bang from the shouting just now.

I had no choice but to forcibly cover Luna with the large gray sweatshirt.

“S- Scarl… Scarl.”

I deliberately avoided eye contact.

“I’m leaving. Nothing happened here, Luna.”

“…”

Before the two of them came in, I smashed the window and ran away, transforming into Hati on the way and entering room 404 without a care.

‘If that guy had been obsessed with stripping women, I would have…’

I put on a spare coat in the lab, sat in a chair, closed my eyes, and drew Luna in my mind.

You’re looking at me with such envious eyes, and I can’t just not do it for you.

I don’t want to show your skin to others either.