Chapter 104
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 103
Chapter Title: The Academy's Bratty Boy Teacher (2)
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"What? Pardon?"
The student council president's office, located at the top floor of the Imperial Academy.
"Kairen has a special teacher...?"
Yuriel, who had been sitting at the far end of the room as usual, reading through a stack of lengthy documents, suddenly lifted her head with wide eyes at the abrupt report.
"The teacher who was supposed to come today was definitely my mother."
"The academy's protective systems are going haywire, and it's dangerous."
"My mother?"
"No, because the students might get caught up in it..."
"Hmm."
The secretary delivering the report from in front of her tilted his head in confusion at her incomprehensible expression.
"Then isn't it completely unrelated?"
"......"
"Having my cute little brother suffer would be far worse than the students getting caught up."
"I-Is that so? Haha..."
The secretary gave an awkward smile at her words, but Yuriel's perpetually narrowed eyes, which usually curved into a friendly crescent, remained utterly straight this time.
"So, what is my brother doing?"
"He's in outdoor class today."
"Outdoor class, huh..."
The secretary, who had briefly looked tense, quickly answered Yuriel's question.
"I think I need to take a quick peek."
Leaving the secretary behind, Yuriel stepped out of the student council president's office, her eyes turning red.
'He's definitely being ignored or bullied.'
A rough scenario had already formed in her mind.
'The Belverk name has a terrible reputation in the Empire...'
Even she, the current student council president, had gone through quite a bit of hardship to hold this position for three years.
'And for a weak Belverk like my brother, he'd become a target in an instant...'
Of course, anyone with even a modicum of brains wouldn't dare touch a Belverk, no matter how precious their life was. But there were always exceptions in the world.
And even without direct harassment, her brother was a delicate child who could easily be hurt by the students' cold attitudes or indifference.
"......"
That was why Yuriel, squeezing time out of her busy schedule, headed to the railing and began watching the training session unfolding below in the practice field.
"Heh heh..."
And in the brief silence that followed, Yuriel murmured quietly with a chilling expression.
"Look at these girls."
In her view was a scene that scraped at her nerves in a way entirely different from what she had expected.
"Eughhh..."
Dozens of female students were all clustered around Kairen, poking his cheeks or fawning over him.
*****
"E-Everyone."
"......"
"W-We need to start the, the practice now."
Kairen looked around uneasily at the female students giggling and crowding around him, speaking in a voice that sank lower and lower.
"Could you please back off a little now...?"
Hearing that, the female students stared fixedly at Kairen for a moment.
"Don't be like that, let's play together."
"Want me to massage your shoulders?"
"Look at this. Your cheeks are so squishy."
They soon wore even more mischievous expressions as they began groping Kairen here and there.
"T-The first one back to their seat gets a praise sticker!"
Kairen wriggled uncomfortably for a bit before squeezing his eyes shut and raising his voice.
- Shhhk...!
The moment his words ended, the female students peeking around him snapped back to their seats in the blink of an eye, straightening their postures.
"...I wanna keep touching."
"Me too."
"You really won't play?"
But a few bold or delinquent girls refused to yield, stubbornly staying in place.
"Cl-Class... starting now!"
His face now completely flushed red, Kairen pushed forward with the lesson.
- Goooo...
As he pulled out a blackened scroll from his pocket and placed it on the ground, black smoke briefly rose in the practice field.
"Succubus Queen sis."
"......"
"Please send a suitable one..."
In the midst of it, Kairen flopped to the ground and whispered ant-like words toward the scroll.
- Pop...!
The next instant, accompanied by a bursting sound, a black liquid-like mass appeared in the practice field.
"Everyone, this is a magic beast."
"......"
"See? It looks super super scary!"
Kairen pointed at the mass with a confident expression.
"It looks cute."
"Another cute one added."
"Hee hee..."
But to the fearless female students' eyes, it was just a jelly-like wriggling liquid monster.
"You really think so?"
"......"
"Then, anyone want to try fighting this magic beast?"
Amid everyone's relaxed tension, Kairen's serious voice suddenly cut in.
"H-How strong can a magic beast be?"
The moment his voice ended, an arrogant-looking girl with a bun hairstyle tossed her hair and stepped forward.
"It's not even upper-class; looks like low-class at best..."
"......?"
"I could handle something like this with my eyes closed."
Kairen tilted his head at her oddly familiar appearance, while she continued her obnoxious tone, aiming her staff at the mass in front of her.
- Zzzzt...
Right after, the spear of magic power shot by the bun-haired lady pierced the mass's body.
"See, you commoners."
"......"
"It might be tough for you, but for a noble like me, this is no problem at..."
She had dispatched the magic beast in an instant and was smirking, turning to her foolish classmates, when...
- Whoosh...!
Suddenly, a black tentacle flew from behind the lady.
"Kyaaak!?"
Before she could react, the tentacle bursting from the pierced mass wrapped around her body.
"W-What is this!?"
"W-Wasn't it a slime?"
"Th-That size is at least..."
As the black mass began swelling rapidly at the same time, the female students backed away in panic.
"This isn't an ordinary slime; it's an upper-class magic beast called Reflectia."
Kairen smiled and began explaining to the students.
"If you treat it like a low-class beast, you'll get in big trouble."
The female students, eyes wide at his kind explanation, turned their gazes back to the bun-haired lady who had just been ensnared by the tentacle.
"J-Just a momentary lapse."
"......"
"B-But now I know what it is..."
She struggled to escape the tentacle and had fortunately used fire magic with the staff gripped tightly in her hand to break free from the beast.
"...Huh?"
However, as she huffed and aimed her staff at the beast again, her expression suddenly turned to horror.
"......"
The beast, wriggling violently and shrinking its body, had shockingly transformed into her exact likeness.
"Reflectia normally mimics a low-class slime, but when it encounters people, it reveals its true nature immediately."
"......"
"It can copy the victim's information and mimic them with just the slightest contact. In a one-on-one situation, it's extremely troublesome."
Kairen calmly continued his explanation, pointing at the copy that had begun walking expressionlessly toward the lady.
"R-Run away!"
"D-Danger!"
"Kyaaak!"
But the students' eyes were fixed on the copy reaching out its hand right in front of the trembling-legged bun-haired lady.
"...Submit."
At that exact moment, Kairen's cold voice echoed through the practice field.
"......Gurgle."
And the instant his words ended, the bun-haired lady's copy scurried to Kairen and took a polite posture.
"It's fine. As long as I'm here, none of you will be attacked by magic beasts."
"......"
"Even if a top-class magic beast appeared right in the middle of the academy, I could control it."
Stroking the copy's head to calm it, Kairen gave a bright smile to the dazed female students and continued his explanation.
"That was kinda cool just now..."
"Not just here for show as a teacher."
"Surprising. Thought he was just some rich young master out for a stroll..."
The female students whispered among themselves, looking at Kairen anew.
"...Hmph."
The bun-haired lady, silently weaving through them with her head down, flushed unnecessarily and snorted.
"Anyway... ugh."
The situation seemed to settle somehow.
- Slurp, slurp...
But Kairen, who had puffed up his shoulders a bit showing off to his big sisters, had overlooked one thing.
"...Gyu?"
The fact that magic beasts, when submitting to a superior being, have a habit of licking their superior's body.
"Ugh... Anyway."
"......"
"Today, you'll learn... ugh. How to deal with this Reflectia."
As the bun-haired lady's copy began licking his face, Kairen pushed it aside with a quite flustered expression and continued speaking.
- Lick...
However, once a magic beast submits, it has a duty to prove its obedience to its master.
"Unh... Ah."
Giving up on shoving it away, Kairen began wriggling his body again, letting out a trembling voice.
"...A-Anyway, come up one by one."
Hearing that, the female students began exchanging glances.
"......"
And so began a brief silence.
"Eughhh..."
How much time passed after that?
"E-Everyone, don't go too easy on it..."
In the now-silent practice field, Kairen's teary voice echoed.
- Lick, lick, lick...
Whether it was the mischievous girls intentionally skipping or the Succubus Queen mistakenly sending too strong a beast, most of the girls' copies had scurried to Kairen and begun licking him with their tongues.
"It's getting tough now..."
Every time, as Kairen activated his Crimson Eyes to control the copies, such a system message floated before him.
Skill System Overload!
Vitality recharge required!
*****
The dawn of the next day after that sticky, chilling first practice session ended.
"Yaaawn..."
The female students, who had been studying late in their room, yawned and got up from their seats.
"I'm hungry..."
"Yeah."
"Dinner was gross today."
Even as female students, their appetites during these growing years were impressive.
Especially since all the male students were gathered in Building A, there was no need to put on airs.
"Nothing to eat?"
"Wanna check the lobby?"
"Shh, we'll get penalty points if caught."
And so, a midnight snack party formed as usual.
"By the way, today's teacher was so cute."
"Not a teacher, more like a mascot?"
"What're you saying, hee hee..."
The female students, sneaking quietly toward the lobby while holding their breath, giggled about Kairen, the hot topic among them lately.
- Rustle...
But at that very moment, an odd sound echoed down the hallway.
"......!"
The female students froze, looking around, then noticed the light on in the infirmary at the end of the hall and widened their eyes.
"Wh-Who is it?"
"Shh, quiet!"
"Y-You be quiet..."
Exchanging whispers with cold sweats, they began creeping toward the lit infirmary.
"Wait."
Right then, one of them suddenly turned serious and spoke up.
"...Isn't this blood smell?"
As she said, paling, a thick bloody scent wafted from the infirmary.
"No way..."
In the now deathly quiet atmosphere, one student swallowed dryly and placed her hand on the infirmary doorknob.
- Creak...
The infirmary door slowly, quietly began to open.
"Gasp."
"Heek."
"Ah."
As a gap wide enough to peek inside finally formed, the held-breath female students gasped in unison.
"...Nom nom?"
Sitting on the infirmary bed, munching on something, was none other than Kairen.
"Cough..."
Kairen, looking quite haggard and blankly meeting the girls' eyes, suddenly started coughing, perhaps from something catching in his throat.
- Drip...
From the corner of his mouth flowed a bright red liquid.
"Ah, th-that's..."
"......"
"Dinner didn't suit my taste tonight, so..."
The sweating Kairen began making excuses to the stunned female students.
"I-I was drinking tomato juice..."
"Why is tomato juice in a blood pack?"
"......Thump."
But for a tomato juice excuse, what he held was unmistakably the infirmary's stock blood pack with a straw stuck in it.
"Well, you see..."
As the female students eyed the pile of mostly emptied blood packs reeking of blood beside him in shock, Kairen's face drained of all color as he stammered.
- Grumble...
Suddenly, a hunger pang rumbled loudly from his stomach.
"S-Sorry..."
And at the same time, Kairen's two pupils began flashing red.
"Oh, I used too much power today."
"......"
"This isn't enough to fill me up, so the bloodlust is...!"
In that state, speaking in a whimpering voice, Kairen suddenly stopped and bowed his head deeply.
"Gr, grrr..."
A slightly inhuman growl leaked from the corner of his mouth.
"......?"
The female students looked at him in bewilderment, missing their chance.
- Swish...
A few seconds later, the one who raised his head was no longer the famously cute Kairen.
"Grrraaang!"
Baring sharp fangs and spreading his arms in a threatening pose was the ferocious monster that had once turned the Belverk estate upside down.
"Give me your blood!"
That terrifying being's claws began savagely descending upon the dazed female students.