Lucy's Conquest Route
Liliana?
Liliana was enveloped in an illusion and fell silent. Fortunately, the illusion soon vanished.
"What? Where did she go?"
Was she using some kind of transparency?
Whish whish
Even waving my hand where Liliana was, there was no reaction.
- Here! Here!
Liliana's voice came from below.
A silver chain necklace with a red gem embedded in the floor had fallen.
"Is it you?"
- Yeah-! It's me, me!
"Oh. It's cool."
Transforming into a necklace is also amazing, but the design is neat, so it should be fine to wear it around.
"But you're a succubus, and you don't have things like transparency or ectoplasm?"
- I do have them, but if there's a stronger magician than me, I'll be caught immediately. This is more like a racial trait than magic, so it won't be easily detected.
Hmm. Indeed, I probably can't replicate it.
No mana movement was felt.
- Then there's no problem. Right?
"It's not a problem."
Probably no issue. Better to be visible than to get into trouble alone.
"Okay. From tomorrow, I'll be with you."
- Okay!
Pang!
Liliana returned to her original form after achieving her purpose.
"Ugh, it's all good, but doing it for the first time in a while makes me tired."
Liliana yawning and stretching after saying she's tired. Suddenly, curiosity struck me.
"I have something curious to ask, is it okay?"
"Huh? What, do you want to know about my breast size too? I got that question over a hundred times during the broadcast. I told them anyway..."
"No, you don't have to. And from now on, don't tell me those things."
Is this succubus lacking common sense or something? If I have to choose one, I won't tell her well.
"Then what? Ask away."
"Coincidentally, you brought up breasts, so it might be misunderstood. It's really pure curiosity. You're a succubus, don't you eat semen or something?"
"Contractee Lee Ho-yeon. Are you crazy?"
"Sorry. It was pure curiosity."
Bad timing. Did she try to make me look bad by bringing up breasts on purpose?
"Well, actually, many succubi enjoy semen. My friends all say they eat it deliciously, but I don't feel like it by nature. I haven't even put it in my mouth. Why eat dirty stuff from where I pee?"
"Eh..."
That's a valid point. It's true, but you can't say it with a heart tail. That's a collapse of plausibility.
"Then I'll go wash and sleep. Good work!"
Tap tap tap
Liliana went to the bathroom to wash.
I wonder if I'm cohabiting with a succubus or a nun.
Honestly, when I summoned the succubus, I had some expectations, but whether to feel sorry or regret.
"I should sleep too."
After showering at the training center, I lay on the living room sofa.
Thinking about it, I should get a bed too.
But now that I have a money line, it's reassuring.
Think of it as a money copier machine, not a succubus.
*
- Wow, is this place the academy? It's so wide!
I was taking Liliana to the first-year class building.
Liliana was surprised by the academy, but it wasn't a big deal, but it made me feel proud.
"There's no need to be surprised like that. This is the smallest school in the world."
- What? Really? The human world has developed that much?
"Bullshit."
- ...? That's unbelievable. Hey, how old are you?
I teased her a bit because it was boring on the way, but she immediately retorted with curses.
It would have been funnier if I said "So how old are you. Auntie." but I used my transcendent patience to endure it.
"Sorry. Soon I'll be in a crowded place and can't answer."
- Ho-yeon. If you come out like this, I have no choice but to be uncooperative. Know?
"I know. Okay. Well, look after the Victoria Academy. If you leak some information in the broadcast later, it becomes details. That accumulates into a perfect crime."
For example, when there's a test at the academy soon, just saying "It's soon exam period, busy~" will make Liliana's statement that she's an academy student more believable.
"Our school's central fountain is pretty~" or "The flowers were pretty on the walking path I walked today~" would be better.
- How is a little kid only thinking about scamming? Tsk tsk.
"..."
Since I had nothing to deny, I quietly entered the class building.
Today is Mana Research class.
The class that had an accident because of Professor Lim Sol last time. An old professor named Han Jae-young is in charge.
When I arrived, the students were already sitting in their seats.
Glancing around, Lucy and Rumi were in the corner, Kim Young-han was sitting with other friends.
No one to sit with.
I didn't know my human relationships were this narrow.
Sat in a moderately empty seat.
A seat at least one space away from others.
- Why sitting alone? Aisa ya?
"..."
Took out notebook and scribbled in the corner 'Fuck off crazy succubus.'
- Kkuk. Even if your face is half, what? You can't write.
"Huu..."
Why did I bring her. Already regretting.
"Hello. I am Han Jae-young, in charge of Mana Research class."
The old professor in white suit started the class from the podium.
"Today, I'll give a lecture on magic circles."
A presentation prepared by the professor appeared as a hologram.
"Magic circles are basically tools needed when using magic. [You need to transform mana into the form of a magic circle and release it for magic.] There are no basic elements you need to explain to you, right?"
Tik tik tik
Presentations made by someone diligently were flipping.
The design is trendy, like the result of a TA's sweat and blood. If that's the case, don't ask them to make it.
"The process of converting mana into a magic circle and releasing it. It's the basic of magic but the most difficult part. Easy magic doesn't show magic circles, and higher level magic shows them more. Because it's too complicated, you can't make it without visualizing, so you can't."
Everyone was listening diligently, but I already knew the content.
So I was killing time while chatting with the succubus necklace around my neck.
- But why is that male so skinny? The clothes look like he doesn't have money.
[Here, it's not that rich people are always fat. They spend money to lose weight too.]
- Eh? Why do such inefficient things? When will the war come and the capital they accumulated will disappear?
[Humans aren't aggressive enough to gamble everything they have on war.]
Why don't they know about games in Hell? Because their values are different from those living in Hell? I don't know either.
"... Fortunately, there's the easiest and most standardized method to draw magic circles. It's the method that predecessors of magic have steadily researched."
Finally, the boring introduction ended, and the professor started demonstrating.
From the tip of the professor's finger, mana materialized and turned into a thin thread, creating the magic circle.
"Extracting mana into threads and drawing line by line. This is the most standard method. As levels increase, you can draw two lines at a time, but instead of that, I recommend drawing one line at a time but increasing speed. It's more efficient."
- But, isn't the school in the human world not bad?
[This is the best educational institution in the human world.]
- Ah, but from earlier, I feel killing intent in that corner, what's the relationship with that big-breasted girl?
... If it's the big-breasted girl sending killing intent to me, there's only one who can catch it.
[She's not a child, same age as me. My friend.]
- Not a friend? Killing intent is felt.
[... After using the skill you told me about 'Gaze of Hatred', it became like that.]
- Ah. That effect is really good. Because of that, a lot of murders happened~.
If I knew, I should have warned in advance. If it escalated and a fight with Lucy that can't be undone happened, what would I do. This stubborn succubus.
Hold on. I can't touch my money line. Think of it as a golden goose laying golden eggs.
[... From now on, tell me the effects clearly. No, reorganize the effects of the magic I learned too.]
- It's annoying, but I'll do it specially.
Haa. Not a kid, what. 50 years old, how is it so childish.
By the way, if killing intent is felt towards Lucy, whether I should like it or hate it.
Glanced at it and looked away because I was afraid of eye contact.
"... Like this, we draw magic circles. The higher the level of the magician, the faster this speed. By the way, Professor Lim Sol, who is in charge of the professor position at our Victoria Academy, is also a top talent in the world. It's said that she draws two lines at once at an amazing speed, but ordinary people would overload their brains if they try to follow, so don't even think about it."
- But don't you take classes? Yeah, it's like a delinquent merchant who can't study.
[I know all the content so I don't listen.]
Hmm, but there are some doubts.
Do I really need to extract mana into threads to draw? Isn't it enough to just stamp it at once?
[Liliana, do you use magic like that?]
- Well, even if details differ, if you look at the big picture, that way is correct.
[Do you think it's impossible to stamp mana into the form of a magic circle at once?]
- What kind of nonsense is that?
[So, what the professor is saying is to extract mana into a thin 'thread' form and draw the magic circle. Not that, but to remember the 'magic circle' form and skip the process of drawing the magic circle with threads and manifest it at once.]
- Ah, eh, um.... Can that be, you idiot? I know everything, but I can't study properly.
"..."
Liliana doesn't know my talent.
She doesn't know that no one can beat me in mana manipulation.
'Should I try it?'
At the right time, Professor Han Jae-young also asked to slowly make a magic circle, so I should try it too.
Slowly pulled up mana.
Granting mana flowing in every corner of my body and shaping it on my hand.
In this process, extracting mana into threads and drawing magic circles is the basic of magic.
But I tried to make a magic circle from the beginning.
- No, Contractee Ho-yeon. Don't do weird things. If that happens, other magicians will do the same. Originally, there is no such mana control ability for living beings.
Even if Liliana was babbling and interfering, it was useless.
Mana condensed on my hand according to my will.
Before releasing outside the body, gather as much as possible. Then I can make the form of a magic circle at once.
- Aah, frustrating. That's why those who couldn't learn... Eh?
'All gathered.'
The intuition that enough mana was gathered to compose the magic circle was felt.
The mana that burst out at once from my hand found its place in the void.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Like broken puzzles being reversed, my mana found the corners of the magic circle as if this is where it belongs.
Eventually, the magic circle was completed at once, and soon changed into a fireball.
Flare-
- No, what is this... Fuck?
[What's not possible. You idiot. This is me.]
I threw a punch at Liliana who was muttering in a daze.
She ate that much curse, but at least one word is okay.
*
Tuesday afternoon, in the club room of [Nolza Club], Lucy, Rumi, and Felix were having a conversation.
"Oh oh! Rumi! New member applications to our club are coming in one after another!"
"Good. Actually, I was worried because no one was coming in."
"This is all because that guy Ho-yeon disappeared! My heart is finally at ease!"
"Good, Lucy. Congratulations."
"Thank you, Felix!"
Lucy was smiling while looking at the new member application forms on her smart watch.
She made the club to meet many people, but worried that no new members were coming, but then they started pouring in.
Like the dam that was blocked until now burst, the timing naturally reached the guy who thought of it, Ho-yeon.
"It was really because of Ho-yeon. What rumor spread that no one applied?"
"Um, well... Actually, I haven't heard any rumors about Ho-yeon..."
"Well, I haven't heard it directly, but I remember hearing men gossiping. There must be something, so they gossip."
On the desk where they were talking, there was a pretty flower vase, and Felix was fiddling with the flower vase throughout the conversation.
"Felix, why do you keep touching that flower vase?"
"Huh? Just because the flowers are pretty. It's nothing."
Felix moved the flower vase to the center of the desk with a natural action while smiling faintly.
"Speaking of which, you guys, there's a mid-term exam soon, have you studied a lot?"
"Uuh, don't talk about that. I'm weak at studying..."
"I'm not very good at it either..."
"Then shall we gather here tomorrow and study together? I happen to have free time."
Felix's voice was somewhere trustworthy. Every time Lucy heard his voice, she felt a sense of stability.
"Shall we? I'm fine with it!"
"Me too, that's okay."
"Then let's meet here at this time tomorrow."
Felix was sending a trustworthy smile.
*
That night, after returning to the dorm.
"Hehehe. Our club is finally seeing the light."
Lucy, after a good shower, was drying her hair and laughing happily.
"Ah, but what? Something feels off in my chest..."
From the club room earlier, there was a feeling like something was forgotten, a lump in the chest.
At that time, when Lucy was pondering this frustration.
Beep-
Her smart watch rang, and a message arrived.
Felix: Lucy, sorry for the late night. Because I forgot that Rumi has a make-up class tomorrow, it seems we can't study together. Is it okay for the two of us?
"Ah, right.... I definitely said Rumi has a make-up class tomorrow."
Clearly said when the three were together, but none of them remembered.
Lucy never forgot about Rumi's things even if she forgot her own.
Even when making appointments at the same time, she remembered Rumi's appointment and forgot her own.
Lucy forgetting Rumi's things made her feel a bit uneasy.
"There are days like this. You can't always remember."
Lucy threw away unnecessary thoughts and wrote the message.
Me: It's natural for the two of you to be okay~! See you tomorrow!
Lucy was about to send the reply, but suddenly Ho-yeon's face popped up.
[Just know this. I always thought of you as good friends, and that thought hasn't changed even now.]
"Sigh."
Unbelievable. After Ho-yeon disappeared, the club had more people, and a good friend named Felix appeared.
"That kind of guy is better to cut early."
Useless guy.
Lucy shook her head as if something bad came to mind, and sent the reply to Felix.