Hero’s Bloodline?!
Upon hearing these words, Jia Xia visibly perked up.
After a moment, this Succubus lady finally revealed a rare smile, then… mercilessly delivered another whip strike to the stinky old man before her!
“Crack—”
No, wait, this doesn’t make sense. Whether you give advice or not, you get whipped?!
The other adventurers nearby, caught but not yet subjected to the torture, trembled in fear. However,
the man being whipped suddenly flushed deeply and, filled with excitement, his voice trembled on the spot:
“Hohohoho~ Thank you very much, Lady Xiaxia!”
“Hmph, finally a valuable target to talk about. You’re right—absorbing the power of someone with the Hero’s Bloodline is especially delicious~ Pfft pfft pfft, especially after draining them dry, then gutting them while they stare at you in terror, absorbing the magic circuits on their body—it really gets me fired up~”
Jia Xia squinted and smiled, finally finding a rare spark of excitement amidst her exhaustion.
But after a moment, remembering that Alice is likely a girl’s name, she felt a twinge of disappointment.
“Sigh, the only shame is that she’s a woman… I can’t really enjoy her properly first, after all, I’m an ultimate straight woman. Then just kill her directly—it’s the same effect anyway.”
“The power of someone with the Hero’s Bloodline will boost me tremendously~ Now, continue, stinky old man, tell me everything about that so-called Hero Squad!”
“Ah… M-Master, I’m not very clear either. I just heard that their team was originally four people, three girls and one boy, but for some reason, that boy left the team.”
“After that, the Hero Squad’s strength dropped a lot; they nearly wiped out in the dungeon. I also heard some gossip that the three girls all liked the boy who left, so when he left, they started arguing, and now the team’s basically falling apart…”
“Huh?”
Listening to the old man’s gossip, Jia Xia found it hard to believe: three girls and one boy, the girls all liked the boy? What kind of harem comedy is this team?
And now they’re arguing because the boy left, seeming reluctant to part ways, but why has no one gone to bring the boy back?
Though the story behind this might be interesting, Jia Xia didn’t care much. She just wanted to absorb Alice’s Hero power and be done with it! So, she immediately asked the crucial question.
“Alice and her teammates’ strength—how good are they? You said they couldn’t beat the dungeon? So… they’re probably not strong, right?”
“Uh… I heard their team has two A-ranks, Alice is a warrior, another A-rank priest, and an S-rank gifted female elf… Plus, they have quite a bit of combat experience, having cleared several dungeons before, even an Evil Dragon…”
“Hah?!”
Upon hearing this lineup, Jia Xia’s mouth twitched.
Wow, wow, wow—this is a bit scary, isn’t it? They actually killed an Evil Dragon?
If that’s the case, Alice’s strength might be on par with her own, and since Alice is a close-combat class, Jia Xia would have to fight her directly to absorb her magic—she’d be at a disadvantage…
Hiss—
Looks like a direct fight won’t do; she’ll have to outsmart them~
Heh, outsmarting others~ Jia Xia is actually quite skilled at this—more like… manipulating people’s hearts. She’s a master at it~
Of course… so far, her only practice target has been the stinky adventurer old man. Hmm…
No choice, as a wild freelance Succubus who hides and dodges daily, from being a despised prey at the bottom of the social ladder to becoming a hunter… to grow stronger, she must keep evolving… that’s her fate, isn’t it?
Since their team is missing a member… why not just add herself in? Then, when they let their guard down, she can stab them in the back!
The internal crisis of the Hero Squad is her opportunity~
So, Jia Xia infiltrated the Capital City, first thoroughly investigating what kind of person Keti—the one who left the team—was.
Then, she had a sudden idea: she cross-dressed on the spot as a silver-haired handsome young man and approached Alice.
With the familiar image, plus subtly applying some hypnotic suggestion magic, just as Jia Xia predicted, Alice immediately agreed to her application to join.
This… was why Jia Xia had been sailing smoothly all the way until she bumped into Layla and Sylvia, these two nails in her plan.
She had already prepared thoroughly and knew about Keti’s existence, painstakingly putting on the act. Yet, just as Jia Xia was feeling a bit annoyed, suddenly… the door to Layla’s bedroom burst open.
The priest and the elf lady who emerged stormed straight toward her, scaring Jia Xia into instant panic, forcing her to quickly expend a large amount of magic to transform back into her silver-haired handsome youth form.
“Jia Xia-kun~ hehe, we discussed and decided to accept you as a member of our team! But this is only temporary, you’re still on a Probation Period, and your continued membership depends on your performance in actual combat, okay~”
The purple-haired older sister with jellyfish-style hair smiled and patted Jia Xia’s shoulder, causing the Succubus lady to inwardly feel speechless.
No… wait, this broken little team only has three people and they’re this strict? And there’s even a Probation Period?
Even so, she had to put on a surprised expression on the surface. After a moment, the “silver-haired young man” eyes lit up and asked excitedly:
“Re-really? That’s… that’s great~ Layla-senpai, Sylvia-senpai, I promise I’ll do my best!”
“Well… no need to do your best or anything, go find Alice later and tell her to prepare a welcome ceremony for you tomorrow night. Sylvia-chan and I have some important matters to attend to and need to leave now. No more chit-chat, see ya~”
With that said, Layla and Sylvia hurriedly left. Ahem… time was truly a race against the clock here.
Every minute Keti stayed at school, Layla feared her beloved would be so thoroughly trained by Lynn that she couldn’t come back!
“Uh…”
After a while, the Succubus lady left behind blinked dumbfoundedly.
Huh? What’s going on with these two? Why the sudden change of heart, and they accepted her so quickly? Could it be that her hypnosis has a time delay?!
But… this doesn’t make sense either. Why are they just leaving her here like this? Hey, don’t human women love some neglect play or something?
***
Inside Lidel Magic Academy’s faculty dormitory, Keti stretched comfortably on her newly replaced big bed.
Ah~
Three days of paid leave, so awesome! No work, which means plenty of time to have fun…
“Keti, Keti-chan, open the door, open the door~!”