Bang bang bang — Clatter clatter clatter –!
“Haa… haa… hoo…
… This is killing me…”
From the bathroom at the Hero Party’s base, the heavy, ragged breathing of a certain short-haired, pinkish-purple succubus lady could faintly be heard.
Ahem… But don’t get the wrong idea—Jiaxia definitely wasn’t doing her old line of work.
In fact, at this very moment, the succubus lady was raising a laundry stick high above her head, then, panting and sweating profusely, was beating out the dirt from the three girls’ clothing from the Hero Party, one piece after another.
She had already given it her all, yet, staring at the mountain of clothes still piled up, Jiaxia was suddenly seized by a violent urge to just burn the entire heap.
This is way too much!!!
Huff… ugh—
Jiaxia bit her lip silently, immediately regretting her earlier burst of energy.
What on earth had gotten into her last night? She’d just wanted to provoke that Keti a little, but ended up getting her pride stoked instead.
She’d been so focused on just doing everything Keti used to do, thinking that was the quickest way to get Alice and the others to let down their guard. But who would’ve thought—
Dammit, Keti actually did so much work!
Maybe… maybe what that girl said last night was right. Hiss… This, this party is just too terrifying.
Who else, when they lose a teammate, just stops doing the laundry altogether?! Can’t you wash your own clothes? Piling them all up here—are you just waiting for some sucker to take over?!
Ugh.
Looks like… she was exactly that sucker. Damn…
Jiaxia realized she’d overestimated herself. This pampered succubus lady had never suffered more in her life than being forcibly infused by other demons when she was still weak.
But for a succubus, that didn’t even count as suffering.
Besides, after growing up and dealing with so many stinky old men, her days had been nothing short of princess-like. And now… instead of living as a princess, she’d come running over here to be a maid…
Gah—!
Pant… pant!!!
The more she thought about it, the angrier Jiaxia became—especially remembering the scene last night.
Sure, she’d boasted a little, but it was all talk—who could’ve guessed that Layla would take her at her word so completely?
Grr…
But now that things had come to this, if she gave up, she’d have even less chance of fitting in with the Hero Party. Now the succubus lady truly felt stuck between a rock and a hard place, especially—
Creak…
Just thinking about the mountain of trash she still had to take out, and the huge villa left to clean, her lower back… had already begun to ache faintly.
To think she could make a succubus’s back hurt… Are these three teammates even human? They’re basically monsters!
Now Jiaxia really did feel like running away. But… she was also reluctant to give up on the Heroic Power radiating from Alice.
As she weighed her options back and forth, suddenly, the succubus lady remembered something important.
Right, right—why was she so fixated on sticking around Alice anyway? Didn’t Keti also have the energy she wanted? In fact, the energy from Keti’s Heroic Bloodline was even stronger than Alice’s!
Heh… Alice was an A-rank adventurer—no way to deal with her directly. But… that Keti, from what Jiaxia had heard, was just a D-rank newbie~
If she could just get her hands on that energy… Hm, Jiaxia wouldn’t be greedy.
Her superhuman teammates could do whatever they wanted; she was done serving them! She’d let Alice off the hook! Ahem.
… It’s just too much trouble.
Now the only problem seemed to be that Keti worked at the Magic Academy, and even lived and ate there.
Still, that wasn’t such a hard obstacle, she’d just been overthinking it last night.
In fact, since that girl had left the team, it was even easier—she just needed to use a little trickery to lure Keti out~
Heh, all that boasting—saying she’d kill anyone who dared harm her teammates. This time… Jiaxia would see for herself who’d end up on top!
Turning back, the succubus lady cast a silent glance at the laundry tub on the floor, then threw down the laundry stick with a smack!
To hell with this—Mama’s done!
Phew~
***
In a dim alleyway, two boys in Lidel Magic Academy uniforms huddled together. The taller one, Kutar, took a cigarette from his companion, Rog, and, with a flicker of magic fire, lit it up, inhaling deeply…
Sss~ ha—
The rich, smoky aroma of premium tobacco rushed through his nose, swirling deep in his lungs.
Feeling the dizzy pleasure of a top-class drag, Kutar broke into a satisfied smile, shook his head, and murmured quietly:
“Haven’t felt this good in ages, phew… Ever since I saw Professor Keti beat up Ximon in the tavern, I never dared take a puff—was too scared she’d smell the smoke and catch me breaking the rules. Finally, with her on vacation, I can enjoy myself again.”
“Yeah, yeah, that loli professor is seriously scary… Whew, but I’m pretty curious—how come Ximon’s been listening to her more and more? He used to go against her the most, right? Now… pfft, he’s like her little puppy! Makes me not want to call him boss anymore~”
“Haha… Well…”
Listening to Rog’s complaints, Kutar—the one who’d actually witnessed that tavern incident, and the guy who’d led Ximon to Xiasha Tavern—could somewhat understand.
He was just about to say more when, suddenly… the click of high heels echoed from not far away.
Keti turned his head, spotting a flamboyant young woman with pinkish-purple hair, wrapped in a black coat, strolling toward them with a bewitching smile.
In the gloom of the alley, she approached and called out:
“Hey there, boys, I’m so bored~ Come keep Shasha company~”
“Ha… Out here selling yourself? Sorry, but we don’t want anything dirty…”
Hearing the sultry tone, Keti, who’d been strictly raised, instantly frowned and backed away. Yet, faced with such a direct insult, Jiaxia didn’t get angry; instead, she grinned playfully, and then…
Her scarlet pupils flashed. In that instant, the two boys felt their blood boil, minds clouded with lust, throats going dry.
Release… Release! All they wanted was to vent themselves wildly on the woman before them!
With no mental resistance to speak of, the two students’ minds instantly went blank, left with nothing but the carnal desire dominated by a succubus.
“Pfft… Looks like a succubus is still pretty handy against little boys like these~ Afraid of dirt, huh? Tsk tsk tsk… Snared so easily. Keti-chan’s students, kidnapping complete~”