“I……”
Jiaxia clutched her face in disbelief after being slapped by Alice, utterly unable to comprehend what this woman was doing…
She had already used the strongest charm spell she currently possessed.
And Alice, out of everyone, had always been the most susceptible to her allure.
How could this happen…? This just didn’t make sense to Miss Succubus at all!
What’s more, there was something Jiaxia still couldn’t understand, “Alice, sis, you… What’s wrong with you? Wasn’t it you who called me to your room? Don’t tell me… you, you don’t like me?”
Impossible. With those dirty old men before, she always succeeded without fail.
Whether it was a forty-year-old archmage who’d never been with a woman, or a married man with a wife and daughter—Jiaxia could handle them all with ease.
So why was this one…?
“Huh? What kind of nonsense are you spouting!”
Alice furrowed her brow, a look of intense disgust flashing in her eyes. After a moment, she straightened her collar, gave a cold snort, and said,
“Jiaxia, little brother, I think you’ve really misunderstood. I’m not that kind of woman, and I have no interest in little brats like you.”
“Get it straight: from the start, I only brought you into the party to annoy that idiot, Keti, and get him to come back!”
“From beginning to end, I… I’ve only ever cared about Keti. You just happen to look like him, so I gave you a bit of attention. Don’t tell me you actually thought you could ever compare to Keti?!”
Ha… Ha?!
Jiaxia stared wide-eyed in shock, drawing a deep breath on the spot. How could this be possible…? This twin-tailed blonde had considered her nothing but a tool from the very start?!
And Alice wasn’t done. The moment she remembered being touched by another man—someone other than Keti—even if it was just being pushed down for a moment and nothing more, she still felt so nauseated she wanted to throw up.
After a while, taking a deep breath to barely restrain her anger, Alice snorted coldly again and went on:
“I was hoping you could play his part while Keti was away and give me a little emotional support, but you’ve been absolutely useless. And now… now you even dare to have improper thoughts about me!”
“In that case, there’s nothing more to say. Get out. Since you just came of age, I won’t report you to the guards. But… there’s no way you’re staying in the Hero Party any longer.”
The silver-haired boy in front of her slowly lowered his head, took a deep breath, and as Alice expected “Jiaxia-kun” would burst into tears or pick a fight out of grievance—
Instead, Jiaxia simply nodded in silence, stood up, and walked straight toward the door, leaving behind just one line, “I understand…”
Uh…
Alice looked at his retreating figure and felt no particular emotion. She only worried how she’d explain to Layla and Sylvia that the new teammate they’d just found seemed to have been driven away by her again.
However—
As the blonde twin-tailed loli finally relaxed, she didn’t notice at all that, beneath Jiaxia’s outward calm as she turned away, her expression had already twisted beyond recognition.
If being shoved away and slapped by Alice a moment ago had merely made Jiaxia grit her teeth and pretend to endure it, hoping to stay longer and wait for another chance—
Then Alice’s final words had well and truly struck the Miss Succubus’s sore spot.
What did she mean… she hadn’t contributed at all?!
This—this was just… too much!
Heh. Hehehe…
From the start, her goal was to use Alice, so now that Alice was turning the tables, she couldn’t really complain.
Besides, she wasn’t angry about being shoved aside and losing her chance to push Alice down—Miss Succubus wasn’t some contact list floozy!
But—
Who gave this woman the right to say she was useless?!
This whole time, she’d handled every single daily task and chore for the entire Hero Party, big or small—every last one!
And now Alice said she hadn’t done a thing?! She’d done the most of all!
For a succubus who almost never did any work herself, did Alice know how much energy that had cost her?!
She’d swallowed her pride, shouldered what no one else could bear, and suffered torments beyond ordinary imagining!
And now, after all that, she was being kicked out—no gratitude at all, not even dropping her guard for a second, just throwing away all her effort like it was nothing!
There’s no way I’ll let you have your way!
Thinking this, Jiaxia’s eyes widened in fury—and at that moment, the chance Miss Succubus had been longing for finally appeared before her eyes!
Before she could even make it to the door, Alice—exhausted from a sleepless night—closed her eyes in drowsiness and started to doze off, struggling just to stay awake.
***
In the next second, Miss Succubus abruptly released her transformation, then… slowly manifested a pink trident in her hand!
“Desire’s Sting!”
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh—!”
The next instant, accompanied by a wave of excruciating pain, the drowsy girl was suddenly jolted awake—no, it wasn’t even awakening, but the surge of adrenaline in the face of near-death as she stared in terror at reality.
The succubus’s three steel prongs had pierced Alice’s body at lightning speed.
After that heart-wrenching pain, the twin-tailed blonde could only stare, drenched in cold sweat, at the unfamiliar pink-haired woman before her, totally confused about what was happening.
What… what is this person? What’s going on—why is there a… demon in the base?!
“Guahhh—!”
Before Alice could process any of it, Jiaxia gave a cold laugh, yanked the trident free, the barbs tearing the wound even wider.
Blood gushed out as Alice collapsed to the floor, letting out another ear-piercing scream.
Puhahahahaha~!
Ah…
Jiaxia broke into wild, excited laughter. After a long while, she narrowed her eyes and said with delight,
“So this is all it takes. The legendary Hero-blooded girl is this weak? I waited so long for you to slip up, even planned to seduce you, then strike when you were at your weakest.”
“Turns out, I should’ve just acted from the start!”
“Ah… you, you’re… you’re…”
Alice twitched in agony on the floor, finally realizing the identity of the person before her. Only one person had been in the room—and that person hadn’t left.
And remembering her words just now, the girl abruptly understood. She had been tricked…
That so-called Jiaxia-kun was actually… the succubus before her!
“Heh~ Let me send you off, Hero girl…”
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