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Maou Gakuen Vol 1 Chapter 5
🕑 Added 2019-12-12 09:05:06 +0000 UTC
Chapter 5 – First Time Shopping
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Part 1
Today was Sunday.
Even the devil king academy, a school for the devils was in holiday today just like human. Therefore I wouldn’t be able to meet Lizel-senpai today──that was what I thought, but…….
「Reina just called. It seems she will arrive soon.」
Lizel-senpai put away her smartphone and took a sip of her coffee.
We were in a café with a stylish and peaceful atmosphere that was located near the main street.
There was a shopping mall nearby. Our purpose today was for shopping.
──We would go to sea at summer vacation for a training camp, so we wanted to buy swimsuit.
I was notified about this plan the day before yesterday.
When a junior was invited by their senior, it was only good manner to accept without hesitation. Thanks to that I could see senpai’s appearance in plain clothes like this. Her attire had monotone coloring as the basic tone and coordinated to have a chic look. And yet mysteriously there was this brilliance air coming from her. As expected from Lizel-senpai.
Sitting beside her was Yuugaoze Miyabi.
「I seee. As I thought, perhaps it would be better if we directly go pick up Reina at her room.」
This one was wearing a damaged jeans as hotpants and a jacket that exposed her cleavage and stomach. Even though we were going to buy swimsuit, her appearance was already like a swimsuit.
In such attire, Miyabi ordered a large parfait without hesitation even though it would be time for lunch soon. She was in the middle of making a dent on a tower of fresh cream and ice cream and strawberry right now.
「Miyabi…… this isn’t my place to say it but, is it alright for you to eat that much?」
「Eh? Aa, it’s fiiine! Sweet things are stored in a different stomach, so I’ll also eat lunch with gusto later!」
Lizel-senpai made a deep scowl.
「You’ll get far you know?」
「Hmmmm……certainly, I’m a bit worried about that.」
「Listen well. Having excess flab is the same as losing the trust of others. Gaining excess flab and losing trust are something that is easy to happen. But, scraping off the excess flab and distrust that have stuck on you is very hard to do.」
Lizel-senpai was strangely passionate in her speech.
「Aaa, I get thattt.」
Miyabi put down her spoon and lifted up her breasts from below.
「It’s only my breasts and butts that keep getting fatter, but even if I go dieting, my face will be the place that start getting thinner first. It’s really difficult isn’t it?」
*Gachan!* Lizel-senpai put down her coffee cup loudly on the saucer.
「O-oh……forgive me. I accidentally placed down the cup too strongly.」
Lizel-senpai brushed up her hair to hide her agitation.
Somehow I felt an irritated aura from Lizel-senpai, but Miyabi didn’t seem like she notice anything. She took her spoon once more and started making it went back and forth between her parfait and her lips.
「What about senpai? Which part of your body that usually get fatter first?」
*Grit* I thought that I heard the sound of senpai grinding her teeth.
「Hate……I hate this upper arm and calf……」
I thought I heard a voice of resentment, but let’s pretend that I didn’t hear anything.
「Yuuto? Just so we’re clear, I’m not dieting or anything. It’s not like I’m particularly concerned with my figure or anything.」
……Even though I had decided to pretend to not hear anything.
「O-of course it is. I think that senpai has a perfect style. Senpai can easily become a model or actress or anything as you are.」
「My……fufufu♪」
Senpai took a sip of her coffee in a good mood.
It would be rude for me to say this but……senpai was unexpectedly an easy──not that, I meant a honest person.
「But you seee, senpai also has a hopeless side to her you knoww?」
Wait Miyabi! Even though the mood had finally returned to peace, why were you trying to smash it to pieces again!?
「I can’t pretend to not hear that. What is hopeless from me……are you saying that there is a problem with me?」
「Because senpai, you’re not good with scary things right? Like haunted house for example. You almost cried when we watched a horror movie last time.」
「──!!!!!?」
……That’s a lie right?
However Lizel-senpai had gone stiff while her face was twitching.
……Seriously?
「Besides senpai isn’t good with dark place. I was even worried at the unveiling before this that senpai might break out crying there.」
「T-there is no way I’ll do that!! B-besides that’s a false accusation! Something like a dark place isn’t a big deal at all for me!」
「But when senpai go to sleep, you said that you always have a small light turned on.」
「T-that’s……i-it so that when I wake up at night, I won’t be troubled for things l-like going to toilet or something!」
Errrr……if my memory served me right, senpai was a devil right? I didn’t understand how she culd be scared by dark place or horror…….
「Yuuto!!」
「Y-yes!?」
「You mustn’t believe the words of this useless meat! She will spoil your brain!」
「What’s that!? Isn’t that horrible!? Sheesh, if senpai is like that then I’ll also expose other things!! Listen to me Yuuto! In the past senpai-」
「NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Lies! She is speaking nonsense! Fake news!! YOU ABSOLUTELY MUSTN’T BELIEVE HERRRRR!」
What should I do!?
There an angel of salvation ran past the window outside.
Reina!!
She was wearing an adorable dress and a huge katana diagonally on her back──wait, eh?
Reina opened the door of the café and ran inside.
「Reina is sorry she’s late desu de──auh!?」
The katana on her back got completely caught on the entrance. Reina’s small body tried to rush forward with her limbs stretching forward. And then she got pulled backward and fell down on her back.
I stood up from my chair and ran toward Reina.
「Re-Reina? Are you alright?」
「Y-yes……」
Reina stood up with her eyes swirling. I looked up at the katana that stood tall on Reina’s back while releasing a strange presence.
「You have been carrying that from your home?」
「Desu desu-!」
She replied with a really bright smile.
「That……must be really hard for you.」
Or rather, I was amazed she didn’t get questioned by police.
「No no, Reina is fine……but, Reina also got caught at the home’s entrance and the ticket gate like just now.」
She laughed ‘tehehe’. Her gesture was that of a girl with childishness still remaining in her. It made protective desire to well up inside those who saw her whether they wanted it or not. Well, she was actually absurdly strong though.
Anyway I guided Reina to our seats and she sat down snugly beside me. She put down the dangerous thing on her back against the wall. There was nothing more ill-matched with this stylish café than this.
「Say, Reina. Why did you come carrying that on your back? You can carry it secretly right?」
I was told before that each devil had their own dimensional space. They were able to keep their weapon and other things there.
Usually Reina was also empty handed. At that kind of time her long katana was stored in that dimensional space.
「But but, it will make Reina slower to withdraw her katana like that. Today we have an outing, the surrounding is different from the familiar academy……it will be dangerous if Reina’s reaction is slowed because of that when danger approached Yuuto-san!」
Reina was in high spirit. She clenched both her fists in front of her chest while huffing.
「That’s a great readiness, but you’re a bit too conspicuous like this you know?」
Lizenl-senpai chided gently, but Reina’s expression didn’t look convinced.
「……But, if something happen because of Reina’s fault……」
「Thank you, Reina.」
I patted Reina’s head.
「Fuwawaa!」
Reina’s back straightened like a loaded spring that was let go. Even her hair that was tied to the sides looked like they were standing on ends.
「Funya……that feels good, desu desuu」
Reina’s silver hair was soft to the touch. Caressing it also felt good for me.
「Mumuu……」
Miyabi growled with her lips pressed tightly into a pout. She looked like she wanted to say something. What’s with her?
Lizel-senpai folded her arms with her eyebrows shaking.
「W-we should go soon. Also, Reina. I understand your feeling. But, pay a careful attention in handling your katana? The next time it crashed on something again, store it into your dimensional space obediently. Understand?」
「Understood!!」
It was a really good reply.
And then a minute later. When we got out of the café,
「Auh!?」
Her katana got caught at the entrance exactly the same like when she entered the café.
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Part 2
The four of us arrived at the shopping mall that was our destination. We were heading toward a store that specialized in swimsuit.
Lizel-senpai was heading straight toward the destination without taking any detour. Reina was restlessly looking around like a small animal while going 「Waaa」 in admiration at every single store or facility.
As for Miyabi, she would comment about every single store that we passed.
「Ah, this pasta restaurant look delicious.」
「Hee, an original sweets that is the pride of this patissier!」
However the ratio of her comments leaned greatly toward food. Well, she only commented about feminine menu though.
「Oo, a tonkatsu store. The tonkatsu, they looks good……」 (TN: Tonkatsu=breaded pork cutlet)
Let me correct myself. It didn’t matter whether it was feminine restaurant or heavy eater restaurant, it was all the same for her. Finally even Lizel-senpai stopped walking and turned around.
「Now look here Miyabi. Please think carefully. What are we going to do after this?」
「Buying swimsuit.」
「Naturally we’re going to try them aren’t we? I’m thinking to ask for Yuuto’s opinion there.」
「──Ah!!」
Miyabi immediately pressed her stomach.
「I-I see……I didn’t think about it.」
「The courage to expose your bloating stomach from overeating……I have no such courage but, if Miyabi is alright with that then you can have lunch first. But, remember to not eat until you’re full.」
「I-I’ll do that later! I’ll endure it!」
Lizel-senpai nodded in satisfaction and started walking once more.
Suddenly I noticed. The other visitors kept sending glances at us. There were even some of them who were staring unabashedly at us.
Just what was going on? But when I tried thinking carefully, these three were also gathering attention in the academy. The reason was the same. Even if these people didn’t know that these three were noble devils, they were still captivated by their beauty.
Whether it was Lizel-senpai, or Miyabi, or Reina, they were beautiful girls who would make anyone’s gaze fixed on them if you encountered them normally in the street. After realizing that, it wasn’t strange at all that something like this happened.
But now I was losing my nerve. These people must be wondering who was the man who got mixed in the group of such beauties…….
I brushed away such feeling and talked to Lizel-senpai who walked diagonally in front of me.
「Has everything been arranged for the training camp?」
「In general. We will adjust the detail later. After all our destination will change depending on Yuuto’s growth.」
「Eh, is that so?」
「Hee, then I want to go to Hawaii! Waiiha!!」
Miyabi approached me with sparkling eyes.
「Even if you ask me that……I don’t know at all what is the condition to change the destination though.」
「Ha, hawahawa, Hawaii……Re-Reina……has no money for that desu, desu……」
Reina was shaking fiercely in fear.
「It’s fine. I will pay for the travel expenses no matter where we’re going.」
Reina sighed in relieve at Lizel-senpai’s words, but she immediately frowned with a troubled look.
「But but, that’s not good.」
「Don’t mind it. You too Yuuto.」
「Yes……still I’m sorry.」
Even so, Reina too should be a noble but……did her family have no leeway financially? I was a bit concerned but, it was also rude to ask about the financial situation of other people’s family.
「Ah, we’re here.」
When we arrived at our destination, I followed behind Lizel-senpai and entered inside.
「Uwa……」
The inside of the shop was overflowing with swimsuits for woman. The inside of the shop was clean and painted white with colorful swimsuits on display. It reminded me of a candy store for some reason.
However I couldn’t bear walking inside with female swimsuits surrounding me like this.
「Err, then I’ll go to the man’s section……」
I tried to change direction, but Lizel-senpai immediately grabbed my arm. My arm was enveloped in a softness that couldn’t be described. The nicely shaped breasts that were covered by Lizel-senpai’s plain clothes were softly changing shape because of the shape of my arm. That view was strangely lewd.
「Don’t leave. Come together with us.」
「No, but……a man staying at a place that sell female swimsuit feels like a crime somehow……」
「What are you saying? How can it be a crime for a king to decide his retainer’s outfit?」
「I still haven’t become a king though……wait, eh? Decide?」
I asked in surprise. Then this time Miyabi hugged my other arm.
The volume surpassed even Lizel-senpai. An overwhelming pressure was pressed on my arm. My arm was completely sandwiched in the middle of her cleavage.
「I even delayed my lunch to come here, so I’ll have you Yuuto choosing the swimsuit for me no matter what! Decide it with a ‘wham’!」
「Since when such important responsibility is pushed on me!?」
I was feeling the sensation of the two’s breasts from left and right while being force marched. And then it began, the shopping time that was like heaven or like torture.
I was waiting in front of three dressing rooms that stood side-by-side.
I couldn’t help but felt concerned at the gazes from other customers and the staffs.
「Hey, Yuuto.」
The door of one of the dressing rooms opened and Miyabi beckoned me.
「Hm? What’s──!?」
My wrist got grabbed and I got dragged into the dressing room in the blink of eye. And then the door was closed.
「O-oi──」
What are you doing? I wanted to ask, but Miyabi placed her index finger on my mouth to tell me to be quiet.
The dressing room was unexpectedly spacious. There was space for nearly four and a half tatami here. This room wasn’t a makeshift room with only curtain separating it from outside, but a proper room.
「Both senpai and Reina are in the rooms next to us, so ‘shhhh’, okay♪」
「Why are you dragging me──」
I unconsciously gulped when seeing Miyabi’s appearance.
「Hehe……what do you think?」
It was a showy pink bikini. More than half of her breasts were exposed. Below most of her abdomen was also visible.
「But the clincher is the back.」
Miyabi twirled and showed me her butts.
「Uou!?」
The exposure rate was amazing that I reflexively made a strange noise. Miyabi’s butts that possessed both softness and voluptuousness were practically naked.
「They called this Brazilian bikini. It make your legs look long and tight ‘kyun’, and my butts too. Mine is smooth and sleek, so they look really pretty like this you knoww」
She said that while bending her upper body slightly and thrusting her butts toward me.
Certainly her skin was beautiful without a single stain on it. And then this overwhelming voluptuousness……even so, wasn’t this bikini exposed too much? This was almost the same like being naked.
When it came to her upper body, the micro bikini from before this was still better. However her lower body was even more stimulating and dangerous.
In the first place this wouldn’t be like entering the bathroom in the palace.
「I’ll ask just in case but, you’re going to wear this to go to the beach……to a place where other people can see?」
「Yep. That’s right.」
「Hmmmm……」
I unconsciously folded my arms and groaned.
「Eh? This swimsuit isn’t that good?」
「No……its good but, I’m a bit reluctant that a lot of other people will also be able to see this.」
「You means……you don’t want to show this to people other than you Yuuto?」
Miyabi turned to face me and took a step closer.
「Well, yes……I think. That’s uncool of me, it’s like I’m exposing my monopolizing desire. Like, my opinion shouldn’t really matter to you right? If you took offense by my opinion──」
Miyabi approached me silently. The tips of her breasts that were wrapped in the swimsuit touched my chest.
「No. You don’t offend me……I think. Or rather」
Miyabi’s cheeks blushed red.
「……I-I’m happy to hear you say that, you know?」
Miyabi brought her face even closer toward me. I backed away as though I got sent flying by her breasts. My back hit the wall, but Miyabi kept pressing her breasts on me even then.
「That’s why, if Yuuto want to see it, then I’ll wear anything you want……if you dislike it, I won’t show anything to other people.」
「Mi-Miyabi……」
「My swimsuit……what, do you think about it?」
「Y-yeah……it’s nice, I think.」
「As I thought, is it because of the butts?」
「I-I guess.」
Miyabi smiled happily and separated herself from me. I sighed in relieve. But it only lasted briefly, next she turned her back toward me and approached once more. And then she pressed her butts on my crotch.
「W-wait! That place, that place is no good!」
「Eee~, whyyy? You like my butts right? Hey, let’s resupply your mana secretly here 'kay♥」
「Here!?」
Miyabi’s smile turned even more mischievous seeing me panicking. Her face looked exactly like an imp. It was truly an obscene expression.
「Then……here I go.」
She leaned forward and thrust her butts backward. It was soft when it hit me, but the pressure was intense. She rotated her large butts to draw a circle. That waist movement that I was watching from above was unbelievably lewd.
No, more importantly, this situation was too bad if seen from the outside!! How should I say it, it only looked like we were doing it!
「I-I get it Miyabi! So stop doing this already! If someone else saw us doing this──」
*Click* The door opened.
「!?」
Lizel-senpai wearing a black bikini was stoically glaring this way.
Lizel-senpai’s swimsuit was also really sexy it sent shivers through my back. The black swimsuit gave a really good contrast with her pure white skin. It had bewitching sexiness that was strangely captivating──no! This wasn’t the time for that!!
「Li-!? Lizel-senpai……th-this is-!?」
「Good grief……I really mustn’t let my guard down at all.」
She entered inside the dressing room while emitting a very displeased aura. As expected even Miyabi let go of me and laughed ‘ahaha’ to gloss over what just happened.
「Miyabi, stop getting horny without caring where you are.」
H-horny!? An amazing word suddenly came out…….
「The act of Healing Lovers is something that is the concern of us the cards of Lovers. But we must not forget that it’s a rite that is based on a relationship of trust. You will receive unneeded misunderstanding if you don’t act with a bit more sense and dignity.」
Miyabi’s face turned slightly sullen and she hugged my arm.
「It’s not like I have that kind of intention. I’m just becoming honest to my own feeling. Senpai actually don’t wanna to do this kind of thing right? Then it’s fine even if you don’t do it. But, I want to do it so there’s no problem.」
「What……」
Lizel-senpai stiffened with a surprised expression and her mouth opened. However she immediately approached me and hugged my other arm.
「When did I ever say that I don’t want to do it? Miyabi, do you understand just how much I’ve been holding back myself?」
「There is no way I know anything about that!」
「E-err, both of you……calm down──」
However the two wouldn’t listen to my words. I myself was being hugged from both sides by two extremely amazing bodies, so my head didn’t really work well.
「I’m prioritizing how to make Yuuto win in the Devil King War. For that I’m holding myself back from doing various things! And yet, why is Miyabi doing whatever she pleases like this!?」
「Even I’m thinking seriously how to make Yuuto win! But it’s also impossible for me to lie to my own feeling!」
「Yuuto is fighting for the sake of our future and for the sake of the world you know? How about you learn to hold yourself back slightly!?」
「Senpai isn’t interested to lewd things anyway, so it’s not really any problem!!」
Lizel-senpai bit her lips. And then it was like the things that she had been holding back burst out into a yell.
「Lewd things! ……Of course I also want to do them!!」
Lizel-senpai gasped and turned stiff.
It seemed that senpai herself was surprised by the words that inadvertently slipped out from her mouth. She slowly lowered her gaze in embarrassment. Her ears that were peeking out from her long black hair were bright red.
Her fingertips kept moving perhaps to hide her embarrassment or because she was losing composure, either way they were rubbing my arm so it was ticklish.
Miyabi was also looking shocked and she was staring at the hair of senpai who was hanging her head down.
What should be done about this awkwardness that was filling the dressing room?
「E-err……」
I broke into cold sweat unable to find any way to solve this. It was then the door was opened vigorously.
「F-fighting is, fighting is, a no no!」
Reina who was wearing a white racing swimsuit rushed in.
「E-everyone, everyone, get along with each other-!!」
She was pleading with tears gathering in her eyes while her body was trembling.
「Aa……」
「……」
Senpai and Miyabi averted their gaze awkwardly before letting go of my arms.
「T-then……at least, decide which is better, my swimsuit or senpai’s.」
Now you’re going with that!? Shit, damn you Miyabi. Making unreasonable request like this.
After hesitating for a bit, I walked straight forward and grabbed Reina’s slender wrist. Then I lifted her arm as though she was a boxing victor.
「It’s Reina’s win.」
「Heh?」
Reina tilted her head with an astonished face.
「Well……can’t be helped I guess.」
「That’s unavoidable……」
The champ was acting all flustered in front of the sullen looking duo.
「I-is Reina’s swimsuit, really that good?」
She didn’t get it.
However. The thin racing swimsuit was making the detail of Reina’s immature body to stand out clearly. That was also a fact……frankly speaking, the swimsuit looked transparent. It was giving off a very immoral seductiveness.
Bluntly speaking, it was a criminal scent.
Like the shape of the tip of the little bulges of her breasts, or the depression of her navel, or the area below it…….
I swore in my heart to teach her about the existence of supporter later.
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Part 3
This was a good chance, so after that we also went shopping for other things. Although we were mostly just going around doing window shipping. I thought of carrying the girls’ things for them, but there wasn’t a chance for me to be particularly useful──but it was fun.
We broke up when the sun was about to set. Lizel-senpai told me 「I’ll sent you home」, so I gratefully accepted senpai’s kind offer to be sent home in her car.
「Hm?」
Lizel-senpai stared at the display of her smartphone before she looked at me apologetically.
「I’m sorry. There is a call for me, so can you wait for me here for a bit?」
Of course I didn’t mind──after I told her that, I went to a nearby bookstore to kill time.
「Oh……」
There was a familiar face lined up at the store front.
──Hoshigaoka, Stella.
It seemed that a new photo album of hers was just released. It was being advertised grandly.
I had been following her career somewhat from before as a popular idol, and of course I thought she was cute. However, now that I had learned she was actually a devil, the impression I got was completely different.
When my hand casually reached out toward one of the albums──,
「You there, can I bother you for a bit?」
「Eh?」
When I turned toward the voice, I found a blatantly suspicious person there.
The person was wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a mask over her mouth. She could be mistaken as a degenerate like that.
「It’s me.」
The person shifted her mask and pulled down her sunglasses. That face was,
「Ho-!? Hoshigaoka Stella!?」
「Shh! You’re loud!」
I looked around in panic, but fortunately it didn’t seem like anyone heard me. I never thought that the actual person would make her entrance while I was watching her photo album. I covered my mouth with my hands and asked with a whisper.
「I thought you leaped out from the photo album……what is a big star doing in this kind of place?」
Stella smiled in satisfaction.
「Big star, that has a nice ring. You can call me that more you know?」
I involuntarily smiled wryly. Then Stella fixed her sunglasses and mask before grabbing my wrist.
「Come over here for a bit.」
「Hah? No, right now I’m……」
「The corner over there. I just want to talk where there is nobody else.」
I was forcefully pulled toward an entrance to a storage room. Certainly this was a place where there would be no one else. Stella took off her hat and her long hair flowed down smoothly. When she took off her sunglasses and mask, the national big star Hohigaoka Stella appeared there.
「Why are you in this kind of place……you are in the middle of a break?」
「I came to meet you.」
「Meet me?」
「Yes. As a fellow devil king candidate.」
Her green eyes shined.
Could it be, Stella wanted to……?
「──Aa, I’m not coming here to kill you. I just have something I want to ask you.」
I didn’t know whether it was alright to trust her words unconditionally, but right now I had no choice.
「I don’t think there is anything that I can tell Stella though.」
「Don’t say that. Isn’t it a benefit for you if you think of this as being able to enjoy a talk with a hit idol?」
「That’s if I’m talking to the hit idol Hoshigaoka Stella. But……you’re talking with me now as a devil king candidate right?」
Stella chuckled ‘fufuh’ with a condescending gaze. And then she stared at me appraisingly.
「Most of the candidates weren’t attending at the unveiling. The information that you’re a human had circulated beforehand, so they thought it wasn’t worth it to go and have a look at you. But you see, I’m interested with you.」
「I’m honored but……why?」
「Because you’re a man who Himekami Lizel is counting on.」
──So……it’s because of Lizel-senpai.
「Does that mean Stella……you’re rating Lizel-senpai highly?」
「Of course I am. You might not know but, Lizel’s actual strength can’t be underestimated you know? It was rumored that she herself might get chosen as a devil king candidate, even I also thought so.」
「Is, that so……」
Of course I also thought that senpai was amazing. However this was the first time I realized that even the other devil king candidates were holding her in high regard.
「And yet it’s actually a human who become a candidate. Then when I thought that she would change side to other candidate, she instead became that human’s card. It was really shocking.」
「Change side……?」
「Yes, you know that Lizel’s house has served Lovers arcana for generations, but it’s not like she isn’t permitted to change side.」
──Eh?
「I-is that true?」
Stella looked up at me dubiously.
「Sorry if this hurt you but, honestly I think that the risk of her peerage getting stripped from her would decrease if she change side to other candidate.」
……What’s with that.
So everyone actually had a way with better probability of getting saved.
And yet,
They never even mentioned it,
And believed in me──,
The corner of my eyes felt hot.
「Nn? What? Are you crying?」
I hurriedly closed my eyes and looked down.
「N, no. It looks like there is a bit of dust entering my eyes.」
I hurriedly rubbed my eyes.
Shit, it was embarrassing to be seen like this──but fortunately Stella didn’t look really concerned about my episode just now and continued her talk.
「Hey, to begin with, how did you get your hand on an arcana?」
「I don’t really know how myself, but it was suddenly beside my pillow when I woke up in the morning.」
Stella suddenly burst out laughing when I answered like that.
「Ahahaha, what’s that!? Are you saying that Santa Claus left it there for your present?」
Stella was laughing cheerfully, but it was scary how her eyes weren’t laughing.
「I-I’m saying the truth. To be honest, I’m the one who want to know why it was beside my pillow.」
「……Well, fine I guess. But for a human, you’re learning magic quickly, and your mana is also strong.」
「That’s thanks to Lovers arcana and my cards……I myself am just a normal human.」
Stella brought her face closer to mine and her nose sniffed as though to smell my scent.
「Certainly you smell completely like a human……」
You understood that from my smell? Still, she was really beautiful seeing her from this near…….
Stella didn’t give me any time to appreciate her beauty leisurely and moved away from me.
「You said that it was thanks to Lizel. Is she the one who teach you magic?」
「Yeah, she is giving me intensive training……but, the magic itself is taught to me by the arcana.」
Stella’s pretty eyes opened wide in shock.
「……What do you mean?」
「What I mean……there is no other meaning. The arcana talked and taught me.」
「Talked……?」
Stella’s widely opened eyes narrowed sharply.
「Are you expecting me to believe that?」
……Come to think of it.
Lizel-senpai said it before. Even a devil king candidate couldn’t hear their arcana’s voice. So it was true.
「……Hey, I also have something that I want to ask. Can I?」
「If it’s a lover then I don’t have one.」
「It’s not something like that……Stella is a devil and what’s more a noble right? You’re also a devil king candidate. And yet, why are you pretending to be a human and become an idol?」
Stella scoffed and twirled on the spot. It felt like my heart was going to be drawn in just from that.
「I’m absorbing people’s energy by moving their emotion with song, dance, and acting. I’m doing it to a lot of humans.」
「I see……with that」
Stella grinned and made a pose.
「I want to become the greatest star that ever exist. I want all living creatures to kneel before my charm. I will capture the hearts of all devils and humans. Don’t you think that’s the same as being the ruler of everything?」
「I see……that sounds really close to a devil king.」
「Right? That’s why I──」
「Oi! Look there, that’s Hoshigaoka Stella!!」
Several guests were pointing at us ahead of the passage.
「It’s true!」
「Crap! I need to take a photo quick! I’m gonna ask for photo too!!」
‘Tsk’ Stella clicked her tongue and rushed into the storage room’s door.
「Ah! She ran!」
「Let’s chase her!!」
Five, six men followed after her into the storage room. The other customers also heard the commotion and started making a ruckus. The surrounding became noisy.
So this was Hoshigaoka Stella’s influence.
She was obtaining energy from her fans’ heats through live show or acting. There was also a devil king candidate like this. It felt like scales had fallen from my eyes.
I wondered what kind of personality and peculiarity other candidates had.
Come to think of it, the brown skinned and blond haired girl who I met at the unveiling, Neith Carnac……she looked really shy and reserved. It was a bit interesting how she didn’t look like devil king candidate at all.
However that was nothing more than a single side of her. If their surface layer was peeled, all of them were monster. The strongest devils who aimed to become the next devil king.
I had to win against such monsters. I didn’t have any confidence at all. But, for the sake of Lizel-senpai and others who believed in me and intentionally picked the thorny path……I had to do it no matter what.
I was waiting for Lizel-senpai while thinking such thing.
──However,
After that, senpai didn’t come back no matter how long I waited.
