– STORY –

Humanity is nothing but a s*ave for the devil race──.

A normal high school student, Morioka Yuuto was chosen to

be a candidate for the next devil king. He transferred to the
academy for the devils, Ginsei (Silver Star) Academy where
he was held in disdain by other students. “──I swear I’ll
make you the devil king. That’s why…… make me your
retainer” Yuuto’s encounter with a beautiful devil,
Himekami Lizel changed his life and his world. He could
learn any kind of magic instantly and absorb magic power
infinitely by getting skin contact with his girl retainers.
That was a special power that the devil race didn’t have and
was only permitted for the human Yuuto. The human who
became a devil king candidate challenged the strongest
devils in order to become the devil king of justice!

Exhilarating and fascinating. The fantasy story of climbing

up in magic academy is beginning!

– GENRE –

Action Adult Adventure Comedy Drama Ecchi Fantasy

Harem Mature Mystery Romance School Life Seinen
Supernatural
When I regained my consciousness, I found Himekami Lizel-senpai straddling me.

“Yuuto, you’re awake?”

Lizel-senpai smiled kindly to me while tilting her head slightly. Her long glossy silky
black hair was flowing from her shoulder until her chest.

Her black hair flowed as though it was avoiding the two voluptuous mountains. Its
luster looked beautiful on her white skin.

The two large bulges were covered with an almost transparent black bra. However the
bra’s shoulder straps weren’t in its proper place. It was only barely hanging onto her
breasts.

When I raised my head to look at my lower body, senpai’s thighs that were wrapped
in garter belts and black stockings entered my eyes, along with her panties that were
a matching set with her bra.

What an extremely dangerous sight.

When I rested my head on the pillow again, senpai’s breasts entered into my sight once
more. Even though these breasts were already as huge as they were, the impact was
doubled when I looked up to them from below like this.

I tried to move my gaze from senpai’s breasts to her kindly smiling face, but her face
was located behind her breasts, so I couldn’t avoid looking at them no matter what.

“E-err…… this place is?”

I noticed that the room was a familiar looking just as I was about to ask where I was.

Then I noticed the pleasant texture of the bed on my back.

Silver Star
Even for a world class facility like this, only private Ginsei Academy──aka Devil King
Academy, must be able to have a king-size bed like this as furniture in its waiting room.

“So I fainted after using up too much magic power again…… I’m sorry to give you extra
work like this.”

However Lizel-senpai shook her head. Her hair shook together with her heads
movement and her breasts were jiggling. It looked like her bra would fall of anytime
now.

“It’s no trouble at all. You worked really hard too today Yuuto, that’s why……”

Lizel-senpai smiled bewitchingly with moist eyes.

“We will give you plenty of service to heal you so you recover okay♥”

At that moment an astonishing elasticity pressed against my right arm.

When I looked to my right, there was a blonde haired gal laying at my side while
hugging my right arm.

“Yuuto was so sparkly cool today! Ehehe, I’ll also do my best to heal you up with a
whoosh! Enjoooy it to your heart’s content♡”

This girl, who talked with too much sound effects in her sentence that made her hard
to understand, was──Yuugaoze Miyabi.

While she was a student in the same year with me, she possessed a terrifyingly sexy
body with astounding enormous breasts, a large plump butt, and soft thighs.

The flesh that was already like a lethal weapon was pressed insistently on me.

And on my left arm there was a sensation that is a study in contrast.

“Reina too, Reina too will give her best to heal my lord.”

When I looked to my left, silver hair entered my sight.

There was a girl there with an adorable face that still had a trace of childishness in it.
A force of earnestness was pouring out from her expression.
Koiwai Reina. She was a second year student in the middle school and was 13 years
old.

She had a petite and flat body that was wrapped in sexy lingerie that was too adult for
her. She was sticking closely to my left side with admirable enthusiasm.

“Yuuto-san, Yuuto-san? Does your body hurt anywhere? Are you feeling bad or
something? Ah, are you hungry perhaps…… hah! Or maybe you are thirsty right now!?”

Reina was pampering me too much, or perhaps I should say being overprotective……
even though I was older than her.

Then my abs felt the extremely smooth texture of cloth.

A black brassiere was placed on top of my abdomen.

When I looked up, I found Lizel-senpai smiling sweetly, with the palms of her hands
hiding the tips of her breasts.

“Yuuto…… we will help you recover with our bodies any time, and make you the next
devil king without fail.”

My name was Morioka Yuuto.

I was just a normal high school student until one month ago.

But now I am a candidate to become the next devil king and enrolled into the Devil
King academy where the devils were going to.

I could have never imagined that the day of being healed by three extraordinarily
beautiful girls like this would happen, even in my wildest dreams.

I would become the next devil king no matter what for the sake of these girls, who
were devoting themselves so much to me.

However, our enemies were also devil king candidates who also possessed [Devil King
Arcana] like me.

They were the ultimate monsters who couldn’t be opposed by any normal means.
In contrast with those chosen elite devils, I was just a mere human without anything
out of ordinary.

Even so, I had to win at any cost.

Because that day I obtained my Devil King Arcana.

──My fate began the morning of that day.

[Wake up.]

“Nn……”

[It’s time to wake up, my master.]

My body stirred on the bed.

What was this sound? It wasn’t the familiar sound of my alarm and it wasn’t the
electronic sound that I set up as my smartphone’s ringtone either, or my mom’s voice.

It was a woman’s voice that sounded somewhat mechanical…… What’s more, the
wording was strange. Who was it calling master?

“……Did I set up the alarm with a strange sound while I was half asleep?”

I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.

“……What’s this?”

A card was placed beside my pillow.

It was a pretty sparkling card. It had the picture of a naked man and woman facing
each other, and an angel in the background giving them its blessing.

[This is a Devil king arcana──The arcana of Lovers.]

The voice resounded inside my head as I picked up the card beside my pillow.

Was this card…… talking to me?

That’s stupid, was what I thought, but that was the only possibility that I could think
of. To begin with, why was something like this in my room? Was it my mom’s or dad’s
card?

I went down the stair still wearing my pajamas and entered the living room. Mom was
preparing breakfast in the kitchen and Dad was sitting on the sofa watching the news
on the internet using a tablet.

The two of them should be around their 40’s, but looked strangely youthful. I hesitated
briefly who I should ask before showing the card to my dad.

“Hey Dad, was it you who put this card beside my pillow?”

“Hm? What, you didn’t even say good morning──”

Dad was struck speechless after seeing the card in my hand. His tablet slipped from
his hand and fell on his foot, but he didn’t even twitch.

“Oi, wasn’t that painfu──”

“Mo-Mom-!! Look, look at thissssssssss-!!”

Mom rushed into the living room in panic due to Dad’s sudden scream.

“Dear!? What’s wrong!?”

“Yu-Yuuto is…… Yuuto is, chosen as a candidate to become the next demon kingggggggg!!”

“Eh!?”

Mom also stiffened the moment she saw the card. Tears started to immediately pool
up in her eyes immediately.

“Wait…… wh-what’s wrong? Mom──”

“YUU-KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!”

She suddenly hugged me.

“Wai-Wait!?”
What was going on!? The last time Mom hugged me was when I was in elementary
school! Or rather, what were these two going on about!?

I looked at Dad to ask for help, but he was also getting all teary eyed.

“L-l-listen to me Yuuto. C-c-c-c-c-calm down and p-p-p-pay attention.”

“Y-yeah…… You calm down Dad.”

“What you have right there is a Devil King arcana.”

──Devil king arcana?

“Do you know about tarot cards Yuuto?”

“Well, more or less…… you use them for fortune telling right?”

“That’s right. Tarot cards are divided into the major arcana and minor arcana. This card
is one of the major arcana…… the arcana of Lovers. This is also my first time seeing it.”

I turned my gaze toward the card once more. [THE LOVERS] was written on it.

“Hee…… eh? Then it wasn’t you guys who put it beside my pillow? Then how──”

Mom grabbed my arms and shook me back and forth with all her strength.

“It’s because you were chosen to be a candidate to become the next devil king!!”

──Devil king candidate?

I was worried about my parents’ sanity.

I would have never thought that would still have chuunibyou syndrome at their age.
These parents of mine couldn’t be underestimated.

“You see…… we are actually──working for the devil race……”

I felt like I was going to faint.

“What do you mean? Are you two being tricked to enter some strange cult?”
“That’s not it, I meant we are working with the devils.”

Their sickness was no joke. My parents weren’t good in their heads. I had to do
something right away.

“Dad failed to find a job in the past…… then a devil invited me. Their conditions were
far better compared to a normal company…… Because of that, I joined a company that
was managed by the devil race and worked as a support to make it easier for them to
do their activities in the human world.”

“H-hee…… when, you say devil, do you mean a superior you hate or something?”

“I know it’s hard to believe something like this out of nowhere, but…… for example”

Dad spread his palm and a small flame arose from it.

“Eh!?”

What’s this, a magic trick?

“Just so you know, this isn’t a trick.”

I checked my dad’s palm, but I didn’t find any gadget of the sorts. Dad grinned and
showed me the ring on his left hand’s ring finger.

“This is the power of the ring that a devil gave to me. I got it as a reward for my ten
years of continuous service.”

Dad showed off the ring while looking strangely happy. That wasn’t a wedding ring?

“Mom, you show him too.”

“I guess…… ah!”

Mom noticed that the frying pan in the kitchen was still being heated, and stretched
her hand toward the gas stove. Then the adjustment dial of the stove rotated and the
fire stopped.

“……Seriously?”
Mom suddenly appeared to be Luke Skywalker.

“I can only do this much though…… ah, but this ring also has an anti-aging effect! It’s
already the best just from that!”

Mom was also showing off the ring on her left hand’s ring finger. Even so, after hearing
the story of these two, the existence of devils felt like it wasn’t that unbelievable
anymore……

“we want to live as devils instead of humans…… sometimes we would think that.
But──”

“A human cannot become a devil. It doesn’t matter how hard a human works, at best
they will be given the title of honorary devil. And even that is nearly impossible to
reach unless you make a great contribution for the devil race.”

“Even this ring, its anti-aging effect is amazing but…… its other effect can only be used
for cooking at best. While Dad’s ring can only be used for making a campfire.”

You don’t need to say that mom. I’m amazed you can say such cruel things so casually.

Dad was also looking slightly hurt, but he immediately recovered and spoke to me.

“The devil world has a strict class system. That’s why we had given up, and yet…… to
think that you can……”

Dad rubbed his tearful eyes.

“A-anyway. Now that it has come to this, we need to take care of the school transfer
procedure right away.”

“Eh? School transfer?”

Mom started shaking my body back and forth again after I said that.

“That’s exactly right! Aaah! Yuu-kun is going to become a student at Ginsei Academy!
I’m so happy!!”

“W-wait a second! What’s with the sudden school transfer!?”

Mom wiped her tears of joy with her fingertip and answered while breathing loudy.

“It’s the rule that a devil king candidate will enroll into Ginsei Academy.”

“Ginsei Academy…… what’s that?”

I looked towards Dad with a puzzled look. Then he nodded with tearful eyes.

“Ginsei Academy──also known as devil king academy, is the academy where noble
and high class devils go to.”

──Devil king academy.

My parents were actually working for devils, I became a devil king candidate, and I
was transferring to an academy where devils went to. It was a special bargain sale of
shocking developments and it felt like my consciousness was going to leave me.

In addition, apparently I couldn’t avoid transferring to that devil king academy. I felt
like it would be wrong of me to refuse after seeing my parents so happy.

Besides, if I would be honest, I was also feeling slightly excited. It wasn’t like I was
dissatisfied by my mediocre life.

But there wasn’t any man who wouldn’t be excited if he learned that there was actually
a special world inside this world that looked like it contained no mysteries or miracles
at all.

What’s more, I received the qualifications to step into that world.

Then──,

“I’m going, to the devil king academy!”

As expected, I couldn’t transfer schools right the next day.

There were many things to prepare, like ordering a new uniform or taking care of the
transfer procedure. A week passed just like that.
During that time I also gave a heads up to my old school that I would be transferring,
and bid my farewell to my acquaintances there.

It felt quite suffocating to say farewell in the classroom and then leave the school all
alone while classes were going on like normal.

But even those sentimental feelings passed quickly when I finally arrived at my new
school.

“So this is Ginsei Academy……”

According to the academy manual that I received beforehand, it was a huge school that
included elementary, middle, and high school. It boasted great scale as the academy
was built for the devil race.

The academy grounds was huge and filled with a lot of facilities. Although it was
located at the outskirt of the city, it was astonishing that no one realized the existence
of an academy this grand. Apparently it was the result of a barrier that was applied to
the academy.

The barrier made it so that the citizens in this area didn’t feel that there was anything
out of place here. I also heard things like politicians that were subordinates of the devil
race pressuring the mass media and so on.

I was in front of the school gate of such a wondrous academy.

The gate was magnificent. But the school didn’t lose to it in extravagance. The building’s
architecture was a cool design that must have cost a lot of money.

I was feeling somewhat daunted, even so I felt exhilarated. I was wondering what
would be waiting here for me.

I passed through the gate, with my heart filled with the expectations of a new life, and
headed to the school building──half way there I got an uneasy feeling from the
attention of the surrounding students.

As expected, did they know that I was a human? After all I was apparently the first
human to become a student in the devil king academy…… or perhaps my commoner
nature was oozing out of me? There were a lot of students here who came from an
aristocrat background or wealthy family even amongst the devil race.
“Oh man…… it’ll be tiring just to be here if it’s like this.”

At that time, a black limousine drove past me, and parked in front of the entrance of
the school building.

A student who had been waiting for it opened the door. A handsome gray haired guy
got out of the limousine. But his atmosphere was different from your average Joe. This
guy had an air around him that pressured other people.

Should I say that he’s got a different aura? The pressure that he gave off was on a
different level. I could easily accept it if I was told that he was a devil with a noble
background.

His gaze was gloomy and heavy as though he was lacking sleep. It was a gaze that
looked down on the whole world. There was also an eerie presence lurking within
him.

All of those signs were telling me that this guy wasn’t a human, but a different creature
altogether.

This guy is dangerous──my instinct was telling me so.

If this guy felt like it, he could surely kill me in an instant.

“……Hm?”

Crap, our eyes met.

However, the guy only frowned slightly before entering the school building.

I’m glad that nothing happened and patted my chest in relief. But──,

“Oi, you bastard!”

The guy who opened the door of the limousine was glaring at me.

He was a student with gaudily dyed blond hair. He gave an impression that was
completely different from a rich young master. I was surprised that these kind of
students were also here.
The student seemed to think I was ignoring him because I was staying quiet. His gaze
sharpened as he walked towards me.

“What the hell were you doing staring at Aspite-sama like that? Eh!?”

Aspite?

“You mean, the student who got down from the limousine just now?”

“Obviously you idiot! Are you playing stupid…… then again, I never saw your mug
around here.”

“Aaa. I only transferred here today.”

The expression of the gaudy looking student changed.

“Don’t tell me……!? You’re the transfer student with the Lovers arcana, you bastard!?”

──Eh, how did he know?

The gaudy looking student calmed down while staring at my face. But then his flustered
face completely changed into a wicked grin.

“Now this is lucky…… I heard that a new devil king candidate is coming, but it’s actually
this weak looking guy. I can’t even feel any mana from you…… don’t tell me. You aren’t
even a noble but a commoner, you bastard?”

“Not really…… I’m a human.”

The face of the gaudy looking student twisted as burst out laughing.

“Wahahahahahahahahahahahahha!! That’s real funny! So not only are you not a

commoner, you aren’t even a demon!? You’re just trash then!”

“Trash…… what do you mean by that?”

“Ah, perhaps I’m going too far calling you trash. Well, you’re more of a pig I guess.”

“A Pig!?”
“For us, the likes of humans are just livestock like pigs. What the hell are you doing
you pig, wearing this devil king academy’s uniform huh!? Know your fucking place!
Apologize for talking back to me, Geld-sama! Strip and dogeza with your peepee
dangling!”

What the hell is this Geld bastard prattling about?

His behavior made me go past anger and went into exasperation instead. Were there
only these kind of people amongst the devil race?

“Are you listening you bastard!? Huuhh!!”

I held back the anger that was boiling up inside me.

“I’m listening. I understand that you can’t stomach me coming here, but I got permission
for my enrollment. Can you please let me pass?”

This guy was moderately strong too, I was strangely able to sense that, even if it wasn’t
as strong as that Aspite guy.

I sensed something whirling within Geld’s body. Is this mana? I didn’t really understand,
but at the very least I was certain that he wasn’t an opponent I could face.

Besides, I shouldn’t cause a scene on my first day of school. I remembered how happy
my parents were that I was able to enroll into this academy. I needed to endure a little
provocation like this.

“What’s with that way of speaking!! You lack discipline eh…… guess it can’t be helped
for a pig like you that was born from a stinky geezer and hag.”

……What did he just say?

“Your parents are a useless old man with no worth at all, and a hag who can only give
birth to a shitty brat.”

“……”

I gritted my teeth and walked toward the entrance. However,

“Where are you going, Shitty pigggg?!”

Something inside me snapped the moment he called me to a stop.

“……What? Can you speak with words please? I don’t get what the hell you’re saying
with those pig sounds of yours. Can you please talk to me using human language?”

“Wha-?”

It looked like Geld never thought that I would talk back to him. He froze in place with
his mouth wide open.

I kept talking.

“I don’t know how strong you are, but it doesn’t make you are a great person or
someone worthy of respect. Keep that in mind.”

“B-bastard……”

“What’s important for humans is the heart. Only those who live with a righteous heart
are worthy of respect. You don’t deserve any respect right now. You’re despicable
instead.”

The students who were watching from afar were starting to murmur to each other.

“Oi, that human…… he is disobeying Geld who is from a viscount house.”

“He really doesn’t cherish his own life. Geld was the one who caused that bloodbath
with his classmate before wasn’t he?”

“What’s more, he is chosen to be one of Aspite-sama’s cards right? That transfer student
is just a human no matter how I see it…… he’s going to die.”

……Isn’t this a bit dangerous?

I would have ignored it if it was just me, but I couldn’t forgive him for insulting my
mom and dad no matter what──but maybe it would have been better if I had quickly
scampered from here.

But just as I was about to go to the entrance,

“……You’re on…… I’ll kill you right now!!”

A vein popped on Geld’s forehead.

Crap, looks like this guy has completely snapped.

“If I kill you, you bastard, then perhaps Aspite-sama will promote me to be his court
card, yeahhhh!!”

Court card? No, forget about that, was this guy saying dangerous things like “kill” just
now!?

It would be bad if the commotion got bigger than it already is. I should calm him down
for now.

“Well, calm down a bit. It’s not good to fight inside the school grounds you know?”

But it didn’t look like he was listening to me at all.

What am I going to do if he suddenly tries to stab me with a knife?

Geld didn’t pay any mind to my worries and pointed his open hands toward me.

“How dare you talk back towards me, a card of Aspite-sama the world arcana…? Show
regret with your death!!”

So that means that the guy just now was also a devil king candidate──whatever, it
doesn’t matter right now!!

Flames had started to gather in the hands that Geld had spread out. The flames took
the shape of a ball that rotated with great speed. It was a terrifying magical flame that
couldn’t be compared to the fire that Dad showed me before.

Mega Flame
“Eat this! Figa !!”

Geld pushed both his arms forward and the mass of flames flew towards me.

If I don’t dodge it──,

“!?”

The flame ball was already right in front of me before I could notice.
Fast!?!

It was too fast for me to be able to dodge it.

It was so sudden that I wasn’t even able yell.

What the hell is this!?

For me to game over on my first day of school, I haven’t even entered the school
building.

I couldn’t apologize to my mom and dad enough who were so happy for me.

To think that my life would end because of something like this──,

The moment I had resigned myself, the flame was deflected away from me.

“What!?”

The flame was blocked by an invisible wall in front of me. No, rather than a wall, it was
a shining magic barrier.

And then the back of the girl who had deployed that magic barrier caught my sight.

Beautiful black hair that grew long until her waist. Slender legs with black stockings
covering them stretched out from the uniform’s skirt.

I was convinced that she was a beauty even though I had only seen her back.

And that conviction was proven to be right when she looked over her shoulder and
showed me her face.

She was the definition of beauty.

With a mature expression like that, she must be older than me. She had long eyelashes,
unclouded eyes and beautiful lustrous skin. Her shiny pink lips opened which allowed
me to catch a glimpse of her pure white teeth.

“Are you alright?”

Her voice was refreshing and dignified. Even though I was in a deadly situation where
I could lose my life, she was behaving very calm. And above all else, there was her
beauty. It was as though a goddess or an angel had appeared before me.

But this was the devil king academy, so perhaps she was more of a witch or a
demon──or maybe a succubus.

In fact, I felt my spine shudder just from getting stared at by her.

The flame vanished and Geld started to yell angrily.

“You… Himekami Lizel! You’re in the way!!”

──Himekami Lizel, so that was her name.

She smiled towards me before looking at Geld once more.

“You should worry about yourself. A mere card dares to make a move towards another
devil king candidate without permission from his lord. You’re going to get punished
later.”

“Gu……”

Geld faltered for a moment, but his anger from getting looked down upon took the
upper hand. His face turned bright red and yelled so angrily that his saliva flew
through the air.

“Don’t screw with me, you bitch! It was you who dared to ignore Aspite-sama’s
invitation! Even though he was even going to make you the World Arcana’s queen!!”

“I’m not interested.”

“Aspite-sama is the owner of the World arcana you know!? Don’t you know that it’s
said that he’s the closest amongst the devil king candidates to becoming the next Devil
King!?”

“He isn’t to my liking.”

Geld’s mouth opened in exasperation.

“A…… are you stupid!? He is the heir of the Line House! He’s handsome and is able to
do anything. He’s a man who is going to be the best in the world in anything he does,
without a doubt! Any woman is going to go weak in the knees for him! Women who
want to be embraced by Aspite-sama are a dime a dozen!”

I could only see her back, but I got the feeling that Himekami Lizel’s expression was
looking grim.

“I don’t feel like talking with you any more than this. The only one I have business with
is… Morioka Yuuto.”

She glanced back at me and winked.

It was a wink that would make any man fall in love with her.

“I also don’t have any business with you! Screw off! I have a fight to finish with that
human!!”

Flames started whirling around Geld once more.

“It’s obvious from just from a glance! I can’t feel any mana or magic circles from that
guy! He seriously is just a human! Obviously it’s just a mistake that a Devil King Arcana
came into his possession! But it still is counted as defeating a devil king candidate if I
take him down. I’m going to rise in rank using that guy as a stepping stone!”

Geld turned his palm towards me with a vulgar grin. Magic circles started forming in
front of his hand.

“……Guess I have no other choice.”

The back of the reliable Himekami Lizel moved aside──wait, eh!?

She twirled with dancing-like movements and circled behind me. She placed her
hands on my shoulders and stuck close to me.

“You have the Lovers Arcana with you right?”

“Eh? Y-yeah.”

Her breath tickled my ear. My back started shudder because of it.

I could smell a really nice fragrance from her.

And there was a soft sensation touching my back.

My heart started pounding because of that sensation. Even so, I still had the composure
to bring out the Lovers Arcana from under my shirt.

It was kept inside a card case that was hanging from my neck with a chain. Mom
prepared it for me.

“Don’t worry. The arcana will teach you the magic you need…… believe in it.”

“Even if you say that…?!”

“It’s fine. Take a deep breath and calm down.”

It was almost impossible to calm down in this kind of situation, but I could only try.
For starters I took a long and deep breath.

“Good job. Next you have to wish for it. Ask for a shield to protect yourself.”

When I did as she told me──,

Magic Barrier
[Defensive magic Barricade acquired.]

──A voice resounded in my head.

“How is it? Can you hear the arcana’s voice?”

──The arcana’s voice?

That voice just now was certainly the one that woke me up the morning when the
Lovers Arcana came to me. As I thought, it really was its voice.

A complex string of characters and drawings started to form in my head the next
moment.

What’s this!?

Letters and drawings that I had never seen before──no,

This was the magic barrier that Himekami Lizel used to block Geld’s flames.

And then, the meaning of the incomprehensible magic circle, ──I understand it.

Mysteriously, I understood the meaning of its mechanism right away.

The meaning of every single letter and geometrical pattern.

I thought it was just a design without any meaning at first, but it’s far from that. Every
single part of it had a purpose. It was only natural for the magic circle to take this
shape.

“Fufu, it looks like you can hear it.”

She whispered into my ear in delight. Her voice felt ticklish in my ear, but the soft
elasticity that was pressing on my back was even more terrific than that.

“I could hear it, but… they… they are touching my back……”

Himekami Lize blew and whispered seductively into my ear.

“I know♥”

Shivers ran from my lower body to my head. My back felt a softness that I had never
experienced before. A warm and mysterious sensation was spreading from that
location into my body. It flowed through my nerves and blood vessels, and reached
every corner of my body.

What’s this?

It was hard to describe but…… it was something extremely concentrated. Should I call
it the undiluted combination of endurance and willpower? The energy contained
outrageous explosive power and was flowing into my body.

The more it flowed through my body, the more the power started to well up, and the
more my feelings started to clear up. It was an overpowering hope. It even felt like my
brain was gradually speeding up.

I could see things that I could never see before, and heard sound that I never heard.
Even things that I thought were impossible, were possible now──that’s what I felt like.

“Yuuto, imagine pouring the mana into the magic circle floating inside your head.”

Mana?

Did she mean this mysterious sensation that was flowing into me from Himekami
Lizel’s breasts?

When I looked forward, Geld was forming a flame that was several times larger than
before.
“Don’t flirt in the middle of the battle you fuckers! This time it isn’t going to be the
same as before! I’m going to incinerate you two without even leaving your bones
behind!!”

This is bad! We’re going to get burned to death at this rate!!

I desperately imagined the warmth that came from Himekami Lizel’s breasts flowing
into the magic circle.

But at the same time,

“DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

Explosive flames from Geld’s hand were fired toward us.

──Is this the end!?

I threw my left hand forward in blind desperation and yelled the incantation.

“Barricade!!”

A magic circle appeared in front of my left hand.

To my surprise, the flames that attacked us like a muddy stream were completely
repelled by the magic circle in front of me.

“WHATTTTT!?”

Geld’s face distorted in shock.

The flame magic that he formed at full power, by pouring time and mana into it, had
been repelled by an amateur like me.

Well of course he would have been shocked. I was even more surprised than he was.

Let’s run away using this chance──that thought crossed my mind, but Himekami Lizel
was firmly pressing down on my shoulders from behind me.

“Next is attack magic.”

Seriously?

Geez, this person is a slave driver.

I desperately held back my complaint and prayed to the arcana once more.

At this rate both of us would get burned to death.

Please Devil King Arcana, give me the strength to fight, so I can save myself and the
person behind me!

Then──,

[Attack magic Figa acquired.]

I could hear the arcana’s voice and pushed my right hand forward.

A magic circle with a slightly different shape formed in front of my palm.

This was the same magic circle that Geld created just now.

However, the quality was different.

Only then I realized the power of the Lovers Arcana that dangling in front of my chest.

And also the power of Himekami Lizel, who was supplying me with mana.

“Figa!!”

Flames burst from my magic circle as I yelled that.

Flames attacked Geld like a muddy stream. Its firepower and speed were several times
higher than his.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

Geld had laid out a defensive magic circle, but he was washed away along with it.

His body was sent flying and crashed into the entrance. Shore racks were crashing
from the impact and he got buried under them.
The students that were watching became quiet.

I was worried for Geld’s safety after seeing how powerful the attack was.

“……Is he going to be okay?”

I turned around looking for an answer.

I found Himekami Lizel looking surprised.

I unconsciously gulped, seeing her beauty from this close.

“……Unbelievable. To think that you really succeeded.”

Eh?

By that…… don’t tell me this person intended for me to die!?

“I was planning to interfere in case you failed, but…… this changes everything.”

She seemed to read my expression and added those words with a smile.

“For you to be capable of producing this much firepower with your first magic spell……
to be honest, this has surpassed my expectations. As expected from the owner of a
Devil King Arcana…… no, that’s not all.”

Himekami Lizel was staring at me with a heated gaze.

It was embarrassing and my eyes unconsciously started darting around.

I didn’t know that it would be this embarrassing to be stared at, by such a transcendental
beauty like her!

“E-err, Himekami Lizel-san? What could you possibly be……”

“I am Himekami Lizel from class 2-A. You can call me Lizel. Please treat me well, my
devil king.”

Second year student…… as I thought, she was a senior──wait, devil king!?

“Lizel-senpai…… I have…… a lot of things I want to ask, but for now, thank……”

Eh? I wanted to say thank you, but my sight had started to blur……

Lizel-senpai smiled affectionately.

“Don’t force yourself. Rest well.”

For some reason I felt dizzy. Was it because I was staring at a beauty from this close?

There was no way that that was the case──I self-retorted before my consciousness
was cut off.

When I woke up, I was laying on a bed.

Was I carried to the infirmary……?

“I’m glad, it looks like you have woken up.”

“Eh?”

When I looked to my side, Lizel-senpai’s face entered my sight.

“……Tsu!?”

I jumped in surprise.

The blanket on Lizel-senpai’s body and my own was flipped up by my movements.

“Yahn♡”

Lizel-senpai let out a cute moan and covered her breasts with her hand.

Her naked body, without a single cloth covering it, appeared from under the blanket.

She’s n-naked!?

“I, I’m so sorry-!”

I gasped and checked my own body. My upper body was naked, but fortunately I was
still wearing my briefs.

“E-err…… t-this is…… what’s going on?”

As I muttered my question, Lizel-senpai smiled calmly in response.

Love Magic Offering

“I was performing the ritual for the healing magic…… Healing Lovers .”

Lizel-senpai was lying on her belly with her hands supporting her cheeks. The blanket
was only partly hiding her butt from below, revealing half of her butt-crack. Her white
back that was completely laid bare shined brightly.

Her large breasts were flattened against the bed and spilled out to the sides.

Lizel-senpai must have noticed my gaze, but she didn’t even try to hide her body.

“E-err…… ritual? Magic? Healing Lovers?”

“You only just awakened as a devil king candidate. You ran out of mana just from using
a little bit of simple magic. That’s why I’m healing you like this, by sharing my mana
with you. Like this your mana can recover instantly. This is a special ability that only
The Lovers Arcana possesses──a characteristic magic.”

I touched the Lovers Arcana that was dangling from my neck like a pendant. My upper
body was naked but the pendant was still here.

I obtained knowledge of magic from the arcana in the fight before.

In addition mana was pouring into me from Lizel-senpai’s breasts. At the very least
that was what it felt like.

“Say, Lizel-senpai. Just now, when I fought Geld, from my back, it felt like there was──”

“Yes. I used Healing Lovers to send mana to you through my breasts.”

The way she said that straight to my face was embarrassing. It was especially
embarrassing to hear the word ‘breast’ from a girl’s mouth.

“Was that your first time using magic Yuuto?”

“Yes, it was.”

“Fufu, so you are really just a human. It feels refreshing somehow.”

Lizel-senpai sat up while covering her breasts with her arms. I got a peek of her plump
thigh when her leg popped out from under the blanket.

I gulped unconsciously.

Lizel-senpai hid her breasts with one hand while her other hand reached towards my
chest.

“Ah……”

Her slightly cold hand touched my chest, it was really soft.

So a woman’s palm felt this soft.

“By having skin contact like this, my mana is absorbed by the Healing Lovers to heal
you. The deeper our bond, and the stronger our feelings for each other are, the greater
the effect will be. But if there is no intimate relationship between the two sides, then
skin contact on a spot that is special to touch will be more effective.”

I see…… so that was why senpai was intentionally pressing her breasts against me
when I was fighting Geld. The situation right now was also to make me recover after I
lost consciousness.

“That was also my first time doing it though.”

Lizel-senpai tilted her head slightly, and her glossy black hair slid smoothly over her
white skin.

She certainly was my senior by a year, but it was unthinkable for a high school student
to be this charming.

My eyes couldn’t look away from her sex appeal regardless of my intention, but then I
noticed that she was also staring at me. I reflexively took my eyes off her and started
to look around.

Besides the large bed the room also contained a table, chairs, a sofa, a TV, a cupboard,
a closet, and a dresser. All the furniture was high quality. This place looked like a high
class hotel. However when I looked at the walls, the ceiling, and the windows, it felt
like something was out of place.

“Where is this place?”

“This is the waiting room of the Lovers team, also known as a palace. It’s located at the
third floor of the school building.”

“……Wait, are we… are we still in the academy!?”

“Indeed, this is in the academy. The devil king candidates are given their own waiting
room. Also pardon me, but I took the liberty of decorating this room arbitrarily.”

I looked around the room once more. She called this a waiting room, but its size was
that of a normal classroom. Even this bed was king-sized. Furthermore it got a canopy
attached. It was extremely pleasant to sleep on.

Lizel-senpai turned her back to me and took the black underwear that was placed on
the table besides the bed.

She started putting a sexy black bra on while talking to me.

“I will slowly teach you the details after this, so that you can win the Devil King War
that decides who becomes the next devil king.”

──The Devil king war?

I got a bad premonition from hearing those worrisome words.

“S-somehow…… I got the feeling that it won’t be a peaceful process.”

“Yes, it’s a war that decides who will ascend to the throne of the devil king.”

“Haah!? You mean that I’ll have to do more battles like the one just now senpai!?”

Senpai put her hands on her back and hooked the bra strap in place. Her movements
were extremely bewitching.

“No, it won’t be like the previous fight.”

I’m glad. Even if I had more than one life, it wouldn’t be enough if I had to continue
doing something like that.

“It won’t be that kind of child’s play, but a real battle. It will be a real fight against the
strongest devils who possess their own Devil King arcana…… They are all unparalleled
monsters in their own right. There is no guarantee that you’ll be able to keep your life.”

That’s even worse!!

“Err, isn’t there a more peaceful way to do this…… like a discussion, or a vote……”

Lizel-senpai kept sitting on the bed while bending forward, then stood up and pulled
up her panties.

For a moment it felt like I could get a glimpse of her butt.

Lizel-senpai turned around to look at me whose mind had gone blank and smiled
reassuringly.

“It will be fine. You won’t fight alone.”

“Eh?”

Lizel-senpai fixed the garter belt around her waist and placed her right foot on the
sofa before putting her black stockings on.

“A devil king candidate can have retainers who are called cards. Geld is a card for
example.”

Now that she mentions it,

“Geld…… that guy is a card of a devil king candidate called Aspite, the World arcana
──he is his retainer isn’t he?”

If I remembered correctly the person himself also said something like that.

“That’s right,that’s why I have a request.”

“A request?”
“I want you to make me your card.”

Senpai? Becoming my card?

Nonono, I’m just an amateur who was a normal human until last week. In contrast,
Lizel-senpai is a considerably powerful person. Geld mentioned how she was scouted
to be the World Arcana’s queen. Someone like me isn’t suitable for her.

“But, in this kind of thing…… the master is usually the stronger one right?”

“Yes. You’re right.”

“Then──”

“Because, you will become stronger.”

Lizel-senpai answered casually.

“I will train you to obtain strength more than anyone, strength worthy of a devil king.”

I was dumbfounded.

“You mean…… I will become your disciple?”

“No, you will still be my master, I want to become your card, your trump card. I want
to serve you and become the strength that pushes you to become the devil king.
Training you is also a part of that.”

Lizel-senpai connected her stockings to the garter belt.

It was the final part of a sexy lingerie show. However I didn’t have the composure to
enjoy the beautiful and provocative body before my eyes.

“No no no no no! Impossible impossible impossible! I would have been dead already
if it wasn’t for your help you know?!”

It would be bad for me to stay here any longer.

It will be disappointing for Mom and Dad, but I will relinquish this arcana and return
to my former ordinary life.
I got down from the bed.

“I’m thankful for senpai’s offer, but I’m just an amateur…… eh? Where is my uniform?”

“Yes, you’re an amateur. You didn’t have any knowledge of magic or mana until this
morning.”

Lizel-senpai stood in front of me and stared at me with a serious gaze.

“But you have caught a glimpse of the depths of magic and saw a fragment of the world
of devils. There is no going back for you.”

“Senpai…… how can you have that much confidence in me?”

“You could hear the voice of the arcana.”

“That’s just because I’m a devil king candidate──”

Senpai shook her head left and right.

“Even a devil king candidate cannot hear the arcana’s voice normally. You are loved by
the arcana. That’s one of the reasons.”

One of the reasons…… are there any other?

“Besides even if the arcana teaches you magic, it depends on the person himself to
immediately understand and use it. Yuuto, you were able to use Barricade and Figa
without any trouble, even though you only just learned them. In other words you have
talent for it. Besides……”

Lizel-senpai’s cheeks slightly reddened. Her confident attitude that was full of
composure until now, suddenly reversed with a bit of shyness because of her next words.

“……our body affinity seems to match well too…”

It felt like my heart was shot.

It made me wonder if this was also magic.

I was thinking to myself that I would do anything for her right now.
“Lizel-senpai…… I’m──”

Suddenly the door opened with a sound.

“Senpaaai! Are you ‘snip snap’ finished?”

“P-pardon us, pardon us…… desu desu~.”

Two female students entered the waiting room.

Lizel-senpai sighed in annoyance when she saw the two.

“Miyabi, Reina, I told you two that I’ll be the one doing the talking.”

“Hahaaa, but we couldn’t wait any longer, so ‘bam’ here we are. Ehehehe.”

The one who said that was the girl with the blond twin tails. She was wearing her
uniform in a very casual style with a lot of exposure. She was also wearing showy
accessories and makeup.

She was a gal.

“I’m Yuugaoze Miyabi-! I’m from class 1-D, I’m a gal. Nice to meetcha!”

Her bright smile was dazzling, and the same could be said about the cleavage that was
visible in the middle of her shirt.

How could I describe her? She was an energetic person with breasts that looked like
they would make her shirt’s buttons pop off. The size of breasts might surpass those
of Lizel-senpai.

The other girl was a study in contrast.

She was short and the curves of her body were modest. She most likely was a student
in middle school.

“Err, err, Reina’s name is, Koiwai Reina. Reina is second year student in middle school……
e-err~, Reina is incompetent, but please take care of her desu desu.”

The girl with long silver hair bowed deeply.

As for this girl, she was adorable, like a small animal. She was already at her wits’ end
just from giving me a greeting and acted all flustered.

On the other hand, Yuugaoze wasn’t bashful in the slightest. She brought her face close
to mine and grinned widely.

“──Then, Yuuto, will you perform the ritual to formally recruit us as your cards? Let’s
do it quickly, snip snip.”
This person was using a lot of sound effects when talking…

“Err…… card’s ritual you said, Yuugaoze-san?”

Miyabi pouted.

“Too stiffff! Like a toy going ‘clack clack’. You can call me Miyabi, Mi – ya – bi!”

She winked and made a peace sign in front of her face. Certainly she was calling me
Yuuto already, even though this is our first time meeting each other, so I guess I could
call her Miyabi too.

“Got it, Miyabi. But before making anyone my card, I still don’t know anything about
the Devil King War, so……”

“Eeee!? Hey senpai, You haven’t talked about it with Yuuto yet?”

Miyabi looked dissatisfied. Lizel-senpai folded her arms and sighed.

“We would have been signing the formal contract already if you two hadn’t rushed in
here.”

Reina jerked and trembled, bowed her head and said “I’m sorry” repeatedly.

However, Miyabi showed no remorse at all, and brought her face closer to mine again.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. Hey, Yuuto, you have heard about how devil king candidates
have cards right? We’re a really good deal you know! You could call us high quality
products! Now, decide it with a bang already!”

“W-wait a second please. What you are asking for, is for everyone to become my
subordinates right?”

“Yup. Well, rather than calling us subordinates…… we’ll be more like retainers or your
battle strength…… ah”

Miyabi grinned widely, and pushed her breasts up with her hands, and twisted her
waist.

“Or like slaves? If you make me your card, you can do whatever you want with me.”
──W-whatever I want, she said!?

“Miyabi!”

Lizel-senpai shouted Miyabi’s name chidingly.

“Eee, but that’s true isn’t it? A card offers their body and heart to their master, and it’s
especially true for the Lovers arcana.”

“Yes it is, but be a little more delicate about the way you say it. That’s unrefined.”

“Sheesh, Senpai, you’re too overly serious, geeez”

She looked to the side and stuck out her tongue.

However, it seemed like Lizel-senpai had anticipated that.

“Miyabi? Is there something that you’re trying to say to me?”

“Nooope. I’m just thinking that it will be faster to use our charm. No boy will be able
to resist if we push him like that, that’s aaall”

“You won’t be trusted if you act like that. Besides, Yuuto is different from other men.”

Miyabi turned towards me as she unbuttoned even more buttons of her shirt that was
already showing cleavage from the start. She opened her collar and her breasts spilled
out from their restraints. Her cleavage and the bulges of her breasts that pressed
against each other were exposed even more. Her pink bra was completely visible now.

“There’s no such thing you know? He’s a boy after all, of course he wants to do lewd
things with a girl, don’t you?”

She gazed at me with upturned eyes and a fawning expression.

My heart almost yielded to the attack. However──,

“No…… please let me think about it for a while.”

“Eh?”
“I still don’t know anything about this academy and the Devil King War. If I make you
three my cards, it will most likely affect your life and destiny from here on out won’t
it? In that case, it’s not something that I should decide on thoughtlessly like that.”

“……”

The frivolous grin vanished from Miyabi’s expression.

Perhaps she felt put off by me? I continued even though I was thinking that.

“But perhaps I have potential if you are so intent on becoming my card. That’s why I
want to learn about this academy and the matters regarding the devil king first. After
that, I will carefully consider it before giving you my answer. Is that alright with you?”

Miyabi was staring at me with a clear gaze.

“Hmph…… I see, he might be different from other men.”

It was mysterious. Even though Miyabi’s appearance hadn’t changed, her atmosphere
felt more intellectual.

There was a hint of nobility, and even elegance coming from her.

Was this the real Miyabi?

But the next moment she reverted back to a carefree grin once more.

“Guess it can’t be helped. I’ll consider this as a period to convince you of my appeal ♡”

Next I moved my gaze to Reina.

“Reina too, Reina will wait until you have made your decision. But please don’t hesitate
to rely on Reina even before that. After all, Reina is Yuuto-san’s ally!”

She spoke with an angelic smile. Though it was strange to compare a devil to an angel.

“Err, really, if Yuuto-san needs anything, please tell Reina no matter what it is. Are you
tired? Maybe you’re hungry? Ah…… how about Reina shows Yuuto-san around the
academy?”
“Reina, you’re middle school student right?”

Lizel-senpai’s calm retort made Reina’s shoulders drop in dejection.

“Desu desu…”

Suddenly Lizel-senpai relaxed her shoulders and said,

“Let’s complete the formal contract when you have the resolve to make us your cards.
We will teach you a lot until then.”

“Yes, thank you very much…… also, there is one more thing that I’d like to ask.”

“What would you like to know?”

“Just now, you said that I have talent… but you seem to be popular, and there are more
devil king candidates…… why would you choose a mere human like me?”

Lizel-senpai folded her arms and looked at me with a gentle expression.

“Our ancestors have served the Lovers arcana for generations.”

Aah, I see now. So they’re like samurai who have served a feudal lord for generations……
so that’s why──,

“But that’s not all. It’s also my own desire.”

“Eh?”

Senpai took two steps toward me.

“I learned something from our conversation this morning. You have a strong heart that
won’t yield, no matter how powerful the opponent is, and will keep resisting even
against someone that you’re no match for.”

“Th-that’s just me being reckless…”

“You also have a heart that loves justice. You are someone who gets angry and fights
for other people’s sake. It’s really hard to find a devil king candidate like that.”
Her face was close, but her breasts were even closer.

“Haha…… isn’t that considered a flaw for devils?”

“No, I dislike using only fear and violence to rule the world. I refuse to live in a world
that only has the sense of value, and desires of a single person imposed on it.”

“Senpai……”

Her eyes were serious.

“Certainly fear and violence are necessary too, but it’s not good to rely on only those
things. There has to be love for each other too. That’s why the next devil king has to
be you Yuuto…”

Her large bulging breasts pressed against my chest.

“The Lovers arcana you possess is the only devil king arcana that has the power of
love…”

The power of love?

Reina raised her hand to show that she wanted to say something too.

“The meaning of the Lovers arcana is about the connection between people, their bond
desu desu. Also──”

Miyabi interrupted Reina and finished her sentence.

“Their passion and choices isn’t it? There’s also……”

She glanced toward Lizel-senpai.

“Fateful encounters, and then hope for the future.”

──Hope for the future.

“I have said this already, but we can’t accept someone ruling with only violence and
fear. We wish to serve a king who will allow us to hope for a future, where the world
is ruled with the power of love.”
“Senpai……”

My devil senpai whispered to me with an angelic smile.

“This encounter is fate…… that’s what I believe.”

In my first day of transfer, I fainted before entering the school building and after that
I received a lewd healing from Lizel-senpai and others in the devil king candidate’s
waiting room──aka the palace before going home.

If you only looked at the result, I was playing hooky right from the first day of school.

And then at the second day.

“Yuu-kun. How is the Ginsei Academy? Do you think you can keep up there?”

Mom asked me at the breakfast table with a cheerful smile. Guilt welled up inside me.

“Y-yeah. Well, somehow……”

Dad lifted up his face from his tablet after I answered hesitantly like that.

“Is there any problem there?”

“No, it’s nothing like that.”

“Is that so? Then that’s good but…… dad was so worried about you yesterday that I
could only win ten consecutive victories in my fighting game.”

“There’s no problem if you can win that many.”

My parents were game lover. They could even be called a gamer. If I had to say more,
they were also an otaku. They would always check it where there was new anime, and
they were also never absent from the summer and winter comic market.

The two of them were already around forty, but their thinking was relatively youthful
when compared to other parents. Perhaps that was why. Furthermore their appearance
was younger than their age suggested. They looked like they were around thirty, if you
squinted they might even look like they were at their twenty.

According to mom, it was thanks to the rings that they received as reward from the
devils. And it certainly seemed like the rings had the effect to make people looked
younger than they were.

“Did you make some friends?”

That young looking woman, no, my mom asked me with a slightly worried look.

The face of Lizel-senpai, Miyabi, and Reina immediately came to the surface of my
mind.

I was slightly puzzled whether it was okay to call them friends, but lying would be
better than the alternative here. I wanted to reassure mom.

“Yeah. I think there are three people who I got along with especially well. They were
really a great help yesterday.”

“I see. That’s great~”

Mom smiled in relieve from the bottom of her heart.

“Indeed. To think that our kid will end up in Ginsei Academy…… the devil king academy.”

Dad muttered emotionally. It made me smiled wryly.

“You’re going on again about that, dad?”

“The children of nobles, what’s more only the capable one…… only super elite like that
can enter there. That place was beyond our family.”

That meant, Lizel-senpai, Miyabi, and Reina were also ladies from good families.
Miyabi didn’t look anything like that from a glance though.

“That’s why dad will be satisfied already if you can just spend a fun days in the
academy. Certainly it’s a joyful matter that a devil king arcana took a liking to you, but
you don’t need to force yourself to become the devil king because of that.”
“Exactly, Yuu-kun! You absolutely mustn’t do anything dangerous!”

The two of them were knowledgeable about the devil’s world, so naturally they also
knew about the Devil King War to decide the next devil king. That was why they were
worried for me.

I told them that I understood and finished my breakfast. Then I got out of the house to
go to the devil king academy.

And then when I turned around the corner, I saw an unfamiliar car was parked there.

It was a very large black car. Could it be a Rolls-Royce? It was rare to see something
like it in this area──but then the window opened and a black haired beautiful girl’s
face leaned out.

“Good morning, Yuuto.”

“Lizel-senpai!?”

Why is she here? I thought, then

“I came to pick you up. I’ll take you until the academy.”

No, but I would be a bother, I thought up that kind of words to decline, but while I was
doing that, the driver who was dressed like a butler pushed my back to sit on the rear
seat. The car then drove silently after the driver got on his seat.

“I’m sorry senpai. Did you intentionally come here just to pick me up?”

“Yes. Because there is also the possibility of Yuuto getting attacked on your way to the
academy. I was thinking to have a bodyguard accompanying you, but then I thought it
would be faster for me to personally bring you to the academy with my car.”

“Something like that is possible? Me getting attacked……”

“You have already experienced it haven’t you?”

Certainly. I recalled how Geld suddenly picked a fight with me yesterday.

“Don’t worry. I won’t let anyone do anything to you.”

“It feels a bit uncool to be protected by a girl like this……”

Lizel-senpai shook her head.

“It’s only natural because you have only just started learning magic. But you will get
strong soon. So strong that you’ll surpass me right away.”

“……That’s too abrupt for me to believe that.”

“There is no doubt about it if you can hear the arcana’s voice.”

“Eh? Hmm, well…… the arcana also woke me up this morning so I certainly heard its
voice.”

Lizel-senpai’s eyes opened wide in shock. This was the first time I saw this person
looking shocked, but her largely opened eyes were pretty like blue jewels. My
attention was taken by that.

“Yuuto, you’re using your arcana as an alarm clock?”

“It’s not like I asked it to do so. It woke me up on its own accord.”

This time senpai stiffened with her mouth hanging slightly open. That expression
looked especially adorable.

I realized that she was someone who possessed many expressions.

“I’m astounded…… the arcana really love you.”

“Ha?”

What, why are you sighing like that? Astounded she said…… did she mean she had run
out of patience with me?

“Err, senpai? Did I do anything that make you disillusioned with me?”

“I meant that I’m impressed with you.”

“That’s good if that’s the case……”

“……Should I come to wake him up starting from tomorrow?”

Senpai was muttering something, but I couldn’t hear it clearly.

The car arrived at the academy while I was observing senpai’s state.

Senpai showed no sign of getting out even after the car stopped, so I was puzzled if
something was the matter. But then the driver got down and opened the door. I see, so
she wouldn’t open the car’s door by herself. As expected from a noble lady.

Every single movement of her getting out from the car was elegant. I walked side by
side with senpai while muttering quietly.

“As I thought, senpai is really a lady from a good house.”

“I wonder about that. Though it’s true that I’m more or less a noble.”

“I have no doubt that senpai is a noble.”

“Although, it was my ancestor who was great. I myself haven’t done anything worthy
of note.”

However the other students were opening a path for us and watching us fearfully.
From that I got the feeling that Lizel-senpai was an existence that inspired awe from
other students.

When I said what was in my mind frankly, senpai sent me a glance.

“Before long Yuuto will be even more feared than me.”

Again with the joke.

I lightly laughed while thinking that inside my heart.

We changed shoes at the entrance and headed to the classroom through the corridor,
but the reaction of the students was still the same.

“Then, this is where we part way.”

Senpai stopped walking in front of 1-D classroom.

“Thank you very much. I will be fine here by myself.”

“No, you can’t be alone even here. Someone will accompany you.”

“Eh? But senpai is a second year student isn’t it?”

“The next bodyguard will take over from here.”

……The next bodyguard?

“Morniiiing! Yuutoo!”

My arm got sandwiched between the breasts that leaped out from the classroom.

“What!? Mi-MIyabi!?”

It was the gal who I met in the palace yesterday, Yuugaoze Miyabi.

Today she was also wearing her uniform casually with a lot of exposure. The cleavage
of her chest was visible. Those breasts were changing shape elastically from
sandwiching my arm.

“We’re in the same class starting from today. Take care of this gal, ‘kay!”

“Then Miyabi, I’ll leave Yuuto in your hand.”

“Ehehe, sure thing.”

“……Also, avoid from sticking close meaninglessly like that.”

“This isn’t meaningless y’know? I’m going to raise our positivity level ‘whoom whoom’
like this so that he’ll take me as his card.”

Lizel-senpai massaged her forehead as though she was getting headache.

“Don’t take that kind of method, but be in your best endeavor so that you can obtain
his trust.”

“Yeeess”
She gave an affirmative reply, but there wasn’t any sign of her releasing my arm any
time soon.

Senpai sighed in resignation and left. She looked like she got a lot on her plate. I felt
pity for her.

“Ehehee”

As for this girl, she looked like she didn’t have any care in the world seeing that
carefree smile of hers.

She pulled my arm into the classroom. The classroom that was filled with chatters
until then suddenly fell silent.

……Eh?

It felt like everyone’s gaze was gathered on me?

The gazes that were pouring on me were filled with annoyance, or scorn, or even
hostility.

“Say, Miyabi.”

“Hm, what?”

I lowered my voice.

“As I thought…… does everyone hate me because I’m a human?”

“Aaa, might be.”

I felt a bit hurt that she was confirming it so easily!

However Miyabi consoled me with a smile that contained no gloominess at all.

“But there is no need to pay it any attention whatsoever.”

“Miyabi……”

It was mysterious. When I looked at Miyabi’s bright smile, it also brightened my mood.
Her innocent expression without any worry in it was a salvation for me right now. I
was glad that Miyabi was in the same class with me.

“Yuuto just need to show your strength slightly for this kind of time! Do it with a bang,
boom, and bam!”

“I don’t really get it when you’re talking with sound effect like that but…… let’s take a
slightly more peaceful way.”

The classroom’s door was opened at that timing and a woman in suit who seemed to
be the teacher entered. She was quite a beautiful woman who was wearing glass and
her hair tied up.

“Everyone, go back to your seat……”

She scowled the moment she met my gaze.

“Aa…… come to think of it, there is a transfer student here.”

It felt like even the teacher wasn’t welcoming me……

Beside me Miyabi secretly whispered into my ear.

“That’s Nagasawa-sensei, our homeroom teacher. She is a really stubborn teacher, so

go at her with ‘smack’! Do it with ‘babooom’!!”

“I’m telling you, I don’t understand what you’re saying. Well, for now let’s do it
amicably……”

“You too Yuugaoze-san! Go back to your seat quickly.”

Miyabi answered “Yeees” and went to her seat while still grinning.

Wait, what about me?

I was standing alone in the middle of the classroom. However Nagasawa-sensei didn’t
look like she was paying attention at me at all. I helplessly raised my hand awkwardly.

“Excuse me, sensei?”

Then the teacher lifted her eyebrows and glared at me.

“Our Ginsei Academy has proud tradition and standing…… generations of devil kings
has appeared from our academy that it’s called as the devil king academy. To think that
we have to accept a mere human who isn’t even low rank devil……”

The inside of the classroom got noisy all at once.

“No way…… so that rumor is really true?”

“But he is still a devil king candidate right?”

“That’s obviously some kind of mistake.”

“But, I heard some people saying he beat up Geld yesterday you know?”

“Idiot, obviously it was Lizel-senpai who did it.”

Such whispers could be heard from here and there.

I should endure here. Certainly I was obviously a foreign object from their perspective.
It was only natural for rejection to occur. I could only take my time to have them
understood me.

“Err, sensei. Where should I sit?”

Then the teacher clicked her tongue.

“Human can just stand…… impertinent brat.”

The teacher snapped her fingers.

Then the chalk moved by itself and started writing a magic formula on the blackboard
in a row.

Awesome. It was like a magic. Or rather it was an actual magic.

“Solve this magic formula. If you can actually do it then I’ll allow you to sit.”

What’s this?
The formula was really complicated. I didn’t understand its meaning.

There was also a part of it that was similar with the magic formula that I learned
yesterday, but I couldn’t understand the meaning. This seemed to be a very advanced
magic formula.

There were chuckles from the surrounding seeing me glaring at the blackboard.

“Look, he is confused.”

“Fufufu, the teacher is also nasty.”

“To begin with, there is no way a human can understand magic formula even if it’s the
easy one.”

……From their conversation, apparently this problem was an ill-natured one. This was
a hard question to solve.

There was no way a new student like me could solve something like this.

“No other way……”

I touched the Lovers arcana on my chest.

──I’m counting on you. I want to understand the meaning of this formula.

[Analyzing…… there is possibility that the formula is lacking a part and also mistaken.
Starting the process to supplement the formula.]

After a moment of time lag, a large amount of information flowed into my head. And
then cold sweat trickled down my cheek when I realized the purpose of this magic
formula.

“This thing…… it’s insane.”

The teacher made a sadistic smile that was looking down on me.

“Insane? What is? You don’t understand this formula? Then──”

“Sensei, why are you writing something so dangerous in public like this?”
“Eh?”

The teacher’s expression stiffened.

“Certainly this thing is lacking several formula. But, if you add wind element to the
second section and apply Nest to the eighth section then looping it with the tenth
section before sending it to pass through Ketel and Kesedo──”

“W-wait! You understand what this formula is!?”

“Yes. This is a formula to destroy the world.”

“Wha……”

A stir ran through the classroom.

“I know that it’s incomplete, and even if it’s completed it will need immense mana to
work, so it’s not really practical. This formula seems like an intellectual experiment,
even so there is still a possibility it can be misused──”

“St-st-stop talking!!”

The teacher yelled with a bright red face.

“This is an unresolved magic formula you know!? Many genius magic scholars have
researched it for many years, but there’s still no one who has solved it! If someone is
able to solve this formula, then they will receive an award──no, a medal for the field
of devil world technology. If you’re only speaking randomly……”

The teacher’s complexion was quickly paling when she stared at the magic formula.

“No…… that’s, but certainly, if wind element is added to the second section…… no,
something like this is just……”

The teacher returned to her senses and grabbed the blackboard eraser with her own
hand and erased the magic formula.

“E-e-everyone! Forget everything you have seen and heard just now! Forget them all!!”

I added to reassure the teacher.

“It’s alright. There are still 22 more parts that need correction. I believe it’s impossible
to solve this formula with only what I mentioned just now. But, it’ll be better if sensei
doesn’t show such thing so openly next time.”

“……-!?”

The teacher stared at me with a fearful gaze.

“By the way…… about my seat──”

“Everyone, don’t be tricked!”

Suddenly a male student stood up.

“This guy is just a human! There’s no way he can understand a magic formula! He is
only speaking bullshit after seeing that the question he is given is about incomplete
magic formula!”

“No, I just want to sit down……”

The male student’s finger sharply pointed toward me.

“I’ll bet the name of the baron house of Sanjou to expose your true color! Show me
your magic if you’re really a devil king candidate!”

Aah damn it, if you didn’t like me then just ignored me. Why were you trying to put me
down instead?

“……Can I have my seat after I show my magic?”

The male student snorted condescendingly in respond.

“I’ll give you however many seat you want. Don’t worry.”

“No, I just need one though……”

Can’t be helped…… well, it was great I had learned magic yesterday.

Sanjou spread out his hands before thrusting them forward showily like a cartoon
hero.
“First I’ll show you how it’s done! Figa!!”

Flame burst out in the spot between me and Sanjou.

“Ooo!”

The class was stirred.

However, the flame was already vanishing at that time.

“……”

The flame just now was like the flame in a cooking scene in a video where flame
burned up for an instant on a fry pan.

I fell silent. I desperately wracked my brain.

……Was it really okay with just that much?

Sanjou was already looking smug right now. Everyone in the classroom was also
looking quite impressed.

That meant, it would be good enough to produce a little fire like that.

“Yosh…… then, it’s my turn now.”

I pointed my palm toward Sanjou.

Yesterday I was healed by Lizel-senpai, so I had enough mana remaining. With this
much I wouldn’t have any problem to produce a flame as strong as the one that blew
away Geld yesterday. I should make a flame that was half the size of that…… no, a
fourth…… no no, around a tenth of the flame yesterday?

──No, wait a second.

Everyone here was noble. They must have been studying magic since a long time ago.
Surely they were far stronger than me, no doubt about it.

……Could it be, that Sanjou was purposefully weakening his magic?

If I showed a weak magic thinking that it was fine with just that, perhaps he would say
something like “What kind of weak shit is that!” in respond! This might be his trick!?

Aah! Now I was feeling really uneasy!!

Even though I just wanted to take my seat, why would it have developed into a big deal
like this!?

“As I thought, I should do the same like yesterday!”

I decided that and formed a magic circle on my palm…… but, for some reason, wasn’t
this bigger than yesterday?

“Wha-!?”

“What the hell is that!?”

Oi oi! It was getting bigger than my body though!? This magic circle!!

──Eei, to hell with it!

“Figa!!”

In the next moment, a flame storm raged inside the 1-D classroom.

The floor and the wall and the ceiling were scorched by the flame. All the students
caught on fire all over their body without exception.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?”

“UWAAAAAA! Sa-SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

The classroom was turned into pandemonium.

Right after that, magic circles formed up on the classroom’s wall and ceiling and the
flame vanished.

Instead of a sprinkler, safety magic circle that neutralized magic was activated and the
magic’s effect was stopped.
There shouldn’t be any student who was seriously injured…… however, things like
chairs, tables, text books, note books, etc., almost all of them were turned into ash.

Everyone was standing dumbfounded while I was sweating like crazy.

Craapp…… this is, real bad…… I’m absolutely going to get scolded.

“Ahahahahahahaha! That was real flashy just now! It was going ‘gogogogogo’, and then
it suddenly turned ‘whoooshhhhh’ and everything was on fire, that was awesomeeeee!!
Ahahahahahahaha!!”

Miyabi was the only one cackling loudly without any care in the world.

“I’m jealous with how carefree you can be……”

My mood couldn’t brighten even when I watched Miyabi’s smiling face that was like
sunflower.

There was no doubt that I would be summoned to the staff room because of this……
what would I do if I got suspended?

During this time Nagasawa-sensei had been sinking down to the floor and looking up
at me with shaking gaze. I was troubled of what to say to her to apologize for a while.

Just as expected, I was called. Furthermore it was to the headmaster’s office.

“Heyo, nice of you to come.”

I entered the headmaster’s office alone feeling super nervous, and yet that person was
greeting me casually while standing.

“Err…… I came here because I was called by the headmaster but…… is the headmaster
not here?”

“It’s me, it’s me! It’s me you know, me!”

Why was he talking like someone doing “It’s me, it’s me” scam?
This was the principal of the devil king academy. If I could speak bluntly──he was a
middle-aged man who looked out of place to be in this academy.

He was wearing clothes that looked like military uniform that were worn in a completely
casual fashion. Even though both of his attire and face actually should look cool, his
slovenly air spoiled them all. He had stubble on his face and sleepy looking eyes.

Even though he would look tall if he straightened his back, his back was slouching and
his lips were showing a frivolous smile.

To describe him in a few words, he was a slightly off looking man. He seemed to be
someone with regrettable personality.

“Guess I should introduce myself once more. I’m the headmaster! Of this devil king
academy, aka Ginsei Academy!”

“That’s reversed.”

“Don’t mind the small things! Just try saying my name instead!”

“What happen with the self-introduction!?”

“Wahahahahahaha! Sensei got a bit hasty there! I came too quickly!”

Dirty joke!?

“But you don’t need to worry! Sensei still won’t lose to the youngsters! Coming three
times without pulling out at all isn’t a big deal for me!!”

“What are you talking about!?”

The headmaster laughed ‘wahahaha’ heartily again before he pointed at himself with
his thumb.

“My name is Gandou.”

“Gandou?” (TN: Gandou can mean cupriferous or Buddhist altar light)

The name sounded somewhat unlucky. But the instant I thought that, the
headmaster’s eyes glinted.
“Don’t mistake it with Gundoh! Sensei’s face isn’t look like that old anime right!? Even
though I’m looking like this a lot of people have called me handsome you know!? After
all my face is Kyoani quality!” (TN: Gundoh, an old anime. Kyoani=Kyoto Animation)

“Don’t suddenly mention a legendary anime like that! Also, please don’t express how
good your own visual with animation company! No certainly Kyoani is amazing though!?
Like their visual work and the like.”

Shit! My tsukkomi can’t keep up with this headmaster!

Headmaster Gandou’s gaze glinted. He pointed his finger to me with a snap.

“If you speak about Haruhi then Sneaker has to be mentioned! Then what come to
mind when speaking about Sneaker Bunko’s anime!?”

“Masou Gakuen HxH!”

“Comrade!!”

Headmaster Gandou held out his right hand. I responded to that and we exchanged a
firm handshake.

What was with this headmaster? No, I was also reflexively shaking his hand though!

“Fufu…… you’re quite something to have watched Gundoh or Haruhi even though
you’re this young. But your choice of Masou showed your overflowing youth instead.
You have passion and pathos, and also eros!”

“Setting aside the eros, I know about old anime because my parents are both otaku.”

“I see, so you were raised with gifted education from your childhood. No wonder the
Lovers chose you.”

“That’s unrelated isn’t it!? Wait…… Headmaster Gandou, you know that I have the
Lovers arcana?”

Headmaster Gandou sat on his desk after his hand let go of the handshake.

“Naturally. I am Gandou Barbatos. The headmaster here and also the current devil
king.”

“……”

That’s a lie right?

Headmaster Gandou grinned seeing me dumbfounded.

“It looks like Lizel-kun has told you a lot of things, but it seems that you still don’t know
many things about this academy and the Devil King War.”
“Eh…… y-yes.”

“Yooosh! Then this me shall kindly teach you! Sensei is still a teacher even though I
look this after all! Hahah!”

……Why was he talking like a certain Nezumi Mouse at the end there?

No, forget about that, was this person really the current devil king?

The headmaster ignored my doubt and started explaining proudly.

“Why is this Ginsei Academy called as devil king academy…… that’s because when the
next devil king is chosen, it will be chosen from among this academy’s students.”

“Eh, but I was going to a normal human academy before this……”

“Even if they attended other school, there will be exception made if they’re extremely
gifted. Although your case is a special one. It’s unheard for a human student to come
here!”

“Could it be a mistake made by the academy?”

“No, it wasn’t us who chose you. It was the arcana who chose you.”

Headmaster Gandou stared fixedly at my chest. It was as though he was staring at the
Lovers arcana under my shirts there.

“The arcana going to the person who they decided as their master…… such thing had
never happened. You’re an extremely irregular case.”

“Is that so…… but, why did this arcana come to me?”

“We won’t be this troubled if we know why! It was really difficult to deal with it you
know!? Thanks to that the staff meeting got extended. Even though the society has
been calling for work style revolution recently.”

“Haa…… I’m sorry.”

“No, don’t worry about it! Demand like work style resolution is unneeded in the devil
world!!”
Then why did you mention it?

“Anyway the fact that you were chosen by Lovers arcana is without doubt. That’s why
you have the qualification to join the Devil King War.”

“Devil King War…… it’s a battle between the people who possess the Devil King’s
Arcana isn’t it?”

“That’s right! 22 people who possess the Devil King’s Arcana will fight and the last one
standing will become the next devil king!! So to speak it’s a battle to decide who will
stand at the peak of this devil academy!”

The headmaster stood on the desk and made a strange pose.

“That battle…… is it something like, killing each other?”

I asked fearfully. Headmaster Gandou replied with a bright smile.

“Indeed!”

That’s not something you should with a smile……

“Hahahaha, you’re a worrywart huh! It’s alright! There are also fun events in it!”

“Fun, events……?”

That’s absolutely a lie! I thought that while asking “What kind of event?”.

“The Devil King’s War is going to be held in a long stretch after all. It will take one year.
During that time there will be a lot of events like sport or cultural festival, various kind
of tournaments, etc, etc. Your achievement in them will also affect the outcome of the
Devil King’s War. There’re also other things like getting item or what not so that you
can be in advantage along the way!”

“What’s that! That sounds fun!”

“The candidates will kill each other throughout the year while making use of all those!
Tactics like what kind of card you can obtain or what kind of card combination you
can gather will be essential too! What’s left after that is to kick away your opponent,
kick them around, kick them until they stay down!”
“……”

The gap between the fun events and the bloody events was horrible. It was hard for a
normal human to understand devil’s sense.

“──Well, because of that your card is also important. The Devil King’s War isn’t an
event only for the devil king’s candidates, but an event where other students can also
participate.”

I see…… that was why Aspite wanted Lizel-senpai. It wasn’t simply because she was a
beauty, but he also needed her ability.

“Can anyone become card?”

“Yeah! As long as the devil king candidate and the card are bound with contract! But
be careful. The students of this academy are the people who will rule the devil world
and human world in the future. Everyone is ambitious. Those who obtain arcana will
fight to become devil king, but the others will decide which candidate to back up and
aim to become a card. Because if the candidate they back up become the devil king,
they will become one of the people ruling over the two worlds.”

“But…… not everyone can become a card right? What will happen to the students who
can’t become a devil king candidate and also not chosen to become a card?”

“Every student here is a son or daughter of influential devil. They will strive to build a
rapport with the devil king candidate that they put their hope on. The coming battle
will also use political and financial power.”

“……That’s, really big.”

“Hahahaha! After all no matter how it looked like this is the academy where the most
capable devils are gathered! On the contrary someone who can’t stand on the top of
these people mean that they don’t have the qualification to become the devil king!!”

After being told that again, it felt like my body would tremble due to the situation I
was put in.

“That’s why it’ll be better if you too act quickly to obtain capable cards!”

“Yes, thank you very much…… but, before talking about that, is it alright even if a
human like me participate in the devil king’s war……?”

“Let’s talk about anime rather than discussing something like that!!”

“Why!?”

It seemed the headmaster didn’t have anyone who he could talk normally about otaku
topic with.

In the end I was made to accompany his otaku talk until the morning class ended.

Because of that, I was only freed when the chime of the lunch break sounded.

……Come to think of it, I completely forgot the reason I was summoned to the
headmaster’s office.

Well, thanks to the nonsensical conversation, I got away without any suspension or
expulsion. I also found my seat had been properly prepared when I returned to the
classroom. The teacher and the students had also stopped insulting me.

All of them were big hearted people who could forgive someone else’s failure. But it
seemed there were still gap between our hearts. They wouldn’t meet my gaze, and
they would also avoid me when I try talking to them.

Surely they were just shy. No doubt about it.

They also looked scared, but that must be just my imagination.

“Yuuto.”

Lizel-senpai was standing at the classroom’s entrance.

“How about we have lunch together?”

Lunch with Lizel-senpai!? This was the standard event of a school life. The one where
we would eat our boxed lunch together!

“With pleasure!”
I took out my boxed lunch from my bag and followed behind Lizel-senpai.

We went to the cafeteria instead of the rooftop or the courtyard.

However, the cafeteria of devil king academy was different from the cafeteria that I
knew. It was like a high class restaurant. Even the lunch there was course menu.

I opened my boxed lunch in such place.

I couldn’t get even more out of place than this even if I tried.

Lizel-senpai was using knife and fork elegantly in front of me. She was having a steak
of Matsusaka beef as her main menu.

Sometimes she would stare fixedly at my lunch. My heart hurt. Surely she was pitying
me, thinking something like, What a shabby-looking meal. No doubt about it.

“Come to think of it, I heard that you were called to the headmaster’s office. Was there
any problem?”

“Haa…… well, there wasn’t anything noteworthy that happened……”

Or rather, I couldn’t possibly tell her that we were just having heated otaku talk. I didn’t
even want to tell her.

“That headmaster, is he really the current devil king?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Seriously……? So it was true, seriously……

Even though I thought he was completely joking. I talked with him really casually
but…… now that I learned he really was the devil king, I wondered anxiously if I would
really be alright?

However, even if I was worrying about it, it wasn’t something that I could take back
anyway. For now I would enjoy my lunch with senpai.

I used my chopstick to pick a sausage piece that was cut like an octopus.
Senpai’s eyes were following that sausage.

“Senpai, is something the matter?”

“No…… this is my first time seeing it in real life.”

By that did she mean, this octopus shaped sausage?

“Then, do senpai want to try one?”

“Is that alright? But, I have nothing to exchange it with except this steak though.”

“No, rather that’ll be a great exchange for me.”

I never thought that I would be able to trade a sausage with Matsunage beef.

I held out my boxed lunch to senpai. She stabbed one of the sausages with her fork
and stared at it happily before bringing it into her mouth.

“Ufufu…… this is fun. It’s also delicious. Yuuto’s mother is really good at cooking.”

Senpai looked satisfied. Her cheerful smile was adorable. She usually looked mature,
and yet she was showing cuteness like a girl right now. It was unfair.

While I was being entranced by senpai’s face, she cut a large piece of her sirloin steak
and stabbed it with her fork. She then brought it in front of me with her other hand
placed below it.

“Here, aaan”

I unconsciously looked around.

The students who were paying attention at us until now immediately averted their
gaze then.

“Fufu. Don’t mind the surrounding’s gazes. Don’t you know how the royalty of France
showed their private life to all people openly?”

“No, I’m just a commoner.”

“One day you will become the king.”

“Even if I manage to become the devil king, I want to keep my private life private.”

Lizel-senpai kept holding up both her hands in half-leaning posture even while we
were having that talk. She must be tired to keep still with that posture. So I leaned my
head forward to the meat.

But, this was an indirect kiss…… wasn’t it?

Thinking such thing made me excessively nervous. I opened my mouth resolutely and
bit at the meat. The fork was pulled out from my lips.

I chewed the meat that remained inside my mouth.

“……Delicious.”

I unconsciously fell into a trance.

“Fufufu, that’s good. Do you want more?”

“No no, as expected I’ll feel guilty to eat senpai’s lunch more than this.”

“Is that so? Then……”

Senpai stabbed the remaining piece on the iron plate and brought it toward her mouth.
But she stopped still just before the meat entered her mouth.

“──This is……”

It looked like she only noticed the indirect kiss scenario just now. Her eyes widened
slightly and her cheeks reddened a bit.

As expected, she disliked it didn’t she? But, perhaps she was hesitating because she
thought I would feel hurt if she stopped eating it right in front of me.]

“Senpai, don’t force your──”

Senpai narrowed her moist eyes before I could finish my sentence and brought the
meat into her mouth.
It was awkward. I had to say something.

“T-this meat, it’s really delicious! This is my first time eating something like this!”

“R-right…… the last piece, might be…… especially, delicious.”

If you said something like that while fidgeting, my heart would pound hard like they
would burst.

“Yu-yuuto? We should go now. I’ll show you around the academy.”

“Y-yes.”

Both of us stood up as though to run away from the table that was enveloped in an
awkward atmosphere.

I walked side by side with Lizel-senpai inside the school building. We went around to
check the library, science room, art room, and so on one by one. This academy looked
like normal school if you didn’t take how extensive the facilities here were into
consideration.

The big courtyard was visible from the window. Ahead of the yard was a forest.

“That forest is also a part of the devil king academy’s ground.”

“This place is amazingly big……”

The forest had some open spots in it here and there where facilities like baseball ground
or soccer field could be seen. There were also buildings like this school building there.

“That is the middle school’s building.”

“Hee…… then, Reina is over there?”

“Yes. Most times we can only meet her after school. But, she will come to the palace
every day.”

We walked away from the window and resumed going through the corridor.
I had been thinking this since the cafeteria but…… Lizel-senpai was always gathering
the gazes from the students around her. And then there were countless gossips about
her.

“Look, it’s Lizel-senpai. She is really beautiful……”

“As expected from the young lady of a house of marquis…… her elegance is in different
level.”

“What’s more her magic grades are also top class…… she is worthy to receive a Devil
King’s Arcana…… and yet”

And then next their gazes would move toward me.

“Why is that kind of commoner is……”

“He isn’t even a commoner, I heard he is just a human.”

“No way-!? He shouldn’t even be allowed to get near Lizel-senpai then……”

What should I say, I’m sorry. It made me wanted to apologize.

It was strange to say it myself but, I wasn’t suitable at all for Lizel-senpai. It couldn’t
be helped that everyone was also thinking like that.

It was then senpai’s fingers entwined around my fingers.

“Tsu!? Li-Lizel-senpai!?”

We were holding hand.

Furthermore this was…… holding hand for lovers!?

“Don’t pay them any attention. After all I myself have recognized your worth.”

She was acting considerately to me who was feeling down at everyone’s evaluation on
me…… senpai was really kind.

“Thank you very much. But, I understand everyone’s feeling. As expected a devil king’s
candidate is an existence that will rouse their attention…… or rather, it’s not a matter
that isn’t unrelated at all for them.”

“Of course. After all the candidates are people who might become their king.”

Devil king, noble, high class devil, commoner…… and then human.

Come to think of it, I didn’t really understand about the relationships between those
classifications. I could somehow imagine it from the word’s image, but it was only now
that I was thinking of it seriously.

“I had also heard it slightly from the headmaster just now but…… the headmaster is
the devil king mean that person is the king of the devil race isn’t it?”

“Yes. He is the king of all devils. He is ruling the devil world, a world that is different
from this world. Naturally, the world over here is also under the control of the devil
race, so he is in fact a ruler of two worlds.”

“In other words, the devil race is above the humans…… and even that devil race is still
divided into a class system. Senpai said that you’re a noble but……”

“More or less. My marquis house is a noble in name only.”

She said she was from a marquis house. Wasn’t it a rank that was fairly high in noble
system?

“The class system of the devil race ranked from the top is archduke, duke, marquis,
margrave, count, viscount, and baron. There are also other ranks that aren’t counted
as being a noble. Those ranks are knight, then below it is high class devil, commoner
devil, and then honorary devil.”

I had heard about honorary devil before. Dad said it before, it was a title that human
could obtain.

“By the way, Miyabi is from a margrave house, while Reina is from a viscount house.”

“Is that so…… noble, they must have a large territory and many servants…… am I
right?”

Senpai’s fingers that were holding my hand strengthened their grip.

“In the human world, there are territories under the direct supervision of the devil
king and the territories owned by each noble. The energy that is obtained from there
become our energy and supporting the devil world.”

“Energy from human world?”

“……I don’t want you to misunderstand so I’ll say it right from the start…… the devil
race is using the movement of human’s heart as their energy.”

“Heart’s…… movement?”

“Yes. Like feeling emotionally moved or happiness, and also every kind of desire,
malice, and terror.”

A slight fear formed inside my heart.

Senpai seemed to sense that and strongly grasped my hand. It was as though she was
clinging on me so that I wouldn’t abandon her.

“That’s why there are also a lot of devils who want to collect energy by making humans
suffer or making them fall into depravity. The bad image of devil comes from there.”

“……I see.”

So that was why Geld called me a livestock.

“But I want you to understand Yuuto. The devil race isn’t made up of only that kind of
people who wish to increase their gains so simply like that. There are also nobles who
wish to harvest positive energy like pure joy by granting humans art or peace.”

Lizel-senpai’s earnest gaze was looking up at me.

Within her gaze I could see sincerity and a wish to be trusted.

“Thank you very much. I can trust senpai’s words just now far more compared to if
senpai try to cover it up. I believe you senpai.”

“Yuuto……”

Lizel-senpai’s eyes that were beautiful like jewels moistened and glistened even
brighter.

It was embarrassing to stare into each other’s eyes like this. I turned my eyes forward.

“Now…… I have come to feel that perhaps aiming to become a devil king won’t be all
that bad. Though it might be contradictory for a human to become a devil king.”

“I think that Yuuto is suitable to become the next devil king exactly because you are
human.”

“Eh?”

“The other devil king candidates are all noble. They are all trying to become devil king
for their own glory. But, if it’s Yuuto who is the devil king of love, you’ll be able to rule
the two worlds with love. That’s what I believe.”

“Lizel-senpai……”

“Although”

Senpai added with a cute wink.

“You will need to receive a strict training and grow strong for that.”

“……I will strongly consider it.”

Good grief. Her use of carrot and stick was splendid.

Perhaps in the end I was only being made to dance on the palm of this beautiful devil
senpai.

But I also thought that such thing wouldn’t be that bad.

“Then, let’s take a look at the gym before returning to the classroom.”

After we turned at the corner, there was a passage that connected to the gym ahead.

We walked until in front of the gym and opened the door.

“……That’s!?”
There was a blood-soaked man lying down in the middle of the gym.

He must have been thoroughly beaten up. His uniform was torn up and even the shape
of his face had changed. But, I was still barely able to recognize him.

“Geld!?”

The man who was looking down on Geld lifted his face.

He was a large man with a muscular built. His height was more than 190 cm with
extremely wide shoulders width. The thickness of his neck was about the same with
his face’s width.

In addition he was carrying a sheathed sword in one hand. It seemed to be a western

sword with straight double edges.

“You’re, Morioka Yuuto aren’t you? It seems that Geld has been in your care yesterday
huh.”

“Geld yesterday you say…… you are”

“I am a card of the World, the knight, Kilga.”

“That means you are Geld’s comrade. Just what happened here?”

The large man raised his right foot and stepped on Geld’s chest. There was a creaking
sound and fresh blood spewed from Geld’s mouth.

“Stop!! You are his comrade aren’t you!? Why are you doing something like that!?”

“This guy got defeated by a mere human. He is a disgrace to the World. He has thrown
mud to the face of the glorious Aspite-sama. That’s an unforgivable sin. Therefore I’m
here to hand down his judgment. Don’t cut in unnecessarily.”

Kilga unsheathed his sword.

The coldly glinting blade showed that it was a real sword.

“Stop!!”
I immediately rushed forward.

“Yuuto!?”

Senpai’s anxious voice came from behind.

I pointed my right hand forward to fire the Figa magic. However──,

Faster than I could activate the magic, the simple movement of swinging down a sword
was overwhelmingly faster.

──Damn it!!

I got too close.

If I wanted to attack with magic, I should get farther instead.

It wouldn’t be enough no matter how many lives I had if I only realized something like
this in real battle. Something like this wouldn’t happen if I had been trained by senpai.

I stared helplessly at the approaching blade while holding such regret in my chest──,

Sparks scattered before my eyes.

“!?”

When I realized it, a small body had appeared in front of me.

The person was blocking Kilga’s sword with a katana that was longer than their own
body.

“Yuuto-san! Yuuto-san, are you injured!?”

“Reina!?”

──Koiwai Reina.

Yesterday, she said she wanted to become my card together with Lizel-senpai and
Miyabi. She was Koiwai Reina from the middle school section.
“Hah!”

Reina pushed back Kilga’s sword. Her silver hair danced in the air.

She immediately slashed at Kilga from her current stance.

“Nuh!”

Kilga jumped backward and raised his sword vigilantly toward Reina.

“Koiwai Reina…… I’ve heard about your considerable skill with sword even though
you’re still in middle school.”

“Reina won’t let you, lay a single finger of Yuuto-san, desu desu!”

I stared at the small back that was trying to protect me. And then I looked at Geld’s
pitiful figure that was lying nearby.

Because of me, everyone──,

“Reina, wait.”

“Yuuto-san?”

I moved forward. Reina looked up at me with an astonished gaze.

“This is a seed that I sowed myself. It would be wrong for me to make everyone fight
and protect me because of that.”

Lizel-senpai raised her voice in surprise.

“W-what are you saying Yuuto!? You are still──”

“How can I call myself a devil king candidate if I can’t overcome this much danger! I’ll
defeat him myself!”

Senpai gasped and opened her eyes wide. Reina’s coolness just now had left her to
somewhere else. She was sweating and acting all flustered while going ‘hawawa’.

“P-please, please stop. Yuuto-san’s safety is important! Someone like Reina, someone
like Reina, doesn’t matter at all!”

“Reina, wait.”

Lizel-senpai approached me.

“I won’t stop you anymore. But, Yuuto.”

Lizel-senpai took my hand──and guided it to her breast.

My palm felt a softness and elasticity that was out of this world.

“L-Lizel-senpai!?”

I pulled my hand back in panic, but senpai kept her hold on my hand tightly and didn’t
let go. She even pushed her chest further forward so that my fingers sunk into her
breast. The elasticity and softness were filled with boundless kindness, affection, and
motherhood.

“Yuuto, you had used magic today hadn’t you?”

“Ah……”

Now that she mentioned it, this morning I was provoked by Sanjou and used Figa.

“You won’t be able to win against Kilga unless you used magic with all your strength.”

Mana was filling me from senpai’s breast through my fingers.

“Also, kindness is taboo. If you hold back because you’re worried for your opponent
──you’ll die.”

“……yes.”

Then senpai abruptly smiled and separated my hand from her breast.

“Win, Yuuto.”

“Yes-!”
I stepped forward and Reina who was holding Kilga in check stepped aside. Kilga
stared at me and his expression distorted.

“Foolish…… you would be able to survive today if only you keep hiding behind girls
like that.”

“I still haven’t exchanged a formal contract with everyone. There’s no way I can make
them fight for my sake.”

“You’re fixated with the strangest thing…… even so, I don’t understand why you’re
taking offense. Geld is your enemy. What’s more I heard he had insulted you plenty.
Why are you getting angry for someone like him?”

“Certainly Geld’s prejudice is unforgivable. But, he was trying to fight for his comrades
in his own way yesterday. For him to go through something like this just because he
lost, that’s even more unforgivable! You can’t call yourself his comrade or anything like
this!!”

Kilga pointed his sword at me angrily.

“Naïve-! Too naïve!! This has gone beyond being disgusting! You’re just human after
all! You shouldn’t be allowed to even dirty the air with your presence!”

A magic circle formed at the tip of his sword.

Hell Flame
“ Fizard !!”

The magic circle was even more complex compared to Figa.

It must be a higher magic that was more advanced and destructive.

It was a magic that I still didn’t know.

I might be able to learn it if I asked my arcana. However, even if I learned a new magic,
I didn’t know whether I would be able to use it properly or not. That was why──,

“Right now I only have Figa!!”

I also pointed my right hand forward and spread out my fingers. At the same time a
magic circle was formed. Kilga’s face scowled seeing that magic circle.

“Using beginner magic like that…… what a disappointment.”

As expected from a strong fighter. He understood what kind of magic formula it was
just from a single glance.

Kilga’s magic circle grew brighter and he howled.

“Die!! Morioka Yuuto!!”

I myself also roared.

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!”

I poured the mana I had received just now into the magic circle without holding
anything back.

My magic circle brightened even more and it enlarged drastically.

It far surpassed Kilga’s Fizard.

Kilga’s eyes widened in shock.

“What…… this is a Figa!? Unbelievable! This size is imposs──”

“Figa!!”

Flame explosively burst out from my magic circle.

“GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?”

Kilga also tried to defend with his sword, but that only lasted for an instant. He was
swallowed by flame in the blink of eye.

The wall and floor of the gym were burning. And then Kilga’s body crashed on the wall
before he fell face first on the floor.

He didn’t die thanks to the defensive formula that was weaved into the uniform.
However, even that uniform was already at the limit. It was scorched and smoking.
“Amazing! Amazing! Yuuto-san!!”

Reina was hopping up and down in happiness.

I turned around toward Lizel-senpai to observe her reaction. There I found her smiling
in satisfaction.

“That’s full point♡ Yuuto”

Reina’s excitement still hadn’t cooled down. She was still hopping up and down.

“It was really really amazing! It’s Reina first time seeing a Figa that powerful! Is that
really just a Figa!?”

Lizel-senpai answered in the place of the confused me.

“That’s the difference between a normal devil and the king.”

“Hoeeee~”

Reina let out a voice of admiration with her mouth staying open in diamond shape.

“Anyway let’s return to the palace. I’ll tell the teacher that we will skip the afternoon
class──”

Lizel-senpai’s expression changed.

“This is……”

“What’s wrong, senpa──”

Chill ran through my back and my hair stood on ends.

What, is this?

Even a human like me understood.

Something, an outrageously huge existence was approaching.

A terrifyingly great,
And outrageously dangerous,

“This is surprising.”

The wall of the gym suddenly had a hole in it.

It wasn’t smashed open. It was like the wall’s material suddenly turned soft like rubber
and changed shape to make an entrance.

It was an entrance for that man to enter from.

It was a male student with gray hair and dangerous gaze. His body was emitting mana
that was impossible for ordinary person. I had seen him before.

──Aspite.

The devil king candidate who possessed the World arcana.

Aspite didn’t even look at me and glanced at Lizel-senpai before walking toward Kilga.

“A-Aspite-sama……”

Kilga somehow raised his wound covered body and kneeled.

“I came here to look because I heard you are going to punish Geld but…… this is
completely different from what I heard.”

“Yes…… this is”

“Lizel.”

Aspite moved only his neck to look at Lizel-senpai.

“What is the meaning of this? Not only you refused my summon, you even laid your
hand on my cards.”

Cold sweat trickled down Lizel-senpai’s face.

Was this man called Aspite that strong of a devil?

“……It wasn’t me who did this, but Yuuto over there.”

“What?”

For the first time Aspite noticed my presence and moved his gaze toward me.

And then he asked Kilga with a dubious face.

“Kilga, is that true?”

“……Yes.”

The moment Kilga answered so, a spherical magic circle instantly appeared around
Aspite.

……Just now, what was that?

It wasn’t just complex. The magic formula gave a terrifyingly ghastly pressure. If I had
to make an example, it was like the principle of a world that was beyond the reach of
human knowledge was expressed in the form of magic formula.

“Kilga, stand up.”

“Yes!”

Kilga stood up even while sweating rivers in pain.

“Kilga, do you have the awareness as a knight of the World?”

“I…… I’m aware of it, with pride.”

“I’m a man who is going to become the devil king one day. Whether they are human or
devil, all existences has to obey my will. It’s necessary to trample my opponents with
absolute power in order to realize that.”

“……yes”

“──And yet, you, my knight is in this state. Can you explain it to me?”

“The, the battle is still not over! I swear on this sword that I’ll win without fail!!”
“Hou. However what worth there is in an oath over such sword that has fallen behind
a human? Rather you don’t even need to keep hold of such thing.”

“With all due respect…… this sword is my family’s heirloom……”

Aspite lightly raised his leg and casually kicked Kilga’s sword.

The steel sword was broken to pieces just from that.

“Wha……”

I reflexively let out my voice.

Just now, what was that?

Kilga was also staring at his broken pieces of sword with a disbelieving gaze.

“My, my sword…… my family’s sword, that should never break no matter what……”

“Kilga, you have no qualification to be my card. Disappear.”

“P-please wait! Please give me just one more cha──”

Aspite slowly lifted his hand and pushed Kilga’s chest.

Kilga’s body vanished in the next moment. There was a loud sound roaring like explosion.

“What……!?”

The wall of the gym broke and the schoolyard outside could be seen. There was Kilga’s
figure collapsing at the middle of the yard.

*Shiver*, my back turned cold.

Was that Aspite’s power? That blow possessed an outrageous destructive power. A
sword was broken and that large body was blown away just from a light touch.

But, was that really the case?

What happened was something that was in different dimension from a mere blow or
physical attack──that was the impression that I got.

Aspite glared at Lizel-senpai.

“Lizel. I’ll tell you one more time. Come to me.”

“Unfortunately, I have already decided the one who I shall serve.”

“What did you say……”

“You are someone who find joy in suppressing others and making them submit with
brute force. Your method is incompatible with mine.”

Aspite moved only his black eyes to glare at me.

“……I am always number one in the world, that is to say I am the ruler. Whether it’s in
the past, present, and even in the future, that fact shall never change. All existences
other than me are my servant. Even if you’re opposing me now, one day you will
become my servant. That’s the future waiting for you. Don’t you understand that?”

Lizel-senpai answered Aspite with wariness.

“I will place my hope in the future that I, that we wish for.”

“……You’re going to regret it.”

Aspite turned his back toward us and walked toward the wall. And then the wall
distorted by itself and a hole was opened. It became a path for Aspite.

Again.

The wall returned to normal after Aspite walked out.

“So that’s…… the owner of World arcana, Aspite……”

“Yes…… he’s a formidable enemy.”

Reina was also letting out a long sigh ‘haaah’.

“Anyway anyway, Reina is glad that it ends without any accident……”

“Lizel-senpai, and Reina too…… I have troubled the two of you, I’m sor…… ry──”

I had somehow kept hold of my consciousness until now because of the tension, but
that too had reached the limit. My consciousness was getting further from using too
much mana.

My sight became pitch black.

“……Nn”

“Ah, Yuuto-san is awake desu desu.”

“This place is……”

I was lying on a bed with canopy attached. I didn’t even need to ask. This was the
palace of the Lovers.

Lizel-senpai was lying close at my right, while Miyabi was on my left, and Rein was
lying down on me. She was so light it made me doubting whether she was really lying
on top of me or not.

It seemed they were doing Healing Lovers on me while I fainted……

“Everyone…… sorry, to trouble you.”

Lizel-senpai gently caressed my head.

“Why are you apologizing? You won against Kilga with your own strength you know?”

“Desu desu! Yuuto-san was really cool!”

Even though they told me that, I couldn’t honestly agree with them. I fainted like an
appliance that got its electricity cut off when I ran out of mana.

“Everyone, thank you. Even though I did that on my own accord…… what’s more I
challenged an opponent that was beyond me for an enemy’s sake…… that was stupid
of me.”
Lizel-senpai slightly shook her head while still placing her head on the pillow.

“No, I think what Yuuto did was lovely.”

“Eh?”

“That was exactly how the devil king candidate of Lovers arcana…… our devil king
should be♡”

Senpai told me with a slightly reddening cheeks and passionate gaze. It made me felt
funny inside. I turned my gaze to the opposite side to avoid Lizel-senpai’s pretty
gaze──,

“I thought that you are someone docile, and yet you’re actually more hot-blooded than
I thought! Aa, I also want to watch ittt. Yuuto going ‘bam bam bam baammmm’ and
then ‘boommmm’ at the end!”

Stop that, it was embarrassing.

I took off my gaze from Miyabi and looked toward the ceiling. There,

“As expected as expected! Yuuto-san is the devil king’s of love!”

The innocent smile of Reina was waiting there.

What’s this? There wasn’t any place to escape at all. There was beautiful girl no matter
where I looked.

……Or rather,

Shouldn’t I make my decision already?

“Everyone──”

I casually asked.

The burning heart inside my chest was already hiding a firm resolve.

“Can I, become a devil king that everyone can be proud of?”

The three looked at each other and chuckled.

And then they separated from me to sit on the bed. I also sat up.

“Yuuto, do you mean that you will form a formal contract with us? That you will add
this me, Himekami Lizel as a card of the Lovers?”

“Yeah. Lizel-senpai, lend me your strength so that I can become the devil king.”

Lizel-senpai’s face approached.

Wait, to-too close──!?

A sweet and soft sensation spread through my lips.

My first kiss.

A voice came from the arcana at that time.

[Himekami Lizel has become a queen.]

Her lips moved away.

Lizel-senpai touched her own lips with her finger. And then she pledged with an
intoxicated expression.

“I swear. Himekami Lizel shall devote her everything for Yuuto’s sake.”

Next was Miyabi.

As expected she seemed to be embarrassed. Her face was red.

“Ehehe…… I’m a bit nervous.”

“Yeah. I too──!?”

Miyabi took me by surprise and took away my lips.

“……-!”
[Yuugaoze Miyabi has become a princess.]

Miyabi’s face moved away quickly.

“A-ahaha…… that’s, anyway, best regards! Yuuto!”

“Yeah. My best regards too.”

Last was Reina.

“E-e-err, err, Re-re-re-re-Reina is just an inexperienced person but, ple-ple-──”

She was shaking in nervousness.

It felt like her nervousness was almost infecting even me. I took the initiative to be the
one bringing my face closer and kissed the small lips of Reina who closed her eyes
tightly.

[Koiwai Reina has become a knight.]

When I moved away, Reina’s face looked like it was boiling up and her body was
swaying unsteadily.

With this I couldn’t pull back anymore.

I would aim to become the next devil king in this devil king academy.

It was for everyone’s sake, and also for my own sake.

The World’s palace was a very luxurious conference room.

The one sitting on the king’s seat was Aspite. He was the son of the distinguished Line
House, a house of marquis.

Chairs for 14 people were prepared beside the long and narrow table.

11 people were sitting inside the room. Everyone was Aspite’s cards──in other words
his retainers.

A devil king candidate could have until 14 cards.

The cards consisted of nine suits with number from 2 until 10.

Then there were the court cards, the main force that was composed of four people
with the position of queen, princess, prince, and knight.

And the last one was the literal ace, the ace card.

──Those were the fourteen cards.

“Morioka Yuuto…… a lowly human has defeated Kilga……”

The cards who were sitting on their seats felt like the grim reaper was breathing on
their neck. They didn’t know when Aspite would break in anger. If he used magic in a
fit of anger, then even their life would be in danger.

Amidst that grave atmosphere, there was only one person who wasn’t feeling fear.
Perhaps he had been paralyzed from such emotion, there was a sarcastic smile on the
man’s face.
“Aspite-sama, there is something that I wish to ask you.”

“Haida huh…… speak.”

The man called Haida was wearing a hooded jacket on top of his uniform. He was
wearing his hood deeply, so his eyes couldn’t be seen. However the corner of his lips
that were lifted up like crescent moon gave off a sense of insanity.

“It seems that guy has gathered three cards. What’s more those cards are Himekami
Lizel, Yuugaoze Miyabi, and Koiwai Reina……”

Aspite’s face warped in annoyance when he heard the names.

“That foolish Lizel…… you said she formed a formal contract even though she refused
my invitation?”

Mana gushed out from Aspite’s body.

“I make others submit to me with pure strength and coerce them to obey me despite
their wishes. They can cry, suffer, or resent me, but in the end they shall prostrate
before me all the same. It’s my joy to see such figure. I can really feel just how powerful
I am by doing that. Doing that also mean that I have ruled over them in the true
meaning of the word. But…… that damn woman”

The cards other than Haida were trembling. They couldn’t stop shaking just from
feeling the pulse of mana. It was an instinctual fear that came from deep within.

Their lives could vanish just because Aspite was in a bad mood.

He was a dangerous master to serve, but there was no doubting his strength. He was
the prime candidate to be the next devil king. Their glory and prosperity would also
be assured at the dawn of Aspite’s rise as the next devil king.

However, that was only if they managed to survive until then.

“Hey boss. Isn’t it unforgivable? That guy obtaining all those delicious looking bitches
is unforgivable isn’t it?”

Aspite narrowed his eyes and glared at Haida.

His eyes were oozing with killing intent and also insanity that surpassed Haida’s.

“I can crush that trash anytime I wish…… he himself is nothing. What’s matter here is
his cards. I shall make Himekami Lizel kneel before me. It’s no amusing that a useful
card is taken away by other devil king candidate. Besides──”

Aspite let out a sadistic smile.

“After making Lizel into my card, I’ll endlessly teach her the depth of her sin for going
against me.”

“You rock boss! Then, if I defeat that Yuuto guy and kidnap his women, I’ll give you
HImekami Lizel! But give Yuugaoze Miyabi to me!”

“Yuugaoze……?”

“That bitch, she is walking around in the school with that erotic body! Isn’t it
scandalous? Because she’s making me want to rape her silly!!”

Fiery eyes appeared from under the hood.

“That’s why I’ll educate her! I’ll collar and imprison her then thoroughly teach her!
That she is nothing but a female pig in the end! Kihihihihi”

Aspite’s expression slightly frowned and he replied without any interest.

“Do as you like.”

“Yosshaa! It’s great that my boss is real understanding!”

“In exchange failure won’t be forgiven. You are my ace. Know that failure means death.”

A sadistic smile formed on Haida’s lips.

“Please leave it to me! I will kill Yuuto without fail and make Himekami Lizel into Aspite-
sama’s slave! And then Yuugaoze…… is going to be my sex slave! Hyahahahahaha!”

“Wake up♡ Yuuto♡”

Nn…… aa, it’s morning.

Really, the Lovers arcana is really diligent in waking me up every morning…… but,
today its tone was a bit different from usual……?

“Geez~, you sleepyhead. If you don’t wake up ‘shing’ quickly, I’ll play a prank on you♪”

……Who!?

I sat up in a flash and saw a blonde haired beauty beside me.

What’s more──she was stark naked.

Her face, her breasts, her waist, all of them were glamorous…… it was absolutely
erotic. She grinned cheerfully while lying on her side like a gravure idol.

“Morning♡ Yuuto”

“Mi-! Miyabi-!?”

Yuugaoze Miyabi who had just become my card yesterday was on my bed for some
reason.

“Wha-! Why are you here!? What’s more from the morning!!”

“Ee~, what’s that? You mean if it’s night you’ll want to bring me to your beddd~?”

“Wrong! Or rather you’re already on my bed!! Just where did you come from!?”

“Obviously I used teleportation magic.”

“There is such convenient magic!?”

Miyabi’s small tongue slipped out from between her lips and she smiled mischievously.

“Sorry, I lied.”

“That’s a lie!?”

“That kind of super advanced magic is impossible for me, impossible. After all I’m an
idiot.”

“Then, how?”

“Floating magic. The window wasn’t locked, so I got it. But Yuuto was sleeping, and I
also got sleepy, so I borrowed your bed.”

Don’t tell me both of us…… were sleeping together the whole night!?

“E-even so…… still! Why aren’t you wearing clothes?”

“Ee? Because I’m always naked when sleeping you know?”

“Just because of that──”

There was the sound of footsteps going up the stairs at this time.

“Yuuto, why are you being noisy there?”

“No good! It’s dad! G-go hide somewhere!”

I was panicked, but Miyabi calmly responded with a smile without moving from the bed.

“Ee? Whyyy?”

“What do you mean why! No, it’s obvious right!? If someone see us like this……!!”

But the door mercilessly opened up without caring of the situation.

“Yuuto, who are you……”

Dad’s hand let go of his tablet and it fell on his foot.

“Da…… dad, this is……”

Miyabi had wrapped her body with the bed sheet without me noticing to hide her
important parts.

“Nice to meet you, dear father. Please forgive my unbecoming appearance. I am the
daughter of margrave Yuugaoze, Yuugaoze Miyabi. Pleased to make your acquaintance.”
It was an unexpectedly proper self-introduction. However her current getup ruined
all of that.

Dad broke into cold sweat while his lips were trembling.

His son who he thought was a late bloomer suddenly brought a girl home. Furthermore
he caught the two of them inside the room with the girl naked looking like they had
done it last night. Of course he would be shocked.

“Err, dad. I want you to listen to me calmly. This is a misunderstanding. Miyabi is──”

“Mo-! MOOOOMMMMM! THIS IS BADDDDDDDDDDDDD!!”

That’s why I told you calm down!

“THE YOUNG LADY OF YUUGAOZE IS! I-IN OUR HOUSEEEEEEEEE!!”

──Heh?

There was another sound of footsteps going up the stairs and mom rushed into the
room.

“My my my my! Their relationship is already at this stage…… what to do?”

Miyabi answered with a formal language when she saw mom getting flustered.

“Dear mother, I and Yuuto-kun has exchanged oath with each other for our future. We
have also formed contract, so please don’t worry.”

It was the promise about becoming the next devil king wasn’t it!? And the contract was
about becoming my card and fighting together wasn’t it!?

“Yuu-kun! You two are already engaged!?”

“No! That’s not true!”

“Eh!? Then you two are already married!?”

No good, mom was running wild.

And then there was even more footsteps rushing up the stairs. Who was it this time!?

*Bam!* The door opened and a beautiful girl with glossy black hair made her entrance.

“Lizel-senpai!?”

Senpai looked around inside the room and her gaze stopped on my parents.

“Please excuse my rudeness for coming in uninvited. I am Lizel from the marquis
house of Himekami.”

Dad was speechless with his mouth wide open. And then he mumbled deliriously.

“N-no way…… the daughter of Himekawa-sama coming to this kind of place is……”

Lizel-senpai bowed her head apologetically and,

“I understand how rude I’m being right now. However I sensed danger to your son so
I decided that this is an emergency situation.”

Danger!?

“Don’t tell me, there is other devil king candidate attacking!?”

“No.”

Lizel-senpai glared at Miyabi with a scary face.

“I really can’t let my guard down at all…… I should have told you before to refrain from
doing anything rash.”

“Eee, it’s fine innit♪ Yuuto need to recover his mana anyway.”

“There is no need to do it now right? We are doing that is simply for injecting mana
into Yuuto and only when it’s necessary. You should be prudent when there isn’t any
necessity for that.”

Miyabi talked back slightly sullenly.

“Lizel-senpai yourself, why are you here in Yuuto’s house? What do you come here
for?”

“Th-that’s……”

Lizel-senpai backed away as though she had a guilty conscience.

“I just thought…… to take Yuuto until the academy…… I was only going to wake him up
while I’m at it.”

Lizel-senpai answered with an angry tone and faintly blushing face.

“Kyaaaaah! Himekami’s young lady is looking shy! How cuteee!!”

Mom…… I’m begging you read the mood.

“Dad and mom, go down first for now. I’m already awake too so──”

Suddenly two objects with outrageous elasticity were pressed on my arm.

“M-Miyabi!?”

Miyabi-senpai hugged me and rubbed her breast on my arm as though to show off to
Lizel-senpai. There was only a single sheet separating us, so if it the texture was
ignored then this sensation was already her breasts in the flesh.

“I’ll be the one to escort Yuuto today, so senpai can go ahead of us. I still want to make
out with Yuuto more!”

“Get away from him! Miyabi! I’ll be the one sending Yuuto to school with my car!”

The two’s quarrel was heating up. And then mom’s tension was also rocketing up.

“Aah! My son is two timing the young ladies of Yuugaoze House and Himekami House!
Since when did my son grown into such a resourceful man!? You’re amazing Yuu-kun!”

“I’m begging you mom, be quiet……”

I was helpless against the two girls who were stirring up a storm and my mom who
was pouring oil into fire.

Today I was going to school with Lizel-senpai’s car along with Miyabi too.

When I entered the classroom, everyone’s reaction toward me was still the same. It
felt like they were treating me like I was a tumor.

Well, it couldn’t be helped for now. The chance for us to get closer would come sooner
or later.

Rather than that, there was other things I had to do right now.

The Devil King War to decide the next devil king. I needed to prepare for it.

I would go through special training after school from today. Lizel-senpai and Miyabi
would take turn in being my instructor.

The school ended while I was feeling nervous of the special training that was waiting
for me.

──And then,

“Then, let’s try it one more time.”

Today’s instructor was Lizel-senpai. She was instructing me about magic in the gym.

“Yes!”

I activated the magic circle that I had used many times and filled it with mana.

The magic circle that formed ahead of my palm was the biggest that I had created until
now. It was shining brightly.

“Figa!!”

The flame that was spouted out would increase in power in proportion to the magic
circle’s workmanship. That vortex of flame hit a bull headed devil and it was evaporated
instantly.

It wasn’t a real devil, but a training dummy. There was also no scorch mark remaining
in the gym’s floor.

That was because of the defensive magic that was applied on the wall, floor, and the
ceiling of the gym. The students often had battle practice in the gym. Therefore the
building had countermeasure applied to it.

“Still it’s astonishing…… I never thought that the basic Figa spell can exhibit that much
power.”

Lizel-senpai said with an astonished face. I tilted my head.

“Is that the case……?”

“Your Figa’s power is as strong as the higher ranking flame magic Fizard or perhaps
even stronger.”
Fizard was the magic that was used by Kilga.

“That’s…… if I continue training, will my magic’s power increase even more?”

“Yes. But there is a limit. Normally it won’t surpass the power of higher ranked magic.
This means that you Yuuto is out of the norm.”

Out of the norm…… it was a bit embarrassing to be told that. I was just a human after
all, perhaps it was just some kind of irregularity happening.

“Surely it’s because Lizel-senpai is good at teaching.”

“Th-that’s not true. This is because of Yuuto’s talent.”

Although she said that, but from what I saw Lizel-senpai got into a good mood. She
smiled cheerfully and spread open her hands toward me.

“Now, come over here. We’re still going to continue the training, so you have to recover
your mana.”

It didn’t feel like too much time had passed since I received mana before this but……
well, senpai had already offered, so I should just follow her words obediently. It would
brighten senpai’s mood too.

“Then, excuse me……”

Senpai tightly hugged me without any hesitation when I approached her and started
the Healing Lovers.

There was a sweet smell that was like flower or fruit from Lizel-senpai. In addition her
body that was pressed on me was really soft and supple. It was shocking that a
sensation this pleasant existed.

And then mana was flowing into my body from her arms that were placed around my
back, her face that was buried onto my shoulder, her breasts that were warped from
being pressed on me, her tight waist, from every part of her body that was sticking
close to me.

But it was her breasts that were pouring the most amount of mana among all those
body parts.
It wasn’t like I was using my mouth in this process, but it felt like I was sucking
mother’s milk from senpai. Such strange thought crossed my mind.

Senpai kept hugging me while whispering into my ear.

“Perhaps the arcana is teaching you the magic formula. But, it’s important to practice
the magic over and over. Using magic means constructing magic mechanism inside
your body. It will function only after you pour mana into it. By using it repeatedly, that
mechanism will take root in your body and the activation speed and the strength of
your magic will grow.”

“I see…… so it’s important to practice by repetition even in magic.”

“Yes. But, normally doing that will consume your mana, so you can’t use magic too
many times in a day. That’s why it takes time for people to improve. Except Yuuto that
is.”

“Ah……”

I see. I was able to recover my mana with the help of senpai and the others.

“I can train a lot more in one day compared to other people. In other words, my growth
is faster……”

Lizel-senpai let go of my body.

“That’s how it is. Then, let’s resume the training. Next is finally the intermediate level
magic.”

Intermediate level magic──in other words I would train Fizard next after getting used
with Figa.

“The difficulty level is higher, so I don’t think that you’ll succeed right from the start.
But let’s give it a try.”

“Yes.”

I touched the arcana and requested.

──Teach me the Fizard magic.

The arcana’s voice resounded after a bit of pause.

[Fizard magic is learned.]

“……Yosh.”

I pointed my fingertip toward the dummy devil that appeared ten meter away from
me.

This magic was certainly more complex and advanced than Figa. However it wasn’t so
difficult that it was beyond me. What’s more Lizel-senpai’s mana was seething inside
my body.

“Fizard!!”

Scorching flame shot out from the shining magic circle.

It was a huge torrent of flame with a rank that was clearly different from Figa. The
flame was so bright I couldn’t open my eyes. It swallowed the dummy devil as though
it was a beam.

The dummy didn’t even get burned or scorched. It was annihilated.

When the flame vanished, even the floor that should be covered with defensive magic
was slightly burning.

“Something like this I guess. How is it, senpai?”

When I turned around, Lizel-senpai was staring at the smoking floor expressionlessly.

Eh…… did I do something wrong?

Senpai’s silence fanned up my anxiety.

Before long Lizel-senpai muttered to herself.

“I never thought it will work right from the start…… besides, this power? What’s with
this……”

“E-err senpai? Could it be the power was too weak? I’ll fix my mistake! Please tell me
what’s the problem!”

Senpai came back to her senses and looked toward me.

“No. There is nothing to criticize about the magic’s power, or rather…… this is the first
time I saw a Fizard this powerful.”

“Eh? Then do I pass?”

Lizel-senpai smiled kindly.

“You got a perfect score.”

That’s great──eh?

My legs were unsteady. Strength left my body when I relaxed. I used too much mana.

I almost fell if not for Lizel-senpai who caught me in her embrace.

“……I’m sorry. I’m like this just after one spell…… this is really no good.”

“That’s not true. After all Yuuto’s growth is abnormally quick compared to the normal
devil.”

“Eh…… is that true?”

“Yes. Normally it’s impossible to cast the magic successfully at your first try. Even just
managing to form the magic circle is already a good job you know? What’s more you
cast the magic with this much power, normally that’s impossible.”

I felt saved that senpai told met that. However──,

“But senpai, I didn’t notice when I first saw him but…… when Aspite appeared before
this I realized it. Just how powerful the other devil king candidates are.”

“Yuuto……”

“What senpai said before wasn’t a threat or exaggeration at all. I have keenly felt how
the Devil King War is a war between 22 people…… extraordinary monsters who are
chosen from all over the devil world. That’s why I──”
Senpai’s breast blocked my talking mouth.

“……Tsu!? Muguu!?”

Lizel-senpai hugged my head and buried my face into her voluptuous breasts. My
whole face felt senpai’s softness. My chest was filled with the fragrance of senpai’s
breasts. It felt like my consciousness was getting further away from this sweet ecstasy.

And then I felt a gentle touch on my head. Senpai was gently caressing my head that
she embraced from the top until the back of my head.

“It’ll be fine. After all the true power of Lovers arcana isn’t just this.”

“……?”

“Before long, you will be able to obtain unlimited power.”

Eh…… unlimited, power?

“But, when the Devil King War start for real, the other devil king candidates will also
attack without mercy. That’s why, there is really a need for Yuuto to grow strong before
that. That’s why, I’ll have you work hard a bit more. We will have to rely on your
talent…… forgive me.”

There wasn’t the slightest need for senpai to apologize. Rather, I was the one who
wanted to ask senpai to do just that, Please train me even harder. So that I could get
closer to the other devil king candidates even just for a day faster.

──I wanted to tell senpai that, but the soft objects with a softness that was out of this
world changed shape and pressed on my face. My mouth and nose were also blocked
that I couldn’t breath.

Even though senpai was supplying me with magic power, for some reason…… my
consciousness…… was getting…… further.

“Yuuto? Ah…… Yu-Yuuto!?”

This kind of scene often appeared in manga or anime. Getting suffocated because of
breasts──from this I learned that it could actually happen in reality.
My instructor at the next day was Miyabi.

The location wasn’t in the gym, but in a training room. It was filled with weight
training machine, barbell, running machine, etc. This place was like a fitness gym.

I completed a weight training menu from start to finish.

“Uoo~, I’m tired……”

The muscles throughout my body had been abused uniformly. I sat down on a mat that
was usually used for stretching.

“Okayyyy, we’ll take a five minutes break nowww. You can relax thereeee”

Miyabi handed me a sports drink with a smile.

“Aa…… thanks.”

I received the drink while casually averting my gaze from Miyabi.

“I don’t mind you knowww? You can stare ‘jiii’ as much as you like♡”

“But that’s……”

Naturally I was wearing sportswear but…… for some reason Miyabi was wearing
stretchy spats. Her top was also wearing sports bra that was made from the same stretch
material. The lustrous pink color of her outfit was enhancing her seductiveness.

She was wearing clothes after a fashion, but her body line wasn’t hidden at all.

Frankly speaking it was erotic.

He was thankful that she was giving him support in doing the weight training just now,
but he could see her cleavage, and her breasts would shake just from a little movement,
so he couldn’t concentrate.

“Should I turn around if you’re that shy?”

Miyabi laughed teasingly and turned her back toward him──but, her behind was also
dangerous. His eyes were pulled toward the faintly visible crack on her large butts.

“Why aren’t you wearing a normal sportswear huh?”

“You seeee……”

Miyabi hugged him with full body contact.

“Uwa!?”

“This attire can help you recover more vigorously ‘vroom vroom’! It’s effective right?”

I was pushed down on the mat and breasts with greater volume and elasticity than
even Lizel-senpai were pressing on my chest.

It wasn’t just her breasts. Why the hell this girl’s body was this soft!?

“Now, here I gooo. Huuggg”

Miyabi put her hands around my neck and hugged me strongly. Then strength seethed
once more inside my exhausted body.

“How’s that? Are you energetic now?”

“Y-yeah…… I am.”

Miyabi seemed to be displeased with my vague reply and frowned. She was thinking
of something.

“Hey Yuuto, try rubbing my butt.”

“Eh!?”

“You know, you might recover faster that way.”

No way I will! I thought, but perhaps this was Miyabi’s punishment for my half-hearted
reply. After all she was also a diligent person. She might be thinking seriously for a
way I could recover even faster.
“I get it. Then…… here I go.”

I put my hand around Miyabi’s back and then moved them lower.

My palms touched something with amazing volume that was like a fluffy cushion.

Here!

I resolutely spread out my fingers and grabbed Miyabi’s bottom.

“Hih♡! Nnnyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa♡”

Wait! Don’t make that kind of strange voice! You’re making me feel strange too!!

“W-wait…… Yuuto, nnaaahn!!”

“If we’re going to do this then we better do it seriously. This is research for even more
effective Healing Lovers.”

“Wha-, y-you don’t need to go that far…… fu♡ u-uuhnnnn!”

I watched Miyabi’s reaction while putting more strength into my fingertips. Even so,
what an unbelievable texture. A mere memory foam pillow couldn’t compare with this.
My fingers were sinking, but at the same time there was a force that was pushing them
back. What an indescribable paradise.

Above all else, I realized it for the first time after ascertaining it with my own hands.
The substance of Miyabi’s bottom. It was truly a wonder.

“Funyaaa…… ah, ih, Y-Yuutooo…… ♡”

While I was doing that of course something warm was permeating into my palms that
were massaging Miyabi’s bottoms. The warmth was spreading into my body. The flow
felt even greater compared to when we were pressing our bodies close to each other.

“N-no……”

Miyabi’s waist trembled.

“NO MOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”
Miyabi suddenly raised her voice loudly and rolled down from above me. She kept
rolling away before getting back on her feet in a flash after some distance was opened
between us.

“Y-y-Yuuto you pervert!!”

“Haah!?”

“R-r-r-rubbing my bottom ‘grope grope’ like that is just not right! I thought that I was
going to co-…… I thought I would lose my mind!”

“No…… but, it was for researching a more effective mana recovery method right? It
was you Miyabi who told me to touch there.”

“There is limit to it! Touching like that…… I-I never knew, that it would feel…… that
good to be touched by someone else!”

Perhaps, I should hold back a bit……?

I unconsciously stared at my hands and moved my fingers to recall the sensation.

Miyabi who was watching me turned bright red.

“D-DON’T RECALL ITTTTTTT!! Forget it and do your set three times!! G-get into it!”

Miyabi’s sweat scattered while she pointed at the training machine.

Miyabi was Spartan just as expected.

When I was dead tired after finishing the sets,

“……This time Yuuto can just stand there. It’s fine if I’m the one touching, but it’s no
good if Yuuto is the one doing it, understand?”

She said that while looking a bit embarrassed before pushing her lewd body on me
again.

Her body that was wrapped in sport bra and spats was nuzzling on me without any
reservation, refilling my exhausted stamina and mana.
Even without me touching her from my end, when I got hugged like this inside the
training room that was empty except the two of us, it made me felt strange no matter
what even though I intended to train seriously. I needed to talk about something else
to distract myself. If not it felt like it would become really hard for me in various
senses.

“Err…… Miyabi? It’s not like I’m dissatisfied or anything but…… will plain muscle
training like this be useful even in the Devil King War?”

“Hmmm, the two things aren’t directly related though.”

“So it’s unrelated!?”

“Ehehe, but you’re happy that you can cling all over me like this right?”

“No…… let’s be a bit more serious here──”

Miyabi halted my complaining.

“What I’m going to teach you is martial art. The muscle training is also not meaningless.
Because Yuuto, you’ve never trained your body seriously until now right?”

Uu…… that, was just as she said. I had no chance to move my body except in PE class
or tournaments for baseball or marathon at best.

“Of course you’re going to strengthen your body with magic when battling but…… if
you’ve never practiced moving your body, you won’t be able to do anything…… let’s
seeee, to say it in simpler words, you know, no matter how much power up you receive,
you won’t be able to attack if you’re bedridden.”

“……That’s really easy to understand.”

“As expected it will be your own body that become the focal point of your attack, so no
matter how strengthened your body is with magic, it won’t show any effect if you can’t
throw ‘bam’ a punch. That’s why you have to form your body to become able to move
well to a certain degree. Well, it won’t matter if you can decide the battle with a single
magic though.”

“No, I get it. Then, I’ll do three more set……”

“Ah, wait. We’re going to train in practical skill next. Watch carefully ‘jii’ from there.”

Miyabi let go of my body and glared at a corner where a sandbag for boxing was hanged.

──This is,

I felt mana overflowing from Miyabi’s body. In the next moment, a magic circle shined
below Miyabi.

But it didn’t stop there. Her mana was rushing through her body…… what’s more there
were two kinds?

That meant, she was activating three magic simultaneously.

“Haah!!”

Miyabi’s figure vanished with a shout. Eh? When I thought that, Miyabi was already in
front of the sandbag. The fist she pulled back punched forward swiftly in a beautiful
form.

The sandbag that weighed more than 50 kg was punched until the ceiling.

“Woah……”

Miyabi lightly dodged the sandbag that was swinging back down and smiled at me.
She even made a double V sign with her hands.

“Well, something like this. Start with ‘vrrrrr’, then go ‘sching’, and finish it with ‘baboom’.
Get it?”

“Yeah. I don’t get it at all.”

“Eeeh!? I just told you in detail!”

“What detail…… telling me to get it from the sound effect is too difficult for me.”

“No no, for something like this, how should I say it? Feeling? You now, don’t think, feel,
that kind of thing.”

Setting aside her strength, Miyabi’s capability as an instructor was problematic.

Should I try guessing it on my own? There was also the saying that in the world of
craftsman, skill wasn’t something that was taught but something that you stole from
others.

I walked toward where Miyabi was standing while thinking.

The magic circle that was formed under the feet. And then the mana flowing inside the
body…… no, there were two kinds, inside the body and on the surface of the body.

──I see!

“There are three magic formulas that you used. The first one appeared as a magic
circle under your feet. And then the flow of mana inside your body is most likely for
power up. But the last magic formula flowing on the surface of your skin is……”

“Defensive magic! What’s thisss, you actually understand properly! As expected from
Yuuto!!”

“Miyabi is the amazing one here right? I’m amazed you can process all three formulas
at the same time……”

Miyabi puffed out her chest smugly when I praised her. Her breasts looked even bigger
like that.

“Fuffuuh♪ Well yeah~, but Yuuto need to be able to do the same.”

“Eee……”

Honestly, I had no confidence I could do the same. Could I do such complicated

technique?

“Doing them one by one isn’t that hard. But doing them all at the same time is hard.
Besides depending on the situation, you will need to divide the mana ‘gyuun’ or adjust
the formula’s numerical value ‘guguu’ and so on…… the only way is to keep practicing
until your body remember it.”

I see…… as expected, I also needed to train hard in physical aspect.

“Miyabi, can you tell me the name of the magic you used?”
 Swift Demon
“Let’s see, the first one for acceleration is Stride . The power up magic can also be
used as substitution, but the effect will be higher if you use the magic that is
Sorcery Power
specialized for it. And the power up magic’s name is Maximize . The defensive magic
Armor Demon
is Armored .”

Hm? That was different from the defensive magic I knew.

“Say, isn’t the defensive magic’s name Barricade?”

“That’s when you use it like a shield. Armored is a magic that you wear on your body.
To make it easy to understand, it’s an armor of magic. No matter how much you raised
your attack power, your body will break if you don’t raise your endurance too.”

“That’s…… scary.”

Miyabi’s index finger poked on my chest.

“Then, go ask Lovers arcana already, chop chop.”

“Got it.”

I followed what I was told and asked the arcana. Then a reply immediately came back.

“……Yosh. I now understand all the formulas, more or less……”

Miyabi crossed her arms with a dissatisfied face.

“Good grief…… how can you be that quick in learning them? That’s not cute at allll”

Eh? Did I make her angry?

“No…… but, it’s another matter whether I can use them in battle or not. Honestly
speaking, I don’t have any confidence at all.”

“Ain’t that trueee. I’ll lose my standing if you suddenly can do it perfectly. After all I
trained for some years to master this trick.”

“Is that so…… Miyabi, you’re actually a diligent and hardworking person huh.”
“Wha……”

Miyabi’s cheeks blushed red.

“E-enough about me! Sheesh! We’re going with actual combat next! Watch yourself,
I’m going to beat you up black and blue!”

“Eh!? Seriously!?”

That’s just too Spartan. I wanted to complain so, but Miyabi wouldn’t listen. Looking at
her expression, I didn’t know whether she was angry or embarrassed. She then
activated the three magic.

“This is a practice match! If you don’t come at me seriously, you’re going to regret it
‘bowaa’!”

Miyabi was doing shadow boxing full of motivation. Her fists were too fast I couldn’t
follow them at all.

“I’m going to become a sandbag if I don’t do it……”

First I sent mana into the magic formula of Stride. The magic mechanism that had just
gotten created in my body was stimulated and a magic circle was created from that.

You could also say that magic circle was a magic formula that was expressed in a shape
that was visible to eye. In other words, magic formula and magic circle was almost the
same.

“Oo, as expected from Yuuto! You can already execute Stride! But be careful. If you
clash with me ‘bammm’ without activating Armored, you will end up a splatter on the
ground!”

“That’s not funny at all……”

I maintained Stride that was already in activation while executing Maximize.

I still couldn’t feel it for real but…… I was feeling the magic mechanism inside my body
moving.

Hm? This is……?

I tried following the flow of mana inside my body. It seemed they were passing through
small parts and became a single connection. However midway the mana got diverted
into the magic mechanism of Stride.

──I see. Until now I thought that a single formula is like a single bundle, but that’s
wrong. Every single magic mechanism is an assembly of many small parts.

The effect of magic activated when the parts that dealt with each letters and graph of
the magic formula interlaced into one.

In other words magic formula was the blueprint.

And then the magic mechanism was the parts.

By combining the parts, they became a single magic. The more complicated the
blueprint was, and the more parts of the magic mechanism were used, the completed
magic would become even grander and stronger.

──I understood the trick now.

I also completed the magic formula of Armored and magic circle flowed inside my
body.

“Yosh, here I come! Miyabi!”

I kicked on the floor and instantly closed my distance to Miyabi.

“Eh!?”

I stretched my palm toward the panicked Miyabi. As expected I couldn’t bring myself
to punch a girl. I would make her acknowledge my victory if my palm touched her
body.

“No way! You can do it already!?”

Miyabi brushed away my hand with a shocked face.

If Armored wasn’t currently working, my arm’s bone would break into pieces by that
attack.
Yosh! I more or less could use three magic at the same time!

But, I still hadn’t reached Miyabi’s level. My attacks got perfectly blocked and it was
my limbs that were feeling pained.

However──,

“Geez! I also have my own pride here-!”

The moment Miyabi switched into offense, an opening was created.

“THEREEEEEEE!!”

My palm thrust without hesitation toward the only opened door.

Then, I felt an elasticity that absorbed all impact and a softness that enveloped my
palm.

“Wha-!?”

A buffering magic that softened enemy’s attack──wasn’t what happened. Instead it

was breasts.

──DAMN ITTTTTTTT!! I didn’t think as far as what would lie ahead of Miyabi’s opened
guard!!

Miyabi’s punch stopped midway. Her face looked down at her breasts that was grabbed
by me and her face was boiling red.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

She jumped away and hugged her body to protect her breast from me.

“I, I already told you-, so many times, that Yuuto can’t touch me from your end! I’ve
told you that, and yet-!!”

“S-sorry! Forgive me-! That was an accident.”

But…… after thinking carefully, wasn’t it strange?

“Ah…… but, Miyabi? It might not be my place to say this but, you are normally pressing
yourself on me without any reservation at all, so why are you getting this embarrassed
now?”

“I-it’s fine when I’m the one taking the initiative! I can prepare myself beforehand! B-
but being on the receiving end is e-embarassing, I-I can’t guess what’ll happen then
so, I w-…… would, feel it, too much…… or something……”

I couldn’t hear the end of her sentence really clearly at the end, either way she looked
really embarrassed for real. Could it be that usually she was always forcing herself a
lot when touching me?

I was thinking such thing while staring at Miyabi’s red face. Then her expression got
filled with anger.

“Ah geez, I’ll train you hard today for payback!”

She approached me in a large stride and grabbed my wrist.

“Uwah!?”

My body floated in the air.

I was thrown!?

As expected Miyabi’s technique was amazing. I still had a lot to learn. But, I would
surely become strong if I kept up with this training.

──By accident, my foot got caught on Miyabi’s leg when she threw me.

“!? Hyaah!!”

“Uooh!?”

I fell on the floor. Miyabi also followed falling on top of me.

Furthermore, the positions of our heads were reversed. Miyabi’s face crashed on my
crotch. And then my face also got pinned down by the crotch of her spats──,

“Nnnu!?”
“Kyaaahhn♡ Yaa, don’t grind on that place-!”

“S-sorry!”

“Aan! Geez! You should just let yourself get thrown obediently!!”

“I-it was an accident! There’s no way I can block Miyabi’s throw at my level.”

“You’re saying that thinking in your mind that after all I’m not that big of a deal aren’t
you!?”

“Muguh!?”

Miyabi had the nerve to drop her butt on my face hard!

The huge butts that I had confirmed with my own hands before this were mercilessly
grinding down on my face. Armored wasn’t activating anymore, so honestly this was
really effective. It felt like I would be unable to breath, so I desperately justified myself.

“No! I respect you Miyabi. You can do what I can’t do. You’re also good at teaching me.
I can become strong thanks to Miyabi!”

“Fuauh♡! I-I’m happy to hear that but, don’t talk while your face is theree!”

I could breathe again when MIyabi lifted up her waist. In exchange the waist stopped
getting up a few centimeter in front of my eyes where I got a close up of that place.

“B-but…… Yuuto. You’re thinking that I’m a bitch or something like that aren’t you?”

“I’m not. Although your appearance is showy, but at the inside you’re different. I
understand that from our conversation just now. Miyabi is really diligent and actually
is a girl who is really chaste. Those who call Miyabi a bitch just because of your
appearance don’t have an eye for people at all.”

“……”

“I’m not expecting you to believe me right away. But, can you stop doing something
that sacrifices your body anymore? Miyabi is my important card. I don’t want you to
do something that you’re uncomfortable with.”
“I’m not…… really……”

“That’s why, can you get off already? Please continue the training.”

I didn’t receive any reply from Miyabi.

But before long, after quite some time, she finally muttered with a small voice.

“……No”

Heh?

It felt like Miyabi was burying her face onto my crotch again.

And then, slower than before, Miyabi’s crotch was coming down and pressed on my
face.

“M-Miyabi? That’s why, you don’t need to do something like──”

“Sh-shut upp! Yuuto can just keep quiet and let me do as I please with you! Yes, this is
a punishment! A punishment! Besides…… you can also heal with Healing Lovers at the
same time!”

“Is it punishment or healing, which──guuh!?”

His face was pressed down strongly once more.

A torture!!

I was finally freed fifteen minutes later, and then for a full fifteen minutes we alternately
did fighting practice against each other and healing.

Miyabi’s face at that time looked strangely happy. I also got the feeling that her smile
was a bit different from before.

……But, to be honest, it was pretty tiring.

After my training with Miyabi finished, I showered in the training room’s bathroom
while feeling uneasy.

Could I really become strong?

Would the day I could win against that Aspite come by continuing this training?

I didn’t feel that it was possible at all.

Certainly I was progressing. But, exactly because of that I understood. The difference
between me and Aspite.

It wasn’t something that could be closed with just one or two months of training.

I wondered what Lizel-senpai and the others thought about this……?

Perhaps, they actually had given up on me.

When I was wracked by such thought, I could hear some voices talking outside.

Miyabi? Who is she talking with?

I kept the shower’s hot water running and quietly pressed my ear on the door.

“And, how is Yuuto’s progress?”

……This voice, Lizel-senpai?

“It surpassed my imagination. It’s just as expected from a devil king candidate.”

“In that case a sharp sighted enemy might attack soon……”

“Desu desu! Reina also sensed a strange presence when standing guard last night!”

Reina was also here…… wait, what did she mean by standing guard last night?

“Heey senpai. Won’t it be better to increase Yuuto’s guards from today?”

“Perhaps…… I’ll dispatch my devil subordinates for now.”

“Standing guard two days in a row won’t be a problem for me you know?”
“R-Reina too, Reina too!”

Don’t tell me…… everyone was taking turn to protect me without sleeping while I
myself was sleeping? Then, Miyabi was on my bed was also, to protect me……?

I was shocked.

While I was sleeping without care, everyone was doing that……

Just how much I was being helped and protected by everyone?

“I’ll also take that into consideration, but it’ll be pointless if we can’t show our strength
when it’s really necessary.”

“But still, if they got Yuuto…… it’ll be over for us.”

──Eh?

“If the Lovers lose again at the next Devil King War…… Reina and everyone, will lose
our qualification as noble won’t we……?”

Wha…… what did she say?

“Yes. That’s the fate of the houses that are affiliated with a specific arcana. That way
the stability of our status is guaranteed but, we will lose our noble status if our devil
king candidates keep losing for more than a certain time. That’s the rule.”

“Aa-aa. If that happen then perhaps I’ll get sold to a perverted noble old man somewhere.”

“I’m also in the same position. A noble somewhere will buy me──Reina, don’t cry. It’s
still not decided that the result will be like that.”

What the hell with that…… something like that, they never mentioned it──,

“But, you two mustn’t mention about this to Yuuto. It will only make him worry
needlessly.”

“Guess so. We need him focusing on getting stronger right now.”

“Desu desu.”
I was──really an idiot.

I was sleeping soundly without even knowing that everyone was protecting me
without sleeping.

I was lamenting the gap between me and Aspite without even knowing that everyone
was cornered into such situation.

I…… I’m, really a useless and spoiled man!

I wanted to punch myself who was doubting even once that perhaps everyone had
given up on me.

I wanted to open the door right now and apologized.

But──,

“But you know, for some reason I get the feeling that Yuuto will really become the devil
king.”

“Oh? What’s the matter? Even though you were doubting Yuuto that much that you
even tried to seduce him.”

“T-that was, just a little bit of test…… s-senpai said that but what about yourself!?”

“Me? I’m confident.”

──Lizel-senpai.

“The next devil king──will be Yuuto.”

……What I should do wasn’t running out there or apologizing to everyone.

They were being considerate to me so that I wouldn’t know anything about this. So I
also couldn’t throw cold water on their feeling.

──What I should do was to become stronger than anyone.

And then, I had to become the next devil king.

In order to save everyone.

I quietly returned to the shower and turned off the hot water.

I purposefully made some noises, wore my clothes, and then got out while acting like
I hadn’t heard anything.

I opened the door and got outside. There I made a surprised face as though I had just
noticed that they were there.

“Eh? Lizel-senpai……”

“Yuuto, good work today. I came to check on you for a bit.”

“Yuuto-san, Yuuto-san. Are you tired? Is there anywhere on your body that feel
painful? If so Reina will give massage──”

Reina was still a worrywart and overprotective like usual.

“Haha, I’m fine. Thank you. So Reina also come here.”

“Desu desu. Though it’ll still be some time before Reina will teach Yuuto-san……”

“Eh? Reina will also act as my instructor?”

“Desu desu! Reina will teach Yuuto-san sword.”

“Hee…… I’m looking forward to it.”

Reina’s face turned bright red and she looked down when I told her that with a smile.

“T-that’s, that’s! I-it’s embarrassing……”

Miyabi’s arm suddenly went around my neck and pulled me into a headlock.

“Oi Yuuto! So you’re looking forward to being healed by Reina’s loli body are youuu?”

Heh…… aah!?

“Y-you misunderstand, Reina! That’s not what I meant! Miyabi too, let go!”
Your huge breast is touching my face!

After that, Lizel-senpai and Miyabi got into an argument and Reina was also getting all
flustered like usual.

This was my daily life right now.

I renewed my determination while being choked by Miyabi.

I would become someone who could protect everyone, just like how they were also
protecting me.

And then, in the Devil King War──I would win.

The next day, I was sent to school with Lizel-senpai’s car again and there I entered the
classroom.

“……Ah”

The seat that was empty until now had a male student wrapped in bandages sitting
on it.

When the student noticed me, he averted his eyes in annoyance.

I walked toward that student and greeted him.

“Gelt. You’re fine already?”

“……Shaddup”

Well, of course he would be like this……

Surely he was irritated that I would talk to him. It would be better to leave him alone.

Thinking that I turned toward my seat, but then,

“Why…… did you do something so stupid like helping me huh?”

Geld kept his gaze averted while muttering with a small voice.

I also kept my back facing him and spoke toward empty air.

“──No particular reason. You must want to be of help for your lord and have him
recognize you right? And yet, those guys trample on that feeling. Far from helping their
defeated comrade, they lynched him instead. That was unforgivable. That’s all there is
to it.”

Geld spat out a reply.

“Keh, pretty words.”

When I turned around, I found Geld glaring at me.

“I’ve already said some pretty words, so I guess I’ll say this too. When the battle is over,
how about we put everything behind us? We’re in the same class after all, it also won’t
be any problem even if we become friend isn’t it?”

“What the hell did you say!?”

“No…… look, it’s common isn’t it? A development of two people becoming friends after
talking with their fists and understanding each other.”

“What old shonen manga are you talking about!? Find someone else if you want to
have someone to get buddy buddy with!”

As expected, it couldn’t be that simple.

“This stupid human…… dammit, doing unnecessary thing like that.”

Geld muttered that and turned his gaze away to ignore me.

I shrugged and sat on my seat.

Behind me,

“What friend…… don’t bullshit me.”

I caught that voice faintly.

After that Geld participated in the class quietly, but when the third period was over he
took his bag and got out of the classroom brazenly. It was strangely impressive when
someone was skipping class so brazenly like that.

As for me, I took the classes normally and then trained with Lizel-senpai after school.
Thankfully she then sent me back home in her car.

“Sorry to trouble senpai every time.”

“Don’t mind it, take a good rest. Also remember to not walk outside at night, because
it’s dangerous. You understand?”

Normally I would just think that I wasn’t a child who needed to be talked like that, but
most likely senpai was wary of other devil king candidates attacking me.

I obediently nodded and entered inside my house.

“Oh, welcome back. You’ve good timing, mom just finished making dinner.”

Dad was there when I looked at the living room. It seemed he had gone home early
today.

I quickly changed my clothes and went up into my room at the second floor.

I was feeling hungry, so I was feeling curiously impatient. I took off my uniform’s
blazer in a hurry and turned toward the door. At that time, the situation outside the
window entered my sight──,

──?

The outside was pitch black.

The sun had gone down faster than I thought──at first I thought that. However I
noticed the abnormality at the next moment.

The outside of the window was really black. It was though the window was covered
with ink.
“What’s, this……”

I tried opening the window, but it didn’t even twitch.

[Warning──]

The Lovers arcana’s voice suddenly echoed inside my head.

[Threat is approaching. Danger level 4. Recommending swift evacuation.]

“……Don’t tell me”

──An attack from other devil king candidate!?

“Mom! Dad!!”

I ran down the stairs and rushed into the living room. There I found a man eating the
karaage for dinner in front of mom and dad who collapsed on the floor.

“You shitty human, stop crying ‘mooom, daaad’ at your age.”

“You bastard……”

The man was wearing the uniform of devil king academy and a hoodie. He was wearing
the hood deeply, so I couldn’t really see his face. However this man looked eerie with
his somewhat sickly grin that was wide like crescent moon.

“What are you doing here!! If you have business with me then come straight at me!
Don’t drag my family into this!”

That man spat the karaage that he ate and threw the plate of side dish to the wall. The
sound of plate breaking resounded and the fragments and karaage were scattered
around.

“Don’t act cocky you trash. I’ve been watching you these few days, but this talk about
you being a devil king candidate is just bulsshit right? You only look like a human.”

“So you’re putting a mere human under your watch for so many days. Aren’t you a
wary sort.”
“Aa? You trash doesn’t worth anything. Both Geld and Kilga are really useless shitty
bastards. Why did they lose against this kind of trash……”

──That meant,

“So you’re Aspite’s underling.”

The guy put his hand on the edge of the table and flipped it violently. The dinner that
mom cooked was thrown on the floor.

“Your mouth got no manner at all ehhh! Put [-sama] when mentioning your betterrrr!”

Eyes that were warped in insanity peeked out from under the hood.

“This great me is the ace of the World, Haida Cluzaz.”

An ace!? That means he was the number 2 of the World arcana!

Fear and anxiety welled up inside me. Cold sweat was trickling down.

“……So a big shot like that is coming here personally for so many days huh.”

“Aaa? Don’t act smart. There aren’t that many people who can set up magic formula in
this house without Lizel and the other noticing after all.”

Magic formula in the house?

“So the outside is pitch black and the window cannot be opened are because of that.”

“Obviously. This house is in a different space now. You can enter from outside, but you
can’t get out from inside.”

I see…… so the strange presence that Reina sensed was this guy.

“This house is a trap. You trash is the bait. You’re just a shitty bait but, that’s enough
to lure those bitches here.”

“What……”

This guy’s aim wasn’t me. It was Lizel-senpai and others!!

The door at the entrance was loudly opened at that timing.

“Yuuto!! Are you alright!?”

“Yuuto-!”

“Don’t come! Senpai!! Miyabi-!!”

When I rushed toward the corridor while yelling that, Lizel-senpai and Miyabi were
already entering the house.

“’Kaa~y, two customers coming iiin”

In respond to Haida’s voice, there was a heavy sound like a steel door closing and the
door at the house entrance closed.

“Senpai! Miyabi!”

Lizel-senpai ran in and smiled in relieve when she saw me.

“Yuuto, I’m glad…… you’re safe.”

“It’ll be bad if senpai is here! The enemy’s magic formula turn the whole house into a
trap──”

Suddenly Lizel-senpai and Miyabi fell on their knee as though strength had left their
body.

“W-what’s wrong!?”

“I-I don’t know…… my mana, is being sucked out……”

“M-me too…… I can’t, put strength into my body…… we have to, quickly get out……”

The two’s voices were losing strength even while saying that.

“Hyahahahahahahha! You see, this magic formula is set up to absorb those two’s mana.”

Haida showed himself at the corridor.

Lizel-senpai had completely fallen on the floor right now. She looked up at Haida with
a grave face.

“Haida…… so this is Aspite’s doing just as I thought.”

“Hihihihihihihi, I’ll present you to Aspite-sama…… but Miyabii, you’re mine.”

“Hiuh!?”

On the floor Miyabi’s face warped in fear for an instant.

“You bitch, tempting me with that shitty erotic body. Just as you wish, I’ll break you in
thoroughly.”

“What…… th-there is no way I’m wishing for something like that! Are you stupid!?”

Shit……!? What should I do!?

I was the only one who could move right now. I had to do something!

No way in hell I would let this bastard took away the two of them!! Think! How to save
the two of them!!

“Yuuto……”

Lizel-senpai called my name with a weak voice.

“Senpai!?”

“This magic, is brittle from outside…… get out from here, and destroy a part of the
house…… everyone will be saved if you do that.”

“But, we’re completely locked inside!”

“Hyahahahahaha! It’s just as that trash said. The space here is a one way road. It’s
impossible, totally impossible unless you teleport.”

──Teleport?

Come to think of it, Miyabi mentioned it when she sneaked into my bed.
[Obviously I used teleportation magic.]

If I remembered right, it was a super advanced magic that was impossible even for
Miyabi…… there was no way I could do something like that……

──But, I had to do it no matter what!

I touched the arcana on my chest.

“Lovers arcana! Teach me! How to do teleportation magic!!”

Haida sent me a ridiculing gaze.

“Haa? There ain’t no way the arcana gonna teach you something like that.”

The arcana’s voice resounded in my ears.

Space Teleportation
[ Transite is learned.]

But Haida couldn’t hear that voice.

“In the first place you won’t be able to use it even if you learn it. That magic also needs
tons of mana to use. Hihahahahaha!”

“……Yuuto.”

Lizel-senpai and Miyabi desperately lifted up their body and clung on my right and left
legs. The texture of their breasts were pressed on my thighs. Warm power was flowing
through into me from that softness. They were sending me their few remaining mana.

“I believe…… in you.”

“You can do it…… if it’s you Yuuto!”

Strength left the two’s bodies. Their arms let go of me and they collapsed unconscious
at the corridor.

──Senpai, Miyabi.

They gave their very little amount of mana to me……

“Kuh……!!”

I gritted my teeth and poured their mana into the magic formula that I had just
learned.

Just as Miyabi said, it was a complex and huge magic formula. As to be expected from
a magic that violated the providence of this world. But──I could do it!

Because everyone was supporting me!!

The instant mana spread to every corner of the formula──,

“Uah!?”

I was standing at the garden.

“……Kuh”

I used up too much mana and felt dizzy.

“Not yet! Everything will be wasted if I faint here!”

The power didn’t need to be that strong. I needed magic to explode instead of burning!

Explosion
[Detonate is learned.]

I scraped up my remaining mana and created the magic formula.

I spread my hands toward the entrance.

“Detonate!!”

The magic circle shined at the entrance, then the light burst at the next moment.

A sound of explosion thundered and the entrance was blown away.

“I did it!!”

With this Haida’s spell formula should be broken……!

“Senpai!! Miyabi!!”

The roof of the second floor was blown up at the same time with my yell. And then
two silhouettes danced at the night sky.

It was Haida, while the other one was a sexy silhouette.

“How dare you go against meee! MIyabiii!!”

“It’s disgusting to have the like of you calling my name like that-!!”

Their fists crossed and sparks scattered.

The two silhouettes were repelled from each other and landed on the rooftop of
different houses.

“I’ll make you mine for sure next time! Wash your body and wait for me! You shitty
bitch!!”

“What……”

Haida’s body vanished before Miyabi’s rage could explode.

“Yuuto!”

Lizel-senpai rushed out from the smoking entrance.

“Senpai! I’m glad, you’re safe.”

“Yes, you too Yuuto…… thank you. You saved us.”

“That’s…… I’m the one who should say thanks──”

“Aah sheesh! Sorry! He got away.”

Miyabi landed on the garden.

“Either way, I’m glad both of you are safe……”

My sight suddenly tilted.

I used up too much mana. I readied myself to crash on the ground, but a soft texture
caught me instead.

“Senpai…… Miyabi.”

The two of them were supporting my body from left and right.

“Good job. You did great, Yuuto…… I give you a perfect score with nothing to criticize.”

“It’s true! To think that you can even use Transite!”

“Haha…… it was thanks to both of you. But…… I never thought they will attack my
home.”

Lizel-senpai stared at the destroyed entrance of my house with a stern gaze.

“The unveiling is close, that must be why they tried to take measures before that……”

“Unveiling?”

“Yes. It’s an event to make the other devil king candidates formally recognize Yuuto as
a devil king candidate.”

“There is…… that kind of event?”

“It’s the direction of the headmaster. This is the first time a human participate in the
Devil King War, so he judged that it’ll be better to obtain the recognition of the other
participants right from the beginning so that there won’t be any complain later.”

That meant, I would have to show myself in front of the other candidates and received
their scrutinizes? In front of those 21 monsters?

“It makes me nervous somehow…… ah”

I couldn’t put strength into my legs and fell on my knee.

“Let’s talk about the detail later. Right now we need to heal you first.”

Lizel-senpai’s body pressed on me. Miyabi was also clinging close to me similarly.
I was on my knee, so my height made my face to be sandwiched between their breasts.
An enchantingly sweet fragrance came from the four breasts.

What a supreme bliss.

What a pleasure.

My body and heart were healed.

Furthermore, senpai was caressing my head gently.

To put it mildly, it was the best.

Soft objects that were like marshmallow were pressed on my face from both sides with
volume and pressure that were unexpected from such soft things.

“Senpai. Don’t push your breast so insistently like that. It reduces my area.”

“Miyabi, it’s you who need to restrain yourself. After all your breasts will spread wider
if you are pushing them like me.”

……For some reason they were starting to argue.

The breast sumo that was using my face as the arena was continuing until the
neighbors reported the accident and the fire brigade rushed here.
A week later, the night of unveiling finally arrived.

The place was the devil king academy’s gym.

I was standing in front of the entrance being a complete wreck from nervousness.

“You okaaay? You’re shaking all over.”

Miyabi massaged my shoulders from behind to unravel my tension.

“Thanks…… to be honest, I’m pretty nervous.”

“P-pl-please…… d-do, y-your best, desu desu-!”

Reina was also cheering me on admirably. But for some reason she looked even more
nervous than me.

“Then everyone, let’s go.”

Lizel-senpai opened the door and urged me to enter. I suppressed my loudly pounding
heart while stepping inside the gym.

……It was dark.

The gym at night with its light turned off was totally dark. There was a turquoise light
stretching straight ahead. That seemed to be the path that I must follow.

I resolved myself and started walking.

──They are certainly there.

There was a faint light inside the dark gym. It was from the crests that were floating
on the floor. The crests that were unique to each arcana were shining faintly, slightly
illuminating the silhouettes that were standing on them.

I couldn’t see their face with just that little light, but there was no doubt that they were
the other devil king candidates.

The number of Devil King’s Arcana was 22 in total. However, the number of people
here was less than half of that.

I didn’t know what happened with the other candidates. Perhaps they thought that it
would be pointless to come here watching a human like me.

I walked following the line of light. At the end there was a spot with a shining crest.

That was the crest of Lovers.

I walked until above that crest and stopped there. I guessed that my current position
was at the middle of the gym.

Lizel-senpai, Miyabi, and Reina were lining up behind me.

“Yuuto, your speech.”

Urged by Lizel-senpai, I fired up myself so that my voice wouldn’t tremble and let out
a voice from my stomach.

“I am Morioka Yuuto! The one who become a devil king candidate under the guidance
of Lovers arcana. I shall have no regret even if this body perish, no sorrow even if this
heart break. My desire is to enter the Devil King War and obtain the throne. If you fear
me not, then recognize my participation.”

Silence. And then──,

“Is it just my imagination? Perhaps I wasn’t listening when he mentioned his status?”

A beautiful voice echoed from I didn’t know where.

“I have no status. If forced to say, then I’m a human.”

Another silence. However this time I could feel the ripple in the atmosphere.

What would I do if they said that they wouldn’t recognize a human being a devil king’s
candidate?

When I thought that, Lizel-senpai’s pleasant voice resounded.

“My lord, Yuuto is without a doubt chosen by Lovers arcana. He possess the qualification
to participate in the Devil King War. To voice your complain toward that choice is to
cast doubt toward the Devil King’s Arcana and also toward the Devil King War itself.”

“──Hee. Himekami Lizel of all people is evaluating that human really highly.”

The radiance of one of the crests brightened bringing the appearance of the owner of
the pretty voice to the surface.

She was a girl who seemed to be my age.

She had a light brown long hair that was close to be platinum blond. Her determined
green eyes shined within the darkness. Her standing postured was overflowing with
confidence.

She was a beautiful girl that was pretty like a flower. It felt like there were stars shining
around her.

Recently my chance to come into contact with beautiful girls like Lizel-senpai and the
others had increased a lot, so my resistance toward girl had increased considerably,
but this girl had a different aura. She was overflowing with mysterious charm that
could attract others.

……But, it felt like I had seen her from somewhere?

“Lizel-senpai, that person……?”

Tension ran through senpai’s face. Just from that I understood that this girl wasn’t an
ordinary person.

“The candidate who possess the Star arcana…… she is a genuine monster.”

A chill ran through my back.

“My, being called a monster is a lovely praise for me.”

The girl said that and brushed away her long hair before giving her greeting.

“I am Hoshigaoka Stella. The devil king candidate who is in the possession of Star
arcana. Nice to meet you, Lovers’ candidate.”

She had white skin that looked transparent. Her inhuman beauty and the faint
coloring of her skin were familiar to me.

“Hoshigaoka…… Stella? Wait, don’t tell me!?”

“Oh? You know me just as expected?”

That face that was winking at me was undoubtedly,

“Know you? Aren’t you the idol Hoshigaoka Stella!? Eh? Why are you at this kind of
place!?”

She was the most popular idol right now. There was never a day that I didn’t see her
in TV or internet through the program or commercial that she starred in.

When she released a song, it would take first place in the oricon chart. If she starred
in a movie, it would become number one in box office. She was undisputedly one of
the national idol. Why was someone like her in the devil king academy!?

Hoshigaoka Stella laughed seeing me flustered.

“Ahahahahahaha, thank you for the nice reaction. You’re funny, I think I like you a
little.”

Hoshigaoka Stella laughed too much that tears came out from her eyes. She wiped it
with her fingertip while replying.

“Why I am here you ask…… obviously that’s because I’m a devil king candidate.”

That was the natural answer. But that was the most shocking fact for me.

“Unbelievable…… to think that Hoshigaoka Stella is a devil.”

“Ah, but this is off-the-record okay? If you leak this in SNS or other place……”

She suddenly put on an idol smile. However a star of death was shining in her eyes.

“I’ll kill you♪”

“……tsu!?”
A great fear pierced my body. A killing intent was cutting into me like a knife.

Lizel-senpai immediately stood in front of me.

Hoshigaoka Stella shrugged seeing that.

“It’s alright Lizel. I don’t feel like having a fight here. Also, you can just call me Stella.
It’s a bit tiring to be called with my full name every single time.”

“R-right……”

The killing intent just now vanished like it was never there. Now Stella was all smile
just like in her advertisement or TV program. Her radiance was truly that of a celebrity.

Stella looked around at the darkness.

“I approve of him. Because there isn’t any need to deny him.”

There was no reaction from the darkness.

“Everyone also agree right? Because, having a human participating is just convenient.
It’s like our rival has automatically decreased by one.”

──What?

Stella winked at my surprised face.

……Certainly, it was just as she said.

I was greatly inferior compared to the other devils. That was why it couldn’t be helped
even if they thought me as an easy target. Rather this situation was just welcome for
me.

If the other candidates underestimated me, I would be able to stand on the start line.

What Stella said was a fact. The other candidates and I myself had no need to oppose it.

Hoshigaoka Stella…… she was sharp. I couldn’t see the bottom of her strength.

“Err…… I, consent.”
It was a very reserved voice.

“Look, even Neith is consenting. Is everyone else fine falling behind like this?”

Neith…… was that the name of the devil just now. It seemed she was an acquaintance
of Stella, I wonder what kind of person she was.

I would be able to see her appearance if the crest was a bit brighter but…… while I was
thinking that,

“I consent. But Lovers is the weakest among all the arcana. He is free to participate,
but I recommend him to surrender quickly.”

That voice came from the darkness before one crest vanished.

Was someone going home…… even so, my arcana was called the weakest, seriously?

“Consent.”

“I consent. Even so a human…… if only his arcana is a strong one then he will be able
to fight at least……”

“No matter what arcana he has, if it’s a human that has it…… consent.”

Voices came one after another followed by the disappearance of the crests. Then the
remaining crest was──,

“I don’t mind recognizing him…… but, I have a condition.”

The crest shined brighter and Aspite of the World came to the surface.

“My card want to have a bout with him no matter what. If he can’t even overcome a
single card, then it’ll be impossible for him to join something like the Devil King War.
If he can win they I shall recognize his entry.”

“All the other devil king candidates has given their agreement. There is no way our
side will accept such condition just because of a single person’s objection──”

I stopped Lizel-senpai’s objection.

“Got it.”

“Yuuto!?”

Lizel-senpai, Miyabi, and Reina looked shocked, but I had no intention of withdrawing.
After all I also wanted to fight with that guy.

“And, when will the bout take place?”

“OBVIOUSLY RIGHT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!”

“!!”

Haida attacked from the ceiling.

“Everyone get down!!”

Lizel-senpai reflexively lifted up her hand. She formed the defensive magic Barricade
instantly.

“TOO EASYYYYYYYYYYY!!”

The Barricade warped when Haida yelled. Haida’s body was floating in the air because
of the magic’s backlash.

Chills ran through my body. The state of the surrounding was strange. It felt like we
were surrounded by a strange magic power that made me felt cornered.

Lizel-senpai’s expression changed.

“!? Miyabi! Cover Yuuto!!”

“Roger!”

“Uou!?”

Miyabi grabbed my collar and dragged me.

I felt a staggering sense of acceleration for an instant. When I noticed I was already
moved for more than ten meter from my original place. Reina was also nearby. Lizel-
senpai leaped to the side after confirming that.

In the next moment, the floor where we were standing until just now got entirely
scraped off.

“What…… is that?”

The floor was like an ice cream that just got gouged by a huge spoon──that was the
impression that I got.

The floor that was gouged into hemisphere shape floated in the air. Haida was standing
on top of it.

“Hyahahahahha! Surprised? Surprised aren’t you, this is my unique ability

Prohibition Barrier
Keep Out !”

Miyabi raised her fists and took a stance toward Haida.

“That guy…… he’s using barrier as weapon.”

Barrier? That thing?

Lizel-senpai came toward us without taking off her gaze from Haida.

“Yes, that’s a terrifyingly powerful barrier. It has the power to forcefully divide the
inside and outside of the barrier. If that barrier is made to envelop only half of your
body……”

Reina was trembling.

“T-then, our body, will be halved……”

The gouged floor fell and caused a tremor.

“Hahahahahhahaha! Exactlyyyy!! I can gouge anywhere on your body yeah. How is it,
Miyabiii? Should I gouge out that huge breasts for you? Hyahahahah!”

“Kuh…… no way I’ll let you do something like that!”

“I can do it y’know. Geez, this damn bitch, always showing off your lewd body like that.
I’ll be affectionate with you if you obediently become mine, buuut…… if you oppose
me, I’ll gouge out only your lewd parts so that you can tempt man anymore.”

Cold sweat trickled down Miyabi’s sweat.

“You’re…… the worst……”

“Say whatever you want. You bitch are gonna be my sex slave in one more hour. Either
way you’re going to get sold when this human lose. It’s only a matter of time for you.”

“……!!”

Miyabi gritted her teeth. The fists that she held up were trembling.

Miyabi was certainly strong. But, no matter how strong she was, there was no way she
wasn’t feeling scared.

A clear expression of anger formed on Lizel-senpai’s face.

“Prepare yourself, Haida…… you’re the only one who I won’t forgive. I’ll make you
regret ever being born.”

Lizel-senpai’s eyes shined blue.

That killing intent and pressure honestly made me shaking on my feet. But──,

“Please wait, Lizel-senpai.”

“Yuuto?”

“They asked for me, so I’ll take this one.”

“……! There isn’t any need to listen to what Aspite said!”

“Desu desu-! Even if we’re going to fight, Reina and others will also fight together as
Yuuto-san’s cards!”

But, I stepped forward alone.

“Haida, how dare you attacked my home. You even dragged mom and dad who are
unrelated……”

“Dragged? Oy trash, when walking are you gonna pay attention to the insect and germ
under your feet huh?”

──This asshole.

I was constructing magic formula inside my body.

One, two, and then…… three-!

In the next instant, I was right in front of Haida.

“──heh”

I smashed my fist into Haida’s face with all my strength.

“GUHAAOOOOAAAAAH!!”

Haida’s body made a strange rotation in the air before crashing on the gym’s wall.

“Yuuto!”

“Whoohoo! You got him good ‘smash’!”

“Amazing amazing! Yuuto-san!!”

Everyone cheered joyfully.

However it was still too early to let my guard down.

“You trashhhh…… shit”

Haida stood up. He wiped the blood oozing at the corner of his lips and glared at me
with his insane gaze.

“THIS SHITTY BASTARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!”

Haida thrust his right hand forward and formed a magic circle. I also swiftly pointed
my hand forward.

“Fizard!!”

“Barricade!!”

Haida’s flame was blocked by my barrier. It was a terrific amount of flame. Although it
was blocked by my defensive magic, the flame was passing through the area beside
and above me for around a meter. I would be roasted alive like this.

“Yuuto! I’ll save──”

“Wait! Lizel-senpai!! I want to win with my own strength!”

“Wha…… what are you saying!? This isn’t the time to be obstinate like that!”

“That’s right, Yuuto!”

“Yuuto-san!”

However I couldn’t agree with them. I activated Stride in exchange of replying and
kicked on the floor.

“Uh!?”

Haida lost sight of me. I launched a punch at him from the ground.

“Dammit!”

As expected this time I couldn’t hit him directly. However, I managed to stop Haida’s
Fizard. Haida took a lot of distance to get away from me.

I didn’t take off my eyes from Haida and talked toward everyone behind me.

“Everyone, believe in me. Certainly it’s just as Aspite said, if I can’t win against this
kind of bastard, winning against other candidates will be just a dream within a dream.”

“……I understand.

“Wait! Even senpai!?”

Miyabi snapped at Lizel-senpai, but she held her back with her hand.

“But, we will move if you’re in danger. Is that alright with you?”

“Yeah.”

“At that time, that means that is as far as you go. That means you don’t have any
qualification to become everyone’s king…… are you okay with that?”

“That’s fine.”

“Wh-what are you saying!? Senpai and also Yuuto!!”

“Desu desu! Reina…… Reina can’t, agree with that!!”

I apologized inside my heart at Reina who was in tears.

But, I──

“Yuuto.”

Lizel-senpai’s hand touched my back. Her passionate feeling entered along with mana.

“Win. No matter what!”

“Yes!!”

Lizel-senpai’s strong will filled me with fighting spirit.

I simultaneously used Stride, Armored, and Maximize that Miyabi taught me and
rushed at Haida.

However──,

“What!?”

My fist punched empty air. And then a voice came from behind.

“Dammit! Anyone can do something like that!”

“Guah!!”

An impact landed on my back. My body was blown forward and I rolled on the floor.

“Yuuto-san!?”

I immediately stood up in respond to Reina’s worried yell.

My spine would have been snapped without Armored.

“Here I come oraaa!! Show me what a lowly human can do!!”

Haida approached with an unbelievable speed and rained down punches and kicks
senselessly on me. There wasn’t any particular martial art in his movement, but his
speed and power were simply great.

As expected from the World’s ace. Even though his personality was the worst, his
strength was really something.

“Guh……!”

I couldn’t block them all and got hit by a punch.

“Hyaahahahahhaha! You get it now! You trash is only at this level!!”

The techniques that Miyabi taught me were used by Haida so easily and with even
more mana than me. Even something that was difficult for the average student was
just a basic technique for devil king candidates and their cards.

“You bastard, Lizel and Miyabi who’re backing you, all of you are useless! All of you
participating in Devil King War itself is also pointless you shitty human!!”

I swung my arms and desperately blocked Haida’s fists.

“Whether it’s useless or not, you won’t know until you try it!”

“There isn’t any need to try you idiot! Lovers arcana is the weakest! It never left behind
any proper result until now! You completely pulled the short straw!!”

“What……”
“You’re just tricked by those bitches! Both you and Lovers arcana don’t have any
caliber of king. Even those bitches should know that you’ve no chance to win at all.
That’s why they also have no intention to make you trash win. They’re doing this just
to kill time and spite us!!”

I caught Haida’s punch with my palm and grabbed it.

“Wrong”

“Aa?”

“Everyone is serious. If not, they won’t desperately persuade me, train me everyday,
and protect me without sleeping!”

I put strength into my fingers that were grabbing Haida’s fist. There was a dry sound
and Haida’s fist was crushed.

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!?”

When I let go of his hand, Haida stared at his broken hand with disbelieving gaze.

“Wha…… what, you bastard, this power, what……”

“How dare you make fun of everyone who has supported me that wholeheartedly,
unforgivable!!”

I stepped forward once more and punched Haida.

He raised his guard, but his arms snapped.

“GUAAAAAAAAH!?”

My Maximize’s power was clearly increasing dramatically.

The mana inside me was obviously transforming. Just a single drop of mana──a mana
that was originally like a small flame was changing into a bomb that could destroy a
city.

I didn’t understand the reason.

But, it wasn’t the time to worry about it right now.

Right now I had to beat up the man in front of me, nothing else matters!

“Ku…… don’t get carried away! DAMMITTTTT!!”

Haida created magic circle on his broken hands. As expected from him, it was an
amazing willpower. His title as ace wasn’t just for show.

“Be careful Yuuto! The Keep Out is coming!!”

“Too slow!”

“This is……!?”

Several Keep Outs were floating in front of Haida.

Just how many were they!? Five, no ten…… when did he have the time to prepare this
many barriers? If they surrounded me…… I wouldn’t be able to escape!!

“I can’t use other magic to process this in the background…… you bastard messed up
my arms like this! I’ll pay you back a hundred times overrrrrr!!”

There was a buzzing in my ears, perhaps because of the distortion in space.

My back felt cold and I broke into cold sweat.

An unseen far was gradually closing in to me.

“I’ll pay back this wound on my body to Miyabi’s body. I’ll thoroughly train that loose
bitch into my sex doll!”

“Shut the fuck up!”

“Aa?”

“Miyabi isn’t loose and also isn’t a bitch! Don’t talk about other people like you know
them when you know nothing at all! Miyabi is a good girl who can work hard and
seriously think about other people!”
When I looked at Miyabi, she was staring at me with moistened eyes.

“Yuuto……”

“Who the hell care! You’re dead already anyway!! I already got the measure of your
strength from the fight before! Whether it’s your mana and magic, I’ve seen through
them all!!”

The Keep Outs surrounded me. There wasn’t any place to run anymore. But──,

“That’s the me from a week ago right?”

“Whaattt?”

I sent mana into the magic formula that I had learned in this one week.

Now its destructive power had also increased after repeatedly training many times.

“I’ll teach you! Human is always growing!!”

A magic circle expanded below my feet. It expanded to a size that was bigger than any
magic that I had used until now.

“What!? What’re you planning!?”

Haida focused his eyes to the ground below me in panic. And then he laughed
mockingly with a relieved expression.

Roaring Blast
“You idiot! This is the magic circle of Detonation! No way something like that will work
against Keep Out! You can’t understand what it means for the space to be cut off into
another space huh! As I thought human is no different from a monkey!!”

“You’re right. But, there is no problem if I blow up everything along with you.”

“……What!?”

The magic circle spread until the edge of the gym in that instant.

Naturally the floor under Haida’s feet was also included.

“I-impossible! There is no way Detonation this big can activate──”

Intense light ran through the magic circle below.

And then shockwave rushed up from it.

“Nyaguh──────────!!”

A tremendous explosion blew up Keep Out along with Haida’s body until the ceiling.

The pressure bearing down on Haida’s body was beyond the imagination. And then
the barrier that was applied on the ceiling was broken through and the shockwave
gouged a large hole into the roof.

It was truly an immense explosion that was limited to within its range.

Moonlight shined in from the round hole on the roof and illuminated the inside of the
gym with silver light.

“Yuuto……”

Lizel-senpai was staring at me.

“Senpai, the result of the intensive training…… how is it?”

Senpai smiled and slightly tilted her head.

“Perfect score.”

“YUUTOOOOOOOOO!!”

Miyabi ran and jumped toward me without braking.

“Uwaaah!?”

I was unsteady of my feet after using up my mana. Miyabi’s momentum pushed me

down on the floor.

“Yuuto! Yuuto! YUUTOOOOOOOOO!!”

“C-calm down.”

“Y-Yuuto, you told off that creep ‘gatsun’, then ‘funyah’, and ‘kyuuunn’, after that you
went ‘dogaga bam baamm’ on him!!”

“……As always, my lack of vocabulary is serious.”

But her feeling was somehow conveyed to me.

I kindly patted the back of Miyabi who was burying her face on my chest to calm her
down.

“YUUTO-SANNNN!”

Reina also sat beside me, took my hand, and hugged it on her chest.

“Thank you very much! Very much! Reina is happy. Reina will serve Yuuto-san for her
whole life!”

Everyone──,

“Hmph…… I see. So this is the new Lovers’s devil king candidate…… furthermore he is
a human……”

Hoshigaoka Stella was staring at me grinningly with her arms folded.

“……Stella. I was desperate in my battle just now and didn’t look around…… you didn’t
get dragged into the explosion right?”

“Eh? Yeah, I was dragged into it.”

“Tsu!? S-sorry! I was──”

I tried to make an excuse, but Stella waved her hand without care.

“Aa, don’t worry about that. Or rather, there’s no way you can do anything to this me
with just that. Right, Neith?”
──Neith?

The voice that I heard just now…… was it that person?

Neith showed herself under the moonlight. She was a beauty with brown skin and
blonde hair. She had a vaguely oriental atmosphere.

“Y-yes…… I’m fine. Completely.”

As expected from the two devil king candidates.

However I also felt a bit hurt that they could state that so clearly…… but either way, I
was glad.

“I am…… Neith Carnac. The devil king candidate of Chariot…… b-best regards……”

What a very reserved chariot……

She was fidgeting shyly when I stared at her.

In contrast Stella was approaching me without even hiding her curiosity.

“You’re interesting. A devil candidate who never existed until now. Come with me for
a bit.”

A star was shining in her eyes.

Coupled with her furred uniform, she reminded me of a star shining in the north sky.

But Lizel-senpai stood on the way of Stella.

“No. Yuuto is tired. Please ask another time.”

“Oh, Lizel. You want to monopolize him?”

“──Wha-!?”

Lizel-senpai’s cheeks blushed red.

“Th-that’s not true. I’m simply maintain Yuuto’s health──”

Stella made a teasing smile and poked on my cheek with her index finger.

“Hee, looking from close like this, he is quite a cutie♪”

“D-don’t! Don’t touch him!”

Lizel-senpai sounded like a kid──I harbored such an impression that I absolutely

couldn’t say out loud to her while my consciousness was gradually disappearing.

When I opened my eyes, I was in a bathroom.

“……Wait, where is this?”

“We’re in the palace.”

“Eh!?”

Lizel-senpai was hugging me from behind.

I was lying in a bathtub while reclining on senpai. What a super gorgeous cushion. Or
rather, this posture was impolite toward senpai wasn’t it?

I tried to lift up my body, but Lizel-senpai strengthened her hold to stop me.

“You shouldn’t. We’re still in the middle of refilling your mana. Let your body and mana
recover slowly.”

“I’m sorry…… I fainted again.”

“Yes. But, not even thirty minutes has passed since you defeated Haida.”

“Is that so…… what about Stella and Neith?”

I thought I remembered them having some kind of argument within my fading

consciousness.

“The two of them doesn’t matter right?”

……Eh, senpai’s mood seemed to be a bit sour.

Her hands that were placed around my chest tightened their embrace on me.

I was feeling the softness of senpai’s body with my whole body. The elasticity of her
breasts was especially amazing. The smoothness of her skin too…… it seemed that
senpai was at least wearing a swimsuit, but I got the feeling that its skin exposure was
excessive.

“Anyway, I have obtained the qualification to participate in the Devil King War, with
this I can stand on the start line.”

“Yes……”

Senpai’s voice sounded down.

“Is something the matter?”

“……I’m sorry.”

“? Why is senpai apologizing?”

“In reality the safest thing for you to do is to withdraw from this war. And yet you are
being forced into danger for our own convenience. That’s why…… I’m sorry.”

“Senpai……”

“It’s still not too late right now. If Yuuto want to surrender in the Devil King War, then
we──”

“No.”

I said clearly with a strong will.

“I want to win the Devil King War. Together with everyone. And then we will be able
to obtain it. A new future, a new possibility. I don’t want a future where I and my
parents are treated as livestock while senpai and the others get turned into slave. I
want to obtain my future with my own hand.”

“Yuuto……”
Senpai’s forehead bumped on the back of my head.

“Is it really…… okay?”

“Lizel-senpai. What do you think about my battle just now? Is there no hope for me?”

“That battle was really…… magnificent.”

A hot breath touched my neck.

“Whether as a devil king candidate or as a single boy…… even if I don’t belong to a

house that is a subordinate of Lovers arcana…… I will, surely──”

Senpai’s arms loosened.

I turned around inside the bathtub and the two of us stared at each other.

Senpai’s cheeks were blushing, perhaps because of the warm water or because of
other reason. Her eyes were moist. Her spellbound expression looked like a girl in love.

Her black hair that was stuck on her cheek made her looked really erotic. Her face that
was a mix of tidiness and sexiness placed me under a spell.

“Senpai……”

“Yuuto……”

Our faces naturally approached each other. Our lips would touch each other with just
a bit more──

“Sorry to make you wait──!! Hey, is Yuuto awake alreadyy!?”

“Sorry sorry for being late!!”

The door was opened loudly and Miyabi and Reina’s voices rushed in.

I reflexively turned toward the door while standing up.

“……!?!!!!”
“Hiuh!?!!!?”

Miyabi averted her face in a hurry when she saw me. Reina covered her face with her
hands.

But it should be me who had to avert his gaze here.

The two of them were wearing micro bikini that was only barely safe.

Miyabi’s huge breasts couldn’t be supported at all with a micro bikini that was more
like a string. When they jiggled, it gave me anxiety because it felt like her nipples would
come into view. In addition her breasts were fully exposed other than the tips. Her
underboob, her upperboob and her sideboob were all laid bare.

Naturally her lower body was also only covered with only a poor excuse of swimsuit.
I could see almost everything with just a bit more, in addition her bottoms most likely
would be in full view if she turned around.

Reina was also wearing a bikini with the same design but in different size. Therefore
she was also too dangerous albeit in a different sense from Miyabi.

Her slightly protruding small breasts only had their tips hidden. Her lower body also
only had the center of her crotch hidden and only just barely.

──Wait, don’t tell me that Lizel-senpai was also wearing the same thing?

I turned to look at senpai faster than my brain could think.

“──!?”

Lizel-senpai’s eyes opened wide and she turned stiff.

Senpai’s breasts that were swaying inside the water were undoubtedly covered with
bikini of the same design.

──Wait, I mustn’t. I accidentally saw it because I followed my instinct.

“I’m sorry. Lizel-senpai…… I accidentally……”

“Eh…… n-no……”
Senpai answered somewhat absentmindedly while her gaze couldn’t leave my crotch.

Hm? Miyabi and Reina were also the same, their reaction was a bit strange──,

When I looked down,

I was the only one who wasn’t wearing a swimsuit.

Thinking carefully, of course I wasn’t.

I didn’t leave any swimsuit in the academy. And normally I would enter the bath naked.

And then, perhaps because I had just woken up, my lower body was also in the shape
that was faithful to its instinct.

That was why Miyabi and Reina also acted strange!?

When I turned around, Miyabi was looking aside, but her eyes were still staring fixedly
to here.

“Amazing…… wha-what’s with that……”

And then Reina. She was covering her face with her hands, but she was looking at me
without even blinking from between her fingers.

“Hyaa……”

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

I covered my crotch even though it was already too late and submerged myself into
the bathtub.

I-I was seen!?

“M-my bad! I showed everyone something strange!!”

Miyabi approached near with red cheeks while rubbing her thighs together.

“I-I was just, thinking…… that’s an amazing design isn’t it…… a little, ahahaha……”
Reina was also approaching timidly while it looked like steam was rising from her head.

“B-but but, that…… it might, look cool, Reina think…… desu desu”

Lizel-senpai kindly placed her hand on my shoulder from behind.

“I’m sorry. That’s…… I undressed you without permission. Your mana consumption
was too drastic that it didn’t feel like you could recover with the normal method so……”

“N-no! It’s not senpai’s fault”

“Right right…… that’s why Yuuto. I mean, it’s fine even if, you showed off more you
know?”

“Reina too, Reina too…… doesn’t dislike it…… desu”

The two of them excitedly entered the bathtub.

“Eh, everyone is entering?”

Certainly it was a big bathtub, so four people could enter no problem.

“Yep. If my memory serves me right, by increasing the size of the skin area that are
touching directly and using water as intermediary…… eerrrr, geez whatever, who cares
about it!!”

Miyabi submerged her body into the bathtub vigorously.

“Kyah”

Because of that she made a splash. Lizel-senpai frowned.

I──had my eyes stolen by the small bikini bra that was floating on the water. It was
liberated from its role and floated on the hot water freely.

Therefore, Miyabi’s breasts that lost their protection were floating in the hot water in
its raw appearance.

The white and smooth skin. The alluring beautiful curve. And then the nipples that
were colored faint pink.
I see, so breasts would float in water──I thought of such thing while unconsciously
staring. Miyabi hid her breasts in panic.

“A-ahahaha, I also…… showed mine. With this, we’re even…… I think?”

Miyabi stared at me with an upward gaze and smiled coquettishly.

“I-I’m already like this so…… I’ll heal you Yuuto just like this okay?”

“Eh!? No, that’s overdoing it……”

“Th-then…… Reina too.”

Even Reina reached toward her back to take off her bra. I turned toward Lizel-senpai
for help.

“Senpai, please say something to them. Everyone──”

“Then, my hands are forced……”

Even Lizel-senpai was moving to take off her bra.

YOU TOO SENPAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-!!?

And then after that,

A supreme healing that I still had never experienced before was waiting for me.
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 cafe 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 fat 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 cafe 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 cafe 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 cafe,

“Auh!?”

Her katana got caught at the entrance exactly the same like when she entered the cafe.

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.

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.
“……This place”

When Himekami Lizel opened her eyes, she was inside a mansion that she had never
seen before.

She was lying down on a red velvet sofa. There was a large chandelier above her. The
faint light of the candles wavered inside the dark room. The classical interior design
created an atmosphere as though this was a residence of a French noble.

“You woke up.”

The grey hair and white uniform stood out inside the dark room. There was
depression around the figure’s eyes as though he didn’t have enough sleep. There was
also the smile that was looking down on the whole world.

“Aspite…… so this is your doing?”

Lizel tried to sit up, but her head was still hazy. When she moved her hand to her head,
there was a rattling sound of chain. Her wrists were shackled by a metal handcuff that
was connected to a chain.

“……You really have a bad taste in accessory. Is this the custom of Line House?”

“A savage stray dog need to be chained and disciplined. It’s only natural.”

“I don’t remember ever agreeing to accept this treatment or even visiting your house
though.”

“Only my will matters here. The opinion of others is inconsequential.”

“You’re as arrogant as usual.”

“But it shall be permitted.”

Aspite put his foot on the armrest of the sofa where Lizel was sitting.

“You are mine. Become my card.”

“You already saw at the unveiling right? I’m already the Lovers’ card. I belong to Yuuto.”

Lizel looked up at Aspite challengingly──and swiftly thrust her hand.

“Hah!!”

An attack magic should be activated, but nothing happened.

“……This is”

A chill ran through her whole body.

Aspite looked down at Lizel with a triumphant smile.

“World Revision──this is my, the World’s unique magic.”

A sphere with a diameter of 5 meter appeared around Aspite. It looked like a sphere,
but it was made from geometrical graphs and magical letters──it was a three
dimensional magic circle.

Lizel looked around the three dimensional magic circle that was formed around her.

“I see…… I can’t even use magic inside this sphere.”

“It’s not just you, no one can use magic here. This is my world, the world that I rule. A
world where I am the absolute one.”

Lizel scoffed.

“What a small world. It’s just the right size for you to be a shut-in by yourself.”

Aspite’s eyes twisted in rage.

He put strength into the foot he put on the armrest and kicked it with all his strength.

“Ah!?”

The sofa was toppled and Lizel fell on the floor. And then Aspite pointed his palm
toward Lizel. Even though Lizel’s magic didn’t activate, a magic circle was formed this
time for some reason.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

Aspite’s lightning magic assaulted Lizel’s body.

An incredible impact and pain made Lizel’s body convulsed. And then a few second
later, the lightning stopped and Lizel became unmoving.

Her clothes were scorched and smoking. Some places on it were torn.

“Aa…… uu…… aa”

Aspite looked down at Lizel who couldn’t even talk and smiled sadistically.
“The World arcana is the strongest. I’m already the devil king. You are mine regardless
of what you think. The like of Lovers can’t even be my opponent.”

Aspite lightly kicked Lizel’s body with his toes. Lizel’s body floated up as though she
was weightless from the kick.

“Uu…… i-indeed…… your power is amazing…… but, I…… will never, become, yours.”

“I see. But if the devil king candidate of Lovers is gone, you can only obey me then. If
you decide to submit to me…… do a dogeza and beg that you want to become my card.
If you do that, I shall promise the continuation of Himekami House when I become the
devil king.”

Lizel’s body fell on the floor the instant the magic circle vanished. Aspite then
mercilessly stepped on her body.

“Gah!? Guu…… uh!!”

“I’m going to plan a party for your sake. I shall welcome that human with all the
members of the World. I’ll show you his unsightly figure when he is begging for his
life.”

“!? St-stop…… it”

“Think carefully about who will become the next devil king, and whose card you
should become.”

Aspite turned his back on Lizel and exited the room. Lizel was watching that back
blurrily with her fading consciousness.

“Just where has Lizel-senpai gone to……”

I became suspicious because Lizel-senpai wouldn’t come back no matter how much
time passed and called back Miyabi and Reina. We then searched the mall and the
surrounding area. Himekami House also used their subordinate devils to search, but
not a clue about Lizel-senpai’s whereabouts was found.
We took a nap in the palace when dawn was approaching and welcomed the morning
of Monday while clinging on a single ray of hope.

“As expected…… Lizel-senpai, she doesn’t come.”

Miyabi muttered listlessly.

We were waiting in front of Lizel-senpai’s classroom, but the corridor was turning
empty and the chime that signaled the start of the class rang out heartlessly.

We had no more prospects of where to search her.

“After this…… what should we do?”

Miyabi and Reina looked up at me with an imploring gaze.

But, I was also asking myself the same question. But I didn’t have the answer.

“Re-Reina, Reina is worried…… a-about senpai desu…… desu”

I put my hand on Reina’s small head and gently caressed to console Reina who was
becoming tearful.

“It’ll be fine. This is Lizel-senpai we’re talking about. Surely she will return soon as
though nothing has happened.”

“──That’s just a wishful thinking yeah.”

A male student was walking in the empty corridor.

“Geld……”

Geld appeared in front of us still wrapped in bandages and band-aids.

“Himekami Lizel isn’t gonna come back if you do nothing like this.”

I reflexively grabbed Geld’s collar and slammed him on the wall.

“What are you saying!?”

Geld made a pained expression and replied with a hoarse voice.

“I-it’s Aspite…… he kidnapped, Himekami Lizel.”

“……Tsu!?”

I let Geld go.

“Aspite…… that guy”

Geld coughed and rubbed his neck with his hand.

“Cough…… sheesh…… listen well. Aspite wants to make Himekami Lizel to be his card.
He gonna do that by killing you.”

“So, his aim is me……”

“Yeah. Right now he’s preparing to lead you guys into a trap.”

──What?

Geld paid no mind at our doubtful look and continued talking.

“Tomorrow you should receive an invitation. The gist of it will be a call for you guys to
show up at the academy’s stadium where he will kill you right in front of Himekami
Lizel. He wants to break Himekami Lizel’s heart and make her submit with that.”

“……Is it okay for you to tell us that?”

Geld made a self-depreciating smile.

“That’s not all I’m telling you, take this location of Aspite’s hideout too.”

Geld said that while taking out a memo from his pocket and held it out toward me.

“Himekami Lizel is confined here.”

“……Geld, is this okay? If you do this, you will──”

“Can’t be helped. Because…… you know”

He averted his face looking a bit embarrassed at what he was about to say.

“We’re…… friends right?”

“Geld…… you”

Miyabi raised her voice in surprise.

“A, a tsundere!?”

Reina was also looking alternately between me and Geld with sparkling eyes.

“Amazing, amazing! Is this what they called men’s friendship!?”

Geld’s face turned bright red and he yelled.

“Sh-shaddup! Aah, shit! Just take the damn thing already!”

Geld pushed the memo on me. U took it and,

“I’m in your debt, Geld.”

“Forget about it, just think about a way to sneak in. The place will be at its emptiest at
midnight until before dawn. Watch yourself there.”

Geld was unexpectedly considerate even with the small details. It felt funny for some
reason.

“This ain’t the time to grin like a fool. Do you understand? Aspite is a monster.”

“……a monster huh.”

“Yeah. His mana is also not a joke, the precision of his magic formula is absurdly high
too. Just those things already made him a monster, and yet that unique magic of hi……
the World Revision is just insane.”

──World Revision?

“That magic, what kind of magic is it?”

“It’s a type of barrier magic…… or so it seems.”

“……That’s vague. Speaking of barrier, is it something like Haida’s Keep Out?”

“It ain’t anything like that! Though, I myself isn’t really clear just what is Aspite doing……
but, Aspite is invincible inside that barrier. In there he is a devil king, or perhaps even
god.”

A devil king, or even a god?

“……This is all I can do. Well, I wish you luck. If not…… it’s gonna be who get killed next
after you.”

Geld left those remark as his parting words. I watched his back and,

“Yeah. We’ll rescue Lizel-senpai without fail. I also won’t let you get killed.”

Threw those words toward him. In respond, Geld raised his fist and made a thumb up
without turning back.

The date changed and it was finally time for us to head out for the rescue mission.

Aspite’s mansion was located three kilometer away from the academy. We asked a car
of Yuugaoze House to take us until nearby and right now we were walking toward our
destination.

“We’ll arrive soon……”

Geld’s memo was filled with a simple layout of the mansion and the position of the
rooms that weren’t usually used. Thanks to this, I didn’t think there would be any
problem with the infiltration itself.

“It’ll be best if we can rescue Lizel-senpai without fighting.”

“Desu desu. But if Aspite find us……”

“Uuun, if that happen, we can only run away ‘swish’ or ‘push push’ to breakthrough.”
“Yeah…… but”

Although I said all those things to Geld, our opponent was a noble. Furthermore it was
the man who possessed the World arcana. He could even be said as the top contender.

He wasn’t an opponent that a human and furthermore a beginner like me could match.

In the end, could we win with just the three of us……?

I walked through the path with few lighting while under the heavy pressure of such
anxiety. Before long the wall of Aspite’s mansion came into view.

There was the silhouette of someone crossing their arms in front of the wall.

──No way, an ambush!?

That silhouette slowly started walking toward us. The figure that finally appeared
under the street lamp was,

“Are you three having a night stroll together?”

──Hoshigaoka Stella!?

“Stella yourself…… why are you here?”

Then the devil king candidate of Star, Stella smiled as though she had seen through us.

“You come to take back Lizel from Aspite aren’t you?”

“Tsu!? How do you know that!?”

Stella shrugged in exasperation.

“It’ll be annoying if you underestimate me. I am also a devil king candidate you know?
I can learn at least this much. And, do you have any prospect of victory?”

Stella frowned when I was at a loss of how to answer.

“The World arcana is powerful. After all it can even be called as the top contender to
be the next devil king.”
It was…… that powerful?

My back became damp from cold sweat.

“I’ll ask you again. Do you have any chance of victory?”

Honestly speaking, I had no chance at all. But──,

“I have to go no matter what.”

Stella let out a chuckle at my answer.

“I seeee, so you’re prepared to die.”

She came to my side with light footsteps as though she was dancing. Then she
intimately placed her hand on my shoulder…

“You see, about Aspite……”

Her green eyes shined mysteriously.

“──Should I, beat him to death for you?”

“Eh!?”

Beating Aspite? Stella will?

In other words, she would cooperate with us.

When I looked at Miyabi and Reina, the two of them were making joyful expressions
as though we had just obtained a hundred thousand allies.

“A-are you, serious!?”

“Desu desu!?”

I stared at Stella’s confident smile one more time.

I didn’t really understand but, Stella had a way to win against Aspite. I recalled when
Lizel-senpai called Stella a monster before this.
My voice was naturally getting excited too.

“Thank you! That’s a big help. Surely we’ll be able to rescue Lizel-senpai if Stella lends
us your strength.”

Stella cracked a smile and raised her index finger.

“However, I have a condition.”

“What? If it’s something that I can do then──”

“Give me Lizel.”

“──!?”

Give Lizel-senpai…… wait, eh?]

“Wa-wait a second! What do you mean by that!?”

“I’m telling you, in exchange of defeating Aspite for you, I’ll have Lizel become my card,
that’s my condition.”

“Such thing! I want to save Lizel-senpai……!!”

“That’s why I’ll save her for you.”

“No, that’s not what I──”

“You know how is Aspite’s personality right? He won’t forgive anyone who goes
against him. Besides he is really fixated to Lizel. Surely he will discipline Lizel and treat
her like a sex salve. Are you alright with that?”

“……Tsu!?”

“If it’s me then I’ll treat Lizel well. I promise.”

──What should I do?

Certainly asking for Stella’s help would be the best in order to rescue Lizel-senpai from
Aspite.
But, if I did that…… I would lose Lizel-senpai.

But if I was unable to rescue Lizel-senpai because I was fixated with that…… it
wouldn’t end with just her, if even Miyabi and Reina fell into Aspite’s hand……!!

“Fufu, looks like you understand. Then, let’s seal the deal with a handshake.”

Stella gave me a business smile and held out her right hand.

“You even get a handshake from a celebrity like me, isn’t this a great bargain?”

That’s right. Lizel-senpai’s safety was the most important thing.

I raised my right hand──,

“……No.”

I clenched my fist to grab empty air.

“Thank you for your offer but…… I’ll do something about this by myself.”

“Heee……”

Stella half-closed her eyes unamused. I stared back straight toward her eyes.

“Lizel-senpai told me. That I can become the devil king. She also said that she is betting
her everything on me, a mere human, when this is Lizel-senpai we’re talking about, a
noble devil and also someone with the capability that can even become a devil king
candidate herself. To rely on other people in order to save her and handing her over
as the price…… such thing will be a betrayal toward Lizel-senpai! I can’t do that!!”

Stella sighed and placed her hand on her waist.

“Then let’s see what you got.”

I turned my back toward Stella and held out my hand toward Miyabi and Reina.

“I’m sorry. I selfishly decided that.”

“Nope. It’s good that you’re decisively ‘smack’!”

“Desu desu! Reina think Lizel-senpai will be angry if we rely on Stella-san.”

I smiled to the two of them. And then the two of them grabbed my hand──,

I formed a magic circle under my feet just as planned.

I activated Transite. In the next moment──we teleported inside Aspite’s mansion.

We teleported into what seemed to be an empty room. There wasn’t any human
presence or even any furniture. The room was completely empty. Its size was around
ten tatami mats.

“Kuh……”

As expected it was tough to teleport three people together. I staggered in spite of

myself and fell on my knee.

“A-are you alright Yuuto-san? Do you feel pain anywhere? Do you want to drink
water?”

Reina rubbed my body in a panic. She placed her hand on my forehead to check if I had
fever. Her usual overprotective gesture softened my tension in a nice way.

“I just used up my mana. I’m sorry but, can I ask you for resupply?”

“O-of course of course, desu.”

Although, Reina was a middle schooler with childish figure. Was I asking something
unreasonable from her? I got a bit worried.

Reina sat in seiza posture and pulled my head.

“Please, please lie down.”

“This…… this is”

Lap pillow!?
So there was also a method like this!

Reina’s legs were slender. But, the softness and frailness that were characteristic of a
child brought me an indescribable serenity. A gentle mana was filling me at the inside.

Furthermore her small hand was softly caressing my head. Concern and affection
toward me were transmitted from that palm.

No good…… it felt like I was going to fall asleep even in this situation from how serene
this was.

“Geez, really Yuuto, you’re making a slovenly face.”

Miyabi kneeled beside me and guided my hand to her breast. The cleavage of her
breasts that she had exposed sandwiched my hand. Her smooth bare skin was stuck
on my hand. It felt abnormally good.

“O-oi, Miyabi……”

“Nh♡ The recovery is faster with the two of us attacking simultaneously right?”

“Oi, did you say attacking just now?”

“Hehe, we have no time so…… I’ll speed out ‘gyaru’ now.”

Miyabi pressed on her breasts with her hands from left and right. It pressured my
hand softly. This high pressure despite the softness. I didn’t know how to define this
sensation, but it was just amazing.

I was healed by thighs and breasts while my mana was recovering in the blink of eye.

The inside of the mansion was dark. There was no sign of people.

Had everyone gone to sleep?

I headed toward the biggest hall while stifling the sound of my steps. According to
Geld, Lizel-senpai was imprisoned there.
I opened the door soundlessly and peeked inside.

“──!!”

There was Lizel-senpai at the back of the hall with both her hands lifted up. Her arms
were restrained by a chain that stretched from the ceiling. The clothes she were
wearing were the same with yesterday when were shopping, but they had turned
tattered and her underwear was showing through.

──Damn it!

I endured my rage toward Aspite while entering the hall. Miyabi and Reina also
watched the surrounding vigilantly while following behind.

When we arrived until the middle of the hall, Lizel-senpai lifted up her face. Life
instantly returned into her hollow eyes.

“Yuuto?”

I couldn’t hold back anymore and started running.

“Lizel-senpai!”

“Don’t come-!!”

My feet stopped from her urgent yell.

Something passed in front of my nose. It gouged a deep trench on the floor.

“!?”

It was like there was an unseen guillotine that fell from above. I almost got bisected.

“Too bad. You could die painlessly just now.”

A hole was opened at the ceiling. A grey haired man was slowly descending from there.

“Aspite!”

“Who permit you to call my name?”

It was like gravity had suddenly returned and Aspite quickly landed on the floor.

“Yuuto! Run!!”

I replied to Lizel-senpai with a smile.

“Please don’t worry! We’ll go home together.”

I wasn’t alone. Miyabi was raising her fists at my right, while Reina pulled out her
katana that was stored in the dimensional space at my left.

“Hmph. Those cards are too good for a mere human like you.”

Aspite snapped his fingers. Then the doors opened and ten men and women entered
inside. All of them were wearing the devil king academy’s uniform.

“These guys, Aspite’s cards huh…… there are many of them but, can I leave them to
you two?”

Miyabi answered my question brightly.

“Just this much will be suuuper easy. Just leave it to us ‘baam’ without worry!”

“But but, will Yuuto-san really be fine alone?”

I replied strongly at the worried Reina.

“Yeah. I’ll save Lizel-senpai no matter what!”

Miyabi and Reina ran toward Aspite’s cards at the same time with my reply.

One of the World’s cards seemed to let his guard down and ate Miyabi’s punch fully.
His upper body bent backward. Reina’s sword slashed at his unprotected torso.

“Guaa……!!”

His uniform was torn and his eyes rolled up until the white of his eyes showed. He
fainted. The uniform had defensive magic folded into it, so he didn’t get bisected by
Reina’s attack, but his bone was broken at least.
“We’ll be your opponent!”

“T-turn, turn into the rust of Reina’s katana!”

Miyabi and Reina leaped out from the window to the garden. Then Aspite’s cards also
followed behind them right away. There was only me, senpai, and Aspite remaining in
the hall.

“To challenge this me alone…… it seems you’re especially foolish even among your
group.”

Aspite muttered in exasperation and walked toward me.

Should I try settling the battle instantly with a powerful attack magic?

Aspite looked completely defenseless. However──,

[Warning, danger is approaching. Please be careful.]

The arcana’s voice resounded in my ears.

Danger? However Aspite still hadn’t prepared any attack.

Was his existence itself a danger?

……However, I wouldn’t be able to win just by being on guard like this. This guy was
stronger than me in capability. Anyway I needed to do something from my end and
made a breakthrough.

I thrust my right hand forward and deployed a magic circle.

“Fizard!!”

A hellish flame attacked Aspite. However──,

“What-!?”

Fizard had definitely swallowed Aspite. However, the area with three meter diameter
around Aspite was untouched by the flame. It was like there was a sphere within the
flame.
“I see…… so that’s World Revision.”

I saw it just for an instant when Aspite purged Kilga──that thing.

“Hou. So even an ignorant human know at least that much.”

Aspite’s eyes shined. The unique magic showed its appearance as though to show it
off to me.

That was a sphere that was made from magic formula.

It was similar with Haida’s Keep Out, but this one was far more advanced than that
they couldn’t even be compared to each other.

──However, I didn’t know what kind of effect World Revision had.

Looking at how it blocked my attack, was it something like Barricade?

“Tell me Lovers. Will I get repelled if I tackle that barrier?”

[Conjecture, it appears that the barrier is ineffective against physical contact.]

──Yosh. Then!

I activated Maximize, Armored, and Stride in parallel and launched myself toward
Aspite. The floor that I kicked exploded and I flew in front of Aspite instantly.

So it couldn’t block physical attack as expected! Then!

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!”

I let out a punch that had been elevated until superhuman level.

“──Gah!?”

An impact that made me felt that my arm was broken ran through me.

And then my body was thrown straight back until I crashed on the entrance’s door.

“Yuuto!!”
Lizel-senpai’s yell made me barely aware enough to hold on my consciousness.

──Just now, what happened?

It was as though the force of my punch was reflected back to me exactly as it was.

“What’s wrong? You came punching as you please and got sent flying as you please
too. Just what in the world are you trying to do?”

Aspite smiled condescendingly and walked toward me.

I stood up and talked to the arcana.

“Oi! Isn’t that barrier ineffective against physical attack!?”

[Analysis…… it’s not ineffective toward physical attack.]

What does that mean?

“Oi human. You’re going to accept defeat just from this even after speaking big like
that?”

“Obviously not. Here I come!”

If physical attack was no good then I would use magic attack. If attacking from outside
was ineffective, I would rush into that barrier and launched magic from point blank
range. Originally it would be more advantageous to take distance when using magic,
but I could take him by surprise by doing the reverse!

I rushed to inside the World Revision even while feeling wary. As I thought, the barrier
didn’t really function as a physical wall.

“Detonation!!”

A large explosion occurred right on Aspite’s body──or that should be the case, but,

“……Wha-”

“What’s wrong, human?”

Nothing happened.

That’s impossible. I still had enough mana. I had trained repeatedly until magic circuit
was carved clearly inside my body. And yet, why!?

“Let go. You’re insolent.”

Aspite lightly lifted up his foot and pushed it on my stomach.

“Guhah!?”

My body was accelerated hard.

I felt a fierce impact on my back and my consciousness grew distant. Aspite was far
away from me when I came to myself.

No.

It was me who was sent flying. My body was stuck into the wall.

“Da…… dammit……”

Just now, what was that? Maximize and Armored?

No, I only felt one magic formula. If it was just Maximizem Aspite’s knees should be
broken too.

However he was standing there nonchalantly.

“Here, the next one is the payback for just now. You’re going to burn to death if you
keep staying there you know?”

Fizard’s magic circle was formed in front of Aspite.

“Run away quickly! Yuuto!!”

Lizel-senpai’s voice was panicked. I tried pulling my body out of the wall, but I felt
numb and couldn’t move well.

[Danger level 7. Recommending defense or evasion urgently.]

Dammit!!

I deployed magic circle on my own back. And then,

“Detonate!!”

The wall exploded and my body collapsed backward. Aspite’s Fizard ran passed a few
centimeter from my nose.

“Uowah!?”

I rolled on the corridor while getting covered all over with wall fragments. But I
couldn’t relax here. I immediately jumped on my feet and ran through the corridor.

“Hahahahahahaha! Running away already? Look at him Lizel! That’s the appearance
of the devil king candidate that you look up to!”

Shit! Don’t run your mouth as you please!

I reflexively stopped my legs, but then the arcana’s voice resounded.

[Alert, danger is approaching. Please don’t let your guard down.]

“I know!!”

Aspite appeared in the corridor and deployed a magic circle once more.

“The next one was Detonation wasn’t it?”

Flame and shockwave filled my sight and approached like living things from the other
side of the corridor.

As expected from the candidate of the World. His Detonation was in different level
from mine.

I searched for a place to escape and quickly ran up the stairs beside me.

“Uwaaaah!?”

The coming shockwave lifted up my body. I slammed on the stair’s landing and
coughed violently. Even so I somehow crawled up to the second floor.

Let’s hide somewhere for the moment!

I ran through the corridor, opened a random door, and rolled inside.

It was a small room that seemed to be a storage room.

Aspite’s voice came from afar.

“Where’re you hiding?”

“Shit…… he’s seriously a monster. Do I have any chance to win?”

[Analysis, in the current condition, chance of victory is 0,0──]

“Enough, I don’t want to hear it!”

I lowered my voice to say that and tensed my body.

“Hmm…… it’s troublesome to search like this.”

The next moment after that voce came, a violent sound of destruction roared and the
roof was torn off.

“……What”

The roof was lifted up and soared high in the sky.

“There you are.”

Aspite was floating in the night sky with a faintly shining sphere enveloping him. He
was looking down on me like a king lording over a slave.

“Floating magic……”

[Suggestion, that is not floating magic.]

What? But he was floating like that.

It was strange things one after another since just now. Could an arcana also make a
mistake? But, right now I should think of how to overcome this pinch rather than
thinking about that.

“Surrender, human. If you surrender now then I’ll at least spare your life.”

Aspite slowly landed on the floor and sat down on a fallen pillar.

“Kneel before the next devil king.”

“Gah!?”

My body suddenly turned heavy. My knees bent and I collapsed forward.

Wha…… what’s going on? What was this guy’s ability?

Was this the power of World Revision too?

It erased Fizard, repelled physical attack, and neutralized Detonation.

And then his unbreakable body that was alright even after dealing a physical attack
with terrifying destructive power.

He blew up the rooftop to the sky. He was floating in the sky even though he wasn’t
using floating magic.

──?

This guy…… could it be──,

I exerted all my strength and stood up.

“Guh…… I get it now. Your World Revision’s power is……”

“A lowly human dare to act so disrespectfully…… I’ll flatten you right where you’re
standing.”

“Just try it.”

Aspite raised an eyebrow.

“What did you say?”

“You shouldn’t be able to. After all you will be crushed too if you apply that much
pressure.”

“You cur……”

“You intentionally sit down is for enduring the increased gravity too.”

“Do you think that my World Revision’s ability is gravity manipulation, human?”

“──No.”

I thrust the truth before Aspite.

“Your World Revision is the ability to rewrite the world’s rule, its fundamental
principle.”

Surprise ran through Aspite’s face. I was convinced after seeing that.

“It’s hard to believe that a single magic can have that many varied abilities. In that case,
there is only one condition that can possibly realize the powers that you have shown.
A world that extinguish flame, a world that reflect a blow back to the opponent, a
world where no explosion can occur, a world without gravity──”

“……You cur”

Aspite’s eyes were filled with color of anger. But I didn’t falter and continue on.

“Certainly you’re unbeatable within this world. It’s like you’re the devil king or even
god. However……”

I looked around at the three dimensional magic circle that surrounded me and Aspite.

“That only apply within this small world.”

“YOU CURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!”

The gravity that applied on my body suddenly increased. A hole was made on the floor
along with the sound of wood snapping.
“Uoh!?”

I fell to the first floor together with the snapping woods. Smoke wafted up like a
smokescreen.

“Yu…… Yuuto!? Are you alright!?”

I heard Lizel-senpai’s voice──that meant, I fell into the great hall huh.

“I-I’m fine!”

Shit, that bastard Aspite. That was damn reckless. He himself should get affected by
that.

I stood up and searched for Aspite.

“!?”

“Yu-Yuuto……”

When I noticed, Aspite was already standing beside Lizel-senpai. She grabbed Lizel-
senpai’s neck with one hand as though to strangle her.

“So what if you have realized what is World Revision’s power! It doesn’t change the
fact that you have no chance to win!”

I couldn’t find any word to say.

That was a fact. The power of World Revision was only applied to the area within its
range. However, this guy was invincible inside it. Aspite was literally a devil king, even
a god within that small world.

Aspite strengthened his fingers that were holding Lizel-senpai.

“Lizel! You too! Become my card obediently! If you do that then I won’t kill that
human!”

However Lizel-senpai was simply staring at Aspite with pity.

“You…… don’t look at me with those EYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!”

A magic formula emerged from Aspite’s arm and electricity ran through Lizel-senpai’s
body.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

Senpai’s body kept convulsing fiercely.

“Lizel! Why won’t you listen to me!? I have obtained everything until now!! And yet
why won’t you become mine!?”

“Stop!! Aspite-!!”

I ran toward Lizel-senpai. However Aspite formed a magic circle to meet my charge.

“Fizard!!”

I immediately formed Barricade to block the flame. However my body was still blown
away even then.

“Kuh…… damn it!!”

Three dimensional magic circle──World Revision appeared around Aspite once more.

[Warning, danger level 9. Recommending evasion urgently.]

The danger level was increasing.

But, I mustn’t lose here!!

“Fiza-…… uu!?”

I was suddenly assaulted by dizziness and my body tilted.

[Warning, 5% remaining mana. Recommending a swift retreat.]

Don’t tell me…… I ran out of mana at this time!?

[Chance of victory in the current situation…… 0%]

Shit! Is there no more way for me to defeat Aspite!?

“Kuh…… Aspite! I don’t mind if you defeat me in the Devil King War! But, stop doing
something like kidnapping Lizel-senpai and forcing her to submit to you!!”

“How dare you give me an order, human!! I have obtained everything until now as the
next head of Line House! I’m the world’s number one! In everything! It’s only natural
for the strong to bleed the weak dry!”

“Wrong! Even the weak have life! They have their own will! There’s no way it’s alright
for those with power to trample the weak’s everything!”

Vein bulged on Aspite’s forehead.

“Damn you…… a mere human, what’s more the holder of the weakest arcana Lovers
dare to-! A trash like you are nothing more than a stepping stool for me!! I am the ruler
of the world! Everything in this world should exist for my sake! That’s my mission!
That’s my dignity as the one who is destined to be the next head of Line House and the
next devil king!!”

“……So that’s your world.”

“It’s not only my world! That’s how the world should be for everyone!!”

“People each have their own world! Surely there are those who can accept your world.
But, that doesn’t apply to everyone!!”

“I have no need to listen to the preaching of a mere stepping stool!”

Aspite roughly grabbed Lizel-senpai’s arm.

“KUUAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

Senpai’s body broke into cold sweat and bent backward.

“Lizel! Say that you will become mine!!”

“Stop! Aspite!!”

“Right now your sense of pain is increased by dozens of times. Do you want to test if
you can keep your sanity even if your arm is broken?”
A shriek burst out from Lizel-senpai’s lips.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

Lizel-senpai!!

“STOP ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!”

Something snapped inside me.

Even if the opponent was the top contender the World while I was the weakest the
Lovers,

Whether the opponent was a noble devil while I was just a mere human,

Those things didn’t matter.

Aspite,

I’m going to,

Send you flying even if it’s the last thing I do!!

The few remaining mana inside me burned.

I didn’t care what happened to me.

Even if I died, I would still protect Lizel-senpai!!

──The Lovers arcana on my chest started shining.

Mana was swelling up inside me.

My whole body was circulating with mana that filled me to the brim.

The magic mechanism carved in my body was fired up and the processing speed of my
brain jumped up drastically.

──What is, this?

Strange.

My remaining mana should be so small I couldn’t even fire a single Fizard.

What was this sensation, as though a single drop of mana was proliferating to become
hundreds, thousands of times greater!!

Even Aspite was staring at me with a shocked gaze.

“Wha…… what, that power…… that’s, the weakest arcana’s…… power?”

“Fu…… fufufu”

Lizel-senpai whose face was hanging down limply let out a chuckle. Aspite’s eyes
widened hearing that chuckle.

“What’s so funny!?”

Lizel-senpai smiled beautifully even with her battered figure.

“That’s the true power of Lovers──Infinite Lovers.”

“What…… did you say?”

“It’s a unique magic that is born when fighting for the sake of other people instead of
themselves. The feeling of wanting to protect someone important to them become
strength as it is…… an infinite power that we demon can’t use.”

“Wha……”

“That’s why, Lovers’ devil king candidate has to be human.”

Aspite stared at Lizel-senpai with a gaze of astonishment. Sweat was trickling from his
forehead.

“Don’t tell me…… don’t tell me, don’t tell me-! You intentionally, let me──!?”

Lizel-senpai’s blue eyes shined coldly.

“The likes of you can become my master’s stepping stool at the very least.”
Aspite’s face turned demonic.

“Th-these…… lowly slaves! There is no formula that can break my World Revision! Any
kind of magic is powerless before it! There is no changing your death!!”

Aspite drew closer with the World Revision surrounding him.

That was the world itself.

A world with its fundamental principle rewritten.

Aspite was invincible within it. It was meaningless even if he was attacked from
outside.

Destroying that was the same like destroying a world.

It was just as he said, there was no way to do that──normall that was.

──But, I knew.

A formula to destroy a world.

I constructed the magic formula that I saw before.

And then, I revised the parts that were incomplete.

I had never used it, and most likely it had also been never used by anybody until now.
It was completely a rush job.

But, I would complete it without fail no matter what!

“Here I go!!”

Magic formula ran through my left arm. Many layers of magic circle emerged on my
fist.

Aspite glared at me with a dubious expression.

“……What’s, that”
“It’s the spear to puncture a hole in your conceited world.”

The magic circles became three dimensional and created a complicated structure.
What was left was to pour mana into it!

“I’ll throw all my mana here! How much it can destroy with that!?”

[Conjecture, a volume of two square meters. Success rate is 10%.]

Bring it on!

“TAKE THIS ASPITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

I ran normally.

My mana and processing power were completely focused into the magic in my left
hand. I couldn’t use any other magic at all.

However!

Aspite spread out his hands and waited for me.

“Come into my world! The instant you entered is the moment of your death! JUST TRY
GUESSING HOW YOU WILL DIE HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

I thrust my left hand forward and leaped into World Revision.

“FUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! FOOLI──”

World Revision’s formula popped off.

The graphs, the letters, all of them crumbled and scattered away.

“What──”
I dug out the World Revision with my left hand.

The magic of world destruction deployed on my left hand destroyed it.

This was one of the unresolved magic formulas.

A magic formula for destroying a world that I saw in class──World Fall.

Although, using it to destroy the whole world was only a dream within a dream.

Even my mana that had swelled up immensely could only destroy two square meters.

But,

This much was enough for now.

To gouge open a hole in this world called World Revision!

My left hand destructed Aspite’s world.

I could only destroy a little of it,

However, it was fine if I could reach Aspite!!

And then──,

“Aspite! No matter how powerful your magic is, no matter how proud you are of your
vast mana, that’s your limit! You have no qualification to become a king!!”

The right arm that I held up──,

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

Punched Aspite’s face with all my strength.

“Gugo!?…… -”

The impact shook Aspite’s head and reaped his consciousness.

Aspite fell with his eyes rolled up together with me.

In that moment,

The three dimensional magic formula of World Revision also vanished together with
Aspite’s consciousness.

“Yuuto!!”

Lizel-senpai took off the chain binding her and ran toward me.

“Lizel-senpai…… I’m sorry. I was late to rescue you……”

Senpai lifted up my body in her arms and her large and soft breasts were pressed on
me. Her eyes that were looking at me glistened with tears.

“No…… I’m the one, who should apologize. I made you…… met danger like this.”

A hole was opened on the crumbling wall of the hall and two silhouettes rushed in.

“Ooooi! We finished up ‘snap’ at our side and came to help!!”

“Desu desu!! Wait…… eh?”

Miyabi and Reina couldn’t hide their surprise seeing the great hall that had been
reduced into a ruin. They were shocked further when they saw Aspite’s fallen form.

“Oooooh! You’re amazing Yuuto!! You seriously took down Aspite!”

“Desu desu! B-but, are you alright!? Are you injured? Is there anywhere that feels hurt!?”

I wanted to say that I was alright, but my consciousness was hazy. And so I asked Lizel-
senpai something that really bothered me.

“……Senpai, the evaluation, what is my score this time?”

Senpai tilted her head in puzzlement.

“……I can’t give you a score.”

Geh!? As expected, was it because I couldn’t save senpai before she went through
something like that?
Within my fading consciousness, a lovely smiling face that was beautiful like a
blooming flower drew near.

“It was too amazing that I cannot put a score for it.”

Lizel-senpai’s sweet lips touched me.

Two devil king candidates were watching what happened from start to end from the
rooftop of a mansion near Aspite’s residence.

“Ahahahahahaha! What’s that!? A punch!? He was only making a normal punch! A

match between devil king candidates is closed with something like that!?
Unbelievable!! Ahahahahahahahaha”

Hoshigaoka Stella couldn’t stop laughing in a very good mood.

The other girl, Neith Carnac held her chest and sighed in relieve.

“I’m glad…… Lizel.”

“What’s with you. If you’re that concerned, wouldn’t it be better if you went to save
her?”

“No…… fighting, for me…… is a bit…”

Even though Neith had the Chariot arcana that was strongly associated with
aggressiveness, she was timid and reserved.

Stella glanced at Neith looking like she wanted to say ‘good grief’ before she returned
her gaze toward the mansion that had been turned into a ruin.

“Even so, he is quite interesting isn’t he…… the Lovers’ devil king candidate.”

Stella quietly narrowed her eyes. Neith asked her worriedly.

“Stella…… do you also plan to do something?”

“Who knows? But, the others won’t leave him alone even without me doing anything,
isn’t that right?”
Neith’s expression became even more anxious.

“……I, wonder.”

“They will. Because, he defeated the World’s candidate Aspite you know? What’s more
he is the candidate of Lovers. And even more, he is a human!”

“You’re…… right.”

“Morioka Yuuto, huh……”

Stella stared at Yuuto that was in Lizel’s embrace,

“I wonder──how many more days he can live?”

And muttered in delight.

When I opened my eyes, I saw black and pink and white. Three bunny girls in three
colors were standing there.

“We’re really going to dress up like this?”

“Geez senpai, you really don’t know when to give upp. We already decided just now.”

“But but, the chest part of Reina’s clothes, is oversized…… it can be seen.”

……Is this heaven?

Bunny suits made from enamel and fishnet stockings. When their bottoms turned this
way, there was white and round tail that looked fluffy.

Among the three bunnies, the black haired black rabbit boasted a perfect figure. The
bunny was a devil but beautiful like a goddess.

The pink bunny with blond hair was plump with large butts and breasts. The bunny
suit looked like they would burst from being unable to contain her voluptuousness. It
was truly a lewd body.
The white bunny was the very definition of purity with flat body. In contrast with the
other bunnies, the scent from this one was simply criminal. Her suit was worrying
with how it looked like it would slide down her body even now.

Miyabi noticed me while I was staring hard like that.

“Ah, Yuuto, are you feeling ‘crisp’ now?”

“This place is…… eh? My room?”

“G-good morning, desu desu.”

It seemed I wasn’t in heaven, but my house. Apparently I didn’t die.

“Why, am I……”

Lizel-senpai sat on the edge of the bed and kindly caressed my cheek.

“We carried you here from Aspite’s mansion. You were really tired. You had slept for a
day and a half.”

It was noon when I saw the clock.

“I’m sorry. I had troubled everyone…… but, why bunny girl?”

“That’s……”

Lizel-senpai blushed and looked down.

Reina was also fidgeting shyly. Her movement made the chest part of her bunny suit
to shift and it felt like I caught a glance of the faint color of nipple──but, she hurriedly
fix her attire tearfully, so let’s pretend that I didn’t see anything.

On the other hand Miyabi was making a sexy pose proudly and winked at me.

“This is because Yuuto didn’t wake up at all even though we had been healing you
while you were sleeping. It’s something like a surprise for when you wake up? Or
perhaps you should call it a reward for your hard work!”

Miyabi snuggled beside me who was sitting up like it was only natural. The cleavage
of her breasts that was peeking out from her bunny suit was too deep that it felt like I
would get into shipwreck if I kept staring there.

When I averted my eyes in a hurry,

“You don’t need to be so flustered like thaat. If it’s Yuuto, you can stare as much as you
want……”

Miyabi pressed her large breasts on my arm. The shape of the breasts warped and
made it looked like they would spill out from the suit. My gaze was stolen by that sight
once more.

“If you want to do more than just staring…… it’s alright you know? If it’s Yuuto,
anything is alright.”

“Hawawawawah!?”

Reina turned bright red at Miyabi’s bold statement and she pressed her hands on her
cheeks as though to cool them down. Naturally the chest part of her suit fell down
again.

As for Lizel-senpai, she was red in the face with her lips pressed together tightly into
the shape of ‘^’. ‘Gunununu’…… it felt like I could hear such voice.

“Miyabi, Yuuto is already awake. Go home and rest already. I’ll take care of the rest
here.”

Lizel-senpai was clearly burning in rivalry. She hugged my other arm.

“Isn’t it senpai who need the rest? You’re not as young as us anymore.”

“We are only one year apart!! Besides my birthday also still hasn’t come so I’m still
sixteen!”

I was startled because Lizel-senpai’s tension was too high considering it was her. It
was like her gauge went from zero to the red zone in one go.

“Eee, but, you know, they say that you will get fat if you lack sleep.”

“I-I’m not fat! I’m not fat!! That’s a false accusation! A malicious rumor! I even have a
nutritionist looking after my calorie control properly!”

So senpai was doing it…… dieting.

As I thought, it seemed the topic of weight was a landmine when it came to senpai.
Miyabi was also amazing with how she stepped on it without any mercy, but she was
obviously doing it in purpose.

“E, err err-! Reina was the first one who took turn to sleep, so Reina will look after
Yuuto-san! Both of you senpai please take a rest, desu desu!”

Reina desperately tried to calm down the place while sweating bullets. However, her
flat chest was completely exposed. Lizel-senpai and Miyabi’s expressions turned grave
by that immoral lewdness.

“Reina…… what a terrifying child.”

“Uwa, it’s unfair for you to earn point by giving everything you’ve got like that! I’ll also
go gal all out to earn point!”

Miyabi said that and started widening the opening of her chest that was already
dangerous even as it was.

“Eh?…… Hawaaaawaawawawa”

Reina only noticed her own appearance after this late and pulled up the cloth of her
chest part in panic.

It was at that timing that the footsteps of even more chaos were coming up to the
second floor.

“Yuu-kun! Looks like you have woken up!!”

“Yuuto! Are you okaaayy…… aaaaah!?”

Mom and dad rushed into the room. And then they turned speechless seeing the bunny
girl bar that was suddenly starting business in their son’s room. Mom swiftly kicked
out dad from the room.

Mom was inadvertently awful like usual.

“What’s this? What is this commotion about!?”

“E-err…… this is, that’s”

As expected even Lizel-senpai was flustered.

“I get it! It’s a party isn’t it!? All of you are still young so you are letting loose! Then
should mom also wear one? It’s better for mom to wear one isn’t it? Because mom is
also still young!!”

No, setting aside your appearance, you were around 40 already.

The mayhem in my room kept increasing in intensity, and then laughter filled the
room.

I caused a trouble for mom and dad too this time. The two of them were safe in the
end, even so I didn’t want them to get dragged in anymore.

I also didn’t want senpai, Miyabi, and Reina to meet any danger if possible.

However, surely even more terrifying devil king candidates would appear after this.

Even so I would protect everyone, won through the Devil King War together with
Lovers arcana, and became the next devil king.

I resolved myself while getting jostled by three and one bunny girls.
This is Kuji Masamune. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for purchasing this book.

It’s Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha that I finally can publish!!

The subtitle is “Mankind’s First Devil King Candidate is Aiming to Rise to the Throne
Together With His Female Retainers”!

It’s the next Ma◯ Gakuen series after Masou Gakuen. It’s only the difference of a single
letter (lol).

The genre is academy + devil + beautiful girls + magic + battle + fantasy + H!! It became
a work that dashed through a lot of entertainments. If you ask what kind of content it
has──,

Devil race──the world is ruled by the devils. In such world, a mere human──Morioka
Yuuto for some reason was chosen to be a devil king candidate. However he received
discrimination in the academy that he transferred into because he is a human.

But there are devil girls who asked Yuuto to make them his retainers despite his
situation. They have their reason why they wish that Yuuto will become the devil king.

He borrow the power of the girls who are his retainers, defeat the devil king candidates
who are far stronger than him in the devil king academy where the devils are going to,
and climb up to the top──!!

──It’s that kind of content!

It’s easy to read with fast development, so surely you can read the book in one go
right!?

And then one more charm of this book is of course the illustrator! The erotic cute and
pretty illustrations of kakao-san are magnificent! Not only they are pretty, they also
have coolness and sytlishness included in them. I think that’s fit Maou Gakuen no
Hangyakusha perfectly!
His character design’s sense is also right on the mark. He expressed the world view
that is filled with coolness and mystery very well. Please buy this book no matter what
and bring home Lizel and others with you.

And then! There is one more important news……!!

Actually, there is an ongoing plan to turn this Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha into
comic!!

That sounds like a lie but it’s true. A new light novel that isn’t originally web novel
getting turned into comic before its book even come out, this might be an ultra rare
event?

It will be published by Doradora Shaapu# (Comic Walker & Niconico Manga)!!

I’m thinking that rather than a simple conversion into comic, I want it to be a newly
serialized original manga! I think its content is visually attractive (in various senses),
so what should I do if it become even more interesting than the LN version……!? Please
read the manga version too by all means!!

Now then, there were many twists and turns before this book was completed, and
there were also happening that closely resembled the first volume of Masou Gakuen
HxH, but I somehow overcame them.

In addition there were memorial services occurring one after another in the middle of
writing this book, so I ended up going to Iwate prefecture every other week…… thanks
to that I ended up executing a drastic move of writing the plot in the waiting room
between the funeral.

Like that I was doing my work while wandering around Morioka, and because of that
the naming of the main character used the name of a place in Iwate prefecture. No, I
didn’t give him the name halfheartedly because there was no time, not all I swear. It’s
true you know?

The important factor in Maou Gakuen is Devil King’s Arcana, in other words tarot
cards. I was attracted to them at my elementary and middle school and tried fortune
telling, but I didn’t understand how to interpret the card and got discouraged. A
nostalgic and also painful memory got resurrected.

I went to buy tarot card after so long to gather data, but I was surprised because there
was a lot of card design. There was Japanese style, sexy style, and a lot of other variety.
I almost started collecting them if I let my guard down. I’ll buy them if this Maou
Gakuen get sold well.

This time Yuuto has overcome the danger (for the time being), but this is just the
beginning. The main show will start from the next one! The other devil king
candidates──the genuine monsters, the strongest devils will appear one after
another! What kind of people are they? What kind of ability they have? Look forward
to it!

And then it won’t be just the devil king candidates, the struggle for the cards will also
grow heavier!? In this Devil King War it’s essential to gather excellent cards. However,
even powerful cards won’t be able to display their strength if they can’t get along well
with each other. Please look forward to what kind of card will appear.

The mana resupply too. What kind of play…… no, what kind of method would be
used…… perhaps some of you readers are curious about it. Come to think of it, Yuuto
still have never touched Lizel-senpai’s breast from his own initiative. Will he be able
to massage them properly at the next volume!?

And so, I will be waiting for everyone’s opinion and request! It will be great if I can
also receive your impression from SNS.

I’ll also announce any information in my twitter account @Kuji_Masamune（

https://twitter.com/Kuji_Masamune）, so best regards!

Well then, let’s move to the thanks. Thank you very much for the amazing character
design! Kakao-san!! Thanks for you hard work editor I-san, Dragon Age’s editor T-san,
and also the many other people involved in the publication. And then all of you readers
who bought this book, thank you very much.

Well then let’s beat up the strongest at the second volume too!!