116. Couples
The perfect parasitic seed in the human mind cannot be dropped. Since it is a conceptual entity, it is natural that it cannot be removed by surgery, and since it has assimilated with humans, it cannot be distinguished by divine power or magic.
There were only two ways to remove the seeds. I drive the seeds out of my own power, or kill them.
When the seed germinates and the demon within it awakens, it transforms into a powerful demon according to its potential.
In severe cases, they can become powerful enough to threaten humanity, even becoming more than a top-level demon.
‘That’s the case with Dinoir.’
And Ian once rescued Dinoir and drove away the seeds that had been entrenched in her heart. There was proof that what he was doing now was not unreasonable.
“So-.”
After hearing the explanation of Ian’s plan, Stella looked at Ian with an absurd expression.
what? You’re going to make me fall for you and make you think it’s evil and nothing? Even that has already worked, and the culprit is Dinoir?
It was a sound that made my head dizzy when I listened to it. And above all – the theory had its biggest problem.
“How do you know he will like you?”
“Is there no reason to hate it?”
this is it This confident attitude. An attitude that is arrogant enough to cool off a thousand years of love.
Whoa, if it wasn’t for that, he would have been a perfect man. hahaha, if it wasn’t for those shortcomings, probably everyone in the academy would have wooed him.
Stella thought so and thought about why Caroline might have hated him.
“… I have no luck.”
“I?”
“uh.”
At least, that’s how Ian was right now. Ian began to recite the things he had as if it was impossible.
An overflowing wealth, a title that is certain to become a duke, a being favored by the emperor, and a hero with several summons.
Considering that the inhabitants of this world tend to wish for the seed of a person who summons a high-ranking summoned beast, Ian was the talent everyone wanted, both in terms of ability and as a stallion.
If your appearance is shattered or your body is bloated, wouldn’t that be the case? From the outside, Ian was perfect.
“You have to have that kind of flaw to be human.”
That’s why Ian didn’t care if he heard that my personality was unlucky or not. Rather, I thought it was a compliment.
Doesn’t that mean that there’s at least no blemish other than his personality?
“And what if there are some flaws in your personality?”
And most importantly of all.
“Even if there are flaws, women who like me line up.”
Whether there were ten or a hundred blemishes, it didn’t really matter that much.
What if he replaces women every month and impregnates every woman he touches?
All I had to do was flirt with a girl.
Hearing that, Stella glared at Ian as if tired of it. But unfortunately for her, Ian was right.
* * *
“Um, so?”
“Huh, I’m there-.”
“okay?”
After that, Ian did everything he could to seduce Caroline. Fortunately, she also showed great interest in Ian.
If he on Earth was just a rook saying that he wished he had a woman, Ian in another world was a Casanova who naturally seduced women.
The secret of his popularity was not simply in his appearance, but in his behavior.
“excuse.”
“Ah, yes… .”
First of all, Ian doesn’t show much interest in them. It was a completely different behavior compared to other cadets looking at her as a beautiful woman and increasing the number of people or shed an unpleasant laugh.
Even if he doesn’t show any interest in them, he is naturally interested, and his overwhelming confidence from his abilities and his appearance add to the interest in them.
“What did you ask?”
“Well, you don’t have to eat it… .”
Thus, an act that would have felt a little unfavorable had it been done by other people, but it turned into an act that made my heart pound when Ian did it.
At some point, when she felt a crush on Ian without Pink or Sylphy’s abilities, Ian also began to stimulate the seeds inside her.
“So, did you think about what I said?”
“-yes. Marquis. I, Caroline Crispy, will obey the request of the Marquis.”
The seeds inside her germinated from her low self-esteem. It was expected that if the self-esteem was raised, the seeds would fall off on their own.
“Mid-term exam, please do well.”
Needless to say, there were no indicators of self-esteem that went beyond grades for students.
* * *
couple fight.
It was a test that Ian specifically requested of the principal, and was actually a test prepared for Caroline.
A shortened version of the first semester midterm exam in which two people fight as a team. But if there is a difference from back then-.
‘There is no limit to the summoner.’
At that time, one-star, two-star, and three-star Summoners were teamed up for the sake of seemingly fairness. this time? There is no such thing.
Ian has a 4-star pet and teamed up with Caroline, who has a 3-star pet. I had already explained to the children the fact that I was going to team up with her and why, so there were no complaints.
However, Ian couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.
‘Why are you so quiet? ?’
Originally, they were children who would complain about this and that. But, you’re going to retreat just because you think you might become a demon.
Ian realized that he was more aware of the demons than he thought. Since they are constantly fighting against each other, I was thinking about North Korea.
‘It feels worse than that… It’s because we face each other and fight every day.’
Anyway, there was nothing bad about it. Caroline is happy to be teaming up with Ian, and Ian is happy to remove the risk of becoming the Chapter 4 boss untouched.
So it was test day.
Ian realized why they agreed without saying a word.
[Ian Clark, Caroline Crispy]
VS
[Stella Eritz, Aire Elnes]
‘… Are you two a couple?’
Two people with two 4-star pets formed a couple. It was. It was called a couple competition, but there was no rule that a couple was necessarily a man and a woman.
It happened because of the stereotype attached to the name.
“Marquis.”
“yes?”
“I will definitely win.”
“—Yes.”
Fortunately, Caroline did not lose her courage and began to burn in reverse. Stella Eritz. The opportunity to defeat her, the enemy of a lifetime, has come.
When Ian saw Caroline like that, he thought of something. Could it be that Stella predicted her condition and appeared as the biggest enemy?
So she can smash my trauma head-on?
‘no way.’
Stella Eritz was not such a woman. It was more likely that it was just that he didn’t like what Ian was doing, so he broke it from the front.
So it was test day.
And surprisingly, Ian was right.
“Ian, I’m sorry.”
“stellar.”
“I understand your thoughts, but you don’t think it’s going to be that easy, do you?”
Like the young girl of the Iritz family, who breaks everything down, Stella thought that there was no point in breaking up the trauma in her heart with the help of others.
Trauma that is easily broken is bound to come back easily in the end. By the time you come back, you will be stronger.
“If suffering is easy, it cannot be suffering.”
Wherever you win, Stella said so.
Caroline looked at Ian and shook her head.
“—Summon.”
“Summons!”
Ian and Caroline summoned their pets to make them collide with each other.
Stella and Ayre also responded by summoning their respective summons. The two summoned beasts flew in search of their respective opponents as if they had already decided.
Ian and Ayre, Stella and Caroline face off.
To be precise, only Stella and Caroline said they had a fight.
“Nyahahaha! Ian, how are you? Are you cool?”
“Uh- that’s cool.”
“okay? So what about this?”
The two were chatting as if they had come to play. If there had been an audience other than the teacher who was the judge in this test, they would have been criticized for what they were doing.
Fortunately for both of them, there was no spectator for this match, and even the teacher, the only spectator, was busy watching the fight between Stella and Caroline instead of the two of them.
“This damn stray cat!”
─I make a bun with that hair!
Stella’s enraged heat is transmitted to Ifrit as it is. After receiving Stella’s heart, Ifrit turned the heat into flames and sent it out.
Caroline summoned a summons and stopped it during the winter, but there was a big difference in weight between the two in the first place.
3-star and 4-star pets, level 1 and level 2.
Even if there was only one of them, it was a big difference between winning and losing, but Caroline couldn’t beat Stella, who had both at the same time.
‘Again, are you losing?’
lost every time So it doesn’t matter if you lose again.
-I didn’t like that.
“I!”
Caroline Crispy. The daughter of Earl Crispy.
One side protecting the East.
“I will never lose to you!”
Caroline said that and activated the original arts. It was a special move that would crush everything in front of him, but it didn’t work for a summoned beast one step higher than that.
“It’s no use.”
“Ah-.”
lost again In addition? Why do I have to lose every time? why?
The trauma in her heart is stimulated.
And the seed feeds on emotions and grows.
tuk.
The devil’s horns begin to prick her heart.
In front of me, I can feel the form of an invisible demon.
─I need strength… … .
“Good work. Caroline.”
Throwing away the image, Ian meets her eyes. My heart, which had been pounding just by looking at Ian, responds to Ian by pounding unconsciously.
Ian smiled and hugged her.
“Leave it to me next.”
“Huh, Marquis… .”
He tried to keep my word. 2 on 1 fight. Yet, without defeat—it brought her victory.
In the face of the overwhelming pleasure of victory, she completely erased the existence of the seeds hanging from my heart.