Book 1 Chapter 875
875.
“Senior. So, that’s not my type of…”
“There’s no need to be embarrassed. I heard men like that kind of thing.”
“No. I mean.”
“You don’t like it?”
“No, it’s not that I don’t… Hup!”
Kyle, who had unintentionally blurted out his true feelings, covered his mouth.
“Ah. Seriously.”
Then he covered his face, which had turned bright red.
Lil tilted her head as she watched Kyle.
“You usually act so slick, why are you so flustered?”
“It’s embarrassing. Like I’m a pervert who wants his girlfriend to wear clothes like that.”
“It’s unhealthy, yes. But isn’t it quite typical for someone your age? They call it a ‘romantic fantasy,’ don’t they?”
Lil chuckled.
“Kyle, you unexpectedly have a cute side.”
At her words, Kyle, whose face was bright red, glanced at the succubus in Eliza’s form, his face still covered by his hands.
‘Wow, she’s really pretty. Wow…’
As he thought that to himself, the succubus winked at Kyle.
It was then that Kyle’s face turned even redder.
Swish—!
Lil blocked Kyle’s view with her war hammer.
“I understand you want to look, but don’t stare too much. It gets annoying in many ways if you fall for her temptation.”
“Yes, yes.”
Having said that, Kyle cast his gaze downwards.
Lil, with her war hammer resting on her shoulder, narrowed her eyes.
“Anyway, it’s strange, succubus.”
“What is?”
The succubus flirtatiously twirled a strand of hair around her fingertip.
And she continued to cast alluring glances at Kyle.
Watching the succubus, Lil said,
“Why do you only reflect Kyle’s preferences and not mine?”
“Because I’m a succubus. An incubus handles women.”
Lil tilted her head, looking at the smiling succubus.
“I understand that you don’t particularly discriminate between men and women?”
Nightmares are indeed divided into succubi and incubi.
But they don’t specifically absorb the vitality of the opposite sex.
They tempt both men and women indiscriminately.
Therefore, Lil questioned the succubus’s actions of only tempting Kyle.
Kyle also felt a question within himself.
‘Shouldn’t she neutralize Senior Lil first, rather than me?’
As Kyle felt this question.
The succubus grinned.
“I find it troublesome to spend time and effort hunting enemies stronger than myself.”
Kyle flinched.
“Rather than that, devouring weak opponents like this is… Hah—! My preference.”
“Hwaaaaaa!”
Kyle shrieked in surprise as the succubus suddenly appeared behind him, hugged him, and blew air into his ear.
Wham—!
“Cough?!”
Lil’s hammer grazed right past Kyle’s ear.
Kyle froze at the attack, which held enough power to instantly demolish a massive fortress wall.
The succubus was not hit by Lil’s attack.
The succubus, who had reappeared in her original spot, chuckled.
“It seems our noble hero candidate can’t stand such a despicable attack, can he?”
“I don’t particularly think it’s despicable. Prioritizing efficiency. It’s a basic strategy, isn’t it?”
Lil hummed and nodded her head.
At her attitude, the succubus paused for a moment and looked at Lil.
She subtly checked Lil’s face, wondering if she was just making light of her words.
But sincerity was evident on Lil’s face.
She felt no anger whatsoever about Kyle being targeted.
“No, then why are you scolding me for targeting that human man?”
Seeing the succubus ask in momentary confusion, Lil, who had been nodding seriously, opened her eyes wide.
“Because I also want to see my brother in a form that suits my preferences!”
At her confident words, the succubus’s mouth fell open for a moment.
Kyle also stared at Lil with a dumbfounded expression.
But Lil was as serious as ever.
“Now! Come on and tempt me quickly! Succubus!”
“No! What kind of crazy woman is this!”
The succubus looked terrified as she watched Lil, raising her war hammer and charging towards her.
Boom—!
Lil’s hammer struck the ground.
Rumble rumble rumble—!
Then, the surrounding area began to shake as if an earthquake had struck.
Seeing that, the succubus was aghast.
“What! What is this beastly woman!”
“Who are you calling a beastly woman!”
Enraged by the succubus’s words, Lil released an immense amount of spiritual power.
Seeing this, the succubus made a serious expression and waved her hand in the air.
“Oh?!”
Space distorted, and soon Lil was sucked into that distorted space.
“Senior Lil!”
Kyle looked aghast.
The succubus chuckled, watching Kyle.
“Don’t be surprised, Kyle. I just blew her somewhere else for a moment.”
“Blew her somewhere else?”
Kyle narrowed his brows.
“Yes. In that sense… Shall we have a quiet talk, Big Brother Kyle?”
“No, when did we meet for you to call my name so intimately….”
“Oh my?”
Kyle backed away cautiously.
The succubus, looking disappointed as she watched Kyle, pulled out a whip from thin air and swung it at Kyle.
Whish—! Thwack!
“Cough?!”
“Are you disappointed? Of course, I’m a succubus, but… Right now, I’m also Eliza Helgin, you know?”
The succubus, who had wrapped the whip around Kyle’s neck, pulled him towards her.
At the same time, the space instantly changed.
‘Here is…?’
It was the secret room in the dormitory that Kyle had secretly found and was using as his workshop.
The succubus, who had pulled Kyle in front of her, pushed him onto the bed.
The succubus, who had taken on Eliza’s appearance in a school uniform, climbed onto Kyle.
“Hehe— How is it, Big Brother Kyle? Aren’t you getting hot being with me, your girlfriend, in such a private space?”
Kyle shouted, his face bright red.
“You’re not Eliza in the first place, so what makes you my girlfriend! And Eliza is a year older than me?!”
“I know.”
The succubus, smiling sweetly, glowed faintly.
“Ta-da. Now you’re the Big Brother, right?”
“Wow! I’m really going crazy!”
“Because you like it? Hehehehe!”
Kyle screamed and struggled, and the succubus chuckled.
The succubus had already transformed into Eliza’s 16-year-old appearance, her first year of school.
“The key point is that the school uniform is still the third-year uniform. How is it? Cute and sexy, right?”
Kyle squeezed his eyes shut at the succubus’s innocent smile and shy laugh.
And he struggled wildly.
Thump— Thump—!
Kyle’s body hit various things.
Immense pain surged, but Kyle didn’t care.
The succubus forcefully subdued Kyle.
“Stop. St-stop!”
But subduing him by force was not easy.
Finally, the succubus unleashed dark magic.
“Stop!”
“Kuhk?!”
“You’re a rougher Big Brother than I thought?”
The succubus pouted.
And then she said,
“Big Brother, shall we make a bet?”
“A bet?”
“Yeah.”
The succubus smiled sweetly.
“If you win the bet, I’ll become your slave.”
“If you win?”
“You’ll become my slave.”
“Isn’t it easier to just kill me? A bother to have a slave?”
“It’s a waste. Even with such pathetic strength, you’re still a hero in name.”
The succubus giggled.
“You can choose the type of bet you want, Big Brother.”
Kyle stared at the confidently smiling succubus and said,
“First, let me go.”
At his words, the succubus obediently released the whip wrapped around Kyle.
Kyle got up from the bed, rubbed his neck, and glared at the succubus.
‘…Yes, it’s confirmed. This is a dream.’
Kyle had already realized that he was under the succubus’s influence.
He first started suspecting when the succubus sent Lil somewhere else.
‘Senior Lil isn’t the kind of person who can be neutralized so easily.’
Lil was the one who attempted illusion destruction with a method that even Leo thought impossible, among other things.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that it would be near impossible for even a being with the power of a legion commander to easily send such a Lil somewhere else.
‘And it makes no sense for her to manipulate space so freely to this extent.’
She changed the space in an instant.
Then, there was only one possibility.
This space itself was already controlled by the being in front of him.
For a succubus, a nightmare demon, controlling space meant only one thing.
It was within a dream.
Crucially, Kyle had pretended to resist earlier, bumping his body around.
But although there was pain, there were no bruises.
Nor were there any injuries from the whip.
‘I thought it was strange after being hit so much by Eliza’s whip.’
Based on various circumstances, he was able to discern that this was a dream.
‘The question is why, even after dragging me into a dream, she uses a bothersome method like a bet.’
Once pulled into a nightmare demon’s dream, this place is effectively the nightmare demon’s domain.
‘No, a nightmare demon’s power isn’t that strong in the first place.’
Nightmare demons are not high-ranking demons.
With a mana resistance level of a Rumerun student, there’s no way one would fall victim to a nightmare demon’s power.
Moreover, he wasn't asleep.
Kyle was lucidly dragged into the nightmare demon’s domain, a dream.
‘If a nightmare demon had such strong power, she could simply kill me without even making a bet?’
Furthermore, she even candidly explained the reason for making a bet with him.
Having thought that far, Kyle said,
“Say ‘Erebos is a son of a bitch.’”
“What?”
“Say ‘The Lich King is a son of a bitch’ too.”
“What…!”
“Then I’ll concede that I lost the bet.”
“Ha? Look at this? The Lich King said your trickery isn’t ordinary, and it’s true, isn’t it?”
The succubus’s eyes changed.
Seeing that, Kyle grinned.
“I see. There was a restriction here that prevented lies.”
‘Power with restrictions.’
Having thought that far, Kyle narrowed his eyes.
“Authority. Are you a new legion commander too?”
“Your quick thinking is truly impressive, isn’t it?”
The succubus looked amazed.
And then she smiled sweetly.
“I’m Psykia, the Nightmare Queen.”
“Explain everything about this space.”
“This place is a space created by my authority. As you know, I can’t lie.”
“How to get out?”
“You become the owner of this space. You win the bet and make me your slave.”
“The reason you bother to propose a bet to me.”
“A bet is a kind of contract.”
Psykia smiled sweetly.
“I’m trying to take your soul through a contract.”
“That doesn’t sound fair?”
“Where in the world is there a fair contract? Besides, at least I’m letting you live, right? Normally, killing you would be simple, you know?”
“…”
Kyle’s face twisted as he watched Psykia giggling.
“The Lich King values you incredibly highly for that reason. So you’re to become my slave and our spy. Consider it an honor.”
“If I become your slave, I’ll suffer, so what honor is there?”
“Don’t worry. At least until the day your soul breaks, I’ll give you insane pleasure.”
Kyle snorted as he watched Psykia lick her tongue.
“So? Are you going to do it or not?”
“…”
‘I can’t win by force anyway.’
“Just in case I’m asking. Even if I win against you, I won’t become the owner of the Nightmare Queen, right?”
“That’s right. I’m just a fragment of the Nightmare Queen. Anyway, it seems you intend to win the bet?”
“Of course, I intend to win.”
“Dream big. So? What kind of bet do you want to make?”
At his words, Kyle opened a drawer in his personal workshop.
And from it, he took out a container holding seven six-sided dice.
“We roll the dice once, and the one with the higher number wins.”
“You’re betting on luck?”
“In this situation, what other way do I have to beat you besides luck? For your information, if the same number comes up, we do it again.”
“You tried to be fair, in your own way, didn’t you?”
Psykia said to herself, mocking Kyle.
‘But what now? This space is my domain.’
Psykia took one die out of the container.
“Then the contract is established.”
Having said that, Psykia rolled the die on the floor.
Clatter—
As the die landed on 6, Psykia said in a disappointed voice,
“Oh dear. It seems you’re destined to be my slave, aren’t you?”
Psykia handed the die to Kyle.
Kyle put the die into the container with an expressionless face.
And then.
Clatter clatter clatter—!
“…”
He simply emptied all the dice from the container onto the floor.
All seven dice landed on 1.
“7. I won, didn’t I?”
“Wait! Where does it say you can do that?”
“There was no clause saying you couldn’t roll multiple dice at once.”
“No! Even so, this is too unfair!”
“Weren’t you the one who said there’s no such thing as fair in the world?”
The fact that all the dice landed on 1 in the first place was proof that he had manipulated the space.
As Psykia stared at Kyle with a look that asked what kind of cheater he was.
Kyle, who had gained control of the dream according to the bet’s outcome, snapped his fingers.
Snap—!
At the same time, they returned to the Fairy Forest where they originally were.
“Now that you’re the owner of this space, you can do whatever you want with me, can’t you? You damned swindler.”
At her words, Kyle said coldly with an expressionless face.
“Call me Master.”
“Yes. Yes. Master. What shall I do? Should I take off my clothes?”
Psykia, in Eliza’s form, provocatively tugged at her school uniform top.
“Return to your original form.”
At his words, Psykia returned to her original form.
“Well, my original form is also beautiful, but…”
Thwack—!
“Cough?!”
Kyle didn’t hesitate and kicked Psykia in the abdomen.
Kyle grabbed Psykia’s head as she staggered, gasping, and slammed her head into the ground.
Wham—!
“Don’t you ever utter such nonsense with Eliza’s face again.”
Kyle said in a chilling voice.
“If you ever do something like that again, I’ll torment you so much that you’ll wish you were dead, demon or not.”
Kyle, showing his rage, grabbed Psykia’s hair and forcibly made her lift her head.
“Do you understand?”
Kyle, who had been making a murderous expression, flinched for a moment.
Psykia was trembling and laughing.
“To-torture meeeeee… Master…!”
Kyle shuddered, feeling disgusted as he watched Psykia speak in a pleading tone.
“Ugh! Seriously! Leo was right! Why isn’t there a single sane one among the new legion commanders?! Space release! Space release!”
Kyle, horrified, frantically escaped the nightmare demon’s dream as if fleeing.