As I poked a mosquito bite on Senior Velvet’s gigantic finger, a tiny mark appeared on her actual thumb. Despite the paralyzing poison that had infiltrated through the mana coating, her alarmingly sensitive senses detected something off, and Senior Velvet dispelled the Synesthesia spell.
“Making such bold moves, huh?”
“I can’t just sit idly by, can I?”
“True. If you’re a candidate to recruit for the Student Council, you have to take some measures.”
Fortunately, she didn’t seem angry.
“Anyway, please return Nepher-tem. My childhood friend is worried!”
“No way. I’m not done enjoying myself with her yet; she’s more fun than I expected.”
“…!”
Astarot, who was prepared to leave, suddenly slowed her pace as if cursed by a slow spell.
“You’re ignoring her will, forcibly detaining her and doing all this, aren’t you?!”
“Couldn’t care less. Even if that girl whines about being sick, she’s already tamed under my hand. Now she’s the one asking me to do things first.”
Astarot turned to the window and sprinkled water on the Sleeping Plant with a watering can.
Noticing my gaze drifting to the watering schedule on the whiteboard next to the window, Astarot activated the Stone Hand spell with one hand and wiped the whiteboard clean.
“The professor is desperately looking for the instructor, you know!”
“Professor Robert Elahim? It’d be better for that kid to be tamed under me and earn points rather than being with that trash. If the body is happy and the points are plentiful, the mind will follow naturally.”
While Astarot was distracted, the irked Sleeping Plant spat water at her with a pfft, filling its cheeks angrily.
Realizing what was happening, Astarot recovered the excess water with a moisture absorption spell and refilled the watering can.
Then, she began watering the Sleeping Plant again.
…Isn’t that a form of water torture?
I feel sorry for the Sleeping Plant!
“I can’t trust what you say! Please let me meet the person directly!”
“Heh. You’re naive, Oknodie. If the tamable child is in front of you, do you think she’ll say something different? I don’t lie. Feel free to see for yourself with your own eyes.”
As Senior Velvet opened the door and gestured, out came a weak-looking female senior, hobbled along the wall, and struggling with her steps.
“I-I’m fine… Tell Felix not to worry…”
“You don’t look fine at all! You have red marks on your shoulders and arms!”
“This, this is… from mosquito bites…”
The senior hurriedly adjusted her clothes to cover the swollen marks, but there were too many for that to be enough.
After undergoing Astarot’s water torture again, the Sleeping Plant was so furious that it splashed water mixed with sleeping powder directly onto Astarot’s face with a splash.
“I’ve raised plenty of mosquitoes, and I can tell that’s not a mosquito bite! If those were real mosquito bites, they’d have to be enormous, and if you get bitten by one that size, there’d be no blood left, and you’d die!”
“Ugh, seriously. Why are you so oblivious… It means she doesn’t want to go back…”
“Wait, is that for real?”
“Tell Felix I’m really fine… and tell the professor I’m no longer his magic doorknob… Hehehe.”
“That’s odd… She seems perfectly fine under the mental examination magic, but why does she look so dazed? Senior Velvet, do you know why Nepher-tem is like this?”
“Shall I tell you? Hmm, no. You’re still too young. Come back after five more years.”
“Ugh. Where’s the justice in that?”
While Astarot was busy slapping the leaves of the Sleeping Plant with her Stone Hand spell, she finally came to her senses and gently placed the unconscious plant by the window.
Feeling regretful as she glanced this way, Astarot suddenly recognized the existence of the destroyed trap and started slowly restoring the spell with a great sense of accomplishment.
“Anyway, if you recklessly tamper with a powerful curse like that, it’ll lead to a big problem on the continent! I won’t allow Velvet to forcefully cancel this!”
“Tch. Did you know that?”
“Of course. I wrapped up curse studies in the first semester. Why wouldn’t I recognize a curse that concentrates all the misfortunes of one region onto a single person?”
The reassembling trap began to crack with a snap as Astarot’s hands restored it.
“What sudden curse?”
“Astarot, weren’t you supposed to finish for the day?”
“…I still have some overtime left. So, why the sudden sharp turn halfway through something so interesting?”
“Ooh, Astarot, you have quite the fiery personality. Watching someone under the curse of the Misfortune Doll for fun, you really are made for being a professor!”
“Misfortune Doll?”
“Never heard of it? It’s a cursed magic or spell that drives a curse toward a person through a doll modeled after them by piercing or cursing the doll!”
Astarot couldn’t hide her disappointment and drooped her shoulders.
“I recall hearing about it.”
“Nepher-tem has been affected by such a curse! Senior Velvet has been quietly undoing that curse here without being disturbed.”
“Well, isn’t that a good thing? Let her get rid of whatever curse it is.”
“If done properly, it might be. But the method you chose is a bit reckless. The condensed curse could be released, consuming other misfortunes in the world, leading to a phenomenon that causes more misfortune and curses!”
“Seriously, what’s nonsense here? What’s a candle and whip got to do with breaking curses?”
With great pride in her voice, Senior Velvet said.
“The misfortune of a cursed person cannot be completely removed even if the curse is detached. Thus, I conducted an experiment.”
“What kind of experiment?”
“Just like the curse changes the person’s body to a cursed state, we can cover misfortune with greater misfortune to change its properties. If the body I have tamed can’t enjoy the pleasure of being under my guidance, the body that suffers random misfortunes will likely begin to suffer predictable misfortunes instead.”
“What? You just did the same thing!”
Astarot stepped back with a look of satisfaction on her face, as if the food in her stomach had digested well.
“Additionally, by collecting the misfortune curse extracted like this, I could turn a neutral party into a misfortune body. Hehehe. A meaningful time with a powerful curse for a tamed child. What could be better?”
“Still, Senior Felix is in a position of an Executive of the Dark Cult, who worries about her childhood friend? I’m sure he has researched a safe way to resolve the curse! This foolish method of curse extraction risks lost curses returning as even greater curses to Nepher-tem’s body!”
“Isn’t that even better?”
“Huh?”
“Once time passes, we can extract and reuse the curse again, each time stronger. The curse’s owner hopes to be tamed under my hand and pleads. Neutral parties are easy to deal with. Isn’t it the best outcome?”
Woah…
Chapter 3 Boss, it feels like an immense wickedness that surpasses the sadistic nature of Queen Camela’s pets.
While the student’s strength alone isn’t much, the fact that she can stand among the TOP 5 on campus makes her even worse than needing help, unlike Astarot.
“Just pretend you didn’t see anything.”
“Uh?”
“It’s not that hard, is it?”
As Senior Velvet extended her hand, Nepher-tem happily leaned her head against it with a heehee smile.
Petting Nepher-tem like a good little dog, Senior Velvet said.
“The head of the Execution Headquarters, Seoguyeon, the strongest of all time. A giant aiming for the next Student Council president. What an interesting toy I’ve got this time. When a dog is angered after having its toy taken away, the consequences are terrifying when someone like me gets angry.”
“Got it!”
“On the other hand, insisting on proper treatment for Nepher-tem will only make her a member of the impure club called the Dark Cult, much like that childhood friend of hers, and she’ll spend her days in the shadows, not knowing what’s happening. It’s clear that all that effort will be in vain. It’s a tough job for me to ‘undo’ this curse properly.”
Senior Velvet proposed a simple solution.
“So just pretend you didn’t see anything. Tell her childhood friend that she’s doing well. Make up something for the professor. Then, who do you think will occupy the soon-to-be vacant head of the Execution Headquarters while gaining a ‘higher position’ in the Student Council?”
“Me?”
“Yeah. Oknodie, I find you quite appealing. I want to nurture that talent of yours, which is violent to the point of cruelty. So don’t go against my temper.”
It was quite an intriguing offer.
[The event reaches an important juncture!]
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Senior Velvet, possessing immense skill and power.
In exchange for turning a blind eye to her
The student who has chosen to become her toy will gladly accept this outcome.
But is it truly right for a childhood friend to fail in this world?
I firmly condemn a future like this!
There’s a promise to help Felix reclaim Nepher-tem, and a special reward awaits the
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While not as interesting as the notification from the event window.
‘Who’ I am can be set aside.
That ‘special reward’ guaranteed by the system.
I sensed it.
This is a big deal.
A first-time event with distinct rewards.
One side gains a large reward easily.
The other faces great difficulty for an uncertain reward.
For a veteran player, the choice was obvious.
“I guess there’s no choice but to kidnap her!”
“What…?”
I threw down a challenge right in front of Senior Velvet.
