The Academy’s Weakest Became A Demon-Limited Hunter - Chapter 344

〈 Episode 344 〉 Demon討伐戰 – Epilogue (3)

A battle between正室wives?

Kaya looked at Dorothy with a dubious expression, Luce with her eyes wide open as if to say, ‘What the hell is this now?’, and Alice with a gentle smile.

On the other hand, White lowered her head like a small fish caught in a group of sharks, trembling.

“Why me…?” she muttered in a voice so small that no one could hear.

“What is that?”

Luce asked sarcastically.

“As you all have realized and accepted, the president likes us all. So, what would happen if we all became connected to the president?”

Dorothy asked like a quiz show host at an event hall.

Luce frowned and answered nervously.

“No need, Isaac is mine.”

“My dear, don’t you understand yet?”

“What?”

“If you think about the status of a child, it is a natural consequence to have many wives. Such a selfish mind seems to be suitable for a concubine.”

“……”

Even Alice intervened, and Luce glared at her.

At that moment, Kaya coldly suggested.

“Whether it’s a正室wife or a concubine… Don’t you think Isaac-nim would be so hasty? If we were to marry Isaac-nim, it would be natural for us all to become wives.”

Although the seed of Yggdrasil had disappeared and [Yggdrasil] could not be used.

Kaya has reached a high level since using [Yggdrasil] once.

Kaya now had the ability to not cower even when facing Dorothy.

Dorothy smiled and clicked her tongue, “Tsk, tsk.” and shook her index finger from side to side.

“You don’t know anything. Of course, Isaac would take us all as his wives. Then, which ‘wife’ will you be?”

“……!”

Kaya’s eyes widened.

“Even if we all have a wedding ceremony together, the order will inevitably be fixed. In other words… the ‘first wife’ implicitly has the value of a ‘regular wife’, and the rest of us have the value of a ‘concubine’.”

When Alice explained slowly, Dorothy nodded her head satisfactorily.

Kaya couldn’t refute it. Moreover, Luce also acknowledged it without realizing it.

Among these people, who will be Isaac’s first?

It was a profound argument that was no different from ‘who will be the正室wife’.

“Since the president likes us all the same, we can’t ask, ‘Who do you like the most among us?’ So! We decided to sort out the order implicitly among ourselves.”

“Indeed… It’s an important matter.”

Kaya wiped away her cold sweat and nodded with a serious face.

“B, but…”

When White mustered up her courage and spoke with her arms trembling like an aspen tree, everyone’s gaze turned to her.

“Why did you bring me here…?”

“Hmm? You’re also connected to the president, Isaac? Master and disciple? Something like that.”

“That’s true, but…”

“Do you hate Isaac?”

“No! Never! Never!”

White shook her head violently in surprise.

It was a quick nod that left an afterimage and a gust of wind.

“I see. Then you like him?”

“……”

White’s face flushed like a beet.

She lowered her head again and nodded slightly.

“Oh, how naive…”

“White is still young, unlike us.”

“That remark is a warning. It sounds like we’re fossils.”

“Come to your senses. We’re almost two years away from graduation, so we’re fossils.”

“No, I’m still young! Stop using such old-fashioned expressions!”

“Hee, cute.”

When Dorothy flared up, Alice chuckled.

“So? How are we going to compete?”

When Luce showed interest, Dorothy exclaimed, “Ooh~.”

“My friend, do you want to do it?”

“Isaac is mine. I’m going to make you all admit it.”

“Hehe. You’re confident!”

Luce is a prospective graduate.

She opened her heart to Isaac, and as she went through many things at the academy… Luce’s social phobia has greatly improved.

Thanks to this, it has become natural for her to have ordinary conversations.

There may be none among them, but Luce had a strong desire to monopolize Isaac.

However, the women gathered here are formidable powerhouses that she herself could not easily handle.

Then it would be good to thoroughly trample everyone with today’s勝負and establish your position as Isaac’s first woman, which none of them would be able to refute.

Luce judged it that way.

“Then! This is the event!”

Bang! Dorothy used starlight magic to bring a large barrel of alcohol, five glasses, and some snacks from another room and placed them on the table.

Everyone except Alice, who was smiling, looked flustered.

Dorothy patted the huge barrel of alcohol and said,

“Let’s have a drinking contest. Let’s have a showdown with alcohol!”

“D, Dorothy-senpai, I protest! Are we really going to decide the正室with alcohol consumption? This is too…”

“Is there a more appropriate event that is as sound, fair, and persuasive as this? Or should we play rock, paper, scissors instead? That would be terribly boring.”

“That’s not it, but…”

Kaya was terrified in front of the enormous barrel of alcohol.

“I agree. I never thought I’d see eye to eye with Dorothy.”

“Don’t say things like ‘see eye to eye.’ It makes me feel bad.”

“You little shit.”

Alice laughed innocently.

Then, Luce slammed her glass on the table and focused everyone’s attention.

“Follow me.”

It was a commanding order.

“You’re enthusiastic! Good!”

Dorothy laughed and filled each glass with alcohol.

White trembled as she looked at the large amount of alcohol in front of her.

“Let’s start! Now, cheers, everyone!”

Dorothy shouted, holding out her glass.

The excitement of the competition filled the room.

“Che, cheers… huh?”

White tried to clink glasses and do a real cheer, but the other women, as if they had made a pact, did not clink glasses and immediately gulped down their drinks.

“Eek…?”

White noticed and hurriedly drank her alcohol.

Bang! There were four simultaneous sounds.

Kaya, Luce, Dorothy, and Alice simultaneously placed their empty glasses on the table.

White joined them belatedly, grimacing.

“Good, next!”

As they continued to drink so seriously, half of the large barrel of alcohol was emptied.

Kaya’s face was flushed with drunkenness, and she swayed her body from side to side like a scarecrow. Luce remained silent and held her breath, while White bowed her head like a tired person and sipped her drink.

In contrast, Dorothy and Alice were still relaxed, with only a slight flush on their cheeks.

They were both known to be heavy drinkers.

“What’s wrong, everyone? Are you tired already?”

Dorothy asked playfully as she poured herself another drink.

“Come on!”

Kaya thrust out her glass, which she was holding in both hands. Dorothy smiled in satisfaction and said, “Drink up, drink up!” and filled the glass to the brim.

Kaya gulped down her drink without hesitation. She slammed the glass down on the table and grimaced.

Suddenly, Kaya hiccuped and looked at the other four women with dull eyes.

“But you know… aren’t you all a little too arrogant?”

“Huh?”

Everyone focused their gazes on Kaya at her unexpected attack.

Kaya continued, sniffling,

“Wasn’t it me? At this academy, the woman who first got involved with Isaac-nii in a closed room was me. The one who first joined Isaac-sama’s plan and the one who first figured out Isaac-sama’s true identity was me…! Of course, I should be the first! Logically!”

An appeal to her first connection.

However, Kaya’s argument lacked persuasive power.

“What does that have to do with being the正室?”

“Huh?”

“It’s not like you spent your first night with him. What’s the big deal about being the first to get involved?”

Alice sipped her drink with her eyes closed and retorted calmly.

Kaya’s face turned even redder than a ripe apple at the provocative words, but she responded forcefully.

“You even committed terrorism at the academy! And hey! Ah, I’ve spent the night with Isaac-sama before?!”

“What?”

Everyone except White was surprised by Kaya’s sudden claim.

“A long time ago, we were homeless together. After defeating the demons, we were alone, enjoying the sound of a babbling brook and the warmth of a campfire… We slept together in a tent!”

An experience of sleeping together. Kaya’s second trump card was revealed.

“The first time we slept together…!”

Dorothy exclaimed in surprise.

Kaya was the one who first got involved with Isaac.

“In other words, it was revealed in this place that Kaya was the one who had the experience of sleeping with Isaac before anyone else.

“Even when you pretended to be asleep… you secretly said that I was pretty…! It means that Isaac-nim gave me his heart first!”

“Your妄想is at the level of a mental illness.”

“It’s true. Luce Eltania, are you going to hit me?”

When Luce nonchalantly passed it off, Kaya narrowed her eyes and insisted on her claim.

However.

“Didn’t you just sleep with him?”

“Th, that…”

“Even if you assume that he really said that you were pretty, I don’t think it would have been a big deal.”

“……”

“It seems like you’re over-interpreting things, child.”

As Alice pointed out, they had only slept together.

That was all.

“And the child is being nice to everyone,. envoy, just because the child said that you were pretty, it doesn’t mean that you can judge anything.”

“…What are you trying to say?”

“The important thing is who loves the child the most.”

Alice smiled with her characteristic gentle smile.

“For example, in the worst case scenario, even if I saw the child’s poop, my love for him wouldn’t change in the slightest. I’ve already done that before.”

“What are you talking about…? What do you mean by ‘I’ve already done that before’?”

“Gross.”

Dorothy and Luce grimaced and expressed their disgust.

“I’m saying that I can accept the child as he is, with everything. That’s how much I love him…”

Bang!

“Isaac-nim doesn’t see poop!!”

Kaya flared up and shouted.

Everyone was shocked, even Luce.

“To the sacred Isaac-nim? Poop? You’re going too far!”

“No, I don’t mean it that way…”

“Blasphemy!! Isaac-nim is no different from a god!”

“No, even a child is a person…”

“Isaac-nim has transcended the realm of humans! Even if he were to poop, it would be holy water! It’s not something as dirty and insignificant as excrement!”

Kaya was a fervent worshiper of Isaac while being in love with him.

Because she was drunk, Kaya’s honest feelings poured out like a faucet had been turned on.

“Ugh, that’s right… calm down, I’m sorry, unni.”

In front of Kaya, who was preaching with the fervor of a cult leader, Alice admitted that she had spoken rashly and tucked her tail between her legs.

“Nyahahaha!! That’s right! The president is a god! It’s blasphemy!”

Dorothy pointed her finger at Alice and laughed, supporting Kaya’s claim. Of course, Dorothy meant it as a joke.

“How childish…”

Luce sighed as she drank her alcohol and muttered to herself, sounding disappointed.

“Hic…”

“Hmm?”

What calmed down the noisy atmosphere was the sound of White’s hiccups.

White put her glass down on the table and then raised her head.

Her half-opened, already tasteless eyes stared into the void.

“What’s with your eyes? Why do they look so scary?”

“Hic… Isaac-sunbae, you see…”

White’s voice trailed off.

“His Majesty Carlos… wants to marry me… This is a matter of national importance…! It’s not something that we can just argue about among ourselves!”

In the quiet room, White’s voice, her eyes tightly shut, echoed loudly.

“To bring this up as a public issue…”

“This bastard is using her power…”!

Alice and Dorothy were flustered.

“Pfft!”

“……?”

Someone burst out laughing from the corner.

Silence returned again.

The atmosphere had changed so much with just one laugh because the person who had laughed was unexpected.

Luce. She lowered her head and tried to stifle her laughter, her face hidden by her flowing rose gold hair.

“My friend, did you laugh…? No, you can laugh?”

Dorothy was surprised to see Luce laughing.

White, emboldened by the alcohol, stared at Luce.

She decided to take a jab at her.

“Isaac-sunbae and I are…”

“Pwahahahaha!!”

Luce burst out laughing.

“No less than His Majesty Carlos decided to marry us…”

“Stop! It’s too funny…! My stomach hurts..!”

The sight of Luce holding her stomach and laughing was enough to surprise the women gathered there.

Soon, Kaya, Dorothy, and Alice began to laugh along with Luce. It was because White’s solemn voice while drunk was funny.

Later, as the night wore on, they spent their time happily, drinking glasses of alcohol.

Talking about their adventures so far.

And honestly expressing what they wanted to do in the future.

* * *

“Dear, come in.”

“Huh…?”

As I arrived at the meeting place Dorothy had mentioned, the Iris inn, Alice greeted me by opening the door.

The room was extremely noisy. A sense of unease surged in like a tidal wave.

Finally, as I stepped inside, a tragedy unfolded before my eyes.

“Waaaaah…! I’m a failure… I’m a useless piece of trash…!”

“Worship Lord Isaac…!”

“Isaac, just me, just… if you look at me… it would be nice… if you locked me in the basement… and only desired my love… I would be happy enough…”

“Nyahahaha! This is a mess!”

W, what is all this…

The smell of alcohol was pulsating.

What kind of conversation were they having? White was bawling and putting himself down, Kaya was praising me like a god, Luce was muttering something with her head on the table, and Dorothy was holding her stomach and laughing hysterically.

It was a scene of madness.

I could see a large barrel of alcohol on the table. It was completely empty.

How much have these guys drunk…?

“Explain, Alice.”

“They all had a drinking party.”

Alice replied with a grin.

“Are you okay?”

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

Suddenly, Alice hugged me tightly.

She reeked of alcohol too.

“Darling, I have no strength… I’m hot… take it off…”

“Don’t pretend to be weak.”

“I’m serious? Opening the door was the last thing I exerted myself for.”

It seemed like a lie, but Alice was really drunk and leaning on me without any strength.

She only looked okay on the outside.

“Welcome, Lord Isaac…”

Kaya, who had been praising me, got up from the floor and grabbed my leg.

“Chairman, you’re here? Welcome.”

Dorothy tilted her head and smiled broadly. She didn’t seem normal either.

“……”

Eventually, the corners of my mouth turned up.

It seemed like everyone had become close.

I took off my coat and hung it on a hanger, then asked Dorothy.

“Senior Dorothy, do you have any alcohol left?”

“Nhihihi, I do! Are you joining us, Chairman?”

“Yes. I’ll have a drink too.”

“Great!”

That day, I also drank heavily and talked with them about various things.

Even though I said ‘various things,’ most of the stories were out of context, incomprehensible, and I wouldn’t remember them when I woke up. They were just funny stories.

Perhaps because I had drunk too much, my head was spinning and I could barely control my body.

After covering the five people who had fallen asleep here and there with blankets, I turned off the lights and lay down in the empty space.

“Hmm…”

Dorothy turned around and hugged me while mumbling in her sleep.

Come to think of it, when she was living on borrowed time, she got rid of her teddy bear to get rid of her attachment.

She had taken out her teddy bear again after subduing the floating island.

Wow, the experience of becoming Dorothy’s teddy bear wasn’t so bad.

The dawn was breaking outside the window. It was the first time I had enjoyed myself like this since the ice.

I had no worries.

It was as if all the shackles that had been like armor had been untied, and only a feeling of freedom enveloped my body along with the strong intoxication.

I closed my eyes with a smile and soon fell asleep.

In my dream, I met Dorothy from the 1st round and the witch of the candy house.

I told Dorothy that I loved her, and I thanked the witch of the candy house.

Suddenly, my mother, who had passed away during my exam life, appeared.

You, who told me that I was great, had a smile on your face that was more lovely than anyone else in the world.

They walked towards the distant horizon, where light shone.

I watched their backs without end.