Chapter 136 – School Trip (4)

After enjoying the four-person date, we took a rental car and moved to the designated place.

It was a slightly spooky forest, and several lanterns were illuminating the large clearing in front of the forest.
After confirming that the students who had gathered before us were gathered in the vacant lot, we also sat appropriately in the chairs placed in the vacant lot.

After waiting for a while, other students started to gather one by one. Soon all the first-year students gathered and sat down on the chairs prepared in the vacant lot.

“From now on, the instructors will pass by, so take a numbered ticket from the box.”

After the homeroom teacher finished speaking, the instructors started to move, and the students took their numbered tickets in order.

My number was 7.

“How many times are you guys? I am number A-7.”

While the numbering was not over yet, I asked the girls sitting next to me, but the response was not very good.

“I am number B-29.”

“Huh? I am B-29 too?”

Ayeong and Laysha unfolded their papers and showed them to me.

“Are you Chloe?”

“… I’m number D-3.”

“Are you alone too…”

“Yes.”

Chloe looked at her own paper wistfully and nodded her head.

“Each person must have checked the paper and number they received. From now on, the test of courage will begin. The students in Group A are in front of me, and the students in Group B are…”

As if they were actually taking an exam, the homeroom teacher spoke to the students in a serious voice.
But this isn’t a test, it’s just a game.
The students moved in front of the instructors according to their alphabet and started looking for their mates.
In particular, there was anticipation on the faces of the male students.

I moved to the homeroom teacher and started looking for a student with the same number.

“… A-7?”

As I called out my number like other students, a female student approached me.
Pretty familiar glasses frames and freckles.

“Hi…?”

It was Lee Yoo-ri, who played a gloomy female student.

“You can’t…”

“Yeah, look at this.”

Yuri unfolded the white paper she was holding and showed it to me.
A-7, her partner in this test of courage was her.

“… Evande.”

“Giggle… Are you disappointed that I’m not a prettier girl? Let’s do it well.”

Yuri said with an unpleasant laugh.

It’s her even if it’s her.
She was none other than her opponent who was more difficult for me than anyone else.

“Let’s finish quickly.”

I’m sorry, but I had no intention of doing very well.

“When each group arrives at their destination along the designated route, there will be a small stone statue. If you take a picture in front of it, it’s a success. Got it!”

“Yes!”

The students vigorously responded to the teacher’s cry.
They seemed to be full of anticipation as they enjoyed the test of courage, but is it because they feel envious?

Ayoung and Laysha were together from afar, and Chloe was a girl she had never seen before… No, looking closely, she was a girl she had been taking a special class with a while ago.
Sorry I couldn’t remember her name.

After five minutes, two pairs of students returned from the forest.
Some looked normal as if nothing was wrong, while others looked pale and looked like they were going to burst into tears any moment.

“Next number 7.”

Standing at the entrance of the dark forest, the homeroom teacher called her number and came out and stood in front of him.

“As I said before, you just have to take a picture together. And take this lantern.”

Inside the lantern he handed over, a small flame that was fueled by magic stones was flickering.
Rather, I think this lantern creates more anxiety.

Still, if you accept it, you will have to accept it.
I took the lantern he gave me.

For reference, even without such a lantern, awakened people are basically better at night than normal people.
However, everyone seemed to enjoy the test of courage in a normal state without focusing their senses.

“Siwoo, shall we go?”

With her bangs slightly covering her eyes, she looked up at me and said.

“Uh.”

After answering bluntly, I went straight into the forest, and Lee Yuri followed me.

The forest at midnight was gloomy.
Even the moonlight was blocked by the trees, which had provided cool shade by blocking the sunlight until the morning, and the gloomy cries of insects could be heard in the surroundings.
Also, because of the lantern, a more bleak atmosphere was created.

“It’s scary, isn’t it?”

Having said that, she didn’t look scared at all.
Rather, he looked around as if he was having fun.

“At all.”

Right now, I am in a state of focusing my senses to wake up at night.
The world was not as bright as before, but the bright ultramarine forest was not scary at all.

In the first place, the courage is also strong.

“It’s still chilly~. Wouldn’t it be okay if I treated you a little more friendly?”

“Gibberish.”

I smirked at her words as she spoke to me lightly.

“That’s too much… Isn’t it okay to be a little friendly with the same succubus and incubus? He took my virgin too… I don’t know about the other succubus, but I thought it was important to me.”

Yuri said sadly.
Is it acting?
There was a high probability that it was acting, but the thought that it could be sincere made me feel sick for some reason.

“You still don’t remember how you came to the human world?”

A simple conversation would be fine.
She still has a lot of questions about her, so let’s get her information.

“Huh. I keep trying to think of you because you seem curious, but I can’t tell you anything like that.”

She asked, looking me in the eye as if she was looking at my reaction.

“You remind me because you think I’ll be curious. Wasn’t it like that?”

“Yeah, I’m not particularly curious about it.”

As if thinking about something, Yuri answered while looking at the empty space in front of him.
The cries of insects overshadowed the silence for a moment.

Have you reached about half of the course of the courage test?
Yuri opened her mouth again.

“Are you mad at me for threatening you with your lovers?”

Yuri looked at me sideways and asked cautiously.

“It’s okay.”

I had no intention of discussing the past.
Wasn’t she just creating illusions in the first place, she didn’t do anything.

“To be honest, I don’t understand why you are so angry.”

Yuri looked at the front again without stopping her steps.

“It is understandable that Siu cares for her lovers, but after all, isn’t she just a human woman to efficiently obtain qi? I think my common sense itself is different from you, who seems to have lived a long time as a human, so please don’t think I said it maliciously.”

“… No. They are just my lovers.”

“… Sorry. Can you forgive me?”

I know.
To the succubus, humans are just food to obtain energy, like cows and pigs.
Also, basically she’s not evil.
She didn’t cause any trouble and she just lived quietly to survive.

It was also proven by Riel that she absorbed her spirit in order to live.

Because she was like that, and because she was like that and I was of the same species, she must have never thought that I would be so offended.
And wasn’t it me who attacked first in the first place?

“… I don’t know.”

Still, the complex emotions remained the same.

“Okay?”

As if she was satisfied with my reaction, she said with a small smile.

“At what point did you lose your memory? Did you lose your memory after arriving in the human world, or at what point did you lose your memory?”

“Hmm… I don’t remember it at all, to be exact.”

Unfortunately, that wasn’t a welcome answer.

“Then, where was the first place you remembered?”

“It was inside the glass world.”

“Did you see anything around you?”

“Um… Just blow them up because there are a few ghouls… Oh, that’s right. There was a black book lying at my feet.”

Yuri opened her eyes and said as if she had just remembered something.

“… What did you do with that book?”

“I just left it.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know, I don’t remember that.”

Yuri shook her head and said.

‘The Ghouls and the Black Book…’

It seemed like I could remember something.
I felt a sense of deja vu due to something I didn’t know why.

∴

After that, we walked while chatting moderately, took pictures with the small stone statue behind, and returned to the clearing.

“Well, good job.

The homeroom teacher who checked the photo nodded and said.

“Then I’m fine. Your girlfriends are glaring at you so I have to run away.”

She glanced over my side and said to me.
When I turned my back, I saw Chloe, who had already completed her courage training, and Ayoung and Laysha, who were waiting for their turn, looking at me.

“Enough then.”

“Bye.”

After Yu-Ri went back to her seat, A-Young approached her.

“Did anything happen?”

Ayoung asked, glancing at my back.

“I told you that in the middle, hunters pretending to be ghosts are having a hard time popping out a few times.”

It was quite funny to see him crying and crying at the subject wearing ghost clothes.
He said he was having a lot of trouble, so he came back proudly.

“Okay? Aren’t you scared?”

“Not at all, the ghost clothes are cute, right? Ahyoung, are you afraid of ghosts too?”

I wondered if she was an unexpectedly timid type, but Ayeong shook her head.

“They say there are ghosts in the world.”

“Hey. Ghost.”

For reference, this is the name of a D-class monster.
It was a slightly annoying monster that did not work with physical attacks.

“That is not a ghost. Aren’t ghosts so cute?”

For reference, the monster theme looks a little cute.
The ghost costume design Hunter was wearing, who was pretending to be a ghost, resembled that monster.

“It doesn’t.”

“Anyway, it’s my turn soon, so I’ll go back.”

“Huh.”

Ah-yeong, who had a brief conversation with her, went back to her seat, and she began to chat with Chloe and Laysha.

The other students’ turn ended without much incident, and Ayoung and Laysha’s turn came.

Like the other students, they also received a lantern from the instructor and headed into the dark forest.

“Homeroom teacher, is it okay if I go back to the forest?”

After confirming that Ayeong and Laysha had gone into the forest, I approached the homeroom teacher and asked.

“Hmm? What happened?”

“I think I dropped my wallet in the woods.”

Of course it was a lie.
I was planning to use my transformation skills to surprise Ayoung and Laysha.

“Hmm… I see. Instead, don’t think of doing anything stupid.”

“All right.”

The homeroom teacher looked at me slightly suspiciously, and answered calmly as if nothing had stung him.

Heading into the forest, I felt Ah-yeong’s energy.

It was a skill that I forgot about for a while because I thought it was an invasion of privacy, but the special ability of being a contractor of Incubus allowed me to feel the position of the contractor.

‘It’s going well.’

Ayoung and Laysha were moving slowly as if they were walking.
Stopping in the middle is probably because I met hunters dressed as ghosts.

I wondered if I was really not afraid of ghosts.

Even so, Ayoung steadily moved toward the small stone statue.

And it was the moment when they reached a little over half way.

‘What?’

For a moment, Ayoung’s energy moved quickly.
I thought I was really surprised this time, but I immediately realized that I was wrong.

Ah-young’s energy moved quickly to and fro as if she was doing battle with something in her.

‘…What?’

Unless a ghost actually appeared during the test of courage, there was no way he could move at this speed.

I immediately ran towards the place where I felt her energy.

‘What is this all of a sudden…!?’

Ayoung’s movements began to become more and more rough.
I was able to realize that I had used the Spirit Manifestation.
In real time, the natural mana in her stat window was rapidly decreasing.

But at some point, something invisible blocked my path.

‘Barrier…’

It got stuck.

Along with the pounding left heart, the right heart was born.
Her breathing started to get short of breath, but she didn’t care.

From her heart, the work focused Magi into her right fist, then slammed her fist hard into her barrier.

There was no need to argue that the barrier was suddenly opened in the forest during a test of courage, and it was clear that something big had happened.

When I checked Ayoung’s stat window, 60% of Nature’s mana had already been consumed.

One step, one step.
As soon as she stepped out, she kicked the ground.

The cool night air brushed my skin.

Each time that happened, her A-young energy got closer and closer, and finally I got close enough to see her with my own eyes.

Standing there was a man with a face that would make you sick just by looking at it.

It was the golden sun who, not long after I was summoned to this world, was scolded and expelled for flirting with Ah-yeong, now I don’t even remember her name.

A dark, sinister aura emanated from his body.
It was Magi.

But the whites of his eyes were not stained red, and there were no veins protruding.
It means at least a lower-intermediate or higher level.

In my field of vision, I saw the golden sun slowly approaching Laysha and Ayoung, who had collapsed in a corner.

After gathering demonic energy on the hand, it was compressed.

And fired straight at him.

“Quit.”

His ear lobe, which swallowed his breath lightly, burst and the demonic energy dispersed.

“Who are you approaching, it’s a fuck.”

After raising the demon again, he wrapped his fist in the demon and said.