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Maou Gakuen Vol 4 Prologue
🕑 Added 2020-10-01 14:23:32 +0000 UTC
Prologue
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「You and, me are……rebels of the devil king academy?」
I stared at the smiling man before me──Joudogahama Lost.
His head was covered with the hood of his jacket. Underneath the hood there were red hair and golden eyes peering at me.
There wasn’t any killing intent, overwhelming presence, or violent mana radiating from him like the other devil king candidates.
Strangely I didn’t feel anything conspicuous from his presence and existence.
──However,
What was this? This unpleasant sensation?
It was a chill like when realizing that you were actually standing side by side with death in this ordinary day. Like when a car rushed toward you on the street, or something heavy fell above you at a construction site, or getting attacked by a slasher──misfortune that suddenly visited in the midst of an ordinary day.
The scent of death that was lurking in the daily life.
Unavoidable death that suddenly appeared before one’s eyes.
That kind of incomprehensible eeriness was ominously radiating from this man before me.
「Joudogahama Lost……I don’t think I’ve ever seen you at the devil king academy. What year and class are you?」
Lost shrugged.
「I don’t have the qualification to enroll into the devil king academy.」
「Eh? But……」
Certainly, only upper class people like nobles among the devil race could become a student in the devil king academy.
However there was a rule that the devil king candidate had to enroll into the devil king academy. That was why even a human like me was given permission to enroll into the academy. In that case Lost should also have the qualification.
Besides, the presence that I was sensing from Lost belonged to devil. He wasn’t human. Then he should have even less problem than me to enroll.
Lost seemed to guess what I was thinking and answered self-depreciatingly.
「I’m a low class devil you see. The lowest even. I’m not attending the devil academy because……well, I also have my own circumstances.」
Lost clapped his hands lightly and smiled in a friendly way.
「Rather than talking about me, let’s talk about you instead. To be honest, I thought that there wouldn’t be an existence lower than me. And yet suddenly I heard that the Lovers devil king candidate is a human. It was shocking you know? To think that there can be someone lower than me.」
Lost chuckled and narrowed his eyes.
「That’s why, I have been curious about you all this time. What kind of guy the devil king candidate that is even lower than me at the bottom of the totem pole? Does someone like that even exist? I was half in disbelief.」
「I don’t really get whether you are praising me or disparaging me but……you are treating me like an UMA huh.」
「Of course I’m praising you. You are my idol. After all you are lower than me when here I thought that I’m at the lowest. I even feel envious at you.」
「So……you came here to check what kind of guy I am?」
「Well, something like that I guess.」
Shit! I never thought I’d encounter a devil king candidate at this kind of place. This place was an outlet mall during holiday. If this became a battle, a lot of people might get dragged into it.
──But, when I quickly checked my surrounding, strangely there wasn’t any sign of people at all. Lost seemed to notice my confusion and he lightly spread his hands.
「This is so that nobody will interrupt our talk. I’m using magic to clear out the crowd.」
I felt just a bit relieved. In that case the unrelated people and my parents wouldn’t get dragged into this.
「That’s a big help. And……I’m just as you see. Did I disappoint you?」
I thought that he would be disappointed, or perhaps he would feel happy seeing that it would be easy to deal with me──but, Lost replied with an expression as though he was reunited with an old friend.
「No way. I feel there is fate at work here.」
──Fate?
「Also, I thought that you’re interesting just as expected.」
「……Interesting?」
「A devil will look down on the low class devil. A human will fear a demon and try buttering them up. However even human will look down on the low class devil inside their heart if they know about the state of affairs of the demon world. But you aren’t behaving like any of those types. You are facing me genuinely without any prejudice or bias.」
「……That’s, normal isn’t it?」
「No no. Normally people will evaluate other based on their own standard, classify them, and put a rank on them. But I got the feeling that you are accepting an existence like me as I am without putting me through any filter. Also, you are on your guard, but you hold no hostility at me. That’s also interesting.」
「That’s not really true. After all you’re a devil king candidate. We might fight each other sooner or later.」
But, you don’t hate me. You don’t want to kill me.」
「Well, that’s because I don’t have any grudge against you. I’m fighting to obtain the devil king position but, I don’t hate my opponents.」
「Why? Even though the devil race is bringing misfortune for the mankind.」
Misfortune?
Lost laughed in amusement, perhaps because I was making a confused face.
「You are really softhearted huh. Haven’t you get any bad experience after enrolling into the devil king academy? Like harassment, slander, assault. You should have received various attacks. Am I wrong?」
「That’s……I can’t deny that.」
Lost’s golden eyes stared piercingly at me.
「Then you gotta take revenge.」
「Revenge?」
「Yeah. To the nobles who are treating you and me like worthless trash.」
I felt a discomfort from Lost’s words.
That might be the case for human, but this guy was more or less a devil. And yet, how could he get treated like trash?
Lost suddenly spoke while I was thinking such thing.
「Let’s destroy the devil king academy together with me.」
「……Wha-」
What did he say?
「We are persecuted because of the nobles who are ruling the devil world right now. And then the symbol of that is the devil king academy.」
「……」
「I’ll kill the devil king academy, the devil world, the whole world.」
……What was this guy talking about?
「Killing……the whole world you say?」
「Death and rebirth, that is the role of the Death after all.」
「Then……your objective, isn’t to become the next devil king?」
Lost tilted his head when I asked him that.
「If I kill all the other devil king candidates, then I’ll naturally become the next devil king. But, I think that’s also alright. A legend is necessary for the beginning of a new world. The lowest class of devil is standing on the top of the devil world, something like that will be real dramatic.」
「In other words, a revolution huh.」
「That’s right. The devil world is completely ruled by the nobles. The rich is continuously getting richer, while the poor is unable to escape from the negative spiral. The right to rule is only passed around among the nobles. I’ll destroy the wall standing in the way between the nobles and the low class devils. That’s why Yuuto, I want you to lend me your strength.」
「Me?」
「Yuuto, you’re human. If you never know about the existence of devil world and devil, then perhaps you would never hold any dissatisfaction about being human. But, after learning that you all are energy source for devils──that your race is just being treated as expendable resource, what do you think?」
「That’s……」
「Don’t you want to escape from the devil’s rule and obtain true freedom?」
Lost’s words were slowly seeping into my head.
I had my hands full with the problems that were right before me that it never thought about such distant matter.
No, perhaps I was simply averting my eyes from it intentionally.
Supposing that I became the next devil king, what was I going to do with the devil world and human world at that time?
I──,
Wanted to answer the expectation of Lizel-senpai and everyone.
I wanted to make the world a place where everyone, Tou-san and Kaa-san could live in peace with a smile on their face. I only thought about such matter that was within my reach.
──I didn’t have any clear vision, what kind of thing I wanted to do with this world.
「Even so, defeating all the devil king candidates will be a herculean task. There are still many powerful enemies, and there are also the Triumph who haven’t showed themselves yet.」
「Triumph……the opponents who are holding the special six arcana you mean.」
I had heard about them from Lizel-senpai.
The devil king arcane number 0 until V were considered the leading six. They were the O Fool, I Magus, II Priestess, III Empress, IV Emperor, and V Hierophant.
These six arcane that included many cards that represented ruler were arcane that were born at the beginning period and they were said to hold extraordinary power.
「Besides what I’m trying to do will definitely provoke antipathy from others. Even if by some chance become the next devil king, surely there will be those who cause insurrection, and perhaps the current devil king also won’t hand over the throne to me obediently.」
「You are saying……that you will also fight that Headmaster Gandou?」
「Yeah. That’s why I need a genuine comrade.」
「Genuine, comrade?」
「A comrade who has the same perspective like me, the same feeling, and the same objective. It’s impossible for me to find someone like that among the other devils.」
Lost stared still at me with an earnest gaze.
「A comrade who I can have true bond of trust with. Only you can possibly become someone like that.」
Lost held out his right hand.
「If I become the devil king, I’ll entrust the human world to you. You will be the king of human. Let’s work together, both of us.」
I stared at the right hand that Lost offered to me.
I didn’t really know the truth but, it seemed that this guy had been persecuted in the devil world. And now he was trying to make a new world.
What about me?
Certainly it didn’t feel like that what Lost was saying was wrong.
He was saying that he would abolish the class system of the devil world and created a fair world.
However, that meant destroying the current order of the devil world. Would that really be the right thing to do?
What would happen to Lizel-senpai if that happened?
What about Miyabi, Neito, Aspite, Geld, everyone else?
Even the nobles weren’t completely made up by bad people. Wouldn’t their life and everything that they were shouldering would also get destroyed by this?
Besides, Lost mentioned something about revenge.
Was it alright to change the world with such reason?
「What’s wrong? Is something worrying you?」
「I……」
「Is it alright to not liberate mankind from devil’s rule?」
「……That’s」
「What if the next devil king is someone who mercilessly wring out mana from human? It won’t be a carefree world like right now. The whole human world will turn into hell. Are you fine with that?」
「No! I’m not saying that something like that is fine. However──」
「The fate of the whole mankind is hanging on your choice you know?」
「The whole mankind……?」
Cold sweat trickled down my back and sides.
「Let’s destroy and remake this world together with me.」
My right hand lifted up slightly. At that time──,
「Detonation!!」
「!?」
The spot where Lost was standing on exploded.
「Uwah!?」
My body was sent flying backward by the heat wave and shockwave. I couldn’t make a defensive magic in time and fell on my back. My body slid on the floor.
「Yuuto! Are you alright!?」
That voice──!?
I looked up while still lying down on the ground. A skirt that was lightly fluttering, and long legs that were wrapped in black stocking. Further above was white panty that was covered by the stocking. Lizel-senpai’s worried face was looking down on me above her breasts.
「Lizel-senpai!」
I stood up in a hurry and stared at the place where the explosion occurred.
The audio shop’s floor was hollowed and thick smoke was rising from there. The headphones and speakers at the surrounding were all blown away. Shelves broke and the inside were scattered everywhere.
「……Senpai did that just now?」
「Yes. While I was chasing after the information of the Death devil king candidate, I never expected that he was meeting with Yuuto. Are you alright?」
「Yes. We were just talking……」
「That’s right. To suddenly blow up the place like that, you got really bad manner even though you are a noble lady.」
Lost was there at the other side of the smoke.
There wasn’t any sign of injury on him. He looked composed as though the explosion never happened.
「……Can you not approach my devil king candidate as you please?」
「Good grief, I thought that we could finally deepen our friendship through male bonding and yet……really, you’re in the way.」
「What’s your aim by approaching Yuuto like this?」
Lizel-senpai glared with a sharp gaze. But Lost ignored her and raised his hand casually.
「Then, let’s meet again when there isn’t any hindrance. I’m happy we can meet today.」
「Wait!」
「Aa, for the lady there, it looks like there is a friend who got a business with you instead of me.」
「Friend?」
Lizel-senpai made a dubious face, then the store’s lightning died simultaneously. The surrounding was enveloped in true darkness because there was no window nearby.
「Tsu……be careful, Yuuto.」
Lizel-senpai let out a strangely panicked voice, and then a small light lit up.
A small blue flame was burning on senpai’s hand. When she lightly waved her hand, that flame fell on the floor. The flame spread through the floor. However there was no heat. It didn’t look like that it would cause fire incident like a normal flame. The dark interior of the store was illuminated by the pale blue flame.
A silhouette rose inside that blue light.
「To think that you are supporting a human devil king candidate, you have really fallen low aren’t you, Lizel.」
「……You」
Illuminated inside the darkness was a beautiful woman. Purple hair that reached until her waist, and almond shaped blue eyes. Her hair was beautifully wavy and rolled and her face was graceful. Coupled with her voice’s tone, she gave of a thick atmosphere of a noble lady.
But, her outfit was far from the image of a noble lady.
What enveloped her nice body that wasn’t at all inferior compared to Lizel-senpai was a black rubber suit that clung completely on her skin. Her neck and limbs were wrapped in belts that looked restrictive. It was a bondage suits that emphasized her body line to look even lewder.
In addition she was wearing a uniform jacket that looked like a long coat with her shoulders exposed.
Even though her skin exposure was almost zero, she looked like she was standing naked. In some case she might look even more obscene than simply being naked.
「Senpai……who is that person?」
「The Hanged Man devil king candidate. She is Hayachine Yotaka.」
This sexy beauty was the Hanged Man!?
The arcana’s name and the owner didn’t seem to match at all. In the first place she wasn’t a man.
「Thank you for the introduction, Lizel.」
Hayachine Yotaka smiled sweetly and turned her gaze at me.
「By the way, I’m Lizel’s friend……no, archenemy since we were little.」
──Archenemy?
Yotaka wriggled her fingertip dancingly and put it on her cheek. And then she scrutinized me.
「You don’t look bad. How about switching to me rather than staying with the like of Lizel? I’ll take a good care of you.」
「Yotaka, if you continue speaking rudely like that, I’ll──」
Lizel-senpai moved to stand in front of me. However a girl appeared from behind Yotaka before that.
「……Yotaka-sama, please wait. It will be troubling if you pick up something like human. You have to make sure that your pet has the proper pedigree document before keeping them.」
It was a beautiful girl wearing red bondage fashion. She had black hair that was cut short, and an adorable atmosphere like a Japanese doll. When she stood at Yotaka’s side, they looked like a master and a slave.
「Oh, Ayaori. You are also here?」
「Yes. After all I don’t know what kind of mess Yotaka-sama will get into if you are left by yourself.」
Yotaka elegantly chuckled fufu and pointed her fingertip to the girl in red bondage.
「This girl is Ayaori Iratsume, my ace.」 (TN: There is a pattern here. Yotaka can mean low class prostitute in Edo period, while the kanji of Iratsume can also be read to mean prostitute)
Far from being a slave, this girl was the Hanged Man’s Ace. It felt like he would meet a horrible experience if he underestimated her based on her looks.
「And, what is your business here I wonder? If you want to meet, then please do so after making an appointment.」
Lizel-senpai was radiating vigilance from her whole body. Yotaka smiled erotically at her.
「I’m thinking that I should also make my move soon. And so I come here only to give a light greeting. If the other devil king candidates defeat Lovers first then, Lizel──I’ll lose my justification to kill you.」
It was a really dangerous greeting. Lizel-senpai frowned.
「I see……so the Hanged Man has also joined Death’s alliance. It’s you who has fallen really low. That will hurt the family name of Hayachine House.」
Yotaka smiled lasciviously at Lizel-senpai’s provocation. That obscene smile send a chill through my back.
「No need to make such forced provocation. Soon I’m going to kill you──no, as expected I won’t kill you. I have to make sure you have a front row seat to watch the collapse of Himekami House. And then, I’ll cherish you forever……I won’t kill you even if you beg me to kill you. Fufu……I’m looking forward to it.」
「……As always, you have the worst hobby that is completely lacking in elegance.」
「I can already see in my mind how that composed expression will distort in humiliation while you are crying and yelling tearfully. Aa, I wish to tie and hang you up quickly.」
「Fufu, that’s a funny joke. This is a nice timing. I’m currently searching for an ingredient for a magic medicine. Your heart might suffice for it.」
Even though their talk was filled with bloodthirstiness, the two’s expression and gesture were that of high class noble lady. It made them even scarier.
「Yotaka-sama. It will be time soon.」
Ayaori urged her master with a slightly fretful look.
「Oh? It seems I have stayed for too long here. Fufuh, then adieu.」
Yotaka nodded elegantly before she turned around. Ayaori sent me a glare before following behind Yotaka.
Yotaka and Ayaori vanished into the dark passage. Then the lighting suddenly turned on again.
The two’s figures weren’t in the store anymore.
And then the sound of the outlet mall’s noise was approaching from the distance.
「Senpai……」
「So……Death finally showed up directly.」
And then she made a plainly displeased face.
「Furthermore even Yotaka too……it’s irritating.」
「It feels like, she is targeting Lizel-senpai more rather than me.」
「Himekami House and Hayachine House has been in antagonistic relationship with each other since a long time ago. There was even period of war that happened far away in the past. Because of that our relationship is still bad even now. Thanks to that Yotaka and I were also made to compete against each other in everything. It was like a proxy war for both our houses.」
「I see……then senpai also has it really hard huh.」
「It happens. I have gotten used to it.」
Lizel-senpai showed a resigned smile.
「More importantly, we also need to think of countermeasure now that the enemy has made their move this openly.」
「Yes. But, what should we do……」
「I have several ideas. For example, strengthening our fighting strength. Like adding a new Card.」
Certainly……Stella had also told me something similar before.
「But, I don’t know anyone who looks like they will accept becoming my Card……」
「About that, I can’t guarantee it but……I know someone who seems to have a prospect.」
「Eh? Who is it?」
「I myself am still not sure, so I’ll tell you next time. More importantly Yuuto, it’s necessary to have you do another countermeasure.」
「That’s……what kind of countermeasure it is?」
「I’ll have you learn a special move in this summer.」
「S-special move!?」
Those words somehow sounded really charming.
「Your growth has been stunning but, you need to be even stronger. And immediately. That’s why……we will do summer training camp!」
「Summer……training camp!?」
Come to think of it, senpai had already mentioned about it when we went to buy swimsuit last time.
「I think senpai said, that our destination will change depending on the special training’s content wasn’t it? Where are we going then?」
Lizel-senpai turned a serious gaze at me.
「Hawaii.」
What!?
「You need special training to learn a special move. I believe that the training camp will be very harsh for you.」
I gulped.
Senpai had said that much. There was no doubt that a very harsh training was waiting for me.
However──,
「I’ll do it! I swear I’ll overcome it no matter what kind of training it is!」
「That’s a good spirit.」
Senpai nodded in satisfaction at my reply.
「I’m burning up! Let’s do this!!」
Because it’s Hawaii!
And getting a special move!!
It was a doubleheader of going to a place that was the yearning of all common masses and obtained the dream of a boy!! I couldn’t suppress my excitement anymore!
Summer vacation, come quickly, quickly!
「Then, I’ll give it my all to think up the training menu. It will be an Ultra Gorgeous Super Special Hard Death Course.」
That naming was enough to cool down my giddiness.
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