Maou Reijou no Kyouiku Gakari - Chapter 27 - The Scariest Succubus

Chapter 27 – The Scariest Succubus

Found her.

At the end of the hallway, I spotted the back of the person I had been looking for all morning.

“Funfufuun ♪ Hmmmm ♪” 

The person was walking down the corridor humming a tune in a good mood, as if to indicate that she had no idea of the trouble I was going through. 

“Eshuru-san!” I called out to her from behind, a little forcefully.

“Hm~~ Araa~ teacherr~ Good Morninggg.”

She also returned the greeting with a cheerful smile, the same as yesterday.

“Good Morning to yo–… that’s not the matter now!”

“Ara? Is that so?”

“Explain to me your actions from yesterday!?”

I asked with a hint of anger.

There were times when you had to say what needed to be said in quicksand, even if you were the mother of a student or the wife of an employer.

“Yesterday? About my actions~?”

“It’s useless to act dumb in front of me. It was you who sent Isuna to the men’s bath, wasn’t it?”

I wasn’t sure how she did it, but I was certain it was this person who led Isuna to the men’s bathhouse last night while I was occupying it.

“Oh! Yeah, that was me, yep.”

I didn’t think I needed to ask her any more questions, she simply compiled.

There was no sign on her face that showed that she felt she had done anything wrong.

“Why did you do that… It was really a disaster…”

It was really embarrassing…

Naturally, I could not leave Isuna lying there completely naked.

So I managed to get her dressed so that she wouldn’t look naked, and then I carried her completely loosened body to her room in my arms.

“Well… because I wanted you to get along with Isuna-chan, teacherー”

“In what world do men and women who only have known each other for a short time bathe together and become friends…?”

“Ehh? Me and my darling, ofcourse.”

I wasn’t surprised in the slightest.

“Anyway! I really can’t help it if she hates me even more, so please don’t do anything weird anymore!”

Again, I strengthened my words and nailed this overambitious mother.

I knew I couldn’t take the words back, but I really didn’t want to see things stirred up any more than it already was.

“I wonder if I did something weird~.

“You did!” I assured her, staring into eyes that seemed to suck me in just by looking at them.

What was it other than strange to present one’s own daughter, still young, to a bath in which a young man was bathing?

Then, after a few seconds of looking at each other in a half-hearted manner, Eshuru spoke.

“Hm~~ Hey, Sensei~”

“Yes? What is it?” Without responding to my request, she asked me something else  this time.

“Did you know that we are a type of demon called a succubus?”

“Ehh… that, of course I do…”

“What kind of personality do you think a succubus has?”

“What kind of character.. you ask?”

If I answered, I might be involved in something strange somehow.

There was a mysterious charm in her voice that made me respond to her even though I was worried that I might get involved in something strange.

“Yes, don’t hesitate to answer me~.”

It reminded me of all the documents I had read about dream demons in the human world.

Dream demons, also known as succubus or incubus, depending on their gender.

They were one of the most well-known demons in the human world in many ways, as they were said to appear to the opposite sex in the middle of the night out of nowhere,seduce the mind, and take away the life force through magic to bewitch words, bodies, and people.

“Sexually unrestrained… promiscuous… abusive, and… willing to go after anyone they see of the opposite sex that they like?”

I said without hesitation, a little nervously, to that typical-looking woman in front of me.

“Ufufu, well. I may be a typical example.”

She smiled pleasantly, unexpectedly keen with the  words I uttered, even though I thought they might offend her.

To a succubus, perhaps it was a compliment.

“Then, let’s continue with the question for you, sensei. Who do you think is the scariest succubus?”

“The succubus, you mean….?”

“Yes, I guess you could say it’s the most dangerous succubus to make enemies with.”

If we combined this with the previous question, the most frightening succubus was none other than a succubus who gets very  attracted to the person of the opposite sex.

Then the answer was―

“A succubus, like Eshuru-san? I presume…?”

The first thing that came to mind was this overly lustful woman in front of me.

A girl and a mature woman.

I could say that there was hardly a man in the world who could maintain his sanity when she showed up in his bedroom in the middle of the night, with her miraculously balanced combination of these two seemingly contradictory charms.

Above all, I was already afraid that I, who should have come here to lecture her, was already beginning to be carried away by her charm.

But in response to my answer, Eshuru-san said…

“Boo Boo! Wrong!” While saying that, she made a cross mark by crossing her index finger in front of my face.

“I’m glad you feel that way about me. But It’s not exactly what I’d call the best answer~”

“Then… the right answer is?”

“Hmmm~ you want to know~?”

“That’s… well, yeah…”

I didn’t like to be put through her paces, but when she was so generous with her words like now, I wanted to know what she was doing.

Besides, it might be a hint to give Isuna some guidance.

“Succubus, you know. Indeed, as you say, sensei, most of them are free-spirited like me, and when it comes to the opposite sex, they go this way and that way.”

Eshuru-san began to explain what a Succubus was to me, gesturing with her body language.

“I’m sure that dreamers like that are scary to humans. But on the other hand, it also means that humans are easily drawn towards Affection.“

“Affection? You say…?”

“Yes, that sentiment is very troublesome. When it comes to the magic that we Succubus use, even the slightest bit of affection can become a huge opening to take advantage of.”

“I see…”

As the description suggested, the magic used by a Succubus is a magic that invades another person’s dream, or original memory, and destroys it.

I did not know the details of this kind of magic, as there were few human practitioners of it, but I had heard that magic that affected the mind tended to be influenced by the mental state of the practitioner.

“The correct answer is – the exact opposite of what you said, sensei! An extremelllly~ devoted~, DoeM-chan~ (Dominatrix) A person who took extreme pleasure in dominating one particular individual!”

A sensational looking mother who was not appropriate for an educational setting confidently uttered words that were not appropriate for an educational setting.

“D-doem…?”

“Yeah, DoM-chan.”

She smiled again and repeated that not-so-educational phrase.

“How can that be ……?”

“They are pathologically single-minded about one particular person. That means that they can have a spirit that doesn’t have any feelings for other people, but just destroys and feeds on their memories in a cold-hearted way. If there were such a Succubus, wouldn’t it be scary…?”

I considered this as I stood in front of a woman who was smiling and laughing, saying the exact opposite of what she was smiling and laughing about.

It was true that if the strength of the magic that affected the psyche was affected by the slightest emotion, a Succubus who had none of that could be considered very troublesome.

“Isn’t that kind of a theoretical…?”

“WelI, I don’t know~ Well, at least not for me~. I love my darling~, that even if I was told to eat you sensei, my emotions would get in the way.”

While saying this, she looked at me with streaming eyes.

I was glad that it was Isuna and not her mother who came to the bathhouse last night.

However, I understood that this mother was thinking about a lot of things despite what she had said and done so far, but the problem was what was going to happen next.

“Huh… I understand that but… About yesterday … No, What does this have to do with me…?” 

“Ara~, did I not make myself clear~? I mean, I want you sensei to raise Isuna-chan to be such a Succubus.”

“Me, raise Isuna?”

“Yes!”

Eshuru-san answered shortly with the biggest smile I had seen since yesterday.

“Well, that’s indeed a type of education th-“

“Ahh~! It’s already time!”

I was deliberately interrupted by this woman, in order for her to block my words.

“Then sensei, I have to go back to my darling now~~ I’ll see you at the exam time. Bye bye~~~”

As it was, she waved her hand and trotted off to the end of the hallway.

“Education that I would not agree to…”

As my words faded into the void, the stormy mother who had come so suddenly left only great bewilderment.