Turns Out My Disciple, Who I Taught to Fear Succubi, Was Actually a Succubus Princess - Vol 2 Chapter 11 & 12
Vol 2 Chapter 11 – After I Made Them Feel My Strength Down to Their Core【Vol 2 – The Succubus Knight Order】
In the end, the matches went on until sunset, and I somehow managed to withstand the Succubus army’s relentless assaults.
Right as I finally took off my blindfold, Shion threw herself straight into my chest.
“As expected of my Master—!”
“Whoa!?”
Being admired is nice and all, but having someone suddenly cling to me like that is murder on my heart.
Honestly, Shion really needs to be more aware that she’s a top-class succubus.
While she was rubbing her cheek against me like she used to in the old days, I saw something absolutely insane over her shoulder.
Every single member of the order besides Shion had their foreheads pressed to the floor.
All lined up in perfect formation, all in sync, all facing me, all doing full-on dogeza—what!?
“H-hey, Shion?”
“Master, Master…! Wait, what’s wrong?”
“What exactly are they doing?”
“Oh, that? That’s obviously their heartfelt apology and expression of remorse toward you, Master.”
“How did it end up like that!?”
“Well, they’re the fools who doubted your strength, of course. It’s only natural.”
“…Huh?”
According to Shion’s explanation after that, it seemed the members had been doubting from the start that I was actually stronger than she was.
Well, to be fair, Shion has gotten seriously strong compared to ten years ago.
And here’s the important part.
Apparently, that was also the main reason they were against me joining in the first place.
“Those idiot members decided that if a man was going to join the Succubus Knight Order, there was no way they could accept him unless he was stronger than me.
But then they also decided, without even checking, that there couldn’t possibly be any man stronger than I am—so they rejected you out of hand, Master.
Utterly foolish, don’t you think?”
“Wait, seriously?”
“Completely short-sighted, right?
They apparently thought I was lying and just talking you up, saying you were stronger than me just to make you look good.
But after you made them feel your strength all the way down to their core, they finally realized how wrong they were and—”
“Hold on a second!? You’re telling me the reason they rejected me wasn’t just because they didn’t want a guy in here…!?”
“That kind of reason never existed in the first place, you know?”
“You’re kidding me…”
“And now that this silly misunderstanding has been cleared up so splendidly—allow us, as the Succubus Knight Order, to formally renew our request of you, Master.”
And then.
All hundred-plus succubi, with their foreheads still on the floor, spoke in perfect unison.
“—From this day forward, please continue to guide us, Master of our Captain!!”
Shocked speechless, I just stood there while Shion nodded over and over beside me, looking satisfied.
“And there you have it—this settles it.
Master is now officially the Chief Instructor of the Succubus Knight Order!”
“Uh, w-wait, but…!”
“You said yourself you were willing, Master, and now the members are earnestly begging for your instruction too.
—And we were only able to clear up their misunderstanding because you suggested the matches in the first place!”
“You’ve got to be kidding me!?”
So that’s how it is, huh.
Because I ran my mouth when I shouldn’t have, and then went and utterly schooled the members on top of it, I somehow landed myself in a situation where there was no way not to join.
And the root cause of it all was that I completely misunderstood why they were against me joining in the first place.
“H-ha ha…”
There was no way I could suddenly come out and say, “Actually, the real problem is that working surrounded by huge-breasted succubus beauties sounds like way too much for me.”
All I could do was let out a dry little laugh.
And that’s how it was firmly decided that I would become the first male member in the history of the Succubus Knight Order.
Vol 2 Chapter 12 – Half a Month After Joining【Vol 2 – The Succubus Knight Order】
And so, despite being a man, I ended up joining the Succubus Knight Order. Despite being a man.
Shion gave me some ridiculously grand-sounding title as the order’s Chief Instructor, but in practice, it just meant I was responsible for training the members.
Well, it’d be weird for me to be fighting on the front lines shoulder-to-shoulder with succubi anyway, and considering I’m Captain Shion’s Master, it’s probably the most reasonable role for me.
After that, half a month passed.
At first, I was honestly nervous about how things would turn out.
—But once I actually tried it, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d feared.
As you’d expect from people Shion personally handpicked, all the members had real talent.
With just a bit of polishing, they’d be more than capable of standing toe-to-toe with your average elite knight.
But until now, they’d never had anyone who could properly train them, so all that talent just kind of smoldered under the surface.
That was the impression I got.
The thing is, when it comes to women, differences in body type and bone structure mean that standard training methods designed for men don’t always work well.
And if you’re talking succubi, whose physical development is extreme in all sorts of ways, it becomes even harder to coach them properly on subtle balance, body control, and so on.
Well, at my level, making those fine adjustments is a piece of cake.
All that insane training in subspace wasn’t just for show.
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That day as well, I was watching the members in the Succubus Knight Order’s training grounds when one girl caught my eye.
I called out to her and gave her a few brief pointers.
She blinked at me with a confused look like she didn’t quite understand what I meant.
“…So you’re saying I should step half a step further in?”
“Yeah. Once you get used to it, I think a full extra step will be fine if you prefer, but for now, half a step.”
“…It’s just, my old martial arts instructor told me I had a bad habit of stepping too far in, and corrected it…”
“Ah, I see. No, your instructor wasn’t wrong exactly.”
By general standards, where she was stepping now would be considered optimal.
But that’s for a standard male knight’s body with no particular quirks in their movement patterns—once you factor in differences in build, the real optimum shifts bit by bit.
And in this girl’s case, she’s a succubus.
Her body type, skeleton, and distribution of muscle are totally different from those of a male knight.
…Over this past half month, I’ve realized something: at least in this country, the very idea of optimizing training and movement for each person’s individual build and habits just doesn’t seem to exist.
The norm is to hammer in the basic forms and then leave the rest to each person to figure out on their own.
But the only ones who get strong under that system are people like Shion, who are insanely talented, or people like me, who have a ridiculous amount of time to burn.
Helping someone else become strong in a precise, effective way is, in some sense, much harder than just getting strong yourself.
Still, I don’t want to embarrass Shion after she went out of her way to get me this job, so I intend to do everything I can.
“I’ve been watching your mock battles this whole time, and your movements look a bit cramped. You feel that yourself, right?”
“Yes… I’ve always felt that, but…”
“I’m guessing you’ve had a hunched-forward posture since you were a kid.”
“…! Y-yes, my parents used to scold me about that all the time!”
“Right, and because of that, your body got used to keeping your weight just slightly forward, and you’ve built up good explosive power with your training.
It also meshes well with your skeleton and muscles.
In that case, I think it’d actually be better if you consciously tried out a style where you actively leap forward.
I get the feeling it fits your personality too—”
Obviously, I left out the part where that hunched posture probably came from the very impressive chest she had, which would rank near the top even within the Succubus Knight Order.
Once you’re walking around with a pair of watermelons hanging off your chest at all times, any normal ideas about balance go straight out the window.
Naturally, the optimal way to move your body ends up diverging wildly from the average.
If you ignore that and forcibly “correct” things, you just end up with worse movement than the instinctive patterns her body originally developed.
That’s pretty much what happened in her case.
Not that I think the instructor who trained her before had bad intentions.
It’s just that my ability to read people’s bodies and movements has been honed in subspace to a level that leaves that kind of conventional instruction in the dust.
After I spent a bit more time breaking down the mechanics for her in an easier-to-understand way, the girl finally seemed to get it, and her face lit up.
“I’ll start working on that right away! Thank you very much for your instruction! And, um…”
“What is it?”
“My name’s Akari! Please keep training me hard from now on, Instructor!!”
“O-oh. Yeah, likewise—”
Sorry for not knowing your name.
The Succubus Knight Order apparently has more than two hundred members in total, so it’s going to take me a while to memorize everyone.
It seems my official title has settled into “Instructor.”
The logic is simple enough: since I’m the Master of their captain Shion, that makes me the Instructor.
It’s a little embarrassing, but it’s still way better than being called by the position name “Chief Instructor” all the time.
I waved lightly to the repeatedly bowing Akari and moved on.
Whether it’s a succubus thing or just this group in particular, everyone’s earnest and good-hearted, which makes teaching them extremely rewarding.
I was just starting to look around for who to check on next when someone called out to me instead.
This one was someone whose name I already knew: Natsumi, captain of the Third Company.
“E-excuse me, Instructor! There’s something I’d like to consult you about!”
“Sure, what is it?”
“Well, um, if it’s not too much trouble… would you be willing to have dinner with me after training and let me talk to you about it then…?”
Lately, I’d been getting more and more requests like this.
It was a good sign—nice to see so much initiative.
I’d like to accept whenever I have time, but I was already booked today.
“Sorry, today’s a bit tight. Could we do it another day?”
“Of course! Thank you so much!”
“Happy to. By the way, what did you want to talk about?”
I asked without thinking much of it, and Natsumi immediately went bright red.
Then, out of nowhere, she dropped a bomb on me.
“Um, I’ve been agonizing over whether I should go braless in combat…”
“Pfffffft—!?”
What is this succubus suddenly saying to me?
Caught completely off guard by the serious expression and the sudden injection of pure ecchi into the conversation, my brain just about short-circuited.
“A-actually, I heard it from Lady Shion!”
“What exactly did you hear from that idiot disciple!?”
“She said that the ultimate secret technique of a succubus’s fighting style is to shake your chest around like a cat toy during battle to draw your opponent’s eyes!”
“So this is my fault!?”
—Ten years ago, I’d told Shion this nonsense.
Something about how succubi were strong because they’d lure their opponents’ gaze with their jiggling chests and strike in that opening.
I never imagined that not only would she remember that made-up setting, but she’d actually spread it to her subordinates in the knight order, and it would eventually come back to me like this.
This is beyond a nightmare.
“But when my boobs are bouncing around all over the place in combat, it really hurts and kills my focus. So I’ve been torn about what to do…”
“You are absolutely wearing a bra. End of discussion!!”
“R-really? I was also thinking about maybe using a really loose bra as a compromise…”
“Just wear something that actually fits! Or bind them with a chest wrap!”
“Now that you mention it, a wrap might actually work…!”
“…By the way, just how many people know about this ‘ultimate secret technique’ or whatever?”
“Every member of the Succubus Knight Order does, of course.
But don’t worry, it’s a succubi-only, top-secret technique, so we’d never let it leak outside the order.”
“I-I see… thanks…”
Internally, I could only hold my head in my hands at the result of the careless seeds I’d sown ten years ago.
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