Vol 2 Chapter 14 – Dungeons and Shion’s Worries (Part 1)【Vol 2 – The Succubus Knight Order】

The knight order’s duties include dungeon security.

That day, I headed to one of the dungeons on the outskirts of the capital together with Shion.

We unlocked the multi-layered iron grating at the entrance and entered the dungeon interior.

The locks were probably meant less to prevent monsters from getting out and more to keep humans from wandering in by mistake.

Shion was strangely cheerful that day.

Recently, Shion had often worn a difficult expression.

But once we entered the dungeon, she clung to my arm as if seizing the opportunity.

“Ehehe… It’s just the two of us today, Master!”

“That’s right. You seemed busy lately, Shion.”

“Yes, I’ve been! Recently, there’s been an increase in idiots saying they want to join our knight order.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

“Except they’re all men—honestly, what are they thinking? We’re the Succubus Knight Order. Of course, if they were as strong as Master, that would be different!”

“Ahh…”

I understood vaguely. That’s my fault.

Because I—a man—joined the order, there are probably people making a fuss saying they should be allowed to join too.

After all, from an outside perspective, it’s the picture of a man surrounded by incredibly beautiful female knights. It’s enviable beyond words—truly a dream workplace.

Even I might raise both hands in agreement with that opinion if it were okay to make moves on them.

“Actually, this is just my bias, but… Are the ones saying that stuff mostly foolish noble brats?”

“Yes. They’re all people who use their power as a shield, have loud voices but no accompanying ability. Yet they fantasize that if they just join the order, they’ll be super popular with all the members and have an instant harem…”

“That’s painful.”

First of all, it’s painful to assume they’d be popular, and even if we overlook that as youthful naivety, the naive outlook that they could easily create a harem is even more painful.

After all, the members of the Succubus Knight Order are basically daughters of good families.

If anything, upper-class nobles make up the majority.

How reckless it would be to try to collectively haremize such daughters and have noble society recognize it—it’s easy to imagine that would require authority surpassing even the king’s.

Besides, if you just want to marry a sexy beautiful female knight, there’s little point in joining the order.

Rather, once you join, you’re surrounded by attractive girls no matter which direction you look, and as a result—unless you have exceptionally strong willpower, you’ll definitely end up making eyes at girls left and right and getting universally rejected.

Anyone who can’t even imagine that and loudly proclaims they want to join the Succubus Knight Order can only be described as painful.

“Shion, do you drive those guys away by saying they lack ability?”

“Yes. But among them are some who belong to even our country’s top-tier knight orders, or even the Royal Guard, and they still act like that…”

“Well, there are quite a few people in the world who are muscle-brained, perverted, and vulgar, but overflowing with talent in combat alone.”

“Exactly! And those types are stronger than our members, so it’s difficult to refuse them…”

“I see?”

This is just my assessment, but if we express the combat ability of elite knight orders and the Royal Guard in easy-to-understand numbers as around 10,000 to 20,000…

Then the members of the Succubus Knight Order are roughly around 3,000 to 7,000 in combat ability.

Of course, I think everyone in the knight order has far more natural talent than typical elite knight order members, and besides, Shion said she selected them based on talent while restricting it to succubi, so it can’t be helped.

By the way, by those standards, Shion’s combat ability is 530,000, and mine is unmeasurable.

“And so! Today I forcefully came to the dungeon alone with Master, partly to relieve that stress! Just the two of us without worrying about other members’ eyes—”

“Ah, I see—you’ll let off steam by whacking monsters with all your strength.”

“…No, that’s not quite what I…”

For some reason, Shion’s excitement plummeted instantly. How mysterious.