Volume 1, Chapter 2 – From Now On, I’m Part of the Privileged Class!

The Thirteenth National Succubus School, also known as Lilith School, was founded by the Primordial Succubus eight hundred years ago. It was renowned throughout the Demon Realm for placing strength above all else. Its program lasted six years, and the school was both arrogant and exclusionary.

In the hundreds of years since its founding, it had never admitted a student of another race.

Until today…

Stella could see the students below repeatedly glancing her way, their gazes gathering on her. Their indistinct voices drifted over as well, rising and falling, with most of their conversations revolving around her and where she would end up.

“SSS+… I can’t believe it.”

“This is my first time seeing the legendary SSS+.”

“Her surname is Darkfallen? I’ve never even heard of a family with that name. She doesn’t look like she comes from an orthodox succubus lineage. Could she be the illegitimate daughter of some Archdemon… But she’s so pale. What a rare skin tone. I really want to stain her dark…”

“I refuse to believe some mongrel demon could receive a higher rating than the bloodline of a Royal Succubus. She must have used some underhanded trick.”

Cheryl Valentine’s voice was not loud, yet it clearly cut through all the noise in the hall.

“Just wait. I’ll expose her true colors.”

The discussions around them instantly died down, only to turn into even more excited whispers.

“Uh… The eldest daughter of the Valentine family really can’t tolerate something like this. Hehe, I want to see blood run like rivers…”

“But the one she’s up against is a genius personally chosen by the Dark Queen…”

“Genius? At Lilith Academy, bloodline is the real talent.” The voice of a succubus prefect cut in. “Don’t forget the rule our academy has followed for eight hundred years, strength above all. Vice Principal Mara herself is the most iron-blooded defender of that rule. She’s personally taking on a student? Heh. Rather than an honor, it’s probably more like torture…”

“Especially since I’ve heard she particularly hates Holy Light… Remember that human nun who accidentally wandered into the Demon Realm last time…”

The words trailed off suggestively.

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Cold sweat poured down Stella’s back as she listened.

It was bad enough that some young succubus lady was apparently going to come looking for trouble, but judging from what these succubus students were saying, Vice Principal Mara wasn’t easy to deal with either.

And Stella was a cleric with S-rank Holy Light affinity!

Heaven only knew what terrifying things would happen if it was exposed that the Holy See had sent her here undercover.

Stella rubbed her head and tried her best not to think about any of that nonsense.

“Oh dear, even the magic mirror shattered. In more than eight hundred years since the school was founded, we’ve never encountered anything like this. What a headache.” Vice Principal Mara picked up a shard of the magic mirror and murmured to herself.

Then she turned slightly and met Stella’s eyes.

“By the way, Miss Darkfallen.”

Ignoring that shameless surname that practically begged to be mocked, Stella hesitantly nodded.

‘The vice principal isn’t about to make me pay for it, is she…?’

On the very first day of her undercover career, she had already managed to blow up a valuable magical antique that had been at the school for over six hundred years.

What a completely screwed start.

‘The salary of a countryside cleric definitely couldn’t cover something like this…’

Speaking of which, could she have the Inquisitor reimburse it as an official expense?

“You don’t need to worry about the magic mirror.” Mara seemed to see through her thoughts and waved a hand generously. “It’s merely a magical tool. Compared to your talent, it’s not worth mentioning.”

“Your aptitude is SSS+, an abstinent-type genius unseen for centuries. Lilith Academy has four major houses, but none of them are sufficient to contain you.”

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Vice Principal Mara bent down, her red lips almost brushing Stella’s ear. Her whisper carried an intoxicating, bewitching quality.

“So I’ve decided to grant you exceptional treatment. A private dormitory exclusively for you, exclusive course instruction, a scholarship created especially for you, and even… privileges beyond those of ordinary students.”

“Privileges…?”

Stella blinked.

“Miss Darkfallen, you heard what your classmates were saying just now, didn’t you?” Vice Principal Mara said very, very softly.

Stella nodded.

The vice principal was probably going to tell her not to pay too much attention to her classmates’ rumors and gossip. Stella remembered ordinary teachers usually said things like that, especially when some of the gossip involved slandering the vice principal herself.

“If you feel those words make you uncomfortable…”

Vice Principal Mara idly rubbed her dark red fingernails.

“Then torture whoever you want to torture, interrogate whoever you want to interrogate, and imprison whoever you want to imprison. It’s no problem, because you are a student personally taught by me, Mara Nightsong.”

“???”

Stella stared blankly back at her.

Just a few months ago, she had still been a Saintess candidate in a countryside monastery. In the name of the Holy Light, she had distributed alms and prayed, occasionally listened to believers’ confessions, sometimes snuck a couple bites of offerings meant for the Lord, and whenever the pressure became too much, she would go to the kitchen and pile up potatoes for fun.

When had she ever come into contact with methods like these?

Interrogation? Torture? Imprisonment?

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They were completely beyond anything she could imagine.

“But don’t get too happy just yet. I require your academic performance in every single subject to be as indisputably top-ranked as your trait.”

Mara smiled amiably and began counting on her fingers.

“Spellcraft, mental seduction, human interrogation, the art of elegant corruption, defense against holy magic and blasphemy… Every subject, without exception.”

“It sounds like a rather demanding standard, but for the succubus genius I’ve personally chosen, I imagine it should be nothing more than a little entertaining diversion, right?”

The corner of Stella’s mouth twitched.

Refuse.

‘I have to refuse!’

“Vice Principal, I—”

Stella raised her hand, preparing to interrupt the vice principal and tactfully decline.

“Miss Darkfallen, surely you wouldn’t refuse me.” Vice Principal Mara smiled faintly at Stella. “After all, the magic mirror is broken now, so there’s no way to assign you through the normal process anymore. We’d have no choice but to throw you into the Forbidden Forest and feed you to the man-eating flowers.”

“…”

Stella obediently lowered her hand.

She had nothing to say.

Vice Principal Mara lightly clapped her hands together.

“Then it’s settled. You may torture and abuse any student in Lilith Academy as you please. As long as you prove that you are the most outstanding succubus, even when the principal returns, she’ll turn a blind eye to your behavior.”

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“Off you go, Miss Darkfallen. I’ll be looking forward to your vulgar conduct around the academy~”

“…I-I’ll do my best.” Stella forced a smile.

The most outstanding succubus?

She was a Saintess candidate, and she had to become the most outstanding one among a whole group of succubi?

Seriously?

Even now, all her racial characteristics were only being disguised with potions. She didn’t possess even the slightest bit of succubus talent.

What on earth was she supposed to do?

When the Inquisitor successfully lured her into taking the bait with grand promises, Stella had never imagined something like this would happen.

‘Good grief.’

She was screwed.

Translator Note

The school hasn’t started, yet Stella is already setting foot on a road of no return…