Volume 1, Chapter 49 – Bloodline— Inspection?!

“Principal… Gehenna…” Stella’s face went pale.

Gehenna Jelansika.

The current Principal of the Thirteenth National Succubus School.

Stella had read her name and introduction in Lilith Academy’s enrollment handbook.

She was one of the most famous Archdemons in the present-day Demon Realm. Many demon lords unanimously regarded Gehenna Jelansika as the failsafe that maintained order in the Demon Realm.

The main reasons behind her rise to fame included suppressing the northern rebel army during the Eternal Night Riots, discovering one hundred and eight ingenious uses for demonized slime fluid, as well as making outstanding contributions to research on Primordial Demons together with her deputy, Mara Nightsong.

There were also rumors that Professor Gehenna enjoyed collecting goose-down pillows of varying softness and firmness, and that mentioning anything related to “height,” “development,” or “age” in front of her was absolutely taboo.

Besides all that, she was also an Archsuccubus whom the Inquisitor had specifically warned Stella to be careful around.

“Stella, for the sake of the infiltration plan, you absolutely must leave her with a perfect first impression.” That was what Inquisitor Itheria had instructed her.

Truthfully, Stella had never imagined she would actually manage to survive until the day she met Principal Gehenna.

And right now, she had been caught red-handed using forbidden dark cursecraft on a classmate.

Congratulations. Truly, congratulations…

Stella felt like crying but had no tears.

Although Vice Principal Mara had given her so-called special privileges that allowed her to torture and torment her classmates however she pleased, weren’t privileges granted by the Vice Principal still ultimately subject to the Principal’s say?

Of all the times she could have appeared, why did it have to be now…

“Principal Gehenna, it’s been a long time.” Vice Principal Mara immediately transformed into a cloud of black mist and flashed over, her attitude extremely deferential. “You’re considerably later than scheduled. You even missed the opening ceremony. I was wondering when you’d return.”

“Something came up and delayed me a little. I only just got back. I was wondering where all the students had gone. So they came to the training arena to watch a duel.”

Gehenna’s pale golden eyes swept over Stella. Cold sweat immediately poured from the latter, who couldn’t shake the feeling that Principal Gehenna’s attitude toward her had already reached the point of outright disdain.

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Was it still possible to salvage this?

“What about that item?” Mara asked in a lowered voice.

“I’ve already hidden it.” Gehenna also replied softly. Then she asked indifferently, “Is this the SSS+ freshman you mentioned in your letters?”

“What’s your impression?”

Mara narrowed her eyes.

Whenever Stella, her prized student, was brought up, she couldn’t help becoming proud.

Gehenna’s gaze settled on Cheryl, who was still laughing uncontrollably beside them.

“Her talent is quite good. To think a freshman actually managed to improve the dark cursecraft Heart-Piercing Bone-Gouging. But…” She paused and looked at Stella, a trace of displeasure appearing in her pale golden eyes. “How much longer do you intend to torture her? You do know that using dark cursecraft on a classmate violates school rules, don’t you?”

“…Hm? Oh!”

Stella froze for a moment.

Gehenna was obviously referring to Bone Joy, Heart Dance.

Well, yes.

The Principal’s appearance had interrupted Stella’s train of thought just now, and she had never stopped maintaining the spell. Cheryl was still rolling around all over the ground laughing uncontrollably. If this had been Lainia, she would already have suffocated to death.

Stella hurriedly gathered back her magical power and released her control over Bone Joy, Heart Dance.

After all, for every extra second this continued, the pervert rating she had in the Principal’s eyes would probably rise another percentage point.

The hysterical laughter abruptly stopped.

Cheryl lay powerlessly on the ground, her expression vacant. Sweat and tears streamed down her face together, and her exquisite hairstyle had already become a mess. She very much looked as though she had long since been played until broken.

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She wouldn’t be getting back up anytime soon.

Stella lowered her eyes, her gaze sweeping over the prestigious family’s eldest young lady on the ground, who was still twitching slightly.

‘Good. She still looks alive.’

‘As long as she is alive, this probably couldn’t count as a major teaching accident, right?’

‘…Probably.’

“The eldest young lady of the Valentine family, of all people… What a hassle… I just came back from a business trip without even getting any rest, and now I have to work overtime again…”

Stella heard Principal Gehenna let out a long sigh before muttering softly.

Then she turned her head toward Stella, her face dark and full of disdain.

“This matter ends here. There will not be a next time. I’ll personally take Cheryl to the infirmary and see whether she’s suffered any lingering effects.”

Gehenna paused before announcing her judgment.

“As for the special privileges Mara promised you… I’m revoking them.”

With that, she crouched beside Cheryl and gently began checking her condition.

It’s over. She really felt like Gehenna hated her already.

‘Wait… hate me?’

Stella suddenly realized something.

Hated her, the evil succubus who relied on special privileges to run rampant, forced the eldest daughter of a prestigious family to kneel on her very first day of enrollment, was suspected of using a vicious voodoo doll to curse a classmate into disability, treated school rules as though they didn’t exist, trespassed into the restricted section of the library, exceeded the requirements of a brainwashing assignment, turned a classmate into a fanatical believer, paraded through public while leading a human slave around, secretly studied dark magic in the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night, even improved the interrogation art Bone Joy, Heart Dance to the point that Remedios herself was amazed, and then, under the eyes of everyone, brutally beat down the Valentine heir before using that very interrogation art to torture her into complete collapse…

She wasn’t an outstanding student at all.

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She was completely and utterly a Demon Realm terrorist who combined brutality, perversion, and utter lawlessness into one package!

And Principal Gehenna…

She had actually reprimanded Stella out of concern for Cheryl’s safety. She had revoked Stella’s privileges because of the school rules. She even complained about having to work overtime.

‘Could it be… could it be…’

‘Principal Gehenna is one of those legendary good principals?’

‘In the Demon Realm?’

‘Among this bunch of succubi whose thought processes are all hopelessly tangled?’

‘You have to be kidding me!’

And now Stella had already been thoroughly hated by the only good succubus in Lilith School with normal values, the very Principal whom the Inquisitor had specifically ordered her to get on good terms with?

Stella felt as though the sky had collapsed.

This time, it really had collapsed.

“Right…” Gehenna stood up while holding Cheryl in her arms. She looked at Stella, then paused, unable to remember the other party’s name for the moment.

“Stella Darkfallen.” Stella raised her hand and blurted out the answer, looking every bit like an obedient student.

Gehenna paused for a second, then turned her head aside with an air of solemn importance.

“Very well, Miss Darkfallen, our SSS+ genius. Come to the infirmary later.”

“Um… is there something you need?” Stella asked cautiously.

Maybe it was private criticism and education? Or perhaps she had to write a self-criticism?

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As long as she wasn’t expelled, she was willing to write it!

“It won’t take much of your time.”

Without turning back, Gehenna carried Cheryl toward the infirmary, with Mara leaving alongside her.

“It’s merely that, according to school convention, I need to conduct a round of… bloodline inspection on you.”

Stella nodded thoughtfully.

“I see. So it’s a bloodline inspection… Huh?”

‘W-Wait!’

‘Bloodline… inspection?!’

Stella froze in place as though struck by lightning.

It had finally come.

Her destined death.

Translator Note

She win, but also lose at the same time xD