Volume 2 Chapter 151 / Chapter 432: Actually, I'm Very Strong
The sudden torrential rain enveloped the entire city.
Sheets of rain fell in long, unbroken lines, weakening the glow of the campus streetlights and deepening the night. Corners that had once been faintly visible were now as dark as spilled ink. Students scattered and hurried away, leaving the roads empty and desolate.
Lily, her face faintly flushed, carried several packs of sanitary pads to the supermarket checkout, standing stiffly in front of the cashier.
"C–checkout…"
Even though she was a succubus and indulged in all kinds of things in private, she still felt overwhelming embarrassment just buying sanitary pads.
The crashing sound of rain caught her attention. She turned her head toward the supermarket entrance, watching the water splashing violently against the ground and the thickened darkness beyond. Ning Chu's warning suddenly resurfaced in her mind.
A rapist murderer? A tentacle monster?
Honestly, she didn't believe either of them.
But she was afraid of the dark… and now she regretted coming out at night.
"The rain suddenly got really heavy," said the cashier, a student working part-time. "How does spring rain get this intense?"
"Mm."
With the sanitary pads packed into a black plastic bag, Lily stood under the store's awning holding her umbrella, hesitating and wavering.
Could there really be a tentacle monster?
She nervously scanned the pitch-black corners around her, uneasily pressing her legs tightly together. Her arms unconsciously folded over her chest as well.
Some inexplicable trace of anticipation stirred in her heart…
But Lily quickly forced that feeling out of her mind. She might be lewd, but she wasn't stupid.
Even two-dimensional tentacle monsters in hentai were already heavy and terrifying enough. A real, three-dimensional tentacle monster in reality would probably make her lose all sanity just by looking at it.
"It's fake… it's fake…"
After muttering to herself several times under her breath, Lily finally opened her umbrella and stepped into the rain.
. . .
It was barely past nine in the evening, and the buses were still running.
Ning Chu clung anxiously to Wen Yang's arm, resting her head against his shoulder as she stared uneasily at the night scenery outside the bus window.
If she could help it, she absolutely did not want to come face-to-face with a tentacle monster!
She was already a hentai heroine—she really didn't want to become a tentacle monster's incubation chamber too!
But this thing was something she herself had casually written into existence…
Even though she didn't think of herself as particularly responsible, the thought that many girls might end up being violated by a tentacle monster in the future filled her chest with uncontrollable guilt.
Wen Yang, who was usually afraid of ghosts and monsters, was unexpectedly calm this time. A faint smile stayed on his face as he wrapped his hand around Ning Chu's smaller one, trying his best to give her a sense of security.
Xi Xi, sitting in the back, stood up and leaned forward with her arms on the seatbacks, peering down at Ning Chu's head.
"Don't worry~ A newly descended evil being is super weak. Weak enough to crush with one foot. Otherwise, it wouldn't need to possess a human."
"Your horns are so cute~ Can I touch them?"
Her gaze was completely drawn to the two small horns growing from either side of Ning Chu's head, curving backward. She looked eager to reach out.
"The tips are fine… just don't touch lower."
Hearing Xi Xi's words, Ning Chu relaxed a little. Feeling the hand gently brushing against her horns, she asked, "Then how long does it usually hide before coming out to cause trouble?"
"About a year, I guess? And there isn't even a contracted magical girl for that evil being yet, so we can't locate it."
So the tentacle side-story from the book wouldn't happen for another year?
"…Is that so? Then why are you two panicking so much?"
Ning Chu completely relaxed, her tense little face finally breaking into a smile.
The black cat jumped onto Xi Xi's shoulder and shot her a glare.
"Aren't you the one who dragged the two of us out here?"
"But since we're already here," it continued, "Xi Xi and I are going to do a carpet search of the school tonight! With rain this heavy, that evil being might not even find a suitable host!"
"And while we're at it, we can scout for suitable girls to form contracts with~ You really don't want to reconsider?"
The black cat tried to lure Ning Chu with a seductive tone.
"You can make a simple wish, gain a strong body, and obtain magic—fly through the skies, do anything you want~"
Ning Chu froze, her gaze flickering.
If she really became a magical girl… then the next time Wen Yang got carried away and showed her no mercy, when she was about to pass out she could transform on the spot, become a magical girl, and counterkill Wen Yang, draining him dry~
But the moment she thought of what would happen if she lost a battle against a tentacle monster, her face went pale.
"Absolutely not!"
She rejected it again with unwavering determination.
If she didn't know that every single evil entity was a tentacle monster, and if magical girls didn't risk being reduced to incubators, then perhaps—just like Xi Xi back then—she might've foolishly agreed under the black cat's deception, driven by a sense of justice.
"Ning Chu, you should head back first," Wen Yang advised. "The rain's so heavy—don't get involved. You'll catch a cold if you get soaked."
"I…"
"You all go back! Don't get in the way!" Ning Chu turned to look at Xi Xi. Seeing the blush of embarrassment on her flushed face, she immediately understood what the magical girl was thinking.
Looks like she was planning to put on that provocative battle outfit and use magic to search for the newly arrived tentacle monster.
In that case, Ning Chu really would just be in the way—and she definitely didn't want Wen Yang to see Xi Xi dressed like that.
"Then I'll go check Lily's dorm," Ning Chu said. "Once we're done, we'll head back together?"
"Sure~ What's your number?"
After exchanging contact info, the bus arrived at the stop right on time.
Holding an umbrella, Ning Chu got off and realized the torrential rain had already weakened into a light drizzle.
Was the storm an abnormal phenomenon caused by the tentacle's arrival?
She wondered whether there had also been a storm when she first transmigrated into this world.
"Then I'll go check my dorm too," Wen Yang said as he got off after her, standing at her side with a smile. "I haven't been back in a while anyway. I'll walk you to the girls' dorm."
"Mm."
"Don't worry too much—there's still a year," he said, glancing toward Xi Xi, who was already heading for the school gates. "And in the story there was only one magical girl. This time there are two. A year from now, it should be easy to deal with."
Ning Chu muttered, "It's just… knowing there's a tentacle monster lurking on campus makes me really uncomfortable."
It felt so unsafe.
She closed her umbrella and slipped under Wen Yang's, hugging his arm.
"I hope Xi Xi can find it. Who knows which idiot's going to get tricked by that black cat."
A magical girl's power comes from the tentacle monster. Once it reaches its optimal state, it really doesn't seem like magical girls could win at all~
So… am I actually very strong too? It's just that the power's hidden inside me and hasn't been awakened yet?
Ning Chu stared blankly at her own soft, fair hands.
Superman! Kamen Rider! Armor Hero! Ultraman!
Her chuunibyou spirit burst into flames. In her mind, scenes played of her beating monsters to death, saving girls, and basking in their admiring gazes.
When Wen Yang escorted her to the entrance of the girls' dorm, Ning Chu finally snapped out of her delusions.
Honestly, even a goose could probably chase her down and beat her up…
"I'll call you on my way back!"
"Okay."
She raised her hand high and waved goodbye to Wen Yang, then turned and darted into the building. Familiar with the place, she quickly ran to Lily's dorm room and pushed the door open without ceremony.
The moment she stepped inside, she saw the three girls in the dorm squatting on the floor in a circle, all lifting their heads to look at her at the same time.
"What are you guys doing?"
Ning Chu stopped short in the doorway, her face full of confusion.
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