Chapter 24 : The Villainess’s Harem Club (2)

Club duels.

It is one of the academy’s long-standing traditions and absurdities.

It is mostly used by 2nd-year students to challenge 1st-year freshmen and establish discipline.

Saying they liked our club room is an excuse, and they probably want to suppress my spirit.

Because it’s a club run by the top student of the 1st year.

I could refuse the duel, but then I could be branded a coward. Above all, the club that requested the duel must grant one request from the club that accepted.

I intend to use that.

“As you know, Ruby-senpai, the club that receives the duel can make one request.”

“I know. So, are you accepting the duel?”

I nodded to Ruby-senpai, who was looking at me with an expressionless face, and just as she was about to leave the club room, saying she understood, I stopped her.

“Wait a minute. I’ll make my request here.”

“Huh? Right now? You haven’t even discussed it with your club members?”

“Because it’s only certain if it’s here and now.”

At my serious tone, Ruby-senpai nodded and told me to state my request.

My request is simple.

“What color are your panties today?”

“…”

I approached Ruby-senpai, who had frozen like a stone after hearing my words.

And I whispered once more.

“What color are your panties today?”

“Y-You’re requesting that…? Are you out of your mind…?”

“It’s important to me.”

As I smiled, asking her to tell me quickly, she answered in a very small voice.

“B-Black….”

“How can I believe that? Show me.”

What if she’s lying and saying they’re black when they’re white?

I can’t believe it until I see it.

As I stared intently at Ruby-senpai, she blushed and slightly lifted her skirt to show me her underwear.

“I can’t see it well, can you show me clearly?”

“Iwillkillyou….”

Ruby-senpai, answering with clenched teeth, lifted her skirt higher, and the underwear came into full view.

It was black.

After confirming the color, Ruby-senpai ran out of the club room as if escaping.

“Ah! It’s not enough yet! Where are you going!”

When I went out into the hallway, she had already run away and was nowhere to be seen.

If I had known this would happen, I should have blocked the door….

With a sigh, I entered the club room to see Eve looking at me with a cold expression.

“Aria-nim, let’s go back now.”

I soothed Eve, who was calling me by my name because she was sulking, and we returned to the dormitory.

The next day.

When I told Clea and Lucy about this, their eyes widened.

“Isn’t the club Ruby-senpai is in the famous ‘What color is your blood!’ club!? I heard it’s famous for only having battle-crazed seniors.”

“I also heard from my teaching assistant senior that it’s famous in that area…?”

From what I heard, it’s a club with a large number of seniors who are skilled in swordsmanship and magic and love to fight.

Why am I hearing this for the first time? No, more importantly, this wasn’t in the original story?

However, Clea says the odds of winning are not low.

“As you know, we can make one request, right? If we have the duel in a field that’s advantageous to us, it’ll be fine.”

When I feigned ignorance after hearing those words, Clea asked me why.

As if she had been waiting for it, Eve answered for me.

“Yesterday, the young lady used it.”

“Yes, yes!? She already used it!? What did she request!?”

“She requested the color of Ruby-senpai’s underwear.”

“…….”

Clea looked at me with an expression of contempt, and I clung to her and acted spoiled, and she freaked out and told me to get off.

“Y-You! Did you think you could get away with using it on something like that without a word of consultation with us!?”

“It was important to me? And I was satisfied!”

At my words, Clea looked at me with an absurd expression, and Lucy was thinking about something deeply.

Then, she said she had a good idea.

“Then how about this? If we proceed with a one-on-one tournament and make it a consecutive win streak, wouldn’t we have a chance of winning?”

Clea answered sarcastically after hearing those words.

“How are we supposed to request that? Our great club leader already used it?”

“Club leader…. I’m embarrassed.”

“I’m not praising you!?”

“No!?”

Eve, who was next to us during our banter-like conversation, was stifling her laughter with her hand over her mouth. Does she have this kind of taste?

I decided to test it out next time, and we headed to the training grounds to prepare for the upcoming club duel.

If it were just me, it wouldn’t be a problem, but a team battle is different.

To win, I have to make our club members stronger.

We have one week until the duel.

If I can make our club members stronger within a week, this duel will be no problem.

For that, we need harsh preparation.

We’ll train in the training grounds after school and enter the dungeon on weekends.

The dungeon.

It is called the lair of monsters, and there are seven of them on the continent.

One of them is located right under the academy.

From the second year, students use the dungeon for training, and that’s one of the reasons why first-years can’t beat second-years.

Training and actual combat are different.

Normally, access is strictly controlled, but there are ways.

As I smiled, their bodies trembled as if they had chills down their spines.

How cute.

When we arrived at the training grounds, I told them.

To come at me all at once.

“You, do you think you can take on the first-year second-in-command and top-ranking students all at once?”

Clea asked if I was being overconfident, and I answered with a smile.

“What? I can’t hear you because you’re Class B?”

“I’m going to hit you!”

She fell for the provocation and came running at me recklessly, and I tripped her, and she fell with a thud!

“You shouldn’t fall for this kind of provocation and rush in recklessly. You always have to make a cool-headed judgment.”

Just as I was about to help her up.

She cast a pre-prepared spell at me.

If I hadn’t dodged to the side, it could have been dangerous.

“T-To dodge it right in front of me…… What kind of monstrous reflexes do you have?”

Clea got up and signaled to Eve and Lucy with her eyes.

I dealt with the three of them attacking me from three directions.

Until the moonlight shone on the ground.

When I entered the club room, the club leader of ‘What color is your blood!’, Nickel Blood, greeted me.

“You’re here?”

“I delivered the duel request as you asked. They accepted it right away?”

The second-year top student and the eldest daughter of the Blood Duke family, one of the four major duke families, famous for their Iron-Blooded Knights, looked at me and smiled.

“Good job. What did they request? Or did they say they’d think about it?”

“…”

She tilted her head because I didn’t answer.

I brushed it off as nothing and answered, and she nodded, saying she understood.

“Then, Club Leader. How will the club duel proceed?”

“Our club’s motto is only one. A fair and square duel.”

She answered my words, took another sip of tea, and continued.

“Let’s do a tournament. A consecutive win streak.”

“I’m against that.”

When I said that, the club leader asked me why, and I explained about the first-year top student, Aria Theres.

“The first-year top student. Aria Theres is a monster beyond common sense.”

I explained the mana I felt for a moment during the joint training, and the club leader, who had been thinking deeply, showed an even brighter smile.

When I looked at that smile, I got goosebumps.

“That’s why it’s even better.”

In our club, the club leader’s words are absolute.

I nodded, saying I understood, and she told me to come and have a cup of tea with her. I followed her words and sat down, and she poured tea into my teacup.

As I stared at the tea with a fishy smell, she told me to drink it quickly.

When I took a sip of the tea, the fishy smell stung my nose.

“It’s not bad. It’s not to my taste.”

“I’ll prepare a different tea next time.”

She grabbed me as I was about to get up and leave.

“By the way, have you thought about the offer I made before?”

“….”

The ritual performed by the Blood family.

She had proposed to me to form a vassal contract.

A vassal contract.

It is called a blood contract, and once the contract is made, you cannot be separated from each other for the rest of your life.

She said she would become my strength if I accepted the offer.

But she didn’t even answer how much she knew.

The club leader got up from her seat and approached me.

She looked at my neck with a loving gaze and then said in an infinitely cold voice.

“You are mine. I won’t give you to anyone, so know that.”

“I don’t belong to anyone.”