Damn You, Lilith!

I hurried back to the classroom.

[Oi kid, don't go through the front door. Go through the back door.]

Lilith's voice always popped up suddenly in my mind. What's wrong with the front door of my classroom? But considering what happened before I wasn't going to question it.

I obeyed Lilith's words and used the back door of my classroom.

[Wait a minute!]

Just before I touched the doorknob, Lilith stopped me.

"What's wrong?"

[Let's play for a moment.]

"Eh?"

Suddenly my body moved itself quickly to open the front door then immediately moved to the back door and when the front door was opened there was a thin thread that triggered a bucket filled with sticky liquid to fall.

But luckily I didn't go through the door and the other students were confused by the door that opened by itself. Well, even if it was Lilith's doing.

"The door opened by itself!?"

"Is there a ghost!?"

"How is that possible!?"

The students were confused including Kai who again failed to bully me today. I entered through the back door indifferent to what was happening.

I could feel Kai looking at me with explosive anger but I still pretended not to know and immediately sat down on my bench.

"Can you see the future or what?" I whispered to Lilith.

[Oh? Sure. I see what's going to happen next.]

"Really? Then what will happen next?"

[Alice was furious that the floor was dirty.]

"Ahh... haha I see. ...."

Then Alice entered through the front door and she looked down to see that the floor was already littered with black sticky liquid.

"For the umpteenth time, is this your doing Kai?" Alice asked Kai.

"Me? Of course it wasn't me, right...?"

Kai answered while staring and smiling sadistically at one of his minions in class. I could see the fear on that person's face.

"I-it was me, professor Alice ...."

One of Kai's henchmen admitted that he was wrong so that Kai wouldn't get into trouble.

[Oh? A dog's loyalty to its master?]

"Hush, don't be like that Lilith."

[Did I just tell the truth didn't I?]

Alice walked over to where Kai's men were confessing. That person could only bow his head in fear of Kai who was furious with him and on the other hand Alice who approached him.

"Is this really what you did, Sakayagi?"

"Absolutely."

"Then how will you finish your 'deed' now?"

"I'll clean it up right away...!"

"Then hurry up because I don't want you to ruin the exam hour that's about to start!"

Alice put a pressure of magical power into her words that made the man break out in cold sweat to the point of being scared to death.

"O-okay!"

That person immediately rushed out of the classroom and looked for a mop to clean up the mess made by Kai.

"Then can we start now? Everyone gather at the field area immediately."

With an order from Alice, the students immediately rushed towards the school field.

[What do we do now?]

"Today there is a power test ...."

[Powe test? You mean like a fight?]

"It's as simple as that but... there will be a test to measure magic power first."

[Oh ....]

After a while we arrived at the school field and lined up neatly.

"As usual before the match between students there will be a measurement of magic power."

Alice moved her hand to the right and a large crystal was created near Alice.

"Place your hands on this crystal one by one."

With Alice's command, the students began to touch the crystal one by one in order. A lot of students touched the number 200 and above.

"Kai it's your turn next."

Kai went forward and touched the crystal and to his surprise he touched the number 1000.

"Kai is the strongest!"

"I don't want to be his opponent ...."

"That's right, I don't want to deal with him."

The other students were amazed at Kai's achievement but next up was me. This would definitely be very embarrassing for me.

"Arthur, your turn."

I came forward with my head bowed and a huge sense of shame. Why didn't professor Alice understand that I didn't have mana and called me out anyway? Did she intentionally want to embarrass me?

"Well, it's time for Arthur to come forward."

"The grade will remain the same as usual."

"Why bother advancing anyway?"

People were making fun of me because they knew that I had no mana at all.

[Oi kid, what's the name of that woman on the left?]

"Eh? She is Kuchiki Tomoe. What are you asking all of a sudden?"

[Help me have a little fun with her.]

"Eh? What do you mean?"

[Never mind, just put your hand on the crystal first.]

Without much ado I did as Lilith said and when I put my hand on the crystal suddenly the numbers went up very quickly from 0 to 999,999,999.

"Eh!? What's going on!?"

I was shocked but not only was I shocked but everyone who saw this was shocked. But the numbers didn't stop increasing after that and eventually all the numbers disappeared and the crystal shattered into pieces.

"W-what happened!?"

"The crystal is shattered!?"

"Oi, oi, oi what does that mean!?"

I could see the expressions of surprise and horror on the faces of professor Alice and several other students' faces.

"O-oi aren't you exaggerating a bit?"

[Exaggeration? That's just a tiny grain of dust from my power.]

How horrible is this woman to say that it's just a grain of dust of her power!?

"Arthur... what are you doing?"

"Eh? I-I don't know anything! I'm just following your orders, professor Alice ...."

Alice frowned and thought for a moment about what had caused this to happen.

"Is the crystal broken?"

"Is that possible?"

"The problem is that there's no way she has that much power, right?"

The other students were talking about this incident. Lilith, you got me into this situation that I have absolutely no control over!

[Woah, calm down young man. People know you as 'the one without mana' and that could be your way out].

"But how? Professor Alice's mind is all over the place right now!"

[Just let her think for a moment.]

I didn't know what Lilith was planning this time but I just obeyed her orders.

"Ah... maybe I made a mistake in making the magic crystal, causing it to only last a short time."

She really thought it wasn't my doing!

[I told you it wasn't? Trust me.]

"Then everyone prepare for sparring practice. Arthur, since you were last in the magic power measurement test, I'll give you the first turn in the battle this time. Let's choose your opponent."

Eh!? S-she gave me the first turn!? Who will I choose as my opponent!? Damn, this is too hasty! Although I'll still lose in the end ....

"Kuchiki Tomoe-"

Oi, oi, oi what's going on!? Why is my mouth talking to itself!? Damn Lilith, is this her doing!?

"Tomoe, come forward."

"Huh? Seriously, why do I have to fight people without mana?"

"The opponent has already chosen to fight you. Why do you refuse? Are you scared?"

"Hah! You'd better prepare for the next match right away, professor Alice because this won't take long."

Tomoe came forward while stretching her body.

"Oi hurry up and come here. I'm in a hurry."

Tomoe called me in a frivolous tone and she had a disgusted look on her face. I stepped into the arena to face Tomoe, Lilith you're the worst person ever!

"Both fighters ready?"

Alice was refereeing this match and she was already setting up the stance to start the match. I also set up my stance to fight Tomoe to the best of my ability.

"Pfftt, what's that stance? He wants to be a fictional character?"

"Oi, oi, this isn't a child's game."

"Embarrassing."

The other students scoffed at my stance but come to think of it... my stance is weird, what should I do uncle?

"Get ready... start!"

The match has begun, Tomoe channeled her magic power into her right fist and formed a blue flame and sent it towards me.

[Oi kid, let me take care of things here.]

"Eh?"

My consciousness... slowly disappeared but I could still see myself standing there with my head bowed!

"Oh? Giving up already? Good, because that's how it should be!"

Tomoe's punch was getting closer to my face but .... Grep! Tomoe's hand was stopped by my grip.

"W-what!?"

"Oi, brat... don't make that disgusting face."

It was Lilith! She took over my body by force! And where am I now!? Wait, is this my subconscious?

"H-how could you-"

Buagh! Lilith countered Tomoe with a left hand punch that was infused with red magical power, causing Tomoe to fall unconscious to the ground.

"I-it's magic!?"

"How can he use magic!?"

"Impossible!"

The students were shocked as well as Professor Alice.

"Oi, is this all there is to the game? It's boring, but I want to torture that smug face of yours."

This match is over! Lilith had won this first match very easily!

"Tsukishiro."

"Yes, professor Alice?"

"Take Tomoe to the student infirmary."

"Yes!"

Tomoe was immediately picked up and taken to the recovery room.

"Arthur, you won this first round."

"Hmph, next time please give me something stronger. Fighting the weak makes me sick."

Lilith! Your language will put me in great danger! Putting this aside, Alice frowned while looking at me.

"Kai, it's your turn next."

Alice announced that the next round was Kai.

"Please choose your opponent at will."

Then Kai looked at me with a sharp gaze and a huge killing intent. But my body was now controlled by Lilith so my attitude was different this time.

"Good choice big boy! I've been wanting to crush your bones ever since we met."

Lilith replied with a smile filled with the lust to crush her enormous opponent and lightly climbed back onto the arena and prepared to face Kai.