Gasper hadn't wanted to go to school at first, but Kuoh Academy offered him too much to refuse. Living alone was hard, and having strange powers only made things more complicated. He had attended Kuoh Middle School for a few days before becoming a permanent shut-in. He planned to coast through university and then, according to a secret agreement, become a Pawn for a certain devil in the Gremory family.
But he hadn't expected his peace to be shattered only a month into high school.
"I'll be going now. Sorry for the trouble today," Ethan said, taking his leave. He had no intention of forcing Gasper to change. With his arrival, the timeline was already shifting. If Gasper ever decided he wanted a different life, Ethan would step in to help as an apology for today.
Gasper watched him leave with a complicated gaze. Ethan's intrusion was like a stone thrown into a still pond; the ripples would last a long time. Maybe, just maybe... he didn't want to be a shut-in forever.
Ethan hurried back to Kuoh Academy. Since Gasper and Nanaue were cleared, the "Breast-Sucking"... cough, "Vampire" incident had to be someone else. Technically, Ethan could have ignored it since the victims were just anemic and needed a day of rest, but he had promised Rias and Sona.
By the time he finished at Gasper's house, it was dark. He used a detection spell to scan the campus. It was a brute-force method, but effective. He wasn't a "genius" type, but he had power to spare. Combining the girls' reports, he soon found a strange organism in the forest behind the dorms and the old school building.
"Doesn't look like much," Ethan remarked, staring at a massive plant in a clearing. No other trees grew near it, making it stand out. More importantly, it was pulsing with a high level of mana.
Just as he was about to strike, he heard footsteps. He ducked behind a tree. Two beautiful girls in pajamas walked into the clearing. They were students from the dorms, their eyes glazed over as if in a trance. Ethan looked at their chests—as rumored, they were both very busty.
The girls stopped before the strange plant. Suddenly, the plant began to writhe. Its thick stems twisted, and its branches turned into tentacles. The tips of the tentacles opened like three-petaled flowers, revealing suction-cup mouths. A giant rose at the top bloomed, revealing a hideous yellow lizard head.
Actually, it looked a bit like a dragon head, but it was so ugly that Ethan's first thought was "lizard." It was two stories tall and as thick as a century-old oak. It was a monster.
However, the monster didn't attack. It merely extended two long, thin tentacles toward the entranced girls. Ethan pulled out his phone to record the evidence. He wasn't in a rush to save them since their lives weren't in danger. He was more curious about the origins of this creature; it was clearly bio-engineered.
The petal-like mouths of the tentacles latched onto the girls' full breasts, specifically clamping onto their nipples. Under the night sky, the tentacles began to pulse, rhythmically sucking on the girls' buds.
The barefoot, dazed girls instinctively arched their backs, letting out soft, airy moans. Their pale skin flushed a deep, aroused red. Ethan could see a faint, crimson energy being drawn through the tentacles from the girls' bodies and into the plant.
The process didn't last long. The tentacles detached, and the girls turned around, walking back toward the dorms in their trance.
Once the witnesses were gone, Ethan decided to destroy the beast. He didn't like the way it looked—too much like something out of a tentacle-rape hentai. Was the universe trying to replace "NTR" plots with "Tentacle" plots to keep up with his power level?
He incinerated the monster with a torrent of deep-blue mana. The monster had an A+ rank level of power and massive vitality, but against an SS+ rank like Ethan, it was nothing. After five minutes of struggle, it was reduced to ash.
Ethan prepared to track the mana trail to the creator, but he didn't have to. A scruffy-looking devil with a silver "mohawk" hairstyle stepped out from the shadows.
"Ah! My dream... shattered!"
The strange devil looked at the ashes and wailed in despair.
"Hey, you make this thing?" Ethan asked.
The mohawk devil glanced at Ethan, then went back to mourning his "dream."
"I killed it. You want revenge?"
The devil spoke flatly. "I can't beat you."
Ethan blinked. He sensed the guy was just a standard Low-Class Devil. The mohawk devil began sifting through the ashes, seemingly collecting data and samples. Ethan didn't stop him. He was curious how a B-rank devil could create an A+ rank monster.
Thirty minutes later, Ethan followed the guy to an underground lab filled with high-tech equipment and chemical vats.
"Do devils do science now?" Ethan asked.
"Tch," the devil sneered. "This is Alchemy. It's far superior to your petty science."