Can't anyone in this house be normal?
I felt extreme chills just by looking at her.
However, on the outside I smiled naturally. "I'm going to head to school now. See you later, Shiori-san."
She bowed again. "I wish you safe travel, Nero-sama."
I felt her cold gaze on my back as I stepped outside the door.
I pretended not to notice anything and kept walking normally.
I soon reached the mansion entrance. A fancy car was waiting for me outside.
An old man with a friendly smile stood next to the car and greeted me. "Good morning, Nero-sama."
He was wearing a formal outfit, looked around seventy-something years old, and had... crimson eyes.
Don't tell me...
Name: Saito Taichi
Race: Pure-blooded Oni
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Affiliations: The Shimizu Family, Hina Shimizu
Parameters—
Intelligence: B
Strength: D
Speed: A
Durability: C
Magic: C
Wisdom: C
Overall: C Rank
Bio—
Saito Taichi, a first generation of blood-slave Oni the Shimizu family produced, extremely loyal to the rogue daughter of the Shimizu Clan.
Affection Level: 0, pure indifference.
Note: This person had been brainwashed to the extent of being a living puppet to your mommy. Anything he knows, she will too.
"..."
I knew it.
"Nero-sama?" the old man asked me with an empty look.
"Nothing, Saito-san. Let's go."
He bowed a bit as he went ahead of me to the driver's seat.
I followed him quickly and got into the car's backseat. It was clear that the car wasn't cheap, due to the interior being fancy as well.
As the car started driving, I looked out the window.
The city was a normal urban city, but... how should I put this?
Everything was sexualized to hell. It was hard to find a billboard in the city that didn't have a hot, nearly nude or even fully nude person on it.
Even the people walking around the street wore little beyond the bare minimum of clothes. I knew that this whole verse was fucked up, but I didn't know it was to this extent.
"We have reached the school now, Nero-sama," Saito said in an emotionless, robotic tone.
This fast?
I guess time passes quickly when you spend it looking at nearly naked hot girls.
"I see. See you later, Saito-san."
"Yes, Nero-sama."
As I stepped outside the car, I noticed something about the school building.
It was... massive.
Was that really a school? It looked like it had twenty floors or something.
Since I absorbed all of Nero's memories, I knew that he went to a private school thanks to his family being rich, but...
Isn't that too much?
Well, the city that Nero lived in, Phryne, was the capital city of Lyrsion, and where the main events of Lustful Conquest II's took place as well, since it had the superheros academy.
Due to Phryne being the capital, the land was insanely expensive here, the city was dense, and the population was huge, so the school building looking like a massive tower made sense.
When you can't sprawl outward, you stack upward.
I entered the school building quickly and...
Hm?
What was this heavenly smell?
Was someone cooking in here?
But as I looked around, I didn't see anyone cooking or any sort of food, just some students walking in front of me.
No.
Correction.
There was food in front of me.
Or at least that's what my brain was telling me as my stomach gurgled like crazy.
Ding!
[Negative effect: [Starvation] Started.]
[Description: As a Noble Oni, you require sustenance in the form of humanoid beings' flesh and blood, as no other food is truly edible to you besides them.]
Huh!?
[A healthy adult human is normally around 3,000~ calories, which should be enough for around a full week if you didn't exhaust yourself with regeneration or any other activity that spends an extraordinary amount of your energy.]
I didn't really like the sound of that.
[Until you are well fed, [Starvation] will lower your metabolism and regeneration over time. [Starvation] might become deadly within a full week.]
I REALLY didn't like the sound of that.
So, I had to eat a human being, or I would starve to death.
I knew I should have gone with Null Transit... Could've been nuking babies now.
I walked to Nero's class from the memories I had, reaching it wasn't hard with the elevator.
I tried my best to suppress my hunger. It would be really bad if I lost control here.
As soon as I reached the class, someone smiled widely and waved as he approached me.
"Yo! Nero, good morning, bud—!?"
He was wearing the usual school uniform that Nero's school had. He had grey hair and pink eyes. If there was something that made him stand out, it was the strange, crimson, expensive-looking earrings made of what seemed to be crystal.
From Nero's memories, I knew that he was his best friend, but...
Why was he looking at me with a surprised expression?
"Dude... did you start working out lately or something? You look... how should I put this? Toned up."
Was the difference that obvious?
Well, I guess if someone had been around Nero for a long time, they would notice that much.
"Oh? It's great that you noticed this, Jack. I've actually been working out a lot lately."
Jack looked a bit confused, then chuckled. "I do have great observation skills, no? Anyway, did you hear about the news?" He looked at me with a bit of an excited expression.
No, I didn't really hear or care about the news, but since he was going to change the subject, I would just follow through.
"What news?"
"Eeh!? You really didn't hear about it?"
No, and knowing this guy from Nero's memory, I'm betting it's something that really doesn't matter.
"I guess no? What news are you talking about?"
"Thunderspeed took the number one streamer place from Lady Darkness yesterday!"
So it was something that didn't really matter.
"Oh? How did that happen?"
I tried to act like I genuinely cared about this.
"So, you know that Lady Darkness has been the number one streamer for a while now, right?"
"...Yes?"
Lady Darkness.
She was an S-rank superhero and one of the most famous porn actresses in the country.
From Nero's memories, it was natural for superheroes to act like all sorts of influencers, apparently.
Yes. That type of "influencers" too.
"She had been number one for three whole years, man, on SparkLive. Actually, yesterday was a special event day for her," Jack said with a gleeful expression.
"Special event?" I asked with mild curiosity.
"Yes, she invited three lucky fans and—"
"I see, and how did Thunderspeed become number one?" I cut him off immediately.
"So you know that we just won the war against the elves, right?"
"Right."
"And you know that Thunderspeed kidnapped their queen a couple of days ago, right?"
"Right."
"So, you know that she is his property by the winner-take-all right, right?"
"Right."
It was really hard to pay attention with the hunger tearing at my stomach.
We were in the middle of class, and there were about twenty to thirty other students, yet I felt like I was in the middle of a restaurant.
Imagine you brought a starving man into the middle of an open buffet with many talking dishes, then told him he can't eat any of them.
That's how I felt, basically.
"So he decided to make a show using her... dude? Are you listening?" Jack asked with confused expression.
"Hm? Oh... yes, I'm—"
This is bad.
I think I might really lose control right here.
Coming to school today was a mistake.
"And basically his view counts went up from... Oh! Damn, Celeste is here."
The entire class went quiet for some reason.
Hm?
For some reason, I smelled something like... lemon pie.
For some reason, the lemon pie smell was on a different level than the others in the class.
It was like comparing a very fancy dish to street food.
A girl entered the class.
She had long white hair and golden eyes, her skin as pale as snow.
She wasn't wearing the normal school uniform; instead, her uniform... appeared to be modified to show as much skin as possible.
Her pleated skirt had been hemmed so short that the gazes of most of the boys in the class lingered. Her blazer was tailored tight across her chest and cropped at the sleeves, exposing her forearms and the subtle muscle definition beneath her pale skin. The white blouse underneath was unbuttoned to the third button, revealing the white lace of her bra and a valley of cleavage that was impossible to ignore.
While the clothes themselves looked expensive, they were nothing compared to her earrings, necklace, and the many bracelets on both of her arms that seemed to be made of countless different jewels and gemstones.
Everything about her simply screamed filthy rich.
Quickly, a bunch of boys and girls from the class gathered around her. I would call them her friends, but they looked more like worshipers, in my opinion.
"Damn, Celeste is still as beautiful as ever."
"Didn't she win Model of the Year a couple of days ago? To compete against the old hags and win at her age is insane!"
"I heard her grandmother is planning to make her inherit all of her family's fortune..."
A couple of whispers spread through the class. For some reason, I was able to hear them clearly. My bet is that my senses became much stronger after becoming an Oni.
However, this wasn't really a concern of mine right now.
'What the fuck is she doing here?'
I felt extreme chills just by looking at her.
Satan Incarnate, Soren's nightmare, and one of the main antagonists in Lustful Conquest II.
Celeste Sinclair was in my class.