The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 345: What happened yesterday?

”This... Chris, I’m not understanding. So, will you be the leader, or will William be the leader?” (Esteban).

”Uh, well, both... I’ll be like a leader over William. William, who had custom training, will be in charge of being the leader in plain sight, as the leader of the Dynamite faction.”

”Hey, you better stop thinking about putting that name on something, or Elena will beat you.” (Aurora)

”That’s where the advantages come in: I won’t do it, William will. If anyone’s going to get hit, it’ll be him.”

”...This, Chris, I don’t know if I’ll be the leader, but if I am, I’ll refuse that order. I don’t want to get hit.”(William)

”What!!!! it’s only my first order and you’re already rebelling?....hmm, Well, since your excuse is reasonable, I approve. Haaah~, well whatever, you guys decide on a silly name later . Also, William, you’re obviously going to be the leader. You were trained and taught how to lead a group and other useful things..”

”Hey! But if you’re Will’s leader, then you basically have all the privileges and no responsibilities. that’s unfair!” (Mike)

”Too accurate an observation to be yours, Mike. But yeah, that’s basically it. Do they have any complaints, huh? If you do, you can fight for this position, in a death match!”

”Ugh! Damn...!” (Mike)

”That’s tyranny.” (Ban)

”You? You’re only strong against the weak.” (Ivan)

”Alright, not everything is bad. You’ll be my direct subordinates, starting with Aurora. You’ll be Alpha. Next is Ban, you’ll be Beta. Let’s see... you’re next, Esteban, you’ll be Epsilon...No, you know what? Forget it. None of you are beautiful girls.I’ve lost all interest in having any of you as subordinates — we’d better stop.”

”...” (All)

I ignored my bewildered former subordinates, who seemed to have something to say to me, and just concentrated on William.

After all, it’s seriously important for him to be at the helm. leading a whole generation and so on, it’s annoying and cumbersome and I definitely didn’t want to do it.

But more importantly, if I become leader, I would have more problems with the factions and all those who expect William to be the leader.

I would be having conflicts all over the place from the beginning, which I will avoid at all costs, even if I have to use threats, I want to stay as covert as possible and not draw attention to myself, in that place drawing attention equals trouble.

Besides, with William and his protagonic power, it is more likely that he will take us away, as in the alternate line.

Sure, I’ll step in from time to time and make some minor corrections, but in the end, it’s true that he’s a more suitable leader than I am.

I really think that, if a very dangerous or disadvantageous situation arises, I would just take the girls and my close acquaintances and run away without any hesitation.

I can’t I don’t want to carry the expectations of a bunch of strangers, That’s why I can’t be the leader of a large number of people.

”Look, William, it would be a shame if the instructors went to the trouble of training you and teaching you so many things and in the end you don’t put it into practice. You’d waste all those expectations and the passion they put into teaching you.”

”Well, that’s...”

I never saw it directly, but I was sure that an hour a day, instead of being an assistant, he was getting one-on-one lessons and other things in secret, even Astrid was busy sometimes, for going to train William.

All to prepare him, who was a blessed and a Luxion agent into an excellent leader. he was already carrying a lot of expectations from the beginning.

I would say I pity him, but things always work out for him, so I don’t worry about it.

”Look, in the light I’ll just be one more of your close subordinates, and basically you’ll always be in control. It’s pure advantages it’s a win-win. I’ll only step in if you can’t seem to handle it, or you ask me for help.”

Yeah, it’s not like I want to get involved in things all the time either. I’ll only step in when necessary, which won’t be too many times.

”Still, I don’t know if I’m a good leader, Chris...”

I shouldn’t even be trying to convince him to begin with. I should be doing things quietly.

But I just noticed that there was doubt in William. In my previous life he did it without hesitation. I guess now that I am strong and look like the leader of the group, he is having these thoughts.

Knowing him, if I don’t make things clear, he will want me to be the leader, even though everyone expects him to be, just because I am stronger. But that’s not all it takes.

That’s why the instructors didn’t care that I was the strongest, what mattered was the potential and what William represented.

In fact, I was called a few moments ago to advise me to make my own faction or go down William and in fact that was why I immediately initiated this meeting to make things clear beforehand, which I see was a good decision.

”Haaahh, well... just keep in mind that I will be no more than the leader among the shadows. There’s still plenty of time for you to figure yourself out.”

”Alright.”

Anyway, it was only a matter of time before he became the leader. Besides, it’s a long time away.

It’s not as if upon arrival you could immediately found a faction, that would take a while. Now in this line we even arrived earlier, so that faction leader thing is still a long way off.

’But I’ll be the shadow eminence from the start.~’

”Well, leaving that aside, and with my undisputed position already firm, I also gathered them to give them a little explanation of what awaits us.”

As all this has been abrupt and provoked again by those damned demons, we have to take into account some things that await us.

Especially those related to the previous generation. The instructors will probably tell us some things before we arrive, but not everything.

So I’m going to explain to these idiots so they don’t make fools of themselves and embarrass our group, I’m looking especially at Mike and Ivan.

”Wait, Chris, I’ve been thinking about it, but... you forgot again to invite Tharen right?” (Esteban)

”...??”’Who?’

”Chris, Cordelia’s minion three.” (Aurora)

”oh, yes, of course I know who he is.”

”Because that’s the only way you remember him.” (Aurora)

”hey! it’s his fault for having that legendary ability to be forgotten. But I didn’t see him anyway, if I did I would have called him too, rather because you guys didn’t bring him along.”

”You’re the only one who forgets him... but come to think of it, I didn’t see him either.” (Ivan)

”he must be around, before, when we were getting on the ship, he... he also went up.... or not?”(Mike).

”I...come to think of it when Chris said we were all together now, we immediately ran to the academy.... He at that moment... he was there, wasn’t he?” (Esteban)

”Wait, I was sure we had all met!, at this time .” (Alexander)

”I-I don’t think we saw Tharen today.” (William).

”Wait!!... besides Tharen, where was Ciel?” (Aurora)

”Oh, Ciel is fine. As for Tharen, you all should remember, he has me under his ability and I can’t remember much! I barely remembered that he exists. Don’t ask me for more.”

”Wait, this could be serious! I’ll go to the dorms and ask the instructors.” (William)

William, a bit aggrieved and worried, got up and went to look for Tharen, while the rest tried to remember what happened to him.

After all, it really is difficult to do so and not only because of his ability.

Yesterday, after learning of our hasty departure from Astrid, I decided to have a big farewell party for both boys and girls.

Shocking events and revelations at the girls’ party aside, I took the men, plus Aurora, and Ciel, who became a party regular as well.

I introduced him as a younger cousin and took him with me often, due to Rosy asking me and saying it wasn’t healthy to be on the dimensional stone all day.

I thought so too. The problem was that he didn’t want to go out, but under pressure from me and Rosy, I managed to take him out, sometimes I took him to walk around the capital, together with Rosy, but also, I took him to my parties.

On the other hand, Rosy also went out and interacted with the girls, and joined the female parties as a friend of mine, of course both were always in disguise since their real appearance is delicate at the moment, for those who don’t know.

The point is, since it was a special night, someone brought out liquor from the demonic world, which he brought back from his trip and was saving for a special occasion... and that same someone started a drinking competition, with the premise that the first one to die lost.

From then on, everything became a blur.

Without my blessing running that demonic world liquor, made for powerful beings, was not a game.

At some point I remember a little bit that we went from bar to bar and did some things, until I finally woke up in a Street gutters... without understanding anything.

Worst of all, William was with me, hugging me from behind in that narrow gutters .

At that moment I screamed out of sheer fear and cast a lightning spell that left him charred on the spot.

Then I calmed down and healed him, told him it was an incident, and we started to track the rest of the group.

William, in fact, remembered more than I did, although it wasn’t much, we retraced our steps, trying to reconstruct what happened.

That’s how we found Ban, tied to a tree, face down and half-naked, with all sorts of things carved into his body, in a nearby park already surrounded by people looking at him.

I must say there was one particularly funny one that was arrows pointing to his nipples that said ’pleasure buttons’ I took a picture as a souvenir and then we took him down.

He, luckily, remembered Mike’s location, which was buried up to his neck at the base of a construction site.

I really don’t know how he ended up like that but if things went wrong and we didn’t remember him, he would have been buried there for life.

After that, we had no more leads. We started checking nearby bars, hoping to find some other sign.

Coincidentally, as we were walking around and reminiscing, we saw Alexander coming out of an Mature woman’s house.

The problem was that this woman appeared to be half giant: she was about six feet tall and three times as wide as Alexander.

I won’t lie... despite that, she was beautiful. In fact, I felt a little envious; there was so much to hold on to.

But she seemed interested only in Alexander, even when I tried to talk to her.

Anyway, we kept looking all over the bars, including one that brought back bad memories for me: the ”Eclectic Club”. I don’t know why we even went there, when I swore to myself never to go back... I didn’t even want to go in. But I had to make sure.

Inside we saw the old man I met earlier in the year. We asked him if he knew anything about our friend or if we had any outstanding bills.

Apparently we didn’t owe anything, but yes - indeed - Ivan was there. The old man went into the back, which looked like a residence, and brought him back.

My heart broke when I saw Ivan walking towards us limping slightly, and even more so when he came up to us and said:

[”Guys... I’m glad to see you... What happened yesterday? I can’t remember. Do you? Also, for some reason, my—”

”Stop!!, it’s all right now Ivan. It’s all right, you’re a strong man, you don’t have to remember anything. Come on, we have to keep looking for the rest” o(TヘT).]

I didn’t want to listen anymore. I put my hand on his shoulder and cast a healing spell. It was better that way...nothing happened there, if he doesn’t remember anything it’s better to leave it at that .