Chapter 147
Opening the door, Izzen involuntarily swallowed. Whatever it was, it was an incredible room. An uncommon aura wafted throughout the space.
Large posters depicting girls in elaborate outfits were pasted all over the room. On one wall, figurines of those girls were displayed inside a clear acrylic case, and the remaining walls were completely covered with bookshelves packed tightly with DVDs, Blu-rays, and manhwas.
“Is this…… perhaps Lord Jaeha’s hidden hobby?”
Izzen muttered to himself, looking around the room with a serious expression.
It was the room in the furthest corner of the house and was always locked, but there were signs that someone had been entering and exiting recently. Since he didn’t think his parents would like this sort of thing, the owner of this room could only be Jaeha. Unbelievable as it was, this seemed to be the place where he secretly enjoyed his hidden hobby, collecting these items in private.
Izzen observed the posters on the wall and murmured.
“Why on earth are these girls wearing these outfits?”
Most of the girls in the posters were in poses as if they were about to fight something. Since some of them were using magic, Izzen guessed they were human female warriors (or heroines).
But no matter how he looked at it, their clothing was excessively flashy for that purpose. None of them wore outfits that looked suitable for combat. Their tops had many dangling decorations, making them look cumbersome, and their bottoms were short, exposing their legs. The clothes were definitely not the kind that could protect the body during a fight. Most importantly, they were all in primary colors, making them unsuitable for hiding from an enemy.
The objects the girls held like weapons were just as strange. They looked so inefficient that he hesitated to even call them weapons. They had too many decorations, and with neither a proper blade nor weight, they didn’t look like they could strike an opponent.
They were a mystery no matter how he looked at them.
“Could it be…… that Lord Jaeha’s type is these girls?”
Izzen spoke, feeling troubled. He had already been curious about how Jaeha, unlike a young man in his prime, was strangely uninterested in the opposite s*x. Was it because he wasn’t interested in ordinary women but had a taste for this kind of woman?
If so, he needed to find out the identity of these girls. It was the proper duty of a vassal, and it was an opportunity to possibly find his weakness. The fact that this room was so securely sealed could only mean that there was definitely something in here.
Izzen took out one of the DVDs and turned on the computer nearby.
Fortunately, Izzen knew how to play a DVD. This was thanks to Jaeha assigning him the errand of setting up the DVD or internet lecture several times.
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After that, whenever Izzen was left alone in Jaeha’s house, he would secretly sneak into that room and watch magical girl animation.
After watching several works, he grasped the system: ordinary girls are chosen by an unknown entity, undergo an unnecessarily flashy transformation to become a magical girl, and then fight enemies threatening world peace with somewhat cryptic spells and magic.
Watching the magical girl animation was a truly fascinating research process. While some parts felt absurd and childish, it was also secretly fun. Without realizing it, he would concentrate with his fists clenched, recall the content of the animation he had watched while doing other things, or fidget while waiting for the next episode.
In fact, though he didn’t realize it himself, Izzen was completely hooked on the magical girl shows.
Above all, what captivated Izzen were the villains in the stories.
The villains who cornered the magical girls mostly had attractive visuals, and the lines they spoke were all so splendid that Izzen’s heart swelled with emotion. He even felt a thrill when the magical girls fell into the cleverly designed traps and schemes of the intelligent villains. Their scenes of defeat were always nothing short of lamentable.
Especially impressed was he by the character QB in the animation Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Despite having a cute face, its thorough duplicity and skillful rhetoric allowed it to persistently and meticulously manipulate its targets, lure them into carefully planned traps, and ruthlessly exploit them. This gave Izzen a heart-pounding thrill.
I want to become a great villain like that. Izzen thought so.
So, he planned it. The Magical Girl Project. A scheme to trick human women into becoming magical girls and use them as vessels to supply demonic power to the demons.
Izzen was satisfied. He thought it was a truly wicked and cunning scheme, even though he was the one who thought it up. With this plan, he could maintain his conviction not to sacrifice human lives, while at the same time maliciously exploiting his targets through wicked schemes and plots, just like a villain. It was truly a dignified scheme.
Furthermore, it could satisfy his desire to become like the villain in the animation. Imagining himself appearing before a human woman as an unknown and mysterious helper, guiding her down the path of a magical girl, and then manipulating and ruthlessly exploiting her with thorough duplicity and skillful rhetoric, sent a thrill through him. This was undoubtedly the person he had been dreaming of becoming all along.
Most importantly, the most anticipated part of this scheme was that it seemed like it could also be used to conquer Jaeha.
He was a man whose ideal type was a magical girl, not an ordinary woman. Until now, he seemed uninterested in women because he had no ideal type around, but if many real magical girls appeared nearby, he would naturally take an interest in them.
Moreover, this system even involved intercourse with that ideal type. A man with s****l desire would be unable to resist. He might even want to join this project. If that happened, he could naturally guide him down the path of the Demon King.
As a bonus, Izzen was also including the matter of choosing his consort in this plan.
Since all the female demons in the Demon World had been massacred, the only option was to choose a consort from among humans. It seemed perfect to gather human women with strong magical power under the name of magical girls, choose one of them as Jaeha’s consort, and take her back to the Demon World with them. Since this would fulfill his personal preference, Jaeha would surely be satisfied.
It was a truly incredibly efficient plan. It was literally a five-birds-with-one-stone scheme.
Izzen couldn’t help but be proud of himself for coming up with such an excellent conspiracy. So, he eagerly bragged about this plan to Jaeha. He was even more excited by the expectation that Jaeha might be pleased and praise him for being clever.
“It’s an insane plan, but the intention is surprisingly kind.”
But Jaeha merely said that listlessly. The intention is kind—what kind of absurd verbal abuse was this? Izzen stiffened and retorted.
“No, it is not. This is an extremely wicked and utterly cunning scheme. I must ask you, even you, Lord Jaeha, to refrain from downgrading my conspiracy with such an expression.”
“You lunatic…….”
Jaeha clicked his tongue. His eyes, as he looked at Izzen, held an even deeper contempt than usual. No matter how Izzen looked, he showed no sign of being pleased at all.
“Lord Jaeha. Surely…… you are not displeased with my plan?”
Jaeha looked even more disgusted at Izzen’s cautious question.
“Hey, f**k. That thing is f*****g terrible. But I’m only leaving it alone because stopping it might cause other humans to die. I won’t interfere, so just keep it in moderation.”
“But…….”
“What, you brat?”
“Nothing.”
Izzen, who had been about to say something, tightly shut his lips.
Lord Jaeha. Didn’t you like magical girls?
He wanted to ask that, but to do so, he would have to admit that he had secretly been entering Jaeha’s secret room and researching those things. He might get soundly beaten again after a long time.
……Could it be, I guessed wrong…….
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