I Became a Genius Swordsman in the Pretty Girl Game

Emperor Mountain.

The place where a mountain was completely destroyed in the battle with the Demon World Tree, now just a barren wasteland.

Wooooong—

The Utopia party arrived at this place, along with Min Tae-hoon, who was bound and drooling.

Just before coming here, I had taken Min Tae-hoon to find Lina.

Lina glanced at Min Tae-hoon and let out a dry laugh, speaking with a furious voice.

-Hmm, a mouse has dared to sneak into my domain. You must have been caught before you could do anything.

-Yes, that guy… You’re going to summon demons to deal with him!?

-Well, since we’ll have to face demons in the future, it’s good practice…

-Y-You’re crazy!!! Are you going to send us there by car if you don’t use space travel!?

-Hmm, I knew you were crazy, but… You’ve really lost it. Alright, I’ll send you to Emperor Mountain… But be careful. Demons are not to be underestimated.

I had to persuade her to send us to Emperor Mountain with the rest of the party.

“You always make it difficult even though you’re going to send us anyway…”
“Don’t be too hard on her, Jin Yuha. Lina is doing this because she cares about you.”

Shin Se-hee poked her head out from behind and spoke.

“Shin Se-hee, didn’t I ask you to stay at the academy?”

I had asked Shin Se-hee to stay at the academy and broadcast the new students’ group sparring.

After all, even if it’s a one-sided match, there could be problems if the broadcast is suddenly interrupted.

But Shin Se-hee had naturally joined the group and followed us here.

“Well, I asked someone else to take over the casting, and I wanted to broadcast the demon hunting here on our channel.”
“You want to broadcast the demon hunting?”
“Yes, as you said, in the future, Demon World Gates will appear in this world, and instead of monsters, demons will emerge from the gates, right?”
“Yes, that’s right…”
“Then, don’t we need to show people the dangers as well?”

Shin Se-hee spoke with a confident voice, showing no shame.

“These terrible enemies will appear in this world, and if we don’t warn people, the world will be thrown into chaos. But if we show them the demons and how to defeat them, we can establish our reputation and give people hope.”

Oh.

Unconsciously, I nodded in agreement with Shin Se-hee’s words.

‘Hmm… It’s not bad, is it?’

In the Velvet’s accademy game, the world falls into considerable chaos after the appearance of Demon World Gates.

There is a lack of information about demons.

Many hunters are sacrificed, mistaking them for mutated monsters.

And the transition period is resolved faster depending on how well the player party performs.

‘Showing what kind of enemies will appear and how to defeat them… It’s not a bad idea.’

As I was captivated by Shin Se-hee’s sweet words,

“So, even though the new students’ group sparring is important, broadcasting the demon hunting here is more crucial— Mmmp!? Ichika?”

Ichika, with her expressionless face, suddenly appeared and poked Shin Se-hee’s cheek with her finger.

“What’s your real intention?”
“…”

Then, Shin Se-hee, who was glancing at Ichika, clicked her tongue and turned her head away, muttering in a small voice.

“I felt left out because you guys were always excluding me and doing things on your own…”

Hut.

A spontaneous laugh escaped my lips at Shin Se-hee’s confession.

The reason she followed us was cuter than I expected.

‘But Shin Se-hee isn’t the type to easily reveal her true intentions. Did Ichika find some leverage over her?’

Anyway, it seemed that she had a different intention.

“Okay, let’s broadcast it. Like a raid broadcast. Then, Shin Se-hee, prepare the broadcast. Ichika, show the progress of Min Tae-hoon’s dream.”
“Yes!”
“Okay.”

Ichika projected a hologram video of Min Tae-hoon’s dream.

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‘Hmm…’

The demon’s dream video was truly ridiculous.

Of course, I let the world flow as he wished.

The academy instructors, who were incompetent and clapped like spectators at the sudden outstanding performance of the bottom-ranked students, and Lina, who seemed to notice something but couldn’t even speak and was struggling internally.

‘Of course, Lina can’t directly intervene, but even so, this is too much…’

When they announced that they would be recruiting a large number of new students, they set up a mana detection network throughout the academy.

Probably, when the new students were slowly becoming addicted to the seeds of mana, they would be caught by Lina.

‘Min Tae-hoon was excluded because he used the power of demons…’

Lina could intervene indirectly in her area of influence, meaning she could do so within the academy.

But what was funny was that the most terrifying existence in Min Tae-hoon’s mind was not Lina, but me.

As if he thought he could do anything as long as he avoided me, Min Tae-hoon actively hid from me.

He thoroughly understood my movements and only acted outside my radius.

And Alice.

She was already completely under Min Tae-hoon’s power, like a puppet.

“Whew, it’s a relief that we didn’t bring Alice here.”

Even it’s only a dream, it would be unpleasant to watch herself being so helpless.

“Soup, how many of the seeds of mana do you have left?”
“Twenty-three.”
“Feed them all to him.”
“All at once?”
“Yes.”

I nodded.

Soup, now accustomed to this, opened Min Tae-hoon’s mouth and poured the seeds of mana into it, then forced him to swallow by holding his jaw and neck.

“Gurgle—”

The restrained man in the chair foamed at the mouth and convulsed as if having a seizure.

It seemed like a reaction to the large amount of seeds of mana he had consumed.

The seeds of Demonic mana.

Every time the demon in the dream gave them to someone, we fed them to Min Tae-hoon.

He thought he was giving them to the new students, but in reality, he was consuming them himself.

The reason I fed Min Tae-hoon the seeds of mana was simple.

It wasn’t easy for a demon to summon devils to the mortal realm.

‘If it were that easy, the world would already be in chaos with devils summoned by demons.’

To summon devils, thousands of ordinary people or hundreds of hunters with mana are needed as sacrifices.

Alternatively, they could borrow the power of special artifacts like the black demon stone, as I saw when we defeated the devil with my master. Even then, they weren’t enough and had to kidnap more sacrifices.

The easiest method is for the demon to use themselves as fuel for the summoning.

But even that is not easily accomplished.

Only those consumed by intense evil and desire (and even that must be at an extreme level) can make a contract with devils and become demons.

Such selfish beings would never sacrifice themselves.

‘That’s why they use this troublesome method.’

-Now, let’s offer the sacrifices and summon the Demon Lord!

At that moment, the demon in the dream was on the rooftop, striking a pose, and shouting.

Unaware that he himself was the sacrifice.

“You crazy bastard.”

The sight of the demon made me involuntarily curse.

Wooooong—

The seeds of mana he had consumed over time began to react and ripple.

‘Hmm, if I leave him like this, he’ll foolishly summon the devils…’

If I left him alone, he would continue dreaming happily until he died.

‘That’s absolutely unacceptable.’

At the very least, I had to make him regret and tremble in fear.

He needed to clearly understand that this was just a dream.

I gently stroked Ichika’s head, who was manipulating the dream.

“Ichika, wake him up slowly. Now that the demon summoning has begun, he won’t be able to stop it on his own.”
“Okay.”

And Min Tae-hoon, who had been struggling in the chair, suddenly opened his eyes.

“Huh? Where… Where am I? Sacrifices, sacrifices!? Alice!!?”

He looked confused, unable to understand the situation.

Then his pupils dilated, and he fixed his gaze on me.

“Wh, what is this… Instructor Jin Yuha? What are you doing…?”
“A demon dares to speak my name?”
“Wh, what do you mean I’m a demon!?”

He spoke with genuine indignation.

His acting was quite natural, even in this sudden situation.

I let out a dry laugh and replied.

“Look at yourself.”

At that moment, Autumn Senior took out a full-body mirror from her subspace tattoo.

“W, what is this…? Why am I…?”

In the mirror, there was a demon with bulging veins all over his body and black eyes.

Soon after, the restrained man struggled in the chair.

“J, Jin Yuha! You son of a bitch!!! What, what the hell did you do to me!!!!!!!!!!”

His scream of rage echoed throughout Emperor Mountain.

“Hehe. It’s still too early for that reaction. It’s about to get more interesting.”