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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 39 Part 3

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Pasifista

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「… It seems that skills can be used here.」

「I don’t quite get it, but does that mean here’s within Otoha-senpai’s dream?」

「I can’t affirm it since this is also my first experience, but for sure.」

Even as she noticed Touma who was thinking about totally useless things like become warm o Senpai’s inside and the like, Shizuka ignored him and held up Otoha.

「I believe it’s without a doubt Otoha-senpai’s mental world. And then, the existence that reproduces Otoha-senpai’s trauma and chips away at her heart is the enemy. Most likely, it’s the one that possessed the boy earlier, but….」

The male student avatar, buried in the splinters of the shattered toilet bowl, had turned into a lumpy, featureless figure.

Shizuka by no means had a full grasp of the current situation either.

If Touma were to put Otoha into a state of servitude, he should be able to get rid of the monster that was possessing her too, such was no more than a wishful thinking.

It was beyond expectation that they would be taken into the realm of what seemed to be Otoha’s mental world.

And then, originally, it should’ve been only Touma, who was『connected』 to Otoha, while she herself was most likely a freebie that had been pulled in due to the deep soul connection she had with Touma, Shizuka conjectured.

「I see. In other words, I should just knock down everything but Otoha-senpai, right?」

「Err…. Yes, maybe.」

The glasses shone as Touma crunched, cracking his knuckles.

It was a very useless optional feature of the bearded glasses.

「Ah, but for better or worse, I believe this place is Otoha-senpai’s mental world, so I think it’s better to refrain from smashing things too much….」

「There he is. Kill him!」

The ones who had appeared, breaking through the door of the bathroom, were a flock of boys with the same face.

They were copy avatars of the student who was deemed to be the strongest amongst those extracted from Otoha’s memory.

He was a little younger than the one in Touma’s recollections, but he was the boy who was once Ichiko’s partner as well as was the opponent he had battled in the student duel (Mensur).

「Can’t be helped.」

With every muscle in his body bulging, Touma blew off the door with a shoulder tackle, along with even the boy in the lead.

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For the『Devil of Pleasure (Satyros)』, who had borrowed Otoha’s mental world, its pawns were the avatars that it had placed in various places.

As the avatars grew in number along with the growth of the『Devil of Pleasure』, namely each time it leveled up, their number had gone over ninety.

It was the same as the monster, which repeatedly possessed one avatar to another as if it was changing vehicles, possessing ninety spare lives.

The powerhouse avatars extracted from Otoha’s memories were downloaded one after another.

「Nonsense.」

Holding down the 90th avatar, the martial arts teacher, he wrapped his arms around his neck and snapped it with a crack.

If there was one mistake done by the『Devil of Pleasure』, it was the fact that in order to fix her mental state, it had closely reproduced the『world seen by Otoha』 those days, which was the root point of her trauma.

As she was overly afraid of the other party, there were indeed those who possessed more power than its own self, but that meant that there were no powerhouses who were beyond her imagination.

It was just that, even though they would return to their mannequin form when they were brought down, in normal cases, twisting and snapping human-shaped opponents was not something that could be so casually done.

「… Good work.」

Looking somewhat refreshed, Touma’s appearance had become ragged.

Shizuka, who was embracing Otoha in a corner of the corridor, noticed the queer doll crying kiikii as it had the scruff of its neck pinched by Touma.

With a goat-like lower body and a twisted goblin-like upper body, this was the main body of the『Devil of Pleasure』.

It was a monster with powerful skills to parasitize the mental world and distort the world at will, but in the fake world where it had personally placed the firm fetters called『reality』, even its powerless main body ended up getting exposed.

「Is that the ringleader?」

「Maybe.」

「You can take off the bearded glasses now.」

Reluctantly taking off the bearded glasses, as if while he was at it, Touma gritted the head of the『Devil of Pleasure』.

The twitching and spasming『Devil of Darkness』 readily ceased its movements.

Its main body was even weaker than a goblin.

「… I still, don’t understand what’s going on, though.」

「Have you come to your senses?」

Otoha, stirring within Shizuka’s arms, was in an unbecoming state, similar to when she was in the confinement rape scene.

For Otoha, she still felt like she was seeing a dream exactly because she was in a dream, as she absentmindedly casted her eyes toward the devastating irrational violence.

「… Touma-kun and Shizuka-san, are you two, real ones?」

「Depends on the definition.」

「Please be quiet for a bit, Touma-san.」

Brushing aside Touma, who was pondering while pressing his finger between his eyebrows, Shizuka conveyed the situation to Otoha, who was still held within her arms to calm her down.

Or rather, she shrewdly demanded gratitude in a few words.

「… A dream. So it’s a dream, right… You’re, right. Even though I think that it’s a dream, for me to be unable to wake up from it… What a terrible nightmare.」

「A dream where you are conscious of it, such is called a lucid dream.」

「Just a bit… I’m starting to remember it. Looks like all this time, I’ve been having the same nightmare over and over again, huh.」

The scenario of the dream world was a situation directed by the『Devil of Pleasure』.

The Otoha in the fake world was no more than one of the actors who had been given a role.

Otoha embraced her body with her arms that were crossed in front of her chest.

The sense of reality that made it impossible to even distinguish between dream and reality.

The memory of the humiliation received by her body, which possessed similar Reality to reality, was no different from the kind of psychological trauma of being actually raped in reality.

We were speaking about Otoha here, who had had the pleasure of intercourse between men and women taught into her body in the worst form.

The person in question was not aware since when she had been possessed, but without knowing it, she had been trained in an even worse form, using the depth of her memory.

Even now, as she was being nursed, ember-like carnal desires were throbbing in the pit of her stomach.

「Maybe that’s partly due to the fact that you are being tightly penetrated by Touma-san in real life, I think.」

「Wait a minute. Where’s my body, and what are you doing with it right now?」

「… Do you not remember? When we were having sex full of love with Touma-san, with a pillow in hands, Otoha-senpai, you came to us and said, 『Let me join you』.」

「That’s absolutely a lie, isn’t it? I’m not that kind of person, after all.」

「You are just confused since you have received damage to your mental world. So with you joining us, Otoha-senpai, we had a conve… No, a full of love sixsome.」

「Just now, you were about to say convenient, weren’t you? Moreover, the academy building is half destroyed, though. This is my mental world, so I can’t more or less tell, but I’m feeling that it’s going to leave some dangerous after effects, though! Or rather, a full of love sixsome is something that’d be avoided even in a fiction, isn’t it?」

「That’s something for fellow girls to patch up. Deciding the order beforehand is the trick for avoiding dispute.」

Touma, holding the『Devil of Pleasure』 by the neck, tried to first of all store it into the Item Box and failed.

This was ultimately a mental world constructed from projection images.

Touma had thought of it as a souvenir material for Mikan, so he stared at the corpse with sad eyes as it was reduced to nothingness, like how it went in the dungeon.

「How should I put it, I have a feeling that these memories are going to completely disappear….」

「My apologies.」

「… It feels like the memories that had turned into trauma have been pin-pointedly destroyed by force. You really are ridiculous… Touma-kun.」

Looking up at Touma with a complicated expression, as if she was crying but couldn’t help but laugh, Otoha quietly closed her eyes and muttered.

「Really, so ridiculous.」

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