The Demon Prince goes to the Academy

as sure that I would never come to save her?

“Did you bully me?”

“Ah, ah, that! That’s! That!”

That was right.

I didn’t know about the other guys, but I didn’t think I bullied her.
It was the exact opposite.

“I, I’m sorry!”

Airi was so out of her mind, because she got saved by the kid she bullied in the past.

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According to what Airi told me while trembling, we were something like childhood friends before the Demon World War broke out.

To precise, she wasn’t really my friend, but the kid in charge of me.
It seemed like Airi would educate me through beating every time I acted like a bastard somewhere.
Actually, this was only possible because we were both treated as royalty, even though we were of different races.

So, whenever I saw Airi when I was on my own it seemed like I’d book it or when I was next to the Demon King I’d start trembling terribly.

So we hated each other.
Actually, I got beaten up by her all day long.

Like I treated Loyar like a dog, it seemed like I got bullied a lot by the succubi.
Every time Airi saw me she would beat me up.

She probably was that strong because she was, different from the normal succubi, the descendant of the Succubus Queen. 

The Succubus Queen seemed to have been the number 2 of the Four Heavenly Kings.

So, Airi was the daughter of the Demon Realm’s Number 3.
That meant that she was able to educate the Demon King’s son when he was messing around.

She had a very high status in the Demon Realm.
Seeing as these titles were hereditary, I’d become the Demon King and she’d become the demon with the third highest rank.

All of the Four Heavenly Kings died and Airi was taken prisoner after our defeat.

And then she was saved by the Demon King’s son, whom she thought would have already died, and had a bad relationship with since their childhood.

So she seemed to find this situation hard to believe.
Of course, she seemed to be convinced that I lost my memories to some extent.

“Let’s leave what happened in the past behind us.
I wouldn’t want to take revenge on you anyway.
Even if I don’t quite remember how I was, I heard that I was someone who deserved to get beaten up.”

“Tha, that….”

Airi couldn’t say anything to that.
This sure made me wonder just how crazy I actually was.

Still, seeing that she was the one in charge of me, it didn’t seem to be that serious.

“Let’s stop talking about this.
Do you know the detailed composition of the prisoners here?”

“There are 85 Succubi, 15 Incubi, 2 Lycanthropes, 2 Doppelgangers and 2 Nightwalkers.”

Most of them were succubi and incubi.
I didn’t quite know what Nightwalkers were, but all of them were humanoid demons.

“How about your strength? I heard that the humans have done something to you, but what did they do exactly?”

At that, Airi closed her eyes.
Just imagining it made her remember the pain.

“What’s the matter?”

“Ah….
You said that you lost your memories, so could it be….”

Airi looked at me in disbelief that I couldn’t tell just by looking at her.
She eventually lifted her pink hair a bit after she recalled that I lost all my memories.

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I couldn’t see it before because she was covering it with her long hair.

There were hideous wounds at her temples as if something got ripped out from there.

“The humans….
Removed all of our horns and tails….”

It wasn’t like they simply didn’t have any horns.

In order to neutralize the succubi’s and incubi’s power, the humans forcibly removed their tails and horns.

Tears were dripping down Airi’s face when she remembered the disgrace she felt that day.

Airi told me that the horns were usually the source of magical power for horned demons.

That said, now that her horns were gone, Airi lost all her magical powers and all her growth potential.

As a result, she also lost her racial skill.
She lost all her abilities, such as absorbing spirit and entering other people’s dreams.

“Wi, will they grow back….
Or are they gone for good?”

“They can grow back, but it takes a long time… It would be the same as if I didn’t have any to begin with.
Not only that, the humans also took other actions.”

“What do you mean?”

“Human wizards destroyed all our magic management facilities in our bodies.
Even if our horns were to grow back, we wouldn’t be able to use magic ever again….
That’s how it is.”

They were trying to sell absolutely safe toys to the wealthy and powerful.
Therefore, while destroying their source of magical power they also made it impossible for them to ever manipulate magical power again.
The wizards succeeded in completely neutralizing these prisoners.

Although she was a high-ranking demon with the title of Succubus Queen, Airi lost all her strength and growth potential.

“I’m sorry, Valier….
We can’t even fathom fully paying you back for saving us….
I’m so grateful and I really want to help you in any way possible, but….
We’ve all become useless….”

Airi looked down and started to cry.
They all must have been demons with enormous powers.
And among them, Airi, the Succubus Queen, had, or was very likely to have, the most power of them all.

However, they had lost all their potential.
So Airi seemed to feel guilty, knowing that she couldn’t repay me for my help in any way.

“……I didn’t save you because of that though.”

“……Huh?”

At my words, Airi looked at me with a tear smeared face.

“I didn’t save you because I planned on using you.
I did it because I thought I could.”

That was the truth.
There was also the possibility to earn a ton of achievement points but that was only secondary.
I had no interest in rebuilding the Demon Realm to begin with, but Eleris, Sarkegaar and Loyar wanted to save them so desperately, so I just told them how to do it.

I wasn’t interested in their powers enough to cause a riot in the middle of the Imperial Capital for just about 100 prisoners in the first place.

It would be rather sad for them to have lost all their powers, but there was no reason for me to be disappointed about that.

“So, you guys can go back to the Darklands or whatever.
My goal was to save you, so you don’t have to be at my beck and call or something after this.”

If they wanted to go back to the Darklands, Eleris would send them there using mass teleport.
Airi was staring at me blankly for a long time.
She never imagined she’d ever hear me say something like that.