I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain [part 1]

Chapter 35: The Devil's Seed (3)

What exactly was a demon?

Was the succubus bound to the pillar over there a demon, or was the demon the people who had been conducting all sorts of bio-experiments using that succubus?

"Gaaaah!! Ack."

"Ah, demon...!"

Or could it be that I was the demon who was crushing these inhuman beings?

[Hearing that word from you lot, I have no qualms about my actions.]

Clang.

I swung my bat, shattering the spine of someone attempting to escape.

"Gu, haak...."

Their white lab coat began to turn red, and I swung my bat once more, this time at the back of the fleeing researcher.

Boom.

The researcher could no longer escape.

He could not even crawl on the ground and lost his breath right then and there.

Today, I killed a person.

A being that might not have been a person but a demon.

Someone's child or someone's parent.

However, they were clearly 'villains.'

They researched the demon's seed, and this seed could eventually germinate, bringing a threat to the world.

From an individual's perspective, I had killed a person, but from a humanity-wide perspective, I had killed those who could bring about the end of the world.

"Urg, ugh...."

[Still alive?]

A groan came from inside the glass, from the space where the succubus was imprisoned.

-Warning, warning, warning, intruder detected, warning, warning.

The warning alarm started sounding when I broke the glass, and the machine meant to disassemble the succubus had stopped.

"I can't, I can't possibly hand this over...!"

Perhaps thinking I came here to rescue the succubus, the researcher tried to reactivate the machine using the internal controls.

"Ah, ah...?!"

Whiiirr.

The machine's drill was not aimed at the succubus's abdomen but at her face.

The succubus looked at me with terror-filled eyes, and her gaze clearly said to me:

-Save me.

[.......]

Before I had a chance to think, my body was already moving.

I kicked off the ground, jumped over the broken glass window, gripped my bat tightly, and put all my strength into both hands.

"Ku, kuhuhuhuh!!"

The researcher was manipulating something with his contorted body.

If I did not attack the researcher right now, he would surely attempt to escape from here by any means necessary.

It was a moment of choice.

Do I take down the researcher now?

Or do I stop the machine drill?

[Hmph.]

The path of my bat swung over my shoulder and was naturally aimed at the machine drill.

[I'm not a frustrating hero.]