Chapter 58

### How to Steal a Woman from an Extra (6)

- [Invasion of Dreams LV 1], [Subjugation LV 1] -

These were magic spells I had never seen in Schtra.

The magic power and anti-magic resistance of the cat woman, who introduced herself as Beatrice, were both 1, so they weren't particularly important.

However, she only had these two abilities and no elemental magic.

I asked Beatrice first.

"So, why did you come to find me... meow?"

"Just speak casually, meow."

"Okay. Why did you come?"

"To meet the hero who defeated the brave, meow!"

She was completely different from the retainers I had sat with yesterday.

She seemed cheerful and curious.

She was already interested, and I thought it was a good thing.

Looking behind, Viola still seemed to be in dreamland, so there didn't seem to be any major problem.

"And the Demon King himself asked me to guide you, meow."

"Oh, then I happen to want to tour the castle. Can you guide me?"

"Leave it to me, meow!"

With a confident expression, she thumped her small chest and started leading the way confidently.

"...She's so cute? Or should I say, the cat is cute."

[She has a unique bloodline. She is a hybrid of the Miao clan and a succubus.]

"Wow, that's amazing. Or should I say, the cat is amazing. She has the best genes, doesn't she?"

The cat ears and tail of the Miao clan, and the wings of the succubus.

Above-average chest size, a meow-meow body, and a cute appearance.

I once again realized the dirty laws of genetics.

I started wandering around the castle with Beatrice, whom I had met suddenly.

Thanks to her lively nature, the tour of the castle wasn't boring.

The training ground, the dining hall, the armory, the arena...

After about an hour, we arrived at the garden.

It was a beautiful garden filled with flowers.

I never thought the Demon King's castle would have a garden.

Beatrice went to a beautiful gazebo in the center of the garden and continued her explanation.

But I was getting a bit bored, so I decided to ask a question.

"By the way, how can a Miao and a succubus hybridize?"

"Whoa! How did you know I'm a hybrid, meow?"

Leaving the surprised Beatrice behind, I spoke through communication.

"...I get it, you're a bit dumb."

[The Miao clan is generally known for having low intelligence.]

"Okay, found one inferior gene."

Beatrice started telling her story.

Apparently, it's impossible for a Miao and a succubus to hybridize.

Miaos can only reproduce with their own kind, and succubi can't get pregnant at all.

Her father, who was a Miao, met her mother, who was a succubus, by chance, and they fell in love.

However, despite the impossibility of hybridization, Beatrice was born.

"Huh? How?"

"...I don't know, meow. My parents didn't teach me, meow."

Despite this, they fell in love, but there was a problem.

Beatrice received a mix of genes from both races, leading to her being rejected by both groups.

Her parents, who were her only allies, died during the war.

Moreover, the Miao and succubi were all wiped out during the war, leaving her as the sole survivor.

But it was strange.

Even as the last representative of her race, she didn't seem to be in a position to be treated with such respect by the Demon King.

"At the end of the war, I was finally deployed, meow. The only things I could do were to hide and see the dreams of sleeping people, meow."

"Isn't that a good ability?"

"...I can't be as quick or hide as well as a pure Miao, and I can't stay in dreams as long as pure succubi, meow."

The reason she wasn't deployed until the end was because her abilities were too weak.

Ironically, that's why she survived.

However, the achievement she accomplished changed the course of the war.

Gardia, guided by the Zodiac, ordered Beatrice to see the brave's dreams and find out who he liked.

The resistance army was already at the gates of the Demon King's castle, and she risked her life to infiltrate the brave's camp.

Fortunately, the resistance army, on the verge of victory, had lax security, and Beatrice managed to see the brave's dreams.

"But in the dream, I became a certain woman and found out that the brave liked a woman from his hometown, meow. Not long after I reported this, the brave disappeared, meow."

"Oh, that's a huge achievement!"

I never thought the information I received was what Beatrice had discovered.

As a Demon King, I owed her a debt.

I understood why she was at the dinner last night.

"..."

But even with my praise, Beatrice just looked gloomily at the sky.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"...Now I'm alone, meow. My parents are gone, and the races that could accept me are all dead, meow."

"..."

No matter how much the Demon King's army claims to accept all races, being the only one left is still a harsh reality.

To change the mood, I asked about the dream invasion I saw earlier.

"How do you enter someone's dream?"

"Ah~ It's simple, meow. From a distance of about one room, you can enter the dream of a sleeping person, meow."

"Oh... Can I do that too?"

"Of course, meow!"

The gloom from earlier was gone, and she started smiling brightly at the request.

I decided to try it out and learn from Enel if it helped.

"First... do I need to sleep again? Should we go to a room?"

"No, meow. Come, lie down here, meow."

"...Eh..."

She suddenly knelt in the flower bed and patted her knees.

Her ears flapped, and it seemed she liked it when people agreed to her requests.

"Wow, no sense of danger at all."

[Perhaps it's because she was ignored by her race and there's no one around her now.]

I thought she would be a loner because she's a cat, but she felt more like a dog.

I approached Beatrice.

If a beautiful woman offers to be a pillow, only a gay or a cursed man would refuse.

I leaned my head on her lap and lay down.

Looking down at me, Beatrice's face and her chest came into view.

My eyes couldn't leave her chest...

But Beatrice smiled and mumbled.

"Sleep... sleep..."

"..."

I wouldn't sing a lullaby like that.

Feeling ridiculous, I communicated.

'Are you kidding...?'

[Guardian?]

After Armonia's last words, my eyes suddenly closed.

...

...

When I opened my eyes, I was in a dark, empty space.

I was floating in a weightless state.

"Huh?"

"How is it, meow?"

Beatrice popped out of the darkness and started acting silly in front of me.

"Isn't it amazing, meow?"

"What? How did you put me to sleep?"

"Succubi have a sleep skill, meow. But I can only do it for about a minute, meow."

"Wow... But there's nothing here? I thought dreams would have all sorts of scenarios."

"Normally, you enter when someone is having a dream, but since we did this suddenly, there's no content, meow."

The sensations were vivid, and it felt no different from reality.

I could even feel the touch.

"Wow, amazing... But how do I know I'm in a dream?"

"That's because I told you I would put you to sleep, meow. If I used the sleep skill secretly, you wouldn't notice, meow."

However, even in the dream, Beatrice couldn't control other people's dreams.

She could only gather information.

It seemed the low skill level was the problem.

If I learned the skill and raised the level with Enel...

I decided I had to learn this.

After Beatrice finished explaining, my eyes were drawn to her chest again.

She flapped her ears and put on a smug expression.

"How is it, meow? Isn't it amazing, meow?"

"Oh... It really is amazing?"

"Hehehe..."

Beatrice started wriggling with delight at the praise.

'This skill is really good. It suits me.'

[But you should be careful. While in the dream, you can't communicate with me.]

'Ah, that could be dangerous. Got it.'

Next was subjugation.

"Whoa! How do you know about that, meow...?"

"Well, you said you're a succubus. I thought it might be similar."

I couldn't say I saw it on the status screen...

Beatrice thought for a long time before explaining.

"Subjugation is a unique ability of succubi, meow. But it has many problems, meow."

"What kind of problems?"

Unlike dream invasion, subjugation wasn't a simple skill.

-[Subjugation]-

It was a skill to charm and subordinate someone's rational self.

It wasn't hypnosis but more like creating a master-servant relationship.

Subjugation also had significant side effects.

"Sometimes the master-servant relationship can reverse, meow. Many succubi ended up becoming human pets after trying to subjugate, meow."

"...I need to be careful."

Dream invasion also had side effects, but they were mostly limited to things going wrong in the dream, so it wasn't a big problem.

'This is similar to what I learned in special magic class at Schtra.'

I remembered the content from the special magic class at Schtra.

Abstract magic is extremely risky.

The vigilantes I saw in Krel were like that, but in this world, physical training can make you superhuman, while magic is still primitive.

'I'll learn all three. And raise dream invasion and sleep to level 5.'

[32,000 Enel consumed.]

Subjugation, dream invasion, and sleep were added to my attributes.

I don't know about subjugation, but I raised dream invasion and sleep to level 5.

Level 5 seemed like a reasonable target for me.

After learning the skills, I started touring the castle with Beatrice again.

We eventually returned to the guest room, where Viola ran to me, crying.

"Ah! Guardian, I thought you were gone!"

"Ha ha ha... Sorry, sorry."

Viola said she cried when she woke up and found me gone.

Despite being immune to all fears, the fear of me disappearing was deeply rooted in her.

After calming Viola down, she noticed Beatrice.

"Ah... S, save me, meow..."

Beatrice's ears drooped, and she trembled.

'How did she get into a brave's dream with such courage...?'

[Perhaps she was desperate.]

Viola approached Beatrice, looking at her curiously.

"Wow! How can you be so cute...?"

"Ah... Ah..."

"Relax..."

Beatrice shivered and trembled with fear.

Viola's gaze was killing her.

While Viola was fascinated by Beatrice, someone was walking towards us.

Clack, clack, clack.

The person, maintaining a precise pace, was the noble lady Lena de Feron.

She walked confidently, minimizing the movement of her