บท 78: Preparation for Festival once more!

"I should not look down on this man... he is bloody frightening like Ajuka" Masaru was looking down on the plastic bag with animated porn pictures printed on it written 'From Azazel' What was inside the bag?

Masaru used his magic to scan it and every ingredient in the pill was similar to the pills he was already taking from Ajuka's sides, lucky for him he could take both of them together to stack up the effects so he did not refuse the gift at all.

"Masaru what is that?" Akeno feeling curious about the item in the bag was actually attracted by the questionable picture printed on it.

"Gift from a friend, it's medication," Masaru said while hiding the bag behind him, he cursed that pervert for sending him such subjective baggage that could cause him some... good experiences *cough cough* ridiculous experiences.

Akeno pouted feeling her chance to tease Masaru for having animated porn printed bag flew out the window, shortly she smiled when Masaru kissed her cheek walking past her towards the underground training room.

When he came underground he went into the fourth training room where he placed his latest training game in the corner of the room, it had multiple holes in it and each head that popped out had Riser's face on it.

It was the infamous whack-a-Riser game since you only need to touch the head when it pops up there was no need to increase the defensive power of this game.

Masaru equipped his sacred gear and started his first game, his second without it and then third with it. By using the experience he gained from his sacred gear, he trained his own natural reflexive sensitivity.

The arrogant and taunting faces of Riser was enough to keep him motivated to smack them all for an hour before he was called up to get washed for school.

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Since classes were a bit shorter to accommodate the clubs and groups who were setting up their stalls and ideas in rooms, Masaru and Ingvild were currently working in the horror maze.

"Masaru are you certain this will work?" Ingvild looked at the two empty rooms that had a single door connecting them, Masaru grinned at his brilliant idea, although this place looks plain it was anything but plain.

"We are not breaking any rules, we are not using any real things" Masaru explained as he starts carving runes in a formation set up on the dry walls they bought to place inside the room to make it a maze, for the floor Masaru used ink that was easy to wash off from the floor to use for him to draw magic circles all over the place.

"But to use magic... Is this really okay?" Ingvild asked timidly as she did not want Masaru to cause trouble that could harm him or his reputation.

Masaru chuckled like he did not care, since this was within the borders of having fun he will naturally not pull back punches "Why not, we are giving them their money's worth... And the reward is a free entrance into the cosplay cafe you girls will be running"

Ingvild looked at the runes, she who studied magic earnestly knew Masaru was setting up a massive illusion domain that displays the deepest fear in a person's heart, naturally, she saw Masaru drawing up several safety mechanisms in the formation to ensure the customer's safety but they sure will be scared out of their minds.

It took Masaru only a few hours to complete the horror house since they will not be decorating it at all when the time comes he can simply activate the Illusion Domain and let them enter the room. But the problem was next door.

"This is too short!" Everest complained, but Akeno looked at it with a serious expression.

"But if we make it longer what will keep the customers here?" Ichika nodded as she agreed with Everest. Although the skirt was knee height, it appears Everest was really not going to show even her calfs for the boys.

"We need to empty their wallets as compensation for ogling at us this year," Ichika said without feeling a shred of guilt.

Yui thought for a moment then turned to Everest, "Your studying cooking right? You can go work as a cook in the background where no one can see you" Everest who heard this was surprised herself that she has forgotten this so she smirked at Akeno who pouted feeling she lost there.

"But who will dress as what?" Shirone asked since it was her first Halloween event at school she was quite excited although it was because she will be able to get treats which she will never tell them.

Jeanne looked at the girls "I guess Akeno could dress as a fallen angel, Yui as a succubus and Ichika.... a bloodied maid?"

Ichika who heard this looked at Jeanne not sure if she should be angry or not, the idea of being a bloodied Maid did somehow fit her preferences since she was used to wearing maid clothes.

"But then again Shirone should wear a Maid outfit in her Neko mode too" Masaru spoke out surprising the girls.

"Completed the horror maze?" Stephani asked while she was busy cleaning the room with Ichika.

"Yeah, the room is set there is no need to decorate it since it will be illusion domain, "Masaru said with a big smile on his face, he really wants to test it out already.

The girls were all sceptical how this master of there can actually make use of a loophole in Sona's own words but then again he enjoyed teasing her so they can only accept it for now.

"I suppose Stephani will wear the angel outfit and Akeno the fallen angel" Masaru spoke while alternate looking at the two girls nodding,

'yep Angel x Fallen Angel looks nice' He thought then continued,

"Ichika could cosplay a bunny maid and Shirone a Neko maid, Yui could be a succubus but Everest needs to be a dragon girl" He nods as he thought that his idea was good. 'Only a dragon fits a dragon'

"But she is going to cook?" Akeno pointed this out, Masaru touched his chin as this was indeed a problem but he came up with an idea.

"She can wear an apron over her clothes and only come out from time to time and we can call it "Come Forth Shenron" for a wish or something"

Hearing this Everest almost fell on the ground, "You want to treat me like I'm the wishing dragon of Dragon Ball Z!?"

Masaru looked surprised that this girl knew of such animation but he still nodded, "Yes, you're a dragon... Definitely rare in Human Lands"

Everest ran over hitting Masaru's chest "Idiot, you are too cruel!!! Shenron is a male!"

Masaru looked at her still enjoying to tease her, "We can change the name, but it will make you mysterious won't it?"

Hearing this Everest stopped, thinking, thinking then nodded before walking away as if whatever happened was an illusion.

"As for Angelica, we can have her cosplay a Dark Elf. And Sakura... a Butler?" Masaru dodged an incoming object that flew when Sakura threw it instinctively.he glanced at Sakura who was breathing ragged, despite her abundant chest was moving along, it appears this little girl had experience in wearing such questionable clothes.

"Well I will be leaving you girls to set up the Cafe then" Masaru smiled wryly since the girls continued their heated discussions especially Masaru's suggestions.

'I wonder what I should get dressed in' He thought as he saw Barold carrying too many things so he went over to help his best friend in school. "Ey Barold! Need a hand?"

"Oh! Thanks for the help, Masaru" Barold thank him earnestly.

"No worries, from the looks of it you guys are doing a scary house as well?" Masaru asked feeling quite surprised, this will be a good competition for them to compete during the festival.

"Sort of, but then again the ideas were something we could only come up for now since the previous time Rias-sama hired Yokai to scare the school kids near-death caught Sona's wrath at that time" Masaru laughed as he remembered Sona once told him about this as well, it appears that experience was truly something for Sona if she mentioned it explicitly.

"What are you guys doing?" Barold asked feeling quite curious.

Masaru smirked ready to blow his friend's mind away "We will have a Horror Maze trip to Cosplay Cafe, simply a combination of a scary maze they have to go through to reach the Cosplay Cafe"

Barold was surprised at how similar their ideas were, but after some thought, he nodded believing that Masaru and his team could glean off a lot of money from those hopeless perverted boys. Those boys will probably try to act brave and prove they're a man in front of the girls. This was truly ingenious of him.

Masaru and Barold headed to the old building where the occult club was located at, they dropped off the boxes in the first room on the ground floor before Barold led Masaru up the stairs for him to greet Rias.

The reason for Masaru to go through with this was to meet her, he had something he wanted to sort out with her although he used the excuse that she will feel conflicted if he came inside her offices and left without greeting her the master of this building. He was looking forward to seeing how much his childhood friend managed to grow after this time.

"Ah Masaru, why are you here today?" Rias looked surprised at Masaru who came to visit since she was too busy reading reports she did not sense him.

"I only came to say hello since I helped Barold carry stuff here" Masaru spoke while taking his seat on the couch, it surely felt addictive to sit on them as they were nice and soft almost sucking you in as you sit in them.

'As expected of the Gremories, they sure know how to live in comfort' he thought.

"But then again I want to know how my friend is doing with her training menu?" Rias looked at Masaru wondering what he was getting at but Masaru continued, "For instance, have your peerage members talk with that girl sealed in this building"

Rias was surprised at the question since she did not expect him to ask about this specifically, "Impossible, he was sealed by the council for a reason," Rias said with a sad voice, she felt guilty she could not help Gasper but she could not come up with ideas how to control him.

Masaru nodded as he understood her problem, it was simple to resolve but the problem was the vampire who refused to be helped. "Yep sealed meaning he can't go out but nowhere it was agreed that you all are not allowed to go inside right?"

Rias thought for a moment realizing that there was indeed such a loophole, "Why would you suggest that?"

Masaru looked at Rias, "I heard from my junior that girl became a hikikimori with the way things went, I won't be surprised if that girl simply flinch and screams at every stranger nearby"

Rias nodded as it was certainly the truth, so Masaru continues "Normally I would not get involved in your matter but as a childhood friend, I can at least do one thing. You should speak with your brother check if it's fine and if it is. Have your peerage members enter the room daily, no need to do anything just talk with him and get him slowly used to daily visits.

Masaru looked at her eyes, before muttering for her to hear "If you intend to win again Riser then you will need him as your trump card"

Masaru stood up stretching his body before looking at her with a smile, "You can consider this a gift from me, so I hope you can show me something to look forward to. Since you want to challenge me for the Championship"

Rias leaned backwards on her chair wondering why he knew a lot about Gasper, but naturally Masaru heard some information about Kiba especially the manner how Gasper talked with them at their first meeting.

Masaru could already guess the child had zero confidence, zero social skills, and a total maiden ladyboy which could drive one nuts if you don't have patience so he gave Rias an idea how she can proceed in dealing with it early as he would like to see that vampire's power with his own eyes, that sacred gear that can stop time intrigued Masaru.

'Bet many going to moan about my actions but I don't care... I want strong opponents as I can imagine how lonely it will be if only I reach the top'

Masaru thought about himself being surrounded by people, but in reality, he was surrounded by paper stacks which he left for months and now he had no choice but to catch up with it all!

It was dreadful as the number of complaint letters that came was about his latest VICKS prank he played on the perverts who enjoyed watching bouncing tits while girls were running.

'Why complain? Just keep it silent! You all are nothing but my experiment subjects as it is payment for being perverts towards my women... I also have to at least do my job as the head of the Disciplinary Committee you know?'

"Masaru-sama, there have been several readings of Stray Devils" Ichika came to report in quite the haste.

Masaru kept silently and only sent a letter to Ulrika and gotten a reply instantly, Ichika only saw Masaru sent and received a message but from whom she never knew and rather not be too privy with Masaru's affairs as he would naturally tell them.

Since he already read the notes, he felt that he could leave this problem to the girls to deal with as experience. Although he left many things for the girls to deal with, he already had those experiences and was currently working on the bigger picture instead. After burning the message, he glanced at Ichika

"Split the girls up in teams and deal with it, take it as training without me for instances where you have to act when I am not around" Masaru ordered her.

Ichika nodded without asking a question since this was their first official subjugation mission without Masaru, it was time for them to prove themselves that they were not decorations around Masaru.

Even they had their pride that they want to maintain, and also they did not want to be left behind by Masaru since they promised to walk side by side for the rest of their lives.

Ichika left after hearing Masaru's orders, on the reply note he gotten from Ulrika it read:

[No Enemies detected, monitored by the assassins]

So he could send the girls to deal with the problem since he intends to leave the school for a period of time once Halloween Event is over, also he wanted to see for himself how the girls conduct themselves when he is not with them.

He looks over the letter that came in this morning which is addressed to him and it came from the Pendragon Family, it was a summons to meet the old man who gave him a sword for a mission relating the Witches of the Greater Mailings.

It was already something he was prepared to deal with, he just did not figure out when to do it with everything that happened until now. However, with this letter, he felt that the time to act was now. Although he managed to stop the gates, he still felt a dread that such gates could be opened once again and that will be problematic especially if it was a larger one.