The Main Heroines are Trying to Kill Me

“What… did you just say?”

“Sister, what’s wrong?”

The dragon leader in front of her wagged his tail, tucked under his belly, and asked, causing Irina’s expression to twist.

“Why am I your sister?”

“Pardon?”

“How  am I your sister, you damn lizard?”

“…???”

Irina glared at the dragon leader incredulously, while he tilted his head in confusion.

“Oh, my goodness.”

“I-I’ll be right back, sister. Hehe…”

“Wait! Where are you going…”

“S-sorry!”

As Irina quickly reached out, the leader waved his hands and wrapped his wings around himself.

“I-I’m not trying to run away.”

Peeking his head out between his wings, he whispered.

“So please don’t hit me… or at least go easy…”

Wagging his tail like a puppy and giving her a pitiful look, he appeared quite cute.

If you ignored his massive body and the scars covering him, marking him as the charismatic leader of the dragons.

Because of this stark contrast, all Irina could see was a lizard trying to act coy.

“I-I’ll prepare what you like best, s-sister.”

“Huh?”

“W-Well then…!”

As Irina’s expression turned menacing, the leader, sweating profusely, closed his eyes tightly and flew into the sky.

“What on earth…”

Irina, watching him shrink into a dot, slowly turned her gaze to the side.

“…Lady Irina, this way.”

“We’ve prepared it to be as similar as possible… Please be satisfied…”

The fierce-looking dragons, now with innocent eyes, bowed their heads in front of her.

“Follow us, please.”

“…”

Deciding to stop thinking for a moment, Irina nodded with a dazed look.

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“”Enjoy your meal, sister.””

The dragon leader and his two subordinates, known as his two wings, bowed their heads politely and spoke.

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“It’s what you like best, sister.”

Still staring at them with a dazed look, Irina slowly glanced around.

“…Haah.”

Now she found herself sitting in a cozy space made of branches, like a giant bird’s nest, hugging her knees.

- Squirm, squirm…

And writhing before her were various types of insects and chunks of meat dripping with blood.

“You want me to eat this?”

“Has your taste changed?”

Irina, staring at it with a disgusted look, asked, to which the leader responded with confusion.

“Don’t hesitate and try it. It’s very fresh.”

“…What is this?”

When the leader picked up a chunk of meat and brought it to her mouth with a grin, Irina, though horrified, involuntarily drooled and asked in a low voice.

“It’s a jowl from an orc. A delicacy among delicacies–”

“Get that away from me, dammit.”

“Understood.”

When she realized what the meat was, she emitted a killing intent, causing the leader to hastily throw the meat aside.

“Well, I guess after a thousand years, your taste might change a bit…”

“What are you talking about… Ugh.”

Watching him with a puzzled expression, Irina suddenly clutched her chest in pain.

Why… does my body feel like this.

Her body, which had been burning hot, was now blazing painfully.

Something’s definitely wrong.

Realizing something was off, Irina jumped to her feet and raised her voice.

“Hey, you guys.”

“Y-yes?”

“What did you do to me?”

“Do to you…?”

The dragons, sitting demurely and watching her warily, looked confused, causing Irina to snap.

“What kind of trick are you pulling on me!? You damn lizards!!!”

Her angry shout echoed through the makeshift nest, causing the dragons with innocent eyes to freeze.

“Do you think I wouldn’t notice your tricks!? I’ve had enough…!!!”

“L-Lady Irina…”

“Ever since I saw you guys, my whole body has been itching and my chest has been pounding!! Tell me what you did!!!”

“D-do you think she doesn’t like this anymore?”

“Another trick…”

Just as Irina was about to explode in fury, she trailed off upon seeing what the leader hastily brought out.

“This is–”

“I-It’s juice made from i-ice dragon berry… Please drink it to cool down and calm your anger…”

“…Hmm.”

Looking down at the juice emitting a chilling aura, Irina, who had been glaring at the dragons with burning eyes, grabbed it with her tail and drank it all at once.

- Gulp

“I-It’s started.”

“S-She’s finally showing her true form…”

“Shh, be careful, or you’ll get beaten.”

“How many times will the leader get hit this time…”

“…I feel a bit better now.”

Ignoring the whispering dragons, Irina muttered with a slightly relieved expression and looked at them.

“W-Wait… Who are you?”

“S-She’s not our sister!?”

“B-But the aura… It’s definitely…”

Confused by the dragons’ panicked murmurs, she asked.

“She seems like a young dragon…?”

“And a red dragon. There’s no way she’s our sister.”

“But her potential is undeniable. It’s the same as hers.”

“Even her liking that tasteless ice dragon berry… Just like the prophecy.”

“…Is this a miracle in our species after a thousand years?”

Watching their confused murmurs, Irina tilted her head and frowned.

Something… feels off.

Feeling a sense of discomfort, she shook her head.

No, this isn’t the time for this.

It was a critical situation.

Even now, Frey and her companions were fighting for their lives.

She couldn’t waste any more precious time with these damn reptiles.

“Listen up, all of you.”

With that, she emitted a terrifying aura throughout the nest and gave her final ultimatum.

“Withdraw from this war and leave this place.”

“”…””

“I won’t ask you to fight the Demon King. You must have your own reasons.”

With that, she stepped outside the makeshift nest.

“So just leave. If you do, there will be no repercussions.”

Spreading her wings and glaring coldly, she whispered.

“But if you intervene even slightly after this moment… It’ll be an all-out war.”

“”…””

“Well then.”

Leaving those words, she kicked off the ground and flew into the sky.

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- BOOM!!

“Ugh…!”

With a thunderous noise, Frey, who had been fighting fiercely in the air, was thrown into the frozen ground.

“Frey!!!”

Ruby, who couldn’t catch him despite descending with all her might, lifted him up as he staggered in the pit created by his impact.

“Damn it, you…!”

“This is troublesome…”

Fortunately, it didn’t seem life-threatening, but his left prosthetic arm was shattered and blown away again.

“Tsk, it’s still too weak because it’s a prosthetic… It’s not even recovering…”

“You think your arm would recover easily after being hit by my magic? How arrogant.”

Aishi, who had descended before Frey, approached with a cold smile.

“The longer this goes on, the more disadvantaged we become.”

“Fuhuhu.”

Ruby, muttering as she looked at her, had a grim expression.

“We need to hold out for at least half a day longer…”

As she said, the longer the battle dragged on, the more disadvantaged they became.

While the power Frey and Ruby possessed was finite, the power Aishi had as a Demon King was infinite.

As long as she had infinite power, no matter how much damage she took, she would recover quickly, and no matter how much energy was drained, she regained her energy in no time.

Therefore, the “Academy Siege” was designed to be an event where if the quest conditions weren’t met and the Demon King personally led the army, it was a guaranteed defeat.

“We just need to hold out somehow.”

“…Yeah.”

Frey and his companion only relied on the 24-hour time limit imposed on the Demon King.

“Can you really hold out?”

Despite their determination, the situation was not looking good.

“It looks like you’re reaching your limit.”

The monster horde on the flanks was barely being held back by the brave students who had rushed out from the academy.

The Demon King’s army at the front was locked in fierce combat with a coalition of soldiers, citizens, and some defecting demons.

From that alone, it seemed hopeful, but the critical issue was that Frey and Ruby had reached their limits.

“It’s okay… Just a few more hours and reinforcements will–”

“Reinforcements for our side will arrive by then too.”

Aishi, mocking, pointed an ice spear at Frey, who was pulling his sword from the ground.

“Why not just end this here? This is a war you’re destined to lose.”

Then she suddenly shot her spear into the sky.

- Crackle…!

“Damn.”

“…”

As she snapped her fingers, the single ice spear multiplied, filling the entire sky.

“Protecting that one won’t be enough, will it?”

“…Ugh.”

Ruby, who hurriedly wrapped Frey with her wings to prepare a counterattack, looked at the ice spears in the sky with cold sweat.

- Swoosh…

Half of the numerous spears were aimed at Frey and Ruby, but the other half were aimed at the academy.

“It’s a risky move that consumes a lot of power and has high risks, so I usually wouldn’t use it… but for you, who are already exhausted, it’s a death sentence.”

Even as she sweated slightly, she didn’t lose her confident smile and lowered her hand.

“Wait–”

- BOOOOM!!!

Just as the ice spears in the sky began to plummet,

- Fwoooosh!!!!!

A massive pillar of fire swept across the academy’s sky.

- Sizzle…

Aishi’s ice spears evaporated in the air, leaving no trace of it behind.

“””…”””

The people, momentarily stopping their battle, looked up at the sky, now red and filled with flames and heat, with awe-struck expressions.

“Hey, kid.”

From the sky, someone with a fierce appearance slowly descended.

“Playing with icicles is dangerous.”

Landing impressively in front of the stunned Ruby and Frey, she confidently looked at Aishi.

“Guys, I’m here…”

“You, did you just awaken?”

“…What?”

Smiling brightly and turning slightly, she tilted her head at Aishi’s cold words.

“W-What are you talking about? I haven’t awakened yet…”

Muttering this, she looked down at herself, then froze with her gaze fixed on the ground.

- Swish, swish…

A thick, scale-covered tail was swaying at her feet.

“…Huh.”

Poking the tail with a dazed look, Irina then reached up to her head.

“This…”

She touched the thick, hard horn, as tough as Ruby’s.

- Flap, flap…

“Come to think of it, how did I get her just now? I didn’t use magic…”

As she fiddled with the horn, she glanced at the wings flapping on either side of her and started recalling how she drank the juice and flew earlier.

“…ROARRR.”

- Fwoosh…!

When she opened her mouth and made a sound, a terrifying breath of heat and fire erupted from her mouth.

“Oh.”

Seeing Aishi sweating and retreating due to the opposing aura, Irina mumbled with a blank expression.

“Why… now of all times…”

“O foolish demon, have you seen the true power of our lord?”

“Ugh.”

Aishi, who had been warily watching Irina, was startled by the deep voice behind her and turned around quickly.

“…All brothers, listen!!”

The dragon leader, who had landed on the academy’s wall, raised his head and let out a thunderous voice that shook the earth.

“A new Dragon Lord has been born after a thousand years!!!”

As he spread his dragon fear, the dragons on the hill also released their energy and took to the sky.

“Fulfill your duty to our new lord!!!”

The leader, who had lost all his earlier awkwardness and was now exuding a menacing aura, finished speaking and glared at Aishi as if he would kill her.

“Ugh…”

As the dragons from the hill filled the sky and flew toward the academy, Aishi began to retreat with a twisted expression.

“Me? A Dragon… Lord?”

Irina, looking back and forth between the dragons filling the sky, the smiling Ruby and Frey, and the confused Aishi, muttered in a daze.

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Some time later.

“Are you sure…?”

The court wizard, trembling in the frozen Cloud Kingdom’s basement, asked fearfully upon receiving an urgent call from Aishi.

“Is it really… now?”

- If I say do it!! Do it!!!

“But… this scale… and…”

- Grrr!!!

- Crunch, crunch…!!!

“Is something wrong?”

Despite Aishi’s angry shout, he hesitated and looked around nervously, his head tilted at the sounds of tearing and crashing.

“It sounds like something’s being ripped apart and a loud noise…”

- I’ll kill you first…

“I-I understand!! I’ll do it!!!”

As sharp ice spears sprang up around him, he screamed and pulled out a scroll.

“This is insane. Absolutely insane…”

- Shhh…

“…Damn it.”

Trembling, he ripped the scroll as the ice spear pointed at his side.

- Rip…!!

“I don’t care anymore.”

At that moment,

“””…”””

The eyes of the First Heroes, who had been densely packed in the ruins, opened simultaneously.