Lillith - Chapter 31 - New plans.

Hello!
This chapter will be a bit shorter and more rushed, since it's mainly a bridge between the second and third parts of the story. So I ask for your patience — it ended up being a bit simpler and more generic than the other chapters. Thank you, and enjoy the read!


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Esmeralda waits patiently at Seraphina’s desk, eyes staring into nothing, her face resting on her hands. The room is silent, until the sound of the doorknob turning breaks the boredom. The door opens slowly. Esmeralda looks up, excited, but her expression quickly changes when she sees who walks in.

It was just Armand.

“Is Seraphina late?”
“Uh-huh...”
Esmeralda responds, unenthusiastic, resting her head back on the table.
“That’s not very common, she probably has her reasons.”
“Uh-huh...”
She replies again, same monotone voice.

Silence returns to the room. Armand feels uncomfortable in the heavy atmosphere. He tries to start a conversation.

“So... it’s been two days since you went back to normal, huh?…”
No response. Only the ticking of the clock can be heard.
“Well... it must’ve been horrible to go through all that…”
A few seconds of silence pass before Esmeralda finally responds in a low tone.
“I wouldn’t have gone through it if a certain someone’s explosion had actually killed Eliza.”
Armand stays silent for two seconds, taking in the words.
“I’m sorry, Esmeralda. But that should have killed her. Something was off in that fight…”
“Uh-huh…”
Esmeralda murmurs, not moving.
“The only good thing about that damn curse was being able to give you an uppercut to the balls without being punished for it afterward... Why the hell did Seraphina suddenly become so overprotective of your balls anyway?”
Armand just sighs, not replying. He was already used to comments like that from women.

The door opens again. Both of them immediately look. A stack of books enters the room first… and then, resting on top of them, two massive breasts. It was Seraphina. She lowers the books, revealing her face.

“I’m here! Sorry I’m late!”
She slams the books down on the table. Her breasts, once supported by the stack, bounce down with the impact like water balloons.
“Alright, I need to talk to you both. Something Morgana and I discussed a bit while Armand was away and Esmeralda was cursed.”

Seraphina opens the first book on the pile. The cover reads: *All About Phoenix Magic*.
She flips to a specific page that talks about the Phoenix Staff.
“Here it is, the artifact Eliza stole from me. This book says it contains everything about Phoenix Magic, but... it doesn’t. It leaves something out…”
She grabs the other books, placing them on the table one by one, each opened to marked pages:
*All About Gravitational Magic*, *All About Aqua Magic*, *All About Leafe Magic*, *All About Medical Magic*...

Each book contained information on specific magical items: the Medicinal Ring, the Gravity Orb, the Necklace of Arcane Leaves…

Seraphina looks seriously at the two professors.
“All of these items have incomplete information in the books... for safety reasons.”
Esmeralda raises an eyebrow, suspicious.
“The Elemental Prophecy?”
Seraphina nods.
“Huh?”
Armand asks, confused.

“There’s a legend. If someone were to gather the most powerful magical items of each magic type, they’d gain a power never thought possible…”
“But until now, I thought it was just a myth, a story to scare mages from going down dark paths, or something like that…” Esmeralda adds.
“But... it looks like Eliza is willing to find out if it’s true. Or at the very least, gather all these items and become hyper-powerful…” Seraphina concludes.

Armand crosses his arms, thoughtful.
“Alright, so do we know where these items are?”
“Yes… and no…”
Seraphina replies.
“These items were entrusted to the heads of magical schools… but as the schools went bankrupt, the items disappeared. Some were sold, others remained in the ruins, protected by magic, and so on…”

“Right…”
Armand says. A magical chime echoes through the room—the class bell.
“Oh, crap… I took too long getting the books... okay, you two can go teach your classes. I’ll start some research to find out where we might locate these items!”

“Alright.”
Esmeralda agrees. She gets up and walks out of the room without looking back.
Armand calmly gathers his things, preparing to leave too.

“Hey… Armand…”
“Huh?”
“Can I ask you something… do you have a lot of work to do this Thursday?”
“Hmm… I’ve got a few lessons to prepare, but I think I’ll have them done by then. Why? Something important to deal with?”
“Oh… no… I just…”
Seraphina hesitates. She seemed embarrassed, but tried to keep a professional posture.

“I was just thinking that we haven’t really talked like we used to, doesn’t even feel like we’re friends anymore, haha…”
Armand finds that odd but replies naturally.
“Oh, yeah... work’s been overwhelming, but I think that’s normal, right? Soon things will ease up and we’ll be back to chatting like before, haha!”
Armand said that as if he were talking about business, which irritates Seraphina deeply.

Seraphina observes him in silence for a second. Her expression shifts. She forces a dry smile.
“Uh, alright then, never mind. Go ahead, go work.”
Her tone is direct, almost cold.

Armand finds her tone strange. He hesitates for a second, but eventually leaves the room.

Seraphina stays there, alone. She adjusts the cloak she’s wearing and buttons up her shirt, hiding her cleavage.

“Dammit... he can’t notice anything?!... How is that even possible?!…”

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**Armand enters the classroom.**

“Good morning, students.”

He tosses his gradebook to the side while closing the door. The notebook spins in the air before landing right at the edge of the desk.

“Hey, Professor Armand is back!”
A student shouted.

“Ohh, finally… I couldn’t stand that shitty substitute anymore…”
Said another.

“Don’t even get me started… and honestly… he didn’t even seem that powerful…”

All the girls around the student look at her, raising an eyebrow.

“Huh? What?! Don’t tell me you didn’t notice it too?”

“We noticed, but…”

“We just don’t say it out loud haha…”

The girl pouts and lays sideways on her desk.

Armand finally reaches his desk and jokingly says:

“Are you trying to butter me up for better grades, or is that really true?”

“Oh crap… he heard?!”
The girl who made the comment about the substitute's “power” wonders, blushing in the process.

“But I can’t help but say—Eldric will be an important teacher in the future! You’re underestimating him! Like it or not, replacing a teacher last minute, with no lesson plan or anything, is tough!”

The girls huffed but accepted Armand’s words.

“Anyway, it’s good to be back!”

He says, and spots Lillith, head resting on her hand, staring out the window.
He walks over to her desk.

“Right, Lillith?”

He slams his hand on the desk.
Lillith jumps in surprise, looking at the teacher.

“Ugh, whatever…”
She responds, annoyed.

Class begins, and it seems long and boring.
Lillith hears a whisper behind her.

“Psst… Hey… Hey… Lillith… Heeey…”
Lillith turns around and sees a girl with brown hair, bangs, a ribbon on her head, and a black button-up shirt—the standard secondary uniform at the magic school.

“Huh? Hey, Celestina, what’s up…”

“Did you really travel with Armand?”

“Yup…”
Lillith replies, unenthusiastically.

“Uhhh, that must’ve been so fun!”

“It was… interesting…”

Lillith answered.
A few seconds of silence pass...

“I wish I could travel with him… And get bonus points for it too…”

“Huh?... Man... I don’t know what you girls see in that idiot…”

She pauses and glances at the massive bulge of two balls in Armand’s pants.

“I mean... I *do* know, but... honestly, it’s like you only see his power and forget everything else…”

“Whatever, you’re always the odd one out anyway…”

Celestina replied.

“I wonder… what would I have to do to travel with him too…”

“Maybe be a magnificent mage like me.”

Lillith looks at Celestina proudly, but Celestina just stares back with an ironic expression.
Without saying a word, just through her gaze, Celestina basically delivers the message: *“Your grades are the worst in class.”*
They lock eyes for a few seconds, and Lillith surrenders.

“Alright, alright, don’t look at me like that… Anyway, traveling with him isn’t as exciting as it seems…”

“Huh?”

“He spent half the trip either curled up in fetal position or whining about pain in his balls.”

“Oh, so you guys fought enemies?”

“Yeah, yeah. Most of the time, Emma and I had to save Armand’s balls…”

Celestina looked at the bulge in his pants. For a second, she felt pity, but then laughed.

“Ehh… I mean, we gotta admit… they’re nice to look at… but those things are ridiculous.”

“To me, they’re *just* ridiculous…”

Lillith turns back to look out the window, until an eraser flies and hits her in the head.

“PAY ATTENTION, YOU CHATTERBOXES!”

Lillith just groans angrily, picks up the wooden eraser, and puts it in her bag.

Celestina bows.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry!!!!!”

Armand resumes teaching…

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A few hours pass. Armand finishes the class, and students begin to leave.
Celestina and Lillith remain in the room.
Lillith because she’s always the last to leave.
Celestina… usually doesn’t stay, which makes Armand curious.
She stands up and gracefully walks over to Armand’s desk. Her large breasts—not as big as Seraphina’s or Morgana’s, but still beautiful—bounce as she struts across the room.
She looks at Armand.

“Professor… can I ask you something?”

Armand, still packing up his materials, responds:

“Of course!”

“Well… I heard you and Lillith were traveling together, and that’s why you weren’t here, right?...”

“Yup, yup.”

Armand replies casually.

“So… you know… my grades are usually the highest in the class… and Lillith’s are the lowest… I’ve never been on any mission trips… so why did you take *her* and not *me*?...”

Armand looked at Celestina, slightly confused by the question…
Then he returned to organizing his materials and said:

“Circumstance.”

“Circumstance?”

“Yeah, the situation just led to Lillith being chosen!”

Armand noticed the frustration on the girl’s face.

“Hey… don’t worry, if you really want to go on academic missions, I’ll invite you next time, okay?”

She smiled and nodded, then left the room.
Armand finally finished packing up. He grabbed his bag and said:

“See you tomorrow, Lillith.”

He turned toward the door.

“Hey, professor.”

Armand turned back to Lillith.

“You forgot this.”

“Huh?”

When he looked, he saw the eraser he had thrown at Lillith earlier, now flying at high speed straight toward him.
It landed square between his legs. Lillith watched as if in slow motion, the eraser hitting dead center, the bulge getting crushed, the ball almost hugging the eraser from the impact.
Armand lost all the air in his lungs, falling to one knee as he clutched the desk for support.

“What goes around, comes around, professor.”

She said in a playful tone.

“See you tomorrow!”

She casually walked out of the classroom, almost skipping, leaving Armand coughing and alone.

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A few days pass. Armand is summoned to Seraphina’s office. As he opens the door, he finds Valerya and Seraphina behind the desk.

“Come in, Armand.”
Armand steps inside, glancing around the room. He looks at Valerya — it was the first time he’d seen her since she got beaten up by Eliza. She clearly still had some bruises, but she seemed alright.

“What did you want to talk about, Seraphina?”

“Well… Valerya found this…”
Seraphina places a magical page on the desk with an announcement. It was a competition, a tournament. There was lots of information about it — apparently, anything was allowed, except killing your opponent.

“Alright… A tournament?...”

“And the prize…”
Says Seraphina. Armand looks at the prize and his eyes widen.

“The Necklace of Arcane Leaves?!”

“There it is. The first item we need to recover if we want to stop Eliza.”
Seraphina says seriously.

“Armand, I need you to gather a few students to take to this tournament. The strongest ones you can find! We can’t risk the lives of too many, so choose three! This school was hell without you. In this case, I’ll replace you myself. Valerya will handle my tasks, and Luminar will assist her. Astrid should be able to handle the medical side of the school.”

“Alright.”
Armand replied.

“Take the flyer, so you have all the information.”
Armand nodded, grabbed the magical page and left the office, already thinking about who he’d call.

“Emma… for sure… but the other two…”
As he enters his room, he sees Morgana sitting in his chair.

“You already know Lillith’s going, right?”

Armand stops just before entering the room.

“We need the best students.”

“She *is* your best student!”

“With the worst grades?”

“Grades mean nothing when someone’s trying to kill you.”

“I don’t know, Morgana…”

“I’m not asking, I’m *telling* you.”

“Is that a threat?!”

“We can say it is…”

“Morgana!”
He says as he walks into the room. The moment his foot touches the wooden floor, a rune activates beneath him. He freezes instantly.
A landmine-style rune — armed when stepped on, triggered when the foot is lifted.

“Well… looks like you’ve realized your office is a minefield, right? If you lift your foot, the spell will activate, and in a blink, the gravitational rune will find your balls and that week-long suffering from the ‘fate of a man’ curse will start all over again.”

Armand stood there frozen. He knew she wasn’t kidding.

“Isn’t it wonderful to perfect a spell? Who would’ve thought I could turn it into a magical landmine, haha!”

“What do you want?”

“Just call Lillith for the tournament.”

“Fine.”

“Wow… that was fast. Well… once I turn the corner, the spell will dissipate, so… I’m trusting your word here… or rather, your fear of losing your balls.”

Morgana turns the corner as she leaves, and the rune vanishes from Armand’s foot. He lets out a sigh of relief…

“Professor?...”

Armand almost jumps in shock when he looks back and sees Celestina.

“Ah, ah, I… hi!”

“What was that? What was she talking about?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, Celestina.”
He says, trying to put on a serious face. He was good at pretending to be serious when, inside, he was praying she hadn’t heard anything.

“What tournament was she talking about, professor?”

Oh shit… Armand thought…

“It was a mission given by Seraphina…”

He says, and Celestina’s eyes go wide.

“A trip! We’re going on a trip?!”

“Oh Celestina… I know I said that, but… this one’s too dangerous… I already have to bring Lillith again and—”

“What?! You’re bringing Lillith again and not me?!”

“Oh… well…”

“You promised! You promised you’d take me!”

“It’s way too dangerous, Celestina!”

“So you think I’m weak, but Lillith is strong?!”

“That’s not it!”

“Fine then!”

Celestina rushes toward Armand. He thought she was just going to rant, but to his surprise, she reaches out and grabs his testicles. She didn’t squeeze, but her grip was strong enough that he couldn’t free himself.

“Celestina! What the hell is this?!”

“If I can take you down, then I’m strong enough to participate!”

“Celestina, stop this!”

“Let’s see if I can change your mind with a little electric current running through your precious sack nerves!”

“HEY, HEY, HOLD ON, CELESTINA, LET’S TALK!”

“NO TALKING!”

She yells as a spark of electricity shoots from her hand, giving a small zap to Armand’s balls. Just enough to turn his legs to jelly and make him brace against the table to avoid collapsing.

“FUCK, CELESTINA, DAMN IT!”

“WELL?!”

She zaps him again.

“CELESTINA!”

“ONE MORE SHOCK BEFORE YOUR BALLS BECOME A LIGHTNING ROD!”

She zaps again.

“SHIT AHHHH, OK, OK, I’LL TAKE YOU!”

Celestina finally lets go and steps back.

“Really?! REALLY?! OH MY GOD THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOUUU!”

She hugs the professor and runs off happily. Armand drops to the floor, holding his sack, wondering what the hell just happened.

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