The Incubus System

The Incubus System Chapter 250. She Dumped me

The time showed 9:49 AM when I stepped into my classroom. As usual, after I left the bank, I walked to the nearest alley before I opened my portal. Different from usual, as soon as I entered the class, I found Larry already sitting in his usual seat. His book opened in front of him. His eyes looked at that book in full concentration. Every now and then, he highlighted it with a highlighter in his hand.

'Wait... What?!' I stopped my steps in reflex since I realized something was wrong with it. Very wrong. At least for me.

'Larry is studying? Am I dreaming? Or am I hallucinating?'

I rubbed my eyes and checked the status above his head once more, making sure he really was Larry, not a demon who used his shape-shifting skill and turned into Larry even though no announcement appeared in front of me. Then I swept my gaze into the quiet classroom which was only filled with a few female students chatting in the back row. Occasionally, they laughed loudly yet Larry was unaffected by it and kept concentrating on his studies.

'Did Ruby hit his head too hard?' I thought as my feet moved towards him. I realized his HP wasn't full, but I knew it wasn't life-threatening.

"Morning," I greeted as I gave him a tap on his shoulder casually and sat down next to him.

"Ow!!!!" he grimaced in pain and pulled away his shoulder. His hand held his shoulder in reflex, protecting it from another 'attack' that came to him.

I quickly took my hand away from him and smiled awkwardly.

"Oops! Sorry..." I forgot Ruby just beat him yesterday.

He took a deep breath before returning his gaze to his book.

"It's fine..."

"What happened to you?" I asked. It was not because of why he was in pain, but why he decided to study diligently.

"Nothing..." he said in a gloomy yet nonchalant tone without shifting his eyes to me.

"Are you sure?" I made sure since he looked like a girl sulking at her boyfriend.

"Yeah, I'm sure," he said in the same tone.

"Fine," I said with a shrug and opened my bag to take out my book. Since he started paying attention to his study, wasn't that great?

But just as I put down my book, Larry's voice came from beside me.

"Ethan..."

"Huh?" I turned to him and gasped as I saw his face which was similar to that of an almost crying child. His eyes looked at me in sadness, as if he was the most pathetic creature in this world.

"She dumped me because of you..." he whined. Even though his voice sounded sad, he said it out loud. Loud enough to made all the students turn to us and gave me a strange gaze as if I was a criminal who had stolen his best friend's girlfriend even though he had never had a romantic relationship with Ruby in the first place.

"Shhh! Keep your voice down," I said in a panic.

"Why didn't you tell me if she likes you? I feel like an idiot," he kept whining like a kid.

My eyes turned right and left looking at my friends who started whispering to each other with their eyes fixed on us before I turned back to him.

"You never told me about her and you said it yourself that she was your girlfriend. Besides, isn't the most important thing that you managed to trick your mom," I said in a low voice. I remembered how confident he was with his 'Girlfriend' before that chaotic dinner and it turned out that the girl he brought was his mentor.

"B-But why you? Why are all of the people she likes you?" His loud voice didn't change.

"How do I know?" I hissed in annoyance.

"B-But----Mphhhh!" Without hesitation, I covered his mouth with my hand since he didn't lower his voice and gave him a death glare.

"If you still haven't lowered your voice I will make you and your grade suffer," I threatened. Of course, what I meant was I was not going to help him study anymore and maybe say 'a few words' to Ruby about this. I was sure she would be happy to reward him again.

His face suddenly turned pale and he quickly nodded.

I let go of my hand after seeing him calm down.

And as my hand parted with his mouth, he spoke again.

"You know what's worse than all that?" This time he spoke in a low voice.

"What?" I said curtly.

"My dad found 'nana-chan' in my wardrobe and almost threw her away," he whined again. But this time his voice was much lower than before.

"Even though I managed to save her, my dad said he would throw her out if I got bad grades."

Now I understood why he was suddenly studying.

"Maybe you should replace 'nana-chan' with something else," I said nonchalantly. My pity for him had disappeared because of his previous annoying attitude. After all, I knew he loved that body pillow only because he hid his demon hunter uniform there. Instead of waiting for his parents to accidentally throw away his uniform along with 'nana-chan', wouldn't it be better if he hid it somewhere else? Or maybe he could replace it with something else.

"There's no way I can replace 'nana-chan'," he quickly retorted in displeasure.

"Why?"

"Because I will marry her!" he said in a serious tone. His eyes that looked at me also showed the same thing.

"What?!" I said in disbelief.

"Yeah. You heard it right. I'm going to marry 'nana-chan', my body pillow," he said proudly and determinedly as if no one could change his decision anymore. Again, his voice was loud enough for everyone in the class to hear. I glanced to the left and right in shame even though it wasn't me who said it. As before, the students turned to Larry and whispered to each other with a pitiful gaze.

"Are you crazy?" I said in a low voice. Now I really thought that Ruby had hit him on his head.

"Of course not," he retorted quickly, indicating he was completely sane. But then his face turned pale and a clear trauma was evident in his eyes as if he had just experienced the most traumatic thing in his life yesterday.

"You know what? After yesterday's incident, I just realized women are scary and girls are insane. Since I want to live a normal and peaceful life, I decided to marry 'nana-chan' and live happily ever after."

"Is that because of Ruby?" I said spontaneously with a cringe. I could understand the peaceful part but I didn't think that was normal for our current society.

Hearing her name, his face turned pale again.

"No, no, no. Not because of her," he said in a panic.

"She's the best girl I've ever met. She's just too good for me, too perfect and since she likes you, I'm letting her go for you. I'm better with 'nana-chan'," he added in a calmer tone. His expression remained pale as if Ruby was pressing a knife to his neck and a forced smile was on his lips. His reaction was the same as Bern and Franz. I didn't know what Ruby did to him yesterday after they got into the car.

After that, we were silent for a while before his smile disappeared. It was clear from his expression that he was worried about me. This time, it was he who gave me a tap on my shoulder.

"Buddy... Promise me you will take good care of yourself. Some girls are crazy. Just remember, running can be the best option. I can't help you much but... Just tell me if you need it." This time I knew he was serious with his words and he was really worried about me since Ruby already set her eyes on me.

"Thank you for your concern. I will remember it," I replied. Well, even though he was annoying, in the end, I was pretty happy he didn't want me to go through the same bad things as him.

After that, my lecturer entered the room and my class started.

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