Collecting the Male Leads’ First Nights

Chapter 67

The cartoons she had seen as a child suddenly flashed through her mind, and she shouted whatever came out of her mouth while throwing the hammer.

Swoosh!
Bang, bang!

After hitting the walls and ceiling of the building once, the boomerang hammer flew to the back of the High Priest Fox’s head.

“How dare you!”
“Ugh!”

Then, something unexpected happened. For the first time among all the monsters they fought, the High Priest Fox grabbed her hammer with his hand.

“Miss Sylvia!”

The group called out to Sylvia, surprised.

“Ah…”

Catching the hammer? It was a new weapon, so it was stronger than the previous one. But seeing him grab it as if it was nothing, Sylvia flopped down in despair.

‘As expected, the level difference was too great… Isn’t this game over?’

Sylvia closed her eyes tightly and lowered her head. In her mind, the phrase, “Thank you for loving Leveling Up By Devouring Handsome Virgins so far…”, was passing with the Caffe B*ne song in the background, announcing the ending.

The High Priest Fox tilted his head, grabbed the boomerang hammer, turned it around, observed it, and let out an admiration.

“This is a pretty good weapon. But you can’t defeat me with such a dull body.”
“Ah…”

Sylvia let out a deep sigh with her head down. The High Priest Fox looked at her with interest and opened his mouth.

“Ahem, as I see… Are you guys here to cleanse this dungeon?”
“That’s right…”

As Sylvia barely raised her head, he threw the hammer lightly and returned it to her. Then, he smiled leisurely and looked down at Sylvia with his hands on his knees.

“You can’t defeat me with this. But I’ll give you a chance. Tomorrow, there will be a conversion ceremony to convert the villagers. If we have a battle then and you defeat me, I’ll let you purify us without any objection.”
“Reverend?”

The desert foxes stared at him, taken aback. Sylvia and the rest of the group were also taken aback by his words. Even seeing everyone’s bewildered expressions, the High Priest Fox was just silently looking down at Sylvia with his arms crossed.

“What does that…”
“I’ve been a little bored lately. If you make things exciting, I will be quietly purified.”

At least it was a relief. She wondered if the game would be over like this, but since he requested a confrontation first, she had to accept it unconditionally. Sylvia hastily accepted, just in case he went back on his word.

“Okay, I’ll accept anything.”
“Hahaha, what do you know?”

The High Priest Fox laughed at her while sweeping over his red-colored bangs. Then, he lifted his chin and opened his mouth with an arrogant expression, crossing his arms.

“The battle… is a dance battle.”

‘What is he saying?!’

Sylvia looked at the High Priest Fox with a bewildered expression, but his expression was calm. Noel, Sevis, and Limbo were equally bewildered. On the other hand, unlike the alarmed group, the other foxes all nodded and made an understanding expression.

“If it’s dancing, no one can defeat the Reverend.”
“Reverend, isn’t that too harsh for that human? Who can beat the Reverend’s dancing skills? Haha!”
“What do you mean, a dance contest?”

As Sylvia looked at him with a bewildered expression, the High Priest Fox flicked his fingers together and gave orders to the rest of the foxes.

“Let me give you a taste of it first. Open the stage, music cue!”

The foxes pulled a suspicious stage from the corner while Sylvia’s group was dumbfounded, not knowing what was happening.

Rattle.

‘What kind of situation is this?’

The stage was set up, and the orchestra in the corner began to play. Sylvia opened her eyes wide at the music she had heard a lot somewhere.

‘Isn’t this Beethoven Virus?’

Sylvia followed the High Priest Fox to the stage immediately, where she found arrow buttons on the floor.

‘Where did I see this many arrows?’

A message appeared before her eyes.

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[Enter the mini game.]

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‘Mini game?’

Looking ahead, a familiar screen that she often saw in the local arcade came out of the tent.

‘Isn’t that a beam projector?’

And each of the arrows on the floor she was stepping on turned on brightly. Thinking about it, this was just like the arcade game ‘Pump’ she played diligently when she was a child.

‘This damn game is all over the place. Are we playing Pump?’

Pump, full name Pump it Up, was a game she enjoyed playing in the arcade during her school days.
Looking at the game screen in the tent, fortunately, it looked like Easy Mode.

‘I haven’t played it in a long time, so I don’t know if I’ll do well… At least I’m glad it’s a familiar game!’

She stepped one by one on the arrows in the tent, according to the music played by the orchestra.

“Huh, huh?”

But there was one thing she overlooked. The fact that her agility was too low. Contrary to Sylvia’s thoughts, she couldn’t step on them very brilliantly, and she missed a few steps. She was sweating profusely while missing the steps, and a message came before her eyes.

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[Your agility is so low that your body doesn’t move like you thought it would…]

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With the desperate message, Sylvia’s body moved like a rotten piece of wood.

Brrring. In the system window where the score was calculated, the D rating eventually appeared.

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[Oh, god! Can’t you do better than this? Your agility is too low…]

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‘What the hell… Unlike in my real life, my body is too slow. I should have raised my agility.’

On the other hand, unlike her, the High Priest Fox received an A rating.

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[Yeah! I know you can. Pretty good, huh?]

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In fact, even without seeing the score, the battle was already clear just by looking at the movements of the fox, who moved lightly like fluff, compared to those of Sylvia, who was like a piece of wood. As she stood sweating after the game, the fox spectators booed. The High Priest Fox glanced at Sylvia and gave her a sneering look.

“You’re just like a piece of wood. How about running away while I’m giving you a chance?”

‘What kind of high priest is he… Is he a professional dancer… Ugh.’

As she hesitated with a troubled expression, she heard the laughter of the foxes around her.

“Boo! You can’t dance to save your life!”
“Run away now, human!”

‘I’m pissed…’

Hearing those sneers made Sylvia fall into a rage. It was a game that she used to play in the arcade during her prime, so she couldn’t back off like this.

‘Won’t it be possible if I raise my agility? I can’t run away from here.’

The High Priest Fox, who had been glancing at Sylvia’s face, flipped his fur with red highlights aside and raised one corner of his mouth meanly.

“Can you defeat me with that skill? If you defeat me, you will do as you please, but if you lose, you will also participate in the conversion ceremony tomorrow. What do you think?”
“Conversion ceremony?”
“We handed around notes with black magic and called the villagers to the temple, but when we suggested it with good words, they refused to become believers. What can I do? If they don’t want to, I have to convert them by force!”
“What? So, the notes we saw in the village were also distributed by you.”
“That’s right, we attached some candy to the notes. All the people who ate the candy walked into the temple by themselves under the spell of black magic! Hahaha!”

What he said was really scary. All the villagers who ate the candy attached to the note without thinking walked into the temple on their own feet as if possessed, so the note that Sylvia’s group and the butler saw was one that someone had already eaten the candy. Free candy was the key, the contents of the note didn’t matter. Anyway, the notes must have said something like, “Come to our religion.”

‘There’s nothing free in the world, after all.’

Was it a problem to want free stuff? If there was a note with free candy in the mailbox, anyone would have gladly eaten it. Except for a few highly suspicious people.

‘Catching the villagers with candy… What a coward.’

Sylvia bit her lips and stared at the High Priest Fox. He continued to talk, touching up his nails.

“Tomorrow, in the square, we will sprinkle upon them the holy water received from our helpers, put the turbans on them, and have a forced conversion ceremony. After they’re baptized, they’ll become green orcs and help us. We will finally have monsters born out of humans in our dungeon tomorrow! You can run away now if you’re scared, I’m generous! Hahaha!”

The fox stretched out his hands wide, raised his head, and laughed out loud. As the subordinate foxes next to them flinched their whiskers and laughed in the same pose, Sylvia looked at them with a stiff face.

‘Turning humans into monsters really is the worst. The people who disappeared from the village that the president of the Combat Priesthood Association talked about were probably turned into monsters. If I don’t want to be converted too, I’ll have to win tomorrow.’

If she lost the battle and became a monster, even though she wouldn’t be dead, she would be brainwashed and end up in a never-ending state. If she lost, he would either have to flee, or end her life on her own for a dead-ending.

‘Will I be able to do it well? I’m worried…’

She had no chance right now, but Sylvia couldn’t step down from here. The next week was the Coming-of-Age Festival, so she thought that the story’s progression would get twisted if she ran away now.

‘I have a long way to go. I need to target Luca, and make Sevis quickly turn into an adult… Pump is a familiar game to me, so I just need to increase my agility.’

“No! I’ll accept the battle. In return, if I win, you will be quietly purified. And you told me to join the conversion ceremony if I lose, right? Then I’ll give you another condition. If I win, let the villagers go. What do you think?”

After flinching in surprise for a moment, the High Priest Fox made a look of thought for about three seconds, then raised the corners of his mouth again.

“… Yeah, alright. You won’t win anyway! Hahaha! Then, rest well, because you’ll lose anyway. You’ll soon become my followers; I can’t let you waste your stamina! Wash yourselves and wait until tomorrow night!”

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