Juu Sai Madoushi Chapter 37 Part 1 (Patreon)

The Curse of the Picture Book

"Hmph! Beating me won't matter! You'll never get out of here, and neither will the others! Stupid! Stupid!"

Bear snarled hatefully under the giant snowball.

Alicia let out a sigh.

"...You're in trouble. I don't think he's learned his lesson at all."

"Why don't you just make Bear disappear?"

"No. If the Bear is the only key to the outside world, we might really be stuck in there and never get out."

"Well, that's... that's... that's not very nice..."

Jeanette shuddered, clutching her arms.

"You're supposed to take the cursed item to a professional priest to have it analyzed and purified over a long period of time. But if we don't go outside, we can't even see the Priest..."

"Oh, um, that...what is that...?"

Ferris pointed to the tail that was wagging jerkily on Bear's butt.

It was not a normal Bear's round tail, but was long, black, and lanky. The tip was wriggling like an earthworm.

"A tail...right?"

"Yes, yes, it is. I don't know, it just feels really bad..."

"Ferris didn't like worms, did he?"

"I'm almost fine with them now! But it's not that... don't you feel something strange in the air...? It's like there's a black wave spreading out from around that tail..."

Ferris feels sick just looking at the tail.

"I... don't feel anything in particular."

"Me neither..."

Alicia and Jeanette looked at each other.

"Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea. I feel like if I take it out, something will change..."

"Screech!!!"

Bear shook his huge body.

"Jumpy...?"

Jeanette raises her eyebrows in suspicion.

"No, it's nothing! I'm not freaked out!"

"Are you sure... Ferris has hit the nail on the head?"

"No, no, no, no, I'm not the one you're referring to! I'm the number one star in the world! If any living creature touched that tail, it would die in an instant! It's got just as much magical power as a magic stone! Don't touch it, okay? Don't touch it? If you touch it, you'll die!

Ferris stepped closer to Bear's desperately insisting buttocks.

"Ei!"

He clutched his tail as casually as if he were picking a flower.

He tilted his head, staring.

"Umm...it's nothing."

"Wait! Why? Why, why, why, why! I'm not lying! You're really dying! I touched it myself and I collapsed for a month!"

"Are you sure you're okay, Ferris?"

Both Bear and Jeanette are confused.

Alicia smiles.

"Magic doesn't work. Ferris' magic resistance is infinite."

"Yes! That's new to me!?"

Jeanette rolls her eyes.

"I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to know too much. But Jeanette is a friend of Ferris and me, so I thought it would be okay to tell you. I trust you."

Jeanette's face flushed red. She scratched her cheeks and said shyly.

"Well, well? I'm glad you trust me, though, aren't I? I'm a very tight-lipped person! I have no one else to talk to!"

It was a rather pathetic reason.

"I'm going to have to pull your tail off!"

Ferris said with an angelic smile.

"No, no! That's my tail!"

"Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

He pulls with all his might, but his tail is stuck.

"I'll help you."

Alicia pulls on Ferris, but the tail still won't come off.

"It's not fair that you're squeezing Ferris! I'll help you!"

Jeanette pulls Alicia.

The three girls join forces and try to pull the tail out.

Bear is flailing about, desperate.

"Ouch! It's coming off! I'm out! Pull out, pull out, pull out! No, no, no! It's really coming off!

Snap!

With a booming sound, the tails pulled out, and Ferris and the others fell on their butts, folding on top of each other.

"Whew, we're out...!"

Ferris exhales over Alicia's body.

"Hey! You're heavy! Please get out of my way!"

"Oh, I'm not heavy. I'm holding back my snacks."

"I don't care, just get out of my way!"