10 Understanding the Matriarchy

[Seduction Complete

Protagonist percentage +0.5%]

Ana was happily making his way towards the place where Eva had asked him to go, which was the male dormitories and contrary to Ana's expectations, sadly not Eva's bedroom, but nonetheless he was happy since Eva had said that she'll seriously think about him and in the meantime they could meet up in secret.

That alone was more than enough confirmation for Ana, he wasn't going to screw up again this time.

"She's so cute when I whisper her name." Ana was in a good mood.

He would make sure his love dovey relationship with the girl of his afterlife be super successful. 

"I can't wait to do it with her again…"

Making his way towards his new room for the first time, he filled his head with great expectations, a chance at a happy life, maybe with Eva, no, definitely with Eva.

"Hopefully, in this life I won't be bored enough to kill myself."

Ana found his room not too long after he began his evening self-psychotherapy, and after he did, with even greater expectations, he opened the dormitory door to a new life, a student of a Pure Pure Lover Academy.

He thought about what kind of a person he would be willing to share a room with since most of the time Ana was a loner, antisocial kind of guy.

"The last thing I need is an overbearing roommate, so I hope he isn't some kind of frea-"

But just as Ana opened the door, he found something odd, something rather ambiguous and controversial to his uncompromising eyes.

"Ah, your bulge is so hot, Toti girl…"

A rather fragile looking guy (?) was sitting on the lower bunk bed, and jerking off to a poster of a pretty girl (?) wearing a maid uniform with a prominent bulge in her underwear that was visible due to the viewing angle of the photo being an upskirt degeneracy, but neither the fishy stench of the room nor the fact that the girl's face in the poster was a spitting image of the masturbating boy was what shocked Ana the most.

"Oh Toti, your sweet sweet thighs, mmhhh…"

It was the fact that Ana knew for certain, this was his room and he had been the one to find out that his roommate, who was a wild exception to natural law, had become an infected beast which had to be put to rest for the greater good.

"Toti, oh my Toti…"

The boy (?) was pleasuring himself in full force, without a care in the world, and without even the intellect to lock the door before doing so at the very least.

"I want you, I need you, I love-"

While he was busy confirming his ceremonial vows, Ana and his eyes unintentionally met, making him falter to reach his end goal of satisfying his dirty desires.

"My bad, I think I'm in the wrong room." Ana quickly shut the door and left, and began to walk back to the place from where he came.

"Very weird." Ana thought to himself. "I didn't know animals were allowed in the dorms."

He decided to request pest control from Eva, since he didn't want to contract a disease by living in an infested place.

"WAIT!" A squeal came from behind Ana.

"Wait a second!" The guy(?) whom Ana had just (NOT) seen, called him. "I can explain."

"There's nothing to explain." Ana put a hand on his chest. "The world needs to know about the atrocities that are being committed inside that room."

Ana turned around with a shed of crocodile tears in his eyes. 

"I cannot choose to stay silent about this."

There was nothing in the Universe that would make Ana change his decision.

"I have money!" The guy shouted.

"How much?" Ana turned back to him.

Except maybe that.

…

..

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"So you're saying that I have to find a matriarch candidate and after that I need to make a contract with her?" Ana asked Toti who had insisted on toning down his degeneracy and promised a platonic friendship.

"That's right." Toti, who was now finalized (bribed) into the open slot of Ana's new roommate, explained. "It'll only be a temporary contract while you're honing your skills in the Academy and after that you may choose a more suitable master if you desire to, like many others who dream of a successful hunter life under a well established Matriarch."

Toti was laying out the details of how the combat system in the Academy worked to Ana.

Simply speaking, he said that awakened people, male or female or any third gender, could choose to be hunters and make a living by exploring dungeons that randomly popped up everywhere by choosing to register themselves as solo hunters in the hunter bureau or join a guild and just do it as a team.

On the other hand, they could also contract themselves to Matriarchs and have a much higher standard of living, the amount proportional to the standing of their contracted Matriarch in society.

"But I don't understand one thing, why are there only Matriarchs and no Patriarchs?" Ana asked.

Apparently, the Matriarchs, who had similar battle prowess to hunters, were considered the masters and the hunters under them were like their hunting dogs, slaves per se.

The hunting dogs could enjoy the same benefits and do the same things as an uncontracted hunter, like fighting in dungeons or participating in tournaments but they could only do that with the permission or order of their masters.

"The Matriarchs awaken with a different system than the hunters, and that's why they have the capability to boost the abilities of the hunters under them." Toti gave a proper differentiation and answered Ana's question. "But why only females are chosen, no one really knows. Some theorise that it may have something to do with the female anatomy while others just think it's a religious bias imposed by Heaven."

"A different system that boosts ability?" Ana didn't quite understand how that worked. "Is there any limit or can a Matriarch indefinitely boost whoever she wants?"

"No. There's a proper system that Matriarchs use for their contracts." Toti took out a page from his desk and began to explain.

"It's like the pieces of chess. Every Matriarch, being the king herself, can have one queen, two of each- rooks, bishops, and knights, and eight people as their pawns."

"Hm…" Ana looked at Toti's diagram and summarized. "So there's a limit to the number a Matriarch can hire."

"And a limit to the amount that she can boost, each of her individual hunters." Toti finished the summary.

Ana's first internal reaction after understanding the Matriarchy of this game was a reflex question about the only Matriarch that he personally knew.

"How many guys does Eva Poli have?" Ana was a little jealous.

"Madam Poli? She only has the Sword Saintess as her contracted queen."

Ana pondered over the word 'saintess'.

"I see… so she has no male hunters, right?" Ana felt a bit relieved after hearing that his new lover was truly a pure gem.

"I don't think you should be relieved, Ana." But Toti mistook his relief and interpreted Ana's words as something else. "Most of us wish to be contracted to her, but till date Madam Poli has never required another piece."

"Huh? Why is that?" Ana was surprised after learning more about Eva.

"The Sword Saintess, she is an S-rank hunter. The strongest in the Upper East District."