This sounds like a good theory too. I'm not against angels being in this story but i want to be a softie and believe Mai just loves Lily so much she couldn't fall for the devil powers.

The true love exemption for charm and mind control is a classic, and for good reason.

What sort of things a human who sign the contract will get? Money? Power? Anything he wants? In return, what does the succubus get by signing a contract? She can have sex with anyone anyway, or if she likes, she can just stick with one single human for life as if there were a contract.

Traditionally, deals like this are fairly straight forward. Mortal gains service of the devil for a period of time, often until their death. Once that period has elapsed, devil gains ownership of mortal's soul. The services a succubus can render are mostly pretty obvious, but the devil is in the details of what the contract actually stipulates.

It honestly might be as little as 'perpetually attractive wife who's DTF 24/7' with provisions for having children. I could see there being wiggle room for requesting tactical use of devil powers to grease the wheels of career advancement, but I doubt the main focus of the contract is in that direction. Unless succubi are the only devils around, I suspect there are other kinds who make avarice and ambition the primary concern of their own contracts.

As for what they get out of things besides free and clear feeding, various depictions have either souls as a useful personal commodity for devils, or in other cases the devils are operating under a quota with regard to mortals consigned to hell by their actions and may face pressure from infernal hierarchies to deliver them.

My theory was just that having been given life-force by the devil girlfriend gave her temporary protection from devil powers. Her dead mom having been an angel that returned to heaven isn't a terrible idea either though.

Well, following the link to the mangadex forums shows that they got as far as the semi-finals, and then there was a voting controversy involving macros to spam the numbers, resulting in the one in charge taking drastic measures to redesign the whole shebang from the ground up, a no doubt time consuming undertaking.

Some people bounced off the sporty arcs in a big way, and for all that I've personally found it more compelling as it's gone on it is a mostly mundane school setting, ghosts and (magic?) love poisons aside.

^^^^ Previous images have ghost cats more white-ish, or blue, or teal. I suspect the colouration is just something that naturally varies, perhaps by region or phase of the moon or something since each image has but a single colour of ghost cat.

I continue to be impressed by the use of space in these images. The backgrounds (and foregrounds) are always rich in detail and well filled out. It's never just witches smooching in a vacuum.

Whether one views Niji as a villain or not, she's made it clear she's no mastermind. She is basically attempting to simplify her situation with all the nuance and forethought of grabbing two people she's never met and going 'now kiss'.

It is kinda funny seeing people regard Toudou as more noble than she sees herself.

"You only talk shit to inspire or admonish people."

"I talk smack when I feel like it without really thinking it through most of the time, but whatever."

Also chuckled at Yanagi basically going 'don't think this means you've won' with her hand up a girl's skirt.

Wow, that's quite a lot of background ships, even outside those that had been indicated in previous chapters. The only minor nitpick I would put forth is that I really doubt Kanako gives Suwako piggy back rides. Even if they both couldn't fly, I'd sooner expect the latter to just earthbend herself a taller seat if she couldn't see the show.

Oh man... what if each of the harem members ends up in that kind of "wait for me" situation, and Mei has to make a decision for herself at the end, and at the end we just see her going off to pursue one of them, but the author never tells us which one?

That'd be mean. At least make the last chapter a 'choose your own adventure' where it depicts her catching up to each of the girls in a speculative 'reader can decide which is canon' scenario if you're going to do that sort of thing. Or a forked epilogue or something.

Please don't bully her (like this), miss villainess! :p

But seriously, yeah. It's sad, but it naturally follows from previous characterization. Niji feels powerless in her private life, and after things with Remu went wildly out of bounds from her perspective she was granted a lever to force compliance. She ain't going to relinquish it without making things worse for everybody, I think.

-Nun bursts in like the spanish inquisition-

"Release that human at once, you soulless creature of the... night?"

-see vampire pinned down and smooched silly-

"Ah. Pardon me."

-Exits sheepishly and without suspicion-

Welp. Azuki made some big strides. But now Remu is being blackmailed. Niji might even give her scripts to work off of, the looney.

I'm not sure what kind of ending would have felt more suitable.

Landlady pulls the other gal into the bedroom with one hand, a can of whipped cream in the other.

"That was a satisfying meal." She says in a close-up on her face. "But now I want dessert." Cut to black.

Though it felt like getting NTR damage when violet kissed Dahlia while Merchant girl (Violet)'s body guard was just watching lol...Guess either body guard-san doesn't have any romantic feelings for her boss or she is a very very open minded person... [Violet isn't going to date and marry her onee-sama anytime soon...It obvious that its seems to be a goodbye kiss...probably a goodbye kiss to say farewell to their possible relationship...].

The second part. Felt more to me like Shion was secure in her and Violet's relationship, and as a confidant to her lady likely knew all the background underpinning the interaction between her and Dahlia. She saw this scene play out and recognized it was that goodbye (and Violet getting much needed closure on the whole thing). Considering the next few pages have a moment between Violet and Shion with Dahlia in the background pretty much going 'oh, they're like this', I'd be surprised if they were not explicitly romantic by the end. As it is, their scenes are leaning hard enough toward it they're stressing the boundaries of the 'extremely devoted retainer (but platonic, we swear)' interpretation.

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I called it a crack theory but it looks to be the truth, dang. Oh Madoka, why must chronomancy drive lesbians to dash their hearts against the cruel tragedies of fate?

Well. That was ominous.

Page 23... is that just a cheeky way to get around drawing the corpse again, or are we dealing with mind screwery?

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I actually kinda like that while that Toudou, righteously pissed off about what her friends had to deal with went the extra mile to get President triplesakura to give a formal apology.

I also can't help but think that Hana mentioning that that dossier has everything they have on culprit like she did was another try at baiting a hook, this time for the student council mole since it will be in their care and the more deniable holes in their security will be closed.

And if there wasn't so much of a line ahead of her I'd be curious about disciplinary captain pursuing Toudou too.

Also, if I were Toudou I'd be concerned with having disturbed the hornet's nest enough that the bad elements send people to rough her up on her way home or something. But then she does have a number of friends who could help with that, and even more willing to walk her home I'm sure.

Edit: As always I appreciate your work, Asterist. Just had to note that on page seven multiple instances of the word 'dossier' are missing an s.

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My guess is that Kase is upset, but the kind of upset where she thinks she might say something she'd regret if she got into it before cooling down. So she's waiting til she gets backs to talk about it.

Alternatively, she's just head-emptying her way through this and doesn't even realize that Yamada is getting anxious over her single emoji replies.

28 days later had pretty quick turnaround. Seem to recall one guy getting a drop of bad blood in his eye and going from 'I'm probably okay' to 'oh shit, I'm turning' to growling and nearly mindless in about a minute.

So it seems like, as in many settings, the zombie virus has both airborne and fluid transmission vectors. Miya and her mother managed to hole up and hide for the most part but it would seem that the mother got infected at some point (probably while scavenging) and Miya got it as she made her way out of the house or maybe shortly before. Eko on the other hand had her struggle with (at least the airborne variant of) the virus and is maybe immune, maybe a carrier in her own right. Only real question here is if Risa seriously questions why Eko was here with Miya.

I could totally see some remnant of governmental authority finding the immune(?) Eko and sentient zombie Risa and try to get them for study while Eko responds to the less abducty overtures with 'Ha. You think I care about saving humanity?'

So from the top, the curse in question is the one that will form a new demon lord and make sure that Demon Lord is chaotic evil as all get out. That curse was originally sealed away by the legendary Sage that taught Yvonne's mother and the half demon Olivia. She took the curse unto herself and was sealed away.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/please_bully_me_miss_villainess_ch80#7

But Yvonne's mom had to go and touch up the seal later, she could patch the seal but not force the evil that leaked out to go back, so she had to take it into herself to prevent it from going around freely. Even this smaller portion caused her health to rapidly decline.

Back when they were kids Yvonne decided that to take that to herself instead when her mother's condition went critical, and Elsa drugged her and took it instead.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/please_bully_me_miss_villainess_ch82#2

It is important to note that the curse does not just go away. It has been within her the entire time since then, but because of her ridiculous magic power it only can really affect her when she's burned through most of her magic,

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/please_bully_me_miss_villainess_ch107#3

or when she's in a state of mental turmoil, like now.

Speculation on my part, but the curse probably doesn't need a host to actually go through with suicide (though that would free it to go out and be awful, as an immaterial magic-spirit thing, probably), if one gets to the point that they give up to despair completely, I suspect it would take that opportunity to take them over from the inside.

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Darkness curse gonna darkness curse. That isn't too shocking. Crack theory time: Witch Elsa is trying to get her to give up so that she can slide in and have an Evie to herself.

Was Rubeus's uncomfortable level of devotion to Gran indicated to have a romantic aspect? I don't recall seeing that.

Youkai once again leveraging their powers to accomplish things mere humans cannot. Like being both the big and little spoon at the same time (without the addition of a third person).

"You're already loved."

"N-nani?"

-Bocchi explodes-