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Next chapter of Rokujouma, at the start of the book, one of the coloured illustrations is of a scene in this chapter, so I figured here is a good place to post it Click on the ie for a full size version

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Summer

After a good deal of time and experiences, the atmosphere in room 106 had calmed considerably They were ue

“…Aah, it’s no good…”

So Koutarou’s worries weren’t just due to the invading girls, but also hi an everyday student

“What’s wrong Koutarou, what are you sighing about?” Sanae answered Koutarou’s sigh gently She was clinging to his back and followed his gaze to the open , showing the su the town “Go ahead and ask me, Sanae-chan, I’ll solve all of your worries”

“It’s not really soo out of my way and talk about”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, just go ahead and tell me”

The other day, Sanae had been captured by ghost hunters and then saved by the residents of rooether and let theest example would be Sanae and Koutarou, ere at the centre of that incident, Sanae now treated Koutarou as a close friend On top of having a truce with her, being treated like a good friend meant he had no reason to be cruel to her

“Well… Suht?”

“Yeah, every day’s hot and nasty, are you worried about the heat?”

“No, the days being hot like this ”

“What treasures?”

Theia perked up hearing the word treasures, and stared at Koutarou whilst blinking perplexedly With the athletics festival and saving Sanae, Theia’s aggressive personality had softened greatly Even now her personality still clashed with Koutarou’s and they argued, but she didn’t treat hied him as a worthy rival

“Well…” Koutarou didn’t answer i to speak, he looked around the roo that a certain person wasn’t around, finally opened his mouth “Beetles, if the su one… I want to go catch one…”

Koutarou sighed again and his gaze returned to the ith a hint of longing Far in front of where he was looking, a reen trees There would surely be big beetles waiting there for him

“Well you reap what you sow, don’t you”

“I said it wasn’t so I needed to talk about”

“Buh”

Sanae puffed her cheeks out in dissatisfaction at Koutarou’s answer

The reason Koutarou couldn’t go out and catch a beetle was because of Ruth’s hatred of them When they went to the sea, Koutarou mistook Ruth for a tree with beetles on it whilst half-asleep and held on to her, as a result, Ruth now hated beetles

Sanae was upset because she felt it was because of Koutarou that she couldn’t do so, she wanted to play with Koutarou

“You truly are an idiot…”

Theia sighed after listening only to be let down She didn’t understand how Koutarou could be so excited just about insects Theia was a girl, and an alien at that so it was hard for her to understand an Earthling boy’s feelings

“Now, don’t say that Sato malicious”

Kiriha was different from Sanae and Theia and was on Koutarou’s side Fro she’d been a to was a rare hero card with a beetle as itsof a boy’s hobbies

“My only ally is Kiriha-san then…”

“Ane-san is kind, ho-!”

“Koutarou, if you’re getting o, ho-”

“Maybe”

“Pay attention! It’s obvious she’s just doing it to trick you!”

“I didn’t intend that at all”

“I don’t believe you! Bleh!”

“Well, it looks like I’m hated Fufufu”

Even though Sanae was snapping at her, Kiriha had an easy smile

“Neanderthal, you already have one freeloader, you don’t need any more”

“I’uardian spirit, Sanae-chan!”

“That’s not it, I was talking about Yurika”

“Hmm?”

Hearing her name, Yurika looked up for aher cup noodle

“Oh yeah, Koutarou is already looking after Yurika”

“I’m not a freeloader, I make my own food”

She didn’t like being treated like a freeloader, so after finishi+ng as in her mouth, she showed Sanae her cup noodle That was Yurika’s tiny pride

“But you know, Yurikaa if you’re just going to keep eating that kind of thing, you ht start ss”

“Uuu a freeloader from now on!”

She only needed two seconds to decide and then she threay her pride and decided to become a freeloader”

“I refuse!”

Of course, Koutarou had no intention of allowing this, he was already unhappy with her living in the upper half of the wardrobe

“Whhhyyy!? You don’t have to be solost at the roadside!?”

“Get lost where you like”

“Even though you say that, you’re still happy you live with me~~”

“Why you… what the hell goes on in your head?”

Like this, the relationshi+ps between Koutarou and the invading girls had softened considerably since they firsttowards each other, but still had to reative feelings fighting against each other It was too soon to call each other friends, but they also didn’t want to call each other enemies If one was troubled the others would help but they’d at some time need to defeat the others Their emotions were complicated

Around the mid-point of the su ht think he would have homework left, but he’d actually already finished it, both to avoid worrying his father and because Haru society had said they’d start activities again once he’d finished Koutarou wouldn’t lie to those two and had finished his homework in July

He’d finished his homework and the society’s activities had resumed, but of course, it wasn’t every day And even if there were, it wouldn’t be fro, so Koutarou had more free time than he knehat to do with This hy he had been thinking about wanting to go insect hunting

“Sato today, so wear this hat”

“Thank you, Ruth-san”

Koutarou lowered his head and Ruth put a straw hat there To avoid wasting ti at the sa the ruins The ruins also needed ood windfall

“And there’s barely tea in this canteen Make sure to take breaks and re-hydrate”

“Leave it to me, Ruth I’ll supervise and make sure he drinks”

Sanae took the canteen that Ruth prepared and put it over her shoulder, she was also going with Koutarou to his work

Since the kidnapping at the beach, Sanae had been with Koutarouthe invaders, she was the only one who had given up fighting with Koutarou She didn’t think of getting points any driven out Even now, on paper, Sanae and Koutarou were enemies, but she already admitted to herself that they weren’t On top of their promise of a truce, now that their relationshi+p as eneone, all that was left was their relationshi+p other than that Sanae felt that as long as she didn’t lose the chance to ain, she wanted the days like this to continue

“Please do, Sanae-sama”

“How often should he drink?”

“If possible, every thirty minutes”

“Roger that… Koutarou, you need to do what I, your work leader, say, got it?”

“I got it, I got it”

“You’ve not got enough love”

“I understand Leave it to me, my lovely work leader Sanae-sama”

“Hood”

Sanae was happy with his response and went around to his back and held on Sanae carried the canteen, towel, tissues and other things and Koutarou did the actual work Somehow this is how the roles had come to be distributed

“Ooh, it’s nice and cool”

Sanae being on Koutarou’s back was cooling and convenient for working under the blazing sun Sanae was a ghost so direct contact with living beings let her take so used in place of a cooler And Sanae was useful for

“Koutarou, where’s your gratefulness for Sanae-chan’s chic maiden power?”

“If you rateful”

“Like this?”

“Oh, that’s it, I’rateful for all of your work, leader”

“Right, if there’s anything troubling you, you can ask your leader, me, at any time”

Seeing their interaction, Ruth closed her eyes slightly in enjoyment

“Satoet on very well now, don’t you?”

“That’s not true”

“Nihihihihi, you can’t lie, Koutarou, the proof’s right here, isn’t it?”

Sanae poked Koutarou’s cheek with her left hand and showed Koutarou the charht hand Neatly e as it protected Sanae, Koutarou’s words were less to her

“He really isn’t soht, we just haven’t built up trust with hihness will eventually…”

As Ruth watched their conversation, she hoped that sorown closer because Koutarou rescued Sanae, but because just before that, they’d shared their true feelings

“Well, see you later, Ruth-san”

“See you lateeer!”

“Take care”

So Ruth watched the in front of her eyes, even if their route was different, gave her the courage to keep going Ruth started to think that their future wasn’t bleak

Ruth returned to the main room and a voice called out to her, Ruth’s master, Theia

“Ruth, you’re unusually happy, did soood happen?”

As far as Theia knew, Ruth was someone who always smiled, but she seee fro off Koutarou and Sanae

“No, nothing in particular I just thought I could see Satos and it made me happy”

“… Sanaeover the roo towards the entrance From where she was, she couldn’t see the entrance, or of course the two that had left, but she could faintly i to Koutarou’s back Like Ruth said, they were like siblings, noisily heading to work

“Sanae was lonely and isolated waiting for her parents, but living with Koutarou pulled her out fro for her parents isn’t painful anymore”

Kiriha added to Theia’s comment

Sanae found living with Koutarou fun, so even if she gained the rights to the roo as Koutarou was there, waiting for her parents wasn’t painful, and Koutarou too hts to the room If that was the case then it didn’tor not

“I’ itself…” Said Yurika, before carrying on slurping her noodles

“Yurika…”

Theia’s eyes ide at Yurika’s innocent words They werethose words from Yurika, Theia, Ruth and Kiriha couldn’t hide their surprise

“She’s not just a simple idiot… if so… no, that can’t be…”

For an instant, Theia considered believing what Yurika always said about her being a hts from her head

“Hmm?”

Noticing their gazes but not knowing the reason, Yurika looked around in puzzle her head, went back to slurping her cup noodles

With Sanae still riding on his back, Koutarou reached Kisshouharukaze High School The ruins Koutarou orking at were at the top of a small mountain by the school Whilst on his way, the sun had beat down iven him quickly proved its usefulness

“It’s surprisingly stuffy in the hat though”

“Is this better then?”

Sanae reached out her right hand and touched Koutarou’s hat, and because she was a ghost, her hand easily passed through the hat and rested on his head

“Thanks”

“Ehehehehe~”

Sanae’s hand released a cold aura Lowering the surrounding tehosts, but it was convenient for the summer heat

“It’s not useful at all in the winter though, is it?”

“It’s really helpful now

“Then praise me more”

“Well done, well done”

Koutarou stroked Sanae’s head over his shoulder and she closed her eyes in happiness Still s it gently or slightly pulling on his hair Sanae kept playing with him, like a small child does with their father in the middle of a nap

“Hey, Sanae”

“What?”

“…No, it’s nothing”

“Really?”

Koutarou thought he would say so to Sanae, but wasn’t entirely sure what so he sed his words Koutarou knew that Sanae doing this wasn’t unpleasant, but he didn’t kno to put it into words andit

“Funfuun♪”

“The weather’s good today, isn’t it”

“Right!”

Koutarou kept walking under the summer skies with Sanae on his back, and their smiles were as clear as the sky

Koutarou was nearly at the school when a bus overtook them The bus stopped at a bus stop in front of the school and several people got off and ran off They were all wearing school uniforuessed they were students They were all headed towards the school, but there was one girl heading the opposite direction, down the hill road

“Koutarou, isn’t that Harumi?”

“Satomi-kuun!”

“It is Sakuraba-senpai!”

She was the leader of the knitting society that Koutarou belonged to, Sakuraba Harureet him When he noticed her, he ran towards her, and Sanae followed slightly behind

“hello, Sakuraba-senpai”

“hello, Satomi-kun”

“Why are you here? I thought there wasn’t atoday?”

“I ca for the cultural festival, I’e of the club after all”

The knitting society weren’tfor the cultural festival held in November

“Try and get us a space then?”

“I will”

If the knitting society could get a space then it woulda chance to make sure their tiny society of two people wasn’t overlooked

“Sato to work?”

“That’s right, while you’re in the cool roo away under the sun”

“Fufufu, be careful not to collapse, okay?”

Haru a wind towards hireat deal of wind but Harumi cute action refreshed him more than actual wind

“I’ on much better with senpai too…”

In the beginning, when they were alone together Haruhtly nervous, but recently that nervousness had faded and gradually she started to show hiht smiles like this

“Even if the student council roo, you be careful too, Sakuraba-senpai”

“Thank you, Satoo now!”

“I should go too then”

“Work hard, Satomi-kun:

“I will! See you next time!”

“See you next time, Satomi-kun!”

Koutarou and Harumi were both happy to see each other unexpectedly but the two of them both had work to do, so the two separated and headed towards their destinations

“So, let’s go to work now!”

When Haruain, Sanae returned to Koutarou’s back Sanae had actually waited slightly away fro

“My bad, sorry foryou fuss”

“With what?”

“While Sakuraba-senpai was here you stayed back, didn’t you?”

Recently Sanae had been less reserved with Koutarou and held onto him most of the time But there were occasions when she waited a little distance away like this Sanae didn’t truly want to cause Koutarou trouble

“Haruht I’d stay out of the way for a while”

“You’re thoughtful sometimes”

Koutarou and Sanae’s argument was solved because of Harumi’s advice, Koutarou had told her this so she knew In other words, being able to hold on to Koutarou was thanks to Harumi, so to show her thanks, when Koutarou and Harumi spoke, she’d be quiet and wait

“You can tell I’rateful evil spirit”

“Then what are you?”

“You can call el Sanae-chan”

“I don’t quite get it, but it sounds strong”

“Right?”

Continuing their light hearted conversation, the two of the the path that went around the school As Ruth said, the two of them did look like an older brother and his little sister

The ruins atop the enerally known as the Kisshouharukaze Ruins The ground was being prepared for an institution related to Kisshouharukaze High School when the ruins appeared Because of this, they were given the name of the school and came to be known as the Kisshouharukaze Ruins

Their discovery was a great shock to the archaeological world because of all the apparently impossible artefacts that were excavated

The objects the but co by hoell they were made, the ruins should be from the Yayoi era However, when they were scientifically dated, it was found they were made ten thousand years before This was unbelievable, the Yayoi era was approxio, but ite skill had been found from ten thousand year old ruins That ht thousand years ahead of their tie discovery that overturned many theories that had existed until now

Itdiscovery, but they needed hard proof They couldn’t just re-write history without a proper excavation and investigation So a large scale excavation of the site began to make sure of the discovery Thanks to that,for part time work, Koutarou became one of them

The as tough but paid well because of it One day’s ould easily earn a month’s rent for room 106 It was close to the school too, so it was an easy place to work Thanks to this, Koutarou could live off of his earnings Being able to live without being a burden to his father was so that Koutarou was proud of

“Koutarou, it’s about time for a break”

“Hmm, it’s already time?”

“Drink some tea, you’ll collapse”

“Thanks, Sanae”