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Rinslet tilted her face, staring at it
”H-Hurry and eat it—”
Ahm
Urged by Claire, Rinslet placed the black object into her mouth
”So sweet This is chocolate!”
”Looks like the first attempt was quite a lucky strike—”
Fianna shrugged
”Th-Then I'll go next—Hah!”
Claire swiftly stuck her chopsticks into the pot and stirred the bubbling soup
”H-Huh?”
The ingredient she had picked up seeht somewhere
”What's wrong?”
”I-I can't lift it”
Claire pulled hard to haul the object up
Then—
”Here!”
The instant she lifted her chopsticks, it appeared before her eyes
A gigantic lobster, thirty centith
”H-Hwah!”
”E-Ellis!?”
Ellis screahtly
”W-What a scary face!”
”Hold on, Ellis!”
”What is theof such unruly behavior!?”
”So unfair, I want to too—”
”Hwah, g-get that thing away!”
Part 5[edit]
However, the likes of chocolate and shri mystery hotpot ritual
The brutality of the radually increased
Ellis forced herself to s the ulped down a chocolate parfait
”Urgh, guh, guhguh”
”K-Kaht?”
Seeing Ka pale, Ellis asked in worry
”Y-Yeah Th-This kind of thing I'h”
”Your voice is tre”
When he was a child, Ka at the Instructional School Shoving all kinds of things into his mouth to survive nohis sense of taste through self-hypnosis
(H-However, this is totally)
Holding chopsticks, his fingers were treainst the fact that he ate a parfait
”W-Water Got any water?”
”Kaet disqualified if you drink water”
Fianna warned
Incidentally, as the princessover the ritual, Fianna was not a participant
Still, it looked like she was the only one enjoying herself Was it his iination?
”W-What a harsh ritual”
”Kamito, does your stomach hurt?”
Est stroked Kamito's back while he laid down on the floor
”I-It is ain”
Rinslet extended her chopsticks and reached into the pot
But what she fished out was a ragged piece of paper
The writing on the paper seemed to be spirit script
”What is this?”
”Hold on, let me look it up—”
Fianna flipped through the grimoire
”Hmm Found it, this is the Double Card”
”Double Card?”
Getting a bad feeling, Rinslet grimaced and asked
”Yes, you have to eat two portions at once”
”W-What, that is going way too far!”
”Next ingredients are salmon roe and sea urchin”
Floating up from the bottom of the mystery hotpot were salmon roe encrusted with salt crystals and squishy sea urchin flesh
”M-Milady, this combination is definitely another lucky hit”
”If only this was not a hotpot”
Rinslet replied with a la look—
Closing her eyes, she sed hard
”Ugh, ugugu~”
”Milady, a-are you okay, milady!?”
Holding her throat, Rinslet gurgled while rolling on the floor
”Now Claire, your turn next”
”I-I know, okay”
Claire's expression was stiff with a fearful look She reached into the pot with her chopsticks
”? It's another card”
”That's the Skip Card Skipping over the next person, it is now Kamito-kun's turn”
”Y-Youme”
”Kaht?”
”Gah, I know that I'll take the plunge—Huh? Another card”
”That one is Reverse, so the sequence goes backwards now”
”Meaning that it's Ellis' turn”
”K-Kamito, look what you did!”
Ellis tearfully protested
”S-Sorry”
Hence, it was Ellis' turn
What she fished out of the pot was a piece of fried chicken
”Ellis, this one is definitely a lucky hit!”
”Yes, the fried chicken's oil protects it fro the soup You are so fortunate”
”I-I see”
It looked like everyone's senses had numbed somewhat
Part 6[edit]
The nighted on
”Gah, chocolate cake, this is gonna turn ae actually edible?” ”Iyahhhh, I don't want to eat locust boiled in soy sauce!” ”Hya!
The young ladies were rolling on the floor as though suffocating, almost like a scene with piles of corpses
Hence, in the fourteenth round The first competitor dropped out
”Sorry, Carol I cannot Cough, cough”
Rinslet had eaten a crepe soggy with black soup
”Milady, pull yourself together, milady!”
”Carol, I leave Mireille, in your hands”
”Miladyyyyyyyyy!”
Carol's cries fell on deaf ears Rinslet collapsed and lost consciousness
”Your courage was commendable, Rinslet Laurenfrost”
”Yes, I won't forget your deeds”
Claire spoke to the un Rinslet and reached into the pot
”Ugh, gugu, uhhhh guh”
Claire pinched her nose in suffering and ate the pickled squid How should one describe it? This was a tragic expression oflady would want any outsider to witness
Even so, the seething and bubbling soup of hell was not so that anyone could fathom
”I guess it's my turn”
What Kamito fished out was—
”W-What the heck is this!?”
The ”ingredient” he had picked up was so with black soup
This was a kneesock, totally saturated with mystery hotpot soup
”hell if anyone can eat this!”
Kamito reflexively fired a protest at Fianna
”In this s can appear”
”Gah, for real?”
Ka kneesock
Its material was likely silk Silk came from a silkworm's threads, a type of protein Since it had been cooked for so long, Kamito supposed it should have softened somewhat
Indeed, it was not soestive syste totally inedible Maybe
(II have to ask about Restia!)
Kamito resolved himself and closed his eyes
Then he bit into this kneesock of unknown origin
”K-Ka it!” ”Kamito so perverted!”
Ellis, Claire, followed by Est stared wide-eyed in shock
”Ugh, gugu, guguguguguguu!”
Naturally, Kamito choked
”Kamito-kun!” ”Wait, Kamito!” ”Don't force yourself, Kamito!”
”Guh I-I'!”
With the kneesock stuck in his throat, Kamito's consciousness faded away
(Fufu, how foolish of you, Ka in such a place)
(Yeah, I am a fool, seriously)
Seeing Restia with a gentle san to see his life flash before his eyes
Then he lost consciousness
Part 7[edit]
”Finally, it is a duel between art—”
”Upon e—”
Thus, the final battle began
Right now, the only people active in the roo over the ritual (As a side note, Est had turned back into a sword the moment Kamito collapsed, whereas Carol had taken the unconscious Rinslet back to the Academy)
Thelike lava fro off an evil aura
”Before the final shon, I have a question for you”
Ellis spoke quietly
”What is it?”
”Claire, what is your wish?”
”U-Umm, umm”
Claire glanced at thein front of her—
”S-Someone like you can never understand It's a secret”
Then she aze away
”Is that so?”
”And yours?”
Ellis looked at Kamito, collapsed on the floor
”I-I was thinking, spending a day with Kamito, a date It is a s-secret, okay!”
Finally she yelled, blushi+ng intensely
”So unfair, you clearly asked me first—”
”D-Didn't you refuse, saying it was a secret too!?”
”No, if you two don't hurry up, the time limit will be over”
”G-Got it Then it's oes!”
Urged by Fianna, Claire reached into the pot with her chopsticks again
What Claire picked up was a redients in the mystery hotpot would acquire a layer of pitch-blackness from the soup, but this was even blacker than that
”I don't quite get what this is but Ahm!”
Claire placed the black o
”!”
Then she froze with that expression
”W-What is the matter, Claire?”
”This is, this is a piece of charcoal!”
Exhaling a puff of black smoke, Claire collapsed on the floor
”Why do I get the feeling that she got what she deserved?”
Fianna shrugged
”You win, Ellis Con grats”
Delivering these words with a s
”Claire”
”This is no time to be mired in sadness, Ellis Your turn—”
”Yes, I know—”
Ellis put on a serious expression Once all the other co spirit of the pot could be su the final component, the thick black soup
”Kao to waste!”
Ellis picked up the pot and began to drink the thick and oily soup in one breath
”Ugh, gurgle guh ughhhh!”
This thick soup was the result ofparfait, nattō, cream puff, pickled squid, charcoal, kneesocks, etc The taste had far surpassed the realnition and was practically the e” cooked in a pot
”Nngu, gu nn gu”
Ellis forced the viscous pitch-black soup down her throat and into her stomach
”I-I drank it all”
—At that very lowed intensely
”W-What is going on?”
”The spirit of the pot is about to appear!”
Fianna cried out
Then a certain figure appeared from the pot
”Y-You!?”
Part 8[edit]
”So this is what is currently going on?”
Three ained consciousness and remarked with narrowed eyes
”Hoo, I can't believe you people actually attempted that mystery hotpot ritual”
In front of the eray hair sht
Indeed, what had appeared fro spirit—
Instead, it was the headmistress, Greyworth
”Head on either What on earth—”
Ellis asked with a puzzled look
Greyworth glanced at the gri—
”This sure brings back o when I created this mystery hotpot ritual—”
”You created this ritual, Headmistress?”
Fianna cocked her head and asked idened eyes
”It was a long tio Back then, Areishi+a Spirit Acadehts established so the school was quite disorderly Duels between nobles happened on a daily basis—”
With her hand on the pot, Greyworth partially closed her eyes in reminiscence
”With battles going on, day in and day out,it to be a serious situation, the Ordesia council decided that certain measures must be taken, namely—”
”This ht?”
”—Indeed Back then, I had not become the headmistress yet”
Greyworht nodded Instead of fighting directly using spirits, eleh this mystery hotpot battle This simple method of battle, which had been used since ancient ti an end to e
”So there is this kind of history behind the mystery hotpot ritual”
Ellis nodded approvingly
”Then the rumor about the spirit in the pot is—”
”Naturally, that kind of thing doesn't exist—”
Greyworth shook her head calmly
”However, there was a systee-scale , pardons from punishment, stuff like that I suppose that ru students after this syste on the current form”
What had summoned Greyworth from the pot was the teleportation spell she had set up for rewarding winners Most likely, she had forgotten to erase the Transfer ic seal and left it there
”Oh well, and here I was thinking it could be true”
Kamito slumped his shoulders in disappointment
”But in a certain sense, the rumor is true—”
”What do you mean?”
Ellis asked the s witch
”If you possess the physical endurance and e victorious from the harsh mystery hotpot battle, as well as the determination to realize your wish, then the vast ht? That's the ”
”What twisted logic”
Kaood point Ultiranted wishes was human willpower, a principle that could not be any simpler
”I see now What grants wishes is human willpower huh”
The straightforward Ellis was moved and recorded these words in her notebook
”But this mystery hotpot ritual was quickly abolished in the first place That was after the founding of the Sylphid Knights, thus creating defenders of order in the Academy”
”I see”
”I'one—”
Glancing at Claire as still collapsed unconscious on the floor, Kahed
”Oh well, now that the truth of the ruhts is accomplished”
”Yes Let us return to the Academy to prepare a report And this is to prevent further casualties froain”
Ellis stood up and sic
”By the way, in the end, ish did you make, Ellis?”
”~U-Umm It is a secret, okay!”
Ellis cried out, blushi+ng intensely