Vol 1 Chapter 6 (2/2)
She wasn't siurehead, she was a truly cool person who knehat it meant to stand above others
”Well then, how shall we handle this?”
Kagezaki slowly drew closer His words seee in for the kill
”If you give us your confirmation, the I will have people dispatched directly froician who committed the taboo, and I assure you ill not let hiht”
Unconcerned, he laid out the facts
””
Adilisia opened her lips
”I”
” know nothing!”
Those words were not Adilisia's
Kagezaki turned to their source
”President Iba?”
”I Itsuki, what are you?”
”I' like that I was underneath the ocean of the <night> with her, and I didn't see anyabout That's why Adilisia has nothing to hide”
Itsuki curled up his fists tightly, strongly, trying to push away fear, but still strong
He endured, staring straight into Kagezaki's gaze
”--My goodness” Kagezaki let out a breath of surprise ”I see If the president of <goetia>'s icians are debilitated for the moment Do you think you can carry out the offer like this?”
He threw off the direction of the conversation After all the work he had done prying into <goetia>'smore
”That is”
”If you need ht here”
This tinified voice rose up from behind Itsuki
”Honami?”
Co her short chestnut-colored hair out of the way, Honami narrowed her eyes
It was a matter-of-fact motion
”President, did you forget? <goetia>”
”Uh y, yeah!”
”Honami”
Adilisia, taken aback, looked at Itsuki, then Honami She had an expression as if she had suddenly turned back into a child
”It's our job We've got sonore it How about it? Wanna contract with us, Addie?”
Honaht wink
Adilisia turned red
” I, I do nota contract with you,” she said in a subdued tone
”Alright then, contract settled Got any coezaki-san?”
Honalasses up
” No, I have none”
Shaking his head, Kagezaki returned his disarrayed documents to his attache case
He then bowed and gave an ely little of an impression
”Well then, this concludes ic”
After the suited figure left the office, Itsuki had fallen back into his chair when Mikan ran into hiether
”Gwah!”
”President onii-chan, you were ao away!”
Mikan jumped up and doith an excited face
Behind her, Nekoyashi+ki, covered head to toe in cats, held his cheek with his hand
”Mht, president”
”H huh? I didn't mean to--”
”No, since you juezaki-san had pushed Adilisia-san so far, you ended up ruining hiezaki-san so angry, you know”
”He, he was mad?”
Itsuki had never been able to read his facial expressions
”Yes, and quite”
Nekoyashi+ki nodded with a smile
From their positions on his knee and shoulder, Byakko-kun and Genbu-kun each gave a ”reement
Soh he was a patient who had just been just diagnosed with a fatal disease
”--Well then, you ed to ride the mood this far What now, president?”
Honami looked at him with delicately cold eyes
”What do you ht>, right?”
”But if we don't have the support of the <organization> it'll be difficult to pinpoint where the <night> will show up next At best ould only be able to narrow it down to a few options”
”Oh”
Darn it He hadn't thought of that at all
Hona her hand on her waist Rather than angry, she seemed more tired
Even though it was another thing that Itsuki had overlooked, it seemed to make her just a little bit happy, too
”Iccha--I mean, president”
”You know, so like that is quite simple”
Adilisia interjected from the side
”Huh?”
She focused her gaze
This far in the gairl was not about to hesitate, and instead she placed her hand across her chest
”Use me as bait”
Part 2
Evening came
As Nekoyashi+ki and Adilisia busied theures on an abacus, Itsuki went out onto the office's messy balcony Decorative plants were scattered about in a disorderly fashi+on, giving the place a feeling sile
Incidentally, it seemed that the battle between Nekoyashi+ki and Adilisia was quite fierce
”This is the set price we charge for each ician involved”
”That is outrageous! The differences in ability between enerally taken into consideration At most, this much would be appropriate,” Adilisia said to Nekoyashi+ki, as clicking away the spheres on the abacus
With a clack, Adilisia stuck her finger between the spheres Nekoyashi+ki hadn't thought that Adilisia could read an abacus
”Th, then, three parts, one less than before!”
Clack!
”That is barely any change at all! No matter how much we compromise, I will only pay this much”
Clack! Clack!
”You aren't even co! Do you realize how much value my cat skills hold? And how much it costs to import Honami-san's mistletoe?”
Clack! Clack! Clack!
”If you are a ical iteinto battle!”
Clack! Clack! Clack! Clack!
Each of their fingers es
” W, wha--”
Just looking at theo sour, so he had left them to be on his own
”What's wrong, president?”
When he turned around, Honami was there
As Hona air, she had her staff with her, and her neck was tilted gently to the side
”Er, I' a break”
”All you do is take breaks”
Tossing a sharp word at Itsuki, Honami sat down on the handrail of the balcony
Her whole back ashed in the light of the evening sun Her white skin and pointed hat looked all the ht
”But still good work,” Honami said with a smile
”Ah yeah”
At the unexpected words, Itsuki rubbed the head of his nose
”And, by the way sorry”
”Huh?”
”I thought that the offer was just for a regular <night> I didn't think things would get that bad Sorry, president”
Closing the space between her knees, Honami pulled down the rim of her pointed hat with her hand Her face couldn't be seen
Itsuki waved both of his hands back and forth
”Ah, it's fine, its fine! Everything ended alright in the end”
”Then that's good Thanks, president”
”Y, yeah”
Perhaps it was a fault that she was always angry at him, but Hona up
Suddenly, he felt as though he should ask so
” Come to think of it, why did you come to
”Why do you ask?” Honaentle voice
”Adilisia said you were an aical groups --No ht?”
”We're?”
”Hm?”
Honami raised her staff and pointed at him
”You said 'we're' So you've finally noticed that you're our president?”
”D, don't make fun of me!”
Honami smiled at Itsuki's reaction
She let out a sigh
” It's because you were here, Icchan”
”What?”
”Nothing”
Juer
She touched Itsuki's eye patch
”Does it still hurt?”
”Huh? No, it doesn't usually anyway”
Wait, what? I don't think I ever told her about
As Itsuki thought, Honaer across the leather
”President--Itsuki, you don't reot your eye patch, do you?”
”Right, but it seems like some kind of bad stuff went down”
He had only fraghost mansion=””> in tears It shouldn't be impossible to remember since it hen he was little, but about a half year before and after the incident, hishe re time
And then, there was another figure that appeared there
”Itsuki! Thisme!”
In a huff, Adilisia pointed her lips Such a face was so like her, and it hter
”W, what is it?!”
”N, no, it's nothing I was just thinking, Adilisia-san, that way of doing things fits you”
”I do not think that is so I should take as a co
”--President, we've decided on the contract conditions, so please stamp here,” Nekoyashi+ki called out from the office
”Ah, co over
””
Looking at his back, Adilisia frowned in a troubled manner
She turned to her side to face Honami
” May I ask you so?”
”What?”
”That eye of his”
”I think it's just what you're thinking”
At Honami's words, Adilisia let out a s
” Glaht”
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