Vol 3 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Chapter 2 – School Life and Her Speculations
“Fuaah……”
As Lux yawned in the acadeirls on both sides of hihed
They were enjoying their lunch break with just the three of theht now
Placing the furnished platter of plates loaded with several side the curbstone that was placed similarly to a semicircle
Lux was sitting right in the irls
“Hey hey, it’s too early to sleep, Lux Are you tired?”
“W-Well, sort of, yeah……”
As Lux aardly replied, the girl sitting on his right side drew her face even further closer to his
The girl with firm deep crimson pupils and lovely blonde hair side tail as features ── she was the New Kingdom princess, Lizsharte
She was the one who caused his enrollment into the acadeht now; she was a reliable princess
They already had an intiards to the matter of yesterday’s request, he still hadn’t told her about it
Since he found crossed dressing e, Lux wanted to conceal it forever between hiirls of the Triad
“Don’t push yourself too s to do with me froether has finally increased, too……”
With a somewhat feverish expression, Lisha muttered so
Until just recently perhaps due to the fact that he handled a certain request preferentially, he seemed to have made her feel lonely for a while
“Ah, I’ht Lisha-sama I’m fine so──”
Lisha was an eccentric person, rather he should say that she was very ht that the part where she honestly relied on him was very cute
Moreover, since she was not very good at fulfilling her responsibilities as a princess, she continued to endeavor every day as both an engineer of Drag-Rides and a Drag-Knight
Lux didn’t feel reluctant to cooperate with that girl who deserved his respect
“You shouldn’t push yourself so much”
As he was thinking so, he suddenly heard such a voice
“There are a lot of things that I, too, really want to do as usual, but──, it can’t be helped if you’re tired Should I reduce the amount of time we should study today?”
“Eh…… Errr, as I still haven’t caught up to everyone in class, please take care of me today too Krulcifer-san”
As the girl sitting on Lux’s left side sent hiaze, he hurriedly shook his head
The girl hite skin harking back to fresh snow, blue long hair, and possessing a fairy-like mysterious beauty
An earl’s daughter of Yirl whose relationshi+p with Lux had suddenly improved recently
Ten days ago or so, as part of an event, a request was made by Krulcifer to have hiht for her sake in order to dissolve her undesired engagement
Originally, at the time when that matter ended, the temporary lover relationshi+p should have also ended, but──
“Or, would you like to take a break froo out somewhere with the two of us”
Krulcifer softly brought herit
The sweet fragrance drifting fro hair tickled Lux’s nose
“N, No── For a while, I’m still a little……”
While his spine quivered with a shudder, Lux’s face turned red
Ever since that ed
Sied, but recently the level of teasing has begun to exceed that of “just a friend”
“Is that so? That’s too bad Then next tiain”
During the times when Krulcifer tutored Lux, she would softly place her hand over his; for Lux who had never gone out with a girl officially, it was quite bad for his heart
When Lux was inwardly thinking so as his heart was pounding like crazy──,
“Hey……! What are you two secretly talking about?!”
After Lisha, who saw that, groaned in displeasure, she broke the ice in a somewhat impatient manner
“More i that woman──”
“That woman……?”
“I’ lady from one of the Four Great nobles The third-year student Celestia, the leader of our “Knight Squadron” has finally coht”
“Ah……”
With Lisha’s words, Lux recalled that fact
As expected, he could not speak about the matter where he had met her in a cross-dressed state
“That’s right We must certainly talk about it”
Suddenly showing a pondering face, Krulcifer agreed, too
“Using ’s break, I heard various stories, but── It see to drive Lux-kun out of the acade the third-year students”
“Eh……!?”
Lux and Lisha unintentionally reacted to the information they heard for the first time
“It’s the truth Strictly speaking, only one person, a third-year fe up other classmates”
“…………”
Hearing that story, Lux could not say anything
Although he thought that he was completely fainally be in an all-girls academy; so it was probably inevitable that such an event occurred
The Old E androcracy
Especially, the bad impression towards noble men could not be easily removed
Until noith the support of the first- and second-year students, the third-year students who did not know Lux thatthe situation; but the girl called Saniya seeain try to drive Lux out
“Well, rest at ease I swear on dom princess that I’ll absolutely not let them cancel your attendance at the academy”
When Lux showed an anxious face, Lisha said so and puffed up her impressive chest for a small-sized body
“T-Thank you”
Seeing her figure, Lux took a breath of relief
Frankly speaking, Lux grew quite attached to this academy
Friends of the sas that Lux has never had
(Even though I never thought about such a thing when I wandered around due to odd jobs for five years……)
As Lux was thinking such a thing──,
“…………”
tic tic Suddenly, his back was lightly poked by a finger and he turned to look back
“W-What’s the matter……? Phi-chan”
A girl of a so cherry pink-colored hair and a rich chest
After Philphie, as also Lux’s childhood friend, stared at Lux with absentminded eyes for a while, she casually and softly put her forehead on Lux’s
“Wai……!? Philphie!?”
Lux panicked as the pretty face of the girl came before his eyes
“……!?”
While Lisha and Krulcifer on his sides stiffened as they were also surprised, Philphie quietly separated her face
“It’s Phi-chan, right?”
Philphie htly sullenly
“I-Is that really so you should correct now!? M-More importantly, why did you do──”
“Lu-chan Let’s sleep early today”
“Errr……?”
With her usual tone of doing things at her own pace, Philphie said so
Although theshould not be known by anyone aside of the girls of the Triad, it looked like Philphie has noticed that Lux has been tired recently
Her action of having put her forehead on his was to check whether he had fever just in case
“No, but I’ht, so──”
When Lux tried to act brave like he usually did,
“It’s no good if you don’t sleep early”
Philphie emphasized so as she drew her face closer
“Um……”
“If you don’t listen to what I say, we’ll sleep in the same bed”
“Wai……!?”
With her absent
At her stateed
“H-Hey, Lux What the hell does that ether──!?”
“Speaking of which, there was no roommate in her room Lux-kun, don’t tell me──”
“Y-You’re wrong! U-Um ── Phil…… Phi-chan, um, surely says it in the context of a nap──!”
While desperately explaining himself, Lux cursed his own carelessness
Philphie was quiet and taciturn, at the saly stubborn
“I-I got it, Phi-chan! Sorry, it was my bad! I’ll properly sleep today! I won’t push myself!”
“Yes, please, do so”
“Haa, haa”, Lux roughly breathed
He was really surprised every time at the words of this natural airhead childhood friend of his
But, this was surely Philphie’s consideration
This girl kneell since childhood that Lux easily overworked himself
(Did I make her worry until now?)
“T-This airhead girl is unexpectedly a formidable enemy……”
“Yes, I was also taking her lightly, but it looks like she’s quite tough I must be careful, too”
“W-Wait you that are you saying!?”
Lux reacted in a hurry to Lisha and Krulcifer hisperingly communicated
Within such peaceful noises, lunch time passed†And, after school when he finished all of his classes
“Phew…… With this, today’s jobs are over”
As usual, Lux finished handling the requests sent by the acade room
As it was pointed out by Philphie, he had been feeling sleep deprived recently; so he moderated the odd jobs that he undertook to ten, moderate compared to the usual
But alternatively, Lux felt a strange sense of incongruity that he did not have until yesterday
(──It’s not ination, huh……)
He was being looked at
The gazes from first- and second-year fee
But, color of caution was slightly azes turned by the third-year students
Though it was not to the extent of being called hostility, as expected the influence of Celis’s return was probably spreading a the third-year students
While thinking about such a thing, Lux secretly headed to a certain place for the ti
“…………”
The Drag-Ride’s Atelier located in the school premises
He knocked on the backdoor of the brick-“sorry to have kept you waiting”, he calmly opened the door
“Ok, it’s all right Come in,”
As he went inside being invited by Lisha who showed up, several girls have already gathered there around a table put in the place of the usual large work table
“……Wait, so many people came!? Even Airi──”
In addition to Lisha, the chief of the atelier, Krulcifer and Philphie, the three girls of the Triad and even his little sister Airi were already in the atelier, too
“What do you mean by even me? I orried because Nii-san is too unreliable”
Being looked at with slightly aot flustered
In the academy, Airi aspired to beco ancient documents of ruins
Recently, she see of docuht back froation; and partly because she was busy with it, they did not met each other for several days
“If you say that, I would want to reveal that to everyone, you know?”
Perhaps because she did not like Lux’s reaction, Airi suddenly said such a thing
“T-That, don’t tell me……!”
“Yes, I know about that I wanted to see it, too Nii-san’s……”
“Wait, stop!? Please, anything but that──!”
“Next time, will you properly consult me, too? Nii-san”
As he nodded at Airi hispered with a soave him
“Then, I’ll forgive you”
Looking at Lux who tried to stop Airi’s words in panic, Lisha and coether
“S-Somehow it bothers me, but…… Well, let’s leave it for later More iht?”
To Lisha’s steering, all the people present nodded
“Then first, it’s the talk that we heard today froht Squadron”, but──”
So, she spoke about the inforathered about Celis this time one by one
The third-year students knew about Lux almost only by hearsay, but maybe because of the underclassmen’s persuasion, they did not have so much resistance towards Lux’s admission in itself
But, if the reat majority of the third years who kept quiet would end up supporting her
“In other words, it’s up to her will hoe, the third-year students, willwill depend on what Celis thinks of Lux”
Sharis, the only student at this place in the same year as Celis, summarized as such
“Yes Then, should ho know Lux-san well, first try to persuade Celis-senpai?”
“No I think we should probably stop it”
Krulcifer calmly shook her head to Noct’s proposal
“Until now, she has always brought this acade conviction At least, if she could feel shaken by our persuasion, it should have never turned into a situation like this to begin with”
“In the first place, even if ho support Lux-cchi, say it, there won’t be any persuasive power, eh~”
“Hmroaned to Tillfarr’s sigh
In the end, it would turn out like that
As the talk changed topic of whether they should approve not the individual called Lux, but the existence called “man” or should they let all the students decide it, there was no doubt that they were in disadvantage
“…………”
But perhaps because she thought of an alternate plan, when everyone kept quiet,
“──Then, thereNii-san himself do his best after all, huh”
“Eh……?”
To the words suddenly uttered by Airi, Lux tilted his head to the side
“I see, there’s that way”
As Lux was absentminded, Sharis also nodded with her arms folded as is
“Siards you as an exception No matter howby his feelings in the end If youto you, the proble this time in that direction?”
“N-No, isn’t that kind of impossible──”
Lux was not fa the irl
“Ato hi-Ride’s parts that we have excavated from the ruins recently──”
“Would you please stop with your irls ill be pleased with that”
To Lisha’s words, Krulcifer put in a tsukkomi[1] with an amazed face
“Ugh……!? T-Then, what do you suggest to do!?”
In a place where a san, Krulcifer turned around to Lux
“For that, first it’s necessary to have Lux-kun exhibit his weapons, I guess How about it? Have you experienced an odd job, which looks like it would irl happy, so far?”
“Err──”
He pondered for several seconds, but sadly nothing came into his mind
During his five years of odd jobs life, the clients were various; in the first place he had noter
When he began to write all the jobs he has done so far on a paper for the ti,
“Hmm, how about handmade accessories? In order to show his sincerity with a present? Lux-cchi, for the trial before theone for me, too, you know?!”
“No Please, restrain yourself, Tillfarr I judge that it’s ift from Lux-san”
In contrast with Tillfarr in high spirits, Noct, as one grade below, coolly retorted
“Her and save her from it Even I, who am Celis’ fellow third-year student, don’t knohat she dislikes other thanher drink it, I shall kindly nurse the drunken target While giving her a favor like this, Ithe destination as it is──”
“Um, a plan where we’ll all be expelled is a little……”
As Lux stopped Sharis’s proposal while sweating,
“Yes In the first place, de to Lux seement”
“W-Well, that’s right; but it hurts, so please don’t say it too much!”
Although agreeing with Noct, Lux had his heart plainly gouged out
“Indeed Even when Iquite restless the whole time I hardly think that he can skillfully lead Celis-san who is older”
“Could you please end with this topic already!?”
Being told that even by Krulcifer, Lux ended up being crestfallen
“I’ you”
“…………”
With her usual cool saze to Lux
Except the fact that she was an exchange student fro about Krulcifer, who bore a certain ood tendency, but──
(Since she’s a person who seems very noble-like more than the half-hearted me, I’m one-sidedly teased……)
When Lux wasa complicated face,
“Don’t you have any proposal? Philphie-san”
As Airi reht the subject to Philphie as eating cookies
“Hmm……”
Philphie tilted her head to the side for about a few seconds, and then responded with
“Won’t it be fine if he acts like usual?”
Because she gave a normal answer, everyone fell silent
“Was this airhead girl listening to the talk so far? Listen carefully, at this rate Lux will be expelled from the academy──”
“I think thathappen So, I think that if a problem happens, we should just tell her that we don’t want Lu-chan to leave the academy”
With an absentminded expression, Philphie indifferently muttered
To her reply, the others pondered for a while,
“──She’s right That may be the best for the moment”
Airi nodded first
“It’s a fact that there’s a person spreading bad ru the third-year students, but it’s only a person called Saniya and it’s not really like a problem has occurred If ere to react to it and then the opposition”
“In other words, it’s important to unify the wills of the first- and second-year students who already accepted Lux-kun, huh”
When Krulcifer answered so and the talk was about to coe,
knock-knock, a sound of the atelier’s door being knocked was heard
“……What’s the matter? I’m busy now”
“I’m sorry Is Lux-kun here?”
When Lisha, as the atelier’s chief, answered over the door, the voice of a girl who seemed to be a student returned
“H-Hey, the dorm leader seems to call Lux-san, but──”
“He’s currently running an errand for me I’ll tell him when the work is over Tell the doro there early”
“I got it Then, I’ll take my leave”
“…………”
When everyone lowered their voices with dubious faces, the girl’s footsteps went away
“I wonder if it was a nervous reaction Even if the fact that Lux was there is exposed, the “opposition faction” should not be able to do anything about it──”
Lisha muttered so, but she could not be quite sure
“But certainly──, it’s dangerous to move stealthily too much It’s already late today, so shall we call it a day for the ti?”
When Airi concluded so, everyone nodded and decided to do as such
“Then, I’ll leave first I seem to be called by the dorathered tonight for my sake”
Giving his thanks in the end with a s out to the surrounding
“…………”
A few minutes after Lux left the atelier
Silence filled the roo at the back“U-U Lux curry favor from Celestia, personally I don’t want to do it, but──”
Looking at the blushi+ng girl as somehow irritated,
“Y-Yes, indeed It’ll be good and all that her uarantee that both of them won’t really become serious If that happens ── I’ll be troubled”
Krulcifer too slightly blushed and said so
“Haa, what troublesoirls”
Airi, who looked at these two girls, breathed a sh; and the trio of the Triad showed a happy smile immediately after
“I see; in other words, the reason why you said “you can’t lead Celis” to Lux-kun was because you didn’t want it to be like that, huh You also have a cute side in you, eh, Krulcifer”
To Sharis, who turned a broad grin, Krulcifer fell silent
“Then, since the boy left, shall we try having occasionally such a talk? It seems pretty fun after all”
Seeing Tillfarr, who bent herself forward further, Airi lightly clapped her hands
“Let’s already call it a day Everyone, please do not take ”
Along with the slightly a spelt its end†“Still, I wonder what that urgent business is”
Lux, who ca packed the co and went to the dorm leader room in the women’s dorm
He originally intended to go return it as is to Principal Relie, but the plans have changed
When Lux alking the long corridor while thinking about such a thing,
“I-I’m sorry Can I have a little of your time!?”
A girl who gathered her long hair in three braids called out to Lux in a flustered state
Since the color of her necktie was blue, it looked like she was a third-year student; but he was not familiar with her face
She was probably a native of the south region as the rare brown skin was their peculiarity
“Ah, yes Errr── what is it?”
“There’s a person in this roo-Ride and seeet the doctor for medical treatment, could you please look after her?”
“Eh……? I-I don’t mind it, but”
“Then, please! This way──”
The braid-haired girl pulled Lux’s hands and took him to a room on the third floor
“It’s here She doesn’t look fine, so please lightly e her body”
“Ah, yes I got it ──Wait, e!?”
No ent it ouldn’t it be quite a problem for him, a man, to do it?
Lux thought so and was going to decline it immediately, but
“Please I’ve already told her about it after all”
As the braid-haired girl said only that, she quickly left the place
(I-Is it all right for ot to take responsibility for accepting the request……)
After having hesitated a little while, Lux steeled himself and opened the door
Unlike the sharing roohtly small, private rooirl lying face-down on the bed could not be seen
“Um……, excuse me”
As I called out to her just in case and entered the rooirl’s voice returned
“Please, come in you’re quite late”
“Uht if I rub you?”
“Yes I have heard that by doing so, one can be rid of their fatigue”
Though it was a slightly feverish voice, Lux looked puzzled as he felt like it was not a painful voice[2]
“T-Then, excuse me……”
For note, Lux had odd jobs experience in large public baths Of course, there were only e for visitors
(But, I’ve almost never done jobs like medical care──)
As Lux was troubled as to how he should deal with it,
“Is so? If possible, I would like you to do it before ets cold”
“I-I understand Then, please tell me if it’s painful”
As Lux explained, he nervously extended his hands
When his finger softly crept on her back,
“Uwah……!?”
He unintentionally raised his voice
It was diirl’s upper half was naked
That the white abundant chest of the girl’s upper body was softly flattened and could be seen as its majestic volume was reflected in thebefore his eyes
At the touch of the finely strong, fir, firan to pound violently
“……? Is so?”
“N-No!? It’s nothing──!?”
Although his voice was clogged, Lux once again let his fingers creep on the girl’s skin
(……Wait!? Looking closely, not only her back, but also her buttocks, this──)
Upon close inspection, she only wore a piece of white thin cloth on the bottom of her neatly constricted waist
Through that piece of cloth, the girl’s well-shaped big buttocks, and well-fleshed body lines also distinctly stood out; Lux’s head immediately boiled
“Should I turn the light on? Saniya told me that I can relax when it’s dark, so it’s better to turn it off”
“N-No, it’s all right! Um, I will continue, so──”
While parching his throat in nervousness, Lux ed her back in panic
The touch was totally different fro an odd job before
Lux’s face spontaneously becarance and the sensual touch
Even so, as his fingers ree to do it well, but──
“It’s been a while since I last took a bath in the girl’s dor and leisurely”
As she was satisfied with Lux’s way of using his fingers, the girl htly pleasant atmosphere
“But, an acadeood as expected In the capital, I was tensed every day”
“Eh……?”
With these words, Lux noticed
(Having returned from the capital? Wait, d-don’t tell me this person is──!?)
When Lux was thrown in further intense agitation,
“Celis-san? Are you in there? Saniya-san was looking for you, but──”
These words were heard along with a small knock
It was a different voice froirl’s of earlier
(T-This is bad……!)
Lux’s heart was about to stop
This current situation was definitely not Celis’s intention There was no way that Celis, who is a e right after bathing
(W-Why did such a situation happen!? No, in the first place, the girl who called me here said that there was someone who hurt her body──!)
『It see to drive Lux-kun out of the acade the third-year students』
『Strictly speaking, only one person, a third-year fe up other classh』
Krulcifer’s voice echoed in Lux’s mind
And Lux did not knohat Saniya looked like
(No way ── was it that girl!?)
I’ve been set up, when he noticed it, it was late
If the door were to be opened here, Lux would be fra Celis and expelled from the academy
No amount of resistance from the pro-Lux faction could possibly prevent the explosion
“Understood I’ll come back very soon, so could you wait a little?”
“I’ll wait here then”
When Celis politely told so, at the same time she softly raised her upper body
As the white, beautiful back of the girl came before his eyes, Lux unintentionally averted his eyes
“I’ll turn on the light I givecoe my clothes, so──”
When Celis was going to stretch her hand to the lamp of the room,
“P……Please, hold on a little!”
“Is so?”
“E-Errr…… um, I-I must close the curtains! Because you’ll be seen from the outside! And also recently, there’s been a suspicious person──”
“…………”
Those were Lux’s words with only the intent to gain time but,
(T-This is bad I ht have been found out……!?)
“Thank you I was a little careless It looks like I need to reflect”
The girl htly wry smile
(I-I’m saved…… But, what do I do from here on?)
He could not do so off from theof the thirdEven if he were to run outside of the rooht there at the corridor
While a troubled Lux closed the curtain, Celis stood up from the bed and the cloth which was put on her body softly fell
Lux unintentionally turned his gaze at her white naked body visible in the darkness
“……!? S-Senpai!? What are you──”
“I thought about wearing at least my underwear”
(B-But, changing your clothes without even hiding yourself…… even if you’re thinking that I’m a woman── Ah……!)
At that moment, a certain idea crossed Lux’s mind
Lux hurriedly stretched his hand at his bag on the floor and executed it
“Then, I’ll turn on the light”
I on her underwear──,
“…………”