Vol 9 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3

Episode 3Krulcifer Chapter – Weak Point

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Part 1

「──Err, is around here all right I wonder?」

Inside the ground of Acadeht

It was past curfew, in that ti alone behind the school building where there was no sign of people

It seeht like usual, the atelier of Drag-Ride that could be seen at afar had s out from there

Lux aiting in that place following the instruction written in the request application

Lux was busy because of the sudden turn since the campus festival, but because soon he would leave the Academy because of his duty, he wished to do the chores that the student requested him

「But, as I thought this is strange huh……?」

Lux was shi+vering fro his head and talked to himself

One of the written requests that was handed to Lux the other day had this kind of content written in it

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【Working area】 Secret

【Client】 Secret

【Work description】 For the ti when it’s bedtime I will talk about the work there

Please, absolutely coe into your room

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Through his life of doing chores for five years, Lux had also received several outrageous requests

A request from doctor to drink a medicine that was in the middle of development

A work from the weak-e ice that of Lux

Requests like capturing fierce beastpet that escaped and so on, it still caused him to feel headache when he recalled them

He firet naked as model

But, as expected, he couldn’t really re like a request with the client’s name and the job description obscured

At the very least, this had never happened even once since he ca request

(I thought that this h──)

With the inadequate explanation in the written request, originally it should be fine even if he ignored this, but,

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『Please, absolutely coe into your room』

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This part was strangely scary, so in the end Lux came here

The possibility was low, but this ilant at minimum

While he was standing quietly like that, before long the air behind him shook, rustle a small sound could be heard

「Tha, thank you for waiting You coht……?」

「Ah, good evening」

When a girl in uniforreeted with a smile

The face of the girl whose hair hung down until her eyes looked a bit familiar

Because her class was different from Lux, there really wasn’t any point of contact between them, but she was a female student of the same year with him as a civil official candidate

Her naht was──,

「Err, I a that I, earnestly, wish to consult with you about a request……」

It see off her gaze fro tone

Perhaps it was also because of her shyness that her request had nothing written on it

(I’lad It looks like it’s a norht……)

Lux was relieved He irl and spoke

「Yes That’s fine but this place is cold, so how about talking inside the dormitory? Also, if possible please write just what kind of request it is inside the request form beforehand──」

「Tha, that’s nogood-!」

The ed and her voice roughened

「Thi, this is a secret request! Please don’tyou to this empty place is also because of that-……!」

「E, err……?」

While Lux was bewildered, the girl walked toward hih to pressure him

Flaap of her front hair The glint of her eyes looked vaguely dark

The girl talked with a terribly tense aura overflowing from her like a person who hadn’t drunk water for several days in the desert

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「I want you to teach me Krulcifer-san’s weak point That──is my request!」

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「……Yes?」

Lux’sthat

And then, the most bizarre odd job that Lux had ever received in the Acadean

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Part 2

「Co, co that you are not good at?」

「……What’s theunusual that is unlike you isn’t it?」

「N, no, just a bit, for some reason, that’s……」

After school──at night after Lux finished his chores for the day, he was inside the library in the Academy

He was there to receive supple done periodically

Lux who enrolled into the Academy still wasn’t able to completely follow the lesson’s content

He had no problee thanks to the education he received at his childhood when he was living in the i behind in regard to curriculue that was related with Drag-Ride

Of course, he received consideration froot treated appropriately, and in these few iven study lesson like this by Krulcifer who boasted top grade in the Acadeood will

He was also busy from his usual chores, so he also done his study in this time

They would study in the dining hall, parlor, library, and so on It would depend on the time and situation

Lux tried to ask Krulcifer while he was receiving her supplementary lessons, but she easily avoided the question

「For exaood with──?」

「There is none Although there is difference from my preference, but I don’t think there is any subject where ood with it」

「It is, isn’t it……」

That prospect was cut doith a single stroke

That was already obvious by the point of time she was able to teach her classmate Lux about all the subjects

At the very least she had no weakness in regard of studying

「Or perhaps──is there so in Lux-kun’sanyti that bothers you」

「Eh, no, that’s not……!」

Lux was startled when Krulcifer responded with a s and probed back to him

Due to the case of the cae also occurred in Lux’s heart and he becairls

Thanks to that, his heart was beating even harder than before toward Krulcifer’s inviting gesture

He becaood will that she directed toward him

Originally, this should be a fun ti for him

In spite of that, cold sas trickling on Lux’s back

「So, sorry I’ll concentrate properly so──」

Lux apologized in panic while pouring his attention at the book and paper in front of his eyes

(Right now this is the limit of my effort……)

His appeal toward Krulcifer was over already

It would be great if 『that girl』 could be convinced somehoith this but──

「…………」

He felt a sharp gaze like prickling needle from behind

It wasn’t just his iination

Since soo, he could see Nina’s face from the reflection of the libraryin front of hi his way from her cover behind a bookshelf

「-……!?」

Lux pretended not to notice that and he solved the question before his eyes

(Really, just how did it become like this……?)

He desperately concentrated in studying while recalling the happening just a day ago

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Part 3

「Krulcifer-san’s, weak point……!?」

Inside the Acadeht

In that place without any sign of other people, the second year girl student whose eyes were hidden by her front bang──Nina said such thing to him

「……Yes I don’t care whether it’s so that she is especially not good at Nothat she will be troubled if it’s known, a secret about her shortco」

Her voice was cornered and tense

And then, an unusual tenacity could be felt fro

「Eerrr……are you, saying that seriously?」

「What? Is it no good?

「No, it’s not that it’s no good…… In the first place, why are you asking so like that?」

Krulcifer was an overseas student frorade was also great

It was to the degree that she was standing out from the crowd even in this Academy

That hy, no s, it wasn’t strange even if someone was jealous of her

But, froirl before him looked like, so this because of resentment

「That’s──it’s, e, errr, this is I, it’s so that is extre like that got seen A, anyway, because ot exposed to her, I won’t be able to feel relieved if I don’t know some secret of hers too!」

The girl pointed up her finger with a snap looking terribly flustered

(When I wondered what is this about, it’s so like that……)

Probably Krulcifer herself didn’t pay that much attention about it

「But, at the very least I don’t know about any weakness of Krulcifer-san, I can’t even iine it」

Lux answered honestly like that

Nina glared at Lux with a gaze as though she couldn’t accept it

「Then, please investigate it I will also tried to look for it, but I didn’t find anything at all…… If it’s you who had even temporarily beca」

Even though she told hi

(About that lover thing, in the first place it was a request to fake that……)

When doing chores, the thing that mustn’t be done the most was a work that stepped into the territory of 『soh that request

It would be terrible if by doing his job seriously he was inviting unnecessary trouble instead

Even if it didn’t beco that would trouble his important friend Krulcifer

That hy, he determined himself and refused

「My bad, but I cannot accept that kind of request that will trouble other person like that I will pretend to never hear this story, so if you can abandon this pursuit from here──」

「……Then, it can’t be helped, I will continue to investigate it by myself I swear I will find it no matter what method I have to use Even if I have to use a way that will be soh──」

「Eh……!?」

The words of the girl as clad in dark and muddy aura made Lux shuddered

「I, isn’t that a bit bad, or I wish you will stop……」

He didn’t know if Krulcifer really had a weakness

But, he felt a bit uneasy to leave this cornered girl to act recklessly like this

(This is bad, if I just leave her alone, and some kind of problem happen──)

The fretful Lux iht of a method to follow up

「H, h?」

「……What is it?」

The girl directed her eyes that were shaded by dark shadoard Lux and let out a cold voice

「If I accept that request, you yourself won’t do anything strange toward Krulcifer-san」

「Are you going to……, accept the request?」

「If I can, add some conditions to it, then I will」

Lux asked with a nervous look

This query itself was half a gamble, but there was no other way

「……Understood Then, please do」

After staring unblinking at Lux, the girl sighed and nodded before long

After that, they talked just for a bit, then Lux parted froirl and returned to his room

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Part 4

In the end, Lux exchanged several conditions with the girl while accepting the request

The condition from Nina was for him to find Krulcifer’s weak point within several days

The condition fro toward Krulcifer during that time

And then, at the time Lux accomplished the request, she wouldn’t make any request like this any rash toward Krulcifer

「Fuu…… For the ti well, is it?」

Lux was falling on the bed in his rooaze casted down

His bargaining with the girl was far e an agreement with her

Of course, he couldn’t search for a weakness that Krulcifer herself seriously didn’t want anyone to know, so he was thinking to look for so that would satisfy the girl

Next if he could get the girl to accept it after hearing the weakness, then this request would be over

「A weak point of Krulcifer that can convince that girl……」

Although he said that, but in reality he had no prospect

But, at this ti that there was no need to think hard about it

「…………」

He was gradually pressed by the heavy weight that was his sleepiness and he accepted the sensation of his body sinking onto the bed

Like that Lux’s consciousness became distant in the blink of eye

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Part 5

The next day was class work like usual

Lux woke up early at the ed into his uniform

The chores at earlywere divided into several pattern types

The work today was the cleaning up of the Acaderound

He would clean up the surrounding of atelier, so he went to the kitchen to ask for tea which he would bring when going to wake up Lisha too while he was at it

Afterup Lisha, Lux finished the cleanup of the surrounding and headed to the dining hall to take breakfast──

「Ah……!」

He noticed the existence of a girl in the corner of the dining hall──Nina, and he recalled

『Please find Krulcifer-san’s weak point quickly』

Such insistence was emitted as aura that oozed out from her whole body

Lux was startled inside his heart while heading to where Krulcifer was at inside the dining hall

She had started eating breakfast already, but her hands stopped when her eyes met Lux’s, and she smiled to him with an expression that was filled with deep affection

「GoodYou are early today too」

「Krulcifer-san too E, err, speaking of that, don’t you feel hard, waking up early in the ?」

Pressured by the client girl’s urging, Lux quickly atte

Feeling weak at the

If he could Nina to recognize even so at that level as weakness then it would be fine, but──

「It’s not a problem When I was at Ymir Theocracy, I had to wake up even earlier and pray, so it has become a habit to wake up early sinceinstead for me」

「Ah, i, is that so……」

His first attempt failed

(Well, I so the first people here at breakfast time, but──)

Lux’s eyes darted toward the corner of the dining hall once more

As expected, the girl called Nina was looking at Lux with a dissatisfied expression

「Co, come to think of it, Krulcifer-san you, is there any food that you cannot eat? The food in this dining hall is always delicious, but at Ymir Theocracy──」

「I have nothing I like or hate Naturally I have so a cooking that I cannot eat no usted fro the food’s appearance or aroma」

「I, I see……that’s a, Krulcifer-san」

He failed again

It seemed there was no more weak point that he could probe in this meal time

With breakfast tray in hands, Lux sat in front of Krulcifer once more and he also took his meal

Regarding the skill in cooking too, rather than Lux who had experience doing odd jobs at bar or restaurant, Krulcifer was the onecamp in summer

Her elegant tablealso looked perfect from Lux’s point of view

By noup, her uniform and hair weren’t disheveled at all

(Or rather, at that tiirl’s momentum and promised her without any consideration but…… Could it be, searching for Krulcifer-san’s weak point is actually a terribly difficult thi──)

Noticing that fact, Lux felt astonished inside his heart, it was then──,

「Lux-kun」

「Eh──?」

Krulcifer as sitting at his opposite suddenly lifted up her waist and leaned forward Her face was co closer to him

Her looks were beautiful, like a fairy in fantasy

Seeing it coaze, he felt startled reflexively

「It’s a bit dirty there, look」

Quietly, the napkin in Krulcifer’s hand gently wiped Lux’s mouth

The remains of red tomato sauce that was used in the breakfast was attached there

「Ah, that……, thank you」

Lux spontaneously turned red faced from embarrassment Krulcifer smiled with her usual cool expression

「It’s fine to think, but it’s better to relax at least when in theI understand that Lux-kun is busy, but so you know?」

「……Ah, yes I’ll be careful」

Lux replied while feeling abashed

(Wait, far froot followed up by Krulcifer-san!?)

In addition, he even al

(Perhaps this is really bad……)

The instinct of Lux who had accon of a protracted battle

Or perhaps, this request ht end up to be one of the rare requests that were impossible to accomplish──but

「…………」

Froirl whose eyes were hidden by her front hair──the girl client Nina was gazing at him

(Can I really do this? Soe Krulcifer-san’s weak point within a few days──)