Volume 3 Chapter 4 (1/2)

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Chapter Four: Love Triangle[]

Louise was seated in the east courtyard of the Acadeic, co weather was beginning to change as su clothing Even during the summer, it was quite dry instead of humid

Ten days had passed since they had returned fro dessert, Louise came to the courtyard after her ive her hands a rest and stare at the white pages of the Founder’s Prayer book while thinking of a fitting edict for the Princess’s ceremony

Around her, students were enjoying theic, they would throw the ball into a basket without using their hands and try to score the hed heavily and looked at what she had started to knit

Looking at the scene fro there quietly, Louise looked like a beautiful girl Louise’s hobby was knitting When she was sic, she should at least have soht her how to knit

But it seeive Louise any talent in knitting Louise had planned to knit a sweater However, regardless of how favorably she looked upon it, it looked more like a distorted muffler Actually it was led ool Louise stared bitterly at the object and let out another sigh

The face of thein the kitchen resurfaced in herfood for Saito Saito thought Louise didn’t know, but she was not completely oblivious

That girl can cook well Kirche has good looks What do I have? Harboring these thoughts, she decided to try her hobby, knitting, but it seeood choice

Just as she was beco she was knitting, so, Louise quickly hid what she was knitting with the Founder’s Prayer Book

“What are you doing Louise?”

Kirche gave her usual s down on her, and sat next to Louise

“C-Can’t you see? I’”

“But, that book is blank, isn’t it?”

“This book is a national treasure called the Founder’s Prayer Book, you know?”, said Louise

“Why do you have a national treasure?”

Louise explained to Kirche that at Henrietta’s wedding ceremony, she was to read out the edict and how she was to use the Founder’s Prayer Book, and so on

“I see I’ to do with the journey to Albion?”

Louise considered whether to answer Kirche truthfully or not, but since Kirche had acted as a decoy so that they could go on ahead, she nodded

“We risked our lives so that the Princess’s wedding could proceed sious task… So, basically it has so to do with the alliance between Tristain and Germania announced the other day?”

Kirche was quite sharp

“Don’t say anything to anyone about it,” said Louise with a slightly discouraged expression

“Of course I won’t I’m not Guiche you know Our two native countries have becoht, La Vallière?”

Kirche put her hands on Louise’s shoulders and smiled, almost purposefully

“Did you hear? Albion’s new governression treaty Cheers to the peace that we brought about”

Louise replied half heartedly For the sake of this peace, Henrietta had to marry a prince whom she didn’t even love You could say that she had no choice, but it wasn’t so to be happy about

“By the ere you knitting?”

Louise blushed deeply

“I-I wasn’t knitting anything”

“You were It’s here, right?”

Kirche grabbed it from under the Founder’s Prayer Book

“Hey, give it back!”

Louise was trying to take it back, but Kirche easily restrained her

“What is it?” asked Kirche, du at the object

“I-It’s a sweater”

“A sweater? It looks more like a starfish And a new species at that”

“As if I would knit so like that!”

Louise finally snatched her knitting back, and looked doards, embarrassed

“Why are you knitting a sweater?”

“None of your business”

“That’s ok I knohy anyway”

Kirche put her hands on Louise’s shoulders again and approached her face

“You were knitting it for your familiar weren’t you?”

“N-No! I would never do such a thing!” cried Louise, with a bright red face

“You’re really easy to understand you know You like hi into Louise’s eyes

“I-I don’t like hiood qualities”

“You know Louise, when you lie, you’re earlobes shake Did you know that?”

Louise quickly grabbed her earlobes Realizing that it was a lie, she returned her hands to her knees in a flustered manner

“A-Anyhoon’t give him to you He’s my familiar anyway”

Kirche laughed and said, “It’s good that you want hi about, I think”

“What do you mean?”

“Um… perhaps that kitchen maid?”

Louise’s eyes shi+fted

“Heh, so I was right?”

“N-Not really…”

“If you go to your roo”

Louise stood up quickly

“I thought you didn’t like him?” Said Kirche in a playful tone

“I only forgot so off

Saito was cleaning the room He had to sweep the floor with a broom, and wipe the tables with a cloth As Louise had recently been doing her own laundry as well as other things related to her appearance, Saito’s as reduced to cleaning

Cleaning was done very quickly Louise’s roos in the first place, a small desk with drawers next to the closet, a table with a s a small plant, two chairs at a table, her bed and her bookshelf As Louise was a fairly studious person, her bookshelf was lined with thick books

He took one of the books down It had characters that he had never seen before Well of course, thought Saito as he put it back But, as he able to coe was different, and yet they were able to understand each other

“What’s wrong partner?” asked Derflinger as leaning against the wall of the room

“Derf! Why do I understand what you’re saying?” asked Saito as he rushed to Derflinger

“Well, if you didn’t understand, ould be in a bit of a pickle”

“I come from a different world And despite that I’e I don’t understand why!”

Saito remembered the person as saved by Old Oso He was a person from his world It seems like he and Osman had spoken with each other

“How did you coinia anyway partner?”

“I’ht…”

“Then I would think that the answer has soh it were nothing important

“What exactly was that gate then?”

“Dunno”

Saito was a bit surprised

“You’re a legendary sword and yet you don’t know anything You should know a bit et me home…” Said Saito bitterly

“I’etful and not really interested anyway Can’t rely on legends too much”

Someone knocked on the door Who could it be? If it was Louise, she wouldn’t knock It’s probably Guiche or Kirche? “It’s not locked” Said Saito

The door opened and Siesta popped her head in

“S-Siesta”

“Umm…”

She was in her usual htly different Her done up silky black hair dangled on her forehead and the freckles on her face ee silver tray, filled with food

“Um, you haven’t come to the kitchen recently…”

Saito nodded As Louise let him eat whatever he wanted to, he visited the kitchen less often

“So I orried that you ry…” Siesta said nervously

Seeing her cute gestures, Saito’s heart started throbbing

“T-Thanks But, Louise lets ry”

“Really? I’ve been serving the teachers table recently so I didn’t notice If I’ nuisance then…”

Siesta hung her head slightly

“N-No, that’s not it at all! I’ry right now!” Said Saito, even though he was full froo

“Really?”

Siesta’s face brightened

“Well, eat to your heart’s content”

The small table was cra Saito started to hate hi so ood intentions go to waste Determined, he started to eat the food

“Is it good?” asked Siesta

“Yeah, it’s really good”

He wasn’t lying, but it would have been even better if he had been hungry

“Ehehe, eat all you want then”

Siesta gazed at Saito as eating in a hungry fashi+on

“Oh sorry, my table manners…”

“N-No, it’s not that! It’s the opposite I’m really happy that you like the food so much! The food and the cooks would be really happy!”

Blushi+ng, she wiped her eyes with her hands Siesta was cute like that Saito couldn’t taste the flavor of the food anymore

“I made that one,” said Siesta in a shy voice

“Really?”

“Yeah It was difficult to lad I did it”

Saito felt his heart tense up Siesta was thinking of hts The atmosphere between them was very tense Siesta suddenly said in a flustered tone, “S-Saito!”

“Y-Yes?”

“Umm”

Siesta paused, as if trying to choose the right words

“That talk, that we had before, was a lot of fun! Especially about that thing! Um, as it called? Oh, the airplane!”

Saito nodded Saito had talked to Siesta about his world and japan in the bath Siesta, coe, didn’t know rasp what Saito had said as though they were things from another country

“Ah, the airplane”

“Yes! Being able to fly without ic must be wonderful! So even commoners like us, can fly freely in the sky like birds?”

“Isn’t there an airshi+p?”

“It only hovers”

“My village is actually a very nice place It’s called Tarbes It’s about three days from here by horse, in the direction of La Rochelle”

Saito listened intently while eating the food

“It’s a very re really special there but… it has a very spacious and beautiful field During the spring, the spring flowers bloo the summer, the summer flowers bloom It’s like a sea of flowers, as far as the eye can see, past the horizon It should be very beautiful at thein memories

“I want to look at that sea of flowers just once in an airplane”

“Sounds nice…”

“Oh, why didn’t I think of it before!” cried Siesta who suddenly grasped Saito’s hand

Surprised, Saito nearly fell backwards

“W-What?”

“Do you want to visit e Saito?”

“Huh?”

“The princess is getting ht? There’s a special holiday for us It’s been quite a long tie… If it’s ok, please come I want to show you that beautiful field of flowers My village has this really nice way of cooking steell It’s called ”Yosenabe” It’s etables that people don’t usually use I really want to let you taste it!”

“W-Why do you want me to come?”

“…You showeddoards

“A possibility?”

“Yes A possibility that even coainst nobles We live in fear of the nobles Knowing that there are people who don't live like that makes me happy, as if their happiness was my happiness Everyone in the kitchen believes that as well”

“I want to show such a person to my hometown…” said Siesta

“I-I see…”

Saito felt e Occasionally I’ to be praised over

“Of course, it’s not only that I also want to show Saito the village… But, if I bring a man back suddenly, my family will be shocked What should I do…”

Suddenly Siesta blushed deeply and whispered, “I can just say you’re my husband”

“W-What?”

“If I say it’s because we’re getting married, they’ll be happy My mother, father, brother and sister will all be happy”

“Siesta?”

When Siesta glanced at Saito, as staring at her dumbfounded, she shook her head

“Sorry! That will be troublesome! I'm not sure if you'll even come! Haha!”

Embarrassed, Saito replied, “S-Siesta, you’re really bold sometimes Like e took a bath”

Siesta blushed once again

“I’”

“Eh?”

“When I left home, my mother told me to not show anyone my body except to my chosen man”

And with that, Siesta reached out and grasped Saito’s hand Saito’s heart beat very loudly

“I would have showed you if you simply asked”

“Y-You’re joking…right?” Saito said, slack jawed

“It wasn’t a joke Even now…”

“W-W-What about now?”

Siesta looked straight into Saito’s face

“Am I not attractive?”

“No, that’s not it at all”

She was attractive Too attractive

“Really?”

Siesta continued looking into Saito Stop, Saito thought, feeling as though he were being drawn into those black eyes

“Then why didn’t you do anything ere taking a bath?”

Siesta hid her eyes sadly

Ah, don’t look like that, I’ll feel as though I’ve done so very bad

“…I see, I’irl with you too…That La Vallière is a noble too I’

“No, it’s not like that at all!”

“Saito”

“You’re really attractive I can guarantee it You look stunning without clothes on”

Norlad

She had been wondering whether to bring in the dessert or not While Saito was ra on, she closed her eyes and stood up With a deep breath, she let her apron fall to the ground

“Siesta!” Said Saito, shocked

Siesta looked at hi well once she had decided to do it She started to undo the buttons on her blouse one by one

“Siesta! I don’t think it’s a good idea!” cried Saito, shaking his head

“Don’t worry”

Her blouse was half undone Her well-sized cleavage captured Saito’s vision Saito sprang at Siesta, but suddenly found hi, “W-Wait! Wait alike this!”

“Kya!”

Siesta, who by the shoulders, lost her balance and fell onto Louise’s bed behind them, as if Saito had pushed her down

“Sorry…”

Directly below Saito, Siesta lay with her blouse undone Siesta put her hands on her chest and closed her eyes

With superb ti, Louise had opened the door

Within ten seconds, various things occurred

One: Louise noticed that Siesta was pushed onto the bed by Saito

Two: Louise noticed that Sieta's blouse was undone

Three: Saito and Siesta stood up flustered

Six: Siesta buttoned up her blouse

Seven: Siesta dashed out of the roo away from Louise

Eight: Saito cried, “Wait Siesta!”

Nine: Louise regained herself

Ten: Just as Saito was about to explain what had happened, he felt an intense pain as Louise high kicked him

And with that, Saito was lying on the floor ten seconds after Louise opened the door

Louise stepped on Saito’s head Her voice and body were shaking

“What exactly were you doing?”

“It’s not what it seems, Louise”

“What were you doing on my bed?”

“It’s a long story, Siesta was bringing me food and…”

“A fa like that on his ive you”

“It’s not what it see like-“

“That was the last straw”

Tears started to fall frorasped Louise’s shoulders

“Listen to !”

“Enough already”