Chapter 029 (2/2)

When she expressed a faint smile at the obvious topic change, the Sylphid woman nodded.

「Yes, there is someone that has come to receive you. May I ask you to come with me?」

「That isn’t a problem. Erm?」

「Luuty Ligas. Please call me Luuty.」

Luuty said that and held out her hand. Shion stood up from the chair and shook her hand.

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When he did, Luuty, together with an impish smile, firmly gripped Shion’s hand back.

「Nn!?」

「Now then, why don’t we get going.」

Shion became flustered and tried to pull away from Luuty’s hand as she had started walking just like that.

「Wait, wait……What do you intend to do?」

「I don’t intend on doing anything. It’s just that since I had heard that Shion-dono was an unfettered person, I thought that I would make it so that you cannot run away.」

As if being persuaded by Luuty who tugged and pulled him with a strong enough force that it made him wonder just where was that strength coming from in that slender body of hers, Shion left the library.

「I won’t run away! So please let go!」

When he frantically shook her hand off, Luuty breathed a sigh with a disappointed looking face.

「There’s nothing wrong with it, is there?」

「It isn’t good at all, what’ll you do if rumors start to spread.」

Shion was more or less aware that he himself stood out.

If it was made known that he was walking while holding hands with a woman, the surroundings might make a fuss over it.

If there were rumors, this woman called Luuty would get hurt.

For things to turn out like that was clearly a problem.

「Even though I don’t mind.」

While pouting her lips and looking dissatisfied, Luuty walked and guided Shion.

Entering a building called the Staff Member Building, they climbed a staircase while the gazes of immensely curious staff members stabbed into him.

「If it turned into a rumor that I was intimate with the famed Shion-dono, I’m sure that our budget and donations would increase.」

「I’m sure that it wouldn’t be that simple.」

「No no, the owner of the 『Steel Fish Store』 has had his sales increase and is quite pleased, you know?」

While calling to mind the face that could be mistaken for that of a bandit of the owner of the restaurant that he often visited, Shion breathed a sigh.

「I think that a restaurant and school administration are different though……」

「The principles are the same. In the end, there is the aspect where the presence or absence of a celebrity concerned with it decides its worth. 」

Certainly, he couldn’t say that schools that turned out many well-known people or schools that had the added value of having a long history didn’t have a tendency to be preferred over an anonymous school.

Of course, even if it was natural that there wouldn’t be any meaning to it if it didn’t have a suitable foundation, but even Shion couldn’t deny that merit itself.

Even in his former world, Shion was thoroughly made to dance by that phrase.

「It is an honor to have you understand that……Now then, we have arrived.」

Being told that, Shion looked up at the door that was before him.

The Staff Member Building, top floor.

On a plate that was placed on all of the rooms that the division used, the words “Board Chairman Room” was written.

「Welcome, to my room. It is a pleasure to have you, Shion-dono.」

When she said that, Luuty Ligas, reintroduced as the Edius Adventurer School Board Chairman, expressed an impish smile.