Vol 1 Chapter 3 (2/2)
She’s was probably right The broken auto iron ball
However— wasn’t that a little strange?
“Hey, Charl What do you think—“
Her lips were pursed, her shoulders were shaking, and she was staring off into space
“What’s wrong with you?”
Without answering hio off somewhere
She was acting strange Raishi+n grabbed onto her arm, to try and stop her
“Hey Wait”
“Let go Unhand me this instant!”
“You’re planning soet you nowhere”
“Sigmund!”
There was a transs and bit Raishi+n’s hand
“O!”
Yaya panickedly dashed over to hihtly
“Show !”
“You just want to lick it! Go stand over there!”
While the two of them continued their slapstick routine, Charl had disappeared
“… She’s gone”
“She’s as i forced to show restraint irritates her”
Felix intervened
“Si over this as well”
Although he was sht to them
“Will you not lend me your power, Raishi+n?”
He stared at Raishi+n His eyes were usually half closed, but now they were opened wide Raishi+n noticed for the first time that Felix’s eyes were pale blue
“I don’t think th is so powerful that I can lend it to others…”
Raishi+n looked troubled, then he gave a self-depreciating laugh
“But given my circumstances, I do need that entry qualification”
“That means…?”
“Let me think about it for a while”
‘Of course If we’re going to work together I’d rather you do it of your own volition”
It was akin to a confident prediction Quite possibly, Felix had beenback infor he didn’t
“We’ll call it a day here then I have other matters to attend to”
With an ‘I’ forward to your favourable reply’, Felix returned back to the scene of the criree, but it still was subject to police authority However, as long as the crime was not as serious as murder, the town police wouldn’t interfere In lieu of that, the disciplinary co the academy
Even if he were to disturb the useful would coo back to the dormitory instead
With Yaya behind him, he made his way out of the crowd of onlookers
Leaving the grove, he started walking back along the small path, when suddenly,
“Wait a minute, Raishi+n Akabane”
Someone called out to him from behind It wasn’t Felix, but rather, his assistant Lisette
Stiffly bringing her face close to his, she whispered into his ear
“I have so I wish to speak with you about”
“Is it so confidential?”
“Yes It’s not so I can discuss openly”
“Does it have soenders?”
“Please sleep talk only when you die — Ah, Ito say was—Please die”
“Where exactly is the mistake in that?”
“Raishi+n…! You get turned on fro insulted…!?”
“And now you’remistakes on various fundamental levels, Yaya”
Raishi+n stared at Lisette with a critical eye
Observing her slender fraent face, he finally spoke
“Yaya, go back first”
“—No! Yaya will go along as well!”
“Don’t worry, just go back to the dorht?”
His tone i up on it, Yaya grudgingly nodded
“… I understand”
Yaya’s eyes lost their light In a
“Come back as soon as you can… Before the dorm turns into rubble…”
“I’ you to do so, ok? Don’t turn it into rubble or ruins, got that?”
After watching her trudge off, Raishi+n turned back to face Lisette
“Alright then, let’s hear it This big secret of yours”
Nodding her head in assent, Lisette took the lead and started to walk ahead of him
(4)
By the tiot back to the dormitory, an hour had passed
“I’m back Is the room still in one piece, Yaya?”
Gingerly entering the roo at him in tears
Suddenly going into a crouch, she clung tightly to Raishi+n’s waist
Without giving him any say in the matter, she started to unzip his pants Raishi+n hit her on the head, bringing her recklessness to an end
“Hayashi+ s (talk) 07:59, 22 March 2014 (CDT)”
“What’s up with you all of a sudden? Did so?”
Undeterred, Yaya continued on with her jet black eyes damp with tears
“Please remove your pants, Raishi+n! We can talk after that!”
“Are you sohway robbers say less objectionable things you know!?”
“There’s only one way to know if that vixen did so I’ll have to confirm it by smell!”
“Like hell you will! Just how badly warped is your view of others!?”
Raishi+n forcefully tore Yaya, who had been stubbornly clinging on to him, away
Yaya broke down into tears, but Raishi+n wasn’t in the nored her
“So, did you s with Shouko?”
“Uu, Uu… Komurasaki sent word back”
“That was quick And?”
Yaya sniffled, wiping her eyes and speaking hesitantly
“The o’ order for the plan…”
To be honest, it was unexpected Raishi+n fell silent
“Raishi+n… are you not pleased with it?”
“I a If they tell me to do it, then I have to… however,”
He looked to Yaya for confirmation
“Can we really trust him?”
“Are you talking about Felix?”
“The whole thing is fishy He said I’d be awarded an entry qualification— do they even have that sort of authority?”
“Well, according to what Komurasaki said…”
Yaya looked up at the ceiling, trying to remember what she had been told
“Regarding the Kingsfort faence Department, and are one of the influential members of the House of Lords The head of the family is Sir Walter After the late queen passed away he’s becoreat power— Even in the acadenored”
I see, they had investigated that far in such a short period of time As expected of the o’ order after careful consideration
Besides, it was exactly as Felix had said hi of the disciplinary committee, if he defeated Cannibal Candy it would raise his profile in a single stroke Which would ht Party’s executive conore him
A large body of students had gathered at the scene of the incident earlier as well Fro in the incident Felix hadn’t been lying
So in short— the proble him
Or rather, theissue hether he could actually find Cannibal Candy in the first place
If he wanted the finer details he’d have to ask Felix for them, but if Cannibal Candy was someone that was easily found, then the disciplinary committee members (and o
(Looks like I’ll have to start by tracking hiht Party starts?)
Lost in a sea of thought, he was drawn back to reality by a sound rese
A bird-like shadow landed on thesill, and started knocking on the glass
Restraining Yaya, who had gone into high alert, Raishi+n laughed as he welcome their visitor
“Yo, Sigmund Did Charl send you here on an errand?”
“No, I caise for earlier”
Sigmund’s eyes fell on Raishi+n’s hand, on which the teeth marks were still vividly present
“Don’t worry about it In the first place I was the one who plotted to beat the two of you anway— hang on, if you caise, where’s Charl?”
At that h Charl’s intent that he did so
Sigetically
“Don’t think badly of her Norirl ould use Force on me”
“She was probably worked up Under those circu would have bitten if touched then”
‘A cat? That’s a perfect description of her”
He didn’t kno to read a dragon’s expression, but he could have sworn Sigrinned wryly
“Charl is…”
It was a difficult subject to talk about Eventually, Sigmund made up his mind,
“She has soets oversensitive prone tomistakes And she’s never honest However, at her core she’s kind and gentle, has an interest in handicrafts and is a harirl”
Raishi+n doubted his ears Handicrafts? Handicrafts ht?
Wow It didn’t suit her at all
“Why are you telling me this?”
“I wonder why myself I think I just wanted to tell you, that’s all”
—as that supposed to mean?
“I’ll take my leave now See you around, Raishi+n”
Sight and easy movements made hion form, it appeared that he was able to fly on his oithout using any y
Watching his shadow fade into the distance, Raishi+n thought back to his discussion with Lisette
“I feel a little uneasy telling you this, but—”
Earlier, inside a deserted lecture rooan to speak hesitantly
“—please be careful of Charlotte”
“— Why?”
“Her registration code is Tyrant Rex The students call her the T-Rex— do you know the reason why?”
“Nope”
“Originally, that name wasn’t used in reference to her; it was her automaton’s alias”
“Sigmund?”
“That automaton is a bandoll”
As expected, Raishi+n fell silent at the revelation
Bandoll Hearing that word always stirred up unpleasant memories inside Raishi+n
“There’s a legend passed down froeneration in the Belew household The first lord of the Belew house went up a dangerousit his servant For his success he was appointed a viscount, and since then he and his descendants have worked together with Sigmund”
“A dangerous mountain, huh… That’s kinda typical”
“According the legends, he ate people, burnt dons, did every evil deed in the book Even now, he needs to consume flesh periodically to maintain his body”
“He eats chicken”
Raishi+n said in a s interest in the conversation
In short, everything she said was just mund
“Bandolls are a cursed existence; in terms of their characteristics as well as the absurd situations they create”
“That does appear to be the case”
“Things like drinking fresh blood, eating huht— or enjoying massacres”
“That’s quite the roundaboutto say?”
“You still don’t get it? Has your brain been infested by ots?”
“You’re trying to say you hate me, aren’t you? You hate me on the same level as you’d hate a hairy caterpillar?”
“We have come to the conclusion that Cannibal Candy may be a Bandoll”
He wondered if that was really it
For some reason or another Raishi+n was in an unhappy mood as he averted his eyes away from Lisette’s face
“Do you have any questions so far?”
“Yeah, I—“
A violently cold air snapped him out of his reverie
Turning around, he noticed Yaya staring at him with eyes blacker than a solar eclipse
“Raishi+n… You were thinking about that vixen, weren’t you…”
“… Why is your intuition only good for useless things…”
“Well then, what are you going to do tomorrow?”
“Start the search Now that the situation has gotten to this point, it’s ti Cannibal Candy”
Laughing, Raishi+n shook his head as he corrected himself
“It’s ti Cannibal Candy That’s fine, isn’t it?”
“Yes!”
An energetic Yaya raised her hands in support
After that, she narrowed her eyes suspiciously,
“It couldn’t be… are you ai for that vixen…!?”
“She really is someone who doesn’t kno to relax”
“… You have to remove your pants after all!”
Carefullythe distance between the both of them, the two ended up in a stale off
It looked like tonight was going to be another sleepless night as well
(5)
It was nine at night Inside the disciplinary committee chairman’s office, Felix had spread several docu with an unusually serious face
Someone knocked on the door twice
“Come in”
The person who entered was Lisette Felix grinned at her,
“Thanks for all your hard work, Liz Do you have some business with me?”
“Raishi+n Akabane has contacted us to inform us that he has officially accepted our request”
“That’s good In that case, hand this to him tomorrow”
He passed her the docu
“What is it?”
“It’s a contract A hly and properly”
Lisette eyes widened in surprise Browsing through the document handed to her, she saw the that contents were the same as what she had discussed with him earlier If he defeated Cannibal Candy, then the disciplinary coht Party
“Did you already know that he was going to accept?”
“He had no choice but to accept At the very least, I planned it such that he would want to accept the request”
Felix answered, his face showing that it wasn’t strange for Raishi+n to accept
“Besides, since it was him, I had faith he would accept it We’re truly lucky that he came to us at this time— It’s almost like it’s heaven’s providence”
“Did you know about him beforehand?”
“No, this was the first tie”
Turning around in his chair, he looked outside the
‘Did you know so, Liz? The day he transferred to this acade the railroad in the city”
“Accident? Ah— you’re referring to the derailment, aren’t you?”
“It was a small, throay article Because there were only twenty people withto write about”
He was talking in a roundabout oing to say
“Could it be that he was on that train…?”
“Yes He was on board it It’s also possible that he was the et of the derailment as well”
Chalking it up to siood to be true In fact, it was more than lucky that he was on board
“However, that isn’t the proble the accident?”
“… What did he do?”
“He stopped the runaway train With his automaton”
“—“
“For those about to take part in the Night Party, their automaton is their one and only treasure Truthfully, the ideal scenario is to not let it suffer even a single scratch”
A train was essentially a massive lump of matter If an automaton was run over by one, it would be smashed to pieces
“However, he was different Defying the risk of his auto the lives of h he could have just chosen to escape with his automata alone”
Felix’s sentle for a second
“I thought to th”
For a moment, a complicated look appeared on Lisette’s face, but Felix hadn’t noticed it
Leaving his chair, he walked over to the , staring out into the darkness of the night
“We will defeat Cannibal Candy without fail Before the Night Party starts, ill exterminate him from this academy, no matter what underhanded tactics we have to use”
He gazed upon the veil of darkness that had descended upon the world outside
Tonight, that dreadful beast would coain
(6)
The nextin bed when he oken by the sound of porcelain breaking
“… Yaya? What are you doing this early in the …”
Slowly getting up, he moved towards the direction of the sound
Yaya was standing at the entrance to the roolass cup in her hand, and pieces of a water jug were strewn at her feet
Standing in front of Yaya was a girl with a dragon atop her head
Raishi+n rubbed his eyes reflexively However, it didn’t seem like this was a dream or an illusion
“… What are you doing here? This is a boy’s dorm, you know?”
“I know Don’t interrupt me needlessly”
“Alright So what do you want?”
Charl gulped, and started acting suspiciously
She glanced to her right, then left, and then right again
Taking deep breaths to steel herself, she finally ed to spit itout
“Will you…”
“Will I?”
“Will you… go out on a date with me?”
In thatin her hand