Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 3 Episode 5 (section)

===Part 12===

Inside the collapsed practice ground, Lux was continuing high speed offense and defense while thinking.

He understood after controlling Bahamut in full throttle.

As expected, this Ragnarok truly had dreadful strength.

Using End Action with Bahamut gave him a great burden that surpassed the imagination.

The exhaustion from doing unceasing consecutive attacks was accumulating in Lux’s body with certainty. His body was creaking.

Even so, this wasn’t the first time he was challenging a fight where he mustn’t lose.

And then, he could also experience that there are girls who were fighting together with him only here.

「Then──」

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No matter how painful it was, there was no way he who was the only man in this Academy could throw in the towel.

There were also various troubles, but it was only at this kind of time that he felt glad that he was a man.

After all he didn’t need to hesitate at all of getting hurt fighting for the sake of those girls.

「Here I go!」

And then, after including even the time to put his breathing in order in the middle of the fight, Lux unleashed the last consecutive sword flash.

*ZASHUU-!*

Along with that sharp sound of slashes, lines were running on the skin surface of Poseidon and blue blood spurted out.

The moment offensive action that alternately piled up body control operation and mind control operation rained down in a number that surpassed several hundreds, it became infinite slashes that pierced through that gigantic body.

The chain of slashes that repeatedly reached inside Poseidon’s body, surpassed the high speed regeneration, and reached until the core.

And then,

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「Ve, AAAAaaaAAAAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

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The giant body of the Ragnarok blew out black smoke along with the scream of death agony, then it began to crumble.

That body which was entered with countless cracks exploded from inside, blue fresh blood surged out.

(With this──it’s over.)

At that moment when Lux was convinced of victory──

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*pakin!*

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From the core of the Ragnarok that was smashed, a crystal about the size of a human head showed up.

「Eh……?」

A fantastical object floating in the air, shining faintly with seven colors.

Even Lux──no, everyone there had never seen before such gem. The air of the battlefield instantly stopped.

「Bitch, it’s your turn.」

At the same time with the robed figure’s words, Saniya’s B-blood Wyvern grasped that crystal and flew.

The Drag-Ride that should be destroyed into pieces was regenerating. Such fact also took Lux by surpise, but added to that, he was unable to move because of the burden from End Action.

「I want to pay back my debt to you in this place but, for now I’ll retreat.」

Saniya spat out hatefully, then she put the robed figure on her shoulder and hovered midair.

「To be able to put down that Poseidon, it was quite surprising you know?」

The robed figure laughed with a derisive tone.

「But, it might be better if you didn’t kill it. With this, you have completely angered me yeah, Black Hero-sama.」

「Who are you? That silver hair──」

*Thump*, even Lux who said such thing himself felt his heartbeat pounding hard.

His eldest brother from a different mother that he had been chasing after for a long time.

In that coup d’etat that was the end of the Old Empire and became the beginning of the New Kingdom, that man slaughtered all the humans of the empire’s army and inside the castle wholesale──.

「Fugil……. Are you, Nii-san?」

「…………」

The robed figure took a breath slightly hearing Lux’s question that was filled with nervousness.

「Iiiidiot.」

The hood that was hiding that face was quickly taken off.

「-……!?」

Lux reflexively held his breath seeing that bared face.

The left and right eyes, were asymmetrically colored gray and blue.

But, what surprised Lux more than that strange features, was that the true identity of that person who he thought as Fugil was actually a petite girl he was unfamiliar with.

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「Fugil you saaay? Don’t group me with that fishy guy. My name is Hayes. Memorize it caaarefully okay, fake prince. HYAHAHAHAHA!」

After telling that with loud laughter, the girl called Hayes escaped together with Saniya.

Currently Lux didn’t have spare strength to chase after the enemy.

If Saniya’s B-blood Wyvern was completely regenerated and she still had spare strength remaining, it would be him who got into danger if he pursued.

When the two enemies flew away from that place, Poseidon lost its color and immediately became black ash and scattered.

The same like that Chimera, it welcomed a strange end.

「Fuu……」

The Ragnarok that suddenly appeared, and the mysterious crystal that came out from its corpse.

The spy of the Heiburg Republic that was advancing its military expansion, and a mysterious girl with the same hair color as Lux.

There were several puzzles remaining, but for the time being the battle was over.

『Oooi Lux! Can you hear me!? Everyone is safe on this side! Including your little sister, there is no one that is seriously injured! Those guys retreated!』

The Dragon Voice that came from Lisha let Lux to sigh in relief.

「Thank you for your hard work Lisha-sama. Here too the Ragnarok was defeated. Celis-senpai is also safe──」

When he replied like that and looked at Celis,

「…………」

He noticed that Celis was staring fixedly at him *jiii─* with a scandalous expression. Lux cut off the transmission.

「……I’m displeased.」

After a while, Celis puffed up her cheeks slightly and muttered that.

Lux comprehended what she meant and panicked.

「I’m grateful that you forgave me, but as for the matter of Luno, I’m really displeased.」

「I, I’m really sorry! That’s, I didn’t intend to trick senpai with female clothing at first! It was the result of various coincidences and misunderstandings──」

「A lot of my embarrassing sides got seen by you. Unforgivable. It’s unfair. Cowardly. How vexing. I’m displeased.」

「Tha, that’s, if it is something that I can do, I’ll do anything so──」

「──But what displeased me the most, is how I was feeling really happy that you saved me. I shouldn’t be saved by anyone, even though I’ve been thinking like that all this time……」

Celis showed a small smile that looked vaguely troubled.

「You said, that you are apologizing to me right?」

And then, she faced Lux again and repeated it once more.

「Eeerr, yes. If it’s something that I personally can do then──」

「Then, please teach me.」

「──Eh?」

Lux lifted his face hearing that vague demand.

There, Celis’s smile was in front of him.

It wasn’t a strict face that overwhelmed others.

It also wasn’t an aloof smile that expressed confidence as someone standing above others.

It was her natural smile, that she showed towards 『Luno』.

「I, don’t know how to rely on others. I’m also inexperienced on how to behave as a splendid noble. And then──this is the biggest reason, I don’t really understand a man’s feelings, or how to get along with them too. That’s why, please teach me. Just like how your grandfather once taught me. Please, make me rely on you──that’s my condition.」

「That means──」

「Yes. Under the name of the Ralgris House, one of the Four Great Nobles, I’ll approve your staying in the Academy, and your entrance into my Syvalles. Lux Arcadia.」

「……Thank you very much. Celis-senpai.」

「And then about that. I’ll have you adhere to my first command right away.」

「Eh……!?」

A command suddenly came to him. It caused Lux’s body to stiffen somewhat.

He became slightly anxious about what he was going to get told but──.

「Please keep secret everything that you know about me through being 『Luno』. My dignity will crumble if not.」

Celis seriously said while making a face that looked somewhat troubled.

「Eh, well, yes……. But──I think if I told it to others everyone will think of Celis-senpai as cute, and like you instead though──」

「Wha-……!?」

Lux nodded while replying like that. Celis was suddenly flustered hearing it.

「Wha, what do you mean? Lux Arcadia. Yo, you said cute just now, who could you be referring──?」

「I, it’s hard to answer if I’m asked again like that though, that’s, Celis-senpai is……」

Lux answered hesitantly.

(Bu, but as expected, will I get scolded calling a senior with the word 『cute』……?)

Lux became somewhat anxious after rethinking like that but,

「Cute……is it? It’s the first time, a man told me that……」

Her cheeks flared up red and she averted her gaze from Lux.

「A, are you okay!? Celis-senpai!?」

「Wai-, please wait a second! Right now, you must not look at my face! This is an order, Lux Arcadia!」

Seeing Celis getting into a panic and turn her back on him, Lux realized it once more.

As expected, she is really awkward, and cute──he thought.

「We, we are going back now. Then, let’s go. To meet the girls, who we should protect──」

「Yes.」

Lux nodded and walked side by side with Celis.

Lux thought that perhaps by some chance, he might be the first man who walked beside Celis.