Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:VolumeEF Chapter7 (section)

===Part 1===

The day after Kamito and the rest of Team Scarlet returned from their training camp&mdash;

"Hyah, hyahhhhhhhh!"

Claire suddenly screamed from the bathroom.

"What's wrong, Claire!?"

In the middle of cooking eggs in the kitchen, Kamito looked back frantically&mdash;

The bathroom door was flung open violently. Claire emerged naked wrapped in only a towel.

"Wha... W-Why are you dressed like that?"

Kamito could not help but blush. Despite her child-like figure, Claire really looked very sexy with her wet crimson hair adhering to her neck.

"Oh no, Kamito! This water spirit... Hyah!"

Screaming, Claire collapsed on the bed in pain.

The towel wrapped around her body fell aside lightly, revealing her naked pale body.

"What&mdash;"

Kamito exclaimed in surprise.

Unbelievably, revealed from under the towel was a writhing, glowing translucent tentacle.

The tentacle of water was wrapped around Claire's naked body, tormenting her.

"Hyau... Nn! As soon as I started showering, the water spirit... went berserk..."

Tears appeared in Claire's eyes while her body twisted in pain.

"I-I see&mdash;!"

''Somehow, it feels like something similar happened before''&mdash;While thinking that, Kamito grabbed the wriggling tentacle of water, infused divine power and tore it to pieces.

Tossed away, the tentacle of water turned into particles of light and disappeared.

"Huff, huff... Th-Thanks a lot..."

Freed from captivity, Claire exhaustedly hugged the towel that had fallen onto the bed. Was she still in a state of panic? She was apparently unaware that Kamito had seen her naked body.

"What on earth is going on...?"

"I don't know either. As soon as I started the shower, the water spirit suddenly went crazy. I've no idea what happened&mdash;"

Kamito turned his gaze towards the bathroom whose door was ajar. Previously, spirits had run amok due to Restia using a frenzy spirit&mdash;

At that moment...

"Kyahhhhhhh, w-what is this!?"

"M-Milady, are you alright? Fire, fire!"

Screams were heard from next door, startling Kamito and Claire.

"It's Rinslet."

"Are they having trouble too?"

Just as Kamito muttered in puzzlement and was about to check things out, in that instant...

BOOM!

Accompanied by the sound of massive explosion, the wall disintegrated all at once.

"Woah!"

Blown away by the blast, Kamito fell on the floor. The instant he looked up&mdash;

From the giant hole in the wall emerged a big lizard wrapped in flames.

"A flame spirit!"

Claire cried out.

Guooooooooooo!

The flame lizard roared and lunged at Claire, who was sitting limply on the bed&mdash;

"Huah! H-Hold on&mdash;"

"O Freezing fangs of ice, go forth and pierce&mdash;Freezing Arrow!"

Instantly, countless arrows of ice descended, blowing the flame lizard away.

A cloud of steam appeared over the flame spirit while it faded away and vanished in thin air.

"Claire, are you alright?"

Entering from the hole in the wall was Rinslet, wielding her elemental waffe.

Her prided blonde hair was slightly singed.

"Rinslet... My goodness, what on earth is happening...!?"

"I have no idea either. I was just using the stove to make pork stew when suddenly, the fire spirit went berserk."

"A spirit..."

"Going berserk...?"

Kamito and Claire tilted their heads questioningly.

"What the heck is going on..."

Did someone hear the commotion? They then heard a patter of running footsteps climbing the stairs.

"You people, what was all that noice just now...?"

The one who opened the door and entered was Ellis, leading members of the Sylphid Knights.

"W-What is this...!?"

Seeing the room's sorry state, Ellis was speechless.

"Y-You got the wrong idea! The spirits went crazy on their own!"

"We did not do the slightest thing."

"..."

Ellis swept her strict gaze around the room once...

"...Is that so? So it happened at this dorm too, huh?"

Pressing against her temple, Ellis spoke with a sigh in her voice.

"What is going on?"

Kamito, Claire and Rinslet exchanged looks.