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

===Part 4===

And then the next morning.

The country founding anniversary of the New Kingdom finally began.

In the All-Dragon Battle’s schedule, today was the second day, which was a resting day. The participants were basically free, whether to rest or to look around the festival.

Lux received a request from Krulcifer to 『go around the festival together』 as the reward for finishing her assignment at the training camp.

Krulcifer was already waiting when he headed to the entrance of the inn where they were staying.

She wasn’t wearing her usual cool smile, but she looked slightly awkward with a complicated smile.

In the middle of the All-Dragon Battle, there was a rule that the participating selection members had to wear their uniform when going outside, so the two of them also wore their uniform, but Lux’s concern didn’t lie there.

「This, I’m sorry Krulcifer-san. I never thought, that it would become like this──」

「I’m not planning to blame you. I’m only exasperated with my own carelessness. In a sense, it should be easy enough to predict that this day would turn out like this.」

When Lux apologized, Krulcifer responded curtly.

Actually yesterday, when he left Lisha’s atelier and headed towards the practice ground inside the castle’s site, he received an outrageous request from Celis who was there.

 

『Lu, Lux. I have a special request for you. It’s──I want you to accompany me at the anniversary tomorrow!』

Honestly, it was troubling.

He already had previous engagements with Krulcifer on that day, the requests from the three who finished the assignment weren’t ranked differently against each other, and it also wasn’t first come first served.

For the time being, he talked with Celis that he received the same request from Krulcifer.

『Ho, how could this be!? I, I understand. In that case I’ll accept half the time so please. Normally I’ll be patient but……at the moment it’s, there is an important matter I need to discuss with you, so──I cannot concede here!』

She strongly insisted, so in the end Lux agreed with the condition that he would consult Krulcifer too of what to do.

After he returned to the inn that was their base, he immediately headed towards Philuffy’s room and he unexpectedly encountered her inside her room dressed in a negligee.

Lux’s heart was throbbing hard toward that stimulating figure while he asked Philuffy about the special request that she would want to make. He also talked about the request he received from Krulcifer and Celis, and then──

『Then, tomorrow, go on a date with me too.』

『Eh……!?』

Yes, Lux was completely shocked from hearing Philuffy speaking with her usual absentminded and serious face, due to the very shocking request.

No, of course there was a possibility that Philuffy too would say 『I want to look around the festival together』 to him, but for Philuffy, who gave off a childish impression, to say such thing was something that Lux had never even imagined.

『Eh, ah, right……. That’s──fine though.』

Lux was shook up by Philuffy who said that straightforwardly with her serious face and carefree tone that stayed unchanging. His cheeks reddened while he consented.

Since the past, the two of them had played together many times, but this was the first time she called it a 『date』, so he somehow felt embarrassed.

『Then it’s a promise, okay.』

In the end after that, Lux wracked his brain to make the schedule with Krulcifer and Celis. He got by somehow, but he wasn’t able to really sleep.
 

With such a complicated sequence of events happening, all of them consulted each other once, and the result was that he would walk around together with Krulcifer from the morning until lunch.

「Well, putting that aside, let’s depart soon. If I’m not mistaken, Alterize said that she will return to Ymir’s inn in the afternoon after all.」

「Right. Please take care of me, Krulcifer-san.」

Lux who returned to his senses from those words pulled himself together and responded.

If he kept worrying without end, it would be inexcusable to Krulcifer who had shown her understanding of Lux’s position.

Thinking that, they started walking towards the capital’s street.

And then, the second date with Krulcifer began.