Editing Failing Witch:Volume3 Episode3 (section)

===Part 6===

This would mean a battle against President Ulrike.

That was easier said than done. Yagoro had already lost badly once. But he couldn’t get any help from Tedaura the Queen of the Night, Darkness, and Love because her bad back had incapacitated her.

He couldn’t involve Viocia, Olivia, or any other “ordinary” witch in this.

He would be dealing with that monstrous President. He would also have a hard time getting any more help from Nancy. …Although the problem there was how he was fairly certain she really would give up her position in Maleficium to help him if he begged her to.

So…

“Hey, Myousou. I hear you’re picking a fight with Maleficium. Why would you keep that from me? You know I’m the first person you should tell about any coming conflicts.”

“My, my. I hope you aren’t planning to use this information to feed your gambling addiction, Sorbeddy.”

Sorbeddy Icing.

And the mysterious used bookseller.

Two monstrous Limit Breakers had arrived at Sabbath Party. He needed someone on that level if he was going to trust them with his back here. Especially with the bookseller since she was also a Maleficium graduate.

Yagoro sighed in exasperation when he saw the two of them.

“Are you sure no one was following you, Sorbeddy?”

“Ee hee hee☆ Have you forgotten I’m the ice witch who runs the city’s ice business and reaps the lucrative benefits? No one has a better secret transportation network in this city. And as a self-taught witch, I don’t have to report anything to those arrogant Maleficium witches, so not even Ulrike at the top can track me.”

“She isn’t secretly working in the smuggling business, is she?”

The little(-looking) girl wore a sheer blue camisole dress that left little to the imagination, giving her a blue Hawaii ice cream float look. The way she put things, he didn’t feel all that comfortable about her providing help.

The bookseller sighed softly.

“Well, if she is operating on her business instincts instead of her terrible gambling addiction, then at the very least accepting her help won’t be suicide.”

“Hey! Do you want to take this outside, you unsatisfied cowtits wife?”

“It seems to me you are the one who crossed the line first☆”

Yagoro’s mouth formed a small triangle. He had hoped this temporary team would be a little less temporary than immediately devolving into a battle between Limit Breakers.

Regardless, it sounded like Sorbeddy would provide as much help as he liked as long as he gave her lucrative information regarding the upcoming conflict. He didn’t know – and didn’t want to know – how she planned to monetize this crisis, but he knew the money-lover would find a way.

Which meant…

“What about you?” he asked the bookseller. “I know I sent you that carrier pigeon, but you don’t have to help if you don’t have enough reason to risk your life.”

“Maleficium is my old school and my daughter Melehe’s goal. Ulrike, was it? If this President is trying to take control of the school and turn it into a place far too dangerous to send my daughter, then I must correct her immediately, don’t you think?”

Apparently she wouldn’t even consider the ordinary but hopeless option of keeping her daughter safe by forcing her to give up on her dream of attending Maleficium.

Viocia and Freynir’s voices could be heard coming from the kitchen.

They were apparently giving each other practice questions over breakfast.



“Um, ATU 0425c is Sleeping Beauty, so…”

“Moo!!”

“No. 0425c is Beauty and the Beast.”

“Ugh, the Beauty Series is so hard to keep straight. They all get hugged and kissed.”

“You need to remember the magical lesson along with them. Beauty and the Beast is the story of the woman dispelling the prince’s curse with the power of ordinary love. That’s completely different from the prince showing up out of nowhere and solving everything with a kiss.”

“Gwah! Freynir, you’re sounding more like teacher every day!”



The bookseller smiled gently as she listened in.

She must have mentally categorized them the same as her daughter.

Yet when she did speak, her voice was ice cold.

“We needn’t bother Melehe and her friends with this. They need to focus on studying for their exam. They needn’t even know about Maleficium’s dark truths. It is our job as the adults to deal with this before they are even aware of it.”

“Now we’re talking. You know this means all-out war against Maleficium’s Student Council President, right? You really are scariest when you let your mama side out☆”

Sorbeddy chuckled.

The team now contained Navigate Exam Myousou Yagoro, the Limit Breaker bookseller, and Limit Breaker Sorbeddy Icing.

Between the clubs, the committees, and White Magic itself, President Ulrike had as many people as she could want, but they didn’t need to compare numbers. Each of them was on another level entirely.

“Ohh, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.”

Then an odd voice reached them.

Someone hobbled into the room that was kept dark even in the morning. The small figure was Tedaura Sugar Modestlucky, the living legend who was also known as the Queen of the Night, Darkness, and Love.

“Getting a plan together?”

Still seated, the bookseller and Sorbeddy both looked back and then froze. Yagoro couldn’t blame them. He had thought his heart would stop the first time he met her too.

Tedaura herself tapped her lower back with a fist (while still looking just like a little girl) and winked before making one thing clear.

“You can see what state I’m in. Don’t expect any help from me in the fight.”

“…”

“But I will lend you my brains, lost chicks. It might be full of holes, but you have a basic strategy in mind, I assume? Let me see it. My millennia of wisdom can fill in those holes.”

Yagoro shrugged.

It was the tutor’s turn to be taught.

So the boy with the unnatural blond hair unrolled a large sheet of parchment on the table like it was a tablecloth. It had lots of memos and clippings pasted to it. Tedaura scanned through it curiously…and then froze.

If this plan could get that reaction out of the Queen of the Night, Darkness, and Love, did it maybe stand a chance against the President?

“Wh-what in the world is this?” asked Tedaura as she read through the different clippings.