Editing Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 14 Chapter 1 (section)

===Part 2===
Kizuna wasn’t in the class wasn’t because he was playing hooky.

Today Kizuna came to the elementary school as a lecturer. He was wearing jersey on top of his pilot suit and headed to the courtyard from the entrance together with Gertrude Baird who was an instructor here.

「Boss Kizuna, I want to give you a warning just in case.」

Gertrude looked up at Kizuna while walking side by side.

「Hm? Aa, the students are in primary grade after all. It’s fine, I’ll deal with them gently.」

「That’s good and all but……, please don’t lay your damn hand on my students alright?」

「No way I’ll do that!」

Gertrude was a member of Masters even now. But, she was prioritizing her duty as instructor of primary grade as long as she wasn’t summoned.

The other Masters starting from Scarlet was doing Ataraxia’s patrol duty while attending the academy in their off day──that was their life here.

By the way Leila declared 「I’ll start a business」 and quitted the academy to open a maid café. But, she arbitrarily sold imported goods from outside Ataraxia without receiving the lab’s inspection──such illegal trade was discovered and the business was suspended. Currently she returned to the academy, but it seemed she was planning something suspicious again.

「Oh, everyone is already gathered. I’m damn impressed.」

Sixteen girls were lined up orderly at the courtyard. When they saw Gertrude, they greeted her simultaneously.

「Instructor, good morning-!」

The pilot suit they were wearing all looked the same, a design that looked exactly like racing swimsuit. The thin fabric made the curve of their childish body to stand out in detail. They were children but, Kizuna was a little worried if it was alright for him to see this.

「Aa, well then everyone, listen damn well. Today I asked the captain of Amaterasu to come here as a damn lecturer.」

Gertrude introduced Kizuna with a tone that was as usual unclear whether she was talking politely or rudely. Kizuna lightly lifted his hand.

「I’m Hida Kizuna. Everyone, take care of me.」

「Please take care of us-!」

They gave back an energetic reply, so Kizuna reflexively smiled.

Everyone was focusing on Kizuna with eyes that were overflowing with curiosity. The hero who saved the world from other world and then from the machine gods was before them, so the children were naturally excited.

But among them there was just one child whose expression was clouded.

Blonde hair that conspicuously attracted attention from among the primary grade students. Her half-closed eyes were also shining gold.

The girl who possessed the flesh body of Hida Nayuta and the soul of machine god Thanatos.

──Hida Setsuna.

It seemed she sensed Kizuna’s gaze. Setsuna lifted her face. When her eyes met Kizuna, she blatantly averted her gaze.

「Uu……」

Seeing Kizuna’s lightly shocked reaction, Gertrude raised her voice 「Achaa」 inside her heart.

「Ee, then, first let’s start from warm-up! Form a damn pair you all.」

It seemed to be the usual menu for the children. They began doing calisthenics even without being given detailed instruction.

Setsuna sat down with her legs opened. A girl with braided hair was pushing her back behind her.

「Hey, hey, Setsuna-chan」

「What is it?」

「Kizuna-sensei is Setsuna-chan’s big brother right?」

「……That’s right. More or less.」

Then a twin tail child who was bending forward beside Setsuna looked her way with a face that broke into a bright smile.

「He is so cool」

The girl with short cut hair behind that girl also nodded with a smile.

「It’s true, how nice for you Se-chan」

However Setsuna frowned.

「……Is that so」

The girls around her peered onto Setsuna’s face in confusion.

「Se-chan, you don’t like your big brother?」

Setsuna stole a glance at Kizuna with her golden eyes.

Their gazes clashed. Kizuna flinched a bit.

──Wha, what is with this awkwardness since some time ago?

Kizuna sent her a twitching forced smile. Setsuna averted her gaze in a huff.

「……I don’t know him」

The girls must be intending to keep the talk between them, but it was overheard by Kizuna and also Gertrude.

「We, well……children at that age is damn difficult you know, I think.」

「……I’m grateful for your consideration.」

And then the warm-up finished and they progressed well in doing the practical training. Simple muscle training and exercise to temper their body trunk. And then training to cultivate sense of balance and ability to grasp the space which was indispensable for piloting Heart Hybrid Gear. In addition was other trainings like polishing reflexes and the like. The students were completing such menu.

And then at the end was what the student had been waiting for. It was hands-on learning of Heart Hybrid Gear from Kizuna and Gertrude. The body of the students was fixed on the gear with a harness so they could experience Heart Hybrid Gear’s performance and battle.

「Amazing! It’s amazing! It’s completely different from technical gear!」

The student who experienced it first couldn’t suppress her excitement and talked nonstop.

「How niceee! Me too-!!」

「Next! Next is me!!」

It was like they were quarreling for their turn doing jet coaster.

「Yes yes, line up based on your damn seat number. Odd number line up in front of me while even number line up in front of Boss Kizuna.」

「Everyone will properly get their turn to fly, so don’t worry……wait, next is Setsuna huh.」

Setsuna was standing in front of Kizuna with a fixed stare.

「Don’t worry. Leave it to Onii-chan──」

However Setsuna pulled the sleeve of the twin tail girl lining up in front of Gertrude.

「If you don’t mind, can you switch place with me?」

「Eh, is it okay? But……」

The twin tail girl looked up at Kizuna questioningly.

「A, aa……well, it’s fine I guess.」

Gertrude was watching that from the side.

──This is really damn tough……as his partner perhaps I should pitch in and take one for the team here. Well, it won’t be me who take one though.

Gertrude grinned inside her heart.