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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume1 Chapter4

2012-03-11T13:50:45Z

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==The Wolf, the Cat and the Knight==

Yare, Yare. I have suffered quite a lot since coming here.

One hour had passed since then. Slowly rubbing the pain away from his
back, Kamito walked in the court yard of the academy.

Although he had not been turned into cinders receiving a hit from that
flame whip; maybe Claire had hold back some of her power, still it
didn't change the fact that it was quite painful.

Claire must be harshly admonished by Madam Freya in the punish room.

Having eluded those female classmates who has enthusiastic pursued
him, Kamito finally obtained a moment of peace.

Unlike other students, he had no class for the afternoon. After
all, he had entered the school just now and had not registered for the
courses.

Areishiya spirit academy operates on a credit system in which the
students can freely choose their preferred courses so long as they
meets the requirements. Because of enormous diversity of the
contracted spirits of the students, a uniform curriculum will not be
able to fully develop the potential of each himemiko.

"For the time being, I'll make some preparations for the school life starting
from tomorrow. "

Kamito finally came to his specially prepared dormitory, a hut
erected on the side of the stable.

Its appearance now looked worse than the time seen from the window. On
top of that, it had the smell of cattle.

The door opened with a squeak. Kamito stepped in timidly.

"Hmm, surprisingly, not too bad."

Kamito expressed his impression.

First of all, the bed was clean. Looking from the inside, the room
itself was spacious. Straw bed, table, chair, cabinet and other
furnitures were prepared after all. Cooking utensils were present as
well. Anyhow there wouldn't be much trouble to liver here.

Kamito immediately lay down on the straw bed, although it prickled the
back a bit, the smell of sun dried straws were good for comfortable
sleeps.

"Oh, well, no matter how to look at it, I need to endure it for two months".

Lying still on the bed , Kamito fixed his eyes on the left hand
covered by black leather glove.

Two months from now, the spirit blade dance would be held in the
elemental spirit realm Astral Zero.

Before that, he must find four more teammates in order to enter the contest.

It was not clear what Greywhorth will have him to do.

But there was something he must check with his own eyes.

A name that was deeply tied to the fate of himself.

Participating in the contest of the spirit blade dance festival 3
years ago, Unmatchable Blade Dancer.

That accompanying her was a spirit of darkness that took the form a human girl.

Who on earth were they?

Ren Ashubel shouldn't exist in this world anymore.
Besides Greyworth, only very small number of people were aware of this.

Even though one was just an impostor who gained the title of
unmatchable blade-dancer by fraud, it couldn't be for this reason that
the witch had made all the trouble to summon him here. Greyworth must
be holding a huge secret.

No matter what, to find out the truth, the only way was to cross blades
directly in the spirit blade dance festival in two months.

"But, in your current state, you won't be able to defeat her. " said
Greyworth.

That most likely to be true. The witch was not lying. But surely she was
not telling the truth either.

In the end, it all come down to "the current state".

But in merely two month, he had to regain what was lost in the past
three years.

"..."

....Guu, suddenly his stomach growled.

Feeling exhausted, Kamito lowered his arm that was raised toward the
roof.

After all, he had not had anything since wondering into the spirit
forest this morning.

However, he decided to endure the the empty stomach.

The reason was that he was out of money. Although there were restaurants
for the students in the academy, the price was surprisingly high. This
had already passed the level of a shool for high class ladies, but a
school for princesses indeed.

What's the point of one cup of soup being as expensive as normal folk's salary?

"It can't be helped. Maybe I'll ask Ellis to show me around in the
academic city tomorrow. "

One should be able to find cheaper and delicious restaurants in the
academy city at the foot of the hill.

With the cooking utensils, he could also just buy the material and cook
it on his own. For the fire all he needs to do was to go the spirit
forest and catch some low level fire spirits.

"Bacon and mushroom pasta sounds really good..."

He got more hungry by thinking about food.

"should I go to the spirit forest and collect some mushrooms now?"

As he started to seriously entertain that thought, from somewhere, the
smell of delicious soup flowed in.

"....hmm?"

Frowning, Kamito got up from the bed.

It seemed the smell was coming in from the gap of half open door.

Twitching his nose to inhale the smell, Kamito opened the door...

In front of him was a bowl of soup that gave off white steams.

Filled with a lot of onions and chicken with bones, the soup looked delicious.

"... am I imagining things, or is this the kindness from heaven for my unending misfortune?"

Drawing a blank because of the hunger, Kamito reached out with his hands
toward the bowl without any suspicion.

Suddenly the bowl rose up a bit.

He stretched out his hand again.

Once again the bowl was raised.

Then in front of the Kamito was the face of that princess with platinum
blond hair.

Her name should be Rinslet Laurenfrost if he remembered correctly.

Behind her, the girl Carol in maid dresses stood courteously.

"What's the meaning of this?"

Kamito asked with half opened eye.

"Fuu, you must be hungry, right? Kamito Kazehaya?"

"Yeah."

Kamito noded honestly.

"Bark woof, and then swear that you will be my slave, I'll let you
have this bowl of soup."

Rinslet held the bowl still, and turned her large chest sideways.

"I refuse. Bye Bye."

Bang.

"Ahh, wait, wait a second. Listen to what I say, you insolent. "

Bang! Bang! Door was kicked repeatly .

It would be trouble if she breaks it. Kamito opened the door again.

"What's that? You are going to let me have soup now?"

"Right away if you lick my foot ... Ahh, why are you closing the door again!"

Rinslet quickly stuck her foot in the gap of the door, like a veteran
debt collector.

"Ouch! That hurts!"

It looked painful... What the hell was she here for anyway?

"Are you alright, my lady?"

Worried about Rinslet, the Maid Carol asked.

Kamito had no choice but to open the door, Rinslet glared at him with
tears in her eyes.

"How can you be such an insolent guy after I offered my hands with
kindness to you? "

"No, you... hands with kindness?"

It appeared that she was serious. Slowly Kamito's head starts aching.

"Sheesh, all the princesses of this academy are so troublesome. "

Kamito complained inside his mind.

"Ah"

Having gotten a glimpse of the inside of the hut, the face of Rinslet
started to twitch.

"Ah, you, why are you living inside a stable?"

"The stable is next door. This is my dormitory. Home is where you make
it."

"..."

"Stop looking at me with such pity. It makes me feel sad."

Her face looked like that she was seriously concerned about it. Kamito's
attitude softened a little bit.

"Rather than living in a condition like this, you should come to my
house. I'll specially hire you as a servant."

"Ah, my lady, I believe he will look great if we dress him as a
maid. "

Carol showed her support with a big smile. This girl was troublesome as well.

Well, after all, it looked like that Rinslet was genuinely worried about
the circumstances.

"Your sympathy is appreciated, but I don't plan to throw away my
pride." Kamito shook his head.

Displeased, Rinslet perked up her lips.

"So you don't like to become my servant?"

"That's right. There is no use to try to placate me. "

"So full of yourself, even though you wag your tails at Claire Rouge. "

"When did I wag my tail at that girl?" Kamito grumbled with half open
eye. Well, many people might think the same---

Could it be that this princess try to get close to Kamito mainly out
of her rivalry with Claire?

"Yareyare, such an unexpected annoyance." Kamito let out a heavy sigh.

"I got it. That's fine with me if that's how you wants it." Rinslet
cleared her throat, and placed the bowl on the ground.

"hmm?"

"I'll leave the soup here. From the very beginning it was because
Carol cooked too much of it and it will be a shame to waste the left
overs. You should be grateful to my benevolence. "

"Eh?"

(This young lady, by any chance----)

Rinslet turned around elegantly and was about to leave.

"Ahh, Wait, Rinslet!"

Kamito suddenly called out.

Rinslet winced and stopped in her steps.

"Wh-what is that? Suddenly calling other people's first name---"

"I can't be your servant, but we can be friends."

"Eh?"

Rinslet's emerald green eyes open wide.

"Thank you for being worried and coming to see me."

"Wh-wha, you, you insolent. Of, of course that's not true."

Rinslet suddenly blushed and turned her face away.

"Fufu, my lady is so..."

Carol covered her mouth and giggles.

Just at this time -

"Rinslet Laurenfrost!"

A voice with which Kamito had gotten familiar suddenly passes into the his ears.

Claire walked towards here, her red pigtails swaying .

It appeared that Madam Freya admonishing session was finally over.

"Don't feed my contract spirits without permission, you thieving dog."

"You ... whom are you calling a thieving dog!? "

Here we go again, Kamito let out a tired sigh.

"What's that? Isn't your family crest a dog? "

"You - Laurenfrost's family crest is a proud White Wolf!"

"White Wolf? Changing it into a Chihuahua fits you better."

"...!"

Provoked by Claire's words---

"Claire Rouge ... you really got my dander up. " Rinslet said with
suppress voice.

In a flash, a fog-like chill hung around them. The temperature dropped
dramatically.

"Wait, you can't be calling your spirit -"

Kamito hastily calls out, but it was too late.

The cold wind swirled. Rinslet's hair flied up, rippling.

"Oh freezing beast with Ice-teeth,
merciless hunter of the forest,
Now is the time to abide the contract of blood,
hasten to my side as commanded!"

As soon as Rinslet finished the incantation in the spirit language, a gust
of ice storm engulfed all surrounding.

Amid the roaring and swirling blizzard, a figure appeared.

A beautiful wolf, with a coat of silver white fur.

Its body exuded a freezing chill.

"This is ..."

"It is the contract spirit of my lady, Fenrir."
Carol said with a smile.

The imposing aura that White Wolf carried, was definitely incomparable
by a low level spirit.

For the ranking of the spirits, the White Wolf was unmistakably higher
than mid-level. To have made contracts with spirits of this level,
this young lady is definitely not your ordinary person.

"Well, your dog is still the same, with its coat color barely
meritable."

Claire shook her pigtails in disdain.

"You... you called it a dog again, You flat chest! I absolutely will
not forgive your insult to the family of Laurenfrost!"

Covered with the chilling air, the White Wolf roared, and dashed toward
Claire.

"Whom are you calling flat chest! Come, Scarlet!"

Claire lashed at the ground with her whip. A scorching hell cat
immediately appeared from the twirling rising flames.

It appeared that Claire had long conjured up her spirit already.

"-Hey you two! No fighting with your spirit here!" Kamito cried out.
The horses in the stables neighed in fear.

"I will not forgive you to put your hand on my slave. I'll end it here
today, you thieving dog."

"I'll surely steal your servant and make him mine!"

Sparks burst out between the two girls.

If one only listened to these lines, it sounded like two woman in love
fighting over a man.

"The two ladies look like lovers fighting over a man!"

"Carol, you don't have to say that." Kamito looked at the maid standing
next to him with squinted eyes .

"By the way, is really OK to not stop them?"

"Right. They have always been like this."

"These two girls have always been behaving like this to each other
..."

"Yes, the relation between the two ladies is very good."

"Is this the irony?"

Kamito grumbled with a sigh.

"You have always been an eyesore, Claire Rouge!"

"You are the same, Rinslet! Why do you have to always cause me
trouble!"

Magic ice spirit Fenrir---

Flame spirit Scarlet---

Two spirits suddenly jumped up in the air and clashed.

Ice and Fire collided, sending storm bursting around.

From the point of view of Kamito, the levels of the two spirit were
almost the same. But it seems that Claire had an advantage in the
skill of mastering the spirits.

However, the flame spirit in her command was apparently quite spent out.

(Because she was beaten up by the sword spirit a few hours ago---)

Receiving such a large amount of damage, she couldn't possibly have
recovered by taking a short break.

Kamito observed the fighting of the two spirits.

"Eh? What?...... a burning smell?"

Kamito frowned and looked around.

When the sight came into his eyes, his expression suddenly freezed.

It was Burning.

Kamito's hut was burned fiercely.

The straws that stocked next to his hut had caught the sparks of the
flame spirit and started burning.

"Ah, my home!"

Hearing the cries of Kamito, Claire quickly turned toward here.

"Rinslet! Pause! We got fire!"

"It is no use to distract me ... Huh? It is really burning!"

The hut fire burned more and more violent. Sooner or later the stables
would catch fire too.

"My home---"

"Calm down. Fire of this scale, I'll put it out in no time - Fenrir!"

Rinslet cried out, the white wolf of magic ice instantly came back to
her side.

Just as one thought that the white wolf suddenly disappeared in the
air, in Rinslet's hands a huge <ice Longbow> appeared.

"Elemental Waffe(weapon)" the second purified form of the spirit.

"Oh freezing teeth of ice, pierce your target! <freezing arrow>!"

Rinslet pulled up an ice arrow and shoot.

The arrows turned into countless ice pieces and pour down, the burning
flame was instantly extinguished.

"Well, with me here it is a piece of cake!"

Rinslet stroked her long platinum blond hair and puffed out her chest
proudly.

"......"

Kamito stood motionlessly with the dumbfound stare.

The hut was smashed into pieces by pouring down ice arrows.

"Kohon", Rinslet let out a dry cough.

"... Seems that I went a bit too far."

"This is not called a bit. Do you have any control of your power?"

"You ... shut up! From the very beginning it was you who lit it up!"

Ignoring the stunned Kamito, those two engaged in arguments again.

At this time -

"What are you doing!"

The footsteps of several people running from the middle court could be heard.

One of them was the ponytail girl in a silver breastplate.

Ellis Fahrengart, the commander of the Knight brigade Sylpheed who was
in charge of up-keeping the discipline of the academy.

Behind her there were two girls in the same dress.

Claire sucked her tongue, and Rinslet also didn't bother to hide her
face of displeasure.

"It is prohibited to fight for private matter in school ... What!?"

Hastily running steps suddenly stopped.

Her eyes widened, looking dazed at pile of rubble that was Kamito's
home.

Black smokes slowly rose from the charred rubble.

"This is ...... What on earth is this?!"

Ellis questioned Kamito, her voice charged with fury.

She drew the sword that hangs at her waist, pointing to the throat of
Kamito.

"You, you hate the house that I made! Is that it? Is this your protest?!"

"No ... there is absolutely no such thing! This is because - "

Kamito quickly explained.

"It was this stupid dog who blow it up to dust."

"Before that, this pitiful chest lit it on fire!"

Heard the voices from behind, Alice turned around.

Claire and Rinslet, pointed their fingers at each other in accusation.

"... That's how it was. It was your work, just like always."

Ellis sighed with an expression that says "I understood".

"Knight commander, your greeting is more enthusiastic that the usual."

"It is the usual greeting, isn't it? Problematic students of the
raven class?" Alice looked sharply at Rinslet.

Soon, the the girls from the Knight brigade who were following Ellis
finally caught up.

A girl with tea colored hair tied in braids, and another girl with
black hair in a tomboy style.

As soon as they see Claire and Rinslet, the two girls put on
expressions like they have bitten some bitter worm."

"... Hell cat Claire! And Ice Wolf Rinslet!"

"What did they do again this time, these guys from the lowly raven
class?"

In the eyes of the girls plainly floated a contemptuous look.

"... What did you say?"

"What did you utter just now?"

Claire and Rinslet glared at the two girls at the same time.

But the girls completely ignored them focus their eyes Kamito.

"Are you that newly transferred male Seirei-Tsukai?"

"Oh, not bad. Very handsome."

The girl with braids looked at Kamito up and down like evaluating his price.

The girl's sight made Kamito to shrink away in discomfort.

"Wait, this guy is my slave spirit that I caught!"

"I tamed Kamito Kazahaya: he is my servant!"

Claire and Rinslet declared arbitrarily of their ownership of Kamito
at the same time.

The knight girl with braids snuffs with disdain, said: "Alas, because
nobody wants to form a team with you, you use your sex appeals to
seduce the transfer student. Such a fitting style for a countryside
noble."

"You dare to call me a countryside noble!"

Rinslet's face suddenly turns livid.

It appears that the girl stepped on the mines should not be stepped on.

"Sure I did. Laurenfrost family has a only big-name only, it's really
just a country bumpkin."

"You ... you ... you ...!"

"My, My lady. Please calm down -"

"Fu, fufu, fu, ... Carol, I am quite calm. "

Rinslet revealed a bright smile ... although she tries to be lady like,
her face is still quite scary.

Another girl knight turned to Claire, and scorned: "As for Claire
Rouge, although she is a noble, but isn't she the sister of the a
traitor? Really, why did the academy accepts this person for admission---"

At that instant, Claire suddenly lashed at the ground with the whip.

"- shut up. Or I'll make you into charcoal cinders."

Claire snarled with suppressed voice, her voice trembling, her red eyes
quietly burning with anger.

(... Claire is the sister of a traitor?)

Kamito frowned.

(... what on earth is the meaning of this?)

The two girls felt the sudden change of atmosphere and fell silent.

"You went too far." Ellis chided the two, then turned to Claire.

She cleared her throat and said: "In short, I will report this instant
to the knight headquarters. The charge will be to use spirit to start a
small fire and and cause property damage. We'll notice you the
specifics of the punishment in time. Please refrain from such stupid
things again. We are busy, you know?"

"Let's go." Alice said and was about to lead the other two away.

However, from behind came a voice.

"Hold on! Ellis Fahrengart, are you trying to run away?"

"What?"

Ellis stopped, turned back to Claire who called out her.

"What did you say just now?"

The calm tone of voice was full of anger. Alice's hand was on the hilt
of the sword at her waist.

"Oh, you heard it? I did not expect the Sylpheed Knights were cowards."

"Claire Rouge, Do you think I'll just let it go if someone insults the Sylpheed knights?"

Alice unsheathe her sword. The other two drew their sword at the same
time.

"I'll return that line intact back to you. You may insult me as you
please, but I will not forgive anyone who insults my sister."

Claire stroke the ground with her whip.

"I request a dual, Ellis Fahrengart, with the other two as well."

"Let me join as well, Claire Rouge. It is the Laurenfrost family's
injunction to take revenge at those dare to smear the family name of
Laurenfrost."

Rinslet ruffled her hair, and showed an undaunted smile.

At this point Alice pointed the tip of her sword toward these two.

"Well, it will stain the name of the Sylpheed Knights if we are
accused of running away. I will accept the request. I
can't stand the mess of your raven class any longer."

"Hey, isn't it prohibited to fight for private matters? "

At such a precarious intense moment, Kamito instinctively spoke out.

"It is forbidden to fight for private matters within school
ground. Anyway, I have no intention to do it here. "

"What do you mean?"

Ignoring Kamito who was tilting his head, Ellis turned to Claire.

"The time will be 2am tonight, in front of the <door>. I'll leave it
to you to decide the format."

"...One-on-one is too much trouble. How about we fight as teams of three."

"That will do." Alice nodded and put away the sword, then turned around
and left.

Claire glared at the back of the knights and cursed viciously:

"Well I will let you regret this, especially that short haired girl.
I'll definitely give her a sound beating!"

"Such a good opportunity. I have disliked the bunch from the Knight
brigade since long ago."

"Rinslet, Try not to be a burden."

"After destroying the hut, now you are on a duel. Please take mercy on
me." Kamito sighed deeply. Then he suddenly he realized.

Battle as a team of three. So, who will be the third person?

"As it turns out, -"

Claire placed one hand on her waist, and pointed a finger at Kamito.

"it is time to show us your strength, my slave spirit! "

"Ahhh... I knew this is how it would be..."

In front of rubble heap that was his former home , Kamito reluctantly
dropped his shoulder.

'''<big> end of chapter 4 </big>'''

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume1 Chapter1

2012-03-11T03:30:36Z

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==Chapter 1: You are my spirit contractor==

=== Part 1 ===

In a quiet forest where the sun rays were shining through leaves.

"Paa--"

Suddenly, the rippling sound of water resounded in the air.

Kamito, he--opened his mouth wide and just stood there.

A girl...In front of his eyes was a fully naked girl.

She was cute, extraordinarily cute. Her eyes were big and red like rubies, her cherry-red lips were wet and lustrous, her dazzling white flesh was as silky as milk, and on the surface of the water, her beautiful legs were slender and fine. Also, what caught his eyes more than anything was--

The hair that clings on her gorgeous fine glass work like body, crimson red like burning fire.

Of course, she was naked. Stark naked.

"......"

Kamito felt cold sweat on his back.

Not good.

It's really not good that she is seen naked.

......I should really run away quickly. Even though he gave that rational advice to himself, his body wouldn't move. Actually, he was ''charmed''. The scene was so surreal that Kamito felt a bit detached from reality.

And at that time, the girl--

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Her moist and beautiful eyes blinked, having found the unexpected intruder.
Staring blankly, she seemed yet to have fully grasped the situation.
She didn't even try to cover her still developing small breast.

Tick.

The water drops fell from the young girl's bangs. Kamito's consciousness came back at the sound of the water.

"Ah-that......"

Kamito coughed once, and removed his glance from the naked girl　who was standing motionlessly.

"How can I say it......it looks like an accident, right? It is an unfortunate accident for both of us..."

At that time, Kamito made two fatal errors. The first, of course, was that he started to make futile explanations. The best choice was to take advantage of the fact that the girl was dazed, and run away from the trouble immediately.

And the other error was--

"Even though it was an accident, I have seen you in such a situation. Sorry, my apologies."

Until here it was still fine, but the last part......

"Though, don't worry. I'm still a healthy boy, so I don't have ''that kind of interest''. I......"

Looking at the young girl's ''still developing small chest''--

"I have no interest towards a kid's body."

Looks like he stepped on a gigantic landmine.

"......"

The frozen silence fell.

Silently, the girl raise her red hair coiled arm. Her shoulders were slightly shaking. But the reason wasn't because of the cold, but Kamito was oblivious to that fact.

"Sixteen--"

"Eh?"

The girl's delicate lips were mumbling something, and Kamito lifted his eyebrows.

"I-I-I AM ALREADY SIXTEEN-YEARS OLD!!!"

At the instant when she screamed that out, the young girl's red hair standed on its end.

"Haa!?"

As Kamito opened his eyes wide in surprise--

"Sixteen!? For real? How can you have such an pitiful chest--"

He quickly covered his mouth. Though it was already too late.

"......Unforgivable."

The young girl said that in a low, cold voice.

"D-Definitively unforgivable......you, youyou, you peeping demon, pervert, lewd beast!"

"You know it well, words like lewd beast." 

Kamito said that in a low voice with narrowed eyes.

"Hn?"

......At that time, he noted that the forest's trees were making a low whisper-like rustle.

(Is that the wind? No, that's--)

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with our blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Came from the young girl's cute lips a smooth incantation in spirits’ language. At this instant, accompanied by the sound of an air blast, a scourging flame whip appeared in the hand of the girl.

(.....a Spirit Contractor!)

Kamito shouted in his head.

Spirit Contractor --- an another dimensional layer’s of this world, the “Astral Zero”.

Witches who have signed a contract with a fierce spirit from that place are called “Spirit Contractors”.

The Spirit Contractor can use different types of spirit, wielding its powers freely.

It seemed that the girl in front of him had a contract with a flame type spirit.

The young girl was a Spirit Contractor. It is not something to be surprised about.

After all, this is the place where the country's excellent Spirit Contractors are gathered together.

(.....However, surprisingly she was even capable of using Elemental Waffe)

The natures of the spirit summoned into this world from the Astral Zero can be roughly divided into two types.

The first type is a massless, shapeless type that appears in its original state as a ‘Divine Core’. This is purely the summoning of a spirit's power, and was used as a vault of magical power for the spirit magic.

There is another type, the pure state of summoning a part of the spirit’s existence as it is. Because of the tremendous amount of power required and the difficulty to control it, it is said that only a tiny portion of the spirit contractors can do it to this extent.

Even so, the girl before his eyes is not just using spirit, but could use it to the extent of using the spirit as a highly optimized elemental buffs.

(.... it means that, eh? – Am I now in a life or death situation?)

As the thought suddenly hit him, and Kamito was stunned.

At the place where the flame whip touched the water's surface, a gush of white steam was rising from it.

"You, you have the guts..... "

The girl murmured with her trembling voice. Her face was red, whether it was due to her anger, or her embarrassment.

ÉRea-really, you have some nerve, to p-peek , while I, Claire Rouge, am taking my bath....."

“W-Wait, that's a misunderstanding! Let me explain it first!"

Kamito shook his head in panic.

"I will not listen to your excuses. Please turn into ashes, PERVERT!"

The flame whip ignited furiously in the wielder’s hand and was moving as if it was licking the water surface.

"Oooooh..!?"

Kamito threw his body, and quickly jumped into the dense brushes at proximity.

Nearly at the same time, the flame whip brushed its way over his head.

The idle red residue remained on the trees, which were cut off like a complete joke. The cut part of the tree trunks' remains were surprisingly clean, without any trace of burn. The attack was so quick that the flames didn't even have the time to ignite the trees.

The hair on Kamito's forehead was fluttering down on his mouth while cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

(.....Um, that's a joke, right? I'm not going to die like that, will I?)

Zing, biyutsu – there was like an endless dance of crimson flash cutting horizontally and vertically in the forest. While carefully paying attention to his surroundings, trying to forfeit from the battle by hiding himself, Kamito hurriedly rushed out.

“You wild beast, stay still and let me hit you!“

“That's nonsense, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito screamed out and at the same time, the whip swung downwards on his feet, causing a violent spark to scatter. Raising from the ground, the whip immediately sprang up in the direction of the forest woods, which got ruthlessly severed. It was said that it’s a blessing in disguise, the girl - Claire's aim wasn't quite accurate. After all, one hand was desperately hiding her chest from being revealed while the most important part was being concealed in the pond in a bent down position. However, considering the ignorance of her position, and how she could handle her whip, she should be normally talented at using it.

“Despite being a pervert, please obediently turn into charcoal!“

“As I am saying, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito began to turn around and face the opposite direction – "in a manner that will" draw attention.

“Hey, are you sure that you're hiding it properly? Between the gaps of your finger, you can’t hide it delicately.”

“......eh?”

Scowling at the question. Claire’s facial expression froze. And-

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

Blushing deeply like a wonderful cute girlfriend screaming at its peak - she quickly hid her chest with both of her hands.

“Ah, idiot!”

Kamito involuntarily exclaimed.

Losing control of the flame whip's grip in her hand, the tree behind the girl has been cut off. Slowly, the huge tree came falling down right at her. However, Claire didn’t notice it since her eyes were closed due to embarrassment, and looking at her chest while embracing it. 

(Damn--)

At this instant, Kamito kicked the ground. Running with his whole strength towards the pond, he then jumped while grabbing Claire’s shoulders.

“Wha-!?”

Claire’s red pupils dilated widely. On the other hand, Kamito aggressively pressed her down in the water. Between those two actions, Claire’s hand has gone into the water, causing a gush of steam to rise, and the flame whip to disappear. Immediately after, the big tree fell down, and the woods collapsed.

Duuuun!

A deafening sound which were ear-breaking. A magnificent large water column then rose.

Absorbing the burning flame, a heavy rain was falling neatly into the pond water.

.....A few moments later.

“Um......“

With a seducing rising voice, Claire slowly opened her eyes. She had an expression of shock, and her eyes blinked in wonder. Kamito was lying on the top of Claire, while staring into her eyes. If someone was to push his back lightly, as a man his lips will likely touch, due to their rather close distance. The nape where the twining red hair was stuck. The wet cherry red colored lips. The brittle doll like perfect feature, before his eyes. One scowl ends it all, with an unintentional blush, hurriedly shaking it off.

“......Um, are you fin? Are you hurt..”

Single mindedly, Claire nods. Somehow, in a situation yet to be understood. Kamito sighed, then stood up into the hot weather.

Funyuu.

His hand under the water touched something soft.

“Hwaaah!”

(What is that? Mud?--)

Funyu. Munyu.

“Hm, ya, hwaaa”

From her moist lips came a shallow sweet voice. Exploring Claire’s body soaked in the water, something pink bounced out from the water.

“Um ..this is?”

From here onwards, Kimito finally arrived in a certain male theory. Something......awfully terrible childish conclusion.

(No, let’s hope that, calm down, maybe --- it's different?)

It can’t be. There was no such thing. While letting a flow of cold sweat, he deliberately tried to deny such a possibility.

“Wh..wha.. wha..whattt .... are..you...do..ing”

Claire’s lip trembled, shaking involuntarily. She was blushing with tears in her eyes.

Apparently, it probably wasn't.....a lump of mud that he picked up.

“You, PERVERT----!”

“Gwah!”

Because he got hit hard by a knee in the stomach, Kimito collapsed into the pond's water.

Gugugugugu....!

While the wobbling heat energy behind her starts to accumulate, Claire immediately stood up. In thattime, the flame whip which is the incarnation of flame spirit was again grasped in her hand. The water in the pond with one scowl starting to boil and bubbles begins to show here and there.

“No..No, it’s a misunderstanding! Wait, I’m really gonna die.....”

“Sh..Shut up pervert, you will die here!”

Together with a loud deafening sound which breaks the ear, Kamito’s body whirled highly into the air.

=== Part 2 ===

“.....Un”

Few minutes later. Kamito starts to recover his consciousness, before his eyes, a tree within the forest unfold.

Happening trying to rise---

Suddenly, he notices something which was coiled around his neck.

A leather black whip for torturing. (What is this thing…), while trying to remove it,

“Finally woke up, You Peeping Tom Pervert”

The thing on his neck tightens.

“Gweh!? Release me....”

Kamito coughed then looked upward-

Scarlet haired young girl – Claire, swing her hand to her hips. Keeping her slim eyebrow arc raised, her sharp gaze looked down to Kamito.

This time with no sense of protection, the girl is wearing her adorable uniform. The pattern of black line within the pure white, (Areishia Spirit Academy)’s uniform.

The ribbon tie which decorates the chest origin. Instead of a button, a talisman was sewn on it. Two smooth stockings sticking out brilliantly, in her slender beautiful legs. The tiny ribbon hanging her left and right blazing crimson hair. The so called twin tail named hair style. Looking at her still wet hair, it seems that he hasn’t lost consciousness that much period of time.

Claire while tightens the neck of Kamito, her small chest bent a little.

“Well, be grateful. I’m going easy and didn’t kill you”

“I lied. I will definitely kill you!”

“Why am I saying this? Because, I seriously want you to turn into ash”

..... Saying it in a terrible calm manner.

Incidentally, about the obliterated coal, a new fire which was extinguished will result into a soft charcoal.

“The coal which was gained from you will be greedily put into forgiveness. I will give you one last time to respond”

“Yeah, I’m a fair noble person, I’ll certainly listen and calmly evaluate. You are more than an average pervert, in a highly pervert way”

“My evaluation that you are a pervert after all will not change. I’m asking you high pervert, are you seriously more than an average pervert?”

“Wh.. Why.....did you try to help, ee..even, touch, my breast!”

Exerting more effort thinking about it, Claire suddenly shy face turns to red.

(What?)

A particular female response –

Kamito half considered it.

.....Our guy, by any chance a dense person?

“My, our gloomy princess, has a perverted hobby of having fun by whipping a man”

Teasing nonchalantly -

“What!? Wr, Wro, Wrong, I’m not such thing!”

In a sure quick immediately response. (Kaatsu)Shake one's head up and her ears are in bright red in irritation.

“He.. Hey, do you really like to whip that badly?”

“.....m! Wha... What.. are...you..sayi..ng?”

Twirling turning around eyes, a steam puff out in young Claire’s shining pair head. That time creating confusion to a certain degree.

(Oh, as I expected....)

Kamito in his heart smiled bitterly.

(This girl, is really easy to read)

Perhaps, this girl is not that special. After all, at Areishia Spirit Academy, they are gathering female scholars based with their spirit contract. The Astral Zero’s spirit can only communicate solely with a pure woman. Even among them which can summon a lonesome spirit, is holding a divine spiritual strength in a certain degree, Spirit Contractor’s connection blood strengthens through marriage of many generations, as a lineage of pure noble young woman.

To maintained, the female’s purity of mind and body, since childhood, they are kept away from males in a boundary as a strict education. The so called Spirit Contractor designated teaching area. However, the entire young women in this institute, which are not accustomed to man, are overly boxed into an ideal princess miko.

Knowing the girl’s unexpectedly weak spot, Kamito in that time is maliciously suffering in her weapon. In a knee standing position, looking up to Claire’s bright red face-

“Um, sometime ago, as am I saying to you deliberately ”

“......Wha, What are you, Pervert!”

“This angle, I can see your panties”

“Fuwah!”

Tears begun to float in her crimson eyes, Claire hastily pressed down her skirt with both hands.

“Did you see?”

“With a glance, you are unexpectedly quite daring. It has the same color of your hair”

“......The, The fuck, It’s not red, It’s White, White!”

“So, it’s white”

“......ha!?”

Being hit by a sudden realization, Claire bit her lips-

“U, uuuuuuuuuh~”

..... She let out a huge cry.

With the sudden reaction, Kamito panicked. “What a slut unladylike person, confessing the color of her own panties” and, still teasing her more....true summer came for the poor.

The chance given by Claire’s temper, the whip was fired unwinding his neck,

“My bad, that was quite fun. Sorry”

Standing up, and then hold the girl’s head, which his hand place above there. Claire in that time stops crying, and then her face shows up.

“I have seen your naked body while bathing, then your breast.... which I badly touched as well. But I will not move. Please believe me”

“Wha, What.....”

The truthfulness in Kamito’s eye, Claire in her eyes, is really genuine.

“....You, What is this. If you are not a pervert, then '''why are you here?'''”

Naturally she doubted. This forest is under the jurisdiction of Areishia Spirit Academy, known as “Spirit Forest”. There’s a principle that a princess miko can never meet any man inside the academy, in regards with her feelings.

In that place, illicit sexual relationship is against the moral code, which is strictly not to be violated by anyone.

“I was, called here by Greyworth”

“Greyworth..... by the academy director!?”

Claire became more doubtful in that given situation. Indeed, it’s not something, not to be doubt about.

“I’m not lying. Look, here’s the evidence”

Kimito shruged his shoulders, inside his burned coat’s pocket, he took out a one sheet withered letter. The letter’s writings are from the renowned academy director. Also, 5 big pure spirits appears in a form which symbolize as a rank badge seal pressed down on it.

“Is....that, the country’s obi number one rank badge seal!?”

Claire in her dismay, a shallow voice let out in her lips. A number one rank badge seal is an amnesty badge seal produced through a special method of sealing a spirit. The country’s obi distributed the rank badge seal to those who are worthy to be called inside, by the best highest position; the reply on it is in absolute secrecy and should never tell to anyone.

In a natural manner, fixing her gaze in his groin, the article on it is not some female thing that can contract a spirit, in a glance that’s the genuine thing in his hip.

“.....It seems the real thing. But, why would the academy director call a man here?”

“Well, that Old woman is my guardian Greyworth, I’m really confused about it”

“That.. that Old woman!?”

Just like that, Claire’s face draws closer.

The Twilight Witch – in her town, Greyworth is a spirit soldier which was sighted as a princess miko having an enraged personality. It was said that within the Orudeshia country obi, she was popular having a dance that rival the most powerful dance ever known. One of the twelve elite general which retired from the group of the most powerful spirit elder soldier, It was noted that a dozen of years later, gain a reputation as a legendary witch which was being feared and revered with respect by other.

(The truth is, lately, I’m having a nightmare about that person....)

In that time, when the letter writing has been tucked away. Kamito’s shoulders shrugged.

“With a little fortune from Greyworth, I have came all the way here. but, the academy ground is very large, so I have lost my way”

Areishia Spirit Academy ground is incredibly very vast. After all, the Academy City covers all the mountain range, also, spreading farther more into the Spirit forest owning the whole perimeter of it.

“Then, you were misled dumbfounded by the Spirit Forest, Is that it?”

“.....Yes, that’s it”

Claire puffs into laughter, while Kamito gently nodded.

In the peaceful large ground of the sunny spirit forest exists, the Astral Zero’s "Portal" which connects and threatens this world with stray soul. Mostly of the spirit, has no interest in the humankind, but they harmlessly loves to play pranks by deliberately misleading travelers into the puzzled forest. In any event a person was misled by the spirit into the forest; one should look for the academy road which will guide them out from the wilderness.

“Anyway, I’m really glad that I had met a person, in these difficult and horrible Spirit Forest. from here onward, how should I get in the academy?”

“Hey.....for your own information, I shall tell you, that there’s a two hours of walk from here towards the Academy”

“What, that far!?”

To avoid being misled by the spirit of the forest, one should walk away in such a pattern. The academy students here are females, and they are close in this vicinity, so they have thought a way around it.

(.....hmm? why are these people, bathing in this kind of place?)

From this plain forest, a sudden question arises. Certainly today is a very hot day, to come and take a bath and rest here, incidentally for a male to set foot inside the academy in such places. In any case, this girl is not the only girl in the academy, except that she was the one been put into shame.

Being asked, Claire dug her hands into her wet twin tail hair trying to comb it,

“I was here for the purification ritual for spirit contract. Brushing aside it, the spring water here, has the highest holy quality are there. And do you know that spirits like a woman which has a pure mind and body?”

“Spirit Contract?”

He uttered a word then, a crack in his left hand’s leather gloves, Zukyu – a throbbing pain. Kamito face grimace, from the burning sharp pain.

“Going away from this place, there is an ancient holy sword in a certain historical shrine. Rumors state that there is a fierce and powerful “Spirit Seal” which holds something in that place, since the foundation of the academy. While no one can, a princess miko successfully place it. Likely, a highly powerful spirit can be found there”

Spirit Seal – is a medium that holds the demon spirit from the Astral Zero.

Since ancient times, some of powerful spirit contractor have sealed their spirits inside their arms and equipments. Mostly some of them are the one’s being feared by man that brings forth disaster in ancient society, such as, a demon god, rabbit god and etc.

Of course, it's the human spirit contractor can't deals with. Due, to the huge fear of ancient spirit contractor, they sealed them into the arms and equipment by lamenting them two times.

“You, there’s no way you can manage a sealed spirit?”

“It seems that you are saying something?”

“Stop, it’s too dangerous”

“Hmm, rest assured. It’s not that I’m well accustomed as a spirit contractor, nor I’m not that well aware of the danger of it, but, you know, I really want a strong spirit”

Claire muttered, bitten her tightly close lips.

In a serious facial expression, Kamito involuntarily shuts his own mouth.

“But, you, how about the pear amount of flame spirit sometime ago? That thing quite a powerful spirit, did you not raise that guy properly?”

A Flame Spirit, as the Spirit’s nature which is not that unusual. But, in a certain degree the spirit can be summoned as an <elemental buffs> by a spirit contractor, that is not quite a handful in number inside the country obi. Besides, there’s a limit of quantity of pure spirit errand that a person can holds, it’s not the case that it’s not possible, but – spirit interference can deteriorate the balance of divine energy flow in the body, unless that someone has an innate talent to control it.

“'''Scarlett''' you're an important partner. But-”

“I want power”- and, Claire calmly raised her neck.

“I have only one goal. And that is, to have a strong spirit”

=== Part 3 ===

Fluffily swinging crimson twin tail on her back, Kamito followed her inside the forest. Claire in her leather shoe sandals, while having a hard time walking and expectedly having an accumulated secant of her spirit errand was walking in a light frivolous way.

“Here”

Then, suddenly her well proportion feet stopped walking.

With her hands on her hips, she looked back with a half eye glare towards Kamito.

“Why are you following me? You pervert peeping maniac ”

“I’m lost, and I don’t know the way towards the academy. As I have said several times, I am not a pervert peeping maniac. It’s Kamito, Kamito Kazehaya”

“Fufu, what a weird name. Crake’s origin?”

Crake is a large harmonious country obi in the eastern region. The Orudeshia language and culture, largely differs in terms in the relationship of people with spirits.

“No, It’s not Crake. I was born in a far remote island minority group village”

Kamito intentionally obscure his own statement. Certainly, he was born in an eastern island country, but, larger half of his childhood life was not spent there.

“Your name is quite a rare taste and mine is, Claire Rouge”

“Don’t call my name in a friendly manner. Anyway it’s a strange name”

“Really? But, I consider it a nice name”

“Wha, What are you saying, stu, stupid!”

Claire face blushes, then suddenly change back to her former direction, and briskly walk faster than usual.

Claire Rouge ---- obviously a Pseudonymn.

Most of the students attending the Areishia Spirit Academy, in their young age learned to use the accumulated secant of their spirit, like today’s noble young girl is doing. But, Rouge residence is an unheard family name. For hiding a noble family name, she must have some reason for it, and finding more explanation about it is detrimental.

(.....Anyone, wants to achieved their own inner hidden desire)

Kamito with his eyes glancing in the direction of his decaying left hand inside his leather glove.

Even I -

Claire with her foot movement keeps advancing steadily. Kamito hastily chased the twin tail swaying in her back. Now, losing sight of Claire inside the forest will bring only trouble for him. The dangers of spending one night inside the “Spirit Forest”- is the thing Kamito being aware of.

“Is that dress the academy uniform?”

“Yah”

Claire while walking nods in a coldly manner.

Areishia Spirit Academy Uniform is a robust protective garment that acts as a guard, which undergone spirit’s protection, and sacred in nature which was improve surely enough to last long. The good thing is that a pear amount of spirits acts as a high ceremonial clothes.

“What, are you saying that I don’t harbor value on it?”

“No, it’s not like that. Honestly speaking”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder, and then honestly answer it. Bad mouthing knocking over someone’s – grandfather’s wardrobe, is the overall situation that anyone should avoid.

“Wha, Whatt, What are you saying! I, I’m not an Idiot!”

(Kaatsu) Claire blushes in deep red, while (Pyun-Pyun) waving her whip.

“Uwahh, Calm down!”

“You, you, are you trying to tell me to do a weird thing!”

“''I saying a weird thing?, I am just saying that - *in pain*, I know, I know, because, I’m in disadvantage one on one against your whip!''”

(....phew, it was necessary to tell her a battle strategy, unexpectedly to meet a chaperone princess here)

While dodging the whip which was swing downward in a paper width difference, Kamito sighed in his mind. The holy blade removing any markings on its way inside the forest, creating a gap in the place, then stopped in an arched way. Claire interfere by restraining the extension force with the tip of her fingers, unwinding its circulation in that place in just an ample of time, Kamito expression then calms down.

“From here onwards, it will be really dangerous, so, stay away from me by one meter”

“If you know that it’s dangerous, why not stop?”

“As am I saying, I need to have a strong spirit”

Claire calmly shook his head, when her pair of legs stumbles upon the small shrine.

Disregarding her warnings, Kamito followed her. As for coming about a necessity of battle strategy as his pretext reason, but the truth is, he was just worried about Claire.

After all “Sealed Spirit” are strong and in the same time has a wild nature. They prefer destruction and chaos, the possibility that they would murder that someone who employs them as a spirit would likely to happen.

The frightful hand of humanity can not manage to terminate it --- therefore, they have sealed it.

Sixteen years of age, Claire with such an innate talent of manipulating a spirit, and revered as a deity. However, by any chance, she would release a sealed spirit; she would fail to control it.

Accidentally, the girl encountered the thing we are talking about, but to be overlooked by her.

“Why did you follow me? Do you not understand the situation”

“You sure have the confidence that you will completely tame it”

“Of, Ofcourse!”

“If there’s any problem tell me”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder and, Claire facing him while not paying any attention.

“....Suit Yourself”

Inside the shrine is a dark gloomy misty atmosphere. Mingling in the air inside are tiny fumes of stinking odor, Claire somewhat frowning from disgust.

“......Flame, Bring Light”

Claire from her fingertip, a fire ball immediately starts to glow. The Fire Spirit’s power when summoned gives some basic fundamental spirit magic. The flickering light of the fire ball dimly illuminate the walls of the shrine.

And, from the innermost of the shrine --- It was severed.

“The.....container of the sealed spirit was severed?”

Kamito muttered, while Claire quietly nods.

Stabbed standing in a huge stone with its omitted severed body. A hundred century old seal grade framework severed disconnected in the broken rusty sashimi knife with its wholeness is missing. In its cut off belly, a delicate ancient red inscription dimly radiates palely.

“In this place lies our former beloved, Saint Severian Academy”

“Saint Severian? That was destroyed by Demon King Sulaiman?”

Demon King Sulaiman --- accompanied by his seventy two powerful spirit followers, demolished a major peace agreement which brought chaos in the world, and '''the only man in history that can control a spirit errand'''.

It was said that demon king destroyed the Saint Severian Academy.

“Idiot, there’s no way that’s the real thing”

Claire state being engrossed by it.

“In all the places within the country obi, why is that it is stabbed in this stone. This place used to be a village, I wonder why in a deserted village. Now, there’s no way it’s genuine from that severed thing as our lead, It’s reasonable enough because it’s not always the case where a sealed spirit is a strong one”

“.....Indeed. Certainly, It’s not like there’s no such place exist..”

Claire determined with her blade walks toward to him.

“Hey....”

“You stay back”

Approaching Kamito which hands are being restrained, Claire clenched the hilt of her holy blade.

“Don’t overwork yourself ”

“....Got it”

Kamito barely lightly reached the bag guarding the thing on it. The other person in his side which is reluctantly not motivated about the sealed spirit. In the first time, a mature serious silence atmosphere is between them.

“.....Move, Claire Rouge”

Claire breathing deeply murmured informing her own body. A voice meekly trembles from her. A truly complicated scene it was.

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A spell coming from her cherry colored lips, a yang spirit language, contract ritual. The red lotus filaments dancing in the air, inside the shrine a roaring wind vortex begins to accumulate. 　

Kamito gulps his breath, looking at her female appearance. The spirit whose recognized master is Claire, once exchange each other a contract, within her female body there should be a spirit carved seal engraved. A contract vow is a final seal agreement. In this moment, a gust of wind swept inside the shrine.

“......eh?”

But, Claire is unfazed. She calmly recite her contract vow.

---And, the female clenched the Severian’s holy blade, a blinding light released from it.

(I can’t....believe it, She was exchanging a contract with the sealed spirit!?)

Preventing being swept by the wind, astonished Kamito raised his voice.

Because the holy blade was stabbed in the stone, she was hitting it while releasing a tremendous divine energy. If it was an average spirit errand, she would have already passed out.

“---Three times, I order to wave, wave, I grant thee to plunge!”

And, Claire’s vow reverberates inside the shrine --- in that instant.

Chaaaarge!

“Co, Come out, Come out!”

“.....What, seriously!?”

The blade came out of the stone then brandished it overhead, Claire exclaimed with joy. And then followed by a question mark.

The ancient system engraved in its belly; release a powerful intense brilliant light!

“......ha!?”

Claire involuntarily release from her hand the blade ---

The holy blade thrust into the ground, in that time, the light scattered into pieces.

“Kyaaaaah!”

A short shriek flew, then Claire collapse into the ground.

“Hey, are you okay!”

Kamito quickly run towards Claire.

“Wha, What? Ouch, What is....”

Claire holding her temple trying to get up, quickly stepped back then looked around.

“My, My sealed spirit?”

“No, I....can sense something terrible”

Kamito from the back of his neck, sweats are flowing intensely. A terrified facial expression, with his eyes in the shrine’s ceiling. In that place, '''swinging while floating in the air was the blade'''.

It's not the familiar loose broken blade in that place. But, It was a rough sharpness good quality steel blade.

“Is that.....the sealed spirit’s knife!?”

“Can’t you really not tell that’s a '''spirit sword''', rather it’s not time for that”

“The spirit errand is here, but why can’t it understand me”

“As I can see it can understand. Maybe, in its eyes, that thing just can’t comprehend which of us was his faithful master”

“.....umm, It seems like that”

Claire unusual obediently bows her head.

The floating sword slants pointing its tip in a downward direction, exactly motionless.

Then ---

“.....H, Hide!”

Kamito in that instant, push down Claire in the ground. A buzzing sound of an insect grazed contaminating the ear which can’t go away that far in one’s neighborhood.

“Wai, Waa, Wait, where are you touching me, I will turn you into charcoal!”

It was clearly that Claire’s face is deeply red in her carelessness, while in the other hand, Kamito’s heart is beating faster.

“Idio, Idiot, violent!”

Kamito quickly step aside her body, the spirit sword flew away, taking their attention looking on it with their both eyes.

A clattering sound, a flakes fragment of rocks falls down. The shrine’s ceiling was completely cut open cleanly.

“As expected, that spirit came to loose ---”

Claire scowled half opened eye towards Kamito.

“......umm the spirit, completely run wild”

“You, You’re Noisy. Fro.. From Here Onwards, You Will Be Obedient To Me!”

“YOU....”

Kamito surprised, now in a situation which he can’t even talked back.

The spirit sword releases a chattering noise approaching to them. Inside the shrine, it was moving freely swiftly in the air, without any restriction in its area.

Kamito grabbed Claire’s hand, trying to pull her to stand up. Touching each other soft skin, (Doki) a heart beat, then both of them regrettable turn’s each other face away.

“Hwaah”

“Always has a cute reaction. Let's flee”

“Wha.. whaa. whatt.. Cute.. what me, Kyaa!”

“Let’s run outside!”

Pulling Claire’s hand with his hand, while running towards the direction of the shrine’s exit basking with sunshine.

The spirit sword immediately chased after them. As of now it was not yet completely awakens. But later, the opportunity given by this may cause them not able to run away.

Outside of the shrine, the sword wavering tumble came out in a lightning speed in their front. The spirit sword let out a tremendous roar, the surrounding trees successively certainly knocked down.

“Crazy, What a shrewd Spirit, Let’s go somewhere safe my Princess”

“alwa, always, you’re noisy...”

In this time, an awkward atmosphere is between them, and then suddenly an uncomfortable cough breaks the silence, Claire stands up.

“What a rebellious child.....I will give you some proper training”

Her pair crimson eyes which was burning with a fierce determination, saying it in a way as if she was planting rice to be harvest later. Tearing off her Skirt, then took the leather whip which was coiled in her thigh, hitting it hard in the ground. And the other one looking in a shocked manner over the white underwear, it was Kamito -

“Are you insane!? You’re opponent is a high rank sealed spirit!”

“Easy victory, I’m not lower than an amateur like you”

“Where are you getting all of your confidence?, It’s better to run away”

Being grabbed in the wrist by Kamito’s hand, Claire repulses.

“No, you yourself escape. I will absolutely get this guy”

“You, for what reason --- do you need a strong spirit that badly?”

“.....You will never understand”

Claire in that time averts her eyes.

“I want...a strong spirit, not just a spirit but an unbeatable very strong spirit!”

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with the blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Claire summoned her “Flame Spirit” by singing a summoning ritual. A crimson flame surges and she was engulfed by a hot air surrounding her.

“Here, In accordance with your seal descend, Scarlett!”

In the same time a typical young flame, there appeared – a Scarlet Red Hell Cat. Instead of a fur, it was a blazing scarlet red colored flame, wrapping the beast body.

(Is that the real form of her flame spirit!?)

Indeed, she really blurted out that thing here. To manifested a beast form, is a proof that thing is a high rank spirit. Stating Scarlett as a name with great affection, perhaps it was not really that spirit name, but a name with the same quality.

Claire wields her whip, and the hell cat growl a frightful roar, then rushed towards the sword spirit. A dancing sparks scattered. The atmosphere trembled and the beast roars. The floating spirit sword whistles, and all the trees from their direction was severely cut down.

“Scarlett, in accordance with your seal!”

In response to Claire’s shout, the hell cat jumps. There above in the sky where the spirit sword is flying, the sharp blazing claws swings down. A high pitched shrill sound. An intense sparks sprinkle, and the spirit sword dropped in the ground.

Claire runs at the same time. Without even a single scratch on it. The spirit sword rise and fly in a split second, rolling over drawing an arc in the air.

The flame spirit chased after it, trying not to loose it from its hands. Again a big jump, hindering it from rising higher.

Two times the rage, a spark scattered. Clare strikes hard the ground with her leather whip, attaching it into the spirit sword cornering it. Battling it with her leather whip in a tug of war, in that time she gave a signal to her spirit.

Scarlett fiercely attack, the spirit sword which was held from moving --- back and forth.

“Eat this, burning fire ball!”

Claire in her palm a huge fire ball was released.

Fire Ball – An ultrahigh burning fire which can terribly burn out anything as its target in the face of the earth, it was a high level spirit magic. The spirit magic’s power, determined by the spirit contractor’s own divine spiritual energy and the contracted spirit’s strength as a whole.

The released fire ball solitarily flew into the air, blowing up involving Scarlett. The after effect of the explosion in the area, causing every tree to be burned down, is like a scene from the blazing hell.

(What Power......)

At the same time carried by the winds are small stones, Kamito refusing himself to be wind up.

Sixteen years old girl can’t possible have used such powerful spirit magic.

Inside the swirling fire the hell cat figure shows up. Naturally, the hell cat can’t possibly be harmed by the blazing fire as its nature.

The spirit sword – in any case seemed to be quiet. It does not seem hurt waiting in that place. Regardless, Claire wants to bring down that thing with her high level spirit magic without any hesitation. But, the spirit sword is being cautious by pulling itself in that place.

“Scarlett!”

Claire exclaimed. The flame spirit clawed attacked the spirit sword in that place. Melting the iron steel with its scourging hot claws. In any case that’s your average spirit ones neighbor, it would be instantly eradicated. But, the spirit sword quickly turned around, and splendidly perceived by its steel sword body.

In an instant. A metal rubbing each other, strange sound reverberated in the trembling atmosphere.

“Wh...Why?....”

Kamito suppressed his both ears with his hands.

The sound properly received by Claire which has a distorted facial expression from pain, crouching in that place.

The spirit sword which released the strange sound - in such a manner, changed. Generally, it was the length of the sword, switching into a huge “long sword”.

In a flash.

“What!?”

Claire’s flame spirit unexpectedly strike, a huge swing one attack which was immediately countered attack. The body was severely cut down into two, and the flame wrapping on its body vanished in the empty lot.

In that one mistake, one can realized the strength which was about to lost in this world.

(....Damn, what a mistake. It seems that thing was waiting there to completely awaken.)

A curse from the bottom of her heart, Clare took a glance -

In the empty lot where the flame spirit is dying, the girl with her stunned blank eyes looked up at the same time.

The flame spirit which was attacked decapitated thrown away by the spirit sword, Clare aimed her determined sight on it.

From the huge long sword, a loud sound flew -

“Claire!”

Kamito shouted while running, with no such reason, his own body just moved before he known it.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Diving in front of Clair, the long sword stabbed its blade into his palm. It was not his left hand enclosed by the leather glove – it's his right hand.

(……I, I’m helpless ! )

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A huge amount of sweats is floating, it’s the second time the exchanging of spirit contract ritual was recited. Thrusting deeply into his hands, the tip of the sword breaks the leather surrounding his palm. The red blood gushed intensely from it.

(.....Gwaah, Gah!)

A fierce attack of divine energy, the soil and sands surrounding them are whirling up from the wind pressure. In his consciousness a sharp pain resounded. But, Kamito tried not to lose his consciousness, protecting Clare from his back no matter what happens.

--- Three times, I order to wave!

“.....No way, a Spirit Contract!?”

A surprised sound from Clare’s throat.

A mark from his sinking foot can be seen in the ground. And, the sound of his breaking bones resounds from his knee cap.

--- Wave, I grant thee to plunge!

Withstanding the terrible sharp pain, Kamito finished his last word of the contract ritual.

In that exact moment. The spirit sword’s blade palely radiates.

(What!?)

An intense flash and a roar filled his consciousness.

=== Part 4 ===

As he opened his eyes, Claire Rouge’s face was there. Hanging lower into his face was her twin tailed hair tickling his face.

It was a shout, but, it can’t be heard. A roar which can breaks one’s ear.

(.....It appears, I’m alive)

Weary lying on the ground, Kamito is breathing heavily. Lowering his head, it seems that he can’t believe himself that he had won against the spirit.

Raising his eyebrow, he grimaced from the torment pain from his body, raising his right hand slowly.

In his right hand which was stabbed -

Instead of a wound, a two sword crossing each other emblem was engraved on it.

It was the proof of the spirit contract vow - The spirit carved seal.

(Aah, this is....?)

Staring closely in the carved seal from the back of his hand, Kamito wondered.

A sharp sense of guilt gauged his heart.

Is that mean that female’s contract has been destroyed ---

But, Claire who has a relieved expression, in such situation she had failed.

Claire noticed Kamito who just woke up, with her hands in his nape and her face approaching him. A relieved sighed. With her clear crimson eyes, looking at Kamito. Her cherry colored lips weakly trembled.

“......Why ”

"Why, you’re a male, how can you contract a spirit!”

“......”

Kamito does not answer and slowly rise up. Being ignored, the annoyed Clare raised her eyebrows.

“My, My Sword Spirit!?”

“My bad. Just a moment ago, I had contracted on it”

Kamito sighed and at the same time he has shown to her from the back of his right hand, the spirit carved seal engraved on it.

“Wha, Whaa, Wha, Whaaaat!”

Claire stunned expression with her mouth wide open.

(Well, A natural reaction....)

A long sighed --- Kamito felt a faint ache in his heart. Of course, he could clearly understand such response. In a sense, that only pure maiden are the ones who has the privilege for --- the spirit contract.

The existence of a man which can simultaneously contract a spirit, through out the history, belongs solely to one person. And the one who brings chaos and destruction in the world, the so called Demon King spirit contractor.

The same spirit contract strength as the Demon King, Kamito was grabbed by the terror of his thought which he can’t embrace.

Kamito stands up and quietly turns back.

He does not regret. He had helped the girl, because this is the only way, he could think of.

“Wait, as am I saying Wait!”

Leaving away from that place, in his back a voice addressed him.

Turning around, Claire with her hands in her hips intensely glared to him.

"You stole...my spirit...you have to take responsibility for it!"

“Huh?”

Kamito conceal his frown. ....It does not make sense to him.

In such reaction of Kamito, Claire acting impatient with her twin tailed hair in her shoulder,

“I should have been the one who had obtained that spirit, as am I saying, you have to take responsibility for it”

“Re..sponsibility?”

From the unexpected word, Kamito has become more confused.

....What was the girl saying.

“Therefore....”

Claire wields her whip then she points her index finger toward Kamito.

"You have to become my contracted spirit!"

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==Chapter 1: You are my spirit contractor==

=== Part 1 ===

In a quiet forest where the sun rays were shining through leaves.

"Paa--"

Suddenly, the rippling sound of water resounded in the air.

Kamito, he--opened his mouth wide and just stood there.

A girl...In front of his eyes was a fully naked girl.

She was cute, extraordinarily cute. Her eyes were big and red like rubies, her cherry-red lips were wet and lustrous, her dazzling white flesh was as silky as milk, and on the surface of the water, her beautiful legs were slender and fine. Also, what caught his eyes more than anything was--

The hair that clings on her gorgeous fine glass work like body, crimson red like burning fire.

Of course, she was naked. Stark naked.

"......"

Kamito felt cold sweat on his back.

Not good.

It's really not good that she is seen naked.

......I should really run away quickly. Even though he gave that rational advice to himself, his body wouldn't move. Actually, he was ''charmed''. The scene was so surreal that Kamito felt a bit detached from reality.

And at that time, the girl--

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Her moist and beautiful eyes blinked, having found the unexpected intruder.
Staring blankly, she seemed yet to have fully grasped the situation.
She didn't even try to cover her still developing small breast.

Tick.

The water drops fell from the young girl's bangs. Kamito's consciousness came back at the sound of the water.

"Ah-that......"

Kamito coughed once, and removed his glance from the naked girl　who was standing motionlessly.

"How can I say it......it looks like an accident, right? It is an unfortunate accident for both of us..."

At that time, Kamito made two fatal errors. The first, of course, was that he started to make futile explanations. The best choice was to take advantage of the fact that the girl was dazed, and run away from the trouble immediately.

And the other error was--

"Even though it was an accident, I have seen you in such a situation. Sorry, my apologies."

Until here it was still fine, but the last part......

"Though, don't worry. I'm still a healthy boy, so I don't have ''that kind of interest''. I......"

Looking at the young girl's ''still developing small chest''--

"I have no interest towards a kid's body."

Looks like he stepped on a gigantic landmine.

"......"

The frozen silence fell.

Silently, the girl raise her red hair coiled arm. Her shoulders were slightly shaking. But the reason wasn't because of the cold, but Kamito was oblivious to that fact.

"Sixteen--"

"Eh?"

The girl's delicate lips were mumbling something, and Kamito lifted his eyebrows.

"I-I-I AM ALREADY SIXTEEN-YEARS OLD!!!"

At the instant when she screamed that out, the young girl's red hair standed on its end.

"Haa!?"

As Kamito opened his eyes wide in surprise--

"Sixteen!? For real? How can you have such an pitiful chest--"

He quickly covered his mouth. Though it was already too late.

"......Unforgivable."

The young girl said that in a low, cold voice.

"D-Definitively unforgivable......you, youyou, you peeping demon, pervert, lewd beast!"

"You know it well, words like lewd beast." 

Kamito said that in a low voice with narrowed eyes.

"Hn?"

......At that time, he noted that the forest's trees were making a low whisper-like rustle.

(Is that the wind? No, that's--)

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with our blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Came from the young girl's cute lips a smooth incantation in spirits’ language. At this instant, accompanied by the sound of an air blast, a scourging flame whip appeared in the hand of the girl.

(.....a Spirit Contractor!)

Kamito shouted in his head.

Spirit Contractor --- an another dimensional layer’s of this world, the “Astral Zero”.

Witches who have signed a contract with a fierce spirit from that place are called “Spirit Contractors”.

The Spirit Contractor can use different types of spirit, wielding its powers freely.

It seemed that the girl in front of him had a contract with a flame type spirit.

The young girl was a Spirit Contractor. It is not something to be surprised about.

After all, this is the place where the country's excellent Spirit Contractors are gathered together.

(.....However, surprisingly she was even capable of using elemental Waffe)

The natures of the spirit summoned into this world from the Astral Zero can be roughly divided into two types.

The first type is a massless, shapeless type that appears in its original state as a ‘Divine Core’. This is purely the summoning of a spirit's power, and was used as a vault of magical power for the spirit magic.

There is another type, the pure state of summoning a part of the spirit’s existence as it is. Because of the tremendous amount of power required and the difficulty to control it, it is said that only a tiny portion of the spirit contractors can do it to this extent.

Even so, the girl before his eyes is not just using spirit, but could use it to the extent of using the spirit as a highly optimized elemental buffs.

(.... it means that, eh? – Am I now in a life or death situation?)

As the thought suddenly hit him, and Kamito was stunned.

At the place where the flame whip touched the water's surface, a gush of white steam was rising from it.

"You, you have the guts..... "

The girl murmured with her trembling voice. Her face was red, whether it was due to her anger, or her embarrassment.

ÉRea-really, you have some nerve, to p-peek , while I, Claire Rouge, am taking my bath....."

“W-Wait, that's a misunderstanding! Let me explain it first!"

Kamito shook his head in panic.

"I will not listen to your excuses. Please turn into ashes, PERVERT!"

The flame whip ignited furiously in the wielder’s hand and was moving as if it was licking the water surface.

"Oooooh..!?"

Kamito threw his body, and quickly jumped into the dense brushes at proximity.

Nearly at the same time, the flame whip brushed its way over his head.

The idle red residue remained on the trees, which were cut off like a complete joke. The cut part of the tree trunks' remains were surprisingly clean, without any trace of burn. The attack was so quick that the flames didn't even have the time to ignite the trees.

The hair on Kamito's forehead was fluttering down on his mouth while cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

(.....Um, that's a joke, right? I'm not going to die like that, will I?)

Zing, biyutsu – there was like an endless dance of crimson flash cutting horizontally and vertically in the forest. While carefully paying attention to his surroundings, trying to forfeit from the battle by hiding himself, Kamito hurriedly rushed out.

“You wild beast, stay still and let me hit you!“

“That's nonsense, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito screamed out and at the same time, the whip swung downwards on his feet, causing a violent spark to scatter. Raising from the ground, the whip immediately sprang up in the direction of the forest woods, which got ruthlessly severed. It was said that it’s a blessing in disguise, the girl - Claire's aim wasn't quite accurate. After all, one hand was desperately hiding her chest from being revealed while the most important part was being concealed in the pond in a bent down position. However, considering the ignorance of her position, and how she could handle her whip, she should be normally talented at using it.

“Despite being a pervert, please obediently turn into charcoal!“

“As I am saying, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito began to turn around and face the opposite direction – "in a manner that will" draw attention.

“Hey, are you sure that you're hiding it properly? Between the gaps of your finger, you can’t hide it delicately.”

“......eh?”

Scowling at the question. Claire’s facial expression froze. And-

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

Blushing deeply like a wonderful cute girlfriend screaming at its peak - she quickly hid her chest with both of her hands.

“Ah, idiot!”

Kamito involuntarily exclaimed.

Losing control of the flame whip's grip in her hand, the tree behind the girl has been cut off. Slowly, the huge tree came falling down right at her. However, Claire didn’t notice it since her eyes were closed due to embarrassment, and looking at her chest while embracing it. 

(Damn--)

At this instant, Kamito kicked the ground. Running with his whole strength towards the pond, he then jumped while grabbing Claire’s shoulders.

“Wha-!?”

Claire’s red pupils dilated widely. On the other hand, Kamito aggressively pressed her down in the water. Between those two actions, Claire’s hand has gone into the water, causing a gush of steam to rise, and the flame whip to disappear. Immediately after, the big tree fell down, and the woods collapsed.

Duuuun!

A deafening sound which were ear-breaking. A magnificent large water column then rose.

Absorbing the burning flame, a heavy rain was falling neatly into the pond water.

.....A few moments later.

“Um......“

With a seducing rising voice, Claire slowly opened her eyes. She had an expression of shock, and her eyes blinked in wonder. Kamito was lying on the top of Claire, while staring into her eyes. If someone was to push his back lightly, as a man his lips will likely touch, due to their rather close distance. The nape where the twining red hair was stuck. The wet cherry red colored lips. The brittle doll like perfect feature, before his eyes. One scowl ends it all, with an unintentional blush, hurriedly shaking it off.

“......Um, are you fin? Are you hurt..”

Single mindedly, Claire nods. Somehow, in a situation yet to be understood. Kamito sighed, then stood up into the hot weather.

Funyuu.

His hand under the water touched something soft.

“Hwaaah!”

(What is that? Mud?--)

Funyu. Munyu.

“Hm, ya, hwaaa”

From her moist lips came a shallow sweet voice. Exploring Claire’s body soaked in the water, something pink bounced out from the water.

“Um ..this is?”

From here onwards, Kimito finally arrived in a certain male theory. Something......awfully terrible childish conclusion.

(No, let’s hope that, calm down, maybe --- it's different?)

It can’t be. There was no such thing. While letting a flow of cold sweat, he deliberately tried to deny such a possibility.

“Wh..wha.. wha..whattt .... are..you...do..ing”

Claire’s lip trembled, shaking involuntarily. She was blushing with tears in her eyes.

Apparently, it probably wasn't.....a lump of mud that he picked up.

“You, PERVERT----!”

“Gwah!”

Because he got hit hard by a knee in the stomach, Kimito collapsed into the pond's water.

Gugugugugu....!

While the wobbling heat energy behind her starts to accumulate, Claire immediately stood up. In thattime, the flame whip which is the incarnation of flame spirit was again grasped in her hand. The water in the pond with one scowl starting to boil and bubbles begins to show here and there.

“No..No, it’s a misunderstanding! Wait, I’m really gonna die.....”

“Sh..Shut up pervert, you will die here!”

Together with a loud deafening sound which breaks the ear, Kamito’s body whirled highly into the air.

=== Part 2 ===

“.....Un”

Few minutes later. Kamito starts to recover his consciousness, before his eyes, a tree within the forest unfold.

Happening trying to rise---

Suddenly, he notices something which was coiled around his neck.

A leather black whip for torturing. (What is this thing…), while trying to remove it,

“Finally woke up, You Peeping Tom Pervert”

The thing on his neck tightens.

“Gweh!? Release me....”

Kamito coughed then looked upward-

Scarlet haired young girl – Claire, swing her hand to her hips. Keeping her slim eyebrow arc raised, her sharp gaze looked down to Kamito.

This time with no sense of protection, the girl is wearing her adorable uniform. The pattern of black line within the pure white, (Areishia Spirit Academy)’s uniform.

The ribbon tie which decorates the chest origin. Instead of a button, a talisman was sewn on it. Two smooth stockings sticking out brilliantly, in her slender beautiful legs. The tiny ribbon hanging her left and right blazing crimson hair. The so called twin tail named hair style. Looking at her still wet hair, it seems that he hasn’t lost consciousness that much period of time.

Claire while tightens the neck of Kamito, her small chest bent a little.

“Well, be grateful. I’m going easy and didn’t kill you”

“I lied. I will definitely kill you!”

“Why am I saying this? Because, I seriously want you to turn into ash”

..... Saying it in a terrible calm manner.

Incidentally, about the obliterated coal, a new fire which was extinguished will result into a soft charcoal.

“The coal which was gained from you will be greedily put into forgiveness. I will give you one last time to respond”

“Yeah, I’m a fair noble person, I’ll certainly listen and calmly evaluate. You are more than an average pervert, in a highly pervert way”

“My evaluation that you are a pervert after all will not change. I’m asking you high pervert, are you seriously more than an average pervert?”

“Wh.. Why.....did you try to help, ee..even, touch, my breast!”

Exerting more effort thinking about it, Claire suddenly shy face turns to red.

(What?)

A particular female response –

Kamito half considered it.

.....Our guy, by any chance a dense person?

“My, our gloomy princess, has a perverted hobby of having fun by whipping a man”

Teasing nonchalantly -

“What!? Wr, Wro, Wrong, I’m not such thing!”

In a sure quick immediately response. (Kaatsu)Shake one's head up and her ears are in bright red in irritation.

“He.. Hey, do you really like to whip that badly?”

“.....m! Wha... What.. are...you..sayi..ng?”

Twirling turning around eyes, a steam puff out in young Claire’s shining pair head. That time creating confusion to a certain degree.

(Oh, as I expected....)

Kamito in his heart smiled bitterly.

(This girl, is really easy to read)

Perhaps, this girl is not that special. After all, at Areishia Spirit Academy, they are gathering female scholars based with their spirit contract. The Astral Zero’s spirit can only communicate solely with a pure woman. Even among them which can summon a lonesome spirit, is holding a divine spiritual strength in a certain degree, Spirit Contractor’s connection blood strengthens through marriage of many generations, as a lineage of pure noble young woman.

To maintained, the female’s purity of mind and body, since childhood, they are kept away from males in a boundary as a strict education. The so called Spirit Contractor designated teaching area. However, the entire young women in this institute, which are not accustomed to man, are overly boxed into an ideal princess miko.

Knowing the girl’s unexpectedly weak spot, Kamito in that time is maliciously suffering in her weapon. In a knee standing position, looking up to Claire’s bright red face-

“Um, sometime ago, as am I saying to you deliberately ”

“......Wha, What are you, Pervert!”

“This angle, I can see your panties”

“Fuwah!”

Tears begun to float in her crimson eyes, Claire hastily pressed down her skirt with both hands.

“Did you see?”

“With a glance, you are unexpectedly quite daring. It has the same color of your hair”

“......The, The fuck, It’s not red, It’s White, White!”

“So, it’s white”

“......ha!?”

Being hit by a sudden realization, Claire bit her lips-

“U, uuuuuuuuuh~”

..... She let out a huge cry.

With the sudden reaction, Kamito panicked. “What a slut unladylike person, confessing the color of her own panties” and, still teasing her more....true summer came for the poor.

The chance given by Claire’s temper, the whip was fired unwinding his neck,

“My bad, that was quite fun. Sorry”

Standing up, and then hold the girl’s head, which his hand place above there. Claire in that time stops crying, and then her face shows up.

“I have seen your naked body while bathing, then your breast.... which I badly touched as well. But I will not move. Please believe me”

“Wha, What.....”

The truthfulness in Kamito’s eye, Claire in her eyes, is really genuine.

“....You, What is this. If you are not a pervert, then '''why are you here?'''”

Naturally she doubted. This forest is under the jurisdiction of Areishia Spirit Academy, known as “Spirit Forest”. There’s a principle that a princess miko can never meet any man inside the academy, in regards with her feelings.

In that place, illicit sexual relationship is against the moral code, which is strictly not to be violated by anyone.

“I was, called here by Greyworth”

“Greyworth..... by the academy director!?”

Claire became more doubtful in that given situation. Indeed, it’s not something, not to be doubt about.

“I’m not lying. Look, here’s the evidence”

Kimito shruged his shoulders, inside his burned coat’s pocket, he took out a one sheet withered letter. The letter’s writings are from the renowned academy director. Also, 5 big pure spirits appears in a form which symbolize as a rank badge seal pressed down on it.

“Is....that, the country’s obi number one rank badge seal!?”

Claire in her dismay, a shallow voice let out in her lips. A number one rank badge seal is an amnesty badge seal produced through a special method of sealing a spirit. The country’s obi distributed the rank badge seal to those who are worthy to be called inside, by the best highest position; the reply on it is in absolute secrecy and should never tell to anyone.

In a natural manner, fixing her gaze in his groin, the article on it is not some female thing that can contract a spirit, in a glance that’s the genuine thing in his hip.

“.....It seems the real thing. But, why would the academy director call a man here?”

“Well, that Old woman is my guardian Greyworth, I’m really confused about it”

“That.. that Old woman!?”

Just like that, Claire’s face draws closer.

The Twilight Witch – in her town, Greyworth is a spirit soldier which was sighted as a princess miko having an enraged personality. It was said that within the Orudeshia country obi, she was popular having a dance that rival the most powerful dance ever known. One of the twelve elite general which retired from the group of the most powerful spirit elder soldier, It was noted that a dozen of years later, gain a reputation as a legendary witch which was being feared and revered with respect by other.

(The truth is, lately, I’m having a nightmare about that person....)

In that time, when the letter writing has been tucked away. Kamito’s shoulders shrugged.

“With a little fortune from Greyworth, I have came all the way here. but, the academy ground is very large, so I have lost my way”

Areishia Spirit Academy ground is incredibly very vast. After all, the Academy City covers all the mountain range, also, spreading farther more into the Spirit forest owning the whole perimeter of it.

“Then, you were misled dumbfounded by the Spirit Forest, Is that it?”

“.....Yes, that’s it”

Claire puffs into laughter, while Kamito gently nodded.

In the peaceful large ground of the sunny spirit forest exists, the Astral Zero’s "Portal" which connects and threatens this world with stray soul. Mostly of the spirit, has no interest in the humankind, but they harmlessly loves to play pranks by deliberately misleading travelers into the puzzled forest. In any event a person was misled by the spirit into the forest; one should look for the academy road which will guide them out from the wilderness.

“Anyway, I’m really glad that I had met a person, in these difficult and horrible Spirit Forest. from here onward, how should I get in the academy?”

“Hey.....for your own information, I shall tell you, that there’s a two hours of walk from here towards the Academy”

“What, that far!?”

To avoid being misled by the spirit of the forest, one should walk away in such a pattern. The academy students here are females, and they are close in this vicinity, so they have thought a way around it.

(.....hmm? why are these people, bathing in this kind of place?)

From this plain forest, a sudden question arises. Certainly today is a very hot day, to come and take a bath and rest here, incidentally for a male to set foot inside the academy in such places. In any case, this girl is not the only girl in the academy, except that she was the one been put into shame.

Being asked, Claire dug her hands into her wet twin tail hair trying to comb it,

“I was here for the purification ritual for spirit contract. Brushing aside it, the spring water here, has the highest holy quality are there. And do you know that spirits like a woman which has a pure mind and body?”

“Spirit Contract?”

He uttered a word then, a crack in his left hand’s leather gloves, Zukyu – a throbbing pain. Kamito face grimace, from the burning sharp pain.

“Going away from this place, there is an ancient holy sword in a certain historical shrine. Rumors state that there is a fierce and powerful “Spirit Seal” which holds something in that place, since the foundation of the academy. While no one can, a princess miko successfully place it. Likely, a highly powerful spirit can be found there”

Spirit Seal – is a medium that holds the demon spirit from the Astral Zero.

Since ancient times, some of powerful spirit contractor have sealed their spirits inside their arms and equipments. Mostly some of them are the one’s being feared by man that brings forth disaster in ancient society, such as, a demon god, rabbit god and etc.

Of course, it's the human spirit contractor can't deals with. Due, to the huge fear of ancient spirit contractor, they sealed them into the arms and equipment by lamenting them two times.

“You, there’s no way you can manage a sealed spirit?”

“It seems that you are saying something?”

“Stop, it’s too dangerous”

“Hmm, rest assured. It’s not that I’m well accustomed as a spirit contractor, nor I’m not that well aware of the danger of it, but, you know, I really want a strong spirit”

Claire muttered, bitten her tightly close lips.

In a serious facial expression, Kamito involuntarily shuts his own mouth.

“But, you, how about the pear amount of flame spirit sometime ago? That thing quite a powerful spirit, did you not raise that guy properly?”

A Flame Spirit, as the Spirit’s nature which is not that unusual. But, in a certain degree the spirit can be summoned as an <elemental buffs> by a spirit contractor, that is not quite a handful in number inside the country obi. Besides, there’s a limit of quantity of pure spirit errand that a person can holds, it’s not the case that it’s not possible, but – spirit interference can deteriorate the balance of divine energy flow in the body, unless that someone has an innate talent to control it.

“'''Scarlett''' you're an important partner. But-”

“I want power”- and, Claire calmly raised her neck.

“I have only one goal. And that is, to have a strong spirit”

=== Part 3 ===

Fluffily swinging crimson twin tail on her back, Kamito followed her inside the forest. Claire in her leather shoe sandals, while having a hard time walking and expectedly having an accumulated secant of her spirit errand was walking in a light frivolous way.

“Here”

Then, suddenly her well proportion feet stopped walking.

With her hands on her hips, she looked back with a half eye glare towards Kamito.

“Why are you following me? You pervert peeping maniac ”

“I’m lost, and I don’t know the way towards the academy. As I have said several times, I am not a pervert peeping maniac. It’s Kamito, Kamito Kazehaya”

“Fufu, what a weird name. Crake’s origin?”

Crake is a large harmonious country obi in the eastern region. The Orudeshia language and culture, largely differs in terms in the relationship of people with spirits.

“No, It’s not Crake. I was born in a far remote island minority group village”

Kamito intentionally obscure his own statement. Certainly, he was born in an eastern island country, but, larger half of his childhood life was not spent there.

“Your name is quite a rare taste and mine is, Claire Rouge”

“Don’t call my name in a friendly manner. Anyway it’s a strange name”

“Really? But, I consider it a nice name”

“Wha, What are you saying, stu, stupid!”

Claire face blushes, then suddenly change back to her former direction, and briskly walk faster than usual.

Claire Rouge ---- obviously a Pseudonymn.

Most of the students attending the Areishia Spirit Academy, in their young age learned to use the accumulated secant of their spirit, like today’s noble young girl is doing. But, Rouge residence is an unheard family name. For hiding a noble family name, she must have some reason for it, and finding more explanation about it is detrimental.

(.....Anyone, wants to achieved their own inner hidden desire)

Kamito with his eyes glancing in the direction of his decaying left hand inside his leather glove.

Even I -

Claire with her foot movement keeps advancing steadily. Kamito hastily chased the twin tail swaying in her back. Now, losing sight of Claire inside the forest will bring only trouble for him. The dangers of spending one night inside the “Spirit Forest”- is the thing Kamito being aware of.

“Is that dress the academy uniform?”

“Yah”

Claire while walking nods in a coldly manner.

Areishia Spirit Academy Uniform is a robust protective garment that acts as a guard, which undergone spirit’s protection, and sacred in nature which was improve surely enough to last long. The good thing is that a pear amount of spirits acts as a high ceremonial clothes.

“What, are you saying that I don’t harbor value on it?”

“No, it’s not like that. Honestly speaking”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder, and then honestly answer it. Bad mouthing knocking over someone’s – grandfather’s wardrobe, is the overall situation that anyone should avoid.

“Wha, Whatt, What are you saying! I, I’m not an Idiot!”

(Kaatsu) Claire blushes in deep red, while (Pyun-Pyun) waving her whip.

“Uwahh, Calm down!”

“You, you, are you trying to tell me to do a weird thing!”

“''I saying a weird thing?, I am just saying that - *in pain*, I know, I know, because, I’m in disadvantage one on one against your whip!''”

(....phew, it was necessary to tell her a battle strategy, unexpectedly to meet a chaperone princess here)

While dodging the whip which was swing downward in a paper width difference, Kamito sighed in his mind. The holy blade removing any markings on its way inside the forest, creating a gap in the place, then stopped in an arched way. Claire interfere by restraining the extension force with the tip of her fingers, unwinding its circulation in that place in just an ample of time, Kamito expression then calms down.

“From here onwards, it will be really dangerous, so, stay away from me by one meter”

“If you know that it’s dangerous, why not stop?”

“As am I saying, I need to have a strong spirit”

Claire calmly shook his head, when her pair of legs stumbles upon the small shrine.

Disregarding her warnings, Kamito followed her. As for coming about a necessity of battle strategy as his pretext reason, but the truth is, he was just worried about Claire.

After all “Sealed Spirit” are strong and in the same time has a wild nature. They prefer destruction and chaos, the possibility that they would murder that someone who employs them as a spirit would likely to happen.

The frightful hand of humanity can not manage to terminate it --- therefore, they have sealed it.

Sixteen years of age, Claire with such an innate talent of manipulating a spirit, and revered as a deity. However, by any chance, she would release a sealed spirit; she would fail to control it.

Accidentally, the girl encountered the thing we are talking about, but to be overlooked by her.

“Why did you follow me? Do you not understand the situation”

“You sure have the confidence that you will completely tame it”

“Of, Ofcourse!”

“If there’s any problem tell me”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder and, Claire facing him while not paying any attention.

“....Suit Yourself”

Inside the shrine is a dark gloomy misty atmosphere. Mingling in the air inside are tiny fumes of stinking odor, Claire somewhat frowning from disgust.

“......Flame, Bring Light”

Claire from her fingertip, a fire ball immediately starts to glow. The Fire Spirit’s power when summoned gives some basic fundamental spirit magic. The flickering light of the fire ball dimly illuminate the walls of the shrine.

And, from the innermost of the shrine --- It was severed.

“The.....container of the sealed spirit was severed?”

Kamito muttered, while Claire quietly nods.

Stabbed standing in a huge stone with its omitted severed body. A hundred century old seal grade framework severed disconnected in the broken rusty sashimi knife with its wholeness is missing. In its cut off belly, a delicate ancient red inscription dimly radiates palely.

“In this place lies our former beloved, Saint Severian Academy”

“Saint Severian? That was destroyed by Demon King Sulaiman?”

Demon King Sulaiman --- accompanied by his seventy two powerful spirit followers, demolished a major peace agreement which brought chaos in the world, and '''the only man in history that can control a spirit errand'''.

It was said that demon king destroyed the Saint Severian Academy.

“Idiot, there’s no way that’s the real thing”

Claire state being engrossed by it.

“In all the places within the country obi, why is that it is stabbed in this stone. This place used to be a village, I wonder why in a deserted village. Now, there’s no way it’s genuine from that severed thing as our lead, It’s reasonable enough because it’s not always the case where a sealed spirit is a strong one”

“.....Indeed. Certainly, It’s not like there’s no such place exist..”

Claire determined with her blade walks toward to him.

“Hey....”

“You stay back”

Approaching Kamito which hands are being restrained, Claire clenched the hilt of her holy blade.

“Don’t overwork yourself ”

“....Got it”

Kamito barely lightly reached the bag guarding the thing on it. The other person in his side which is reluctantly not motivated about the sealed spirit. In the first time, a mature serious silence atmosphere is between them.

“.....Move, Claire Rouge”

Claire breathing deeply murmured informing her own body. A voice meekly trembles from her. A truly complicated scene it was.

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A spell coming from her cherry colored lips, a yang spirit language, contract ritual. The red lotus filaments dancing in the air, inside the shrine a roaring wind vortex begins to accumulate. 　

Kamito gulps his breath, looking at her female appearance. The spirit whose recognized master is Claire, once exchange each other a contract, within her female body there should be a spirit carved seal engraved. A contract vow is a final seal agreement. In this moment, a gust of wind swept inside the shrine.

“......eh?”

But, Claire is unfazed. She calmly recite her contract vow.

---And, the female clenched the Severian’s holy blade, a blinding light released from it.

(I can’t....believe it, She was exchanging a contract with the sealed spirit!?)

Preventing being swept by the wind, astonished Kamito raised his voice.

Because the holy blade was stabbed in the stone, she was hitting it while releasing a tremendous divine energy. If it was an average spirit errand, she would have already passed out.

“---Three times, I order to wave, wave, I grant thee to plunge!”

And, Claire’s vow reverberates inside the shrine --- in that instant.

Chaaaarge!

“Co, Come out, Come out!”

“.....What, seriously!?”

The blade came out of the stone then brandished it overhead, Claire exclaimed with joy. And then followed by a question mark.

The ancient system engraved in its belly; release a powerful intense brilliant light!

“......ha!?”

Claire involuntarily release from her hand the blade ---

The holy blade thrust into the ground, in that time, the light scattered into pieces.

“Kyaaaaah!”

A short shriek flew, then Claire collapse into the ground.

“Hey, are you okay!”

Kamito quickly run towards Claire.

“Wha, What? Ouch, What is....”

Claire holding her temple trying to get up, quickly stepped back then looked around.

“My, My sealed spirit?”

“No, I....can sense something terrible”

Kamito from the back of his neck, sweats are flowing intensely. A terrified facial expression, with his eyes in the shrine’s ceiling. In that place, '''swinging while floating in the air was the blade'''.

It's not the familiar loose broken blade in that place. But, It was a rough sharpness good quality steel blade.

“Is that.....the sealed spirit’s knife!?”

“Can’t you really not tell that’s a '''spirit sword''', rather it’s not time for that”

“The spirit errand is here, but why can’t it understand me”

“As I can see it can understand. Maybe, in its eyes, that thing just can’t comprehend which of us was his faithful master”

“.....umm, It seems like that”

Claire unusual obediently bows her head.

The floating sword slants pointing its tip in a downward direction, exactly motionless.

Then ---

“.....H, Hide!”

Kamito in that instant, push down Claire in the ground. A buzzing sound of an insect grazed contaminating the ear which can’t go away that far in one’s neighborhood.

“Wai, Waa, Wait, where are you touching me, I will turn you into charcoal!”

It was clearly that Claire’s face is deeply red in her carelessness, while in the other hand, Kamito’s heart is beating faster.

“Idio, Idiot, violent!”

Kamito quickly step aside her body, the spirit sword flew away, taking their attention looking on it with their both eyes.

A clattering sound, a flakes fragment of rocks falls down. The shrine’s ceiling was completely cut open cleanly.

“As expected, that spirit came to loose ---”

Claire scowled half opened eye towards Kamito.

“......umm the spirit, completely run wild”

“You, You’re Noisy. Fro.. From Here Onwards, You Will Be Obedient To Me!”

“YOU....”

Kamito surprised, now in a situation which he can’t even talked back.

The spirit sword releases a chattering noise approaching to them. Inside the shrine, it was moving freely swiftly in the air, without any restriction in its area.

Kamito grabbed Claire’s hand, trying to pull her to stand up. Touching each other soft skin, (Doki) a heart beat, then both of them regrettable turn’s each other face away.

“Hwaah”

“Always has a cute reaction. Let's flee”

“Wha.. whaa. whatt.. Cute.. what me, Kyaa!”

“Let’s run outside!”

Pulling Claire’s hand with his hand, while running towards the direction of the shrine’s exit basking with sunshine.

The spirit sword immediately chased after them. As of now it was not yet completely awakens. But later, the opportunity given by this may cause them not able to run away.

Outside of the shrine, the sword wavering tumble came out in a lightning speed in their front. The spirit sword let out a tremendous roar, the surrounding trees successively certainly knocked down.

“Crazy, What a shrewd Spirit, Let’s go somewhere safe my Princess”

“alwa, always, you’re noisy...”

In this time, an awkward atmosphere is between them, and then suddenly an uncomfortable cough breaks the silence, Claire stands up.

“What a rebellious child.....I will give you some proper training”

Her pair crimson eyes which was burning with a fierce determination, saying it in a way as if she was planting rice to be harvest later. Tearing off her Skirt, then took the leather whip which was coiled in her thigh, hitting it hard in the ground. And the other one looking in a shocked manner over the white underwear, it was Kamito -

“Are you insane!? You’re opponent is a high rank sealed spirit!”

“Easy victory, I’m not lower than an amateur like you”

“Where are you getting all of your confidence?, It’s better to run away”

Being grabbed in the wrist by Kamito’s hand, Claire repulses.

“No, you yourself escape. I will absolutely get this guy”

“You, for what reason --- do you need a strong spirit that badly?”

“.....You will never understand”

Claire in that time averts her eyes.

“I want...a strong spirit, not just a spirit but an unbeatable very strong spirit!”

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with the blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Claire summoned her “Flame Spirit” by singing a summoning ritual. A crimson flame surges and she was engulfed by a hot air surrounding her.

“Here, In accordance with your seal descend, Scarlett!”

In the same time a typical young flame, there appeared – a Scarlet Red Hell Cat. Instead of a fur, it was a blazing scarlet red colored flame, wrapping the beast body.

(Is that the real form of her flame spirit!?)

Indeed, she really blurted out that thing here. To manifested a beast form, is a proof that thing is a high rank spirit. Stating Scarlett as a name with great affection, perhaps it was not really that spirit name, but a name with the same quality.

Claire wields her whip, and the hell cat growl a frightful roar, then rushed towards the sword spirit. A dancing sparks scattered. The atmosphere trembled and the beast roars. The floating spirit sword whistles, and all the trees from their direction was severely cut down.

“Scarlett, in accordance with your seal!”

In response to Claire’s shout, the hell cat jumps. There above in the sky where the spirit sword is flying, the sharp blazing claws swings down. A high pitched shrill sound. An intense sparks sprinkle, and the spirit sword dropped in the ground.

Claire runs at the same time. Without even a single scratch on it. The spirit sword rise and fly in a split second, rolling over drawing an arc in the air.

The flame spirit chased after it, trying not to loose it from its hands. Again a big jump, hindering it from rising higher.

Two times the rage, a spark scattered. Clare strikes hard the ground with her leather whip, attaching it into the spirit sword cornering it. Battling it with her leather whip in a tug of war, in that time she gave a signal to her spirit.

Scarlett fiercely attack, the spirit sword which was held from moving --- back and forth.

“Eat this, burning fire ball!”

Claire in her palm a huge fire ball was released.

Fire Ball – An ultrahigh burning fire which can terribly burn out anything as its target in the face of the earth, it was a high level spirit magic. The spirit magic’s power, determined by the spirit contractor’s own divine spiritual energy and the contracted spirit’s strength as a whole.

The released fire ball solitarily flew into the air, blowing up involving Scarlett. The after effect of the explosion in the area, causing every tree to be burned down, is like a scene from the blazing hell.

(What Power......)

At the same time carried by the winds are small stones, Kamito refusing himself to be wind up.

Sixteen years old girl can’t possible have used such powerful spirit magic.

Inside the swirling fire the hell cat figure shows up. Naturally, the hell cat can’t possibly be harmed by the blazing fire as its nature.

The spirit sword – in any case seemed to be quiet. It does not seem hurt waiting in that place. Regardless, Claire wants to bring down that thing with her high level spirit magic without any hesitation. But, the spirit sword is being cautious by pulling itself in that place.

“Scarlett!”

Claire exclaimed. The flame spirit clawed attacked the spirit sword in that place. Melting the iron steel with its scourging hot claws. In any case that’s your average spirit ones neighbor, it would be instantly eradicated. But, the spirit sword quickly turned around, and splendidly perceived by its steel sword body.

In an instant. A metal rubbing each other, strange sound reverberated in the trembling atmosphere.

“Wh...Why?....”

Kamito suppressed his both ears with his hands.

The sound properly received by Claire which has a distorted facial expression from pain, crouching in that place.

The spirit sword which released the strange sound - in such a manner, changed. Generally, it was the length of the sword, switching into a huge “long sword”.

In a flash.

“What!?”

Claire’s flame spirit unexpectedly strike, a huge swing one attack which was immediately countered attack. The body was severely cut down into two, and the flame wrapping on its body vanished in the empty lot.

In that one mistake, one can realized the strength which was about to lost in this world.

(....Damn, what a mistake. It seems that thing was waiting there to completely awaken.)

A curse from the bottom of her heart, Clare took a glance -

In the empty lot where the flame spirit is dying, the girl with her stunned blank eyes looked up at the same time.

The flame spirit which was attacked decapitated thrown away by the spirit sword, Clare aimed her determined sight on it.

From the huge long sword, a loud sound flew -

“Claire!”

Kamito shouted while running, with no such reason, his own body just moved before he known it.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Diving in front of Clair, the long sword stabbed its blade into his palm. It was not his left hand enclosed by the leather glove – it's his right hand.

(……I, I’m helpless ! )

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A huge amount of sweats is floating, it’s the second time the exchanging of spirit contract ritual was recited. Thrusting deeply into his hands, the tip of the sword breaks the leather surrounding his palm. The red blood gushed intensely from it.

(.....Gwaah, Gah!)

A fierce attack of divine energy, the soil and sands surrounding them are whirling up from the wind pressure. In his consciousness a sharp pain resounded. But, Kamito tried not to lose his consciousness, protecting Clare from his back no matter what happens.

--- Three times, I order to wave!

“.....No way, a Spirit Contract!?”

A surprised sound from Clare’s throat.

A mark from his sinking foot can be seen in the ground. And, the sound of his breaking bones resounds from his knee cap.

--- Wave, I grant thee to plunge!

Withstanding the terrible sharp pain, Kamito finished his last word of the contract ritual.

In that exact moment. The spirit sword’s blade palely radiates.

(What!?)

An intense flash and a roar filled his consciousness.

=== Part 4 ===

As he opened his eyes, Claire Rouge’s face was there. Hanging lower into his face was her twin tailed hair tickling his face.

It was a shout, but, it can’t be heard. A roar which can breaks one’s ear.

(.....It appears, I’m alive)

Weary lying on the ground, Kamito is breathing heavily. Lowering his head, it seems that he can’t believe himself that he had won against the spirit.

Raising his eyebrow, he grimaced from the torment pain from his body, raising his right hand slowly.

In his right hand which was stabbed -

Instead of a wound, a two sword crossing each other emblem was engraved on it.

It was the proof of the spirit contract vow - The spirit carved seal.

(Aah, this is....?)

Staring closely in the carved seal from the back of his hand, Kamito wondered.

A sharp sense of guilt gauged his heart.

Is that mean that female’s contract has been destroyed ---

But, Claire who has a relieved expression, in such situation she had failed.

Claire noticed Kamito who just woke up, with her hands in his nape and her face approaching him. A relieved sighed. With her clear crimson eyes, looking at Kamito. Her cherry colored lips weakly trembled.

“......Why ”

"Why, you’re a male, how can you contract a spirit!”

“......”

Kamito does not answer and slowly rise up. Being ignored, the annoyed Clare raised her eyebrows.

“My, My Sword Spirit!?”

“My bad. Just a moment ago, I had contracted on it”

Kamito sighed and at the same time he has shown to her from the back of his right hand, the spirit carved seal engraved on it.

“Wha, Whaa, Wha, Whaaaat!”

Claire stunned expression with her mouth wide open.

(Well, A natural reaction....)

A long sighed --- Kamito felt a faint ache in his heart. Of course, he could clearly understand such response. In a sense, that only pure maiden are the ones who has the privilege for --- the spirit contract.

The existence of a man which can simultaneously contract a spirit, through out the history, belongs solely to one person. And the one who brings chaos and destruction in the world, the so called Demon King spirit contractor.

The same spirit contract strength as the Demon King, Kamito was grabbed by the terror of his thought which he can’t embrace.

Kamito stands up and quietly turns back.

He does not regret. He had helped the girl, because this is the only way, he could think of.

“Wait, as am I saying Wait!”

Leaving away from that place, in his back a voice addressed him.

Turning around, Claire with her hands in her hips intensely glared to him.

"You stole...my spirit...you have to take responsibility for it!"

“Huh?”

Kamito conceal his frown. ....It does not make sense to him.

In such reaction of Kamito, Claire acting impatient with her twin tailed hair in her shoulder,

“I should have been the one who had obtained that spirit, as am I saying, you have to take responsibility for it”

“Re..sponsibility?”

From the unexpected word, Kamito has become more confused.

....What was the girl saying.

“Therefore....”

Claire wields her whip then she points her index finger toward Kamito.

"You have to become my contracted spirit!"

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume1 Chapter1

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==Chapter 1: You are my spirit contractor==

=== Part 1 ===

In a quiet forest where the sun rays were shining through leaves.

"Paa--"

Suddenly, the rippling sound of water resounded in the air.

Kamito, he--opened his mouth wide and just stood there.

A girl...In front of his eyes was a fully naked girl.

She was cute, extraordinarily cute. Her eyes were big and red like rubies, her cherry-red lips were wet and lustrous, her dazzling white flesh was as silky as milk, and on the surface of the water, her beautiful legs were slender and fine. Also, what caught his eyes more than anything was--

The hair that clings on her gorgeous fine glass work like body, crimson red like burning fire.

Of course, she was naked. Stark naked.

"......"

Kamito felt cold sweat on his back.

Not good.

It's really not good that she is seen naked.

......I should really run away quickly. Even though he gave that rational advice to himself, his body wouldn't move. Actually, he was ''charmed''. The scene was so surreal that Kamito felt a bit detached from reality.

And at that time, the girl--

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Her moist and beautiful eyes blinked, having found the unexpected intruder.
Staring blankly, she seemed yet to have fully grasped the situation.
She didn't even try to cover her still developing small breast.

Tick.

The water drops fell from the young girl's bangs. Kamito's consciousness came back at the sound of the water.

"Ah-that......"

Kamito coughed once, and removed his glance from the naked girl　who was standing motionlessly.

"How can I say it......it looks like an accident, right? It is an unfortunate accident for both of us..."

At that time, Kamito made two fatal errors. The first, of course, was that he started to make futile explanations. The best choice was to take advantage of the fact that the girl was dazed, and run away from the trouble immediately.

And the other error was--

"Even though it was an accident, I have seen you in such a situation. Sorry, my apologies."

Until here it was still fine, but the last part......

"Though, don't worry. I'm still a healthy boy, so I don't have ''that kind of interest''. I......"

Looking at the young girl's ''still developing small chest''--

"I have no interest towards a kid's body."

Looks like he stepped on a gigantic landmine.

"......"

The frozen silence fell.

Silently, the girl raise her red hair coiled arm. Her shoulders were slightly shaking. But the reason wasn't because of the cold, but Kamito was oblivious to that fact.

"Sixteen--"

"Eh?"

The girl's delicate lips were mumbling something, and Kamito lifted his eyebrows.

"I-I-I AM ALREADY SIXTEEN-YEARS OLD!!!"

At the instant when she screamed that out, the young girl's red hair standed on its end.

"Haa!?"

As Kamito opened his eyes wide in surprise--

"Sixteen!? For real? How can you have such an pitiful chest--"

He quickly covered his mouth. Though it was already too late.

"......Unforgivable."

The young girl said that in a low, cold voice.

"D-Definitively unforgivable......you, youyou, you peeping demon, pervert, lewd beast!"

"You know it well, words like lewd beast." 

Kamito said that in a low voice with narrowed eyes.

"Hn?"

......At that time, he noted that the forest's trees were making a low whisper-like rustle.

(Is that the wind? No, that's--)

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with our blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Came from the young girl's cute lips a smooth incantation in spirits’ language. At this instant, accompanied by the sound of an air blast, a scourging flame whip appeared in the hand of the girl.

(.....a Spirit Contractor!)

Kamito shouted in his head.

Spirit Contractor --- an another dimensional layer’s of this world, the “Astral Zero”.

Witches who have signed a contract with a fierce spirit from that place are called “Spirit Contractors”.

The Spirit Contractor can use different types of spirit, wielding its powers freely.

It seemed that the girl in front of him had a contract with a flame type spirit.

The young girl was a Spirit Contractor, not something to be surprised about.

After all, this is the place where the country's excellent Spirit Contractors are gathered together.

(.....Even if it’s you, there's no way you could use elemental buffs)

The natures of the spirit summoned into this world from the Astral Zero can be roughly divided into two types.

The first type is a massless, shapeless type that appears in its original state as a ‘Divine Core’. This is purely the summoning of a spirit's power, and was used as a vault of magical power for the spirit magic.

There is another type, the pure state of summoning a part of the spirit’s existence as it is. Because of the tremendous amount of power required and the difficulty to control it, it is said that only a tiny portion of the spirit contractors can do it to this extent.

Even so, the girl before his eyes is not just using spirit, but could use it to the extent of using the spirit as a highly optimized elemental buffs.

(.... it means that, eh? – Am I now in a life or death situation?)

As the thought suddenly hit him, and Kamito was stunned.

At the place where the flame whip touched the water's surface, a gush of white steam was rising from it.

"You, you have the guts..... "

The girl murmured with her trembling voice. Her face was red, whether it was due to her anger, or her embarrassment.

ÉRea-really, you have some nerve, to p-peek , while I, Claire Rouge, am taking my bath....."

“W-Wait, that's a misunderstanding! Let me explain it first!"

Kamito shook his head in panic.

"I will not listen to your excuses. Please turn into ashes, PERVERT!"

The flame whip ignited furiously in the wielder’s hand and was moving as if it was licking the water surface.

"Oooooh..!?"

Kamito threw his body, and quickly jumped into the dense brushes at proximity.

Nearly at the same time, the flame whip brushed its way over his head.

The idle red residue remained on the trees, which were cut off like a complete joke. The cut part of the tree trunks' remains were surprisingly clean, without any trace of burn. The attack was so quick that the flames didn't even have the time to ignite the trees.

The hair on Kamito's forehead was fluttering down on his mouth while cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

(.....Um, that's a joke, right? I'm not going to die like that, will I?)

Zing, biyutsu – there was like an endless dance of crimson flash cutting horizontally and vertically in the forest. While carefully paying attention to his surroundings, trying to forfeit from the battle by hiding himself, Kamito hurriedly rushed out.

“You wild beast, stay still and let me hit you!“

“That's nonsense, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito screamed out and at the same time, the whip swung downwards on his feet, causing a violent spark to scatter. Raising from the ground, the whip immediately sprang up in the direction of the forest woods, which got ruthlessly severed. It was said that it’s a blessing in disguise, the girl - Claire's aim wasn't quite accurate. After all, one hand was desperately hiding her chest from being revealed while the most important part was being concealed in the pond in a bent down position. However, considering the ignorance of her position, and how she could handle her whip, she should be normally talented at using it.

“Despite being a pervert, please obediently turn into charcoal!“

“As I am saying, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito began to turn around and face the opposite direction – "in a manner that will" draw attention.

“Hey, are you sure that you're hiding it properly? Between the gaps of your finger, you can’t hide it delicately.”

“......eh?”

Scowling at the question. Claire’s facial expression froze. And-

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

Blushing deeply like a wonderful cute girlfriend screaming at its peak - she quickly hid her chest with both of her hands.

“Ah, idiot!”

Kamito involuntarily exclaimed.

Losing control of the flame whip's grip in her hand, the tree behind the girl has been cut off. Slowly, the huge tree came falling down right at her. However, Claire didn’t notice it since her eyes were closed due to embarrassment, and looking at her chest while embracing it. 

(Damn--)

At this instant, Kamito kicked the ground. Running with his whole strength towards the pond, he then jumped while grabbing Claire’s shoulders.

“Wha-!?”

Claire’s red pupils dilated widely. On the other hand, Kamito aggressively pressed her down in the water. Between those two actions, Claire’s hand has gone into the water, causing a gush of steam to rise, and the flame whip to disappear. Immediately after, the big tree fell down, and the woods collapsed.

Duuuun!

A deafening sound which were ear-breaking. A magnificent large water column then rose.

Absorbing the burning flame, a heavy rain was falling neatly into the pond water.

.....A few moments later.

“Um......“

With a seducing rising voice, Claire slowly opened her eyes. She had an expression of shock, and her eyes blinked in wonder. Kamito was lying on the top of Claire, while staring into her eyes. If someone was to push his back lightly, as a man his lips will likely touch, due to their rather close distance. The nape where the twining red hair was stuck. The wet cherry red colored lips. The brittle doll like perfect feature, before his eyes. One scowl ends it all, with an unintentional blush, hurriedly shaking it off.

“......Um, are you fin? Are you hurt..”

Single mindedly, Claire nods. Somehow, in a situation yet to be understood. Kamito sighed, then stood up into the hot weather.

Funyuu.

His hand under the water touched something soft.

“Hwaaah!”

(What is that? Mud?--)

Funyu. Munyu.

“Hm, ya, hwaaa”

From her moist lips came a shallow sweet voice. Exploring Claire’s body soaked in the water, something pink bounced out from the water.

“Um ..this is?”

From here onwards, Kimito finally arrived in a certain male theory. Something......awfully terrible childish conclusion.

(No, let’s hope that, calm down, maybe --- it's different?)

It can’t be. There was no such thing. While letting a flow of cold sweat, he deliberately tried to deny such a possibility.

“Wh..wha.. wha..whattt .... are..you...do..ing”

Claire’s lip trembled, shaking involuntarily. She was blushing with tears in her eyes.

Apparently, it probably wasn't.....a lump of mud that he picked up.

“You, PERVERT----!”

“Gwah!”

Because he got hit hard by a knee in the stomach, Kimito collapsed into the pond's water.

Gugugugugu....!

While the wobbling heat energy behind her starts to accumulate, Claire immediately stood up. In thattime, the flame whip which is the incarnation of flame spirit was again grasped in her hand. The water in the pond with one scowl starting to boil and bubbles begins to show here and there.

“No..No, it’s a misunderstanding! Wait, I’m really gonna die.....”

“Sh..Shut up pervert, you will die here!”

Together with a loud deafening sound which breaks the ear, Kamito’s body whirled highly into the air.

=== Part 2 ===

“.....Un”

Few minutes later. Kamito starts to recover his consciousness, before his eyes, a tree within the forest unfold.

Happening trying to rise---

Suddenly, he notices something which was coiled around his neck.

A leather black whip for torturing. (What is this thing…), while trying to remove it,

“Finally woke up, You Peeping Tom Pervert”

The thing on his neck tightens.

“Gweh!? Release me....”

Kamito coughed then looked upward-

Scarlet haired young girl – Claire, swing her hand to her hips. Keeping her slim eyebrow arc raised, her sharp gaze looked down to Kamito.

This time with no sense of protection, the girl is wearing her adorable uniform. The pattern of black line within the pure white, (Areishia Spirit Academy)’s uniform.

The ribbon tie which decorates the chest origin. Instead of a button, a talisman was sewn on it. Two smooth stockings sticking out brilliantly, in her slender beautiful legs. The tiny ribbon hanging her left and right blazing crimson hair. The so called twin tail named hair style. Looking at her still wet hair, it seems that he hasn’t lost consciousness that much period of time.

Claire while tightens the neck of Kamito, her small chest bent a little.

“Well, be grateful. I’m going easy and didn’t kill you”

“I lied. I will definitely kill you!”

“Why am I saying this? Because, I seriously want you to turn into ash”

..... Saying it in a terrible calm manner.

Incidentally, about the obliterated coal, a new fire which was extinguished will result into a soft charcoal.

“The coal which was gained from you will be greedily put into forgiveness. I will give you one last time to respond”

“Yeah, I’m a fair noble person, I’ll certainly listen and calmly evaluate. You are more than an average pervert, in a highly pervert way”

“My evaluation that you are a pervert after all will not change. I’m asking you high pervert, are you seriously more than an average pervert?”

“Wh.. Why.....did you try to help, ee..even, touch, my breast!”

Exerting more effort thinking about it, Claire suddenly shy face turns to red.

(What?)

A particular female response –

Kamito half considered it.

.....Our guy, by any chance a dense person?

“My, our gloomy princess, has a perverted hobby of having fun by whipping a man”

Teasing nonchalantly -

“What!? Wr, Wro, Wrong, I’m not such thing!”

In a sure quick immediately response. (Kaatsu)Shake one's head up and her ears are in bright red in irritation.

“He.. Hey, do you really like to whip that badly?”

“.....m! Wha... What.. are...you..sayi..ng?”

Twirling turning around eyes, a steam puff out in young Claire’s shining pair head. That time creating confusion to a certain degree.

(Oh, as I expected....)

Kamito in his heart smiled bitterly.

(This girl, is really easy to read)

Perhaps, this girl is not that special. After all, at Areishia Spirit Academy, they are gathering female scholars based with their spirit contract. The Astral Zero’s spirit can only communicate solely with a pure woman. Even among them which can summon a lonesome spirit, is holding a divine spiritual strength in a certain degree, Spirit Contractor’s connection blood strengthens through marriage of many generations, as a lineage of pure noble young woman.

To maintained, the female’s purity of mind and body, since childhood, they are kept away from males in a boundary as a strict education. The so called Spirit Contractor designated teaching area. However, the entire young women in this institute, which are not accustomed to man, are overly boxed into an ideal princess miko.

Knowing the girl’s unexpectedly weak spot, Kamito in that time is maliciously suffering in her weapon. In a knee standing position, looking up to Claire’s bright red face-

“Um, sometime ago, as am I saying to you deliberately ”

“......Wha, What are you, Pervert!”

“This angle, I can see your panties”

“Fuwah!”

Tears begun to float in her crimson eyes, Claire hastily pressed down her skirt with both hands.

“Did you see?”

“With a glance, you are unexpectedly quite daring. It has the same color of your hair”

“......The, The fuck, It’s not red, It’s White, White!”

“So, it’s white”

“......ha!?”

Being hit by a sudden realization, Claire bit her lips-

“U, uuuuuuuuuh~”

..... She let out a huge cry.

With the sudden reaction, Kamito panicked. “What a slut unladylike person, confessing the color of her own panties” and, still teasing her more....true summer came for the poor.

The chance given by Claire’s temper, the whip was fired unwinding his neck,

“My bad, that was quite fun. Sorry”

Standing up, and then hold the girl’s head, which his hand place above there. Claire in that time stops crying, and then her face shows up.

“I have seen your naked body while bathing, then your breast.... which I badly touched as well. But I will not move. Please believe me”

“Wha, What.....”

The truthfulness in Kamito’s eye, Claire in her eyes, is really genuine.

“....You, What is this. If you are not a pervert, then '''why are you here?'''”

Naturally she doubted. This forest is under the jurisdiction of Areishia Spirit Academy, known as “Spirit Forest”. There’s a principle that a princess miko can never meet any man inside the academy, in regards with her feelings.

In that place, illicit sexual relationship is against the moral code, which is strictly not to be violated by anyone.

“I was, called here by Greyworth”

“Greyworth..... by the academy director!?”

Claire became more doubtful in that given situation. Indeed, it’s not something, not to be doubt about.

“I’m not lying. Look, here’s the evidence”

Kimito shruged his shoulders, inside his burned coat’s pocket, he took out a one sheet withered letter. The letter’s writings are from the renowned academy director. Also, 5 big pure spirits appears in a form which symbolize as a rank badge seal pressed down on it.

“Is....that, the country’s obi number one rank badge seal!?”

Claire in her dismay, a shallow voice let out in her lips. A number one rank badge seal is an amnesty badge seal produced through a special method of sealing a spirit. The country’s obi distributed the rank badge seal to those who are worthy to be called inside, by the best highest position; the reply on it is in absolute secrecy and should never tell to anyone.

In a natural manner, fixing her gaze in his groin, the article on it is not some female thing that can contract a spirit, in a glance that’s the genuine thing in his hip.

“.....It seems the real thing. But, why would the academy director call a man here?”

“Well, that Old woman is my guardian Greyworth, I’m really confused about it”

“That.. that Old woman!?”

Just like that, Claire’s face draws closer.

The Twilight Witch – in her town, Greyworth is a spirit soldier which was sighted as a princess miko having an enraged personality. It was said that within the Orudeshia country obi, she was popular having a dance that rival the most powerful dance ever known. One of the twelve elite general which retired from the group of the most powerful spirit elder soldier, It was noted that a dozen of years later, gain a reputation as a legendary witch which was being feared and revered with respect by other.

(The truth is, lately, I’m having a nightmare about that person....)

In that time, when the letter writing has been tucked away. Kamito’s shoulders shrugged.

“With a little fortune from Greyworth, I have came all the way here. but, the academy ground is very large, so I have lost my way”

Areishia Spirit Academy ground is incredibly very vast. After all, the Academy City covers all the mountain range, also, spreading farther more into the Spirit forest owning the whole perimeter of it.

“Then, you were misled dumbfounded by the Spirit Forest, Is that it?”

“.....Yes, that’s it”

Claire puffs into laughter, while Kamito gently nodded.

In the peaceful large ground of the sunny spirit forest exists, the Astral Zero’s "Portal" which connects and threatens this world with stray soul. Mostly of the spirit, has no interest in the humankind, but they harmlessly loves to play pranks by deliberately misleading travelers into the puzzled forest. In any event a person was misled by the spirit into the forest; one should look for the academy road which will guide them out from the wilderness.

“Anyway, I’m really glad that I had met a person, in these difficult and horrible Spirit Forest. from here onward, how should I get in the academy?”

“Hey.....for your own information, I shall tell you, that there’s a two hours of walk from here towards the Academy”

“What, that far!?”

To avoid being misled by the spirit of the forest, one should walk away in such a pattern. The academy students here are females, and they are close in this vicinity, so they have thought a way around it.

(.....hmm? why are these people, bathing in this kind of place?)

From this plain forest, a sudden question arises. Certainly today is a very hot day, to come and take a bath and rest here, incidentally for a male to set foot inside the academy in such places. In any case, this girl is not the only girl in the academy, except that she was the one been put into shame.

Being asked, Claire dug her hands into her wet twin tail hair trying to comb it,

“I was here for the purification ritual for spirit contract. Brushing aside it, the spring water here, has the highest holy quality are there. And do you know that spirits like a woman which has a pure mind and body?”

“Spirit Contract?”

He uttered a word then, a crack in his left hand’s leather gloves, Zukyu – a throbbing pain. Kamito face grimace, from the burning sharp pain.

“Going away from this place, there is an ancient holy sword in a certain historical shrine. Rumors state that there is a fierce and powerful “Spirit Seal” which holds something in that place, since the foundation of the academy. While no one can, a princess miko successfully place it. Likely, a highly powerful spirit can be found there”

Spirit Seal – is a medium that holds the demon spirit from the Astral Zero.

Since ancient times, some of powerful spirit contractor have sealed their spirits inside their arms and equipments. Mostly some of them are the one’s being feared by man that brings forth disaster in ancient society, such as, a demon god, rabbit god and etc.

Of course, it's the human spirit contractor can't deals with. Due, to the huge fear of ancient spirit contractor, they sealed them into the arms and equipment by lamenting them two times.

“You, there’s no way you can manage a sealed spirit?”

“It seems that you are saying something?”

“Stop, it’s too dangerous”

“Hmm, rest assured. It’s not that I’m well accustomed as a spirit contractor, nor I’m not that well aware of the danger of it, but, you know, I really want a strong spirit”

Claire muttered, bitten her tightly close lips.

In a serious facial expression, Kamito involuntarily shuts his own mouth.

“But, you, how about the pear amount of flame spirit sometime ago? That thing quite a powerful spirit, did you not raise that guy properly?”

A Flame Spirit, as the Spirit’s nature which is not that unusual. But, in a certain degree the spirit can be summoned as an <elemental buffs> by a spirit contractor, that is not quite a handful in number inside the country obi. Besides, there’s a limit of quantity of pure spirit errand that a person can holds, it’s not the case that it’s not possible, but – spirit interference can deteriorate the balance of divine energy flow in the body, unless that someone has an innate talent to control it.

“'''Scarlett''' you're an important partner. But-”

“I want power”- and, Claire calmly raised her neck.

“I have only one goal. And that is, to have a strong spirit”

=== Part 3 ===

Fluffily swinging crimson twin tail on her back, Kamito followed her inside the forest. Claire in her leather shoe sandals, while having a hard time walking and expectedly having an accumulated secant of her spirit errand was walking in a light frivolous way.

“Here”

Then, suddenly her well proportion feet stopped walking.

With her hands on her hips, she looked back with a half eye glare towards Kamito.

“Why are you following me? You pervert peeping maniac ”

“I’m lost, and I don’t know the way towards the academy. As I have said several times, I am not a pervert peeping maniac. It’s Kamito, Kamito Kazehaya”

“Fufu, what a weird name. Crake’s origin?”

Crake is a large harmonious country obi in the eastern region. The Orudeshia language and culture, largely differs in terms in the relationship of people with spirits.

“No, It’s not Crake. I was born in a far remote island minority group village”

Kamito intentionally obscure his own statement. Certainly, he was born in an eastern island country, but, larger half of his childhood life was not spent there.

“Your name is quite a rare taste and mine is, Claire Rouge”

“Don’t call my name in a friendly manner. Anyway it’s a strange name”

“Really? But, I consider it a nice name”

“Wha, What are you saying, stu, stupid!”

Claire face blushes, then suddenly change back to her former direction, and briskly walk faster than usual.

Claire Rouge ---- obviously a Pseudonymn.

Most of the students attending the Areishia Spirit Academy, in their young age learned to use the accumulated secant of their spirit, like today’s noble young girl is doing. But, Rouge residence is an unheard family name. For hiding a noble family name, she must have some reason for it, and finding more explanation about it is detrimental.

(.....Anyone, wants to achieved their own inner hidden desire)

Kamito with his eyes glancing in the direction of his decaying left hand inside his leather glove.

Even I -

Claire with her foot movement keeps advancing steadily. Kamito hastily chased the twin tail swaying in her back. Now, losing sight of Claire inside the forest will bring only trouble for him. The dangers of spending one night inside the “Spirit Forest”- is the thing Kamito being aware of.

“Is that dress the academy uniform?”

“Yah”

Claire while walking nods in a coldly manner.

Areishia Spirit Academy Uniform is a robust protective garment that acts as a guard, which undergone spirit’s protection, and sacred in nature which was improve surely enough to last long. The good thing is that a pear amount of spirits acts as a high ceremonial clothes.

“What, are you saying that I don’t harbor value on it?”

“No, it’s not like that. Honestly speaking”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder, and then honestly answer it. Bad mouthing knocking over someone’s – grandfather’s wardrobe, is the overall situation that anyone should avoid.

“Wha, Whatt, What are you saying! I, I’m not an Idiot!”

(Kaatsu) Claire blushes in deep red, while (Pyun-Pyun) waving her whip.

“Uwahh, Calm down!”

“You, you, are you trying to tell me to do a weird thing!”

“''I saying a weird thing?, I am just saying that - *in pain*, I know, I know, because, I’m in disadvantage one on one against your whip!''”

(....phew, it was necessary to tell her a battle strategy, unexpectedly to meet a chaperone princess here)

While dodging the whip which was swing downward in a paper width difference, Kamito sighed in his mind. The holy blade removing any markings on its way inside the forest, creating a gap in the place, then stopped in an arched way. Claire interfere by restraining the extension force with the tip of her fingers, unwinding its circulation in that place in just an ample of time, Kamito expression then calms down.

“From here onwards, it will be really dangerous, so, stay away from me by one meter”

“If you know that it’s dangerous, why not stop?”

“As am I saying, I need to have a strong spirit”

Claire calmly shook his head, when her pair of legs stumbles upon the small shrine.

Disregarding her warnings, Kamito followed her. As for coming about a necessity of battle strategy as his pretext reason, but the truth is, he was just worried about Claire.

After all “Sealed Spirit” are strong and in the same time has a wild nature. They prefer destruction and chaos, the possibility that they would murder that someone who employs them as a spirit would likely to happen.

The frightful hand of humanity can not manage to terminate it --- therefore, they have sealed it.

Sixteen years of age, Claire with such an innate talent of manipulating a spirit, and revered as a deity. However, by any chance, she would release a sealed spirit; she would fail to control it.

Accidentally, the girl encountered the thing we are talking about, but to be overlooked by her.

“Why did you follow me? Do you not understand the situation”

“You sure have the confidence that you will completely tame it”

“Of, Ofcourse!”

“If there’s any problem tell me”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder and, Claire facing him while not paying any attention.

“....Suit Yourself”

Inside the shrine is a dark gloomy misty atmosphere. Mingling in the air inside are tiny fumes of stinking odor, Claire somewhat frowning from disgust.

“......Flame, Bring Light”

Claire from her fingertip, a fire ball immediately starts to glow. The Fire Spirit’s power when summoned gives some basic fundamental spirit magic. The flickering light of the fire ball dimly illuminate the walls of the shrine.

And, from the innermost of the shrine --- It was severed.

“The.....container of the sealed spirit was severed?”

Kamito muttered, while Claire quietly nods.

Stabbed standing in a huge stone with its omitted severed body. A hundred century old seal grade framework severed disconnected in the broken rusty sashimi knife with its wholeness is missing. In its cut off belly, a delicate ancient red inscription dimly radiates palely.

“In this place lies our former beloved, Saint Severian Academy”

“Saint Severian? That was destroyed by Demon King Sulaiman?”

Demon King Sulaiman --- accompanied by his seventy two powerful spirit followers, demolished a major peace agreement which brought chaos in the world, and '''the only man in history that can control a spirit errand'''.

It was said that demon king destroyed the Saint Severian Academy.

“Idiot, there’s no way that’s the real thing”

Claire state being engrossed by it.

“In all the places within the country obi, why is that it is stabbed in this stone. This place used to be a village, I wonder why in a deserted village. Now, there’s no way it’s genuine from that severed thing as our lead, It’s reasonable enough because it’s not always the case where a sealed spirit is a strong one”

“.....Indeed. Certainly, It’s not like there’s no such place exist..”

Claire determined with her blade walks toward to him.

“Hey....”

“You stay back”

Approaching Kamito which hands are being restrained, Claire clenched the hilt of her holy blade.

“Don’t overwork yourself ”

“....Got it”

Kamito barely lightly reached the bag guarding the thing on it. The other person in his side which is reluctantly not motivated about the sealed spirit. In the first time, a mature serious silence atmosphere is between them.

“.....Move, Claire Rouge”

Claire breathing deeply murmured informing her own body. A voice meekly trembles from her. A truly complicated scene it was.

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A spell coming from her cherry colored lips, a yang spirit language, contract ritual. The red lotus filaments dancing in the air, inside the shrine a roaring wind vortex begins to accumulate. 　

Kamito gulps his breath, looking at her female appearance. The spirit whose recognized master is Claire, once exchange each other a contract, within her female body there should be a spirit carved seal engraved. A contract vow is a final seal agreement. In this moment, a gust of wind swept inside the shrine.

“......eh?”

But, Claire is unfazed. She calmly recite her contract vow.

---And, the female clenched the Severian’s holy blade, a blinding light released from it.

(I can’t....believe it, She was exchanging a contract with the sealed spirit!?)

Preventing being swept by the wind, astonished Kamito raised his voice.

Because the holy blade was stabbed in the stone, she was hitting it while releasing a tremendous divine energy. If it was an average spirit errand, she would have already passed out.

“---Three times, I order to wave, wave, I grant thee to plunge!”

And, Claire’s vow reverberates inside the shrine --- in that instant.

Chaaaarge!

“Co, Come out, Come out!”

“.....What, seriously!?”

The blade came out of the stone then brandished it overhead, Claire exclaimed with joy. And then followed by a question mark.

The ancient system engraved in its belly; release a powerful intense brilliant light!

“......ha!?”

Claire involuntarily release from her hand the blade ---

The holy blade thrust into the ground, in that time, the light scattered into pieces.

“Kyaaaaah!”

A short shriek flew, then Claire collapse into the ground.

“Hey, are you okay!”

Kamito quickly run towards Claire.

“Wha, What? Ouch, What is....”

Claire holding her temple trying to get up, quickly stepped back then looked around.

“My, My sealed spirit?”

“No, I....can sense something terrible”

Kamito from the back of his neck, sweats are flowing intensely. A terrified facial expression, with his eyes in the shrine’s ceiling. In that place, '''swinging while floating in the air was the blade'''.

It's not the familiar loose broken blade in that place. But, It was a rough sharpness good quality steel blade.

“Is that.....the sealed spirit’s knife!?”

“Can’t you really not tell that’s a '''spirit sword''', rather it’s not time for that”

“The spirit errand is here, but why can’t it understand me”

“As I can see it can understand. Maybe, in its eyes, that thing just can’t comprehend which of us was his faithful master”

“.....umm, It seems like that”

Claire unusual obediently bows her head.

The floating sword slants pointing its tip in a downward direction, exactly motionless.

Then ---

“.....H, Hide!”

Kamito in that instant, push down Claire in the ground. A buzzing sound of an insect grazed contaminating the ear which can’t go away that far in one’s neighborhood.

“Wai, Waa, Wait, where are you touching me, I will turn you into charcoal!”

It was clearly that Claire’s face is deeply red in her carelessness, while in the other hand, Kamito’s heart is beating faster.

“Idio, Idiot, violent!”

Kamito quickly step aside her body, the spirit sword flew away, taking their attention looking on it with their both eyes.

A clattering sound, a flakes fragment of rocks falls down. The shrine’s ceiling was completely cut open cleanly.

“As expected, that spirit came to loose ---”

Claire scowled half opened eye towards Kamito.

“......umm the spirit, completely run wild”

“You, You’re Noisy. Fro.. From Here Onwards, You Will Be Obedient To Me!”

“YOU....”

Kamito surprised, now in a situation which he can’t even talked back.

The spirit sword releases a chattering noise approaching to them. Inside the shrine, it was moving freely swiftly in the air, without any restriction in its area.

Kamito grabbed Claire’s hand, trying to pull her to stand up. Touching each other soft skin, (Doki) a heart beat, then both of them regrettable turn’s each other face away.

“Hwaah”

“Always has a cute reaction. Let's flee”

“Wha.. whaa. whatt.. Cute.. what me, Kyaa!”

“Let’s run outside!”

Pulling Claire’s hand with his hand, while running towards the direction of the shrine’s exit basking with sunshine.

The spirit sword immediately chased after them. As of now it was not yet completely awakens. But later, the opportunity given by this may cause them not able to run away.

Outside of the shrine, the sword wavering tumble came out in a lightning speed in their front. The spirit sword let out a tremendous roar, the surrounding trees successively certainly knocked down.

“Crazy, What a shrewd Spirit, Let’s go somewhere safe my Princess”

“alwa, always, you’re noisy...”

In this time, an awkward atmosphere is between them, and then suddenly an uncomfortable cough breaks the silence, Claire stands up.

“What a rebellious child.....I will give you some proper training”

Her pair crimson eyes which was burning with a fierce determination, saying it in a way as if she was planting rice to be harvest later. Tearing off her Skirt, then took the leather whip which was coiled in her thigh, hitting it hard in the ground. And the other one looking in a shocked manner over the white underwear, it was Kamito -

“Are you insane!? You’re opponent is a high rank sealed spirit!”

“Easy victory, I’m not lower than an amateur like you”

“Where are you getting all of your confidence?, It’s better to run away”

Being grabbed in the wrist by Kamito’s hand, Claire repulses.

“No, you yourself escape. I will absolutely get this guy”

“You, for what reason --- do you need a strong spirit that badly?”

“.....You will never understand”

Claire in that time averts her eyes.

“I want...a strong spirit, not just a spirit but an unbeatable very strong spirit!”

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with the blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Claire summoned her “Flame Spirit” by singing a summoning ritual. A crimson flame surges and she was engulfed by a hot air surrounding her.

“Here, In accordance with your seal descend, Scarlett!”

In the same time a typical young flame, there appeared – a Scarlet Red Hell Cat. Instead of a fur, it was a blazing scarlet red colored flame, wrapping the beast body.

(Is that the real form of her flame spirit!?)

Indeed, she really blurted out that thing here. To manifested a beast form, is a proof that thing is a high rank spirit. Stating Scarlett as a name with great affection, perhaps it was not really that spirit name, but a name with the same quality.

Claire wields her whip, and the hell cat growl a frightful roar, then rushed towards the sword spirit. A dancing sparks scattered. The atmosphere trembled and the beast roars. The floating spirit sword whistles, and all the trees from their direction was severely cut down.

“Scarlett, in accordance with your seal!”

In response to Claire’s shout, the hell cat jumps. There above in the sky where the spirit sword is flying, the sharp blazing claws swings down. A high pitched shrill sound. An intense sparks sprinkle, and the spirit sword dropped in the ground.

Claire runs at the same time. Without even a single scratch on it. The spirit sword rise and fly in a split second, rolling over drawing an arc in the air.

The flame spirit chased after it, trying not to loose it from its hands. Again a big jump, hindering it from rising higher.

Two times the rage, a spark scattered. Clare strikes hard the ground with her leather whip, attaching it into the spirit sword cornering it. Battling it with her leather whip in a tug of war, in that time she gave a signal to her spirit.

Scarlett fiercely attack, the spirit sword which was held from moving --- back and forth.

“Eat this, burning fire ball!”

Claire in her palm a huge fire ball was released.

Fire Ball – An ultrahigh burning fire which can terribly burn out anything as its target in the face of the earth, it was a high level spirit magic. The spirit magic’s power, determined by the spirit contractor’s own divine spiritual energy and the contracted spirit’s strength as a whole.

The released fire ball solitarily flew into the air, blowing up involving Scarlett. The after effect of the explosion in the area, causing every tree to be burned down, is like a scene from the blazing hell.

(What Power......)

At the same time carried by the winds are small stones, Kamito refusing himself to be wind up.

Sixteen years old girl can’t possible have used such powerful spirit magic.

Inside the swirling fire the hell cat figure shows up. Naturally, the hell cat can’t possibly be harmed by the blazing fire as its nature.

The spirit sword – in any case seemed to be quiet. It does not seem hurt waiting in that place. Regardless, Claire wants to bring down that thing with her high level spirit magic without any hesitation. But, the spirit sword is being cautious by pulling itself in that place.

“Scarlett!”

Claire exclaimed. The flame spirit clawed attacked the spirit sword in that place. Melting the iron steel with its scourging hot claws. In any case that’s your average spirit ones neighbor, it would be instantly eradicated. But, the spirit sword quickly turned around, and splendidly perceived by its steel sword body.

In an instant. A metal rubbing each other, strange sound reverberated in the trembling atmosphere.

“Wh...Why?....”

Kamito suppressed his both ears with his hands.

The sound properly received by Claire which has a distorted facial expression from pain, crouching in that place.

The spirit sword which released the strange sound - in such a manner, changed. Generally, it was the length of the sword, switching into a huge “long sword”.

In a flash.

“What!?”

Claire’s flame spirit unexpectedly strike, a huge swing one attack which was immediately countered attack. The body was severely cut down into two, and the flame wrapping on its body vanished in the empty lot.

In that one mistake, one can realized the strength which was about to lost in this world.

(....Damn, what a mistake. It seems that thing was waiting there to completely awaken.)

A curse from the bottom of her heart, Clare took a glance -

In the empty lot where the flame spirit is dying, the girl with her stunned blank eyes looked up at the same time.

The flame spirit which was attacked decapitated thrown away by the spirit sword, Clare aimed her determined sight on it.

From the huge long sword, a loud sound flew -

“Claire!”

Kamito shouted while running, with no such reason, his own body just moved before he known it.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Diving in front of Clair, the long sword stabbed its blade into his palm. It was not his left hand enclosed by the leather glove – it's his right hand.

(……I, I’m helpless ! )

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A huge amount of sweats is floating, it’s the second time the exchanging of spirit contract ritual was recited. Thrusting deeply into his hands, the tip of the sword breaks the leather surrounding his palm. The red blood gushed intensely from it.

(.....Gwaah, Gah!)

A fierce attack of divine energy, the soil and sands surrounding them are whirling up from the wind pressure. In his consciousness a sharp pain resounded. But, Kamito tried not to lose his consciousness, protecting Clare from his back no matter what happens.

--- Three times, I order to wave!

“.....No way, a Spirit Contract!?”

A surprised sound from Clare’s throat.

A mark from his sinking foot can be seen in the ground. And, the sound of his breaking bones resounds from his knee cap.

--- Wave, I grant thee to plunge!

Withstanding the terrible sharp pain, Kamito finished his last word of the contract ritual.

In that exact moment. The spirit sword’s blade palely radiates.

(What!?)

An intense flash and a roar filled his consciousness.

=== Part 4 ===

As he opened his eyes, Claire Rouge’s face was there. Hanging lower into his face was her twin tailed hair tickling his face.

It was a shout, but, it can’t be heard. A roar which can breaks one’s ear.

(.....It appears, I’m alive)

Weary lying on the ground, Kamito is breathing heavily. Lowering his head, it seems that he can’t believe himself that he had won against the spirit.

Raising his eyebrow, he grimaced from the torment pain from his body, raising his right hand slowly.

In his right hand which was stabbed -

Instead of a wound, a two sword crossing each other emblem was engraved on it.

It was the proof of the spirit contract vow - The spirit carved seal.

(Aah, this is....?)

Staring closely in the carved seal from the back of his hand, Kamito wondered.

A sharp sense of guilt gauged his heart.

Is that mean that female’s contract has been destroyed ---

But, Claire who has a relieved expression, in such situation she had failed.

Claire noticed Kamito who just woke up, with her hands in his nape and her face approaching him. A relieved sighed. With her clear crimson eyes, looking at Kamito. Her cherry colored lips weakly trembled.

“......Why ”

"Why, you’re a male, how can you contract a spirit!”

“......”

Kamito does not answer and slowly rise up. Being ignored, the annoyed Clare raised her eyebrows.

“My, My Sword Spirit!?”

“My bad. Just a moment ago, I had contracted on it”

Kamito sighed and at the same time he has shown to her from the back of his right hand, the spirit carved seal engraved on it.

“Wha, Whaa, Wha, Whaaaat!”

Claire stunned expression with her mouth wide open.

(Well, A natural reaction....)

A long sighed --- Kamito felt a faint ache in his heart. Of course, he could clearly understand such response. In a sense, that only pure maiden are the ones who has the privilege for --- the spirit contract.

The existence of a man which can simultaneously contract a spirit, through out the history, belongs solely to one person. And the one who brings chaos and destruction in the world, the so called Demon King spirit contractor.

The same spirit contract strength as the Demon King, Kamito was grabbed by the terror of his thought which he can’t embrace.

Kamito stands up and quietly turns back.

He does not regret. He had helped the girl, because this is the only way, he could think of.

“Wait, as am I saying Wait!”

Leaving away from that place, in his back a voice addressed him.

Turning around, Claire with her hands in her hips intensely glared to him.

"You stole...my spirit...you have to take responsibility for it!"

“Huh?”

Kamito conceal his frown. ....It does not make sense to him.

In such reaction of Kamito, Claire acting impatient with her twin tailed hair in her shoulder,

“I should have been the one who had obtained that spirit, as am I saying, you have to take responsibility for it”

“Re..sponsibility?”

From the unexpected word, Kamito has become more confused.

....What was the girl saying.

“Therefore....”

Claire wields her whip then she points her index finger toward Kamito.

"You have to become my contracted spirit!"

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==Chapter 1: You are my spirit contractor==

=== Part 1 ===

In a quiet forest where the sun rays were shining through leaves.

"Paa--"

Suddenly, the rippling sound of water resounded in the air.

Kamito, he--opened his mouth wide and just stood there.

A girl...In front of his eyes was a fully naked girl.

She was cute, extraordinarily cute. Her eyes were big and red like rubies, her cherry-red lips were wet and lustrous, her dazzling white flesh was as silky as milk, and on the surface of the water, her beautiful legs were slender and fine. Also, what caught his eyes more than anything was--

The hair that clings on her gorgeous fine glass work like body, crimson red like burning fire.

Of course, she was naked. Stark naked.

"......"

Kamito felt cold sweat on his back.

Not good.

It's really not good that she is seen naked.

......I should really run away quickly. Even though he gave that rational advice to himself, his body wouldn't move. Actually, he was ''charmed''. The scene was so surreal that Kamito felt a bit detached from reality.

And at that time, the girl--

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Her moist and beautiful eyes blinked, having found the unexpected intruder.
Staring blankly, she seemed yet to have fully grasped the situation.
She didn't even try to cover her still developing small breast.

Tick.

The water drops fell from the young girl's bangs. Kamito's consciousness came back at the sound of the water.

"Ah-that......"

Kamito coughed once, and removed his glance from the naked girl　who was standing motionlessly.

"How can I say it......it looks like an accident, right? It is an unfortunate accident for both of us..."

At that time, Kamito made two fatal errors. The first, of course, was that he started to make futile explanations. The best choice was to take advantage of the fact that the girl was dazed, and run away from the trouble immediately.

And the other error was--

"Even though it was an accident, I have seen you in such a situation. Sorry, my apologies."

Until here it was still fine, but the last part......

"Though, don't worry. I'm still a healthy boy, so I don't have ''that kind of interest''. I......"

Looking at the young girl's ''still developing small chest''--

"I have no interest towards a kid's body."

Looks like he stepped on a gigantic landmine.

"......"

The frozen silence fell.

Silently, the girl raise her red hair coiled arm. Her shoulders were slightly shaking. But the reason wasn't because of the cold, but Kamito was oblivious to that fact.

"Sixteen--"

"Eh?"

The girl's delicate lips were mumbling something, and Kamito lifted his eyebrows.

"I-I-I AM ALREADY SIXTEEN-YEARS OLD!!!"

At the instant when she screamed that out, the young girl's red hair standed on its end.

"Haa!?"

As Kamito opened his eyes wide in surprise--

"Sixteen!? For real? How can you have such an pitiful chest--"

He quickly covered his mouth. Though it was already too late.

"......Unforgivable."

The young girl said that in a low, cold voice.

"D-Definitively unforgivable......you, youyou, you peeping demon, pervert, lewd beast!"

"You know it well, words like lewd beast." 

Kamito said that in a low voice.

"Hn?"

......At that time, he noted that the forest's trees were making a low whisper-like rustle.

(Is that the wind? No, that's--)

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with our blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Came from the young girl's cute lips a smooth incantation in spirits’ language. At this instant, accompanied by the sound of an air blast, a scourging flame whip appeared in the hand of the girl.

(.....a Spirit Contractor!)

Kamito shouted in his head.

Spirit Contractor --- an another dimensional layer’s of this world, the “Astral Zero”.

Witches who have signed a contract with a fierce spirit from that place are called “Spirit Contractors”.

The Spirit Contractor can use different types of spirit, wielding its powers freely.

It seemed that the girl in front of him had a contract with a flame type spirit.

The young girl was a Spirit Contractor, not something to be surprised about.

After all, this is the place where the country's excellent Spirit Contractors are gathered together.

(.....Even if it’s you, there's no way you could use elemental buffs)

The natures of the spirit summoned into this world from the Astral Zero can be roughly divided into two types.

The first type is a massless, shapeless type that appears in its original state as a ‘Divine Core’. This is purely the summoning of a spirit's power, and was used as a vault of magical power for the spirit magic.

There is another type, the pure state of summoning a part of the spirit’s existence as it is. Because of the tremendous amount of power required and the difficulty to control it, it is said that only a tiny portion of the spirit contractors can do it to this extent.

Even so, the girl before his eyes is not just using spirit, but could use it to the extent of using the spirit as a highly optimized elemental buffs.

(.... it means that, eh? – Am I now in a life or death situation?)

As the thought suddenly hit him, and Kamito was stunned.

At the place where the flame whip touched the water's surface, a gush of white steam was rising from it.

"You, you have the guts..... "

The girl murmured with her trembling voice. Her face was red, whether it was due to her anger, or her embarrassment.

ÉRea-really, you have some nerve, to p-peek , while I, Claire Rouge, am taking my bath....."

“W-Wait, that's a misunderstanding! Let me explain it first!"

Kamito shook his head in panic.

"I will not listen to your excuses. Please turn into ashes, PERVERT!"

The flame whip ignited furiously in the wielder’s hand and was moving as if it was licking the water surface.

"Oooooh..!?"

Kamito threw his body, and quickly jumped into the dense brushes at proximity.

Nearly at the same time, the flame whip brushed its way over his head.

The idle red residue remained on the trees, which were cut off like a complete joke. The cut part of the tree trunks' remains were surprisingly clean, without any trace of burn. The attack was so quick that the flames didn't even have the time to ignite the trees.

The hair on Kamito's forehead was fluttering down on his mouth while cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

(.....Um, that's a joke, right? I'm not going to die like that, will I?)

Zing, biyutsu – there was like an endless dance of crimson flash cutting horizontally and vertically in the forest. While carefully paying attention to his surroundings, trying to forfeit from the battle by hiding himself, Kamito hurriedly rushed out.

“You wild beast, stay still and let me hit you!“

“That's nonsense, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito screamed out and at the same time, the whip swung downwards on his feet, causing a violent spark to scatter. Raising from the ground, the whip immediately sprang up in the direction of the forest woods, which got ruthlessly severed. It was said that it’s a blessing in disguise, the girl - Claire's aim wasn't quite accurate. After all, one hand was desperately hiding her chest from being revealed while the most important part was being concealed in the pond in a bent down position. However, considering the ignorance of her position, and how she could handle her whip, she should be normally talented at using it.

“Despite being a pervert, please obediently turn into charcoal!“

“As I am saying, I’m not a pervert!“

Kamito began to turn around and face the opposite direction – "in a manner that will" draw attention.

“Hey, are you sure that you're hiding it properly? Between the gaps of your finger, you can’t hide it delicately.”

“......eh?”

Scowling at the question. Claire’s facial expression froze. And-

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

Blushing deeply like a wonderful cute girlfriend screaming at its peak - she quickly hid her chest with both of her hands.

“Ah, idiot!”

Kamito involuntarily exclaimed.

Losing control of the flame whip's grip in her hand, the tree behind the girl has been cut off. Slowly, the huge tree came falling down right at her. However, Claire didn’t notice it since her eyes were closed due to embarrassment, and looking at her chest while embracing it. 

(Damn--)

At this instant, Kamito kicked the ground. Running with his whole strength towards the pond, he then jumped while grabbing Claire’s shoulders.

“Wha-!?”

Claire’s red pupils dilated widely. On the other hand, Kamito aggressively pressed her down in the water. Between those two actions, Claire’s hand has gone into the water, causing a gush of steam to rise, and the flame whip to disappear. Immediately after, the big tree fell down, and the woods collapsed.

Duuuun!

A deafening sound which were ear-breaking. A magnificent large water column then rose.

Absorbing the burning flame, a heavy rain was falling neatly into the pond water.

.....A few moments later.

“Um......“

With a seducing rising voice, Claire slowly opened her eyes. She had an expression of shock, and her eyes blinked in wonder. Kamito was lying on the top of Claire, while staring into her eyes. If someone was to push his back lightly, as a man his lips will likely touch, due to their rather close distance. The nape where the twining red hair was stuck. The wet cherry red colored lips. The brittle doll like perfect feature, before his eyes. One scowl ends it all, with an unintentional blush, hurriedly shaking it off.

“......Um, are you fin? Are you hurt..”

Single mindedly, Claire nods. Somehow, in a situation yet to be understood. Kamito sighed, then stood up into the hot weather.

Funyuu.

His hand under the water touched something soft.

“Hwaaah!”

(What is that? Mud?--)

Funyu. Munyu.

“Hm, ya, hwaaa”

From her moist lips came a shallow sweet voice. Exploring Claire’s body soaked in the water, something pink bounced out from the water.

“Um ..this is?”

From here onwards, Kimito finally arrived in a certain male theory. Something......awfully terrible childish conclusion.

(No, let’s hope that, calm down, maybe --- it's different?)

It can’t be. There was no such thing. While letting a flow of cold sweat, he deliberately tried to deny such a possibility.

“Wh..wha.. wha..whattt .... are..you...do..ing”

Claire’s lip trembled, shaking involuntarily. She was blushing with tears in her eyes.

Apparently, it probably wasn't.....a lump of mud that he picked up.

“You, PERVERT----!”

“Gwah!”

Because he got hit hard by a knee in the stomach, Kimito collapsed into the pond's water.

Gugugugugu....!

While the wobbling heat energy behind her starts to accumulate, Claire immediately stood up. In thattime, the flame whip which is the incarnation of flame spirit was again grasped in her hand. The water in the pond with one scowl starting to boil and bubbles begins to show here and there.

“No..No, it’s a misunderstanding! Wait, I’m really gonna die.....”

“Sh..Shut up pervert, you will die here!”

Together with a loud deafening sound which breaks the ear, Kamito’s body whirled highly into the air.

=== Part 2 ===

“.....Un”

Few minutes later. Kamito starts to recover his consciousness, before his eyes, a tree within the forest unfold.

Happening trying to rise---

Suddenly, he notices something which was coiled around his neck.

A leather black whip for torturing. (What is this thing…), while trying to remove it,

“Finally woke up, You Peeping Tom Pervert”

The thing on his neck tightens.

“Gweh!? Release me....”

Kamito coughed then looked upward-

Scarlet haired young girl – Claire, swing her hand to her hips. Keeping her slim eyebrow arc raised, her sharp gaze looked down to Kamito.

This time with no sense of protection, the girl is wearing her adorable uniform. The pattern of black line within the pure white, (Areishia Spirit Academy)’s uniform.

The ribbon tie which decorates the chest origin. Instead of a button, a talisman was sewn on it. Two smooth stockings sticking out brilliantly, in her slender beautiful legs. The tiny ribbon hanging her left and right blazing crimson hair. The so called twin tail named hair style. Looking at her still wet hair, it seems that he hasn’t lost consciousness that much period of time.

Claire while tightens the neck of Kamito, her small chest bent a little.

“Well, be grateful. I’m going easy and didn’t kill you”

“I lied. I will definitely kill you!”

“Why am I saying this? Because, I seriously want you to turn into ash”

..... Saying it in a terrible calm manner.

Incidentally, about the obliterated coal, a new fire which was extinguished will result into a soft charcoal.

“The coal which was gained from you will be greedily put into forgiveness. I will give you one last time to respond”

“Yeah, I’m a fair noble person, I’ll certainly listen and calmly evaluate. You are more than an average pervert, in a highly pervert way”

“My evaluation that you are a pervert after all will not change. I’m asking you high pervert, are you seriously more than an average pervert?”

“Wh.. Why.....did you try to help, ee..even, touch, my breast!”

Exerting more effort thinking about it, Claire suddenly shy face turns to red.

(What?)

A particular female response –

Kamito half considered it.

.....Our guy, by any chance a dense person?

“My, our gloomy princess, has a perverted hobby of having fun by whipping a man”

Teasing nonchalantly -

“What!? Wr, Wro, Wrong, I’m not such thing!”

In a sure quick immediately response. (Kaatsu)Shake one's head up and her ears are in bright red in irritation.

“He.. Hey, do you really like to whip that badly?”

“.....m! Wha... What.. are...you..sayi..ng?”

Twirling turning around eyes, a steam puff out in young Claire’s shining pair head. That time creating confusion to a certain degree.

(Oh, as I expected....)

Kamito in his heart smiled bitterly.

(This girl, is really easy to read)

Perhaps, this girl is not that special. After all, at Areishia Spirit Academy, they are gathering female scholars based with their spirit contract. The Astral Zero’s spirit can only communicate solely with a pure woman. Even among them which can summon a lonesome spirit, is holding a divine spiritual strength in a certain degree, Spirit Contractor’s connection blood strengthens through marriage of many generations, as a lineage of pure noble young woman.

To maintained, the female’s purity of mind and body, since childhood, they are kept away from males in a boundary as a strict education. The so called Spirit Contractor designated teaching area. However, the entire young women in this institute, which are not accustomed to man, are overly boxed into an ideal princess miko.

Knowing the girl’s unexpectedly weak spot, Kamito in that time is maliciously suffering in her weapon. In a knee standing position, looking up to Claire’s bright red face-

“Um, sometime ago, as am I saying to you deliberately ”

“......Wha, What are you, Pervert!”

“This angle, I can see your panties”

“Fuwah!”

Tears begun to float in her crimson eyes, Claire hastily pressed down her skirt with both hands.

“Did you see?”

“With a glance, you are unexpectedly quite daring. It has the same color of your hair”

“......The, The fuck, It’s not red, It’s White, White!”

“So, it’s white”

“......ha!?”

Being hit by a sudden realization, Claire bit her lips-

“U, uuuuuuuuuh~”

..... She let out a huge cry.

With the sudden reaction, Kamito panicked. “What a slut unladylike person, confessing the color of her own panties” and, still teasing her more....true summer came for the poor.

The chance given by Claire’s temper, the whip was fired unwinding his neck,

“My bad, that was quite fun. Sorry”

Standing up, and then hold the girl’s head, which his hand place above there. Claire in that time stops crying, and then her face shows up.

“I have seen your naked body while bathing, then your breast.... which I badly touched as well. But I will not move. Please believe me”

“Wha, What.....”

The truthfulness in Kamito’s eye, Claire in her eyes, is really genuine.

“....You, What is this. If you are not a pervert, then '''why are you here?'''”

Naturally she doubted. This forest is under the jurisdiction of Areishia Spirit Academy, known as “Spirit Forest”. There’s a principle that a princess miko can never meet any man inside the academy, in regards with her feelings.

In that place, illicit sexual relationship is against the moral code, which is strictly not to be violated by anyone.

“I was, called here by Greyworth”

“Greyworth..... by the academy director!?”

Claire became more doubtful in that given situation. Indeed, it’s not something, not to be doubt about.

“I’m not lying. Look, here’s the evidence”

Kimito shruged his shoulders, inside his burned coat’s pocket, he took out a one sheet withered letter. The letter’s writings are from the renowned academy director. Also, 5 big pure spirits appears in a form which symbolize as a rank badge seal pressed down on it.

“Is....that, the country’s obi number one rank badge seal!?”

Claire in her dismay, a shallow voice let out in her lips. A number one rank badge seal is an amnesty badge seal produced through a special method of sealing a spirit. The country’s obi distributed the rank badge seal to those who are worthy to be called inside, by the best highest position; the reply on it is in absolute secrecy and should never tell to anyone.

In a natural manner, fixing her gaze in his groin, the article on it is not some female thing that can contract a spirit, in a glance that’s the genuine thing in his hip.

“.....It seems the real thing. But, why would the academy director call a man here?”

“Well, that Old woman is my guardian Greyworth, I’m really confused about it”

“That.. that Old woman!?”

Just like that, Claire’s face draws closer.

The Twilight Witch – in her town, Greyworth is a spirit soldier which was sighted as a princess miko having an enraged personality. It was said that within the Orudeshia country obi, she was popular having a dance that rival the most powerful dance ever known. One of the twelve elite general which retired from the group of the most powerful spirit elder soldier, It was noted that a dozen of years later, gain a reputation as a legendary witch which was being feared and revered with respect by other.

(The truth is, lately, I’m having a nightmare about that person....)

In that time, when the letter writing has been tucked away. Kamito’s shoulders shrugged.

“With a little fortune from Greyworth, I have came all the way here. but, the academy ground is very large, so I have lost my way”

Areishia Spirit Academy ground is incredibly very vast. After all, the Academy City covers all the mountain range, also, spreading farther more into the Spirit forest owning the whole perimeter of it.

“Then, you were misled dumbfounded by the Spirit Forest, Is that it?”

“.....Yes, that’s it”

Claire puffs into laughter, while Kamito gently nodded.

In the peaceful large ground of the sunny spirit forest exists, the Astral Zero’s "Portal" which connects and threatens this world with stray soul. Mostly of the spirit, has no interest in the humankind, but they harmlessly loves to play pranks by deliberately misleading travelers into the puzzled forest. In any event a person was misled by the spirit into the forest; one should look for the academy road which will guide them out from the wilderness.

“Anyway, I’m really glad that I had met a person, in these difficult and horrible Spirit Forest. from here onward, how should I get in the academy?”

“Hey.....for your own information, I shall tell you, that there’s a two hours of walk from here towards the Academy”

“What, that far!?”

To avoid being misled by the spirit of the forest, one should walk away in such a pattern. The academy students here are females, and they are close in this vicinity, so they have thought a way around it.

(.....hmm? why are these people, bathing in this kind of place?)

From this plain forest, a sudden question arises. Certainly today is a very hot day, to come and take a bath and rest here, incidentally for a male to set foot inside the academy in such places. In any case, this girl is not the only girl in the academy, except that she was the one been put into shame.

Being asked, Claire dug her hands into her wet twin tail hair trying to comb it,

“I was here for the purification ritual for spirit contract. Brushing aside it, the spring water here, has the highest holy quality are there. And do you know that spirits like a woman which has a pure mind and body?”

“Spirit Contract?”

He uttered a word then, a crack in his left hand’s leather gloves, Zukyu – a throbbing pain. Kamito face grimace, from the burning sharp pain.

“Going away from this place, there is an ancient holy sword in a certain historical shrine. Rumors state that there is a fierce and powerful “Spirit Seal” which holds something in that place, since the foundation of the academy. While no one can, a princess miko successfully place it. Likely, a highly powerful spirit can be found there”

Spirit Seal – is a medium that holds the demon spirit from the Astral Zero.

Since ancient times, some of powerful spirit contractor have sealed their spirits inside their arms and equipments. Mostly some of them are the one’s being feared by man that brings forth disaster in ancient society, such as, a demon god, rabbit god and etc.

Of course, it's the human spirit contractor can't deals with. Due, to the huge fear of ancient spirit contractor, they sealed them into the arms and equipment by lamenting them two times.

“You, there’s no way you can manage a sealed spirit?”

“It seems that you are saying something?”

“Stop, it’s too dangerous”

“Hmm, rest assured. It’s not that I’m well accustomed as a spirit contractor, nor I’m not that well aware of the danger of it, but, you know, I really want a strong spirit”

Claire muttered, bitten her tightly close lips.

In a serious facial expression, Kamito involuntarily shuts his own mouth.

“But, you, how about the pear amount of flame spirit sometime ago? That thing quite a powerful spirit, did you not raise that guy properly?”

A Flame Spirit, as the Spirit’s nature which is not that unusual. But, in a certain degree the spirit can be summoned as an <elemental buffs> by a spirit contractor, that is not quite a handful in number inside the country obi. Besides, there’s a limit of quantity of pure spirit errand that a person can holds, it’s not the case that it’s not possible, but – spirit interference can deteriorate the balance of divine energy flow in the body, unless that someone has an innate talent to control it.

“'''Scarlett''' you're an important partner. But-”

“I want power”- and, Claire calmly raised her neck.

“I have only one goal. And that is, to have a strong spirit”

=== Part 3 ===

Fluffily swinging crimson twin tail on her back, Kamito followed her inside the forest. Claire in her leather shoe sandals, while having a hard time walking and expectedly having an accumulated secant of her spirit errand was walking in a light frivolous way.

“Here”

Then, suddenly her well proportion feet stopped walking.

With her hands on her hips, she looked back with a half eye glare towards Kamito.

“Why are you following me? You pervert peeping maniac ”

“I’m lost, and I don’t know the way towards the academy. As I have said several times, I am not a pervert peeping maniac. It’s Kamito, Kamito Kazehaya”

“Fufu, what a weird name. Crake’s origin?”

Crake is a large harmonious country obi in the eastern region. The Orudeshia language and culture, largely differs in terms in the relationship of people with spirits.

“No, It’s not Crake. I was born in a far remote island minority group village”

Kamito intentionally obscure his own statement. Certainly, he was born in an eastern island country, but, larger half of his childhood life was not spent there.

“Your name is quite a rare taste and mine is, Claire Rouge”

“Don’t call my name in a friendly manner. Anyway it’s a strange name”

“Really? But, I consider it a nice name”

“Wha, What are you saying, stu, stupid!”

Claire face blushes, then suddenly change back to her former direction, and briskly walk faster than usual.

Claire Rouge ---- obviously a Pseudonymn.

Most of the students attending the Areishia Spirit Academy, in their young age learned to use the accumulated secant of their spirit, like today’s noble young girl is doing. But, Rouge residence is an unheard family name. For hiding a noble family name, she must have some reason for it, and finding more explanation about it is detrimental.

(.....Anyone, wants to achieved their own inner hidden desire)

Kamito with his eyes glancing in the direction of his decaying left hand inside his leather glove.

Even I -

Claire with her foot movement keeps advancing steadily. Kamito hastily chased the twin tail swaying in her back. Now, losing sight of Claire inside the forest will bring only trouble for him. The dangers of spending one night inside the “Spirit Forest”- is the thing Kamito being aware of.

“Is that dress the academy uniform?”

“Yah”

Claire while walking nods in a coldly manner.

Areishia Spirit Academy Uniform is a robust protective garment that acts as a guard, which undergone spirit’s protection, and sacred in nature which was improve surely enough to last long. The good thing is that a pear amount of spirits acts as a high ceremonial clothes.

“What, are you saying that I don’t harbor value on it?”

“No, it’s not like that. Honestly speaking”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder, and then honestly answer it. Bad mouthing knocking over someone’s – grandfather’s wardrobe, is the overall situation that anyone should avoid.

“Wha, Whatt, What are you saying! I, I’m not an Idiot!”

(Kaatsu) Claire blushes in deep red, while (Pyun-Pyun) waving her whip.

“Uwahh, Calm down!”

“You, you, are you trying to tell me to do a weird thing!”

“''I saying a weird thing?, I am just saying that - *in pain*, I know, I know, because, I’m in disadvantage one on one against your whip!''”

(....phew, it was necessary to tell her a battle strategy, unexpectedly to meet a chaperone princess here)

While dodging the whip which was swing downward in a paper width difference, Kamito sighed in his mind. The holy blade removing any markings on its way inside the forest, creating a gap in the place, then stopped in an arched way. Claire interfere by restraining the extension force with the tip of her fingers, unwinding its circulation in that place in just an ample of time, Kamito expression then calms down.

“From here onwards, it will be really dangerous, so, stay away from me by one meter”

“If you know that it’s dangerous, why not stop?”

“As am I saying, I need to have a strong spirit”

Claire calmly shook his head, when her pair of legs stumbles upon the small shrine.

Disregarding her warnings, Kamito followed her. As for coming about a necessity of battle strategy as his pretext reason, but the truth is, he was just worried about Claire.

After all “Sealed Spirit” are strong and in the same time has a wild nature. They prefer destruction and chaos, the possibility that they would murder that someone who employs them as a spirit would likely to happen.

The frightful hand of humanity can not manage to terminate it --- therefore, they have sealed it.

Sixteen years of age, Claire with such an innate talent of manipulating a spirit, and revered as a deity. However, by any chance, she would release a sealed spirit; she would fail to control it.

Accidentally, the girl encountered the thing we are talking about, but to be overlooked by her.

“Why did you follow me? Do you not understand the situation”

“You sure have the confidence that you will completely tame it”

“Of, Ofcourse!”

“If there’s any problem tell me”

Kamito shrugged his shoulder and, Claire facing him while not paying any attention.

“....Suit Yourself”

Inside the shrine is a dark gloomy misty atmosphere. Mingling in the air inside are tiny fumes of stinking odor, Claire somewhat frowning from disgust.

“......Flame, Bring Light”

Claire from her fingertip, a fire ball immediately starts to glow. The Fire Spirit’s power when summoned gives some basic fundamental spirit magic. The flickering light of the fire ball dimly illuminate the walls of the shrine.

And, from the innermost of the shrine --- It was severed.

“The.....container of the sealed spirit was severed?”

Kamito muttered, while Claire quietly nods.

Stabbed standing in a huge stone with its omitted severed body. A hundred century old seal grade framework severed disconnected in the broken rusty sashimi knife with its wholeness is missing. In its cut off belly, a delicate ancient red inscription dimly radiates palely.

“In this place lies our former beloved, Saint Severian Academy”

“Saint Severian? That was destroyed by Demon King Sulaiman?”

Demon King Sulaiman --- accompanied by his seventy two powerful spirit followers, demolished a major peace agreement which brought chaos in the world, and '''the only man in history that can control a spirit errand'''.

It was said that demon king destroyed the Saint Severian Academy.

“Idiot, there’s no way that’s the real thing”

Claire state being engrossed by it.

“In all the places within the country obi, why is that it is stabbed in this stone. This place used to be a village, I wonder why in a deserted village. Now, there’s no way it’s genuine from that severed thing as our lead, It’s reasonable enough because it’s not always the case where a sealed spirit is a strong one”

“.....Indeed. Certainly, It’s not like there’s no such place exist..”

Claire determined with her blade walks toward to him.

“Hey....”

“You stay back”

Approaching Kamito which hands are being restrained, Claire clenched the hilt of her holy blade.

“Don’t overwork yourself ”

“....Got it”

Kamito barely lightly reached the bag guarding the thing on it. The other person in his side which is reluctantly not motivated about the sealed spirit. In the first time, a mature serious silence atmosphere is between them.

“.....Move, Claire Rouge”

Claire breathing deeply murmured informing her own body. A voice meekly trembles from her. A truly complicated scene it was.

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A spell coming from her cherry colored lips, a yang spirit language, contract ritual. The red lotus filaments dancing in the air, inside the shrine a roaring wind vortex begins to accumulate. 　

Kamito gulps his breath, looking at her female appearance. The spirit whose recognized master is Claire, once exchange each other a contract, within her female body there should be a spirit carved seal engraved. A contract vow is a final seal agreement. In this moment, a gust of wind swept inside the shrine.

“......eh?”

But, Claire is unfazed. She calmly recite her contract vow.

---And, the female clenched the Severian’s holy blade, a blinding light released from it.

(I can’t....believe it, She was exchanging a contract with the sealed spirit!?)

Preventing being swept by the wind, astonished Kamito raised his voice.

Because the holy blade was stabbed in the stone, she was hitting it while releasing a tremendous divine energy. If it was an average spirit errand, she would have already passed out.

“---Three times, I order to wave, wave, I grant thee to plunge!”

And, Claire’s vow reverberates inside the shrine --- in that instant.

Chaaaarge!

“Co, Come out, Come out!”

“.....What, seriously!?”

The blade came out of the stone then brandished it overhead, Claire exclaimed with joy. And then followed by a question mark.

The ancient system engraved in its belly; release a powerful intense brilliant light!

“......ha!?”

Claire involuntarily release from her hand the blade ---

The holy blade thrust into the ground, in that time, the light scattered into pieces.

“Kyaaaaah!”

A short shriek flew, then Claire collapse into the ground.

“Hey, are you okay!”

Kamito quickly run towards Claire.

“Wha, What? Ouch, What is....”

Claire holding her temple trying to get up, quickly stepped back then looked around.

“My, My sealed spirit?”

“No, I....can sense something terrible”

Kamito from the back of his neck, sweats are flowing intensely. A terrified facial expression, with his eyes in the shrine’s ceiling. In that place, '''swinging while floating in the air was the blade'''.

It's not the familiar loose broken blade in that place. But, It was a rough sharpness good quality steel blade.

“Is that.....the sealed spirit’s knife!?”

“Can’t you really not tell that’s a '''spirit sword''', rather it’s not time for that”

“The spirit errand is here, but why can’t it understand me”

“As I can see it can understand. Maybe, in its eyes, that thing just can’t comprehend which of us was his faithful master”

“.....umm, It seems like that”

Claire unusual obediently bows her head.

The floating sword slants pointing its tip in a downward direction, exactly motionless.

Then ---

“.....H, Hide!”

Kamito in that instant, push down Claire in the ground. A buzzing sound of an insect grazed contaminating the ear which can’t go away that far in one’s neighborhood.

“Wai, Waa, Wait, where are you touching me, I will turn you into charcoal!”

It was clearly that Claire’s face is deeply red in her carelessness, while in the other hand, Kamito’s heart is beating faster.

“Idio, Idiot, violent!”

Kamito quickly step aside her body, the spirit sword flew away, taking their attention looking on it with their both eyes.

A clattering sound, a flakes fragment of rocks falls down. The shrine’s ceiling was completely cut open cleanly.

“As expected, that spirit came to loose ---”

Claire scowled half opened eye towards Kamito.

“......umm the spirit, completely run wild”

“You, You’re Noisy. Fro.. From Here Onwards, You Will Be Obedient To Me!”

“YOU....”

Kamito surprised, now in a situation which he can’t even talked back.

The spirit sword releases a chattering noise approaching to them. Inside the shrine, it was moving freely swiftly in the air, without any restriction in its area.

Kamito grabbed Claire’s hand, trying to pull her to stand up. Touching each other soft skin, (Doki) a heart beat, then both of them regrettable turn’s each other face away.

“Hwaah”

“Always has a cute reaction. Let's flee”

“Wha.. whaa. whatt.. Cute.. what me, Kyaa!”

“Let’s run outside!”

Pulling Claire’s hand with his hand, while running towards the direction of the shrine’s exit basking with sunshine.

The spirit sword immediately chased after them. As of now it was not yet completely awakens. But later, the opportunity given by this may cause them not able to run away.

Outside of the shrine, the sword wavering tumble came out in a lightning speed in their front. The spirit sword let out a tremendous roar, the surrounding trees successively certainly knocked down.

“Crazy, What a shrewd Spirit, Let’s go somewhere safe my Princess”

“alwa, always, you’re noisy...”

In this time, an awkward atmosphere is between them, and then suddenly an uncomfortable cough breaks the silence, Claire stands up.

“What a rebellious child.....I will give you some proper training”

Her pair crimson eyes which was burning with a fierce determination, saying it in a way as if she was planting rice to be harvest later. Tearing off her Skirt, then took the leather whip which was coiled in her thigh, hitting it hard in the ground. And the other one looking in a shocked manner over the white underwear, it was Kamito -

“Are you insane!? You’re opponent is a high rank sealed spirit!”

“Easy victory, I’m not lower than an amateur like you”

“Where are you getting all of your confidence?, It’s better to run away”

Being grabbed in the wrist by Kamito’s hand, Claire repulses.

“No, you yourself escape. I will absolutely get this guy”

“You, for what reason --- do you need a strong spirit that badly?”

“.....You will never understand”

Claire in that time averts her eyes.

“I want...a strong spirit, not just a spirit but an unbeatable very strong spirit!”

--- Guardian of Crimson’s blaze, Keeper of the Sleepless furnace!

--- In accordance with the blood contract, under my name I grant thee to hasten and join!

Claire summoned her “Flame Spirit” by singing a summoning ritual. A crimson flame surges and she was engulfed by a hot air surrounding her.

“Here, In accordance with your seal descend, Scarlett!”

In the same time a typical young flame, there appeared – a Scarlet Red Hell Cat. Instead of a fur, it was a blazing scarlet red colored flame, wrapping the beast body.

(Is that the real form of her flame spirit!?)

Indeed, she really blurted out that thing here. To manifested a beast form, is a proof that thing is a high rank spirit. Stating Scarlett as a name with great affection, perhaps it was not really that spirit name, but a name with the same quality.

Claire wields her whip, and the hell cat growl a frightful roar, then rushed towards the sword spirit. A dancing sparks scattered. The atmosphere trembled and the beast roars. The floating spirit sword whistles, and all the trees from their direction was severely cut down.

“Scarlett, in accordance with your seal!”

In response to Claire’s shout, the hell cat jumps. There above in the sky where the spirit sword is flying, the sharp blazing claws swings down. A high pitched shrill sound. An intense sparks sprinkle, and the spirit sword dropped in the ground.

Claire runs at the same time. Without even a single scratch on it. The spirit sword rise and fly in a split second, rolling over drawing an arc in the air.

The flame spirit chased after it, trying not to loose it from its hands. Again a big jump, hindering it from rising higher.

Two times the rage, a spark scattered. Clare strikes hard the ground with her leather whip, attaching it into the spirit sword cornering it. Battling it with her leather whip in a tug of war, in that time she gave a signal to her spirit.

Scarlett fiercely attack, the spirit sword which was held from moving --- back and forth.

“Eat this, burning fire ball!”

Claire in her palm a huge fire ball was released.

Fire Ball – An ultrahigh burning fire which can terribly burn out anything as its target in the face of the earth, it was a high level spirit magic. The spirit magic’s power, determined by the spirit contractor’s own divine spiritual energy and the contracted spirit’s strength as a whole.

The released fire ball solitarily flew into the air, blowing up involving Scarlett. The after effect of the explosion in the area, causing every tree to be burned down, is like a scene from the blazing hell.

(What Power......)

At the same time carried by the winds are small stones, Kamito refusing himself to be wind up.

Sixteen years old girl can’t possible have used such powerful spirit magic.

Inside the swirling fire the hell cat figure shows up. Naturally, the hell cat can’t possibly be harmed by the blazing fire as its nature.

The spirit sword – in any case seemed to be quiet. It does not seem hurt waiting in that place. Regardless, Claire wants to bring down that thing with her high level spirit magic without any hesitation. But, the spirit sword is being cautious by pulling itself in that place.

“Scarlett!”

Claire exclaimed. The flame spirit clawed attacked the spirit sword in that place. Melting the iron steel with its scourging hot claws. In any case that’s your average spirit ones neighbor, it would be instantly eradicated. But, the spirit sword quickly turned around, and splendidly perceived by its steel sword body.

In an instant. A metal rubbing each other, strange sound reverberated in the trembling atmosphere.

“Wh...Why?....”

Kamito suppressed his both ears with his hands.

The sound properly received by Claire which has a distorted facial expression from pain, crouching in that place.

The spirit sword which released the strange sound - in such a manner, changed. Generally, it was the length of the sword, switching into a huge “long sword”.

In a flash.

“What!?”

Claire’s flame spirit unexpectedly strike, a huge swing one attack which was immediately countered attack. The body was severely cut down into two, and the flame wrapping on its body vanished in the empty lot.

In that one mistake, one can realized the strength which was about to lost in this world.

(....Damn, what a mistake. It seems that thing was waiting there to completely awaken.)

A curse from the bottom of her heart, Clare took a glance -

In the empty lot where the flame spirit is dying, the girl with her stunned blank eyes looked up at the same time.

The flame spirit which was attacked decapitated thrown away by the spirit sword, Clare aimed her determined sight on it.

From the huge long sword, a loud sound flew -

“Claire!”

Kamito shouted while running, with no such reason, his own body just moved before he known it.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Diving in front of Clair, the long sword stabbed its blade into his palm. It was not his left hand enclosed by the leather glove – it's his right hand.

(……I, I’m helpless ! )

--- Thy Sealed Old Holy Blade, Oh Noble Spirit!

--- Wave, I as your master yields your contract, Grind as I wave your scabbard along!

A huge amount of sweats is floating, it’s the second time the exchanging of spirit contract ritual was recited. Thrusting deeply into his hands, the tip of the sword breaks the leather surrounding his palm. The red blood gushed intensely from it.

(.....Gwaah, Gah!)

A fierce attack of divine energy, the soil and sands surrounding them are whirling up from the wind pressure. In his consciousness a sharp pain resounded. But, Kamito tried not to lose his consciousness, protecting Clare from his back no matter what happens.

--- Three times, I order to wave!

“.....No way, a Spirit Contract!?”

A surprised sound from Clare’s throat.

A mark from his sinking foot can be seen in the ground. And, the sound of his breaking bones resounds from his knee cap.

--- Wave, I grant thee to plunge!

Withstanding the terrible sharp pain, Kamito finished his last word of the contract ritual.

In that exact moment. The spirit sword’s blade palely radiates.

(What!?)

An intense flash and a roar filled his consciousness.

=== Part 4 ===

As he opened his eyes, Claire Rouge’s face was there. Hanging lower into his face was her twin tailed hair tickling his face.

It was a shout, but, it can’t be heard. A roar which can breaks one’s ear.

(.....It appears, I’m alive)

Weary lying on the ground, Kamito is breathing heavily. Lowering his head, it seems that he can’t believe himself that he had won against the spirit.

Raising his eyebrow, he grimaced from the torment pain from his body, raising his right hand slowly.

In his right hand which was stabbed -

Instead of a wound, a two sword crossing each other emblem was engraved on it.

It was the proof of the spirit contract vow - The spirit carved seal.

(Aah, this is....?)

Staring closely in the carved seal from the back of his hand, Kamito wondered.

A sharp sense of guilt gauged his heart.

Is that mean that female’s contract has been destroyed ---

But, Claire who has a relieved expression, in such situation she had failed.

Claire noticed Kamito who just woke up, with her hands in his nape and her face approaching him. A relieved sighed. With her clear crimson eyes, looking at Kamito. Her cherry colored lips weakly trembled.

“......Why ”

"Why, you’re a male, how can you contract a spirit!”

“......”

Kamito does not answer and slowly rise up. Being ignored, the annoyed Clare raised her eyebrows.

“My, My Sword Spirit!?”

“My bad. Just a moment ago, I had contracted on it”

Kamito sighed and at the same time he has shown to her from the back of his right hand, the spirit carved seal engraved on it.

“Wha, Whaa, Wha, Whaaaat!”

Claire stunned expression with her mouth wide open.

(Well, A natural reaction....)

A long sighed --- Kamito felt a faint ache in his heart. Of course, he could clearly understand such response. In a sense, that only pure maiden are the ones who has the privilege for --- the spirit contract.

The existence of a man which can simultaneously contract a spirit, through out the history, belongs solely to one person. And the one who brings chaos and destruction in the world, the so called Demon King spirit contractor.

The same spirit contract strength as the Demon King, Kamito was grabbed by the terror of his thought which he can’t embrace.

Kamito stands up and quietly turns back.

He does not regret. He had helped the girl, because this is the only way, he could think of.

“Wait, as am I saying Wait!”

Leaving away from that place, in his back a voice addressed him.

Turning around, Claire with her hands in her hips intensely glared to him.

"You stole...my spirit...you have to take responsibility for it!"

“Huh?”

Kamito conceal his frown. ....It does not make sense to him.

In such reaction of Kamito, Claire acting impatient with her twin tailed hair in her shoulder,

“I should have been the one who had obtained that spirit, as am I saying, you have to take responsibility for it”

“Re..sponsibility?”

From the unexpected word, Kamito has become more confused.

....What was the girl saying.

“Therefore....”

Claire wields her whip then she points her index finger toward Kamito.

"You have to become my contracted spirit!"

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume1 Chapter4

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==The Wolf, the Cat and the Knight==

Yare, Yare. I have suffered quite a lot since coming here.

One hour has passed since then. Slowly rubbing the pain away from his
back, Kamito walks in the court yard of the academy.

Although he has not been turned into cinders receiving a hit from that
flame whip; maybe Claire has hold back some of her power, still it
doesn't change the fact that it is quite painful.

Claire must be harshly admonished by Madam Freya in the punish room.

Having eluded those female classmates who has enthusiastic pursued
him, Kamito finally obtains a moment of peace.

Unlike other students, he has no class for the afternoon. After
all, he has entered the school just now and has not registered for the
courses.

Areishiya spirit academy operates on a credit system in which the
students can freely choose their preferred courses so long as they
meets the requirements. Because of enormous diversity of the
contracted spirits of the students, a uniform curriculum will not be
able to fully develop the potential of each himemiko.

"For the time being, I make some preparations for the school life starting
from tomorrow. "

Kamito finally comes to his specially prepared dormitory, a hut
erected on the side of the stable.

Its appearance now looks worse than the time seen from the window, on
top of that, it has the smell of cattle.

The door opens with a squeak. Kamito steps in timidly.

"Hmm, surprisingly, not too bad."

Kamito expressed his impression.

First of all, the bed is clean. Looking from the inside, the room
itself is spacious. Straw bed, table, chair, cabinet and other
furnitures are prepared after all. Cooking utensils are present as
well. Anyhow there won't be much trouble to liver here.

Kamito immediately lie down on the straw bed, although it prickles the
back a bit, the smell of sun dried straws are good for comfortable
sleeps.

"Oh, well, no matter how to look at it, I need to endure it for two months".

Lying still on the bed , Kamito fixes his eyes on the left hand
covered black leather glove.

Two months from now, the spirit blade dance will be held in the
elemental spirit realm Astral Zero.

Before that, he must find four more teammates in order to enter the contest.

It is not clear what Greywhorth will have him to do.

But there is something he must check with his own eyes.

A name that is deeply tied to the fate of himself.

Participating in the contest of the spirit blade dance festival 3
years ago, Unmatchable Blade Dancer.

That accompanying her is a spirit of darkness that takes the form a human girl.

Who on earth are they?

Ren Ashubel shouldn't exist in this world anymore.
Besides Greyworth, only very small number of people are aware of this.

Even though one is just an impostor who gained the title of
unmatchable blade-dancer by fraud, it can't be for this reason that
the witch has made all the trouble to summon him here. Greyworth must
be holding a huge secret.

No matter what, to find out the truth, the only way is to cross blades
directly in the spirit blade dance festival in two months.

"But, in your current state, you won't be able to defeat her. " said
Greyworth.

That most likely to be true. The witch is not lying. But surely she is
not telling the truth either.

In the end, it all come down to "the current state".

But in merely two month, he has to regain what was lost in the past
three years.

"..."

....Guu, suddenly his stomach growls.

Feeling exhausted, Kamito lowers his arm that was raised toward the
roof.

After all, he has not had anything since wondering into the spirit
forest this morning.

However, he decides to endure the the empty stomach.

The reason is that he is out of money. Although there are restaurants
for the students in the academy, the price is surprisingly high. This
has already passed the level of a shool for high class ladies, but a
school for princesses indeed.

What's the point of one cup of soup being as expensive as normal folk's salary?

"It can't be helped. Maybe I'll ask Ellis to show me around in the
academic city tomorrow. "

One should be able to find cheaper and delicious restaurants in the
academy city at the foot of the hill.

With the cooking utensils, he can also just buy the material and cook
it on his own. For the fire all he needs to do is to go the spirit
forest and catch some low level fire spirits.

"Bacon and mushroom pasta sounds really good..."

He gets more hungry by thinking about food.

"should I go to the spirit forest and collect some mushrooms now?"

As he starts to seriously entertain that thought, from somewhere, the
smell of delicious soup flows in.

"....hmm?"

Frowning, Kamito get up from the bed.

It seems the smell is coming in from the gap of half open door.

Twitching his nose to inhale the smell, Kamito opens the door...

In front of him is a bowl of soup that gives off white steams.

Filled with a lot of onions and chicken with bones, the soup looks delicious.

"... am I imagining things, or is this the kindness from heaven for my unending misfortune?"

Drawing a blank because of the hunger, Kamito stretched out his hand
toward the bowl without any suspicion.

Suddenly the bowl is raised up a bit.

He stretched out his hand again.

Once again the bowl is raised.

Then in front of the Kamito is the face of that princess with platinum
blond hair.

Her name should be Rinslet Laurenfrost if he remembered correctly.

Behind her, the girl Carol in maid dresses stands courteously.

"What's the meaning of this?"

Kamito asks with half opened eye.

"Fuu, you must be hungry, right? Kamito Kazehaya?"

"Yeah."

Kamito nods honestly.

"Bark woof, and then swear that you will be my slave, I'll let you
have this bowl of soup."

Rinslet hold the bowl still, and turns her large chest sideways.

"I refuse. Bye Bye."

Bang.

"Ahh, wait, wait a second. Listen to what I say, you insolent. "

Bang! Bang! Door is kicked repeatly .

It will be trouble if she breaks it. Kamito opens the door again.

"What's that? You are going to let me have soup now?"

"Right away if you lick my foot ... Ahh, why are you closing the door again!"

Rinslet quickly sticks her foot in the gap of the door, like a veteran
debt collector.

"Ouch! That hurts!"

It looks painful... What the hell is she here for anyway?

"Are you alright, my lady?"

Worried about Rinslet, the Maid Carol asks.

Kamito has no choice but to open the door, Rinslet glares at him with
tears in her eyes.

"How can you be such an insolent guy after I offered my hands with
kindness to you? "

"No, you... hands with kindness?"

It appears that she was serious. Slowly Kamito's head starts aching.

"Sheesh, all the princesses of this academy are so troublesome. "

Kamito complains inside his mind.

"Ahh"

Having gotten a glimpse of the inside of the hut, the face of Rinslet
starts to twitch.

"Ah, you, why are you living inside a stable?"

"The stable is next door. This is my dormitory. Home is where you make
it."

"..."

"Stop looking at me with such pity. It makes me feel sad."

Her face looks like that she is seriously concerned about it. Kamito's
attitude softs a little bit.

"Rather than living in a condition like this, you should come to my
house. I'll specially hire you as a servant."

"Ahh, my lady, I believe he will look great if we dress him as a
maid. "

Carol shows her support with a big smile. This girl is troublesome as well.

Well, after all, it looks like that Rinslet is genuinly worried about
the circumstances.

"Your sympathy is appreciated, but I don't plan to throw away my
pride." Kamito shakes his head.

Displeased, Rinslet perk up her lips.

"So you don't like to become my servant?"

"That's right. There is no use to try to placate me. "

"So full of yourself, even though you wag your tails at Claire Rouge. "

"When did I wag my tail at that girl?" Kamito grumbles with half open
eye. Well, many people might think the same---

Could it be that this princess try to get close to Kamito mainly out
of her rivalry with Claire?

"Yareyare, such an unexpected annoyance." Kamito let out a heavy sigh.

"I got it. That's fine with me if that's how you wants it." Rinslet
clears her throat, and placed the bowl on the ground.

"hmm?"

"I'll leave the soap here. From the very beginning it was because
Carol cooked too much of it and it will be a shame to waste the left
overs. You should be grateful to my benevolence. "

"Eh?"

(This young lady, by any chance----)

Rinslet turns around elegantly and is about to leave.

"Ahh, Wait, Rinslet!"

Kamito suddenly calls out.

Rinslet winces and stops in her steps.

"Wh-what is that? Suddenly calling other people's first name---"

"I can't be your servant, but we can be friends."

"Eh?"

Rinslet's emerald green eyes open wide.

"Thank you for being worried and coming to see me."

"Wh-wha, you, you insolent. Of, of course that's not true."

Rinslet suddenly blushes and turns her face away.

"Fufu, my lady is so..."

Carol covers her mouth and giggles.

Just at this time -

"Rinslet Laurenfrost!"

A voice that Kamito has gotten familiar with suddenly passes into the his ears.

Claire walk towards here, her red pigtails swaying .

It appears that Madam Freya admonishing session is finally over.

"Don't feed my contract spirits without permission, you thiefing dog."

"You ... whom are you calling a thiefing dog!? "

Here we go again, Kamito lets out a tired sigh.

"What's that? Isn't your family crest a dog? "

"You - Laurenfrost's family crest is a proud White Wolf!"

"White Wolf? Changing it into a Chihuahua fits you better."

"...!"

Provoted by Claire's words---

"Claire Rouge ... you really got my dander up. " Rinslet said with
suppress voice.

In a flash, a fog-like chill hangs around them. The temperature drops
dramatically.

"Wait, you can't be calling your spririt -"

Kamito hastily calls out, but it was too late.

The cold wind swirls. Rinslet's hair flies up, rippling.

"Oh freezing beast with Ice-teeth,
merciless hunter of the forest,
Now is the time to abide the contract of blood,
hasten to my side as commanded!"

As soon as Rinslet finishes enchanting in the spirit language, a gust
of ice storm engulfs all sorrounding.

Amid the roaring and swirling blizzard, a figure appears.

A beautiful wolf, with a coat of silver white hair.

Its body exudes a freezing chill.

"This is ..."

"It is the contract spirit of my lady, Fenrir."
Carol said with a smiles.

The imposing aura that White Wolf carries, is definitely imcomparable
by a low level spirit.

For the ranking of the spirits, the White Wolf is unmistakably higher
than mid-level. To have made contracts with spirits of this level,
this young lady is definitely not your ordinary person.

"Well, your dog is still the same, with its coat color barely
meritable."

Claire shakes her pigtails in disdain.

"You... you called it a dog again, You flat chest! I absolutely will
not forgive your insult to the family of Laurenfrost!"

Covered with the chilling air, the White Wolf roars, and dashed toward
Claire.

"Whom are you calling flat chest! Come, Scarlet!"

Claire lashes at the ground with her whip. A scorching hell cat
immediately appeares from the twirling rising flames.

It appears that Claire has long conjured up her spirit already.

"-Hey you two! No fighting with your spirit here!" Kamito cries out.
The horses in the stables neigh in fear.

"I will not forgive you to put your hand on my slave. I'll end it here
today, you theiveing dog."

"Well, I'll surely steal your servant and make him mine!"

Sparks burst out between the two girls.

If one only listen to these lines, it sounds like two woman in love
fighting over a man.

"The two ladies look like lovers fighting over a man!"

"Carol, you don't have to say that." Kamito looks at the maid standing
next to him with squinted eyes .

"By the way, is really Ok to not stop them?"

"Right. They have always been like this."

"These two girls have always been behaving like this to each other
..."

"Yes, the relation between the two ladies is very good."

"Is this the irony?"

Kamito grumbles with a sigh.

"You have alwaying been an eyesore, Claire Rouge!"

"You are the same, Rinslet! Why do you have to always cause me
trouble!"

Magic ice spirit Fenrir---

Inflammation spirit Scarlet---

Two spirits suddenly jump up in the air and clashed.

Ice and Fire collids, sending storm bursting around.

From the point of view of Kamito, the levels of the two spirit are
almost the same. But it seems that Claire has an advantange in the
skill of mastering the spirits.

However, the flame spirit in her command is apparently quite spent out.

(Because she was beaten up by the sword spirit a few hours ago---)

Receiving such a large amount of damage, she can't possibly have
recovered by taking a short break.

Kamito observes the fighter of the two spirits.

"Eh? What?...... a burning smell?"

Kamito frowns and looks around.

When the sight comes into his eyes, his expression suddenly freezes.

It is Burning.

Kamito's hut is burned fiercely.

The straws that stocked next to his hut have caught the sparks of the
flame spirit and started burning.

"Ah, my home!"

Hearing the cries of Kamito, Claire quickly turns toward here.

"Rinslet! Pause! We got fire!"

"It is no use to distract me ... Huh? It is really burning!"

The hut fire burns more and more violent. Sooner or later the stables
will catch fire too.

"My home---"

"Calm down. Fire of this scale, I'll put it out in no time - Fenrir!"

Rinslet cry out, the white wqolf of magic ice instantly comes back to
her side.

Just as one thinks that the white wolf suddenly disappeared in the
air, in Rinslet's hands a huge <ice Longbow> appears.

"Elemental Waffe(weapon)" the second purified form of the spirit.

"Oh freezing teeth of ice, pierce your target! <freezing arrow>!"

Rinslet pull up an ice arrow and shoot.

The arrows turns into countless ice pieces and pour down, the burning
flame is instantly extinguished.

"Well, with me here it is a piece of cake!"

Rinslet strokes her long platinum blond hair and puffs out her chest
proudly.

"......"

Kamito stands motionlessly with the dumbfound stare.

The hut was smashed into pieces by pouring down ice arrows.

"Kohon", Rinslet lets out a dry cough.

"... Seems that I went a bit too far."

"This is not called a bit. Do you have any control of your power?"

"You ... shut up! From the very beggining it was you who lit it up!"

Ignoring the stunned Kamito, those two engaged in arguments again.

At this time -

"What are you doing!"

The footsets of several people running from the middle court can be heard.

One of them is the ponytail girl in a silver breastplate.

Ellis Fahrengart, the commander of the Knight brigade Sylpheed who is
in charge of upkeeping the discipline of the academy.

Behind her there are two girls in the same dress.

Claire sucks her tongue, and Rinslet also didn't bother to hide her
face of displeasure.

"It is prohibited to fight for private matter in school ... What!?"

Hastily running steps sunddenly stop.

Her eyes widened, looking dazed at pile of rubble that was Kamito's
home.

Black smokes slowly rise from the charred rubble.

"This is ...... What on earth is this?!"

Ellis questions Kamito, her voice charged with fury.

She draws the sword that hangs at her waist, pointing to the throat of
Kamito.

"You, you hate the house that I made! Is that it? Is this your protest?!"

"No ... there is absolutely no such thing! This is because - "

Kamito quickly explained.

"It was this stupid dog who blow it up to dust."

"Before that, this pitiful chest lit it on fire!"

Heard the voices from behind, Alice turned around.

Claire and Rinslet, put their fingers at each other in accusation.

"... That's how it was. It was your work, just like always."

Ellis sighes with an expression that says "I understood".

"Knight commander, your greeting is more enthusiastic that the usual."

"It is the usual greeting, isn't it? Problematic students of the
raven class?" Alice looks sharply at Rinslet.

Soon, the the girls from the Knight brigade who were following Ellis
finally catch up.

A girl with tea colored hair tied in braids, and another girl with
black hair in a tomboy style.

As soon as they see Claire and Rinslet, the two girls put on
expressions like they have biten some bitter worm."

"... Hell cat Claire! And Ice Wolf Rinslet!"

"What did they do again this time, these guys from the lowly raven
class?"

The eyes of the girls plainly float a contemptuous look.

"... What did you say?"

"What did you utter just now?"

Claire and Rinslet glare at the two girls at the same time.

But the girls completely ignor them focus their eyes Kamito.

"Are you that newly transferred male Seirei-Tsukai?"

"Oh, not bad. Very handsome."

The girl with braids looked at Kamito up and down like evaluating his price.

The girl's sight make Kamito to shrink away in discomfort.

"Wait, this guy is my slave spirit that I caught!"

"I tamed Kamito Kazahaya: he is my servant!"

Claire and Rinslet declares arbitrarily of their ownership of Kamito
at the same time.

The knight girl with braids snuffs with disdain, said: "Alas, because
noboday wants to form a team with you, you use your sex appeals to
seduce the transfer student. Such a fitting style for a countryside
noble."

"You dare to call me a countryside noble!"

Rinslet's face suddenly turns livid.

It appears that the girl stepped on the mines should not be stepped on.

"That is it. Laurenfrost family has a only big-name only, it's really
just a country bumpkin."

"You ... you ... you ...!"

"My, My lady. Please calm down -"

"Fu, fufu, fu, ... Carol, I am quite calm. "

Rinslet reveal a bright smile ... although she tries to be lady like,
her face is still quite scary.

Another girl knight turned to Claire, and scorns: "As for Claire
Rouge, although she is a noble, but isn't she the sister of the a
traitor? Really, why did the academy accepts this person for admission---"

At that instant, Claire suddenly lashes at the ground with the whip.

"- shut up. Or I'll make you into charcoal cinders."

Claire snarls with suppressed voice, her voice trembling, her red eyes
quietly burning with anger.

(... Claire is the sister of a traitor?)

God man frowned.

(... what on earth is the meaning of this?)

The two girls feel the sudden change of atmosphere and fall silent.

"You went too far." Ellis chided the two, then turned to Claire.

She clears her throat and said: "In short, I will report this instant
to the knight headquaters. The charge will be to use spirit to start a
small fire and and cause property damage . We'll notice you the
specifics of the punishment in time. Please refrain from such stupid
things again. We are busy, you know?"

"Let's go." Alice says and is about to lead the other two away.

However, from behind comes a voice

"Hold on! Ellis Fahrengart, are you trying to run away?"

"What?"

Ellis stops, turns back to Claire who called out her.

"What did you say just now?"

The calm tone of voice is full of anger. Alice's hand is on the hilt
of the sword at her waist.

"Oh, you heard it? I did not expect the Sylpheed Knights are cowards."

"Claire Rouge, Do you think I'll just let it go if someone insults the Sylpheed knights?"

Alice unsheath her sword. The other two draw their sword at the same
time.

"I'll return that line intact back to you. You may insult me as you
please, but I will not forgive anyone who insults my sister."

Claire strikes the ground with her whip.

"I request a dual, Ellis Fahrengart, with the other two as well."

"Let me join as well, Claire Rouge. It is the Laurenfrost family's
injunction to take revenge at those dare to smear the family name of
Laurenfrost."

Rinslet ruffles her hair, and shows an undaunted smile.

At this point Alice points the tip of her sword toward these two.

"Well, it will stain the name of the Sylpheed Knights if we are
accused of running away. I will accept the request for a duel. I
can't stand the mess of your raven class any longer."

"Hey, isn't it prohibited to fight for private matters? "

At such a precarious intense moment, Kamito instinctively speaks out.

"It is forbidden to fight for private matters within school
ground. Anyway, I have no intention to do it here. "

"What do you mean?"

Ignoring Kamito who is tilting his head, Ellis turns to Claire.

"The time will be 2am tonight, in front of the <door>. I'll leave it
to you to decide the format."

"...One-on-one is too much trouble. How about we fight as teams of three."

"That will do." Alice nods and puts away the sword, then turns around
and leaves.

Claire glares at the back of the knights and cursed viciously:

"Well I will let you regret this, especially that short haired girl.
I'll definitely give her a sound beating!"

"Such a good opportunity. I have disliked the bunch from the Knight
brigade since long ago."

"Rinslet, Try not to be a burden."

"After destroying the hut, now you are on a duel. Please take mercy on
me." Kamito sighs deeply. Then he suddenly he realized.

Battle as a team of three. So, who will be the extra person?

"As it turns out, so -"

Claire place one hand on her waist, and points a fingure at Kamito.

"it is time to show us your strength, my slave spirit! "

"Ahhh... I knew this is how it would be..."

In front of rubble heap that was his former home , Kamito reluctantly
drops his shoulder.

'''<big> end of chapter 4 </big>'''

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