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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter4

2012-05-03T14:47:40Z

Dakkar: /* Part 1 */

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==Cat Fight==


===Part 1===

“Neeveeer, I’ll not accept this!”

It was evening. Claire’s angry voice reverberated throughout the Raven Class dormitory.

“I've already had to concede to her joining the team temporarily due to the guarding mission, but—“

She brushed her red twin-tail hair in irritation.

“Why is this girl in the same room with us?!”

She faced Fianna, who was drinking her cup of black tea in elegant small sips, and thrust her finger toward her.
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Turning away standoffishly, Fianna sighed and muttered.

“What a small room, it doesn’t look like a place where nobles live.”

“Sh…shut up! If you have complaints, why don’t you take it up to the academy director?”

“What I am talking about is how messy the room is. Can’t you catch the sarcasm of the remark?”

“Grh…i…it’s usually properly tidied up!”

Kamito sighed as he was at his wits’ end. These two have already been like this for some time now.

“Hey, Kamito-kun, don’t you think so too?”

“Err, well…”

Casting a glance at Claire who was on the verge of tears, Kamito answered vaguely.


“That reminds me, Ren Ashbell’s true identity—“

“Ahh, it’s certainly messy. Claire should at least clean it up.”

Claire bit her lips with teary eyes.

(…Sorry, Claire. I’m unable to defy this princess.)

Somehow, the girl knew Kamito’s true identity.

Kamito’s intent was to quickly press the question, but, in this situation, Claire would also learn about it.

This princess seemed to have no intention of telling the secret to Claire, but she had been threatening him by leaking that name since a while ago.

Feeling like a cat on hot bricks, Kamito tediously sighed.

While the invisible fireworks scattered, Est was playing with Scarlet with a green foxtail.

It seemed that Claire realized that she was no match for Fianna in the battle of words, and diverted the flow of the argument to Kamito.

“Besides, why should it be my room?!”

“Well, because you’re the only person in the dormitory who occupies the room just by herself.”

“It’s not only me, even not just two of us. Including Est, it’s three people.”

“Aren’t you treating me as your slave spirit? By the dormitory rules, spirits are not counted as roommates.”

“Uh, that’s so, but…”



“Well, with all of us, I guess the room will be cramped, as expected. I’ll leave.”

In the first place, Kamito should have been living in a hut outside.

Moreover, it would be no good if rumors about a guy sleeping in girl’s room were to spread.

“Hey, what are you going to do when you leave? Do you plan on going as far as sleeping outdoors?”

“For the time being, a tent would be sufficient. I’ll manage one way or another.”

Claire grabbed the back of Kamito’s neck as he tried to leave the room.

“What?”

“No.”

“Huh?”

“That’s no good. After all, if you’re gone…”

Claire looked downwards and tightly bit her lips.

“Who will do the cooking and the laundry?!”

“…Err, you do it.”

“No way. After all, the meals you make are delicious…”

It seemed that Claire, who used to live on canned food, had her stomach held captive by Kamito’s home cooking.

“Besides, if you were to leave, wouldn’t that mean you and Est are left all alone together. That’s no good. Rinslet and, like just now, Ellis may come meddling. No, it’s not just Ellis and the others. After all, there are many girls targeting you out of curiosity.”


“If I’m being targeted…me and Est can fend off most of them.”

“I…it’s not what I've been meaning… Stupid.”

Claire released her hold on the back of his neck.

“Y…you are mine after all. I’ll not give you to anyone.”

“…ven if you said that…”

Kamito softly sighed—

“Hey, what do you mean by yours?”

Fianna muttered in soft tone.

“Claire Rouge, what kind of relationship do you have with Kamito-kun?”

“Wh…what kind of relationship… that’s…”

Claire bashfully blushed,

“A…a sl…slave and a master relationship!”

“Wh…what did you say…!”

Fianna looked at Kamito with an astonished look.

“D…don’t tell me, you have such a insane relationship...”

“Wait, don’t utter something that’ll cause misunderstanding!”

“Hm…hmm, besides, what kind of relationship do you have with Kamito? Despite being a freshly admitted student, aren’t you being very intimate?”


In reverse, Claire was the one asking back this time.

When she did, Fianna coughed—

“Me? I’m… his little sister, Kamito’s”

“Eh!”

“…? A sister, I …”

“Hey, listen, the truth is that Ren Ashbell’s true identity—“

“Ye…yes, she is my little sister, my little sister!”

Fianna murmured the magic words and Kamito nodded right away.

“Li…little sister… I see, so you had a little sister.”

Claire stroked her chest for some reason.

“However, I’m his stepsister.”

“Stepsister!?”

“That’s right, furthermore, a naughty stepsister.”

“A nau…naughty stepsister!?”

Claire’s face turned bright red in a split second.

…What on earth was she imagining?

“Here’s a hint, a stepsister can be married to her brother, right, onii-sama ♪“

Suddenly, Fianna tightly pressed her large breasts unto him.


Kamito was spontaneously startled by that duly soft sensation—

“Wh…wh…wh…id…idiot, you brute pervert!”

“Ouch, wait, it’s a misunderstanding, stop—“

For some reason, tears welled up in Claire’s eyes as she hit Kamito with her whip. Pishi! Pishi!

“Hey, what are you doing to Kamito-kun!”

Phishi!—Fianna grabbed Claire’s arm that swung up.

“Uh, wh…what!”

“Kamito-kun isn’t your slave.”

“Yea, that’s right.”

Kamito nodded.

“He is mine.”

“No, I’m not yours either, you know?”

Kamito retorted with half-opened eyes.

(…Good grief, I wonder why such people are all around me.)

“Too bad. Kamito is my slave spirit, after all…??”

“After all?”

As Fianna asked back, Claire’s cheeks slight blushed,

“After all, err… I even…did the spirit contract ceremony with Kamito.”


“…”

Fianna opened her mouth.

She faced Kamito, whose head was made to squeak.

“Hey, is that true? Kamito-kun.”

She had a devilish smile.

“No, that’s…”

Honestly, he was getting embarrassed just by recalling that time.

He turned bright red and cast down his eyes, which was roughly the same reaction Claire's shown.

If it was that embarrassing, then don’t mention it – she thought, but.

After witnessing such reaction from both of them, Fianna calmly muttered.

“I see…you kissed.”

Her tone was certainly calm, but it was the tone that concealed something dreadful.

…She was angry. She was certainly angry.

(No, why is Fianna angry in the first place?)

As Kamito showed a doubtful expression, Fianna quickly stood up –

Faced Claire, who was bashfully turning red and sharply thrust her index finger at her.

“Let’s have a match, Claire Rouge!”

“A match?”


“Yes, a match, where the winner is the one who can love Kamito-kun.”

“No…no way, not such a thing! To begin with, Kamito is originally mine!”

“I’ve been saying that’s not it…”

Kamito tried to cut into their conversation, but the two of them didn't seem to hear him.

“If you win, I’ll leave this room. Then, you can do all the perverted things you'd like with Kamito-kun, just the two of you.”

“I…I…I won’t do such things!”

“Ahh, then, is doing it by yourself more to your liking?”

“Wh…wh…wh…what are…”

Claire turned bright red and the steam vented from her head.

(…She was thoroughly toyed with.)

Claire was extremely weak toward the reprehension in such an area, she was a super innocent ojou-sama.

“Or perhaps, you have no confidence? You just don’t want me to take away Kamito-kun?”

Fianna further provoked Claire, who has finally snapped.

“Guu… A…as you wish! Come forth, scorching hot hellcat!”

She summoned Scarlet and held in her hand an elemental waffe – Flame Tongue.

“Hey, do you plan on destroying the dormitory?! The people from the Sylphid Knights will dash here!”

“It’s alright, because I’ll settle it before they come.”


“That’s completely not alright!”

Claire-san, her eyes were serious. …She was determined.

“Don’t be in such a hurry, Claire Rouge.”

However, Fianna waved her hand with a composed expression.

“What, now that it has come to this, are you pleading for your life?”

“I didn’t say anything about having a match in blade dance. I wonder if trying to settle everything with violence is something proper nobles do. Did all the nutrition that’s supposed to go to your head go to your breasts –“

Fianna looked at Claire’s breasts and smiled.

“— I guess that's not the case.”

“Burn all to nothing, red hot inferno ball!”

“Wait, Claire! Stop the spirit magic!”

Kamito flustered and held her hands to her back as Claire tried to recite fireball.

At their best, they were hovering near the bottom of the inter-school ranking. If they caused any more problems, <Team Scarlet’s> score would drop to the lowest rank.

“Guu…then, what kind of match are we having?!”

“Yea—“

Placing her index finger at her chin, Fianna slowly looked around the room.

—Then, her gaze stopped on a mountain of canned food, piled up in the kitchen.


Kamito overlooked that her eyes were sparkling.

“Then, the first one who satisfies Kamito’s body, wins – how’s that?”

“Sa…satisfies his body…!?”

Claire’s face turned bright red.

“No…no way, not such a thing! After all, I don’t know any skillful methods… that’s not it, su…such a thing is definitely not allowed!”

“I don’t know what kind of misunderstanding you're having, but what I’m talking about is a culinary showdown?”

“Culinary!?”

Claire’s face froze.

It was natural. The first time he met her, she was only eating canned food.

She couldn’t possibly cook something decent.

“No way, I can’t accept such a duel!”

“Ah, offering a meal for a spirit to enjoy itself is the same type of <Kagura> as a blade dance, a skill of a splendid spirit contractor. Isn’t it also among the academy’s core subjects?”

“Th…that’s…”

“Or, are you lacking confidence? …Like that chest of yours.”

She snapped. At that moment, the sound of something snapping was heard.

“I…I get it…”


“Uh?”

“I…I accept it, this culinary match!”

Claire faced Fianna and sharply thrust her finger at her as she accepted the match.

At that moment, the princess expressed an impish smile.

(By the way, Claire, she has seen through the fact that you’re weak in cooking!)

===Part 2===

Just like that, the culinary showdown between the two of them somehow began but—

The two beautiful girls, who put on aprons, were standing next to each other at a side of the kitchen respectively.

It was the common kitchen at the first floor of the Raven Class dormitory. It seemed that as long as one was a boarding student, it was alright to freely use the ingredients available there.

Est the judge had well behaved at the table and was tightly grasping a spoon.

While being nervous about the other meaning of having Scarlet to take care of the leftovers, Kamito paced around the back of the kitchen.

(…Frankly, Claire has no chance of winning.)

He certainly had never eaten Claire’s home cooking but, in any case, she was the ojou-sama, who got through with mostly canned food in her meals since she came to the academy.


“Ehh, canned tuna, mackerel tuna… and I splurge a little and also open the canned crab.”

While humming, Claire arranged the canned food ingredients. Kamito had doubts about approving her combination of canned food but, for now, it looked edible, so Kamito took a breath of relief.

“Fruits are easy to eat after being cut.”

Upon seeing Claire slowly took out the kitchen knife, Kamito interrupted her.

“Are you alright with that? Don’t cut your finger.”

“I’m alright, after all, I was always watching you prepare food.”

“I see…hn, you were always watching?”

“Idi…th…that’s not it, I do not mean something like that!”

“Waah, it’s dangerous, don’t swing the kitchen knife!”

Bun! Kamito splendidly dodged the kitchen knife, which grazed his nose tip.

“Hmm, be…because you said something stupid!”

Claire’s face, up till her ears, was bright red and she quickly turned away.

“Putting that aside, what on earth are you making?”

“Seafood curry, the one that you often make. Because I like that.”

“Eh, you don’t normally use canned tuna and canned mackerel for seafood curry, you know?”

It seemed that she tossed the ingredients into the sauce from what she learned by watching him.


“Sh…shut up… It’s not like there’s a reason to the fishes’ name one by one. It’s the same as not remembering the face of the partner, who you danced with at the ball.”

“…That’s terrible. Do remember that.”

Besides Claire’s character, just her appearance was that of a transcendent beautiful girl. He was without doubt that there would be as many young nobles as the number of stars, who would be hard-pressed by her lovely looks and ask her for a dance.

“…At any rate, Claire, you’re in a dress?”

“What, I was once too the daughter of a Duke family before my lands were seized, so I do at least wear dresses… Or perhaps, is it that I look strange wearing a dress?”

“No, I just thought that you looked good wearing it.”

“…Wh…wh…what are you saying, idiot.”

Kamito spoke his honest thoughts and Claire increasingly turned red and looked downwards.

She slightly raised her head and looked at Kamito with an upward glance—

“Hey, do you re…really… think I look good?”

“Yea, I think that your red hair looks pretty with that pure white dress…. I don’t want to admit but honestly just your looks are prettier than any princess.”

“…!”

“Well, while wearing a dress, your breasts volume is overwhelming lacking though. Using paddings there to make do with it is the only—“


Then, Kamito suddenly shut his mouth.

Gogogogogogogo… The kitchenware were clattering.

…It seemed that he stepped on another unnecessary landmine again.

“Ah…no… I’m sorry.”

“…Th…th…that’s right. Unless I use paddings, I can’t even wear a dress, right?”

“Hey, Clare, why are you holding such a thing? That’s a handy tool you use to peel vegetables, it’s not something you use on people… owaa, wai—“

===Part 3===

“Kuu, I can’t believe that there’s such a way to use a vegetable peeler…”

As Kamito cursed, he turned up at Fianna’s corner this time.

There were numerous scars like cat-scratches on his cheeks.

“Despite being poor at using the cookware, she completely mastered it using it as a weapon.”

At this rate, the day that Claire’s elemental waffe became a peeler from a whip might also be close.

(Turn into bonito flakes…? What a terribly unpleasant future.)

While pressing down on his cheeks, which was suffering prickling pain, he was thinking about such a thing,

“—Hmm, you two are on pretty good terms.”


Raising her face from the chopping board, FIanna said with half-opened eyes.

Somehow, she seemed a little displeased.

“Is that how it looks like? Princess, your eyes are also surprisingly bad.”

“Not everything you see is the truth – That was a saying from a certain senior of mine.”

“That indeed seems like words that a princess maiden of the <Divine Ceremony Institute> would say.”

Kamito shrugged his shoulders and stood beside Fianna.

She was slicing a carrot with a nice tapping rhythm.

Because she was a <Kagura> expert, who pleased spirits, as expected her skill was good.

“You seem full of confidence.”

“Of course. During the time at the <Divine Ceremony Institute>, although there was a ceremony to offer cooked meals to high ranking spirits once a month, all of them were satisfied with my offered meals and returned to Astral Zero.”

“Really? That’s amazing.”

Kamito was honestly in admiration. That seemed to be a great expectation. Naturally, because appearance was more important than taste for the meals offered to spirits, he wondered if it would differ from the cooking humans eat.

“By the way, what was that one bottle you poured into the pot just now?”

“Capsicum. I’m using it as a subtle seasoning.”

“I see, a subtle seasoning.”

A subtle seasoning. The soup in the pot certainly became red and was making the ingredients subtle to see.


However, did subtle seasoning generally have such a meaning?

“…Is that okay?”

“Yea, it has such a vibrant and pretty color, doesn’t it?”

…That somehow invited anxiety but he gave investigating it a miss.

Fianna nodded, seemingly satisfied, and casted her sights onto the chopping board again.

While listening to the rhythmic tapping sound, Kamito gazed at Fianna face profile.

She had black pupils of long slits and virgin-snow-like white skin.

Her black hair, which reached up to her waist, was currently tied up to not let it fall.

Her white nape was mysteriously erotic.

Without thinking, Kamito was charmed by that somewhat mature face profile.

(With just tying her hair up, her impression has greatly changed…?)

Her tied up hair. There was something stuck in Kamito’s mind.

(…This girl, as I thought, have I met her somewhere?)

Despite that it should be the first time they met, the girl somehow knew Kamito’s true identity.

(However, I don’t have any princess acquaintances…)

It was irritating that he seemed to recall something but yet he couldn’t recall anything.

He was staring at Fianna’s face profile in that manner—

“Hey, Kamito-kun? Why have you being visually raping me since just now?”


Fianna turned towards him with a slightly troubled look.

“Ah, no … visually raping!?”

“That is certainly things like turning this fallen princess senseless, or training her like a slave. Kamito-kun, it’s your free-will to make these various perverted delusions but… well, honestly, it doesn’t really feel good to be used as a puberty boy’s delusions.”

“What kind of person do you think I am?”

“Ah, I would like for you to not take a princess maiden, who serves the elemental lords, of the <Divine Ceremony Institute>, lightly. I can read your mind like picking something up.”

After saying that, Fianna drew her face close and gently placed her hand onto Kamito’s forehead.

He was reflexively startled by the sensation of her cold soft skin.

“…Eh? No way, a nude maid, that’s shameful…”
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“What’s shameful is your mind!”

Kamito spontaneously shouted.

Besides, what was a nude maid? Was it a variant of the nude apron? He was a little curious.

At that moment—

“Kamito, it’s about the meat’s grilling adjustment though, is medium good? Or, well-done?”

“Ahh, I prefer medium… owa!”

Upon turning around, before he knew it, Claire was standing there with a smile and a fireball floating.



“Yo…yo…you are the wo…wo…worst, something like nude maid, you’re the worst!”

Gogogogogogogo……!

“Wait, it’s a false accusation – Fianna!?”

He requested for help but Fianna had already left the scene with an impish smile.

“Tu…turn into cinders together with your insolent delusions, you pervert!”

The fireball Claire released blew Kamito away together with the kitchen.

Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter4

2012-05-03T00:36:18Z

Dakkar: /* Part 1 */

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==Cat Fight==


===Part 1===

“Neeveeer, I’ll not accept this!”

It was evening. Claire’s angry voice reverberated throughout the Raven Class dormitory.

“I've already had to concede to her joining the team temporarily due to the guarding mission, but—“

She brushed her red twin-tail hair in irritation.

“Why is this girl in the same room with us?!”

She faced Fianna, who was drinking her cup of black tea in elegant small sips, and thrust her finger toward her.
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Turning away standoffishly, Fianna sighed and muttered.

“What a small room, it doesn’t look like a place where nobles live.”

“Sh…shut up! If you have complaints, why don’t you take it up to the academy director?”

“What I am talking about is how messy the room is. Can’t you catch the sarcasm of the remark?”

“Grh…i…it’s usually properly tidied up!”

Kamito sighed as he was at his wits’ end. These two have already been like this for some time now.

“Hey, Kamito-kun, don’t you think so too?”

“Err, well…”

Casting a glance at Claire who was on the verge of tears, Kamito answered vaguely.


“That reminds me, Ren Ashbell’s true identity—“

“Ahh, it’s certainly messy. Claire should at least clean it up.”

Claire bit her lips with teary eyes.

(…Sorry, Claire. I’m unable to defy this princess.)

Somehow, the girl knew Kamito’s true identity.

Kamito’s intent was to quickly press the question, but, in this situation, Claire would also learn about it.

This princess seemed to have no intention of telling the secret to Claire, but she had been threatening him by leaking that name since a while ago.

Feeling like a cat on hot bricks, Kamito tediously sighed.

While the invisible fireworks scattered, Est was playing with Scarlet like one would play with an ordinary cat.

It seemed that Claire realized that she was no match for Fianna in the battle of words, and diverted the flow of the argument to Kamito.

“Besides, why should it be my room?!”

“Well, because you’re the only person in the dormitory who occupies the room just by herself.”

“It’s not only me, even not just two of us. Including Est, it’s three people.”

“Aren’t you treating me as your slave spirit? By the dormitory rules, spirits are not counted as roommates.”

“Uh, that’s so, but…”



“Well, with all of us, I guess the room will be cramped, as expected. I’ll leave.”

In the first place, Kamito should have been living in a hut outside.

Moreover, it would be no good if rumors about a guy sleeping in girl’s room were to spread.

“Hey, what are you going to do when you leave? Do you plan on going as far as sleeping outdoors?”

“For the time being, a tent would be sufficient. I’ll manage one way or another.”

Claire grabbed the back of Kamito’s neck as he tried to leave the room.

“What?”

“No.”

“Huh?”

“That’s no good. After all, if you’re gone…”

Claire looked downwards and tightly bit her lips.

“Who will do the cooking and the laundry?!”

“…Err, you do it.”

“No way. After all, the meals you make are delicious…”

It seemed that Claire, who used to live on canned food, had her stomach held captive by Kamito’s home cooking.

“Besides, if you were to leave, wouldn’t that mean you and Est are left all alone together. That’s no good. Rinslet and, like just now, Ellis may come meddling. No, it’s not just Ellis and the others. After all, there are many girls targeting you out of curiosity.”


“If I’m being targeted…me and Est can fend off most of them.”

“I…it’s not what I've been meaning… Stupid.”

Claire released her hold on the back of his neck.

“Y…you are mine after all. I’ll not give you to anyone.”

“…ven if you said that…”

Kamito softly sighed—

“Hey, what do you mean by yours?”

Fianna muttered in soft tone.

“Claire Rouge, what kind of relationship do you have with Kamito-kun?”

“Wh…what kind of relationship… that’s…”

Claire bashfully blushed,

“A…a sl…slave and a master relationship!”

“Wh…what did you say…!”

Fianna looked at Kamito with an astonished look.

“D…don’t tell me, you have such a insane relationship...”

“Wait, don’t utter something that’ll cause misunderstanding!”

“Hm…hmm, besides, what kind of relationship do you have with Kamito? Despite being a freshly admitted student, aren’t you being very intimate?”


In reverse, Claire was the one asking back this time.

When she did, Fianna coughed—

“Me? I’m… his little sister, Kamito’s”

“Eh!”

“…? A sister, I …”

“Hey, listen, the truth is that Ren Ashbell’s true identity—“

“Ye…yes, she is my little sister, my little sister!”

Fianna murmured the magic words and Kamito nodded right away.

“Li…little sister… I see, so you had a little sister.”

Claire stroked her chest for some reason.

“However, I’m his stepsister.”

“Stepsister!?”

“That’s right, furthermore, a naughty stepsister.”

“A nau…naughty stepsister!?”

Claire’s face turned bright red in a split second.

…What on earth was she imagining?

“Here’s a hint, a stepsister can be married to her brother, right, onii-sama ♪“

Suddenly, Fianna tightly pressed her large breasts unto him.


Kamito was spontaneously startled by that duly soft sensation—

“Wh…wh…wh…id…idiot, you brute pervert!”

“Ouch, wait, it’s a misunderstanding, stop—“

For some reason, tears welled up in Claire’s eyes as she hit Kamito with her whip. Pishi! Pishi!

“Hey, what are you doing to Kamito-kun!”

Phishi!—Fianna grabbed Claire’s arm that swung up.

“Uh, wh…what!”

“Kamito-kun isn’t your slave.”

“Yea, that’s right.”

Kamito nodded.

“He is mine.”

“No, I’m not yours either, you know?”

Kamito retorted with half-opened eyes.

(…Good grief, I wonder why such people are all around me.)

“Too bad. Kamito is my slave spirit, after all…??”

“After all?”

As Fianna asked back, Claire’s cheeks slight blushed,

“After all, err… I even…did the spirit contract ceremony with Kamito.”


“…”

Fianna opened her mouth.

She faced Kamito, whose head was made to squeak.

“Hey, is that true? Kamito-kun.”

She had a devilish smile.

“No, that’s…”

Honestly, he was getting embarrassed just by recalling that time.

He turned bright red and cast down his eyes, which was roughly the same reaction Claire's shown.

If it was that embarrassing, then don’t mention it – she thought, but.

After witnessing such reaction from both of them, Fianna calmly muttered.

“I see…you kissed.”

Her tone was certainly calm, but it was the tone that concealed something dreadful.

…She was angry. She was certainly angry.

(No, why is Fianna angry in the first place?)

As Kamito showed a doubtful expression, Fianna quickly stood up –

Faced Claire, who was bashfully turning red and sharply thrust her index finger at her.

“Let’s have a match, Claire Rouge!”

“A match?”


“Yes, a match, where the winner is the one who can love Kamito-kun.”

“No…no way, not such a thing! To begin with, Kamito is originally mine!”

“I’ve been saying that’s not it…”

Kamito tried to cut into their conversation, but the two of them didn't seem to hear him.

“If you win, I’ll leave this room. Then, you can do all the perverted things you'd like with Kamito-kun, just the two of you.”

“I…I…I won’t do such things!”

“Ahh, then, is doing it by yourself is more to your liking?”

“Wh…wh…wh…what are…”

Claire turned bright red and the steam vented from her head.

(…She was thoroughly toyed with.)

Claire was extremely weak toward the reprehension in such an area, she was a super innocent ojou-sama.

“Or perhaps, you have no confidence? You just don’t want me to take away Kamito-kun?”

Fianna further provoked Claire, who has finally snapped.

“Guu… A…as you wish! Come forth, scorching hot hellcat!”

She summoned Scarlet and held in her hand an elemental waffe – Flame Tongue.

“Hey, do you plan on destroying the dormitory?! The people from the Sylphid Knights will dash here!”

“It’s alright, because I’ll settle it before they come.”


“That’s completely not alright!”

Claire-san, her eyes were serious. …She was determined.

“Don’t be in such a hurry, Claire Rouge.”

However, Fianna waved her hand with a composed expression.

“What, now that it has come to this, are you pleading for your life?”

“I didn’t say anything about having a match in blade dance. I wonder if trying to settle everything with violence is something proper nobles do. Did all the nutrition that’s supposed to go to your head go to your breasts –“

Fianna looked at Claire’s breasts and smiled.

“— I guess that's not the case.”

“Burn all to nothing, red hot inferno ball!”

“Wait, Claire! Stop the spirit magic!”

Kamito flustered and held back her hands as Claire tried to recite fireball.

At its best, they were hovering near the bottom of the inter-school ranking. If they cause any more problems, <Team Scarlet’s> score will drop to the lowest rank.

“Guu…then, what kind of match are we having?!”

“Yea—“

Placing her index finger at her chin, Fianna slowly looked around the room.

—Then, her gaze has stopped on a mountain of canned food, piled up in the kitchen.


Kamito overlooked that her eyes were sparkling.

“Then, the first one who satisfies Kamito’s body, wins – how’s that?”

“Sa…satisfies his body…!?”

Claire’s face turned bright red.

“No…no way, not such a thing! After all, I don’t know any skillful methods… that’s not it, su…such a thing is definitely not allowed!”

“I don’t know what kind of misunderstanding you're having, but what I’m talking about is a culinary showdown?”

“Culinary!?”

Claire’s face froze.

It was natural. The first time he met her, she was only eating the canned food.

She couldn’t possibly cook something decent.

“No way, I can’t accept such a duel!”

“Ah, offering a meal for a spirit to enjoy itself is the same type of <Kagura> as a blade dance, a skill of a splendid spirit contractor. Isn’t it also among the academy’s core subjects?”

“Th…that’s…”

“Or, are you lacking confidence? …Like that chest of yours.”

She snapped. At that moment, the sound of something snapping was heard.

“I…I get it…”


“Uh?”

“I…I accept it, this culinary match!”

Claire faced Fianna and sharply thrust her finger at her as she accepted the match.

At that moment, the princess expressed an impish smile.

(By the way, Claire, she has seen through the fact that you’re weak in cooking!)

===Part 2===

Just like that, the culinary showdown between the two of them somehow began but—

The two beautiful girls, who put on aprons, were standing next to each other at a side of the kitchen respectively.

It was the common kitchen at the first floor of the Raven Class dormitory. It seemed that as long as one was a boarding student, it was alright to freely use the ingredients available there.

Est the judge had well behaved at the table and was tightly grasping a spoon.

While being nervous about the other meaning of having Scarlet to take care of the leftovers, Kamito paced around the back of the kitchen.

(…Frankly, Claire has no chance of winning.)

He certainly had never eaten Claire’s home cooking but, in any case, she was the ojou-sama, who got through with mostly canned food in her meals since she came to the academy.


“Ehh, canned tuna, mackerel tuna… and I splurge a little and also open the canned crab.”

While humming, Claire arranged the canned food ingredients. Kamito had doubts about approving her combination of canned food but, for now, it looked edible, so Kamito took a breath of relief.

“Fruits are easy to eat after being cut.”

Upon seeing Claire slowly took out the kitchen knife, Kamito interrupted her.

“Are you alright with that? Don’t cut your finger.”

“I’m alright, after all, I was always watching you prepare food.”

“I see…hn, you were always watching?”

“Idi…th…that’s not it, I do not mean something like that!”

“Waah, it’s dangerous, don’t swing the kitchen knife!”

Bun! Kamito splendidly dodged the kitchen knife, which grazed his nose tip.

“Hmm, be…because you said something stupid!”

Claire’s face, up till her ears, was bright red and she quickly turned away.

“Putting that aside, what on earth are you making?”

“Seafood curry, the one that you often make. Because I like that.”

“Eh, you don’t normally use canned tuna and canned mackerel for seafood curry, you know?”

It seemed that she tossed the ingredients into the sauce from what she learned by watching him.


“Sh…shut up… It’s not like there’s a reason to the fishes’ name one by one. It’s the same as not remembering the face of the partner, who you danced with at the ball.”

“…That’s terrible. Do remember that.”

Besides Claire’s character, just her appearance was that of a transcendent beautiful girl. He was without doubt that there would be as many young nobles as the number of stars, who would be hard-pressed by her lovely looks and ask her for a dance.

“…At any rate, Claire, you’re in a dress?”

“What, I was once too the daughter of a Duke family before my lands were seized, so I do at least wear dresses… Or perhaps, is it that I look strange wearing a dress?”

“No, I just thought that you looked good wearing it.”

“…Wh…wh…what are you saying, idiot.”

Kamito spoke his honest thoughts and Claire increasingly turned red and looked downwards.

She slightly raised her head and looked at Kamito with an upward glance—

“Hey, do you re…really… think I look good?”

“Yea, I think that your red hair looks pretty with that pure white dress…. I don’t want to admit but honestly just your looks are prettier than any princess.”

“…!”

“Well, while wearing a dress, your breasts volume is overwhelming lacking though. Using paddings there to make do with it is the only—“


Then, Kamito suddenly shut his mouth.

Gogogogogogogo… The kitchenware were clattering.

…It seemed that he stepped on another unnecessary landmine again.

“Ah…no… I’m sorry.”

“…Th…th…that’s right. Unless I use paddings, I can’t even wear a dress, right?”

“Hey, Clare, why are you holding such a thing? That’s a handy tool you use to peel vegetables, it’s not something you use on humans… owaa, wai—“

Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter3

2012-05-02T04:36:07Z

Dakkar: /* Part 4 */

==Chapter 3: The Lost Queen==

===Part 1===

After that, Kamito, who parted from Claire and the others, headed towards the academy director’s office immediately.

He knocked and opened the door –

“You’re late, for how many seconds do you plan to make this lady wait?”

That was the first thing Greyworth, who was sitting at the office desk, coldly said.

The Dusk Witch – Greyworth Ciel Mais.

Her figure was certainly that of a bewitchingly beautiful woman but she was originally a spirit knight with a long military service, who had her name entered first on the list of Numbers (the twelve knight commanders).

She had wavy ash-blonde hair. Her gray pupils were shining behind her small pair of glasses.

“Sorry, I heard that you have business with me, and no matter what my walking became heavy.”

“Hmm, so now you're able to run your rather cheeky mouth, are you? Where did the obedient pure boy from those days go? Really, this thing called the flow of time is cruel.”

“You’re the only one who doesn't change, Greyworth. Your outward looks as well as your tricky character.”

Kamito loathsomely spitted out.

Greyworth is one of the few people who knew him three years ago.

And she was the perpetrator who called Kamito, who threw away the name Ren Ashbell, to the academy and attempted to make him participate in the blade dance two months later.


She did not tell him the reason for that.

Although, it was often the case that the Dusk Witch worked Kamito hard without telling him anything.

“That’s right, you have certainly changed. Compared to three years ago, you’ve became especially weak. In the practice match a while ago, what was that sorry performance when faced with an opponent of that level? If it was the you from the past, you would have overwhelmingly defeated that one person in under three minutes.”

“You were watching? …As usual your hobbies are bad.”

“In such a sorry state, your participation qualifications for the blade dance are also doubtful. Or, was it a fluke that you defeated that military-use spirit?”

“That time was—“

Kamito slightly mumbled.

It was not that he defeated it with just his own strength.

Kamito, who had a chance meeting with his changed former contracted spirit and was struck with despair, was given the strength to stand once again by that red haired hellcat girl.

(…!)

Suddenly, the sensation of her soft lips was resurrected in his mind.

To shake it off and cleanse the evil thoughts, Kamito shook his head in a fluster.

“I also think that I’m miserable. I can’t even fully use my contracted spirit’s power yet.”

Kamito dropped his eyes onto his right hand, which was engraved with a spirit seal.


“Is it that you still can’t forget your previous woman? How stubborn.”

“Don’t mess around! For me, Restia isn’t like that!”

“On the contrary, getting hotheaded makes it increasingly suspicious. If you like, how about getting a lover or something in this academy? It might even divert a little of the loneliness.”

“Lov—“

“Or, are the girls in the academy too childlike? If that’s the case… I’m also good.”

Greyworth smiled bewitchingly and slightly pushed open her breast area with her fingertips.

He accidentally saw an adult-like black, lacy lingerie in her cleavage.

“D…don’t mess around!”

“It’s a joke. Hmm, with that tone, it seems that you have not yet reached that level. I’ve heard rumors that you are made to wait on a tiny breasted beautiful girl and a nude knee-socks spirit and are indulging in an improper harem cohabitation life.”

“Guu…”

Trying to refute, Kamito was at a loss for words.

…Looking at it objectively, that was the truth and so it was painful to be unable to deny it.

“Greyworth, did you call me just to tell some worthless jokes?”

“That’s right – but, of course, that's not the only thing.”

Greyworth creaked her chair and faced the visitor room at the inner side of the room.

“I have a girl I want to introduce to you – okay, come in”


“Okay.”

From the inner room, came what sounded like a bell being turned over.

The one who opened the door and appeared was –

A girl who wore a black dresslike uniform, different from the academy’s uniform.

It was a beautiful girl, whose beautiful long black hair was impressive, to the extent that he was taken aback.

She had clear black pupils. Without thinking, Kamito was charmed by her neat and clean appearance.

“…Eh?”

The moment his eyes met with hers, she made a puzzled face for some reason.

“Errm, you’re … Kazehaya Kamito-kun?”

While blinking her eyes incessantly, the girl asked.

“Ahh, that’s right, however–“

“But my impression is very…”

…It was somewhat strange, but it seemed the girl received a shock.

(Wh…what’s with this?)

“But, that’s right… he’s a boy after all, and it’s already been three years.”

The girl was muttering to herself in a voice that Kamito could not hear.

After that, she looked at Kamito’s face again.

“Yes, there’s certainly a resemblance, yeah. Besides, this is fine—“


“What’s up, Fianna?”

Greyworth called out, seemingly puzzled.

“Ah, s…sorry! Err, this is the first time I’ve seen a male spirit contractor!”

The girl called Fianna shook her head in a fluster.

“Erm… who is this girl?”

Kamito faced Greyworth and asked.

Then, the girl, for some reason, made a sullen expression and pouted her lips.

“I knew it, you didn’t remember… well, that’s fine though.”

“She is the admitted student who will be entering the same Raven Class as you.”

“Admitted student?”

Ah! Kamito nodded. They were talking about it at the café just a while ago.

(This girl is the one…)

Carol was saying that she was a daughter of noble social status, but, in any case, in this academy the ladies of noble social status were all around him, so he did not feel anything special.

(After that, she said that… her breasts were big.)

Without thinking, he glanced towards the dress-like uniform’s chest area—

(…Indeed, certainly.)

Kamito consented strangely.


“She is the Ordesia Empire’s second princess, her Highness Fianna Ray Ordesia.”

“…Ordesia?”

Kamito frowned for a moment—

“No way…!”

His eyes widened in surprise.

In Areishia Spirit Academy, which was a spirit contractor training organization, many genuine daughters of nobles were enrolled. This was the result of the empire’s royalty and nobles continuing the bloodline of spirit contractors through marriage of convenience that even spanned over several generations.

Naturally, there were also exceptions, but, speaking of spirit contractors, it was normal for them to be daughters of nobles.

Fahrengart, the head of the military family, and Laurenfrost, with a family history.

Its lands were currently seized, but Claire’s Elstein family was also of a noble pedigree.

However, this girl before him was – the second princess of the Ordesia Empire.

She was not even the nobility.

She was what one would call – the real princess.

(Why would the empire’s princess be in the academy?)

Daughters born into the Ordesia royal family should be scheduled to stack up training as a spirit princess candidates, serving the five great elemental lords, at the spirit princess training organization, the 'divine ceremony institute'.

In any case, Kamito kept that question in his chest for now and knelt down on the ground on one knee.


“Please pardon my rudeness, your Highness.”

It was not that he specifically pledged allegiance to the Ordesia Empire, but the bearing to take before the royalty was harshly driven into him by his former contracted spirit.

However, Fianna quietly shook her head.

“That’s alright, we are the same academy students here. Besides, although I’m called the second princess, I’m the Lost Queen, my social status is already gone.”

“The Lost Queen?”

Kamito asked back – then he recalled.

(I see, the empire’s second princess!)

He heard about it from rumors.

(If I remember it, the girl was the spirit princess candidate to serve the fire elemental lord.)

Four years ago, the fire spirit princess – Rubia Elstein’s absconding happened.

The empire fell into chaos for a moment by the wrath of the fire elemental lord, who learned of her treachery.

For the sake of appeasing the fire elemental lord’s anger, the 'divine ceremony institute' tried to support a second spirit princess but –

At that time, the empire’s second princess should have been supported as the successor to Rubia.

However, she never became a spirit princess. At that time, she declared that she stepped down from the spirit princess candidacy for some reason and her existence was erased from the royal family.

The reason that she had rejected to become a spirit princess was not officially announced so far.


Henceforth, the second princess completely disappeared from the center stage.

That Lost Queen meant this girl in front of him?

“It’s just as she says. As long as you pass through this academy’s gates, no matter what social status the princess maidens have, there is no special treatment. Even a princess, a male spirit contractor, or the Calamity Queen’s sister.”

“There you have it, I’m the former princess, but nice to meet you, Kazehaya Kamito-kun.”

Fianna smiled and picked up the sides of her skirt with her fingertips, then bowed elegantly.

“A…Ah, nice to meet you—“

Kamito stood up and his expression froze.

“What’s the matter?”

“No, err…”

While scratching his face, Kamito looked away.

“?”

Fianna tilted her head to the side.

“Kyaa!”

It seemed she realized that what she was holding up was not a ball dress, but a short length uniform skirt.

Her mature black underwear, weaved with laces, was firmly etched into Kamito’s retina.


“Ka…Kamito-kun… pervert.”

The former princess’ face turned red as she embarrassedly muttered.

“I…I’m sorry…”

“You two, don’t flirt and act lovey-dovey in front of my eyes. It’s irritating.”

Greyworth glared at Kamito, with her eyes filled with bloodlust.

“…I’m sorry. And why did you call for me?”

About this witch. It was probably not just to introduce the admitted student.

(To introduce the empire’s princess to me, what is she scheming?)

As if she read Kamito’s emotions, the witch pushed up her glasses, seemingly sullen.

“It’s regrettable, despite purposely preparing a special mission for your sake.”

“A special mission?”

“That’s right. It was just nice that I had a mission I wanted to entrust her with, so I wanted your team to accompany her as her guards.”

===Part 2===

—A quest.

Together with official matches with fellow academy students, it was the system that supported the academy ranking system.


A given mission could set various objectives, from Kagura by a blade dance, the suppression of a rampaging spirit, the excavation and investigation of the sealed spirit, to the subjugation of spirit contractors gone astray.

By completing the missions that were divided into ranks depending on the danger level, the academy students could raise their team rankings just as they do by winning official matches.

“By the way, this mission’s difficulty level is S rank.”

“S rank?”

Without thinking, Kamito enquired back.

An S rank mission was the highest difficulty level mission in the academy's ranking.

The amount of ranking points it could net was extraordinary, but it was a dangerous mission that could even result in death depending on the situation. It should not even be possible to sign up for it with Kamito's current ranking.

“Did you prepare things behind the scenes?”

“Your hearing is bad. I said that I don’t practice special treatment. It just means that the ones suitable for this mission are Fianna and you. If you disagree, then I’ll spread the word around to other teams.”

“…”

It was not a bad deal. On the contrary, looking at Kamito’s current team, it was a godsend.

Till the opening of the blade dance, there already were only two months left. No, the final examination to decide the top three participating teams would take place even earlier.

With their current pace, they could not possibly make it by the means of regular official matches and missions.


Greyworth was somehow bent on making Kamito participate in the blade dance.

Although, forcing in a representative of the empire through the power of the academy director was not possible, as expected.

Therefore, she has got the S rank mission, whose danger level was high, and the completion bonus was also extremely high.

(If we could complete the mission, that would be it – huh?)

He was not pleased to move in accordance to Greyworth’s expectation, but??

If it was a mission to guard an important person, he had the experience of doing such things several times in the past.

Certainly, it was far better than raising the inter-school ranking steadily through the official matches.

“—I understand. Explain the details of the mission.”

“That’s the spirit.”

Kamito prompted and Greyworth smiled.

“Do you know Mine Town Gado?”

“Gado? Well, I roughly know its name. It is the town with the mine that became abandoned a few decades ago.”

Mine Town Gado. It was formerly a town with large spirit ores mining grounds, but, during the second Ranbal war, spirit ores deposits were exhausted, and it became a town with a completely abandoned mine.

It should certainly be a ghost town full of ruins nowadays.

“There have been frequent occurrences of strange earthquakes at that mine recently. I want you to go there and investigate that.”

“Investigate the earthquakes?”

For the academy to bring in an investigation request meant that it was probably not an ordinary earthquake.


It was often the case that the earth attribute spirits that rule over the land caused the earthquakes.

If that was because a spirit was angry or was in a frenzy, it could be appeased by a ceremony of a blade dance. Depending on the situation, there were also cases where a subjugation unit of spirit knights was formed.

As a mission it was relatively typical but—

“Stop joking. Why is an ordinary earthquake investigation an S rank mission?”

He did not think that such level of danger would be involved if it was just an ordinary earth spirit investigation.

Compared to the mission’s risk, the assigned rank seemed too high.

“You’re being distrustful as usual, can’t you trust my good will?”

“Can I trust it? You never lie. However, you also never speak the truth.”

“Hmm…well, it is indeed like that.”

Greyworth smiled and shrugged her shoulders in resignation.

“At that mine, it seems a strategic-class military-use spirit, who was sealed by the old Ordesia Knights, is sleeping there.”

“A strategic-class military-use spirit…!?”

Kamito spontaneously groaned. Fianna beside him also gasped in surprise.

A strategic-class military-use spirit – it could not be compared to the giant spirit that went into frenzy at the Academy Town the other day.

Because of its tremendous strength, it was impossible for an individual to control it. In the end, it could only be controlled by ceremonial Kagura performed by several hundreds of spirit contractors – it was surely a weapon of mass destruction.

At the end of the second Ranbal war, the continental nations signed a treaty, and all the seven bodies should have sealed and disposed off such spirits, but—

“Don’t tell me, the one causing the earthquake is that strategic-class military-use spirit?”

“At the very worst, it’s only a possibility. I want to entrust you guys with this investigation. If your investigation confirms that the seal has come undone —“

“I’ll perform the ceremony of resealing by the 'ceremonial Kagura'.”

Fianna calmly opened her mouth to speak.

“That’s right. For you, who are the former spirit princess candidate, this mission suits you perfectly.”

“…I see, that’s the reason you called for this princess.”

The spirit princesses, who served the five great elemental lords, were the experts in the 'ceremonial Kagura' that appeased spirits.

They did not receive any special martial arts training, and as the result they were not suited for battle, but all forms of ceremony have been driven into their bodies since they were children.

In the entire academy, there was only one former spirit princess academy student– a rare special skill user; the mission could only be accomplish with her, and considering that it had to do with a strategic-class military-use spirit, it might also be appropriate to set it as an S rank mission.

“…”

The terms were not bad. However, there was one more thing that he had to ask.

“…But is Fianna alright with this? With the guard being me.”

If it was just about guarding her, there should have been even more competent spirit contractors.


For example, Ellis Fahrengart. If it was her, whose sense of responsibility was strong and who also had the ability, there would be no shortcomings to her being a guard.

There were no merits for the princess to have Kamito, who was a boy, as her guard. If Greyworth grouped them together as she pleased, ignoring Fianna’s will— he planned to reject this deal.

However, Fianna –

“Of course, I’ll be relying on you, Kamito-kun.”

“Did Greyworth threaten you to group with me?”

“No, after all, I was the one who nominated you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. To travel with the world’s only male spirit contractor, isn’t it great?”

Fianna entwined her fingers with Kamito’s hand and gazed with upturned eyes.

Peering into her clear black pupils, Kamito spontaneously felt shock.

“Hmm, aren’t you popular?”

Greyworth said, seemingly displeased, and handed over a document with the mission’s key points written on it.

“If you intend to take up this mission, then sign here. This should not be a bad deal for you.”

It was not bad, far from that, it was an extraordinary deal for Kamito in the current circumstances.

However—

“I can’t decide this by myself. I have to at least ask Claire too.”


“Hmm, well, that’s alright. But hurry, I’ll have you leave tomorrow.”

“Claire?”

The one who raised her voice was Fianna.

“Ah, my team member, but—“

“Could she happen to be Claire Elstein?”

“…You know her?”

Kamito awkwardly scratched his head.

(That’s right, this girl is… the spirit princess candidate to the fire elemental lord.)

She was the princess maiden who was training at the same 'divine ceremony institute' as the Calamity Queen – Rubia Elstein.

If that was the case, it would not be strange for her to know even Claire, that girl’s sister.

“That person’s sister…”

Fianna’s lips slightly trembled.

She might be having regrets after hearing that the Calamity Queen’s sister was one of the teammates.

“I’m sorry, but Claire is my teammate. I’ll accomplish the mission together with her.”

Kamito informed her—

“Yes, that’s what I wish for as well.”

As Fianna nodded, she muttered in a soft voice.

“I don’t plan on losing to even the sister.”



===Part 3===

As the two of them left the office, Greyworth smiled.

“However, that princess did something bold as well.”

“—you knew, academy director?”

From inside of the Greyworth’s shadow, a lady quickly appeared.

Shadow spirit contractor – Teacher Freya Grandol.

“Is it about her using a spirit ore during the entrance examination? Of course, I noticed it. She did something impious. Doesn’t that stone cost twenty million rood apiece?”

“Then, I presume you are overlooking this unfair entry, right?”

“Princess Fianna was ranked next to that Rubia Elstein as the second spirit princess candidate at the age of thirteen. If she wakes up as a spirit contractor again, isn’t it the best bargain?”

“However, if she tries to lead her academy life using that thing, wouldn’t she be instantly exposed?”

“I think that’s something she also understands. She understands it and yet she became the academy's student. If she does not awaken, that would be the end to it, but if she awakens, it would be a fortune. Therefore, I grouped her with that boy.”

“Academy director, what on earth are you—“

Freya frowned, and at that moment a winged eyeball flew in from the office window.


It was a probe-use spirit, used by Greyworth.

“Hmm, it seems that an uninvited guest has infiltrated the Academy Town.”

“Is it the darkness spirit from the other day?”

“Well, I wonder? I do not know what they are aiming for, but… Freya Grandol, go prepare the order for the Sylphid Knights to strengthen the security.”

===Part 4===

Kamito, who left the office, took Fianna on a tour around the academy building.

She had an elegant light manner of walking. It seemed that a real princess’ way of walking was also polished.

“Fianna, are you wearing the 'divine ceremony institute’s' uniform?”

“Yes, as opposed to the Areishia Spirit Academy, it seems to be a recent design. During the time I was active, it used to be an even more bombastic ceremonial costume. That was cute in a way, but all the girls were definitely yearning for skirts.”

“…Hmm, is that so? It suits you.”

“Ah, even if it’s just a flattery, I am happy.”

As they were talking while walking, Kamito’s tone has greatly declined.

As she was the Ordesia Empire princess and a princess maiden from the 'Divine Ceremony Institute' – he was thinking that there would be an even-harder-to-approach atmosphere, but she was a surprisingly easy girl to talk to.

The two of them, who had such conversation while walking along the corridor, were already basked in the attention of other academy students.

“Hey, take a look. Kazehaya Kamito, again, is going to rape the admitted student!” “The licentious beast’s special demonstration.” “But I might be a little envious.” “Wh…what are you saying!” “B…but if I was gazed at by those sharp eyes…I…I might be unable to defy.” “It’s just for a mere little while only, a little while only, I want to try being played with… don’t you think so?” “Th…that’s true, i…if he were to approach with force… my heart would surely be pounding.” “ No way, after all, he’s the devil king, the devil king that devours any girl he could lay his hands on.” “The devil king…” “The devil king of the night…”

A soft commotion like that could have been heard from the whole corridor.

(…What! The devil king of the night!)

He wanted to retort numerous remarks, but it seemed like it would become really troublesome, so he did not.

He had already gotten used to the girls’ frightened gazes.

However, it was strange, but there also were numerous girls sending him passionate gazes for some reason.

And then, for some reason, there seemed to be ribbon-tied letters and homemade sweets placed in his locker.

…Well, it might be just a prank.

“Hmm, Kamito-kun, you’re quite popular.”

“They’re just teasing me, after all, I’m the only male in this academy.”

“I wonder?”


Mugyu!

“…!?”

Suddenly, he felt a soft sensation at his upper arm.

Fianna pressed her breasts onto Kamito’s arm.

“H…hey, Fianna!?”

“Hn, what’s the matter?”

The princess expressed an impish smile with an upward glance.

The throbbing of his heart would not stop with that proper softness pressed onto his arm.

“No, princess… err, your breasts are hitting…”

“I do not mind. Or—“

Fianna gave a short teasing smile.

“You dislike immodest princesses?”

“…”

From the breast area of the dress-like uniform, her black lingerie was slightly in sight.

…He was troubled, earth-shatteringly troubled.

He felt like the sharpness of the gazes of the girls passing by along the corridor was gradually increasing.

Fianna was enjoyably gazing at Kamito, who has tensed.

“Fufu, it seems like everyone is jealous.”


“That’s definitely not it…”

Kamito sighed deeply,

“By the way, why did princess enroll into this academy?”

Suddenly, he tried to ask something that was on his mind since a while ago.

He did not care for the circumstances that made her throw away her position as a spirit princess candidate. He was just curious as to why she became a student of the academy now, after having once disappeared from the center stage.

“That’s—“

Fianna’s legs suddenly stopped. Kamito also stopped at the same time.

“Uh?”

“If I said — I came to meet Kamito-kun, would you believe me?”

“…?”

As Kamito was a little puzzled,

“No, it can’t be that you came to meet me, haven't we just met, Fianna?”

“…”

Fianna pouted her lips as she was a little sullen hearing such a reply from Kamito.

“…Idiot.”

Fianna muttered and pushed her index finger softly onto Kamito’s lips.

And then, she drew her face closer till her lips barely touched him.


“—Ren Ashbell.”

At that moment, Kamito’s expression froze.

With the unexpected name coming from her mouth – he was at a loss for words.

“…!? H…ow…”

Standing still and dumbfounded, Kamito leaked out a dry voice.

The only people who knew Kamito’s true identity as Ren Ashbell are the contracted spirit Restia and the witch Greyworth – those two people only.

How did this girl…?

“…I knew it, you don’t remember.”

Fianna pouted her lips, seemingly displeased.

Making such a face at this distance made it look as if she were a lover pestering for a kiss.

“It’s alright. I’ll keep it a secret from everyone, I did promise after all.”

“Promised?”

Kamito seemed to have recalled something, at that moment.

“Kamito!”

Claire came running from the other side of the corridor. It seemed that she was searching for Kamito.

“Come on, what in the world were –“

At that point, Claire suddenly stopped.


In the middle of the corridor, she saw the two's posture, which was almost like a couple kissing—

“Y…yo…yo…yo…”

Gogogo… her shoulders began to tremble bit by bit.

Her red hair bristled up like a crimson flame and blazed up tremblingly.

“Yo…yo…you slave… yo…you truly have no discretion…”

Pishii!—The moment her whip made a sound, the hell cat, cladded in red hot flames, appeared from an empty space.

The hell cat transformed into the Flame Tongue form in an instant and settled into Claire’s right hand.

“Th…that’s alright, I’ll thoroughly train you today…”

“Wa…wait, don’t misunderstand, Claire, this girl is –“

“—Claire?”

Fianna reacted to that name Kamito said.

She gently parted her arms from Kamito and glared at Claire with a sharp look.

“I see, you are Claire Rouge.”

“That’s right. So what?”

“You are that person’s sister…”

He felt like invisible fireworks scattered in Fianna’s eyes glaring at Claire.

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter3

2012-05-02T03:41:39Z

Dakkar:

==Chapter 3: The Lost Queen==

===Part 1===

After that, Kamito, who parted from Claire and the others, headed towards the academy director’s office immediately.

He knocked and opened the door –

“You’re late, for how many seconds do you plan to make this lady wait?”

That was the first thing Greyworth, who was sitting at the office desk, coldly said.

The Dusk Witch – Greyworth Ciel Mais.

Her figure was certainly that of a bewitchingly beautiful woman but she was originally a spirit knight with a long military service, who had her name entered first on the list of Numbers (the twelve knight commanders).

She had wavy ash-blonde hair. Her gray pupils were shining behind her small pair of glasses.

“Sorry, I heard that you have business with me, and no matter what my walking became heavy.”

“Hmm, so now you're able to run your rather cheeky mouth, are you? Where did the obedient pure boy from those days go? Really, this thing called the flow of time is cruel.”

“You’re the only one who doesn't change, Greyworth. Your outward looks as well as your tricky character.”

Kamito loathsomely spitted out.

Greyworth is one of the few people who knew him three years ago.

And she was the perpetrator who called Kamito, who threw away the name Ren Ashbell, to the academy and attempted to make him participate in the blade dance two months later.


She did not tell him the reason for that.

Although, it was often the case that the Dusk Witch worked Kamito hard without telling him anything.

“That’s right, you have certainly changed. Compared to three years ago, you’ve became especially weak. In the practice match a while ago, what was that sorry performance when faced with an opponent of that level? If it was the you from the past, you would have overwhelmingly defeated that one person in under three minutes.”

“You were watching? …As usual your hobbies are bad.”

“In such a sorry state, your participation qualifications for the blade dance are also doubtful. Or, was it a fluke that you defeated that military-use spirit?”

“That time was—“

Kamito slightly mumbled.

It was not that he defeated it with just his own strength.

Kamito, who had a chance meeting with his changed former contracted spirit and was struck with despair, was given the strength to stand once again by that red haired hellcat girl.

(…!)

Suddenly, the sensation of her soft lips was resurrected in his mind.

To shake it off and cleanse the evil thoughts, Kamito shook his head in a fluster.

“I also think that I’m miserable. I can’t even fully use my contracted spirit’s power yet.”

Kamito dropped his eyes onto his right hand, which was engraved with a spirit seal.


“Is it that you still can’t forget your previous woman? How stubborn.”

“Don’t mess around! For me, Restia isn’t like that!”

“On the contrary, getting hotheaded makes it increasingly suspicious. If you like, how about getting a lover or something in this academy? It might even divert a little of the loneliness.”

“Lov—“

“Or, are the girls in the academy too childlike? If that’s the case… I’m also good.”

Greyworth smiled bewitchingly and slightly pushed open her breast area with her fingertips.

He accidentally saw an adult-like black, lacy lingerie in her cleavage.

“D…don’t mess around!”

“It’s a joke. Hmm, with that tone, it seems that you have not yet reached that level. I’ve heard rumors that you are made to wait on a tiny breasted beautiful girl and a nude knee-socks spirit and are indulging in an improper harem cohabitation life.”

“Guu…”

Trying to refute, Kamito was at a loss for words.

…Looking at it objectively, that was the truth and so it was painful to be unable to deny it.

“Greyworth, did you call me just to tell some worthless jokes?”

“That’s right – but, of course, that's not the only thing.”

Greyworth creaked her chair and faced the visitor room at the inner side of the room.

“I have a girl I want to introduce to you – okay, come in”


“Okay.”

From the inner room, came what sounded like a bell being turned over.

The one who opened the door and appeared was –

A girl who wore a black dresslike uniform, different from the academy’s uniform.

It was a beautiful girl, whose beautiful long black hair was impressive, to the extent that he was taken aback.

She had clear black pupils. Without thinking, Kamito was charmed by her neat and clean appearance.

“…Eh?”

The moment his eyes met with hers, she made a puzzled face for some reason.

“Errm, you’re … Kazehaya Kamito-kun?”

While blinking her eyes incessantly, the girl asked.

“Ahh, that’s right, however–“

“But my impression is very…”

…It was somewhat strange, but it seemed the girl received a shock.

(Wh…what’s with this?)

“But, that’s right… he’s a boy after all, and it’s already been three years.”

The girl was muttering to herself in a voice that Kamito could not hear.

After that, she looked at Kamito’s face again.

“Yes, there’s certainly a resemblance, yeah. Besides, this is fine—“


“What’s up, Fianna?”

Greyworth called out, seemingly puzzled.

“Ah, s…sorry! Err, this is the first time I’ve seen a male spirit contractor!”

The girl called Fianna shook her head in a fluster.

“Erm… who is this girl?”

Kamito faced Greyworth and asked.

Then, the girl, for some reason, made a sullen expression and pouted her lips.

“I knew it, you didn’t remember… well, that’s fine though.”

“She is the admitted student who will be entering the same Raven Class as you.”

“Admitted student?”

Ah! Kamito nodded. They were talking about it at the café just a while ago.

(This girl is the one…)

Carol was saying that she was a daughter of noble social status, but, in any case, in this academy the ladies of noble social status were all around him, so he did not feel anything special.

(After that, she said that… her breasts were big.)

Without thinking, he glanced towards the dress-like uniform’s chest area—

(…Indeed, certainly.)

Kamito consented strangely.


“She is the Ordesia Empire’s second princess, her Highness Fianna Ray Ordesia.”

“…Ordesia?”

Kamito frowned for a moment—

“No way…!”

His eyes widened in surprise.

In Areishia Spirit Academy, which was a spirit contractor training organization, many genuine daughters of nobles were enrolled. This was the result of the empire’s royalty and nobles continuing the bloodline of spirit contractors through marriage of convenience that even spanned over several generations.

Naturally, there were also exceptions, but, speaking of spirit contractors, it was normal for them to be daughters of nobles.

Fahrengart, the head of the military family, and Laurenfrost, with a family history.

Its lands were currently seized, but Claire’s Elstein family was also of a noble pedigree.

However, this girl before him was – the second princess of the Ordesia Empire.

She was not even the nobility.

She was what one would call – the real princess.

(Why would the empire’s princess be in the academy?)

Daughters born into the Ordesia royal family should be scheduled to stack up training as a spirit princess candidates, serving the five great elemental lords, at the spirit princess training organization, the 'divine ceremony institute'.

In any case, Kamito kept that question in his chest for now and knelt down on the ground on one knee.


“Please pardon my rudeness, your Highness.”

It was not that he specifically pledged allegiance to the Ordesia Empire, but the bearing to take before the royalty was harshly driven into him by his former contracted spirit.

However, Fianna quietly shook her head.

“That’s alright, we are the same academy students here. Besides, although I’m called the second princess, I’m the Lost Queen, my social status is already gone.”

“The Lost Queen?”

Kamito asked back – then he recalled.

(I see, the empire’s second princess!)

He heard about it from rumors.

(If I remember it, the girl was the spirit princess candidate to serve the fire elemental lord.)

Four years ago, the fire spirit princess – Rubia Elstein’s absconding happened.

The empire fell into chaos for a moment by the wrath of the fire elemental lord, who learned of her treachery.

For the sake of appeasing the fire elemental lord’s anger, the 'divine ceremony institute' tried to support a second spirit princess but –

At that time, the empire’s second princess should have been supported as the successor to Rubia.

However, she never became a spirit princess. At that time, she declared that she stepped down from the spirit princess candidacy for some reason and her existence was erased from the royal family.

The reason that she had rejected to become a spirit princess was not officially announced so far.


Henceforth, the second princess completely disappeared from the center stage.

That Lost Queen meant this girl in front of him?

“It’s just as she says. As long as you pass through this academy’s gates, no matter what social status the princess maidens have, there is no special treatment. Even a princess, a male spirit contractor, or the Calamity Queen’s sister.”

“There you have it, I’m the former princess, but nice to meet you, Kazehaya Kamito-kun.”

Fianna smiled and picked up the sides of her skirt with her fingertips, then bowed elegantly.

“A…Ah, nice to meet you—“

Kamito stood up and his expression froze.

“What’s the matter?”

“No, err…”

While scratching his face, Kamito looked away.

“?”

Fianna tilted her head to the side.

“Kyaa!”

It seemed she realized that what she was holding up was not a ball dress, but a short length uniform skirt.

Her mature black underwear, weaved with laces, was firmly etched into Kamito’s retina.


“Ka…Kamito-kun… pervert.”

The former princess’ face turned red as she embarrassedly muttered.

“I…I’m sorry…”

“You two, don’t flirt and act lovey-dovey in front of my eyes. It’s irritating.”

Greyworth glared at Kamito, with her eyes filled with bloodlust.

“…I’m sorry. And why did you call for me?”

About this witch. It was probably not just to introduce the admitted student.

(To introduce the empire’s princess to me, what is she scheming?)

As if she read Kamito’s emotions, the witch pushed up her glasses, seemingly sullen.

“It’s regrettable, despite purposely preparing a special mission for your sake.”

“A special mission?”

“That’s right. It was just nice that I had a mission I wanted to entrust her with, so I wanted your team to accompany her as her guards.”

===Part 2===

—A quest.

Together with official matches with fellow academy students, it was the system that supported the academy ranking system.


A given mission could set various objectives, from Kagura by a blade dance, the suppression of a rampaging spirit, the excavation and investigation of the sealed spirit, to the subjugation of spirit contractors gone astray.

By completing the missions that were divided into ranks depending on the danger level, the academy students could raise their team rankings just as they do by winning official matches.

“By the way, this mission’s difficulty level is S rank.”

“S rank?”

Without thinking, Kamito enquired back.

An S rank mission was the highest difficulty level mission in the academy's ranking.

The amount of ranking points it could net was extraordinary, but it was a dangerous mission that could even result in death depending on the situation. It should not even be possible to sign up for it with Kamito's current ranking.

“Did you prepare things behind the scenes?”

“Your hearing is bad. I said that I don’t practice special treatment. It just means that the ones suitable for this mission are Fianna and you. If you disagree, then I’ll spread the word around to other teams.”

“…”

It was not a bad deal. On the contrary, looking at Kamito’s current team, it was a godsend.

Till the opening of the blade dance, there already were only two months left. No, the final examination to decide the top three participating teams would take place even earlier.

With their current pace, they could not possibly make it by the means of regular official matches and missions.


Greyworth was somehow bent on making Kamito participate in the blade dance.

Although, forcing in a representative of the empire through the power of the academy director was not possible, as expected.

Therefore, she has got the S rank mission, whose danger level was high, and the completion bonus was also extremely high.

(If we could complete the mission, that would be it – huh?)

He was not pleased to move in accordance to Greyworth’s expectation, but??

If it was a mission to guard an important person, he had the experience of doing such things several times in the past.

Certainly, it was far better than raising the inter-school ranking steadily through the official matches.

“—I understand. Explain the details of the mission.”

“That’s the spirit.”

Kamito prompted and Greyworth smiled.

“Do you know Mine Town Gado?”

“Gado? Well, I roughly know its name. It is the town with the mine that became abandoned a few decades ago.”

Mine Town Gado. It was formerly a town with large spirit ores mining grounds, but, during the second Ranbal war, spirit ores deposits were exhausted, and it became a town with a completely abandoned mine.

It should certainly be a ghost town full of ruins nowadays.

“There have been frequent occurrences of strange earthquakes at that mine recently. I want you to go there and investigate that.”

“Investigate the earthquakes?”

For the academy to bring in an investigation request meant that it was probably not an ordinary earthquake.


It was often the case that the earth attribute spirits that rule over the land caused the earthquakes.

If that was because a spirit was angry or was in a frenzy, it could be appeased by a ceremony of a blade dance. Depending on the situation, there were also cases where a subjugation unit of spirit knights was formed.

As a mission it was relatively typical but—

“Stop joking. Why is an ordinary earthquake investigation an S rank mission?”

He did not think that such level of danger would be involved if it was just an ordinary earth spirit investigation.

Compared to the mission’s risk, the assigned rank seemed too high.

“You’re being distrustful as usual, can’t you trust my good will?”

“Can I trust it? You never lie. However, you also never speak the truth.”

“Hmm…well, it is indeed like that.”

Greyworth smiled and shrugged her shoulders in resignation.

“At that mine, it seems a strategic-class military-use spirit, who was sealed by the old Ordesia Knights, is sleeping there.”

“A strategic-class military-use spirit…!?”

Kamito spontaneously groaned. Fianna beside him also gasped in surprise.

A strategic-class military-use spirit – it could not be compared to the giant spirit that went into frenzy at the Academy Town the other day.

Because of its tremendous strength, it was impossible for an individual to control it. In the end, it could only be controlled by ceremonial Kagura performed by several hundreds of spirit contractors – it was surely a weapon of mass destruction.

At the end of the second Ranbal war, the continental nations signed a treaty, and all the seven bodies should have sealed and disposed off such spirits, but—

“Don’t tell me, the one causing the earthquake is that strategic-class military-use spirit?”

“At the very worst, it’s only a possibility. I want to entrust you guys with this investigation. If your investigation confirms that the seal has come undone —“

“I’ll perform the ceremony of resealing by the 'ceremonial Kagura'.”

Fianna calmly opened her mouth to speak.

“That’s right. For you, who are the former spirit princess candidate, this mission suits you perfectly.”

“…I see, that’s the reason you called for this princess.”

The spirit princesses, who served the five great elemental lords, were the experts in the 'ceremonial Kagura' that appeased spirits.

They did not receive any special martial arts training, and as the result they were not suited for battle, but all forms of ceremony have been driven into their bodies since they were children.

In the entire academy, there was only one former spirit princess academy student– a rare special skill user; the mission could only be accomplish with her, and considering that it had to do with a strategic-class military-use spirit, it might also be appropriate to set it as an S rank mission.

“…”

The terms were not bad. However, there was one more thing that he had to ask.

“…But is Fianna alright with this? With the guard being me.”

If it was just about guarding her, there should have been even more competent spirit contractors.


For example, Ellis Fahrengart. If it was her, whose sense of responsibility was strong and who also had the ability, there would be no shortcomings to her being a guard.

There were no merits for the princess to have Kamito, who was a boy, as her guard. If Greyworth grouped them together as she pleased, ignoring Fianna’s will— he planned to reject this deal.

However, Fianna –

“Of course, I’ll be relying on you, Kamito-kun.”

“Did Greyworth threaten you to group with me?”

“No, after all, I was the one who nominated you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. To travel with the world’s only male spirit contractor, isn’t it great?”

Fianna entwined her fingers with Kamito’s hand and gazed with upturned eyes.

Peering into her clear black pupils, Kamito spontaneously felt shock.

“Hmm, aren’t you popular?”

Greyworth said, seemingly displeased, and handed over a document with the mission’s key points written on it.

“If you intend to take up this mission, then sign here. This should not be a bad deal for you.”

It was not bad, far from that, it was an extraordinary deal for Kamito in the current circumstances.

However—

“I can’t decide this by myself. I have to at least ask Claire too.”


“Hmm, well, that’s alright. But hurry, I’ll have you leave tomorrow.”

“Claire?”

The one who raised her voice was Fianna.

“Ah, my team member, but—“

“Could she happen to be Claire Elstein?”

“…You know her?”

Kamito awkwardly scratched his head.

(That’s right, this girl is… the spirit princess candidate to the fire elemental lord.)

She was the princess maiden who was training at the same 'divine ceremony institute' as the Calamity Queen – Rubia Elstein.

If that was the case, it would not be strange for her to know even Claire, that girl’s sister.

“That person’s sister…”

Fianna’s lips slightly trembled.

She might be having regrets after hearing that the Calamity Queen’s sister was one of the teammates.

“I’m sorry, but Claire is my teammate. I’ll accomplish the mission together with her.”

Kamito informed her—

“Yes, that’s what I wish for as well.”

Fianna muttered in a soft voice with a nod.

“I don’t plan on losing to even the sister.”



===Part 3===

As the two of them left the office, Greyworth smiled.

“However, that princess did something bold as well.”

“—you knew, academy director?”

From inside of the Greyworth’s shadow, a lady quickly appeared.

Shadow spirit contractor – Teacher Freya Grandol.

“Is it about her using a spirit ore during the entrance examination? Of course, I noticed it. She did something impious. Doesn’t that stone cost twenty million rood apiece?”

“Then, I presume you are overlooking this unfair entry, right?”

“Princess Fianna was ranked next to that Rubia Elstein as the second spirit princess candidate at the age of thirteen. If she wakes up as a spirit contractor again, isn’t it the best bargain?”

“However, if she tries to lead her academy life using that thing, wouldn’t she be instantly exposed?”

“I think that’s something she also understands. She understands it and yet she became the academy's student. If she does not awaken, that would be the end to it, but if she awakens, it would be a fortune. Therefore, I grouped her with that boy.”

“Academy director, what on earth are you—“

Freya frowned, and at that moment a winged eyeball flew in from the office window.


It was a probe-use spirit, used by Greyworth.

“Hmm, it seems that an uninvited guest has infiltrated the Academy Town.”

“Is it the darkness spirit from the other day?”

“Well, I wonder? I do not know what they are aiming for, but… Freya Grandol, go prepare the order for the Sylphid Knights to strengthen the security.”

===Part 4===

Kamito, who left the office, took Fianna on a tour around the academy building.

She had an elegant light manner of walking. It seemed that a real princess’ way of walking was also polished.

“Fianna, are you wearing the 'divine ceremony institute’s' uniform?”

“Yes, it seems to be recently made, opposing the Areishia Spirit Academy. During the time I was active, it was an even more bombastic ceremonial costume. That in a way was cute but all the girls definitely were yearning for skirts.”

“…Hmm, is that so? It suits you.”

“Ah, even if it’s just flattery, I am happy.”

While they were talking while walking, Kamito’s tone greatly declined

As she was the Ordesia Empire princess and a princess maiden from the 'Divine Ceremony Institute' – he was thinking that there would be an even-harder-to-approach atmosphere but she was a surprisingly easy girl to talk to.

The two of them, who had such a conversation along the corridor, were already basked in the attention of the other academy students.

“Hey, take a look. Kazehaya Kamito, again, is going to rape the admitted student!” “The licentious beast’s special demonstration.” “But I might be a little envious.” “Wh…what are you saying!” “B…but if I was gazed at by those sharp eyes…I…I might be unable to defy.” “It’s just for a mere little while only, a little while only, I want to try being played with… don’t you think so?” “Th…that’s true, i…if he approached with force… my heart will surely be pounding.” “ No way, after all, he’s the devil king, the devil king that devours any girls he could lay his hands on.” “The devil king…” “The devil king of the night…”

Such a soft commotion could be heard from the whole corridor.

(…What! The devil king of the night!)

He wanted to retort various things but it seemed like it would become really troublesome, so he did not.

He had already gotten used to the girls’ frightened gazes.

However, there were also numerous girls strangely sending him passionate gazes for some reason.

And then, for some reason, there seemed to be ribbon-tied letters and homemade sweets placed in his locker.

…Well, it might be just a prank.

“Hmm, Kamito-kun, you’re quite popular.”

“They’re just teasing me, after all, I’m the only male in this academy.”

“I wonder?”


Mugyu!

“…!?”

Suddenly, he felt a soft sensation at his upper arm.

Fianna pressed her breasts onto Kamito’s arm.

“H…hey, Fianna!?”

“Hn, what’s the matter?”

The princess expressed an impish smile with an upward glance.

The throbbing of his heart would not stop to that proper softness that was pressed onto his arm.

“No, princess… err, your breasts are hitting…”

“I do not mind. Or—“

Fianna gave a short teasing smile.

“You dislike an immodest princess?”

“…”

From the breast area of the dress-like uniform, her black lingerie was slightly in sight.

…He was troubled, earth-shatteringly troubled.

He felt like the sharpness of the gazes of the girls passing by the corridor was gradually increasing.

Fianna was enjoyably gazing at Kamito, who was tensed.

“Fufu, it seems like everyone is jealous.”


“That’s definitely not it…”

Kamito sighed deeply,

“By the way, why did princess admit into this academy?”

Suddenly, he tried asking what was on his mind since a while ago.

He did not care what circumstances she was in to throw away her position as a spirit princess candidate. He was just interested in why she became a student of the academy now after having once disappeared from the center stage.

“That’s—“

Fianna’s legs suddenly stopped. Kamito also stopped at the same time.

“Uh?”

“If I said — I came to meet Kamito-kun, would you believe me?”

“…?”

As Kamito was a little puzzled,

“No, it can’t be to come to meet me, didn’t I just meet you, Fianna?”

“…”

Fianna pouted her lips as she was a little sullen to such a reply from Kamito.

“…Idiot.”

Fianna muttered and pushed her index finger softly onto Kamito’s lips.

And then, she drew her face close till her lips barely touched him.


“—Ren Ashbell.”

At that moment, Kamito’s expression froze.

Towards the unexpected name coming from her mouth – he was at a los for words.

“…!? H…ow…”

While dumfound and standing still, Kamito leaked out a dry voice.

The people, who knew Kamito’s true identity as Ren Ashbell, are only the contracted spirit Restia and the witch Greyworth – those two people only.

How did this girl…?

“…I knew it, you don’t remember.”

Fianna pouted her lips, seemingly displeased.

Making such a face at this distance made it as though she was a lover pestering for a kiss.

“It’s alright. I’ll leave it a secret to everyone, I did promise after all.”

“Promise?”

Kamito seemed to have recalled something, at that moment.

“Kamito!”

Claire came running form the other side of the corridor. It seemed that she was searching for Kamito.

“Come on, what in the world were –“

At that point, Claire suddenly stopped.


At the middle off the corridor, she saw the two's posture, which was almost like a couple kissing—

“Y…yo…yo…yo…”

Gogogo… her shoulder began to tremble bit by bit.

Her red hair bristled up, like a crimson flame, and blazed up tremblingly.

“Yo…yo…you slave… yo…you truly have no peculiarity…”

Pishii!—The moment her whip made a sound, the hell cat, cladded in red hot flames, appeared from an empty space.

The hell cat transformed into the Flame Tongue form in an instant and settled into Claire’s right hand.

“Th…that’s alright, I’ll thoroughly train you today…”

“Wa…wait, don’t misunderstand, Claire, this girl is –“

“—Claire?”

Fianna reacted to that name Kamito said.

She gently parted her arms from Kamito and glared at Claire with a sharp look.

“I see, you are Claire Rouge.”

“That’s right. So what?”

“You are that person’s sister…”

He felt like invisible fireworks scattered in Fianna’s eyes glaring at Claire.

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter3

2012-05-02T03:29:07Z

Dakkar:

==Chapter 3: The Lost Queen==

===Part 1===

After that, Kamito, who parted from Claire and the others, headed towards the academy director’s office immediately.

He knocked and opened the door –

“You’re late, for how many seconds do you plan to make this lady wait?”

That was the first thing Greyworth, who was sitting at the office desk, coldly said.

The Dusk Witch – Greyworth Ciel Mais.

Her figure was certainly that of a bewitchingly beautiful woman but she was originally a spirit knight with a long military service, who had her name entered first on the list of Numbers (the twelve knight commanders).

She had wavy ash-blonde hair. Her gray pupils were shining behind her small pair of glasses.

“Sorry, I heard that you have business with me, and no matter what my walking became heavy.”

“Hmm, so now you're able to run your rather cheeky mouth, are you? Where did the obedient pure boy from those days go? Really, this thing called the flow of time is cruel.”

“You’re the only one who doesn't change, Greyworth. Your outward looks as well as your tricky character.”

Kamito loathsomely spitted out.

Greyworth is one of the few people who knew him three years ago.

And she was the perpetrator who called Kamito, who threw away the name Ren Ashbell, to the academy and attempted to make him participate in the blade dance two months later.


She did not tell him the reason for that.

Although, it was often the case that the Dusk Witch worked Kamito hard without telling him anything.

“That’s right, you have certainly changed. Compared to three years ago, you’ve became especially weak. In the practice match a while ago, what was that sorry performance when faced with an opponent of that level? If it was the you from the past, you would have overwhelmingly defeated that one person in under three minutes.”

“You were watching? …As usual your hobbies are bad.”

“In such a sorry state, your participation qualifications for the blade dance are also doubtful. Or, was it a fluke that you defeated that military-use spirit?”

“That time was—“

Kamito slightly mumbled.

It was not that he defeated it with just his own strength.

Kamito, who had a chance meeting with his changed former contracted spirit and was struck with despair, was given the strength to stand once again by that red haired hellcat girl.

(…!)

Suddenly, the sensation of her soft lips was resurrected in his mind.

To shake it off and cleanse the evil thoughts, Kamito shook his head in a fluster.

“I also think that I’m miserable. I can’t even fully use my contracted spirit’s power yet.”

Kamito dropped his eyes onto his right hand, which was engraved with a spirit seal.


“Is it that you still can’t forget your previous woman? How stubborn.”

“Don’t mess around! For me, Restia isn’t like that!”

“On the contrary, getting hotheaded makes it increasingly suspicious. If you like, how about getting a lover or something in this academy? It might even divert a little of the loneliness.”

“Lov—“

“Or, are the girls in the academy too childlike? If that’s the case… I’m also good.”

Greyworth smiled bewitchingly and slightly pushed open her breast area with her fingertips.

He accidentally saw an adult-like black, lacy lingerie in her cleavage.

“D…don’t mess around!”

“It’s a joke. Hmm, with that tone, it seems that you have not yet reached that level. I’ve heard rumors that you are made to wait on a tiny breasted beautiful girl and a nude knee-socks spirit and are indulging in an improper harem cohabitation life.”

“Guu…”

Trying to refute, Kamito was at a loss for words.

…Looking at it objectively, that was the truth and so it was painful to be unable to deny it.

“Greyworth, did you call me just to tell some worthless jokes?”

“That’s right – but, of course, that's not the only thing.”

Greyworth creaked her chair and faced the visitor room at the inner side of the room.

“I have a girl I want to introduce to you – okay, come in”


“Okay.”

From the inner room, came what sounded like a bell being turned over.

The one who opened the door and appeared was –

A girl who wore a black dresslike uniform, different from the academy’s uniform.

It was a beautiful girl, whose beautiful long black hair was impressive, to the extent that he was taken aback.

She had clear black pupils. Without thinking, Kamito was charmed by her neat and clean appearance.

“…Eh?”

The moment his eyes met with hers, she made a puzzled face for some reason.

“Errm, you’re … Kazehaya Kamito-kun?”

While blinking her eyes incessantly, the girl asked.

“Ahh, that’s right, however–“

“But my impression is very…”

…It was somewhat strange, but it seemed the girl received a shock.

(Wh…what’s with this?)

“But, that’s right… he’s a boy after all, and it’s already been three years.”

The girl was muttering to herself in a voice that Kamito could not hear.

After that, she looked at Kamito’s face again.

“Yes, there’s certainly a resemblance, yeah. Besides, this is fine—“


“What’s up, Fianna?”

Greyworth called out, seemingly puzzled.

“Ah, s…sorry! Err, this is the first time I’ve seen a male spirit contractor!”

The girl called Fianna shook her head in a fluster.

“Erm… who is this girl?”

Kamito faced Greyworth and asked.

Then, the girl, for some reason, made a sullen expression and pouted her lips.

“I knew it, you didn’t remember… well, that’s fine though.”

“She is the admitted student who will be entering the same Raven Class as you.”

“Admitted student?”

Ah! Kamito nodded. They were talking about it at the café just a while ago.

(This girl is the one…)

Carol was saying that she was a daughter of noble social status, but, in any case, in this academy the ladies of noble social status were all around him, so he did not feel anything special.

(After that, she said that… her breasts were big.)

Without thinking, he glanced towards the dress-like uniform’s chest area—

(…Indeed, certainly.)

Kamito consented strangely.


“She is the Ordesia Empire’s second princess, her Highness Fianna Ray Ordesia.”

“…Ordesia?”

Kamito frowned for a moment—

“No way…!”

His eyes widened in surprise.

In Areishia Spirit Academy, which was a spirit contractor training organization, many genuine daughters of nobles were enrolled. This was the result of the empire’s royalty and nobles continuing the bloodline of spirit contractors through marriage of convenience that even spanned over several generations.

Naturally, there were also exceptions, but, speaking of spirit contractors, it was normal for them to be daughters of nobles.

Fahrengart, the head of the military family, and Laurenfrost, with a family history.

Its lands were currently seized, but Claire’s Elstein family was also of a noble pedigree.

However, this girl before him was – the second princess of the Ordesia Empire.

She was not even the nobility.

She was what one would call – the real princess.

(Why would the empire’s princess be in the academy?)

Daughters born into the Ordesia royal family should be scheduled to stack up training as a spirit princess candidates, serving the five great elemental lords, at the spirit princess training organization, the 'divine ceremony institute'.

In any case, Kamito kept that question in his chest for now and knelt down on the ground on one knee.


“Please pardon my rudeness, your Highness.”

It was not that he specifically pledged allegiance to the Ordesia Empire, but the bearing to take before the royalty was harshly driven into him by his former contracted spirit.

However, Fianna quietly shook her head.

“That’s alright, we are the same academy students here. Besides, although I’m called the second princess, I’m the Lost Queen, my social status is already gone.”

“The Lost Queen?”

Kamito asked back – then he recalled.

(I see, the empire’s second princess!)

He heard about it from rumors.

(If I remember it, the girl was the spirit princess candidate to serve the fire elemental lord.)

Four years ago, the fire spirit princess – Rubia Elstein’s absconding happened.

The empire fell into chaos for a moment by the wrath of the fire elemental lord, who learned of her treachery.

For the sake of appeasing the fire elemental lord’s anger, the 'divine ceremony institute' tried to support a second spirit princess but –

At that time, the empire’s second princess should have been supported as the successor to Rubia.

However, she never became a spirit princess. At that time, she declared that she stepped down from the spirit princess candidacy for some reason and her existence was erased from the royal family.

The reason that she had rejected to become a spirit princess was not officially announced so far.


Henceforth, the second princess completely disappeared from the center stage.

That Lost Queen meant this girl in front of him?

“It’s just as she says. As long as you pass through this academy’s gates, no matter what social status the princess maidens have, there is no special treatment. Even a princess, a male spirit contractor, or the Calamity Queen’s sister.”

“There you have it, I’m the former princess, but nice to meet you, Kazehaya Kamito-kun.”

Fianna smiled and picked up the sides of her skirt with her fingertips, then bowed elegantly.

“A…Ah, nice to meet you—“

Kamito stood up and his expression froze.

“What’s the matter?”

“No, err…”

While scratching his face, Kamito looked away.

“?”

Fianna tilted her head to the side.

“Kyaa!”

It seemed she realized that what she was holding up was not a ball dress, but a short length uniform skirt.

Her mature black underwear, weaved with laces, was firmly etched into Kamito’s retina.


“Ka…Kamito-kun… pervert.”

The former princess’ face turned red as she embarrassedly muttered.

“I…I’m sorry…”

“You two, don’t flirt and act lovey-dovey in front of my eyes. It’s irritating.”

Greyworth glared at Kamito, with her eyes filled with bloodlust.

“…I’m sorry. And why did you call for me?”

About this witch. It was probably not just to introduce the admitted student.

(To introduce the empire’s princess to me, what is she scheming?)

As if she read Kamito’s emotions, the witch pushed up her glasses, seemingly sullen.

“It’s regrettable, despite purposely preparing a special mission for your sake.”

“A special mission?”

“That’s right. It was just nice that I had a mission I wanted to entrust her with, so I wanted your team to accompany her as her guards.”

===Part 2===

—A quest.

Together with official matches with fellow academy students, it was the system that supported the academy ranking system.


A given mission could set various objectives, from Kagura by a blade dance, the suppression of a rampaging spirit, the excavation and investigation of the sealed spirit, to the subjugation of spirit contractors gone astray.

By completing the missions that were divided into ranks depending on the danger level, the academy students could raise their team rankings just as they do by winning official matches.

“By the way, this mission’s difficulty level is S rank.”

“S rank?”

Without thinking, Kamito enquired back.

An S rank mission was the highest difficulty level mission in the academy's ranking.

The amount of ranking points it could net was extraordinary, but it was a dangerous mission that could even result in death depending on the situation. It should not even be possible to sign up for it with Kamito's current ranking.

“Did you prepare things behind the scenes?”

“Your hearing is bad. I said that I don’t practice special treatment. It just means that the ones suitable for this mission are Fianna and you. If you disagree, then I’ll spread the word around to other teams.”

“…”

It was not a bad deal. On the contrary, looking at Kamito’s current team, it was a godsend.

Till the opening of the blade dance, there already were only two months left. No, the final examination to decide the top three participating teams would take place even earlier.

With their current pace, they could not possibly make it by the means of regular official matches and missions.


Greyworth was somehow bent on making Kamito participate in the blade dance.

Although, forcing in a representative of the empire through the power of the academy director was not possible, as expected.

Therefore, she has got the S rank mission, whose danger level was high, and the completion bonus was also extremely high.

(If we could complete the mission, that would be it – huh?)

He was not pleased to move in accordance to Greyworth’s expectation, but??

If it was a mission to guard an important person, he had the experience of doing such things several times in the past.

Certainly, it was far better than raising the inter-school ranking steadily through the official matches.

“—I understand. Explain the details of the mission.”

“That’s the spirit.”

Kamito prompted and Greyworth smiled.

“Do you know Mine Town Gado?”

“Gado? Well, I roughly know its name. It is the town with the mine that became abandoned a few decades ago.”

Mine Town Gado. It was formerly a town with large spirit ores mining grounds, but, during the second Ranbal war, spirit ores deposits were exhausted, and it became a town with a completely abandoned mine.

It should certainly be a ghost town full of ruins nowadays.

“There have been frequent occurrences of strange earthquakes at that mine recently. I want you to go there and investigate that.”

“Investigate the earthquakes?”

For the academy to bring in an investigation request meant that it was probably not an ordinary earthquake.


It was often the case that the earth attribute spirits that rule over the land caused the earthquakes.

If that was because a spirit was angry or was in a frenzy, it could be appeased by a ceremony of a blade dance. Depending on the situation, there were also cases where a subjugation unit of spirit knights was formed.

As a mission it was relatively typical but—

“Stop joking. Why is an ordinary earthquake investigation an S rank mission?”

He did not think that such level of danger would be involved if it was just an ordinary earth spirit investigation.

Compared to the mission’s risk, the assigned rank seemed too high.

“You’re being distrustful as usual, can’t you trust my good will?”

“Can I trust it? You never lie. However, you also never speak the truth.”

“Hmm…well, it is indeed like that.”

Greyworth smiled and shrugged her shoulders in resignation.

“At that mine, it seems a strategic-class military-use spirit, who was sealed by the old Ordesia Knights, is sleeping there.”

“A strategic-class military-use spirit…!?”

Kamito spontaneously groaned. Fianna beside him also gasped in surprise.

A strategic-class military-use spirit – it could not be compared to the giant spirit that went into frenzy at the Academy Town the other day.

Because of its tremendous strength, it was impossible for an individual to control it. In the end, it could only be controlled by ceremonial Kagura performed by several hundreds of spirit contractors – it was surely a weapon of mass destruction.

At the end of the second Ranbal war, the continental nations signed a treaty, and all the seven bodies should have sealed and disposed off such spirits, but—

“Don’t tell me, the one causing the earthquake is that strategic-class military-use spirit?”

“At the very worst, it’s only a possibility. I want to entrust you guys with this investigation. If your investigation confirms that the seal has come undone —“

“I’ll perform the ceremony of resealing by the 'ceremonial Kagura'.”

Fianna calmly opened her mouth to speak.

“That’s right. For you, who are the former spirit princess candidate, this mission suits you perfectly.”

“…I see, that’s the reason you called for this princess.”

The spirit princesses, who served the five great elemental lords, were the experts in the 'ceremonial Kagura' that appeased spirits.

They did not receive any special martial arts training, and as the result they were not suited for battle, but all forms of ceremony have been driven into their bodies since they were children.

In the entire academy, there was only one former spirit princess academy student– a rare special skill user; the mission could only be accomplish with her, and considering that it had to do with a strategic-class military-use spirit, it might also be appropriate to set it as an S rank mission.

“…”

The terms were not bad. However, there was one more thing that he had to ask.

“…But is Fianna alright with this? With the guard being me.”

If it was just about guarding her, there should have been even more competent spirit contractors.


For example, Ellis Fahrengart. If it was her, whose sense of responsibility was strong and who also had the ability, there would be no shortcomings to her being a guard.

There were no merits for the princess to have Kamito, who was a boy, as her guard. If Greyworth grouped them together as she pleased, ignoring Fianna’s will— he planned to reject this deal.

However, Fianna –

“Of course, I’ll be relying on you, Kamito-kun.”

“Did Greyworth threaten you to group with me?”

“No, after all, I was the one who nominated you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. To travel with the world’s only male spirit contractor, isn’t it great?”

Fianna entwined her fingers with Kamito’s hand and gazed with upturned eyes.

Peering into her clear black pupils, Kamito spontaneously felt shock.

“Hmm, aren’t you popular?”

Greyworth said, seemingly displeased, and handed over a document with the mission’s key points written on it.

“If you intend to take up this mission, then sign here. This should not be a bad deal for you.”

It was not bad, far from that, it was an extraordinary deal for Kamito in the current circumstances.

However—

“I can’t decide this by myself. I have to at least ask Claire too.”


“Hmm, well, that’s alright. But hurry, I’ll have you leave tomorrow.”

“Claire?”

The one who raised her voice was Fianna.

“Ah, my team member, but—“

“Could she happen to be Claire Elstein?”

“…You know her?”

Kamito awkwardly scratched his head.

(That’s right, this girl is… the spirit princess candidate to the fire elemental lord.)

She was the princess maiden who was training at the same 'divine ceremony institute' as the Calamity Queen – Rubia Elstein.

If that was the case, it would not be strange for her to know even Claire, that girl’s sister.

“That person’s sister…”

Fianna’s lips slightly trembled.

She might be having regrets after hearing that the Calamity Queen’s sister was one of the teammates.

“I’m sorry, but Claire is my teammate. I’ll accomplish the mission together with her.”

Kamito informed her—

“Yes, that’s what I wish for as well.”

Fianna muttered in a soft voice with a nod.

“I don’t plan on losing to even the sister.”



===Part 3===

As the two of them left the office, Greyworth smiled.

“However, that princess also did something bold.”

“—you knew, academy director?”

From the inside of Greyworth’s shadow, a lady quickly appeared.

Shadow spirit contractor – Teacher Freya Grandol.

“Is it about her using a spirit ore during the entrance examination? Of course, I noticed it. She did something impious. Doesn’t that stone cost twenty million rood apiece?”

“Then, I presume you are overlooking this unfair entry, right?”

“Princess Fianna was ranked next to that Rubia Elstein as the second spirit princess candidate at thirteen years-old. If she wakes up again as a spirit contractor, isn’t it the best bargain?”

“However, if she leads an academy life with that thing, wouldn’t she be instantly exposed?”

“I think that’s something she also understands. She understands it and yet she became the academy's student. If she does not awaken, that’s all to it but if she awakens, it is a fortune. Therefore, I grouped her with that boy.”

“Academy director, what on earth are you—“

Freya frowned and at that moment, a winged eyeball flew in from the office window.


It was a probe-use spirit, used by Greyworth.

“Hmm, it seems that an uninvited guest has infiltrated Academy Town.”

“Is it the darkness spirit from the other day?”

“Well, I wonder? I do not know what they are aiming for but… Freya Grandol, you go prepare the order for the Sylphid Knights to strengthen the security.”

===Part 4===

Kamito, who left the office, took Fianna on a tour around the academy building.

She had an elegant light manner of walking. It seemed that a real princess’ way of walking was also polished.

“Fianna, are you wearing the 'divine ceremony institute’s' uniform?”

“Yes, it seems to be recently made, opposing the Areishia Spirit Academy. During the time I was active, it was an even more bombastic ceremonial costume. That in a way was cute but all the girls definitely were yearning for skirts.”

“…Hmm, is that so? It suits you.”

“Ah, even if it’s just flattery, I am happy.”

While they were talking while walking, Kamito’s tone greatly declined

As she was the Ordesia Empire princess and a princess maiden from the 'Divine Ceremony Institute' – he was thinking that there would be an even-harder-to-approach atmosphere but she was a surprisingly easy girl to talk to.

The two of them, who had such a conversation along the corridor, were already basked in the attention of the other academy students.

“Hey, take a look. Kazehaya Kamito, again, is going to rape the admitted student!” “The licentious beast’s special demonstration.” “But I might be a little envious.” “Wh…what are you saying!” “B…but if I was gazed at by those sharp eyes…I…I might be unable to defy.” “It’s just for a mere little while only, a little while only, I want to try being played with… don’t you think so?” “Th…that’s true, i…if he approached with force… my heart will surely be pounding.” “ No way, after all, he’s the devil king, the devil king that devours any girls he could lay his hands on.” “The devil king…” “The devil king of the night…”

Such a soft commotion could be heard from the whole corridor.

(…What! The devil king of the night!)

He wanted to retort various things but it seemed like it would become really troublesome, so he did not.

He had already gotten used to the girls’ frightened gazes.

However, there were also numerous girls strangely sending him passionate gazes for some reason.

And then, for some reason, there seemed to be ribbon-tied letters and homemade sweets placed in his locker.

…Well, it might be just a prank.

“Hmm, Kamito-kun, you’re quite popular.”

“They’re just teasing me, after all, I’m the only male in this academy.”

“I wonder?”


Mugyu!

“…!?”

Suddenly, he felt a soft sensation at his upper arm.

Fianna pressed her breasts onto Kamito’s arm.

“H…hey, Fianna!?”

“Hn, what’s the matter?”

The princess expressed an impish smile with an upward glance.

The throbbing of his heart would not stop to that proper softness that was pressed onto his arm.

“No, princess… err, your breasts are hitting…”

“I do not mind. Or—“

Fianna gave a short teasing smile.

“You dislike an immodest princess?”

“…”

From the breast area of the dress-like uniform, her black lingerie was slightly in sight.

…He was troubled, earth-shatteringly troubled.

He felt like the sharpness of the gazes of the girls passing by the corridor was gradually increasing.

Fianna was enjoyably gazing at Kamito, who was tensed.

“Fufu, it seems like everyone is jealous.”


“That’s definitely not it…”

Kamito sighed deeply,

“By the way, why did princess admit into this academy?”

Suddenly, he tried asking what was on his mind since a while ago.

He did not care what circumstances she was in to throw away her position as a spirit princess candidate. He was just interested in why she became a student of the academy now after having once disappeared from the center stage.

“That’s—“

Fianna’s legs suddenly stopped. Kamito also stopped at the same time.

“Uh?”

“If I said — I came to meet Kamito-kun, would you believe me?”

“…?”

As Kamito was a little puzzled,

“No, it can’t be to come to meet me, didn’t I just meet you, Fianna?”

“…”

Fianna pouted her lips as she was a little sullen to such a reply from Kamito.

“…Idiot.”

Fianna muttered and pushed her index finger softly onto Kamito’s lips.

And then, she drew her face close till her lips barely touched him.


“—Ren Ashbell.”

At that moment, Kamito’s expression froze.

Towards the unexpected name coming from her mouth – he was at a los for words.

“…!? H…ow…”

While dumfound and standing still, Kamito leaked out a dry voice.

The people, who knew Kamito’s true identity as Ren Ashbell, are only the contracted spirit Restia and the witch Greyworth – those two people only.

How did this girl…?

“…I knew it, you don’t remember.”

Fianna pouted her lips, seemingly displeased.

Making such a face at this distance made it as though she was a lover pestering for a kiss.

“It’s alright. I’ll leave it a secret to everyone, I did promise after all.”

“Promise?”

Kamito seemed to have recalled something, at that moment.

“Kamito!”

Claire came running form the other side of the corridor. It seemed that she was searching for Kamito.

“Come on, what in the world were –“

At that point, Claire suddenly stopped.


At the middle off the corridor, she saw the two's posture, which was almost like a couple kissing—

“Y…yo…yo…yo…”

Gogogo… her shoulder began to tremble bit by bit.

Her red hair bristled up, like a crimson flame, and blazed up tremblingly.

“Yo…yo…you slave… yo…you truly have no peculiarity…”

Pishii!—The moment her whip made a sound, the hell cat, cladded in red hot flames, appeared from an empty space.

The hell cat transformed into the Flame Tongue form in an instant and settled into Claire’s right hand.

“Th…that’s alright, I’ll thoroughly train you today…”

“Wa…wait, don’t misunderstand, Claire, this girl is –“

“—Claire?”

Fianna reacted to that name Kamito said.

She gently parted her arms from Kamito and glared at Claire with a sharp look.

“I see, you are Claire Rouge.”

“That’s right. So what?”

“You are that person’s sister…”

He felt like invisible fireworks scattered in Fianna’s eyes glaring at Claire.

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Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter3

2012-05-02T02:12:57Z

Dakkar:

==Chapter 3: The Lost Queen==

===Part 1===

After that, Kamito, who parted from Claire and the others, headed towards the academy director’s office immediately.

He knocked and opened the door –

“You’re late, for how many seconds do you plan to make this lady wait?”

That was the first thing Greyworth, who was sitting at the office desk, coldly said.

The Dusk Witch – Greyworth Ciel Mais.

Her figure was certainly that of a bewitchingly beautiful woman but she was originally a spirit knight with a long military service, who had her name entered first on the list of Numbers (the twelve knight commanders).

She had wavy ash-blonde hair. Her gray pupils were shining behind her small pair of glasses.

“Sorry, I heard that you have business with me, and no matter what my walking became heavy.”

“Hmm, so now you're able to run your rather cheeky mouth, are you? Where did the obedient pure boy from those days go? Really, this thing called the flow of time is cruel.”

“You’re the only one who doesn't change, Greyworth. Your outward looks as well as your tricky character.”

Kamito loathsomely spitted out.

Greyworth is one of the few people who knew him three years ago.

And she was the perpetrator who called Kamito, who threw away the name Ren Ashbell, to the academy and attempted to make him participate in the blade dance two months later.


She did not tell him the reason for that.

Although, it was often the case that the Dusk Witch worked Kamito hard without telling him anything.

“That’s right, you have certainly changed. Compared to three years ago, you’ve became especially weak. In the practice match a while ago, what was that sorry performance when faced with an opponent of that level? If it was the you from the past, you would have overwhelmingly defeated that one person in under three minutes.”

“You were watching? …As usual your hobbies are bad.”

“In such a sorry state, your participation qualifications for the blade dance are also doubtful. Or, was it a fluke that you defeated that military-use spirit?”

“That time was—“

Kamito slightly mumbled.

It was not that he defeated it with just his own strength.

Kamito, who had a chance meeting with his changed former contracted spirit and was struck with despair, was given the strength to stand once again by that red haired hellcat girl.

(…!)

Suddenly, the sensation of her soft lips was resurrected in his mind.

To shake it off and cleanse the evil thoughts, Kamito shook his head in a fluster.

“I also think that I’m miserable. I can’t even fully use my contracted spirit’s power yet.”

Kamito dropped his eyes onto his right hand, which was engraved with a spirit seal.


“Is it that you still can’t forget your previous woman? How stubborn.”

“Don’t mess around! For me, Restia isn’t like that!”

“On the contrary, getting hotheaded makes it increasingly suspicious. If you like, how about getting a lover or something in this academy? It might even divert a little of the loneliness.”

“Lov—“

“Or, are the girls in the academy too childlike? If that’s the case… I’m also good.”

Greyworth smiled bewitchingly and slightly pushed open her breast area with her fingertips.

He accidentally saw an adult-like black, lacy lingerie in her cleavage.

“D…don’t mess around!”

“It’s a joke. Hmm, with that tone, it seems that you have not yet reached that level. I’ve heard rumors that you are made to wait on a tiny breasted beautiful girl and a nude knee-socks spirit and are indulging in an improper harem cohabitation life.”

“Guu…”

Trying to refute, Kamito was at a loss for words.

…Looking at it objectively, that was the truth and so it was painful to be unable to deny it.

“Greyworth, did you call me just to tell some worthless jokes?”

“That’s right – but, of course, that's not the only thing.”

Greyworth creaked her chair and faced the visitor room at the inner side of the room.

“I have a girl I want to introduce to you – okay, come in”


“Okay.”

From the inner room, came what sounded like a bell being turned over.

The one who opened the door and appeared was –

A girl who wore a black dresslike uniform, different from the academy’s uniform.

It was a beautiful girl, whose beautiful long black hair was impressive, to the extent that he was taken aback.

She had clear black pupils. Without thinking, Kamito was charmed by her neat and clean appearance.

“…Eh?”

The moment his eyes met with hers, she made a puzzled face for some reason.

“Errm, you’re … Kazehaya Kamito-kun?”

While blinking her eyes incessantly, the girl asked.

“Ahh, that’s right, however–“

“But my impression is very…”

…It was somewhat strange, but it seemed the girl received a shock.

(Wh…what’s with this?)

“But, that’s right… he’s a boy after all, and it’s already been three years.”

The girl was muttering to herself in a voice that Kamito could not hear.

After that, she looked at Kamito’s face again.

“Yes, there’s certainly a resemblance, yeah. Besides, this is fine—“


“What’s up, Fianna?”

Greyworth called out, seemingly puzzled.

“Ah, s…sorry! Err, this is the first time I’ve seen a male spirit contractor!”

The girl called Fianna shook her head in a fluster.

“Erm… who is this girl?”

Kamito faced Greyworth and asked.

Then, the girl, for some reason, made a sullen expression and pouted her lips.

“I knew it, you didn’t remember… well, that’s fine though.”

“She is the admitted student who will be entering the same Raven Class as you.”

“Admitted student?”

Ah! Kamito nodded. They were talking about it at the café just a while ago.

(This girl is the one…)

Carol was saying that she was a daughter of noble social status, but, in any case, in this academy the ladies of noble social status were all around him, so he did not feel anything special.

(After that, she said that… her breasts were big.)

Without thinking, he glanced towards the dress-like uniform’s chest area—

(…Indeed, certainly.)

Kamito consented strangely.


“She is the Ordesia Empire’s second princess, her Highness Fianna Ray Ordesia.”

“…Ordesia?”

Kamito frowned for a moment—

“No way…!”

His eyes widened in surprise.

In Areishia Spirit Academy, which was a spirit contractor training organization, many genuine daughters of nobles were enrolled. This was the result of the empire’s royalty and nobles continuing the bloodline of spirit contractors through marriage of convenience that even spanned over several generations.

Naturally, there were also exceptions, but, speaking of spirit contractors, it was normal for them to be daughters of nobles.

Fahrengart, the head of the military family, and Laurenfrost, with a family history.

Its lands were currently seized, but Claire’s Elstein family was also of a noble pedigree.

However, this girl before him was – the second princess of the Ordesia Empire.

She was not even the nobility.

She was what one would call – the real princess.

(Why would the empire’s princess be in the academy?)

Daughters born into the Ordesia royal family should be scheduled to stack up training as a spirit princess candidates, serving the five great elemental lords, at the spirit princess training organization, the 'divine ceremony institute'.

In any case, Kamito kept that question in his chest for now and knelt down on the ground on one knee.


Henceforth, the second princess completely disappeared from the center stage.

That Lost Queen meant this girl in front of him?

“It’s just as she says. As long as you pass through this academy’s gates, no matter what social status the princess maidens have, there is no special treatment. Even a princess, a male spirit contractor, or the Calamity Queen’s sister.”

“There you have it, I’m the former princess, but nice to meet you, Kazehaya Kamito-kun.”

Fianna smiled and picked up the sides of her skirt with her fingertips, then bowed elegantly.

“A…Ah, nice to meet you—“

Kamito stood up and his expression froze.

“What’s the matter?”

“No, err…”

While scratching his face, Kamito looked away.

“?”

Fianna tilted her head to the side.

“Kyaa!”

It seemed she realized that what she was holding up was not a ball dress, but a short length uniform skirt.

Her mature black underwear, weaved with laces, was firmly etched into Kamito’s retina.


“Ka…Kamito-kun… pervert.”

The former princess’ face turned red as she embarrassedly muttered.

“I…I’m sorry…”

“You two, don’t flirt and act lovey-dovey in front of my eyes. It’s irritating.”

Greyworth glared at Kamito, with her eyes filled with bloodlust.

“…I’m sorry. And why did you call for me?”

About this witch. It was probably not just to introduce the admitted student.

(To introduce the empire’s princess to me, what is she scheming?)

As if she read Kamito’s emotions, the witch pushed up her glasses, seemingly sullen.

“It’s regrettable, despite purposely preparing a special mission for your sake.”

“A special mission?”

“That’s right. It was just nice that I had a mission I wanted to entrust her with, so I wanted your team to accompany her as her guards.”

===Part 2===

—A quest.

Together with official matches with fellow academy students, it was the system that supported the academy ranking system.


There could be various things in the contents of a given mission, from Kagura by a blade dance, the suppression of a rampaging spirit, the excavation and investigation of the sealed spirit, to the subjugation of spirit contractors gone astray.

By completing the mission that had been divided into ranks depending on the danger level, the academy students could raise their team ranking in the same way as winning an official match.

“By the way, this mission’s difficulty level is S rank.”

“S rank?”

Without thinking, Kamito sent back an enquiry.

An S rank mission was presented as the highest difficulty level mission in the academy.

The rising ranking points would be extraordinary but it was a dangerous mission that might even have the possibility of death depending on the situation. It should not even be possible to enter with Kamito's current ranking.

“Did you prepare things behind the scenes?”

“Your hearing is bad. I said that I don’t do special treatment. It just means that the ones suitable for this mission are Fianna and you. If you disagree, then I’ll spread the word around to the other teams.”

“…”

It was not a bad deal. On the contrary, looking at Kamito’s team currently, it was godsend.

Till the opening of the blade dance, there were already two months left. No, the final examination to decide the top three participating team would take place even earlier.

With their current pace, they would not possibly make it by completing normal official matches and missions.


Greyworth was somehow bent on making Kamito participate in the blade dance.

Although, pushing in a representative of the empire with the power of the academy director was not possible as expected.

Therefore, she got to the S rank mission, whose danger level was high and competition bonus was also extremely high.

(If the mission could be completed, that would be it – huh?)

He was not pleased to move in accordance to Greyworth’s expectation but??

If it was a mission to guard an important person, he had several experiences from the past.

Certainly, it was far better than raising the inter-school ranking steady by the official matches.

“—I understand. Explain the details of the mission.”

“That’s the spirit.”

Kamito prompted and Greyworth smiled.

“Do you know Mine Town Gado?”

“Gado? Well, I roughly know its name. It is the town whose mine became abandoned a few decades ago.”

Mine Town Gado. It was formerly a town of a large mining ground of spirit ores but during the second Ranbal war, all kinds of spirit ores were excavated and it became a town of a completely abandoned mine.

It should certainly be a ghost town full of ruins nowadays.

“There have been frequent occurrences of strange earthquakes at that mine recently. I want you to go there and investigate that.”

“Investigate the earthquakes?”

For the academy to bring in an investigation request meant that it was probably not an ordinary earthquake.


It was often the case that the earth attribute spirits that rule over the land caused the earthquake.

If that was because it was angry or was in a frenzy, it could be appeased by a ceremony of a blade dance. Depending on the situation, there were also cases where a subjugation unit of spirit knights was formed.

As a mission it was relatively typical but—

“Stop joking. Why is an ordinary earthquake investigation an S rank mission?”

If it was just an ordinary earth spirit investigation, he did not think that there would be that level of danger.

In contrast to the mission’s risk, this rank setting was too high.

“You’re being distrustful as usual, can’t you trust my good will?”

“Can I trust it? You never lie. However, you also never speak the truth.”

“Hmm…well, it is like that.”

Greyworth smiled and shrugged her shoulders in resignation.

“At the mine, it seems a strategic-class military-use spirit, who was sealed by the old Ordesia Knights, is sleeping there.”

“A strategic-class military-use spirit…!?”

Kamito spontaneously groaned. Fianna beside him also gasped in surprise.

A strategic-class military-use spirit – it could not be compared to the giant spirit that went in frenzy at Academy Town the other day.

Consequently of its powerful strength, it was impossible for an individual to control it. It could be finally controlled by ceremonial Kagura by several hundreds of spirit contractors – it was surely a weapon of mass destruction.

At the end of the second Ranbal war, the continental nations exchanged a treaty and the all seven bodies should have been sealed and disposed off but—

“Don’t tell me, the one causing the earthquake is that strategic-class military-use spirit?”

“At the very worst, it’s only as a possibility. I want to entrust you guys with this investigation. If you confirmed that the seal has come undone from the result of your investigation—“

“I’ll perform the ceremony of resealing by the 'ceremonial Kagura'.”

Fianna calmly opened her mouth to speak.

“That’s right. If it’s you, who are the former spirit princess candidate, then this mission is ideal for you.”

“…I see, that’s the reason you called for this princess.”

The spirit princesses, who served the five great elemental lords, were the experts of the 'ceremonial Kagura' that appeased spirits.

They did not receive special martial arts training as a result they were not suited for battle but all forms of ceremony had been driven into their bodies from since they were a child.

In the academy, there was only one former spirit princess academy student– a rare special skill user; the missions can only be accomplish with her, considering that it had to do with a strategic-class military-use spirit, it might also be appropriate to set it as an S rank mission.

“…”

The terms were not bad. However, there was one more thing that he had to ask.

“…But is Fianna alright with this? With the guard being me.”

If it was just to guard her, there should be even more competent spirit contractors.


For example, Ellis Fahrengart. If it was her, whose sense of responsibility was strong and who also had the strength, there would be no shortcomings to her ability as a guard.

There were no merits for the princess to have Kamito, who was a boy, as her guard. If he was grouped together by Greyworth as she pleased, ignoring Fianna’s will— he planned to reject this deal.

However, Fianna –

“Of course, I’ll be relying on you, Kamito-kun.”

“Did Greyworth threaten you to group with me?”

“No, after all, I was the one who nominated you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. To travel with the world’s only male spirit contractor, isn’t it great?”

Fianna entwined her fingers with Kamito’s hand and gazed with upturned eyes.

Gazing at her clear black pupils, Kamito spontaneously felt shock.

“Hmm, aren’t you popular?”

Greyworth said, seemingly displeased, and handed over a document with the mission’s important points written on it.

“If you intend to take up this mission, then sign here. This should not be a bad deal for you.”

It was not bad, far from that, it was an extraordinary deal for Kamito currently.

However—

“I can’t decide this by myself. I have to at least ask Claire too.”


“Hmm, well, that’s alright. But hurry, I’ll have you to leave tomorrow.”

“Claire?”

The one, who raised her voice, was Fianna.

“Ah, my team member but—“

“Could she happen to be Claire Elstein?”

“…You knew her?”

Kamito awkwardly scratched his head.

(That’s right, this girl is… the spirit princess candidate to the fire elemental lord.)

She was the princess maiden that had been training at the same 'divine ceremony institute' as the Calamity Queen – Rubia Elstein.

If that was the case, it would not even be strange for her to know Claire, that girl’s sister.

“That person’s sister…”

Fianna’s lips slightly tremble.

She might be regretting after hearing that the Calamity Queen’s sister was one of the teammates.

“I’m sorry but Claire is my teammate. I’ll accomplish the mission together with her.”

Kamito informed her—

“Yes, that’s what I wish for too.”

While Fianna nodded, she muttered in a soft voice.

“I don’t plan on losing to even the sister.”



===Part 3===

As the two of them left the office, Greyworth smiled.

“However, that princess also did something bold.”

“—you knew, academy director?”

From the inside of Greyworth’s shadow, a lady quickly appeared.

Shadow spirit contractor – Teacher Freya Grandol.

“Is it about her using a spirit ore during the entrance examination? Of course, I noticed it. She did something impious. Doesn’t that stone cost twenty million rood apiece?”

“Then, I presume you are overlooking this unfair entry, right?”

“Princess Fianna was ranked next to that Rubia Elstein as the second spirit princess candidate at thirteen years-old. If she wakes up again as a spirit contractor, isn’t it the best bargain?”

“However, if she leads an academy life with that thing, wouldn’t she be instantly exposed?”

“I think that’s something she also understands. She understands it and yet she became the academy's student. If she does not awaken, that’s all to it but if she awakens, it is a fortune. Therefore, I grouped her with that boy.”

“Academy director, what on earth are you—“

Freya frowned and at that moment, a winged eyeball flew in from the office window.


It was a probe-use spirit, used by Greyworth.

“Hmm, it seems that an uninvited guest has infiltrated Academy Town.”

“Is it the darkness spirit from the other day?”

“Well, I wonder? I do not know what they are aiming for but… Freya Grandol, you go prepare the order for the Sylphid Knights to strengthen the security.”

===Part 4===

Kamito, who left the office, took Fianna on a tour around the academy building.

She had an elegant light manner of walking. It seemed that a real princess’ way of walking was also polished.

“Fianna, are you wearing the 'divine ceremony institute’s' uniform?”

“Yes, it seems to be recently made, opposing the Areishia Spirit Academy. During the time I was active, it was an even more bombastic ceremonial costume. That in a way was cute but all the girls definitely were yearning for skirts.”

“…Hmm, is that so? It suits you.”

“Ah, even if it’s just flattery, I am happy.”

While they were talking while walking, Kamito’s tone greatly declined

As she was the Ordesia Empire princess and a princess maiden from the 'Divine Ceremony Institute' – he was thinking that there would be an even-harder-to-approach atmosphere but she was a surprisingly easy girl to talk to.

The two of them, who had such a conversation along the corridor, were already basked in the attention of the other academy students.

“Hey, take a look. Kazehaya Kamito, again, is going to rape the admitted student!” “The licentious beast’s special demonstration.” “But I might be a little envious.” “Wh…what are you saying!” “B…but if I was gazed at by those sharp eyes…I…I might be unable to defy.” “It’s just for a mere little while only, a little while only, I want to try being played with… don’t you think so?” “Th…that’s true, i…if he approached with force… my heart will surely be pounding.” “ No way, after all, he’s the devil king, the devil king that devours any girls he could lay his hands on.” “The devil king…” “The devil king of the night…”

Such a soft commotion could be heard from the whole corridor.

(…What! The devil king of the night!)

He wanted to retort various things but it seemed like it would become really troublesome, so he did not.

He had already gotten used to the girls’ frightened gazes.

However, there were also numerous girls strangely sending him passionate gazes for some reason.

And then, for some reason, there seemed to be ribbon-tied letters and homemade sweets placed in his locker.

…Well, it might be just a prank.

“Hmm, Kamito-kun, you’re quite popular.”

“They’re just teasing me, after all, I’m the only male in this academy.”

“I wonder?”


Mugyu!

“…!?”

Suddenly, he felt a soft sensation at his upper arm.

Fianna pressed her breasts onto Kamito’s arm.

“H…hey, Fianna!?”

“Hn, what’s the matter?”

The princess expressed an impish smile with an upward glance.

The throbbing of his heart would not stop to that proper softness that was pressed onto his arm.

“No, princess… err, your breasts are hitting…”

“I do not mind. Or—“

Fianna gave a short teasing smile.

“You dislike an immodest princess?”

“…”

From the breast area of the dress-like uniform, her black lingerie was slightly in sight.

…He was troubled, earth-shatteringly troubled.

He felt like the sharpness of the gazes of the girls passing by the corridor was gradually increasing.

Fianna was enjoyably gazing at Kamito, who was tensed.

“Fufu, it seems like everyone is jealous.”


“That’s definitely not it…”

Kamito sighed deeply,

“By the way, why did princess admit into this academy?”

Suddenly, he tried asking what was on his mind since a while ago.

He did not care what circumstances she was in to throw away her position as a spirit princess candidate. He was just interested in why she became a student of the academy now after having once disappeared from the center stage.

“That’s—“

Fianna’s legs suddenly stopped. Kamito also stopped at the same time.

“Uh?”

“If I said — I came to meet Kamito-kun, would you believe me?”

“…?”

As Kamito was a little puzzled,

“No, it can’t be to come to meet me, didn’t I just meet you, Fianna?”

“…”

Fianna pouted her lips as she was a little sullen to such a reply from Kamito.

“…Idiot.”

Fianna muttered and pushed her index finger softly onto Kamito’s lips.

And then, she drew her face close till her lips barely touched him.


“—Ren Ashbell.”

At that moment, Kamito’s expression froze.

Towards the unexpected name coming from her mouth – he was at a los for words.

“…!? H…ow…”

While dumfound and standing still, Kamito leaked out a dry voice.

The people, who knew Kamito’s true identity as Ren Ashbell, are only the contracted spirit Restia and the witch Greyworth – those two people only.

How did this girl…?

“…I knew it, you don’t remember.”

Fianna pouted her lips, seemingly displeased.

Making such a face at this distance made it as though she was a lover pestering for a kiss.

“It’s alright. I’ll leave it a secret to everyone, I did promise after all.”

“Promise?”

Kamito seemed to have recalled something, at that moment.

“Kamito!”

Claire came running form the other side of the corridor. It seemed that she was searching for Kamito.

“Come on, what in the world were –“

At that point, Claire suddenly stopped.


At the middle off the corridor, she saw the two's posture, which was almost like a couple kissing—

“Y…yo…yo…yo…”

Gogogo… her shoulder began to tremble bit by bit.

Her red hair bristled up, like a crimson flame, and blazed up tremblingly.

“Yo…yo…you slave… yo…you truly have no peculiarity…”

Pishii!—The moment her whip made a sound, the hell cat, cladded in red hot flames, appeared from an empty space.

The hell cat transformed into the Flame Tongue form in an instant and settled into Claire’s right hand.

“Th…that’s alright, I’ll thoroughly train you today…”

“Wa…wait, don’t misunderstand, Claire, this girl is –“

“—Claire?”

Fianna reacted to that name Kamito said.

She gently parted her arms from Kamito and glared at Claire with a sharp look.

“I see, you are Claire Rouge.”

“That’s right. So what?”

“You are that person’s sister…”

He felt like invisible fireworks scattered in Fianna’s eyes glaring at Claire.

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