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

===Part 9===

“I’m really sorry……”

A few minutes later, when the girls finished changing and the throbbing of Lux’s heart had somewhat settled down, Lux, who went into the medical office, suddenly bowed his head.

“…………”

In contrast, after Lisha lightly coughed,

“……It’s that, right? In truth, you’re doing it on purpose, right!? What are you thinking about, you pervert!”

As her cheeks were red in bashfulness, she scolded while being flustered.

“Lux-kun. It looks like you didn’t listen to my warning last time. I told you to be careful in various ways since you’re the only man in this academy, right?”

Beside her, Krulcifer also admonished him with a cool face, but as expected her face was slightly red.

“I have no excuse……”

When Lux muttered so while hanging his head crestfallenly,

“W-Well ── as I’ll have you fully reflect on it later, h-how was it?”

“Eh? H-How was what?”

“W-What, you ask? Um, isn’t it obvious!? About earlier……”

While bashfully looking away at a corner of the floor, Lisha asked so.

At that reaction of hers, Lux thought while being shaken.

(A-About earlier, meaning it’s that after all, right? But, I probably suck at praising a girl, so……)

It was already bad to tell what he learned as the shopkeeper of a bar where he had once worked odd jobs.

He could only go about it with his own words.

(……All right, I decided!)

“U-Um── Lisha-sama’s body is feminine even though it’s small; it’s very sexy and cute and to be frank, I got excited……”

“……!? Uh, aw……”

The face of Lisha, who heard his words, became bright red until her neck.

(Wait, it’s no good!? What am I thinking!? Your hair is beautiful…… or the like, there were many other choices like that, right!?)

He had thought that it was because of the bar where he had done odd jobs until then, but Lux himself completely sucked at praising.

“I-I didn’t mean that, I’m talking about the fight earlier──”

“…………”

(And moreover, I was mistaken……!)

He made a great misunderstanding and ended up blurting out something embarrassing.

And so, he thought that Lisha would definitely get angry but,

“W-What a helpless guy you’re…… Really, you pervert……”

(Wait, huh……?)

The concerned Lisha moved both her hands around restlessly as though troubled with a somewhat feverish expression and averted her eyes from Lux.

Though she looked embarrassed, she did not seem to hate it.

(……What is it, I wonder?)

When Lux wondered such a thing, Krulcifer spoke.

“Lux-kun. I’ll ask you honestly too, but um ── what kind of girl’s body is to your liking?”

“……Wait, what are you saying all of a sudden!? Krulcifer-san!?”

When Lux was flustered as he was asked a quite unexpected question,

“It’s just as stated. I thought of using what you thought when you saw me now, as reference for the future.”

“E-Errr── Um, it was very beautiful. Be it your white skin, your thighs or your buttocks. It made my heart throb quite a bit……”

“……I see. Which means I can assume that after seeing me, Lux-kun, you were driven by a masculine impulse, right?”

“…………”

“In other words, Lux-kun has always harbored my appearance with indecent delusions like what you saw earlier, is that it?”

“No, wait a minute!? It’s not really like I’m…… a-always looking at Krulcifer-san with such eyes!?”

“That means that you ''occasionally'' looked at me with such eyes, huh. I’m a little relieved.”

Krulcifer said with her usual cool expression mixing a mischievous smile.

Her face showed happiness which the mature-looking her did not show usually.

“T-That’s── wait, why are you making me say strange things since a little while ago!?”

“Ara, it’s natural to make you feel embarrassed as much, right? You also made us feel embarrassed, so being properly teased is a way of taking responsibility.”

“…………”

Being said so, Lux could not argue.

But conversely speaking, he was forgiven with only that. Knowing that it meant as such, Lux inwardly thanked her.

“W-Well, putting that matter aside for the time being, um── I’m sorry about the fight earlier.”

As their talk was settled, Lisha said in a small voice while hanging her head.

“I may look like this, but I challenged her with the intention of certain victory, but…… As expected, someone like me is just── Ah……”

When she showed just a slightly languorous expression, Lux reflexively took her small hands.

“That’s not true. Lisha-sama, you were very cool earlier.”

Lux said so with a smile filled with deep affection.

A girl, who was puzzled about her own existence despite assuming the status of the New Kingdom’s princess.

Lux conveyed his honest feelings to Lisha, who fought while suffering from her qualification as a princess.

“……R-Really?”

“Yes, you were amazing. Even the surroundings will think ‘as expected of the New Kingdom’s princess'── ah”

As he started saying so, Lux unintentionally shut his mouth.

This was because he thought that Lisha might hold resistance for being called princess.

But──

“N-No, It’s not a bad feeling for being recognized as a princess by you and everyone in the academy. Um, I’m also happy about that, but if you could gently strok my head a little──”

She muttered with a faint voice and looked up at Lux with upturned eyes. But,

“Yes. Also, Krulcifer-san, too, thank you for having held out in various ways and showing me Celis-senpai’s way of fighting.”

“Hey, is my turn over!?”

Maybe because she spoke in such a small voice that he could not hear, Lux had already spoken words of gratitude to Krulcifer.

“<Fafnir> wasn’t in its perfect condition, so I could only do that much. ''That much'' in order to connect to your fight, that is. But ── she’s really a tough opponent.”

“Muuh……”

Although Lisha looked slightly displeased, she pulled herself together and cleared her throat.

“That’s right, we must first win or it’ll be useless. Lux! We’ll go to my atelier from here on!”

“……Eh?”

Seeing Lisha, who got off from the bed and vigorously stuck out her chest, Lux was seized with uneasiness.

“Ah, but. About that thing you remodeled before, you should stop it──”

Lisha had remodeled the <Wyvern>, which Lux had its armor and output adjusted for defense specialization because of some circumstances, for attack specialization.

Since he could not publicly use <Bahamut> in the Selection Battle this time, he could only fight with a <Wyvern> that was overwhelmingly inferior in performance.

But, no matter how much she adjusted a <Wyvern>, she did not think that just a mere general-purpose Machine Dragon would be effective against Celis.

Even so, Lisha declared full of confidence.

“Don’t worry. If my guess is right, those third-year lots would definitely be amazed tomorrow! Krulcifer, you come, too! The partner in the actual fight is necessary.”

Being randomly led by the energetic Lisha, Lux and company headed to the Drag-Rides’ atelier.

Then as they carried out “countermeasures” for roughly several hours, the first day of the Campus Selection Battle ended.