Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 13 Episode 3 (section)

===Part 1===
Three days before Lux and Aeril started conquering Avalon, in the Academy.

While the main force of Syvalles sallied out in addition to the provocation of the Lords using Shadows gaining strength, the Academy was filled with sorrowful silence.

「I have braced myself, but I didn’t think that it would be this much.」

「Yes. But, perhaps this is natural.」

Inside the Academy grounds, in an underground room of the fourth Drag-Ride hangar.

Airi and Noct were making preparations for traveling there.

「After all, Nii-san, Lisha-sama, and the others have all left. The Triad is working hard to consolidate the remaining students but──」

「Yes. Both Sharis and Tillfur are doing their best. However, Airi──are you really going to the abandoned capital too?」

「Yes.」

Airi immediately replied with a nod at Noct’s calm question.

The abandoned capital of the Marcafal Kingdom, Guernica.

Airi would also head to the old castle that was keeping Avalon underground it.

Airi normally accompanied Lisha and the others to carry out Syvalles’s information gathering role, but as expected, this time she was stopped from going by the headmaster Relie.

It was only natural. It would be too dangerous where even the Triad wouldn’t have any leeway to protect Airi.

Far from being any help, there was high likelihood that she would serve as Lux’s Achilles’ heel.

No matter how worried she was about Lux, it would be pointless if she definitely would become a hindrance.

But, other than her feeling, Airi had another different belief of her own. She decided to accompany the Triad and head to rescue Lux.

「Soffice wanted my existence──the bloodline of Arcadia to liberate the Ruin. Similarly like that, there is a possibility that my blood will be useful in the capture of Avalon. Now that Nii-san……the Seven Dragon Paladins has fallen into the enemy’s hand, with me heading towards there for the capture of Avalon, the calculation of the Lords might get derailed. And then──」

She conveyed her words exactly like she had just told Relie a bit before this to Noct beside her.

In order to show her own resolve towards the girl who was earnestly worrying about her who was her best friend.

「If the Lords realize my existence is nearby Avalon, they will surely perceive me as a hindrance. In other words, I can serve as bait.」

「-……!?」

The usual calm expression of Noct who heard that crumbled and showed her shock.

There was no positive proof of that, but it might be effective.

Perhaps it might divert the enemy’s attention and become a key to making an opening to capture Avalon and take back Lux. But,

「Can you agree with my thinking, Noct?」

「……No. Even without that, the place we will be going to is already worthy to be regarded as extremely dangerous. It’s different from everything until now, the enemy is the Lords and high class Abyss. There won’t be any leeway there to protect others.」

Noct told that fact and looked down.

That gesture looked like she was ashamed of her lack of strength, that she couldn’t promise to protect Airi.

「I received permission from Relie-san. She said that she cannot allow me if thinking of Onii-san’s sake, but even the headmaster has a weak point.」

「That’s──」

Airi showed a vaguely mischievous smile and continued.

「There is no way Relie-san can stop my proposal. She herself risked her life for the sake of her little sister──for Philuffy-san, that she would even betray the New Kingdom to try and save her. There is no way someone who understands the importance of family by that much won’t be able to understand my feelings.

「But, Airi」

「Please don’t stop me. After all, my inability to fight as a Drag-Knight is incomparable with the powerlessness that Noct is feeling.」

「────」

Noct who heard that lost her words.

Strictly speaking, Noct who was a member of Syvalles and Airi who was a civil official had different roles.

That was why, Noct could also point out that in the first place it was strange for Airi to think about such thing.

But, for Airi, the point was whether she could become strength for her big brother or not right now.

Because she had been saved by Lux until now and received a place to belong from him that she couldn’t forgive herself for being unable to do anything.

Noct could understand her feeling as her best friend.

「I’m, disqualified as a servant. I have to consider the will of other people as I’m someone serving the Baltshift house.」

「I’m sorry that I give you nothing but trouble. But, I’m thankful.」

「Yes. That’s right isn’t it?」

Noct responded to Airi’s wry smile with a rare smile of her own.

「I have also become really used to Airi’s selfishness. But, there is no one else who can keep up with you other than me. That’s why, I’ll accompany you just like usual, with my life on the line.」

「Thank you very much, Noct.」

Airi gently took Noct’s hand and expressed her thanks filled with a flood of emotions.

She was greatly worried of Airi’s safety, and on top of that she accepted her from her heart.

「──Good grief, have you two finished talking?」

「We also finished preparing y’knoow!」

At that time, the remaining Triad, Sharis and Tillfur arrived at the underground room with small footsteps.

It seemed they were right outside the door, but they read the atmosphere and waited quietly.

「Will the headmaster be alright? If all of us go away──」

「It seems the big shots of the Four Great Nobles are helping out with various things. The New Kingdom also has their hands full, but this place is also quite an important location after all.」

Because this place also doubled as a defense point against the Ruin, Garden, as expected it seemed there was a need to make the security heavier than usual.

Instead of Balzeride, the person who would be the next head of the Kreutzer house, called Dig Kreutzer, seemed to take command of the guards. (TN: Don’t know if this is really a different person from Sieg Kreutzer that was mentioned in vol 12 or the author changed the name)

「I feel uneasy towards that house somehow though. But it can’t be helped because this is an emergency situation.」

「Yeah, even my father who is the military’s deputy commander has his hands full protecting the royal capital right now. Also──」

Tillfur folded her hands behind her head while sighing.

Sharis nodded in agreement to her statement, and then she lifted her face.

Right after that, *uiiin* a particular mechanical sound could be heard from the adjacent room.

The Ruin’s device that was brought here from the solitary island where Yoruka was sleeping──the hibernation pod that could also be used for healing was making sounds there.

「According to the description in the ancient document that missy Airi deciphered, it should be finished around this time if I remember it right.」

「Let’s go meet her. We need to──」

「There is no need for that.」

Airi said that, but before she could exit the room, the door of the room opened first.

The one who appeared was a girl with beautiful black hair and limbs that were supple like a beast──Kirihime Yoruka.

「Because my consciousness had returned slightly before the treatment was finished.」

After treating Philuffy and Rosa Granhide, the hibernation pod that was finally empty had nearly ran out of energy, so the time necessary for healing got longer.

In order to quickly heal the wound from her deadly battle against Singlen that made her unable to fight , Yoruka was entered into the pod after the previous battle.

「Then, let’s rush to Aruji-sama’s side right away. If there is a high possibility we can save him only by us risking our life, then it’s something cheap.」

Yoruka declared that along with a carefree smile.

Airi and the Triad looked at each other’s faces, then they let out an exasperated sigh.

In front of this Empire’s Assassin Blade, it felt like their resolve just now seemed stupid.

「Let’s see. If missy Yoruka is with us then it will be like an army of a thousand is accompanying us. Depending on your condition though, perhaps you won’t be able to go with us or you may need to have a rest for several days──」

「There is no need for that. Where could my Sword Device be?」

「It’s right here. More importantly please wear clothes. We, who are looking, are the ones that are embarrassed……」

Airi sighed while handing over the Sword Device of Yato no Kami.

But, she was unable to look straight at Yoruka’s nakedness and she averted her eyes with blushing cheeks.

「Well, what should I say, what a nice body eeeh……. Your skin is also pretty, like this perhaps Lux-chi won’t stand a chance ain’t he? Aaa……!」

After Tillfur muttered somewhat despondently, Sharis also nodded with a conflicted expression.

「Yeah, this is a bit troubling. Not just her skill as a Drag-Knight, I cannot imagine winning at all even in that aspect──」

「Yes. It will be fine Sharis. I believe you will put up a good fight if it is just breasts, that is my opinion, who has been watching you for many years.」

「I, is that so? Wait, don’t compare my naked body with her as you please!」

Sharis slightly showed an expression of expectation, but she then got flustered.

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Yoruka who was watching the exchange of the three changed into the pilot suit handed to her while speaking with a serious face.

「There is no problem. There would be nothing better than having as many concubines as possible for Aruji-sama. In my eyes, the three of you are qualified enough to be candidates.」

「Wwha-!?」

「Tha, that’s──is, that so?」

「Yes. Do you mean, even me?」

Yoruka’s explosive statement that was dropped suddenly shocked Tillfur, flustered Sharis, and at the end Noct was bashful even with her face staying calm.

At that time when a really complicated silence was filling the place, a voice resounded inside the underground room.

「Wai-, everyone, please stop joking around! What are you all thinking when the situation is like this!?」

Airi rebuked. The Triad smiled wryly while apologizing while Yoruka was tilting her head without any comprehension at all why she was scolded.

The conversation that smashed apart the tension until now caused Airi’s shoulders to drop in exhaustion.

She was exasperated of them from the bottom of her heart.

But, at the same time she also felt happy somehow.

For being able to be together with trusted comrades like this.

To be able to talk like normal, and laugh with each other before the battle.

(It’s really, happiness. Something like this)

Exactly because she was in the same position of criminal like Lux, that she strongly thought that.

And then, that she could stay with not just the Triad, but also with Yoruka was thanks to Lux.

Yoruka seemed to wonder about Airi who was silent like that and she suddenly peered into her face.

「Are you all right Airi-san? Among royalties, marriage between blood relatives isn’t that unusual so──」

「What kind of consideration is that!?」

Airi responded with a bright red face at Yoruka’s whisper.

Surely Lux also felt like this towards her usually.

「Ahahaha. Then, seeing that our mood has also loosened up, let’s go already. We are taking him back──our important comrade.」

The Triad’s leader Sharis concluded the talk and then everyone outfitted themselves.

Because their stamina would be consumed considerably through the travel, they would ask other members of Syvalles to transport them until the border and then enter into the Marcafal Kingdom.

It had been two days since Lisha and the others had departed, before Airi and the others left the New Kingdom.