Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 3 Episode 2 (section)

===Part 1===

“Fuaah……”

As Lux yawned in the academy’s courtyard, the girls on both sides of him unintentionally laughed.

They were enjoying their lunch break with just the three of them right now.

Placing the furnished platter of plates loaded with several meals on his lap, Lux was sitting alongside the curbstone that was placed similarly to a semicircle.

Lux was sitting right in the middle of the girls.

“Hey hey, it’s too early to sleep, Lux. Are you tired?”

“W-Well, sort of, yeah……”

As Lux awkwardly replied, the girl sitting on his right side drew her face even further closer to his.

The girl with firm deep crimson pupils and lovely blonde hair side tail as features ── she was the New Kingdom princess, Lizsharte.

She was the one who caused his enrollment into the academy to happen, he had complete trust in her right now; she was a reliable princess.

They already had an intimate relationship, but in regards to the matter of yesterday’s request, he still hadn’t told her about it.

Since he found crossed dressing embarrassing, Lux wanted to conceal it forever between him and the girls of the Triad.

“Don’t push yourself too much. You, um…… have various things to do with me from here on out after all. And recently, the time we can be together has finally increased, too……”

With a somewhat feverish expression, Lisha muttered so.

Until just recently perhaps due to the fact that he handled a certain request preferentially, he seemed to have made her feel lonely for a while.

“Ah, I’m alright Lisha-sama. I’m fine so──”

Lisha was an eccentric person, rather he should say that she was very much like an innocent child, but he thought that the part where she honestly relied on him was very cute.

Moreover, since she was not very good at fulfilling her responsibilities as a princess, she continued to endeavor every day as both an engineer of Drag-Rides and a Drag-Knight.

Lux didn’t feel reluctant to cooperate with that girl who deserved his respect.

“You shouldn’t push yourself so much.”

As he was thinking so, he suddenly heard such a voice.

“There are a lot of things that I, too, really want to do as usual, but── it can’t be helped if you’re tired. Should I reduce the amount of time we should study today?”

“Eh…… Errr, as I still haven’t caught up to everyone in class, please take care of me today too. Krulcifer-san”

As the girl sitting on Lux’s left side sent him a seemingly lonely gaze, he hurriedly shook his head.

The girl with white skin harking back to fresh snow, blue long hair, and possessing a fairy-like mysterious beauty.

An earl’s daughter of Ymir from the North, Krulcifer Einvolk was a girl whose relationship with Lux had suddenly improved recently.

Ten days ago or so, as part of an event, a request was made by Krulcifer to have him play the <Role of a Lover>, and he had fought for her sake in order to dissolve her undesired engagement.

Originally, at the time when that matter ended, the temporary lover relationship should have also ended, but──

“Or, would you like to take a break from studying once in a while and go out somewhere with the two of us”

Krulcifer softly brought her mouth close to his ear and spoke as if tickling it.

The sweet fragrance drifting from her long hair tickled Lux’s nose.

“N, No──. For a while, I’m still a little……”

While his spine quivered with a shudder, Lux’s face turned red.

Ever since that matter, Krulcifer’s attitude towards Lux has slightly changed.

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Simply put, the way she often teased him hasn’t changed, but recently the level of teasing has begun to exceed that of “just a friend”.

“Is that so? That’s too bad. Then next time, I’ll invite you again.”

During the times when Krulcifer tutored Lux, she would softly place her hand over his; for Lux who had never gone out with a girl officially, it was quite bad for his heart.

When Lux was inwardly thinking so as his heart was pounding like crazy──

“Hey……! What are you two secretly talking about?!”

After Lisha, who saw that, groaned in displeasure, she broke the ice in a somewhat impatient manner.

“More importantly, we have to think about a countermeasure regarding that woman──”

“That woman……?”

“I’m talking about that young lady from one of the Four Great Nobles. The third-year student Celestia, the leader of our “Knight Squadron” has finally come back last night.”

“Ah……”

With Lisha’s words, Lux recalled that fact.

As expected, he could not speak about the matter where he had met her in a cross-dressed state.

“That’s right. We must certainly talk about it.”

Suddenly showing a pondering face, Krulcifer agreed, too.

“Using morning’s break, I heard various stories, but──. It seems that a few days ago, a movement of trying to drive Lux-kun out of the academy has been formed among the third-year students.”

“Eh……!?”

Lux and Lisha unintentionally reacted to the information they heard for the first time.

“It’s the truth. Strictly speaking, only one person, a third-year female student called Saniya seemed to be stirring up other classmates.”

“…………”

Hearing that story, Lux could not say anything.

Although he thought that he was completely familiar with it now, Lux was a “man” who should not originally be in an all-girls academy; so it was probably inevitable that such an event occurred.

The Old Empire’s ideology which had forced the custom of strong androcracy.

Especially, the bad impression towards noble men could not be easily removed.

Until now, with the support of the first- and second-year students, the third-year students who did not know Lux that much also seemed to have been watching the situation; but the girl called Saniya seemed to once again try to drive Lux out.

“Well, rest at ease. I swear on my name of the New Kingdom princess that I’ll absolutely not let them cancel your attendance at the academy.”

When Lux showed an anxious face, Lisha said so and puffed up her impressive chest for a small-sized body.

“T-Thank you.”

Seeing her figure, Lux took a breath of relief.

Frankly speaking, Lux grew quite attached to this academy.

Friends of the same generation and reliable comrades in arms were things that Lux had never had.

(Even though I never thought about such a thing when I wandered around due to odd jobs for five years……)

As Lux was thinking such a thing──

“…………”

<nowiki>*</nowiki>tic tic*. Suddenly, his back was lightly poked by a finger and he turned to look back.

“W-What’s the matter……? Phi-chan”

A girl of a somewhat elusive atmosphere having cherry pink-colored hair and a rich chest.

After Philphie, who was also Lux’s childhood friend, stared at Lux with absentminded eyes for a while, she casually and softly put her forehead on Lux’s.

“Wai……!? Philphie!?”

Lux panicked as the pretty face of the girl came before his eyes.

“……!?”

While Lisha and Krulcifer on his sides stiffened as they were also surprised, Philphie quietly separated her face.

“It’s Phi-chan, right?”

Philphie muttered slightly sullenly.

“I-Is that really something you should correct now!? M-More importantly, why did you do──”

“Lu-chan. Let’s sleep early today.”

“Errr……?”

With her usual tone of doing things at her own pace, Philphie said so.

Although the matter of last night’s patrolling should not be known by anyone aside of the girls of the Triad, it looked like Philphie has noticed that Lux has been tired recently.

Her action of having put her forehead on his was to check whether he had a fever just in case.

“No, but I’m still all right, so──”

When Lux tried to act brave like he usually did,

“It’s no good if you don’t sleep early.”

Philphie emphasized so as she drew her face closer.

“Um……”

“If you don’t listen to what I say, we’ll sleep in the same bed.”

“Wai……!?”

With her absentminded serious look as is, Philphie muttered such a thing.

At her statement, Lisha and Krulcifer’s eyes changed.

“H-Hey, Lux. What the hell does that mean? S-Sleeping together──!?”

“Speaking of which, there was no roommate in her room. Lux-kun, don’t tell me──”

“Y-You’re wrong! U-Um ── Phil…… Phi-chan, um, surely says it in the context of a nap──!”

While desperately explaining himself, Lux cursed his own carelessness.

Philphie was quiet and taciturn, at the same time she was surprisingly stubborn.

“I-I got it, Phi-chan! Sorry, it was my bad! I’ll properly sleep today! I won’t push myself!”

“Yes, please, do so.”

“Haa, haa”, Lux roughly breathed.

He was really surprised every time at the words of this natural airhead childhood friend of his.

But, this was surely Philphie’s consideration.

This girl knew well since childhood that Lux easily overworked himself.

(Did I make her worry until now?)

“T-This airhead girl is unexpectedly a formidable enemy……”

“Yes, I was also taking her lightly, but it looks like she’s quite tough. I must be careful, too.”

“W-Wait you two, what are you saying!?”

Lux reacted in a hurry to Lisha and Krulcifer who whisperingly communicated.

Within such peaceful noises, lunch time passed.