Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 6 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 1===

At the early morning next day.

Lux woke up early before the sunrise and then he headed toward the practice ground inside the military ground.

He had took confirmation from Coral who was in the same room with him that it was permitted to use the place. The place was empty as he expected, perhaps the factor that it was right after the exam also played a part of it.

“Now, then......”

After changing into his pilot suit, he wore Wyvern on his body and carried out basic operation as replacement for warming up.

And then he released the control of tuning just like how Lisha taught him.

“-......!?”

Several images of light were floating around him, with ancient letter, symbol, and graphic reflected in them.

Originally it was a function that was literally to tune things like the Drag-Ride's output, armament, and so on. Usually this function wasn't used while fighting, but now he was deliberately starting up while keeping the function activated.

(As I thought, controlling Drag-Ride in tuning mode is, considerably difficult......)

One could concentrate better if information and options were limited to a certain degree.

The control of Drag-Ride was already complicated and numerous in the best of time. Adding the fiddling of even its output value in the middle of battle gave a degree of difficult that was nearly ill-advised.

“However──......just a bit more”

After taking a deep breath and fired himself up, Lux repeated basic action while keeping that state on.

After around an hour passed with some light rest in between, his stamina finally reached the bottom and he fell on his knee on the ground.

“──Haa, haa......”

He was breathing hard with his shoulders heaving while crouching on the spot. Then suddenly he heard footsteps from behind him.

The moment Lux stood up to turn around, a towel was dropped on his head.

“......Wah!?”

Lux's sight was plunged into darkness and he panicked.

When he took the soft white towel, there was a familiar face there.

“Morning, Lu-chan.”

“Ah......”

It was a lovely face that was expressionless and absentminded with trace of childishness remaining in it.

Philuffy in pilot suit appearance was standing there.

Different from usual, her hair was tied into a short ponytail. That appearance looked fresh and surprising.

“Phi, Phi-chan. Why are you here──?”

“I'm also always, doing morning training. Then, I heard Lu-chan's voice, from here.”

After saying that with a dispassionate tone, Philuffy slowly took back the towel.

“Wai-, what are you doing Phi-chan!?”

“You will catch cold, if you don't properly wipe the sweat, you know?”

Philuffy was wiping Lux's sweat using the towel with serious face and a tone that sounded a bit chiding.

But, it was embarrassing to have a girl that was his childhood friend to do that much for him, so Lux was flustered.

“I, I'm fine you know!? I, it's only this much. I can wipe myself alone so──!”

There was no people around, but Lux turned his head left and right to check.

“It's okay, I'm finished already.”

Philuffy finished her work while he was doing that and she put the towel on Lux's shoulder.

Like that she was then staring very still at Lux with her pure eyes.

“-......!?”

Perhaps because she had just been training, Philuffy's skin and face were slightly flushed, and there was a faint scent of sweat from her. They made Lux's heart throbbed fast.

Compared to her childhood, her breasts, her thighs, and other places had grown into an amazing feminine body. He thought of that once more while looking at her face from nearby.

“Wha, what's wrong? Is there something on my face──”

“Ei”

“Waah!?”

Lux's body half rotated just from Philuffy lightly jerking his arm.

In the blink of eye he was made to turn his back on her and he felt bewildered once more.

“Wha, what are you doing Phi-chan!? My sweat is already──”

Philuffy's body clung closely on the back of the flustered Lux. Then she whispered to him with indifferent tone.

“Checking a bit. Whether your body, is hurt.”

“Yo, you don't need to do that, I'm really not tired! ──Uwah!?”

Honestly speaking, he was on tenterhooks because Philuffy's large breasts were touching his back.

When Lux twisted his body to shake her off, his foot got entangled and they fell down together.

“Aa......”

Lux leaked out a voice after falling.

When his hand reflexively moved to stand up, there was Philuffy's body right below him.

“So, sorry-......!]

The large breasts that didn't lose shape even when she was lying down face up flew into his sight, causing Lux's head to boil up.

Philuffy who was expressionless as usual kept staring at Lux and she suddenly moved her lips.

“It's okay, to not endure you know?”

Philuffy's question that was said with her usual serious face made Lux turned stiff.

The warmth and softness of Philuffy's body that was glued to him.

After getting conscious of that, Lux's heart was pounding hard like an alarm bell, his consciousness turned blank for a moment.

“Because Lu-chan, you look like you are brooding over something.”

“──Eh?”

After Lux whispered toward those words that suddenly came at him, Philuffy showed a faint smile.

“Since the past, Lu-chan would immediately endure. You would hide your true feeling.”

“............”

That voice sounded somewhat nostalgic.

And yet it also sounded somewhat lonely. Philuffy formed her words with such voice.

“I'm happy, that you are doing your best for our sake, but──. It's fine, to be more honest with your own feeling, you know?”

“......Such, thing”

‘Isn't true'. For some reason he became unable to say that when he looked at Philuffy's straightforward gaze.

*GOOOON*. Suddenly the sound of large bell that informed the time rang at the area.

“Oh......, I need to return to my room soon──”

“Right. Later, Lu-chan.”

They stood up, and then after exchanging only those words, Lux parted with Philuffy and returned to his room.

The straightforward words of his childhood friend caused a mysterious feeling to sprout inside him.