Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 9 Episode 6 (section)

===Part 2===

「And so, because of that Nii-san is finally coming to me after this late?」

「Err, yes. Well……」

An awkward atmosphere was filling the cramped room to the brim.

He was in a room inside the girl dormitory after school.

It was the shared room of Airi and Noct.

It was a request from Raigree to guide Yoruka so she became accustomed to life in Academy, but first it was necessary to know about the situation of her class in first year.

Thinking so, Lux thought to hear about the story from Airi who was Yoruka’s classmate, but the situation appeared to be more pressing than Lux thought.

「I’m very happy. To think that Nii-san will act considerately to someone like me even if just for a bit. I thought that surely Nii-san was foisting the matter of Yoruka-san completely to me while Nii-san isn’t planning to do anything at all.」

Airi was showing him a gentle smile, but her smile didn’t reach her eyes.

In other words, his little sister was proclaiming that she had been fussing about Yoruka quite much since her enrollment into the Academy by Lux’s hope.

「Let’s stop with that much, Airi.. After all it’s not like Lux-san was doing it maliciously.」

Noct was sending a timely help to Lux who was receiving a gentle intimidation from Airi.

But, even with her best friend soothing her down, Airi still puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

「Noct is spoiling Nii-san too much. It’s because Nii-san has never thought about consequences since the past that he should be properly warned to make him reflect. After all if Nii-san isn’t acting responsibly, it will make me terribly worried.」

「……Perhaps that’s also true. I was also troubled by Yoruka-san.」

「Even though I thought you are helping me-!?」

Lux was crestfallen seeing Noct quickly changed side.

But, at the same time Noct who saw that was quietly bringing her face closer beside Lux.

「Forgive me Lux-san. I unconsciously made fun of you. Airi isn’t as angry as she look, so please don’t worry.」

「Is……, that so?」

「Yes. Right now she is saying suchthing, but it was Airi’s choice to not tell Lux-san about the problem. 『I don’t want to put needless worry at Nii-san right now, so I will do something about the internal situation of the Academy』, she said. She even came to me to consult about Yoruka-san’s matter.」

Noct whispered so. Within her usual composed expression, her lips looked just slightly loosened.

Airi who heard her instantly turned red and raised her voice in fluster.

「Wai-!? What are you saying Noct!? I, I was just──」

At the end her words turned ambiguous without denying it.

Recently Lux got a lot of work.

In addition of the normal class and practice, there was also his chores in the Academy and his activity as Syvalles member, not just that, as the country’s representative──as a Seven Dragon Paladin, he was extremely busy.

Amidst that, since some time ago it seemed Airi was acting for Lux’s sake in order to erase the friction between Yoruka and her surroundings.

In the end it was always like that.

Since Airi grew up, she would make fun of Lux or chiding him for his rash action, but in actuality she was always worrying about him.

「Thank you Airi. And Noct too.」

「Yes. As Airi’s close friend, I’m happy if Lux-san will understand.」

「Uu……」

Seeing Lux’s smile, Airi made a troubled expression and stared reproachfully.

After groaning for a while like that, before long she let out a long sigh.

「……Haa, I understand. Now about Yoruka-san, how much has Nii-san heard?」

Finally the concrete talk began.

Yoruka’s problem that was talked by AIri who was spending time with her daily in the same class was mostly the same like what he heard from Instructor Raigree.

Fundamentally Yoruka wasn’t going against the Academy’s education policy, but here and there she would make a decision that violated the rule.

And then, she didn’t show any sign of reflecting even if she was rebuked for doing that.

In addition she wouldn’t match her pace with her classmates and didn’t try to get close to them.

Even if there was student who talked to her trying to become her friend, it seemed Yoruka would turn them down with a smile saying 『I don’t really understand something like that』.

Yoruka herself had the past of being a princess of the nation of Koto, but the people around her took distance from her because she was a strange existence that couldn’t understand human’s emotion.

Her ability as Drag-Knight was standing out, but as a human she couldn’t do the 『normal』 thing.

「We too are pondering hard of what we should do. Though when I am speaking with her, she will more or less listen to me because I am Nii-san’s little sister.」

「Yes. It doesn’t seem like that she simply doesn’t want to listen to what she is told. The point is that she doesn’t know the way of living for the position of military cadet and how to interact with people.」

Yoruka was out of place in the Academy wasn’t simply because her individual character.

She didn’t understand the way to live inside the society called school.

The way to interact with classmate, the way to act inside the order called school.

It was necessary for Lux who was her master to make her learned the normal thing as a person.

「Then, in the end I have to be the one to tell her?」

「Yes. Perhaps it would be better for Lux-san to spend as much time together with Yoruka-san in the Academy while teaching her that. Airi will sulk if Lux-san get too intimate with her, so I ask you to please act with that in mind.」

「Noct keeps saying strange thing since some time ago, please stop it!」

Noct muttered that coolly, which was responded by Airi’s yell with a red face.

Lux observed their exchange warmly while thinking of a plan.

For the time being he promised Airi and Noct that he would report the progress to them every day and left the room.

He would teach Yoruka the importance of rule in the Academy and how to interact with students and teachers.

Lux was thinking of how to do that while doing his chores.

「But, not just class, even my year is different from Yoruka, how should I make a point of contact with her……?」

Even if he asked her to accompany him with his chores after school, she would be alone with only Lux, so there wasn’t really any meaning in doing that.

If possible it would be better if he got the chance to teach Yoruka through class lesson or living together.

「──My, isn’t this Lux-kun. You are making that kind of long face, has something happened again?」

「Ah……, good afternoon headmaster.」

While he was sweeping at the backdoor of the school building, a familiar face of a woman passed through.

She was the big sister of his childhood friend Philuffy, a woman of blooming age who was serving as headmaster here, Relie Aingram.

She who was his acquaintance since the past smiled friendlily ‘fufu’ at him.

「Don’t be like that, calling me headmaster at this place, it’s fine if you call me Relie-san familiarly you know?」

「That’s, normally isn’t it the reverse?」

Even though they were inside the Academy’s ground, she was like this.

Lux was smiling wryly at her informal attitude that was unthinkable for someone responsible for an academy of military cadets.

He also took the opportunity to try consulting her a little about the matter of Yoruka that was worrying him since some time ago.

「I see, certainly that method is interesting. In everything, one has to experience it first before being able to understand it.」

Unexpectedly, Relie was giving her endorsement to the plan of spending time together with Yoruka in the same environment.

「But, as expected it’s impossible. Our year is different in the first place, like that trying to have a school life with the same point of view──」

「It’s possible.」

The moment Lux scratched his head with a wry smile, such reply came to him.

「That’s right isn’t it, even if it’s Relie-san, as expected that is……. ──Wait, eeeeh!?」

「Let’s try it. If it’s also the request from none other than Lux, there is no way I can refuse it.」

Relie nodded powerfully along with a smile that was filled with confidence.

Thus due to a trivial thought and a terrifying coincidence, this uproar begin.

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