Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 1 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 3===
 
“… Still hasn’t appeared.”
 
Inside of the student council office, Haruka muttered to herself while staring at the door
 
Ryouhei then placed both hands onto the back of his head.
 
“There are actually times when Kyouya’s sixth sense is wrong.”
 
“There’s nothing that can be done, this type of thing has always been based mostly on luck.”
 
Kyouya chuckled uninterestedly, and soon bowed down his head deep in thought.
 
…There is an 80% chance that Kuzuha stopped him outside. Ah, why?
 
Oh well. Although I am curious about the results of a direct confrontation, but I should temporarily save this kind of fun. Once he thought about it up to this point, Kyouya could not help but laugh.
 
“Anyways there are plenty of opportunities in the future, there is no need to hurry.”
 
“At that time, leave it to me!”
 
Haruka said in high spirits:
 
“I, as the vice president, command the Disciplinary Committee Members to perform the purging tasks.”
 
“However, the report says that he cannot use magic, that fact seems to be true.”
 
Ryouhei recalled Akatsuki’s previous actions and his reactions towards magical attacks.
 
“But his fighting ability makes one dumbfounded.”
 
“It feels that he is very used to fighting techniques.”
 
Minami chipped in.
 
“I think he must be very aware of his own strengths, he really is a powerful enemy.”
 
“How strange, you would actually praise others—”
 
Ryouhei was greatly surprised and then suddenly frowned.
 
After thinking for a while, he decided to ask Minami directly to understand the situation.
 
“Minami, why are the buttons in front of your chest opened?”
 
“…?...That’s true.”
 
The perplexed Minami looked to her chest and was about to fasten the buttons when her hands suddenly stopped in midair.
 
There was no other reason, Minami had already discovered the abnormality in front of her chest.
 
“…Gone.”
 
“What is gone?”
 
“What happened…Minami?”
 
Haruka immediately found the answer. As they were both females, Haruka instantly noticed Minami’s abnormality, but she just could not believe it in that moment. After all, things shouldn't just disappear without the owner being aware of it.
 
“Could it be…”
 
At that moment, Haruka was suspicious.
 
“—!”
 
Her face suddenly became pale.
 
“I…It…can’t be…!”
 
Her pale face suddenly flushed. She bit tightly on her lower lip, and embarrassedly brushed her thighs, her expression very shy.
 
Afterwards, she began to care about the length of her skirt, and ultimately could not resist—
 
“S…Sorryy, I’ll excuse myself.”
 
Haruka gently stepped back a few steps, and left the student council office in panic.
 
The momentum of opening the heavy doors was surprising, but the momentum of closing doors was even more astonishing.
 
The sound of the doors opening and closing constantly echoed in the classroom.
 
“…But she only needs to use the washroom, why does she need to be so nervous? I really don’t understand what females are thinking in their heads.”
 
“Yes, it is really hard to understand.”
 
Facing the dismissive Ryouhei, Kyouya, who knew the truth, could only shake his head with a wry smile.
 
The transparent space over the horizon. The elevator, with a quiet motor driven sound, was slowly going down. The elevator gently went down towards its destination floor, like a giant steel bar dropping down. During the short stay in the elevator, Akatsuki and Kuzuha chatted.
 
“—So you skipped grades, very impressive.”
 
When facing Akatsuki’s praises, Kuzuha still had no expression.
 
“I just turned 11, which is equivalent to an elementary 6th grader.”
 
But the 11 years old Kuzuha was the same as Akatsuki, they were both students in the high school sector. Babel school originally had the so-called grade skipping system, but her example of grade skipping was a rare case.
 
Babel school was not a place where you are only seeking knowledge. Besides the static lessons, combat training was also included in their daily curriculum. Thus it could be said that not only had Kuzuha’s intelligence been confirmed, her combat capability was also not inferior to the students older than her by 5 years.
 
“The class rep is certainly outstanding.”
 
“That’s hard to say. However, the student council members you were going to challenge before are much more amazing than me.”
 
“I believe that’s true, after all, the student council member are JPN Babel School’s top youths.”
 
Akatsuki muttered. Then the words following that from Kuzuha left Akatsuki dumbfounded.
 
“It’s not that simple. The student council president Hikami Kyouya is part of <COCOON>.”
 
“—”
 
Akatsuki was slightly startled, almost suspecting if he had heard wrong.
 
After she noticed Akatsuki’s unusual look, Kuzuha frowned and looked a little surprised.
 
“…Are you okay?”
 
Akatsuki looked down at Kuzuha, only to see her expressionlessly say:
 
“Your face … is a little bit scary.”
 
“…Sorry. I didn’t think he was actually part of <COCOON>…Hahaha, so that’s it.”
 
Akatsuki finally understood why, on the day of the entrance inspection, he could feel a strong pressure coming from him.
 
— The new United Nation’s chairman, secretary general and G7’s Babel school highest authority, all of them were returnees who had obtained a strong power from an alternative world. These people were the so-called <COCOON>.
 
Children of Cross Over Other Nation, in short <COCOON>. These people are all returnees who have achieved a title of a hero in an alternative world. If you have to use the shortest description, they are the strongest warriors, and at the same time, they represent the entire world. Akatsuki originally thought that Kyouya was only the strongest student in JPN Babel school, but now it looked like he should be the strongest Japanese instead. No wonder that during the entrance inspection, the staff on the scene were all respectful to him. Akatsuki suddenly realized that.
 
Just a single <COCOON> is enough to override the power of a national military. In order to implement the concept of world peace, they, as the elite of Babel, took up the responsibility to educate and manage the returnees. If a war occurs somewhere in the world, Babel will immediately intervene by sending the alternative returnees to the battlefield.
 
On the surface, Babel seems to have young men and women who have various superpowers, developing them into an elite force to safeguard world peace and promote human prosperity. Conversely, they are turning the alternative world returnees into a tool for war, in order to suppress the organizations worldwide.
 
<COCOON>’s existence, would it really bring everlasting peace and prosperity? The answer is a no.
 
There was a group of people who deemed the alternative world returnees to be infidels. Terrorist acts that used cruel methods to persecute the faith and ideologies still remains in this world<!-- This sentence is unclear, "persecute the faith" is weird. -->. Even as Akatsuki and Kuzuha were going down in the elevator currently, there were many young returnees being sent off to the battlefield.
 
The countless battlefields around the world did not have Babel’s defense barrier, so returnee causalities naturally occurred.
 
The most difficult problem was the terrorists that rejected the concept of Babel and opposed the returnees.
 
One of the most famous terrorist organizations was the brave and fierce <Scarlet Dusk>. Their goal was to select like-minded comrades among the returnees and create a whole new country. To advertise their thoughts and boast their strengths, they would often take the most intense means. <Scarlet Dusk>’s strength was said to be not inferior to <COCOON>. The local military, and even the new United Nations and Babel all are hopeless against them.
 
Aside from <Scarlet Dusk>, the world still had many other terrorist organizations. Their common point was that they regarded Babel as their number one enemy.
 
“…”
 
Akatsuki looked at the somewhat immature Doumoto Kuzuha.
 
A thin body as if it could be easily broken gently into pieces if just a bit of strength was used. Even a girl like this would be pushed onto the battlefield to act as cannon fodder, just because she was an alternative world returnee.
 
Akatsuki could not accept this cruel reality. This was a mistaken world, and it was horribly wrong too.
 
After Kuzuha was aware of Akatsuki’s sight, she showed a mischievous smile.
 
“Although you were not aware of the situation before, how did the feeling of challenging the world feel?”
 
“Not bad actually, not bad at all.”
 
Akatsuki also grinned. Isn’t it? This was the reason why Ousawa Akatsuki returned to this world.
 
At that moment Akatsuki suddenly remembered one thing. He could not help but scratch his cheek embarrassedly.
 
“But… If I had known, I should have placed another type of fuse instead.”
 
“How chaotic, what kind of fuse did you plant?”
 
“Well, probably something like this.”
 
After saying all this, Akatsuki suddenly flipped up Kuzuha’s skirt.
 
He wanted to confirm something.
 
“…”
 
The defenseless Kuzuha just stood still, and did not know how to react. The skirt that was raised high up was slowly falling. The expressionless Kuzuha stared at Akatsuki.
 
“…Ousawa-kun, I did not expect you to be some sort of pervert that was interested in a girl’s panties.”
 
“Class rep, aren’t you too calm? It was completely outside of my expectations. A normal girl encountering such a thing, shouldn’t they either be angry or crying, or else angrily attack back?”
 
Yet Kuzuha did not have any of these reactions, this point was what Akatsuki had guessed. Kuzuha lacked the feelings that a teenager should have.
 
But no wonder, Akatsuki thought.
 
Suddenly being summoned to an alternative world, surviving a life that was unimaginably lonely, and finally managing to come back to the original world. The result of having to be split apart from her friends in the same age group, and start a unfamiliar school life with a bunch of strangers that were a few years older. In addition to that, she could be sent off to a battlefield any time. Having her emotions changed greatly is reasonable.
 
—Or Kuzuha must have lived in an environment where they had to suppress their feelings from a young age.
“That’s enough.”
 
Her tone revealed a bit of unhappiness. The grumbling Kuzuha looked down at her feet. Akatsuki sensed from her tone and actions that she felt a bit of emotional upheaval. An expression of a normal girl flashed by, but this made Akatsuki kindle some hope. Yes, it was still not too late.
 
During his life at Alayzard, Akatsuki had seen the darkness within the humans. He understood that the people who are physically and mentally battered will eventually have a miserable fate, no matter whether it was male or female, old or young. However, Kuzuha was different, she still had some hope, a chance for her to recover the emotions that a normal female should have.
 
However he should still call it a day, as they often say “haste makes waste”.
 
He should first try to make her happy before continuing such a conversation.
 
“Your panties are very cute, is that a cat?”
 
“No, it’s a bear.”
 
In the end, he failed.