Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 12 Episode 1 (section)

===Part 3===
「Now then……. First, I should go look how Yoruka is doing.」

Lux who received a memo from the Triad read the names of the members written there. He would look around for them.

It seemed that the members whose names were written there couldn’t call out to Lux until the Holy Night Festival.

Why did they do such thing?

Lux was thinking about that, but this was the decision of the girls after they talked with each other.

Perhaps it was so that they wouldn’t hinder Lux’s rest?

Or perhaps they had another motive?

The list of names that was written on the memo was the names of the members who were intimate with him.

Lisha, Krulcifer, Philuffy, Celis, Yoruka, Airi……Headmaster Relie.

Under the management of the Triad, they wanted him to go met with those girls just once before the Holy Night Festival.

The accumulated chores for today were only simple helping out requests from the students, so he finished several of them quickly while heading to Yoruka’s location first.

There was a small hospital ward called the aid room inside the Academy’s grounds.

With how daily the Drag-Ride practice and battles with the Abyss were, it was inevitable that injuries would occur. Sometimes there would even be those who got seriously injured that they were sent home temporarily.

But, very rarely, there would also be those with special circumstances who couldn’t go home.

The aid room was for the sake of giving a place to live in temporarily for such seriously injured people. Lux went there bringing flowers and fruits.

It went without saying that he went there to visit Yoruka who was seriously injured from the fight the other day. When Lux was going to open the door, he suddenly came to a stop.

「……-!? Wait. Could it be, this flow──」

Yes.

Since he came to this Academy, he experienced several flow of events where he made a blunder towards the female students.

He mustn’t casually enter a room with a girl inside.

Especially Yoruka, she was dressed with high exposure rate even at normal times. Now that she was injured and had bandages wrapped around her body──there was a high possibility that she was totally naked wearing only bandages.

「……Wait, just what am I thinking!」

Lux’s heart was pounding hard from imagining that in his mind while carefully surmising the situation inside.

This was Yoruka, he couldn’t be assured with just knocking and her saying it was okay.

After all she would surely invite Lux inside without reservation even if her skin was currently exposed, so he had to tell her beforehand to wear clothes properly.

「Somehow, it feels embarrassing to meet Yoruka……」

Lux’s cheeks were faintly blushing and he recalled their parting last time.

–

『Perhaps, I am completely in love with Aruji-sama.』

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Her face that was talking with feverish breathing, her body glued to him, and then kissing him.

Perhaps that was the first time anyone was able to see her human side, which was directed only to Lux. And because of that, Lux himself now also saw her as a human even more than before.

Even though recently his feelings towards the other girls was also becoming stronger, getting such thing done to him additionally was completely unbearable.

(Calm down, right now isn’t the time for that. As a Seven Dragon Paladin, as Lisha-sama’s knight, I have to concentrate on saving the New Kingdom.)

Lux took a deep breath several times and calmed his heartbeat, then he knocked on the door.

「Yoruka? I came to visit──are you awake?」

He called out, but there was no reply.

Wondering if she was sleeping, he sharpened his hearing, but he couldn’t hear anything like a sleeper’s breathing.

He tried calling out several times but there was no reaction, so he opened the door slightly and peeked inside, but there was no one there.

「Eh……?」

He thought that she was surely in complete bed rest because of her injury, could she have gone to the toilet?

When he thought that, he saw the figure of a half-naked girl swinging a Sword Device outside the window inside the room.

「Aah, I see, she is practicing her sword──wait, what are you doing Yoruka!?」

Lux entered inside the room in panic, opened the veranda’s window and got outside.

Unbelievably, even though she had one arm broken, she was doing swinging practice.

Or rather, wasn’t she cold in this winter? Or perhaps she was warmed from moving her body? She had almost no clothes on her body.

She only had bandages that were wrapping her chest and waist, making him felt some kind of indecent immorality from that appearance.

When Lux rushed towards Yoruka, the black haired girl turned towards him smilingly.

「My, do you have business with me Aruji-sama? Even though I will come to you if you call me to be of assistance.」

Yoruka whose left eye was covered with an eye pad burst into a pure smile and turned towards him.

In front of that highly exposed body, Lux was troubled of where to look.

「Tha, that’s not it-! I won’t think to make you do anything when you are injured like this.」

「That’s right isn’t it. The current me cannot be useful for Aruji-sama.」

Yoruka suddenly showed a lonely expression, so Lux’s thoughts came to a halt.

「No, that’s not what I mean……. That’s, even Yoruka right now, can become my strength──」

「In other words, Aruji-sama visited me in order to make use of my body then. If that’s the case I can be useful even if all I do is only laying down.」

「…………」

The words of the bewitchingly smiling Yoruka caused Lux to stiffen with a complicated expression.

Or rather, he thought that she had become a little more human, but as expected, Yoruka was Yoruka.

She was missing two, or three screws in various places.

「E, enough with that, you……. Anyway let’s return inside the room for now. The outside is cold, if you force yourself with your body in that state, your recovery will be slow.」

Lux lent Yoruka his shoulder while trying not to look at her body as much as possible and led her back to her bed.

During that time, because her body that was exposing a lot of skin was glued closely on him, he felt the warmth and the softness of her breast and his heart was beating fast.

Fortunately, the splints that were placed on the broken places didn’t shift and it didn’t look like they would need a doctor’s help.

Lux who was relieved looked at Yoruka’s body once more.

As expected, it was a terrible injury just from looking.

She barely avoided lethal injury, but not just broken bones and cuts, several spots were also bandaged because of bruises from physical blows.

「You have to rest properly until you recover okay?」

「Yes. I will bear it in mind.」

Yoruka nodded unexpectedly obediently with her usual smile.

Most likely, she wasn’t forcing herself intentionally.

For her who was standing out in only fighting talent, she had nothing else to do.

But, it was still too early for her to even go through rehabilitation.

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Thinking about Yoruka, perhaps he should think about something for her to do to kill time while resting.

「Come to think of it, do you have interest in things like books? You will be able to kill time like that without moving your body.」

「Yes. I’m good at cutting old book.」

Yoruka responded to Lux’s question with a bright smile.

……Let’s stop that.

「That’s, then how about chatting with friends or──」

「Aruji-sama’s little sister brought several people to visit, but for some reason everyone ran away after a while. It was only Noct-san and little sister-san who were barely conversing with me.」

「I see.」

As expected, because of her way of thinking that was peculiar──or outrageous to speak badly, normal students couldn’t keep up with Yoruka’s flow.

Or rather, it was hard even for Airi and Noct who had excellent skills in human interaction, so it could be easily guessed what would happen.

Nevertheless, if he left Yoruka without being able to make any kind of suggestion like this, she might do something absurd while he wasn’t aware.

At their previous date, it seemed she was able to do fishing skillfully, but it didn’t look like she held much interest in it that she would take it as a hobby.

After thinking what he should do, Lux suddenly remembered a certain thing.

「Come to think of it, how about fashion? If I remember right, Airi has a catalogue of clothes.」

It was a hobby that was befitting of a girl her age, and she would also be able to bring it up as a topic to talk with girls around her age.

In addition if there was Airi and Noct’s cooperation, it was possible to do without her moving her body too much.

「Fashion, is it?」

「Yeah. What do you think? If you look at the catalogue and order something, you can ask Airi or Noct for help in wearing them. Yoruka’s usual black outfit is also pretty. I’m interested seeing Yoruka wearing various clothes.」

Lux formed a plan to push her in that direction to stop her from being reckless.

「I……guess. If Aruji-sama wishes for it, that too isn’t bad. If I come up with various looks, then the options for the night service will also increase──」

「Yeah, let’s go with that. That’s why, you must not act reckless anymore until your wounds are healed.」

Lux was unable to hear what she said in the end well, but Yoruka was unusually accepting, so Lux pushed for it.

After the matter of her recuperation finished there, Yoruka unusually began a talk from her end.

「On that subject, is there any problem with Aruji-sama’s body?」

「Eh……?」

Lux didn’t understand what Yoruka was suddenly saying and he tilted his head.

「It’s about the case of my incompetence. In order to save me, Aruji-sama was fatally wounded, and then revived from the brink of death due to the existence of Sacred Eclipse.」

「…………」

That’s right.

Lux who received the slash of {{furigana|Shin Senjin|True Battle Array}} from Singlen and Leviathan was dying and received help from Sacred Eclipse.

Sacred Eclipse, that was originally said it would lead the world to destruction.

His memory was vague, but Sacred Eclipse once appeared to save someone.

A member of the imperial family of the ancient era called the Lord, Listelka Rei Arshalia only recognized it as a danger that would destroy the world, but could it be that there was more to it?

It concerned Lux, but that wasn’t what Yoruka was concerned about.

「Aruji-sama──have you ever received Baptism like me?」

「…………」

The secret medicine of the ancient era, Elixir. By taking it in, the body would be strengthened due to the astonishing vitalization effect and the user would 『evolve』 into an existence called {{furigana|Nocturne|Phantasmal Devil}}.

The user’s physical ability, senses, and even regenerative ability would become equal with the {{furigana|Abyss|Phantasmal Divine Beast}}, and they would display inhuman strength.

But──that strength was only forcefully drawn out from the body, it wouldn’t last long.

Not only that, when someone forced themselves too much while transformed into a Nocturne, when they returned to normal they would use up their life force due to the backlash and die.

At that time, Lux only got his wound healed without any change occurring in his body.

「I don’t have any memory of receiving Baptism, but if I actually received it in the past, the devil transformation won’t occur?」

「I don’t know that much. Baptism is a surgery to blend Elixir to a part of the body, but the process is accompanied by terrible pain. Even I who only got Baptism applied into a single eye was told by Hayes that normally only twenty percent would survive the procedure.」

「For now, I don’t feel anything out of place in my body but──」

Rather, his body’s condition was great.

Because he was continuously going through fierce battles since he became a member of the Seven Dragon Paladins, fatigue was piling up inside him, but thanks to Elixir it felt like everything was recovered.

If, there was some kind of strange secret in Lux’s body──

「Tsu……」

*Bzz* Lux’s sight was covered with static like a sandstorm and the sight of the aid room was erased.

Again.

Recently scenes of something that shouldn’t exist in his memory would emerge at the back of his mind.

If there was anything that felt out of place in his body, there was just that.

「Aruji, sama?」

「……Nn. No, it’s nothing.」

Lux noticed Yoruka’s voice calling him and he returned to his senses.

In any case, he didn’t understand anything fully about it in the current situation.

「Then, do your best in the matter of fashion without forcing yourself okay?」

「Yes. I will consult with Noct-san and the others so that I will be able to answer Aruji-sama’s expectations.」

Lux left the aid room after receiving a favorable reply.

For the time being it seemed he was able to handle his discussion with Yoruka well, so he sighed in relieve.

He avoided staying for long and returned to his room temporarily. Next he would follow the memo and visit the girls who were his dear companions.

「With this──I have a rough idea of what present to give Aruji-sama.」

After Lux left, Yoruka made such mutter that was filled with implication and stared outside the window.

Lux didn’t notice three girls were standing watch from the garden ahead of her gaze.