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

===Part 3===


“Still, I wonder what that urgent business is.”

Lux, who came out of the atelier, hung the bag packed with the complete set for the said cross-dressing and went to the dorm leader's room in the women’s dorm.

He originally intended to go return it as is to Principal Relie, but the plan had changed.

When Lux was walking in the long corridor while thinking about such a thing,

“I-I’m sorry. Can I have a little of your time!?”

A girl who gathered her long hair in three braids called out to Lux in a flustered state.

Since the color of her necktie was blue, it looked like she was a third-year student; but he was not familiar with her face.

She was probably a native of the south region as the rare brown skin was their peculiarity.

“Ah, yes. Errr── what is it?”

“There’s a person in this room that is unable to move. She has overused her Drag-Ride and seemed to have ended up having muscle pains. Until I get the doctor for medical treatment, could you please look after her?”

“Eh……? I-I don’t mind it, but...”

“Then, please! This way──”

The braided hair girl pulled Lux’s hands and took him to a room on the third floor.

“It’s here. She doesn’t look fine, so please lightly massage her body.”

“Ah, yes. I got it. ──Wait, massage!?”

No matter how urgent it was, wouldn’t it be quite a problem for him, a man, to do it?

Lux thought so and was going to decline it immediately, but,

“Please. I’ve already told her about it after all.”

As the braided hair girl said only that, she quickly left the place.

(I-Is it all right for me to do such a thing? But, I’ve got to take responsibility for accepting the request……)

After having hesitated a little while, Lux steeled himself and opened the door.

Unlike the sharing rooms for boarding students, it seemed to be a slightly small, private room. Perhaps because the lamp was not lit, the face of the girl lying face-down on the bed could not be seen.

“Um…… excuse me.”

As he called out to her just in case and entered the room, the girl’s voice returned.

“Please, come in. You’re quite late.”

“Um…… is it all right if I rub you?”

“Yes. I have heard that by doing so, one can be rid of their fatigue.”

Though it was a slightly feverish voice, Lux looked puzzled as he felt like it was not a painful voice.<ref>The reason why he looked puzzled was because he was told that she didn’t look good and that her muscles hurt.</ref>

“T-Then, excuse me……”

For note, Lux had odd jobs experience in large public baths. Of course, there were only men, but he had done massages for visitors.

(But, I’ve almost never done jobs like medical care──)

As Lux was troubled as to how he should deal with it,

“Is something wrong? If possible, I would like you to do it before my body gets cold.”

“I-I understand. Then, please tell me if it’s painful.”

As Lux explained, he nervously extended his hands.

When his finger softly crept on her back,

“Uwah……!?”

He unintentionally raised his voice.

It was dim and one could not see well, but the girl’s upper half was naked.

That the white abundant chest of the girl’s upper body was softly flattened and could be seen as its majestic volume was reflected in the window before his eyes.

At the touch of the finely strong, firm skin as if sticking to him, and at the touch of the strong, firm skin, Lux’s heart began to pound violently.

“……? Is something wrong?”

“N-No!? It’s nothing──!?”

Although his voice was clogged, Lux once again let his fingers creep on the girl’s skin.

(……Wait!? Looking closely, not only her back, but also her buttocks, this──)

Upon close inspection, she only wore a piece of white thin cloth on the bottom of her neatly constricted waist.

Through that piece of cloth, the girl’s well-shaped big buttocks, and well-fleshed body lines also distinctly stood out; Lux’s head immediately boiled.

“Should I turn the light on? Saniya told me that I can relax when it’s dark, so it’s better to turn it off.”

“N-No, it’s all right! Um, I will continue, so──”

While parching his throat in nervousness, Lux massaged her back in panic.

The touch was totally different from when he massaged a man of an excavation shop during an odd job before.

Lux’s face spontaneously became hot at the rising sweet fragrance and the sensual touch.

Even so, as his fingers remembered the job of before, he somehow manage to do it well, but──

“It’s been a while since I last took a bath in the girl’s dormitory, so I unintentionally had it long and leisurely.”

As she was satisfied with Lux’s way of using his fingers, the girl muttered in a calm tone with a slightly pleasant atmosphere.

“But, an academy of only girls without males is good as expected. In the capital, I was tensed every day.”

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“Eh……?”

With these words, Lux noticed.

(Having returned from the capital? Wait, d-don’t tell me this person is──!?)

When Lux was thrown in further intense agitation,

“Celis-san? Are you in there? Saniya-san was looking for you, but──”

These words were heard along with a small knock.

It was a different voice from the braided hair girl’s of earlier.

(T-This is bad……!)

Lux’s heart was about to stop.

This current situation was definitely not Celis’s intention. There was no way that Celis, who is a man-hater, would expressly ask Lux, a man, for a massage right after bathing.

(W-Why did such a situation happen!? No, in the first place, the girl who called me here said that there was someone who hurt her body──!)

『It seems that since a few days ago, a movement of trying to drive Lux-kun out of the academy is occurring among the third-year students.』

『Strictly speaking, only one person, a third-year female student called Saniya seemed to be stirring up her other classmates though.』

Krulcifer’s voice echoed in Lux’s mind.

And Lux did not know what Saniya looked like.

(No way ── was it that girl!?)

''I’ve been set up'', when he noticed it, it was late.

If the door were to be opened here, Lux would be framed for sexually attacking Celis and expelled from the academy.

No amount of resistance from the pro-Lux faction could possibly prevent the explosion.

“Understood. I’ll come back very soon, so could you wait a little?”

“I’ll wait here then.”

When Celis politely told so, at the same time she softly raised her upper body.

As the white, beautiful back of the girl came before his eyes, Lux unintentionally averted his eyes.

“I’ll turn on the light. I give my thanks for having come expressly for my sake. But, I must soon change my clothes, so──”

When Celis was going to stretch her hand to the lamp of the room,

“P……Please, hold on a little!”

“Is something wrong?”

“E-Errr…… um, I-I must close the curtains! Because you’ll be seen from the outside! And also recently, there’s been a suspicious person──”

“…………”

Those were Lux’s words with only the intent to gain time but,

(T-This is bad. I might have been found out……!?)

“Thank you. I was a little careless. It looks like I need to reflect.”

The girl muttered with a slightly wry smile.

(I-I’m saved…… But, what do I do from here on?)

He could not do something unreasonable such as jumping off from the window of the third floor.

Even if he were to run outside of the room, the girl waiting for Celis stood right there at the corridor.

While a troubled Lux closed the curtain, Celis stood up from the bed and the cloth which was put on her body softly fell.

Lux unintentionally turned his gaze at her white naked body visible in the darkness.

“……!? S-Senpai!? What are you──”

“I thought about wearing at least my underwear.”

(B-But, changing your clothes without even hiding yourself…… even if you’re thinking that I’m a woman──. Ah……!)

At that moment, a certain idea crossed Lux’s mind.

Lux hurriedly stretched his hand at his bag on the floor and executed it.

“Then, I’ll turn on the light.”

Immediately after Celis said so and turned on the lamp putting on her underwear──

“…………”

“Ah, u-um──, good evening.”

Celis opened her eyes wide in puzzlement, staring at the cross-dressing Lux.

A girl who wore the blouse and skirt of the uniform and put on a wig of hair reaching until the waist.

It was an emergency measure to use the cross-dressing kit, coincidentally he was on his way to return it, but──.

“You are──”

When Celis muttered in bewilderment, Lux’s body suddenly stiffened.

(A-As I thought, it may have been reckless. There was no way I would deceive her with this──)

“Luno. So, it was you. I’m glad to able to meet you.”

“……Eh?”

When Lux cocked his head in puzzlement to the unexpected words, Celis softly took his hands.

“Is your injury all right already? I’m sorry to have asked you for such a work without even knowing.”

As Celis completely thought Lux to be the girl of yesterday, she said so with a voice filled with deep affection.

(I-It’s good that she hasn’t noticed, but I kind of have mixed feelings about it…… wait, more importantly!)

“S-Senpai! Your clothes! You still haven’t worn your clothes!”

Lux, who noticed it, hurriedly stepped back.

When looking, Celis was still in pale light blue-colored underwear.

“Please, do not mind it. More importantly, meeting you is more……”

“U-Um! You’ll catch a cold! So, Celis-senpai should──!”

“I understand. Then, can you give me a little time?”

As Lux desperately appealed, Celis slowly stretched out her hand to her uniform on the side.

Of course, Lux turned his face away to avoid watching her change, but even so his heart was violently pounding.

Celis’s aloof atmosphere coupled with her beauty that could be described as peerless, by just being in the same room as her, made him feel exalted.

This was probably the status as a Duke daughter she held.

“Errr, but…… I ── not that, I-I don’t think that I’m that great a student to keep company to Celis-senpai. And earlier, someone else seemed to call you, too, so……”<ref>He first use ''boku'' (I) only use by males before changing to watashi (I) used by both genders.</ref>

Frankly speaking, he wanted Celis to leave as is without incident, so when Lux tried to lead as such──

“It’s not really like I like people of the same sex.”

Celis who finished changing her clothes and approached again said something unexpected.

“No, of course it’s not like I dislike them, either, but…… um, I would say that I don’t see them as targets of romantic love. It’s just ‘like’ in the meaning of being close friends with them. But ── for some reason, I’m misunderstood by the students around.”

“…………”

He did not know the reason why Celis suddenly said such a thing, but he felt like he somehow understood why the surrounding students would think so.

A fairy tale-like beautiful and strong girl in all respects.

If such a girl was to allow men to get close, the girls, who admired her, would further pile up fantasies.

“But, it’s strange. When I look at you, for some reason um, I’m captivated by you. I’m sorry to say something strange so abruptly, but──”

“N-No, I’m very happy that you say that of me, but──”

This was half his true feelings.

Being able to attract the attention of a noble, beautiful girl like Celis, there was no way that he would feel sick about it.

Though, it might be natural because he was a man.

“Senpai. Not yet? It’s late.”

Again with a knocking sound, the voice of the girl of earlier was heard.

“…………”

After Celis stared at Lux’s face for a little while,

“Your words of a little while ago, do you really mean it?”

“Eh, ah, yes……”

“Then, on the day off three days from now, um, will you go out with me?”

“Eh……!? But, that’s──”

“Y-You didn’t want to didn’t you!?”

As Celis’s expression looked despondent as he has never seen so far, Lux was flustered.

“N-No! It’s all right! I’ll go.”

“Thank you, Luno.”

(I-I’ve said it……! Just reflexively……)

“Then…… let’s see. At 9:00 a.m., after eating breakfast, please wait for me in the dining room.”

“I-I got it.”

“Then, see you again.”

After saying only that, Celis reluctantly left the room.

As the two girls’ footsteps became more distant, Lux turned the lamp off and kept his disguise just in case.

When he heaved a sigh of relief for the time being,

“I’ve never seen your face.”

“……!?”

Being called out from behind, Lux unintentionally held his breath.

When he turned around, the black braided hair and brown-skinned girl, who lured Lux over here earlier was there.

“Y-You’re──!?”

“……Ah? Do you recognize me? I think that this is the first time we met though.”

“Kuh……!?”

Here once again, Lux understood the situation.

The aforementioned girl that denied the present situation that there was a man in the academy and incited Celis to drive Lux out.

This third-year student called Saniya lured Lux into a trap.

In order to make a situation where Lux attacked Celis and immediately spread the commotion, she probably came here to see how things went.

(It’s bad…… Unlike Celis-senpai, this person suspects me.)

“Well, whatever. More importantly, did you happen to see a male student in this room? You’ll know at least that, right? You were in there just a moment ago.”

She stood in front of Lux and asked with a dubious expression.

He could not escape.

She had a calm demeanor at a glance, but sharp doubt and hostility were emitted from her slender body.

(This is bad, at this rate……!)

When Lux was flustered──,

“Hey, may I intrude?”

From behind Saniya standing before Lux, a dignified voice was heard.

Exposing while slowly walking was Krulcifer.

“I’m sorry to interrupt your conversation, but I’ve an urgent business with that girl. Can you hand her to me?”

With calm, yet unfazed movements, Krulcifer stood next to the cross-dressing Lux.

A leisurely smile floated on her face.

“For you, who is an Earl's daughter, that’s quite impolite, you know? Can you wait until I finish my business with──”

Saniya aggressively fought back without retreating. But,

“The principal told me that she wants me to bring her as soon as possible, but──. Do you still need a reason?”

“…………”

Though Lux thought that the request for his presence by the principal was a lie, there was no way of confirming it in this situation.

Perhaps she thought that detaining or doubting would be unnatural, Saniya heaved a small sigh.

“I understand. Then, excuse me.”

And then, she turned her back on Lux and Krulcifer and briskly disappeared into the corridor.

After watching Saniya leave until her presence completely disappeared,

“Then, shall we go?”

Krulcifer quietly pulled Lux’s hand and began to walk as if nothing happened.

“…………”

They both left the dorm silently as is, and went up the stairs of the school building, whose door was about to be closed already.

Lux, who ascertained that there was no one in their surrounding, finally asked.

“Errr, Krulcifer-san. Um, thank you.”

As he first thanked his friend who saved him from a predicament,

“As usual, you’re too softhearted. After I heard the voice that called you in the atelier, I found it a little suspicious.”

“…………”

“Incidentally, I went to confirm it with the dorm leader, but she told me that she didn’t remember calling you.”

Being told so calmly, Lux was at a loss for words.

Looking back now, the appearance of the girl, who asked for him without showing herself, was certainly strange.

The ones who knew that Lux participated in the meeting in the atelier should have been only the girls who were present there.

It was probable that Saniya secretly followed Lux.

Lux has certainly been careless.

“But…… I’m amazed that you knew it was me. Even though I’m dressed like this──”

Because he did not tell Krulcifer about his cross-dressing to patrol a few days ago, she should not know that he had the means to cross-dress.

When Lux asked as he thought so,

“There’s no way that I’ll mistake my precious Lux for someone else, right?”

She said so with her usual cool smile.

“Errr, what do you──”

“Can you not ask about it? Even I became embarrassed a little……”

When Lux’s face turned red as he understood what she meant, Krulcifer also blushed while feigning calm.

After they arrived at the Principal's room as is, they explained the circumstances to Relie who stayed for work and she promised to arrange an alibi for him.

And then after having changed back into his male uniform, Lux returned the female uniform and then parted from Krulcifer there.

“──Phew.”

He returned to the room he shared with Philphie and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

At any rate, it was dangerous.

That third-year female student Saniya was trying to drive out Lux with hostility he has never seen so far.

Because the girls around him so far have received him favorably, he had forgotten; but relaxing his attention for a moment was dangerous.

“But…… what on earth does that girl──?”

A girl who regarded the nobles “men” as enemies due to the custom of androcracy that the Old Empire had laid out before.

Or a girl who did not originally like Lux that got into a school of aristocrat daughters where there were no men.

He could understand those simple reasons.

But, he felt a stronger intent from that girl called Saniya.

“Munya (cute yawning)…… Lu, chan.”

The double room’s light was turned on, but Philphie seemed to have gone ahead sleeping on her bed.

“Good night, Philphie.”

When he called out to her with a gentle smile, Lux turned the lamp off and went to bed, too.

In any case, the Campus Selection Battle would begin soon.

And, the awakening of the Ragnarok, which was the New Kingdom’s crisis to come, approached closer every day.

(I must also tell Celis-senpai about that──)

While thinking about such a thing, the calm night wore on.