Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 6 Episode 3 (section)

===Part 3===

「Then, continuing the second exam of sword skills as well as unarmed fighting skills will begin. Form a line following the order you are called!」

At the next exam, the officers of the Vanheim Principality were really high spirited, forcing the girls of the Academy into a hard battle conversely.

In order to avoid injury, the exam was basically examinees having a practice match against each other to see who could hit the other following the proper stance, but as expected there was differences in pure physical strength between males and females, so the Academy students were falling behind.

It wasn’t a subject that was considered as that important as a Drag-Knight, but on the whole, the New Kingdom was being pushed back.

「Now then, I too have to go all out as a member of Syvalles.」

When the turn of Sharis of the Triad came, a brawny man was waiting as her opponent.

Normally, the opponent should have a body build and gender that were as close as possible to the examinee, but it seemed that this was Buzzheim’s instigation at work.

「I believe that my opponent is obviously different, but it’s a painful thing to be unable to assert that I’m a woman at this kind of time.」

Sharis sweated and made a bitter smile. Almost at the same time the large man mercilessly attacked.

It was an exam to see how much the examinee could get the better of the opponent using martial art and a wooden sword in place of Sword Devices, but in order to avoid injury, a special regulation to not use direct attacks as much as possible was created.

「DROP DEAD YOU BRATTtTtT-!」

Sharis evaded the attack of the large man that was aiming at her shoulder and swept away the opponent’s leg.

「Should I say that it was a blessing that I was usually defeated utterly by Celis? I won’t be defeated by mere brute strength you know?」

Right after the man tumbled, Sharis quickly thrust the tip of her wooden sword on his chin.

With that stance, according to the rule the match was concluded──was how it supposed to be. But,

「That’s naïve, girl.」

「Wha-……!?」

Instantly, the leg of Sharis that was moved into the stance for the winning condition──was swept. By the foot of the man collapsing on the ground.

Sharis was reeled and she almost fell. Her wrist was caught and the large man stood up.

「Wait!? What are you planning to do!? I should have fulfilled the win condition──!?」

「The examiner didn’t give the end signal right? That’s unfortunate for you!」

The examiner Buzzheim intentionally overlooked the end of the match.

The moment Sharis’s face paled, the man’s finger caught the seam of her pilot suit.

「Wai-, sto……!?」

「Oops, my finger got stuck in a strange place so it can’t be he──guah!?」

The moment the seam of the pilot suit was slightly tearing, the man groaned and crouched down.

Sharis got dragged down with him, but someone caught her in their arms. It was Lux.

「Are you all right, Sharis-san?」

「Eh…… ye, yeah……」

When she looked, the man was writhing while pressing his side.

Lux buried the handle of his wooden sword on the man’s side.

「The New Kingdom examinee over there! That’s considered as obstruction to another’s match, you are disqualified!」

「……Understood.」

Buzzheim announced with annoyance, but Lux accepted the decision calmly.

But, because Lux moved as though he accidentally stumbled during the match against his opponent and collided on Sharis’s opponent by chance, the other examinees stopped that decision and after a discussion, it ended with only point reductions for Lux and Sharis.

「I’m sorry, Lux-kun……」

「It’s me who is sorry. The exam’s point, got reduced──」

Sharis hung down her head in response to Lux’s wry smile that looked troubled.

Buzzheim didn’t learn from experience and he made the large man just now to do another match.

Most likely they intended to do the same thing as before, but that scheme immediately collapsed.

「WHAATT-!? A, against a small girl like this, IiIIIII-!?」

This time the large man was beaten up thoroughly by the hands of Lux’s childhood friend, Philuffy.

In the end, although the result was that on the whole Vanheim was slightly above in the average results, but the top grades were seized by Celis and the others, the members of the New Kingdom.

「Those bunches, are they really officer cadets……!?」

「They must be a special group even among the New Kingdom right? I, if that’s not the case, then how to explain──」

At first they were in fervor purely not wanting to lose against the New Kingdom, but gradually they were shocked and instead, now they were even directing respectful gazes towards the Academy students.

But, even so Buzzheim and his hanger-ons were obstinately causing hindrances even at the third exam.

「Uwah!? It’s going to cra──!?」

Tillfur, who was doing a practical test of basic Drag-Rides operations, was shaken by other Wyverns that were fast approaching and she halted midway.

「Oops, sorry there. Looks like my track deviated a bit. After all our testing ground here is narrow, really sorry.」

「-……」

His manner was polite, but that voice which was containing obvious threat caused Tillfur’s face to become stiff.

「Number 32, a warning for you. You’re going to get disqualified the next time you leave your course.」

The examiner was the said Buzzheim as expected.

It was an exam to cover the designated route within the allotted time using the basic operations of each Drag-Ride, like running or flying.

From Lux’s point of view it was apparent that the man who was doing his exam at the same time as Tillfur next to her was making obstructions, but it was hard to prove it.

「Uuu……」

Tillfur groaned in distress.

She understood that it was harassment from Buzzheim, but the stress that she might get hindered anytime added with the tension of doing an exam in a foreign country for the first time, her control was more disarrayed than she imagined.

The male officer who saw Tillfur’s gliding and laughed approached to menace her again.

「Look, I’m coming from your left again. Watch out!」

The male officer intentionally called out while flying in a way that felt slightly off from his own course, but when he approached until just barely,

「The flag that is your target is over there you know?」

「Wha──!?」

Lux who was similarly in the middle of his practical exam using his Wyvern to fly grazed the route of the officer that was menacing Tillfur.

Lux had been flying ahead towards the route of the man that was trying to approach Tillfur.

Perhaps the officer was panicked and mistook his control, because his trajectory kept deviating without him being able to correct it, and he was falling to the ground.

「Watch out-!?」

There, the Drag-Rides around that area yelled──but, Lux who swooped down using his Wyvern picked up the Wyvern of the male officer just before he crashed.

「Ku…… u」

「Please be careful. If you don’t pay attention to the angle of your propulsion nozzle, you will fall right away.」

When Lux indifferently said that, the obstructive man fell silent in frustration.

「Diving down and making it in time in that situation……」

「I see, the New Kingdom too isn’t half bad.」

The officers of the Vanheim Principality uttered their admiration at the act that Lux displayed nonchalantly, while the expression of Buzzheim and his underlings distorted in displeasure.

The officer that was making a nuisance of himself failed, on the contrary he even got saved from his predicament. There was no greater humiliation than that.

On the other hand, a part of the officers were honestly in admiration seeing Lux’s skill in handling a Drag-Ride.

「Oi, do you guys really have the leeway to worry about the officers of another country?」

On and on, there were even voices raised in support of the New Kingdom.

The attitude of Lux and the others who didn’t yield against pressure and also their strength, and then the dirty methods of Buzzheim were in the process of changing the atmosphere of the venue.

This was Lux’s aim.

In the Vanheim Principality, there were military officers who supported Princess Milmiette, who was taking a friendly stance towards the New Kingdom, and the bunch like Buzzheim, who were treating the New Kingdom as an enemy.

In order to slant that air of rivalry to one side, he deliberately made the detractors to do their harassment openly instead, and then he showed how they smashed through all those schemes.

「Just as expected from my knight, he pulled it off really well.」

「Yes, that’s right. But──there is no way we can just let him take on their squabble by himself alone.」

Lisha and Krulcifer who were watching from some distance away were talking with a hint of delight.

「Then, we too, let’s go.」

Philuffy too, although her face was blank as usual, but she was starting to line up for the exam briskly, as though she was triggered by Lux’s actions.

In the end, even after that, the obstructions didn’t go well, and half of the top ten grades had the names of members of the New Kingdom placed in there when Greifer and Coral were excluded.