Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 8 Episode 1 (section)

===Part 3===

「Haa, haa……. Just what is wrong with me──!?」

Celis was aware of the heat in her face while running on the Academy’s ground.

Strange, something was unusual.

Even though yesterday too she was chided by her father Dist because of her absentmindedness, and she also had endeavored in her training until she ran out of strength, and yet.

Even though she had rushed to Lux’s predicament just now and she thought that she had helped him with the best that she could do.

『You ──, don’t tell me that you are falling in love with this man?』

The words that Magialca said couldn’t leave from inside her head.

The moment she saw Lux’s face, she couldn’t think anything.

「I’ve never, felt something like this even once until now──」

Finally she finished running from the back of the campus building until outside the campus gate. Celis was gasping for breath then.

Normally her breathing wouldn’t even change after only this much distance, but the fast beating of her heart wouldn’t slow down.

Midway she also passed girls her junior, but she passed through without even looking at them.

(I’ll patrol outside just for a bit before returning……)

She felt like she couldn’t return like this as long as her body still hadn’t calmed down, so Celis was thinking with the『approach of escaping』 that was unusual for her.

But, in practice, in this period of campus festival, the Academy was bustling with activity.

The festival would only be for two days, but it was opened for the outsider, so naturally there would also be『man』 thinking of improper thing coming.

Last year there were also a pervert climbing up the campus building to peep at girl changing, and thief trying to enter the hangar aiming for the Drag-Ride.

At that time Celis and others promptly solved the matter and it ended without turning into serious matter.

(After all if damage really occur, it won’t end as trouble to only us.)

Once a damage occurred, the headmaster, the city mayor, perhaps even the royal capital that was managing the Academy wouldn’t be able to overlook it.

Celis herself, if she had to say, she was not good with this kind of merry festival where everyone would slightly cut loose, but she was happy seeing a lot of the girls having fun with it.

No, exactly because she was someone who normally was stricter than necessary that she wanted to take the backseat in this kind of event and aided with the relaxation of the girls.

Celis believed that it was a work that she could do.

「Fuu, ……my heart is finally calming down.」

When she finished taking a lap around the outer wall surrounding the vast Academy, she felt herself returning to her former self.

However, Celis’s private tutor, Wade who in the past gave her teaching of literary and martial arts.

Even in the book of teaching that Lux’s grandfather gave her, they way to deal with this kind of condition wasn’t written there.

「It will be great if this is something temporary, but it will be dangerous if this symptoms continue……」

When Celis turned the corner while muttering to herself, she saw the figure of a girl staring still at the campus building slightly away from the gate.

「That’s──?」

Celis saw that and tilted her head.

From a glance it wasn’t a suspicious person. The person only looked like a town girl from middle class household, but Celis noticed that something is strange.

After all during the time Celis was circling the outer circumference, the person was staring inside from that spot all this time.

「Excuse me, do you have a bit of time?」

When she called out in concern, the town girl returned to her senses in surprise and turned toward Celis.

She looked slight older from Celis by two or three years, although not gorgeous but she was a pretty girl.

「Do you have some kind of business with the Academy? If it’s alright with you, can I hear your story?」

「Aa, ahaha……. I’m sorry.」

As soon as Celis suggested that, the girl friendlily waved her hand and smiled wryly.

「Actually, I’m a person from different city block. I came here for a bit because of work circumstance, so I came here wondering if I can perhaps meet with a boy who is an acquaintance but──it seems that the place is still in the middle of preparation for the campus festival, I was thinking regretfully that perhaps it’s impossible.」

「A boy……? That means, could it be──」

「Yes. Lux Arcadia-kun. Former prince who did chores, though it looks like currently he became a famous person in different meaning at this Cross Field.」

The girl muttered with somewhat a distant look.

Seeing how she didn’t realize who Celis was when she was equally famous as the daughter of a duke who was one of the four great nobles, most likely the girl herself wasn’t a person who was related to noble.

「No, he came to this block at first was because he tried to take back my pouch that was taken by a cat. That’s why, I felt something like a bit of responsibility.」

「Is, that so.」

Celis had heard about the circumstances of how Lux was invited by Lisha and got admitted into the Academy, but she had never heard about the specific of the story until that far.

「Yes, he was an interesting kid. He had worked at my place only for a little bit though. He always looked really busy──」

The girl started talking about reminiscent talk of Lux.

Celis wondered why.

It should be natural seeing that it had only been around half a year since Lux came to the Academy, but when she was told the story about Lux’s livelihood doing chores that she didn’t know about, her feeling was growing a bit frustrated.

「I see, I’m glad that it looks like he too is having fun here. But──if possible, I think I want to meet with him a bit. I wish to wait until the campus festival but, I have to return within today no matter what because of my work circumstance.」

「Tha, that’s……」

Celis who heard her wish was hesitating.

In the Academy’s rule, normally outsider without authorization wasn’t permitted to enter inside.

But, it was possible to bring Lux outside by attaching some kind of reason.

That too originally was something that must not be done but──.

(……But, she too has expressly come here to meet Lux, and Lux too surely would be happy.)

Celis was lost whether she should bend the Academy’s rule for that.

But, when she saw the eyes of the girl that was filled with hope, her feeling would become painful no matter what.

「Tha, that, I’m sorry but……that, Lux right now is──」

At that moment when Celis was about to say the words of refusal naturally, the town girl’s body floated.

「Kyaah!?」

「──!?」

Celis’s body burst into movement and caught the body of the girl that was thrown away.

Unnoticed near the campus gate, there were two girls clad in black military uniform standing there.

「You, what are you doing──!?」

Celis quickly helped the girl stood and glared at the girl in military uniform who was acting violently.

One was a tall girl with distinctive crimson hair.

Ominous and daunting hostility was overflowing from her whole body. She was releasing a piercing gaze.

A personification of armed might and malice.

She was a girl who was clad in an atmosphere that would give such impression to anyone who saw her without exception.

She had serious look──no, there was even a faint smile that was tugged on her face, but she was looking down on everything with disdain.

The girl was looking their way with expression that would give such fright to anyone.

「Whaaat?」

The girl’s mouth opened widely into crescent shape, then her hand tightly grasped the arm of the town girl.

Right after that, a high-pitched scream leaked out from her mouth.

「-……, AAAAAAH……!?」

「────」

Idle thought instantly vanished from Celis’s face and her expression changed.

Without hesitation she drew out her rapier shaped Sword Device and thrust the tip at the face of the girl in black clothes.

「Any further violence than that is not permitted. If you refuse than I won’t hold back.」

Celis threatened with seriousness.

But, even so the girl who was perpetrating her tyranny didn’t change her expression at the slightest.

「Violence? It’s this lowly girl who is blocking my path isn’t it? Looks like the education toward the lower classes has vanished since this country became new kingdom eeeh.」

「A, UUuuUGHH!」

The girl in black clothes put even more strength and tightened her grip hard as though she was trying to crush the town girl’s arm.

At that moment, Celis moved and the rapier’s blade flashed.

At the same time the girl also let go of the town girl and thrust out her right fist that was enveloped in glove.

「──Stop it, Celis!」

「Please stop, Rosa-sama」

Two voices came simultaneously, the trajectory of the blade and fist crossed.

Both sides dodged the coming attack in a hair’s breadth, and immediately after they quickly took distance.

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At the same time, two people cut in between to stop each side. It was third year student of Triad, Sharis, and a glasses girl in military uniform who was different from the red haired girl.

「──Now I lost interest. I thought that I would be able to have a bit of fun.」

The girl waved her hand and made a ridiculing smile.

But, rather than that Celis had her attention taken to another place.

「Rosa……? You, could it be──」

「Nice to meet you. She is the Seven Dragon Paladins who represent Heiburg Republic, Rosa Granhide. I am her aide, Calensia Hersmice.」

The intellectual glasses girl at the side gave a greeting like that in the place of Rosa.

Her expression rather than arrogant looked calm instead.

「Heiburg’s……」

Celis and Sharis who heard that put themselves on guard with alert expression.

Heiburg Republic.

It was one of the large countries that was famous in the world. A few months ago, they borrowed the help of an arm dealer called Hayes and came invading with a plan that attempted to take over the new kingdom.

But──to the end it was a plan that was spearheaded by the remnants of old empire who were seeking asylum in Heiburg and Hayes.

Heiburg only gave excuse that the plan was something that was arbitrarily done by a single high official who was trying to take over the military affairs helped by two outsiders.

Naturally that explanation couldn’t satisfy the new kingdom that received heavy blow from that battle and they raised the question of responsibility but it kept being an endless argument until the present day.

The information until that point had also reached the ears of Celis and others.

「Rosa Granhide……. I don’t remember seeing your face at All-Dragon Battle or anywhere else──」

From her appearance, Rosa’s age was around Celis and others.

And yet, Celis had never heard about her existence until now.

「Aa, certainly there was something like that huh. The simple mock battle for the sake of scrambling for the right to investigate Ruins……, I got entered into cell because I got involved with that kind of thing. Even though I only killed around five opponents at the campus selection battle in the military school, they did that to me.」

「──!?」

Celis and Sharis shuddered hearing the fact that was said out so calmly.

Hearing the tone of Rosa that didn’t contain even a fragment of guilt, they could instantly guess the reason why they had never heard her name until now.

No matter how skilled, certainly someone like this couldn’t be allowed to go out of the country.

A slaughterer without common sense or morality.

Thus, her very existence itself was hidden until now.

「…………」

Terrifying.

And then at the same time, they could also perceive the situation at Heiburg Republic from this.

The internal condition of Heiburg must be so chaotic that this girl who originally they didn’t want to come out to the surface despite her outstanding strength had to be placed in the position of Seven Dragon Paladins.

As expected, although there was a system for fellow country to cooperate with each other, they couldn’t let their guard down at all.

「Now then……we’ve got to go greeting the headmaster-sama. I’m going to be in the care of you guys for a while. Don’t make me get offended okaaay?」

Rosa seemed to have lost interest toward the town girl and entered into the campus gate.

Although Celis wanted to complain, she tried to endure. It was then she noticed the oddness at Sharis beside her.

On her upper arm, there was an emerging bruise that wasn’t there previously.

That instant when two people stopped their respective comrade.

Rosa hit hard on Sharis’s body so fast that it wasn’t noticed.

「Wait. I won’t permit you to leave like this without apologizing for your impoliteness toward my friend.」

The atmosphere around Celis changed.

Her aura was that of an absolute one that could even be said as mystical.

Celis whose concentration rose until the utmost limit hit the girl before her with hostile intent.

「St, stop it Celis! I’m all right! If a trouble occur here──」

「──Fuh, fufufu. You……are interesting.」

Rosa looked back and the corner of her mouth rose up. Her eyes were tinged with dark wicked light.

「An interesting──strong woman aren’t you? Though, only so-so.」

「Are you intending to say, that you have no intention to apologize? Then……」

Celis’s hand that was holding the handle of her Sword Device was slightly filled with strength.

But, Rosa kept smiling fearlessly without even the slightest twitch at her eyebrow.

「Unfortunately, I’ll pass. There will be hindrance if we start something here right? That’ll be a real kill-joy. If something like that happen, I also won’t be able to settle it.」

「Please restrain yourself, both of you.」

Calensia cut in between the two and the explosive atmosphere was slightly defused.

Even so Celis and Rosa kept exchanging gaze. Rosa then spoke while in that situation.

「I’m pleased. I will settle this with you one day in a suitable place. I will smash your strength and pride into pieces, and degenerate you yourself until the bottom of earth.」

Rosa left behind a joyful smile and left from that place.

Even after her back vanished into inside the Academy, Celis’s hand didn’t let go from her Sword Device’s handle for a while.

「I’m sorry Sharis. Let’s hurry to the medical office.」

「You are a bit exaggerating. Just this much often happen in the usual training. However──」

Sharis smiled for a moment, but then she gazed at where the girl in question vanished and muttered.

「The summit where a dialogue with the Lord will be held, is it……」

「Yes, I hope it can end without any incident──such thing is only a wishful thinking isn’t it?」

Celis nodded once more in agreement.

The atmosphere of the Academy that was just before the campus festival.

Inside that air of cheerfulness that was wrapped in liveliness and enthusiasm, the sign of fierce storm could be felt.

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