Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 9 Episode 3 (section)

===Part 3===

「Krulcifer-san’s, weak point……!?」

Inside the Academy’s ground, behind the school building late at night.

In that place without any sign of other people, the second year girl student whose eyes were hidden by her front bang──Nina said such thing to him.

「……Yes. I don’t care whether it’s something that she hate no matter what or something that she is especially not good at. No matter what I wish you to teach me something that she will be troubled if it’s known, a secret about her shortcoming.」

Her voice was cornered and tense.

And then, an unusual tenacity could be felt from the fierce glint her eyes were emitting.

「Eerrr……are you, saying that seriously?」

「What? Is it no good?

「No, it’s not that it’s no good……. In the first place, why are you asking something like that?」

Krulcifer was an overseas student from Ymir Theocracy, but her pedigree was good and her grade was also great.

It was to the degree that she was standing out from the crowd even in this Academy.

That was why, no matter how good she was at dealing with things, it wasn’t strange even if someone was jealous of her.

But, from how scared the girl before him looked like, somehow or other it didn’t look like she was doing this because of resentment.

「That’s──it’s, e, errr, this is. I, it’s something that is extremely hard to say but……the, the poem that I composed……something like that got seen. A, anyway, because my secret got exposed to her, I won’t be able to feel relieved if I don’t know some secret of hers too!」

The girl pointed up her finger with a snap looking terribly flustered.

(When I wondered what is this about, it’s something like that……)

Probably Krulcifer herself didn’t pay that much attention about it.

「But, at the very least I don’t know about any weakness of Krulcifer-san, I can’t even imagine it.」

Lux answered honestly like that.

Nina glared at Lux with a gaze as though she couldn’t accept it.

「Then, please investigate it. I will also tried to look for it, but I didn’t find anything at all……. If it’s you who had even temporarily became lover with her, then perhaps you will notice something.」

Even though she told him that, honestly this was troubling.

(About that lover thing, in the first place it was a request to fake that……)

When doing chores, the thing that mustn’t be done the most was a work that stepped into the territory of 『someone else other than that client』 through that request.

It would be terrible if by doing his job seriously he was inviting unnecessary trouble instead.

Even if it didn’t become like that, he couldn’t do anything that would trouble his important friend Krulcifer.

That was why, he determined himself and refused.

「My bad, but I cannot accept that kind of request that will trouble other person like that. I will pretend to never hear this story, so if you can abandon this pursuit from here──」

「……Then, it can’t be helped, I will continue to investigate it by myself. I swear I will find it no matter what method I have to use. Even if I have to use a way that will be somewhat rough──」

「Eh……!?」

The words of the girl who was clad in dark and muddy aura made Lux shuddered.

「I, isn’t that a bit bad, or I wish you will stop……」

He didn’t know if Krulcifer really had a weakness.

But, he felt a bit uneasy to leave this cornered girl to act recklessly like this.

(This is bad, if I just leave her alone, and some kind of problem happen──)

The fretful Lux immediately thought of a method to follow up.

「H, hmmm……. That, you see. Can I ask you to promise me one thing?」

「……What is it?」

The girl directed her eyes that were shaded by dark shadow toward Lux and let out a cold voice.

「If I accept that request, you yourself won’t do anything strange toward Krulcifer-san.」

「Are you going to……, accept the request?」

「If I can, add some conditions to it, then I will.」

Lux asked with a nervous look.

This query itself was half a gamble, but there was no other way.

「……Understood. Then, please do.」

After staring unblinking at Lux, the girl sighed and nodded before long.

After that, they talked just for a bit, then Lux parted from the girl and returned to his room.

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