Editing Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 12 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 4===

That night, Aine was spending her time in Grace’s room. Actually she wanted to talk with Kizuna by spending the whole night──she was thinking like that, but a prohibition order was given from Reiri.

Kizuna had to prepare for the mission tomorrow, and then they would also get summoned early in the morning.

「I wonder what is the strategy that will be disclosed tomorrow?」

Grace was combing her big sister’s hair with a comb while humming.

「Hm? About the headmaster’s talk is it. Who knows? We will know it for sure when tomorrow comes.」

「……Hey, you just called her headmaster.」

「Oo, it’s still coming out intentionally.」

Saying that, Grace laughed in humor.

‘Muu’, Aine puffed out her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

「Was it that fun? That, Ataraxia Academy.」

「That was just extremely fun!」

‘Muuuu’, Aine was getting more and more into a bad mood.

She heard about it since when they were in Odin’s world. She heard that everyone was going to the same Ataraxia Academy that Professor Nayuta created whether they were from Lemuria or Atlantis.

When Gravel and Grace were making the atmosphere lively by talking about their memory there, Aine could do nothing except listen. She was harboring a really complicated feeling of alienation.

It felt like she was a student who was the only one that couldn’t join the outing, unable to join in with the nostalgia talk, and then felt lonely.

However she found it quite hard to imagine that academy’s daily life.

She understood that Reiri was the headmaster.

However it was already impossible to imagine when it came to the point where Nayuta was the board chairman.

Inside Aine, the only image that she had about Nayuta after she became a machine god was only the time when they were locked in a mortal combat with her. She wondered why from there it then turned out like that.

When she tried asking the others, it seemed that Nayuta was putting suggestions into their minds so that they wouldn’t think of it as unnatural at all.

Nevertheless, it was amazing how Grace was attending the class of second year first group in her place.

The best part was Zelcyone. That captain of the Imperial Guards was the student council president of Ataraxia of all things. It was funny no matter how many times she thought of it.

「What’s wrong, Nee-sama? You are making different faces by yourself there for a while.」

「I, I’m not!」

However, before this she saw Hayuru and Hyakurath talking harmoniously with each other as though they had been best friends for many years, the two were giving instructions naggingly to Gravel and Masters, and they were awfully good at looking after others.

Seeing everyone’s exchange, Aine felt for real that the thing called Ataraxia Academy really existed, and that everyone was spending time together there.

Furthermore it was together with Kizuna.

Surely that might be something that could be called as the springtime of youth that Aine didn’t know about.

「How nice……」

「Did you say something, Nee-sama?」

「No. It’s nothing.」

Grace finished combing Aine’s hair. Next Aine unraveled Grace’s hair and started brushing.

「However Nee-sama, when the next battle is over, we can finally return back to Vatlantis.」

「Yes, you’re……right.」

「But, there is something that I’m curious about.」

「What?」

Aine took Grace’s pink hair into her hand and put the brush on it. Grace’s hair was really pretty, the brush was sliding through it smoothly without getting stuck.

「What will happen with the Entrance to Lemuria?」

Aine’s hand spontaneously stopped.

「Eh?」

「Genesis was restored. Our world won’t get pulled to Lemuria’s magic power anymore. Then, won’t the AU Collision between our worlds not happen?」

──’How can that be?’

「Why is it like that? I don’t understand anything like why AU Collisions happen though.」

「Before this Nayuta explained it to us. AU Collisions are caused because of Atlantis’s magic power drying up.」

「He, hee……is that so.」

But if that was the case.

Going freely from Lemuria to Atlantis and vice versa would become impossible?

「If there is Oldium, it’s possible to move between worlds, but this too is using Nayuta’s power. Seeing her weakening state, then perhaps the day where Oldium also becomes unusable will come.」

「But, if that happens……」

One would be forced to choose between Lemuria or Vatlantis.

At that time,

Which world is it that she should choose?

「Will Nii-sama……come to Atlantis for us?」

「Ki, Kizuna? To Vatlantis?」

Aine asked with a surprised face.

「Why is Nee-sama that surprised? Because isn’t it like that? Nee-sama is the legitimate emperor of Vatlantis. If Nii-sama became the husband of such Nee-sama……it’s only natural for him to come to Vatlantis……it should be.」

‘I……with Kizuna? In Vatlantis?’

「If,

Nii-sama came to Vatlantis……I’ll feel happy.」

Aine noticed that her hand stopped moving without her noticing. She moved her arm once more and continued the brushing.

「You’re……right. It might be great, if that happens, right……」

She replied like that.

However, Aine didn’t understand herself, what she was wishing to happen.