Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 7 Episode 3 (section)

===Part 4===

「Fuu……. For the time being this plan should be fine.」

In the high class inn, few hours had passed since Lux reunited with Lisha and others.

The secret message found in Dilwy’s room that recorded his exchange with Dragon Marauder, the new kingdom deciphered it and found the plan of kidnapping Pope Nias and the archbishop of Ymir Theocracy. They judged that the enemy would aim for the chance at the Pilgrimage Festival and dispatched Lisha and others, the members of Syvalles.

Furthermore in order to coordinate with Lux and Krulcifer who served as guard for Pope Nias, they were having discussion.

That was the objective.

By the time the exchange of information and planning session were broadly finished, the inside of the room was completely transformed into chaos.

The two beds inside were joined into one with documents scattered out on the sheet. At the nearby table, there were wine, juice, snack, and sweets that they asked the cook to prepare lined up.

It was a room for too that was spacious and comfortable, but as expected it was too cramped for six people.

「It’s fine to stay in the inn, but didn’t you all reserve other room?」

「I, it can’t be helped right!? We suddenly arrived in this time after all──」

Lisha argued with a bitter face against Krulcifer’s exasperated voice.

Fortunately, it seemed by paying a lot of fee with the recommendation from Aingram conglomerate, they received permission for six people to stay inside the two people room. It was a situation that was like training camp.

It had already passed the time for going to bed. Outside the window was filled with silence.

「But well, with this the strategy feels like it will go well in outline huh. Fuaaa……」

Lisha yawned sleepily, while Philuffy was leaning her back on Lux and departed to dreamland.

While thinking of going to bed, Lux suddenly noticed a problem.

「The, then, it will be late at night soon, so I’ll go for a bit to the receptionist and borrow a blanket. I’ll try asking if the sofa outside can be borrowed.」

As expected, he was unable to say 『sleeping together with everyone in beds for two people』. So Lux made that suggestion and attempted to get out of the room.

But, a few words from Krulcifer calmly stopped him.

「Lux-kun. It seems you are taking the coldness of this country lightly, but if you do such thing, you will freeze to death the next morning you know?」

「……I, is that so?」

He didn’t notice because the girls were around him, but certainly the corridor was shudderingly cold.

Right now that the fire of the hearth had been put off, as expected it felt like sleeping outside was too reckless.

「Then, I too will sleep, together with Lu-chan.」

Philuffy’s body was swaying in a doze while she softly gripped at Lux’s sleep-wear.

「……If it’s two people it won’t be cold so, perhaps, it will be fine.」

「Wai-!? What are you planning huh, airhead girl!? Spending a night together with just Lux, such thing──wait, don’t sleep while sitting!」

When Lisha was flustered with red cheeks, Philuffy was already letting out a peaceful sleeper’s breathing.

While Lux became even more bewildered of what to do,

「Then, I’ll serve as Aruji-sama’s guard. Even though I look like this, I possess extensive knowledge, so I have confidence in attending Aruji-sama’s sexual need.」

「Why is even the objective get changed that much!?」

Yoruka clapped her hand while making a bright smile, which caused Lux to spontaneously retort.

Actually, to be able to be protected by this girl who was sensitive to people’s presence added too with her excellent sword skill should be reassuring, but right now Lux was feeling a danger of another meaning.

「──Both of you. That act is not permitted.」

There, the captain of Syvalles, Celis cut in with firm tone.

「Even from my point of view, I believe that Lux is a boy who is relatively a gentleman, but it will be troubling if two people spend the night together without sleeping close to each other and a mistake is made.」

‘Relatively’……Lux was somewhat bothered by that word, but he was relieved with Celis’s suggestion.

If this girl who was a disciplined person and their senior took control here, Lux felt like this situation could be settled somehow.

But……,

「My? That’s wholly unexpected. However, I cannot help but worry about Aruji-sama’s well-being. The weather is this cold, and there is no guarantee that there won’t be anyone aiming for Aruji-sama──」

「Yes. And so, tonight I will look after Lux.」

「……Eeeh!?」

Celis threw out her chest proudly while saying that. Lux and Lisha yelled simultaneously.

「If it’s me, even in the minute chance that an assassin come I will be able to deal against it with my knowledge of martial arts. Besides, even if I spend a night together with Lux, I happen to have the power of reasoning that will prevent anything untoward from happening between us.」

Celis asserted decisively with a smile that was overflowing with confidence.

But, Krulcifer was looking at her with a really conflicted expression.

「You are a really troublesome person when you don’t have self-awareness like this. Even though your personality is one that is highly probable to go as far as entrusting your body if Lux-kun is the one who is starting it……」

「Wha-!? Tha, that’s rude Krulcifer!? Upon my word I will never──」

Celis’s face turned bright red and she averted her gaze away from Lux.

Even Lux would become conscious of 『that』 if their eyes met, so his face also similarly grew heated.

「Eeei! It doesn’t matter so everyone just move away! Lux is my knight you know!」

Lisha who was drunk because of the wine became teary eyed, hugged Lux’s arm, and she was growing increasingly out of control.

What to do.

At the very least if Lux tried to sleep outside the room, he got a hunch that someone would follow him.

While he was worrying how to make a decision, the girl beside him let out a small sigh.

「It can’t be helped. Then let’s adopt everyone’s opinion instead.」

「Eh……?」

Everyone else were looking bewildered at Krulcifer’s brief words.

And then, after they listened to her suggestion, that plan was carried out.

–

A hour after everyone started sleeping.

Inside the room, the systematic sound of the clock’s hand and the tranquil sleeper’s breathing of the girls could be heard.

While outside the window snow was falling quietly forming a pile. Lux was spending an agonizing night.

It wasn’t cold, and it also wasn’t that stuffy.

And yet, Lux was still unable to sleep from tension and excitement.

[[File:Saijaku V7 01.jpg|thumb|right]]

On the two beds that were stuck into one, five girls and Lux were lying down.

What Krulcifer suggested was a terribly stimulating plan, for everyone to sleep with Lux at the same place.

If they watched each other, Lux wouldn’t commit any mistake, and the girls also wouldn’t do anything strange.

With this plan Lux wouldn’t freeze outside the room alone, and the probability of an assassin attacking also decreased.

It was a compromise plan that in a sense was extremely rational and prudent.

Although, that was if the state of Lux himself was excluded, with how extremely agonizing this situation was for him.

「…………」

The lighting had been turned off save for one small tallow lamp. It was still all right for him until when they started sleeping.

The girls were lying around Lux with some distance put in between, they were also covered with blanket that hid their sleep-wear from view.

The sweet scent of girls after taking a bath and the sound of their sigh caused his heart to beat fast, but if it was just that he believed he would be able to endure somehow.

──But, perhaps because of the fatigue from long journey using Drag-Ride, it happened starting from Lisha who was the first one asleep.

「……Lux, ……I had been waiting all that time. Because, you didn’t come to the atelierworkshop……」

Even though she was a princess, her sleeping habit was bad. She was tossing and turning while sleeping.

Or rather, she had the habit of sleeping in the atelier, so perhaps from that she became able to sleep even in strange position. It caused the blanket covering Lisha to get out of place slightly.

But, her sleeping face was innocent and lovely, from her exposed sleep wear, he could see the swelling of her chest pushing up her underwear and proclaiming its existence, and her pretty white abdomen.

Lisha’s style had some childishness remaining in it, but the faint sensuality that could be perceived from her petite body somehow brought out immoral excitement from him.

(Lisha-sama, she is cute as expected……)

She was properly thinking of defensive tactic in the meeting before this must not be just from her view point as Drag-Ride developer, but also from a view point as a commander of Drag-Knight.

Her personality was straightforward, but she wasn’t a girl who moved just form assumption and impulse.

She was seriously thinking in order to help Lux and Krulcifer and then carried out the plan to realization. Her existence was really reliable.

When Lux gently put back the blanket on such Lisha, her hand clutched Lux’s hand tightly.

「Aa……」

The smooth sensation of that small palm caused Lux’s heart to skip a beat.

Her gesture of clutching his hand while still sleeping was like a little kid for some reason, he was unable to shake off that hand.

Everyone who was sleeping here more or less promised, to not touch each other while sleeping.

「Well, surely she would let go before morning, if it’s just this much──……-!?」

When Lux muttered that, his other hand that wasn’t clutched by Lisha felt a soft *munyu* sensation.

「Lu-chan……. You will catch cold, don’t……」

Looking there, Philuffy who entered the posture of sleeping together without him noticing was turning sideways while still sleeping. She entwined Lux’s arm between her breasts.

The soft sensation of the upper arm, and the girl’s sleeping face that had trace of childishness in it.

Just those were already enough to tickle his emotion, and yet she hugged *gyuu-* even stronger.

Lux’s arm was buried into Philuffy’s abundant breasts. His body was tinged with heat all of a sudden.

「Wai-, Phi-chan. This is bad……!」

He whispered with small voice so the other girls wouldn’t wake up, but his childhood friend didn’t let go of Lux’s hand while still breathing peacefully.

That soft sensation was conveyed from across the black camisole that was her sleep-wear.

When Lux moved his arm in the attempt to do something, the result was he was enjoying the elasticity of Philuffy’s breast even further instead. Blood was rushing to his head more and more.

While he was troubled like that, a soft sensation was suddenly pressing on his head too.

「……Nn, nnu」

「Wait, even Celis-senpai-!?」

When Celis turned over right at that timing, her posture became one where her breasts were pushing on Lux’s head.

From across the lacey pure white sleep-wear, the elasticity of soft flesh that possessed both springiness and mass that equaled Philuffy was conveyed to him. In addition the scent of opposite sex drifting from the valley melted Lux’s brain.

「Lu, Lux, that spot is no good……. That’s not, permitted……」

Perhaps Celis reacted toward his voice, she spoke chidingly, but she was doing exactly the opposite thing.

(I, I can’t move! In various meaning……!)

With this, his left arm, right hand, and even his head were restrained completely by three girls.

In a sense it was profit for him, a situation that was pleasant as a man, but in the worst case that this kind of situation was seen by Airi, it felt like she wouldn’t talk to him for a month.

(Be, besides, doing something like this, with the good excuse that everyone is sleeping──no good!)

When he almost got washed away by the wave of indulgent lust, he somehow endured with his remaining rational senses.

But, he was unable to move at all, so he looked toward Yoruka.

It seemed that she was also sleeping, but perhaps she sensed Lux’s presence, just from that the girl opened her eyes in a snap and she turned her face toward Lux on the bed.

「…………」

The girl’s two eyes that were of different color from each other blinked and caught Lux’s face.

She accepted Lux’s gaze that was filled with the thought of asking for help with serious face.

Perhaps she had the disposition of someone who slept lightly from the beginning, it seemed that she grasped the situation just from that.

「──It looks like you are troubled, Aruji-sama.」

Like that, the girl’s bewitching lips moved and a calm smile emerged.

When Lux nodded, Yoruka slowly lifted up her upper body before she approached Lux.

This clearheadedness when she had just awakened must be from her natural constitution.

And in addition of her own martial skill that was towering above other people, certainly, there was nobody else who was more suitable to serve as guard other than her.

While her reliability was being deeply impressed in Lux’s mind once more, her white slender finger softly touched Lux’s sleep-wear, above his lower body──.

「──Wait! Why are you trying to take off my underwear!?」

As soon as Lux’s lower body almost got exposed to open air, he spontaneously raised his voice.

「Aruji-sama. Everyone will notice if you speak loudly like that you know?」

Yoruka made a bewitching smile while her hand glided into the underwear.

「Uah……!? Wait, a second──!?」

When Lux’s thigh was caressed by the smooth palm, he felt like his skin was getting goosebumps just from that. While he was enduring the strong urge that was welling up inside, Yoruka’s face was approaching the area around Lux’s waist and then she stared at him with upward gaze.

「My? Isn’t Aruji-sama wishing to clear up your lust using my body?」

Lux’s cheeks reddened hearing what Yoruka-said so calmly.

「……Do you think, that I’ll say that in this situation?」

「Even though I’m thinking that surely, Aruji-sama instead want to do it beside everyone while they are sleeping.」

「That’s wrong you know!? I don’t have that kind of hobby to enjoy such particular thrill you know!」

Lux retorted while inside his heart he sighed in relieve.

Just a little bit more and putting aside his rational sense, it was his body that would lift up the white flag.

「That’s not it, I want to get out from the room for a bit, so can you help me out without waking up everyone?」

After telling Yoruka that using small voice until the end, she looked around before nodding.

「How regrettable. But, by your will.」

Instantly Yoruka’s hand slipped out from Lux’s underwear and then she smoothly crawled on the sheet.

With strength control that wasn’t forceful by any means, she moved as though tracing Lux’s body and separated the part where Lux and the girls were touching.

「Nn……」

The girls reacted for a moment with their eyes still closed, but it seemed it wasn’t at the level of them waking up.

Lux who was able to escape from the restriction for the time being noticed one thing. He then got out of the room for a moment.

「I’ll be waiting here Aruji-sama. Take care.」

Yoruka sat with seiza posture on the bed and bowed. (TN: Seiza, kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles)

Lux averted his eyes because she didn’t even try to hide her figure wearing only pure white underwear, while he wore jacket and got out of the room.

There was only minimum lighting at this time, so the area was dim.

Lux headed to in front of the balcony at the third floor. There was a window surface along the wall.

In that place where there was an unbroken view of the holy capital’s snowy landscape, a girl was standing bathed in moonlight.

「──I guess praying is something that one have to try to do once in a while. Thanks to that my wish come true.」

The side face of the girl who looked over her shoulder was beautiful, Lux lost all his words in front of it.

Inside the magical mood that was filled with only silence, Lux took a deep breath before long.

「Are you angry, Krulcifer-san?」

When Lux asked that somewhat fretfully, Krulcifer casted down her gaze and looked aside,

「Not really, I’m not angry or anything.」

She said that with a curt tone.

「Yes, it’s not like there is anything for me to get angry about. I have also anticipated those girls coming here to chase after Lux-kun. This trip of only the two of us that is the only enjoyment in this homecoming where troublesome work is pushed at me is now hindered──such thing is completely unrelated. Lux-kun too, you look happy that everyone came for you after all.」

(……Wait, she is totally peevish-!?)

That attitude of averting her gaze standoffishly while speaking dispassionately was something Krulcifer never showed until now.

‘What to do’, Lux thought in panic.

「Just kidding.」

Suddenly the girl smiled mischievously and she brushed up her hair calmly.

「I thought that if I was gone, surely you will come looking for me. More importantly, come over here. There is something I want to show to you.」

Prompted like that, Lux stood beside Krulcifer.

That sight spread out at the other side of the glass window that covered a surface of the wall.

「Aa……」

A speechless mutter leaked out from the mouth of Lux who saw that.

Bluish white radiance from reflected light of snow faintly illuminated the holy capital’s townscape. He could take the whole view with a sweep of the eye from this window.

It was like a solemn scenery that was depicted by number one painter of the world.

Lux forgot to even breath for a while taking in that sight.

「I think it was a few years after I was adopted? There was time when Einfolk house stayed in this inn after the Pilgrimage Festival was over. It was the last memory, of the time when I still wasn’t that estranged with my family.」

「…………」

「The rampage of Ruin one and half a year ago. When I was swallowed by a cave-in, someone pulled at my hand from inside the collapsed rubbles while they were soaked in blood, without reconsidering injuries to themselves.」

She closed her eyes in reminiscence and muttered with her hands on her chest.

She was making a self-depreciating smile that vaguely looked lonely.

「At the time, Tou-san was also able to use Drag-Ride. I thought it was him who came to save me, but when I woke up he didn’t come to meet me. When I asked him, he only answered 『I don’t know』.」

「Krulcifer, san……」

While Lux was unable to speak and stood still, the girl suddenly changed her words.

「More importantly, it’s about that child. Before the dining party just now, I was talking with Ney Louches who I called to this inn. I used my authority as this so called Xfer.」

It seemed that was the reason that Krulcifer was late.

She taught Lux bit by bit about her conversation with Ney while staying vigilant to the surrounding just in case.

It seemed that Ney Louches came out from the Ruin slightly a while ago due to some spur of the moment. She temporarily relinquished her authority as the Ruin’s manager and started taking action.

There she was discovered and picked up by the archbishop. Ney who was an Automata was treated as god’s messenger, the 『angel』, and she became an existence that was concealed by the church.

Ney’s existence didn’t come to light was because the faith of the archbishop was deep.

The archbishop didn’t even let Ney to purposefully approach the Ruin in order to recover her memory.

But, recently because of the Abyss that went out from Ruin getting stronger, and their frequency of appearance was also increasing, the bishops who knew the truth proposed a plan to use Ney to investigate the Ruin.

And then by using the pilgrimage this time, they were planning to use Ney to casually investigate.

「Then, don’t tell me, Krulcifer-san was called back for the Pilgrimage Festival this time was──」

「It’s impossible for it to be a coincidence. Knowing that my origin is from Ruin, they must be intending to test whether I can be used for something while using Ney at the same time. At the very least my Tou-san should also know about this.」

At present, Ney only told the upper brass of this country that she was the Gear Leader of Hall and nothing else.

And then, it seemed that Krulcifer also forbid Ney to speak to other about this talk.

「Ney Louches……what are they planning to do with her?」

The last destination at the pilgrimage──the ceremony of Pilgrimage Festival would end tomorrow at the old sanctuary site.

「According to that child, it seem from the underground of the old underground site, we can use teleportation to enter into the Ruin’s archive, the room where information is managed. Of course, that’s only if there is the authority of XferKey’s Supervisor that I have though.」

Putting aside whether they should tell this country about it honestly or not, by doing that they would be able to investigate about the mystery of Ruin.

And then, they would also be able to investigate about Krulcifer’s wish too, of how she wanted to know about her true identity.

「Krulcifer-san, are you okay with that?」

「I don’t mind. It’s unrelated with Einfolk house. I intend to know everything there, for my own sake.」

Her tone sounded like she was trying to stifle down something.

Even while thinking that it was unlike her, Lux couldn’t stop her. He nodded silently.

「I understand. I too will help with the Ruin’s investigation as much as possible.」

「I’m depending on you, prince.」

Krulcifer abruptly smiled and caressed Lux’s cheek just like her usual self.

「Then, how about we return to the room soon. If we don’t hurry, everyone will come after Lux-kun and gathered here again.」

Lux smiled wryly with a really complex look before they returned to the room.

Like that, the long day finally came to an end.