Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 12 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 5===
On the other hand, six days later already after the battle of Soffice and Magialca.

While Lux and Airi were fretting with persuading Soffice, the Academy was enveloped in lively commotion.

Because the Holy Night Festival was close, the students were starting to prepare presents for the opposite sex.

On the Holy Night itself, it was the custom to prepare a small banquet, snacks, and then wine for prayer, but on the previous day a costume festival for merrymaking was permitted.

Recently, the students were especially making an effort in the preparations after school was over.

Lux was given permission to be exempt from doing chores outside the Academy, but he was frequently made to help with the work other than that.

Of course, Tillfur of the Triad checked the vast amount of chore requests for Lux until only a tenth of them was left, even so the number was still many.

「Wait right there──! Hogging Lux-chi longer than that will be in violation of the prohibition list! Please make a formal request for something like that okay?」

「No waaay, even though I thought I finally can go out with him to buy plates.」

Lux was detained by third year female students and he was told that they wanted him to choose the plates that would be used for the Holy Night Festival, but the time for that was dragging on.

At that kind of time, the Triad often gave follow-up for Lux who was weak against pressure.

「No. Please keep it within 5 minutes when monopolizing Lux-san without going through requests. Because, in addition to his Seven Dragon Paladins duty, he also has to do the arranged chore requests.」

「Wait, you all are measuring the time every time……」

As expected even Lux was shocked by the Triad’s thoroughness.

Honestly speaking, perhaps because recently he was often absent from the Academy, he got called by the female students here and there even more than before, so he was helped by the Triad’s assistance.

However, the content of his chores was also a bit different from before.

The reason Lux was popular in the past was because he was the only male student in the Academy and the curiosity towards him as a former imperial family member.

But, after he distinguished himself through his battles as a Syvalles member, this time it was his strength as a Drag-Knight that was paid attention to, and now it was his story as a Seven Dragon Paladin that was sought.

Although, because the common students didn’t know about the danger of world destruction by Sacred Eclipse, it looked like to them that Lux was making achievements as a Drag-Knight internationally too.

When it came to that, other than friendly gazes, there was also a kind of envious gaze mixed in with them.

Thinking of his past, this was something to be thankful about, but he was also feeling troubled by the giddy atmosphere of the girls.

The Triad was managing at that kind of aspect where Lux was poor at.

「Well, originally, if it’s just them calling out and talking to you, we won’t scold them just for such a minor matter.」

Sharis nodded with a troubled look.

「Eerr, then isn’t it fine?」

「We cannot do that. Or rather, recently, because many formal requests won’t get through to you, underhanded tricks like 『first calling out to you and then dragging you away』 is turning into a fad.」

「Eh……?」

He didn’t dare to believe it but, to think that this situation of chore work request would develop until such thing.

「Lux-chi cannot go against us after everything we have done for you y’know?」

「Yes. We will ask Lux-san later to personally come and show your gratitude as reward for us.」

Even his admiration only lasted for a brief time. Lux smiled wryly at the Triad who casually included their own request.

「*Cough* The present for you is also flooding in despite the limited number of reservations. We are going to deliver to you later the presents from everyone in Syvalles. Rather, the headmaster is already planning an event──oops, that is still a secret.」

「I can only have bad premonitions about that……」

Even though there was also still the matter of Soffice under this kind of situation, just what was the headmaster thinking he wondered.

『It’s exactly because it’s this kind of time that you have to treasure the ordinary days. You don’t have anything else you can do anyway.』

「…………」

The smiling face of the headmaster floated in his mind.

「……However, I cannot see Airi anywhere. She temporarily excused herself saying she has a bit of business, so I completely thought that she went to Lux-san.」

「Ah.….!」

Lux recalled a certain thing from Noct’s question.

Lux and Airi were watching over Soffice in turn.

It had already somewhat passed the time to change shift.

「Sorry. I also recalled a chore I need to do, see you all later!」

「Ah──」

Lux left those words and rushed through the Academy at full speed.

The Triad who saw that were standing still, mouths agape for a while.

「What the? It’s rare that Lux-chi is that hurried. ──Rather, it’s unnatural?」

「Yeah, could it be, I’m only supposing here okay」

「That, is it related to that pact?」

Noct continued after Sharis’s serious muttering.

「Perhaps. It could be, that pact might have become meaningless.」

「You’re saying, in other words──」

「There is a chance Lux-chi and a member of Syvalles is secretly having a tryst!?」

Tillfur’s uneasy question was answered by Sharis with a nervous look too.

The pact of the girls.

Syvalles members starting from Lisha, and also Yoruka, they established a pact that decided that they wouldn’t develop their relationships with Lux into a romantic relationship until they settled the matter of Sacred Eclipse and overcame the danger of world destruction.

Airi and the Triad were also aware of the pact and it was only Lux who didn’t know anything about it. The girls were secretly talking to each other about it and made the decision on a certain day.

Recently, some of them were seriously injured, and some of them would frequently come and go from Cross Field to other countries in this period of time. They wouldn’t be able to concentrate if they thought that the others might steal a march on them.

Krulcifer suggested that they should refrain from approaching Lux by their own initiative until the battle ended. Everyone agreed to it.

And then, strangely, it was Airi and the Triad who were assigned the role to manage the pact.

Airi became the center of it was simply because of her position as Lux’s blood-related sister.

「But, there is one exception to this rule.」

Sharis murmured as though she recalled something.

「Yes. Lux-san isn’t forbidden to contact the girls by his own initiative.」

「In other words, if Lux-chi himself already has a girl who he likes, and approaches her──」

There would be no method to obstruct that based on the rules.

In short, a romantic relationship would be settled without waiting for the conclusion with Sacred Eclipse.

The remaining members would surely receive a shock, but there was nothing that could be done about it.

「Then, we, the vigilance committee, have the duty to investigate the truth. Am I right?」

「Nooo objection! Or rather, it’s not serious right……」

「Yes. Let’s follow behind Lux-san.」

Sharis’s eyes sparkled, then Tillfur and Noct also continued after her.

A different danger was approaching from a place that Lux wasn’t aware of.