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

===Part 5===

The next day was class work like usual.

Lux woke up early at the morning, headed to the washroom, washed his face and changed into his uniform.

The chores at early morning were divided into several pattern types.

The work today was the cleaning up of the Academy ground.

He would clean up the surrounding of atelier, so he went to the kitchen to ask for tea which he would bring when going to wake up Lisha too while he was at it.

After making small talk with the waking up Lisha, Lux finished the cleanup of the surrounding and headed to the dining hall to take breakfast──.

「Ah……!」

He noticed the existence of a girl in the corner of the dining hall──Nina, and he recalled.

『Please find Krulcifer-san’s weak point quickly』

Such insistence was emitted as aura that oozed out from her whole body.

Lux was startled inside his heart while heading to where Krulcifer was at inside the dining hall.

She had started eating breakfast already, but her hands stopped when her eyes met Lux’s, and she smiled to him with an expression that was filled with deep affection.

「Good morning. You are early today too.」

「Krulcifer-san too. E, err, speaking of that, don’t you feel hard, waking up early in the morning?」

Pressured by the client girl’s urging, Lux quickly attempted his probing.

Feeling weak at the morning.

If he could Nina to recognize even something at that level as weakness then it would be fine, but──.

「It’s not a problem. When I was at Ymir Theocracy, I had to wake up even earlier and pray, so it has become a habit to wake up early since my childhood. This academy feels relaxing instead for me.」

「Ah, i, is that so……」

His first attempt failed.

(Well, I somehow know that from seeing how she is coming among the first people here at breakfast time, but──)

Lux’s eyes darted toward the corner of the dining hall once more.

As expected, the girl called Nina was looking at Lux with a dissatisfied expression.

「Co, come to think of it, Krulcifer-san you, is there any food that you cannot eat? The food in this dining hall is always delicious, but at Ymir Theocracy──」

「I have nothing I like or hate. Naturally I have some degree of preference, but I have no experience meeting a cooking that I cannot eat no matter what, I also have never experienced feeling disgusted from seeing the food’s appearance or aroma.」

「I, I see……that’s amazing, Krulcifer-san.」

He failed again.

It seemed there was no more weak point that he could probe in this meal time.

With breakfast tray in hands, Lux sat in front of Krulcifer once more and he also took his meal.

Regarding the skill in cooking too, rather than Lux who had experience doing odd jobs at bar or restaurant, Krulcifer was the one more skilled. It was already proved at the training camp in summer.

Her elegant table manner that didn’t make a sound while eating also looked perfect from Lux’s point of view.

By no meant she came here the first thing after waking up, her uniform and hair weren’t disheveled at all.

(Or rather, at that time I lost against that girl’s momentum and promised her without any consideration but……. Could it be, searching for Krulcifer-san’s weak point is actually a terribly difficult thi──)

Noticing that fact, Lux felt astonished inside his heart, it was then──,

「Lux-kun.」

「Eh──?」

Krulcifer who was sitting at his opposite suddenly lifted up her waist and leaned forward. Her face was coming closer to him.

Her looks were beautiful, like a fairy in fantasy.

Seeing it coming right in front of his gaze, he felt startled reflexively.

「It’s a bit dirty there, look.」

Quietly, the napkin in Krulcifer’s hand gently wiped Lux’s mouth.

The remains of red tomato sauce that was used in the breakfast was attached there.

「Ah, that……, thank you.」

Lux spontaneously turned red faced from embarrassment. Krulcifer smiled with her usual cool expression.

「It’s fine to think, but it’s better to relax at least when in the middle of eating. I understand that Lux-kun is busy, but sometimes you will blunder at such thing you know?」

「……Ah, yes. I’ll be careful.」

Lux replied while feeling abashed.

(Wait, far from finding weakness. It’s me who got followed up by Krulcifer-san!?)

In addition, he even almost got seen through about what he was thinking.

(Perhaps this is really bad……)

The instinct of Lux who had accomplished many requests until now told him the sign of a protracted battle.

Or perhaps, this request might end up to be one of the rare requests that were impossible to accomplish──but.

「…………」

From behind, the girl whose eyes were hidden by her front hair──the girl client Nina was gazing at him.

(Can I really do this? Soemthing like finding Krulcifer-san’s weak point within a few days──)

Lux hung his head down while slipping out a small sigh.

He was feeling the premonition of a long battle.

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