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

===Part 3===

The insides of Oldium that had a total length of two thousand meters was more vast than imagined. Inside the great battleship that could even be called as a flying palace, there were facilities prepared as though to move the government system of Vatlantis in its entirety there. But even with that, there was still unused areas in the interior.

One of the several conference rooms was exclusive for Vatlantis’s emperor and her aides. Although it was at the smallish side, it was an extravagant meeting room. The important people of each world were gathered there.

From Lemuria, Hida Reiri, Kizuna, Shikina Kei.

From Vatlantis, Grace, Zelcyone.

From Izgard, Gravel.

From Baldein, Landred.

And then Aine──she was sitting beside Grace, closer to Vatlantis than Lemuria.

It wasn’t Aine who chose that seating. However, the events flowed naturally like that and no one complained about it.

In reality Vatlantis’s emperor was Grace, but formally Aine was the legitimate successor. Grace herself also recognized that she was only a replacement until her big sister returned.

Until now they only concentrated to escape from Odin’s world, and there was no leeway to think of such a matter. But, they were able to safely escape and reunite with everyone, so the worry that Aine almost forgot showed up once more.

Each faction was sitting clumped with their own with the round table divided into four parts. Aine’s eyes met with the eyes of Kizuna who was sitting at the opposite side. Aine immediately averted her gaze.

──’What am I doing?’

Reiri’s sharp voice resounded and Aine straightened her seated posture.

「First I want to make a report regarding the present situation. Currently we are in the middle of formulating a strategy for the future in cooperation with Hida Nayuta. We will be able to publish the summary of it tomorrow.」

Zelcyone raised her voice at the timing when Reiri’s words cut off.

「Are you saying that you’ve got a prospect to beat Thanatos?」

Reiri paused for a moment as though ruminating that question.

「──That’s right.」

The attendees at Vatlantis’s side stirred.

「Of course, there is no guarantee that it will work. I cannot deny the point that we won’t know the result until we try it. But, it’s worth a try.」

Zelcyone faced Grace and Aine and spoke whisperingly.

「──Then, perhaps it will be all right to wait for the detailed explanation.」

「But, to advance our consideration, there are two points that we wish to confirm to you ladies.」

Grace frowned at Reiri’s words.

「What are they?」

「First, we want to borrow the emperor’s exclusive villa in Oldium as well as the unused area adjacent of it.」

「Oo, my villa is it.」

An exclusive villa for Grace was built by making use of the vast space inside the ship. It was a moderately large white palace with a garden around it that was planted with lawn and trees. Furthermore there were artificial ponds and a river that were circulating clean water.

「You can use it as you like. However……the unused area is just an empty lot you know? Just what are you going to use it for?」

Kei immediately typed on her keyboard.

『We’re going to make an artificial beach and sea. Also, we will install the facility of wide area type Love Room that had its development halted in the experiment stage previously. The plan is to make the whole area including the villa to be usable as a Love Room.』

Landred spontaneously leaked out a smile.

「My my, you are planning something really outrageous there. I will be looking forward for tomorrow♪ Everyone too, how about we trust headmistress here and leave this to her? Okay?」

Landred’s speech and conduct was still mixed like when she was at Ataraxia Academy that Nayuta created. She wasn’t fixing it at all, so the surrounding also stopped criticizing her every time.

「I have no objection.」

Grace easily replied, then next everyone’s gaze gathered on Gravel.

「Izgard is also the same. We will leave it to Reiri.」

Reiri nodded then she spoke the other matter that she wanted to confirm.

「We have defeated three machine gods. Now we have recovered three fourths of the worlds’ configuration information. With that, at present it’s possible to revive Atlantis.」

Reiri looked around at attendees.

「Here the Atlantis side can adopt the choice to return the world of you ladies back to normal and pull back from the fighting.」

Aine opened her eyes wide in surprise.

「That’s……」

「──Right.」

Grave tightened her lips into a thin line. Reiri stared at their expression and continued talking.

「We are going to take back the configuration information of Lemuria from here on, and then defeating Thanatos. That’s why knowing that I will ask this. Will you ladies still fight together with us from here on too?」

Reiri stared at the Atlantis force with a serious gaze. Receiving that gaze, the participants of the Atlantis side all made a grim expression.

「Grace……」

Aine called her little sister’s name worriedly.

Grace purposefully let out a large sigh and then acted arrogantly with an exasperated air.

「……Here I was thinking just what were you going to say……truly, good grief. If that’s our intention then we would have already said it a long time ago.」

Aine’s expression snapped into a bright smile.

「Then, Grace!」

「Nee-sama too, what are you worrying about? Lemuria is Nee-sama’s second hometown. Besides it’s also Nii-sama’s hometown. In the past we fought each other, but right now we are fellow comrades fighting together. Also……」

Grace glanced at Kizuna.

「This is atonement for the enormous damage we brought to Lemuria. We will show you how we save more than what we destroyed with our strength.」

「──I see. Our thanks.」

And then this time Reiri turned to Gravel.

「What about Izgard?」

Gravel too shrugged her shoulders, as though to say ‘what are you saying at this late hour’.

「Of course, we will also fight. After all this for an important──」

Gravel unconsciously turned her gaze to Kizuna.

Kizuna was also staring at Gravel. Their gazes clashed with each other.

Gravel suddenly smiled.

「……friend’s sake.」

Reiri smiled in relieve.

And then she stared at Landred at the end.

「Baldein will……」

‘What are you going to do?’ Reiri was going to say, but Landred stayed quiet and closed one of her eyes.