Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume3 Chapter7

Status: Incomplete

As the night fell, the Academy Square became crowded and noisy.

The air was saturated with a captivating sweet fragrance. The delicious desserts were piled up on the altar like a mountain, plus the female students from the academy were performing the spirit blade dance ritual.

"Speaking of which, where did she run off to?"

Kamito sighed as he stared at the bag of chocolate Claire had left behind. Although he and Ellis were originally trying to look for Claire together, it was almost time for a shift change. They were forced to abandon the search for Claire in order to carry out a patrol in the «Wind» region .

The Sylphid knight stared at chocolates that Kamito held with a complicated expression.

"...................."

"Ellis, whats wrong?"

"N-Nothing is wrong. This whole area doesn't seem to have any problems."

Ellis pretended to cough and hastily re-directed her line of sight elsewhere.

Indeed, there wasn't much in terms of unusual activity.

There were occasionally some drunken disturbances or pickpocketing, but that can be easily handled by the local security. What Kamito and Ellis were more concerned with, were the individual civilians who were not familiar with spirits who might invoke the wrath of the spirits by accident.

While making offerings to the spirits, such incidents are not unknown.

"This.....feels like we are on a date...."

"Humm, what did you say?"

"I didn't say anything! Stay alert and focus on the patrol!"

The red faced Ellis angrily spoke.

Kamito apologized, "I-I'm sorry."

Hey, isn't Ellis the one not paying attention?

From earlier on, Ellis was not able to calm down, and was stealing glances at Kamito's face from the side, now and then.

Somehow, her manner of walking seemed unsteady and uncertain.

Their shoulders coming so close together that he was not sure whether they were touching, and then her screaming 'Fuwaa', once again moving away from him - that kind of thing was repeated over and over.

Because of that, they bumped into the people that they passed by, many times.

"Ellis, walking like that is dangerous."

Unable to watch any longer, Kamito grabbed Ellis' hand,

"...... W-w-what are you doing, you insolent person!"

"Absolutely not, you were shaking pretty dangerously earlier and your hand felt hot. Do you have a fever?"

"You, who do you think is responsible?"

Ellis still held Kamito's hand, while repeatably punching his shoulder.

"You stole my first time, you must take responsibility!"

"What?"

As everyone heard the blushing Ellis, various pedestrians turned their heads to stare at the two.