Maou na Ore to Fushihime no Yubiwa:Volume 3 Chapter 1
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Chapter 1: Events of a certain summer
Having the long, long test period end, the students at Seiran Academy welcomed the summer holidays.
High school sophomores & summer holidays.
Has there ever been another more exciting combination?
My classmate Youhei said so. Something like that this is the season when chances are the highest for boys and girls in their teens to have their first experience.
Now that he said it, I have to agree.
Currently, we are high school sophomores.
Next year we’ll end in the front lines preparing for the entrance exams.
Come to that… There’s no way we’ll have time for something like romance.
For this reason… Isn’t being a high school sophomore a chance in several ways?
So that our hearts when preparing for the exams, like a last-minute proposal for rising taxes, get set free.
Life is short.
Us male high school students cannot but dearly treasure this one last chance given by the gods.
That’s why…
“How can it be…”
Though one week has passed since the start of summer vacation, honestly, until now, I’ve only spent unproductive time alone at home.
… That’s natural.
My lodger Zonmi is weak against heat, so she absolutely can’t go out.
My best friend Youhei, having disturbed the firework show at the recent summer festival, has been put into house arrest by the school.
Having had both my two top choices of people to hang out with shut off, I can’t help but be dragged into the lifestyle of a NEET.
“… Well, what do I do today?”
Since no matter how much I worry there’s no way out, let’s totally change my mindset.
While sprawled over my bed, when I stretched my limbs with a ‘mmm’, an idea flashed through my mind.
Ring.
Before my eyes I have my second Contract Ring I got just the other day shining with a silvery color.
Some days ago, after Zonmi the ghoul, I sealed a contract with Kyouko the Nephilim.
Why don’t I try it?… Summon.
Come the time I have to use her as a battle partner, though I’ve seen it a couple of times, I’ve never experienced it myself. Monster tamers have the possibility to call forth their contracted partner any time they like.
Yosh, it’s decided. Let’s summon her.
I-it’s not like I’ll call Kyouko to have someone to talk with to kill the excess free time… Now that I think of it, do I have any other choice?
Better safe than sorry.
That said, since it can be that things don’t go smoothly when I have to use it, I must practice now that I have the time.
“Summon—Nephilim.”
Readying myself, I loudly shouted towards the ring.
Thereupon, the ring emitted a dazzling light that covered the inside of the room.
Ooh… It seems it worked somehow.
Soon, from inside the light emerged a familiar silhouette.
“…”
“…”
Suddenly.
An uncomfortable silence settled on the surroundings, as if time had stopped.
No wonder I became as stiff as if I had been put under a stone spell[1].
The summoned Kyouko, seemingly being completely immersed in her personal time, was in a state where she wore nothing but her undies.
… Could she have been reading on top of her bed?
On Kyouko’s hands were the opened pages of a fashion magazine.
Engrossed in reading the magazine, she was lying face down sucking on a popsicle… In a word, defenseless.
Humm. I didn’t know.
Kyouko follows such a loose lifestyle while at home…
I’ll never admit it to the person herself, but above her underwear a peek of her cute butt crack was showing itself.
“… Ah, ah, ah.”
Crying without making a sound as of saying “it’s the end of the world”, Kyouko’s face paled.
Soon, her embarrassment rushing to its peak, her face becoming bright red,
“Do-dododo… Don’t look at me, morooooooon!”
She gathered her strength and hit me.
At full force.
I think that perhaps not at full force.
“Guoh!?”
Taking Kyouko’s fist head on, my body was sent through the wall with a dreadful sound.
As if I had turned into a human drill, *BROOOM*, I ended up digging through the concrete and sent flying outside the house—.
In the end, I intruded into the neighboring house’s yard.
Ueh… I’ve pierced it.
The repairing fee of the wall, it’ll be quite high.
It’s sad that my first worry was that instead of my own body.
“Grrr… Woof! Woof! Woof!”
The neighbor’s shiba inu[2] raged against the suspicious person (me), but despite the determination put into its barking, deep inside its eyes a tinge of fear could be seen.
“This condition… Is it normal?…”
Rolling up my t-shirt to see the state of my injuries, my skin had become reddish brown and was constantly swelling and shrinking.
The red-colored cells healed themselves in the blink of an eye, and the broken bones connected back.
A monster tamer able to change its body into that of a monster.
Noelle North Norm.
I superimposed my own body’s condition to that of the monster tamer I fought against a few days ago.
I’ve had an omen from a while back.
My body is little by little drifting away from that of a human.
So, I’m vaguely worried.
The realization that my body’s wounds have been automatically healing themselves with the cells of a monster, I got it since after the end of the battle against the Black Tamers the other day.
Do all the ones known as monster tamers hold this kind of monstrous power?
While grateful for thist that to the eye of a passerby seems like a miracle, I felt uneasy before the gradual changes in my body.
“I-I’m truly sorry!…”
Returning to my room, I frantically apologized to the dumbfounded Kyouko.
Due to suddenly calling her forth, she’ll probably be troubled since she has nothing to put on.
Since, enveloped by the bed sheets and with teary eyes as if she was about to cry, Kyouko was quite pitiful, I took a sweatshirt from inside my drawers and put it before her.
Directing my sight to the hole I cleanly made on the wall, I waited like that for Kyouko to change.
“… No. That’s fine. Let’s both forget what has happened today.”
Though it was without ill will, I’ve witnessed Kyouko’s such… Unladylike appearance.
I thought about asking her to reimburse me the wall’s repairing fees, but… I gave up.
Having Kyouko grown up in a household that couldn’t be said thriving even as flattery is cruelty (being in her undies instead of turning the air conditioner on seems to have been for the sake of saving).
For that reason, it’s good we had signed a damage insurance.
It may be an inconvenience for the insurance company, but from now on we’ll be under their care for a while.
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