Volume 3 Chapter 1 - The Night of Beginning Part 4
It seems the people of Magic Division still haven’t pinned down Kazuki and the others’ whereabouts.
At first Kazuki was hidden in an empty room in the student dormitory, but that place was the first place that was going to be suspected, so Kohaku immediately moved them to her comrade’s room. That comrade of Kohaku that was pushed out by Kazuki and the others was further crammed into another comrade’s room forcibly.
Kanae and the others in the Sword Division student council were searching for Kazuki, but they didn’t use overbearing methods like sudden inspection of all rooms in the student dormitory. Because trespassing the privacy of unrelated students was the last method, it seemed they first investigated using quiet methods.
Kohaku intentionally let them do that freely. It was better if the brocon Kanae lost her patience and challenged Kohaku directly…that was what she said.
Kazuki could do nothing other than waiting patiently in the room for the situation to change.
After dinner, the female camp handed over the right to enter the bath first to Kazuki.
Each room in the Sword Division’s student dormitory was furnished with its own bath.
There were many chances for students to move their body doing something in the Sword Division, so it seemed that there were bathing facilities everywhere inside their grounds. It looked like there was also a splendorous bathhouse of artificial hot spring, but as expected Kazuki and the others couldn’t go there to soak their body and they need to enter the room’s bathroom in turn.
Kazuki started to wash his body before entering the bathtub.
The shampoo and body soap that were standing ready in this room were traditional washing implements that attached more importance to their cleaning power. This was because the Sword Division’s students were not necessarily skilled in magic.
Because advanced magic users could shake off the filth on their body, the soap and shampoo they used placed more importance in the aroma and used many combinations of fragrant ingredients.
These fragrance soaps were even used in the Witch Mansion. This thing was an unrelated matter for Kazuki who spent his life until now as a swordsman, but because cleaning his body with magic had also became good training, he received the matching soap that Kaguya-senpai recommended.
He thought because it was a habit that his body finally learned, although there was no fragrance soap, Kazuki cleaned his body by magic. He sensed the grime, filth, and things like excess sebum, then floated those things thoroughly using Psychokinesis and washed them in the shower.
It also seemed like this was the place for female magicians to display their skill whether they could limit washing the worrying body odor until the pheromone substance. It was a plainly advanced magic skill to be able to differentiate the smell and pheromone.
Although he was not really particular until that much, but Kazuki was washing his body in blue magic power light with hardships.
Then suddenly he remembered Kaguya-senpai’s aroma. When he was embraced by Kaguya-senpai in her magic dress, a really dense sweet aroma could be smelled from her exposed skin. Regardless of the same soap that they used, his own smell was totally different. Kaguya-senpai’s aroma had the [richness] that was not present on others.
The senpai who had the aroma of a girl that was even more than average used her excellent magic skill to shake off only the filth in her body without damaging her pheromone at all, then used the fragrance soap to enhance her smell even further. That was completely like a dessert made from the ultimate ingredients by a virtuoso patissier.
Senpai’s innocent skinships always made Kazuki’s heart keep beating so fast every time.
―Right now he was in hostility with that Kaguya-senpai.
“…As expected, this is so lonely, huh. Moreover senpai made that crying face before…”
…This is no good, I mustn’t keep feeling down. When Kazuki finished washing his body, he immediately submerged his body in the bathtub with a splash. What he needed right now was the burning determination to take back those ordinary days!
“Kazuki-oniisan, I want to enter the bath with you together desu!”
Suddenly he heard a bright and brilliant voice, then the cloudy glass door of the bathroom was opened noisily.
The one who appeared was Lotte covered in her Magic Dress. Lotte’s Magic Dress was in the state where none of its armaments were attached, it was shaped like a white bikini with smooth texture like a pearl.
“I came using the gap when Mio-oneesan went to the toilet. Though Koyuki-oneesan was watching me with an astonished eye. Please wait a little bit, I will finish washing my body soon desu.”
Lotte’s hair and body were covered with blue light, her body was finished being cleaned in the blink of eye. She was overwhelmingly faster compared to Kazuki, it was a question of familiarity rather than the difference in their magic skill.
There was a culture in her home country that one must get through their daily lives matters using magic as much as possible.
“No, wait a second! I am naked you know!?”
Ignoring the flustered Kazuki, Lotte leaped into the bathtub. Kazuki instantly shrank his body to the end of the bathtub. Lotte settled her body in the bathtub with the posture of forcing her way through between Kazuki’s legs.
“I feel embarrassment from Kazuki-oniisan. But I don’t see anything except your chest and shoulders, so it’s okay desu!”
“Is, is that so…thank you for your consideration. …But is that really the problem?”
“I am staring at your chest and shoulders. Somehow my heart is beating fast. Kazuki-oniisan, you have a nice body desu?”
“Lotte is so pure and innocent, but I feel that sometimes you’re a clear pervert.”
Even while talking, Kazuki’s sight kept peeking at Lotte’s white shoulders and collarbone.
Her collarbone…somehow looked sexy.
“You say that, but Kazuki-oniisan too is a maniac desu.”
“You can understand that much from telepathy!?”
“I’m not, Onii-san’s interest was not exposed by the conduct of magic. But I feel your gaze to me. I’m very happy that Onii-san is unable to take your eyes off my body. I wonder if I should also make my whole Magic Dress vanish, what do you think desu?”
“Stop that, I feel dizzy now.”
The heat he felt in his face was not only because of the hot water.
…The current situation was not only because of his loneliness, but also because he met her.
He brought this kind of situation on himself because he protected Lotte, but his choice was absolutely not mistaken.
“Come to think of it, don’t you feel some uneasiness because of the current matter?”
“For me…somehow I already feel defiant. Or perhaps I should say that it’s already very lucky that I can still live.”
Lotte’s face changed suddenly and completely into a happy face while saying so.
“Of course I’m not saying that it’s okay even if I die desu. But from now on no matter what happens, I believe that Kazuki-oniisan will absolutely become my ally. I have also decided to go against my fate with all my strength. That’s why I won’t have any regrets no matter what happens. If by any chance it’s in vain, then I think it can’t be helped desu. That’s why I’m keeping calm.”
Her feelings were different from giving up. This was the gallantness of a human who had decided that she was going to fight.
“Kazuki-oniisan, I love you desu.”
She leaned her body forward inside the bathtub, Lotte brought her face near Kazuki’s and kissed him where only their lips touched each other. A kiss of oath―an oath of protecting each other.
When Kazuki kissed a girl that was tied to him in a Bond, he could draw out the power of the Diva that was contracted with that girl to its maximum limit. But he already used this one time only ability with Lotte. That’s why the kiss just now was something purely for the sake to ascertain their respective feelings for each other.
“…I will absolutely protect Lotte from anything. No matter what happens from now on.”
“Danke shun!”
Breaking the water surface with ‘pashaa’, Lotte hugged Kazuki spiritedly. A heart mark floated out from Lotte’s chest, then it was absorbed into Kazuki’s <Solomon’s Ring>.
But he already reached his limit by being hugged in this situation. The blood rushed to his head.
He wanted to get out from the bathtub already, however…he couldn’t get out from the bathtub in this kind of shape!
At that time, he heard a panicked voice from the direction of the dressing room.
“Lotte, even though I had said no matter how many times that it’s forbidden to enter the bath together! …E, even I want to enter the bath with Kazu-nii after all!!”
The door of the bathroom was opened once again, then Lotte hopped away from him in surprise.
The owner of the voice was the bath-towel covered Mio.
“I know the rule. It is a violation of manners in Japan to enter the bath while wearing a towel desu!”
Lotte instantly pointed out with her finger pointing to Mio sharply.
Kazuki tilted his head wondering if that was really the problem, but Mio who had a serious nature was “gununu” groaning.
“Then I’ll also wear my Magic Dress!”
“Mio-oneesan’s Magic Dress is attached with feathers, it’s a nuisance so that’s not good desu!”
“Certainly Mio’s Magic Dress is too bulky to be used for entering the bathtub together.”
Kazuki consented spontaneously. The shape of the Magic Dress was the product that was produced naturally from the image of the minds of the contractor and Diva acting in concert with each other. Large wings were attached on Mio’s Magic Dress.
“How, how can that be, so this is Phoenix’s fault!? That stupid grilled chicken―!!”
By no means it ever entered his mind before that a Diva could actually be judged of his work at the Magic Dress for that kind of thing.
“Well, well…I, I’m going naked then!”
Mio declared so even when right now her face was spouting out steam. This girl had already became desperate!
“You idiot!? You’re going to regret it for sure if you get naked for this kind of thing you know!?”
The towel was gently falling. Mio immediately hid her chest and lower body, long and slender that kept going continuously, it was so full and well-rounded even with that. An ideal silhouette as a girl was exposed in the other side of the steam vapor.
He thought that he must not see that place’s mighty thing like this, but he couldn’t tear off his eyes!
“…Please cut it out.” “KYAAA”
Mio’s body was wrapped up with a towel from behind. That towel was fixed tightly, and then Mio’s figure was pulled into the dressing room. Then the next face that came out was Koyuki’s.
“…Kazuki, here.”
Koyuki faced Kazuki and threw him something―a towel.
For the current Kazuki, that item was the most needed item that he desired.
“Hiakari-san! Thank you, as I thought, Hiakari-san is really my hero!!”
Kazuki quickly wrapped the towel at his hips and got out of the bathtub.
“Jiii―. Seeing Onii-san in a towel also makes my heart beat fast desu?”
“I said before that it’s heroine, tentatively. …I’m not happy even if you thank me for this kind of thing.”
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