Chapter 312: Dancing holding hands with a girl is embarrassing for a highschool boy, you know? And tentacles seem not allowed too?
Day 75 – Nighttime, the Capital, Souvenir Store Orphanage Branch
During the night we took a rest after doing ONE MORE SET, and then focused on the practice for the ball. The princess and Meriel-sama taught us the basics, But Nefertiri-san managed to memorize everything from seeing it just once, and is now instructing us with a perfect arrangement of her own. The boys ran away. Only Haruka-kun stuck around until getting one passing mark and immediately escaped to the bath.
Nefertiri-san’s educational policy says that it’s beneficial to learn both male and female parts. So it’s an extra hard ball ball (DANCE DANCE) practice with girls only. But she has a point, after trying to lead in male part, you have an easier time understanding movements in the female part. Vice Pres A-san is especially superb at leading, to which Haruka-kun, who returned from bath, blurted out『Look, you don’t have any anyway, so maybe go with tailcoat too. Should I make one? Wait, it might actually suit you really well!』, which led to him currently being chased around with a morning star.
Saying that is taboo, you know? Back at school she was getting tons of fan and love letters from female students every day, so she is very conscious of that. And 『You don’t have any』 is even more of a taboo.
「The dress looks gorgeous even if you are just spinning around, but he said it also has iron threads… It’s mitrilified?! 」
「He said that an attack from a level 50’s sword not only wouldn’t be able to hurt the wearer, but also won’t even cut the fabric itself?」
「I thought that having a full made-to-order dress was something completely out of my reach something that I will never get.」
「On top of being better than top quality items, it is also loaded with enchantments and has high defensive stats… It’s… It’s higher level than my armor, isn’t it?!」
We have no idea about the movements of the remaining two great noble houses. Everything has already been pretty much decided, but we still cannot afford to let our guard down. Even so, I think this is not it? This is basically dungeon equipment or even better. Moreover, it also comes with numerous accessories for combat versus people, weapons stashed in『Storage』, and lots of concealed weapons.
They look like wonderful dresses straight out of girls’ dreams. No, they look even more marvelous, easily surpassing our imagination in their splendor. But… The gloves have retractable iron claws, and also can fire iron needles? The lovely corsage will explode if thrown, the beautiful lace coiling around in frills can transform into a whip, the pumps have a hidden knife, and the dress itself is crammed with needles, allowing to basically transform into a hedgehog, or launch them into all sides? Those aren’t countermeasures versus assassins, this is the most terrifying equipment for assassination! Forget trying to stealthily assassinate someone, with such equipment one can just take knights head on and wipe the floor with them?
Both defenses and weaponry are so excessive then there is no issue with raiding a dungeon in this equipment. Yeah, we are heading to the Royal Palace now, right?
「Multicolor gives this very bargain feeling. Although the debt keeps piling up…」
「It’s lovely, isn’t it… Gotta make tons of money when we return to the Frontier!」
「Since the fabric was formed with mana the size can be adjusted too, like, in the stomach area for example?」
「What to do about the second dress though… How about hitting dungeons for a bit?」
Everyone is going deep in debt, after all, we’ve been working for free for a while now, earning nothing! Well, we are getting a huge salary, but it’s not keeping up with our spending. Or rather, due to the effects of 『Wisdom』-san Haruka-kun is dishing out new products one after another, so we are being plucked of everything!
The stampedes had nothing but low level monsters, so the earnings were nothing compared to the Frontier. We didn’t get any dungeon items either. Haruka-kun went through the beaten dungeons, and was later grumbling that all of them turned out to be inferior dungeons without a single hidden room. Buying too many manjus was also fatal, but they were delicious!
「At this rate, even before we get『Tamed』, we might end up… Having to sell ourselves?」
「Ending up as debt slaves instead of legal wives or whatever?」
「「「Yeah, let’s return to the Frontier!」」」
If there’s a place we can earn big it’s the Frontier, and it’s also the place where we’ve got to be fighting now, since we’ve gotten stronger.
There is Haruka-kun’s cave (home) in the forest, and in the town the Poster Girl is awaiting us in the inn.
We shed a lot of tears there, but we’ve also laughed even more.
By now, being away from the town for two weeks is enough to make us miss it. Everyone is saying『Return』when talking about going back to the Frontier. Yeah, we even bought『We Frontier』T-shirts. Just felt like buying one?
Round and round and round, make a circle while dancing, revolve following an 8 figure, spin dancing back and forth.
If you adjust your posture, your center of gravity will be determined, and if you move your legs to match the center of gravity, your body will dance. If you entrust your body to the footwork, your body will dance, and if you put your movement on the sound, a rhythm will be born and your body will dance.
Combat techniques learned in this world become dance steps, moving the body, and if the moves connected together, they become a dance. If conscious of the proper movements and sequence, the limbs will naturally move, making the body dance.
Moving our bodies while tracing an image of Nefertiri-san’s beautiful dance seared into our minds, our bodies begin to dance like feathers. Yes, it’s like magic.
A magic that makes one dance, when entrusting oneself to beautiful music. The physical abilities we obtained in this world allow us to freely control our bodies. That’s why we can dance with such an ease, as if by magic.
While shocked by their own ability to dance, everyone is dancing and spinning around in joy.
I’m sure this is something we would’ve never experienced without coming to this world. We wouldn’t have had such lovely outfits, or bodies of top athletes with full mastery over our own movements, or skills and real magic making impossible possible. A ball at a palace that girls are dreaming about, I’m sure Haruka-kun doesn’t want to go since it’s too much of a bother, but he still accepted the invitation without saying anything even though he must’ve wanted to refuse.
Even while worrying that it might be dangerous, he wanted to make everyone’s dream come true. Doing lots of research into dresses, going around asking everyone questions, making prototypes over and over, practicing many times… And he finally made such marvelous dresses. That’s why Haruka-kun is everyone’s wizard. He even took care of music, making a sound recorder working on magic stones, he recorded dance music on it. Our unceremonious gentle magician that makes anything and everything appear as if by magic.
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