–

Since enrolling into Cross Field’s Academy, things were going well for Lux.

Of course, there were only daughters of nobles around him, so problem would occur with him being the only male.

Because of his past as a prince of the old empire──and furthermore because of his role as a chore boy, sometimes there would be strange request coming to him from the female students, and sometimes he would also get dragged into various turmoil.

Even so if Lux’s unique status was taken into consideration, it could be said that he had managed to blend into the Academy enough.

That was thanks to the girls around him.

Krulcifer who taught him the lesson, or Philuffy who was treating him the same like in the past.

Everyone of the Triad who acted amiably with him, or his little sister Airi who was controlling his reputation at the Academy, and so on. He was supported by many comrades and obtained a place to belong.

But, recently that was one thing that made Lux worry.

It wasn’t about his current life in the Academy that was going well, it was──.

「Lux Arcadia. Do you have time? There is something that I have to tell you.」

It’s weekday at Academy──the short break after the morning class was over.

Instructor Raigree who exited the classroom beckoned at him, calling Lux out to the corridor where there wasn’t anyone else.

Even Lux who had got thoroughly involved with many great incidents would be a bit nervous if he was called by a teacher.

(What could it be? I think I didn’t do anything bad recently though──)

Raigree was a self-reliant woman, so Lux never received even a single request from her.

If this was something like a warning or instruction to him, he believed she would act more brazenly but──.

While Lux was cautious like that, a sentence about something that normally he put out of his mind came to him. In a sense it could be said that it was just as expected.

「Perhaps this is something that I originally should say to you. But, about that first year student, the girl who had just enrolled here, what’s the deal with her?」

「Aaa....」

The moment Lux heard that, his face turned really complicated.

Even without listening to the detail, he understood everything just from that single sentence.

「This is about That girl from nation of Koto who introduced herself as your servant. That assassin of the old empire, Kirihime Yoruka.」

In the past she confronted Lux who didn’t wish for the revival of the old empire and both of them crossed swords.

But, at the end of that, the understood each other’s feeling and reconciled. Yoruka then swore allegiance to Lux.

After that with Lux’s intermediation──more accurately Lisha’s intermediation that Lux requested, she was enrolled into the Academy under the pretext that the new kingdom would manage her.

Since then Yoruka should be spending peaceful days in the Academy as a first year student. But,

「I have told you before, Lux. That girl, she isn’t blending into the Academy at all.」

「As I thought, it’s like that....」

Raigree’s expression was displeased. Lux also responded with a complicated expression.

Yoruka’s personality was like a fluttering wind that cannot be grasped, her way of thinking and action were also really particular.

Furthermore because her skill as Drag-Knight was also outstanding, Lux could easily imagine how she would be completely out of place even in the class.

But, his little sister Airi and Noct of Triad were also Yoruka’s classmate, so Lux thought that they would follow up on her just barely, but──.

「Could it be, Yoruka is feeling troubled because she cannot get used to the Academy?」

「....Do you think so?」

The smiling face of the serious Instructor Raigree was scary.

「Eerr, is everyone around her troubled just as I thought?」

When Lux asked back awkwardly, Instructor Raigree took out a memo from her pocket.

‘Ah, I get a bad feeling.’

「In the middle of class, she said things like guarding you and sneaked away as she pleased. She isn’t talking at all with her classmates. At training, she ignored the menu and did self-practice willfully. At mock battle, she used her partner as decoy to defeat her opponent. She won’t listen to the instructor. She ignores the regulation for sleeping and waking up time. She won’t reflect even when she is scolded. In her clothes she is carrying hidden weapons that she won’t part with. She took off her clothes as she pleased....」

「I, I get it! It’s enough already!」

By the way, it seemed that list still had half remaining.

Until now Airi who was in the same class settled down the troubles, but as expected it seemed that Yoruka’s actions couldn’t be overlooked anymore.

Thus, it seemed that the talk came to Lux like this as he was the one leading her.

「But, I have to be the one warning her? Certainly she was calling me her master but, this is more or less a matter in the Academy, so someone like the headmaster Relie-san or even one of the teachers──」

「Do you believe, that girl will properly listen to anyone other than you?」

「I’m sorry....」

He was taking into consideration his position inside the Academy, but he retracted his statement when he saw Raigree’s twitching face.

「It was Princess Lisha who proposed the enrollment of Yoruka, but it was you who asked her to do that right? Take responsibility to look after that girl as her master. This is my first request to you.」

「I, understand.」

Lux could only nod at the completely sound argument.

After the battle, he wanted to give a new place to belong for Yoruka who returned back to him.

Even though he had decided to look after her, and yet he was unable to guide her properly. That was his blunder.

Before the problem was getting bigger than this in the Academy, he had to guide Yoruka to act properly no matter what.

「──Yosh.」

After he had decided that, he immediately took action.

Although, for Lux whose class and grade were different from Yoruka, there were still a lot of things that he didn’t know.

Thus, first he had to gather accurate information.

Lux who bid farewell to Raigree returned to his classroom and sat down.

(Perhaps I should cancel my chores today as much as possible....)

He was thinking of such thing while concentrating on the rest of his class.

–

「And so, because of that Nii-san is finally coming to me after this late?」

「Err, yes. Well....」

An awkward atmosphere was filling the cramped room to the brim.

He was in a room inside the girl dormitory after school.

It was the shared room of Airi and Noct.

It was a request from Raigree to guide Yoruka so she became accustomed to life in Academy, but first it was necessary to know about the situation of her class in first year.

Thinking so, Lux thought to hear about the story from Airi who was Yoruka’s classmate, but the situation appeared to be more pressing than Lux thought.

「I’m very happy. To think that Nii-san will act considerately to someone like me even if just for a bit. I thought that surely Nii-san was foisting the matter of Yoruka-san completely to me while Nii-san isn’t planning to do anything at all.」

Airi was showing him a gentle smile, but her smile didn’t reach her eyes.

In other words, his little sister was proclaiming that she had been fussing about Yoruka quite much since her enrollment into the Academy by Lux’s hope.

「Let’s stop with that much, Airi.. After all it’s not like Lux-san was doing it maliciously.」

Noct was sending a timely help to Lux who was receiving a gentle intimidation from Airi.

But, even with her best friend soothing her down, Airi still puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

「Noct is spoiling Nii-san too much. It’s because Nii-san has never thought about consequences since the past that he should be properly warned to make him reflect. After all if Nii-san isn’t acting responsibly, it will make me terribly worried.」

「....Perhaps that’s also true. I was also troubled by Yoruka-san.」

「Even though I thought you are helping me-!?」

Lux was crestfallen seeing Noct quickly changed side.

But, at the same time Noct who saw that was quietly bringing her face closer beside Lux.

「Forgive me Lux-san. I unconsciously made fun of you. Airi isn’t as angry as she look, so please don’t worry.」

「Is...., that so?」

「Yes. Right now she is saying suchthing, but it was Airi’s choice to not tell Lux-san about the problem. 『I don’t want to put needless worry at Nii-san right now, so I will do something about the internal situation of the Academy』, she said. She even came to me to consult about Yoruka-san’s matter.」

Noct whispered so. Within her usual composed expression, her lips looked just slightly loosened.

Airi who heard her instantly turned red and raised her voice in fluster.

「Wai-!? What are you saying Noct!? I, I was just──」

At the end her words turned ambiguous without denying it.

Recently Lux got a lot of work.

In addition of the normal class and practice, there was also his chores in the Academy and his activity as Syvalles member, not just that, as the country’s representative──as a Seven Dragon Paladin, he was extremely busy.

Amidst that, since some time ago it seemed Airi was acting for Lux’s sake in order to erase the friction between Yoruka and her surroundings.

In the end it was always like that.

Since Airi grew up, she would make fun of Lux or chiding him for his rash action, but in actuality she was always worrying about him.

「Thank you Airi. And Noct too.」

「Yes. As Airi’s close friend, I’m happy if Lux-san will understand.」

「Uu....」

Seeing Lux’s smile, Airi made a troubled expression and stared reproachfully.

After groaning for a while like that, before long she let out a long sigh.

「....Haa, I understand. Now about Yoruka-san, how much has Nii-san heard?」

Finally the concrete talk began.

Yoruka’s problem that was talked by AIri who was spending time with her daily in the same class was mostly the same like what he heard from Instructor Raigree.

Fundamentally Yoruka wasn’t going against the Academy’s education policy, but here and there she would make a decision that violated the rule.

And then, she didn’t show any sign of reflecting even if she was rebuked for doing that.

In addition she wouldn’t match her pace with her classmates and didn’t try to get close to them.

Even if there was student who talked to her trying to become her friend, it seemed Yoruka would turn them down with a smile saying 『I don’t really understand something like that』.

Yoruka herself had the past of being a princess of the nation of Koto, but the people around her took distance from her because she was a strange existence that couldn’t understand human’s emotion.

Her ability as Drag-Knight was standing out, but as a human she couldn’t do the 『normal』 thing.

「We too are pondering hard of what we should do. Though when I am speaking with her, she will more or less listen to me because I am Nii-san’s little sister.」

「Yes. It doesn’t seem like that she simply doesn’t want to listen to what she is told. The point is that she doesn’t know the way of living for the position of military cadet and how to interact with people.」

Yoruka was out of place in the Academy wasn’t simply because her individual character.

She didn’t understand the way to live inside the society called school.

The way to interact with classmate, the way to act inside the order called school.

It was necessary for Lux who was her master to make her learned the normal thing as a person.

「Then, in the end I have to be the one to tell her?」

「Yes. Perhaps it would be better for Lux-san to spend as much time together with Yoruka-san in the Academy while teaching her that. Airi will sulk if Lux-san get too intimate with her, so I ask you to please act with that in mind.」

「Noct keeps saying strange thing since some time ago, please stop it!」

Noct muttered that coolly, which was responded by Airi’s yell with a red face.

Lux observed their exchange warmly while thinking of a plan.

For the time being he promised Airi and Noct that he would report the progress to them every day and left the room.

He would teach Yoruka the importance of rule in the Academy and how to interact with students and teachers.

Lux was thinking of how to do that while doing his chores.

「But, not just class, even my year is different from Yoruka, how should I make a point of contact with her....?」

Even if he asked her to accompany him with his chores after school, she would be alone with only Lux, so there wasn’t really any meaning in doing that.

If possible it would be better if he got the chance to teach Yoruka through class lesson or living together.

「──My, isn’t this Lux-kun. You are making that kind of long face, has something happened again?」

「Ah...., good afternoon headmaster.」

While he was sweeping at the backdoor of the school building, a familiar face of a woman passed through.

She was the big sister of his childhood friend Philuffy, a woman of blooming age who was serving as headmaster here, Relie Aingram.

She who was his acquaintance since the past smiled friendlily ‘fufu’ at him.

「Don’t be like that, calling me headmaster at this place, it’s fine if you call me Relie-san familiarly you know?」

「That’s, normally isn’t it the reverse?」

Even though they were inside the Academy’s ground, she was like this.

Lux was smiling wryly at her informal attitude that was unthinkable for someone responsible for an academy of military cadets.

He also took the opportunity to try consulting her a little about the matter of Yoruka that was worrying him since some time ago.

「I see, certainly that method is interesting. In everything, one has to experience it first before being able to understand it.」

Unexpectedly, Relie was giving her endorsement to the plan of spending time together with Yoruka in the same environment.

「But, as expected it’s impossible. Our year is different in the first place, like that trying to have a school life with the same point of view──」

「It’s possible.」

The moment Lux scratched his head with a wry smile, such reply came to him.

「That’s right isn’t it, even if it’s Relie-san, as expected that is..... ──Wait, eeeeh!?」

「Let’s try it. If it’s also the request from none other than Lux, there is no way I can refuse it.」

Relie nodded powerfully along with a smile that was filled with confidence.

Thus due to a trivial thought and a terrifying coincidence, this uproar begin.

–

An atmosphere of surprise and commotion was filling the classroom at the morning.

Inside the classroom of the Academy’s first year, the girls were making a stir in bewilderment.

Even Airi and Noct were stiffened with a conflicted expression.

「E, err..... Then for one week from now on, Lux-kun from the second year is going to be entrusted into this class. Everyone, su, surely you all are confused of various things but, please get along well with each other.」

No matter how anyone looked at it, the one who was the most bewildered was the female teacher in charge of the class.

Only a day after he consulted Relie.

A special schedule where Lux would receive class lesson for one week in the same first year class with Yoruka was realized very easily.

He was told that at the surface that this was for the first year to interact with male student in the prospect of turning the Academy into mixed school at the future.

This was an experiment for the first year students to experience that.

(No matter what, this is still too forcing it I think....)

In order for Yoruka who couldn’t adapt in the Academy to know about 『normal school life』, Lux too would really spend a week as first year together with her.

Naturally Lux would fall behind schedule with his own class and practice during that time. Regarding that, it was scheduled to cover that with the supplementary lessons after school next week.

It seemed that Celis, Krulcifer, and Philuffy would help him there. Krulcifer with the general class lesson, Celis with Drag-Ride practice, and Philuffy in the practical skill of hand-to-hand combat.

『Eei, I want to help out Lux in something too-!』

It seemed that Lisha yelled like that when she knew it, but that was another story.

And because of that, this attempt that could even be called as mad was hurriedly started, but speaking of Yoruka, the person in question herself──,

「I’m happy that we are able to be together. If it’s like this I can save the time to rush to Aruji-sama’s side when I sense danger.」

She was obviously the one who was the most unperturbed with this happening.

Far from feeling perturbed, she moved her desk to stick with Lux’s desk beside her and softly nestled her body on him.

「Uwah!?」

The warmth of skin and the softness of breast could be felt from above the uniform.

At the same time the feminine scent tickling his nose cavity made Lux perplexed.

Her upward gaze emitted a bewitching sensuality. Her body twisted as though inviting him.

Even though she wasn’t wearing that black outfit with high exposure rate, her behavior was enough to make a man’s reasoning melted into puddle.

「....What are you doing Yoruka-san!? This is classroom! Nii-san too, please don’t get?lovestruckdere dere?like that!」

Airi hurriedly leaned her body forward from the seat at opposite side and pulled at Lux’s arm.

「My? Are you jealous, Airi-san? It’s all right. I won’t take Aruji-sama away from you.」

「Tha, that’s not what I’m saying at all!? Please understand the time and place!」

Airi who normally should be acting like a sheltered young lady in the Academy was losing her self-control.

「....Say, Noct. Could it be that it was always like this in this class?」

Lux looked behind him with a complicated expression. At the seat right behind him, the Triad member nodded briskly.

「Yes. ....Is what I want to say, but, No. It’s more boisterous like this now that Lux-san has come.」

「........」

He thought that Yoruka would be quieter if he was taking class at the same place with her, but it seemed it brought the opposite effect instead.

Yoruka’s abnormality was getting even more standing out because she was conscious of Lux’s existence.

The sudden happening of the only boy in the Academy coming to the first year class.

Right after the talk came out that Lux was coming here, the first year students turned a curious gaze at him and cheered joyfully, but in this situation where Yoruka was in confrontation against Airi, they were bewildered and watched quietly.

「Nii-san too, please scold her. You came here for that aren’t you?」

Prompted by his little sister whose tone had roughened when he noticed, Lux nodded.

「Yo, Yoruka, get away a bit from me. The class will begin soon.」

「Yes, Aruji-sama.」

Her expression flashed into a pure smile and she obediently followed his words.

As expected it appeared that she was absolutely obedient to Lux’s command.

When the scene settled down and the atmosphere relaxed, small voices could be heard from here and there.

「Hey, just now that girl, she called Lux-senpai with Aruji-sama──」

「Could it be, no it’s certainly that kind of relationship between the two of them.」

「........」

He wondered what was with this atmosphere.

Even though he came in order to make Yoruka fit into the class, the commotion became bigger instead.

(Or rather, if I remember right, everyone doesn’t know about Yoruka’s circumstance in detail....)

The detail about Yoruka’s special circumstance was known only by small part of people. The headmaster Relie, the members of Syvalles, as well as the teachers.

The majority of the female students only heard that Yoruka was 『a surviving servant that had been serving Lux since the time of the old empire』.

Furthermore with what had happened just now, the students became even more curious about the relationship of the two.

While Lux was thinking of such thing, the teacher cleared her throat.

「The, then, we are starting our lesson. Open the text book──」

「....Oh, no.」

The matter of him receiving lesson in the first year students class was decided hurriedly, so he didn’t have the teaching materials for it.

When he thought of asking Airi to share her book with him, a text book already existed right in front of him.

「Here Aruji-sama. I will offer you mine.」

「Tha, thank you Yoruka──wait, what are you doing giving it wholly to me!? What about yours!?」

「It’s unnecessary for me to accomplish my duty, so it’s something fortunate that it can be of help for Aruji-sama.」

「........」

Even Lux was troubled when she told him that with a cheerful smile.

「Err, that’s..... I’m happy with Yoruka’s feeling──but」

「Here Nii-san. I’ll show you mine.」

The moment Lux was hesitating of what to say, Airi brought her desk closer to him.

Thanks to that he was able to return Yoruka’s text book and safely....well, he couldn’t go as far to claim that, but even so the class resumed.

「Fuu....」

Lux was patting his chest in relief inside his heart, but beside him Airi was glaring at him reproachfully.

*Tap tap* Her finger was pointing at the corner of her notebook. A small message was written there for Lux.

『It will be scolding later for Nii-san』

「....Haah」

Lux hung his head down after reading that strong line with dripping ink while passing through the first class.

–

He was worried what going to happen with his sudden change of classroom, but unexpectedly after that time was passing peacefully.

A somewhat restless atmosphere was flowing right after Lux arrived, but after seeing the confrontation between Yoruka and Airi, almost no student appeared to call out to Lux.

The students were observing the quarrel of the two while nonchalantly prompting at him. The atmosphere was reserved like that.

「Lux-senpai had participated in the tournament at the capital right? Please give me guidance at the practice.」

「Is the impression in the second year’s class different from here?」

「Which one is Lux-senpai’s type, a younger or older girl?」

There were juniors who were talking to him here and there, but Yoruak didn’t join into that conversation.

Rather, she was taking a step back and watching Lux from afar.

At the same time, Airi too was putting up her guard while stealing glances from the side.

Like this it was scary and the classmates were found it hard to make their move.

At time like this Lux was troubled at what he should do.

「Come to think of it, what is Lux-senpai’s hobby?」

Then, a student suddenly asked such question to him. There Lux went into offense.

「Err, I was doing nothing but chores so I don’t have anything like hobby but, what about you Yoruka?」

He abruptly addressed Yoruka who was some distance away.

It was his attempt to add Yoruka into the circle of conversation and familiarized her with her classmates, but,

「....I don’t really have anything like that.」

「Ah, I see....」

She flashed a bright smile and answered instantly.

Noct who saw that sighed quietly while Airi held her head.

However he wondered why.

Somehow, he felt a different impression that was different from usual from Yoruka’s answer.

「More importantly, you there, can I ask you to shift slightly more to the right? You block the window and I cannot prepare against attack from outside.」

「Ah, right. So, sorry.」

After Yoruka pointed out with a gentle tone, the girl who was standing near the window moved away from there.

It seemed that she was observing from some distance away was to be vigilant toward outside so that Lux wouldn’t get aimed by assassin.

「Say Yoruka....here is inside the Academy, so you don’t need to be that worried.」

「That’s also true. But, although it’s not zero but there is still a chance.」

「....Bu, but you see, right now is break time, talking with other friends──」

Please tell her more strongly.

The gaze from Airi with expression that seemed to be telling him that was painful.

Even so the current Lux was helpless to do anything throughout the morning class.

–

During the two days after that, Lux’s endeavor didn’t go well.

When he was taking lunch together with the first year students, 「This is a good chance so allow me to test the food for poison」 Yoruka said that and lightly ate Lux’s meal before presenting it to him, after that, even when Lux was leaving his seat when it was time to change clothes into the pilot suit, she would try to change together with him saying that it was for his protection, and on top of all that, at the time when Lux’s finger got cut by paper edge, she would put his finger into her mouth to disinfect it.

With such loyalty that made even Lux himself got red faced displayed in the open, the first year students who were watching from the side were getting heated up toward that stimulating exchange.

As the result──Yoruka wasn’t developing to open her heart to her classmate or even trying to protect the rule, rather it was as though she was charging fiercely through the path of deterioration.

....Strange.

Even though this was a plan for teaching Yoruka to be social, and yet her action was growing even worse by Lux coming to her side.

「Nii-san is na?ve. Please warn her more severely.」

「Yes. I’m asking Lux-san too before all the blood vessels in Airi’s body burst.」

The lunch break at the third day, Airi and Noct finally told him that.

But, he wondered why.

Lux wasn’t really feeling like to do that.

「Um, certainly you two might be right but....」

Making use of his position as her master and restricted her action by commanding her.

Perhaps that was the shortest path.

However for some reason Lux was hesitating to do that.

*GOoOON* The sound of bell resounded inside the school building, telling the end of the lunch break.

The next class was Drag-Ride practice.

Airi who was a civil official candidate would have a different class. Because of that they would part here temporarily.

「Then Nii-san. Please be very, very careful to not do anything strange.」

「Right. Let’s go, Noct.」

Lux nodded at Airi’s reminder and stood up from his seat.

He hurried to the practice ground so that he wouldn’t be late for class.

–

「Today, I have a little request for Yoruka.」

「My, what could it be? Aruji-sama doesn’t need to be that reserved. If it’s the command of no one else by Aruji-sama, I will obey it right away.」

Afternoon──in the middle of the practice ground.

It that place where the students who had changed into their pilot suit gathered, Lux instructed Yoruka in a certain matter.

「Can you not get too close to me in the middle of practice? That’s, as expected the visibility in this place is great, so there is no need to be that worried about my security.」

「──That, might be true.」

Yoruka nodded once with a serious face and showed a thinking gesture for a bit.

「But, I believe that we shouldn’t let our guard down, just in case. There is also various kinds of Abyss, the modus operandi of the enemy is also becoming ingenious.」

「Yes. But for today, won’t Yoruka teach your technique to everyone else? Of course, it’s okay if you only teach them what they can possibly do. I want you to pay attention not just at me, but to everyone else too.」

「........」

Lux finally told her that clearly.

He wasn’t leaving her to her own independence, but urging her to cooperate with everyone else.

Yoruka was hesitating for a few seconds, but before long she nodded quietly.

「I understand. I’m not confident, but if it’s Aruji-sama’s command, then I’ll do it with pleasure.」

Lux felt slightly guilty seeing her figure responding to him with a smile.

He wondered if in the end Yoruka would be able to do it.

In the first place at the practice for the first year, Noct reported to him that Yoruka wasn’t able to even carry out a proper mock battle in a battle between pair.

It wasn’t simply because Yoruka was unabl-->>

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