Chapter 91: New Start (2)

The girl named Grace Wayne smiled at Leas and Reiko, noticed me, and bowed her head small.

"Long time no see, Senjumaru. I was in your care at that time."

"Yeah. Don’t mind it. I only helped Reiko."

I am glad you seem well. I tried smiling as if it were nothing.

For an instant I thought she meant the Black Knight fight and felt a chill. From where did it leak.

Maybe there was a slight sense of discomfort in my speech and conduct. Reiko still sitting on the floor tilted her head suspiciously. Among this lineup Reiko had known me the longest. If I slipped somehow I might have my identity seen through, and that was a little scary.

"What is it, Grace? You seemed to be looking for something. ...Ah, right. How were your tests over there?"

"Not good. I intended to have memorized to a certain extent before enrollment, but in subjects that need rote memorization I fell below what I assumed. I took too much time on math. I will definitely take revenge for this at finals."

The answer sheets she took out and showed had math and English in the nineties, and even the memorization subjects like history that she herself said were no good kept the seventies.

Guhee, Reiko leaked a voice like a crushed frog.

"...Guh, Gure-senpai, you transferred from Cal, from over there, and the exam was almost immediately, right?"

"Yes. If I had a little more time I could have done history perfectly too..."

Reiko face-planted on the floor with a face that wanted to say there is no comrade who can share the suffering of failing marks.

I understand the feeling as a former failing-mark holder, but licking each other’s wounds will not solve it, so study properly.

"By the way Leas, why is Reiko like that. No, I understand. I will ask just in case, you have already finished scolding, yes?"

Toward Grace who sighed looking at Reiko’s answer sheets scattered on the desk, Leas nodded strongly.

"Yes. From now I intend to look at her studying when I have time. Good grief. What, Grace. Why are you laughing."

"Fufu... no, until only a few years ago it felt like moving your body was your only strong point. You have become splendid."

"...Please do not talk about the old days too much. I cannot set an example for my junior."

Leas reddened her cheeks and dropped her gaze, and naturally put Grace’s lower body, the miniskirt and boldly exposed thighs, into her field of view.

"...Grace, is it all right making it that short?"

"Ah, this?"

She lightly pinched the hem of the miniskirt that fully exposed her thighs and put on a proud smile.

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do, was it. Matching this side’s trends is only natural! The sun shines precisely by glittering, by attracting people, and a woman shines and attracts people precisely by dressing up!"

Fufun, she raked up her hair and swayed the vertical rolls.

Certainly, that way of dressing that was like a modern girl yet not greatly sloppy seemed to moderately fuse the ojou-sama atmosphere Grace had with a modern schoolgirl feel.

A figure that did not float from those around her, yet was like her. No, frankly at the point of blonde vertical rolls she floated quite a bit, but it settled at a degree of floating that could blend into the girl students to a certain extent.

But I did not care about that. I directed my gaze at the skirt hem Grace pinched.

What do I do. I only have the image of low exposure from when she is Sacred Knight, so even a familiar uniform miniskirt starts looking like an extremely high-exposure costume.

Thighs that were thin and tight yet had not lost the softness unique to women generated universal gravitation of the gaze.

Precisely because of that, the upper part, the part hidden inside the skirt, bothered me endlessly. Damn it, why did the Panty-Flash Monster Villain appear last month. If it is going to appear it should be now...!

"See, Senjumaru is looking. Are you not embarrassed?"

"Ohohohoh! What are you saying, Leas! The girls in class expose this much skin too. In other words, in this side’s culture this much is fine to be seen, is it not! Then there is not a fragment of anything embarrassing!"

"My bad, I am the one who was looking so I should not say it, but I think that is an extreme argument..."

If the logic that because it is there you may look as much as you like holds, then staring at breasts over clothes would also be fine. What is that, that is wonderful, please establish it in law.

"Grace, are you really all right? I do not have the confidence to spend my days in that skirt length."

"You are naive, Leas. I practiced at the family mansion so that even while making it short it would not be seen that easily. Gahel cooperated too. When the inside of the skirt can be seen he points it out with a bright red face."

Even though after becoming a Vigilante he gets normally excited even by blood relatives. Is that torture?

If he pushed her down there would be room for extenuating circumstances, thinking commonly.

While praying for Gahel’s happiness in the next world in my heart, Grace clapped both hands. "Ah, that is right!"

"I had something to talk about regarding Gahel. After school today we promised to go shopping together, but if you would like, would you come with us? We are still unfamiliar with this town’s geography, but since we are going into town a large group would be more fun."

"Come to think of it Gure-senpai and Gahel-kun do not have phones, right. For me that is an item to secure first."

"Yes, the girl students in class mentioned that area quite a bit too. I had ordered things needed for studies, but..."

Frankly Calmate is a worldview like medieval fantasy plus alpha, so being unfamiliar with that area cannot be helped.

Even Leas can operate a phone, but maybe she is still not used to it. If I send a message it takes more than five minutes from read to reply.

Still, why does Calmate not have machines and that kind of thing.

In a game you could finish it with one line of setting, but since it exists as reality there should be some reason.

Lemora I can understand civilization not developing easily because it is a world of killing each other and snatching from each other. But Calmate’s rule is stable, so there could be more technological innovation.

That said, I cannot ask Leas and them why. Furezawa Senjumaru is one thing, but Atel Octo has also never been to Lemora or Calmate, so if asked why I know that I would be at a loss for an answer.

"If you are going, can I come too?"

Therefore I pushed what I had been thinking until now to the corner of my head and turned my eyes to the present.

"I don’t know what kind of guy the younger brother is, but frankly being surrounded by older girls would be uncomfortable. Wouldn’t it be better if at least one guy went?"

"Um, is it that kind of thing?"

"Yeah. If I were a middle schooler and suddenly surrounded by beautiful acquaintances of my sister, I think I would be in huge trouble."

"Uehehe, no no Senju-senpai, even if it is true, suddenly being called beautiful makes me shy, hehehehehe."

"You, with ’if you stayed quiet’ attached to your head, please talk nonstop and loosen the younger brother’s tension."

I splendidly ignored Reiko shouting what is that, and directed my gaze at Leas and Grace.

Fortunately there was no atmosphere like ha, why are you coming along. I was reasonably close with Leas, and maybe I had earned a fair amount of affection from Grace by saving her when she had collapsed.

That said, this was awkward for me too.

Whether they accept me or not is unrelated. When the gender ratio is biased, the fewer side feels cramped, same for men and women.

"In this case I think Niekawa would be more suitable, but that guy has club. No, wait. Could the Chairmen go?"

The Chairmen. Leas’s bodyguard corps and inquisition lot.

There are guys doing club and guys doing part-time, but that does not mean none of them can come.

I told everyone to wait a bit and sent a message to the group named Leas Lott Bodyguard Conference Room, what are you people really.

Fortunately they were getting excited with Leas-san was making a huge yelling voice in the first-year hallway, super rare and exciting but even scarier, what did that junior girl do, I want to get scolded too, so replies came immediately.

’Before the little brother I would freeze from tension so pass’

’Same’

’This is already indirect murder...’

’Together with the third-year vertical-roll senpai too, I would finish just from breathing the same air’

’I get that so much’

’I want to go together but imagining myself surrounded by beauties I would die of hyperventilation’

’Walking next to Leas-san is too much of a misinterpretation... I want to become the air drifting beside her’

Damn cowards!

You said you cannot stand other people being with Leas so I am handing you a chance, come grab it properly.

"...Ah, my bad. The Chairmen say they are busy."

"Mu, is that so. Unfortunate. They were lively and interesting people."

Leas muttered looking reasonably seriously disappointed.

Chairmen lot, Leas’s affection for you seems pretty high! Come! Properly!

Next time I meet them I will say at least one complaint. I decided that and headed for the school’s middle school division together with Leas and the others.