The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 83: Early Enter of the Knights
POV: Kirigaya Kaizo
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"Sister, please wake up."
Kaizo heard someone's voice calling out to him, but he didn't call out to her as usual. And his voice felt very familiar on his teliga.
"Sister, sister."
"Eh?" Kaizo rubbed his eyes as he slowly got up. Back hurts. His stiff joint muscles screamed.
"Hn?"
Sensing a loud sensation in his palm, Kaizo finally remembered. Last night, she was evicted from the room by Victoria, so she reluctantly decided to sleep near the forest.
(Eh, brother?)
With his consciousness still half-awakened, Kaizo tilted his head. Naturally, Kaizo, who was an orphan, did not have such a thing as a sister.
After blinking her eyes a few times, she suddenly shifted her focus to the side.
"Are you finally awake, brother?"
"N-Nyx!?"
A beautiful girl, completely naked except for socks, was staring at Kaizo's face expressionlessly. He has a slim body. The morning dew soaked her milk-like and glowing skin.
"A-What's wrong?! Didn't you sleep in Victoria's room?" Kaizo, whose face had turned crimson, turned his gaze away from the chest of the girl in a daze.
"In order not to freeze to death, I decided to sleep with you and warm you up."
"That's a lie, right?"
"Do my thighs feel good, brother?"
"Gruah!" Kaizo was very confused and groaning.
"By the way, since then, what's with that 'sister' call?"
"Yes well, I tried to use various means to wake you up, but you didn't wake up at all, so Nyx tried to call you brother. When I did that, Kaizo woke up."
"Certainly that?"
"Yes, brother."
"Nyx, get me off that 'sister' call."
"Yes, brother." Nyx nodded expressionlessly.
"Nyxx. Coincidentally, are you angry?"
Nyx looked at Kaizo with her mysterious purple pupils and replied, "I am a contracted spirit Kaizo, you know."
"Eh?"
Nyx gently pressed her index finger against Kaizo's lips and muttered, "Kaizo, please promise me that you won't leave me as you please."
(It looks like he's upset about being left behind in Victoria's room.)
As for Kaizo, he had just thought that it was sad to make her sleep outside with him, but was willing how else. He did not know where to sleep other than in the Spirit Forest.
"Ah, I understand. Sorry."
"That's a promise, Kaizo." Nyx wrapped her pinkie around Kaizo's pinky and promised.
"Then I have to go to Eve's place."
The Academy also has a day off and today due to «Holy Valentine's Festival, there are meetings being held. Kaizo had just decided to join the Knights, but it seemed like he would have to get to work starting today.
"Let's go, Nyx."
"Okay, Kaizo." Nyx clasped Kaizo's hand that had stood up.
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The morning for the Hybrid Knight was very early. Even if it was an academy holiday, there was a Knight rally in the morning.
Kaizo appears at the Hybrid Knight headquarters according to the time he heard from Eve. The headquarters of the Knights is an extraordinarily beautiful building renovated from the old cathedral.
Considering there were around twenty members, it was probably a bit too extensive. Kaizo took a breath, and pushed open the heavy steel door.
"Aah?" Kaizo left the door open and froze for a few seconds.
Eve, who had pulled her stockings up to her knees, opened her wide, reddish-brown eyes. Her adult-like black stockings were clearly etched into her retinas.
Then a shout sounded, "Gyaaaaaa!"
Kaizo received dozens of spirit magic explosions on his body, and was even thrown out from the other side of the door.
"It turns out I saw that I had taken the Knights' violence lightly." Kaizo, whose entire body was torn to shreds and tattered, glared at Eve with contemptuous eyes.
Incidentally, the one who released the most powerful spirit magic, was this Eve. If he were not to wear an extremely resilient and impact-resistant academy uniform, he would definitely be smashed to pieces by the wild flying blades of wind.
Eve awkwardly averted her eyes and apologized, "Sorry. I should have told you this first. We always change clothes here."
"Why don't you use the dressing room?"
"That shouldn't be necessary. Because so far we don't have any male students."
"Really, but...."
"Well, that's how. That suits you perfectly, doesn't it, Kaizo." Eve coughed to avoid that question.
Kaizo put up a badge, which was engraved with a portrait of the Wind Elemental King. Since the Knight's armor was only for female use, it had been decided that he would put up this badge instead.
The Knight girls lined up horizontally in front of Kaizo and Nyx. Twenty members together. It also seemed that there were some upperclassmen among them.
Before the start of the Knight's general meeting, Eve will introduce Kaizo.
"He will be joining the Knights from today, he is Kirigaya Kaizo from the Crow Class. As you can see, he is a male elementalist, but I want you to welcome him without fear."
The Knight girls stared at Kaizo with eyes looking at the suspicious person.
(That's understandable. Because of the incident just now, the impression I made was the worst.)
"Is that the rumored night demon king?"
"I can't believe she made a little girl her lover."
"However, isn't he a little handsome?"
"Don't be fooled, despite his good looks, but he's a terrible pervert."
"Even just now, he's looking at us like he's sticking his tongue out all over our underwear."
(It was the whispering voice of the girls that I heard and it hurt my heart.)
"Hey, Eve, my heart seems to have been broken from day one."
"That's okay. I know that you're not that kind of boy. If you were to display the part where you worked as a great Knight, things like dishonorable rumors would instantly disappear."
Although Kaizo appreciated Eve encouraging him, she let out a heavy sigh, "It would be great if that was the case."
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The Knight general meeting begins. What Eve said was about a special mission for the Holy Valentine Festival.
"Today, the academy's lecture was canceled. Many students of the academy will flock to the city due to the Holy Valentine Festival. In order to prevent dueling incidents from happening in front of ordinary townspeople, all members, be careful and do the mission well."
"Yes!" All the Knight girls answered at once.
They were few in number, but they were superior elementalists. As expected, their morale was high.
However, there also seemed to be people hiding dissatisfaction about Eve taking command among the upperclassmen. Kaizo did not miss the fact that some people clearly made dissatisfied faces.
(So, this is why Eve had trouble.)
It was jealousy towards their juniors, whose pedigree and ability were superior. The Hybrid Knight, who looked well-organized, seemed to have various things going on internally.
However, Eve ignored that upperclassman and continued, those “Cursed Armament Seal Merchants, the Corpse Federation (Killing Union) people seem to have infiltrated Academy City. They might be planning to use this opportunity for some sort of contact with the academy students going to the city. Catch them in action, please handle with your own judgment. Then, we'll stop the meeting,"
"Wait!"
Suddenly a sharp voice came from behind Kaizo. The steel door was pushed firmly and creaked, and direct sunlight entered. They were all shocked and turned around.
The one standing before the door was a beautiful-faced knight with an ice sculpture-like appearance.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.