Chapter 127 – Destiny

000

Even inside the tent Cleon was guided to, a female student wearing a robe was sitting in front of a chair waiting for Cleon.

When the entrance to the tent is closed, the only light coming in is the orange light from the lantern placed inside the tent.

In the twilight atmosphere, Cleon had the illusion that her eyes met the girl wearing the mask for a moment.

She stretched out her hand and pointed her finger at her chair as if she wanted her Cleon to sit in front of her.

“It’s on the dark side for a dating tent.”

“You hear stories like that often. But don’t worry. Romance is the specialty of the Divination Department!”

The schoolgirl answers her jokes to lighten the mood for her Cleon her and she speaks her voice her with confidence.

It was only then that it felt as if the heavy air in the tent had disappeared.

“So? Why are you splitting partners?”

“When two people are together, you can’t even talk honestly. It’s best to be honest with anything about fortune telling, but especially when it comes to love luck, where relationships between people are important, that aspect is stronger.”

While the female student said that, she added, “First of all,” She took out the crystal ball that was lying next to her and placed it on her desk on her.

“Let’s start with the simplest one!”

As she said that, the schoolgirl knocked on her chin with a crystal ball the size of Cleon’s face her.

“… It came out more authentic than I thought. I’ve never seen anything like dots before…”

“Don’t worry, I’ll tell you all about it. Just put your hand here and think of your female partner.”

After she said that, she took Cleon’s hand her and dragged her her and placed it on top of her orb her.

Cleon puts on a slightly doubtful face, but she soon recalls things about Aruru as her female student tells her to.

Her face her, her smile her, her sword her.

“Ohh~ It’s going well!”

Her body her, her weakness her, her precious place …

“Huh? Ehh? Now, wait a minute? Mr. Cleon?”

Memories of her day when she mixed her body with her her …

“That’s it! More than this is too stimulating!”

Soon, at the voice of a female student shouting urgently, Cleon suddenly comes to her senses her and looks down at her crystal ball her.

At first, the crystal ball, which shone with golden light, was completely dyed pink and filled with misty smoke inside.

“Umm… I’m sorry to say this, but it seems that Mr. Cleon has a lewd demon inside his head his… As expected, the lecturer in the sex department…”

[It’s a natural age for Cleon, who feels like half of his memories of her with a woman.]

“…”

Cleon had no choice but to keep his mouth shut at the words of Galatea, who did not know if she was sarcastic or teasing Cleon and the female student whose mouth twitched as if she was slightly fed up.

“What? I’m well aware that you’re close enough to allow each other body. Isn’t it to the point where you don’t need to look at romance luck?”

“I came because Aruru asked to see me… But, if I can see something, I want to see it.”

When Cleon said that, the female student pondered for a while and then, ah! She does and she replies as if remembering something.

“Then, why don’t you look at Cleon-san’s love luck in his entire life, not just a specific partner?”

[Hey. Do you know what kind of woman Cleon will stab?]

[The ominous story…]

Cleon nodded her head, ignoring the chills running down her spine at Galatea’s story her.

Cleon’s face her reflected in her crystal ball her gradually faded, and what appeared inside her was countless starlights and a black sun shining in the middle.

“This… Is quite rare.”

“Does this reveal anything?”

The female student nodded her head, and she answered Cleon with a smile.

“Yes. Mr. Cleon, in the near future you will be stabbed by a woman.”

For a moment, the inside of the tent was enveloped in a heavy, freezing silence.

“…You’re kidding, right?”

“No, I’m serious.”

[Hey… Who is stabbing I’m really curious…]

Ignoring Galatea, who speaks in a boiling voice from the depths of hell, Cleon gazes at her crystal ball for a moment.

From the outsider Cleon’s point of view, she had no idea what the hell meant.

The female student talks as if she doesn’t care about Cleon.

“Still, I don’t think you need to worry. Mr. Cleon seems to have had a fairly long lifespan. He won’t die.”

“No, it’s not that kind of problem…”

“In the first place, if you have relationships with so many women, there could be at least one such person.

[This kid is good at talking.]

From the outside, a female student who criticizes Cleon, who can be said to be the enemy of women, and Galatea who sympathizes with him.

Cleon let out a big sigh.

“…Still. Here.”

As the female student says so, she points to the golden star that shines farthest away.

“This star that Mr. Cleon wants to meet the most is moving across the fate of Mr. Cleon.”

For some reason, it was not Cleon’s guess that the name of the disaster, the Golden Comet, passed through his mind.

“I see… That’s fortunate.”

“Yes. What is it? I don’t know if that star will be captured by Mr. Cleon’s gravity because the star is too far away.”

The female student shrugs her shoulders, and Cleon quietly looks at the crystal ball.

She cherishes the hope that she will meet that golden star someday.

“…So you don’t tell me who gets stabbed in the end?”

“Until that point… Please think that everyone around you has potential.”

The female student talks as if to be careful, and she hands over an amulet.

Cleon accepted the talisman with a subtle face, not knowing how to react.

[Of course I’m excluded from the nomination, right?]

Cleon thinks carefully so as not to be found out by Galatea.

To be honest, Galatea was the most suspicious situation.

001

When the two of them leave the huge tent, the space is opened and a red-haired woman moves to a corner of the academy unnoticed by people.

The moment you carefully set your foot on the ground, you think you stepped on something soft and look down.

Earlier, a female student who ran away after being scared by Aruru while seducing Cleon collapsed on the floor and fainted as she groaned.

“Why are you here… You couldn’t believe it, did you retrieve it? Instead of me?”

When Ishtal, a red-haired, half-horse-half-succubus, raised her head, there was the figure of Lilim, a girl succubus who was holding a lump of spirit with her index finger and thumb and trying to pass it to her mouth her.

“…If you leave it alone and get caught by its tail… It’s annoying… Ishtal, the work is done… Too roughly…”

“I thought it would be okay since it will collect the energy as it is.”

When Ishtal answered that, Lilim looked at the fallen girl with an uncomfortable face.

The girl who was forcibly injected with desire, magic, and low-level demons by Ishtar returned to her original form as she recovered all of them.

The figure was that of an ordinary girl, with her normal figure, black hair, and unburnt skin.

“…Another temptation…”

“I handed over the catalyst properly. Even a hero will be dominated by desire and go wild for a while if he uses it. This time, will it work?”

Ishtal uses her primal magic her with a smile as if she is looking forward to what will happen from now on.

She seemed to intend to watch over Cleon as before.

However, unlike Ishtal, Lilim speaks quietly.

“To the extent of a tempter… Stealing his soul… Is a reckless story… I was against… From the beginning…”

“It’s worth it to lose. Besides, I want to know the other person’s capacity. If the tempter returns with spirit, it’s a bonus.”

At Lilim’s point, Ishtar waved her hand as if she didn’t care.

She said it was her stance not to lose her composure in the face of any enemy, but even Lilim didn’t quite know where she was coming from.

“… Ishtar, she… Underestimates him…”

“I know. But, I know because they are fundamentally similar. Cleon… That magic swordsman’s soul is originally close to this one. Doesn’t Lilim think so too?”

When Ishtal twists the corner of her mouth and talks, Lilim is silent for a moment before she answers.

“… Of course. … But, in his soul his… There is a golden light that never fades… In the way…”

There was a hint of hatred in her eyes, which were usually expressionless and always sleepy.

“Yes. If you erase that light. That man will definitely become more handsome… Just thinking about it makes his heart pound and his womb his vibrate…”

The image of Ishtal, who licked her lips and her eyes full of anticipation, was a dark horse itself that thought of men as its prey her.

But-

“…”

Lilim looked at Ishtal like that, and she kept her silence with an expression that still didn’t know what she was thinking.

Her feelings for Cleon were also special.

002

“That… How was it? Cleon… “

The first thing Aruru, who had left the giant tent, brought up the story was to ask about the results of Cleon, who was also concerned about it.

It was unavoidable because we had no idea what each other was talking about inside.

Aruru, who heard a rather stimulating story, asked Cleon with her face a little red.

“…It wasn’t bad.”

Hopefully someone will stab me. Can we tell the same story?

Cleon evades the content, being careful not to avert his gaze of her.

“That, yeah? That’s fortunate.”

Aruru let out a sigh of relief at Cleon’s answer her.

“What about Aruru?”

“I was fine too. I received advice on this and that.”

As she speaks, she fiddles with the small case in her pocket.

Inside, there was a bracelet that the fortune teller handed over as a gift.

It was an object handed to her along with advice to wear this bracelet if she wanted to seduce him strongly.

Although she is the head of the swordsmanship department and she is a hero, she is Aruru, who still thinks that her magic is outside her area of ​​expertise, so even if she has some doubts, she thinks it is worth trying.

The time when the sun still passed the center of the sky and began to fall in the west.

It was a little early to spend time alone with men and women.

An unfamiliar silence flowed between the two of them, as if they were a little more awkward than before the fortune telling.

Perhaps, it might have been a failure to attend the divination department, Aruru regretted a little.

At that time, the two people who heard the sound of cheers coming up from afar naturally look in that direction.

At the end of the line of sight was the building of the ‘Magic Department’, one of the three major departments of the academy.

Come to think of it, Cleon suddenly remembered that a magic duel tournament was in progress there.

In the morning she remembered that Lila had told her that she had a place to go out during the day.

“…Maybe he… Was trying to enter the tournament?”

As Cleon muttered, Aruru looked at Cleon for a moment before she wrapped her arm around his.

“…You just thought about Lila, didn’t you?”

Pouting her mouth her in her slightest displeasure, she leaned her face on Cleon’s shoulder her.

A little, but with the feeling of her weight her leaning against her own body her, her feelings she seemed to reach Cleon as well.

‘I am the one who is spending precious time with you right now.’

It was a cute monopoly like a girl of that age, and an appeal to Cleon.

“…Sorry.”

“Yeah. It’s okay. It can’t be helped that Cleon cares about other women the same way.”

There are so many attractive people, Aruru adds.

“Compared to other people, I met late. Even this relationship, if you go on an adventure again and fall apart, it may not be able to continue.”

Aruru’s voice was a little, but it contained sadness. However, she soon puts a smile on her face as she shakes her head as if to shake off the sadness.

“So. Even if it falls off. So that the precious memories don’t fade. Engrave them properly. The time spent with Cleon.”

Aruru’s hand reached out and touched Cleon’s face her. As Cleon looks at Aruru, he asks Aruru about her self-worth her, which he himself is not sure about.

“Am I—Am I worth that much to you?”

Aruru speaks while closing her eyes at Cleon’s question. Her voice was slow but full of conviction.

“Of course. You’re my benefactor, my rival. And, the man I decided to love. If you don’t have value, what do you think my value will be?”

Cleon’s hand her overlapped Aruru’s her, which had touched her face her.

Many human beings affirm their own worth in each other’s existence.

It’s sometimes selfish.

It’s sometimes selfless.

Cleon from Aruru’s voice her, from the warmth of her hands her.

She could tell her she needed him.

The daughter of a duke, the hero of the glass sword, and the head of the swordsmanship department.

She is a girl who accepts everything and lives with expectations.

Even so, it does not mean giving up one’s own humanity.

A partner who can share it. A bond that can accept both the strong side and the weak side.

Rail only tried to see her weak side of her.

Everyone except him sees her her strong figure her.

That is why, Aruru is attracted to Cleon who has both eyes.

Cleon also saw the shadow of ‘Lesia’ in her at first. The beginning of his heart her ‘s attraction to her was definitely there.

But Aruru is not Lesia. It didn’t take long for her to realize the obvious.

She is a character with the will to not give up choice and resistance in order to reach the ending she wants from that fate, rather than simply accepting it.

Nor did she silence her own father her, Percy, and change his mind her.

The fact that he was able to swing his sword without hesitation in front of his betrayed friend his.

To Aruru, who had such a strong will, Cleon was able to harbor pure kindness.

“Answer? Cleon.”

Looking at Aruru, who smiled a little mischievously, Cleon replied with her wry smile.

“Sorry. Just as you said. Let’s cherish this time for now.”

“Yeah. That’s fine. Then, shall we go to the magic department?”

Aruru didn’t lose the smile on her face, and she held Cleon’s hand once more.

The scenery of the academy, Cleon’s figure, his own smile her.

To be imprinted on her retinas of her, not to stop at the memories in her head of her, but to cherish all these moments forever.

So that memories don’t fade to sepia.

003

“Winner! Beatrix!”

As the loud announcer’s voice resounded, Beatrix on the podium returned the magic sword Ariadne to her waist and slightly lifted the hem of her skirt to greet the audience.

The blue flames floating around her body had already disappeared, and she saw another student from the Department of Magic collapsed in front of her being carried away by the staff.

“Whew…”

Somehow I was able to win this time too. Thinking of that, Beatrix sighed and came down from the podium to take advantage of the little preparation time she had been given before the start of the match to rest a bit-

“…Yes!?”

And she glanced around, to one side of the crowd. Cleon, whom she longs for. Then she sees the figure of Aruru standing next to him.

[Senior! You came to see it!]

Beatrix waves her hand at Cleon while sending a telepathic message.

Each time the tight breasts of the battle regalia swayed up and down.

The men in the spectator seats straighten their postures and kneel, or blush and look away.

[Sorry. I just came and only saw the end of the game.]

Cleon sends a telepathic reply to Beatrix.

Hearing the answer, Beatrix seemed to lose steam a little, but he asked him to come to the waiting room without expressing it at all.

[I will tell other students! You must come!]

“They say… What should I do?”

“It’s okay. I wanted to talk to her too.”

Cleon, who asked for Aruru’s understanding her for the time being, passed between her people her and headed to her waiting room when she readily agreed.

At the door of the waiting room, 18 consecutive victories! A sign was seen attached to it.

“Beatrix. I’ll go in.”

“Ah! Yes! Please come in, senpai!”

When the door opened wide as if it had been waiting inside, Beatrix greeted Cleon and Aruru with a bright smile.

Her outfit was different from the Enforcement Department uniform she had worn before, and it felt like she was wearing a battle outfit over the Magic Department uniform.

A beige cloak was draped over a gorgeous green and black dress, like her aristocratic dress.

“…Looks like he’s on a winning streak?”

“Yes! I started this morning. With the Enforcement Department gone, I moved to the Magic Department. I was told by Layla to show people my skills…”

Even if this or that misunderstanding had been resolved, she was probably concerned that she would be rejected as an unknown being and a figure who had suddenly appeared.

It was a bit forced, but it was a suggestion that Layla could have made.

“…I see. Who is the culprit?”

In fact, when Cleon, who was suspicious that Layla, who proposed it, was not visible, asked that question, Bea tilted her head and replied.

“I showed my face for a while in the morning and went somewhere. I thought I had something to do…”

“…Hmm. Yes…”

Cleon’s face became a bit difficult. Come to think of it, I think I went out with Luti. Cleon couldn’t even guess what the two of them were up to.

“Hey- are Aruru-san and senpai on a date?”

“Um… Well. That’s right.”

When Cleon said something embarrassingly, Beatrix spoke to Cleon with his eyes twinkling.

“Senpai! I’ll ask you later too! It’s fine even if it’s not an academy!”

Seeing Beatrix talking while holding his hand her and swinging it around, Cleon couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

“… It may be rude to say this, but Miss Bea doesn’t feel jealous when Cleon is with a woman other than herself?”

When Aruru talked while looking at such Beatrix, Beatrix answered while tilting her head.

“Yes? Of course I feel envious, but I’m not jealous. Originally, I feel like supporting the relationship between Lila and senpai. I’m fine as long as I’m in the position of senpai’s junior.”

“Why?”

Beatrix smiled brightly as Aruru spoke as if she didn’t know what she was thinking.

“Because, senpai’s wife. Senpai’s lover, senpai’s concubine. A lot of people are aiming for this position, but the position of senpai’s junior will always be mine!”

“…”

In a way, it’s something more than a desire for monopoly.

Neither Cleon nor Aruru looked at Bea, who was obsessed with the spot with pure thoughts, without malice, and only felt a chilling feeling running down her spine.

“So. You shouldn’t have another teacher… You know?”

Next moment. Her mouth is smiling but her eyes are not smiling.

At the quiet voice of her Bea her, Cleon felt an irresistible will and could only nod her head.

Aruru looks at Cleon with a little pity.

“Ah… But. Certainly, there is one thing I regret.”

However, not caring about the reaction of the two, Beatrix opened her mouth.

“What?”

“At 9pm on the third day of the Academy Festival, there is a ball that anyone can participate in. It is a must-have date course for lovers, to the extent that there is a rumor that if lovers participate there, there will definitely be a happy ending. Eh, didn’t you know? I thought you would go there in the end…”

For a moment, Cleon and Aruru shut their mouths.

“Aruru? Could it be that I asked to meet you on the third day…”

“Ah… Yes. What Cleon thinks is right.”

Cleon feels ashamed of Aruru, and her pulse quickens slightly as she blushes as she replies.

He must have been hiding it until just before, or he thought there was no need to reveal such rumors to Cleon.

Through her hand that was still holding her, her pounding heart her was also transmitted.

A space where unfamiliar silence flows once again. Beatrix blinked two or three times and spoke to Cleon.

“Come to think of it, Mr. Riomes came to cheer. Would you like to say hello?”

“Oh, no! It’s okay. I’ll go first.”

Looking at Cleon, who freaks out at the mention of Riomes’ name, Beatrix smiles amusedly, lifts the hem of her skirt, and greets the audience as she did to the crowd.

“Please have a good time. Dear senior, I will always be waiting for you.”

004

“…She is amazing in many ways.”

Aruru, who was talking with the magic department building behind, evaluated Beatrix like that.

All of her sufferings were events that could not be exaggerated to say that she received the malice of the whole school in one body.

Although it was with the help of Cleon and Layla that she brushed it off so quickly and regained her bright side.

It must have been because she was originally a bright girl.

“Yes. She must have been Lila’s only friend after all.”

Cleon agrees with Aruru as she nods.

Considering that she was the only one who made Layla calm before her personality her was corrected, I think she might be more powerful than her black engagement her.

“…”

And, again, silence followed.

The story of the ball from earlier must have stuck in their heads.

Still, the pounding that followed did not go away, and she walked aimlessly without stopping.

Not even noticing that the eyes of the people passing by were gathering on them.

If you walk down the street, follow the people –

At some point, they notice themselves inside the free market.

And the steps naturally came to a halt in front of the large castle where the two had first intermingled before.

“…”

“Ah…”

Cleon and Aruru’s eyes meet.

In the distance, the bells of Aion’s bell tower rang 14 times.

The bell rings at two o’clock in the afternoon.

By simple calculation, there were seven hours left before the prom, the original purpose of this date.

However, it seemed that neither of them would be able to endure if this unfamiliar atmosphere continued until then.

So. This diverges everywhere. Spend time.

Aruru and Cleon enter the castle and occupy a room without saying whoever says first.

And then, with the heat that didn’t go away.

At some point, with only her underwear on, they were sitting on the bed, looking at each other.

“…I was swept away by the… Atmosphere. For now, I came here to rest.”

Aruru speaks with her face still blushing.

Cleon nodded and put a hand on Aruru’s shoulder.

“Sorry. I may not be able to rest…”

As she muttered that, she pushed her from in front of her and knocked her over.