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Chapter 91 : Mouth Is the Source of Disaster
🕑 Added 2022-10-23 12:03:04 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
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“The winner will be decided by either surrender or the referee's discretion. You know the rest but let me say it again you lose the moment you use a fatal attack. Understood?"
I nodded as the glasses senior said this to me. The glasses senior, the dwarf Garl, the spear user East, and the Water magic user Yuri. These four and I faced each other.
“Then it's time to get started! ‘Red Lotus’ versus Mars! Let the game begin!”
First, the glasses senior covered my surroundings with Earth magic's Earth Fortress. Apparently, she’s trying to block my field of view.
As I quickly cut the Earth Fortress with my sword, I felt disgusting eyes looking at me. It is probably that the glasses senior used her Magic Eyes on me. Naturally, the Magic Eyes doesn't work on me, and the glasses senior was surprised by that fact.
“Garl! I failed! The binding eye doesn't work!”
Then Garl attacked me from behind.
Apparently, he got behind me within that short few seconds when my vision got blocked by Earth Fortress. Good coordination. If had gone as the original plan where I got restrained under the Binding Eyes, Garl would have ended things by attacking me from behind.
I parried Garl's axe and struck Garl in the stomach with the flat side of the Salamander Sword.
By the way, I didn't use the Thunderbolt sword.
That's not the kind of sword you point at people.
Garl cowered on the spot.
“Normally, this would be a fatal blow... ‘ol me’s done here, it seems. I'll to take my leave."
Okay, one first. Three left.
By the way, Ike is not participating.
If possible I'd like to do something about the two magicians as soon as possible though...
The magicians, glasses senior and Yuri, took distance from me and attacked me with magic from distance but I cut down all the magic with my sword.
“Wai-......what's going on?!”
When Yuri exclaimed so, glasses senior replied in response.
“Even if he's Ike's younger brother, to think he’ll be able to do this much… but I can't lose! Let's go! Yuri! We’ll shoot magic from a closer range!"
After saying that, glasses senior approached me at a very close range with Yuri.
East, the spear user, is still looking behind me for an opening.
Shit, my legs are still numb and I can't move satisfactorily… probably because I was made to sit on my knees for more than ten hours just counting yesterday and today but the numbness should go away in a few more minutes...
But ‘Red Lotus’ didn't wait for me.
All three of them moved at the same time.
Since the MPs of both senior glasses and Yuri are on the verge of MP depletion, they will likely go for an all-out attack rather than be taken down one by one.
To be honest, this situation is the toughest for the current me right now.
I can't move so I have no choice but to fight on the spot.
The spear user East came to my front, and he stabbed me with his spear from there.
And Yuri, the Water magic user, after consuming MP almost to the limit, charged at me from behind with a dagger.
And for some reason, glasses senior used Yuri's spear as leverage and jumped to knock me down from the air.
However, she jumped too high so I’ll just ignore senior glasses for now…
First of all, Yuri rushed at me from behind with a dagger, and when I knocked her dagger and put my sword at her neck, she immediately surrendered.
East used that gap to thrust his spear at me but I was able to avoid him by shifting only my upper body and after knocking his spear away and he immediately raised his hands as well when I thrust my sword at him.
Lastly, glasses senior must had jumped way higher than she was supposed to......
I’ll feel bad for her If I let her fall down while she’s screaming so I caught her in a princess carry style.
This was a big mistake...... It must have been because I let down my guard thinking that only senior glasses is left.
I had forgotten that...my own legs are still numb.
The shock to my legs when I caught senior glasses was so great that I couldn't stand up.
Somehow I managed to make sure that only glasses senior was not injured...so that I could absorb the impact of her landing...and to go against such a template pattern, in other words, the lucky pervert accident. I did my best.
As a result, glasses senior is standing on the ground and I am on the ground.
I forcibly crushed the flag.....
It's usually the pattern in these kinds of situations that the girl's rear will land on my face.
The result is that I'm in a position that made me look like I completely lost the fight.
“Winner! ‘Red Lotus’!!!”
A loud voice called out but no one on the ‘Red Lotus’ side was happy, and the spectators were still keeping the silence.
I looked around, not understanding why ‘Red Lotus’ and the audience were silent.
I tried to stand up but my legs are still numb... How long will the numbness last I wonder? I can't get up very well so glasses senior gave me a hand.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, Mars, I didn't get hurt. It's hard to feel like we've won when you've done so much for us.”
“No, no, it happened on the spur of the moment......also my legs are so numb that I can't stand up from this position and can't even reach glasses senior's hand...”
When I said this, the glasses senior put my arm around her and stood me up on her shoulder.
She smells so good... and the distance between our faces is too close......hmm? I felt the lips of a glasses senior traced my cheek but...
When the audience saw me get up, crackling loud voices arrived from them.
“My heart’s numbed!”
“I love you even more!”
“You're an exemplar man to save a girl at your own peril!”
“I don't care if I'm the 100th girl, please!”
“Tomorrow I'll start wearing red glasses too!”
Seeing that I'm in close contact with glasses senior, the four judges immediately rushed over and took me away from her.
Then the senior glasses girl said to the four of them
“If you do too terrible things to Mars, I will seriously steal him away from you.”
She gave advice to the four of them.
When she said terrible...... did the glasses senior know I was sitting on my knees? Then Clarice, on behalf of the four of them, said.
“I-I'm sorry...... I'll keep that in mind.......”
Honestly bowed her head.
Ike, Garl, and ‘Red Lotus’ members gathered here too.
“Mars. I'm sorry about a lot of things......I've cleared up the four's misunderstandings. Well, a little......I'm really sorry! And thank you for saving Ede."
Somehow Ike tried to gloss something at the end...... Well, everything ended with a happy ending.
Garl naively thought.
"It feels like we won the game and lost the war but a win is a win. Of course, you get a reward for winning, right?"
He said that while touching his 13-year-old beard.
“Y-yes...... please go easy on me. What am I supposed to do...... Senior Garl?"
Then the glasses senior said.
“I have something I need Mars and the others’ help with. You know that the Knights of Regan have been working hard lately to maintain security in the slums, right? Because of that, the number of magic beasts in the vicinity of Regan has increased a little. There are many talented people in Regan but they all graduated and joined the Knights of Regan so the quality of adventurers in Regan is low...... Well, I myself am not sure whether to join the Knights of Regan after graduation or to fulfill my role as the eldest daughter of the Count family.”
Ah, come to think of it, the glasses senior is the Count's eldest daughter…
“Isn't it unusual for the eldest daughter of a count family to join the Regan Knights?”
“Well, it's not a very common example... but the point is that it's like fishing for manpower. The Knights of Regan are all very talented people so it's definitely better than being married to the eldest son of a weird upper noble via an arranged marriage...... In my family, the eldest son will be the heir to the family title anyway and my father gave his word that it doesn't matter either way, so, well, it's a happy dilemma."
I wonder if that’s how things go......maybe the aristocracy in this world isn't as bad as I thought......because I thought a married partner was something where you are forced onto or something like that.
“If it's something like that, I'll gladly accept. When should I start?”
“We want to get it over with as soon as possible so we can get to the expedition in August as soon as possible. So it would be helpful if you could start as soon as possible......”
“Then we can start tomorrow. More importantly, what do you mean by the expedition in August?"
I asked the glasses senior, and Ike replied.
“Speaking of which, it’ll be the first time for you guys too. This school goes around in the summer to do simple quests within the Lister Confederacy. And we ‘Red Lotus’ have a slightly more difficult quest coming up. I want to start preparing for it as soon as possible. That's why we're trying to thin out the magic beasts in the area so that we can go there without any worries."
“I suppose we of ‘Reimei’ will also be taking that August quest too?”
“Yeah. That’s supposed to be the case......we also did a simple errand quest together with the other senior students when we were freshmen, so they should proceed with the same arrangement."
“Okay, I understand. Thank you for telling us. Now then, we will go to the student council room tomorrow, please take care.”
After I bowed to the members of ‘Red Lotus’ and when I was about to leave the gymnasium, the girls who were still on the second floor cheered again.
Being passionately cheered is really not a bad thing, don’t you think so?
I tried to gallantly depart away but...I'd forgotten that my legs are still numb. …normally wouldn’t it be the case where it got healed without my notice and thus I forgot my legs were numb!
I left the gymnasium again, unceremoniously borrowing Clarice's and Ellie's shoulders.
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Currently, I'm lying on my back.
I'm lying down in the harem room on the sixth floor of the female dormitory that everyone envies right now.
Four beautiful women and one outsider are around me.
Right now I'm being massaged by four beautiful women.
It's the retribution for all the violence from yesterday and today.
For your information, it’s a proper massage…obviously right…?
“Mars, I apologize. I had falsely accused you.”
Clarice, who is massaging my right hand and right shoulder, said so.
As usual, Clarice's hands are soft and nice.
And sometimes I felt a brushing of a softer spot...
“......Mars......I believed you......”
Ellie, massaging my left hand and left shoulder, gave her understanding.
And the Little Queen and Runaway Elf are jumping all over my back, hips, and rear.
“You should have explained it to us properly. Mars, you should fix your inarticulation too, no?”
It turned out that these two are so light that it feels good from them just stepping on my back so I let them do so, and before I knew it, they were jumping on me because they were bored.
Minerva said to me from her chair.
“Well, thank goodness. It all turned out to be a misunderstanding.”
I looked at Minerva and saw Minerva's triangle spot.
“...same white like glasses senior’s…”
I was so distracted that I said an unintentional word... There’s no need to mention that the massage turned into a pro-wrestling session...
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Author’s note:
Mars has Sky Eye and his eyes are needlessly good which led to him seeing many things.
