BXBX NOVEL Volume 5 2.4
Volume 5 Chapter 2.3
Translator: Reflet
Editor: Weasalopes
「Wouldn’t it just be faster to directly ask Daljan-sama in that case?」
「Makoto, did you really think I wouldn’t consider that?」
「Darn, so that’s no good either?」
「Yeah. I asked the priestess, and she said Daljan-sama would only tell us what Alfemina-sama intended on explaining to us and what’s been going on regarding us in our own world. Everything else, we need to investigate on our own.」
「Ugh……」
Makoto seriously groaned at how spartan Daljan was with his policies. At this rate, once they had finished a certain amount of their requests, their entire group would end up moving out to search.
「For the time being, I’ll search a bit more in the safe zone, but I’d like you all to come and help as soon as possible.」
「Gotcha.」
「We’ll finish these quests as quick as we can to get to you as soon as possible.」
「Although in my case, I’m confined to the school with my time……」
Everyone compared their plans with one another for the original goals. With that being said, Makoto was the only one whose plans were currently set in stone. Depending on Hiroshi and Haruna’s progress, their daily tasks could very well change.
「What about Rainy? She’s headed over right?」
「Yeah. She’s apparently done with all her investigating in Rufeus for now, so she’ll be riding the motorcycle around the neighboring regions for intel. I heard she sent the report Layotte’s way, so His Highness will probably eventually organize all that for us.」
「Ah, I see.」
Tatsuya answered Makoto’s lingering question. While she was fine with his explanation, Makoto was also disappointed at not having Rainy around to help her. While her genre of information gathering was different, you could not underestimate Rainy. Her not being around was seriously a handicap.
「So I’m fine with that, but what about you, Makoto?」
「No, I really don’t know. Lectures are easier than expected, but that’s really it. It’s only been a week, so of course you can’t expect me to have that much of a result, right?」
「Well yeah, you’re not wrong…」
While expressing understanding at Makoto’s reason, Tatsuya still couldn’t quite escape the feeling of disappointment. He had a lot of expectations for Makoto, or for their group in general, so he had figured she would have caused some sort of fun ruckus.
「Makoto-san, how’s Lime holdin’ up?」
「The only class we have together is a lecture for Magic Fundamentals, but she’s keeping up with the class no problem. However, her practical experience in that field occasionally clashes with the lectures, since she’s never had that kind of classroom learning.」
「Yup, can’t help that. The school still hasn’t said it’s time for practical experience.」
This was one of the main concerns about Lime. At least her keeping up with the class would not be an issue.
「And she’s not sticking out too much?」
「If anything, I feel like the one who’s sticking out. I’ve adjusted to it lately, but wearing that kind of a uniform just hurts……」
Hiroshi and the others knew exactly what Makoto was talking about. Rufeus Academy’s uniforms for women had fairly normal designs, but it just didn’t look right to have a Japanese woman over twenty to be wearing it. If Haruna were to wear it, she might have looked more like a magical girl or beautiful knight, but Makoto just didn’t look suitable in it, and it was cringe.
Also, any other women in their twenties living in this area didn’t look particularly out of place in that regard, so the world was just a cruel place.
「And how’s the vibe when Lime’s around?」
「A child’s curiosity really is something, isn’t it……」
「Don’t tell me, is it tense when she’s around?」
「With the teacher, yeah. The students seem to enjoy just thinking of all the strange things to poke fun at. Oh, and this isn’t because the students are meanies or they hate the teacher or whatever, just that Lime always finds blind spots in the lesson prep material and it’s always a super good learning experience.」
「Yeah, that makes sense. Well, these people are paying to go to school, so they must have a strong passion for learning.」
「Yeah, seems that way.」
The objectives of putting in the Azuma Workshop members. One of those was already beginning to take fruition thanks to Lime, the unique human resource. Also, Makoto hadn’t tried to get too involved in magic, doing her best not to interject or question anything in class. As a result, magic fundamentals was in a comparatively calm position for all the courses that the Azuma members were taking.
Now, when it came to the classes Teres and the other members were taking, Lime wasn’t the only one who was like this; they also gave plenty of sharp, savage questions, some of which the lecturers couldn’t answer right on the spot and went into the Rufeus library’s special archives to discover new things that overturned the modern-day theory, which was quite the stormy scene. However, Hiroshi and the others hadn’t gotten so much as a peep from Teres and the others regarding what was going on, so the situation probably wasn’t as grave as it sounded.
「Also, even without favoring them because they’re one of us, Lime’s still super cute. So from what I can see, even if not in class, outside of class the teachers and students all dote over her a lot, so I’m pretty sure that kid’s enjoying going to school.」
「Glad to hear it, mate.」
Hearing that Lime was enjoying school, Hiroshi was truly relieved. While one reason for this was that he thought of Lime’s future, a lot of this was on behalf of the adults and their affairs. Hiroshi would never live it down if having Lime going to the academy made her hate school and studying.
Also, if everyone around Lime fawned on her, another worry emerged. After all, as Makoto said, Lime was a cute little girl with a promising future. This wasn’t the case when they had first taken her in, but now they were daily giving her nutrition-filled food and shampoo, soap that matched her physical constitution, for bathing, with plenty of love from everyone around her, so she was becoming more and more charming every day. Lime was appealing enough to make you wary that some thugs might be thinking some unpleasant thoughts.
Layla and Fum had fairly ordinary appearances, but Lime with half the same genes looked like she was on the way to becoming a beauty in the future. You could clearly see just how unfair these things called genes were.
「So do you think it’s about time to bring Hiyohiyo along to school?」
「Yeah. I think it’s fine.」
For various reasons, Hiroshi and Makoto began discussing Hiyohiyo, who had been looking over the place. Learning that there were quite a few students bringing along familiars with them, they figured Lime should also be able to bring along Hiyohiyo now that she had blended in. Currently, even though Hiyohiyo himself had zero fighting capability, he did have the special ability to ignite anyone with even the slightest malicious intent with holy flames, and since it was obvious that anyone trying to pick a fight with Lime had malicious intent, Hiyohiyo was the most reliable guard to have around.
Well, not so much ignite as just be hot enough to knock someone unconscious, without any sort of burn or wound. As a result, even if a victim were to try and accuse Hiyohiyo of violence, there would be no concern of Hiyohiyo’s actions actually being labelled as overprotective. This was, in many ways, the ideal plan.
「Okay, so Lime-chan doesn’t seem to be an issue, but how are your human relations, Makoto-san?」
「Crawling along. I did make a few friends, like someone who wants to be a magic knight.」
「Okay. Then if you ever hear something interesting from them, let us know.」
「Yeah yeah, I know. I’ll also make sure to tell you the school store and school cafeteria ratings whenever the opportunity arises.」
「Mm, please do.」
Relieved to hear that Makoto was doing fairly well in her school life, Haruna checked around one more time regarding everyone’s tasks. Lately, knowing Makoto’s hobbies, Haruna had felt some unease, but she confirmed that had nothing to do with the ratings of the school store or cafeteria.