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AN: happy valentine
「Yoo, friend Hajime-kun! It's a great morning too today!」
「Good morning, friend Hajime-kun! Ah, let me hold your bag for you until in front of the classroom.」
At the morning in February with its intense cold. Hajime who arrived at school was greeted by his classmates Nakano Shinji and Saitou Yoshiki who was purposefully standing by nearby the shoe rack, lying in ambush of him.
For some reason they were addressing Hajime like a close friend with amiable smile that looked gross. In addition, they were calling him with his first name, something that they had never done even once before.
Hajime directed a suspicious gaze at the smiling two. For the time being, he confirmed that there was no ordinary student around who was watching……
「Kaori. Recovery magic please.」
「Right, this looks like a serious illness. I'll go with the highest class magic. ――"Holy Scripture"!」
Kaori who was going to school with him showered down the light of highest class light element recovery magic "Holy Scripture" with pinpoint precision toward Shinji and Yoshiki's heads.
*Flash* The two's head shined.
「Who are you calling seriously ill!」
「That's right! We are acting like usual right? Aren't we friends――」
This time a divine light showered down on the two's head. It was the age of god magic that surpassed the highest class recovery magic――regeneration magic.
「Stop it, Shirasaki-san! Stop applying magic wordlessly like that!」
「I'll also said this in advance, stop looking at us with a pitying gaze like that as though we are tremendously pitiful people!」
The two tried to brush off the radiance dwelling in their head by tapping their hair. Hajime was sighing while changing his shoes.
「And? Why are you two ing at me with behavior that is inviting nausea like that right from the morning? If you two are picking a fight, I'll respond with the harassment methods that I had thought of until 108 types of them though……」
「「We are super sorry」」
Shinji and Yoshiki bowed their head with beautiful harmony. However, it appeared they had some kind of objective, they were only moving their mouths mumblingly without trying to talk.
「What's the matter with the two of them I wonder?」
「Who knows? Perhaps they picked up and ate some strange thing? More importantly let's go quickly to the classroom.」
Hajime urged Kaori to keep going looking terribly uninterested. Shinji and Yoshiki were following after them slowly.
While they were going to their classroom, they were feeling a strangely restless and nervous atmosphere and attention, especially from the first years. Hajime and group getting attention were something regular, but this felt more than usual.
「? What? The atmosphere is strange somehow.」
「H~m, you're right. I wonder what's going on……wait, ah, so it's that.」
It seemed Kaori guessed something from the attitude of the underclassman girls.
「What's going on?」
「Ahaha, see, it's that. The thing that is also making Myuu-chan high spirited.」
「……Aa, Valentine huh.」
'I see', Hajime nodded. Behind him, Shinji and Yoshiki twitched.
「Yep. It will be tomorrow. Look forward to it, Hajime-kun. I'll make an extraordinarily delicious one for you.」
「I see. I'm happy to hear that.」
From behind, *gan gan gan-* the sound of fierce collision resounded. When the two looked back wondering what happened, there the sight of Shinji and Yoshiki bashing their head on the corridor's wall looking like they were going to shed tear of blood was……
Hajime and Kaori looked at each other and,
「e to think of it, is your father all right? This is you Kaori we are talking about. Surely you prepared one for your father every year right? Last year the event passed through uneventfully because it was right in the middle of the returnee motion after all. Won't he hold expectation for this year?」
「Otou-san is really restless since the day before yesterday you know? It's so embarrassing to watch him act like that.」
They were conversing as though nothing happened while starting to walk once more.
From behind 「You guys!? What are you doing!? There is blood ing out!? Like waterfall!」, the voice of a creeped out teacher could be heard, but it was like the BGM of a boring morning.
「You know Hajime-kun, Otou-san casually left a valentine special edition magazine on the table. And then, he kept sending glances from slightly far away, checking whether I noticed or not. Geez, as a daughter, my father acting like that is something that I shouldn't see, it's embarrassing.」
「To, Tomoichi-san……. Is it because of me, that he is feeling his share will be in danger this year so he made that kind of preparation?」
「Right, perhaps so. Recently he is casually sounding me out everyday.」
The backbone of Shirasaki family seemed to play his hand every day in order to obtain chocolate from his daughter. Hajime let out a dry laugh saying 「Well, I understand his feeling」.
While the two were talking like that, they arrived at their classroom.
From the discussion between the wive~s, it was decided that they would do "going to school with just two of them" by turn, so Yue and others were already inside the classroom.
「……Nn, Hajime, you safe? Kaori didn't do anything to you?」
「What do you mean by that I wonder!? I wonder!?」
Without even giving any greeting, it was Yue-sama's "Kaori bullying first thing in the morning". Hajime headed to his seat while giving a brief glance at the two who were starting their daily morning ritual with the usual 'gyaa gyaa'.
「Short time no see de~su, Hajime-san!」
「Good morning, Hajime.」
While the classmates were saying 「Good morning」 at him one after another, Shia and Shizuku were approaching him, one with a hop *pyon* while the other with a slow walk.
After Hajime returned their greeting, Shia was hopping up and down *pyon pyon* while pressing with 「Please listen to me-, Hajime-san!」.
「What's up? Did something happen on your way to school?」
「That's right. Surprisingly, a hero appeared after so long!」
「……? Amanogawa? How did he return to earth……」
If speaking of hero, then it was Amanogawa Kouki who quickly left school after returning to earth and went back to Tortus doing "holy precincts' monster exterminator". Now after more than a year had passed, the degree of freedom in "opening gate" was increasing, and yet there should be no way that he was able to freely return by his own power.
Hajime tilted his head looking puzzled. Shia shook her head left and right and answered.
「It's not that hero, it's about the people who are confessing to me or Yue-san that recently has decreased in frequency remarkably.」
Hearing her words, the classmates who were nonchalantly eavesdropping were making understanding face saying 「Aa, certainly. To attempt to lay their hand of the demon king's wife, they are indeed hero」 in agreement.
About half a year after returning to earth, not to mention the students in this school, even people from the neighboring schools, universities, and on top of that even working adult were often doing "street confession" to Yue and co.
Although, they didn't just get rejected, in the middle of their confession, their words were chopped down along with their love or their ulterior motive.
The number of people with their heart broken, or even their body crushed couldn't be counted. The rumor spread and the frequency was gradually decreasing. And recently due to their flawless attitude in their relationship with Hajime (there was also the effect of the recognition obstruction artifact though), such heroes were vanishing but……
「Seriously? Why is it happening again suddenly……. Is it that? Are they in need of smash? I'll pin down their location even right now using the pass.」
The boys of the class all entered defensive stance for their crotch. Their motion that was without the slightest disorder was truly beautiful. Their simultaneous shivering from Shia's words after that 「No no, if it's necessary then we will do the smashing ourselves so it's all right」, it also had a magnificent synchronization rate.
「It must be that. As I thought, because the valentine is close, there must be people who take action with resolve.」
「From the male's side? Normally it's the reverse……aa, I see. So it's just like Nakano and Saitou.」
If they were good friend with Hajime, they might receive leftover chocolate from Yue and co. Such ulterior motive was transparent from the two. The people doing street confession must be also taking action betting on the one in a million chances.
Although, there was no way unknown people confessing at this late would have any chance somehow, but today, there were people doing street confession. Just what in the world they were thinking?
Hajime tilted his head in confusion, however he immediately went 「Hm?」 and looked around the classroom.
It seemed Shia's mention of 「Valentine」 caused reaction. The girls in the class were strangely restless. They who had survived the scene of carnage in the other world possessed guts and posure that were inparable with normal high schooler and the like, but now their atmosphere was somehow restless.
Among them, Miyasaki Nana who were talking with Sonobe Yuuka and Sugawara Taeko threw a question casually.
「Hey hey, Shizuku-chi~. Shia-chi~. Sure enough, you two will give Nagumo-chi chocolate right~?」
「But of course desu! Today, when we get back home, all of us will make chocolate together with Myuu-chan too!」
「Yes. Although, this is the first valentine for Shia and others, so we won't just make chocolate to hand to Hajime, but we are going to try making various things too.」
After Shia answered 「I'm looking forward to it desuu!」 energetically, Shizuku replied while glancing at Hajime looking a bit embarrassed.
The boys in the class were getting a faraway look seeing the two like that. They then let out conversation that sounded like escaping reality 「I think this year it will be just from Kaa-chanmother again I think」, or 「Haa? What are you saying? Valentine will be abolished from this year right?」. or 「Right right, if I'm not mistaken, it will be decided as a violation international treatise in order to protect the dignity of male student or something, so it will get abolished you know?」, or 「There was a large demo wasn't it? Abolish this unfair system! or something」, and so on. That was the conversation of Tamai Atsushi, Aikawa Noboru, and Nimura Akito, those three.
Exasperated gazes from the class's girls were poured on those three.
When Nana heard what Shia and Shizuku said, she made a wide grin and poked repeatedly on Yuuka beside her.
「You hear thaaat, Yuuka-chi. Everyone will give chocolate to Nagumo-chi they say~」
「So, so what?」
「It's not so what riight~. Yuuka-chi too need to work hard. Staying as just a mistre――」
「I'll send you flying, Nana.」
When Nana was about to say something, Yuuka grasped her mouth *mugyuu* and stopped her. Nana tried to make Yuuka let go with muffled 'mui mui*, but the fingertips of Yuuka who was blushing faintly were displaying powerful grip like a vise and wouldn't let go.
Taeko chuckled in amusement and turned the aim of the talk at Hajime.
「What do you think Nagumo-kun? Yuuka's chocolate. Yuuka is also good at making sweets, that's why the taste is guaranteed you know?」
「Wai-, wait Taeko!」
Yuuka stopped her in panic, but it seemed she was curious about Hajime's reaction, because she was sending him restless glances.
During that time, it seemed she was forgetting to manage the strength in her grip. Her claws were digging into Nana's lips, causing Nana to turn teary saying 「Hi, higih, it will get shredded-!?」, but Yuuka-chan didn't notice.
While the class's attention was inadvertently focused on him, Hajime was staring in puzzlement before his gaze turned to empty space as though he had recalled something.
And then,
「e to think of it, yesterday, when I went to your restaurant to drink coffee yesterday, you made me ate a test piece choco stick as freebie right? That was certainly delicious. Like, the bitterness was exquisite or something.」
「Wai-, Nagumo-, I told you to keep it secret!」
The classmates thought.
This girl, she damn stole the first move!, in their mind.
Yuuka more or less explained 「It's a test piece and I don't know whether to put it into menu, so keep it secret!」 at the restaurant, but seeing Yuuka's absurdly flustered act, it was highly possible that it was just her excuse on the surface.
'Doing something like giving it at the big day is impossible, but he came to the restaurant at great timing like this……perhaps I should make him eat the choco that I had secretly practiced to make', it was something like that.
Yuuka's shoulder was grabbed hard. If she turned around, that person would be there.
「Yuuka-chan?」
「Hih!? Tha, that's not it! It's a misunderstanding!」
From behind, Kaori-san brought her face closer *nuu* with a nice smile. Even though she was making persistent exchange with Yue until just now, and yet unnoticed she had stood behind her.
And then, Yuuka's two best friends withdrew from that place with similar "unnoticed" speed.
Yuuka was making various excuses of this and that. Kaori stared at her while smiling cheerfully. Everyone averted their gaze from those two and resumed talking as though nothing had happened.
But, there, this time it was Ryutaro who dropped a bomb.
「Then, Nagumo. In the end, which one that will make you happiest when you received it? Will it be the one from Yue-san as expected?」
「Ryu-kun!? Delicacy!」
The posed Ryutaro who would receive chocolate for certain this year, what's more it would be a serious chocolate. The atmosphere of the boys in the class was like 「This bastard stealing a march like that」 where it felt like they would spit out anytime.
Ryutaro didn't have even the slightest ill will when he said that, but for such a simple question it was truly lacking in delicacy. The classmates, especially the girls were candidly listening attentively.
Yue brushed up her fluffy golden hair with one hand *fuaasaa-*. The triumphant look on her face was unsurpassed by anything. It seemed that she believed that she was number one without even a shred of doubt.
'Say it! Now, Hajime, say it! Say the obvious and only answer!'
She seemed to want to say that.
Shia was going 「Mumumu-. Hajime-san, it's fine to choose me as number one sometimes you know?」. Her unseen rabbit ears were flopping *myon myon* in an appeal.
Shizuku was smiling wryly, but as expected she was sending him a gaze that was slightly in expectation.
Kaori and Yuuka too were also stopping their small judgment and sent glances.
The boys got the premonition of carnage and gulped tensely.
Like that, inside the classroom that was visited with a strange silence, Hajime answered.
Easily.
「Eh? The one from Myuu though?」
'Why are you asking something so obvious?', his puzzled face seemed to want to say that.
In a sense, that answer should be just as expected. He wouldn't give vague answer like 「Everyone」 or 「Anyone」. 1 or 0. White or black. The demon king's answer could only be one!
Ryuutaro said 「O, ou……I see」 while his gaze was darting around. While he was doing that, *thud* there was a sound of something collapsing.
「Yu, Yue-san!? Are you okay!? Yue-san falling on all four is super rare though!」
「Wait Yue! Get a hold of yourself!」
Yue was crumbling down on all fours. Shia and Shizuku rushed toward her in panic.
In addition, Suzu requested for rescue to Kaori.
「Kaorin! Recovery magic!」
「Heey, Yue?? Just now, how do you feel? Yue who got her first position taken away by her daughter after feeling convinced that she is number one, how do you feel about that? Hey hey, heey I'm asking you??」
「Kaorii, just because you are often get bullied, don't corner Yue-san by making full use of this chanceee!」
Kaori was speaking provocation just like Miledy while walking around Yue with light footsteps singingly *ranranra~n??*. Yuuka was flustered while sending her remonstrating words.
「……This is-, the taste of defeat! Ah, I'll call out Kaori behind the gymnasium later.」
Yue-sama reflected upon the defeat while swearing vengeance toward Kaori.
As expected, Hajime felt a bit awkward seeing that and he made his justification.
「No, well, see. It can't be helped right? That Myuu, she is really getting into it. She is making choco cake since around a week ago. And she even said something like, 'even though there is quartersfour kinds in one in pizza, 'it's strange that there is nothing like that in choco cake'.」
「Haa? Could it be she meant that? She want to make a whole cake that is made from four type of cakes into one?」
Hajime smiled wryly and nodded at Ryuutaro's words that were meant to say「Oi oi, Myuu-chan's concept is just too tricky there」.
「She was working hard that wholeheartedly saying 『Myuu will present papa with the best quarters choco cake nano!』 while there was chocolate cream stuck on her nose tip you know? I thought I was going to die in agony there.」
Understanding voices 「Aa~」 came from here and there inside the class. Indeed, it was an overly powerful mental attack from the beloved daughter. Surely it inflicted lethal damage to the father.
Yue also stood up while saying 「……Nn. I too, when I was told 『Myuu will present Yue-oneechan with cherry as crimson as your eyes nano!』, I got nosebleed」 while recounting about her dying experience. Color of understanding was gradually appearing in her face.
Shia and others were also talking. According to their story, it seemed Myuu intended to present each Onee-chan with chocolate cake that expressed each of their characteristic trait.
「That's, it must be unbearable. Aa~, I also want Myuu-chan's chocolate now.」
「Right? I'm thinking, that if it's for Myuu's sake I'll destroy the world.」
「What are you going to do destroying the world」
「I'm wrong. If it's for Myuu's sake, I can pillage all the cacao and sugar in the world.」
「No, that's not really different from previously.」
Hajime displayed his doting parent quality. He could actually do what he said, so it wasn't really a laughing matter. Ryutaro made tsukkomi at such Hajime. Not just the classmates, even Yue and others were also showing exasperated face.
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The morning of Valentine day.
「……」
Hajime was wordlessly sending a fixed gaze at the breakfast on the table.
On the plate that was plastic wrapped like onigiri, a very bizarre black object was placed.
When he shifted his gaze to the side, there was a letter placed there.
『To my beloved son. It's valentine choco that is packed with plenty of love from mother. Enjoy it as breakfast replacement. It's not a failed work you know? This is just a result of not succeeding using this method.』
She was saying something like what Edison-san would say, but in the end it seemed she was just pushing the cleaning up of her failed work to her son.
Them where was the success work?
「How passionate isn't it, ufufu.」
Remia who seemed to be the one who was making the real breakfast arrived while going 'my my ufufu'.
Hajime said thanks to her while taking his seat. He pletely agreed with her.
The success work, that was to say the actual chocolate must be brought by Shuu anyway within his bag so that he could it in his pany while boasting about it, while laughing loudly in front of his subordinates who were bachelor and didn't have lover.
Shia who was also ing out from the kitchen spoke cheerfully.
「By the way, we have given ours too, so Tou-sama father's bag is littered all over with chocolates. That Tou-sama, it seems he will line everything up on his pany desk.」
「He is really planning to instigate everyone there. Even though some people were just grumbling to him that they got dumped by their girlfriend or their wife return to her parent's house……」
「It will bee a scene of carnage there nano~!」
Myuu was sitting beside the exasperated Hajime while happily saying the words that shouldn't be said, looking like she was really in enjoyment. Hajime-papa's cheeks were twitching slightly.
After that, Yue and Tio also arrived and they began breakfast like usual.
「Papa, papa.」
「Hm?」
Myuu who was stuffing her cheeks with the swe~et rolled egg exclusive for herself called out to Hajime. There was a scrap of rolled egg stuck at the corner of her lips, Hajime took it while tilting his head.
Myuu tensed her expression and spoke while having her mouth wiped.
「Today, e back home faster than wind, nano.」
「Leave it to me. I'll even fly across space.」
「No, let's just go back home normally. Or rather, it will be Myuu-chan who e back later if Hajime-san get back that fast.」
Shia's tsukkomi exploded.
Myuu had worked hard from yesterday evening until the night, so it appeared her valentine preparation had finished. Myuu's specially made quarters choco cake and the character choco for all the Onee-chan were slumbering slowly within the refrigerator.
It was a rare chance, so today Kaori, Shizuku, and also Aiko would e to Nagumo family house to accept Myuu's choco.
After finishing breakfast, for some reason Tio and Remia left the house first. Usually the student group would be first, but were they busy today?
Even while thinking it was strange, it would be troubling if some bunches who were still harboring ephemeral dream for Yue and others were to be crowding around them nonchalantly, so today Yue and Shia, and even Myuu who would be going to nursery school went out of the home together.
By the way, this year Myuu would enroll into elementary school. Hajime-papa had finished producing a backpack artifact that was fully loaded with gimmick like missile, laser, and the like. It could even be used to freely fly in the sky. The functions would make even Tony ○tark-san's eyes snapped wide open.
Myuu was holding hand with Hajime while talking excitedly about the valentine party tonight. Yue and Shia and naturally Hajime too were hearing her talk while feeling warm and fluffy right from the morning.
Like that, the group arrived in front of the station. Originally they would ride the train here, but Myuu's nursery school was at the other side of the station, so today they would cross the street and went until the nursery school.
The heartwarming atmosphere of three high school students and a little girl caused man and woman, young and old, going to school or to work to send them glances. Their expression loosened as though they had that warmth shared with them slightly.
But, at that time, there were two silhouettes running toward them from behind the cover of a large object in front of the station. It was two girls wearing sailor uniform, one with black hair and the other one with emeral blond hair.
「Goshuji――Hajime-kun?? I wish thee wouldst receive this valentine choco!」
「Uu, Ha, Hajime-san. Please accept this……」
The people at the surrounding opened their eyes wide in surprise at the sight of a young man who was already acpanied by two beautiful girls getting valentine chocolate from another two beautiful girls.
The females were half creeped out thinking 「Uaa, would this bee carnage? Or rather, that boy, is he totally popular!?」, while the other half seemed to be in admiration, but the males were clicking their tongues in synchronization.
The heartwarming atmosphere until just now vanished. Now there was the air of peevishness that seemed to really want to say 「Fall to hell!」. Naturally there must be some men among them that also had fiancée or girlfriend, but for every man to be like that without exception must be because of the appearance of Yue and others as expected.
But, for Hajime it wasn't the time for that. Or rather, the people at the surrounding also noticed something out of place in proportion to the degree that they paid attention.
'Eh? Somehow, those two……are they really student?', was in their mind.
「Ti, Tio. Remia……you two, what are you doing?」
Yes, the two who came wearing sailor uniform like adolescent youth, to be frank they were Tio and Remia. It seemed this was why they left the house earlier.
Tio looked triumphant, while Remia looked so red he was worried that she might explode at this rate.
「Just as thou couldst see, we art trying to have the person in our heart to receiveth our valentine choco.」
「I know that. What I'm asking is about this abnormal situation that make me want to escape reality.」
「We too wisheth to try experiencing the springtime of student for a bit.」
*Sharara* Tio twirled on the spot. Her skirt fluttered gently. Her black hair flowed in the air. *Wink* She finished it with a wink, then Tio-san asked.
「How's that? Mine "sailor uniform look
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