Volu 4A, Chapter 2: Panicked One in the Testing Room
H-huh?
Huh, huh, huh?
Huhhhhh?
Point Allocation (Incandescence)
“Ga-chan? It’s almost 6. The morning bell is ringing, so you need to wake up.”
A voice spoke in a wood-floored room.
It was Naito’s voice. The 10 square ter room had a wide loft bed near the ceiling.
Two desks were installed side by side on the opposite wall. In the back was an oven burner capable of cooking Technohexen food and the pot on the burner was boiling water.
In front of that pot, Naito was wrapped in a blanket and removing the bandage from her left hand. The Asama Shrine bandage now lying on the desk had spell charms woven into it and the white cloth still had so ether light in it.
"Ohh, we can still use this..."
When she saw the glowing bandage, Naito thought, Asama-chi sure is considerate.
...Cleaning up the shrine grounds isn't enough to make up for this...
She felt pathetic when she realized they also owed Asama for the location and for feeding them. They had mostly just gone with what worked at the mont that evening, so...
"Yes."
The water had boiled, so she poured it into a washtub.
"How are you feeling?"
She looked up to the top bunk.
There was a ladder leading to that bed. It was usually moved aside since they rarely used it, but a butt was currently descending it.
The black-winged figure was wrapped in a blanket. Both the wings and the blanket hid her body, but when descending a ladder backwards, the swaying of her wings gave occasional glimpses of her butt.
...Oh...
That could easily be sumd up as "cute", but there was sothing about it that made Naito stare.
Also, Naruze was not using her left arm.
"Are you okay, Ga-chan?"
"I jumped down like usual on the first day and just about died from the pain on impact, but today I'm doing better than yesterday. I think I can manage."
She looked back and smiled a little when she saw Naito's spread hand.
"Asama always works to help us out without even thinking about the cost, doesn't she?"
Naito stuck her hand in the washtub while watching Naruze reach the floor and approach.
Her hand had been bandaged up for about three days, so not only did it need washing, but...
"Ohh, it itches so bad."
"Yeah, the circulation was cut off, wasn't it?"
"It feels like my finger bones are stuck together. If I bend them...ow, ow, ow, ow."
When she suddenly bent the fingers, they felt like they were breaking. But...
"Oh, the back of the hand is okay though."
When she opened and closed her hand side to side instead of top to bottom, feeling gradually returned to her fingertips. Her pale hand quickly regained its color.
"Did the bandage have a divine protection for stabilizing circulation?"
"I think it might have," said Naito as she lifted her hand from the hot water.
She could move it. It was awkward and slow, but her will could definitely reach it.
...Okay.
She used her right hand to cover her left hand and bend the fingers. That made her left hand feel like she had grabbed a bunch of needles. The joints protested and provided pain to tell her not to bend them any further.
But she bent them anyway.
The joints moved. She heard a small pop and they bent.
She straightened them again and she could move them. It was slow, but more than before.
"Margot, you're sweating."
"Eh?"
She looked back to see Naruze holding a handkerchief. Her body relaxed as Naruze wiped off her forehead.
"Ga-chan, I can see your boobs."
"That's fine."
"Want to see mine?"
"Don't force yourself."
She felt like Naruze was making an assumption there, but she also felt like Naruze was not. Maybe I just want her to pamper , she analyzed, but that thought itself may have been a way of distracting herself from her tension.
Her left hand started feeling chilled again, so she soaked it in the hot water and felt the itchiness reach the very core this ti.
"You can move it, can't you?"
Naruze was right. She could move it top to bottom now.
She moved the fingers in a slow but spider-like way and then sighed.
...Ah.
She realized the water did not feel as hot as when she started. Which ant...
"Okay, looks like I'm doing better now."
"Then help out," said Naruze with a smile as she removed the blanket from her shoulders. "I can't soak this in hot water, though."
"Don't you think we could use a heating spell to make a hot wet towel?"
"Probably, but I don't want to do the first experint here. If I free my arm and keep it in a sling, I should be able to move it by the ti the exams are over at the academy."
She looked to a corner of the room.
Their brooms and the instrunts they had borrowed from the Asama Shrine were there.
"It's finally ti. I'm betting Wild Kalie will make her move once the festival begins, but before that..."
Naruze waved the left shoulder of her blanket toward Naito.
"Will you help get dressed?"
Below the white sky of the stealth barrier surrounding the Musashi, P-01s watched the movent of several winds.
This was her morning tuning. She would sing at the graveyard and then return.
As she walked from Okutama to Tama, she passed by a linked series of carts, laborers carrying things, and gods of war hurrying to their posts.
At one point, a female god of war wearing red armored clothing cut across in front of her.
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A wagon that was passing by crashed into a nearby water bucket. The bucket split open, the water splashed out, and the wagon's load of wood spilled out. More importantly, after gathering everyone's attention...
"You moron! Look where you're going! Were you distracted by the Suzaku's ass!?"
"Not its ass! It's panties!"
"Those aren't panties..."
P-01s thought to herself as she listened to the laughter and the leaving god of war's footsteps.
...I am glad everything is so lively this morning.
Just like her, these people had to be moving about in the morning to optimize themselves.
They could sort through their mories while sleeping, but this was about optimizing themselves for their daily life the following morning.
...You can only do that after waking up.
There was no difference between those who stayed silent and those who spoke.
It could only be done by waking up in the morning and moving around. Also...
"—————"
The wind was blowing.
So people had watched that commotion from the sky.
It was the delivery Technohexen and the other travelers of the sky. So of them did work for the Blue Thunder. The standard deliveries of flour or fruit were done on land, but they would use the air route if they ran out and needed more in a hurry.
Those people flew along as the wind blew.
...Co to think of it...
"I have not seen Maruze-sama or Marzet-sama since they were at the cafe the other day."
She had seen them before that visit. She had only learned their nas on that visit, but since arriving on the Musashi, she would occasionally see those combinations of gold and black or black and white, which was all very confusing.
"Which one is which?"
She had asked the manager about it before:
"Um. I sotis see these gold and black girls in the sky and they are so easy to get confused."
"Oh, them? You can tell them apart by the chest."
The fact that that worked showed just how well-made Musashi's boobs caste system was.
Based on the custors she had seen, Asama of the Asama Shrine was at the top.
...And I think Kimi-sama would co next.
The color black flew by overhead.
It was not soone she recognized.
...But her speed rivals or surpasses Nargot-sama's.
The Technohexen was flying toward the bow.
"—————"
P-01s looked back, but her eyes could not keep up.
She ca to a stop and looked past the building roofs.
"Is that zwoosh how she optimizes herself in the morning?"
P-01s resud walking toward Tama.
Mornings at Musashi Ariadust Academy began at 8:30.
After calling role and a quick horoom, the first class began. From there, it was a series of 50-minute classes and 10-minute breaks, but...
"Okay, this is the last day of exams, so stay focused and make it through to the end."
Class 2-Plum was in full attendance and their horoom teacher's voice rang through the classroom.
She wore a track suit, placed the exam papers on the lectern, and bent forward to look at them all.
"First up for today will be health/PE."
"Teacher Oriotorai. May I ask sothing?"
It was a tall boy on the front row who raised his hand. He asked his question without lowering his hand.
"Can I buy the answers with money?"
"Shirojiro, I'll overlook that since you were so upfront about it, but I didn't make this exam."
"Are you saying money would be sufficient if you had made the exam?"
"I suppose it would be fine if it was an exam to see if you could get by in life."
"Judge." Shirojiro lowered his hand. "I will rember that."
"He's serious..." muttered the disturbed class, but their horoom teacher only smiled a little.
"Well, since we have health/PE and classical literature today, this should be the easier of the two. Oh, but you will have to draw so diagrams, so you can use the divine network for this one."
"Really?"
"What's this, Mitotsudaira? Do you want to make the exam harder?"
"Um, no," said Mitotsudaira with a shake of the head.
She had no objection to an easier exam. But...
"That is an awfully big favor you're doing us."
Oriotorai nodded at that expression of surprise.
"Yeah, but it looks like it's covering material past what we've covered."
Makes sense, thought Mitotsudaira as she saw movent out of the left corner of her vision.
Adele was gesturing toward her from the second row.
She seed to be saying, "Keep this going!"
Adele was Catholic. Her sign fras could connect to Musashi's divine network, but she would need to set things up right. Masazumi had a different problem here, so she raised her hand.
She did not even have a sign fra contract, so Asama imdiately raised her hand as well.
"Masazumi, I'll give you a guest sign fra, so use that....Just write your na in the first entry field."
After a single clap, Hanami made a tossing motion and a sign fra appeared in front of Masazumi.
It asked her a question:
Masazumi turned to look their way, so Asama and Mitotsudaira both nodded.
"It's asking for your na."
Masazumi began typing with her index fingers. She hesitated a bit with the kanji conversion, but managed.
"Honda Masazumi."
"Divine transmission! Divine transmission, Masazumi!"
"Divine transmission."
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