Volu 14 Otonashi Kaguya’s Family Planning
「I think that recently Otouto-kun is only resting on the laurels of your sex technique-!」
After finishing dazzling Kaguya-senpai with carnality to the extre many tis over that she half-fainted, Kazuki was watching in fascination the face of that Kaguya-senpai who was currently using his arm as a pillow while her face was still faintly blushing from the lingering aftertaste of their deed. But suddenly Kaguya-senpai ca back to life and she sat up in a flash and said that.
「Se, senpai……?」
Kazuki was watching Kaguya-senpai who was being indignant while both her hands were hitting the blanket covering them with *pofun pofun* sound.
「Recently I’m feeling haughtiness from thee, thou art entranced with thine own technique of the darkness!」
「O, old master?」
「Onee-san once more insists about the importance of things like romantic mood or creating a special atmosphere with a bit more effort-」
After saying that with a loud voice, Kaguya-senpai further spoke mumblingly with a small voice.
「……Well, right now it feels good and I’m terribly satisfied but, it’s embarrassing how I feel too good that I get too out of control. Right now there is no more influence from Asmodeus so I cannot use that as an excuse anymore……even though I’m the older one it feels like I’m the one that got led around. I’m feeling complicated……I cannot clear away this indignation gowasu!!」
That Kaguya-senpai was attaching a strange word at the end of her sentence in jest was surely because she was really embarrassed.
Kaguya-senpai covered her face with both her hands saying 「Geeeez-!」 while writhing.
Nevertheless she properly spoke out her feeling so Kazuki was thankful for that.
「Certainly, I might be careless in that kind of aspect……」
What Kaguya-senpai was saying was half for hiding her sha, but doing sothing like a date and then flirting with each other……only doing just those would cause them to get stuck in a rut sooner or later.
The days in the past that were filled with many upheavals was stimulating on the whole, to the extent that it also felt special that they could just be together in this peaceful ti.
If they spent this peaceful daily life with the sa feelings as that ti, then it was only natural to get stuck in a rut.
Previously Mio explained to him that as a boyfriend it was really important to be romantic, but it was exactly this current ti that such factor was even more important than before.
「But it’s difficult to discover the chance for sothing romantic when it is a too peaceful daily life……」
「……For example on anniversary day or sothing, we will find sothing special or sothing」
Kaguya-senpai created gap between the fingers covering her face and glanced at Kazuki.
Kazuki suddenly ca to a realization.
「Kaguya’s birthday? Co to think of it I feel like it will be soon. Feels like it’s in Winter. But I don’t pay attention to birthdays and the like so I don’t know. Should I try asking the other girl in the class?」
Hikaru-senpai smiled cheerfully when she heard Kazuki’s question and she started playing with her mobile phone.
It was the next morning. Kaguya-senpai who was weak in the morning was still sleeping, but everyone else was all present in the living room.
Hikaru-senpai laughed 「Ahahah」 with her phone in one hand.
「It’s next week they say.」
「Next week huuh. I see, as I thought.」
Kazuki understood. Kaguya-senpai’s attitude last night was more of an appeal rather than dissatisfaction.
Mio who was listening from the side was sending him a reproachful gaze.
「That’s, for a couple it’s only natural to celebrate birthdays. When is the date of the birthday is sothing that should be asked casually beforehand while going out together.」
「Mio’s birthday is……in Spring, if I rember it correctly, isn’t it?」
「Kazu-nii only guessed it from my na right!? You absolutely don’t rember it right!? Geeez!」 (TN: The kanji of Mio’s na is made up from the kanji of beauty and sakura)
「For a couple, birthdays are sothing special isn’t it……」
Kazuki received a shock from the fact of his blind spot and he held his head in his wits’ end.
As a swordsman, Kazuki passed through his youth with stoicness that didn’t hold interest in other things. His contact with girls was only a recent matter that drastically increased in these few months.
In the first place, Kazuki was a person that was really considerate to other people. He also obtained the ability to sense the fluctuation of positivity level, and he unexpectedly didn’t do anything that was lacking in delicacy.
But his thinking didn’t reach until the importance of birthdays at all.
In the first place Kazuki didn’t know about his own birthday. His birthday was always celebrated along with Kanae’s birthday. In Kazuki’s life, 『birthday』 was a concept with endlessly low importance.
But, a girl was a living thing that wanted to have their birthdays celebrated grandly by their boyfriend.
Or rather, this kind of anniversary day was the ideal event to discover sothing special between the ordinary days. There was no option to not make use of this. It was like an alchemy that produced a romantic elent.
「The scale has fallen from my eyes……」
「It’s not sothing to feel that moved for. Geez, this is because Kazu-nii is ignorant to the ways of the world in strange places.」
「By the way Hikaru-senpai’s birthday is……?」
Kazuki timidly asked. Hikaru-senpai answered with her wide smile unchanging.
「? It already passed a long ti ago you know? It was on May 5th, Children’s Day.」
There was no other girl who suited Children’s Day more than this person.
Kazuki joined both his hands in supplication and apologized 「I’m sorry for ignoring it completely」.
「At that ti we still weren’t that close. It’s not sothing to be concerned about you know?」
Thinking back about that day, it was around the ti he went together with Mio on a quest and encountered Beatrix. Certainly at that ti they weren’t so close that he would ask her when her birthday was and celebrated it together.
Hikaru-senpai raised her voice 「Aah」 and she clapped her hands.
「Looking back I got an expensive looking cookie from Kaguya on my birthday. I would have completely forget about it around this ti if Kazuki didn’t ask about it.」
Mio turned an exasperated gaze at her.
「As a girl senpai should rember that kind of thing properly you know? A really deep grudge can arise even from friendship between fellow woman.」
「Because─, at that ti I was still jeered 『prince』『prince』 by the surroundings and got a lot of presents. I couldn’t think about returning gifts or anything with that number.」
「Now that you ntion it Hikaru-senpai was a prince huh. ……I completely forgot.」
Without doubt she was just a crazy high-tensioned girl who called herself using “boku”.
「Right now senpai isn’t treated like that anymore by the people around you?」
「Because the surroundings already recognize as belonging to Kazuki.」
「By any chance, am I secretly resented by the girls who were Hikaru-senpai’s fans……」
「Ahaha, there is no one who chased after until that seriously. I’m also feeling refreshed with this situation.」
Hikaru-senpai laughed with a refreshed expression.
「And the birthdays of Koyuki and Lotte and Kamimura-san is……?」
Kazuki also asked the three who were only watching without cutting in.
「Of course I was born in winter. At the end of February……it’s just a little bit ahead.」
Kazuki sighed in relief hearing Koyuki’s answer.
「My birthday is in November, but I myself aren’t that conscious of my birthday. Because there was no such custom in Seinmundo that was a religious country. But certainly there are a lot of scenes of birthday celebrations in manga and ani. Please rember it this year desu!」
Kazuki undertook Lotte’s words with 「Leave it to 」, then next he turned his gaze to Kamimura-san.
「My birthday is on April 1st……I am truly the late born among the late born (TN: April 1 is the school entrance date in Japan, so I guess if a baby is born on that day, when he entered school he will be a year older than the surrounding). If only there was no handicap from this birthday, there is no doubt that I won’t beco sothing like a shut-in otaku!!」
In practice whether one was born early (TN: between January 1 until April 1) or born late, they would be gathered together with other kids who were born in the ti fra of ten months ahead at the latest, so the 『handicap』 that Kamimura-san ntioned wasn’t really applicable to be the shut-in girl’s excuse. In any case,
「Kamimura-san’s birthday is also still ahead huh……thank god.」
Kazuki patted his chest in relief while stroking Kamimura-san’s head.
He was safe with the mbers in this place. But he wondered just how many birthdays of girls that supposedly had to be celebrated no matter what and yet he ignored it completely within these several months.
Seeing Kazuki’s grave face, Hikaru-senpai burst into laughter 「Pupuh, kukuh」.
「My bad for laughing, but it’s really hard for Kazuki isn’t it? With this many lovers, surely every month there will be soone’s birthday!」
「My notepad will be packed full like this. ……But it’s looking fun that there will be a lot of events every year. I see, so anniversary days are sothing like this.」
「Kazu-nii, you are smiling optimistically but, are you properly thinking about the birthday present?」
Mio brandished words that were like blades of ice.
Kazuki instantly froze, and then he wilted down on the spot crestfallenly.
「……So far, Turtle Oota-san brought an offer for co-authorship of an autobiography so that might be a revenue source too……」
「That’s relying on money that you still don’t really know whether it will co to realization or not. ……Hm? But, if it’s an autobiography, it will be Kazuki’s autobiography from when he enrolled into the Magic Departnt, then beca King until the battle in Atlantis? That’s, won’t it be able to normally aim to beco best seller?」
Kazuki’s activity as King was reported to the public by the governnt PR even while Kazuki’s own na was hidden from the report. But that was a public archive to inform the people about his public business as King. Furthermore the reports’ content wasn’t formal at all with excessive heroic telling in order to earn the support from the public though……
However, the ti before Kazuki beca King was mostly untouched.
The fight since Kazuki enrolled into the Magic Departnt until he was recognized by the Knight Academy, the war between Japan and Yamato that divided the country into east and west, the battle of Fuji’s sea of trees around the three Sacred Treasures, the voyage to Arica, and then the last decisive battle on Atlantis……if all this chain of events were collected into one, it would beco an entertainnt work to the degree that it would sound like non-fiction that was full of lies.
There wasn’t even any need to imagine that the content would beco the greatest matter of concern and interest for the public.
「Oota-san has also already thought about the title. 『Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou』 he said. The Shoukan Maou(Summoning Devil King) will be written as Basilleus in romaji.」
Lotte’s eyes shined.
「The katakana’s ruby character above the kanji desu! So the katakana’s ruby character is different from the kanji! So cool! That can be turned into an ani desu!」
「That can sell……that can really sell! Kazu-nii, you should focus properly regarding the royalty beforehand! Even if the Turtle will be the one to write it, you’ve to insist for 5% at minimum!!」
Money that shouldn’t be relied on……Mio retracted those words of hers and she leaned forward eagerly.
「Royalty……the dream life from royalty!? The almost perfect unearned inco just from lending your na!?」
Kamimura-san’s eyes were also shining from her thinking moving to a different direction.
「Ahaha! You’ve got to warn him so that it won’t beco an erotic novel!」
Hikaru-senpai spoke while laughing. It was arranged so that his real na wouldn’t co out, however now that she said it, it would still be really embarrassing even then.
「Putting that aside, what will you do about Kaguya-senpai’s birthday? The day is going to be a weekday, so it will be a date after school……sothing like that?」
Mio corrected the course of the conversation that was going off the rail.
Kazuki crossed his arms and groaned.
「No……rather than that……」
The thing that Kaguya-senpai was desiring the most, he wondered what it was.
Of course she must also be wishing to spend a romantic ti with just the two of them. However he couldn’t say with confidence that that would really be the thing she desired the most.
He wondered whether her birthday was hiding a trauma that should be wiped out first.
──Kazuki tried conveying the thought his mind had reached to Hikaru-senpai.
「……Hm, I guess. I think that Kaguya will surely like that.」
Hikaru-senpai made a smile that looked like it ca from her heart and nodded to him.
「I think that’s the best for Kaguya.」
After that Kazuki turned his gaze to Mio.
「Mio! Let consult with you about the present!」
「As expected, there is only for that kind of consultation!」
Otouto-kun, who suddenly got hit with an idea when he heard about anniversary days, most likely would ask about her birthday from Hikaru, and then he would prepare a romantic birthday date for her……that was her calculation.
‘Strange’, Kaguya thought. The invitation for a date didn’t co.
Everyone ate breakfast and then scattered to their respective classes, then classes were over, and it beca after school……at this rate she would go back to the Witch’s Mansion alone.
Like this it would end up as just a normal day. There was no unhappiness, but there was also nothing romantic. A normal day.
Well, sothing like an anniversary day was essentially just a normal day without anything special about it. What she did was nothing more than forcibly pushing so kind of excuse and made noise about a special day.
Even though Hikaru looked like that, but she was soone dry, so she looked like she wouldn’t pay attention at all to sothing like a birthday. Even if Otouto-kun asked her,
「Kaguya’s birthday? I dunno! Well, sothing like a birthday doesn’t matter, don’t you think? Everyday is eburidei (TN: Butchered English of everyday, also sound like birthday if you squint I guess)!」
She would say sothing like that, and Otouto-kun too would,
「There is truth in that, eburidei.」
「Eburideeei!!」
Perhaps it turned out like that. Otouto-kun’s strange easiness to get into the mood was scary.
Kaguya’s shoulders dropped in dejection.
Birthday──when she thought about it, for so reason her chest felt painfully throbbing. She wondered why.
……In the past, every year she had a birthday party held for her. Papa and mama were still kind, and it was also before Onii-chan died from an accident. That was the symbol of a family’s warmth.
Nyarlathotep possessed papa, mama was also turned mad, and because of that the birthday party couldn’t happen for a second ti. Never again would she have her birth celebrated…
She was only ordered to 『aim for becoming the strongest magician』, and she obeyed it……
However, right now in this world the title of strongest magician ant nothing.
The current her had no special aning or anything. She was an extrely common girl who wasn’t even good in physical exercise. Her grades were so-so. She also had no hobby or special skill. She jokingly said about becoming a politician, but she couldn’t even find her dream of the future.
This throbbing chest──it might be her longing that wished to at least take back her warm family.
What she was looking for wasn’t a romantic situation or anything.
She was hungry for sothing warm all this ti. She wanted to beco a warm human. She worked hard to erase the dispute between the sword departnt and the magic departnt, but instead she was thought of unsympathetically from her surroundings.
That was why she also felt sothing lacking from her 『relationship of male and female』 with Otouto-kun. That she still couldn’t stop her attempt to act as an Onee-san was surely because of sothing like that.
She exited the school building and walked across the Knight Academy’s courtyard, heading toward the Witch’s Mansion. That the inside of the Academy after school was over feeling strangely quiet must be because there was no more students that trained. On the other hand there still wasn’t any club activities arranged for them.
She wanted her existence to be celebrated.
In that case she would be able to have a fresh start even in this world where sothing like the strongest magician wasn’t necessary.
She arrived back at the usual Witch’s Mansion.
This normally empty her like this finished her normal day.
She put her hand on the door, and opened──.
「「「「「「HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAGUYA!!」」」」」」
Together with the many voices, *pan pan pan pan!* light bursting sound resounded──thinking that it was attack magic, Kaguya’s body instantly took a guard stance, but that wasn’t it. The sll of black powder wafted in the air, and fluttering scraggly things were floating down on her head. She knew what that was──this was that thing called a party cracker.
Her many comrades were lining up at the corridor from the entrance until the living room, at the ceiling were chains of paper tape and balloons fully decorating the place.
「Heh?」
Kaguya reflexively raised a stupid sounding voice.
Even though she was coaxing for an anniversary in that kind of shape on the bed, and yet beyond her imagination it resulted in a ho party style. However, this was exactly the 『warmth』 that she was actually looking for. She was imdiately made self-aware of that. Because she felt sothing warm was gathering at the corner of her eyes.
Otouto-kun walked out from between her friends and took the hand of Kaguya who was standing paralyzed.
He had seen through the matter that even she herself had only ca to understood just now.
……That’s right, he was always fighting by 『seeing through』. That was his style.
Her whole head beca hot, not just the corners of her eyes. Cold tears was crossing through her heated cheeks.
「There is nothing to cry about here, isn’t it?」
「Because……I’m so happy.」
Originally, for a person who wasn’t family to understand about others until this far was just unthinkable.
In the living room, handmade cooking and snacks, and in addition a huge whole cake were lined up on the table. Kaguya opened wide her damp eyes.
「……Otouto-kun, you took a day off from school?」
「Wrong, these few days I prepared it bit by bit. I also had a reliable helper.」
「Helper?」
From among her friends, there was soone who rushed out saying 「Kaguya-chaaaan! It’s ze!」.
Mibu Akira──even though she aid to open a cake shop since she was a child, because she obtained a Stigma she was forcefully enrolled into the Knight Academy and then beca a peevish yankee.
Seeing Kaguya who persisted in becoming a model example of the Knight Academy, she felt embarrassed of herself who acted peevish because her dream was broken, and then she called Kaguya things like 『Hero of justice』 or 『soone respectable』.
Kaguya heard that right now she was boldly aiming to beco a pastry chef and worked hard. For the current Kaguya, she was the one who was feeling respect towards Akira instead. It was noble how she was working hard for her dream even if it wasn’t sothing grand like being a hero.
Kaguya was happy that soone like that made a cake for her together with Otouto-kun, that her sight beca even more blurred.
「Kazuki! It’s effective, it’s effective! Keep press on!!」
Hikaru was saying a strange thing like a boxing trainer.
Otouto-kun presented to her a bouquet of flowers and a box that was wrapped prettily.
「It’s a pair wristwatch. I think that it has good utility. I’ve never seen senpai wear a wristwatch, and I also don’t have one so……」
「Ca, can I ophen it to look?」
She spoke with a nasally voice. Laughter suddenly arose from the surroundings.
「Yes, please try putting it on.」
She opened the wrapping paper carefully, and from inside a box with a famous looking brand ca out. When she opened it with a feeling like opening a treasure box, an adult-like wristwatch with simple dials ca out.
「I thought that it’s like Kaguya-senpai.」
「……Fufuh, I’m, not as much an adult as Otouto-kun is thinking of you know?」
She quickly put it around her left hand. Otouto-kun also slowly lifted his left hand and showed his watch to her. It was slightly modified to look manly with a design that suited him. The watch was shining on his wrist.
In the surroundings, the girls who similarly loved him like Kaguya raised their voices 「How nice─!」.
「……It’s like a ring. I’m happy.」
「Soday, I’ll absolutely buy a ring for you too.」
Saying that, Otouto-kun embraced her.
Eating delicious things, playing gas with everyone, the trio of Kana-chan - Kohaku - Torazou-san was exhibiting funny gags……a fun ti that wasn’t commonplace by any ans was passing like a dream.
And then when night ca, she was taken to Otouto-kun’s room, where he gently embraced her.
Even though she was the older one, she was one-sidedly pleasured……she didn’t think of such thing.
She also didn’t think that she was trying to get spoiled by his reliability as though she was chasing after the shadow of her big brother.
She entrusted her body to him to the degree that she had never done since she had lost the excuse that Asmodeus was making her aroused, where she was then thrown out of order.
「……Don’t」
He was reaching his hand to the condom. But Kaguya put that down decisively.
She wasn’t pregnant from that night on Atlantis, and since magic power vanished from the world, he was always taking contraception into consideration.
「Kazuki-kun……」
However, Kaguya appealed to him that she wanted to accept him directly, and she spread open her body.
She thought that she surely wouldn’t call him Otouto-kun anymore. That was why.
He also gave her a small nod. And then──.
A few days after her birthday, a notice ca that her father who was in a vegetative state recovered his consciousness.
Kaguya took a day off from school and alone she visited the hospital room where her father was bedridden all this ti.
He was emaciated because he was bedridden all this ti, but all the life-support systems were taken off from him and he was able to sit down by his own strength. For Kaguya who had resolved herself that her father was near death, his appearance was unexpectedly firm. As though his bedridden state was only a dream.
On the other hand, for her father the change of the world must be like a dream for him.
Kaguya talked. About Nyarlathotep. About Kazuki-kun──how he beca this country’s King. About the battle against Mythologies on the flying continent. And then──about the complete change of the world.
「……That’s sothing completely unbelievable but, certainly I cannot feel magic power at all, so what you are saying is true…… That boy he……」
Kaguya felt a question about how much her father rembered.
「……I did sothing bad, towards that boy.」
From that whisper, Kaguya understood that he also rembered the whole ti he was controlled by Nyarlathotep.
「I’m planning on marrying him.」
Kaguya spoke with a nonchalant tone and firm resolve as though she was telling him an obvious matter that had been decided.
Her father looked up towards Kaguya, then he imdiately looked down and his haggard shoulders wilted further.
「……I don’t have any qualifications to say anything. I was unable to do anything fatherly for you. And that boy……he is soone who is able to make you who was in that situation, to be happy.」
「I want to give birth to many children. I’m planning to build a family where everyday will be like a birthday.」
Tears spilled out while she talked.
「That I can think like that, is because I rember that Tou-san in the past was kind, before you were taken over by Nyarlathotep. Thank you, Tou-san.」
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