Volu 3 Chapter 2 - Legend of Sword Part 2
“Oi Mio, wake up already. Kohaku is going to co after this you know?”
With her twintails untied slovenly when she slept, the slightly amorous Mio was “Nn…I can't wake up if there is no kiss from the prince…”, then she stuck out her shapely lips.
Her way of thinking was on the sa level as Kanae…
“You, you just want to say that and are only pretending to be asleep aren’t you…”
It was not like what she asked was sothing Kazuki disliked, rather he was tempted to just kiss her for real, but he beca aware of Koyuki’s chilly gaze so he shook Mio’s shoulder with more strength.
―It was 7 o’clock in the morning.
Kohaku showed her face at this ti when the SHR would be started soon. She ca here a few tis a day to pass Kazuki and the others food and the like.
But this ti she was a bit late.
“From today onward, it’s fine to go out from this room limited inside the grounds of the Sword Division as long as soone accompanies you.”
Suddenly Kohaku inford them of the change in the situation.
“Why is that? Isn’t it bad if Kanae and the others from the Sword Division student council found out our whereabouts?”
“The Sword Division student council that Kazuki knows doesn‘t exist anymore.”
“What did you say? Did sothing happen to Kanae?”
“Kanae-dono judged this one one-sidedly and ca to attack and was defeated. The school tradition of the Sword Division is based on real strength doctrine, even more compared to the Magic Division. Because of that, the mont the student council president is defeated by soone, she would lose all credibility.”
“Then Kohaku won against Kanae!?”
Kazuki was struck with admiration from the bottom of his heart.
“Although you have seven Sacred Treasures, to properly win against that girl…”
“You have said enough. This one heard before that when Kazuki and Kanae crossed swords, Kazuki was the stronger one.”
Certainly he had more wins than losses with the score of 139 victories and 118 defeats. However those were not real battles.
“Because Kanae’s disposition is to fight using her instinct, she cannot make a serious effort in a contest of strength that was half playing around. If she gets really serious, in just swordsmanship she is much, much stronger than . …I see, so you really won nicely against her.”
Kazuki displayed his heartfelt admiration, but Kohaku’s expression didn’t brighten at all.
“…Anyway this one is taking over the authority of the student council president, Kanae-dono and the others were suspended from school and underwent their penitence in their own rooms because of their cri in assaulting other students. At the sa ti, the Magic Division is forbidden from entering the Sword Division, all the students will enter states of high alert after school. In other words our preparations are in good order. The next ti the Magic Division would appear in this ground is the mont when they co to attack right from the front in order to seriously recapture Kazuki and Lotte.”
Kaguya-senpai and the others will co to attack the Sword Division…that was the situation that he wanted to avoid the most.
“Kohaku, I have said this many tis, but the Magic Division and the Sword Division shouldn’t antagonize each other. To prepare for bigger threats, the Swordsn and the Magica Stigma have to join their strength. This is not the ti to squabble with each other. Even though you won against Kanae with the use of Sacred Treasures, opponents that you wouldn’t be able to defeat without the cooperation of the Magic Division will surely appear in the future.”
This was an argunt that he kept repeating each ti Kohaku ca to the room until now. If she wouldn’t lend her ear this ti then―Kazuki intended to use all his strength to escape from this room.
He couldn’t just sit around and wait anymore.
Despite laughing off Kazuki’s argunt with full confidence until now, for so reason this ti Kohaku was looking down with doubt residing inside her eyes.
“…This one really doesn’t understand why Kazuki is always advocating such a claim. If we let the Magic Division do as they please, you realize that you are only going to be judged as an illegal magician right?”
“I never did anything like causing harm to any knight and trying to steal a Sacred Treasure. Those are false accusations. Inside the Magic Division, there is soone who attempted to trick into sothing. Liz Liza-sensei should already tell you that there is so strange distortion going on. If this distortion is not set right, the Knight Academy’s situation will turn dire.”
“A dire situation?”
For Kazuki to claim that there was [soone who tricked him into sothing] by himself was a fairly la thing to do. But it looks like Kohaku had undergone so change in her ntal state, she lent her ear to Kazuki seriously.
“My contracted Diva, Legeton, is the Demon King that unifies Solomon's 72 Pillars. I have to beco an appropriate King for her. If the situation keeps like this, all of Solomon's 72 Pillars will be disappointed in us. If Solomon's 72 Pillars wash their hands from Japan’s governnt, that would be the end of this country.”
I am a King. It couldn’t be helped even if he made thoughtless and outrageous remarks, however this was most likely the truth.
If he didn’t resolve himself and take action, the situation would turn dire.
“Unify Solomon's 72 Pillars, Demon King…?”
Mio who watched over the two was dumbfounded. However she knew about Kazuki’s ability. If she included that fact, what Kazuki said was not so out of the realm of possibility.
“What this guy said is the truth.”
Le materialized besides Kazuki. Now that he thought about it, since they were confined in this room, she never appeared at all, was it because of her discretion of the other girls?
“…You, haven’t you grown a little more since the last ti?”
“Are you an uncle that ets his nephew after a long ti? This is the fruit of Lotte’s positivity level increase.”
Le showed a sullen face, was she being awkward?
Le’s figure had turned into a girl around the age of a first year middle school student. Although there was still so innocence left in her look with that squishy cheek of hers, inside her well-ordered face and figure was a hint of the budding charm of a woman.
If she kept growing like a human with this rate, she might grow into a beautiful girl that couldn’t be ignored by anyone.
“This girl is not a bad Diva. See, she doesn’t look like a bad guy at all.”
“Shop hith~, dhon’ fhull fhy sheeck~ (Stop~, don’t pull my cheek~)”
While pulling Le’s cheeks widely, Kazuki appealed that Le was a harmless existence. Was this a success, Kohaku was looking down and thinking for a while.
“…This matter might be sothing this one cannot decide. Kazuki, this one had soone this one wants you to et.”
“A person you want to et?”
“This one and the other also have a power broker behind us.”
After a long ti, Kazuki and the others could finally get outside led by Kohaku. The group traversed the Sword Division’s grounds. They could feel the awfully bright sunlight along with the morning air and fresh cold wind.
Different from the Magic Division, the Sword Division had a Japanese atmosphere. Gentle undulations at the ground made from the artificial hill, a long stretching road filled with lines of stepping stones, stone lanterns and pine trees were attracting their eyes.
“This one fought with Kanae-dono here.”
Kohaku said so with a sigh in the imdiate area of the clubroom building. Her face seen from the side looked quite uncertain that was so unlike how she usually acted, this place gave a true account of what kind of fight had unfolded here.
Even though Kohaku owned several Sacred Treasures, she shouldn’t be able to defeat Kanae so easily.
But no matter what had actually happened in the fight, it wouldn’t be able to shake the fact of the outco.
Even Kanae wouldn’t act like a child by insisting in protest against her defeat.
“The person you want to et is not in the student dormitory but inside this kind of place?”
The ti was still before the start of the school class. Despite that, why would that person be here in the clubroom building and not in his room at the student dormitory?
“There is a special circumstance, she is a Sword Division student, but she spends a lot of her ti secretly outside the dormitory.”
Kohaku ascended the exterior stairs of the clubroom building while talking, then she knocked on the door of the clubroom with a dirty plate that was hanged on it with the writing of [Pingpong Club]. Looking from its outward appearance, the clubroom looks abandoned already.
“-sama, this is Kohaku. Coming in.”
“…I told you already, don’t call Mikohi-sama! Soone that calls sothing like Mikohi cannot co in, idiot―!”
Boos were returned from the other side of the door.
Kohaku was stunned for only a mont, then she opened the door with a key while saying “Entering.”
Peeking at the other side of the door, Kazuki’s eyes suddenly beca round.
The inside of the clubroom was not a conventional high school clubroom, but it had been turned into an altar of Shinto ceremony.
The whole surface was colored brightly with vermilion and gold colors, while there was a large altar in the inside. There was not even a shadow or shape of anything ping-pong club like inside. In the middle of the room, there was a girl clad in the Sword Division’s uniform.
“Kohakuu―, I have said this so many tis, but a title like miko or hi is not appropriate for . I’m just one girl that had decided to reach success in life by the sword, a swordswoman! So stop elevating to a weird position!”
A girl with a short-cut hair in shaggy-style that made her look energetic. With an imposing countenance that really suited a swordsman, she was sulking at Kohaku in dissatisfaction childishly.
When that girl noticed Kazuki, she thrust her index finger to him and raised a loud voice.
“A young man in the Magic Division uniform…I heard about it before, this guy is the enemy of won, Hayashizaki Kazuki! Kohaku, what is this about? Why will you take this kind of guy to this altar? Have you been corrupted by him!? En-gacho!”
(…Wait a second there, what does she an by "enemy of won"!?)
“Mikohi-sama, first please let introduce them. …Kazuki, in this side is Tsukahara Kazuha-sama. A senpai in the Sword Division.”
“You said Tsukahara, so she is that teacher’s…?”
“Correct, she is his daughter.”
“Stop calling Tsukahara, I’m going to be compared with that good-for-nothing glasses father. Then Kohaku too, stop that stiff tone of yours when talking to already. You’re my important friend after all.”
“Before you are this one’s friend, Kazuha-senpai is the mikohi of the sword.”
“I told you to quit it haven’t I―! I’m angry here, otherwise I’m going to cry!?”
Kazuha-senpai waved her arms about energetically. The long sleeves of the Sword Division’s uniform were flapping around.
“Then Mikohi-sama, these are those who were chased by the aforentioned Magic Division, Hayashizaki Kazuki and Charlotte Liebenfrau, and the additional two that were dragged into that strife.”
“Wait there, what’s with that ntion of ‘additional’ you said! I’m the one with the number one charisma you know!?”
Though the ntion about getting dragged into this was true, Mio was still angry because she was introduced lightly.
“I understand their problems when I see them. But why would you take them to this place?”
“I wish for Mikohi-sama and Sword God-sama to hear their story.”
“I told you…don’t call Mikohi…”
Kazuha-senpai was being fed up with how Kohaku keep calling her Mikohi.
(…Mikohi, Sword God…?)
“Kazuki, Kazuha-senpai is being contracted with a Diva outside of Solomon's 72 Pillars, she is the sa as Kazuki, an illegal magician in the eyes of the law. Because of this one and my comrade’s encounter with Senpai here, we started to get really serious about overthrowing the Magic Division.”
Kazuki spontaneously faced Kazuha-senpai with shocked eyes.
“Wait, is it okay for you to reveal as an illegal magician so lightly? Of course it’s not okay you know!”
Kazuha-senpai glowered at Kohaku. Looking at her abundance of emotion that she showed, it seems there was no unnaturalness at all in her like a person that was having their heart encroached. She was overflowing with energetic vitality, a very open and bold woman.
“Well, indeed I am an illegal magician. But my Diva is by no ans an evil existence. I’ll show you the proof right now, you’ll see.”
Kazuha-senpai chanted a spell, her body was enveloped with vermillion light of magic power.
“Mine bare hands grasp the red hot ore. Ridges on the sky, blade on the earth, rge in a flash naly as the only sword. Thy inscription is ! Oh god of iron and fire, show thy forge!”
Kazuha-senpai’s hands were both swallowed in burning fla.
Inside that fla, a hot red iron [sword] was created.
That sword was not a Japanese katana. It was an ancient double edged sword that was used in the era far before even the katana.
A human’s face was carved like a relief in the part of the hilt,
The avatar that was born from the spell was floating away lightly from Kazuha-senpai’s hand.
“…Mine na is Futsunushi no Kami! One of the pillar gods that had watched over the children of Yamato from ancient tis!”
The rough human face that was carved into the hilt opened its eyes suddenly and widely and proclaid to Kazuki and the others.
“Mikohi-sama is contracted with Futsunushi no Kami-sama, but she hid this matter and went through the Sword Division. …So to speak, [the Magica Stigma of Sword Division].”
In contrast with Kazuki who was the swordsman of the Magic Division…Kazuha-senpai was the Magica Stigma of the Sword Division!
“Is there no danger? If you are possessed and your mind gets hijacked then…”
Kazuha-senpai turned indignant toward Kazuki’s apprehension.
“What are you saying, you enemy of won! You’re going to be cursed by all the god-sama that had been in Japan since ancient tis! I had associated with Futsunushi no Kami since I was born! If he had any intention to hijack my mind than he would have already done it a long ti ago!”
“Guwahhahha!” Futsunushi no Kami laughed.
“That’s correct, I don’t have any such intention like stealing human’s flesh body. I’m also not interested in human’s faith. So to speak, I am the sa as Solomon's 72 Pillars. I bind a contract only to grant strength to this frail young girl!”
“Don’t call frail, idiot!”
“Guwahhahha! Hooww cute!”
The human-faced sword―Futsunushi no Kami was laughing heartily. The expressive features of the carving in the hilt felt like a good natured uncle, Kazuki couldn’t see any lie at all from him.
There was no reason to think that just because he is a Diva, he wanted to steal human’s body from anyone. Lotte’s Protheus was also like that.
Each Diva’s objective were different. The current law that grouped all the Diva that were not among Solomon's 72 Pillars as sothing to be wary of and classified those Diva’s contractor as illegal magicians might be too rough and broad. Though thinking of the risk of those Divas with evil intentions, that kind of law probably couldn’t be helped, but…
Now that he thought about it, the illegal magicians that were captured by the Knight Order was when their mind was encroached, thus losing their sanity and turning violent. Supposing that the Diva was not encroaching their mind, as long as they didn’t use their power and hid their stigmata, they could pass off as normal humans and keep living normally.
By so chance, perhaps there was a lot of [Hidden Illegal Magicians] contracted secretly with Divas from various mythologies that stay under the radar in this country outside of Kazuha-senpai.
“…Japan Mythology’s Diva!?”
Le materialized at Kazuki’s side.
“Oooh, little girl! Are you one of Solomon's 72 Pillars?”
Futsunushi no Kami asked to Le.
“Le is the King of Solomon's 72 Pillars, Legeton. Right now most of my strength and mory are lost. This guy is the master of Le’s contract, if he grows to beco an appropriate King, Le will also recover het strength and mory.”
Le spoke rudely while pointing at Kazuki.
“But the governnt and the adults in this academy don’t trust Le and Kazuki, they gave us designations as illegal and pursued us. On top of all that, they even created so suspicious plot by giving us false charges and treated us like criminals…”
“I see. How pitiful, even though you are just a little girl. But won’t it be okay if you just explain it through the 72 Pillars?”
Futsunushi no Kami who was floating around in the air buoyantly slanted his body and asked Le.
Was that gesture sothing like soone tilting his neck in wonder?
Certainly, if a Diva like Asmodeus or Phoenix just explained to the people that [Legeton is our King] , all the issues would be resolved neatly.
“That’s no good. Solomon's 72 Pillars had decided not to intervene in the actions and decisions of the people in this country. We granted power freely to this country without the rule of faith so we can see with our own eyes what they will use that power for. Right now is still the stage where they need to be aware of what had awoken in this world, isn’t that right? If they make a move like eliminating the King, who are Le and Kazuki, for their own selfish interest then…Solomon's 72 Pillars are going to forsake Japan and move to a different place.”
Le answered with so cruelty spreading into her sentint.
“…Eh, what’s with that! Isn’t that bad!?”
Mio who listened carefully in that place couldn’t help but raise her voice.
“In which case, in the current situation, all of you are currently in the process of running out of patience toward the governnt of Japan then, guhaha.”
“The situation is just like you said. In the anti, this guy…our King, what is he going to show to us, Le is looking forward to it in anticipation. …And then, what is the stance that Japan's Mythology is taking? I thought that Japan's Mythology didn’t plan to concern themselves with the humans proactively.”
This ti Le was the one that asked Futsunushi no Kami. Distinct color of wariness was floating in Le’s expression towards Japan's Mythology. Suddenly Futsunushi no Kami’s face turned serious and he answered.
“True. Frankly speaking, I don’t have any trust in any of you from Solomon's 72 Pillars.”
The Diva of sword with strangely deep character, Futsunushi no Kami started his story with grave expression.
“We, the Divas of
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