Mayuri’s sealing had ended successfully, and Kyung-sik had gone back to the world I originally lived in.
“Ugh, damn it...”
And I was waking up and suffering through a hangover.
My head was spinning and throbbing. Apparently, alcohol really didn’t agree with me.
After stumbling to my feet and going into the bathroom to rinse myself with cold water, I finally felt a little better.
“Here, a hangover remedy.”
“Ah, thank you.”
When I came out after washing up, Mayuri handed me a hangover remedy.
I immediately brought it to my mouth and downed it in one shot...
Wait a second.
Mayuri?
“Aaaah!????”
“What? Why are you making that face?”
“No! Why are you here, Mayuri?”
I hurriedly covered my lower half with a towel and stared at her.
Mayuri only tilted her head as if she had no idea what the problem was, arms folded.
“Hero! What’s going on...”
Hearing my scream, the Fire Keeper rushed over, glanced at my upper half, and covered her flushed face with both hands.
“What are you doing, getting indecent first thing in the morning!”
“It is absolutely not what you’re thinking, Sachi! Please don’t misunderstand!!!”
“But what’s the point of covering up if you’re still looking through your fingers?”
“Mayuri, be quiet!”
“You two just get out already!!!”
*******
The morning commotion passed, and I headed to school.
For some reason, it felt like it had been ages since I’d been here.
Maybe I wasn’t the only one feeling that way, because Itsuka-kun was also sweeping his gaze across the classroom with a look that said it had been a long time.
“Somehow, it feels like it’s been a while.”
“Indeed.”
“It actually has been a while, though?”
“...It has?”
After hearing Rinne’s words, I thought about it and realized she was right. It really had been a while since I’d come to school.
I’d been away for a full seven days.
In other words, I hadn’t shown up for an entire week.
“I wonder if my attendance will be okay...”
“They said they’d handle it somehow over at [Ratatoskr], so it should be fine.”
“I guess so?”
Well, if it became a problem, I could just complain to the commander.
Putting that unnecessary worry aside, we moved to our seats.
“Haaah~ This cool, familiar feeling. It’s been a week. The long, long time of absence... I was getting sick of it. Now it’s time to return to being ‘student’ Hieta.”
Maybe because I hadn’t used them for a week, my desk and chair felt a little cool.
“...Shido. Hieta’s saying weird stuff again.”
“It’s easier to just ignore it.”
“Do you really need to say that where I can hear every word?”
I can hear you, you filthy childhood-friend duo.
“All right, everyone! Today we have a transfer student in this class!”
At some point, our homeroom teacher had come in.
At Tamae-sensei’s usual lively announcement, the whole class gasped and started whispering among themselves.
“A girl?”
“I’d rather it be a boy.”
“Sensei! Is she pretty?”
“Pathetic...”
The boy who asked whether she was pretty before anything else got a look of contempt from the girls.
“Well then! Please come in~”
Creaaak—
The front door opened at the teacher’s signal.
A girl stepped through it.
Long, swaying blonde hair that fell a little past her waist. She was a little short, but her looks were almost violently striking, and her eyes were a vivid pink.
The transfer student swept her gaze across the classroom once, then stopped on one spot and smiled.
“Woooooow...”
“S-so pretty...”
Seeing her smile, the boys stared at her in a daze.
I greeted the girl with a slightly awkward smile in response to their reaction.
“Now then, please introduce yourself~”
“Yes.”
As her lovely voice rang through the classroom, everyone fell silent as mice.
Tap, tap—
Only the sound of her writing her name on the blackboard could be heard.
After finishing, the transfer student turned back around and began her introduction.
“My name is Amamiya Mayuri. I look forward to getting along with all of you.”
Needless to say.
The transfer student was Mayuri.
“Waaaaaah!!!!”
Once Mayuri’s introduction ended, the boys cheered enthusiastically to welcome her.
“Was today the day Mayuri was coming?”
“I only found out this morning.”
When Mayuri had barged into my room that morning, she’d said she’d gained an identity today and had already finished all the school paperwork.
How she’d managed to prepare all of that in a single day, [Ratatoskr]’s capabilities seemed far beyond what I’d imagined.
Probably because [Fraxinus] was full of such weirdos that it never really stood out.
“Then, Mayuri, please go ahead and sit in any empty seat~”
“Yes.”
As Mayuri started walking, the boys with empty seats beside them clasped their hands together and made praying gestures.
Like that would make Mayuri sit there.
I wasn’t particularly interested in where Mayuri sat, so I was about to put my head down and sleep when I heard the sound of a chair scraping beside me.
Just in case, I turned to look.
“Hi.”
Mayuri, who had sat in the seat next to mine, was waving at me with a smile.
The boys immediately glared at me with jealous eyes.
“Ghk!”
“Not Hieta again!”
No, I didn’t know she’d come this way either.
“That harem bastard!”
Which bastard was that? Get out here.
“Haha, Mayuri. So, how do you like the school?”
“I haven’t even looked around yet.”
“Ah, right.”
Come to think of it, Mayuri had only just arrived at school and come to the classroom, so she probably hadn’t had a chance to look around yet.
“So Hieta has to show me around school today, then?”
“Huh?”
“A school tour date. Please?”
“Huh??”
Before I could even say anything about the suddenly arranged date, Mayuri was surrounded by the girls in our class and bombarded with questions.
Thanks to that, I could only sigh and move my chair over toward the Fire Keeper.
Somehow, Mayuri really did seem to schedule dates unilaterally, just like last time.
“Hey, Amamiya, do you like anyone?”
I’d been quietly listening to the conversation, but at that question my body jerked before I could stop it.
I prayed inwardly that Mayuri wouldn’t say anything unnecessary, and waited for her answer.
“Hmm...”
Mayuri made a thoughtful sound for a moment, then continued.
“Hieta?”
“Kyaaaah!!!”
At her words, the girls screamed and squealed at each other.
“I curse you, Hieta. I curse you, Hieta.”
“Die. Die. Die.”
“You bastard. You bastard. You bastard.”
The boys gathered together and formed a dark atmosphere as they cursed me.
As for me, I just wanted this period to end as quickly as possible.
Why would you flat-out say you like me like that?
*******
Ding-dong-dang-dong~
The bell rang to signal the end of school, and I guided Mayuri around the campus.
“This is the cafeteria.”
“Ohhh. Have you ever bought anything here, Hieta?”
“No, I bring lunch, so I’ve never bought anything here.”
After touring the school together and finishing the guide, we headed home after class.
Ring-ring-ring!
“Oh, Kaguya?”
Kaguya called on the way home.
I excused myself to Mayuri and answered the phone.
“Kaguya?”
[Hieta! Come to the empty lot where you used the Wind Bow last time, right now!]
Click!
That was all before the call ended.
I had no idea what was going on, but since she told me to come, I headed to the empty lot with Mayuri.
“What’s going on?”
Everyone except the commander was gathered there.
“You sealed Mayuri, so you must have gotten a new weapon! I wanted to see it!”
“Ahaha, I just came because the others called me.”
“Ooh! Hieta’s new weapon!”
Kaguya had simply called because she was curious about my new weapon.
Probably everyone else had been dragged here by Kaguya too.
I grabbed Kaguya’s cheeks with both hands and stretched them out.
“Mmmphhh...”
“Kaguya. You called everyone here just for this?”
Chop!
After I finished speaking and let go of her cheeks, Kaguya held her reddened face and looked at me with an aggrieved expression.
“Agreement. Kaguya was wrong.”
“Yuzuru too?!”
“Hieta. What do you mean, a weapon?”
“Ah, right. Mayuri doesn’t know yet.”
I explained to Mayuri that when I sealed a spirit’s power, a weapon would be created with effects similar to the angel that spirit used.
At that, Mayuri’s eyes also lit up, and she said she wanted to see her weapon.
“Well, since everyone’s here anyway, I might as well take it out.”
I didn’t know what weapon I’d gotten from sealing Mayuri, so I opened my inventory with a pounding heart and checked.
“Oh, here it is.”
What I pulled out was a fist-type weapon in the shape of a tiny drill.
“That’s <Kerubiel>?”
“It looks just like the one we dealt with last time!”
Just like Mayuri and Tohka said, it looked exactly like when <Kerubiel> had transformed into [Lahat Haelev].
Only now it had shrunk to about twice the size of my fist.
I gripped it in my hand and swung it around.
“Hmm. Nothing special.”
“...Maybe a little disappointing.”
That was Rinne and Itsuka-kun, respectively.
As they said, despite its appearance, the drill didn’t even spin and was basically no different from swinging around a pointy awl. But the real value of spirit weapons was in their battle techniques.
‘Wow. This is amazing.’
Reading the weapon’s battle technique, I saw that its name was “Gigantification.”
The weapon’s size would grow larger, and if you used a heavy attack, the drill would spin rapidly.
‘This is basically a Giga Drill Breaker...’
Thinking that, I told everyone to stand back from me and activated lightning.
Then the drill began increasing in size little by little.
Before long, it had grown to the size of my own body.
“Hieta! Does your arm hurt?”
“Yes! Not really!”
It had gotten bigger, but the weight hadn’t changed, so it wasn’t hard to hold.
“All right, then!”
Whiiir—
With another burst of force, the drill began to pick up speed and spin rapidly.
“Ah! Wait a sec!”
The problem was that it was spinning so fast that the rotation started affecting my body too.
As a result, I shot up into the sky like a helicopter.
*******
“Commander! An unidentified flying object is approaching our ship at high speed!”
“What!? Move the ship, quickly!”
At Kotori’s command, [Fraxinus] moved from its original position.
Then they displayed the situation outside on the giant monitor, and they could only stare in shock.
[Aaaaaah!!!!!]
“What is he doing up there?!”
Because Hieta could be seen spiraling into the sky, carried by a massive drill.
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The weapon created from <Judgment>’s spirit power
Though it resembles the final form of <Judgment>’s angel, its size is rather pitiful
This small drill usually stays still, but no one knows when it will start spinning
Battle technique: “Gigantification”
Its size grows larger, and a heavy attack can make the drill spin
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