by Fujino Omori
“It’s training.”
“O…Okay.”
Towards Aizu-san, who leaned her face over, I could only nod my head while sweating.
Although I frowned slightly, and made a serious expression……However, my cheeks were slightly dyed red.
M…My chest hurts……! Idiot, me……!
“T…That……Are we sleeping here?”
“Nnn, Yes.”
Aizu-san nodded towards my inquiry. She moved slightly forward from her position leaning on the back, and just like that she fell asleep.
The path on the surrounding walls was extremely hard. It could not even be called as beautifully made due to the numerous bumps of different heights.
In front of Aizu-san, who seemed to not care and lied down on the stone path, there was a feeling of recognizing a First-Class Adventurer’s capabilities.
Towards them, who will have to rest in variety of places after entering the Deep Floors, in such a sleeping place ??Precisely it was because they did not feel it was uncomfortable??probably they were already accustomed to it.
“Not sleeping?”
“Ah, O…Okay……”
Being looked upon from below, it has become a strange thing. While I thought about this, I moved closely towards her due to my urges.
Towards Aizu-san, who was sleeping defenselessly, although I had hesitated in that moment??No, I will normally not do such a thing?? whether or not I should do a strange thing, but after glancing at the bright shining saber, I let out a hollow smile and thought again. I would probably be beheaded immediately if I do such shameless acts.
Instead of saying that she lost her alertness, why not say that although it was temporary, she was still taking care of me as a disciple, perhaps it was the sincerity of her style that reflects it.
……Anyways, this is also training.
“E…Excuse me……”
I timidly lay down on the ground with my face facing the sky next to where Aizu-san was sleeping.
This should be obvious, there was no traces of wanting to sleep. The sound of my heartbeat was too noisy.
I inadvertently turned to the side. With a sideways sleeping posture, Aizu-san’s face appeared in my gaze, I hurriedly looked away.
With my eyebrows twitching, I awkwardly closed my eyes.
Maintaining a posture where I faced the sky, sleep quickly sleep quickly sleep quickly, I muttered to myself.
“……?”
Shortly after, a faint breathing sound entered my ears.
I opened my eyes and quietly peeked, Aizu-san had her eyes closed. It seems that she had already fallen asleep.
So…So fast……
She did talk about how recovering stamina was crucial, could she have been accustomed about how to sleep?
Or perhaps was she really tired so she could immediately fall asleep……
“……B…Bell.”
……Eh?
“Go, Bell.”
……Ehhh?
Suddenly a nostalgic voice came from the depths of my mind.
It couldn’t have misheard it……It was the voice of my grandfather, who brought me up instead of my parents. I do not know why it echoed directly inside my head at this time.
Facing this increasingly powerful voice, I finally began to think that it was an hallucination.
(……Huh, strange?)
Aizu-san, she became closer……?
Is it an illusion. I narrowed my half-opened eyes.
At first, we were separated by a distance of two people’s space. Why……
“It’s time to go, Bell.”
The next instant, it approached a distance where her face was extremely close by.
“!?”
Finally, I noticed the strangeness here.
Maintaining a posture where we faced each other, the distance between each other had indeed shortened.
Could A…Aizu-san move over while she was confused in her sleep……N…No, she did not even move her body a single centimeter!
C…Could it be……!?
“G?O?”
??Was it me that leaned over!?
Facing this emergency situation that was unlikely to occur, it feels that my heart had stopped working. Nasty sweat was released over my entire body.
N…No, it can’t be mistaken. My body was moving over to Aizu-san step by step!
Why!? What’s the logic!? It can’t be that I wanted to some strange things!?
I’ll be cut!?
“Go take advantage of this sleep and attack?”
(Huhhhh!?)
It was even closer.
With her eyes closed, Aizu-san’s face was becoming bigger, even the details of her innocent and cute sleeping face could be seen clearly.
Her smooth and delicate white skin, her slender neck……He small, pleasant pink lips.
Facing this imminent, clear and intense scene, my face began to be dyed red in a terrifying momentum.
(Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!?)
There was no way but to cry out inside my heart.
As if my actions were faithful to my grandfather and was like a bomb that was deeply ingrained, I unbiasedly crawled over to Aizu-san. Also, I revealed a sensitive feeling that did not allow this person noticing me from approaching her. What on earth happened!?
I…I…It can’t be….I …to this person……!?
“Kiss her?“
UWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?
“??Wait a minute, Bell-kun!”
Just at that moment.
As if was blaming my evil acts, Kami-sama’s (Hestia) voice came from my mind.
“Attacking a sleeping lady in her sleep, how could I allow this kind of behavior! I do not remember raising you to become this kind of child!”
My heart and body suddenly began to shake.
It was the feeling as if I had taken control back of my body and heart that was being controlled by something.
I…It’s exactly what Kami-sama had said……!
“Kissing with that girl is not allowed, absolutely not allowed! Absolutely NOT!!”
Facing Kami-sama’s unprecedented, desperate roar, I had sweat flowing while I try to gain some distance from Aizu-san.
Only that my movements became abnormally slow, almost as if there were two wills that were fighting against each other inside my body. Saying that it was a reaction force was fine.
Kami-sama’s Oracle (Light) and Grandfather’s Bewitching words (Dark) were currently violently colliding with each other.
“Quickly go away??“
“From now on, this is a holy battle?“
“??Ah, you bastard, what are you doing, WAHHH!?”
??Kami-sama lost!
The powerful vibration from defeating Kami-sama caused the scale to be tilted.
From what cannot be called a distance, it was suddenly shortened. I approached to the location where Aizu-san’s nose and mine could touch.
“……!”
The beautiful sleeping face with closed eyes was currently directly within my sight.
My eyes could not focus. Facing the nose and eyes of the face from the person in front of me, my consciousness and body began to burn and it was red and hot.
Despite the residual laughter sounds from grandfather that echoed within my ears, I prepared to move my lips to overlap with that person.
“Wait……a minute.”
“!!”
My body instantly retrieved its freedom.
The muscles on my face twitched, I stumbled to the side and broke away from Aizu-san’s side.
My heart seems to be engraving with a rhythm as if it will immediately fall apart. Sweat did not stop.
The illusionary voice of regret from grandfather still was not completely eliminated. I fearfully turned my head towards my back and looked at her.
“……”
Aizu-san did not wake up.
She still had closed eyes and ,suusuu, released faint breathing so
und that could not be heard with ears.
All the strength inside my body gradually disappeared.
(……Wait… for me a bit?)
The trembling sound, bakubaku, that entered my ears was still from my chest. I recalled the movement of that person’s lips.
It isn’t… Wait a minute……But wait for me a bit.
It can’t be wrong, it feels that person’s lips had moved like this.
Although I considered thinking about the meaning of this phrase, but a strong gush of self-loathing swallowed it. I began to hug my head and quietly groaned. What is it, What did I want to do……!!
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……While I continued to moan without making a sound next to her, I felt embarrassed about my own actions.
“……Ha.”
I was temporarily embraced by a sense of disgust that could not be eliminated.
I sighed. This time, in order to not repeat falling to the darkness, I separated ourselves by a huge distance. Then I recovered the posture of staring at the sky.
In my heart, I repeated whispered an apology. During this period, my burning face finally cooled down.
“……”
Although I did not hear that being so stubborn was futile, I maintained a certain breathing rhythm.
I was troubled at the very end, just only once, I promised myself and I slowly turned my cheeks so it touched the stone floor and stared at that person.
“……”
Just in front, it was really nearby. That person’s face was there.
The hidden breathing sounds faintly brushed through my ears. The overflowing golden hair were scattered all over her cheeks.
It could not be helped but to make others forget that she was stronger than anyone else. It was a sweet and innocent sleeping face.
Even if I were to leaned over a bit, the stretched out hands will be able to touch that location……That person was currently quietly asleep.
What kind of hero’s legend is this.
Under a curse, a lonely princess-sama was sleeping for centuries.
Until her hero descends, she will not wake up. A princess that will be endlessly in slumber.
I do not know why but I overlapped the illustrations of a myth that I was addicted to in my childhood with the person that was quietly issuing out a stable breathing sound.
“……”
I did not say a word and continued to look at that sleeping face, then I turned my face back to its original posture.
Just like that, I stared at the sky. I raised my left hand and quietly pulled my cheeks.
It hurts.
(As expected, it was just like a dream……)
Being able to stay like this beside that person. Being able to share a time between the two of us.
I lowered my hand that was pulling my cheek and I looked at the blue sky that seems to suck everything up.
The feelings I had up till now had become transparent, as if I had vented out all the physical and mental feelings.
In the center of the surrounding walls where the sun’s ray enveloped it, two people were currently lying down together. I slowly closed my eyelids and immersed in a short rest.
* * *
The surrounding walls of Orario were tough as rock and also extremely enormous.
The walls that surrounded Orario were naturally circular. The path on top of it also followed the shape of the walls, the uneven stone floor even extends for a week.
Normally, nobody should be able to approach the top part of the walls that were forbidden from entry. The walls of Orario were built rather high not because it was to resist against attacks from the outside, but for the defense of the Dungeon. Even if you were to enter a high-rise building, you will never be able to see the top. It is even more unquestionable from the ground.
Furthermore, the walls also had battlements. As long as one selected the location, there was no need to worry about being noticed by others.
Carrying out training on top of the walls would allow nobody to peek and nobody to observe.
Even if it was to revealed to both sides of their
“Mmmm, there is also a place that can clearly see it.”
Although it is only limited, but it was the vision from the tallest skyscraper facility in the center.
Located at Babel’s upmost floor in her own room, she was sitting on an extravagant chair. Freya had saw clearly Bell and Aizu sleeping on the walls.
The battlements that overlooked below suddenly lost its meaning, both Bell and Aizu’s action were cleanly exposed to her.
“The Sword Princess’s brilliance is somewhat too bright……”
Center of Dungeon, The upmost floor of Babel, which is up to the 50th floor.
Although from there, being able to see Bell and Aizu, who were situated at the outer edge of the city, it could be described as an absurd distance. However, Freya’s
Although it was a small, but clear and transparent light, and a powerful and dazzling golden light, which caused others to be blinded, both of it could not escape from Freya’s
After noticing Bell and Aizu who had concentrated in training since dawn, Freya continued to observe them since then.
“Speaking of which……Things have just become interesting.”
While tucking the silver hair behind her ear, Freya’s mouth formed the shape of a smile.
While her own dependent was secretly creating the stage in the Dungeon, the boy, who was the main character, had decided to study from one of the strongest female swordsman located in the city.
The Monster that was training by the Warrior (Ottar) and the boy that was trained by the Sword Princess (Aizu).
Perhaps it had become something worth seeing beyond her own imagination, so Freya had been jumping for joy.
“……”
The silver eyes temporarily stared at Bell and Aizu silently.
Are they asleep, towards the motionless light, Freya revealed a smile while she knocked her slender ring finger on the arm of the chair.
Following it, until she began to roll her finger with her silver hair, her actions abruptly stopped.
Finally noticing her unconscious action, her lips twisted into something that seemed to be like a wry smile, yet at the same time, a ridiculed smile.
“Ahah, am I jealous, me.”
Really now, Freya smiled.
Although Gods are noble, yet there were like a child. When it was her turn, a funny feeling arise spontaneously. Compared to that time, it was much more intense.
Towards the golden light that was more dazzling than the transparent light, it was slightly……just slight, she felt bored.
A slightly jealousy was suddenly blooming from inside her voluptuous chest.
“……An unbearable hunger and thirst.”
Freya murmured and she closed her eyes, allowing her weight to be entrusted to the back, she took up a posture of staring above.
Just like this, time passed for a while.
The Goddess, who had her eyes closed, thinly opened her eyelids…….and smiled bewitchingly.
“Right now, how strong did he become?”
Her body recovered her original position and she used a provoking gaze to stare at the location where he was at.
She was interested, she had an mischievous mood, and more importantly, there was a strong sense of hopeless jealousy.
Let me stick my nose into it once more, Freya naturally complied with this sinister idea.
The seamless glass that covered the entire wall of the huge room reflected a sadistic, faint smile.
* * *
Located inside the surrounding walls through the several long corridors and stairs, the door that connected to the outside world.
&nbs
p; The heavy wooden door was opposite of a slightly dark corner of an alley.
The pile of dirty wooden boxes and garbage made it seem like half an warehouse. From the forgotten entrance of the walls, Aizu-san and I were currently looking right and left at the same time we headed out.
After the afternoon nap, we, who began the training once again, temporarily left the walls and headed towards the city.
“A…Aizu-san. As expected, let’s forget it. T…That is only something like an incident……”
“No problem. I am also hungry.”
……The reason why it turned out like this was because due to the actions that came from the harsh guidance slowed down significantly. At the same time, as if it was connected, my stomach called out.
As if noticing such a proposal, Aizu-san, who did not react immediately towards the flushed me, went to get something to eat. Following this, we came to this spot.
(Indeed, I did not eat anything aside from breakfast……Ahhhhh, why……)
While trying to endure the urge to cry out, I lowered my shoulders and followed behind Aizu-san.
The shortcut that Aizu-san found??A road that leads to a certain door of the normally sealed surrounding walls, was located at an area north-west direction of the city. Passing through an alley with numerous twists and turns, it led to a spacious and clean backstreet. The atmosphere of the Main Street Area begins to gradually become stronger.
On the street surrounded by homes, elegant pillars of Magic Stone Street Lamps were lined up in an orderly manner. I curiously looked around at the unfamiliar landscape.
“That…Where are we preparing to go now?”
“North Main Street Area. Tiona had once told me that there is a shop that sells fried potato croquettes.”
Towards my question, Aizu-san replied. Tiona…Probably a colleague inside her
At this time, being seen together by the crowd on the Main Street, would it lead to unnecessary misunderstandings, this concern indeed exists. However, on top of that, another concern was stuck inside my chest.
Fried Potato Croquettes……Anyways, there was a sense of a nasty premonition.
Feeling the cool breeze blowing from the back, we reached the North Main Street Area.
The time was approaching Omagatoki1, the sky was dyed in a somewhat fiery red color. At the crowded yet uncongested North Main Street Area, there were many elves, dwarves and other demi-races. They all turned their gaze towards us……No, it is at Aizu-san. It flash over one by one. I could only use every effort to tighten my body.