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Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Vol 20 Prologue
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Prologue – What Happened at That Day
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Part 1
The battle──.
The battle of this world’s hero──the battle as a hero had ended for the time being.
But, as long as one lived as a human, the everyday life was also a battle.
And then the conclusion of the battle that was the girls’ love had only reached the climax from here on.
This was the tale of after story.
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Part 2
「……Yochi yochi, you’re really a good boy aren’t you, Runo.」
「Kyah, kyah」
The fortress city Cross Field at spring.
Airi in her uniform was sitting on a sofa inside the drawing room of the royal officer academy. She was holding a silver haired baby while cuddling him.
Her posture was really natural with the sun gently shining from the window. She was displaying a scene of comforting daily life.
「Papa will also go home soon okay. So you must be a good kid.」
「Auu」
The baby smiled when Airi talked to him with a kind voice.
Before long the baby closed his eyes and fell asleep. Airi watched over him with a smile.
It was truly a scene that depicted what small happiness meant.
「E-err, Airi……say, that’s」
Noct who was watching that from the crack of the door was trembling as soon as she entered inside the room while her face was staying blank.
In contrast Airi’s eyes widened and her body jerked stiffly.
「Wait!? Please don’t startle me like that. You will wake the baby.」
「No, I was planning to knock but, my hand couldn’t move from shock……. Since when did Airi have Lux-san’s child──」
Noct half averted her eyes so that she wouldn’t meet Airi’s eyes while replying.
She acted like there was something that she shouldn’t have seen in front of her.
「Yo – u – a – re – wro – ng! Please don’t get such strange misunderstanding! He is a survivor of the Arcadia family that Aeril-san discovered inside the Ruin of the new kingdom. I’m just looking after him temporarily until Aeril-san come to pick him up!」
「──B-but, you mentioned something about papa just now」
「That’s just a figure of speech! I was talking about a fictional father!」
「Yes. ……Well, let’s just say I believe you Airi.」
「Why are you looking at me with a knowing look like that……?」
Airi retorted at what Noct muttered after she regained her composure. That voice made the baby woke up and he began to cry.
Airi panicked and lulled him to sleep once more. After that he entrusted the baby to the manager of the girl dormitory.
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Part 3
On the sofa of the drawing room once more.
「──By the way, did you have a business with me?」
Airi straightened her back and cleared her throat.
Noct sat at her opposite with a table between them. Then she sipped the brewed tea.
「We are still in the middle of spring break right now. It’s a holiday after so long.」
「Yes──but the announcement will be soon.」
「Indeed. Time really flies. We too will be second year soon.」
There was the final battle between Lux and Fugil at the beginning of the year. With that things were concluded for the time being──.
However, even the fact that Queen Raffi had died had only been told to the majority of the students and the populace a few days ago.
The work of pioneering the management of a new nation was going to begin from now on. Because of that Lux was swamped with work and he wasn’t really able to attend the academy.
Airi too was volunteering to do various works in order to support her big brother who was in such situation.
Yes, it was about the matter of Lux becoming the new king of the new kingdom.
He was doing his studies in Cross Field while also doing the work as the king at the same time.
Even so, in the end Lord Dist of the four great nobles was the one taking care of the domestic affairs. Lux was almost nothing more than the king in name only.
Even so, Lisha’s position would be too weak with just herself alone, so she borrowed the name of Lux as the 『hero』 who had left behind numerous accomplishments.
──But, although Lux was only lending his fame, someone in the position of king would still be quite busy.
There was the preliminary arrangement for announcing it to the people, attending the negotiation with other country and the nobles within the country. There were all sorts of work to be done.
And then most importantly──there was the 『five wedding ceremonies』 that would be held soon.
In the old empire, there was the polygamy system that was limited only to the royalty and the nobles. And that system was still more or less continuing even after the country changed into the new kingdom.
That was why, from the legal standpoint there wasn’t any problem at all with such marriage but──Lux was still feeling reluctant even then.
However, everything changed with a single sentence from Krulcifer a month ago.
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Part 4
「──And, about the talk of who is the one who has win Lux-kun’s heart…」
Three days after defeating Fugil at the Ancient Forest that served as the stage of the final battle. They had returned back to the royal castle in the capital.
The members of Syvalles had more or less finished resting or going through medical treatment. Then Krulcifer suddenly spoke at that time when all of them met together.
「……What are you saying so suddenly!? Right now isn’t the time for that. There are a lot of works for sealing the Ruins and putting back the new kingdom back on its feet──」
It was an unusual situation where the flustered Lisha was the one who took the role of keeping the situation under control. But Krulcifer walked toward Lux while that was going on.
「I’m saying this exactly because it’s this time. It’s exactly because the time right now will be the most important than never before and even in the future──. Lux-kun also think so, right?」
But Krulcifer didn’t back off.
Celis, the Triad, and Airi who were also in attendance──even they were listening with a shocked expression at the opinion of the usually composed girl.
Only Yoruka and Philuffy were observing the how things were proceeding with their usual attitude.
「Errr……. You’re, right. I have to, decide about that matter too.」
Lux also nodded after a short pause.
He was still hesitating. The tone of his voice was containing some awkwardness.
A while ago the girls had formed a『pact』 that forbid confession toward Lux until the battle was over.
And then due to Uroboros’s Divine Raiment──Endless, the three days of parade got looped many times. Lux ended up getting together with four girls during those three days loops.
The girls in this place had recalled and remembered those loops.
Airi and the Triad were also learning that fact from hearing the story.
「Right, I understand. But, please give me just one day. I need time to consider who to choose──」
Lux took a deep breath and then he gave that reply. But Krulcifer brought her face close to him and she whispered.
「Lux-kun, there is no need for that. No, rather──we won’t allow you to do something like choosing someone from among us. If you say that you’re going to become the king──then accept all of us.」
「──Eeh!?」
Lux and the other girls were bewildered. Krulcifer gave them a certain suggestion.
「Of course if I’m allowed to be frank──I myself want you to look only at me alone but, at this point I can’t say something like that anymore.」
Krulcifer casted her eyes downward while forming her words seriously.
「Besides Lux-kun, if you said that you had chosen someone else in that parade, then I could give up even if it is really painful. But──」
If it was the choice of none other than Lux himself, she would go along with it even while swallowing her tears.
But, in reality there was a possibility of Lux getting together with all of them if not because of the memory alteration by the parade’s looping.
No, the reality where her love came to fruition and both of them got together existed.
That reality was simply treated like it had never happened before this.
「If, you don’t choose me after this. Even though at that time, the two of us really got together with each other──. Even though I should be able to be together with you. I won’t be able to endure myself if I have to live while harboring such thinking.」
「Krulcifer-san.」
Hearing Krulcifer’s heart-rending feeling, it wasn’t just Lux, everyone there fell silent.
At that parade, Lux confessed or got confessed to and became together with the girls.
From there they knew that a happy future for them had been realized. It was exactly because of that.
It was because they recalled such memory that they couldn’t endure it.
At the same time it made Lux responsible.
Although their memories were altered at that time, he made the choice to get together with everyone.
There was a long silence.
Everyone there racked their brain and worried, and then finally Lisha sighed.
「──It can’t be helped. I’m also reluctant to do this but, I’ll lend Lux to everyone.」
「Lisha-sama!?」
「There is no other choice than that right? Otherwise everyone’s relationship will be frayed no matter who you choose. I’m confident that you will choose me but, that stupid world alteration has made everything complicated, so it can’t be helped.」
She showed a magnanimity that was befitting a princess but,
「Why are you acting so condescending? You’re acting like the legal wife even though Lux-kun didn’t choose you during the parade.」
「Haa!? Without me endorsing Lux to be king, he also wouldn’t be able to marry anybody else in his position! So I’m obviously the legal wife isn’t it!?」
Like that Lisha and Krulcifer began to quarrel. Airi watched them in exasperation and shrugged.
「Nii-san. Please do something about them quickly. The new dynasty is in the risk of breaking up even before its formation thanks to Nii-san’s womanizing habit. Please do your duty as the next king.」
「That’s my first duty as the king!?」
──She was speaking jokingly but, Airi too didn’t raise any objection about Lux becoming the king.
Originally she would want to object to the situation where her brother was dragged into troubles but──she had also noticed that they weren’t in that kind of stage anymore.
Most of all, she understood that this was for the sake of Lux himself.
「Airi. You have really matured.」
Noct suddenly smiled at her from the seat beside her.
「Please don’t say something incomprehensible like that.」
「Yes. My apologies. Then let’s think one by one, about what are we going to do from here on.」
And then they began talking about the specific of things.
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Part 5
「Even I was slightly surprised by that.」
Noct spoke monotonely. Beside her Airi was making a blank stare at her.
「What I felt at that time wasn’t at the level of mere surprise. Just what are they thinking about other person’s big brother……」
「Yes. I know that Airi must be dissatisfied with how much you love Lux-san but──」
「That’s unrelated. I’m just speaking with common sense. That’s, Nii-san serving as king for one year while marrying five people at the same time even though he is still just a student──」
Krulcifer’s suggestion was for Lux to become the king of the new kingdom and married Lisha, Krulcifer, Celis, Philuffy, and Yoruka.
Of course, everyone in that place was shocked and the place fell into chaos but──in the end that idea was told to Lord Dist and it was decided.
The girls were also in agreement, so the five marriages would really be carried out.
