novelCooperation Attack (7)
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"Haha...just this much isn't really a big deal, you know!?"
Because of how Hikaru-senpai said that with her cheerful and wide grinning face, the surrounding people relaxed their nervousness.
"There's no way what you said is true, Senpai! Your bones are broken and your tendons are snapped apart after all!!"
Mio scolded her harshly at the end of the bed. After that fight...Mio immediately descended down to the grounds, treated Hikaru-senpai and Kimura-senpai with [Anti-Aging], and brought them to their respective rooms.
Even after that, the next match was still performed, but it was out of the question for Kazuki and the others to watch it.
It was his first time entering Hikaru-senpai's room, but the room was like a boy's room. It could even be seen that she deliberately excluded girly things from here. Shounen manga were lined up on the bookshelf and finished products of plastic models were lined up on the cabinet. It seems she painted the plastic models herself. There was even a booth for painting here. On the wall, men's clothes were hanging and posters of soccer players were pasted.
"[Anti-Aging] is a magic that instantaneously magnifies the recovery power that humans personally possess. It's not a magic that makes the wound nonexistent. The bones and tendons are already starting to stick together but...please stay and rest for the whole day."
Mio gallantly said.
"So I can do whatever I like tomorrow?"
"...For the moment, the doctor has also said so. Though there might be some uncomfortable feelings in the tendons left for a while."
Just before, there was also a doctor that came, though he only injected something to stop the pain because it looked like there was nothing left to be treated medically.
Mio and Liz Liza-sensei talked about the effects of [Anti-Aging] to the doctor. The outcome of those three's discussion was that if they repeated the treatment in a fixed interval, then Hikaru-senpai would be recovered completely by the next day; that was the conclusion that came out.
"Complete recovery in half a day...it's unexpectedly easy to get healed, isn't it? It's a wasted effort to worry like that. I didn't even get to see Kimura-san's condition."
In relief, Kaguya-senpai also relaxed her expression, which had been tense with worry for quite a while. And then, all the concerned people in the student council that were jam-packed inside Hikaru-senpai's room simultaneously started to leave the place.
"Eh, wait a second, everyone is leaving!?"
Seeing everyone leaving the room one by one, Hikaru-senpai raised her voice in a fluster.
"Who will become my talking partner, just relaxing is boring! I'm lonely here! That's right, Kazuki! Kazuki, become my talking partnerr―! I'm an injured person after all, so be kind to mee―!!"
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"Sorry, Kazuki. You got stuck with accompanying the injured person. It's really disheartening to become alone."
When she became alone with just Kazuki, the smiling face Hikaru-senpai showed became distorted.
When he looked more carefully, of Hikaru-senpai's hands that stuck out from the futon were slightly shaking.
"Senpai, does it hurt?"
"No, the medicine for the pain is effective...probably the injured body itself too has been healed greatly, so I think even if the medicine stopped it won't even hurt anymore. However, truthfully, from a while ago, I've been scared."
Hikaru-senpai hung her head down frailly.
"Strange isn't it? Even though I have experienced a lot of real battles in quests, despite having experienced a life and death situation before, yet...the sensation of having [your physical body get destroyed], at that time, it was scary, it's unbearable when I remember it... Even though I won't die from just having one or two of my ribs broken..."
Hikaru-senpai's trembling hands gripped each other. Even so her hands still continued to tremble (katakata).
"How pathetic huh...Thank you, Kazuki. I'm happy if you're going to be at my side for just a little more."
The frail figure of Hikaru-senpai, who was always so lively, was heart breaking for Kazuki.
Kazuki went near the bedside, he wrapped Hikaru-senpai's trembling hands with his own.
"Aa" Senpai, who had a phobia of men, leaked out her voice.
"Is it scary?"
"...It's not scary. The sensation of being wrapped like this...somehow it makes me feel at peace."
A small heart mark came flying at him.
Through the hand that was being grasped, from her heart, Hikaru-senpai came to rely on Kazuki, despite being male.
This situation probably came from the long time Hikaru-senpai had spent in getting used to Kazuki and also, it was probably the fault of being in a particular mental state from having herself concentrating intently on her own fear and loneliness.
"Senpai's man phobia, it might be cured already now right?"
"I, it might be so, I wonder... But even if that's true, I have a feeling that it's because it's you."
For a while, Kazuki stroked Hikaru-senpai's hand, Hikaru-senpai accepted it with rapt attention.
"How vexing...Despite my plan to beat those guys and sever the future trouble they might bring. And then with a bright feeling, I would enjoy the final match with you, even though it was supposed to be like that."
"It's going to be fine. I will avenge senpai without fail."
In that match―Hayashi Shizuka was without a doubt evil. No, its not about whether she was evil or not, but rather that she was someone unforgivable for Kazuki. For her to do such a thing like destroying human's flesh with a playful feeling.
"Vengeance....How cool! When I think about it, it's such a heated development like in shounen manga!!"
The light that was like a young boy's passion returned to Hikaru-senpai's eyes.
"In that situation, Kazuki will use my magic―[Ride Lightning], and beat up those guys! Using the technique your dying friend left you behind and defeat the bitter enemy...intense, it's just too intense!"
"Senpai is still not dead yet right? ...Besides, I can't use senpai's magic, you know?"
"Why? You can use the magic of someone you get along well with, right?"
Hearing those words, Kazuki was taken with surprise.
"So senpai also knows about Lemegeton's power!?"
"Yeah, I heard it from Liz Liza-sensei together with Kaguya. Something like positivity level as the key to use magic. Then there is no reason why you can't use my magic."
Amasaki Mio―147 Lotte―120 Hiakari Koyuki―119 Otonashi Kaguya―92
Hoshikaze Hikaru―60 Tsukahara Kazuha―49
"No, the positivity level from senpai is...still not enough."
When Kazuki told her, the widely smiling face of Hikaru-senpai turned into a pale white expression in the blink of an eye. Her voice became upset in total disbelief.
"Wh, why!? Th, tha- tha- tha- tha- tha- that's stupid! I like you very much! We are best friends that are bound by hot friendship!! Aren't we!? Why can't you use my magic!?"
Senpai swung around Kazuki's hand in a buzz.
"Senpai, you're still in recovery so please don't get so excited!"
"Uuu―!" Senpai groaned fretfully."This is treachery! Something is strange!!"
Certainly with how good the relationship between him and senpai, it was strange how he still hadn't obtained the proof of the connection between their magic power, the ~key of the heart~. Even Kazuki actually felt such doubt too.
...Just as he thought, was friendship not good enough?
The relationship that senpai sought from and gave to him...was it insufficient to build a bond between them?
No matter how long the time they spent together, it was as if something like a membrane was dividing them, obstructing the exchange of their feelings. He had a hunch like that.
The relationship between him and senpai, couldn't it become a genuine bond?
The relationship between him and senpai, was there a lie in it...?
"Kazuki?" Looking at how Kazuki had become quiet, Hikaru-senpai leaked out an anxious voice.
...Senpai, was not a man. Even if she said that she wanted to tie a friendship between fellow males with him from her mouth, senpai is a girl. Inside our relationship, there was a lie and deception.
Perhaps deep inside their hearts, he and senpai were connected with a far different relationship.
The number of the positivity level might be the proof of that.
Kazuki unintentionally put more strength into both hands that wrapped Hikaru-senpai's thin and graceful hands.
"Hikaru-senpai, I have a request."
"Wha, what is it so suddenly? If it's your request, then I'll more or less listen to it though."
"Senpai, please go on a date with me tomorrow!"
Tomorrow, senpai was going to be recuperating until her condition returned back to normal.
"...Eh? You want to go play together? I don't really mind."
"It's different, not playing, but a date."
Kazuki corrected her with a strong tone.
"I, isn't it strange for us to go on something like a date? For fellow males to go doing something like that is..."
"That's enough, please recognize it, senpai is not a man. I don't think of senpai as a man. I, as a man, want to go on a date with senpai as a woman!"
"Th, that kind of... But, I mean why so suddenly..."
"Senpai, the thing that you said when you were wearing the maid uniform, you said that you will listen to what I say for just one day, right?"
"I, I certainly said that, but! You will use that one favor right here!?"
Senpai might dislike it if he talked in this way.
...No, there was no skull mark that signaled the drop in positivity level.
Senpai was only looking down with a face so red that it wouldn't be strange for her to spit out fire.
"Senpai...let's meet in front of the station tomorrow at 12 o'clock in the afternoon. I will wait for senpai there."
"If, if I don't go, are you planning to keep waiting for the whole day there?"
"Yes. Just like that, I might catch a cold and become unsteady in the next match then."
"I'll get troubled if that happens you know―. Don't threaten me―!"
Senpai raised out a shrinking voice.
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"Nii-sama, I'm making a fresh start in life." Across the cell phone, Kanae said such a thing.
Being concerned with Kanae's state in the afternoon, Kazuki called Kanae before going to sleep to talk with her.
"...What do you mean?"
"If I stay like this I won't become a suitable successor for the Hayashizaki-style. I have thought about this for the whole day."
"Oi, don't worry yourself too much about this. What happened in the afternoon was because you got caught in our plan until the very end after all."
He had to choose his words in order to cheer her up. Kanae's powerlessness was...a problem that was hard to resolve. Even when using the Enchant Aura to magnify physical ability, if the original physical ability was low from the start then that magnification value would also become small.
If a person just kept being side-tracked by a field that they were poor at, they might meet a dead-end and stop growing.
"I understand that I also shouldn't hope for ~attack power~ beyond what I have right now. However, I might be too fixated on the stereotype of [kenjutsu as something that created physical destructive power]. If I perceive the opponent's magic power more closely and alter my own magic power according to my image, it might be even possible to [sever the magic power of the opponent itself] with my magic sword. Severing the spell's chanting or the source of the magic phenomenon...while fighting together with Magica Stigma, I noticed such a possibility..."
The power that distorted reality―magic, there were still possibilities lurking inside it that the Hayashizaki-style hadn't seen yet. However much the magic distorted reality...there might be nothing that couldn't be cut using the magic sword depending on the image.
"I am a powerless swordsman. Nevertheless, because of that very powerlessness, I'll show Nii-sama my pursuit of an entirely new kenjutsu, a new technique for the Hayashizaki-style. I won't lose to Otonashi Kaguya either. I will immediately train starting from tomorrow!"
The conclusion that she arrived at after her struggle, by no means did he think of it as something mistaken.
"That's why Nii-sama, I'm happy that you called me, but you don't need to worry about someone like me. Because from now on too, I will keep continuing to become Nii-sama's rival as the strongest swordsman!"
"...That's true, isn't it? My step sisterbig sister wasn't a person so fragile that she would need something like my encouragement in the end."
"I'm not the older sister but the little sister! That's why Nii-sama too, please become stronger and stronger, okay!?"
Her usual bright voice returned in the end, then the call was cut.
...But the strength that I was pursuing was heading in a different direction from Kanae's stoicism.
The power of bonds―it was by no means something that he would need to be ashamed of.
Right at that time, as if it had been long-waiting for the call with Kanae to be over, the door of the room was knocked on.
"Good evening." Kaguya-senpai showed her face.
"Senpai?"
Senpai entered the room while her body was wrapped in her Magic Dress.
He was not conscious of it while in the middle of battle, but her appearance was very lascivious. The slight areas of the body that was covered, rather than hiding the minimum portion it clung to, emphasized the beautiful white skin and the sexy body line instead. Maybe it was because senpai was adjusting her magic power, but the decorations of her Magic Dress was simplified―as if to say, so all of those wouldn't be a hindrance in what they were going to do after this.
And then her eyes were...different from usual where it had already changed into a violet color.
"Senpai..., did you use too much magic and now you completely have an odd mood?"
The Diva that Kaguya-senpai was contracted with, Asmodeus, was the demon lord that governed lust. Using Asmodeus' power too much made senpai unable to hold back her own feelings. Kazuki also accepted even that kind of Kaguya-senpai...because of that it became the role of Kazuki to diffuse the mood of Kaguya-senpai who had become like this.
"That's because Kazuki-kun, you've beaten me completely after all."
Kaguya-senpai lowered her body on the bed besides Kazuki and came near him closely while sitting.
Usually, she always came hugging at him so suddenly and she would get satisfied with just squeezing him for a while.
For some reason, tonight she didn't appear to be like that. He felt the calm before the storm from senpai.
"Senpai...come to think of it, why are you suddenly calling me [Kazuki-kun]?"
"Because I already, can't be [a reliable senpai] anymore. I completely lost against an impertinent first year that had only enrolled into the academy for a month and a half after all. My pride as a senpai had been broken apart into small pieces."
While leaning slovenly on Kazuki, senpai puffed out her cheeks 'buu' in a pout. Her hair softly clung on Kazuki. From there, Kaguya-senpai's characteristic chest pressed on him with a dense sweet smell.
"So, sorry. But for me, senpai is still senpai..."
"It's okay, actually I too...wanted to [submit] to Kazuki-kun after all."
"Su, submit!?"
"I've decided already, not to pretend to be tough or be patient anymore. I'm going to stop restraining myself."
Slowly, Kaguya-senpai's hand was moving; she put her finger on the front button of Kazuki's sleep-wear.
"Se, senpai, what are you--!?"
"Just a little. It's just for a little, so..."
Kaguya-senpai's passionate finger gently exposed Kazuki's upper body,
Kaguya-senpai, whose pupils had turned violet, was spellbound looking at Kazuki's chest. With a gulp she swallowed her saliva.
"To gulp like that, senpai...what do you mean by just a little..."
Mutually staring at each other's exposed skin, the two were enveloped in an obscene mood.
"I'm sorry, I won't do anything perverted at all! Only just a little, I just want to hug while our skin meets together, that's all! It's wholesome! This is a perfectly wholesome thing to do!"
On Kazuki's bare skin, Kaguya-senpai's huge breasts that were mostly exposed from her Magic Dress was pressing so tightly (munyu), that it changed shape. This was not something felt from across the uniform or shirt, it was a direct sensation. This was, surely this bulge was where all the [pleasant softness] in the world was packed into.
No, that wasn't right, probably what was packed into a girl's chest were dreams and romance.
"You said you weren't going to do anything perverted...this is already perverted enough you know, senpai!"
"Stop calling me senpai! Call me Kaguya!"
Senpai puffed out her cheeks 'buu' once more in a pout.
"Ka, Kaguya...san."
"No way, no way! It's fine to call me Kaguya without an honorific!!"
"Ka, Kaguya..."
It was strangely embarrassing, Kazuki felt heat filling his face.
"Kazuki, you too, embrace me back from your direction..."
Hesitatingly, Kazuki hugged her back. Senpai's naked back felt very smooth.
"I like you, Kazuki-kun..."
As if getting delirious from the passion, Kaguya-senpai rubbed her whole body against Kazuki's body continuously. When Kazuki's hard body and Kaguya-senpai's soft body rubbed against each other, an inflammatory sensation was created between the two. Moreover, their skin gradually became damp from sweat. Even while feeling the softness of the body, a slippery smooth pleasant feeling became mixed inside.
Smoothly smoothly, Kaguya-senpai time and time again rubbed her body against him.
"N, no...it feels good somehow... Also Kazuki-kun's nice smell is..."
With a dreamy expression, Kaguya-senpai pressed her face into Kazuki's neck and sniffed his aroma.
"It feels like I'm going crazy to death inside senpai's lewd smell and softness..."
Kazuki too unconsciously pressed his face onto Kaguya-senpai's wet skin. As if both of them were fawning at each other.
"Not senpai, Kaguya!"
He got scolded.
"I'm not perverted, okay? Kazuki-kun's hopelessly strong and manly...extremely indecent smell and body is the cause, really. It makes me unable to endure. I'm not the one who is bad okay!?"
Kaguya-senpai who had entered a totally peculiar state of mind started talking about some absurd things and rubbed her body on him even more intensely.
Each time their skin rubbed, seductive heavy breathing was leaking from Kaguya-senpai's gaping lips that looked like flower petals. Senpai's breath became rough from pleasure.
"If I kiss Kazuki-kun's lips, you'd be able to invoke a special power that can only be used once right? ...I want to kiss....I really want to kiss. This is unsatisfactory..."
Kaguya-senpai, who knew about Kazuki's ability, raised a sorrowful voice while avoiding Kazuki's lips, she passionately pushed those lips on his cheek.
"Uuu, this is really not enough! I want to feel Kazuki-kun more! More, I want to become one even more! Sorry, Kazuki-kun. I will return back to normal soon! So let me fawn like this on Kazuki-kun just a little more!!"
...Kaguya-senpai had wanted to cling on someone for a long time. Being treated as experimental material by her father, being pushed to become the strongest, always continuing to fight... Kazuki won against that Kaguya-senpai, liberating her from her burdens.
That was why now, she completely became [just Kaguya].
"I'm sorry, you hate it, right? A girl like me that so suddenly becomes this indecent..."
"...I don't hate it though, Kaguya."
Kazuki resolved himself to accept Kaguya, he whispered in her ears.
Kaguya's body trembled in a shiver. A large heart mark came flying at Kazuki.
"I love Kaguya, that's why it's okay."
While Kazuki whispered, he caressed Kaguya's sweaty back.
"Th, that feels good!"
Kaguya-senpai's damp body trembled (bikubiku) like a fish that was washed ashore. She raised a high-pitched voice.
Even though he just touched her back...probably the senses that were magnified by Asmodeus made her fall into lewd sensations no matter which part of the body he touched.
If it was only caressing her back, then it was still wholesome. Kazuki assented himself like that. This was a really wholesome action. Kazuki stimulated Kaguya's back many times over, the back that was damp from sweat made wet voices (guchuguchu)!
"Th, that finger movement is amazing! More! Strum my back more! FuaAAAN!!"
Kaguya-senpai raised a conspicuously strong voice and trembled―after that, she weakly fell into exhaustion.
"Ju, just now...it felt like I passed through a mountain...Otouto-kun."
"Eh, senpai returned to Otouto-kun. And what mountain?"
"I have a feeling that I have done something really embarrassing..."
Kaguya-senpai averted her eyes from Kazuki and talked in a whisper. It seems she returned to herself.
"Right, it was extremely amazing, Kaguya-senpai."
When he peeked at Kaguya-senpai's face, her eye color serenely returned to normal.
"No, don't stare at my face right now like that."
Kaguya-senpai averted her boiling red face. Looks like the end of the midnight game had suddenly come.
"It feels like I was seeing a perverted dream. But it was real, wasn't it? I've done a really embarrassing thing... But I'm happy! I want to enjoy the lingering sensation just like this for a little while."
Kaguya-senpai exhaustedly kept leaning on Kazuki absentmindedly.
"Funya funya" When Kaguya-senpai moved her lips vaguely, her Magic Dress came apart along with lights and transformed into the appearance of black lacy adult underwear. The exposure rate didn't really change at all.
"Hey, Otouto-kun. I have been concerned for a while but, sometimes Mio-chan or Koyuki-chan are staying in this room, right?"
Kaguya-senpai said while drawing circles on Kazuki's back with her finger. It made Kazuki shake.
"No but we didn't do anything strange! We are just sleeping together!"
"Then I too want to sleep together like this."
"U, understood....But I'm a little tired..."
"I feel refreshed somehow. Fufufuu."
"Senpai, can't I change my shirt before we sleep? If senpai can, how about wearing some pajamas too..."
"It's fine like this. I want to sleep while hugging Otouto-kun's chest―"
Kaguya-senpai was happily rubbing Kazuki's chest. While that behavior of hers was just like how she usually acted, there was also the feeling that something had changed a little from how she usually acted too.
However senpai was feeling refreshed by herself, while this side felt half dead from what they had just done.
"Otouto-kun, tomorrow, by some chance are you going on a date with Hikaru?"
"...Why do you say that?"
"For some reason, I was wondering if such a development would happen like that. It's nothing bad though―. Though it's nothing bad, but―. Kaguya-senpai has never gone on a date with Otouto-kun before huh―, is what I am thinking."
"I, I'm sorry, that..."
Inside the darkness where the light had been turned off, Kazuki was flustered.
"After this, go on a date with me too, okay? I too wish for a single princess escort."
"Yes..." when Kazuki strongly answered, Kaguya-senpai laughed strangely.
"Otouto-kun, do your best. You won against me, so take responsibility. You have to take the overall victory. Become even stronger and stronger. You are going to become the symbol of the Magic Division and the Sword Division, growing as the strongest magic swordsman..."
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