Chapter 44

Nikami POV

I glanced at Shukona who was lecturing Raijin.

"As much as I would like to see Rai being lectured, May I ask a question?" I stared up at the tall Shukona.

"Pft…" Yasachu snickered.

"As much as you would like?! What the hell?!" Raijin yelled at me, glaring at me.

"Ignore that." I folded my arms.

"Oh like hell I can." Raijin placed her hand on top of her head and ran her hand through her hair.

"How inelegant," Shukona muttered, sighing at Raijin's words.

"So? What are your questions, Nika?" Shukona stared at me, waiting for my questions.

"Well, I wanted to know if you two talked about anything while we were gone…" I glanced at Yasachu then back at Shukona.

"Oh yea, right. There's no way you two would just stay there and not talk at all." Raijin nodded.

"We-well uhm…" Yasachu turned her gaze at Shukona, her cheeks slightly flushing red.

"No-nothing significant!" Shukona immediately declared, glaring at Yasachu.

"Ee-eek…" Yasachu's eyes met Shukona's glare and she turned away from Shukona.

"Oh. Is that so." I nodded.

"Totally, that reaction is toootaally normal. Yes yes." I thought, mentally facepalming to their reactions.

"Hah? That sounds honestly suspicious… Of course, we won't believe you!" Raijin sighed.

"Well, Rai. We were talking about something private, you wouldn't want to push yourself in our matters, yes?" Shukona stared at Raijin, disappointed.

"Gu-guh… W-well! You should have just said so! Then I wouldn't be curious!" Raijin countered, staring back at Shukona.

"I did tell you that it wasn't any significant, you just really want to get involved… How inelegant. Perhaps be understanding like Nika." Shukona sighed, folding her hands.

"Grr! Why you!" Raijin growled, slightly pouting.

She was mad… But not that mad to punch her own best friend, but if this was a stranger. She would have punched that person to the sun a long time ago.

What's going on?? Yasachu didn't want them to fight. They are best friends! Would they really fight…? But well, by the looks of it, they most likely will… Raijin looks mad, and she doesn't want Shukona to get hurt…

She started to panic, glancing at me if I would do anything… No. Not even a slight change of expression from me. But what can a commoner like her do…?

Yasachu stared at both of them, quickly running in front of them as she glanced at them back and forth. Before she could even think up a plan her own body moved.

"P-please don't fight!" Yasachu begged, her eyes on me indicating she wanted assistance from me as well.

I sighed, glancing at the brunette and the grennette… Well, not really glancing. More like glaring.

"Psh… Us? Fighting? No, we are just simply Disagreeing that's all." Raijin huffed, putting up her chest proudly.

She goes towards Shukona and places one of her hands on the shoulder of the tall girl.

"Don't worry, we're just fine." I nodded at Yasachu, trying to reassure her.

"Hmph. Even though we do bicker quite a lot, we would never truly fight." Shukona unfolded her hands, starting to pat the shorter brunette.

"Do not underestimate our friendship commoner, if we did fight over such an insignificant thing… We would have split up years ago." Shukona puffed her chest out, huffing.

"Yep yep!" Raijin nodded, grinning as she was being patted by the taller girl.

"A-ah…" Yasachu was stunned, did she misunderstood this?

It's honestly beautiful… On how people could bicker but would still be great friends, Yasachu couldn't lie that she was slightly jealous of this.

Yasachu didn't have many friends due to her hair, after all, the only person that she had was her sister and parents.

"I-I'm sorry!" She exclaimed, bowing her head down as she apologized.

"..." I kept silent, staring at the girl bowing her head.

"She went in front of them without hesitation… What a reckless one you are…" I thought, staring silently at the girl.

"Hmph! You should, commoner! Thinking that we would fight that easily… I should have known…" Shukona sighed, pouting at Yasachu.

"Stop apologizing. I forgive you, I'm sure the two will as well. Correct?" Shukona glanced at me and Raijin, needing our approval of her word.

"Yea sure. But don't ever think about that again, got it?!" Raijin huffed once more, pointing at Yasachu as the cape behind her waved along with her arm.

"I don't really care." I spoke to her, blunt with my words.

"A-ah! Alright. Thank you so much…" Yasachu nervously laughed, she thought she was going to get into trouble again. And she doesn't want to get into trouble, especially against nobles like them…

"A-aaaahhhhhhHHHHHHHH!!!" We heard an intense yell from the doorway, papers flying everywhere, one even flew right onto my face.

"Eh?" Yasachu turned over to the yelling person, confused and startled as to why someone just yelled.

"..." I blinked silently as I saw a CG flash across my eyes, the paper still stuck on my face.

It was a woman similar to what that Knight described. The girl had indigo hair in a messy hair bun, Her right eye was golden and her other eye was pink. She had a monocle on her right eye which had a dangling green gem on it, she had a golden stick with an orange jewel that was keeping her hair in its place.

She had an anxious expression as she ran after the papers, her hand reaching after them. Her other hand held the papers that she caught close to her chest. The woman was wearing a white shirt with a purple vest over it, her skirt was a short and tight black one.

I was… Dumbstruck.

Why was there another capture target?

"Wha…? Huh? What? I thought… Raijin was… The last Capture target we have…?" I froze, wondering why I saw a CG of a character I never even knew about.

I took off the paper on my face and stared at it, it was some drawings of a circular thing with a gem in the middle of it. There were some words scribbled on the side as well, but it was so messy that I couldn't even read it.

"An… Inventor, I assume… But why is she a capture target? I thought we only have seven capture targets…? That's… Strange, did I do this? No. It mustn't have been me. If I remember correctly the developer's ports of the game said that there were more mysteries to come… A new capture target wouldn't so far fetch…" I thought, still staring at the paper.

"A-aaahh! The papers! Let me help you!" Yasachu exclaimed, starting to grab some papers. She jumped up to get one, then ran to another.

Then she tripped over a rock.

"Hey!" Raijin yelled, quickly stepping towards her. She caught her before she fell, her red cape behind her flowing behind her once more.

"A-ah-... Thank you..." Yasachu blinked, staring at Raijin's blue eyes.

"Seriously! so gotdamn clumsy." Raijin groaned, letting her go back on her two feet, and sighed.

"So-sorry…" Yasachu puts her head down and apologizes.

Shukona, being a very tall person, caught the papers with ease and handed them over to the teacher.

"Here you go, miss." Shukona smiled at the Heterochromatic teacher as she looked down at her, due to her tall height.

"Aaahhh! Thank you so much! If I lost any of these papers I'll probably go crazy…" The Heterochromatic teacher thanked Shukona, smiling at her.

"No problem ma'am." Shukona smiled even more at the teacher, her face was unusually… Calm. She didn't have her irritated resting face.

"U-uhmm… Here's the one that I got…" Yasachu quickly went over to the older woman and nervously gave her the papers that she caught.

"You should probably give her that one too." Raijin turned over to me, glancing at the paper in my hand.

"I know, you don't have to tell me." I sighed, walking over to the teacher. Staring at her for a while… Looking at her face then going down to her foot. Then back up.

"..." I silently gave her the papers, then walked back to Raijin and stayed beside her.

"Thank you so much! You kids are a lifesaver!" She thanked us once more, slightly bowing down her head.

"Who is she? Why is she a capture target? And why a teacher? Well… There are some people who are into age gap but… That's just disgusting and disturbing to me… Everyone in the cast has a title… So I shall make up one for her as well… «The Clumsy Inventor Teacher.»" I thought, once again staring at the woman in front of me.