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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 36 Part 1

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Pasifista

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Go Over My Dead Body And Go

　*Ringring* The bell set on the door tinkled.

The period of when the sun was beginning to set.

The fire on the lamps hanging from the ceiling of the cozy, sepia-toned store interior was lit.

Of the old buildings within the academy grounds, not few of them had been abandoned and left to decay.

Even so, there were also cases where a number of the smaller buildings that couldn’t be utilized as student dormitories getting renovated and reused.

The café 『Forget-me-not Retreat』 was a relatively new café facility that was renovated from such old stables.

The nuance of providing a place of employment for those who remained after graduation was strong.

Shizuka looked around the all-wooden, retro interior and her gaze stopped on the person she was meeting, who was waving at her amidst the deserted seats.

「Heya. Sorry for calling you here.」

「No.」

Rinko, who had been opening a paperback book with a small cinnamon-scented cup in front of her, took off her glasses.

The number of people who used glasses or contact lenses in the academy was few.

This was the grace of the Rashomon system that came with dungeon dives.

The souls and spirits were biased to their original ideal state, and in particular the physical functions were gradually adjusted to a healthy state.

To the point that even Rinko, who used to have a severe case of nearsightedness, had come to be able to carry out her life with naked eyes.

「Have you had dinner yet? There aren’t much of a food menu here, though.」

「Don’t worry about it…. I’ll have a chai too, please.」

She made an order to the master who had come to bring her a warm towel and a cold drink.

The 『Forget-me-not Retreat』 didn’t deal with alcohol, so it was not a place you’d need to expressly go to at night.

The store was also both small and located in an inconspicuous place, so Shizuka also would have been unable to find it if she didn’t check it in the facility guide map.

It turned into a store that was like a shelter hidden in a corner of the academy.

A small cup of milk boiled tea with a cinnamon stick stuck in it was put in front of Shizuka as well with a clink.

「Well then. Thank you for coming. I thought it might have been ignored, after all.」

Closing the book with the bookmark in it, Rinko put her hands on the table and smiled.

「Not at all, since I can’t neglect the message from Anzu-senpai.」

This was a line that implicitly implied that Anzu was already on this side.

Mobile devices such as cellular phones and email couldn’t be used around the academy.

Wired phones and intranets were installed in each dormitory, but they were not used as communication tools.

「Indeed. It’s Touma-kun we’re talking about, so I believe that he’s taking good care of her. Momo-chan (Touka) and Kurumi-chan too, right?」

「Touma-san is kind after all, so there’s no need to worry.」

「His bosom is so spacious, isn’t it? He also said he would take care of me and all.」

Shizuka, who reached out her hands toward her cup, showed a reaction with a twitch.

「Dear me, even though I had exposed such an embarrassing shameful sight, if I do say so myself, he was like leave everything to me? After being treated like that, even if I don’t want to, of course I end up falling for him.」

「I heard, you were betted in a duel.」

「Indeed. Thanks to it, I was made into Touma-kun’s woman both in name and reality.」

It was a kind of status for girls to have a 『Student Duel (Mensur)』 carried out with themselves as the bet.

In reality, they were mostly treated as a sexual venting tool or an ornament to show that you had a good woman in your service, but it was also proof of their worth as a woman.

Rinko touched the brand new partner badge that had just been issued to her.

It was of the same design as the badge that Shizuka wore, similarly engraved with Touma’s carved seal.

「—So. You’re the head of the harem, right, Shizuka-chan?」

「Yes.」

「And then, without telling Touma-kun, you’re also the one who’s arbitrarily doing all the scheming behind the scenes, right, Shizuka-chan?」

「Yes.」

Shizuka, taking a sip from her cup, affirmed without any hesitation.

「It’s my duty to try all means possible to achieve what Touma-san wants to do.」

Putting the cup back on the saucer, she placed her right hand on the center of her chest.

「Yup. Touma-kun is out of the world in his own way, but looks like you’re also quite the same, Shizuka-chan….」

「Yes. That personage and I are one in body and soul, after all.」

The loyalty where she abandoned her self-interest without hesitation was like the faith of a fanatic.

「Well, leaving that aside. Have you been informed of our conditions?」

「Touma-san, isn’t concerned with the trivialities, so….」

「So you haven’t, huh…. Really, that boy is so careless, or rather….」

Rinko propped her elbows on the table and put her hand on her forehead as Shizuka showed eyes as if she was looking into the distance.

They exchanged opinions or perhaps idle talks in the name of condition negotiations.

「Let’s adjust the rotation bit by bit.」

「Err, yes. But, will Touma-kun really be alright?」

「It’d be troubling if your side don’t do your best, Senpai.」

「The direction of concern was the other way around…. I feel that it’d make even 『Peerless Lord (Don Juan)』 wither.」

The boys who could acquire 『Peerless Lord (Don Juan)』 class were all peerless-ish from the beginning, but them possessing unlimited ball shot was ultimately limited to only when they were in the dungeon.

Given that it was an SSR rank, those who managed to acquire it were only so many, but rather than a master of a harem, most of them were more of comfort personnel for the girls in a large club with many female members.

「Like Anzu-chan for example, she’s already all head over heels for him, and from what I feel, I can also tell that I’m in the middle of being enslaved myself.」

The sensation of having a yoke slapped onto your body was hard to describe, but it was not one vague sensation that could be ignored either.

「Shizuka-chan, Twin-chan and Samurai girl-chan make it four. With Anzu-chan, Momo-chan, Kurumi-chan and me, it makes a total of eight people. Does Touma-kun understand that it’s not possible?」

The phenomenon of girl enslavement by the boys was considered to be transformation of construction of a bypass for the soul as well as encroachment of the conception function for the spirit.

In other words, it was believed to be an influence of the occult-ish field of lost magialogy, and had yet to be actually clarified.

Even so, analysis had been accumulated with the use of rule of thumb.

It was at least known that the number of girls a single boy could put under his servitude was affected by class correction and the difference in levels between the two sides.

「It’s okay. With no problem, another one. Has been added into the mix.」

「Could it be Ichigo-chan? I won’t ask how you can tell, but I wonder if you are out of the norm yourself, Shizuka-chan.」

Shizuka, pressing her right hand against her chest, smiled.

「I said it before, but if you can accept all of the twelve of us, we will serve Touma-kun and him alone. It’s just that the problem is, there are a few of us who have ended up being registered as partners just like me.」

The application for registration was reviewed through paperwork only, and girls who were one-sidedly made into partners with the mere thought of 「Before anything else, I should lay my claim on her first」 were a lot in number.

Trading registration right as sex friends was not at all uncommon either.

However, not all girls were necessarily registered as someone’s partners, as this could also turn into a source of trouble at times.

「If they ask for Sen, we’ll buy all of it, and for those who refuse to listen…. Touma-san will go talk to them directly.」

Shizuka was reminded of Touma, who had begun to talk about wanting to do some tsujigiri or something.

「Hmm, well, I could more or less tell based on the level of the items you guys got from the dungeon, but you are already higher leveled than second-year students, huh….」

「To be honest, I don’t quite understand the standard for strength, though.」

Shizuka and the twin sisters were of the power-leveling-ish rearguard role, which could also be said to be artificially cultivated in a sense.

The problem was that they were in a state that even Touma and the other members of the combat classes didn’t know what rank of powerhouse they were at.

「Let’s act while making sure to not stand out too much, such is our policy.」

「He’s not acting with prudence at all, isn’t he?」

Letting out a sigh, Rinko took the chai, which had ended up getting cold, onto her mouth.

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