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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 146×1 Part 3

「Oh my, Asura-chan. I see you’ve come to play again.」

「Pardon the intrusion~.」

They bumped into a girl who had a towel on her shoulder and a bath set in her hand.

The girl, who seemed to have been enjoying the hot spring since broad daylight, was unreasonably sexy.

However, that stood to reason.

As Akane, a member of the Asagi Sorority, was a holder of the『Oiran (Succubus)』 class, a superior class of the『Harlot (Nymph)』 tree of the Debauchee (NEET) branching.

Karin, having a flirtatious glance directed at her, felt a chill and braced herself.

Even though the classes of the Debauchee (NEET) branching were not designed for combat, they sported a different kind of troublesomeness.

「Ufufu. Don’t make too much noise, okay?」

「I get it~.」

「The same goes for you, Beautiful Blade-chan.」

Her retreating figure as she walked away, leaving a wink behind, was as expected overflowing with sex appeal.

Or rather, clearly, some passive skill-like effect had been activated.

「I knew it, looks like it’s not just my imagination. For it to allow passive skill to be activated, that means the inside of the dormitory has turned into a dungeon, right?!」

To the normal perception, that was a kind of natural disaster.

However, even as Karin made a racket by herself, none of the Asagi residents showed any reaction.

They were just leaking ah~ or uu~ noise on the full-body massaging tools lined up against the wall.

They were definitely devices that turned people into hopeless beings.

「More importantly, I’m going to go rob some sweets, so I want you to give me a hand, Karin-chan.」

Asura, who was heartily wolfing down the popcorn, was also locking on to the free sweets provided in the recreation room.

While eating some sweets, she aimed for some additional sweets, truly an evil act befitting a gluttony.

「More importantly, you say? No, wait a minute.」

「I’ll share a little bit with you, too, Karin-chan—」

A gaping hole appeared at Asura’s feet as she entrusted the paper bag to Karin and took a step forward.

The next moment, Asura, who was swallowed by the hole, jumped out like a character in an action game.

「Don’t think you can stop me with a mere pitfall.」

Right above Asura, who was in mid-air, the ceiling opened up wide and spears started falling toward her.

The logs that shot out from the wall attacked the Doggy, who had dodged those spears in a funny pose.

「Nowhere near enough~」

When Asura jumped using the logs as a foothold, the sofa, which had been placed carelessly, transformed and intercepted her.

As she evaded it by spinning in the air, soap appeared at her feet when she landed.

Speedily, Asura slid down the hallway.

Then, the floor in front of the sweets-filled plate bounced up, and a cast net was dropped from the ceiling, giving rise to a prey dangling and suspended in the air.

There were some dorm residents who were striking a guts pose in the corner of the hallway, but they probably had nothing to do with it.

「… Karin-chan, help me~」

「I don’t even know where I should begin my retort from.」

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「I believe I told you before too, but if you ask Meiron-chan directly, I suppose she’ll arrange new sweets for you, you know?」

「If there are sweets in front of me, I can’t help but go for them.」

The room adjacent to the recreation room was what used to be the meeting room of Asagi-sou.

Right now, it had been recognized in both name and reality as the official club room of the Adept Orders.

Rinko smiled wryly as she brushed Asura’s kigurumi, whose fur had become disheveled.

「Then it can’t be helped, I suppose?」

「It can’t be helped.」

「You guys are spoiling this girl too much, aren’t you?」

Karin, standing at the entrance of the club room, leaning against the counter and crossing her arms, admonished.

「Hmm, spoiling Asura-chan is the policy of our club president, after all. I suppose there’s no helping it.」

「No helping it.」

「You’re being looked down on, you know? Don’t look so happy!」

「I believe we have no such intention, though. I wonder if you fancy some more tea?」

「… Yes, please」

A sweet aroma rose from the Hoodzuki-marked special blend tea.

「So, what manner of business does Named-san from Tenjou Tenge (World’s Mine) have with the Adept Orders (us)?」

When someone was a nickname holder (named) belonging to an A-ranked club, it was safe to say that they were a celebrity.

Even if it wasn’t on the same level as the Doggy who was sitting on a chair as she had her fur tidied up, dangling her legs and heartily wolfing down popcorn all the while.

「I guess so. For better or worse, it’s only logical that I should tell the club she’s currently belonging to in advance. I am, you see… I’ve come here to pick up Saki to the top A-ranked team, Tenjou Tenge.」

「I see. I wonder if she has consented to that?」

Rinko, neither getting flustered nor making a fuss about it, confirmed as she poured slightly cooled tea into Asura’s cup.

Ever since she exhibited her power at the school festival, inquiries about Saki’s headhunting had yet to cease.

However, conversely, 『If you can beat me, I’ll listen to what you have to say』, powerhouse who managed to overcome that condition offered by Saki had not yet emerged, either.

For argument’s sake, though, even if they did manage to win, the inhuman condition of『transfer is to be discussed (physically) between fellow club presidents』 would come right after.

「There’s not even any need to ask. For Saki too, rather than staying in a laid-back club like this one, which is just slightly better than those of the enjoy type, competing against each other in a pure combat club like ours would surely make her happier.」

「Hmm. Then, let’s have a talk with Saki-chan for once.」

「… You aren’t going to refuse her at the front door?」

Rinko nodded as she handed bite-sized sponge cakes to Asura, who whispered to her in secret.

As a club that had formed an alliance with the Adept Orders, Black Honey was ready to step in and intercede should it turn into a dispute between the two clubs.

「Well, it would be tactless of me to turn away a friend who has come to play, after all.」

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「Just the tip! If you make it into a tail steak, I bet it would be delicious!」

「O, of course it’s a no go, isn’t it?!」

「Ge, Gekoo….」

A battle of no humanity and justice was about to break out in the training ground of Asagi-sou.

「What if Peperon’s stumpy, lovely tail becomes even shorter?!」

「I’ve always been curious about that. I’m sure it will grow back. That’s why, just the tip!」

Saki, holding a tachi shining in gold in her hand, was closing the maai between them bit by bit.

Standing in her way, Otoha was already prepared for death.

All in order to protect Peperon, who was taking shelter behind her back.

「Very well. If you want Peperon’s tail so badly, you’ll have to cross over my corpugyuu.」

「Geko?!」

Peperon’s heartbroken cry overlapped with Otoha’s speech.

It was a tiny goddess who saved Peperon from such thrill and violence.

「Ah, there you are. Geez, Saki-chan, I told you not to bring out the『Lion God Katana』 yet, didn’t I?」

「Err, um, Mikan-senpai… this is…」

「You mustn’t make any excuses, okay.」

In the face of Mikan, who was fuming and puffing up her cheeks with her hands plastered on her hips, Saki deflated.