Chapter 312

Chapter 312: Holding hands dancing with a girl is embarrassing for a highschool boy, you know? Since tentacles seem not allowed either?

Day 75 – Nighttime, the Capital, Souvenir Store Orphanage Branch

During the night we took a break from ONE MORE SET, and focused on the practice for the ball. The princess and Meriel-sama taught us the basics, but Nefertiri-san managed to memorize everything from watching just once, and is now instructing us with a perfect arrangement of her own. The boys ran away, except for Haruka-kun who got a passing mark in one try and immediately escaped to the bath.

Nefertiri-san’s educational policy says that it’s beneficial to learn both male and female parts. So it’s an extra hard WALTZ WALTZ (DANCE DANCE) practice with girls only. But she has a point, after trying to lead in male part, you have an easier time understanding movements in the female part. Vice Pres A-san is especially superb at leading, to which Haruka-kun, who returned from bath, blurted out 『Look, you don’t have any anyway, so maybe go with tailcoat too. Should I make one? Wait, it might actually suit you really well!』, which led to him currently being chased around with a morning star.

Saying that is taboo, you know? Back at school she was getting tons of love letters and fan letters from female students every day, so she is very conscious of that. And 『You don’t have any』 is even more of a taboo.

「The dress looks gorgeous even if you are just spinning around, but he said it also has iron threads… It’s mithrilified?! 」

「He said that a slashing attack from a level 50’s sword not only wouldn’t be able to get through, but also won’t even damage the fabric at all?」

「I thought that having a full made-to-order dress was something completely out of my reach, something that I will never get.」

「On top of being better than top quality items, it is also loaded with enchantments and has high defensive stats… It’s… It’s higher level than my armor, isn’t it?!」

We have no idea about the movements of the remaining two great marquis houses. Everything has already been pretty much decided, but we still cannot afford to let our guard down. Even so, I think this is not it? This is basically dungeon equipment or even better. Moreover, it also comes loaded with accessories for combat against people, numerous weapons stashed in 『Storage』, and lots of concealed weapons.

They look like wonderful dresses straight out of girls’ dreams. No, they look even more marvelous, easily surpassing our imagination in their splendor. But… The gloves have retractable iron claws, and also can fire iron stakes? The lovely corsage will explode if thrown, the beautiful lace coiling around in frills can transform into a whip, the pumps have a hidden knife, and the dress itself is crammed with needles, allowing the wearer to basically transform into a hedgehog, or firing them in all directions? These aren’t countermeasures against assassins, they are the most terrifying equipment for assassination! Forget trying to stealthily assassinate someone, with such equipment one can just take knights head on and wipe the floor with them?

Both defenses and weaponry are so excessive then there is no issue with raiding a dungeon in this equipment. Yeah, we are heading to the Royal Palace now, you know?

「Multicolor gives this very bargain feeling. Although the debt keeps piling up…」

「It’s lovely, isn’t it… Gotta make tons of money when we return to the Frontier!」

「Since the fabric was formed with mana the size can be adjusted too, like, in the stomach area for example?」

「What to do about the second dress though… How about hitting dungeons for a bit?」

Everyone is going deep in debt, after all, we’ve been working for free for a while now, earning nothing! Well, we are getting a huge salary, but it’s not keeping up with our spending. Or rather, due to the effects of 『Wisdom』-san Haruka-kun is dishing out new products one after another, so we are being plucked of everything!

The stampedes had nothing but low level monsters, so the earnings were nothing compared to the Frontier. We didn’t get any dungeon items either. Haruka-kun went through the beaten dungeons, and was later grumbling that all of them turned out to be inferior dungeons without a single hidden room. Buying too many manjus was also fatal, but they were delicious!

「At this rate, even before we get 『Tamed』, we might end up… Having to sell ourselves?」

「It’s no place to worry about the legal wives issue, we might ending up as debt slaves instead?」

「「「Yeah, let’s return to the Frontier!」」」

If there’s a place we can earn big it’s the Frontier, and it’s also the place where we’ve got to be fighting now, since we’ve gotten stronger.

There is Haruka-kun’s cave (home) in the forest, and in the town the Poster Girl is awaiting us in the inn.

The Frontier where we shed a lot of tears, but laughed even more.

By now, being away from the town for two weeks is enough to make us miss it. Everyone is saying 『Return』 instead of going to the Frontier. Yeah, we even bought 『I ❤ Frontier』 T-shirts. Just felt like buying one?

Round and round and round, make a circle while dancing, revolve following an 8 figure, spin dancing back and forth.

If you adjust your posture, your center of gravity will be determined, and if you move your legs to match the center of gravity, your body will dance. If you entrust your body to the footwork, your body will dance, and if you put your movement on the sound, a rhythm will be born and your body will dance.

Combat techniques learned in this world become dance steps, moving the body, and if the moves connected together, they become a dance. If conscious of the proper movements and sequence, the limbs will naturally move, making the body dance.

Moving our bodies while tracing an image of Nefertiri-san’s beautiful dance seared into our minds, our bodies begin to dance like feathers. Yes, it’s like magic.

A magic that makes one dance, when entrusting oneself to beautiful music. The physical abilities we obtained in this world allow us to freely control our bodies. That’s why we can dance with such an ease, as if by magic.

Surprised by our own ability to dance, everyone is dancing and spinning around in joy.

I’m sure this is something we would’ve never experienced without coming to this world. We wouldn’t have had such lovely outfits, or bodies of top athletes with full mastery over our own movements, or skills and real magic making the impossible possible. A ball at a palace that girls are dreaming about, I’m sure Haruka-kun doesn’t want to go since it’s too much of a bother, but he still accepted the invitation without saying anything even though he must’ve wanted to refuse.

Even while worrying that it might be dangerous, he wanted to make everyone’s dream come true. Doing lots of research into dresses, going around asking everyone questions, making prototypes over and over, practicing many times… And he finally made such marvelous dresses. That’s why Haruka-kun is everyone’s wizard. He even took care of music, making a sound recorder working on magic stones, he recorded dance music on it. Our unceremonious gentle wizard that makes anything and everything appear as if by magic.

The wizard from the fairytales put magic on Cinderella and brought her to the ball, preparing a gorgeous carriage and a beautiful dress for her, making her happy. But what about the wizard? The one who made us so happy, and let us have such a lovely dream. That’s why the wizard is going to be the main star tomorrow. That’s why we are practicing for real, to make sure we can dance perfectly.

We don’t need some prince. We already have the wizard that put a very very happy spell on us. A prince that just sits in his castle is nothing but an unwanted article. That’s why we are going to dance only for the sake of our wizard.

After all, we can’t allow for the wizard that made us so happy that had woven all of our happiness by himself to vanish into oblivion without receiving any spotlight or cheers, like some side character, unknown to everyone.

That’s why we have no business with a prince who is merely nice. Everything is for the sake of our wizard.

We don’t want to have anything to do with the story where the wizard that keeps casting such wonderful magic is not a main character! We go to the ball for the wizard whom we admire, appreciate, and adore.

Some Cinderella-san can have that tall handsome rich prince for all we care. We prefer the contrarian, obstinate, mean, wizard hiding under the guise of fake villainy.

A prince who is just gorgeous, luxurious, and extravagant might as well be kicked away. Our wizard (prince) isn’t leaving anything for himself, be it money, happiness, or peace, because he is an incompetent wizard of fortune who can’t stop spreading and scattering it all around. Readily sacrificing everything at his disposal, including himself, for the sake of someone’s happiness, giving and scattering, Wizard-san (prince) remains a constantly broke magnate. Extravagant equipment, pretty clothes, and everything else are for someone else’s sake, while he himself keeps wearing the same black cloak, so I absolutely refuse to acknowledge and definitely will not tolerate a story where this wizard (prince) isn’t getting his happiness.

It’s fine if nobody knows about him, commends him, or thanks him. After all, he doesn’t want that at all, and doesn’t even have any interest. However, that is why the one we appreciate and admire is our wizard (prince).

That’s why tomorrow’s ball is for the wizard (prince).

In the fairytale [1], the statue of the Happy Prince, that gave everything away to make everyone happy, was all ruined, and ridiculed for looking like a beggar now, demolished. And the only piece left, after they had robbed it of its body and melted it away, the lead heart, was thrown into a garbage dump along with the body of its friend, the swallow. We won’t allow such a final. We have decided that we absolutely won’t allow it. At least we are going to dance at the ball of the now peaceful and happy Kingdom only for the wizard (prince) who brought happiness.

That’s the reason for this hard training. We absolutely can’t make a shameful display.

Dance is something that is performed in gratitude to the gods, something that expresses happiness and joy. That’s why we are going to dance. Be it a god, a prince, a king or noble, we don’t care for any of those. Because tomorrow we’ll dance just to say thank you to him and tell how happy we are and how much joy we are having every day. Because he won’t let us thank him through words, he runs away the very moment we try to have a serious conversation. That’s why we are going to dance. All for the sake of saying thank you to the wizard. Just to let him know that everyone is happy.

Notes

[TL Notes:
[1] The Happy Prince is a short story by Oscar Wilde.
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