And then–.
“””Huh!?”””
The men—that is, the military comrades of Raze-Shess-Orphan, who was sleeping on the long chair—sobered up completely from their shock.
This was truly what one would call a bolt from the blue. The man and woman who had just arrived simply opened and closed their mouths wordlessly.
“Nn. …ngel, is…”
The girl at the center of it all didn’t wake even at those voices, and merely let slip a sleep-talk murmur.
“Angel!? No, Raze! Don’t go to that side!”
Julius, who didn’t miss those words, continued the act with tears even gathering in those eyes, but they weren’t paying attention to that at all.
“””E-engagement!?”””
The subordinates and comrades shouted the mystery word in unison.
The man and woman who had just arrived at the store, Sergio-Habermas and Yor-Carton-Frederick, began trembling.
“I won’t give my Raze to anyone!!”
“You bastard! You seduced my Raze, didn’t you!? And Toy Maker, Raze isn’t yours!!”
The night bar that had been reserved was noisier than ever.
“…Troublesome people have come, Captain.”
“Don’t say it, Harul. Let sleeping dogs lie and all that.”
Cross, who had been watching the situation beside Raze with an enlightened expression, watched as a man in his thirties with brown skin and carelessly tied silver hair—befitting his two names “Grim Reaper’s Toy Maker”—and a black-haired woman wearing a white coat worthy of being called “Devil in a White Coat” entered the store.
Incidentally, an interrogation was already being conducted around Julius.
“Major Julius-, you’re joking, right?”
“It’s gotta be a lie.”
“Did you drink too much?”
“Julius, that joke isn’t funny.”
“I thought if you were going to date anyone, it’d be a man.”
“Oi, who just called that person Julius?”
The stage where Julius’s serious performance (farce) began was the .
Having brought back the joy that the angel named Folia had been united with her beloved, Raze had hastily gathered comrades who were free after missions and training and opened a celebration party.
Raze should know from training that she wasn’t particularly strong with alcohol, but having gotten carried away thinking “just for today” and drunk too much high-proof liquor, the result was her sleeping soundly like this.
“T-the Representative isn’t strong with alcohol, huh? That’s kind of surprising.”
“Victor. Is that what you’re concerned about!?”
At Victor’s impression upon seeing the sleeping Raze, Harul laughed while retorting.
“The Representative just came of age this year, you know?”
“Well, yeah, I guess. But there’s training, right? And it’s that Representative, you know? I had the image she was strong at everything.”
“Well, they do train us to some extent, but in the Representative’s case, she can pretend to drink and transfer it to other glasses. It seems she’s not particularly strong with alcohol.”
At Cross’s explanation, Victor nodded in understanding. Despite her specialty type being the seemingly unremarkable movement system, their superior, one of the nation’s top practitioners, had unfathomable applied magic activation. She was still young, and she’d probably become able to use even fairy tale-like magic such as “time movement” before long. Truly someone he seemed like he’d never catch up to.
“…That said, it’s rare for the Representative to get this drunk… Something really good must have happened.”
Cross took off his jacket and rolled it up, placing it under the sleeping Raze’s head. Looking at her like this, she really was just an ordinary girl.
She’d seemed somewhat down for the past few days, so when Raze suddenly appeared shouting “Today’s a celebration!” he’d been surprised, but relieved.
Cross’s gaze held the kind of gentleness one would have when thinking of family.
“Julius. You’ve got some nerve trying to aim for my Raze, huh?”
“…She’s not your Raze.”
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“Hah!? You’ve been getting too cocky for a while now, haven’t you? Getting all lovey-dovey with Raze, you perverted machine otaku.”
“Aah!?”
Right nearby, proper adults were having a quarrel with sparks flying from their glares, but Cross’s gaze remained as gentle as ever.
“Fufu.”
Amid Yor and Sergio’s arguing, Julius floated a leisurely smile.
The two who realized they’d been laughed at glared at Julius, but he was all smiles.
“Raze was the one who proposed the engagement, you know?”
As proof, Julius showed them a bracelet.
“This, I got it from Raze♡”
One could practically see the heart at the end of the sentence.
Raze had been seriously executing “Project: Let’s Do the Engagement Annulment Event First.”
And Julius was the one chosen as the partner.
“L-lie…”
“I proposed to Raze too! Why Julius!?”
The geniuses of Cyan collapsed before him.
“Eh. Professor Frederick was a man?”
“…………”
“…No, Victor.”
Hearing Yor’s words, Victor asked Harul with a surprised face. Harul’s eyes went round, and Cross answered. The two became somewhat worried about Victor.
“…Hey, Raze. Tell me it’s a lie!”
Yor clung to the sleeping Raze with teary eyes.
If one only saw this scene, it would have been a moving climax watching over a girl’s final moments.
In reality, it was just a farce, but…
“What was wrong with me? Is it gender after all? It’s because my body is female, isn’t it!? …I’ll come back reborn…”
A serious tone as if she’d made up her mind.
“Hey, has that person been drinking?”
“No. She hasn’t had a single drop of alcohol since arriving.”
Harul unintentionally asked Cross, but Yor-Carton-Frederick was stone-cold sober.
“‘Come back reborn’… Could there be medicine that changes one’s gender or something?”
At Victor’s murmur, Harul and Cross whipped around to look at him.
“You, what a terrifying thing to say!? There’s no way such a thing…”
Harul’s words stopped there.
“Oi. Cross. There’s no way such a thing exists, right…”
“…………”
“Hey, Cross. Please deny it.”
While this was happening, the Devil in a White Coat overflowing with motivation stood up.
“Wait for me, Raze. I’ll be reborn now and come to rescue you like a prince.”
Fluttering the white coat worn always and everywhere, she turned on her heel gallantly—but.
“…I heard you were invited by Raze-san to a bar and came worried, but…”
“F-Frey…”
Standing there with arms akimbo was her mother hen, or rather assistant, Frey-Canzack.
“Professor. I always tell you, don’t I? To maintain calm judgment and observe ethics?”
Somehow, a dark aura seemed to drift behind him.
“A-hahaha… haha…”
Yor tried to laugh it off awkwardly to cover up the situation, but afterward, she was dragged away by Frey and taken home.
Cross thought that things had finally settled down.
However, unfortunately, there was still one more problem child remaining.
This time, Sergio, who had been hanging his head dejectedly until then, slowly stood up.
“Alright.”
His eyes brimming with motivation gave off nothing but bad vibes.
He pulled something out from his pocket and stood before Julius.
“You, let me take your measurements for a bit.”
What Sergio held in his hand was a measuring tape.
“Whaaat? Did you fall in love with my body?”
“Don’t say such disgusting things. I’d rather marry Raze off to a mechanical doll I create than give her to you—that’d be a hundred times better.”
“””…………”””
The sound of the measuring tape being pulled out sharply dominated the silence.
“Major.”
At that moment, someone placed a hand on Julius’s shoulder with a gentle pat.
When Julius turned around, it was Cross, Raze’s adjutant.
“I have mountains of questions, but I’ll ask the representative about those later… For now, please escape from here.”
“…Yeah. I’d like to do that too…”
Taking that as his cue, Julius headed for the store’s exit.
“I won’t let you escape!!”
Sergio’s chains, which he apparently had hidden in his clothes, undulated like serpents and aimed at Julius.
“Not on my watch.”
Harul generated blades of water and deflected them.
The other squad members immediately split into groups—those who would prevent damage to the store and those who would hold Sergio back. Without anyone giving orders, they understood their own aptitudes and divided roles with swift action and perfect coordination. Their seamless teamwork was magnificent in every aspect. The adaptability of a squad that had survived on the Demon Continent, where common sense of this continent didn’t apply, was being demonstrated here as well.
“Out of my way, all of you.”
Sergio, sprouting chains like serpents, looked like some evil god.
“We’ll protect the representative’s future no matter what!”
“””Yes sir!!”””
The men responded to Cross’s rallying cry.
“Angels and goddesses… mumble mumble…”
Next to Raze muttering in her sleep, the battle began.
The night was still young—
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