35: The Refined Young Lady Who Came Barging Into My Shop Was Actually an Agent (Fairly Common)
A shrill voice suddenly echoed through the peaceful interior of the card shop “Duelist.”
Looking over, there was a young lady.
“Is this the card shop ‘Duelist,’ if you please!? …Desu wa”
From top to bottom, she was the very definition of a young lady.
A girl with white dress and pale blue hair done up like drills.
She was a young lady whom the words “young lady” suited all too well.
“Um… that’s right.”
“Then! You must be the manager, Tanafuda-sama …Desu wa!?”
“Y-yeah.”
The young lady strode right up to the counter and spoke to me.
Her face was observing me with some kind of excitement.
What is this? Am I a monster that dwells in a rare card?
“What’s that… Some kind of Ren’s kin?”
“I make it my principle not to use ‘desu wa’ as a sentence ending!”
“Awawa, she really came…”
“Erea…? No, but still, what an incredible young lady…”
I could hear the crowd buzzing around getting lively.
Necca-kun and Ren-san, Erea and Yato-chan.
Erea seems to be saying something weird, but I can’t hear well from here.
In any case, regulars and non-regular customers alike were all captivated by the young lady.
“Fufufu, ufufufufufu…”
“…………”
I gulped involuntarily.
How should I put this? It was as if I could even hear sound effects like “gogogogogo…”
And just after the store fell silent with that atmosphere…
“Tanafuda-sama, I would like to call you Master…Desu wa!”
—Silence.
Desu wa… desu wa… desu wa… the sentence ending echoed through the store. After a few seconds of that.
I somehow managed to speak.
“U-um… I don’t plan on taking disciples, so… it would help if you called me Manager.”
“Master Manager-sama!”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“Manager Master-sama!”
“You just flipped it!?”
This is the pattern where I can’t avoid being called Master, isn’t it?
The gazes from around me pierced into me.
Gazes like “What kind of light novel protagonist gets called Master by a beautiful girl out of nowhere?”
No wait, only Ren-san and Erea are giving me that look.
“Um…”
At that point, Yato-chan timidly raised her hand. What now…?
“What is it, Yato-chan?”
“C-can I also call you Master Manager…?”
“Why!?”
Have I really done that much master-like stuff for Yato-chan…?
“Yato…? What about me…? Am I not a master even though I’m your boss…?”
“Ah, uh, Ren-san!? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that, and also saying ‘boss’ in this situation is a bit…!”
“If that’s how it is, then for me too, Manager is Master Manager.”
Chatter chatter. Ren-san became teary-eyed, and Yato-chan tried to soothe her.
Necca-kun said something that made me happy. The commotion in the store began to spread again.
In the midst of that, the young lady’s gaze continued to be directed only at me. Also, Erea’s gaze too.
“Um…”
“Yes, desu wa!”
“…………”
Yeah, this seems unavoidable.
Erea’s gaze hurts, but there’s nothing I can do about this.
Also, I feel like the reason she came here in the first place has something to do with Erea?
I have no proof, but my intuition is telling me so.
Setting that aside for now.
“…Manager Master has a bad ring to it, so how about Master Manager instead?”
“…! Understood! Master Manager-sama!”
“Is that the part you care about!? Honestly, both sound bad!”
Erea was saying something from the side.
Anyway, I ended up accepting being called Master on impulse.
…But in the first place, why am I a master? Also, what’s this young lady’s name?
“Ah… that’s right. My self-introduction is late. My name is Aroma, Aroma Eustia.”
“Eustia? Which means… ah, no, this isn’t the time to be thinking. Once again, I’m Tanafuda Mitsuru, but… why did you come to my shop and call me Master?”
“I’m so glad you asked!”
If it’s Eustia, could she be a relative of Alice-san?
She seems like a refined young lady from a good family, and her features somewhat resemble hers.
But they’re not similar enough to be sisters. Also, Ren-san’s lack of reaction is concerning.
…No, Ren-san is just absorbed in the Fight right now.
I’ve been hearing her voice, but she’s concentrating on her Fight with Necca and not looking this way.
Ah, I have a feeling of an UN-JASH (misunderstanding) situation. Back to the topic.
tlnote : https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%95%88%EC%9E%A3%EC%8A%88
Don, the young lady—Aroma-san—struck her ample chest.
In any case, she appeared to be a foreigner as her appearance suggested.
In a world where hair colors are fantastical, I can’t judge where someone’s from by their hair color, which is troublesome.
“I came to know of you, Master Manager-sama, through the ‘Third Fight King Cup.’ desuno”
“Ah, that… that was quite a while ago, wasn’t it?”
The Third Fight King Cup.
The tournament I participated in during my university days and placed third.
I used the prize money from that tournament to set up this shop, and more than anything, that Fight with Daia is one of my life’s best bouts. So it’s a tournament with deep memories for me.
“At the time, I was young and could only admire the Fights on TV.”
“A few years passed, you became independent, and so you came all this way… is that it?”
“Yes, desu wa! I’ve always wanted to meet you. Ah, I’m so moved…”
…When she says she was young back then, how old is she now?
She looks around Yato-chan’s age or maybe a bit older, so honestly, isn’t she still in her teens?
Well, if she’s working as an Agent like Yato-chan, she could earn enough money to be independent.
“I was deeply impressed by your Fight at that tournament, Master Manager-sama.”
“…That much?”
“Yes! Especially the final battle with the later strongest champion, Aida Touma-sama, even now when I remember it…”
“When you remember it…”
“…sniff.”
Aroma-sama… started crying. Holding back tears, she seemed overcome with emotion.
“I’m sorry, even now just remembering those times brings me to tears…”
“I-I see… that’s tough…”
Somehow, the regulars at the tables are nodding with faces that say “I understand…”
Well, that Fight left various impressions on my heart too.
…Thinking about it that way, I recalled those times.
“…………gugugu.”
“Wh-what’s the matter?”
“No, when I remembered those times, I started feeling frustrated about losing to Daia… Touma…”
“My… that fighting spirit. As expected……Desu wa”
Aroma-san praised me, but personally I was about to lose it from the frustration of losing, so I couldn’t respond seriously. Anyway, let me pull myself together.
“So, um… what is it? Aroma-san, do you… want to Fight like I did back then?”
“…! Yes, yes! That’s right! Exactly right!”
When I said that, Aroma-san nodded vigorously, breathing heavily through her nose.
A young lady shouldn’t be breathing heavily through her nose!
“In that case…”
“Yes, what is it?…Desu wa”
“—Want to try? A Fight.”
When I said that, Aroma-san suddenly—
“Hyuu.”
She held her breath, rolled back her eyes, and collapsed.
“Aroma-san…!?”
“Oh no! She was suddenly asked to Fight by her oshi and died from the honor!”
“Is it my fault!?”
Erea rushed over in a fluster, checked on the collapsed young lady’s condition, and shouted.
Well, it’s true that otaku are like that.
But this is the first time I’ve seen someone actually die from the honor in real life!
…Probably Erea could die from honor too, but since she’s a monster, she’s tough, so I’ve never seen her dead.
This isn’t the time to be saying such things.
We hurriedly carried the collapsed Aroma-san to a place where she could rest comfortably.
By the way, Aroma-san finally woke up around closing time.
While we would have been fine with accepting the Fight, Aroma-san firmly declined, saying she couldn’t intrude after closing, so the Fight was postponed to another day.
I have a feeling the real reason was that she needed mental preparation to Fight with her oshi, though.
“Dossei.”
That night, I was subjugating a Dark Fighter that appeared in the shop.
Normally I would have been woken up by Erea’s alarm, but only today I noticed it myself since I was staying late at the shop.
What was I doing? Online Fights using the field.
I got absorbed for the first time in a while…
By the way, Erea is probably at Yato’s place playing with Yato-chan right now.
That’s also why I was at this shop so late.
Now, about today’s Dark Fighter…
“Debibibiii! I lost, debi!”
It was a fancy demon-type Dark Fighter that added “debi” to its sentence endings.
Not human, but not a monster either. Because I didn’t summon myself in a Fight.
Still, this is… how should I put it.
“…It’s like an enemy from a different hobby anime, isn’t it?”
Specifically, not for boys. This kind of thing is, well.
For girls, what you’d call…
“Stop right there, desu wa!”
Suddenly, a voice sounded and I turned that way. Standing there was—a girl with pale blue drill hair.
Somehow, when I met “her” earlier today and a Dark Fighter attacked that same day, I had a feeling, but as I thought, she had a secret.
And what I saw was,
“I shall stop your tyranny here and now.”
A frilly dress and a staff-type Ignis Board.
It was exactly the impression I felt when I saw the demon-type Dark Fighter.
Namely,
—A magical girl.
“This—Magical Fighter Aroma!”
The girl who called herself a Magical Fighter and called me Master Manager—Aroma-san—was there.
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TIPS: Magical girls are classified as a type of Agent, and while few in number, they do exist in this world. Aroma is one of them. There are quite a number of creative works themed around magical girl Fighters.
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