Chapter 119 – Female Knight
Treatment in the infirmary was simple. But, in fact, there was no treatment whatsoever. All I had to do was apply medicine to chapped lips and other minor wounds.
How long did the silence last after the treatment? Kerene raised her head, which had been sitting quietly on her infirmary bed since before, and opened her mouth.
“Thank you so much for your help today. But why did you help me there? There is no reason for you to help me.”
“Reason?”
“Is it because I look pitiful when I am beaten by Sir Baldroy?”
Netoru looked blankly into Kerene’s eyes. Her pupils are shaking pitifully. It was a risky feeling, like a glass marble that was about to break at any moment.
What should I say about that look? It was a moment, but it reminded me of her Ceres at the time of her first coupling, so it was difficult in many ways. At first glance, her self-esteem had sunk to the bottom of her.
Maybe all the people here are like this? Although it seemed different, there was a corner that was strangely similar to Ceres.
Netoru shrugged her shoulders, feeling the throbbing pain still lingering on her face.
“There is no particular reason.”
“There is no reason…?”
“A person is being beaten in the first place, do you need a reason?”
“·······”
Of course, even if it was someone other than Kerene, he would have helped. There’s nothing good about seeing a female pilot beaten by a male pilot.
Kerene stared blankly at Netoru for a while, then smiled bitterly.
“Ceres has a really good partner…”
…A good partner. To be honest, Netoru wasn’t sure if he was a good partner for her. Because every time she couples with Netoru, she is a woman who suffers from overheating.
Overheating was never good for female pilots. It is, of course, abusing her own body.
So Netoru spoke her candid thoughts.
“Well···. It’s something to say that I’m a good partner. I just overdo it every time. You must have known that he is still overheating, right?”
Listening to her story, Kerene let out a small laugh.
“Poop… Sounds stupid. The fact that you’re saying that with a worried face is proof that you’re a good partner. On the other hand, I…”
Kerene, who stopped talking, touched her own cheek and lowered her gaze to the floor. She had a confused expression. As if she had just realized her own situation.
Although he fought in an overload state that forcibly exceeded his output limit, Boldroy showed no sign of concern. Didn’t he rather just stab his hand?
Eventually, Kerene, who let out a deep sigh, spoke.
“…Now what are you going to do? Shall I go to your room and take off your clothes? Ah, before that, I should take a shower first… As you may have noticed, I did it once with Lord Baldroy before the sparring.”
“·······”
Netoru looked over at Kerene. Evidence of an affair flowed openly between her thighs while wearing her knight’s suit.
This is absurd. Before Dalian, he was mingling with a female pilot once in the cockpit.
Kerene’s red eyes, staring at me in this state, were empty with a sense of emptiness. What would be the point of holding her in your arms with such a doll-like appearance?
Seeing her tattered like a withering rose, Netoru laughed.
“Are you okay? If you really did, I don’t think Baldroy will leave you alone. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think that guy will welcome the woman he’s hugged.”
“···That.”
Even though Baldroy told him to do whatever he wanted, that wouldn’t be what he really said. If Netoru held Kerene in his arms like this, it was Kerene who would really be in trouble.
But to be honest, from her point of view, hugging her wasn’t such a bad option. Rather, it is right to embrace it as a rational judgment. It’s not just because of lust. She was because Kerene was a female knight.
The magical nervous system of the female knight is worth studying.
In order to develop the female pilot’s magical nervous system into the form Netoru wanted, he had to know about as many types of magical nervous system.
For creation, it is first to know how to imitate properly.
Even Netoru couldn’t recreate the design of the magical nervous system from scratch.
In fact, all he could do so far was not to design the structure of a new magical nervous system, but to imitate someone else’s.
So, if it was Karen who was relatively unfinished, he wouldn’t even dare to touch Ceres’ magical nervous system yet.
In such a situation, the magician nervous system of the female knight, Kerene, will surely be of great help when tutoring Ceres.
Even if Kerene wasn’t here, there’s no reason she wouldn’t mind holding her in her arms. She had to seize the opportunity to explore the new magical nervous system somehow.
In fact, that’s why Netoru often changed his unit and changed his coupling partner, even spreading bad rumors himself.
In order to closely study the magical nervous system, it was necessary to meet as many female pilots as possible.
As long as holy cavalry is an important means of combat, there is no point in making Netoru stronger alone.
In order to become stronger in a true sense, you needed a partner who would accept your capabilities that much, and it was more reasonable to create them with your own hands rather than relying on fate or luck to find them one by one.
In that respect, when you are in Area 39,
-How far are the rumors about you true?
─What exactly are you talking about?
────The story of the former unit breaking the coupling partner.
The truthfulness of the rumors that Karen had asked Netoru after her first coupling wasn’t out of the blue.
In a way, it was all these rumors and actions that brought Netoru to District 39. They artificially make up incidents and keep changing coupling partners, so how can they look good?
Then she murmured in a weak voice, Kerene, who had pursed her lips for a long time.
“…Then what should I do from now on? Regardless of whether or not you actually intermingle, it’s pretty obvious what Sir Baldroy will think of me.”
As Kerene said. Anyway, whether or not they really had a relationship with each other, Boldroy’s thoughts were fixed.
Now, even if Netoru gave me a breather, this wouldn’t lead to the best outcome. Maybe I did something stupid From now on, Cerene will be thought of by Baldroy as having intermingled with another man for eternity.
Will Cerene be treated properly by Baldroy after today? The answer is obvious. It’s good if you don’t get treated as a prostitute with harsh words.
…Really. I don’t know how this happened. At this unexpected situation, Netoru laughed bitterly inwardly.
Something is funny. Why am I doing this here with the woman who despised Ceres?
Originally, I was going to say that I had no intention of hugging Kerene.
But the situation was strange enough to just ignore it. After all, Kerene’s situation was further twisted by Netoru’s intervention.
So, after thinking for a while, Toru came to a conclusion while relaxing his stiff neck.
Actually, there is one good way to solve this situation now.
It was a reasonable way to hug Kerene and get her hands on the design of the magical nervous system she had built, while at the same time resolving her predicament. Besides, this could test the ability that I had envisioned.
So Netoru asked Kerene.
“Don’t you want to change your coupling partner?”
“Yes? What is that all of a sudden…”
The solution to Kerene’s situation was simple. It was enough to forcibly bend the coupling wavelength agreement between Baldroy and Kerene to the point where it could not be repaired.
So that the two cannot be coupled forever.
However, the problem with this is that the two cannot be coupled, so one knight power will be lost when crossing Elflandia.
Come to think of it, this wasn’t such a bad thing.
It was more convenient for Netoru to get him out of the operation than to forcefully carry out the operation with a guy he couldn’t even cooperate with.
Wouldn’t it be strange if Bald Roy suddenly attacked him one day with his last word? It is already too late to reconcile with each other.
2.
Ceres, who had returned to her room before she knew it, was lying on the bed, lost in thought.
It felt like her mind was floating around from a while ago.
It has to be.
Ceres, who recalled the rudeness he had done to Netoru in his hangar, buried his flushed face in the pillow.
······Maybe I was crazy for a while.
I feel ashamed and embarrassed just thinking about what happened. Those emotions were exquisitely mixed, making Ceres’ face red like a ripe apple.
Even when she looked back at herself, the image of her, who was serious about the four toru hugging another woman, was too unfamiliar. Even Karen was so shocked that she couldn’t say anything.
I wondered if it was really crazy that when I thought of her like that, her head went hot and her heart thumped.
But now that I think about it again, I didn’t do anything wrong at all. Rather, this was a natural behavior and right as a coupling partner.
It is a coupling wavelength that is hard to match each other. However, if Netoru suddenly embraced Kerene in his arms, it was obvious that the wave would be disrupted. How the hell am I going to leave it alone?
So, from a reasonable point of view, it was never the right thing for Netoru to hug another woman.
Okay···. I was just making a rational decision.
Ceres muttered inwardly and nodded his head several times, still with his face buried in the pillow.
Is it normal to leave your coupling partner and hug another woman in the first place? Even if you ask other people around you, the answer will probably be the same.
It was a time when Ceres’ mind became calm as the more he thought about it, the more the shame and embarrassment disappeared, and he gradually succeeded in rationalizing it.
—Ceres. Are you inside?
“··················?”
Ceres was taken aback by Netoru’s sudden voice. At that moment, the thoughts that I had tried to calm down began to jumble again. Are you hallucinating?
—Ceres?
It doesn’t seem like hallucinations.
“Now, wait a minute… Wait…”
Why did he suddenly come to the room? After thinking about it for a moment, Ceres carefully got down from the bed on which she was lying face down and stood in front of the mirror.
Then, as he lay on the bed, he quickly straightened his tousled hair and disheveled outfit.
After tidying up her appearance like that, Ceres cautiously opened her door.
Then, of course, Netoru appeared. But the problem was that he didn’t come alone.
A red-haired woman in casual clothes stood next to Netoru with a restless face.
“…Cerene sister?”
Even as he called his name, Ceres was momentarily speechless. It was because of all the scars on Kerene’s face.
He says he applied medicine, but he can’t hide his swollen cheeks and chapped lips. Plus, bluish bruises. Who said this to a woman’s face?
Besides, looking closely now, not only Kerene, but also Netoru’s face had scars.
Surprised by the sight, Ceres, whose expression was hardened, asked cautiously.
“Could those wounds be caused by Sir Baldroy?”
After being questioned by her, Kerene averted her gaze. He cradles one of her arms in his arms and casts her gaze down to her floor. At that action, Ceres felt his heart choke.
This···. Too much.
Sir Baldroy’s personality had been famous for a long time, but I didn’t expect it to be like this. At that time, Netoru, who had been watching Ceres quietly suppressing her anger while biting his lip, spoke.
“This could be a little long, so can I go into the room?”
