Chapter 94 – NTO
Was it because the Holy Trooper fell and hit his head in the cockpit? To have a headache. Karen said, gently touching her forehead, which she didn’t know was bruised.
“Is magic exhaustion a problem? Certainly, the output was strangely low enough to be called a mistake…”
“…The output was low?”
“Yes, you, the output is too low right now.”
“No way!”
As if hearing an unpleasant answer, Natsuo suddenly opened her eyes and shouted.
“Wow!?”
Karen was taken aback by the sudden uproar. But even after seeing Karen like that, Natsuo didn’t stop talking about her. Rather, she vigorously shook her body.
“I just raised the output normally like when I was coupling with you before! The problem right now is you!”
“···What? Me?”
Karen tilted her head at Natsuo’s story.
But that’s for a while. Karen soon had no choice but to harden her expression in Natsuo’s unusual atmosphere.
At first, she simply thought that Natsuo had made her mistake.
But it didn’t seem like that. Natsuo’s expression was very serious. She didn’t look her face to blame for her own mistakes. He wasn’t even that kind of guy in the first place.
…Is the problem really with me?
Karen, who was lost in thought for a while, was able to figure out the answer without difficulty.
‘···No way.’
Over the past month, Karen has continued to couple with Netoru. And she went on to grow her own magic nervous system. Only then will she be able to handle his abilities.
However, such efforts may have become rather poisonous now.
Even so, Karen was thinking in her heart, feeling Natsuo’s magic flowing through her body.
Somehow, Natsuo’s magical powers were unfamiliar.
It has to be. In the meantime, the magical power of Netoru that Karen had been dealing with was violent. He was unruly like an unruly colt. It was truly a guy’s magic.
But, on the other hand, Natsuo’s had a somewhat gentle feeling. It’s definitely full of energy, but that’s just it. To be honest, it was a strange thing if it wasn’t compared.
“·······”
It was only then that Karen realized belatedly.
During that time, she wondered how much she had been getting into four Toru. She says she doesn’t know how to get her clothes wet in the drizzle. Before she knew it, her body had adapted to his magic.
No, to be more precise, it would be more accurate to say that the constitution of her body is in the process of changing.
Karen opened her mouth slightly in shock at that fact.
‘…I didn’t expect it to be to this extent.’
In fact, these constitutional changes were expected to some extent. This was because switching coupling partners was a common occurrence. It was not for nothing that the Holy Trooper pilots insisted on their existing coupling partners.
But this is too… Change is big
Of course, it would not be possible to say that Natsuo incorrectly increased the output of the holy cavalry simply because the magical nervous system had changed.
This is obviously a problem with Natsuo’s physical condition. Due to his inability to properly recover from his magical exhaustion, his magical output is limited.
Karen, who had reached that conclusion, said quietly.
“Natsuo. I think it’s impossible for us to sortie in this state. Let’s get some more rest…”
“No. You can do it.”
“Yes? Me, Natsuo?”
“…It just lacks output. Wait. Isn’t it enough just to increase the output?”
“No···. If you overdo it here, your body will break again… Ugh!?”
I didn’t even have time to convince him. Suddenly, Natsuo started pulling hard on the control stick. And at that moment, Natsuo’s magic power rushed through the magic pass.
It was violent magic. But that didn’t mean that Netoru’s magic and feeling were similar.
It wasn’t the nature of magical power, but the flow was violent.
Through the magic pass, the flow of mana that was not constant and was interrupted was flowing in chunks. This was the sound that Natsuo was somehow squeezing out his mana.
But it was a pointless effort.
“Ha···. Ha···.”
“Natsuo.”
At some point, hot breath was flowing from Natsuo.
Looking at her face, it was full of cold sweat. Her hand gripping her control rod is trembling pitifully.
It was an early symptom of magical exhaustion.
But the problem is not only that.
No matter how much mana he put into it, it was impossible for Natsuo to increase the Holy Cavalry’s output. Karen felt that the magic pass between them was gradually closing.
This···.
It was a symptom that appeared when the coupling wavelength did not match.
2.
“···Good job.”
She was watching Karen go into her cockpit. At the words of Ceres, who was next to her, Netoro tilted his head.
“What?”
“You just encouraged Natsuo. She was something very mature and nice to look at.”
Ceres smiled softly and lightly brushed the hair hanging from his ear. For some reason, he seemed to be in a good mood. Netoru stared blankly at her profile.
Her smile was the most natural and warm of Ceres’ smiles she’d ever seen. There was a gentleness and grace like a single flower blooming in spring.
After our eyes met for a moment, Ceres turned her back and spoke in a soft voice.
“We are going to go back soon. Even so, I’m very tired because I can’t sleep at night. I need to go and take a nap.”
“You said you couldn’t sleep at all at night?”
“Yes. Because of you······.”
“Because of me?”
“···Town.”
Ceres, who was about to say something, couldn’t finish his words and bit his mouth in the middle. Then, she suddenly took one step ahead. Besides, how fast are you walking?
“…Ceres?”
She tried calling her name, but it was meaningless.
Netoru followed Ceres and stood next to her. But each time, Ceres took one step ahead of Netoru. It was intentional distancing no matter who saw it.
Eventually, Netoru asked as she kept a delicate distance behind her back.
“What about me?”
“···It’s nothing.”
“It’s nothing… Do you know the most cowardly thing to do is to cut off the conversation in the middle to make people worry?”
“Then I’ll just be cowardly.”
“·······”
That’s an odd answer. Embarrassed, Netoru just stared at Ceres’ back with a blank smile.
It’s just a cute step.
However, even as he spoke, a slight blush appeared on the nape of Ceres’ neck, as if he was somehow embarrassed. What the hell did you want to hide?
It was the moment we were about to return to the hospital in lukewarm silence with such questions.
─Kuuuuu!
“”…?”
Suddenly, a loud sound came from behind, and Netoru and Ceres stopped walking.
The two looked back at the same time.
A long corridor.
And at the end of it, in the dimly visible hangar, I saw a pure white Holy Trooper lying on the floor.
It was Karen’s sexual cavalry.
Of course, it wasn’t difficult to figure out what the sound had just been. It was as if something had gone wrong during the maneuver and he fell.
Ceres, who looked at the scene with astonished eyes, said.
“…Could Natsuo have made a mistake?”
“Perhaps.”
As soon as they recognized the situation, the two immediately ran. It was because two people inside might have been hurt.
“…As expected, sortie was impossible for Natsuo.”
When they arrived at the place, Asuna was watching the fallen holy cavalry as if in trouble.
Standing next to Asuna, Netoru narrowed his eyes as he watched Karen’s sexual cavalryman who couldn’t get up from the floor.
It was a bit ominous, but still.
It seemed that dealing with Karen, whose magical nervous system had changed, was more difficult for Natsuo than he thought.
The Karen over there now was not the Karen Natsuo knew from a month ago. Under the influence of Netoru, it was Karen whose ‘magic nervous system inside her body’ was gradually changing.
Karen didn’t mean to.
During her last month, she must have unknowingly been cultivating her own magical nervous system by making four toru her ‘standards’.
Besides, Netoru even touched Karen’s magical nervous system a few days ago. A part of her was directly and rapidly expanded so that she could use her magic discharge.
So to Natsuo, who tried to deal with Karen like before, everything just felt strange.
Moreover, it is not only her magical nervous system.
Karen’s coupling wavelength was also gradually adjusting to Netoru’s. And that meant that Natsuo’s waves were gradually twisting.
So, in a way, Natsuo making a mistake like that was a predestined result.
Even so, Natsuo was still able to couple with Karen because it had only been ‘a month’. If a little more time had passed, she wouldn’t have even been able to couple.
To be honest, Netoru didn’t expect this to happen. But what he didn’t expect was the fact that he didn’t know that Karen and Natsuo would meet again so soon.
No, I didn’t think that Karen would meet Natsuo again like this.
It has to be.
Did I mention Natsuo’s treatment period was roughly half a year?
I don’t know exactly what happened to the boy. He must have suffered fatal injuries.
And unfortunately, after half a year, such a boy’s body will completely recover.
It was just about time for Frangia to collapse.
So Netoru reached out to Karen without hesitation.
To make the pilot who can’t even return wait until the kingdom collapses anyway,
Because it makes sense to dye this child with your own colors and turn it into a force that can be used in battle.
And because it can save more people.
To Netoru, who knows that the end of the kingdom is not far away,
It would be foolish to ask a girl with all her talents and will to be left alone.
Even if it means being insulted by someone.
And this thought has not changed even now.
Moreover, there was no time left to let go.
