Chapter 88: The Remaining Stories

-Millennium Main Building Top Floor, Seminar Student Council President’s Office-

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“Fufu…is there anything else you’d like to say, Sensei?”

Two days have passed since the day Aris was kidnapped by Rio.

Sora was transported to Trinity by Nagisa, who had a grim face I had never seen before, while still unconscious.

It seems she’s receiving separate treatment from the Hospitaller Knights…well…considering she pushed herself too hard and the content of the messages Sora sent to those kids, it’s probably best to pray for her soul…

Fortunately, Toki joined C&C and is trying to adapt…and blend in well.

They only opposed each other due to their positions; there were no ill feelings between them.

Toki also seemed to have feelings like not wanting to hurt the C&C kids specifically, which is probably why she demanded surrender at first…

Aris returned to the Game Development Department without any particular issues after that day.

However, there’s a slightly different feeling than before, but since the foundation is properly the Aris we know, I decided to watch over her for now, thinking she must have her own difficulties.

As the curtains were closing on various stories one by one…

[Himari, I thought you might know about Rio…]

“Oh my, Sensei…you seem to have business with that filth of a woman?”

My private conversation with Himari began.

The reason, I apologize to this child, wasn’t that I had business with Himari, but to find Rio, who disappeared sometime after that incident.

Yes…Rio…various reasons come to mind, but she disappeared on her own without leaving any definite reason.

And besides Toki, the person who knows Rio best is the genius girl in front of me, Himari, so I posed the question to Himari, but…

“I’m sorry, Sensei, but I don’t know either? Even as the self-proclaimed omniscient genius beauty…and as Himari, the high school girl who can no longer help but hate the woman named Rio.”

That’s right.

According to the appearances shown so far and the words of other children, Rio and Himari seem to be geniuses of equal standing.

Therefore, Rio, who is determined to hide, is difficult to find even for Himari, the self-proclaimed omniscient genius beauty, and at the same time,

I don’t know what happened between them, but it contained the meaning that Himari, who can no longer see Rio even as her friend…or rival, doesn’t want to find her either.

The meaning is that she doesn’t know if she can or can’t, and she doesn’t want to…

If I only talk up to here, the child named Himari might seem like a selfish and extremely rational child, but…

“Yes, Sensei, even if it’s possible, I won’t look for her. Unlike that selfish and dogmatic woman, I’m someone who knows how to consider others.”

Rio, who had been working hard with the goal of saving the world, had everything she built denied.

A genius can understand the common person by being dragged down once, but the process of understanding is not pleasant, and there are cases where the genius collapses and can no longer be a star floating in the sky.

Himari probably means that Rio also needs time alone in her own way…

[…I see…]

“Yes, Sensei, then…let’s put this story aside for a moment and talk about something else for a while? How about the story of the mysterious super genius frail beauty acting president who was suddenly seated in the acting student council president position?”

[…Ha…yes, I guess there’s no choice…]

Well, yeah…this story…the relationship between these two children is not something that can be resolved immediately, so I’ll watch over it a little longer for now.

-Trinity Hospitaller Knights, Intensive Care Unit 3-

I’m low on sugar.

-Crunch-

I saw my junior’s face after a long time.

I’m low on sugar.

Unfortunately, that junior hasn’t seen my face yet.

I’m low on sugar.

This junior, who I want to beat up, came back completely wrecked again this time.

-Crunch…crack-

I told her so many times to take care of her body, but this time too, she was brought here from Millennium in a state where the words “her whole body is broken” are not an exaggeration.

Millennium sent the diagnosis record along with minimal first aid, and according to the diagnosis record, there are no major abnormalities, but….

Starting with fractures in the left wing, both legs, numerous scratches and bruises…and lots of bruises, I could get a glimpse of how much she rolled around on the scene.

Especially the wound on her hand, which looks like it was scraped by something, might leave a scar.

I throw the stick of the lollipop that broke with a crunching sound in my mouth into the trash can, finish the report completely, and stand up.

“Sigh…really…”

If this child were from the Justice Realization Committee or the Self-Defense Force, I would understand.

Not even that…

“Ah…really…it’s hard to even say anything about this now…”

Yeah…this child is now in the security department within the Tea Party, was it?…

Still, I wish she would skip things she’s unrelated to or can skip…or reduce the amount she pushes herself.

Seeing my junior always tattered after a long time is not a pleasant sight…

“Ugh…”

“Ha, you’re awake? Junior?”

My junior, who had been sleeping comfortably for a long time, finally started to open her eyes slowly.

Even I think Sora’s body is strong.

It means that the fatigue accumulated and the wounds required that much time for even that strong child to be able to open her eyes only after 2 days had passed since she was brought in.

I send a quick Momotalk to the person who asked me to contact them when Sora wakes up and face Sora, who is lying in bed.

“Ah…Serina-sen…ugh?! Uaaaaak!”

“Don’t get up, just listen lying down…your whole body will hurt…”

Sora screams as she tries to sit up.

It’s natural…she probably won’t be able to avoid using a wheelchair for a while…?

Especially her right hand will feel pain even in simple movements like clenching and unclenching her fist, let alone shooting a gun, due to the pain.

“Ugh…it hurts…”

“You…jumped off a tall building…? Even while being hit directly by something like a cannon.”

“Hic?! S-senpai…?”

“After doing such a reckless thing…did you expect it not to hurt…? Huh…?”

I glare.

I glare at the junior who listens to her senior’s words with deaf ears.

It’s not that I’m dissatisfied with my work or that I hate my work, but I glare at the junior who absurdly increased my work.

“Sigh…never mind…just listen…”

Considering the recent rumors…and the expression of Nagisa-sama who asked me to contact her separately when Sora wakes up, there will be others besides me who have something to say…

I silently do what I have to do.

“Left wing radius and ulna fracture, both leg bone fractures and bruises…sigh…do I have to say this…?”

“Ha…haha…I’m sorry…”

…Even the work I have to do silently isn’t going well…because I don’t know what made this child like this…

Still, I’m a little happy.

I feel a little happy that the child named Sora, who used to be unresponsive and somewhat blunt, came to the high school department and was able to live for others and live brightly like that.

Even I am thinking this way, so…it seems impossible for our junior to abandon that appearance…

-Click, clack-

Well…that’s that…and this is this…I’ll pray for your soul, Sora…

-Millennium Engineering Department, Workshop-

-Whirr!, Vweee-

“Phew…finally fixed it…”

“Huh? Chief, it took a long time this time?”

Shiraishi Utaha, after returning to Millennium from Eridu, finished only the tasks that absolutely needed to be done at maximum speed and immediately shut herself in the workshop of the Engineering Department club room.

The reason was that her cherished and confident invention, Thundery, lost its life at the end of that fierce battle, so she took the wreckage and started production once again.

Normally, she could finish the repair immediately within a day unless it was completely pulverized, but this time, the armor was full of bullet holes like a cloth piece worn by an angry hedgehog, so she had to spend quite a long time replacing the armor.

“I had to completely replace the armor…thanks to that, I suffered quite a bit, but I also improved the parts I thought were lacking in the last battle, and it was a satisfying job.”

“Congratulations, it seems a little bigger than before…”

Members of the Engineering Department can be assigned personal workshops according to their performance if they wish.

The achievements written so far are enormous, and although they sometimes cause accidents, it is definitely a club that ranks within the top five when choosing capable clubs within Millennium,

so it was possible because the scale of the club room was huge, almost like a production facility.

These personal workshops are not strictly controlled for entry by others, but still, out of courtesy, there is a perception that it is the room of the relevant member, so entry is usually restrained.

Meanwhile, Hibiki opened the door of the personal workshop of Utaha, the head of the Engineering Department, and entered.

“By the way, what’s wrong? Hibiki?”

“Sorry, chief, but…isn’t it about time we did something about ‘that’?”

“Ah…that…it’s true that it’s our masterpiece, but it’s also true that it’s burdensome…”

The reason was understandable.

Sword of Light: Supernova…even the Engineering Department, which receives a large budget due to its high status within Millennium, made considerable efforts to create it, a railgun that makes one wonder if a person can even use it.

It was a weapon that could only be used by Aris, who had extraordinary strength.

In the first place, it wasn’t a weapon made for people to use, so one might say that it could just be attached to a tank or something,

but the Engineering Department, having witnessed the scene where the child named Aris used the weapon,

which was originally made for space battleships, as a personal firearm without any problem, had the romance of a personal railgun burning in their hearts.

Aris, the original owner of this weapon…was using an identical weapon created by wielding an unidentified power, so the option of returning it to Aris was excluded.

When they offered to return it, the answer came back like…’Aris is not a Hero. Therefore, I cannot equip the Hero’s Sword, Supernova.’ Everyone was dumbfounded then…

They couldn’t force it into her hands when she didn’t want to receive it, so they gave up and it was left neglected in a corner of the Engineering Department.

“Ugh…it’s hard to transport because of the weight…and it’s difficult to store anywhere because of the power…what should I do…”

“Ugh…we can’t just leave it like this…”

Yes…leaving this unattended…is also too dangerous.

No one in the middle of Millennium would do such a thing, and they wouldn’t have the ability to transport it, but…if a delinquent student like a Sukeban steals this, it’s also true that it will be difficult to deal with in many ways.

However, if this is reverted to the Seminar, the Seminar has no suitable use for it, and above all, no one is using it properly, and just letting it rot in the warehouse is something their pride and soul as masters cannot allow.

“…Shall we just send it to that person?”

“…If it’s that person…that VIP? Impossible. If we sell it for money, it’s different, but if we just provide it, various problems will arise…”

In that process, it was natural for Sora’s name, the person who could use it besides Aris, to be mentioned, but this was also impossible.

Finding a rational user and providing it properly passes as a master, but fails as a Millennium student.

As it is a weapon with extraordinary performance, its export to other schools is not a desirable picture, so the image is not good…

Considering its value, an outrageous price must be set, and giving it away for free is rejected for the same reason as simply handing it over.

In other words, honestly, it was questionable whether she would buy it.

“…That’s it!”

“Huh…?”

And here, one fact flashed through Hibiki’s mind: Trinity is a ladies’ school, and she is a high-ranking official belonging to the Tea Party, so wouldn’t she have the funds to purchase this much? she thought.

If she had thought a little deeper, it was a choice she wouldn’t have made, and there were still problems with the flaws and whether she would buy this, but…

“Trinity is a ladies’ school, and Sora is a high-ranking official of the Tea Party…meaning she has the money to buy this much…!”

“…Sigh…I wondered what nonsense you were talking about…Okay, Hibiki, load the Sword of Light onto the delivery truck right now! The destination is Trinity!”

They, painted with the romance of using a railgun as a personal firearm…their thoughts didn’t reach that far.

…That day in Millennium, a truck with the logo of the Engineering Department painted on it moved out of Millennium.

…Most people in Millennium thought it was the usual delivery and passed it by…and their journey to Trinity, which would probably end in vain, began.

This matter came to an end when they arrived at Trinity, found Sora, and received the answer…the answer about what Sora was going through, and returned to Millennium in shock.