Chapter 37 part 2: (Interlude) Wings For The Three Queens

As soon as I entered the office, I saw Senior Yuzuki, a familiar face, leaving the Tea Party’s office.

“Oh? The…driver-chan? Sorry, I don’t know your name since we haven’t really talked…”

“It’s fine. Mika-sama, it’s natural that you wouldn’t know, since I’m not in a particularly high position.”

“Oh, is that so? But you’re not in charge here, so what brings you here?”

Mika-senpai reacted a bit sharply, but it was understandable.

It was a meeting conducted with a certain level of confidentiality, so it was understandable that she would react a bit sharply, since even the Tea Party attendants, other than me,

who knew the truth and possessed the justification of being a bodyguard, were all dismissed.

“Nagisa-sama asked me to deliver something. Good work, Sora, are you working hard too?”

“Aha…? So that’s what it was? See you~!”

“Yes, senpai, good work.”

Mika-senpai didn’t react in any particular way, as if she knew something.

I was thinking that it might be a personal item or something, since Mika-senpai is particularly close to Nagisa-sama.

Senior Yuzuki left the office, and the sight that unfolded before me raised a question.

First of all, I could tell that Senior Yuzuki had brought a chair.

Five chairs were placed at the central table in the Tea Party office.

Three of them were occupied by Sensei, Seia-sama, and Nagisa-sama, leaving two empty seats.

One of them was the chair Mika-senpai always sat in, but the intention behind the other chair was completely incomprehensible.

If you ask why I’m thinking so much about a single chair, the chairs in the Tea Party office have a much greater meaning than you might think.

Each seat represents a faction, a symbol of being at the center of Trinity.

It’s unprecedented, but Sensei sitting there is also somewhat understandable.

If you think of the people who are actually at the center of Kivotos, his name would definitely come up.

Then what does the last seat mean?

“You’re back after finishing your schedule for today, Mika, Sora.”

“Ahaha☆ It was fun to be a little free from work, I guess?”

“Hmm, I think we’ve seen all the benefits we can get from the publicity effect. Let’s get back to normal starting tomorrow, what do you think, Nagisa?”

“That would be good. Seia.”

“Heeh… That’s a shame~ I liked not having any work~”

As usual, Mika-senpai sat down after a bit of small talk.

Mika-senpai didn’t seem to have any doubts about the remaining seat, as if she already knew.

The question remained unanswered, but I thought that Senior Aomori or the head of the Utazumi Convent might come, so I was about to take a seat a little away from the table as usual…

“What are you doing? Sora-yang? Please sit down.”

“….Yes?”

What did I just hear? Me? There? Sit?

“No…uh…yes?”

“What are you doing, Sora, not sitting down?”

Even Seia-sama urged me to sit.

Seia-sama wasn’t usually a very playful person, which made me even more flustered.

“Oh my? I prepared it because it seemed hard for you to stand and work all the time… Are you ignoring my kindness?”

…I’m screwed.

If I sit down, I’m admitting that I’m standing at the center of Trinity, and if I don’t, I’m ignoring the kindness that Nagisa-sama prepared because I looked tired.

You might think that it wouldn’t be a big problem to sit down since it’s just Sensei and the three members of the Tea Party, but the problem here is that all three faction leaders of the Tea Party are present.

Even the presence of Sensei becomes a problem.

In a situation where an outside VVIP is also present as a witness, all three of them are sitting, and I, who is not a visitor but a member of the Tea Party, sit in a chair at the central table of the office? And a low-ranking administrator at that? It reminded me of some kind of military absurdity from my previous life…

[What are you doing? Sora? Sit down?]

In the meantime, Sensei doesn’t seem to know the weight of this seat… No, he knows.

He has a playful look on his face…

“Hey!”

“Ugh?!”

I was forcibly seated by Mika-senpai.

Now I’ve become someone who can’t turn back…

“Fufu… You pointed a gun at me and even brought up the former host… Even this kind of seat wouldn’t be enough, would it?”

“Uh…eh…eh?!”

The reason Nagisa-sama planned this burdensome prank was… the incident from last time…

That day, I was half-broken and barely able to maintain a proper state of mind.