Chapter 6: What…? I uh….?

My mind goes blank… Unfortunately, I still haven’t overcome my instinct to get nervous in front of high-ranking people, perhaps a remnant of my former life as an office worker.

I’m now… stuck between the student council presidents of one of the three largest academies in Kivotos… I need to pull myself together. If I stay like this, like when I talked to Hanekawa-senpai, I’ll be forced to join the Tea Party. The pressure is incomparable to that time… it’s crushing my shoulders…

“Ahaha What’s wrong~? Our new student-chan is so scared~ How cute~?”

“Mika-san, please maintain decorum… Consider her position, being suddenly summoned like this.”

“The one who suddenly summoned her is you.”

My stomach hurts… At least in Kivotos, in terms of power and position, they are second only to the General Student Council President, and those three people are focusing their attention on me. The pressure is immense…

“How about some tea, Sora-san? Unfortunately, I don’t know your preferences, so I prepared Lady Grey, which is easy for anyone.”

“Um… Yes… It really… smells… good… Yes… It’s… my favorite… tea…”

Lady Grey tea, which has a bergamot base like Earl Grey, with lemon and orange peel added for aroma. It was my favorite kind. The familiar scent spreads from my mouth and helps me calm down.

Apart from that, this situation was still difficult for me, so it was difficult to completely relax.

“Ahaha, you don’t have to be so nervous? New student-chan? Ah! Since we might see each other often, I’ll just call you Sora-chan? Okay! Anyway, Lady Grey~ You have popular and good taste, Sora-chan~

Wow! Your wings are so big. It must be hard to manage them… When I look closely, they’re a bit tough, too~ You must have a hard time every morning~”

“Ah… Yes… That’s…”

The light pink-haired girl, no, Misono-sama, naturally gets up from her seat and approaches me. I, who was stiff, naturally had no choice but to allow her to touch my wings.

I became a little… embarrassed, but what does it matter? Wings aren’t a special part, so it’s fine. But… what affinity. Thanks to her, the weight of this place was reduced, but… I became even more nervous.

Perhaps because it helped to relieve the weight of this place, Kirifuji-sama’s restraint, which had previously come to Misono-sama, was quiet this time.

“Mika, she’s nervous. Sit down, we need to get to… the main point.”

“Wow-oh, Seia-chan, don’t you know about icebreakers? Because you’re so stiff, you’re treated like an old woman?”

“Mika… You really…!”

Yurizono-sama, who was sitting across from me, called Misono-sama’s name and stopped her. Misono-sama reacted to that, and it became like an argument, but Kirifuji-sama,

as if she was used to this situation, just to make sure that this situation did not escalate, only fixed her gaze on the two of them and naturally drank her tea.

More than that, what Yurizono-sama said, what does she mean by the main point?

“Hmm… I apologize for the disturbance, Sora-san. First of all, the reason for inviting you here is, could you read this document?”

A servant who was behind Kirifuji-sama approached and handed me a document…

Damn, it was already messed up from here. From the moment I received this document, no, from the moment I accompanied Kirifuji-sama here, there was no way for me to escape.

The document had the emblem of the General Student Council, not the emblem of Trinity. Not only that, but the signature of the superhuman, the General Student Council President, was also on it. And the content is…

Gehenna, Trinity General School’s nemesis and an academy that is one of the three major academies in Kivotos, along with Trinity.

They are not directly at war, but there were probably frequent armed conflicts for minor reasons, so the General Student Council President directly proposed a treaty to mediate the dispute between Gehenna and Trinity.

The name of the treaty is the Eden Treaty… Yes, it’s difficult. A treaty named after paradise. Certainly, if the dispute between Gehenna and Trinity ends smoothly and they can cooperate with each other, Kivotos will be a little closer to paradise.

Considering the fifth topic, it’s also a malicious name. And… this is definitely confidential information within Trinity. Showing this to me means…

“Have you finished reading, Sora-san?”

“Yes… I’ve read it all… I’d like to know why you’re showing me such important information, a document that seems to be treated as confidential, to someone like me, who hasn’t even officially entered high school yet, but is a prospective student…”

“Yes, explaining in detail would be complicated, so to get straight to the point, we would like Sora-san to become a bodyguard and attendant for our Tea Party faction leaders.”

A bodyguard… I understand. It’s an alliance between two of the three largest forces called the three major academies of this Kivotos. Whether they get along or not, there must be one or two forces in this Kivotos that don’t like this.

But there would be no fool who would challenge the General Student Council President and Trinity head-on. Then the remaining means are…

Backroom deals, somewhat primitive, kidnapping, confinement, and even assassination, which would never be common in this Kivotos, can be considered. But I don’t understand.

Why me, a prospective student? What am I? Not just as an attendant or an official? You could understand it if it were an attendant or official because of my good grades on the entrance exam, but why share such confidential information?

The Tea Party already has excellent forces, swords. There is the Justice Realization Committee. Even if it’s not the Justice Realization Committee, there must be Tea Party security personnel.

“The Tea Party… I know that there is already an excellent force, the Justice Realization Committee. Even if it’s not the Justice Realization Committee, there must be separate Tea Party security forces, so why me…”

“The Justice Realization Committee is a subordinate organization of the Tea Party, but it is ultimately a force that is nominally maintaining security.

Of course, in case of emergencies, events, or important matters, we do accompany the Justice Realization Committee…

It’s difficult to show a good political image to use the Justice Realization Committee as a personal security force for the upper echelons of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party’s direct security forces and attendants are also in charge of the Tea Party’s security, but their main duty is to assist the faction leaders with administrative work.

It’s true that their individual combat power is lower than that of the Justice Realization Committee. That’s why.”

“But I don’t particularly fight…”

“Ahaha Sora-chan, are you going to back out~? I heard that you were amazing when you beat up the Gehenna horned troublemakers last month?”

“Although it ended in failure, it was a case where our Trinity personnel were kidnapped, so we had a hard time solving it….”

So now… the reason I’m here now is because I lost my temper and rushed at the Gehenna terrorists, the Gourmet Research Society, last time, beat them up, and handed them all over to the Justice Realization Committee?

You wouldn’t build a novel’s narrative that way. What does that mean? So, they saw that fight and judged that I had a certain level of combat power, and since I was a high scorer on the entrance exam, there was no friction in appointing me, so they brought me here.

“Well… That’s…”

“You can refuse if it’s difficult. However, until this treaty is officially announced, you may be monitored by our Tea Party personnel.

I hope you understand that this is an unavoidable measure because it is confidential. If you accept, we can offer you the following benefits.”

It’s over. There’s no way out. First of all, I don’t know how long this Eden Treaty will last. Looking through the documents, it’s certain that it will end within this year, as it seems to have been gradually written for some time.

Nevertheless, I can’t refuse this. If I refuse, I’ll be monitored by the Tea Party, and it would be easy for people around me to misunderstand, right?

I look through the contract, the application form, that Kirifuji-sama handed me. Yes, if I accept, I’ll focus on the Tea Party’s administrative work and security work for at most one year, and then I can naturally leave the Tea Party.

According to the contents of the contract, there are many unconventional benefits.

First of all, I’m a student, but I get paid. I’m not feeling burdened by funds, but it’s not bad to think of it as a simple way to earn pocket money. The amount is also quite good.

It’s also good that there are benefits in grades, academic records, and student records. Life in the second and third years will be easier after the first year is over.

If I’m from the Tea Party and voluntarily withdraw rather than being expelled, I won’t get a bad reputation from those around me.

The contract terms are not bad, and even the risks of refusing are quite high. The advantage of refusing is that I’m relatively free… but since I’m being monitored, it’s really easy to be misunderstood by those around me.

My goal, a comfortable, safe, sound, and bright school life, will not be easy.

Ah… It’s messed up… Well, yes… The Tea Party is also a student council made up of students, isn’t it? I can make a friend or two in the Tea Party. Rather, I’ll probably make a friend or two who have the same work and the same worries.

I don’t have to worry about getting caught in the political snake pit and not being able to breathe. The Tea Party officials can surprisingly be divided into 4 factions, not 3.

A faction made up of the three factions of each faction and those who maintain political neutrality. Since I don’t belong to any faction, I’m in the neutral faction.

The members of the neutral faction are gentle, and they are pure people who are just a little proud of being a student council.

“Will you… accept the offer?”

“Ahaha We’ll have a cute junior~”

“It’s not a compulsion, you can still refuse if you want.”

Misono-sama and Yurizono-sama are staring at me. Kirifuji-sama is also, It’s a little burdensome, but when I look again, they are also students, my seniors… Well… at least it won’t be a boring school life, so what does it matter…

“Fortunately, you accepted the offer. Starting next week…”

“I feel a little pressured to accept…”

“Nagi-chan? Are you saying that now? Ahaha You’re shameless!”

“Then let’s move on to the next agenda item.”

“Eh, changing the subject? That’s mean…!”

Yumetsubasa Sora, who will become a Tea Party attendant from next week, left the room, but their meeting and talks did not end.

Their day was passing again.

That night, Nakamasa Ichika, who was recognized for her ability in the Justice Realization Committee and promoted to the executive level, received an email on her MomoTalk.