Maou Reijou no Kyouiku Gakari - Chapter 36

Chapter 36

It’s Done… Now Then…

“I-It’s done…”

I almost ran out of strength in front of the finished work, but I held on.

The sky outside the window had already turned bluish-white, and the morning light was shining into the room.

“It’s already this time…?”

After all, I had used up most of my holiday and the day before.

I took a break to eat a meal brought by Rosé along the way, but other than that, I continued to work on the project without sleeping a wink.

The day before yesterday, Fia told me that I was exhausted, but now I am exhausted to the point that even I can tell.

But that doesn’t mean I have time to take it easy and rest.

I resisted the temptation to jump onto the bed.

I took the finished product and went to Femu’s room right away.

I knocked on the door.

The door opened and a girl wrapped in a robe came out.

“Good morning, comeon it’s time for training.”

“…Training?”

“Yes, you want to be able to control that magic, don’t you?”

Femu looked down as if hesitating a little, then looked up and gave a small nod.

“Then follow me.”

With some hesitation, I led Femu, who has been following me, out to the plaza behind the mansion.

The three of them were already gathered in the square for their usual morning practice.

“Huh? Is Femu training with us today? Is she okay now.”

San was the first to notice that we had arrived.

“No, we are going to train now so that she will be okay.”

“Training?”

Isuna asked.

Isuna was also planning to participate in earnest from today, and her body was dressed in clothes suitable for physical exercise instead of her usual revealing dress.

“It’s training for Femu to be able to control that magic. So, Isuna, I need you to do something for me.”

“A favor? From me?”

“I’m going to be stuck with Femu for a while. I would like to entrust you with teaching San and Fia about magic in the meantime.”

It’s a new thing for me to do now.

I can’t even predict how long that will take.

The deadline for the exam is not infinite, and I can’t afford to neglect San and Fia during that time.

I don’t think I’ve ever had that kind of experience before, but I’ve decided that Isuna’s ability is good enough to teach them the basics.

“Me, to both of them? I don’t really mind that but…”

Isuna responds with a slight smile on her face, as if she is happy that I am relying on her.

“But…”

“But?”

“It’s nice to be asked to… do something by you, but it’s even nice to get something in return, isn’t it?”

This time she asked me shyly, playing with the tips of my hair with her fingertips.

“In return…? Is there something you want?”

“Yes, choke me one more tim–”

“That’s a negative.”

Before she even completed the sentence, I immediately declined.

I wondered what on earth she was going to say, but she looked embarrassed and demanded the most outrageous things.

“Ehhー…”

“Don’t ‘Ehh’ me, isn’t it obvious.”

Isuna’s mouth was agaped with frustration, but what teacher would tighten the neck of a pupil as a reward?

“Because, I mean, the scars are already fading…”

Isna muttered lonesomly as she rubbed her neck, the scars of that time having completely disappeared.

I would have preferred it to be gone as it was the mark of my great mistake, but not for Isuna, it seems.

I have learned many things in my life, but the heart of a girl is so complicated that I still don’t understand it at all.

“What’s wrong with Isuna Nee-san’s neck?”

“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.””

I replied to Fia, who asked me a question with pure eyes, with a lazy answer.

I can’t say that this happened as a result of me strangling Isuna.

“At least demand something a little more sane… and ethical…”

“Decent thing to say… decent thing…”

Then Isuna tilted her head and began to ponder deeply.

She is thinking.

She’s thinking hard.

She is clearly thinking about what she can do to satisfy her own needs without being rejected by me.

“Okay…. Then a cuddle…”

“A cuddle?”

“Yes, just like Father does to Mother…”

Isuna blushed and said in a shy little voice.

Even if she says it like how the Demon King does it with Eshuru-san, I still can’t imagine it…

“Well, that much is…”

“Really?! Then you’ll do it to me as a favor!”

When I gave her my approval, her face changed to a bright and cheerful one.

Normally, I had the impression that she was more mature than most of her sisters, but she still has a cute side to her to be so happy about such a thing.

“Then, I’m counting on you.”

“Yeah, I’ll take care of them! San! Fia! Let’s go!”

Then Isuna turned around and walked to her usual spot with two people who were looking at her transformed sister strangely behind her.

“All right, then, we’ll start training too.”

Femu, who had been silently watching the proceedings behind me, gave me a small nod.

I nodded my head and moved to a position directly opposite to Isuna and the others in order to prevent any damage in the event of another outburst of violence.

There, I set up the magical equipment I had spent the last two days working on.

“That is…?”

As I put it on my arm, Femu asked me in a tone as if she were looking at something strange.

“Hmm? Yeah, this is what we call a wand.”

“…Wand?”

Femu’s confusion became even more intense in response to the explanation.

That’s just as well, because what I called a wand is, for all intents and purposes, just a basket.

“In the human world, we call all the tools used to control magic ‘wands.’ Regardless of its appearance.”

I don’t know how it came to be called that, but anything from a common wooden stick-shaped object to the one I am using now, which is a cage-shaped object, is called that.

I finished placing it on my arm and moved my hand lightly.

It looked a little rugged, perhaps because it was made with an emphasis on performance and speed, but there seemed to be no problem with it.

“All right! Are you ready?”

I turned to Femu and asked.

“Even though you ask me if I’m ready… I… myself…”

“Yeah, I know that.”

I know that this child is not yet able to manifest that magic on her own.

The other day was only the result of something that triggered it to go out of control.

What we are going to do now is to train her to be able to manifest it on her own and control it further.

It is not something that can be easily done at this stage.

However, I can imagine the key events to express it.

When I took one step closer to where Femu was standing, I could see that her body was trembling slightly, perhaps from fear.

I felt a little sorry for her, but if she doesn’t learn to control it, it might be a more serious problem next time.

“Take a deep breath.”

Following my words, Femu took a big breath in and out, and repeated.

I put my hand on the cloth that wrapped the head of Femu when her body stopped shaking.

With a devil-may-care attitude, I rip it off in one fell swoop.

“….Huuh?!”

The silver hair, trimmed at the tips, and the still childish face appeared before me once again.

“What? …. eh?”

My gazes met with Femu’s, who was bewildered by the suddenness of the situation.

It was a little forced, but for the sake of this girl, I had no choice but to do this now.

Her white skin, which was slightly translucent, turned bright red.

At the same time, I heard a high-pitched sound like the ringing in my ears that I had heard at that time.

With the atmospheric currents created when the magical elements converge, that jet-black orb appears again at the exact midpoint between me and Femu.

It was the same as that time, a mass of pure power that made my hair stand on end.

But this time, there is no time to sit back.

Taking a deep breath, I thrust my arm with the cage toward it.

With all my might, I grabbed it as it was the center point of the atmospheric vortex.