The Dual Swordsman Who Lost Both Arms On Stream to Save His Doomed Party Gets Exiled—Then the Heroines Go Yandere - Chapter 22: Return to the Old Nest

Chapter 22: Return to the Old Nest

————【Nezha’s Perspective】

The next day.

“Thank you. Thanks to you, Hinata, everything is completely clean now.”

“I’m a club member too, so it’s only natural.”

They finished cleaning up the clubroom that the delinquents had illegally occupied. Anything unnecessary but still usable would be sold online. There were even things like a mahjong table that had no business being in a school.

Since Gori-sensei had declared “Sell it, it’s fine!” they decided to take him up on that. The more activity funds they had for dungeon exploring, the better.

While organizing a drawer, he found the club member roster.

As he flipped through the pages… huh?

“I thought Minister Morino was the same year as me.”

“She’s a third-year. Are you trying to call her an old lady or something?”

“No way. I just thought she looked younger than me and really cute.”

“…I-I won’t fall for that kind of flattery so easily… The Morino-style ninjutsu… isn’t that… w-weak… l-like…”

“Morino-senpai?”

“N-Nothing. I just got a little flustered. Please stop teasing your seniors. Besides, experience from age means nothing inside a dungeon. The one with the highest ability should lead.”

As he turned more pages, it seemed several students had once belonged to the Labyrinth Club, but thick black lines had been drawn through most of their names. They had probably quit.

“Actually… there are still three other members… but they all got crushed by their own lack of skill. Even the slime they thought was the weakest toyed with them…”

“That happens a lot.”

For reference, the difference in ability between students at a dungeon exploration school and students at a normal school was said to be like the gap between a major leaguer and a high school player. While he flipped through the roster, each member’s self-introduction was written there.

At that moment, someone knocked lightly on the clubroom door. Just as he started to go answer it…

“I’ll get it. Hinata, take it easy.”

“Ah, okay.”

Taking Morino Shinobu up on her offer, he turned his eyes back to the roster. Looking at her self-introduction, something caught his attention.

Person she admires as a dungeon explorer: Ashiya Akira…

The Mikado style in the east, the Ashiya style in the west. They were the two major organizations in Onmyodo, and he had heard that Ashiya Akira had inherited leadership of the Ashiya style at a young age. But everything ended with the terrorist incident she caused, and her status was stripped away…

“I see…”

Finally, the dots connected in his head, and he muttered to himself. The reason the labyrinth department at Twilight Academy had disappeared, the fact that Morino Shinobu had continued guarding the essentially suspended Labyrinth Club all alone…

“That’s outrageous! It’s way too sudden!”

At that moment, Morino Shinobu’s voice echoed from outside. When he headed out, she was surrounded by a group wearing armbands and seemed to be getting questioned.

“Even if you say that… Minister Morino, when exactly are you going to submit the Labyrinth Club activity report? And also…”

The armbands read “Student Council.”

“We haven’t seen any club members around.”

“They’re resting today.”

“It’s always like that. How about stopping the obvious lies already?”

“One month. If you can’t report clear club activity with five members by then, the Labyrinth Club will be disbanded.”

“No way!?”

He wasn’t sure if stepping in would help, but he worried that leaving Morino Shinobu alone might be tough, so he walked up beside her. The boy pressing her flicked his bangs back with his hand and spoke.

“Well, well. If it isn’t the transfer student expelled from a dungeon exploration school, Hinata Nezha.”

“Haha… I guess I’m that famous. By the way, I don’t know your name. Mind telling me?”

He asked the boy who had been cornering Morino Shinobu with a self-mocking tone, but…

“D-Don’t mock me! I’m the most famous student council president at Twilight Academy! Ishiki Daigo!!!”

“I don’t remember mocking you… This is our first meeting, after all.”

For some reason, the boy introduced himself while fuming.

“Shut up! If I feel mocked, then you are mocking me. Don’t you even understand that?”

“I don’t.”

“Wha!?”

When he answered honestly, President Ishiki stood there stunned. If he took everything the president said at face value, then anything could be decided based on the president’s personal feelings.

“A-Anyway, to prove club activity, you need to reach floor 20 of the dungeon and defeat the floor boss, the Skull Lord Skeleton Lord. Do that, and I’ll recognize it as club activity.”

Hmm? The president sure knows a lot about dungeons. Well, if he’s a dungeon enthusiast who watches a lot of streams, it wouldn’t be strange.

Though if he were a real enthusiast, you’d think he would treat the Labyrinth Club better…

“Got it.”

“Hinata!?”

Morino Shinobu was surprised that he answered, but since the strongly opinionated president was clearly dead set on crushing the Labyrinth Club, they had no choice but to accept his proposal.

“Hold on, I haven’t finished stating the conditions. Even if you’re rotten, you’re still from a dungeon exploration school. If you joined the fight, you’d clear the challenge too easily. So the other members have to clear it without you.”

“That condition is way too unfair! You’re obviously trying to kill the Labyrinth Club!”

“So what if I am? We’ve given you more than enough leeway. Well, I’m not a demon. People know me as a lenient student council president. I’ll allow Hinata to give advice only.”

“Understood. Then if we clear it exactly as you say, please guarantee the club will continue. And also return our activity budget to the same level as the other clubs.”

“Fine, I promise.”

The president and his group started leaving the clubroom, but he called out one more important thing.

“You’ll put this in writing, right?”

“Guh! Fine, fine! That’ll do, won’t it!”

People like this would claim it was just a verbal promise and go back on their word even if they cleared the challenge. While cleaning the clubroom, they had found tons of memos filled with complaints about the student council. He had finally gotten a chance to clear the grudges of everyone who had suffered before.

After they left, Morino Shinobu whispered.

“Thank you, Hinata…”

“It’s too early to celebrate. Before we tackle the dungeon challenge, we need to prepare a few things. I’m going back to my old school for a bit to get ready.”

If they submitted a dungeon exploration plan to the association, carrying weapons would be permitted. He decided to go pick up his Black Emperor and Ice Empress that he had left stored at the dungeon exploration school.