In that arid and barren environment.
"Eiji, don't say anything perverted." Lilith said.
She didn't know what was going on with Hijiri and Ilia.
But after watching the livestream this morning and knowing how perverted Eiji was.
She had a rough guess.
"Pervert? Lilith, what do you mean? Can you be more specific?" Asked Eiji with a seductive look at the red-haired girl standing beside him.
"T-That...!" Lilith's face flushed slightly. Her resistance to this kind of thing was very low. But with her girlfriend status, she now dared to pinch Eiji's arm hard and said, "Don't force me to say it. You're not even trying to hide the perverted things you do!"
"I'm just trying to be honest with my girlfriend."
"G-Girlfriend?"
"Isn't that right? Yesterday we..."
"Enough, Eiji! We're on a mission. You are forbidden to say embarrassing things. Have a little shame!"
Lilith silenced Eiji's mouth with her hand with shame on her face.
Eiji enjoyed the girl's soft hands and refrained from licking her.
[Speaking of shame. Things like that are only an obstacle for a man who walks on piles of corpses and flower fields like me. I'm an honest man.]
You're seriously saying that?
The heroines were dumbfounded.
They simply did not believe Eiji was an honest man.
His words were exaggerated.
What honest man whose words from his mouth and inner voice often differed?
At this moment... Seeing the closeness of Eiji and Lilith...
Someone was jealous.
{Isn't Lilith supposed to deny what Eiji said about being his girlfriend? If so I'd have a lot of opportunities... But no, even though Lilith looked very embarrassed, she didn't deny at all!}
{Even so I won't give up! In this mission as long as I can make Lilith's attitude towards me improve by showing off and helping her. I can slowly make her like me and slowly make her fall in love with me!}
The protagonist had confidence that exceeded that of an ordinary person when seeing the woman he loved already dating another man.
Eiji stifled a laugh which of course was noticed by Lilith who silenced his mouth.
Lilith frowned, she was clearly not happy with Arata who had such desires for her.
Sorry but no matter how much Arata shows off in front of her, he won't get what he wants from her.
And with Eiji here, Lilith felt it was even more impossible for Arata to help her much. Moreover, why should she be helped? This was just an investigative mission to investigate the Magic King Element in the Sky Library.
Lilith thought that way, she didn't know in the original work she would get into some trouble in this mission.
As the protagonist in the book itself, Arata didn't know the original work but he had a hunch that something would happen and it would be in his favor.
The protagonist's halo was cheating. Unfortunately Eiji's existence is more cheating
Akio laughed and said. "Lilith-sensei is very shy. But it's good that you and Eiji have stopped showing off your affection in front of single people like me."
"I-I'm not showing off, Akio-san!"
Lilith hurriedly removed her hand from Eiji's mouth and kept a slight distance from the man.
Arata's eyes lit up, he felt this was a good opportunity. His gaze fell on Akio who was cheerful as usual. That woman was not like Lilith who had been cold to him since the principal's room.
"Akio, you're not alone! You know, I'm single too."
"Oh? Good for you, Magic King Candidate." Akio shifted her body a little further away from Arata who was suddenly talking to her.
What does that mean? You're also single? So the two of us should date?
Sorry but that's not possible.
And you seem to have forgotten the ambiguous relationship you have with your own cousin.
Hijiri who was watching in the crystal didn't say anything. She didn't react much when she saw Arata flirting with Akio.
Not because she was very tolerant of that boy. But Hijiri was still thinking about the things she did with Eiji earlier. She couldn't forget the taste of that delicious strawberry yogurt!
Not only was it delicious, it was also very healthy for her condition.
Arata didn't notice Akio's somewhat wrong and uncharacteristic attitude. He also didn't know his cousin, Hijiri was fascinated by Eiji's milk.
It was good that he didn't know. At least for now.
"Akio, we've known each other long enough. Why not call me by my name?"
To Arata's question, Akio immediately said something else to everyone. More precisely other than her. The group consisted of Eiji, Lilith, Arata and Lugh.
"There's actually another reason why I'm on this mission. This place is my hometown. That's why I'm going to help you guys!"
"So this is your hometown, Akio? But this place..." Eiji pretended not to know. In his dictionary, this was an important thing to do to get a woman to open her heart to you.
And it was quite effective, Akio's smile became a little sad before she started telling the story. "It's been years since my hometown was destroyed and everyone except me who lived here died."
"Hmm... Who destroyed it?" Instead of saying words to comfort Akio, Eiji asked again.
Lilith complained in her heart because Eiji asked Akio about such a sensitive topic so casually. However, she herself did not know Akio as well as that man.
"I don't know, I just know that back then the Sky Library fired a laser large enough to destroy my hometown along with the people who lived in it. I happened to be playing outside at the time, so I saw it from a distance."
Akio said that casually hitting her own palm with her fist. She was no longer sad and her smile seemed eager to hit someone.
In her heart, there was a fire of revenge on whoever destroyed her hometown and killed her mother.
Eiji knew this.
"...." Arata who was ignored by Akio felt sad.
However, hearing Akio and Eiji's conversation. He was also jealous but didn't dare to say anything to comfort Akio because he didn't know clearly what that woman was really going through.
After all, it wasn't like in the original work. The current Arata did not learn magic from Akio. He had not learned the Conception Spell from the Gula archive that allowed him to see Akio's past when he arrived in her hometown.
The plot changes caused by Eiji made Arata choose the wrong magic sequence that he learned from the Trinity Seven.
This was beyond Eiji's expectations. From the start he didn't really care about the magic Arata learned because his focus was on the heroines.
However, Arata learning Levi's magic first instead of Akio's was clearly in his favor.
[Akio doesn't know who destroyed her hometown? It's the same as in the original work. Should I tell her? I know who did it.]
[But forget it, she'll find out soon enough without me having to tell her.]
Akio who had just regained her cheerfulness was stunned.
Eiji knows who destroyed her hometown?!
Come to think of it that guy knows about the original work.
So he also probably knew a lot about her past.
She glanced at Eiji who had taken his eyes off her and was looking around while walking.
The man was pretending not to know. Akio naturally wanted to ask directly who the person was who destroyed her hometown.
This need was urgent as the fire of revenge in her heart flared up but just as she wanted to say it—
"...!"
"Akio-san, did you say something?" Asked Lilith who didn't know Akio had just been censored by Miss System.
She looked at the long black-haired woman who was showing off her legs in confusion.
Akio said something but it sounded vague like "Bi bububu Ba." which made her want to laugh but she held it in.
Eiji, Arata and Lugh were also looking at the woman confused.
Miss System has a bad hobby.
[Host, my hobbies are definitely not as bad as you who shamelessly included yourself in the list of confused people.]
"...." Eiji.
Miss System, calm down. There's no one making fun of you.
[Really? I'm so calm.]
Akio's face reddened slightly. She had just found out the inner voice had a sensor that prevented her from telling Eiji that she could hear his inner voice.
Her question had the potential to make him suspicious.
Akio sighed, she seemed to have no other choice but to wait because according to Eiji, she would soon know who the person who destroyed her hometown was.
"Hahaha! No, Lilith. I was just humming a random song."
"Song? That was a song?! What song?" Lilith asked curiously.
Akio had never had the urge to hit Lilith over the head. But now? She had it.
She resisted the urge of course and changed the topic by looking at Lugh. "Forget about it. If we want to go to the Sky Library which has many anti-theft mechanisms. Lugh will be a good guide."
"Me?" Lugh who had been listening to everyone's conversation with a flat face was stunned. But she nodded and proudly said, "I've been to the Sky Library."
"What did you go there for, Lugh-san?"
"To steal." Lugh made a 'V' sign with her two fingers.
No, you're proud of that? Why does this shameless personality resemble someone with a certain handsome face.
"...." Eiji. It's definitely not him.
"...." Everyone.
Lilith fell silent and Akio laughed. Lugh then showed off the three katanas at her waist that didn't look like ordinary katanas at first glance.
At this moment, Eiji arrived beside Lugh and put his hand on her white shoulder.
"You stole these three metals with pointed ends?"
"The way you hold my shoulder and refer to the Mythical Armament as three metals with pointed ends amazes me."
Lugh looked up to see Eiji's handsome face. Although the expression did not change, there was a slight blush on her cheeks. Eiji wondered if this woman would still betray when the time came like in the original work?
{What the... Why is that guy, Eiji so easy to seduce a beautiful woman?! I know Lugh is a prisoner, she's a criminal caught by the school. But she's also beautiful... I suddenly regret not seducing her earlier. Now she's looking at Eiji with that kind of gaze. Is it too late?}
The protagonist was again jealous because he felt Lugh also had something to do with him and felt uncomfortable.
He didn't know his inner voice made two... No, three because there was also Hijiri who was secretly watching who could hear his inner voice— all three women who were at the scene were now looking at him flatly.
There honestly wasn't much difference between Eiji and Arata. Both were perverts but there was a difference between a person who was shameless inside and out, and a person whose inner voice was filled with jealousy.
To the women's ears Arata's inner voice sounded ugly and added to the disgust when on the surface the boy was being nice to them.
The key was that he had once called some of them bitches. Now he wanted to make them fall in love with him?
Even if not with Eiji, they would go looking for another man.
And that other man certainly wasn't Arata.
"Cough! Eiji, seriously." Lilith reprimanded Eiji again when she saw him flirting with Lugh. She was a little jealous.
Eiji raised his hand from the white-haired woman and said to everyone seriously.
"Alright so where is the Sky Library? I can't see any library around here."
Do you really not know? The women who could hear the man's inner voice hesitated.
Lugh pointed to the sky. "It's up in the sky."
Everyone who knew and did not know like Arata glanced up where they saw nothing but sky.
"I don't see anything." Arata said.
"There's a barrier hiding the library's existence, Master." Sora told her master.
Arata just found out about this.
As for Eiji? Of course he knew. Putting aside the knowledge of the original work. Even without that there was no way an object as big as an island in the sky could hide from his vision.
At this moment—
*!!!*
Trinity Seven and Arata felt a magic fluctuation that made them panic. The magic fluctuations were in the form of lasers that descended from the sky and targeted their group.
"Everyone! Quickly create a barrier!" Lilith hurriedly said.
"That's too fast." Akio said.
Each of them tried to activate their magic as quickly as possible.
Arata panicked at first but his eyes soon lit up. This was the perfect moment for him to show off in front of the women.
He raised his gremoire, Sora to the sky and shouted.
"Connecting to the Superbia archive! Execution-"
Before Arata finished his words and the women had almost finished making magic barriers from each of their archives.
Eiji thought that Trinity Seven's magic mechanism was slow.
Except for low-level magic, they had to actually connect themselves to their respective archives and activate their themes in order to release powerful magic.
He extended one of his fingers to the sky. Instantly spiritual energy, a crimson-colored Reiatsu gathered at the tip of his finger and released a laser shot.
The crimson laser with energy that made everyone shudder collided with the dark blue laser released by the defense mechanism.
**Boom!!**
The sound of the explosion did not come from the colliding lasers but the barrier of the Sky Library breaking. The laser released by Eiji, Cero continued to break through everything in its way until it perforated what looked like an island floating above the sky.
If it weren't for Eiji who stopped its output, Cero who had penetrated the planet's atmosphere would have continued to extend into space.
Arata and Trinity Seven who were on the scene did not know this.
Now they were just staring dazedly at the hole Eiji had made in the large object above the sky.
"Isn't that just a magic laser? Why are you guys so panicked?" Eiji said.
His words made the women's lips twitch.
Arata knew Eiji was powerful but he could also release such a powerful attack casually?
The protagonist clenched his fists. He failed to show off to the women he was interested in and was not happy of course. But he was sure there would be another chance later.
However, if there were people who were most surprised by Eiji's little show.
There were two people.
One of them was Lugh who had just swallowed because although she already knew from Levi that Eiji was very strong. She didn't expect that handsome man to be so strong that he could unleash such an attack from his fingertips.
And the other was...
In the Sky Library there was a castle.
A man in a black robe whose face resembled Arata but was more mature and had white hair like Astral Trinity was surprised.
He didn't expect someone to not only block the laser released by the Sky Library's defense mechanism. That person also destroyed it and perforated it.
"My daughter brought someone that strong with her. It might be a little inconvenient. But... I'm sure that boy has used up most of his magic to unleash such a powerful attack."
The man sitting on a throne with a crystal ball displaying Eiji and his group smiled faintly.
Even after witnessing the Cero released by Eiji.
He didn't flinch and decided to be more serious for his plan to succeed.
He was still very confident.
Eiji would laugh if he knew what one of the villain bosses was thinking.
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