“Excuse me.”
Grinning, I held up the dorm paper.
“I want to go to this welcome party for new students… Can I register here?”
With my back against the door I’d kicked open, I stomped into the dorm manager’s office and pasted the torn dorm paper back together with tape.
I slipped in between the sisters and handed it to Chris with a smile.
“Here you go.”
The look in her eyes brought a chill to my spine.
Her eyes were filled with murderous intent and shone brightly, looking as if she was ready to shoot me dead.
“Take a good look at that with those pretty eyes of yours,” I said; the corners of my mouth curved upward in a smile while I felt like those threatening eyes were suffocating me. “It’s a nice picture. Go and see an ophthalmologist if you can’t see it well. Do you want me to escort you if you can’t manage on your own?”
“Mule.”
Mule shivered.
“What is male trash doing in the dorm? Are you too incompetent a dropout to be aware of the laws of this world? Such individuals—”
Her Magic Eye spiraled and opened—
“Must be disposed of, right?”
Vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!
Desks sliced up into a huge number of squares soared in number, scattering blue flashes of light. They became a mountain, then surged toward me like a landslide, writhing around to restrain my limbs.
I jumped back on the spur of the moment.
The mahogany squares followed right behind me as if projecting my move, increasing in number as they rolled at me.
No, that wasn’t right. They weren’t rolling.
My skin stood on end when I realized that the propulsion caused by the rotation wasn’t due to the girl’s manipulation but was being caused by the aftermath of high-speed generation.
I realized at this point that I couldn’t compete with her using conventional methods.
Trigger. Craft twelve. Generate my invisible arrow.
Turning upside down in the air, I drew a path with my index and middle fingers—my eyes twitched—and a huge number of possible routes filled my field of vision.
Chris widened her eyes.
“What is with that volume of magic power you have…?!”
“Ngh!”
There was too much information before me.
My brain practically exploded, my vision blacked out, and I tried to reduce the output as much as I could—and a ball of magic power flew out from the tips of my fingers.
Chris clucked her tongue and pulled the trigger on her wand, causing a foam-like buffer to appear in front of her.
“Rise!!”
Break route. Reflect walls.
The magical route was destroyed, and a wall was created in front of the buffer, causing my invisible arrow to bounce off it and hit the ceiling.
I swung down my fingertips.
The arrow bounced off the wall again and flew at Chris from above her head.
“What an amateur! You don’t even know how to hide your magic power!!”
The buffer wrapped around her, preventing the arrow from hitting her.
She smiled, as if boasting her victory, and then the look on her face changed to astonishment.
It had already made contact.
I shot up my fist—and slammed it into the buffer.
I tried to follow through, but my arm was caught in the foam.
“Well, of course! Of course I’m not going to be able to beat you! Please, spare me my life!”
“I’m going to kill you.”
With blinding speed, Chris created a twisted spear and tried to use it to stab me to death—and was blocked by an anti-demon barrier.
“Whoa.”
Alsuhariya had manifested, and she was yawning in midair.
“Stop trying to kill yourself while I’m enjoying my afternoon naps. Just how badly do you plan to make your brain deteriorate, you yuri-crazed ape? Use your head for once.”
“Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!”
“Oh, brother. This is why I didn’t feel like coming to you.”
“Who…? What…are you…?”
Astonished, Chris gritted her teeth.
“So you’re Sakura Tsukiori… What unbelievable magic power… I’m amazed that you can fight this well with only your senses, but…”
“Ah. I haven’t introduced myself yet,” I said and laughed, my hold on Alsuhariya still firm.
“I’m Hiiro Sanjo, protector of yuri girls. In other words, I’m your enemy.”
“Hiiro…Sanjo…”
I was freed from the bonds restraining me. Chris got off the desk and spread out her cloak.
“I have no intention of making the Sanjos feel indebted to me or harming you. Killing you would be troublesome. I’ll let you live, but if you should be further involved with that defective piece of trash there—”
Her spiral-shaped evil eye pierced me, and she thrust her business card at me.
“—I’ll kill you.”
I took the card and tore it up in style.
The card tore in two and slowly fell to the floor.
Whoosh!
The wind blew in through the open window, blowing away the business card, and Chris looked like she was about to cry (in my view).
I gently wiped the corner of her eye with a finger and walked past her.
She glared at me.
“I’ll kill you—”
Thud!! The floorboards she’d made flew up and pushed me away, and I was knocked into the wall with tremendous force.
“I was just trying to show you an example of cool behavior! That’s all!”
“Die.”
Ignoring my complaint, Chris briskly walked away.
Apparently regaining her senses, Mule cautiously approached me.
“H-Hiiro Sanjo… Are you okay?”
“Fine, other than the fact that my master contacted me to say the yuri manga I lent her exploded in her hands (due to the strength of her grip). Also, I probably broke a rib.”
“Mr. Sanjo!”
The color was drained from Lily’s face as she rushed into the room and pulled me up while I groaned in mental agony.
“I’m terribly sorry…to have asked you to help…when you have nothing to do with the Eisberts… I’m truly sorry…”
“Never mind me, I’m fine. Now, hurry up and take care of the dorm leader! That would make me heal faster! Ah! I’m already starting to feel better, just imagining it!!”
Lily busied herself taking care of my wounds, but I was more concerned about the swelling on her cheek. After checking my condition and giving me first aid, Lily lowered her face and blushed.