Wanting to Watch a Movie with Youzi

Clang—

A crisp clash of metal rang out.

Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's nodachi flew from her hand.

The girl staggered and fell, kneeling on the floor, even the hand supporting her body trembling slightly.

She looked at the girl before her in disbelief.

Saotome Yukina gripped her Healing Staff, panting heavily. Along with Little Rabbit's rapid breaths, her ample chest heaved violently.

Little Rabbit glared at Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi in a huff.

What still echoed in her mind... was the sight of this girl calling Senior Youzi Big Sister.

She had been so arrogant when she provoked Senior Youzi before.

If she had the guts, she should keep it up.

What was she doing trying to steal Senior Youzi from her?

Meanwhile, Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, who had fallen to the ground, looked utterly unable to comprehend what was happening.

She had already returned from the Abyssal Anomaly once.

Logically speaking... her body should have possessed the strength of a Second Sequence Altered User.

Even if she was a physically frail Nightmare Type Altered User, she should still have completely crushed an ordinary human. Not to mention Saotome Yukina, who was merely a Healing Type support.

Yet she looked at the mountains rising and falling with Little Rabbit's hurried breaths.

This... this girl, so "humiliated," so delicate and frail—how... how could she possibly do this?

Off to the side—

Su Youzi and Kujo Ryuko were watching the show.

Kujo Ryuko had just returned from working through the night and was exhausted beyond belief.

If she had not inexplicably disliked the thought of Youzi, dressed so alluringly, personally training that Little Rabbit...

Kujo Ryuko would have already collapsed onto her bed and slept like the dead.

Her scarlet eyes briefly glanced at the maiden beside her, leaning against a wooden dummy.

The maiden standing with her arms folded had a slender, graceful figure.

Although she had not taken off her trench coat yet.

From Kujo Ryuko's angle, though... the faint glimpse of skin between the trench coat and off-the-shoulder sweater was already enough to make her lose some control.

Sometimes, temptation did not require showing vast stretches of skin.

The right amount of concealment was even more enticing.

Of course—

What Kujo Ryuko meant was absolutely... that early spring weather could still be cold at times.

Girls still had to keep warm.

They should wear more when going outside.

Sweaters that accentuated one's figure like this were fine to wear inside the dormitory building.

As for Su Youzi—

Watching Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi and Saotome Yukina happily spar, she was having a great time as well.

Saotome Yukina's figure naturally needed no explanation.

Even simply moving, Little Rabbit was an exceptionally pleasing sight.

And Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi... after all, she was a girl who could pull off a carp-skirt outfit in character art.

Though her curves were somewhat lacking, she was still straight and beautiful.

The sight of the girl lightly panting as she gripped her nodachi was especially captivating.

Clang—

Watching Saotome Yukina seize the opportunity to heavily knock Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's nodachi from her hand with one swing of her staff, Kujo Ryuko praised Su Youzi.

"These past few days..."

"You've trained her very well."

"Yukina... is a very hardworking girl." Su Youzi smiled at Saotome Yukina.

The moment Little Rabbit saw Su Youzi looking at her, she instantly felt as if none of the muscles in her body ached anymore.

Kujo Ryuko agreed.

Compared to ordinary Ability Users, Healing Type Ability Users often found it easier to develop strong physiques.

After all... healing oneself was always more efficient than healing others.

Healing Type Ability Users could also continuously heal and strengthen themselves during training.

Their training could easily achieve twice the results with half the effort.

The strongest Sword Saint in history had been a Healing Type "support."

But... most Healing Type Ability Users still preferred being honest, proper supports.

Someone as diligent as Saotome Yukina was truly rare.

Even though Kujo Ryuko knew this rabbit trained so hard because she had "ulterior motives," that did not stop her from giving the girl a little praise.

Seeing Saotome Yukina's delight.

Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi bit her lip and glanced sideways at Su Youzi.

Su Youzi also made an encouraging gesture toward Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.

The web between her thumb and forefinger was still trembling, and her palm seemed to have gone numb, but Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi still braced herself against her knee to stand, then picked up the nodachi that had fallen beside her.

She looked at the panting Little Rabbit before her.

Though she was still inferior in technique.

Her endurance was better, though.

Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's constitution was equivalent to that of a Second Sequence Altered User.

That Black Dream that night... if it had been Saotome Yukina, merely crying herself hoarse would have been the least of her troubles.

Clutching the nodachi in her hand.

Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi was determined to wear Saotome Yukina's stamina down, no matter what.

"Yaaah!"

"Mmph..."

The girls swung their nodachi and Healing Staff, clashing once more.

Beside them, Su Youzi seemed to casually... naturally take hold of Kujo Ryuko's fingertips.

She could clearly feel every muscle in Kujo Ryuko's body suddenly twitch, before slowly... nervously... pretending to relax again.

Mm—

Pretending.

Her body was clearly taut as a drawn bow, yet before Su Youzi, she still had to act as if she did not care.

Trying hard to maintain the "dignity" of a Senior Superintendent.

Unaware that the moment the word "submission" appeared before Su Youzi, that dignity had already completely crumbled.

The woman who had just dared to secretly peek at her now did not even know where to rest her gaze.

Her vacant eyes passed through the girls clashing with little cries, focusing on the emptiness in the distance.

She did not look at Su Youzi.

Yet all her attention was focused on Su Youzi.

Su Youzi watched the woman suddenly put on a frosty act, striving to preserve her "last shred of dignity."

It was so amusing~

"Senior Kujo, did you stay up all night?"

"Yes..."

"Sorry, I'm making Senior Kujo stay with me even after that."

"N-No, it's nothing."

"..."

Su Youzi held Kujo Ryuko's fingertips as though they were a toy, and Kujo Ryuko's throat worked through a difficult swallow.

There had never been much to worry about when girls acted intimately with each other.

As long as their favorability was even slightly high, it was completely fine.

What was more... Kujo Ryuko's favorability toward Su Youzi had already surpassed the major threshold of sixty points.

There had not even been that process of gaining +1, +1, +1 favorability only to get stuck at fifty-nine points. She had shot straight past sixty.

Kujo Ryuko's favorability had risen even more smoothly than Little Rabbit's.

Su Youzi believed that forget holding Kujo Ryuko's fingertips—even if she were a tiny bit bolder.

Kujo Ryuko would not refuse at all.

The woman, whose eyes were swaying, tried hard to appear unmoved, doing everything she could to preserve her dignity.

It made Su Youzi so delighted that she could barely suppress her smile.

As for... whether she might tease Kujo Ryuko too much and be forcibly made to unlock a CG.

Su Youzi still held her final trump card.

She had yet to carry out today's Operator Cultivation.

For the first time—

Though she did not feel that kind of humiliation.

Kujo Ryuko felt as if her entire being was becoming strange.

She let the girl hold the fingertips of her right hand.

Kujo Ryuko pressed her left hand tightly over her chest.

Thump, thump—the accelerating heartbeat that even a Blood Manipulation Ability User could not control.

Beneath the soft fabric was a stiff paper ticket, which she had placed closest to her heart.