“Ange?”
“!”
Ange seemed to have been napping for once,
so she opened her drowsy eyes.
“It’s lunchtime. Aren’t you going to eat?”
Mutsuki smiled bitterly at the girl’s sleepy
look and handed her today’s lunchbox.
Only then did she realize their lunch break
had started.
It was midsummer and they only had two days
until summer break. Her window-side seat was not exactly comfortable with the sunlight
falling directly on it, but it was cool enough even without the air
conditioning because a typhoon was approaching.
With the sound of the rain and the chilly
wind reaching her through the opened window, it was hardly surprising she had dozed
off.
“You have some sleep in your eye.”
Mutsuki chuckled and pulled out a
handkerchief.
Without taking the handkerchief, Ange
sullenly wiped her eye with the back of her hand and turned away with a
lopsided frown on her face.
This was the usual for her, so he returned
to his seat.
“Okay, time to eat, time to eat. We’re in the
middle of the period of growth that has to support our futures, so this is
another way to enjoy our school life to its fullest.”
His childhood friend Sakae walked over with
a ton of bread in his arms.
“Let’s push our desks together~ Outta the
way, Sakae. Mutsuki-kun, over here, over here♪”
“Sure.”
“Deh heh heh heh heh. Ange-chaaan. Let’s
eat together.”
“Th-that’s fine.”
Lucia moved his desk behind Mutsuki and
Saya moved over to Ange’s desk.
“…”
As usual, Machina remained in the
neighboring seat. On her own, she pulled a water bottle and a single apple from
her bag.
Mutsuki and Ange ate together, Lucia,
Sakae, and Saya wanted to eat with them, and Machina sat nearby.
Recently, the six of them spent most of
their lunch breaks together like this.
They all pulled out their lunches.
Saya’s was quite girly, Sakae lined up the
bread he had bought at the school store, Lucia had a lot of portable foods like
dried meats and seeds, and Machina had her single apple.
Mutsuki and Ange’s lunches were the same
since they lived together.
“Once again, it at least looks normal
enough.”
Ange sighed when she opened the lunchbox she
had been given.
It contained sakura denbu on rice, pickled
cucumbers, rolled omelets, bacon soaked in chili oil, and spinach salad. The
main dish was pork dumplings.
The sakura denbu was shaped like the Lazy
Bear character the girl liked and the pork dumplings were star-shaped, so it
had a real focus on presentation. It did indeed look like a delicious lunch.
“Okay, let’s get started.”
Mutsuki clapped his hands together.
On that signal, they all started eating.
Machina was not even looking in their direction, but he had a feeling she brought
the apple to her mouth after he clapped.
With six of them there, they naturally
split between boys and girls.
Mutsuki, Sakae, and Lucia formed one group
and Ange and Saya formed another. Machina did not speak with anyone.
The three boys discussed class, which girl
(or boy) the most recent love letter Lucia had gotten was from, and generally
wandered from topic to topic.
As for the two girls…
“Ange-chan, Ange-chan. I have some fried
chicken today too.”
“Again?”
“Say ‘ah’.”
“Saya, are you bringing this everyday just
to feed it to me?”
“Of course not. It’s just a coincidence. Or
do you not want it?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Say ‘ahhh♡’.”
Ange hesitated but gave in because she
liked meat.
This classmate seemed to have gotten quite
clingy lately. Ange had attacked her before after mistaking her for an enemy,
so she had been worried about how to treat her afterwards. However, Saya did
not seem to mind and did not seem to have realized who Ange really was. In the end,
they were still just classmates.
Except that the girl was giving her a lot
of heated looks that seemed to surpass the level of classmate.
“A-ahhh.”
“Here you go. Heh heh heh~ You’re so cute
with your mouth open, Ange-chan.”
“Am I?”
“Yeah. Oh, I just can’t stand it!”
For some reason, Saya blushed and grinned.
Ange was a little worried the girl had
indeed realized she was an angel, but there was nothing she could do if the
girl did not bring it up first.
“Here. This one’s ankake-style. Say ‘ahhh’.”
“Ahhh.”
“Deh heh heh heh heh♡”
As a result, she could only do as the girl
asked.
While the fried chicken flavor lingered in
her mouth, she gulped down the spinach salad she did not like. She disguised the
aftertaste with the rice and pickled vegetables before starting on the pork
dumplings.
“…” (Munch munch)
She had a bad feeling about them, but they
were normal pork dumplings. After breathing a sigh of relief, she washed them
down with a sip of tea and ate the spicy bacon she liked with some rice.
Finally, she took a bite of the rolled
omelets.
“Gwoh!!”
She spat it back out.
The other five and everyone else in the
class turned her way.
“Ahhh~ So it was these, not the dumplings~
Saya! Tea, tea, tea!”
“Here you go.”
She chugged down the 500 mL bottle of tea.
The omelets had something sweet and yet
bitter inside.
After clenching her teeth, she glared at the
boy with tears in her eyes.
“Mutsuki!”
“U-um, to make sure you could stand the
summer heat, I added in some garlic chives, grated ginger, garlic, and cacao
beans that are full of polyphenols. You like cocoa, don’t you?”
“Why would you put that in an omelet!?”
She shouted in anger.
Of the classmate’s watching them, half were
giving lukewarm looks and the other half had already cooled as if to say, “Oh, it’s
this again.”
“But it’s highly nutritious.”
“It may be good for you physically, but it’s
bad for you mentally! Enough to stop my heart! Oh, honestly! How many times do
I have to tell you not to add in your original dishes!?”
“S-sorry. And sorry to you too, Ibekusa-san.”
“Not a problem.”
The boy apologized to Ange whose anger was
like a blazing fire and to Machina who was sitting in front of Ange and thus was
hit in the back of the head when the angel girl spat out the food.
“Honestly.”
Once she was done yelling, the girl
returned to her seat.
And…
“How spoiled do you have to be to complain
when someone makes food for you?”
“…What?”
She wrinkled her brow again when Lucia spoke
up next to her.
The demon boy looked cute, but he could be
truly malicious to people he did not like. And as an angel, Ange was his
natural enemy.
“Beggars can’t be choosers. Who does she
think she is? Right, Mutsuki-kun?”
“I-I do the cooking because I like it.”
Mutsuki quickly intervened when he saw the
frightening look on the already short-tempered girl’s face.
Lucia generally never did anything that
would cause him trouble and Ange did not bite at the obvious provocation, so
nothing came of it. They both returned to their lunches.
“Speaking of that, Mutsuki.”
Noticing the tense atmosphere, Sakae
immediately changed the subject.
“You’ve always loved cooking, haven’t you?”
“Yeah. I’ve been doing it since before elementary
school, so it’s more of a habit than anything.” Mutsuki narrowed his eyes as he
easily ate the highly nutritious omelets. “And Ange might complain, but she
always eats everything but the one thing.”
The girl shoved the omelets to the side and
gulped down the rest of the pork dumplings and rice. He laughed happily when he
saw it.
“I do like making lunches for Ange.”
“Ha ha. You’re a total house-husband.”
His best friend Sakae laughed too, but
Lucia gave a sullen look next to him.
The three boys naturally turned toward
Ange.
When their eyes gathered on her, the girl
blushed in surprise and faced the window with her usual lopsided frown.
Mutsuki, Lucia, and Sakae had all realized
that was just how she hid her embarrassment, so they all burst out laughing.
Ange ignored them and turned her back on
them.
“…”
And that was why none of them noticed the
hint of loneliness on her face.
“That was delicious!”
A woman loudly clapped her hands together and
set down her chopsticks.
Mutsuki made a total of three lunches every
day: one for himself, one for Ange, and one for their other roommate Micha.
Even though she lay around the apartment
drinking all day, she had a lunch prepared neatly inside a lunchbox instead of stuffed
inside some tupperware. She had already eaten it, but the sakura denbu on the rice
had spelled out “No Alcohol”.
She laughed as she walked to the fridge.
She winked and said “sorry” to the sticky
note that said “Only two beers a day!” in Mutsuki’s handwriting and pulled two cans
out. Incidentally, there were already four empty cans in the trash from that
morning alone.
She opened one with a nice “ksh” sound.
“…”
But before drinking any, she set them down
on the table.
“What?”
She looked out the window toward the
balcony.
This was the top floor of the apartment
building and it was pouring rain thanks to the typhoon.
However, the sound of the rain had suddenly
died down.
Four figures were visible out the window.
Three were girls and one was a young man. They all had an otherworldly beauty
as they smiled softly at her.
The falling raindrops veered unnaturally
away from the balcony as if they disliked the people standing there.
“The preparations for the guiding chant are
complete. The location of FeTUS headquarters has been confirmed. We are prepared
to bring judgment.”
“I see.”
“Now we must only wait for Metatron.”
Micha’s expression stiffened when the young
man – Rapha – said that.
She instantly forgot all about the intoxication
brought on by the four beers.
“Please hurry this up, Micha. The higher
ups seem irritated that the current situation is making the humans look better than
us.”
“I am well aware.”
Her voice was rough. The young man quietly
closed his eyes, said “please” once more, and then left. The three girls
followed suit.
Micha sighed quietly as she watched them
leave.
Her eyes stopped on the lunchbox she had
just finished eating from.
That lunch had been filled with Fujita
Mutsuki’s love.
“I wonder if this will be the least time he
makes one of those for me,” she quietly pondered.
She reached for a nearby shelf instead of
the beers she had set down. It contained a few drinks with higher alcohol
content, like whisky and brandy.
It also contained a photo of Mutsuki, Ange,
and Micha that they had taken a while back.
She closed her eyes when she saw the
smiling boy in the photo. She carelessly grabbed a bottle of whisky and began
drinking it straight from the bottle.
I'm loving this yuri development between saya and Ange. I hope it leads to a hot and steamy scene between them
ReplyDeleteAlso thank you for bringing us the next volume so fast. I thought that you would hold off with the series for a while so finding this up is great
ReplyDeleteSaya's character definitely was an unexpected, but still great, twist to the story. I thought she was gonna be part of Mutsuki's harem when she was first introduced into the story. At least now when he's busy Ange can have fun with Saya. Thank for working so hard to give us all these new chapters
ReplyDeleteReally liking Saya more and more with each chapter she's in. It's always cool to see different sexualities in a harem series. I mean you rarely see the protagonist actually do something with another male in a story like this nor do you see a woman have affections for another one and not for the protagonist. At least now when Mutsuki isn't around Ange won't have to be lonely. Let's hope she doesn't eventually fall for him as well in the future
ReplyDeleteAlso from the illustrations I saw for volume 5 her and Ange are going to have a great time together. That might take the prize as the hottest scene of the whole series now being held by that foursome in vol.3
ReplyDeleteI always find it hilarious how Mutsuki can go from this dominating sex god to the biggest bitch of the series in an instant. He's like Makoto from the school days series, outside of sex their both wimps. It's funny how that's been a key characteristic of both of them throughout their respctive series at till this point
ReplyDeleteThank you for this chapter
ReplyDeleteI wonder from that last line of Micha will get another scene again
ReplyDeleteHopefully Ange gets her own scene in this volume
ReplyDeletePlease please do shinmai testament as well, at least just the ecchi scenes. The guys on baka tsuki or so damn slow it's ridiculous. If you can't help with what they have now can you at least help translate the 2 chapters with chisato.I'd personally say her Mio and Zest are hotter than all the girls in the other series you've done so far. People will be blown away with what Basara, who's also a really young high school student, and chisato, the school nurse, so in vol.8 from what I've heard. The guys on baka tsuki will never get to those 2 chapters at this point and I would like to make a request if you could. The chapters are vol.6 chapt.4 and vol.8 chapt.3. If you need the chapters text just ask me or philip, since he also mentioned he had it, or you can find them in jcafe24 if you want to download it yourself. Just look at the illustrations, the 15 chapter of the arashi manga the series has, or her scenes in the anime if you're not convinced of how sexy the girls in that series are. Though not as lewd as the ones you do it can gets pretty graphic in the 2 chapters I mentioned. She's just to hot to wait much longer for her scnes to be translated
ReplyDeleteAlso it has some of the best illutrated drawing of a novel I've ever seen. The asses and tits of the girls are just fantastic
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Albert if you could at least do those 2 chapters of the series with chisato that would be amazing
ReplyDeletePlease don't tell me that you've left this story. I'd love to see shinmai maou but I hope you finish this volume first
ReplyDeletePlease don't tell me that you've left this story. I'd love to see shinmai maou but I hope you finish this volume first
ReplyDeleteFor those who have not realized yet shinmai maou is being translated by the same guy who's been translating high school dxd for a long time now. Look him up
ReplyDeleteFuck, I don't like the sound of this... Poor Micha, she's gotta make the tough decisions... Mutsuki, as a man, the perfect one at that (adam), you better be able to handle the coming storm, and better not slight any of these fairies you've made into your women... or i'll be angry. My only complaint about the story so far is the fact that I'm honestly least enthused with Machina. The fact that Mutsuki has the most feelings for her (albeit only because he's liked her for longer than Micha) kinda gets on my nerves. I honestly like Micha and even black cat more, personality and sex appeal-wise. There are a lot of things introduced in this story that could honestly go really far and to even greater heights, but of course I'm also worried it could go in a couple... not so good directions. I will have my fingers crossed.
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