Harem Dynast Part 2: Chapter 4 - Battle of Royal Capital Curling

“This is Curling… The land in which I was born and raised.”

Ansandra sounded somber as she peeked out the carriage’s window to see her homeland after the long journey back there.

The scene before her eyes was not the one from her memories.

The Bastore Plain was blessed with plentiful grains, but Clanaria’s thorough endurance strategy had rendered it a wasteland nearly void of green.

When she had left this place, she had never even dreamed it would ever look like this.

So very much had changed in the past two months – a mere two months.

(And it is all my fault. This is the sin I must bear…)

“So it is not over yet.”

Lorent spoke to himself when he saw the famous Curling Castle.

“…Indeed.”

Adolescent Adam 7: Chapter 4 - Encounter in the Dark

A place could look very different between day and night.

If asked for examples of such places, a school would probably be on anyone’s list. There was a large gap between the energy of daytime and the stillness of night.

Megutono Academy’s cultural festival was finally beginning the following day. The school was covered in decorations and that enhanced the odd atmosphere.

The space changed even more for Schwarze than anyone else.

During the day, she walked through the school building as the teacher named Katsue Subaru, but now she was her true self. Walking here as Schwarze Katze made it all feel quite different.

“…Heh heh.”

This was the best place to relax on her own. She stepped inside her classroom.

Her true age was less than 20. She had been raised without any kind of non-combat education, so she had been hesitant when first told to work as a teacher. But at some point, she had grown accustomed to standing at the lectern like this.

In truth…she had wanted to be a student.

“…”

With that thought, Ren and Machina, the two who had been sent here as students, came to mind.

She had not wanted to remember either of them. That was why she had fled here instead of staying in their FeTUS hideout.

“Sigh.”

She forgot all about enjoying the nighttime school and breathed a long sigh.

Adolescent Adam 7: Chapter 3 - A Secret with Mutsuki

FeTUS headquarters existed 2000 meters below Megutono Academy. It had as much space as several baseball stadiums, but most of that was used for labs and storing weapons.

There were no entertainment facilities and the Witches were only given a few 12-square-meter rooms each.

Although that was plenty of space if they were living alone.

“Phew…”

Witches Miss B, aka Shirohara Ren, leaned back in her chair and sighed from the exhaustion of reading through quite a few documents.

She used this room for studying and work and the interior design was quite high society and not what you would expect for a student. She sat at a heavy wooden desk in a deep-seated wide chair. The wooden bookcase lined with textbooks glistened from its lacquer finish and a less-than-practical yellow lamp illuminated a pure white quill on the desk.

“Excuse me.”

A maid stepped in. She was wearing an apron dress that seemed to fit the interior much more.

“Miss D. Yes, perfect timing.”

Harem Dynast Part 2: Chapter 3 - Fall of Fortress City Ramlese

“We have no intention of resisting. We only ask that Lady Ansandra ensures we are treated tolerantly. It is not much, but we have prepared a feast for you. Please rest your troops and horses here.”

Not a shred of cloud was visible in the azure sky. A silver river flowed through a dark green forest and a grassy plain. The central plain was blessed with a warm climate and the fortress city of Ramlese stood atop that green scenery. Ten troops on horseback rode out from the city and made the announcement.

The fortress city was built atop an easily-defendable hill and surrounded by walls.

It was the midpoint between the mountain castles common in the north and the plains castles common in the central plain. 20,000 people lived there and it was the base of northern Clanaria’s administration. Taking it without having to fight meant a lot.

“So even the Clanarian people will side with the strong.”

Adolescent Adam 7: Chapter 2 - Mutsuki’s Secret

With the cultural festival just five days away, Megutono Academy’s activity was reaching its peak.

A week before, the number of classes had been reduced and the afternoon was instead used for festival preparations. Props and plywood lined the halls and the smell of paint filled the clear autumn air.

All of the band clubs were practicing at the same time, so it was loud enough to be heard throughout the building.

That drowned out their voices, so they temporarily stopped practicing for the play.

“Oh, honestly!”

“Calm down, Ange-chan. Don’t give us that scary look.”

They were using the gym stage to practice for the play. But they were making no progress and Ange was getting stressed out as the lead. She generally did not express her irritation unless it was directed at Mutsuki, but this was an exception.

Saya was good at soothing her at times like this, so she ran over with a drink in hand.

“Do we even need to practice anymore? I’ve learned the lines and movements.”

“Talking and moving around isn’t everything. You also have to act.”

Saya was helpful to have around since she could quiet down the constantly-complaining lead.

The lead part in the traffic safety play had been chosen for Ange, but she never held back on a job. She played the part perfectly.

As the lead, she was in most scenes, but she had no trouble playing that part.

The issue was her focus.

Thanks to Saya, she had not exploded, but she was still too irritated to get into the role.

Harem Dynast Part 2: Chapter 2 - Magic Obsessed Princess

“Everyone, I brought us a new kitten to play with.”

Around ten girls were hanging around in Naja’s encampment for the flying dragon unit.

They were the leaders of the unit, making them Naja’s aides.

They all looked a lot like Naja. They were beautiful muscular girls with dark-tanned skin. They wore leather clothing, but to lower the weight for the dragons, it barely covered any of their skin and was so thin and skintight that the bumps of their nipples and shape of their secret slit showed through.

“Eh? Wait, isn’t that His Majesty’s new girl?”

“Right, right. It’s the Clanarian princess who stole mistress’s man from her.”

“Oh, Mistress Naja. Are you finally beginning your direct attack on your rival? I wouldn’t want anything less from my mistress.”

“Underhanded and treacherous. That’s our mistress.”

“That’s always how it is when a woman is thrown out by her man. Even though taking revenge on the other woman won’t bring back your lost love. It’s the sad nature of women.”

Harem Dynast Part 2: Chapter 1 - Those who are Granted the Conqueror’s Love

“We won..? W-we won, we actually won… Is this what I have wrought…!?”

A beautiful princess in a blue dress and lighter blue cloak stepped out of a carriage onto unsteady legs.

She had been born the second princess of Clanaria and she had become queen of Domos. The blue of her eyes seemed to have faded as she viewed the scene around her.

This northern road connected Domos to Clanaria. Now that the storm had passed, that bright land was covered in the corpses of men and horses as far as the eye could see.

The 12,000 of Domos’s army had clashed head on with the 30,000 of Clanaria’s in the Battle of Corlal Field and – against almost all expectations – Domos had won a crushing victory.

Clanaria’s army had been overwhelmingly larger, but that was exactly why they had grown careless.

Or perhaps they had been anxious due to their battle with neighboring Exstar a few months before, even if they had won there.

It was also possible they had subconsciously been hesitant to attack when their beloved princess was in the enemy camp.

And ill fortune struck Clanaria even after they were routed and retreating. A great storm had hit at just that moment.

With visibility reduced and the order lost, they had fallen entirely out of formation and fled every which way in a panic. Domos had only needed to go with the flow and hunt them down.

Clanaria’s General Albare had remained on the battlefield even after defeat was certain and he had commanded a rear guard of only 3000 with his aide Uldarg, but that had not lasted long and their numbers were quickly cut down once the fierce downpour caught them.

The sole surviving senior officer, Left General Hopard, had worked to somehow regain command of the losing army, but it had been wasted effort.

Clanaria King Baldwin had been waiting for victory far behind the actual army. Once he received word that the army had been crushed, he returned to the royal capital of Curling while surrounded by Old General Zoral and his other aides.

Once the late summer storm passed, the air felt oddly clean, the western sky was dyed red, and the earth was covered in an even more red liquid.

“What have I done…?”

Novel Introduction: Harem Dynast: Part 2

Finally getting to part two of this.

Harem Dynast – New Kingdom Conquered by the Golden Dragon: Part 2 (ハーレムダイナスト 新・黄金竜を従えた王国 下巻).

Original Cover:

Re-release Cover:

Author: Takeuchi Ken (竹内けん)

Illustrator: Senbata Rou (せんばた楼)

Label: 2D Dream Bunko (二次元ドリーム文庫)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Those who are Granted the Conqueror’s Love

Chapter 2: Magic Obsessed Princess

Chapter 3: Fall of Fortress City Ramlese

Chapter 4: Battle of Royal Capital Curling

Chapter 5: A Roughly Fallen Flower

Chapter 6: The Dragon Heads to the Central Plain

Afterword

Adolescent Adam 7: Chapter 1 - Etcetera Beginning With a Kiss

Something was odd.

Four weeks had passed since Mutsuki noticed his body’s abnormality.

He had a very young sister back home, so he was more sensitive than most to signs of poor health. If he felt even a little ill, he would take his temperature and some medicine. He put in an effort to not spread anything to his family. That had not changed once the angels began protecting him, so he had been worried about a cold for four weeks now.

But this abnormality was not an issue of poor health.

In fact…

Adolescent Adam 7: Prologue

Math is born from humanity’s love of accuracy.

1 and 2 are separated and one of them has twice the value of the other. 1 is 1 and it only becomes 2 when its value doubles. This simple difference is the entire purpose behind math’s existence.

But look at it from a certain angle and nothing traps people’s minds in inaccuracy quite like math.

101 and 102 are clearly different according to match, but finding a difference between them in reality is difficult. Even if you prepared two rulers, you could not be certain there was not a 0.001mm difference between them.

So Miss A had long since stopped seeking accuracy.

Math had been her worst subject in school. During her witch training, a few potions had blown up in her face because she refused to measure the ingredients. She was fine with “about 3” as a definition of pi.

Science always used math when discussing units and it strived to be as accurate as possible.

Miss A stood at the top of that field, but it was not well known how careless she was about accuracy.

“Nn, there.”

Novel Introduction: Adolescent Adam 7

Now for the seventh novel: Adolescent Adam 7: kissing you (思春期なアダム7 kissing you):

Author: Sakakikasa (さかき傘)
Illustrator: Amagai Yukino (天海雪乃)
Label: Atomic Bunko (あとみっく文庫)


Table of Contents:

Prologue

Chapter 1: Etcetera Beginning With a Kiss

Chapter 2: Mutsuki’s Secret

Chapter 3: A Secret with Mutsuki

Chapter 4: Encounter in the Dark

Chapter 5: Etcetera Leading To a Kiss

Chapter 6: The Curtain Rises

Chapter 7: Over Heat

Chapter 8: Lilith’s Plot

Chapter 9: Stay Away

Afterword

Adolescent Adam 6: Afterword

Hello. Diapers bought as reference material: 1300 yen. Pregnancy test bought for the same reason: 1000 yen. The look on my friend’s face upon finding diapers and a pregnancy test in a childless guy’s room: priceless. This is Sakakikasa.

Now, this one was Juvenile Attack. How did you like it? I called it “juvenile” and yet focused on the story of an upperclassman like Ren, but I think I made up for that with Ange in the end. Maybe.

I returned to the original trio and kept the sex scenes to only Ange, Machina, and Lucia this time. Even after six volumes, this was actually the first time to have it one-on-one with each of them. I need to pay more attention to that kind of structure.

Once again, I have to thank Amagai Yukino-sensei for the cute illustrations. …Ange with the pacifier and rattle was…dangerous. I think he has me beat when it comes to kinkiness.

And I once more received a lot of help from my editor, T-sama. Although he’s a little too into the backpack + bloomers outfit.

Now, until we meet again in the next one.

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 7 - And Onto the Cultural Festival

Two thousand meters below Megutono Academy was the lowest level of FeTUS Headquarters, aka the Garden.

The indoor space was set to appear like a beautiful field, a five-person table meant for the Witches sat at the center, and three seats were currently filled.

Miss D, the tall maid, had changed into the apron dress she so loved. Machina was still wearing her school uniform. Miss B was also wearing her uniform and her upper body was sprawled out on the table.

“Sigh…”

Ren had bandages here and there thanks to her several-hour-long battle with strongest angel and she breathed a deep sigh.

The maid laughed while pouring warm water in five cups and heating them.

“You’ve really done it now. Miss A is very upset that you demanded a duel with that cute angel who had decided not to interfere.”

“Hmph. I cannot allow anyone to look down on my pride. I cannot back off when I am insulted.”

“But you had the wrong person, didn’t you?”

“…Yes.”

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 6 - Juvenile Attack

Chapter 6: Juvenile Attack

Meanwhile, as Ren and Subaru pursued the mysterious figure…

“Miss B! Corner her in the back yard!”

Whoever-it-was was trying to escape at full speed, so Subaru broke through the school building’s wall to cut her off.

Her teacher’s formal suit could not keep up and its fabric shredded away. But even with that gone, her shirt and panties could return to being a black dress – that is, Black Cat’s armor suit – so it was not a problem.

And once she also put on the cat-printed helmet she liked so much…

“Zahh!!”

She caught up. She extended her steel claws and went in for the slice before her opponent could do anything.

The intruder dodged and fell back…just as Ren caught up from directly pursuing. They had successfully trapped whoever-it-was between them right before reaching the school’s back gate.

Black Cat’s eyes widened once she got a good look at the intruder.

The intruder brushed her red hair back even though the other two had gotten the upper hand.

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 5 - Juvenile Ange

“Both of you! Wait a sec-…”

Mutsuki’s voice was drowned out by the sound of the school building’s wall being blown away.

Red and gold. Two balls of light shot out onto the athletic ground.

“My power is the sword of prayer. Manifestation of almighty wisdom, appear before me!”

“Just so you know, I’m not going to hold back! Haaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!”

“Myrddin!!”

“Prominence!!”

The two drawn swords clashed.

Ange wielded a giant mass of metal that was probably larger than she was in both width and height, but Ren’s sword was thin. Yet it did not bend or break. Also…

“Why…you!”

As the angel charged her way, the witch chose not to dodge and instead caught the attack head-on. She did not fall back.

Even if Ange was lighter due to her smaller body size, she had to have the greater overall weight when her sword was included. If her power in the clash had been matched, it meant her opponent had greater strength or speed.

“!?”

And Ren’s lighter blade gave her the more dexterous weapon.

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 4 - A Distant Yet Close Pair

A man lay in darkness.

He was on a springy bed, but he still sank into the sheets. That was just how much he weighed. His half-naked body was covered in ugly excess flesh. He was not all that tall, but he was apparently heavy enough for the bedsprings to give up the fight.

Before even judging how his face looked, the fat around his neck and cheeks were scrunched up in a way that made him look like a toad.

That man lay arrogantly back in the darkness.

“Ah, ahn…master♡”

“Nh, hhh. Shuntarou-sama…yours tastes so good.”

Two cute girls lay with him.

They were both still best described as children.

One was a girl with light purple hair that tended to curl. Her arms and legs looked like they still had a good bit of growing to do, but her bust alone was unnaturally large. She had the milky skin of the white race, but it was slick with sweat and she rubbed it against the man she lay with.

“Uheehee. Good, Riselle-chan. Here, you want a reward, don’t you?”

“Ahh, thank you so much, master.”

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 3 - Dark Visit

The Fujita family tended to be low energy, but Mutsuki did not have trouble getting up in the morning.

But just because he did not have trouble did not mean he was particularly good at it.

However…

Rinnnng, rinnnnng.

Yet again, he got out of bed at 5 AM at the insistence of his ringing cellphone.

“Hello?”

“Are you up?”

“Yefh.”

“We meet in the Student Council Room at 0600 again. Don’t be late. Got that?”

His groggy mind managed to answer “yes”. He suppressed his desire to dive right back into bed and got dressed. He put on his gym clothes instead of his uniform. He had 3 pairs, but it was a little damp because he had been wearing them every day lately and his laundry rotation could not keep up.

The sun had yet to color the eastern sky, so the living room’s eastern window was dark. He sighed and prepared breakfast like usual.

“I’m back~♪ Oh? Hee hee hee. You’re up early again.”

“Welcome back, Micha-san.”

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 2 - Arrival of Student Council President Shirohara Ren

Shirohara Ren had served as Megutono Academy’s Student Council President through the previous year.

At the time, she had been known as History’s Greatest President.

She got excellent grades and was skilled at sports. She was the lacrosse team’s ace and she was beautiful to boot. That alone would have been enough to make her the school’s most prized student.

But her excellence as President had come from another talent: her superb leadership.

Her mere presence had a way of whipping people into shape. Her naturally lofty aura filled people with tension.

She could be a little hardheaded herself. Whenever someone confessed their love to her, she would give them a lengthy lecture about how a student should be focused on their studies, so she could be inflexible. She gave off a strict atmosphere, but that did not seem like a bad thing unless you were truly up to no good.

Everyone had sensed a slight disturbance of the public morals after she had left this spring.

She was of course incredibly popular.

Her light brown hair and bright white skin gave her an almost ephemeral look, but her slanted eyes held a shocking depth.

Her small face was perfect, from the outline to the distribution of facial features. The long refined bridge of her nose, her lips, and her strong-willed eyebrows all possessed a certain elegance.

And she also had a body very unlike a Japanese one. Her beautiful breasts swelled out as much as possible without detracting from her elegance, her waist was skinny in contrast, and her butt was cutely plump. Her hips were positioned high and her tight legs made her look tall even though she was only about 160 cm. And that helped add to her reliable charisma.

The entire school had been shaken when word had arrived that she was leaving. It was well known that 20% of the students had written in her name when voting for the current year’s Student Council election.

It was also still unknown why she had left the school. She had said nothing and not even the teachers had been informed.

It was only speculation, but there were rumors that she had heart problems. Several people had seen her occasionally holding her chest, so they wondered if she had transferred elsewhere to undergo surgery.

At any rate, she was someone that Megutono Academy’s middle school was not about to forget in only 4 months.

…And the same was true for Mutsuki.

Harem Dynast Part 1: Afterword

[Note: This Afterword is from the original version. The rereleased version has no Afterword.]

This is Takeuchi Ken, author of Kingdom Conquered by the Golden Dragon – Part 1: Rape of a Princess. This was my very first book (and so I really hope you liked it).

Umm…so do you readers like war and women?

I must apologize to any of you good-natured people who do not because you must not have liked this book very much. (Not that you would’ve bought it in the first place.) But if you are the dangerous sort of person who has the hot-blooded belief that war and women are the romance of men and who inspire the ire of pacifists, then I bet you did enjoy it.

Boys innocently love violent worldviews where men burning with ambition plot against each other, race across the battlefield, and take kingdoms and beautiful women for themselves. (I’ll probably get some people saying I’m only assuming other people are that way because I am, but my evidence is how people have always loved Japan’s Sengoku period, China’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Genghis Khan.) But we certainly couldn’t live such a hard life, so we instead enjoy vicariously living a hero’s life in novels.

So if I wrote a story about warring kingdoms and kingdom-stealing battles in a fantasy world with the usual swords, magic, and dragons, it would be sure to sell. And that’s why I wrote this. (I hope I was right and it does sell.)

Now I should probably get to the customary stuff for a new author.

To my editor Okada-san, thank you for giving me this debut novel. I hope we can continue like this for a long time to come.

To Senbata Rou who did the illustrations, thank you very much. (The readers drawn in by your skill will probably drastically increase the sales of this novel. But if my skill as an author gives them a rude awakening, that will show up in the sales of Part 2… Tremble, tremble. It scares me just thinking about it.)

Okay, everyone, goodbye for now. Until we meet again in Kingdom Conquered by the Golden Dragon – Part 2: A Princess’s Scarlet Tears. (If you’ve read this far, you must be curious how it turns out. Please don’t forget to buy Part 2.)

You can look forward to Knight Woman Lucy’s counterattack! (That’s supposed to be an ad for Part 2, but I can’t find a good way of putting it. …Anyway, that ends Part 1’s Afterword.)

Harem Dynast Part 1: Chapter 6 - Battle of Corlal Field

The day after the wedding ceremony in the Domos capital of Fenrir, the Domos’s military flag was raised: black with a yellow border and a legendary divine wolf in the center.

The supreme commander was of course Domos King Lorent. He was followed by his generals: Stephan, Almeida, Kubdai, Shigsal, Naja, Carnap, Vatistuta, and Lumishas. The army was 12 thousand strong. They had far more horses than soldiers, so 20 thousand horses kicked dust high into the sky.

Domos Queen Ansandra rode in a carriage in the reverse of the journey she had taken just a month earlier.

The maids and knights that had accompanied her from Clanaria were shocked and dumbfounded by this sudden turn of events. The marriage had been intended to build friendship between the kingdoms, but it had led to the exact opposite.

They had no idea what to do, but they were forced to choose one of two things: Serve Ansandra by assisting Domos, or die.

Every last one of them chose to serve Ansandra as before. This had less to do with Ansandra’s leadership ability and more to do with the naïve idea that surviving now would lead to alternative options in the future.

Ansandra sat in the shaking carriage and it was Dominic rather than Mimi who sat opposite her this time.

That viper of a woman was trying to gather information on Clanaria from the traitorous princess. Ansandra hated Dominic, but she was Lorent’s wife now and she had steeled her resolve, so she was willing to help.

Adolescent Adam 6: Chapter 1 - Beginning of a New Season

Where…am I?

Mutsuki all of a sudden found himself standing there.

He was in the middle of a green-filled forest he had never seen before. The maple and zelkova leaves were such a bright green that he narrowed his eyes. A fresh breeze stroked his cheeks.

The thick underbrush and flowers grew tall and caught the gentle sunlight. Was it springtime? The sun was comfortably warm and made him feel a little sweaty.

Nearby was a well-leveled field likely meant to grow wheat. It must have been harvested a season before because straw was piled up nearby.

His nose detected the warm and sweet scent of crushed wheat and the sharp smell of damp earth.

(Where…in the world am I?)

The idyllic world actually made him nervous.

Where was he? Why was he here?

Fujita Mutsuki was confused about everything, but…

“What are you zoning out for?”

“Wah.”

An impolite tackle hit him from behind.

Harem Dynast Part 1: Chapter 5 - Morning of the Wedding

“Long live Queen Ansandra!”

Cries of joy and celebration echoed across the gray stone walls and into the blue of the early morning sky.

This was the Domos royal capital of Fenrir.

On the royal palace’s thick stone balcony, the king held the Queen in his arm and introduced her to the kingdom.

In the sunlight of the northern kingdom’s short summer, Ansandra had the radiant beauty to match Lorent’s good looks, so the Domos people were more than satisfied emotionally.

And on a rational front, they celebrated the incalculable blessings she was sure to bring from the great neighboring kingdom of Clanaria.

For this bright day, Ansandra wore a wedding dress made so much silk and lace that it had supposedly taken 20 Clanarian weavers half a year to make.

The low-cut chest showed off her smooth throat, the curves of her shoulders, and her pretty collarbones. She gave off the kind of allure found in only the most beautiful girls and women.

Adolescent Adam 6: Prologue

[View Record…Begin]

“We will now begin the artificial demon cell transplant and implantation for Phase 3 of the Bioroid Plan.”

“Beginning analysis of specimen structure…positive.”

“Analysis of cellular spirituality structure complete. Checking similarity to demon…positive.”

“Turning Target Specimen 01 into Adam-affiliated guardian angel.”

“Permanent Name: Ange…positive.”

“Pwah!”

The girl felt something pressing down on her body, so she sprang up to throw it off of her before she even fully woke.

She used her entire slender and athletic body like a spring. Her momentum outdid whatever was pressing down on her and it scattered.

Even as it scattered, it clung stickily to her body.

(That was-…Wh-what is this?)

It was a liquid. It was sticky like honey. Only then did she realize she was soaking in some kind of tank instead of lying in her bed.

She was not wearing any clothes, leaving her in her birthday suit.

But before she could feel any embarrassment, she noticed something else that made her forget even the fluid defiling her pearl-white skin.

(What…is this? In my throat…whep.)

There was something in her mouth. It was hard…and cylindrical.

She tried to spit it out but could not.

Novel Introduction: Adolescent Adam 6

Onto the sixth novel: Adolescent Adam 6: Juvenile Attack (思春期なアダム6 幼生期の襲撃).

The story continues with Ren transferring back into Mutsuki's school and a Kurosaki family plot underway in the background.

Author: Sakakikasa (さかき傘)
Illustrator: Amagai Yukino (天海雪乃)
Label: Atomic Bunko (あとみっく文庫)


Table of Contents:

Prologue

Chapter 1: Beginning of a New Season

Chapter 2: Arrival of Student Council President Shirohara Ren

Chapter 3: Dark Visit

Chapter 4: A Distant Yet Close Pair

Chapter 5: Juvenile Ange

Chapter 6: Juvenile Attack

Chapter 7: And Onto the Cultural Festival
Afterword

Harem Dynast Part 1: Chapter 4 - Impossible Dream

“So my next target is the central plain kingdom of Clanaria…”

While Ansandra’s powerful sense of responsibility had her shut in a dark room and struggling with thoughts about Clanaria and Domos’s future, the man who had taken her chastity was speaking to himself in a windy outdoor space.

Domos’s royal capital of Fenrir was a stone-built mountain fortress, but the very top level was an open-air room.

The roofs and trees of the castle town were visible all around him and the gentle waves of the mountain peaks towered above. The beauty of the sunlight shining off of the snowcapped mountains was one of the Domos people’s few sources of pride.

Lorent was not the type to enjoy that view, but when he had some spare time but not enough to travel, he had a habit of staring into the distance instead of holing up inside.

The people who knew his nature suspected he felt like he was looking down on the world from the heavens.

The curtain of night had fallen and the breathtaking mountains could not be seen, but as he stood there in only a thin robe, the light of the stars scattered across the sky like the contents of a jewelry box poured down as a silver shower.

The scents of several flowers and trees filled the air, the night wind flirted with his skin, and the chirping of bugs reached his ears.

Domos’s nights were known to be cold even during the summer. It would likely be chilly to residents of warm Clanaria, but Lorent found it pleasantly warm.

No resident of Domos would claim to hate this season and Lorent was no exception.

Adolescent Adam 5: Afterword

Hello. It seems to be an Adolescent Adam tradition to release a summer story during the winter. It was school swimsuits in Volume 2 and it’s a camping trip here. This is Sakakikasa.

Yes, a camping trip. The kind of camping trip where you go fishing and never catch a single fish. The kind of camping trip where you make a ton of curry because you want a lot of food but end up throwing a bunch away. The kind of camping trip where the person who brings the Pringles is everyone’s hero. The kind of camping trip where it’s surprisingly cold in the morning. The kind of camping trip where your favorite souvenir is the weird kind of drink you found at the vending machine near the campground.

This volume was about Mutsuki and the others enjoying their youth like that. How did you like it? Everyone was full of energy, weren’t they? Especially Saya, Mutsuki, and Lucia. I wrote Saya’s character with no plan whatsoever and she’s turned into a pretty interesting girl.

Amagai-sama, thank you for the lovely designs this time as well. This was our first look at Ange and Machina’s casual clothes and they were really cute.

Until we meet again.

Adolescent Adam 5: Chapter 8 - The Door Has Opened

Even in the morning, night, or evening, FeTUS headquarters was filled with the gentle light of day.

Once again, Miss A, aka Miss Alice, sat in a white wooden chair during her teatime.

She was alone today as she enjoyed a Darjeeling.

“Hmm.”

Due to the humidity, the tea’s color was a bit dark.

It had not been brewed perfectly, but the slight changes from day to day were one of the highlights of tea. She took a sip and savored the somewhat stronger flavor.

It was a little too bitter, so she returned the cup to its saucer and picked up her fork.

Today’s tea cake was a castella. She scooped up a small piece and carried it to her mouth.

“…”

The sweet flavor spread through her mouth.

At the same time, the strong smell of bitter melon stung her nose.

“Bitter melon castella? …This will not serve as a teacake.”

Her childish face wrinkled as she washed the flavor down with the Darjeeling.

She then leaned back in her chair.

The sunlight was perfect for a comfortable nap, so she calmly closed her eyes.

“…”

But then she opened them and reached into her skirt pocket.

She pulled out a ribbon. A neatly balled-up ribbon. She straightened it out and removed just the right scrunchie of the two in her hair.

She brushed her long honey-colored hair by hand and tied it in place with the ribbon.

It was a cheap ribbon with a bear character printed on it.

“♪”

Miss Alice smiled slightly.

Adolescent Adam 5: Chapter 7 - Outside Door

They took it easy the next day.

“As the divine messenger of protecting nature, I am strictly opposed to barbarically capturing animals by having them swallow hooks.”

Sakae seemed to have given up on fishing, so he went into the mountains instead.

“I need to do some searching. It’s nothing important, though. And you…don’t leave Satowa’s side this time.”

For some reason, Ange gave Mutsuki a scary look and went into the mountains too.

“I am going shopping. We are out of mayonnaise.”

Machina left the mountains for the time being.

“That spot has the greatest concentration of demonic energy. Call me if you need anything.”

Lucia took a nap on the large rock by the river he had also climbed onto the day before.

Mutsuki followed Ange’s advice by staying where he could see Lucia while he washed everyone’s changes of clothes and hung them up to dry.

Once he had time, he decided to gather some edible plants in order to make a nutritious dinner instead of the unhealthy lineup of barbecue and cup noodles.

Saya went with him, although she was unusually low energy after overheating in the bath the night before.