Adolescent Adam 7: Chapter 5 - Etcetera Leading To a Kiss

“Ahhhhhh!”

Ange had arrived below the parking lot for the SeeDWalK shopping mall.

Technically, she was at a secret facility Machina had made in the space below the parking lot. At this hour, the large facility was closed, so no one was there and it was safe to shout loudly underground.

A space of nearly 50 square meters had been hollowed out 18 meters belowground. Ange had started using it as a training ground.

The tungsten walls were lined with superconductive material and were magnetically controlled, so the room could survive temperatures of several million degrees for a short period. She never could have come by something like this without FeTUS’s assistance.

Metatron’s firepower normally came at the cost of burning away her own life, but Adam’s command had carved the inability to kill herself into the core of her being. So she had recently started taking advantage of that by trying to control the firepower on a level just barely below the bursting point.

Metatron’s flames possessed the same traits as normal flames, so they were more difficult to control than an angel’s flames that only burned her enemies. That meant she needed a facility that kept the flames from spreading even when she was only training.

“Hahh!”

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.”