Chapter 145: Do It When No One's Around!
"Ow, ow, ow... Eh?! Where are my glasses?"
The person lying atop Shiro suddenly began moving restlessly.
Her soft body twisted against him, while her feminine fragrance continuously drifted into his nose.
Touka might move like an agile leopard in any environment during battle, but she was actually severely nearsighted.
Without her glasses, she could barely distinguish a person from an animal ten meters away.
Unless she used her ability, walking from the training field to the student council office without them was nearly impossible.
Having lost something so important during the fall, Touka panicked.
She seemed to mistake Shiro's body for the student council carpet and began searching all over him with her pale hands.
Despite training under Torajirou Nangou for years, Touka did not have the thick calluses usually found on a swordsman's hands.
Her skin remained smooth and fair, with several faint veins visible beneath it.
Her slender fingers gently searched across Shiro's body, feeling almost like a massage while also stirring his most primitive desires.
For a moment, he found himself trapped in an uncomfortable state.
However, this was not the time to enjoy a girl's service.
If he allowed her hands to continue downward, the situation would become extremely troublesome.
Shiro had not forgotten that the student council members were watching nearby.
He did not know why they had suddenly fallen silent, but he was not perverted enough to make a move on Touka in front of an audience.
"Wait, Touka! Don't go any lower! Your glasses are over here!"
Shiro hurriedly stopped her and picked up the glasses that had fallen beside him.
He gently placed them back upon her delicate nose.
"Mm. Thank you."
Touka's vision finally became clear again.
However, the sight before her made her blink instinctively.
After confirming she was not mistaken, her face turned so red it seemed capable of releasing flames. Faint steam even appeared above her head.
One thigh wrapped in a white stocking was pressing against Shiro in an extremely suggestive position.
Both her hands were still resting upon his chest.
It was not as though Touka had never been this close to him before.
However, most of those occasions occurred during childhood or when Shiro had been injured and needed her care.
After they began growing older, Touka had never again come into such close contact with him.
Even though she had once spoken of marrying him as a child, their current position still left her deeply embarrassed.
The thrill and guilt of doing something forbidden tangled inside her mind, freezing her completely in place.
"Touka, if you really want to do this, please wait until no one else is around."
Unlike Touka, Shiro had already become quite experienced under Nene's "guidance."
Even with a soft, fragrant girl in his arms, he could still maintain his composure.
"Eek... Yes!"
Shiro's reminder finally made Touka remember that the student council members were surrounding them.
She hurriedly climbed off him and nervously examined everyone's reactions.
Fortunately, none of them seemed to have noticed their intimate position.
They were all gathered around Kanata, staring at the student handbook in her hands.
If Touka remembered correctly, it was the same handbook Kanata had just stolen from her.
However, their expressions did not look good.
Driven by curiosity, concern for her companions, and a trace of guilt, Touka approached them.
"What happened, Kanata? You look terrible."
"Here. See for yourselves."
"But remember, no matter what you see, remain calm."
Kanata returned Touka's student handbook and prepared herself to stop a possible fight.
After all, this concerned a place in the Seven Star Sword Art Festival and a chance to display oneself before the entire world.
For student knights, participating in the Festival was one of the best possible paths forward.
Simply appearing there would make the rest of their lives considerably smoother.
It was similar to an ordinary person entering a world-famous university.
Even the lowest student there stood beyond what most ordinary students could compare themselves with.
Kanata would not have been surprised if someone told her that siblings had fought each other over such an opportunity.
Yet after seeing the handbook's contents, Shiro and Touka merely nodded calmly.
"Mm. My next opponent is Touka."
"Looks like I won't be able to leave behind the legend of punching my way through Hagun's entire selection tournament."
"Even against you, Shiro, I absolutely won't lose."
Their indifferent attitudes left Kanata stunned.
She had already prepared herself for an argument, yet neither of them seemed surprised.
It was almost as though—
"As though we knew from the beginning that we might have to defeat each other, right?"
Touka understood what Kanata was thinking and smiled at her.
"Don't worry. Shiro and I won't argue over something this small."
"The moment we registered, we were already prepared to defeat one another."
Both Shiro and Touka ultimately aimed for the championship.
Touka carried the expectations of the children at the orphanage.
Shiro had promised Nene that he would win.
Each of them had a reason they could not afford to lose.
In other words, from the moment they entered the selections, they had already resolved to defeat everyone standing in their way.
That remained true even if the opponent was their childhood friend.
Besides, neither of them needed the title of Seven Stars Sword King to increase their fame.
A mere place in the Festival was not enough to damage their relationship.
Kanata looked toward Shiro.
After he also nodded in agreement, she silently released a breath of relief.
'Thank goodness. Neither of them values the qualification enough to fight over it.'
She had feared they might argue over the single place available for the Seven Star Sword Art Festival.
If that happened, then as the person who handed them the student handbook, she would have become the wicked woman who indirectly damaged their relationship.
It was wonderful that this would not harm their bond.
Now Kanata could relax and look forward to the spectacular battle between them.
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