Chapter Eighty-Three Before Departure

  Finally, the teams that can represent Elyria Spirit Academy to participate in the upcoming Sword Dance Festival, except for the team of Yakumo Sumi, surprisingly also include the teams of Veleselia and Kazehaya Jin.

  No wonder, Feng Yuchen and Feianna actually joined Veleselia's team.

  Later, he heard others discussing it and only then did Yakumo Satsuki learn that because of the previous conflict with Velsaria, Godou and Velsaria had a duel.

  It was unexpected that after the match, Veir Sally actually acknowledged the strength of Fūjin no Kami, and then sent a team invitation to this male spirit.

  The godman was worried about not being able to find his teammates, and naturally would not refuse the invitation from Veleselia. At the same time, three years ago, he was saved by the godman, and also knew that the godman was actually Lain Aserbel's identity, so Fianna followed the godman and joined as well.

  However, since being defeated by the God three years ago as Lien Ashubble, Velsaria has been harboring a grudge. This time, she hopes to defeat Lien Ashubble, but if she were to find out about the God's true identity, who knows what kind of expression she would have?

  And so, after the internal struggle within the academy, Asuna's "Asuna Team" and Versaria Iva's "Versalia Iva Team", along with one other team, finally obtained the qualifications to participate.

  However, although fortunate enough not to have encountered Vierlia's team in the intramural competition at the academy, Hachiguma Sora, who had watched their match, keenly noticed that something was off about Vierlia.

  After browsing through some of the academy's classics with Akane, Yakumo Tsubasa finally understood that the eerie feeling he had was because Velsaria had transplanted cursed seal engravings on him.

  This cursed seal is a spiritual crest artificially attached to the body of a Spiritualist, which can not only seal spirits but also produce various effects such as forcibly drawing out contract spirits or adding different attributes. It was widely used during the Great War era, but due to many transplanters dying one after another from side effects, it was explicitly prohibited by each country after the war.

  However, it's likely that each country is still secretly researching this thing.

  Recalling the figure of Velsaria in battle, Yakumo Sumi looked down on the so-called Treaty of Nations.

  "Coo, coo——"

  The forest surrounding the academy carried the crisp sound of birds chirping.

  "Wooo——"

  As soon as he opened his eyes, Ba Yun Mo immediately felt something was off under the blanket.

  Ice tea...

  By her side was a face as lovely as a flower, delicate and charming, with a hint of languor and satisfaction between her eyebrows.

  It was Akatsuki's spring sleep tomorrow.

  She sat up in bed, and her raven-black hair cascaded down, forming a dazzling waterfall that set off the snowy whiteness of Yakumo Mokou's and Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka's skin.

  The blanket covered Akane's tempting body, but couldn't hide the undulating curves.

  But now...

  Lifting the blanket slightly, Bayun Mo's face showed a "so it is" expression.

  Aster, as usual, was naked except for knee-high stockings and crouched between Minaduki and herself.

  Although every night before sleep, Aester would transform into a sword-like appearance, but every time she woke up, this holy sword little girl would turn human and crawl into the bed with an extremely strange posture.

  Meinashi said many times, but in this regard, Aister was unexpectedly stubborn.

  It's strange that she doesn't seem to mind**, but is unexpectedly very shy about being barefoot.

  After saying it several times without effect, Akane also gave up on correcting Aester's strange behavior.

  Yakumo Moku felt delighted to see a girl in tights every morning, but he didn't lose control and do something about it.

  He is a boundary monster, but not a dragon.

  Perhaps because she was preparing to set out on a journey to the Elemental Spirit Realm to attend the Spirit Sword Dance Festival, Akane was extremely excited last night and couldn't sleep for a long time.

  So naturally, she can't wake up now either.

  Carefully pulling out the hair that was pressed down by Akane, Yakumo Moku flipped over and got out of bed, making a silencing gesture to Aester who was about to say something.

  The Holy Sword Maiden nodded expressionlessly.

  Dressed neatly, after washing up, it was still a luxurious Taoist robe with black bottom and golden edges, in addition to the eight trigrams diagram, there were also embroidered mountains, rivers, grass, trees, flowers, birds, insects and fish.

  Every needle and thread is naturally from Lan's skilled hands.

  The style of this garment is similar to the traditional attire of an empire called Kuina on this continent.

  These days, Hachigusa Toudou mostly had Minato enter the school library to look at books that were allowed for ordinary students to borrow.

  And also learned many things about this continent that were previously unknown.

  For that Koina Empire, Yakumo Moku is extremely interested.

  The scenery of that empire is very similar to ancient China.

  Dong, dong, dong——

  The door was knocked on.

  Esther, who had already gotten out of bed and dressed, went to open the door.

  Carrie walked in with a large travel bag.

  Behind her were Lindsay and her useless maid, as well as Alice.

  "Good morning, senior!"

  Saw Hachiguma and Kurea, exchanged greetings with them.

  At first, the girls were hesitant about what to call Yakumo Sukehiro, but later they thought "Although he's a spirit, he's also our senior's husband, so he's also our senior", and so the girls uniformly called him Yakumo-senpai.

  "You've arrived—"

  Just as Hachiguma was about to signal them to be quieter, Yakumo suddenly revealed a hint of bitter smile.

  Akane has already been woken up.

  Mei, wearing pajamas, rubbed her eyes and walked out of the bedroom.

  Because everyone present except her husband was a girl, Akane didn't mind her current exposed appearance.

  "Mò, why didn't you wake me up when you got up?"

  "You went to bed so late last night, I thought you'd sleep in a bit longer."

  Although Yakumo Mokou said it very calmly, a group of girls blushed one after another.

  Stay up late...

  Yazuki Moe, who knew that the little girls had gone astray, didn't bother to explain and directly entered the bedroom, opening the magic circle she had set up beforehand, and carried out Yui, who had also woken up.

  After a lot of fuss, Yui finally calmed down and went to the bathroom to wash up after Yaichi helped her get dressed.

  After having breakfast, the school bell had already rung, yet everyone was still gathered in Akane's dormitory checking their luggage.

  "Frying pan, spoon, seasoning, bacon toast..."

  "Linsleyte, what are you preparing those things for?"

  "Of course I'm going to cook! I don't want to eat your canned food!"

  "We're going to attend the Spirit Sword Dance Festival! Not a trip!"

  "It's all right! No problem, if not, look at Fenrir!"

  The ice wolf summoned by Linsley opened its big mouth and sucked in, and all the cooking utensils prepared by Linsley were swallowed into it.

  Facing the stunned crowd, Linsley let out a triumphant smile.

  "Miss's spirit is connected to the dimensional space, so it can be used as a mobile warehouse. Also, since it's an ice spirit, it also has refrigeration effects."

  "This is really convenient—"

  Alice stuck her tongue out.

  "If I were to open up space, I can also do it." Yayun Mo raised his right hand and lightly swept through the air, a rift suddenly appeared.

  Throw in the luggage prepared by Akane for tomorrow. Yakumo Suke raised his hand to the crowd: "How is it? Some things that don't need refrigeration can be put directly inside."

  Kreier saw this and immediately prepared to throw her own suitcase in as well, but after looking left and right, she discovered that her own suitcase was nowhere to be found.

  Meow!

  Scarlett's cry attracted everyone's attention.

  The Fire Cat Spirit accidentally knocked over Kure's luggage at some point and was now rolling around with the girl's clothes as if they were a ball of yarn.

  "Scarlett don't play with luggage - oh dear!"

  Scarlett's face turned red with embarrassment as she rushed over, but in her haste, she tripped on the clothes scattered all over the floor by Scarlett.

  Mei Mei is a little girl, but unexpectedly wears mature black tights.

  Baiyun Mo somewhat awkwardly shifted his gaze away.

  After Krear and Eris finished packing their gifts into the gap of Yakumo In, Akane said: "So, let's confirm once again. This time's Sword Dance Festival is a team battle. Eris uses a gun, so I'll be in the front row with Eris, Krear will use her flame whip to support from the middle, Linslet will provide cover fire with her bow and arrow from the back...and also..."

  "——Kokoro and Papa will take care of covering the attack!"

  The little girl happily raised her hand.

  "Got it! I know everything now!"

  "Then, everyone, come on!"

  "Hi!!!!!!"