Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 1 Episode 1

Episode 1: The Intruder at Midnight

Part 1

There was a colour of the skin.

A white steam that covered all of the sight.

At the other side of the steam, there was a wall and a marble pillar that was visible due to being lit by the lamp.

And the feeling of the warm water that wet his cotton trouser.

No matter how you thought about it, this was a bathroom.

“……U-Umm?”

(How did this happen again……?)

That question was going through Lux’s mind.

“……!?”

Lux looked down while he tried not to look at the naked girls that were standing there shocked at the other side of the steam.

“…………Fu.”

Underneath Lux who was inside the hot water with his clothes on was a girl who made a laugh.

Unlike her slim body, there was a mature smile on her expression.

Her smooth white skin turned red due to being inside the bath where her cheek also became red.

(She’s cute.)

He could have said that if he was looking at her from the side, but Lux not only couldn’t speak, but also couldn’t move an inch due to the dangerous feeling and the steam coming out from the girl.

“……Hey, pervert. Do you have anything left to say before dying?”

Scary words came out from her lovely face where she was forcefully made a smile.

Well, it wouldn’t be weird for her to be angry.

That’s because—, he could see her.

Inside the spacious bathroom, the towel that was wrapped around her body fell and her fresh looking naked body became visible.

Her cute looking breast that was shivering while hitting back the hot water.

Her collarbone that rose above the hot water and the tight curve on her hips.

And also, even places below her silky stomach was—.

“…………”

His fate might be decided with his next word.

Lux started to choose the words carefully with his panicked head.

(I, I should praise her first……!)

In the past when he did chores while working as a bar waiter, he was taught the technique of how to praise a girl.

Before he could come up with something, his honest opinion came out from his mouth.

“……Hmm, the thing is. You are cute. Your whole packages itself is like that of a child……no, even though you seem young, you have quite the breast—and it’s quite taunting. ……Wait, what the!?”

(I’m dead.)

(What on earth am I saying! That’s not what I’m supposed to say!)

(Who was it!? The one who taught me the wrong way to say it!? That damn perverted bar owner!)

“…………Fu.”

The naked girl who heard that released a bitter laughter.

For an instant, she made a bright smile as if she was satisfied with it, and then—

“How long are you planning to ride on top of me, you fooooooool!”

She made an angry voice.

“Kyaaaaaaaah!?”

At the same time, there was many screams coming from the girls of the whole bathroom.

The naked girls started to throw anything they could find at Lux with all their might.

“I, I’m sooooooooorry!”

Lux tried to escape in panic.

“H-How did it turn out like this!?”

With a teary eyes, Lux started to remember what happened several hours ago with the bag he was carrying in his hand.

Part 2

“Stoooooooop!”

The voice he let out from his stomach echoed through the buildings.

The cross-shaped fortress town made from block of five towns, “Crossfield”.

At the first district which is located at centre of such place, there were two shadows that were sprinting.

One of the shadows that were running ahead is a cat with tiger stripes and it had a small bag within its mouth.

The shadow belonging to a small build boy was chasing after the cat with all his might.

The sprint started from the third district that is located to the west of the towns shaped in a cross.

The boy, who already ran a distant which normally made you think whether you should take a cargo, has already run across a single town, was already at his limit in terms of exhaustion.

Even so, the silver haired boy with a choker continued to run.

The girl from the liquor store who gladly allowed Lux who didn’t have a place to sleep to stay over last night.

When he saw her again, the small bag that she was carrying had been taken by a cat nearby all of a sudden.

“Ahaha……, you know you don’t have to force yourself?”

She put on a bitter smile when Lux was about to go after the cat, but—.

“I will definitely bring that back.”

To serve and to help the people of this country.

That is an obligation and aim for Lux who is put in a special position of this country.

Even if that wasn’t the case, he wouldn’t allow the cat to run since it’s a belonging that belongs to someone who had helped him.

Lux raised his spirit once again and sprinted up the slope that was located in the main street.

“……Oh, if this isn’t the young lad. It’s been a while. Will you be able to work at my place next time? I don’t have much manpower to plant some seeds during this season……”

“I’m sorry! I’m in a middle of something, so I’ll get back to you next time—”

Even though an old man stopped him from the side of the street, Lux replied back politely even though he’s in a rush.

(This isn’t the right time!)

Even though he was panicking in such a way, he saw an old woman with good physique far away this time.

“Oh my, its Lux. Can you help out at my kitchen next time? It’s almost the time for the anniversary for the establishment of the New Kingdom of Atismata. You can also make a bit of dishes fitting for a party, right?”

“I’ll come to you when the time comes!”

Lux took out a notepad and a pen quickly from the bag equipped on his belt and wrote down some memo.

He was out of luck to have shown some confidence due to the cat slowing down its pace up the slope.

“What, you came back from the kingdom? You should have come to my atelier to give your greetings to me. You were still in a middle of your training as a blacksmith at my place.”

The stern-looking worker turned around and said that to Lux.

“Umm, I have a bit of free time in five days so—”

“Hey, Lux. Can you help out at taking care of the cow—”

“Can you become a play buddy for my daughter—”

“Hold on a sec……, I can’t! I’m sorry, I can’t do all of this now!”

He was trying to write all of that down but had put away his notepad and gave up.

Now wasn’t the time to taking request for his “labour”.

His first priority was to capture the cat.

Putting that in his head, Lux sprinted as he put the last energy he had in his legs.

One hour later. About time when it became dawn.

“I, I should have given up already……”

Possibly due to the labour work Lux had done from morning to noon, he was simply exhausted.

Apparently it was a part of organisms’ instinct to chase after those who ran away from them.

Despite breathing violently, he climbed up a tall wall and continued to chase after the cat.

“Huh……? Where is this place?”

For an instant, Lux panicked thinking that he had entered military area due to the spacious area and atmosphere. But there should be something else in this first district of the central.

(Then I would be able to come up with an excuse.)

As he thought that, the cat climbed onto a different building while it carried the girl’s bag in its mouth.

“W-Why did you have to go over there……!?”

Lux didn’t have a choice but to kick the wall and jump onto the other roof.

Since he had experience repairing roofs many time as a part of his labour, he had good grasp of climbing the roofs safely.

He wouldn’t have to do this normally, but he was already doing basically due to obstinacy.

“—Alright! I’ve finally arrived!”

There was basically no place left to go, so Lux closes the distance between him and the cat slowly.

He then became resolved and went for the cat.

“Nyaa!”

He will obviously lose to the cat in terms of speed, but his target was the girl’s bag from the beginning.

When Lux grasped onto the shoulder belt of the bag with his fingers, the cat finally let go off the bag it was holding onto.

“Hooray!”

(I finally retrieved it!)

Lux started to smile due to the relief and accomplishment.

This might be a small achievement, but this was still an act of good will.

(If I report this to the administration, they may help me by lowering the debt I have by a bit.)

“……No, this kind of selfishness isn’t right.”

No matter how much huge debt Lux had been burdened by this country, he should simply be happy that he was able to become a help for someone.

“Now then. If I don’t get back soon—”

It has completely become dawn all of a sudden, so the surrounding has become dark.

(Not being able to see the surrounding once I become too focused on things is my bad habit.)

As Lux reflected on his own action, he was about to jump of the roof, but—

Crack!

A nasty sound like that was made.

“Eh……?”

The source of the sound came from the single part of the roof Lux was holding onto while he put all of his weight on it.

“H-Hey!? Don’t tell me this is—”

Lux tried to get away from the spot in hurry.

But he was too late.

While the crack was made below his hand while making so much sound, the speed of it breaking increased and then shattered.

“Uwaaaaaah!?”

Lux fell along with the sensation of losing the sense of his weight.

Splaaaaaaaah……!!

Lux fell into the water after a second.

“Uwaaaah! Cough! ……Huh?”

Apparently there was water under him.

Lux became relieved for a moment that he wasn’t injured, but he realised the strangeness right away.

(This is—a hot water?)

When he looked, his body from his hips and below was covered by hot water.

At the other side of the white steam, he was able to see an expensive looking marble pillar and wall due to the faint lamp that made the surrounding look orange.

“Don’t tell me this place is—”

Lux realised it the moment he was trying to grasp hold of the situation.

The fragments of the roof he fell from.

Those fragments fell, and even from above the small build girl who was nearby—.

“Look out!”

Lux jumped towards her by reflex to push her away and jumped on her.

Part 3

“How long are you planning to ride on top of me, you fooooooool!”

—And Lux’s conscious connects to the present.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Several loud screams echoed throughout the bath.

“I-I’m soooooorry!”

(to be continued….)

Part 4

(to be continued….)