Chapter 2

It had a main weapon of a single blade hung down on her hips, the [Sword(Vibrant Sharp Katana)]. Its silhouette was like a Japanese katana, but it had mechanical detail that was similar to the Heart Hybrid Gear. It severed not by physical touch, but by moving the particles that were generated by part of the blade at high speed, the touched thing was severed, such mechanism was how the sword worked. Its sharpness was terrific, making it possible for it to bisect a magic weapon that was far larger than the Sword with one slash.

And then one more weapon that the gear possessed, were the four long swords floating in reserve behind Himekawa.

Neros' sure kill weapon, the [Blades].

The swords obeyed Himekawa's will and soared freely without restriction in the air. It boasted peerless combat strength in middle range battle, large numbers of magic weapons had been slaughtered by those blades.

Such terrifying weapon was now directed at Kizuna.

"Ca, calm down! You shouldn't put on your gear at all ri-...eh?"

"It's useless for you to beg for your life this late. This kind of filthy act, is unforgivable!"

Kizuna thought.

Originally, an exclusive pilot suit was worn in case of equipping Heart Hybrid Gear, because the specially made suit heightened the affinity of the body with the Heart Hybrid Gear.

However, the pilot suit was thin, it made one who saw it completely understand the body line and curve. He had even thought once that wasn't it the same with not wearing anything at all.

"However, I was mistaken..."

A pilot suit was valid.

"Ha? What are you saying?"

"What happened!? Hayuru!"

The door was opened with a loud sound.

"A, Aine!?"

The one who entered the dressing room was a girl with silver hair and red eyes. It was Chidorigafuchi Aine, the one with the Heart Hybrid Gear [Zeros] residing inside that body.

"Everything is exactly just like you see!"

Himekawa vented a yell of rage, but Aine tilted her head.

"Even if you told me that it's exactly as it looks like..."

Aine knitted her eyebrows and glared at Kizuna.

"...What in the world is this situation, I wonder if I can receive an explanation?"

"Eeerrr, that..."

Losing her temper from that kind of exchange, Himekawa yelled.

"That perverted man was sneaking into the women's bath that I was in! Molester, pervert!"

Aine further knitted her eyebrows and tilted her head.

"If I have to say which is which, Hayuru's side is the one that look perverted though."

"Haa-!? Just what in the world are you sayin――"

There Himekawa dropped her gaze and confirmed her own appearance.

The bath towel that should hide her appearance was torn to pieces, dropping below her feet.

Her breath stopped from the great shock.

That time when the gear was equipped――?

As if saying that it was unbelievable, she looked at the large mirror on the wall.

There, a girl with Heart Hybrid Gear put on her totally naked upper body was standing there.

That appearance, was truly perverted.

"A female pervert."

Aine declared coldly.

In the first place, the area that the armor of Heart Hybrid Gear covered was little. However Neros was a model that covered a comparatively wide area with its armor. With the shoulder pads and the parts that protected the front part of the body, and the shield spreading in skirt shape on the waist and so on, Neros' defensive power was far higher compared to the likes of Zeros.

However, with how solid its guard was, unexpectedly its chest and crotch part, and also its ass part, the essential areas had no armor for some reason, those places only depended on the pilot suit.

Therefore, there was nothing protecting those parts right now.

Kizuna had his eyes stolen by that unrealistic sight.

The wet skin reflected the light of the ceiling, creating a bewitching luster at her skin.

The pink topping placed smally on the wet breasts stole his eyes whether he wanted it or not with its fresh color and lustrous appearance.

If one was a man, then he surely would want to touch and enjoy its sensation, put it inside his mouth and enjoy the taste. There was no way he didn't think of that from looking at such a luscious sight.

And then, when he dropped his gaze from her breast, his eyes would catch the amorous ribs. From her largely indented solar plexus connected toward her waist that looked so thin that it looked unreliable.

That delicate and supple curve was really suggestive, it unconditionally stimulated his instincts.

Furthermore, below the navel the place that was gently swelling, even further below that was――

"KYAAAAAAAAAA-!"

Himekawa's scream reverberated inside the dormitory once more.

She hid her breast with both her arms and turned her back to him to protect herself.

"Do-, don't look! Please don't lookkkk-!"

Kizuna turned behind in panic.

"Ye, yeah-! I'm turning back so, it's... buh-!?"

However, behind him was also a mirror.

The white glossy ass entered his eyes. It was as though Neros' red armor was hollowed only in that place, making the white ass poke out. It was as if Neros was framing the ass to make it stand out. Each time Himekawa twisted her body, that ass danced to the left and right. That ass was a little big for the slender Himekawa, a type that could give easy delivery for baby. The tight and smooth surface looked like it would feel really pleasant to touch.

"Hii-!?"

Noticing that, Himekawa panickedly hid her ass with both her hands. This time her breasts became exposed bare once more. Matching her backward movement, her breasts shook up and down like jelly.

There was no way for her to hide at all.

"Hey, Kizuna. Is this what is called naked dancing?"

"Do-! Don't know! I'm not seeing anything!"

"No more, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!"

From the back of Himekawa that completely snapped, Himekawa's sure kill weapon, the Blades, were launched.

Part 2

Reiri who was unusually located in the principal's office asked with an amazed voice.

"You guys, just how many times do you need to destroy the dormitory until you are satisfied?"

The next day, Kizuna and Himekawa were summoned to the principal's office and received a lecture about the situation.

"I am reflecting about how the bathing facility is completely destroyed. But! That was a force majeure. I cannot ever imagine that a boy will enter into the public bath!"

"However, Kizuna had settled in the girl dormitory. Naturally, he has the right to use the public bath. How can you not assume that?"

"Tha, that's preposterous! Is Kizuna-kun intending to enter the public bath from now on too!?"

Himekawa's questioning gaze was reproaching Kizuna.

"No, no, no way. It's just, yesterday I had made the reservation for the bath at night."

"...Reservation?"

Himekawa made a dubious face.

"Eh? You didn't know?"

Kizuna also made a wondering face.

Even though all the students in the dormitory were supposed to be notified already.

"Aah, I didn't tell that to Himekawa. I told her to do some pointless errand and guided her so that she entered at that time."

"Wait, so this was your doing Nee-channnn-!!"

"Just why in the world, what purpose is there for that! Commander!"

With a dangerously threatening look, Himekawa hit the desk of the principal's office.

"No, that's because the relation between Kizuna and Himekawa hasn't progressed at all. And so I thought, maybe it would be better if I prepared an event. Though sadly it completely ended in an unfortunate result."

"What's unfortunate is you commander! For you to behave like this, I completely misjudged you!"

However Reiri talked back with a cool face.

"I'm the one who should ask what is your intention. I should have ordered you to do Heart Hybrid with Kizuna. Just when are you planning to actually carry it out?"

"Tha... that's! Tha, that kind of order, is invalid-. I cannot accept it!"

"Don't say something selfish."

"Sel...-!?"

Himekawa tightened her fist, her shoulders were shaking.

"Kizuna, how many percent is Himekawa's Hybrid Count right now?"

Kizuna took out his student identification that also doubled as a portable information terminal from his inside pocket. Its external shape was like a smartphone, but various functions were installed in it.

When he tapped the Amaterasu icon, the vital signs of the members were displayed.

"Himekawa's Hybrid Count is 28%. Certainly... it's going to be dangerous soon I think."

Hybrid Count was the unit of the energy that operated Heart Hybrid Gear. The yellow zone was when it passed below 25%, red zone was when it became below 10%. When it became below 5%, it would become hard even for maintaining the Heart Hybrid Gear's materialization.

If the Heart Hybrid Gear was called off in the middle of battle, it wasn't hard to imagine that the situation would become extremely dangerous. Even if she were saved, to be unable to equip the Heart Hybrid Gear meant that she didn't have any method to battle magic weapons. In other word, the Megafloat Japan would turn powerless against the enemy.

"Listen well, Himekawa. This is something that is affecting your life. By no means I'm ordering this on a whim or for a laugh. You too Kizuna. Take your mission more seriously."

"Even without something like Heart Hybrid, doing shameless things like that, our Hybrid Count will naturally recover by itself! Why, is waiting for that no good!?"

"Natural recovery….. you asked?"

Reiri smiled and reclined on her chair, she entrusted her body on the back of the chair.

"Then I'll ask, two weeks have passed since the last battle hasn't it? Then, your Hybrid Count, how much has it recovered?"

"Tha... that's..."

Himekawa faltered.

It was only natural.

Kizuna whispered inside his heart.

――3%.

Correct. Just a mere 3%.

Kizuna too thought that perhaps the sensor was broken, to the degree that he brought it to the lab once to be inspected. However, the number was correct.

"What are you going to do if the enemy appears right now? To take care of your condition is also the requisite of battle. Be diligent."

"...Kuh"

Himekawa bit her lips and turned around.

Following after her, Kizuna was also going to exit the room.

'Ah, that's right.'

Kizuna recalled the question that he had felt since before. He stopped in place and turned back to Reiri.

"...By the way, I want to ask one thing."

"What?"

"If the Hybrid Count is used up, what is going to happen to us?"

Reiri's lips were forming a tight line.

"I can imagine that the Heart Hybrid Gear will stop operating but... how would it happen more specifically? For example, are we going to become unable to use the gear for a second time? Or the Core is going to separate itself from us... I wonder, will something happen?"

Reiri rotated her chair and turned her back to Kizuna.

"I cannot say anything yet. The research is still in progress by Kei in the lab."

Reiri was staring at the scenery outside. Kizuna was unable to take a peek at her expression.

"Is that so? Got it."

Kizuna left behind the principal's room.

Hearing the footsteps turning distant, Reiri heaved a deep sigh.

From the window, the construction site of Ataraxia's restoration was visible.

The Strategic Defense Academy Ataraxia was independent from Megafloat Japan, it was a megafloat with a diameter around three kilometers, the foremost line in anti-AU technology. With research institutions of various sorts as the core, educational institutions from university until middle school were established that trained excellent researchers and military personnel.

This Ataraxia was shouldering the defense of Megafloat Japan, Ataraxia itself had unmanned city defense facilities installed in great numbers in it, like particle cannons disguised as buildings, or missile launching pads disguised as a plaza.

However, in the previous battle all of those were completely destroyed.

Right now the repair work was advanced at a quick pace. In addition, the destroyed commercial establishments, the collapsing streets, and the essential utilities. The construction work for rebuilding and restoring all of those was carried out everywhere.

It was a heartbreaking scar of battle, but to end up only with this much after receiving the bombardment of that large battleship, it could be said that it was a good result.

And then there was a method to easily restore the damage, it was a salvation.

Reiri thought so.

What was waiting for Kizuna and Himekawa who returned to the classroom, were the inquisitive gazes of all their classmates.

"Hey― Himekawa-san, is it true that you two entered the bath together at midnight!?"

"Eeh―!? Even though she is a public moral committee member? Amazinggg!?"

"Isn't it erotic washing each other at the bathroom? He, hey, a boy's that..."

"What are you doing inside Hida-kun's room until morning-?"

"It's in Himekawa-san's room I think? In the morning the two took a shower before going to school."

Furthermore, various embellishments were added to it.

The students who were full of interest were not only from Kizuna's second year first group. At the window that faced the corridor, students from other class were clustering. From there, gazes filled with resentment and killing intent were piercing Kizuna's body. Mainly from the boys.

"E, everyone. Please stop being irresponsible. All of those are lies, utter nonsense!"

Himekawa denied all those rumors thoroughly. However, she was greatly embarrassed from the reactions of the crowding classmates.

'...I too have to cooperate to prove my innocence.'

Kizuna stood up from his chair and went towards the crowd that was surrounding Himekawa.

"Hey, everyone. It's exactly as Himekawa said. All of those are just baseless rumors. There is no way at all that we were doing anything like that."

However, the doubting gazes of the class' girls were gathering on Kizuna all at once.

"No, but... you are Eros."

"Yeah, he might really do it... he is Eros after all."

"Rather, it's stranger if he didn't actually do it... it's Eros after all."

Just waitttttt!

"N, no, everyone, wai..."

Himekawa glared at him with terrifying eyes.

"Hida-kun, please go to the other side. If you interfere, even something true will not be believed."

Wasn't that too heartless?

However, the reality had resulted like that, so he couldn't say anything back.

"Hey, Kizuna. I wonder if you have a little time?"

A blonde haired, blue eyes, beautiful girl was calling to him. Her dynamite body was as though it had come out right from international gravure. Just by walking normally, the breasts wrapped inside the uniform shook bouncingly, a preposterous bust size.

One of the Amaterasu, the pilot of the Heart Hybrid Gear [Cross], Yurishia Farandole.

"Yurishia, is something wro... guhah... ka!!"

His collar was grasped and he was dragged until his seat.

"Wai... Yu, Yurishia... pa, painful...!"

He was made to sit on his own chair as if being thrown onto it.

"Wha, what are you do――ing..."

Yurishia who was standing imposingly in front of him was smiling... but, her eyes were not smiling at all.

From her whole body, aura was rising up slowly... was how it looked like.

"I heard that you entered the bath together with Hayuru, what is that about I wonder? Tell me the details?"

Sca, scaryyy!

Yurishia's smile was scary!

"Ca, calm down Yurishia. That's a misunderstanding. That's not a fact."

"Then, you two didn't enter the bath together?"

After making a relieved face, Yurishia took her seat that was behind Kizuna.

While smiling cheerfully, she took out a pen for touch panel use from her pen case.

"Uu... in, in other words, we didn't enter the bath... it was just by chance that we met in the dressing room."

Together with *baki-* such sound of destruction, the pen in Yurishia's hand was broken.

"Hmmm―, is that soo♪"

"Tha, that's how it is, ahaha..."

What grip strength!

This was really bad, he was strangely sweating.

"Then, how could it be, that you by chance met each other in the dressing room of the public bath, I wonder if you can teach mee-"

While taking out the replacement pen from the pen case, Yurishia showed an elegant smile.

"No, that's... that..."