CH 29

Curtis’s Perspective

Dowah-to, suddenly a loud sound echoed from Class A next door.

Did Makoto do something wrong again?

Makoto’s roommate, the bespectacled Kounago, clung to the window. 1

I look outside, too.

I saw Makoto running through the courtyard with tremendous force.

Beyond that, I could see many young young ladies wearing dresses and a girl drowning in a pond.

What the, what’s going on?

Well, there’s no point in thinking about it, let’s run there.

Thinking while running is what a knight is supposed to do.

“Oh, wait, Curtis-sama.”

Kounago is saying something, but her family is just a baron, so I can’t give her a straight answer.

I’ll pretend she didn’t ask.

I ignored her and ran out of the Class B room.

When I went out into the hallway, I almost collided with Caroline, who was running, too.

“What happened, Caroline-sama?” I asked as we ran.

“Makoto jumped out the window. She’s trying to save the girl drowning in the pond,” Caroline replied.

Caroline runs down the hallway while still looking like a noble lady, it’s an abnormal situation so we gather surprised gazes as we fly down the halls.

“Can Makoto swim?” I asked.

“No, I don’t know. I’m going to the staff room, Curtis, you go to the pond,” Caroline said.

“Understood,” I said.

“Wait for me…” Elmer said from behind us.

He runs slow.

For exercise, he should run 4 kilometers every morning.

Kounago is also following along.

“Elmer, take it easy, and Kounago, get a towel ready.”

“Understood……”

“I-I’m…” Kounago started.

“I will not tolerate any talk back, you are not Makoto,” I said.

I have to be very clear about where we stand.

Yesterday, there was a misunderstanding and a viscount’s daughter who spoke ill of me, so I lectured her and made her cry.

From the start, I was a stubborn, misogynistic knight.

……Hmm, looking at my recent attitude towards Makoto, I certainly looks like a spoiling and corrupted man.

But it can’t be helped, Makoto is an idiot, so I can’t leave her alone.

I run down the stairs and jump out through the corridor window.

I can’t use the door here, you know!

I run through the courtyard.

However, Makoto’s speed earlier uses physical strengthening magic.

Are you already using the magic that’s part of the 2nd year curriculum?

Strengthening the body is also important as a knight.

Will I learn it before the martial arts tournament too?

As I was thinking about that, a naked Makoto walked towards me with a girl carried to her chest.

“Makoto, you just, woah,” I said.

She was not naked, but barely clothed.

She wears underwear, socks and shoes.

The rest of her is naked.

A lady is naked in the school courtyard.

Her tits and ass are flat, but, well, she’s naked.

A lot of sticky sensations like sweet and sour jam welled up in my chest, it became hard to breathe, and I turned away from Makoto’s nakedness.

What the hell.

What the hell.

My cheeks are hot.

However, there was nothing erotic about Makoto at all, she was radiating anger and stood proudly without being embarrassed at all.

Divine, like a goddess from a mythical age.

Except without the fine tits and ass.

Unconsciously, I took off my uniform jacket and held it out to Makoto.

Her hands are blocked by a girl who looked like a wet mouse, so it would be perfect if I gently draped it over her shoulders, but then Makoto’s nakedness would be in my eyes.

It is troublesome, I can’t say why, but it is very troublesome.

“That helps,” Makoto said as Caroline snatched my jacket.

“Makoto, are you okay?” Caroline said as she hung it on Makoto.

I’m saved.

Thank you Caroline.

You have always been a kind person.

Elmer has arrived.

“These ladies… did they do it?”

Seeing the group of young ladies, Elmer let out a chilling voice.

Yeah, this guy is naturally such a cold and inhospitable guy.

Why, in front of Makoto, is he giving off an atmosphere like a younger brother who has grown up only in body?

Makoto has a lot of oddities about her, including her relationship with Caroline.

Is she unconsciously activating her mesmerizing abilities?

Or is this the charisma of a hero?

“You can bother with them later,” Makoto said, “if we can’t change Melissa-sama’s clothes now, we’ll have to go to the girls’ dormitory, so can I ask you to stay here, Curtis?”

“Okay, leave it to me, hurry up and get there,” I said.

Shall we start by taking down that group of vicious young ladies?

Most of them are daughters of barons or viscounts, and there is only one woman who wears a dress of the rank of an earl.

It’s convenient that you can tell Class C’s stupid ladies’ ranks apart by the quality of their dresses.

“And here you go again, Makoto Kimball-sama!!”

“… Please move out of the way.”

Oh, fuck, I missed Kevin-ouji approaching from the other side.

It looks like Ouji is blocking her path.

Makoto would be naked and cold.

“What are you saying, I can’t move from here until I hear an explanation…” Kevin started.

“I’m telling you to get out of here!!” Makoto yelled. “If there’s anything you want to ask, ask the dress-wearing ladies crowding over there!!”

Hey, hold up, Makoto, it’s wrong to yell at the Ouji.

Even you are doing too much.

No, I understand it’s cold, and I understand how you feel.

“Oh, such disrespect to the prince, to the royal family,” Kevin said.

Blue streaks are throbbing on Ouji’s forehead.

As expected of a prince, it must have been the first time he was yelled at by a naked Baron’s daughter.

Crap.

Crap.

“Kevin-ouji! Please let her go, the girl in Makoto’s arms is in danger.”

For the time being, I sent out a rescue boat.

Ouji was taken aback.

He seems to have noticed Makoto’s situation now.

It’s also bad for the prince of a country to stand in front of a naked girl.

“Oh, I, I see, sorry,” Kevin said.

The prince gave way to Makoto more obediently than expected.

Makoto rushed towards the girls’ dormitory at the speed of a horse.

I hope my jacket doesn’t fall off.

Well, that jacket is still the best of a bad situation.

“What happened, can you explain, Curtis?” Kevin asked.

“I’ve just arrived, and I’m trying to figure out the situation. Shouldn’t you ask the woman with the monocle?” I said.

“Hmm, can you explain to me, Lady Deborah of Earl Wyeth?” Kevin asked.

“I am very honored to see you remembered my name, Kevin-ouji-sama.”

“Deborah Wyeth… an earl’s daughter…” I said. “Wasn’t she Countess Chicken-and-Egg?”

When I said that, Miss Deborah’s eyebrows went up.

Chicken breeding is popular in this girl’s territory, and she is ridiculed as Countess Chicken-and-Egg by the hostile factions.

By the way, she is a hard-core faction leader who is an intelligence aristocrat and has Pottinger-kyou as a relative.

“I want you to tell me what happened,” Kevin said.

“Yes, while we were chatting by the pond, Andrea-sama slipped and fell into the pond. The baker’s daughter-san ran up in anger for some reason, took off her clothes and went into the pond to help Andrea-sama, but she made a pointless accusation that we had thrown Andrea-sama in the pond and prevented her from helping her.”

“So you’re claiming that Makoto Kimball-sama misunderstood the situation, Deborah-sama?” Kevin asked.

“You said you tried to help, but there was no rope, and it didn’t look like you were calling anyone, either,” I said.

“The suddenness of it all sent us into a panic, in dresses like these, we don’t know what would happen if we fell into the water,” Deborah said.

Well, if I jump into a pond with a dress, you’ll probably drown, right?

It looks like the pond is deeper than I thought.

“Why do you have footprints on your shoulders?” Kevin asked.

“I was stepped on by the Bejeweled Reijou-sama.”

“And how did that come to pass?” Kevin asked.

“The Bejeweled Reijou-sama jumped out of the pond, said that we were in the way, and jumped off on me like a stepping stone.”

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She was a tall young lady in a bright orange dress.

His face was rough and stern, and her well-developed muscles made the dress rest high.

I wonder why this girl is not a female knight, but a noble lady.

“Be silent, Marilyn.”

“Yes, Deborah-sama.”

Ah, I just remembered, the daughter of Baron Gogol.

She had an older brother in the Royal Knights who looks just like her.

Or rather, why didn’t House Gogol raise her as a lady knight?

It’s a waste of her qualities.

“Cu-Curtis-sama is giving me such a passionate gaze… kyaah,” Marilyn squealed.

I want you, Marilyn, no matter how you look at it.

Militarily, that is.

Oops, Kounago came with a towel.

We don’t need it anymore.

She’s got bad timing.

“Thank you, Kounago,” I said, “but I don’t need the towel anymore.”

“Ah, Curtis-sama, I am…”

“Silence, no talking back,” I said.

Kounago closed her mouth and fell silent.

It is also rude for a lowly person to show a dissatisfied expression to her superiors.

Even though she’s Makoto’s friend, she doesn’t have good manners.