CH 349.2

The sun, which had been shining bright yellow directly above, now turns red on the western ridge, casting long shadows on buildings and pedestrians.

「My, are you going to put your uniform back on again?」

The girl with the braided pigtails and huge, cannonball-shaped breasts asks while absorbing the moisture from her hair with a thick towel.

When the workday was over, she had showered and changed into her casual clothes, but her best friend had once again slipped her arms into a white shirt.

「I’m going to my part-time after this.」

Unlike the slightly droopy-eyed, braided, Busty-chan, she has a ponytail that hangs from her head. She has a moderately fit and slim figure, and her breasts are on the smaller side.

To Ponytail who answered while pulling the tight skirt up to her waist, Busty-chan nodded her head as her cannonball-shaped breasts bobbed in a big vertical motion.

(Right, it’s about time the store reopens, huh?)

『Uniform Specialty Store』, it was a part-time job that helped both of them when they were still in pilot school.

Low-class brothels have a lot of competition among stores, and there are a lot of turnovers. The fact that they have been able to survive without collapsing despite being at the bottom of the market is probably due to a small but dedicated group of uniform lovers.

(I do feel a little bit responsible.)

By shrugging her shoulders, the huge pair of cannonballs almost spilled from her underwear. Her best friend, Ponytail, seems to think the store just went on a break, but apparently, it was actually a matter of existence for the store.

The reason she added 『just a little bit』 at the top of her head is because of the concierge old man’s words to make her attend the event for just a little bit.

『Thumb-sized sticks that will shake when shot.』

Since they were planning a group battle with this installed in their bodies, they probably wanted to bring in someone who actually knows how to fight.

One of the experts, by the way, who belongs to the Kingdom knight order, is Ponytail, and she’s already in agony right after the start of the event.

『This active pilot of the knight order will take you on! So come out and don’t just hide!』

She stepped forward to the center of the square and proclaimed so while puffing out her chest. The result was a barrage of concentrated fire that left her no room to breathe.

Perhaps she had assumed that they would 『Fight head-on one-on-one』 in a duel format.

(There’s a rumor that a big investor appeared but… it’s probably that man, right?)

Who came to her mind was the dull 30-year-old former classmate from pilot school. And just as she thought of that, Ponytail also talk about him.

「Since the store’s break is going to be over soon, I went to the store to let him know when I’ll be available. And then he made an appointment right away.」

She snickered and continued with a condescending look on her face.

「He’s always hungry and lusting after my body that it’s shameful, don’t you agree?」

She’s looking for Busty-chan agreeing with her, but she doesn’t nod. She just half-closed her eyes and stares at her with her lukewarm gaze.

(Though, the one who looked craving for the other person is you no matter how you look at it.)

Ponytail is now officially employed by the knight order of the Kingdom and is paid well. So she had no reason to work part-time anymore.

『It was only to beat that guy.』

She said this was the reason, but her big-breasted best friend didn’t believe her m one bit.

(I don’t know about her heart, but her body is totally captivated by him, isn’t it?)

She can tell because their rooms are next to each other and exhale as she continues changing her clothes.

She no longer feels any resentment toward Tauro. In fact, she even feels indebted to him.

『After lying on the bed, she does nothing and just lets the customers do what they want to her.』

When she was almost fired from her part-time job because the customers got tired of her due to her relying too much on the pair of huge breasts she was born with, he saved her by 『increasing the sensitivity of her breasts』.

In the first place, she already had a bad feeling about it because 『The people around her said so』 and 『It was an obstacle standing in the way of the path to the knight order』.

(The current knight commander has a very high opinion of Tauro-san. And I, too, am already a pilot of the knight order.)

She no longer has any reason to resent him, and besides, the other party is a close friend of her superior, who is known as the 『Skewering Whirlwind』. It would be bad for her if she made an enemy of him.

That’s what Busty-chan thinks.

『The merchant guild’s Knight’s fighting style is cowardly and unworthy of an honorable pilot.』

Incidentally, there are more than a few members of the Order who think so, including her best friend in front of her who finished changing.

「Tonight, I’ll make him so he won’t be able to stand up for sure.」

The girl with the ponytail clenches her fist and raises a fiery flame, oblivious to Busty-chan’s thoughts.

「I’m going to stomp his face with the soles of my feet when he slumped on the ground.」

She continued as her face contorted in frustration and seeing that, Busty-chan’s gaze grew even more lukewarm.

(There’s no way she can win. Her opponent is that Dr. Slime after all.)

He is said to be one of the two treasures of the royal capital’s red-light district. Incidentally, the other one is the commander of the Kingdom knight order, but she decided to leave that out of her mind.

She then sighed again and made a face as if she was trying to stave off a headache.

(Has she never found it strange? Or maybe she has never seen him as anything but a former classmate with a perverted look.)

Busty-chan was aware of the fact that she had undergone a sensitivity tune-up.

Even though her best friend didn’t have that opportunity, she has had numerous skinship with him. As expected, it should be about time she at least thinks that he’s no ordinary person.

(Well, that’s just so like her, I guess.)

Thinking about it positively, that means she’s single-minded. But in a more general view, she is narrow-minded and assuming. Furthermore, as her personality goes, there is a part of her that is troublesome in a strange place.

It can be seen from the fact that she went to her part-time work as is in her pilot uniform while saying, 『I’m also going to wear it at the store anyways』.

「….Good luck.」

Busty-chan replied without having any expectations at all. The two go together to the back entrance of the knight order’s headquarters and part ways there.

Busty-chan then went southeast to the shopping district to check out clothes and accessories, while Ponytail went southwest to the red-light district.

The viewpoint doesn’t follow Busty-chan who went window-shopping, but shifts to the girl with a ponytail walking with her shoes clacking on the street after the sun goes down.

(I won’t lose. Tonight for sure, I will win. Because I’ve trained so hard.)

The event that she recalled every night while self-disciplining herself in her room. She would simulate the play with her hated former classmate by placing a vibrating thumb stick into her own body.

(Ugh.)

Ponytail’s stomach tingled as she recalled that experience and her pace slowed down a little as she turned her legs inward. She took a deep breath, tightened her thighs, and resumed walking down the backstreets of the red-light district.

***

The Kingdom knight order’s headquarters is spitting out its members to the streets as working time is over. This is rare that would have never happened in the past.

『Subordinates going home first even though their superior is still staying behind to finish the work is rude.』

It was because this was the norm.

However, the current knight commander hated the idea and at times, he even had the persistent old-timers thrown out of the building to change their minds.

(As I thought, other countries have a head start when it comes to the use of C-class Knights.)

And because of that, the knight commander can work overtime without his subordinates having to feel concerned about it.

This is a storeroom in a corner of the warehouse area on the first floor. A large, mature man with a Kaizer beard was researching past war records.

『The elite Kingdom knight order who still won’t recognize C-class Knights as Knights.』

Putting it in another way, a knight order with C-class Knight can’t be said as elite. By some strange logic, they looked down on the knight orders of other countries, but the Kaizer mustache was beginning to change this as well.

『Reconnaissance, escort, and communication.』

It was clear that it was highly useful.

He was reading in front of the bookshelf, then nodded his head and put it back. As he repeats this process, a deep vertical crease suddenly appears between his eyebrows.

(Muu…)

His stomach gurgled and the gases inside spewed out of his back entrance.

(Just who the hell spread such rumors? No, it’s too half-baked for that to be the case.)

Usually, an exhilarating burst of sound echoes through the air, but this time it was silent. Moreover, it is hot and moist like the breath of a maiden in love.

(This isn’t good. There shouldn’t be anything wrong with my health.)

He’s worried about the possibility of hickey marks on his underwear, but what he’s more worried about is the aroma.

Last night, he had eaten a spicy egg and onion dish that even made his eyes water.

(There’s no one here but me, right?)

A middle-aged gentleman casually but fearlessly looks around the storeroom. Stretching his neck further, he takes a glance between the bookshelves.

Seeing that it is empty, the knight commander breathes a deep sigh of relief.

(My tears won’t stop and my nose and throat hurt. I don’t think I can stay here any longer.)

A large man with a Kaizer mustache puts the report back on the shelf and leaves the archives while covering the front of his face with one hand. He locked the door and headed down the empty hallway to the washroom.

And then, the next morning.

「The northeast corner of the first floor may have been sprayed with a toxic substance. It might have been set up by someone.」

A muscular young man, the knight order’s number three, rushed into the knight commander’s office with a red face.

There is no report of human casualties so far. However, if it turned out to be an attempt to sabotage, it would mean that they had allowed an intruder or a spy to enter the building.

「They’re bold enough to come after our headquarters. Just who in the world is it?」

Number three’s face twisted in frustration at their unpreparedness.

『The remnants of the second prince’s faction that was purged, the influential people who are frustrated in the shadows because their privileges have been cut off, or the Empire.』

He had an idea of who it could be, but he had never expected that they would come with a knife right to the heart.

In front of his subordinate who was making a serious face, Kaizer mustache cleared his throat and coughed lightly.

「You will just make them excited if you get flustered. We should pretend to be oblivious and look for the culprit based on their reactions.」

His appearance as he calmly gave out instructions without moving a single muscle of his face made the knight commander’s reputation rise without him knowing.