CH 129

“Isn’t it a stunning costume, do you have any plans to sell that costume?”

“What? Selling it?”

“Yes, it’s a rare costume that will surely sell well and the sewing is excellent. You just said that you made it, how about it? Do you want a job where you can use your skills?”

When Leor smiled at Nina, Nina replied with a smile as well. 

“Fufu, I appreciate your kindness, but I only sewed based on Lars-sama’s idea. The design and other aspects were all thought up by Lars-sama, so I couldn’t have done it all by myself.”

“Are you sure, Nina-san ……?”

“Yes, Hauzen-san. It was a costume made for Lars-sama, after all. If Lars-sama wants me to make it, I will.”

“Haha, that’s just like Nina-san. But I would like to see Nina-san as a designer.”

“Sheesh, Hausen-san!”

As Nina and Hausen began to talk, Leor left the scene, looked at Lars in the distance, and muttered in his heart.

“(Lars, the second son of the Irving family. The dance that goes with the costume. It was probably Lars-kun’s idea. I’ve heard that his skill is the failure skill [Jack-of-all-Trades], but his ideas are interesting. It would be a shame to end this town’s dealings with Sorio-dono alone, wouldn’t it?)”

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“Oh ……!?”

“What’s up, Lars?”

“No, I had a chill. I wonder what it is.”

“Cold? Take it easy, okay?”

“Oh, I’m fine, Makina. I caught it the other day, so I don’t think I’ll have it for a while. Never mind that, what’s the next competition again?”

When I asked everyone, Kudelica who is breathing heavily stood in front of me. 

“It’s the Princess Carrying.”

“Oh, yeah, that’s right! Let’s go then.”

“Yes!”

This is also a competition that didn’t exist last year, so I forgot about …….

When I was about to leave the tent with Kudelica taking my hand with a big smile on her face, I heard her murmuring behind me.

“It’s frustrating ……”

“Yeah. But Kuu-chan and Nora-chan are the lightest, so it can’t be helped. Makina-chan and Helena-chan have good style, you know.”

“I’m glad to hear that, but. Kuhhhh ……”

“Good luck!”

Nora waved me off, while Makina bitterly says, and I and Kudelica went out into the field, which was turned into a racing track, with a bitter smile.

“I’m sorry, Makina-chan.”

“This can’t be helped, because Kudelica is light, after all. Nora has been eating a lot lately, so I think Kudelica did a great job of keeping her in shape?”

“Thank you, Lars-kun!”

“Y-Yeah!”

When I saw the look on her face as she held my hand and kept smiling, I felt a sting in my chest. Why is that ……? While I was having a strange feeling, I heard Verna-sensei’s commentating. 

“I’ve heard that this is also a new competition this year, Rosalia-sensei?”

“Yes, it is. There will be a lot of discussion about the content of the competition, but when you are working as an adventurer, you may have injured people, such as your colleagues at work. I thought that carrying them to the goal without dropping them would be useful in actual combat.”

“I see. But why is the name of the competition “Princess Carrying”?”

“Because it’s cute, of course. This was my decision. I like cute things.”

Rosalia-sensei plainly said such a thing, and gently stroked the baby monster called Deadly Bear that he was holding.

“It’s so cute♪ Now, please take your positions. As for the rules, if you drop her in the middle of the game, you are disqualified and get 0 points. And magic is not allowed, so please be careful, okay? There, there♪”

“Aaah! I want to pet it too! It’s not fair, Verna-sensei!”

“Hey, stop it! You’ll end up like Basleigh-sensei hanging over there!”

The A-Class tent desperately tried to stop Nora from jumping out of the tent. I get into position, carrying the coup de grace.

“A-Aren’t I heavy?”

“No, not at all. I got this, I guess?”

When I said this, a male student from E-Class next to me smiled wryly.

“Fu-fu-fu …… Class E will take this one!”

“You should see the combination we have!”

“No, you’re saying combination, you’re just being carried, aren’t you?”

Kudelica nodded in agreement.

“Well, do your best, okay?”

“Nyufufufu …….”

“What ……?”

The rest of the class took their places without a care in the world and waited for the class to start. I don’t know what’s going on, but I think it’s better to run through it all at once.

“Begin!”

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Tigre-sensei signal us to start. Kudelica was light, and just when I thought it would be enough, I was flanked on both sides by C and D classes.

“Well then, I’ll have A-Class lose here too.”

“I’m sorry, but if you guys hadn’t been on your own so far, we wouldn’t have gone this far either.”

“Ah!?”

“Kyah!?”

Right after Hope from C-Class opened his mouth, the girls from C and D classes reached out to Kudelica! Are they trying to make me drop Kudelica!?

“Damn it, I’ll shake it off, Kuderica! Can you get rid of them with your [Superhuman Strength]?”

“I’ll give it a try …… Ei!”

“Oops.”

“Whoa!?”

When Kudelica makes a sweeping motion with her hands, the two people on either side of her immediately evade her and Kudelica missed them. The recoil caused my body to shake so much that I lost my balance. 

“Oh, there ……!”

“I-I’m sorry, Lars-kun ……”

“It’s all right, what should we do–“

“Now then, for some reason, the back is all huddled together, aren’t they? In the midst of all this, the E-Class that came from the outside has taken first place!”

“What!?”

“You let your guard down ……!”

“Kuh ……!?”

“D-Do your best, Lars-kun!”

Another one has finished!? Just as I was thinking this, I was hit from the side, sending me stumbling. I managed to regain my footing with Kudelica’s cheer, though.

“This is nothing ……!”

“You did your best, but that’s as far as you got. Your feet aren’t here!”

“And I’m sorry, Kuu-chan!”

“Ah!?”

I was tripped up and almost fell over. I tried to move my body to see if I could recover, but the two girls grabbed Kudelica and I fell spectacularly.

“You guys are dirty!”

In the outfield, Ryuuze was furious, but Ivanov, a B-Class player, didn’t seem to take offense.

“The rules didn’t say anything about no interference, did they? This is what happens when you get carried away!”

“Damn ……!”

“I’m sorry, Ryuuze, but he’s right ……”/

Urka also looks frustrated.

“A-Class will now be disqualified for dropping Kudelica. A friend becomes an enemy, and an enemy becomes a friend. This kind of thing happens all the time, so don’t lose heart, okay?”

“I-I’m sorry ……”

“It’s not Kudelica’s fault. It’s my fault for being careless. I knew there was something wrong with them from the last competition, but I thought I could handle it, and it was …… my fault …… sorry ……”

If you say that I was conceited somewhere, I have no words to reply. I was so confident that I could win that I didn’t look at the situation around me.

I’m the kind of person who has to work hard to get by, and I’ve always thought of myself as the strong one ……

“Damn ……!”

“L-Lars-kun ……”

I punched the ground and gritted my teeth as I watched the other classes finish one after another.

I’m not going to let my guard down again. There is only one competition left for me to compete in, the combat competition. There may be some interference there too, but I’ll make sure I get it …… Watch me ……!

Oh, there’s no time left ……!

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“He has to get some point somewhere, right?”

By the time they get to the final round ……