Hajime Is No More

When breakfast finished, Eleonora told Kaori's parents that she wanted to go outside and leave Shirasaki's household after Kaori wanted to tag along with her lover. Despite she doesn't want to attend school for today. Kaori wears casual clothes instead of her school uniform. Eleonora allows Kaori to accompany her, as she can see how clingy the black-haired young woman was to her.

Kaori right now wrapped her arms with a bright smile on her face on Eleonora's arms. The young brunette doesn't mind that and is happy seeing her lovers smile happily like that. Until the young couple encounters the white-haired young man.

A young man who has a rough look, his looks can be considered handsome by society's standard, but not enough to surpass Eleonora's beauty. Because the young bluenette is capable of charming anyone, even changing someone's sexuality.

Seeing his supposed girlfriend wraps her arms around Eleonora's, causing him shocked, and in a few seconds, he adorns an angry look on his face. His killing intent leaked and directed towards the young bluenette without any hesitation. He doesn't even care if the bluenette girls in front of him are supposedly far stronger than him and could kill him within a second.

But what made him angrier was the futanari girl who greeted him with her charming smile as if she had done nothing wrong.

"Good morning, Hajime-san. Fancy meeting you here, don't you think?"

"What the hell are you doing with Kaori?"

He asked that with a rising voice. His tone was so apparent that is full of hate. Hajime said while sending a sharp glare at Eleonora and glancing at Kaori, who seemingly didn't notice him around her. This makes the white-haired young man that has Marie Antoinette syndrome because of his betrayal in another world in pain. He feels hurt.

His heart hurts seeing his girlfriend act like that in front of him. Being ignored by his girlfriend and suddenly acting like that with someone he hates caused him to grow more hatred towards a young girl known as Eleonora Pendragon.

But the response he gets makes him even angrier. Eleonora shakes her head at Nagumo Hajime. He swears that he can hear twitch sounds from his forehead as a sign that he is got angrier even more.

"I've done nothing, Hajime-san. Why did you think that?"

This pissed him off even more. But Hajime is trying to settle it in calm manners. He knew that his temper became short after the betrayal and had to learn patience. Instead, it becomes worse since Eleonora has come into his life.

"Then why, Kaori wrap your arms like that?"

He asked with an irritated tone as Hajime pointed at Kaori with her arms wrapped around Eleonora's. As if she realized something, Kaori blinked and noticed that Hajime was with them right now. She then greeted the white-haired young man with her kind smile.

"Oh. Good morning, Nagumo-kun."

When Hajime hears his name being called as if he is a stranger by his supposed girlfriend, his heart feels broken and makes him go into depression for a moment. He doesn't know what he is supposed to reply to Kaori.

Eleonora swears that she could hear the sound of Hajime's heartbreak into pieces. It sounds and looks heartless, but she didn't care about that. Since from what Kaori has said—it was Hajime's fault from the beginning to neglect Kaori and become weirder than before. Or rather, he is becoming more violent than in Tortus since he always blames Eleonora for whatever is going on with his life.

Then with confusion on her face, Kaori asks a question to Eleonora without letting go of her hands from Eleonora's arms.

"Eleonora, what's wrong with Nagumo-kun? He seems sick."

This added more fuel to Hajime and fanned the flame of rage within him. His eyes were squinting, and he stared at Eleonora. He blames her for anything wrong with him. The white-haired young man thinks that wasn't his fault, but Eleonora's.

He always has a bad premonition about Eleonora. That's why he hates the young bluenette with all of his feelings. Because of her, Yue or Aletia was stolen from him, his companions, abilities, and even his supposed girlfriend.

But in reality, Eleonora did not intend to do that. She was doing it without her realizing it or not intentionally. The young bluenette also keeps being polite to Hajime but begins questioning the young man why she was hated by him when she has done nothing wrong.

But to answer Kaori's question, Eleonora says something in her calm tone.

"Looks like Hajime-san has a fever today, Kaori. Should we bring him to his house back?"

Even if Eleonora shares the mutual feeling of hate with Hajime, she is still polite. She did not be sarcastic or anything. Eleonora isn't even doing something that offends the white-haired young man who has Marie Antoinette syndrome, but it seems he finds everything from Eleonora is offending him.

With a gasp of surprise, Kaori went into a slight panic.

"Is that so? Nagumo-kun, then we have to go to your house! Ah, but should I use my magic to heal him? Instead of bringing him back to his house? I think Nagumo-kun won't have to force himself if he doesn't want to."

Seeing the smooth conversation without a slight chance of entering it, Hajime looked down and decided to steel himself. He began to remember that Eleonora was someone above him. He also knows that the world is unfair. That is why he can't blame Eleonora for that, since from a logical view, the young bluenette is not doing anything wrong with him.

He then waves his hand off to Kaori and says something.

"It's… it's okay. You don't have to, Shirasaki-san."

Hajime began returning to his old self. He called Kaori with honorific and surname. Even if his appearance becomes different, he reverted to his plain old self. The white-haired young man lost all of his confidence, spirit, mental, and everything since Eleonora successfully overwhelmed him.

Kaori blinked and slightly tilted his head.

"Is that so…? But please don't force yourself. Okay, Nagumo-kun?"

Hajime just nodded meekly at Kaori. The black-haired girlfriend of him then claps her hands as if she remembered something and began to tell him.

"Ah, Nagumo-kun. Could I have your time for a few seconds?"

This gives Hajime a slight chance of hope. He nodded again at Kaori, who gave Eleonora a hand gesture to let them have a private talk for a moment. After that, Kaori sighs heavily and lets it out while she says something to Hajime with a big smile on her beautiful face.

"Nagumo-kun, I want to break up with you."

Hajime's heart breaks again even further when his ears hear that. But then Kaori continues what she said without letting the white-haired young man interrupt her.

"My reason was that—what I've felt towards you is not love. But only admiration. I'm still naïve and know nothing about feeling. Moreover, since we came back from another world, you become worse whenever I've mentioned Eleonora's name in our conversation."

Kaori let out a heavy sigh and shook her head. Hajime was begun crying deep inside his heart.

"I don't like that. There is also the fact that my parents won't approve of you no matter what. Your answers to my father back then were one of the biggest reasons. He doesn't want to approve a half-baked relationship."

Hearing that, Hajime can't do anything but blame himself. Kaori then let out her last breathe to Hajime with a sympathetic smile on her face. Although she feels bad for him, something like this always happens in a relationship.

"I hope you find someone that loves you no matter what, Nagumo-kun."

That word pierced so hard on Hajime's heart. As if he got critical damage from that alone, and he can only nod meekly at Kaori, who right now has a bright smile on her face after seeing Hajime's response towards that.

"Thank you, Nagumo-kun! We can always stay as a friend. Also, you're more like a little brother to me."

Eleonora is witnessing something brutal right now. Kaori said that with a bright smile which hurt Hajime even more. The young bluenette could hear the crumbling sounds of Hajime's heart clearly. She sweatdrop at Kaori's bluntness.

'I bet Kaori isn't even aware that her words are hits Hajime-san very hard. She is dangerous and indeed a troublemaker because of her personality. But well… I think that can be fixed later. After all, she is an air-head type and didn't realize what she does.

"Y-Yeah… thank you, Shirasaki-san. Then, I'll have to go… first. See you…"

Hajime bid farewell politely while still depressed because of the sudden event he got from Kaori. The black-haired lovers of Eleonora just nodded cheerfully and waved her hands to Hajime. She still being polite and caring to Hajime even after saying that cruel thing.

Eleonora sighed and said something to Kaori.

"Kaori, how about we have a date? Seeing that you decided to skip school for today."

Kaori's eyes beamed with stars when she heard her bluenette's lovers ask her to a date. She nods her head enthusiastically as she is overflowing with joy inside her heart. Eleonora only chuckles since she finds Kaori's reaction is amusing to her.

"I want it!"

"Then, shall we go?"

The young bluenette asks her lover while offering her right arms and bent elbow. Her lover nodded and then delicately put her hand under Eleonora's arm and curled the back over it. Kaori took the offers from Eleonora as they are right now on their way to have a date.

Kaori giggles at how gentle Eleonora is to her.

"Eleonora, you are really gentle. As if you're supposed to be born as a man than a woman."

"Hm… is that so? Maybe because it runs on my family bloodline. After all, I'm from Pendragon's family. It's a family of knights, and the famous Arthur Pendragon called King of Knights. Being chivalrous may be the right word for it."

Kaori was surprised to find this fact from Eleonora. She is not knowledgeable about myths, fairy tales, or anything like that. This makes the black-haired lovers of Eleonora understand where her manner and etiquette came from, despite how young she is.

"To think Pendragon is real. I thought it was just fictional."

Eleonora chuckled in nervousness when she heard that. Maybe because what Kaori was said is correct, since Eleonora's Pendragon family really comes from fictional stories and characters in different dimensions that exist in there.

"Well, not really. My family is hiding from the world. We do not intend to reveal ourselves and make a fuss of it. Many people may think of it as fictional or just man-made stories. Most of them also believed legend or fairy tale isn't real. But turns out it's actually real and exists."

"So your family do not intend to rule Britain again?"

The young bluenette shakes her head in response to that. She is also doesn't have many reasons to make Britain great again or revive the entire kingdom in her world. Eleonora already has Heiligh Kingdom in another world, so she might be done that in there.

"No. I don't want to rule over Britain again. It was my ancestor's kingdom, not mine. It's also not born from my ambition and dream. So I don't have an obligation to revive it."

Eleonora continued what she was saying to Kaori.

"All I want is just spends my time with my beloved. That includes you, Kaori. I just want to make a family. A big family. Although if somehow I was ordered to rule over a kingdom, it has to be one I want. A kingdom that is based on my preference."

Kaori chuckled and nodded at Eleonora.

"I will wish you good luck, Eleonora! I also will help you if that time comes. Don't worry about it."

"Thanks. Alright, let's focus on our date."

The black-haired young woman nodded and tightened her arms on Eleonora while the young couple continued to walk to their destination for the date they had today.

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Namihazu High School is an ordinary school that you would find anywhere in Japan. There is nothing special about the school itself, except for the mass disappearance accident a few months ago. That caused a mass uproar for a while until it died down and anyone lost interest in it. Since the investigation didn't bore any results.

Yaegashi Shizuku is one of the victims, or rather her whole classmate in the classroom that day was the victim of those sudden disappearances. Any polices and everyone in the world couldn't find what's the cause, since they were transported to another world that had swords, magic, and monsters in there.

She and her classmate were forced with a task to save another world, a world that had nothing to do with them. They even don't get the suitable rewards of it, all of that because of their naiveness. Shizuku and her classmate don't realize that they were manipulated by an entity that saw them as disposable pawns, but they were saved by a certain person. Thanks to that person, they knew the truth of their summoning.

She was the true savior, regarded as the true goddess by the residents of another world because she exposed the true nature of the god they were worshipping for a long time without realizing it. Not only that, but she also reveals the dark truth of the human kingdom behind it. She was appointed as the new king of that kingdom by doing that.

She is also loved by the people of another world. Although she had only been in Tortus for a month, those people began to love her and gained their trust in return for that. She even makes the kingdom better by improving it to the furthest level.

Indeed. That person is Shizuku's lover, a woman whom she loves so much. Shizuku doesn't mind that her lovers have a harem of beautiful girls since she knows that her lovers are great and won't settle by a single partner. The black-haired swordswoman even thinks that her lovers should be aiming for Kaori—her best friend—since it seems Kaori also shares the same feeling towards her lovers.

Shizuku sighed inwardly and could only smile when she remembered that again.

'Eleonora really capture the hearts of the girls from my classroom. There's nothing wrong with it, but that is still amazing to me as she did that without even trying. Though, I also knew she is someone who will return the feeling and take the responsibilities for that.'

That's right. Shizuku's lovers, Eleonora Pendragon, captured the hearts of all the girls from her classroom. Including those who already have a boyfriend or crush on some group of males. Rather than forbid Eleonora, Shizuku would encourage her lovers to claim them immediately since she knew that someone would be happier if they were with Eleonora.

As Shizuku pondered, she entered the classroom and was approached by the mood-maker of the class, Taniguchi Suzu. Suzu is a short girl with short hair styled into twin-tails that reach her shoulders and have light brown eyes. Suzu is the mood-maker of her class as she is usually very cheery and likes to lighten the mood. She also acts perverted at times towards her friends, making dirty jokes or grabbing one of her friends' breasts occasionally.

And not only Suzu, there is also a young man with a physique who is like a bear and stands tall at about 190 cm. He has short trimmed hair and a gaze that appears cheerful and stern. He is smiled at Shizuku and nodded.

"Shizushizu, welcome back, and good morning!"

"Yo Shizuku. Glad you're back."

Noticing that, Shizuku then gave her classmate a smile and simply nodded while replying to the greeting she got from her class's mood-maker. Seeing her friends after a long time like this gives her a sense of peace. She is also relieved knowing that her friends are okay.

"Shizukuchi! Welcome back to class!"

"I… I am glad that Yaegashi-san is back! Huhuhu…."

"Now, now Ai-chan—don't be like that."

Not only them, but all of the classmates that really care about her currently welcoming her with a big smile also adorn their faces. Shizuku couldn't help but only show her smile to them, and even her homeroom teacher was crying in happiness while comforted by her classmates.

She also has noticed that Hajime seems the only one who doesn't welcome her. Shizuku huffed inwardly, seeing that reaction from Hajime.

'Seems only Nagumo-kun who didn't welcome me. Well… Since I've expected that from him, I'm not bothered by that.'

Shizuku shakes her head and replies to the greetings from her classmates and fellow victims transported to another world. Including her homeroom teacher can also be mistaken as a child due to her appearance.

"I'm back, everyone. Sorry for coming back too late."

Ryuutarou only grinned and shook his head to his childhood friend.

"That is no problem. As long as you've come back, I don't care about anything else. Look, Suzu and Ai-chan been cried the whole time when they found that you've not come back together with us."

Suzu and Hatayama Aiko gasped in shock when they have heard that from Ryuutarou. A few of the classmates snickered and held their laughs. This makes the two lolis puff their cheeks as they are upset, especially Suzu, who lightly punches her boyfriend for embarrassing her like that, while Aiko is comforted again by her students.

"Ryu-kun, you're bully! Why are you saying that?! Shizushizu doesn't need to know that!"

"Oi, oi. Doesn't that mean you acknowledge that is true?"

They were laughed together while leaving the pouted Suzu. They were glad and relieved that one of the important people of their class, Yaegashi Shizuku, was come back safely without any changes. Either it's minor or significant to her appearance. But little they did know that Shizuku had already climbed into adulthood and became one of Eleonora's lovers during her time in another world—when they had come back.

While they were laughing together because of the commotion made by Suzu and her boyfriend Ryuutarou, one of the students raised her hands and asked Shizuku something that made her curious.

"Um, Shizuku… I know this is a strange question to ask. But how did you come back? Last time we did it because of Pendragon-san's abilities that allow us to return to Earth, isn't it? Did you ask her too about that?"

They went silent after hearing that, and their attentions switched to Shizuku. The black-haired swordswoman with ponytail hair scratches her cheeks with a tint of red blush over it. She was a bit embarrassed to tell them about her relationship with Eleonora, but she also wanted to reveal it simultaneously.

"Yeah… I was going back with Eleonora's help. After all of you returned, I stayed behind for some business. I took my time to familiarize myself with the world and some people there. Surprisingly, Eleonora suddenly crowned as the next king of Heiligh Kingdom due to a reason."

This made their eyes widen, even Hajime, who stayed quiet for a while. He didn't believe that the woman he hated could become the king of Heiligh Kingdom. Of course, they were surprised since it wasn't easy to achieve, yet Eleonora did it without any difficulties.

"H-How comes Pendragon-san can be the king…? Did she somehow has the bloodline of Heiligh or sort of?"

But Shizuku shook her head in response to Sonobe Yuka's question. This caused an uproar within their minds. While the males respected Eleonora even more, the females became amazed and had their cheeks blushed in awe. Some of them have dreamy eyes.

"No, she is not. Eleonora is not the royalty of Heiligh Kingdom."

Shizuku said that to her friends, who nodded in understanding. They are still amazed that Eleonora could be the new king of Heiligh despite being born in the royal bloodline of Heiligh's family. An ordinary person can achieve that within such a short time.

'But she is indeed royalty of Pendragon's family.'

Shizuku thought while smiling inwardly as she was proud of Eleonora. Her friends don't know about that and maybe just assume that Eleonora's surname didn't have any special meaning like most westerners out there. Although they were wrong about that since they didn't know the truth about it.

But Hajime knew about it and decided to shut his mouth up. He doesn't want to provoke Eleonora further since he has already broken to the beyond. His personality even reverted to his old one. A weak and average human with a timid and tolerant personality but an extraordinarily kind and gentle heart.

He doesn't dare to do that again as Hajime understands that he can't do anything to her.

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Liese and Gin cannot believe what they have seen. In their hands is two books with different titles. Each holds one book and has a different expression, yet it shows some tiny bit of despair on their faces. She has a book with Trinity Seven: The Seven Magicians as the title in Liese's hand. The book she holds has some kind of scene she has never seen before. It also has some people she recognizes.

The purple eyes of hers scrutinized the content of the book carefully. Shocked expression filled with despair evident on Liese's face, yet the blonde-haired twin tails still trying to keep her calmness to not showed so obvious. She doesn't want anyone to see her weakness.

'How is it possible… Was I a fictional character? No, it always has been. We just are not aware of that.'

She flipped another page and had a bitter expression on her face. Liese felt unreal seeing the book on her hands right now, but she has no choice but to accept its fact. She knew that the book was solid proof of her existence, along with her friends.

'So that's mean… my love for Arata-kun isn't genuine…? All of it wasn't real…? That's horrible.'

Liese has a disgusted expression on her face when thinking of that. Her love towards Kasuga Arata isn't real, and she also doubts that Arata returned her feelings, too, since that young man seems so attracted to Asami Lilith or her homeroom teacher, that was the same age as her.

And then we changed to Gin. Her hands are shaken by the disbelieving she has just found. The book on her hand has the information about her. Her best friend's name is Washio Sumi, and the title is Washio Sumi is a Hero. It's a light novel about Washio Sumi and her friends.

"S-Sumi, Sonoko, and… me…?"

When she has flipped the page, Gin could see an illustration page embedded in it. The illustration is grayscaled or black and white. The grey-colored eyes of hers shed tears. It was flowing out from both eyes when she saw the illustration. Her tears wet the book as it dripped out from her eyes.

This discovery really shocks Liese and Gin, especially the young hero's grey-colored hair. Liese and Gin were told by Theodore about this if they were interested more about the world they've currently live in. Of course, they listened to what he said and decided to go together to discover whether Theodore said was real or fake.

Yet, they did find it real. Both girls seem regretful to listen to him, but it's not like that was his fault, to begin with. He also warned them if they did have what it takes to handle the fact, they would witness. Theodore just told them, "I think it will also discover the truth as to why the two of you were transported to this world. Learning some fact of it."