The Undetectable Strongest Job: Rule Breaker

When the explosion was heard on the College property, Paula was in the lodging building with the Jalazak warriors. It's for the treatment of people who have suffered injuries in battle. What Hikaru said was, "I want you to recover from not being too conspicuous" —— I can't help but try to help but protect my own abilities (himitsu).

"! Now!?"

I heard a noise coming from the direction of the courtyard. It sounds so uncharacteristic and even earthly.

What happened?

There's no Hikaru here —— aren't you in the direction of the courtyard?

"Easy, lady. —— Hey! Anyone who can move, we're gonna go see how it goes. What, lady!?"

Paula, who had a heartbeat, was popping out of the room. The outside of the window becomes painfully bright as you run through the hallway.

(That's... Hikaru has it, it's Lavia's magic)

We have enemies. We still have enemies. Perhaps Hikaru is fighting alone —— he may have little he can do, but if anything happens to Hikaru, he can recover.

Hikaru fights alone. You seldom take yourself —— always placed in a safe zone.

(But what if Master Hikaru gets hurt? Who can help you when Master Hikaru's in a pinch?

It was when Paula tried to get out.

A tremendous scream —— I heard the roar of the beast.

Though his heart is stirred by unexpected fear, Paula holds her hand in front of his chest.

"Hikaru, if you are here..."

Spinning out words with trembling lips, she runs out again.

————

But that's what she saw -- a giant dragon floating in the sky.

I just got over my fear now, but my legs tremble.

A giant being looks to the ground with hostility. The magic team that covers and hides dragons unfolds even though it is said to be such a big dragon.

"Ah, ah..."

Paula was ready to die.

Magic formations the size of which I've never seen or heard of. Expand extensively —— I'm sure it's magic like hearing in myths and fairytales, blowing up mountains, pulling down rivers and breaking the ocean.

Its magic formation is directed here --.

"--Dear Hikaru...?

But the threat quickly leaves.

Something black came out of the roof. There's someone over there. It weaves a black cloak —— probably a hical.

The Dragon's Magic Formation is extinguished. The dragon falls.

"Wow...... wow wow! Dear Hikaru —— that's just great!!"

Paula's heart, now anointed with fear, soon turns into something filled with hope.

Let's pick up Master Hikaru. I'm sure you'll be tired, so I have to make some warm tea.

Paula, whose mind rose, heads toward where Hikaru was —— and finds many humans coming from the other side.

Those are the guards. I have Lavia inside, so I guess she called me.

It's all the more good if Lavia is here too. It's when Paula thinks we both have warm drinks because our bodies will be out cold.

Hikaru was responding to the guards wearing a silver mask.

Paula knows Hikaru will wear that mask when he does something else that looks bad if he finds out. I didn't have to hide my identity in Ludansha's defensive battle against the raid, but I guess they don't want me to know that Giant Dragons —— where they came from —— have dealt with such creatures.

I understood that right away.

"... ah"

A man with a faceless mask —— should be, but then he turned his gaze to the girl.

With his face that he understood everything, Lavia smiled slightly as he stared seriously at the masked man he was not good at -- returning it to Hikaru's gaze. Hikaru's mouth was also dusted accordingly.

It was a sign of forgiveness for the two of us, like saying that everything was working together.

…………

I know. They said they were lovers, and that it was a pleasure for them to get along.

"... why"

But still, I guess.

My chest hurts.

……

Hikaru had noticed that Paula was headed this way by "Magic Detection". That stops on the way, turn around. Turn right and go back --.

What the hell is wrong with you?

"Oh, you know, you! Is that what you want to say that it was the dragon that destroyed the college and you got rid of it!?"

To the captain of the guard who would recite Hikaru's explanation, Hikaru nodded back to Eagle Fling.

Kou had not been seen by the guards because he had pushed him into the "Dimensional Dragon's Box" at all —— although he hated it very much in person. Kou is bright white and noticeable, so I can't help it.

"That's what I'm saying just now"

"Then where did the dragon go!

"I don't know. You ran away."

"That explains it --"

"Then I (...) go already. And then you're on your own."

"Ah, hey! Kola!"

Hikaru ran in the shadow of the building when he flipped his cape and activated "Hidden". Remove the mask and exhale one.

(Well, and... I guess I'll have the rest cleaned up. In the meantime, I have to have an alibi for what I was doing when the dragon was there... I figured I'd ask Paula)

The Paula seems to have gone back to the lodging building, but she is not where the injured are. Though he seems to be alone far away.

Flying out of the lodging building, Hikaru heads to Paula's place after spending time with the Jalazak warriors.

"... Paula? What are you doing here?"

What she was there was a poke in the hallway. There's no light on, it's dark.

"What, hi, Master Hikaru!?"

In her eyes I looked back —— even in the dark, I know, there were tears.

"... what's up? What happened in this lodging building while I was gone?"

"Hey, hey, it's nothing! Nothing!?"

It can't be anything, Hikaru thinks. Hikaru's known Paula is always positive and bright.

Something has decided to tear in such a dark place.

"If there's anything hard going on --"

"Nah, I don't! Really... I'm really fine... you know, I'm going now. I'm still in the middle of treatment."

Paula running away through the side of Hikaru —— that her hand. Hikaru grabbed it from behind.

"Hiya!?"

"--Paula. What's wrong, really..."

Hikaru didn't know what to do at a time like this. Obviously Paula needs help, and it feels like Hikaru is being avoided.

You want me to get Lavia to talk to you?

Second, such an idea crossed my brain.

But then I "intuited" that I couldn't. Here and now, if we don't talk, I'm the only one.

…………

…………

Shut up for a while, but Paula opens her mouth like she couldn't stand the silence.

"Dear Hikaru —— can I stay by Hikaru?

"... why would you think that?

"Because if I were there, I would get in the way of Master Hikaru and Lavia..."

"I need it. If it weren't for Paula, even Claude would have lost his life."

…………

Oh, no. These are not the words Paula was looking for.

What does she crave? I don't know.

"... I am of service to Master Hikaru...?

"Of course."

"Really? Good, then."

I grinned, Paula. That just looked like a smile that I couldn't (...) do.

"... Paula"

Right, right now (...) -- Hikaru thinks.

Now is the time to talk.

"It's too cold here —— follow me"

"Huh!? Dear Hikaru?

Hikaru pulls Paula's hand and enters the nearby room. Orange light illuminates the room blurry when the demon guide lamp is lit.

The interior was also as cold as the hallway, but there were heating magic items. It's a sheet of metal on the window wall. Turning the handle so as to twist the faucet makes a noise with Vun and the oil in the metal plate warms up mechanism.

Hikaru brought two chairs before the metal plate. Sitting Paula on one side, I sit back across from her.

"Dear Hikaru...?

Paula is decent. Face that I don't know why I moved the place.

"... Paula. I'm not from this world."

!?

Paula's body strengthens in her sudden confession.

"Hi, Dear Hikaru, it's --"

"I'm not lying. Though this flesh belongs to the boy of this world, the soul came from a different world. It would have been in the ruins of Tubra, wouldn't it? There's a Japanese note from another world called Katsuki Ota. I was born and raised in the same Japan as him."

"Dear Hikaru! No!"

Paula floats her hips.

"No... no. Don't say anything to me, Hikaru's secret...!

"Paula."

When he grips his hands so as to wrap them around him, Paula sits back on the chair.

"... I was going to talk to you. Uh... I'm not good at passing those emotions on to people devastatingly... the"

off his face, but for once Paula threw her gaze,

"You need enough already... not only that, but it's important to me. As much as I don't want to give it to anyone else..."

Though I don't have the kind of romantic feelings for Lavia, I did have feelings beyond just friends.

How long has this been happening?

At first, it was a triumph to help her.

Then she started acting together, gaining the certainty that she would never betray herself.

I changed my hair and was thrilled to see Paula dressed up.

Then I had to figure out what Hikaru himself thought of Paula —— how to face her.

The answer is already out.

…………

Pokan, it was Paula, but the tears spilled out of her eyes.

"... enough to cry?

"Become, I will cry... enough to cry. I'm so happy to cry..."

Paula, who wiped her eyes with her index finger, says in a slightly sweet voice hung on her nose.

"May I stay with Hikaru?"

"Fine."

"All the time."

"Oh."

"Always, always, always."

"I know. That's how ready I am."

Paula's eyes looked moisturized again —— and she smiled bright red on her face but full face,

"Dear Hikaru!

"Whoa."

He suddenly hugged me.

I almost collapsed, but Hikaru can manage.

"Ok, good. So... Wow, me, I wonder how long I can stay here, can I stay... heh, I usually don't think that, but somehow lately..."

"... right"

Pom, Pom, and Hikaru thinks as he slaps her on the back.

Looking at Claude and Luca, it's not hard to imagine that Paula was also anxiously driven.

(I tried to get Claude to talk to Luca... but I should have talked to Paula properly.)

Finding a good opportunity —— or when you calm down —— is just a way forward on the issue. Hikaru felt bitter considering that Paula was suffering while she was doing so.

"Good... good... I've always wanted to be by Hikaru..."

"Oh, I don't mind. I just want Paula."

Hikaru while answering, is that it? What the hell is this? Isn't it like a proposal? Though I thought -- I stopped wondering if it was okay.

"... Paula, will you listen to me? Talk about me... well, it's not that long, but there are some things you might be a little shocked about."

"Yes, I'd be happy to..."

It was Paula, who gently let her body off Hikaru.

Poking a slight gap into Hikaru's lips —— her lips touched.

"Po, Paula!?"

"--Eh, eh, this is an oath. Dear Hikaru, I dedicate all my body and mind to you... hehe hehe"

"So, but you're such an unexpected hit...!

"Eh heh"

I can't stop Hikaru from blushing. Paula's favor was noticed, but this is the first time she's been in these direct actions.

"eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh"

"What do you mean?!?"

Paula also turned her face bright red —— with her hands between her thighs.

"Had my first kiss, Hikaru... hehe!

I don't know what to say. Now he's covering his face with both hands and bumming his legs. Her expression remains loose like that.

It only took a little more time for Hikaru to reveal the truth.