Book 8. Chapter 8
The Peerless Incompetent
“Eh? Hajime-kun? Wait, Nagumo-kun? Eh? What? What do you mean?”
Kaori’s ecstatic shout made Shizuku, who was by her side, confused and looked alternately between Kaori and Hajime. Apparently, Kaori was able to see through the white haired, eye-patched, black-coated person before her as Hajime with just a single glance, but Shizuku was still unable to recognize him.
However, when she saw the boy’s face who was looking back over his shoulder with a wry smile, it immediately overlapped with Nagumo Hajime in her memory, and Shizuku, with widened eyes, raised a surprised voice.
“Eh? Eh? Really? Is he really Nagumo-kun? Eh? What? What’s really happening here?”
“Well, just calm down, Yaegashi. Aren’t calm, cool, and collected your main selling point?”
The chain of events happened after she, Shizuku, just like Kaori, was prepared to die which made her perplexed and she forgot her pain. Admonishing her as he said Shizuku’s name, Hajime suddenly looked overhead, feeling their presences. Thus, the falling blond-haired girl, Yue, was caught by him in princess carry style and he carefully let her down, next he received the rabbit-eared girl, Shia, who jumped down the same way.
The last to jump down was a boy dressed in black, Endou Kousuke.
“Na-Nagumoo! You-! I was blown away by that! Wait, what was that just now!? It suddenly pierced the dungeon’s floors…”