Demon King Daimaou: Volume 6 (eBook)

Shoutarou Mizuki (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
207 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0088-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Constant Magical Academy has a new transfer student named Keina Doronz. Not only does she have almost the same name as Akuto's friend Keena, but she also has an identical bird-shaped hairpiece -- the same one that Akuto bought for a crying girl when he was a child. Who's the real girl from his memory? To make things more confusing, this unknown girl is demanding that Akuto take her on a date!
Hilarity and magic school shenanigans ensue when Keina joins Keena, Junko, Korone, and Fujiko as they circle around our favorite hapless Demon King, Akuto Sai.

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“So do you know her, then?” Hiroshi Miwa asked. He was one of Akuto’s few friends, a small, mischievous boy who called Akuto ‘Boss.’

“Maybe...? I’m not sure, honestly.” Akuto said as they sat next to each other in the cafeteria eating lunch.

“What do you mean you’re not sure?”

“Honestly, even if she is the girl from back then, we only talked for a moment. At this point, we barely know each other. So I can’t really tell if she’s telling the truth...”

“That makes sense, yeah.”

“Yeah. And there’s something strange about her.”

“Something strange?”

“I don’t know how to say it. It’s like she’s just a little off.”

Just then, they heard a shout from the corner of the cafeteria.

“Oh! So I have to line up here, huh? And I have to pay for it, too? School food isn’t free?!” Keina shouted.

Akuto felt like he couldn’t just sit there and watch, so he stood up. Keina saw him and waved.

“Darling! Help me! I can’t figure out how the caf-ay-ter-iya works!”

“Are you having trouble?” Akuto walked over to her.

The whole cafeteria started to murmur. Everyone in the school knew his face and name. Of course, they had a bad impression of him.

The students surrounding her, who had been angry that Keina had cut in line all backed off quickly, opening an easy path to her.

—I’d really prefer you guys weren’t that scared of me.

But Akuto had a bad habit of trying to show off when he was in public. He chose his words carefully, trying to be as polite as possible, as he waved at them.

“I’m sorry. She’s an exchange student, and she doesn’t know how things work here. She doesn’t have any money either, it looks like.”

When he said that, several of the students quickly took out their wallets and offered her money.

—Th-That’s not what I meant...

But Keina cheerfully took one of the bills she was offered.

“Thank you! You should’ve just done that to begin with! Oh, I’ll take the lunch su-pe-shal of the day!”

“Uhm...” Akuto tried to stop her, but she’d already ordered.

—That’s not right.

Akuto began to frown without realizing it, and in response, tension ran through the people around him. Nobody moved an inch. On the other side of the cafeteria, people were already starting to run away.

Akuto walked up to the student who’d given money to Keina. The poor boy was shaking and his face was twitching.

“Y-Yes?! Wh-What do you need?”

“I wasn’t asking for money, so I’ll just pay you back. I intended to pay for her anyway, so don’t worry about it.” He offered the student some money. The student took it with trembling hands.

“The guy who paid was an idiot. The Demon King’s famous for trying to hit on every girl he sees. So that kid just interrupted him when he was trying to show off.”

“Oh, so that’s why he was glaring at him. The poor guy’s gonna be the first to die, I bet.”

The students around him were whispering to each other.

—That’s not what I meant, though...

Akuto sighed to himself, but then Keina grabbed his hand. Her other hand was holding a tray with the lunch special.

“Darling, let’s go sit down and eat! You know, the Empire’s food comes with so many little dishes! I couldn’t believe it! There’s not enough food for a classy girl like me, though!”

The students began to whisper again as Akuto led Keina across the cafeteria.

“Hmm... Why do all the cute girls go for him?”

“Well, he’s the Demon King. He’s probably really amazing, in a lot of different ways.”

“I’m kind of jealous...”

“And kind of not...”

He listened to the other students comments as he walked across the cafeteria. When he got back to where Hiroshi was sitting, Keena was there too.

“Hi Ackie! And Keina.. Hmm, that’s kind of weird to say, so Doronz... Doro, maybe? Doro’s with you too?” Keena said as she wolfed down her lunch.

At her special request, the school had made her her own unique lunch. There was white rice, deep-fried rice (rice fried in a rice-based batter), rice salad, rice paper spring rolls, and rice vermicelli soup. Essentially, it was a meal of nothing but white rice. This special “K Lunch,” as they called it, was in theory something anybody could order. But nobody but her had ever finished it.

“She was making a fuss over there, so I brought her here.”

“I don’t understand how this caf-ay-ter-iya’s system works! It’s very unkind of them not to explain it!” Keina said as she sat down and began to eat. She’d ordered the daily “A Lunch,” which was very normal. But after she took a bite of the fried shrimp, she tried some rice, she shook her head in disgust.

“Oh! What is this ‘rice’ stuff? It’s completely inedible! It’s not fit food for a classy girl like me!”

Then for once, Keena got angry.

“That’s not true! Rice is delicious!”

“You might think so, but I think it’s awful. That’s all there is to it!” Keina said, but Keena refused to back down.

“It doesn’t matter if tastes good or not. It’s nutritious, and that’s what counts. It’s nutritionally complete! People can survive off nothing else!”

—No, you’d get sick from lack of vitamins...

Akuto thought to himself.

But Keina began to shake her head violently.

“Nutritious or not, you can’t eat just one thing! And who gave you the right to boss me around, anyway? I’m going to have bread instead!”

Keina stood up and used the rest of the money she had to buy a sandwich, which she brought back to the table. She put it down on the table and declared in a loud voice, “Man can live by bread alone!”

—I don’t know if that’s right...

But Keena began to shake her head violently.

“It takes 88 steps to make rice, you know!”

The two of them began to argue, as one ate her rice and the other ate her sandwich.

“Boss, nobody’s eating that A Lunch, are they?” Hiroshi pointed to Keina’s tray. Only one bite had been taken out of the fried shrimp. The rest was untouched.

“...Let’s split it.”

While Keena and Keina argued, Hiroshi and Akuto finished not only their own meals, but the A Lunch as well. By the time they were done, the two girls had moved to arguing over Akuto.

“You know, the first time I saw you, I really, REALLY, didn’t like you! You’re jealous of me and my darling too, aren’t you?” Keina grabbed Akuto’s arm.

“I’m not jealous! Ackie and I are friends! We made a promise!” Keena slammed her fists down on the table.

Keina looked down at her with a smirk.

“Hehe. Friends. So you can just sit back and watch as we go on a date then!”

“A date?” Keena looked surprised.

Keina pressed her body up against Akuto.

“Don’t you know what a date is? It’s when you want to see if you can be boyfriend and girlfriend, so you go to a classy, relaxing, eco-friendly café and eat fancy sweets! You have some tea there and if you like each other, you’re boyfriend and girlfriend!”

—Is that how a date works? Maybe that’s just a Union thing?

Akuto frowned.

“If you like each other, you become boyfriend and girlfriend...?”

“That’s right. It’s up to the individual exactly how you say it, but after the tea, the boy confesses his love to the girl. And then she either accepts it, or doesn’t. That is the turning point of their fate,” Keina said confidently.

Then she turned to Akuto and said, “Let’s go on a date after school, the day after tomorrow! You pick the spot! That’s the boy’s job! I want a place where you can eat elegant, classy sweets! An eco-friendly place that’s perfect for a date to accelerate our love!”

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“And somehow I ended up agreeing to this...” Akuto said to the beautiful girl on his bed after he got home from school.

Soft green hair. A perfectly beautiful face, like a doll. She looked like some sculptor’s interpretation of the ideal young girl. But she was lying on the bed reading a magazine, eating ningyo-yaki snacks out of a bag next to her. Despite her beautiful appearance, she was acting like a middle-aged housewife or an unemployed young teen.

“I see,” Korone said. She was a Liradan who’d been sent by the government to be Akuto’s observer.

“I see...? Is that all you have to say?”

“My job isn’t to tell you how to run your personal life. And anyway, why are you telling me this, exactly?”

“Oh, right. Supposedly it’s after this that you decide if you want to be boyfriend and girlfriend, so I’m just going to tell her no, then.”

There was no doubt in his voice.

“That’s awfully sudden,” Korone said as she looked up from her magazine.

“I don’t really know her, is the thing. Of course, if I wanted to be her boyfriend it...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Demon King Daimaou
• Reihe/Serie: Demon King Daimaou
• Illustrationen: Souichi Itou
• Übersetzer: Adam Lensenmayer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Battle • color wars • demon king • Light Novel • Magical academy
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0088-3 / 1718300883
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0088-0 / 9781718300880