Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Rein's POV: ]

"Yessss~! That was the best breakfast I have ever had~!"

"You say that every day. Haha. It would make every chef feel happy. I'm glad I'm the one that receives all that precious praise alone."

"Hehehe~. There are few people in this world who could make as amazing dishes as you do darling~. You're the best~."

"Don't praise me so much this early in the morning dear. Go get a warm bath. I will prepare your clothes."

He liked it when I praised him but not when it got too much. He says the world might start ending him and send some misfortune their way so, we have this little thing where we prise each other just enough to not incur the envy of the world and nature.

But praises were one thing, the flirting was an entirely different matter altogether.

"Hehe, hey, Lucifer. Wanna come to take a warm bath with me? We can do a little something-something, you know?"

I stood right before him with a smirk-covered face, however, instead of getting aroused, this bastard of mine sighed instead.

"I already took a bath when you were playing with Clover earlier, dear Uriel. Bathing too much would be -"

"Alright, fine. Don't bathe with me. But, you at least wanna come with me and watch me wash myself-"

"Nope. Go get freshen up. We have to leave for school."

"Fuck school… come, a little peeking, ok? Who knows, I might slip and fall down in the bathroom. You will have to come help me then anyway, right?"

I smiled at him warmly the same way I expressed my stubbornness so, he knew he had no choice but to come in with me, and at the very least, watch me so that I don't slip and fall and hurt myself.

"Ok… you are being too needy nowadays, miss."

"You will get used to this by the time I'm your wife."

He was too easy sometimes. Following my little stubborn requests and doing the stuff that he avoided on usual days.

'Hehe, anyway, a little timeskip~. Let us do the little bad things~.'

*

"You are a bad person, you know?"

"Of course, I'm a bad person~. Not as bad as you thought. You are better than me!"

"Haaaa… what am I gonna do with you?"

"Marry me? Oh, wait. That's inevitable. Hmmm. How about you pat my head and call me by my real name once? There's no one here, right? You can do that much."

"No dear. The walls have their own ears and the winds carry words faster than a storm blooms in the middle of an ocean."

"Please, please~. Pleaseeeee~?"

[[ "No, Rein. Please, no." ]]

"Ohhhhh! Thanks, thanks~! That felt so gooooooood~ you know? Sooooooo gooooooood-, oh. Help me with this please."

"Ah, yes."

I was wearing this pretty shirt today that he made for me a while back but, it had a little chain on the back like the dresses usually do. It was a unique design, so I asked him for a little hand in this.

"You could have done it yourself though."

"And miss the chance of you doing it for me? Nah. Never."

The bath was done, and I was done with my clothes as well, so, now, it was time to annoy my bastard.

"Alright then. Go do some chores. It will take me a while to clean my weapons-"

"Ah, no. We aren't doing that nonsense today. You have annoyed me enough with that thing with the soap and bubbles. I'm not taking the sword cleanup torture today."

He grabbed my hand, used his shadow dive skill, and moved us to the stairs of this floor.

"For heaven's sake Lucifer. We are more than ten floors high up. And I think I forgot something-"

"Nope, you did not. Just think of this as morning exercise and let's go."

Did he want to torture me this early in the morning? Was he really developing some sadistic tendencies like Mom Nol? Would I also have to go through all those devices?

"Whatever trash you are thinking about dear, forget it. I'm getting chills even without knowing what you are actually thinking."

He could sense what kind of things I'm thinking, which is a bother sometimes, but, it's cute in a way, so, well, that is that.

"I'm not thinking anything weird. Hump! Let's go do this exercise!"

"Or else you could use your skill and teleport us directly to somewhere near the academy gates, dummy."

"Hump! No, we will walk there today!"

There was still more than an hour left for the homeroom class. Why were even going there so early?!

"Alright. As you wish."

"Bastard! At least try to pursue me! Tsk!"

"Why would I try and talk you out of something as healthy as walking to school in the fresh early morning? The sun's bright, the birds are chirping, and the island must be waking up by this point, why would you not want us to enjoy this beautiful weather?"

He was a bastard. A complete bastard when it came to simple things like this.

Walking to school in the early morning, not bathing together, not letting me clean up my weapons, doing simple things that were all annoying, he liked doing it all and dragging me into all those annoying things with him.

"Haaaaa…"

I didn't like walking to the academy like this. There are a lot of bothering things when we walk there in the morning like people who are going to work, the people who are going home from a night's long work, the shores that are opening up in the early and are arguing with their neighbors.

There were also students who were walking there like us, and adventurers who were trying to get close to them. 

There are many shitty things going on alongside the beauty of this place. People even forget to look at the dark things before them since the mystical Sky Island is so full of pretty things. 

'There are people who starve to death here as well, there is a dark side of this utopian paradise as well. Many people die in the outskirts at the hands of powerful creatures. Robbery, stealing, and betrayal are the common norm here. People kill each other, unthinkable shit happens in the urban area of this island filled with nobles of various places, mages who do unthinkable experiments out of their own greed, and bastards more evil, wicked, demonic than the demons of hell themselves.'

People neglect these things when it comes to the island of magic's wealth. Even in the academy, only a handful of people actually care about the normal people struggling for their survival in this place.

'Lizzy did a good job helping them over the weekend however, her approach was very wrong. Her life could have been threatened had Alf and others weren't there. And, well, it was good Prince Alph was watching them from afar. He's certainly putting in a good effort.'

Seeing her devastated was a sad thing though. Not getting familiar affected her more than any of us had thought. 

'That kind of sadness and sorrow was beyond his expectations as well. He even suspects there was something wrong with the whole 'her being not able to summon anything' scenario.'

Perhaps the demon king interfered somehow. Perhaps that's why the headmaster looked in a bad state after her turn.

'Many things happened yesterday aside from the beast gatherings and the summonings. It was a good, pretty, and shitty day.'

We all visited her last night after our discussion was over but, Titania, Princess Luna, Princess Isabella, Nebula, and even Janet were there already.

They all coincidentally decided to check up on her and ended up filling her room, but, seeing us all made her happy. She seemed in a far better state than she was back then.

"Uriel~! Lucifer~! Here!"

Even as we reached the school gates and saw her walking with Quin and the others with a bright, transparent smile, we were relieved to have decided to drop by her dorm room.

"Hey everyone~! How's you all~? How's this morning treating you all~?"

I ran towards the girls while my darling went to the other side for a moment to talk with the student council president under a certain tree where he was playing with San-San. They two seemed to be talking about something fun.

Cradle was present in this garden as well with Mirror. However, the two of them were having some lone time together and were napping under another tree so, no one even dared to approach these two. Those two were cute.

"So, Uriel? Your house will be having a meeting as well?"

"A silly question Liz. You know, I know, Quin doesn't but she has Carla so she will be alright. Prince Eugene has strength Chry has the brains to utilise his strength in a proper way so they know it as well.

Captain Alpha is, unquestionably the most on edge, Prince Alph is doing his usual plotting, that much I am certain of, and Titania, well, we don't even have to mention, should be burning with passion by now. I wanna see her face, lol. When's she coming?"

All of us house captains knew just how important today's meeting would be, and, since Darling is so chill and is freely chatting with the president, every single person on this campus who was knowledgeable about the House politics and the power struggle that was approaching, knew full well what stood as the greatest hurdle between us and the spot of the new top house of this year.

'The day right after the day of familiar summoning… or, how the house captains refer to it as, the day of (Year schedule planning day). Today, the house captains gather everyone and tell them about their immediate goals and the things that they would be aiming for in the upcoming days. Mainly, things that grated us [House points] which would start from today.'

A point ranking table would open right after our homeroom today and all the houses would start from the baseline, zero. 

This will be a difficult day for all of us house captains. It should be at least. However, my bastard, the greatest threat to all of us, was smiling, chatting with the president, and playing with San-San like this whole thing meant nothing to him.

He was a bastard to the core…

'Bastard.'

So, well, time passed, the homeroom came and ended, and other classes passed with the same old, same old happening. We had lunch like we usually do, we all talked like we usually do, we all were normal until the moment we separated after classes with new serious expressions, ones that our house members were seeing for the first time, and, as each of us would start these meetings today, though we wouldn't know the other topics that we needed to address today, one thing we all knew…

"Alright, everyone."

…if we wanted even a chance to have that top place and become the next best house, then, there was one crucial thing we needed to do very thoroughly.

"From this point on, [Wisdom Phoenix] will be our top priority target."