“You’ve got quite a lot of them . ”


  Once I followed Lina and entered the room, I was overwhelmed by the variety of magic items inside .

  Since the curtain was shut the room was slightly dim despite putting on the lights .

  There were some bookshelf on the walls and desks placed in the center . All of them contained many magic items, making the room look like a museum .

  “I’m collecting them thinking that one day they may serve for something . There are still many others hiding inside . ”


  Lina said that while pointing at a treasure chest like box .

  Ah, could that be……

  “Is this an infinite storage box?”


  “Yeah, it’s called storage box . It has a storage limit but it’s easy to carry which makes it pretty convenient . This one is too big, so it’s kinda difficult to carry him, but there’s a bag version for it which I often use . ”


  “Then why are you still putting it here?”


  “It just takes too much time to take out all the stuff inside it . ”


  “Isn’t there a magic that lets you do the same thing? Like, storing things?”


  “What? I never heard of that . ”


  She doesn’t seem to know .

  “Eh? Then what about that

  skill you got?”


  “That skill is for personal use and it has a limit on how many things I can store . It’s not as great as you think . ”


  I was slightly surprised by her answer .

  Looks like the magic that my

  uses doesn’t exist .

  I thought it definitely existed somewhere outside this world .

  I slowly surveyed the room again .

  “But still, you’ve got too many stuff here . ”


  A star-shaped magic item . A crystal-like item . A small box-shaped tool .

  There were various types and shapes .

  It’s wasn’t easy to judge their utility only from the appearance .

  Some of them were not much different from a wood plank and a horse wood curvature . It became even suspicious if they were really magic tools or not .

  “Are these really magic items?”


  “Despite its looks, it is a full-fledged magic tool . And it’s pretty useful too . ”


  “Waa- this one is beautiful . ”


  Suddenly, Saya who was in bad temper not too long ago got entranced by some sort of a germ necklace and was about to touch it .

  “Ah, that’s……”


  “Eh?”


  Before Lina was able to finish her line, Saya touched the necklace, resulting in a magic circle appearing under her feet . Confused by that abrupt occurrence, Saya remained standing in her place until she disappeared in an instant .

  “Wait, Saya?”


  I roamed my sight in our surroundings, but I couldn’t find her .

  What happened? How did she disappear all of a sudden like that?

  When I was about to ask Lina about it, I found her holding her head seeming to be deeply troubled .

  “She did it……”


  “Did what? Where did Saya go?”


  “She didn’t go anywhere . You’re just not seeing her . ”


  “Eh? Seriously?”


  Hearing her answer, I used

  to look for her place and as Lina said, she wasn’t actually near us .

  “I can’t feel her presence……”


  “That’s because she touched the super privacy pendant . It’s an excellent magic item that doesn’t only make you invisible, but also erase your presence . Due to that, we can’t even hear her if she talked . ”


  How convenient .

  Remaining to look at the place where Saya was standing, I was impressed by the ability of the pendant .

  But even though I understood it’s use, I still don’t know the most important part .

  “How can we turn her back to normal?”


  “The pendant is working on Saya-dono’s magic . If she could stop the flow of her magic it will stop working, but unfortunately, I don’t think she could . ”


  Lina said with a worried expression .

  Saya is an ordinary person .

  There’s no way she would know how to control her magic .

  “It should stop working once she runs out of magic, so she should be alright . ”


  Doesn’t that mean she will faint?

  Is that alright?

  Starting to feel worried about the disappeared Saya, I suddenly felt something touching my clothes and shaking me .

  “Uoh, What!!?”


  “That’s probably Saya-dono trying to make us notice her presence . Saya-dono, I’m sorry, but please wait like that until the effect wears off . ”


  As line said that, My body stopped shaking .

  She probably said something like “no way……” while feeling disappointed .

  Trying to cheer her up, I reached my hand at a slightly low angle and bumped into something hard . I lightly tapped it .

  It was probably her shoulder, though she didn’t seem to move despite doing so .

  A few minutes later, we found Saya laying on the ground . Looks like she had swooned .

  She didn’t seem to be very lucky today .

  “Uu, that was mean . ”


  “Are you okay?”


  “I’m sorry, it’s because of my bad management . ”


  With concern, I asked Saya if she was alright while Lina apologized to her .

  I had to share some of my magic with her so she could wake up .

  I did that only by touching her hand, but despite the bad efficiency, that much was plenty for her .

  “But maybe it wasn’t that bad . ”


  When I thought she was in a bad mood, Saya said in a low voice and a smirk on her face, as if she recalled something .

  “I got Yato-kun to stroke my hair . ”


  When she said that with a cheerful expression, I remembered what I did earlier and asked her .

  “What I touched was your shoulder, right?”


  “Eh? Ah, yes, my shoulder . ”


  The way she answered me was fairly suspicious . When I kept staring at her with doubting eyes, she reverted her sight .

  Well, whatever . It doesn’t matter if it was her shoulder or something else .

  I went back to check the magic tools .

  “What is this?”


  What I pointed at was a handle with two boards in which each one had 『O』or『Ｘ』writen in it .

  I wonder what’s its use .

  “Hm? Ah, that’s a lie detector . It divulges the true thoughts of anyone who holds it . I used often when I interrogate someone . ”


  A lie detector, huh .

  And she uses it for interrogation?!

  It has a shape of something normally used in entertainment, but it’s actually for integrating? Seriously?

  When I remained gazing at the lie detector, Lina, seeming to have hit upon something talked to me with a mischievous grin on her face .

  “Kamiya Yato, try holding it . ”


  “This?”


  Doing as she said, I seized the lie detector .

  The same instant, Lina talked in an incredible speed .

  “Kamiya Yato is dating Saya-dono!”


  “What?”


  “Eh?”


  Saya and I let out a confused voice to Lina abrupt utterance while the 『Ｘ』 board of the lie detector gleamed and made a strange sound .

  “Hm, looks like it wasn’t the case . ”


  “Wait a second, what did you do?”


  With the lie detector still in my hand, I glared at Lina who was making a satisfied expression .

  “Remember when I asked you the same thing the other day? That time I couldn’t completely believe you so I thought I can use this chance to get a clear proof . Though it seems that things are as you said, so don’t glare at me like that . Well, it’s fine even if it wasn’t . ”


  Lina kept speaking while nodding in assent .

  But why did she seemed somehow satisfied?

  “Don’t do that again . ”


  “T-That’s right, Lina-chan! I-I’m not in that kind of relationship with Kamiya-kun?”


  Embarrassed by what just happened, Saya followed my warning to Lina with a complaint .

  “Yeah, I’m sorry about that . Oh yeah, how about you try asking him something too? You can get to know anything you want . ”


  “Eh? But……”


  The embarrassed Saya was considerably moved by Lina’s words who, by the way, didn’t seem to be sorry at all .

  This is bad, she’s about to get deceived by a demon’s whisper .

  “Wait, wait, what are you saying—”


  “You don’t have a reason to mind that, do you? It’s not like you’re hiding anything of guilty . Or maybe you do?”


  Lina interrupted me with a provocation .

  This angel! She’s enjoying the situation .

  Realizing that she was toying with me with that smirk on her face, I became a bit irritated .

  “I don’t have anything to hide . You can ask me anything you want . ”


  “That’s good . Well then Saya-dono, it’s question time . ”


  “Yes!”


  Saya who has completely turned over the other side, replied in a delighted mood .

  I told them to ask me anything just in the heat of the moment…… maybe I messed up .

  I became about to regret my short temper .

  But still, I think it should be fine .

  There isn’t anything in particular that don’t want people to ask me about .

  Or that was what I tried to make myself believe as a way to not regret my miserable decision .

  The question time had finally begun .

  “Well then, I’m asking . ”


  With a slightly nervous expression, Saya was about to ask her question .

  What is she going to ask?

  I gulped while been pressed by the nervous mood she was giving off until she moved her lips again .

  “D-Do you have anyone you like at the moment?”
……

  !

  That was her question .

  For some reason, the board took a short moment before letting out that sound and gleaming its 『Ｘ』 board .

  I didn’t see that question coming, honestly .

  “Why did it take a moment before giving the result?”


  Looking at the 『Ｘ』 board, I asked .

  Lina pondered for a while before she apparently hit on a reasonable explanation and slowly began explaining .

  “That is most likely because the answer wasn’t very clear . The lie detector makes use of your memories and the weakest tremor in your magic to bring out an estimable result . Since your experience in that matter wasn’t enough, it went out with a result that you have at least someone you’re interested in . ”


  So that’s why it took time .

  Hearing Lina’s explanation, I tried thinking about the person that I’m interested in .

  Was there someone in whom I was interested in the first place?

  “Yato-kun still doesn’t have anyone he likes……”


  Finding out that I don’t have anyone like that, Saya was clearly relieved .

  “But how unfortunate . I thought I could grasp one of your weaknesses if you had someone in mind like that . ”


  “So that was your aim from the start . ”


  No wonder she was in unusually in high spirit .

  “I had too many troubles because of you in the past . I really want to grasp your weakness here . ”


  I don’t think that’s something you should say in front of me though .

  Also, I don’t remember doing anything that may have troubled her . I did as far as using a spell to hide that I was sleeping in class or stealing her snacks .

  “That’s why I’m going to keep asking you now . ”


  “What should I ask him next……”


  The both of them seemed to be ready to ask me a second question . So we’re not going to call it here . It felt like the situation wasn’t giving me the right to refuse .

  I unintentionally let out a sigh . I wonder how long this will keep going .

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  “How is this possible? I still didn’t get anything yet!”


  “It’s getting kinda scary . ”


  I lost count on how many questions they asked .

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  Noticing that Saya and Lina got fairly tired from asking, I recommended them to stop .

  “Won’t you stop already? I’m also getting tired here . ”


  “Hmm…… very well, the next question will be the last . ”


  Lina who seemed to start giving up said with a disappointed expression .

  Finally, the question time is going to end . It took longer than what it should though .

  “Hurry up and ask then . ”


  “Alright . Did you ever sleep with a girl of the same age as you . ”


  I awkwardly smiled after hearing her last question .

  When I finally thought that I can end all of this peacefully .

  “Of course I didn’—”


  Interrupting my attempt to deny, the 『O』board gleamed with a sound that sounded almost as f it was ridiculing me .

  Not predicting such a turn of event, I stiffened in my place and slowly turn to look at the board .

  Maybe, I didn’t hear it well……

  “No, like I said, I didn’t sleep—”


  Again, the lie detector made that sound before I finished my line .

  This time, I heard it very well .

  “Hey, Kamiya Yato……”


  With a trembling voice, Lina slowly approached me and seized my collar .

  “You! You spent a night with a girl of your age?!”


  “No, wait, this must be some sort of misunders—!”


  As I was about to explain myself to Lina with my neck strangled, the lie detector mercilessly interrupted me .

  I didn’t have even the right to make an excuse .

  “H-How is this possible…… Yato-kun with another girl……”


  Saya was trembling with a face that was about to cry and clear despair in her eyes .

  This is bad . I need to clear up this misunderstanding .

  “Kamiya Yato…… how could it be that you spent a night with a girl in whom you’re not even interested!!?”


  “Wait! Misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding!!”


  This thing doesn’t let me do anything!

  Now that I tried denying, it was the 『Ｘ』 that gleamed .

  AAh! That’s because I’m still holding it in my hand!

  I dropped the lie detector on the floor and started making an excuse for Lina who was about snap from rage at any moment .

  “Wait! Hear me out! I never slept with a girl of my age!”


  “Then why did the lie detector react?!”


  “How would I know!? Anyway, I really never slept with someone of my age……”


  While I was desperately trying to clear away the misunderstanding, I remembered something .

  There was that time when Karen sneaked into my bed and slept next to me after I saved her from that red dragon .

  I didn’t think too deeply about it, but I guess it was counted as “sleeping together . ”


  When I finally realized that fact, I calmed down . Sorry but, that’s the truth .

  “What’s with that reaction? So you did really sleep with someone!!”


  “No way, Yato-kun……”


  Confirming their doubts from my reaction, Lina kept on shaking me in a fit of anger while Saya began to shed tears .

  “Wait, please wait! It is indeed the truth, but it’s completely different from what you’re imagining right now! So hear me out at least!”


  “Shut up you pervert . ”


  “Yato-kun, how could you……”


  A wrathful Lina and a crying Saya .

  It took a considerably long time to make them believe me at that point .

  Honestly, I’d do anything in order to avoid finding myself in such a chaotic situation again .

  After the misunderstanding was cleared, I realized that I was pretty worn out .

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  Bonus

  Pinch

  While Yato was desperately trying to explain himself .

  “Mu, chief is in pinch! I need to save him!”


  “.…… let’s not do that . ”