Chapitre 96: Seriously?
Rikka and Asami were the only one clueless of their reaction after seeing Lumina while Fia and Elsie only put on awkward laugh as if they understood the feelings.
"Elsie-san, what happened? Who is she? Haru-kun and you all know her?" Rikka asked.
"Ah, umm... that's... how should I say it... To put it simply, she's a friend? ...No, an enemy? Eh.. eeh...?" Elsie was having troubles because she's an idiot on explaining. Fia wryly smiled seeing this and decided to take over on the explanation.
After a minute, they already grasped the situation and couldn't helped but be impressed knowing such a young (looking) girl is actually so powerful that the whole world feared her.
"I get the gist but then why are they reacting like that?" Asami still puzzled looking at the trio putting on a faraway gaze as if they were acting like they didn't see anything.
"Ahahaha... Well, I guess it's because there's a special circumstance during their first meeting that leave a scar on their mind." Fia laughed wryly.
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The two girls didn't understand what she mean but guessing it's not that important they shrugged it off. Asami approached the still escaping reality Haruto and asked.
"Hey Haru, if she's your acquaintance why don't you greet her? It's impolite to ignore the people you know like this."
"Nee-san, I'm telling you this for your own good. Don't-you-ever call out to her, get it? She's a box of troubles that you don't even have time to regret once you learnt about it."
Haruto used his most serious expression fully radiating "You don't know what you're dealing with!" with his eyes. Even Kaori and Selianna looked at Asami as if she's a madman, making her extremely perplexed.
"Milord, it's better if we get away from here as soon as possible." Selianna suggested.
"I concur." Kaori nodded.
"Fumu, all of us didn't see anything." Haruto signalled the other girls with his gaze as he spoke with a sage-like tone.
Unfortunately for them, the person mentioned just have an out-of-the-world hearing sense. The moment the noise from the crowd reduced as they contemplated on joining the events, Lumina's ears perked up and she turned her gaze right on Haruto's group. In that instant her eyes lit up brightly.
"Aah! It's Lia-pon's group! H~ey Li-a-p~on~!!"
She waved cheerfully as if calling out her most treasured best friend and in fact she really did think so.
"Goddammit! This woman's hearing is bugged!!" Haruto cursed loudly.
"W-W-W-What should we do milord??" Selianna was flustered.
"Haruto-kun, Instant Transmission! Quickly!" Kaori shook his shoulders furiously.
"R-Right, good idea!" Haruto was enlightened.
"Hey hey, what's going on? You three are so exaggerating isn't it?" Asami was bewildered.
"Shut up Nee-san! If you don't want to die here, hold on to me right now!" Haruto's eyes gone insane making Asami trembled with "Eeh~?! She's that dangerous? We're talking of Selianna's acquaintance right!?" but of course Haruto ignored her while began putting on his fingers on his forehead.
But-
"If it isn't Haru-tan~"
"...."
A hand appeared out of nowhere and took a hold of him. Haruto was sweating hard right now having his hand grabbed by the princess who emerged right in front of his eyes without anyone of them noticing anything. Not even the crowd here realized the main spotlight girl had already disappeared from the podium, it was done in less than a millisecond.
Although Lumina was smiling brightly but Haruto had an illusion of her saying things like "Where do you think you're going? Aa?" as if she's a yakuza.
Crying out loud inside his heart, Haruto put on a very splendid gentleman smile while his demeanor changed 180 degrees from before. If someone said he's a prince from a noble kingdom, no one would doubt it.
"Greetings Princess Lumina. Fancy seeing you here."
"Fufufu, I also didn't expect to see you here too you know? And Lia-pon is here too~ why why?" She asked with innocent tone.
Before Selianna could answer, Haruto secretly signalled her to let him handle the situation so he responded instead.
"Princess Lumina sure likes to jest, if we're not having a vacation then what is it? Such a glorious day to entertain ourselves we definitely can't afford to miss it." He laughed.
"Is that so~? Indeed, that's true. I came here to have fun too because uncle kept nagging at me." Lumina nodded.
"If I may ask Princess, where could Damian-sama be?" Selianna asked politely. For them Lumina's uncle is the only one capable of saving them from this walking calamity. It was strange that man who's supposed to watch over her was not here.
"Ah, I poisoned him!"
"You what!?"
As expected, not even Haruto could maintain his demeanor hearing such an absurd thing. This girl just mentioned poisoning her own uncle with a completely innocent face as if she was praising herself.
"Y-Y-You killed him?" Kaori was shivering with pale face. Asami and Rikka too have their face like looking at a psychopath. Now they finally realized what Haruto meant just now about the terror of this woman.
"Of course no~t I just secretly added a laxative on his meals back in the castle to keep him busy. I'm not such a cruel person! You're all so rude! Muu!" Lumina puffed her cheeks.
'Nah, that's still a crime you know?' They all silently retorted in their heart.
"Ah come on, let's forget about that! Haru-tan and Lia-pon, you all became a lot stronger now that's amazing~ Oh yeah, that Angel-san and Fox-chan too!"
Lumina observed the girls with glimmering eyes. As she looked at the group member there one by one, her gaze fell to the two unfamiliar girls.
"I haven't seen you two before but I can tell you two are strong too! Where did you meet these pretty sisters Haru-tan? Did you seduce them~?" She looked at Haruto with teasing grin.
"Of course not. The girl with auburn hair here is Rikka, my lover. The black haired girl here is Asami, my older sister." Haruto sighed.
"N-Nice to meet you...."
Asami and Rikka bowed slightly having being introduced to Lumina, their face seemed very nervous, unlike the usual them.
"Hehe~ Nice to meet you too! I think you already heard about me but I'm everyone's beloved Lumi-chan! Oh, you can just call me Lumina like Haru-tan too if you want!" She shook their hands vigorously.
"Ah right right since you're already here do you want to join the game too Haru-tan? The players up to now are all so weak I'm bored~" She turned her gaze to Haruto.
"Well...."
Haruto was hesitating because he's not interested in playing shooting games. He's already sick of them after playing it countless times back on Earth.
The crowd was making noises seeing Lumina interacting with the group, they're extremely surprised to know the infamous princess was friend with them. This made Haruto feel more unmotivated as he didn't like to draw attention.
"Plea~~se?"
Lumina was pestering him with puppy eyes. This made Haruto very conflicted and in the end he sighed deeply.
"...Fine, let's play once."
"Really? Yea~y!" Lumina cheered.
Other then being affected by how cute she was (despite her character she's a splendid beauty after all), Haruto was also feeling that if he refused, something re~ally bad will happened and he didn't dare to risk.
They leaped up passed the crowd effortlessly to land on the large podium serving as the stage for the competition. Usually this podium was for public entertainment purpose but Lumina 'asked' to borrow the entire plaza for today.
"Fufu, you seemed so confident Haru-tan could it be you're good at shooting?" Lumina grinned.
"Not really, I'm just a little above average on shooting."
"Eee? But you looked so calm... I don't want to brag but I'm pretty strong you know~?"
"I know. Someone with your caliber, there's no way you're not good at this children's game." Haruto shrugged.
Lumina was quite bewildered on how composed Haruto was. All this time everyone who faced her always showed some kind of tension no matter how strong they were. Even though this is just a game for them, it's not an exception.
But she also secretly feeling happy to have someone facing her like they were equals. For her this kind of feelings was long forgotten and only now she remembered how it feels like. Her opinion for Haruto increased dramatically as a result.
Lumina proceeded to explain the rules on Haruto. To put it simply, they only needed to shoot as many targets as much as they can in ten minutes. The winner is obviously the one who hit the most. The referee Lumina randomly picked from passerby passed the magic toy handgun to Haruto. It was made from rubber-like materials but more solid and filled with magical energy. There's a magic stone embedded on the handle acting like a battery. Each gun could shot 10000 laser ray per stone. The participants also must not fly because it's cheating otherwise.
Because of its lightness and easy to use, even children could play with it. The gun only release a harmless laser created with light magic so it was safe. Haruto compared it to a Star Wars toy rifle often found in stores he bought one before.
There's a magician conjuring magic to produce numerous cranes made from light magic. Each cranes had their own respective colors divided by seven types based on rainbow colors. The correct target to hit was only the red color cranes so players hitting other colors received penalty and their scores decreased by one every cranes they hit. Although it was harmless to people but it's enough to destroy their magic-produced cranes. The conjurers took note on the cranes their magic produced as they wrote it on the scoreboard.
"3, 2, 1....BEGIN!!"
The referee gave a signal and the competition started with Haruto and Lumina took on their respective positions.
"*Sigh* Haruto-kun ended up playing along with that crazy princess..." Kaori sighed.
"Hush, who knows if she could hear you?" Selianna warned and Kaori shut her mouth right away.
They watched the battle leisurely as numerous cranes keep popping out from the intense battle. Lumina was moving impossibly fast that even Kaori couldn't see her movements at all. It seems as if she disappeared from the stage completely. Compared to that, Haruto seemed like standing still.
"Guh, is she really a human? Her speed is so fast that she didn't even leave afterimages. And she did that as easy as breathing...." Kaori was frustrated.
"So this is the strongest human...." Rikka was impressed. Agility is also her specialty but Lumina is on a completely different dimension, the sky above sky.
In terms of speed she even above Fia but it's only a matter of time before the latter surpassed her in that attribute. She's more of an all rounder with flexibility and agility as her most powerful weapon as an assassin.
"How unfortunate...." Asami shook her head helplessly.
"Uuu~ you're right Onee-sama. Nii-sama is so unfortunate to face against Lumina-san." Elsie seemed dejected.
"No, that's not what I meant." Asami said.
"Huh?"
Elsie was dumbstruck. The other girls also glanced at Asami with puzzled eyes.
"What do you mean Asami-san? Now that I think of it you seem so calm since before, you think Haru-kun will definitely lose?" Rikka asked.
"Lose? Oh well. I guess you girls don't know anything."
"Hm? Don't know what?" Kaori was confused.
Asami turned her gaze back to the stage seeing the intense competition reaching its end.
"Actually, we...our family often played games with Haru a lot in the past but never did again some time later because we always lost. Haru became bored so he started asking every people he knew to play along with him and before we know it...."
"Before we know it?" They repeated her words.
"....Haru challenged a world champion in mini-games and won."
"Eh?"
They all put on a dumbfounded face, not processing what Asami meant for awhile but the announcement from the referee woke them up from their stupor.
"T-T-The winner is contestant Haruto!!"
The referee's announcement was like a lightning bolt striking the audiences there including Haruto's group. Their mouth opened with "O" shape like an idiot person. No one could say anything for a few minutes before they screamed loudly.
"EEEEEHHHHH!?"
The girls all turned their head stiffly like a mechanical doll to Asami. Their face was full of disbelief.
'So what you mean unfortunate is Lumina!?"
Is what their eyes told her. Asami nodded and explained.
"It's hard to believe but Haruto is beyond godlike in terms of mini-games despite his ordinary ability. Just like this case for example, he's only above average on shooting with no more than 60% accuracy. But the moment he played a shooting mini-game, for some reason his skills became so ungodly that he never missed even once while his brain played so brilliantly to excels all his opponents. It was as if he possessed a blessing from the god of mini-games." Asami explained with faraway eyes, in those eyes were surely the time when she and her parents were beaten up black and blue by Haruto.
"...."
They all became speechless with that. It's just so unbelievable. What kind of ability is that? They all looked at Haruto standing casually at the stage with incredulous eyes.
Lumina also froze for awhile not expecting herself to lose. Somehow, Haruto managed to catch up with her score with mysterious and unexplainable way during the last five minutes. But she smiled brightly right away and approached Haruto.
"Oh no~ I guess I lost to you. You're very amazing Haru-tan, how did you do that?" She didn't seem sad on losing so Haruto was a bit taken aback.
"Even if you ask me... I just shoot them with the best I can?" Haruto tilted his head.
'No, that ain't it.'
The audiences there retorted in their heart hearing Haruto's remark.
"Hihihi, you're really funny and interesting Haru-tan I admit my defeat!" Lumina raised her hands with cheerful face.
"Well, thanks?" Haruto felt awkward and embarrassed.
"So~ now that you've won against me, It's time for your reward yeay!!" Lumina clapped her hands.
"Reward huh... now that you mention it what is the reward?"
Haruto forgot to ask the reward and joined the event right away. It must have slipped his mind because he only play with Lumina without any specific objectives. Still, if the reward is good then he didn't mind accepting it, receiving something good is always welcome. And considering this event was planned by Lumina, the reward shouldn't be bad so he had expectations for it.
"Nn? It's to get married with me though?" Lumina said casually.
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"Excuse me?"
Haruto's face turned dumb. He obviously didn't get what Lumina said. The girls also made the same expression as their eyes became dots.
"Like I said, the winner will get married with me!" Lumina pouted and repeated louder.
"...."
Haruto rubbed his eyes to calm himself down as he slowly processing the sudden circumstances.
"....Are you serious?"
"Of course I am! Breaking a promise is not in my dictionary!" Lumina smiled.
"No way, there's something weird with this kind of reward right!? You're a princess you know!?" Haruto yelled.
"So what? I do what I want and now that I already promise to marry whoever win against me no one can say anything to that!" Lumina said with smug face.
"...."
Haruto didn't know what to say anymore because his brain was completely dumbstruck.
"Heh heh heh, take care of me from now on okay? Dan-na-sa-ma (dear husband)." She kissed the dazed Haruto's cheek.
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Seriously?
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