Adolescent Adam Volume 7 Chapter 1
Something was odd.
Four weeks had pa.s.sed since Mutsuki noticed
his body’s abnormality.
He had a very young sister back home, so he
was more sensitive than most to signs of poor health. If he felt even a little ill,
he would take his temperature and some medicine. He put in an effort to not
spread anything to his family. That had not changed once the angels began
protecting him, so he had been worried about a cold for four weeks now.
But this abnormality was not an issue of
poor health.
In fact…
“What is it, Avalon?”
It was caused by this dream.
Or so it seemed.
He had no proof and a dream was just a
dream.
For the past four weeks, every dream he
remembered was this one. It was all the same dream.
The dream was probably causing the
abnormality.
“Aaavaaalon. What is it?”
“It’s nothing, Lucya.”
Mutsuki smiled back at the girl who curled
up her back like a kitten to peer down at his face.
Technically, it was a boy named Avalon who
Mutsuki’s mind resided within.
The scarlet of sunset dyed a gra.s.sy field.
The isolated location was surrounded by trees and gave a view of a distant
village. There he played with a girl named Lucya.
They were sitting on a bed made from reaped
straw, so the sweet aroma of wheat hung in the air.
They were a little too close together. His
heart pounded because he could smell the sweat of the girl whose skin was
darker than the wheat.
They would chat or play by chasing after
each other. They were always together in the dream.
“Look, look. I took this from the old man’s
orchard♡”
And sometimes, they were mischievous. The
girl pulled out a single red apple and grinned.
“Took it? …Not again. He’s going to be
mad.”
“Who cares. We take him wheat, so this just
a little reward.”
Lucya narrowed her feline eyes and the boy
smiled bitterly.
He chopped it in two using the stone knife
in his boot.
“Eh heh heh~”
Lucya did not hesitate to take the bigger
half.
She took a big bite and began chewing
happily, but she seemed to have taken too big a bite and gotten some seeds. She
began rudely spitting them out.
The boy took a bite too.
“I invited Lilith, but she didn’t come yet
again.”
“Nn…”
It must not have been ripe because a strong
sour flavor spread through his mouth.
“Why is it always like that recently? The
three of us used to always be together.”
She gave a displeased look toward the
village. No, toward a garden a short distance away from it.
A few people could still be seen working
between the trees bearing apples, grapes, and figs.
They seemed to be collecting the past-ripe
grapes, probably to make wine.
Among them, they spotted a girl with very
long blonde hair.
A sourness even stronger than the apple
quickly spread through the boy’s chest…
Mutsuki opened his eyes.
It was a pleasantly fresh awakening, but he
also felt a sense of loss at being driven from the dream world.
It was always like that when he had this
dream. He stayed there lying on his side.
He would wake up with not a hint of
sleepiness remaining, but he hated that he could not see more of the dream. He
tried shutting his eyes, but the sleepiness would not return.
“Tch.”
It was not enough. He sighed and got up.
This moment was the abnormality.
He felt as great as he would if he had
slept for ten hours. There was no hint of sleepiness and his body was br.i.m.m.i.n.g
with energy.
“Nn… Oh, you’re up? Morning.”
“Good morning, Micha-san.”
Micha was in the same bed and she woke up
too. The sheets stirred and the tissues scattered across the bed fell down.
She looked quite sleepy and had not gotten
her eyes fully opened yet.
“Yawn… Seven o’clock? You didn’t even sleep
four hours.”
“Yes. I’ll be going to school, but what
will you do about breakfast?”
“I’ll eat it later, so make one for me.”
Her voice sounded like sleepiness itself and she curled back up in the sheets.
Just as Micha had said, he had only slept
for four hours.
As the scattered tissues suggested, they
had been up until three in the morning having wild s.e.x. He should have been
both sleep-deprived and exhausted.
And yet he had never felt better. Micha was
a top-tier angel and she should have had more stamina than the boy, but even
she was down.
Lately, s.e.x was not wearing him out at all.
No matter what kind of wild s.e.x he had, an
unlimited supply of energy welled up within him.
(Is this a side effect of the Serpent’s
Eye?)
It had been five months now. While thinking
about that greatest abnormality of his body, he smiled bitterly and got out of
bed.
He started cleaning up the tissues before
leaving the room, but…
“Nnn.”
Micha rolled over to go back to sleep and
the sheet fell away.
She was not wearing any clothes and her
defenseless b.u.t.t was now exposed.
That delicious chocolate-colored a.s.s had
plenty of feminine roundness.
“…”
The boy trembled from the urge to attack
it.
He knew he did not have time for that this
morning, but the l.u.s.t boiling up inside him just about overpowered that
reasonable side of his mind. And that was after everything he had done up to
four hours ago.
“…Yes?”
“Oh, it’s nothing. I’ll be going.”
The urge dulling his rational mind lasted
an awfully long time and he simply stood there for several seconds. Micha
opened her eyes curiously.
The boy stroked her cheek to get her to
close her eyes and then he left the room.
He tried to act natural to hide his
l.u.s.tfulness.
“…”
But Mutsuki did not know that the true
oddity was occurring behind him.
Micha opened her eyes once more. She opened
them wide as if all sleepiness had vanished from her.
“…Hhh.”
Her stroked cheek was red and all four
limbs trembled.
Below the sheets, her nipples were erect
and the chocolate-colored a.s.s that had so charmed the boy was so full of sticky
nectar that it threatened to bring out all of the milky liquid that had been
pumped into her the night before.
After just a few seconds’ exposure to that
l.u.s.tful gaze, a female reaction overwhelmed her body.
“I guess he can’t remain an adolescent
forever.” Micha’s voice shook. “He has to grow up eventually.”
Fortunately, the abnormality was a positive
thing when not in a hidden s.p.a.ce like his room.
“~♪ It’s finally
starting to feel like fall.”
As October approached, the blue of midsummer still remained in the sky, but the
temperature was quite cool in the mornings.
With so much excess energy, Mutsuki’s pace
was naturally light on the way to school.
“Right, Ange?”
“It’s still too hot if you ask me.”
The girl next to him saw things
differently.
Her long red hair must have made her
sensitive to the heat. She had it tied up in a ponytail, but he could still see
the sweat on her.
“You don’t like it when it’s cold, but you
don’t like it when it’s hot either.”
“No, I don’t. I want air-conditioning.”
“I thought angels could take the heat since
they’re made from fire.”
“What’s wrong with fire thinking the sun is
too hot?”
She seemed to be irritated. Mutsuki smiled bitterly and shut his mouth so she
would not yell at him.
This bodyguard had accompanied him to
school for five months now, so it was not awkward even if they said nothing.
Ange generally had a sullen lopsided frown
on her face even when she was not irritated, but Mutsuki was enjoying himself
more than usual.
“What’s that grin for? It’s creepy.”
“It just feels like so long since we’ve
done this together.”
He stretched as he said that.
Until recently, Mutsuki had been working
for the student council, so he had woken up and gone to school at five each
morning to help prepare for the cultural festival.
He had only just been released from that
duty a few days before, so it had been a while since he walked to school with
his bodyguard like this.
“Wh-what does that matter? Are you stupid?”
Even when they had gone to school separately, they still lived together and
were in the same cla.s.s. They were together for more than twelve hours every day
and that had only been reduced by one hour. Ange blushed and pouted her lips
when the boy celebrated the end of that.
“Well, I can understand being happy you
don’t have to see that awful girl.”
“Awful girl? Shirohara-senpai isn’t that
bad.”
“Hah. She used any excuse she could to
restrict your actions. And for what? Who even knows. She’s a stalker.”
She
sure is mad, thought Mutsuki with a bitter smile.
For him, waking up at five had been
difficult, but preparing for the cultural festival with the student council had
been fun.
“You shouldn’t talk about people behind
their back, Jiyuuni Ange.”
“Wah! Sh-Shirohara-senpai.”
They had just reached the last stretch to
the school at the top of the hill and someone had caught up from the other
side.
It was Shirohara Ren, the one person
Mutsuki did not want to meet now. So he panicked.
Ange, however, frowned in annoyance and
then smiled belligerently.
“Oh? I thought ‘stalker’ was how the human
world referred to girls who restrain their target of observation without
considering his feelings.”
“I was educating Fujita Mutsuki to correct
his depraved ways, not restraining him. It is true I had him help with my
duties, but he agreed to it.”
Ren’s expression did not change, but she
too was belligerent.
“And even if I hypothetically did restrain
him, any complaints about it should be directed at me. Doing it when you know I
am not around is still the act of a coward.”
“What!?”
“You heard me!”
“C-calm down, you two.”
The two glared at each other and were ready
to start fighting at any moment.
Mutsuki tried to stop them, but taking
neither side only got him ignored here.
“Hi, Mutsuki. And Jiyuuni too. …Oh,
President.”
“Ah, g-good morning, Sakae.”
Luckily, his friend saved him. His childhood friend, Tomono Sakae, caught up
and slapped him on the back.
Ange was to be expected, but he was
surprised to find the beautiful Student Council President here. Sakae grew more
timid, but the dangerous atmosphere had been swept away all the same.
The four of them continued on to school.
Ren was a third year, so she parted with the other three on the way to their
cla.s.sroom.
“I see you’re friends with the President
now.”
“Y-yeah. Seems that way.”
“Introduce me next time. As the man who will one day stand in the
center of the world, I must first join the
student council that stands at the center of the school.”
“I’m pretty sure you can get in without
using any connections.”
The more they talked about the President,
the more upset Ange looked, which was scaring Mutsuki.
It was true they were friends now.
Not long ago, Shirohara Ren had seemed
entirely out of his league, but they had been in contact more often recently.
——Mutsuki was being targeted by a new
enemy, the Kurosaki family.
Ren had to be acting as his bodyguard too.
The problem was how she and Ange, his guardian angel, did not get along. There
was no change in the hostile relationship between FeTUS and the angels.
Mutsuki did not want to be mean to either
one, but he could not stand this strained atmosphere either.
If possible…
“Oh, ha ha. Right on time again.”
Hearing Sakae, Mutsuki looked out the
window.
The school gate had just closed and Ibekusa
Machina had pa.s.sed through just as it did.
“That’s so incredible. Lately, she’s not
even off by a single second.”
“Yeah.”
As always, her behavior was as accurate as
a clock or a machine.
Just like a machine, Machina spent every
day exactly the same.
…If possible, he wished Ange and Ren could
be their usual selves like that.
(Not that mentioning it would help.)
Mutsuki continued on to their cla.s.sroom.
“Good morning, Ange-chan. Mutsuki-kun and
the rest too.”
“Morning, Mutsuki-kun.”
“Good morning, Kurikara-san and Lucia-kun.”
He exchanged greetings with his cla.s.smates like normal.
Saya energetically waved and Lucia leaped
at him as he walked to his desk.
“Hey, hey, Mutsuki-kun. I’ll be doing a
costume check for that band today.”
“Really?”
They naturally split into a girl group and
a boy group.
They mostly talked about the cultural
festival that was coming up soon.
Ange was representing the cla.s.s in a play.
Lucia had been invited to perform the vocals for a band.
With the festival so close, the cla.s.s was
full of energy even in the morning. Even cynical Ange seemed to be looking
forward to it, so the strained atmosphere faded.
With the activation of the Serpent’s Eye
and a war between heaven, earth, and h.e.l.l, he had a lot more to worry about
than half a year ago, but recent days had been enough fun to forget all about
those things.
He wished things could stay like this
forever.
He wished Ange, Lucia, Ren, and the rest of
FeTUS, the angels, and the demons could stay the way they were.
If only they could all be as unchanging as
Machina…
“Oh, good morning, Ibekusa-san.”
“Good morning.”
Exactly five minutes after pa.s.sing through
the gate, Machina reached the cla.s.sroom.
She arrived at her desk like normal and set
down her things like normal.
“…”
“…? What is it?”
But one thing was different today.
She would normally sit down and wait for
their teacher without speaking a word. But today, she did not sit down and she
instead approached Mutsuki’s neighboring desk.
The boy, Lucia and Sakae who had gathered
with him, and Ange and Saya who were at the desk behind them were all shocked.
This girl rarely tried to interact with
others, but she bent her hips like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Hm? What is it, Ibeku-…”
She invaded the boy’s most delicate area.
A sweet and soft sensation sucked at his
lips. He froze in place, initially unsure what had happened.
“Huh!?”
“Ah!?”
“Ehhhhh!?”
After one second, everyone around him leaped to their feet.
“Pwahhh! Wh-wh-wh-wh-what!? What,
Ibekusa-san!? What!?”
And a second after that, the boy shook free of the lips that had stolen his for
a total of two seconds.
Machina said nothing and simply stared at
him.
She was always taciturn, but things were
different today. Mutsuki simply panicked.
“…”
He failed to escape when her lips
approached once more.
“Fujita-kun…”
“Ah…”
She completely ignored everyone’s eyes on
them.
And their lips came together once more…
“Stooooooooooooooooooooop!!”
But Ange and Lucia stopped her first.
“Pant, pant.”
Everyone in the cla.s.s settled on the story
that Machina had “collapsed from anemia” and her lips had “coincidentally
landed on” Mutsuki’s. Ange, Lucia, and Mutsuki himself accompanied her out of
the cla.s.sroom.
“Just write me up a report later.”
They were lucky the school doctor was so
lax. Without asking many questions, the four of them were given some time in
the infirmary together.
“What were you doing back there!?”
Ange instantly snapped at the girl.
Machina was as emotionless as ever.
“Kissing.”
“I could see that! But why did you suddenly
kiss him!?”
“…”
“Don’t fall silent! Mutsuki! You say
something too!”
Ange called over to Mutsuki.
“Nmphh… L-Lucia-kun, not now.”
“I’ve gotta overwrite that. Nnn~❤”
“Not you too!”
Lucia was clinging to Mutsuki, so Ange
mercilessly knocked him away with her holy flame wings.
Ange’s anger and Lucia’s pa.s.sion were
hardly new, but…
“I-Ibekusa-san. Um, what was that earlier?”
Machina was clearly acting weird. She was
usually the taciturn and sensible one in the cla.s.sroom.
“Did you not like it?”
“Well, I wouldn’t say that. But, um…”
She really was acting weird.
The two of them quietly stared at each
other.
“Nn…”
“Nn…”
They naturally ended up embracing and
kissing.
Of course, Mutsuki was immediately kicked
away by Ange.
“What do you think you’re doing!?”
As Mutsuki rolled along the bed, the girl
stood protectively in front of him and glared at Machina.
Lucia also looked surprised.
“…”
Unsurprisingly, Machina remained silent.
But the way she avoided looking them in the
eye showed she was a bit apologetic.
They had fought and saved each other a few
times before, so Ange and Lucia realized she could not explain what this was
about. They both sighed.
“U-um, I won’t ask what this is about.”
Mutsuki tried to calm everyone down. “But this is…a problem.”