Chapter Two – Strange Relationships
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"What is this place?" Hajime asks about the place, and he enters the hallway with his expression showing serious curiosity inside his mind. Then Hajime went over to see the white wall turn into a bookshelf full of books. His thoughts were filled with many questions about what this place is, and his right hand was going to reach out to take a book out, which someone's voice stopped Hajime from taking the book out.
"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" The soft voice speaks towards Hajime, and he turns his head to see the same Nun that he saw in the courtyard of the Heiligh Kingdom. His thoughts brought more questions about what she was or how she got here in the first place without Hajime realizing that she was right there. The Nun was getting ready inside of her Nun's outfit if Hajime was a demon spy, or he was just someone who wanted knowledge that nobody was allowed to learn.
(Previously on Arifureta – Irregular Hero)
Hajime becomes a little frightened about how the Nun was staring at him with emotionless clear blue eyes as she begins to see that Hajime was scared about her presence. His right-hand shows his light blue symbol, and the Nun calms down to realize that he was one of Erit's chosen heroes.
"I was just wandering around, and is this place a secret or forbidden place?" Hajime asks the Nun with a soft voice, and his expression becomes scared of if the Nun might do something to him. She tilts her head into confusion since she has the appearance of a frightening figure, and Hajime falls backward when the Nun places her hands back onto her side. Then she went over to Hajime with her right hand was offered to help him up onto his feet.
"Yes, this is a forbidden or a sacred place for us, nuns." The Nun speaks towards Hajime with her tone appearing monotone, yet her mind was starting to fill with many questions about how this person came to know where the Scared Library is since no normal eyes can see it. Hajime looked down at his hand, was still holding her hand as his cheeks turned bright red and pulled it away from her hand then apologized up then down for making her feel uncomfortable around him. "You are a strange person," Nun says to Hajime with the same tone, and she begins to leave him alone since she will allow him to explore the Scared Library until he finds the answers he seeks inside the library.
Hajime kept looking at the Nun with his thoughts about how he was a strange person, but his shoulders shrugged as his right hand took the midnight blue with silver outline book. He took the book inside his hands, and Hajime found a light brown wooden table then sat down at the table. Hajime turns his head left then right to see nobody is around him, and his right hand opens the book to first sees the drawing of a ball topside of a rock, but his attention turns to see the strange language. However, Hajime sees the strange symbols.
"Damnit, I can't read these strange… symbols?" Hajime was telling himself with a comfortable voice, and his eyes extended as the symbols began to change into normal letters from his world, meaning he could read and understand the symbols now. "What the hell? I can understand these symbols like they are writing in my native language," Hajime speaks again, but he did not know the same Nun was back again and she was at the right-side of his sitting position.
"How interesting that you figured out how to read those symbols in seconds." Nun spoke towards Hajime with a soft tone, and Hajime jumped out of his chair because he was not expecting the Nun to come back to see him again. Her emotionless eyes look up from the book to Hajime.
"Don't you know how to say hello or anything else then sneak up on people." Hajime was telling the Nun with a firm voice, and his expression was frightened by her presence which she was sneaking up on him was freaking him out.
Nun tilts her head in confusion because she does not realize it, but she slowly grows attachment towards this irregular hero. Hajime returned to his wooden chair and pointed at the picture with his question, "What is this thing?" The Nun leans in, and Hajime's cheeks turn bright red as he could feel her large and round breasts onto his shoulder.
"This is Healing Crystal which it produces Holy Water meaning it can heal any injury." The Nun tells Hajime with the honest inside of her voice begins to appear, but she goes back to being monotone. Hajime and the Nun did not realize that they were developing a strange relationship with one another, yet none of them was going to admit it. "But it can be drunk or pour on the fresh wound to heal any injury or poison." Nun continues to speak about how the Holy Water would heal anywhere or poison in that person's body.
"I see," Hajime responds to the Nun with a respectful voice and begins to study more about the book as his right-hand turns towards the next page to see the several types of rocks inside the world of Tortus. "Can I ask you a question, Ms. Nun?" He asks the question with the same tone, and the fact that he made is curious about why he did not the Nun respond with no emotions or feelings?
"You may ask me any questions, and my name is not Ms. Nun." The Nun told Hajime with a monotone voice, and emotionless expression keeps showing underneath her veil which she speaks her name towards him, "My name is Noint." Hajime begins to remember the name of the Nun, and his cheeks turn bright red with nervousness because this was the first time that he asked for a girl's name.
"Noint, why are you not showing any emotions for?" Asked Hajime, his voice and expression show great confusion on why she has not shown any hatred or anger towards him?
"I have no emotions or feelings to speak of," Noint responds to Hajime with no emotions inside her expression and voice.
"Oh, I almost forget, and my name is Hajime Nagumo." Hajime introduces himself to Noint with a soft tone and friendly smile that appears for her to see it, which she finds a strange thing to do.
Hajime begins to realize the terms of alexithymia inside his thoughts. He remembers how his mother told him about alexithymia which the only cures would be daily activities or help with another person. Hajime nods at himself to help Noint with the control to express her feelings and emotions towards others. A silent promise is created inside Hajime's mind about how to teach Noint about her feelings and emotions inside of her, which he did not know would be a challenging obstacle to help her out.
Hajime turns his head to see it is time for him to return to his room before the nightfall begins to show its presence inside the skies. He places the book back into the right place and leaves the Sacred Library with Noint in the library with her thoughts brought wondering how he was a strange person, but she was not going to express it. However, Noint enjoys his company around her.
"How strange that I believed my emotions or feelings were gone from praying to believing in my God Erit, yet this person is starting to make me feel like I never before." Noint was telling herself with monotone, but it was slowly becoming a soft voice, and her eyes began to show little confusion, but it became motionless again. She found her hands onto her chest area with her thoughts found themselves becoming conflicted with strange or unknown feelings surrounding her ideas about how to think about them. "Maybe… Maybe I might allow him to become an only acquaintance." Noint told herself within a soft tone that she pushed the wooden chair inside of the wooden table, then Noint began to leave the area back to her room.
(In the Hallway)
Hajime walks through the hallway of the Heiligh Kingdom with his thoughts brought more of how he needs to start learning how to read Noint's emotionless expressions since he was going to teach her how to feel or become emotional about things in the world. He continues his way towards his bedroom, but unknown to him is that someone was watching him be Pope Leader Ishtar. The latter is checking on the young man's activities because he was getting too close to the solution surrounding their true intentions from God Erit.
"I might have to deal with this young man since he was starting to get close to the truth, and I need to silence him before he discovers more about what is truly going on around here," Ishtar told himself with a firm and disapproving tone since he did not want anybody to stand in his ways on getting more power and control inside of the lands of Tortus.
Hajime went inside of his room, and he closed the door behind him to get some rest for the next day will be his training days, and he will get to hang out with Noint tomorrow as well.
(Next Day)
It was early in the morning; Hajime and the other classmates were doing a magic affinity test to see what magic they could use during the battlefield. However, one person who did not get any affiliates with magic was Hajime Nagumo, which Commander Melds shakes his head since he does know what to say about the young man who did not have any magic inside of him use now.
Commander Melds shows surprised expression because it seems one of the Sacred Nuns was paying a visit to the training circle with his thoughts brought more questions of why is the Sacred Nun here for and what is her business doing here?
The Nun who came to see the training ground was the same Nun that Hajime met last night as she was watching Hajime trying to produce the magic affinity. Still, nothing was happening with her emotionless eyes keeping themselves onto Hajime, meaning she found him as the most interesting person inside of her life next to worshipping her God Erit.
"Please be strong… Hajime." Noint told herself gently that it was time for a practice match with wooden swords.
Hajime was looking down at his wooden sword, wondering how to hold it as he did not know how to hold a sword. His opponent is Daisuke, and he was going to have fun making Hajime look like he was the weakest person in the training circle. Daisuke begins to race towards Hajime with his wooden sword striking from the left side of been vertical attack, but Hajime's right-hand holds his wooden sword to protect himself from the attack. Daisuke would never admit it to himself, but he did not want to be here because he believed this was all of Hajime's fault for causing the class to get transported to this new world, so he would make sure he paid for it.
The next couple of strikes from Daisuke were striking in different directions, and Hajime was barely dodging them or protecting himself with his wooden blade. The last attack came from Daisuke, who sent a fierce attack and sent Hajime's wooden blade into the air with the humiliation of the sword battling was set in stone as everyone began to laugh about how Hajime was the weakest and was just a commonplace person.
Noint's right hand took hold of the metal railing bar and began to bend into two places. "How dare he hurt my Hajime," Noint says to herself, but she was stopping herself from jumping from the railing part as she was beginning to wonder why she called Hajime as her own. "Wait… Why did my thoughts lead to saying that for?" Noint was telling herself with a monotone voice, and she began to leave the training circle, but something caught her attention, meaning that Hajime was grabbing his wooden sword. It leads Commander Melds to have little respect for Hajime since he does not know how to give up, and he places his wooden sword in front of him, being ready for the next round, and everybody is surprised that Hajime was asking for another round.
Daisuke turns his attention back to Hajime, and his head shakes slightly because the loser is not going to give up, which brings him the idea of how pathetic Hajime is since he was not going to give up. He was racing towards Hajime with his horizontally-style wooden sword swings from his right side. Yet, Hajime dodges the attack, then Hajime sees the opening for himself to attack with his wooden sword, but Daisuke uses his magic to send a bright blue fireball to send Hajime away from him.
"How pathetic that you don't have no magic or defense to speak of," Daisuke says to Hajime with an annoying voice and begins to walk away from Hajime with his expression showing a smile that he got to show off in front of everyone. However, Kaori rushed to Hajime's side, and Daisuke showed furious expression because Kaori was always going to Hajime's side.
"Nagumo, are you alright?" Kaori asked Hajime with a soft voice, and her expression showed her being worried about him then. Hajime gets up onto his feet with Shizuka was, surprised that Hajime was going to stand up onto his feet.
"Yes, I am fine, but I'm going to go and sit down for a little bit," Hajime told her with a comfortable voice, and his expression shows a displeased about how he was not going to be helpful for the others. He went towards the wooden bench as Hajime sat down at the wooden bench, and someone was paying attention to the fact that Hajime had no defense or magic barrier surrounding him as it led to this person was going to act against him soon.
Hajime could only watch the others learn how to fight with their magic as he looked down to see the parts of his armored shirt were burnt thanks to Daisuke's magic skills and thoughts, "I wonder… I wonder if Noint has any magic abilities." His mind begins to think about how old is Noint or how long she was a nun?
Answering one of the questions is that Hajime knows that Noint is properly around his age been sixteen or seventeen years old, which looks up to sees everybody was leaving the training grounds with no alerting him. Hajime gets up onto his feet and begins to leave the training grounds because he will go back to the Sacred Library to study more books, and he could run into Noint again… If she was there.
Noint left the training grounds, and she was going back to Sacred Library with her clear blue eyes were filled with determination to see Hajime there again because she was going to tell herself about how to cheer him up from humiliation defeat from his classmate.
(At Sacred Library)
Hajime enters the Sacred Library with his heart and minds troubled by his crushing defeat from Daisuke as the words from him brought the negative feelings to be born inside of Hajime. He went over to see the bookshelf was filled with different spells, but they required mana to use them, and Hajime stopped himself from touching the book, and Hajime turned his head to see Noint was right there.
"You may not have any mana, but I still believe that you are destined for remarkable things, Hajime," Noint spoke to Hajime with the same tone, but Hajime could tell that Noint had sincerity inside her eyes slipped out from her emotionless sight. Hajime shows a little smile because he got to see Noint make an expression inside of her eyes, and he went over to her then hugs her as Noint becomes surprised by the embracement from him. At first, she had no idea how to take this sudden embracement from Hajime, yet Noint's thoughts, "Wrap your hands around him and hold him in a tight but warm hug." She was listening to her thoughts as Noint wrapped her hands around Hajime, and she stroked his hair comfortably with one of her hands to show his comfort and warmth.
"Thank you, Noint," Hajime responds to her with a smooth voice, and his expression shows being warm, but he was lonely since nobody in his class or the other world cares for him since he only had his parents in the other world. However, they were gone since Hajime turned fourteen years old, and he was now living alone for three years.
"No need to thank me, Hajime," Noint speaks towards her acquaintance with a monotone voice, yet it slowly becomes a soft tone, then Hajime pulls away from her.
Hajime took another book out as he went over to the wooden table, and Noint began to explain what the different stones looked like, but some of them were different since of their shape, sharpness, and style. He was wondering if Hajime could make weapons out of these strange stones, yet Hajime was going to have to discover the stones first before he could make new weapons for everybody. Noint thought about removing her veil because she was starting to trust Hajime. Yet, she decided against it since she wanted to know what he would do if he decided to go into one of the labyrinths and defeat the one person that threatened her, Lord Erit.
Unknown to Hajime and Noint, the other nuns showed displease in how Noint was slowly getting closer to one of the chosen heroes as they turned their attention towards one another. "We must do something before he learns too much about how true intentions." One of the nuns speaks towards her comrades/ sisters, who bow their heads as they believe that they agreed to stop Hajime and Noint from getting close to one another. However, the nuns went to Pope Leader Ishtar to build a strategy or plan to eliminate the group's weakest pawn or chosen heroes since they had no time to deal with someone like that.
(At Secret Location)
"Let us not do it in front of Noint because she might get furious with us." Pope Leader Ishtar told the nuns with a firm tone, and his expression showed great hatred for the young man who was breaking the spell that Noint was under control.
"Ishtar, I believe the others speak of going to labyrinth in a couple of days from now." Nun spoke towards Ishtar with confirmation that Commander Melds would take the students down to the labyrinth to get some experience inside of their training, which would be the perfect time to get rid of Hajime, the weakest pawn commonplace person out of their hands.
(Middle of Sacred Library)
Hajime and Noint were done with the first book as Hajime got up to return the book to the bookshelf as he was going to leave, but Noint speaks, "If I am… not here then please check the room upstairs at your right side and it's going to be the first one." Hajime's cheeks turn bright red because Noint has invited Hajime to her room, which would be the first time that someone had invited him to their room.
"I will… I will remember that." Hajime responds to her with a nervous voice and begins to leave the Sacred Library because he does not want to keep Noint up. Noint kept watching Hajime as he left the Sacred Library as she was alone again, but Noint walked towards her room with her thoughts brought more questions about why she was spending more time with Hajime and not praying to her Lord Erit for. The answer was simple which Noint does not know about it at first, but she was slowly growing attachment and feelings for the young man. However, it would be later until she realized that she had feelings for him.
(Four Days Passed)
Training is fierce and magical, and Hajime was trying his best to keep up with his classmates, yet his magic affinity kept him from learning any magic attacks. Still, Hajime could make stone walls using his Transmute ability. It is a strong defense, as Commander Melds thinks it is skillful, but Hajime needs to train himself to make a strong wall for the enemies to have a tough time breaking it. Hajime studied with Noint at the Sacred Library, and Hajime found himself enjoying Noint's company. He is taught how to show emotions and feelings in front of him.
"Listen, I have received word from the Highness that we get to enter the Orcus Labyrinth in six days." Commander Melds told them with a firm voice and his expression being fierce, but he hoped that the classmates were ready for the challenge in the labyrinth. Hajime becomes a little scared about going inside the labyrinth with the others and begins to walk towards the Sacred Library. His expressions brought more ideas about using the strong walls because the defense was good enough to hold the enemies for the other teams to strike them down.
The announcement was over as Hajime was leaving the training grounds with Kaori, and Shizuka became interested in where Hajime went every day after training courses with Commander Melds. Hajime was not going to speak about where he goes every day since he had his secret meetings with Noint, and he was learning new things about how to use his Transmute could be useful in diverse ways.
(At Sacred Library)
Hajime enters the library as he sees no Noint around with his mind was thinking about where she is than his mind clicks on remembering about her room is. He went upstairs of the Sacred Library with his thoughts were wondering if Noint was busy studying or praying to her Lord Erit, which Hajime never bothered her if Noint was busy doing these activities.
"I bet she will not mind if I just check on her." Hajime was telling himself with a soft voice, and his expression shows being friendly, which he found the door as he opened the door to see Noint was not inside of her nun outfit.
Noint is a beautiful girl with long bright silver hair down to her backside with her clear blue eyes were like the ocean. Hajime sees Noint was only wearing a large dark blue towel around her body, but her body was incredible to see it. The towel drops onto the floor, allowing Hajime to see her full body as her breasts size could be said being 38C cup as Hajime screams top of lungs to being sorry on coming inside of her bedroom.
"I'm very sorry!" Hajime says it to Noint with his cheeks were intense red, but he could tell that Noint was slightly embarrassed about the moment they just shared. Hajime got out of the bedroom, but his eyes got to see Noint's incredible bubble-shaped butt when she was bending down to get her towel from the floor. His head shook slightly because he did not want Noint to be angry at him or think anything worst about him as Hajime left the bedroom.
Hajime was staring at the ceiling of the Sacred Library with his face was intense red since that was the first time, he got to see a girl been naked in front of him as his thoughts, "I am so dead… It was nice knowing myself." He was telling himself comfortably, yet he heard the bedroom door open to see Noint was wearing her Nun's outfit. However, she refused to look at him as she was feeling a new emotion called embarrassment.
"Hajime, let us go back downstairs and continue the lessons for the day," Noint told him with a tender voice, and her right hand of her cheeks turned deep red. However, Hajime saw something that he will never forget inside his mind, which was Noint was showing a small smile. His left-hand reaches out and takes hold of her right hand to help him up onto his feet. Noint continues to speak, "Hajime, don't worry about it so much." Noint and Hajime begin to back downstairs to study more about the labyrinth before Hajime must leave the labyrinth.
(Day of Labyrinth)
Hajime was wearing a dark blue long jacket down to his black boots with long dark blue pants Noint was looking at Hajime up then down, hoping to see anything wrong with the outfit, but she was a little happy to see nothing was wrong. Noint has approval in the time that she spent time with Hajime that she gave him warm hugs, which left him turning intense red at his expression which it left Noint into confusion because she does not understand why Hajime was turning red for?
"We'll be safe and be careful when you are in the labyrinth." Noint was telling Hajime with a comfortable tone, and she was hoping to see that he would return to her because she wanted to get to know him better as a person. Her feelings and emotions were gradually coming back to her thanks to Hajime, yet she was missing her prayers to Lord Erit, which Pope Leader Ishtar and the other nuns were going to make the 'problem' Hajime has caused inside of the church.
"I promise I will be back, and we will hang out like usual, Noint," Hajime says to her with a friendly voice, and a warm expression appears for her to see it which Noint could not shake the feelings of regret when Hajime left to meet the other classmates and Commander Melds to ahead towards the labyrinth.
To Be Continued!
