Road to Paradise (3) - 46

Sensei ended up in a wheelchair.

Arona sent messages to the Make-Up Work Club, the Justice Task Force, and even the Tea Party, asking for help.

And so... Mika, Tsurugi, and other students arrived, breaking through the wall. Hanako calmly brought a wheelchair for Sensei to sit in.

"Hmm, there are automatic wheelchairs from Millennium, but it will take quite some time for them to be delivered. If you're going to return to normal the next day, it probably won't be of much use."

They could just order an automatic wheelchair, but since it's shipped directly from Millennium, delivery takes time. It would arrive late at night, so it would essentially be useless by then. Sensei sighs and nods at Hifumi's words.

"I guess it can't be helped. It'll be difficult to go around alone for a while."

Still, Sensei is relieved that he's not too busy. The Make-Up Work Club passed the third exam and avoided expulsion, and they decided to maintain the club until the Eden Treaty, so there was no need to worry about the Make-Up Work Club anymore.

All that was left was the Eden Treaty and the Arius Autonomous Region.

The path to the Arius Autonomous Region changes every time, so even Azusa and the Arius students who came this time don't know it.

Unfortunately, the coup occurred when the path to the Arius Autonomous Region was changing, so there was currently no way to get there.

Of course, with geniuses like Hanako, it wouldn't be difficult to figure out the entry route, but it would be a huge burden to launch a large-scale operation to retake an autonomous region before the Eden Treaty.

Therefore, the Arius Autonomous Region matter was postponed until after the Eden Treaty, so the only urgent and important thing now was the Eden Treaty.

"In that sense, I will help you."

Now, all they had to do was prepare for the Eden Treaty. So, Nagisa readily offered to assist Sensei.

"Huh... Nagisa-chan, who always carries a chair around and has a heavy butt?"

"Who has a heavy butt, Mika-san...? It's not like I'm always sitting around."

"Ah... I see. You're always sitting, so I just assumed..."

"Even Hifumi-san..."

Everyone was skeptical since Nagisa was always sitting and drinking tea, but... still, Sensei was only inconvenienced by his legs, so they decided to leave it to Nagisa for now.

The rare sight of Nagisa walking and pushing a wheelchair. Everyone stared at Nagisa and Sensei.

"First, how about we have breakfast?"

"That sounds good. Do you have any recommended restaurants?"

"Do you like shrimp?"

"Of course."

"Then let's go right away."

Nagisa took Sensei to her favorite restaurant. A restaurant where shrimp was the main dish.

Sensei looked at the menu and wondered what was different about the restaurant's fried shrimp, so he ordered it. Nagisa's recommendation was the oil pasta.

They both decided to eat, and the appetizer bread came out.

"The bread is delicious."

"Right?"

The bread was delicious, so Sensei was looking forward to the main course... but after taking a bite of the fried shrimp and oil pasta, Sensei, with Himari's face, frowned deeply and showed his disappointment.

"Is there something you don't like?"

"Nagisa-san. Is this restaurant really okay?"

"Yes, isn't it delicious? The atmosphere is nice too."

"Not at all......"

Sensei, perhaps because of his past experience as Haruna, enters gourmet mode.

"These shrimp are frozen."

"Frozen? No way. They said they use fresh shrimp."

"First of all, the fact that they're frozen means they're far from fresh. There's no fishy smell unique to frozen food, but there's a taste of chemical seasoning used to eliminate that fishy smell. The aftertaste is stuffy."

"Y-You can tell that?"

"Hehe, I'm a super genius gourmet Sensei, after all."

"I see... I had no idea."

"And the most important thing is... it's cold."

Sensei then starts shivering. Because he was Himari, Sensei had become very sensitive to the cold. Even something cool felt cold to him.

"The service here is terrible."

Nagisa's expression turns serious as she looks at Sensei. When she made a phone call somewhere... her bodyguards stormed in and conducted a surprise inspection of the restaurant.

Nagisa shut down the restaurant for various reasons, such as false advertising and poor service quality. The restaurant claimed it was unfair, but there was no leniency.

After receiving a blanket from her bodyguards, Sensei covered himself with it. Only then did he smile brightly as if he was warm, and Nagisa's heart fluttered as she looked at Sensei.

Since the meal was ruined, they went to a cafe and had a simple meal. The two finished their breakfast with dry curry and cake.

"Then, shall we talk about the Eden Treaty?"

After that, they went to the Tea Party room, where Mika joined them, and they talked about the Eden Treaty.

Mika, who was the temporary host, gave the seat back to Nagisa, and Nagisa, as the host, consulted with Sensei.

"So, Schale won't be involved in security?"

"Yes. Even if Schale is the Eden Treaty organization that plays the role of the General Student Council President, this treaty is for the reconciliation of Trinity and Gehenna. Trinity and Gehenna should be in charge of security. I don't want Valkyrie to be involved either."

Although Nagisa had developed a great liking for Sensei, she still judged and proceeded with the work objectively as the host. Sensei was worried about a possible Arius intervention... but he decided to let it go, thinking that they wouldn't dare to do anything with both Trinity and Gehenna present.

'But I need to prepare for the worst-case scenario.'

But perhaps because he was in Himari's state, his brain was working furiously, and he moved to prepare for the worst-case scenario. Without telling Nagisa, Sensei decided to prepare countermeasures separately at Schale.

The discussion about the Eden Treaty ended after about two hours.

"What will you be doing in the afternoon?"

"I don't have anything special planned for the afternoon either. I just need to focus on the Eden Treaty a week from now."

"I see...... By any chance, Sensei?"

Nagisa slowly approached Sensei.

"Then, would you like to spend some time together?"

Nagisa showed her obsession with Sensei... but then, Sensei received a phone call.

"Hello? Ah, Wakamo-san? Just call you by your first name? Yes, Wakamo, what is it? Ah... today? I don't have any prior engagements. Yes, yes, then let's meet in 30 minutes."

"......What was that call about, Sensei?"

"Ah, it's nothing. Wakamo-san asked me out on a date. She wants to fulfill the promise I made last time today."

A sudden date appointment. Nagisa was dumbfounded......

"Wh-What promise?"

"Well, I borrowed her power to go to the Make-Up Work Club's second exam last time. In return, I promised to go on a date with her. The Justice Task Force members were swarming in at that time, so I had no choice, you see?"

"............"

That's right. The current situation was a snowball that Nagisa herself had created. In the past, Nagisa had set the exam location in Gehenna's lawless zone, and when the Justice Task Force chased after them, who were involved with the Gourmet Research Society, she had condoned it and let them be arrested together.

Because of that, Wakamo, who was summoned by Sensei, made a date promise with Sensei, and it was going to happen today.

"I can catch a taxi around here. Then, I'll be going now, Nagisa-san."

Sensei pushed the wheelchair wheels himself and left the Tea Party room, and Nagisa showed a hollow smile and a dark expression.

"Na-Nagisa-chan? Why do you look like that?"

"Hu, fufu, fufufufu. Surely, Wakamo... Kosaka Wakamo is a criminal, right?"

"That's right?"

"......Mika-san, you betrayed me, didn't you?"

"That's......"

"Mika-san? Go."

"Huh?"

"Will you catch the criminal? On behalf of the busy head of the Justice Task Force."

"B-But..."

Click.

"Mika-san?"

"Ah, okay! I'll go!"

Nagisa smiled and threatened her with a gun. Of course, her gun wouldn't hurt, but Mika was overwhelmed by Nagisa's atmosphere and ran outside. To catch Wakamo...

"You're going on a date with someone else, leaving me behind... You're really an interesting person. You scared me so much, and you were so nice to me. You know how to play with people's hearts. But you didn't know this, did you? That Trinity has historically had people with strong obsessions.

Nagisa looked up at the sky and smiled.