Campione! - Volume 21 - Chapter 7.6

Part 6
Deep in the mountain of Kyoto prefecture.

However although it was called at Kyoto, but the mountain was at the prefectural border that also extended to the Shiga prefecture.

The head temple of that Tendai sect, Enryaku temple also possessed shrine precincts. This was the “seclusion area” that Seishuuin Ena chose.

Right now, the hime-miko of the sword was looking down at the mountain in evening time from its peak.

A cedar tree with the age that likely had reached four digits. She made use of her nimbleness to climb until the tree’s peak like a monkey.

「Just as Ena thought, high place feels good as expected……」

Even the coldness of the winter wind felt pleasant. Ena muttered.

……When she was staying for long inside a mountain, a lot of the time she would be alone. Although she was Seishuuin Ena, a child of nature, she had grown to find solitude to be too much for her sometimes.

By the way, Ena’s attire right now was a shrine maiden outfit.

White garment and red hakama, furthermore she was also wearing a chihaya like a coat, matched with tabi and zori as her footwear. (TN: Chihaya = thin, white ceremonial haori worn by miko. Tabi = Japanese socks (with split toe), Zori = Japanese sandals)

However, to make it easier when she was hopping around in the mountain’s wilderness, she tucked up her sleeves with her tasuki cord. Her hakama was combined with leggings so it was easy enough to run with.

Her hand was holding a monk staff. Her appearance looked like a combination of a shrine maiden and an ascetic disciple.

「Oh. That’s must be our place isn’t it?」

The smoke of cooking was rising up from a corner inside the mountain.

She was spending daily life together with Mariya Yuri in a shabby hermitage. The smoke’s direction was from that temporary residence. Surely her partner was exercising her talent right now to cook a modest dinner.

「It’s not like I’m bringing her here for that, but I’m glad that Yuri is together with me at this kind of time……」

She murmured earnestly.

She wasn’t even doing abstaining from the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi)) right now, so she could freely eat even rice or wheat.

Although the ingredients were meager, the Yamato Nadeshiko who boasted her cooking skill would exert her ingenuity to add variation and makeup to the dining table. She was a reassuring ally.

Furthermore──

Both Ena and Yuri had become students in a certain women’s college in Kyoto.

However between their university life, every few months they would seclude themselves in the mountains, because of that they couldn’t be said as diligent student by any means. It was a university with connections to the History Compilation Committee, which they chose because it was an 『educational institution that would suit the convenience of hime-miko』.

The objective of Ena and Yuri wasn’t to study.

It was to coordinate all the hime-miko of the west, that was to say from Shizuoka and westward.

Seishuuin Ena and Mariya Yuri together were at the top of all the hime-miko.

However, both of them were people of the 『east』. The chief of History Compilation Committee and one of the top hime-miko, Sayanomiya Kaoru was also from the east, from Tokyo.

In these two and half a years, Kaoru wielded her shrewdness and drastically changed the organization structure of the committee.

What made such thing possible was the authority of “the only remaining godslayer in the world”.

But, a backlash was created from the reformation that was too drastic. Especially in the 『west territory』 that was far physically and mentally from Tokyo.

「Actually it would be better if his majesty personally came to the west though.」

There was no way they could ask that from him who was busy.

That was why, Seishuuin Ena and Mariya Yuri came to Kyoto.

They were the top of the hime-miko and the spouses of the godslayer. If these two showed their presence in the 『west』the Japan magic world that was centered in Kyoto, naturally the backlash should be decreasing.

With that judgment, they moved to Kyoto taking the opportunity of advancing to the university.

And then, it didn’t take one year for this scheme to be showing success.

「If it’s like this, then perhaps we soon will be able to go to “the other side” together with his majesty……」

She must not neglect her training for the sake of that time.

Not just Ena, even Yuri was also secluding herself in the mountain was for that sake too. They was intending to polish their mind and body with the spiritual aura of the deep mountain──

「Eh?」

Standing on the peak of the thousand years cedar tree, Ena had the unbroken view of the mountain scenery.

However Ena felt “a certain out-of-place feeling” and she tilted her head.

Their mountain seclusion this time had been continuing for nearly half a month already. Thanks to that she had completely grasped the geography of this area. It felt like something nostalgic was slipping inside it…….

It wasn’t a matter of sight or even instinct.

Her bond with the divine sword, Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi was informing Seishuuin Ena of that.

「Your majesty!」

Ena rushed down the thousand year cedar tree with the nimbleness of monkey and she broke into a run inside the mountain.

She ran, and ran. Seeking the aura of the nostalgic divine sword. She was able to encounter the person who was her aim in the middle of the steep mountain path.

「When I thought just what is approaching, so it’s you as I thought.」

「I’ve been waiting, all this time!」

Ena leaped with teary eyes and hugged him tightly.

However, because she put too much momentum into it, he was pushed down. Ena was in a straddling posture while Godou had his back on the ground .

But, with this the bodies of the two were glued to each other, their gaze entwined with each other passionately──

「Ena……」

「I wanted to meet you, your majesty……wait, it’s no good, not yet!」

Hearing the voice of her beloved lover, Ena’s lips leaned forward, but she then got suddenly taken aback. (TN: The lover here could also mean lord or husband)

「Even though Yuri is nearby──I almost stole a march on her.」

「Is that so?」

「Ye, yep. As expected it’s better to do it at where Yuri is……」

「Even though at this kind of time you tend to want for it to be just the two of us…」

「Eh, is that true?」

「That’s how I see it but, let’s put that aside. I also want to meet Yuri quickly. Where is she?」

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A simple hut made from wood that was for living in mountain.

It was the temporary residence for Yuri and Ena. There was no water service, gas, or electricity. They would have to draw water from a clear stream, and light the fire using a match. It was a livelihood with a lot of hardships.

However, the aura of this deep mountain gave purification to the heart and body of hime-miko like Yuri and Ena.

The two of them lived together in seclusion here for that. Because it was a part of training, Yuri was also wearing shrine maiden outfit. She was wearing a chihaya on top of her clothes.

The dinner tonight was a hotpot of mountain vegetable and mushroom, and then miso rice gruel.

Yuri murmured after finishing the basic preparation.

「Ena-san, she is still not coming back?」

Her companion Seishuuin Ena.

She would always set out before dawn, and came back together with sunset. But today her “returning home” was late. She was starting to get worried that Ena might had met with some kind of danger when,

「My?」

An envelope was tumbling on the corner of the hut without her noticing.

The methodical Yuri wouldn’t let such thing to lie around over there like that. Her sloppy roommate might do that, but she had also finished cleaning and keeping things tidy and in order after her friend set out.

In other words, it was something sent by the magic of mailing──.

「That envelope……Kaoru-san?」

It was an envelope with rare light reddish-brown color.

It was something that was frequently used by Sayanomiya Kaoru when she sent private messages.

‘What kind of notice could it be?’ When Yuri was about to pick it up, the door of the hut was opened suddenly. Thinking that it was surely Seishuuin Ena returning home, Yuri turned around──

「!?」

Yuri was speechless.

The youth who shouldn’t be here was standing there.

「It has been a long time, Yuri.」

「Fufufufu. His majesty jumped on an airplane going to Kansai Airport from Shanghai, and then came here just for the two of us.」

Seishuuin Ena was also smiling cheerfully right behind him,

However, Yuri’s mind was completely blank, she was lost of what to say. In the end she blurted out something that was slightly off topic.

「E, err, it’s just the right timing. I have just finished the dinner’s preparation──. E, Ena-san too, please wait a little bit okay? I’ll immediately start……」

「Rather than that, I’ll prefer this.」

「Eh……-」

「Yuri.」

When she noticed, she was being embraced tightly by him. And then when she noticed even further, her shrine maiden outfit had been wholly taken off and thrown away, and she was together with him on the mattress.

Ena was also together with the same appearance, their posture became one where they shared the youth they loved from left and right.

「Finally we can do this with his majesty……I’m happy──」

「This Ena, she insisted that it’s no good if Yuri isn’t together.」

「Geez, Ena-san……」

They both received the loving caress of his lips in intoxication. They writhed and gasped ardently. The white limbs of the two held him between them, enveloping him with their skin’s softness and warmth──.

But, that wasn’t all.

「Ah. Don’t play mischief, Yuri──!」

Even with that entreaty, Yuri paid it no mind and crawled her lips on Ena’s back.

Caressed by Yuri, the hime-miko of the sword leaked out 「Nn……-」 such moan. She was adorable when she was trying to endure desperately like this. Yuri smiled.

「Please stay still okay, Ena-san.」

「Ge, geez-. Nn──nnnh」

Perhaps it was because the two of them had known each other for long, as childhood friends, and as best friends.

When sharing bed with her lover the youth, together with Seishuuin Ena, the feeling of reluctance to join skin together with her would naturally disappear. Her childhood friend who was usually proactive would writhe weakly in pleasure, at that time she would also join him to caress her dearly.

「If you are like this then──your majesty, help out.」

「Yosh」

「Ah. Ena-san too, that’s……nnnnnh!」

Ena somehow lifted up her body, then she smoothly circled on Yuri’s right side, and kissed her earlobe and nape of the neck. And then he circled to the left side, and did the same thing──

Unnoticed the sun had set completely, and the night was approaching.

The cold air of the deep mountain was gradually entering the hut that was covered all over with gaps.

Just the burning fire in the sunken hearth wasn’t enough to raise the temperature at all. However, the three were getting overly fired up with the tryst after so long.

The time was passing without them feeling the cold in the slightest──.

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