It couldn't be. It could be no such thing. He desperately tried to deny such a possibility.
When I looked at her's earlier, they weren't so... "Wh..Wha.. Wha..Whattt .... are..you...do..ing" Claire's lip trembled, shaking involuntarily. She was blushing with tears in her eyes. Apparently, it wasn't a lump of mud that he had been touching. "You, pervert—!" "Gwah!" Because he got kneed hard in the stomach, Kamito collapsed into the pond's water. *Gugugugugu....!* With a rising heat haze behind her, Claire slowly stood up. The flame whip, which was a manifestation of her flame spirit, was once again in her hand. The water in the pond instantaneously started to boil, bubbles frothing to the surface all around. "No..No, it's a misunderstanding! Wait, if you do that, I'm really gonna die....." Kamito pleaded. "Sh..Shut up pervert, you will die here!" With an almost ear-splitting, deafening sound, Kamito's body was cast high into the air.
Part 2
A few minutes later... "Ugh..." Kamito slowly woke into consciousness, the forest unfolding before his eyes. He tried to get up— suddenly, he realized that something was coiled around his neck.
It was a leather black whip commonly used for torturing. What is this thing, Kamito thought as he tried to take the whip off. "You finally woke up, you peeping-tom pervert." The whip around his neck tightened. "Gweh!? Release me..."Kamito coughed. He then looked upward and saw— The scarlet-haired young girl – Claire Rouge, stood above him with her hands on her waist. She gazed down at Kamito with a raised eyebrow. This time, thankfully, she was not naked. She had changed into an adorable school uniform. It's pattern was of black lines on a pure white field. This was the Areishia Spirit Academy's uniform. A ribbon decorated the front of her uniform. A talisman was sewn in the place where a button would normally rest. Between the gap of her knee-length stockings and her pleated skirt, her beautifully slender legs stuck out brilliantly. Tiny ribbons tied her crimson hair on both sides. This was the so-called twin-tail hairstyle. Judging from her still-wet hair, it seems that Kamito had not lost consciousness for that long. Keeping Kamito's neck bound tightly, Claire puffed up her small chest. "Well, be grateful. I went easy on you and didn't try to kill you outright," Claire huffed. "That has to be a lie. You definitely intended to kill me," Kamito retorted. "What are you talking about? If I had been serious, you would have been in cinders by now," Claire calmly stated. She just said something quite frightening really calmly, Kamito nervously thought. By the way, cinders are the soft ash residue that is left behind when firewood is incinerated. "I beg for your forgiveness, spare me from becoming cinders. After all, I helped you!" Kamito pleaded. "Well, yes, I am a fair woman of noble rank, so I'll give you credit for your help. Even so, you are a higher grade than an average pervert, so you are a high-grade pervert," she snapped.
"In the end the pervert designation doesn't change," Kamito dejectedly sighed, "By the way, isn't a high grade pervert even worse of a designation than an average pervert?!" "I bet you were only pretending to help me! You...you touched my breast!" Recalling what happened, Claire's face suddenly turned beet red. Seeing such a reaction from her, Kamito had an idea. ...This girl, could it be that she is that kind of person? "So it seems that my lady is the type of pervert that has a hobby of whipping men." Kamito teased Claire nonchalantly. "What!? That is not true! I'm not a pervert!" The response was immediate as Kamito expected. Claire shook her head and her cheeks instantly became bright red all the way to her ears. "Then do you enjoy being whipped?" Kamito slyly continued. "Wha...what..are...you..saying?" Claire's eyes spun as steam puffs rose from her head. She is unsurprisingly flustered. Oh, as I expected, Kamito smiled bitterly, This girl is really, really innocent. Most likely it wasn't only Claire that was this innocent. After all, Areishia Spirit Academy is a school where Elementalist princess-maidens are gathered. Only pure maidens are capable of exchanging feelings with the spirits from Astral Zero. Among those princess-maidens, those who retain enough divine power to command a contracted spirit are girls from the lines of kings or lords of ancient and honorable families whose Elementalist blood has been strengthened through the marriages of many generations. To maintain the purity of their bodies and hearts, these girls are raised in environments that are completely separated from contact with males starting in childhood: the so-called elite education for Elementalists has no place for men. Therefore, all the girls attending the academy are super innocent princesses who are unaccustomed to dealing with men. Finding Claire's unexpectedly easy-to-spot weakenss, Kamito had the thought to play a prank on her.