Part 3
There was a day when I had a night like that, but during lunch time the next day, I went to the Student Council’s room to play.
Only me and Saji are inside the room.
It’s a rare thing since we are playing a board game.
“You are still naïve~, Hyoudou♪”
……Saji checkmates me! On top of that, this is my fifth defeat in a row!
“Shit! You wait a bit! I will find a way to defeat you and increase my win rate!”
The thing we are playing now is a board game based on one of the types of Rating Game, Scramble Flag.
If I had to explain the rule of the board game type Scramble Flag in few words, it is a game where several flags are put down within the game field, and each player has to move their pieces to take each other's flags.
You win if you take all their flags within the time limit, or by having more flags than the opponent. You can also take back flags that were taken. Though you will have to use dice for that. Depending on the number you roll, it will determine whether you defend your flag or have it taken.
In the actual game, it seems like you may or may not use the dice depending on the rule……
It’s alright as long as you don’t have more than half of your flags taken. So in the actual game you can use any method to protect your flags by hiding them in the field, luring your enemies by using them as bait, and by discarding one of your flags to fix the formation of your team. So there are many ways you can battle in it.
Certainly, this is a rule which is favourable for the Sitri and Agares who are tactics type.
If we do this, then we may lose by a margin. No, maybe using force to take it is…… Ah, they will just use traps and reduce the number of people in our group! ……This certainly is a complex game.
When I was staring at the game board while thinking hard, Saji speaks to me quietly.
“……By the way, you……”
“Why did you suddenly put on a gloomy face?”
Yeah, his face looks gloomy. The lights in his iris are gone!
Saji then says it to me.
“I hear that you are dating Rias-senpai huh!”
—!
S-So it’s thaaaaat! C-Certainly, I haven’t told him about that!
Saji continues to speak while making a big sigh.
“……You know there was a monster crisis we had a while ago? You know how you showed up then? You kissed Rias-senpai as if you two were lovers just before fighting the leader of the Hero-faction, Cao Cao, remember? Seeing that, I was really shocked. So when I asked Kaichou—”
[Yes, both of them have been lovers since the school festival. ……Saji, you didn’t know about this?]
That’s how Kaichou answered him.
Then Saji suddenly approaches me, and shakes my shoulder!
“I didn’t know about it! Hyoudou, yoooooou~! You and I are friends, right!? Why didn’t you tell me!? Kiba knew about this right!?”
“……W-Well, you know, there wasn’t a chance to tell you……”
“No, there was! You had a chance, right!? Like the time you consulted me about Ddraig!”
Oh, certainly there was a time like that, just before the Middle-class promotion test.
“Ah. Y-Yeah.”
I look away from him, and scratch my cheek.
Of course, I can’t tell him! Saji and I are buddies who have fallen in love with our masters. I can’t tell him that “I made my master fall for me first”!
Saji is saying that he doesn’t even have a close relationship with her……
He asks me with an envious look.
“……So how does it feel to make your master fall for you?”
I say it to him cheerfully, while making my face bright and putting my thumb up.