The Invincible Little Lady: Volume 7 E-Book

Chatsufusa

• Herausgeber: J-Novel Club
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2026

Beschreibung

After an arduous struggle, Mary and her friends have successfully exposed a political conspiracy, thwarted a terrorist plot, and brought the progenitor of an ancient city to heel. At last, Mary can finally relax...or not? Whoops! She never found the topic for her research project! But now she has a very learned dragon to consult, and he sets her on a course that’s sure to work—namely, finding out who the heck this Argent Knight guy is! Everyone’s heard the stories, but no one’s seen the man behind the helm. Actually, is he even a man?! With a goal now in mind, Mary begins to pursue whatever leads she can find...but before long, she realizes meeting your heroes is a dangerous game! After all, you can never know for sure whether or not everyone’s favorite knight spends their spare time hunting down girls floating in test tubes! Can Mary get the lowdown on the Argent Knight and quell their surprising bloodlust? Or will her paper end up as argent as her research topic?

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Chapter 1: Academy Arc—The Argent Knight Incident Part 1

1. Please Teach Me, Mr. Orthoaguina

“Now, with all that out of the way, why don’t I hear you out?”

“With all what out of the way?!” I snapped. “I just got here!”

I’d come all the way out to the Grand Archival Tower at Orthoaguina’s behest, and incredibly, that was the first thing out of the black dragon’s mouth.

It’d been three weeks since the incident at the Grand Archival Tower, and I was still here at Kairomea. Restoration efforts had been proceeding swiftly and smoothly, thanks especially to the aid of Orthoaguina, the ancient “Philomath Dragon” who’d created Kairomea and who was now enshrined in the center of the tower. Now that life had just about returned to normal for the town’s residents, he’d invited me to meet him here for what was so far looking like some kind of attempt at a joke.

“Ba ha ha,” Orthoaguina chuckled. “You didn’t come all the way out to Kairomea to resolve the incident at the tower, did you? No, you arrived with a more important mission at hand. Am I wrong?”

Uh, well, you’re not wrong, exactly, but maybe we’re overstating the gravity of my goals a bit here... Thanks to his question dripping with expectation, the nearby librarians bustling around immediately began whispering excitedly to each other.

It sure was seeming impossible to have a quiet conversation with this massive dragon and his loud, booming voice. Although, to be fair to him, he may have actually been doing his best to keep his voice down and I just couldn’t tell due to his size...

“U-Uh, well, this is a little...personal, you know? I’d love to speak with you in a more private location, eh heh.” I was doing my best to act adorably shy, stammering and shifting around awkwardly with everything I had in an attempt to take this conversation elsewhere. I wasn’t sure if this tactic would work on a dragon, but it was worth a shot.

“You want privacy, do you?” Orthoaguina asked. “We could’ve met more discreetly in the upper tower, but if memory serves, you destroyed that entire area, rendering it unusable.” Sure enough, not only did he dismiss my plea for privacy, he took it as an opportunity to launch some false accusations my way.

“How rude!” I cried. “It was your breath that made half the mess, and Snow had no small part in it too! I’ll ask that you kindly refrain from misleading people into pinning it all on me, thanks!”

With Operation Quiet Convo a total bust, I had no choice but to pivot to Operation Try to Keep Everyone Watching from Getting Crazy Ideas About Me—and to do that, my first step was to come clean. “I-It wasn’t anything serious, really,” I mumbled. “I...came here to find a topic for my academy report. And, um...” I trailed off, growing more embarrassed by the second. My reasoning felt far too childish and trivial when I was laying it out before the legendary dragon enshrined within the massive archival tower.

“Is that so...?” Orthoaguina mused. “So, you came here in pursuit of knowledge, just like I did. How very interesting.”

Uh, wait, no. You can’t possibly mention me in the same breath as you! I’m just a kid doing homework over here! I’d intended to come off as completely honest about my goals, but I was getting the vibe that, for some reason, he was trying to probe for a hidden layer to what I’d said. Surely I’m just imagining things, right?

“Then let us discuss,” Orthoaguina began. “What shall we talk about? Knowing you, I assume you want to know about an eighth-order spell, or perhaps learn something about God—”

“Whoa there! Stop! Time out!” I interrupted. I didn’t have any second thoughts about putting the kibosh on all that stuff that was way out of my league. “That all sounds way too complicated and grandiose for a regular old student! Let’s dumb things down a few notches, okay?!”

“Oh? I have no doubt that an ordinary student could follow a discussion on those topics.”

“Not a chance. Not everyone’s a born genius like yourself.”

“Hmm... In that case, how about you present the topics up for discussion? Even very general ideas would suffice—surely you’ve come having envisioned something or other.” Given his large head leaning toward me, I could tell Orthoaguina’s interest was clearly piqued.

Frankly, my goal was to blend in with the crowd, so spilling the beans about my abilities here wasn’t an option. Urgh... Is there a way to be sorta vague about what I want in a way that can still clue in anyone who’s in the know?

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