I love time travel the most!

"That's enough. What are you two arguing about, anyway?"

A beautiful young girl wore a helpless expression. Behind her stood a giant dragon, eight meters long, whose steel-like scales shone like velvet, and whose wings on its chest exuded a majestic aura.

"Charlotte".

"It's Charlotte!"

Charlotte corrected him angrily.

The handsome young man with a fierce look in his eyes didn't apologize; instead, he questioned, "Are you going to bother me too?!"

"It's your business if you want to fight, but can't you consider the time and place? Fighting in a place like this will cause trouble for everyone!" Charlotte gestured with her eyes to the many onlookers around them.

This is none of your business, you humanoid walking natural disaster!

—The people around were probably thinking this to themselves, but due to the other party's overwhelming strength, they didn't dare to say it aloud.

Loki scoffed, "I thought you were a pet too."

"Spoil...?! What did you say?!"

Charlotte's cheeks flushed slightly, and she almost lost control of her anger and went berserk.

"You want to side with that guy too?"

"I... I didn't intend to stand there! I don't care what happens to that pervert, but as a noble person, I have an obligation to consider the public good."

"……snort."

Loki could also see that although the proud Charlotte said no, she was actually just using an excuse to cover up her true feelings.

The look in his eyes as he looked at Kobayashi became even more dangerous.

As the surrounding crowd held their breath, watching the unfolding events intently, Loki suddenly dissipated his aura, turning away as if he had lost interest. At the same time, the Angel-type mini-Gundam following behind him also deactivated its combat stance, lowering its longsword and retracting its wing-like back parts.

Luo was about to leave when he stopped and glared at Xiaolin, saying, "I advise you to stop interfering in our sibling affairs."

“I refuse. How can an owner neglect their pet?” Kobayashi answered decisively.

Loki clenched his fist again.

It's hard now, it's hard now, my fist is hard!

But in the end, he didn't lash out. Instead, he looked at Frey, who was kneeling limply in the center of the cage, and said sneer, "No wonder you dared to defy me. So you've found a master. Hmph, just like your automaton, be a docile dog wagging its tail and begging for his attention, and then leave the Night Party!"

Extremely sharp-tongued.

He might have thought that even harsh words would be enough to get his sister out of the party, but he never considered how much harm those words would cause Frey.

"Loki..."

Frey stared blankly at her brother's retreating figure.

Loki left.

Seeing that no fight had taken place, the crowd who had been eating there dispersed. Kobayashi went into the cage and reached out to the limp Frey.

Can you stand up?

"……Um."

Frey trembled slightly, but still grasped Kobayashi's hand and used it to stand up.

Meanwhile, Charlotte questioned Akabane Raishin, who arrived late, saying, "Are you just going to watch them argue and do nothing?"

"...Huh? Why?"

Akabane Raishin blinked.

"You actually asked why? Aren't you friends?"

"They're friends. But wasn't that just my brother-in-law and brother-in-law bickering to get closer? Although the atmosphere was so tense it almost came to blows, they would never actually fight. I'm very experienced in this, I guarantee it."

"Huh?!?!?!"

Charlotte gasped in surprise.

Brother-in-law and brother-in-law...

The proud girl was stunned when she heard this. She stared blankly at Kobayashi, who was helping Frey up. The intimate gesture between the two made her feel terrible.

...even though she didn't know why.

Seeing that the girl, nicknamed "Tyrannosaurus," was about to erupt, Kobayashi quickly reached out to stop her, saying, "Wait, this is a misunderstanding! Akabane-kun's words are clearly false, you have to believe me!"

"You're lying. You clearly said she was a pet."

"That is……!"

Before he could finish speaking, Charlotte hurriedly ran away, and Kobayashi watched her retreating figure in silence.

Akabane Raishin leaned closer and teased, "Is it really okay not to chase after her? She seems really sad. If you chase after her now, just saying a few nice words will greatly increase her favorability."

“...You know a lot, Akabane-kun.”

Without giving him a chance to say "I know it all," Kobayashi sighed and said, "I suddenly realized that I don't seem to need to explain myself."

"Well, then what?"

"You see, we are neither friends nor lovers."

"Yeah, go on."

"In the end, she and I are still enemies, and I'm also the worst at dealing with tsundere girls. Don't you think tsundere is the epitome of trouble?"

"Hmm, so what are you going to do?"

Akabane Raishin nodded repeatedly, but his eyes conveyed a sense of powerlessness, implying that no matter how much Kobayashi said, it was all futile sophistry.

He let out a deep sigh.

"...Sorry, I'll be right back."

"Oh, you'd better make sure to appease that angry dinosaur girl."

Akabane Raishin smiled, and as Kobayashi turned to leave, he suddenly shouted, "Kobayashi, your personality can be really twisted sometimes!"

"Thanks for the compliment!"

No, this isn't a compliment.

When she turned around again, Xiaolin could no longer hear the grumbling behind her.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Kobayashi's farsightedness, granting him the ability to see in all five senses, allowed him to quickly spot Charlotte and catch up with her.

"ah!"

Leaning against a nearby tree, he smiled and waved to the haughty girl.

Charlotte stopped when she saw him, turned around and said angrily, "What are you doing here? Why aren't you with your pet (Frei)?"

Despite this, Kobayashi noticed a smile on Charlotte's lips when he saw her profile, indicating that she was in a good mood.

"Because there's something I want to ask you."

"what?"

"Could you come with me to the Department of Mechanical Tactics in the Faculty of History? I have something I want to investigate."

"...You're such a big idiot!"

The proud and arrogant girl was furious.

The History and Tactics Department is Frey's subject, and Kobayashi's invitation for her to go there to investigate only made her feel worse.

However, Kobayashi also had his own ideas.

"I can easily deceive you with dozens of sweet words by simply explaining things, but I invited you to investigate with me because I want you to know the truth."

That's right.

Kobayashi, who knew everything, wasn't doing it for himself, but to explain to Charlotte why he did it.

"I advise you to give up! ... Knowing the inside story will only lead to defeat in battle."

Charlotte was indeed clever; she immediately understood what Kobayashi wanted to do.

That's why they stopped it.

There's clearly something going on between Frey and Loki, but delving deeper would cause Kobayashi to hesitate fatally during the battle, turning him into a stumbling block.

but--

"If I defeat her without knowing the truth, wouldn't I possibly regret it?"

"With winning as the premise, you really have it all figured out."

"Of course. After all, he's the one who actually defeated Felix and rescued you, Charlotte. Before, I was so glad I saved you. So, can you come with me?"

Charlotte's cheeks gradually flushed as she heard Kobayashi boasting about his achievement.

It seems there are no problems.

The two then arrived at an old school building with an exaggeratedly worn exterior; this was Frey's Department of History and Tactical Studies.

As soon as the three people and the dragon entered, screams erupted. The students they encountered in the hall immediately panicked, and some even collapsed from their chairs.

"Am I that scary?"

"After all, it's a humanoid, self-propelled natural disaster."

"What did you say?"

Under the resentful gaze of the Tyrannosaurus Girl, Kobayashi began his investigation.

But none of it was useful information.

For example: that person was cold and never smiled, seemed to always study until very late, and his whereabouts were strange and mysterious. Some even only paid attention to Frey's big breasts.

In general, all of this information is invalid.

Charlotte glared at Kobayashi, annoyed, and said, "What's going on? You just want me to know this boring information?"

The previous information didn't matter, but the information about her breasts at the end definitely made her very unhappy.

Just as rumored.