Chapter 53 : Yasaka-san

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"Kunou-chan, Asia-chan is a good friend of mine and I can assure you that she is quite the kind gal. In fact, she is as kind as your Mama."

I noticing the older blonde blushing a little at the comparison and the Kitsune blinked with a mix of understanding and hesitation before actually stepping out of her safe-spot to give a short bow at the human girl.

"I-I am Kunou Kurama, nice to meet you, A-Asia-san."

The human girl nodded with a comforting smile directed at the Yokai-in-disguise.

"My name is Asia Argento," The former nun greeted back. "And it's nice to meet you too, Kunou-chan and… you can call me Asia-chan if you want-"

"S-Senpai."

The sudden appearance of a wild Issei Hyoudou caused the younger blonde to swiftly back away a little from her forwarded position and, before the brunet could react about the little girl by my side with some wrongly-worded comment, I decided to speak up before he could create any unnecessary commotion.

He might not be that much perverted, but mistakes can be made and… I didn't need to deal with any bad rumor about the two of us.

"This is Kunou-chan, Ise," I quickly answered his unasked questions. "She will be my ward during her stay at Kuoh Academy, and you will not say anything inappropriate while she's around."

The stern and sudden threat seemed to hit home quite instantly as the now nervous-looking boy nodded sheepishly at my words.

"S-Sorry, senpai. I just wasn't expecting you to return with someone from your trip," The brunet muttered back. "Still, I'm Issei Hyoudou, and it's nice to meet you, Kunou-chan."

The girl smiled a little at the polite tone, nodding back at him.

"It was a surprise for me too but..." I patted the little girl's head much to the kitsune's delight. "Kunou's mom needed someone to keep her safe and away from home. There had been some… unpleasant situations there."

"Oh..." Asia gave a sympathetic look to the younger blonde, to which the girl reacted with a small blush appearing on her cheeks.

"Niichan protected me," Kunou blurted out with incredible honesty, recovering from the minor embarrassment. "There were some bad people trying to kidnap me a-and Niichan beat them."

"Beat them?" The human girl inquired with a hint of confusion and surprise.

"Nothing to flaunt about. Just a couple of magicians trying to kidnap here-"

"Mama said that there were at least eighty of them," The little blonde interrupted cheekily. "Niichan is super-strong!"

"You faced eighty what?"

I groaned at the Hyoudou's explosive reaction to this fact.

"Nothing truly noteworthy, I just avoided fighting them with a silly plan and… that's all."

The little kitsune glanced up at me with a questioning look, and I did realize that I didn't say anything about the 'Kuroka' situation. I shook my head at her and she nodded in silent acceptance of not saying anything about the Nekoshou.

"So Kunou-chan will be joining us at Kuoh Academy?" Issei asked, having recovered a little from the earlier shock and noticing the girl's uniform.

"That is correct," I nodded back with a calm voice. "My superior has already spoken with the principal of the school, and she will be joining the 2nd year of the Middle School section."

After this the discussion moved to easier topic to speak about, like the souvenir gathering of the last day at Kyoto and the photos I had taken of the various shrines and temples around there that I promised to show to Asia once she had some free time from her Club.

"This is quite the interesting letter you brought me, Hoitsu-san."

Sona's tone was calm, the girl distracted by the content of the letter Yasaka had asked me to give to her to show my legitimate claim as the current guardian of Kunou while she was in Kuoh Town.

The bespectacled young woman looked lost in her thoughts for a couple of moments while reading the paper, possibly because some of the details within the letter could be mentioning about the 'unique traits' of the little blonde sitting on the chair beside mine and her identity.

The leader of the Yokai Faction had been adamant in repeating that I was barely mentioned and the few sections about me were bare at best and lacking any possible correlation to what had transpired recently in Kyoto.

While the events had happened just two days ago, the news had reached far and wide through the entire supernatural world. The attack on the Yokai was something that had sparked plenty outrage at the unknown attackers and formal pity from various Pantheons was given to the suffering community.

The heiress of the Sitri clan sighed as she folded the letter and gave me a confused look. "Hoitsu-san, how did you exactly encounter Yasaka-san and her daughter."

I blinked at the question but kept smiling. I was ready for this kind of questions and thus I had rehearsed them with Kunou before this situation.

"I actually met Kunou first at the Maruyama Park. She was playing alone while I was waiting for my boss to arrive and she asked if I could play with her-"

"Wait, you mean to tell me that Kunou-san asked you this?" Sona interrupted and then turned at the young blonde. The younger girl nodded and the president sighed. "Please, continue then."

"As I was saying, she asked me to play with her and we ended up spending some time playing stone skipping. By the time her mom reached us for the park, she thanked me for keeping Kunou occupied and safe."

"I beat Niichan." The blonde added with a big smile, ignoring or maybe gloating at the brief frown I threw at her.

"She is incredibly good at stone skipping..." I admitted and the kitsune-in-disguise giggled at my words, Sona watching the scene with a neutral glance.

"But why did Yasaka-san give you guardianship over Kunou-san, did it happen at the park or-"

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