Chapter 54 : "Father wanted me
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"Actually it happened few hours later. A little before dinner if I have to be honest." I stated some half-truth, finding it quite the best way to deal with this predicament.
"She managed to contact me and ask if I could come with haste as there was some matter of importance to discuss."
"And you didn't find anything suspicious about this sudden request from someone you barely knew about?"
Her words were legitimate as generally that wasn't a smart thing to do and certainly not something that I would normally go with in a normal situation.
"When I first met Yasaka-san I found that she was incredibly and genuinely honest with her words, especially around her daughter.
The sense of worry and distraught sounded real and thus I decided to put some trust on the situation."
"And she explained to you about the need of you taking the guardianship for Kunou-san." The short-haired girl remarked and I nodded at it.
"She said that there were some people trying to cause some problems to them and she feared that Kunou could get targeted for it.
So, she asked me to keep her away from Kyoto until she was done with her education here." I finished with a small smile.
"That sounds quite the responsibility." Sona muttered looking brieftly at the folded paper. "Did it cause any problems with your parents?"
There was a minor hesitant pause from me, then I sighed. "I… am not living with my parents anymore."
…
"Could you elaborate that? I think some context should shed some light over what you just said."
I nodded at Sona's request. "It's been few months now that I've been contemplating over going living alone and, after accumulating enough money I managed to get a proper house in the outskirts of Kuoh Town."
"Any… particular reason why you decided to leave?" There was some concern in her voice but I smiled once more in a reassuring way.
"Our opinions about my future were clashing," I replied with some nervousness, knowing that any mistake here could make things difficult to move around.
"Father wanted me to follow his steps in becoming a surgeon but I wished to take a different career path, I am still deciding but I am fairly sure it will not be related to medicine."
I explained as honestly as I could. There was that aspiration that both mother and father wanted me to become and upstanding citizen like them, but I found going down the path of surgeon to… not be me.
I can't explain fully but I didn't feel like that was going to be the correct vocation for me, especially with the difficult road I am walking through right now in the supernatural world.
"Then I guess you will need to change your current address and..." Sona paused just a moment, a perplexed look replacing her understanding one.
"Hoitsu-san, I have to inquire about another question if it's possible. This one isn't truly an important one but… I think I need to ask you about this."
I frowned at the change of tone, my eyes narrowing a little at that unexpected twist.
Still, I gave her a slow nod. "Sure, if there is anything you need help with then-"
"Can you stretch you open palm?"
The interruption stopped most of the activity within that room, from Tsubaki stopping writing and signing on some papers to glance at us, and with some of the other members of the Council like Momo,
Tomoe and Tsubasa to stop with their quiet discussion about sports.
The rest of the peerage had yet to arrive at school, thus the room wasn't truly that full of people.
She's onto me.
There was no doubt about it, there was no reason to think otherwise.
At first I tried to feign ignorance and surprise, probing at what was hopefully just a bluff.
"Can you elaborate, Sona-san?"
"When you asked transparency from me, I decided to be mindful enough to follow this kind of understanding," The girl replied with a serious voice.
"But I wish to be able to trust you myself, Hoitsu-san. As trust goes both ways, loyalty shall never survive when someone lies this much."
I frowned at that explanation and I hummed. "What got you to make these assumptions, Sona-san?"
"The fact that you were there in the fact with Hyoudou-san when Rias and I found the body of a dead Fallen Angel?"
She calmly replied, her tone turning a little bit dry there as I tensed up. "Or perhaps the fact that you seem to be quite protective of two holders of Sacred Gears?"
Well, I should have expected the girl to be able to elaborate a pattern out of that much. I might have covered my bases as much as I could, but I wasn't certainly expecting that the little things I've left around would have helped her to create this accusation.
"I suppose there is much more evidence than this, but I can see your point here,"
I admitted with a minor grimace, Kunou glancing my way with a confused but I merely sighed.
"But may I inquire if you are willing to listen up to the reasoning behind some of these actions?"
Sona blinked, leaning back a little by her chair as to ponder over my question… then she sighed.
"Only if you are willing to telling us everything," The Devil answered back.
I nodded. "Do ask the questions you wish to know about."
"W-Wait," Tomoe joined in with a surprised tone. "You mean that Hoitsu-kun is-"
"Aware of the fact that everyone here, minus me and Kunou, is a Devil?"
…
"Y-Yeah?" The brunette meekly commented about it.
"Are you a Fallen Angel?" Sona asked with a calm voice.
I blinked at that sentence, but I shook my head. "I'm still a human being.
"A magician?"
Was she making these assumption out of my… magical capacity?
"I am, yes," I replied curtly.
"So that means you are good with Magic, Hoitsu-kun?" Momo politely inquired about this, her attention probably piqued by the chance of learning more spells out of this development.
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