Chapter 62 : A new morning struck,
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Still, I decided to test the waters by getting some answers over the girl's behavior back in class when I had decided to test out the 'Ara, Ara' predicament in reverse.
"By the way, sensei, can I ask you something… hypothetical before we begin with that spell?" I inquired carefully.
The man paused and nodded slowly, catching on pretty quickly that the topic had to be quite awkward for me to sound so nervous.
"Does it have to do with my daughter?"
A chill went down my spine as I wanted to avoid mentioning what had happened today but I still wanted some answers about it.
"Actually, it has to do with your relationship with your wife, sensei. Nothing overly personal or-"
"Please do ask," He interjected happily, his mood going for a 180 as he seemed to be glad to talk about that subject. "I will answer the best I can about my Mist-I mean, my Shuri."
That was way too much of a close call there…
"Did your wife make use frequently of the term 'Ara, Ara'?" I finally asked, knowing that I had to dig deep and mindfully to get some proper answers out.
The answer was an instant nod.
"It was something of a unique trait of her to make use of that verbal tic," The Fallen Angel answered quietly. "I remember my little Akeno copying her about that and… does she still do that?"
"She says that quite frequently," I admitted with a hum. "I thought it was something that was associated with the 'Onee-sama' reputation she built around herself."
"Oh, that explains a lot," He said with a nod, yet his eyes narrowed once more at me. "But I think you should skip with this large route and directly ask the real question, Hoitsu-kun."
I gulped nervously at the little push from the Fallen Angel and… I decided to formulate a smart question.
"Have you ever replied to your wife with a sentence starting with the 'Ara, Ara'?"
He went still for a moment, eyes widening in momentary shock… but then a dumb smile appeared on his face and he nodded happily.
"I do reckon that it was how we ended up dating together," Baraqiel started to explain. "It was while she was nursing me back from a terrible injury I had received while fighting a Stray Devil and, seeing how she repeated that every time she spoke teasingly I decided to reply in kind."
"And?" I tried to push for more as Baraqiel stopped in his revelation, starting to blush again.
"A-And we ended up discovering more about each other."
...Oh no.
"Did you or your wife tell about this story to your daughter-"
"Of course! Which parent wouldn't tell their children about how their love bloomed," He answered proudly, but then he looked hesitant. "Although my dear wife did end up going through some… details I think could have been avoided but, Akeno-chan has to be a fine and upstanding student now, so maybe it wasn't truly that bad."
How wrong you are, Baraqiel-sensei…
"Anyway, let us not diverge with the past's sentimentalism any longer," The man deflected giddily. "Let's see if you got a gist of what you are supposed to do with this new knowledge. Let's go!"
And with that the first of many spars began!
But as the brawl started, at the entrance of the dojo where Hoitsu's bag was lying, the phone contained within it started to vibrate, notifying the arrival of a new message.
Title: Invitation for Tea Time at the Occult Research Club.
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A new morning struck, and this time I was forced to deal with quite the annoying development I was partly incapable of fully predict.
Sona had mentioned that she had kept quiet with Rias, having accepted my logic as a solid point to keep the redhead unaware over what I was doing behind the scenes.
Of course, she had commented that she would deny any knowledge of the situation for the sake of reducing the effects of a possible discovery and an eventual fallout between the two.
Kuoh Town was already in hot water with Hell after what had happened with Cleria Belial, and the administration wouldn't have approved to have the two keep the ownership of town at the first hint of disagreement among them.
A fair request that I was willing to comply about, so much that I made sure that the next interactions with the student council regarding the 'supernatural' section of things were to be carefully planned to no spark any unwanted suspicion.
More work for me, but technically speaking this wasn't truly the worst situation ever as I did have plenty of private times and places to share with either Sona or Tsubaki to set up any future meetings.
But when the first thing I had to deal with was the sudden invitation to the ORC, which would see me walking dangerously close to my current worry of getting discovered.
If there was someone that would make me immensely regret ever letting out my identity as an agent of Grigori, it was Rias.
There were some other people in the Underworld that would enjoy to have some blackmail on a possible opening within Grigori, but the redhead was the closest one to be able to take that opportunity.
Especially with the crappy situation she is dealing with about the arranged marriage.
I entered the club room with a calm but guarded step, my eyes displaying none of my inner tension as I noticed the occupants of the room and the design of the room itself.
The Occult Research Club looked like the perfect copy of what had been shown in the show, thus I will not spend time to describe the peculiarly humongous size of the room or the fact it had a fucking shower in the middle of it.
Like seriously, other than fanservice, why the heck she got a damn shower in a club room.
How did she avoid getting some admonishment for doing that illegal thing? Yes, that is illegal by the school rules.
And that was just the first thing that I had some trouble to truly stomach properly since this was supposed to be 'reality' for me.
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