Chapter 109: Chapter 109 : The Sprite Dragon
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My answers were met positively from the heir, the man pondering over the matter for a while now as we continued with our walk through the school.
I was still unsure as to 'why' Ruval would've wanted to leave his youngest sibling to face this environment, leaving me confused over what he would gain from this plan.
Just as we took one of the corners, I noticed that I had something grasping at my shirt right by my chest.
I stared down, noticing a certain pretty girl hanging tightly with her small claws. I felt panic swelling at Kimiko's sudden appearance, but I managed to steel my face from actually displaying any of the shock I was feeling over this escalation.
The Sprite Dragon tilted her head with a confused look, failing to understand the delicate situation she had crashed into so unceremoniously.
With one of my hands helping her stand without the need of gripping at my clothes, and with the other one patting her head, I tried my best to think up of a solution to deal with this sudden appearance.
The familiar seemed to understand just enough to keep herself quiet, yet I had nothing that could've been used to hide away her visible presence.
So, instead of looking around and give away my current cover, I decided to try something risky. Carefully but swiftly so,
I pushed Kimiko under my shirt, lifting her up to the end of the collar as her face popped up with a surprised look.
Once she realized how close she was to me, her first reaction was to nuzzle at my chin and happily nestle herself safely near my face.
Smiling a little at the cute 'retaliation', I carefully applied Darkness Shroud over her form, effectively hiding her frame and the bulge she had created on my shirt thanks to the spell.
Feeling a little more confident, my pace increased just a little bit, enough to finally cut through the remaining distance left for the ORC room. I stopped there, gesturing Ruval the door in front of us.
"So that's where it is? Quite distant from the entrance," The blond commented with a hint of curiosity.
"Still, I'm glad that you offered me this much help and good service, Sir Hoitsu. I find myself indebted to you-"
"Nonsense, Ruval-san," I interjected calmly, trying to appear as inconspicuous as possible, hiding my genuine smiling at the affectionate nuzzling from my familiar.
"It was my duty to help as part of the Student Council. There is no debt between us."
He smiled. "I suppose you're correct. And I can be quite… brash when I want to. I suppose that's one thing that I do share rightfully with my siblings, through the good things and bad ones too."
"Nobody is perfect, and I hope that you manage solving up the situation between you, Gremory-san, and your brother in the most peaceful way possible."
"I hope so to, Sir Hoitsu. But I suppose I will have to put a serious effort to achieve good results out of this situation… and I think that this talk has offered me a couple of means to reach a decent enough compromise for both sides."
I frowned at the last bit, but I still nodded at his comment, seeing him knock at the door and then enter inside.
I sighed in relief as the door was finally closed, leaving me to sort out the current situation created by my pretty girl.
"You know, you should give me a warning instead of appearing suddenly, Kimi-tan," I chided softly, my right hand reaching her chin and scratching softly at it. "You almost got me caught by someone I don't want to reveal myself to."
She hummed. "Why? Why would you even need to hide? You're strong, Papa."
"While I'm strong… I'm not strong enough to face up the complications of my identity getting revealed,"
I replied with a sigh. "Until I'm certain I can protect everyone, I will keep it a secret from those I don't trust well enough."
Distracted by the nuzzling, she seemed too lost in the warmth to continue with the conversation, leaving me to enjoy a couple of moments of silence in that desolate hallway, my tired mind almost craving and urging me to go back home instead of dealing with the rest of the workload waiting me at the Council's room.
I sighed, my own consciousness chiding my tiredness away as I wandered back to complete this blasted situation before going back home. Strangely enough, despite the lack of major physical activities, I felt… drained.
Maybe it was the fact that I had been having some trouble catching some rest in the last few weeks, or maybe it was because I was pushing myself beyond my limits a few more times than I was meant to.
Once I was back to the Student Council's room, I finally dropped the covering Kimiko and I decided to focus on finishing quickly with the calls I had to deal with.
The decision resulted with various girls within the club, mostly Momo and Ruruko, melting at the adorable sight of the Sprite Dragon curled by shoulder and pressing her cheek by my own.
With Kimi-tan snoring quietly, I went through with this final task smoothly and swiftly, ending up walking back home with a tired but satisfied mood.
At least I was making progress in changing a major part of the plot I really wanted to avoid to happen.
And I really wonder what Ruval wants to do by enrolling Ravel early on compared to the Canon timeline.
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