NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5: Chapter 5: This night?
He relaxed a little, his shoulders sagging as he nodded at my request. "B-But why are-"
"I know that secrecy sucks, but I need to avoid being noticed by some people," I interrupted again.
"You do me this favor, buddy, and I will give you the answers you want and that your boss didn't even mention to tell you about. Capisce?"
He nodded and I sighed. "Good, then go and have a good day."
I started to quickly pace towards the exit of the park, avoiding the normally-used paths that could be easily monitored and managed to get out of the area without being noticed.
This night? I consider it a failure as now I will have to act more directly towards the plot from now on
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This wasn't going to be an easy morning.
Yawning tiredly as I woke up in a lake of sweat, I slowly managed to pick myself from falling back on the bed.
It was surprising how I managed to avoid getting ensnared by the alluring crave I had for more sleep with how drained and tired I still was.
Dohnaseek's words about my core echoed truthfully in my brain, pointing out once more how I was still fairly new with the whole Magic sthick and how my current abilities were still lacking in keeping up with a proper fight.
My entire body was sore, weakened, and still recovering from the straining encounter that happened the previous night, and I would be lying in saying I didn't have a certain inner wish about skipping school today to gett more sleep.
And if it hadn't been that I did have something important to do today, I would have ponder over the notion for a little longer than now, possibly weighting if skipping a day would or not spark the suspicions of Rias about my 'harmless role' at Kuoh.
Sure, I knew that Sona was too much busy with her own problems regarding the Academy and her own duties coming from Hell, but the Gremory was the one that constantly kept an eye open for any possible threat in their shared fief.
While I was still a noob about this whole mystical nature of the world, I was still what many would define a Magician in the making and with good reasons.
The Silver Lining was a fine proof that I knew a few things about the basics, enough to label me as an apprentice of the magical order.
Being capable of turning a 'Containment Spell' from the Japanese-based Spellcraft in something useful for the predicament I had to deal the day before was something to also consider unique and…
worrying in some cases by those that didn't knew well enough of my personality and affiliations.
About my motivations and my ambitions.
The death of the Fallen Angel was going to have the dual effect of bringing more attention to the presence of possible curious individuals lingering around the proximate area of the school while also making Raynare a little nervous over the current pace of their operations, pushing her to get a more desperate in the hopes of avoiding some hostile Grigori's operative in Kuoh.
If I continued to play my cards well in this very circumstance, I was fairly sure that I could end up catching Asia before she could even consider approaching the rebelling Fallen Angels.
And I would be gaining an ally in the process, which I had long planned to have her assigned to live by the Hyoudou residence for the time being.
Why that place and not my home?
The first reason was that my new parents were the no-nonsense kind of people that would turn down politely any offer of housing the nun, even though there is a strong motivation behind such a request.
The second reason was that I would then gain some respect from Issei, the boy understanding that I was putting some trust about his capacity to not cause any perverted act around the naive girl, while also having him start to take some serious efforts to properly reduce to a minimum his pervertness.
At least make it an inward reaction rather than a full-fledged outward outburst every time he found himself dealing with Oppai.
Standing up from the bed in a sluggish pace, I glanced at my PC and smiled as I remembered the little idea I had about how I had managed to keep my 'suspicious' books in my room without having no one notice where they were.
Two weeks of various afternoons spent writing down the content of those tomes in multiple document files within the computer, taking photos of all the signs that couldn't be reproduced with the keyboard, I had two whole magic textbooks detailing Japanese Spellcraft and basic healing techniques saved in a safe hidden by two complex passwords.
A very elaborated scheme that became necessary when the possibility of being eventually tailed around by people or getting my room violated by unwanted intruders became a legitimate fear.
Speaking of 'people', before going to catch some rest I did spend some time browsing around in search of a very important contact's details over some individuals that I had to keep an eye onto.
With the plans of Kokabiel entering in motion in mere months, it became a must to inform Azazel of what was going to happen Kuoh Town.
The man might have some limited interest in Issei, but I was fairly unsure if said interest did span to a level of keeping the brunet under constant surveillance, excluding Raynare's 'missed' duty.
It was a big guess, but if I managed to pass on him the memo that someone was planning to start another Great War while also trying to cause problems within Grigori and gave him some proof of these possibilities, I could easily get some indirect help from him.
Setting up an untraceable post within my PC was something that drained even more of my free time but also part of my available funds, either from pocket money or small rewards from odd jobs around the city.
It still was more than enough to get me to send a lengthy message to the Governor-General.