NOVEL NEXT 12. Momo Hanakai is curious
Kouske's POV
It's only been more than a week after my date with Irina-chan. I have been flirting....hanging out with both Irina-chan and Asagi during this time. The distance between us is shortening especially with Asagi.
She would come every day to play and always accompany me to and from school. I typically enjoy making her flustered and embarrassed. She would just keep saying 'bastard' or 'baka' with a red face. It's become an enjoyable part of my life.
In this period I've tamed an ice and earth elemental slime. So I already have <<Ice Manipulation>> and <<Earth Manipulation>> skills. On the other hand, I have already tamed nearly 600 normal slimes.
I had also gone to the gangster's headquarters to know how far they had gone with the investigations. There is still no clue about her. They were pretty scared of this failure.
But I'm a kind man. I didn't punish them. I know with the information I provided it's very hard to find Lavinia.
Out of my kindness, I gave them one last chance to find. The consequences of failure were left to their imagination. Nobody would care if the world was removed from some filth.
I also asked them to locate Asia Argento in the Vatican City in one of the church-regulated orphanages. I also asked to find out any suspicious places in the Vatican where Archbishop Valper Galilei is frequently seen. It shouldn't be too hard to find out about them.
I told them to find out about Meredith Ordinton of the British royal family. She has Alphecca Tyrant, a new sacred gear. I also told them to find out about a CIA agent in America named Magnus Rose, wielder of Unknown Dictator, one of the newly ascended Longinuses. Though he shouldn't be in the CIA right now.
So I gave them two D-rank items that can detect sacred gears just casually named 'Sacred Gear Detector'.I told them that this item would react to the people they were supposed to find. I made sure to use hypnosis so that they don't question anything.
Another thing I did was make legal papers for my fake identity Akatsuki Yuzuki. I used those politicians from before.
Everything was going in order. One thing that bothers me is that for the week Momo's been observing me. Vritra speculated it could be because of my rise in magical powers.
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Momo Hanakai's POV
I have always been blessed since my birth. I have a very loving and happy family. My family could also be called very rich in Kuoh with some influences in the business world.
I was a completely normal child living my days happily with my family that is till one year ago when I was five. My father was in an important position in a company owned by a certain devil clan in the underworld. Yes, a literal devil. They are real.
My parents told me about the secret side of the world that mundane people would never know. I was introduced to Sona Sitri, the daughter of the boss of the company my father works for, a literal devil and the heir of the prestigious Sitri Household with the rank of Prince in the underworld.
Sona Sitri was around my age. She was extremely smart for someone our age. She also always has a serious attitude towards everything. She showed me real magic. For the first time in my life, I was engrossed by magic.
I also wanted to learn magic. So I asked Sona for some magic books. She warned me it isn't easy to learn human magics. There are different kinds of magic systems in the supernatural. The devil's imagination-based magic is extremely efficient and easy to use. On the other hand, the human magic system is hard to use. We need to make many intricate calculations to even use the basic magics.
Still, I didn't give up and decided to put extra effort into learning magic. Sona, seeing my determination, helped me find books on the basics of human magic. After that, I've been trying to learn magic for a whole year.
Unfortunately, I can only use a single basic spell. I have also come to be able to detect the amount of magical energies in someone.
There wasn't anyone in my class with any decent amount of magical powers at all. But all of a sudden I can feel an amount of magical power from one of my classmates which even exceeds Sona, a devil. And it's continuously rising.
Kouske Miyamura, the one I was talking about. He lost his parents a few months ago. After that, he seems to have changed a little. He's always alone in the class not communicating with our classmates at all. He only speaks briefly when someone greets him or something.
But he seems to be good friends with the new transfer student, Asagi Azusawa. Even though we had met a few times before as our parents had some sort of business relationship, we seem to have become more distant in the past few months. My parents were also present at Miyamura-kun's parents' funeral.
I want to talk to him more and even more so now that I know he has stepped into the supernatural side of the world. I want to ask him how he knows about it or how he's increasing his magical power. But I don't know where or how to start with.
So for the last week, I've been trying to find out more about him and observe him through class. Though I think I've been caught more than a few times peeking at him. It's embarrassing!
Today after class I found the courage to approach him. He was going to leave the class with Azusawa-san.
"Miyamura-kun, wait!" I called out to him.
"Yes?"
"Umm...Do you have time right now? I would like to talk with you for a bit, alone" At first I was a bit flustered but then said the last bit while looking at Azusawa-san. She didn't look pleased.
"What is it,Hanakai-san?" Azusawa-san questioned me with some displeasure evident in her voice.
"I wanted to talk about something private" I spoke.
"Can't you say it here?"
"No. It's something between Miyamura-kun and I" I said while looking at him. He seemed to contemplate for a bit. Then he looked right at me.
"Sure, I'm free. Where do you want to go to talk?"
Seeing me not replying he again asked, "Do you want to come to my house? There won't be anyone to disturb us"
I nodded at his offer. Then the three of us headed towards his home. I just kept thinking why Azusawa-san is following us when we're going to his house or is her house also this way?