Chapter 97: Chapter 97 : "Kunou-chan wants to just play,
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"Senpai, you might not like the situation," The kohai admitted with some hesitation. "You might even quit if you knew that-"
"Who is it?" I interjected once more, asking for a clear name and getting the brunette once more tense over the matter.
Yet her behavior and her words had strung a strange note within myself as I pondered over those as hints of an unpleasant discovery that I could be dealing with very soon.
This sixth player was someone I knew about, had been taken outside of Rias' peerage, and from what Ruruko was trying to tell me, was someone that I wouldn't want to fight in this predicament.
Enough to warrant me to forfeit.
I thought well and thoroughly about it, but then a cold realization searingly tore into my brain.
But there was no way. Rias wouldn't have been that stupid.
Yet the situation could've been different and… it was still possible. And that possibility was gloomy at best.
But while I lost myself in this contemplation, the brunette took a sign from my lack of pressure to keep quiet as she swiftly took me a higher pace to reach where the place was.
I was just about to debunk the best way possible this very notion, this silly idea that the young woman could've gone as far as risk my wrath for a little visit at the Forest of Familiars.
There was no way that the redhead could've done that and-
The doors that led to the gym-like area opened before my eyes and I was granted full sight of the entire room and its occupants.
My attention was quickly directed at the side taken by the ORC, my eyes scanning through the various members in display as I tried to decipher if my worries were legitimate or not.
"S-Senpai?" Issei looked surprised by my appearance, but I couldn't even give him some greeting as my attention was so much intensely latched at this subject.
But just as I noticed just five people around by that side of the field, I tried to look elsewhere for the mysterious sixth player and… I felt someone short reach out and swiftly giving me a hug.
"Niichan!"
...No.
I stared down, I was greeted with a certain blonde with golden eyes and I… smiled. But there was no true happiness, only dread.
"Ku-chan," I greeted quietly. "Hello there."
She smiled even more. "Sorry for keeping this a secret, but I've heard senpai talking about needing some sixth member for the team and… I wanted to play with Niichan."
I felt a stab to the heart at that confession, as I wasn't certainly expecting to fight Kunou in such an occasion.
The girl was strong, but far too cute to be targeted like this. Not by me… or anyone else.
I looked up at Rias, the girl was rightfully looking away as I had my glare set at her.
"Is that so?" I inquired quietly. "I guess you've been told what Dodgeball is before actually joining in, right?"
The girl blinked. "It's a sport to do with friends," She explained happily. "Where you hit people with soft balls that will not hurt anyone."
That's exactly NOT what dodgeball is!
I sighed and I stared carefully at the kitsune. "Ku-chan, can you allow me a moment so I can speak with Sona-san?"
Kunou frowned at this, but still nodded as I moved to reach out for where the bespectacled girl was.
She looked fairly nervous, but not as much as Ruruko had been.
"Hoitsu-san-"
"I request that we switch to a softer ball," I pointed out calmly. "I reckon this is a friendly match, we shouldn't be using the standard, and far sturdier ball."
Which is also known to create any devastating damage on anyone getting hit by those nasty things.
She frowned. "Would this change keep you in the game?"
"Kunou-chan wants to just play, and I don't see any reason for us all to not enjoy some nice game," I stated sweetly. "Of course, it has to be a nice game for both sides, or I might retaliate quite unprofessionally."
Did I forget to mention it was a sickly kind of sweetly?
Sona looked uncertain abut this, but the girl eventually condoned the need of switching to a softer ball.
Some moments passed and all players were set in their proper positions.
Momo was picked to be the impartial referee for this match, having been provided with a chair, a whistle, and some flags to help in her role.
I stared right at Rias, the redhead having some trouble looking straight at me. Three balls had set on the line dividing the field in two.
"I-I didn't mean to bring her to this-" She tried to apologize. "Even before knowing that-"
"But you still did and… I forgive you," I interrupted with a calm smile. "So there is no need to be nervous about, this is a normal game after all."
I felt in my zenith, the culmination of true peace and anger realizing within my features.
Blue eyes widened in a moment of surprise but relief.
"R-Really? That's good to hear and-"
The whistle rang true to the beginning of the match, and a distracted Rias failed to reach for the ball right in front of her.
Tomoe reached for her ball, while Reya to pick hers because of Kiba's speed.
Instead of instantly hitting the girl, I merely threw the ball behind me, right towards… a grinning Tsubasa.
Dread filled Rias' face as she realized what was going on, her body tensing up as she prepared to dodge whatever hit was coming her way and-
The ball rushed murderously, with the blue-haired young woman having once more decided to spare herself none of the restraints that common sense usually imposed.
Panic swelled within the redhead, the Gremory heiress having some issues to react properly at the deadly ball coming her way.
But just as the sphere seemed ready to strike her, someone else moved between her and the ball.
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