"Su Yang?~~ Su Yang?~~ Someone's looking for you!~"
While Su Yang was meditating and constructing the system within his body, a girl's voice came from beside him.
At Kiryu Aika's call, Su Yang woke up.
"Oh?"
Looking toward the doorway, Su Yang saw a familiar figure.
Seeing that head of white hair, he seemed to see soft cat ears and a cat tail, recalling how they had felt last night.
"Hey, hey!~~ Yang-kun, why is Koneko-chan looking for you? Could there be some shameful relationship between you and Koneko-chan?~"
Kiryu Aika leaned over to ask Su Yang.
She was no ordinary girl. She was the kind of legendary girl who, once she got lewd, left boys with nothing to do.
"Hey!~~ Don't go spreading baseless rumors~~"
Su Yang smiled faintly.
At most, they had a hero-saving-beauty relationship. After all, in Koneko's eyes, her Sister was the villain.
"Kiryu, if the teacher asks where I went next period, tell them I wasn't feeling well and went to the infirmary."
Su Yang exercised the privilege of being the school's Top Scholar—the privilege of coming up with any excuse to skip class and having the teacher unquestionably believe and approve it.
"Oh ho?!~~ Are you going to the infirmary with Koneko-chan? What an exciting development." Kiryu Aika adjusted her glasses, giving him a look that said she understood.
"Koneko-chan is a first-year, right? She must be at least fourteen~~~ As expected of you, Yang-kun!~"
Kiryu Aika gave him a thumbs-up of approval.
"Don't spread this around. Of course, I don't really care if you do, but don't expect to copy my homework again."
The moment Kiryu Aika heard that, her attitude changed instantly.
"Hehe~~ I was only joking. Yang-kun, hurry back~~~"
Without any unnecessary gestures, Su Yang, who was well versed in psychology, naturally caught the look in her eyes—the look that said, I'm on your side, so trust me.
Under Kiryu Aika's look of "have a safe trip" and Koneko's restrained, shy gaze, Su Yang walked over to Koneko.
"Koneko, is something wrong? Let's talk while we walk."
"Mm... The President wants to see you about something."
Koneko nodded lightly. What had happened with her Sister yesterday definitely had to be reported to Rias, and Su Yang had to be mentioned when talking about it.
Rias, who had been suffering greatly under the pressure of her engagement, desperately wanted powerful Servants.
So after learning that Su Yang was a human who had awakened his Heroic Bloodline and could stand against Heige, she naturally thirsted for talent.
"Then let's go."
Amid the envious gazes of the crowd, the school's second-most handsome boy and Top Scholar walked toward the old school building alongside the school's number-one mascot.
"Look~! Yang-kun smiled at me!~~ I'm dying, I'm dying!~~~"
One girl rolled her eyes dreamily and collapsed on the spot.
"Ah!~~ Yang-kun~~~ Why isn't the one beside Yang-kun me??~~ I want Yang-kun to personally teach me after class tonight!~"
Another girl had been conquered by both Su Yang's grades and looks.
Kuoh Academy had originally been converted from a girls' school, so male students were exceedingly rare, let alone handsome ones.
Things like this happened every day, and Su Yang had more or less gotten used to it. It was just more intense today.
Perhaps gaining the Ten Incarnations and Esther had enhanced his aura.
Though... he himself was completely unaware of it.
"Oh, right. I accidentally touched your tail yesterday, Koneko-chan. Sorry about that. Are you feeling any better?"
After entering the old school building and checking that no one was around, Su Yang asked Koneko.
"Mm, thank you for your concern, Su Yang-senpai. I'm fine now..."
After saying that, Koneko parted her cherry lips slightly, looking as though she wanted to say something but hesitated.
"By the way, Koneko, what's with your tail? You look like a yokai. And that person yesterday said she was your Sister?"
"Does your species have some rule where only one sister is allowed to survive?"
Su Yang probed indirectly.
"That kind of rule... did senpai see it in a game? What benefit would that have for reproduction?" Koneko unleashed her own brand of snark.
"Well, something like that. But if that isn't the case, then what exactly happened?"
Su Yang finally got to the point. He needed Koneko to tell him about it, or how else could he explain knowing about her and her Sister?
"..."
Tachibana Kōko fell into a brief silence.
"I'll tell senpai a story."
After several seconds of silence, Koneko spoke slowly.
"Once upon a time, in the Underworld, there were two little cats who depended on each other for survival: a black cat and a white cat."
"Though the two little cats often went hungry, they were still able to live fairly happily together."
"One day, a devil found the two little cats. He took the older black cat, who could assume human form, as his Servant and gave the two little cats a life where they could eat their fill."
"The black cat was extremely talented and quickly rose to the top among the devil's Servants."
"But power that was too great was not necessarily a good thing. The black cat's talent was so extraordinary that she surpassed her master in a short time."
"In the end, perhaps consumed by her own power, the black cat murdered her master and became one of the strongest stray devils. Not even the Underworld's Enforcement Team could capture her."
"Some people in the Underworld believed that the remaining Little White Cat was also a ticking time bomb, that she too would eventually murder her master and flee, and wanted to dispose of the Little White Cat in advance."
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