Chapter 41 : The Gremory Clan

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The Gremory Clan was nothing to scoff at, and it wouldn't be wrong to state that the man had to know whom they were. Especially since this hotel was owned by them.

I expected some silence there, knowing that proceeding after this response would have pressed me to see about the current state of his daughter.

And I didn't want to be the one telling him about the fact she is a Reincarnated Devil now.

"And… do you think it's genuine, their friendship-"

"They did seem genuinely friendly with each other," I replied curtly, tensely as I pondered over my current steps in this conversation. "I am quite sure there isn't any…

strange stuff going on." My answer further relieved the man, but he seemed ready to ask some more.

"You seem to know quite a lot about my daughter."

I tensed a little more at the strange vibe in those last few words, feeling the vengeful tone that only a very 'protective' father would feel over a boy being 'close' to his daughter.

I sighed while making a small prayer to avoid any unnecessary beatings from the clearly suspicious man.

"I… is she is your daughter, sir-"

"Wrong answer, kid. Please do respond to my question."

Gulping nervously, I nodded at his stern refusal.

"I- We are in the same classroom, sir. But we never speak to each other," I said with some panic leaving through my words.

A single wrong step was going to see me fried and… this wasn't certainly the best moment to stutter ant the nervousness was possibly me fail this all.

"But you know about her situation with the Gremory family-"

"Only that she is part of whatever group Rias has," I interjected swiftly, unwilling to let the mess fester upon my current predicament. "As part of the Student Council I have to know about specific details about the Clubs in the Academy and… not to appear to be classist, but those two hardly fit the bill for people enjoying Occult Research."

The Fallen Angel gave a wider smile. "I admit that the cover would be… difficult to keep up but you are the only one that figured it out, aren't you?"

I opened my mouth, ready to rebuke that idea and… yet I found myself questioning this very comment for a while as… it was genuinely the truth.

As dumb as it might sound, and I am referring to the 'Glasses trick of Clark Kent' kind of dumb, the Club was enjoying relative anonymity as no one in particular had inquired the curious choice for the two 'Ojou-samas' of Kuoh Academy to pick the ORC of all clubs.

"I remember someone saying 'If a plan is stupid but works, then it isn't stupid' and I find myself agreeing that this is indeed the situation, young man," Baraqiel added with a smug smile and-

Oh Gods, I think I got Murphy'd there-

"I think his name was… Murphy?" The man concluded with a brief chuckle.

Oh no, I really got Murphy'd!

"Ah, as much I would enjoy to learn more about my daughter, I think we should focus on your punishment," The man reminded the main focus of this discussion much to my dismay. "I think letting you go with a mere slap in the wrist would be detrimental for my authority as your teacher and… I just have the appropriate idea to deal with your case."

His hand reached for one of his pants' pockets and he pulled out a folded piece of paper.

"I wanted to use some of the time here at Kyoto to buy some expensive materials Shemhazai asked me to get… but since you caused this little chaotic mess-"

"I have to do it myself?" I questioned and deflated as the man nodded.

"That's correct," He said with a small smile. "I want you to go to the addresses written down in the paper, get the ingredients on the list, and return back here."

I looked at the paper and frowned at the not-so-short list the man was talking about.

Then I saw him pull out from the same pocket a curiously large bag containing… money?

"This is the money to buy everything- and I will know if something is missing off from the spare."

I nodded quickly and stood up from the couch.

"By the way," The Fallen Angel stated. "Try to not cause anything that could jeopardize our current mission here, Hoitsu-kun."

I stopped a moment to give him a full wide-eyed look, surprised that he would know about my name without me telling him and- then I remembered that Azazel could have told him prior.

With another quick nod, I went to door and left the room, prepared to have quite the handful late day on my hands.

Four hours.

This is how long I had to wander around to get all of the equipment listen on the paper.

Now I had two full bags of various ingredients that were busying my hands as I was finally done with what happened to be quite the long errand around the former capital of Japan.

The experience was annoying, but also educative as I was able to see around the 'non-human' section of Kyoto, enjoying the relative peace unfolding in these places.

We had to walk around in one of the numerous Yokai-only quarters in the city when we had gone to visit the headquarters of the Yokai Faction, but the ones I saw during this task were particularly different from the previous ones as they lacked the same sense of formality and 'stiffness'.

Those were pretty big, housing various kinds of monsters walking around or standing by the corners of the street and... I was also able to see some unkind faces around there and the Yokai living there seemed to be particularly hostile to strangers.

Sensing this much negativity coming from a large majority of the locals, I was pressed to quickly finish the various trips around those sections of the city to avoid any unneeded brawl on my hands.

I sighed in relief once I was on my way back to the hotel, hopefully ready to get some well-deserved rest from the ordeals I had to face this long day.

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