Do You Want To Join Us?
Chapter 36 - Do You Want To Join Us?
"Nothing?"
Rias frowned, deep in thought, with a hint of disappointment on her face.
"Yes."
Toujou Koneko lowered her eyes, trying to recall the scenes of watching Hyoudou Issei yesterday, but she finally shook her head and said.
"President, is something wrong?"
Toujou Koneko asked with concern.
Koneko also noticed something was off.
Rias kept asking her and Mahiro if they found anything strange while monitoring yesterday. There should be something wrong with Hyoudou Issei.
However, Koneko thought hard; yesterday's surveillance mission had been smooth, without obstacles or strange occurrences.
"Well, maybe I was wrong."
Rias sighed, her brows filled with disappointment.
"Wrong!?"
Mahiro asked curiously.
"Rias, you've been frowning since just now. Have you encountered any problems? Tell us, and let us solve it together."
Akeno also asked with great concern. She and Rias had always been together and naturally noticed something was wrong with Rias.
From just now, Rias's face had a hint of disappointment.
Rias shook her head and said, "It's about Hyoudou Issei."
"About him?"
Akeno glanced strangely out of the window just in time to see Hyoudou Issei and his friends chatting mindlessly.
"Yes, I may have misunderstood again."
Rias glanced at Issei in the distance, then sighed helplessly and said.
She found that the number of times she had been wrong recently was too much.
Should she wash her eyes?
"Misunderstood? President, is there anything special about Hyoudou Issei?"
Koneko asked.
The monitoring task for Hyoudou Issei was assigned to her by Rias, and she was determined to complete it well.
Now that Rias mentioned Hyoudou Issei, she was naturally very concerned.
"Not special, but..."
Rias smiled dryly, looking helpless, "Maybe Hyoudou Issei is not a Sacred Gear holder."
"What?"
Toujou Koneko was taken aback for a moment. Her golden pupils were full of surprise; she hadn't expected such a result.
"But when I spied on him yesterday, he did have the fluctuations that a Sacred Gear holder should have. How could that be?"
Toujou Koneko asked in surprise.
"I'm not too sure either."
Rias could only helplessly rub her brows.
Obviously, what happened with Hyoudou Issei made her very tired.
However, when talking with Mahiro yesterday, Rias said that Hyoudou Issei might be a 'pseudo' Sacred Gear holder.
However, Rias didn't have any doubts.
She was almost certain that Hyoudou Issei was the holder of the Sacred Gear and chose him as the new peerage member.
However, she didn't expect to encounter this situation!
No matter how good Rias's manners were, she still wanted to swear in her heart at this moment.
"So, the one-in-ten situation actually happened?"
Instead, Mahiro laughed, gloating over the misfortune and watching the show.
There's absolutely no way he's the one who started it.
"Roughly the same."
Rias rolled her eyes at Mahiro, but she was not angry, "Today, the aura of the Sacred Gear on Hyoudou Issei is weak, almost dissipating. He should not be the real Sacred Gear holder. He may just be contaminated with the scent of the Sacred Gear, which made me misunderstand."
No matter how clear Rias's thoughts were, she never imagined that Hyoudou Issei's Sacred Gear had actually been taken away by Mahiro.
After all, under normal circumstances, an ordinary host would lose his life if the Sacred Gear was taken away.
However, seeing how Hyoudou Issei was alive and well, it didn't look like the Sacred Gear was taken away.
Even Rias would not have considered the reason in such an abnormal situation.
Therefore, she could only infer a more reasonable answer based on the original idea—Hyoudou Issei may have been contaminated by Sacred Gear unintentionally, so he has the characteristics of a Sacred Gear holder.
Since he was only contaminated by the Sacred Gear and not the Sacred Gear holder, the characteristics and aura would naturally disappear over time.
Otherwise, there was no proper answer beyond that.
"Should you be lucky or unlucky?"
Mahiro said with a laugh. There was no abnormality on his face; it was exactly like a friend who saw his friend deflate and mock each other.
It is naturally impossible to mention that he took the Longinus from Hyoudou Issei.
Anyway, let this thing completely rot in his stomach.
He seemed to have to learn some practical magic from Rias and the others.
For example, the magic of erasing memories.
Mahiro secretly planned.
"Ugh."
Rias sighed.
"If you comfort Rias now, you may take advantage of it, Mahiro-kun. Don't miss out when you can't!"
Himejima Akeno said with a joking smile.
"Oh? How to comfort?"
Mahiro glanced at Himejima Akeno and said playfully.
"Rias is missing an important evil piece, and she's been struck. If you agree..."
"No!"
Before Akeno's words were finished, Mahiro simply refused.
"You're too mean, Mahiro-kun."
Akeno looked at Mahiro resentfully, but Mahiro simply ignored her, which made Akeno very angry.
"..."
Rias felt tired.
The previously optimistic Hyoudou Issei was a fake, and the optimistic Mahiro in front of her wasn't making any progress, and he didn't agree to become her servant.
"There is no Sacred Gear on Hyoudou Issei. Someone around him may be the Sacred Gear Holder. Or, some kind of Sacred Gear deliberately left a breath on Hyoudou Issei to confuse the public."
Mahiro began to make a few blind analyses and induced them to follow Rias's train of thought.
"You're right."
Rias's eyes lit up, and she seemed to grasp something in her mind.
Sacred Gear has a variety of functions, and Sacred Gear holders are dangerous to a certain extent.
If they are found to be uncontrollable, the three faction will even erase and capture the holder.
Perhaps the aura on Hyoudou Issei's body was used by the original Sacred Gear holder to confuse the outside world and divert their attention.
That is to say, if they follow this clue, they might be able to find the actual Sacred Gear holder.
But...
"Forget it. This matter is over for the time being."
Rias thought for a while and found that her thinking might be correct, but she still had no idea how to proceed.
In Hyoudou Issei's social circle, Rias knew no particular person existed.
If that Sacred Gear holder was just trying to confuse people and hide his true identity, it's unlikely they would stay around Hyoudou Issei.
In this case, finding out the true identity of the Sacred Gear holder would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Maybe they would find nothing.
Rias glanced at Mahiro and suddenly had an idea.
Rather than find a phantom Sacred Gear holder, let's get this one out of the way first.
"Let's continue with the club activities. Mahiro, do you want to join us?"
Rias swept away the loss from her brows and said with a smile.
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