Cadre - 3

While Kaito was absolutely curious who the white cloaked figure was that was meeting up with the devils at Kuoh Academy.

He also didn't care at the same time and wanted nothing to do with them and whatever they were in town for.

So why was it, when classes ended for the day and Kaito was making his way to the Muscle Garden gym, the construction site at which he honed his muscular temple…..he found himself staring at-

"O-blessings on this pitiful lost, lamb, won't you bestow mercy upon me."

A familiar cloaked figure, standing at the end of a busy shopping district street, holding up an empty pot and begging for donations.

The worst of it was, their hood was down now. And he recognised the beggar. Irina Shidou, one of the two who would come to town due to the Excalibur's being stolen to take in…

'Oh hell no!' Kaito's eyes widened.

No, there was no fucking way.

The world had to be shitting him.

Kokabiel couldn't be here and making a move already!

'Walk away Kaito, just walk away.' he told himself.

He shouldn't get involved here.

Definitely not.

He was in no shape, form or way ready to tangle with the likes of fucking Kokabiel.

And beyond even that, Hyoudou had only recently been reincarnated, he wouldn't have even met Asia Argento yet, which meant he was even weaker than before and probably couldn't even use his transfer ability to amp others beyond his useless self.

Which meant the Gremory peerage was even weaker than they were when the would tangle with that ten winged bastard originally.

But, he needed to know.

Because if Kokabiel was here, that fucker could end up destroying the entire town and murdering Gremory and Sitri to start a whole new supernatural war.

And he didn't want to be anywhere close to ground zero with that being a possibility of going down.

And he'd definitely need to get Yanagi and her family to safety as well.

'Fuck.' Katio cursed inwardly as he realised.

He'd already convinced himself.

Kaito sighed, shoulders slumping, "Guess it would be bad form to leave her like that anyway." he mumbled to himself in defeat.

She looked awfully pitiful like that, being either completely ignored or given looks varying from weirded out, to outright disgust.

Irina was a bit of an airhead from what he remember as well, some asshole could probably lure her back to his place and drug her or something with how unaware she was.

'Being a good guy sucks ass.' he groaned inwardly. If he was an evil, selfish bastard, life would be so much simpler for him.

Deciding to just bite the bullet, Kaito made his way over to the girl and stopped in front of her, "Hey." he greeted her simply.

Exotic, beautiful purple eyes blinked at him, before he received a bright smile, "Hello!" she greeted him cheerfully, "Would you care to give your blessing upon this lost lamb of God?"

Seeing her up close, she really was quite a beautiful girl. Gorgeous to be honest, just like Yanagi, she could stand next to Gremory and not lose out in terms of beauty.

"Something like that I guess," Kaito mused with a shrug, "You're from the church right, can I ask what you're doing here in Kuoh?"

He may as well just bite the bullet, and get it over with it and get straight to the point.

"Hmm?" Irina raised an eyebrow and looked him over, "You don't feel like a devil, are you connected to them somehow?"

"Nope, I prefer to keep my distance from them and the supernatural," he shrugged, "But since this is a devil governed town, seeing people from the church can be pretty alarming and a sign to duck and cover before things start exploding around me."

He left out the fact he saw her meeting with the devils earlier and so knew she was most likely not here for anything to do with them.

"Well, I guess that makes sense," Irina nodded in understanding, "But you don't need to worry, I'm not here picking a fight with the devils or anything, I've just got a completely different mission from them to hunt down a dangerous guy."

…Sigh.

He really didn't want to hear that.

"And how did you end up…here?" Kaito gave a wide sweeping look along the street, "And y'know, not doing that?"

"Hehe," Irina rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "I kind of lost my bag that I was carrying all my funds in? and well…." a rumbling sound erupted from her stomach and she looked away, cheeks flushing red.

'That's about what I expected from her.' Katio resisted the urge to pinch the bridge of his nose.

"Right, then while I've not got all that much cash, how about you come back to my place with me?" he offered, "I can make you something to eat and you can fill me in on what's going on."

"Ehh…I dunno, I don't really know you." Irina pointed out.

"I'm Kaito," he introduced himself with a roll of his eyes, "And honestly, do you have a better option right now? It doesn't look like anyone is giving you the time of day and I doubt you want to go crawling to the devils for help."

"Ah…" Irina trailed off, before promptly slumping over, "Yeah, okay, you're right."

She gave up and accepted his offer.