Chapter 9 : The only childhood friend

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Koneko started to get bored by the exercises after just an hour of trying her best at solving the Math problems.

As much as her dedication to her current work and high her devotion to Rias probably were,

At least enough to get her to start this slow and soporific study session, nothing did prepare her to deal with the dreadful subject's undeniable difficulty.

She had been twitching once or twice in a while as she had started to notice that her attempts of hopefully get to solve the exercises she had brought for this session were quickly and justly graded with some demoralizing results.

I continued to analyze the minor errors that were sporadically lingering in the papers and most of the time those rendered the equations wrong in several spots and thus unsolved.

It wasn't something to be ashamed for, I had seen some worse cases in both of my lives, and I was careful to point out during my corrections.

In fact, I would even say that Math wasn't certainly the subject I was the strongest at.

But if I have to be incredibly honest over what I was currently working with, I was quite sure that she really needed this kind of help at school if this was her genuine approach to 'easy' tests.

So much that I actually doubted that Koneko was there on Rias' own orders, and that she had really needed some help with her homework.

Much to my delight the sickness I had been suffering earlier today had started to slightly decrease its cruel grasp over my poor brain,

making it possible for me to work well with the younger student without showing any worrying sign of fatigue or incapacity to go forward.

But I had yet to sing victory over this circumstance.

Most of the dreadful effects of the Holy energy injection were still there to leave me in a feverish state, something that further burdened my mind as

I continued to deal with the explanations to be given to the girl and the corrections of the Nekoshou's complete homework.

She was giving a cute scowl by the end of the first hour, and her golden eyes were narrowing at the piece of paper that I had just finished to evaluate as if it had been responsible for killing her Uncle Ben.

Finally, the silver-haired girl groaned as she was presented with a new sheet of paper with more exercises, with her head slowly falling and banging on the table.

The very adorable scene eliciting a brief smile from me as I felt particularly amused by this very situation.

I had never truly interacted much with Koneko.

There were predicaments that saw me helping around her class as member of the School Council, but I had never singled her out for discussions or conversations.

And the girl didn't have a real motivation to pursue some words with me without any major orders behind such situation, especially with how narrow her perception of the world was in this stage of her life.

School, for Koneko, had to feel more of a hindrance than a proper trampoline for success.

As the Rook of Rias' peerage, there was no reason to doubt that her future was going to be bright despite the major bumps she was suffering with her math issues.

But that is why, despite the overly-annoying headache I was dealing with, I decided to poke around at her 'reasons' to be here right now.

"You know, you haven't told me yet why you decided to choose me to ask for help."

My voice seemed to break through her deflated mood, the girl glancing up to me with a confused look.

"What?" She asked back with a frown.

"There are older students that are more adept in Math than I am," I pointed out calmly. "In fact,

I would have expected you to ask to your club's leaders. I think those are Gremory-san and Himejima-san, right?"

The girl blinked in surprise at the explanation, but she gave a solid nod at the last query.

"I-I actually asked but… they have been quite busy in those last few days,"

The silver-haired Nekoshou replied with a hint of nervousness, and this time it sounded actually truthful to my ears. "There has been some development quite recently. A new member joined the Club-"

"Issei."

She tensed up a little, surprise turning in minor suspicion, but I was quick to continued.

"He mentioned that it was a lucky selection, and by lucky he was talking about-"

"Perverted things," The girl interjected with a proper groan, but then she blinked as some curiosity regained hold over her expression. "Actually senpai, do you know why… he is like that?"

Now, wasn't that a shocker?

I admit that Koneko was never given any scenes beyond the ones where she was with the peerage early on in the anime and it wouldn't be incorrect for a young individual as her to explore the reasoning behind such a strange, and possibly 'disgusting' in her eyes, trait for her newest teammate to have.

Humming quietly at her query, I nodded.

"I suppose I can tell you about what I know about Ise," I muttered quietly, drawing an intrigued look out of the Nekoshou.

"But I hope you understand that I will expect you to not tell anyone about this. Think of it as little secret between you and I."

A little annoyance appeared briefly on her face, but she ultimately nodded as I started to explain.

"Ise grew a very lonely childhood. His parents had tried to have a child several times and Issei was something of a blessing to them considering the previous failed attempts and…

that meant they coddled him at home without giving him much of a chance of enjoying some time outside," I narrated with a serious voice.

"The only childhood friend he had ended up leaving just a couple of months after having known each other and that further pushed him in the introvert state he actually has."

She frowned deeply at this. "But isn't he a pervert? Why would be considered an introvert if-"

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