153 The dangerous Mei
'Why are they here!?'
Kouro looked at Kiana and the others in confusion, after all in his opinion they all had no reason to come here...
What was their purpose in coming here?
They didn't come here because of him, right?
Kouro remembered the day when he was chased by all of them after healing Himeko... and when he told them about his first mission experience using Video Call...
'They really didn't come here because of me, right?' Kouro thought fearfully, he even seemed to keep a little distance from them after thinking about this.
"Oh! Kouro, what a coincidence that we meet here. I'm here to register Kiana, Mei, Bronya, and Ayame to become official Valkyries." Theresa replied with a smile but not a smile.
'Looks like she's still angry about it.' Kouro thought with a wry smile.
What Kouro meant was that he didn't say goodbye properly to them when he was leaving St. Freya's academy.
Of course, Theresa herself didn't come to Schicksal just to meet Kouro. She really came here to register Kiana and the others to become official Valkyries.
After Kouro left St. Freya's academy, Kiana and the others' expressions looked lonely, moreover, because they became stronger after being left by Kouro, especially the three of them, Kiana, Mei, and Ayame.
The three of them had become so strong, having trained so hard after Kouro left without saying goodbye properly.
From another angle, Kouro somehow looked like an irresponsible bastard...
Back to the main topic, Theresa enrolled them as Valkyries at Schicksal because it was the only place where there were more diverse and more dangerous missions.
Rather than at St. Freya's academy which although it also had simple daily missions, those missions were not very suitable for all of them, because they were so strong that those missions were just a waste of their time.
Of course, Theresa would not allow her students let alone her beloved niece to take on missions that were truly dangerous to the point of being life-threatening.
She enrolled them here because Kiana and the others asked her to enroll here, well... Even so, Theresa kind of knew the reason why they wanted to enroll here.
She glanced at Kouro who was looking at her innocently.
Kouro himself didn't know that because of him, Kiana and the others enlisted to become Valkyries earlier than in the original plot.
"I see, so does that mean you guys will be living here from now on?" Kouro asked with a pleased expression.
He was happy to have old acquaintances here, moreover, he might be able to carry out missions with them.
Remembering Theresa's words... Did that mean that now was the time for them to register as official Valkyries?
Well... This was not surprising, after all, Schicksal was a global military organization.
By the way, in the original plot the position of the Valkyries, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya was somewhat ambiguous, they were a Valkyrie team working for the St. Freya academy, although the missions they carried out were mostly from Schicksal itself.
Why didn't they accept missions from St. Freya's academy itself?
There were several reasons as before that the daily missions were too easy, but the main one was that the academy was a school, not a military organization like Schicksal.
Moreover, the St. Freya academy was not global scale and only protected its territory in the Far East.
"By the way, what about Fu Hua? Is she coming with you guys too? " Kouro asked after not seeing Fu Hua's whereabouts.
"She's coming, it's just that she only sent her regards to you before leaving on her own, she said she wanted to meet her old friend. " Theresa replied.
'Old friend? Did she mean Otto?' Kouro thought after hearing her words.
But he quickly dispelled those thoughts as Himeko was currently looking at him with her arms crossed.
Kouro felt that Himeko knew that the reason he stated during the video call regarding her youth suddenly returning was a lie.
He then thought for a moment before clearing his throat and kneeling down holding Himeko's delicate white hand.
"...This is the first time I've met such a beautiful girl like you, my heart is beating so fast just thinking about you can I know your name?" Kouro said with a serious expression to Himeko in a tone like reciting a poem.
He was actually just pretending even though he knew that doing this was somewhat detrimental to him like getting hit by Kiana, but for the sake of distracting Himeko, he would definitely do it anyway!
It's just that... It seems a bit too effective?
Kouro saw Himeko's face suddenly turn red like a tomato either from embarrassment or something else. She also looked to be trembling.
"Yo-you...-" Just when Himeko was about to finish her words.
A punch was seen heading towards Kouro's head hard.
*BAM!*
(E/D: Every time I see the word "BAM!" my brain instantly plays the "BAM!" sound effect from Jojo.)
"Kouro... You were just joking, right?" asked Ayame with cold eyes.
Kouro was clutching his lumpy head, he knew that he was going to get hit for doing that... But what the hell is with Kiana, Bronya, and Mei!?
"Nee, Bronya what should be done to a man who often plays with a girl's heart?" asked Kiana with a frighteningly calm expression.
"Cut off his 'd*ck'." Bronya replied flatly although her voice was colder than usual.
"Oy!? You guys are just kidding, right?! Wait! Where did you get that knife, Mei?!" Kouro shouted with a terrified expression.
In Mei's hand was a kitchen knife that was shiny due to its sharpness.
Mei stared at the knife for a moment before looking at Kouro and smiling.
Although she did nothing but just stare at him, Kouro suddenly felt goosebumps, how could Mei who had such a kind and gentle nature be like this!?
"We were just joking." Mei said after seeing his frightened expression.
Hearing that, Kouro let out a sigh of relief while holding his chest, his heart almost gave out because of their joke.
"Why are you guys making jokes like that? It's not funny you know." Kouro still remembered the sensation of his heart almost falling out.
"Aren't you the one who often jokes like with to us? That's why we replied to you with the same joke." Ayame said.
My jokes are funny, mind you.
That's what Kouro wanted to shout, but... Looking at the kitchen knife in Mei's hand that looked like a real kitchen knife, he closed his mouth.
"I wasn't joking about what I said to Himeko-sensei!" said Kouro seriously.
Yes. What man wouldn't be mesmerized by Himeko's beauty? Especially when she was young.
Actually, Kouro's words were not wrong, but what was wrong was that he said them at the wrong time.
The four of them put on a surprised expression.
Himeko covered her face with both palms to hide her embarrassment mixed with pleasure.
"... " Mei looked at Kouro with a blank expression before raising the kitchen knife in her hand.
"Wait! Wait! Mei! That knife is dangerous!" Kouro shouted with a worried expression.
Of course, he was worried about his and his future generations' safety.
"Hm? Of course, I know this knife is dangerous, I'm just trying to lift this knife. " said Mei.
The kitchen knife was seen reflecting the light that hit Kouro's eyes, because of the sharpness of the blade.
After that, she stored the kitchen knife in her back pocket.
Kouro clutched his chest, his heart would be completely dislodged right now if they pulled any more pranks.
Seeing their completely changed nature there was only one question in Kouro's mind.
'What exactly happened to them after I left St. Freya's academy!?'
He was currently really afraid of them now, especially with Mei carrying a kitchen knife.
What caused Mei's gentle and kind nature to change into that!?
A scenario regarding Mei then appeared in his mind.
....
In the cold and quiet night.
Kouro who was sleeping peacefully in his room with the only light being the moonlight suddenly opened his eyes.
He seemed to sense something so with half-asleep eyes he stared at his doorstep before his eyes suddenly widened and his pupils seemed to shrink.
Standing there 'Mei' looked at him with her bright purple eyes, in her hand was a kitchen knife that reflected the moonlight, revealing a strange smile on 'Mei'.
"You can't run away." She said and approached him slowly.
After that, there was a manly scream that boomed in Kouro's room.
...
Kouro suddenly felt goosebumps even his own body seemed to be trembling when thinking of this scenario.
Fortunately, it was just a scenario, if it really happened...
He quickly shook his head, not daring to think about this.
Kouro then composed himself before clearing his throat to change the topic.
"Ahem, by the way, are you guys going to stay?"
What Kouro meant was, would Kiana and the others be staying in the Schicksal dormitory?
Hearing that, Theresa who was just watching their joke from earlier then replied, "They will only stay for a few months before returning to St. Freya's academy for the graduation exam."
"Graduation exams? But what about me? I haven't graduated from St. Freya's academy yet, right?" Kouro asked while pointing at himself.
"You're a special case because you have a letter of recommendation directly from grandfather-I mean Overseer Otto, so you can directly join without an entrance exam." Theresa said before looking at him strangely.
That's because it's really a very rare thing for Otto to recommend someone without knowing them at all.
Theresa then remembered the 'Kouro' she found in the basement of the central church.
Wait, it seems grandfather knew Kouro earlier than she thought.
"I see." Kouro nodded in understanding.
"By the way, Kouro, who is that girl next to you?" Kiana asked while looking at Nakuru.
"Oh, her?" Kouro stood up and patted his clothes before introducing Nakuru to them, "She is my friend Kurokami Nakuru, a B-rank Valkyrie."
They all looked at Nakuru with a strange look, how to say it. When Kouro stood side by side with him they both looked like siblings.
Well... It's not surprising since their faces are actually similar, especially with that white hair and purple eyes.
Griseo painted Shadow's face into a woman as naturally as possible so the similarities between his face now and his original face were still visible if you looked closely.
Fortunately, all of them were not thinking too much other than Kallen who was staring at Nakuru with a strange look.
She glanced at Kouro with before looking back at Nakuru with a puzzled expression.
'Does Kouro not know that Nakuru is a boy?'
Looking at Kouro's innocent face, he seemed to really not know.
How could she see through Shadow's disguise?
The reason was simple, because of her body that had been thoroughly strengthened by Kouro, she ended up having many new additional functions.
One of them was to thoroughly scan the bodies of living beings.
This function is used to distinguish people so that if for example, she sees someone suspicious carrying a large bag, and when she scans the bag and its contents and if it has a bomb, she can quickly catch the person first without them being alerted.
And earlier she scanned Nakuru's body for fun, but she got some surprising information instead.
Actually, when she scanned from the head to the abdomen, the system recognized Nakuru as a woman, but when she got to the crotch...
The system suddenly froze for a moment before recognizing Nakuru again as a man.
Kallen was speechless, this person named Nakuru... It was beyond reason.
But even so, since this was already in Nakuru's sphere of privacy, so she ended up not telling Kouro the truth.
Kallen glanced at Kouro who was currently introducing several places in Schicksal including the arena he had previously visited with Nakuru earlier.
She wondered what expression Kouro would wear when he found out that Nakuru was a boy.
After introducing the places of Schicksal then saying that he had invited Nakuru to have lunch together, and since they happened to have come here, he might as well invite them to eat together.
He also wanted to invite Lin and Ana, but since the room was quite small and even more crowded after he invited Kiana and the others, they could only reluctantly politely decline.
Of course, Kouro wouldn't let them be sad, so after he had lunch with all of them, he then made some chocolate cookies for those who couldn't have lunch with him, such as Fu Hua, Durandal, Lin, Ana, Ragna, Rita, Susannah, Alvitr, and Nagamitsu.
Of course, he didn't forget to give those to Otto and Amber.
And so, Kouro's peaceful days went on until 4 months passed.
