Chapter 33

After that episode when I've become the laughing stock of the whole cafeteria thanks to my serious girlfriend, I could only keep my head down and get past the exams. Shortly after finishing my exams, I've left school and head straight to my home to sleep.

That next morning, for once, I awoke alone, which was a rather strange phenomenon since lately I would have been woken up by either Yukina or in some rare instances Abe.

The rays of the morning sun cut particularly deeply. Though they could not burn me to a crisp, I had to contend with a variety of symptoms such as feelings of fatigue and boredom, sleepiness, and loss of appetite for food. It was the latter symptom that was really troublesome, but to the uninformed, these symptoms were indistinguishable from a normal human being lacking sufficient sleep from staying up all night. For this reason, I was deemed by the school teachers at large to be a no-good high school student who was just not a morning person, despise my rather good grades, courtesy of the help I got from my lovely girlfriends.

As I thought of such things, what I found truly regrettable was that my lovely and naïve girlfriend, Yukina Himeragi, was nowhere close by, as she used to wake me up. Thanks to this, every day my troublesome younger girlfriend gave me long-winded lectures while sometimes slapping me awake, and somewhere along the line it had become part of my daily routine.

However, this morning only, I felt no sign of Yukina having entered my room, heck I couldn't even feel her presence in the entire apartment.

Instead, I heard her through the wall in bits and pieces as she spoke in a happy-sounding voice. To be honest I didn't think she would have a guest visiting at this early hour and knowing her… having friends overnight would be the least expected situation since she barely even had any friends, just like me. Maybe she was talking to someone on the phone. Still half-asleep, I dragged my feet toward the washroom to put my sleep-disheveled hair in order.

When I finished washing up and returned to the living room, I've noticed that breakfast had already been set on top of the table. There were Chisato's handmade bagel sandwiches and Italian salad for three, but as of lately, she wasn't here to eat with me and Yukina, most likely due to her work as a nurse at some hospital. Or maybe today may be different? Was Chisato-nee in Yukina's room, talking with her right now?

So in a sense, I had no choice but to believe that my aunt had returned home last night and for once remained at home the next morning while I hadn't realized it and was now in Yukina's room, despite having no direct evidence whatsoever. Indeed, this was an act of God and after how mysterious she seemed to have become lately, this may not be far from the truth.

Leaving those thoughts behind, I've left my apartment and went to Yukina's.

"Yukina-chan, I'm sorry, but, I'm gonna eat breakfast first. If you're gonna have coffee, I'll make enough for you, too, when I mix…"

Speaking with a yawn mixed in with my voice, I opened the door to my girlfriend's apartment.

Yukina's voice, which had continued without a single pause until that very moment, suddenly broke off. She looked up at me, eyes wide with a look of surprise and at the same a little bit scared for some bizarre reason.

Though she still looked a little bit underdeveloped compared to some of my classmates, she was also one of the few popular girls from my school.

And as I had anticipated, there was one other person in the room with Yukina.

However, as I had not anticipated, this person was a girl and not someone that was much younger than my aunt.

And this girl, her back to me, was wearing underwear—and nothing else, though that familiar white hair, made me remember a certain girl that would sometime come by our home to eat sometimes with us.

"What…"

This wholly unanticipated sight threw me into complete confusion. Perhaps my morning grogginess explained why I couldn't wrap my head around what was going on before it was too late.

The defenseless underwear-clad girl glanced awkwardly over her shoulder.

I immediately sucked in his breath at the girl's serene beauty. Her body was delicate, but this lent it no impression of fragility. Even with the faint traces of youthful curves, her body possessed perfect symmetry, with a graceful curve to her back. She looked supple and tenacious, like a beautiful wild feline.

My eyes remained completely taken by her figure.

Then my voice was broken as I finally asked, "…Why is…Koneko here?"

Koneko Toujou. That was the girl's name. She was in the second year of middle school, one year younger than Yukina and two years younger than me. Only a half a month before, she had started coming over almost daily as if she wanted to observe us, courtesy of her master, at least that's what I believe, not that it was any kind of problem since she couldn't keep up after us if I truly want to lose her.

And she also bore the bizarre title of the rook of Rias's peerage.

She was the youngest servant that was part of Rias's peerage and at the same time, she was her only rook. If you think about it, Koneko was probably the best way of observing us, since she was the only member of the peerage that had some sort of friendly relation with both of us. While I wasn't bothered by anyone from her little chess group, that didn't mean that I would let them do whatever they wanted if they weren't friends. In other words, for now, only the young rook was allowed to come into my house. But that being as it may be, it did not change the fact she was a very pretty girl.

"S-senpai…?!" Koneko mumbled in my direction, finally grasping the situation.

"Hey," replied I, reflexively replying to the greeting like a complete idiot. Even so, my gaze did not shift away from her whatsoever.

Gazing upon Koneko's bare flesh as I was, one might say this was quite a natural reaction.

Her white skin was like delicate glass. Her slender collarbone was like a work of art. She had a lean build, but even so, the body lines of her developing chest were mysteriously soft. It was impossible for the eye not to be attracted to all of these things, even more, when the person in question, i.e. me was one of a kind.

But these were not the only reasons my gaze did not leave her, for the instincts of the Fourth Primogenitor, the World's Mightiest Vampire, warned me of mortal danger.

Perhaps one might say I felt like I was face-to-face with a dangerous feline, and should I aver my eyes for even a single moment, I would be attacked without hesitation. Perhaps it was more accurate to say it was like two master martial artists facing each other, neither making a move, each denying the other any opening. A precarious balance had been established between the staring two parties that were in complete silence. Even the slightest trigger would have surely broken that equilibrium in an instant.

And the one, who created that trigger, sitting on the edge of the bed, was Yukina.

"K-Kojou-senpai?! What are you doing—?!"

Yukina rose up with a yelp. Her voice broke the spell shackling me and Koneko.

Almost simultaneously, I mumbled an "um, um" as I backed up, while Koneko covered her breasts with both hands, turning without making a sound. Koneko's fluttering hair, her white nape, her exposed back, and the smallness of the area of her body actually covered by clothes all flashed before my eyes. The next moment, her high sock-wrapped heel slammed into the side of my face—

By the time I realized I had taken a spinning roundhouse kick, my body was in a splendid spin as I flew to the far side of the room. It was enough of an impact that a normal human's skull might well have been half smashed.

Eeeeeek! With a slight delay, I barely heard Koneko's and Yukina's shrieks. I would have liked to comment about the roundhouse kick having come before the shriek, but of course, I had no opportunity to do so at the moment. On the floor, facing up, unable to rise my responding body, I pressed my right hand against my face. As blood gushed vividly from my nose, I made a weak murmur mixed with a sigh.

"…Gimme a break. It's barely six in the morning!"

That was the beginning of my very long day.

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