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“I know, I know.
I was shocked too.
And now she is mad at me for prying into the relationship.
I just want to make sure that she is okay.” Rias sighed out once again.
Sona stared at her fellow heiress for several seconds before snapping her fingers.
The chessboard in front of them disappeared in a bright flash of light, leaving the table clear and the red-haired heiress confused.
Sona stood up from her chair and began to walk towards the door.
“Wait!
Where are you going?
We haven’t finished our match yet.” Sona stopped right at the entrance of the door, her body seemingly freezing up at the sound of her friend’s voice.
Very slowly, the Sitri heiress turned towards her fellow heiress and looked the red-haired girl in the eyes.
“I am the president of the Student Council.
My job is to uphold the reputation and mood of the school to the best of my abilities using whatever resources I have at my dispose.
Koneko-san is seen as the mascot of this school.
This emotional integrity of this school cannot withstand the fallout of an upset Koneko.
I refuse to let this school fall because of that!” The girl said with an unusual amount of passion held within her voice.
Rias blinked at the girl’s rather unusual behavior as the Sitri made a sharp turn back towards the door and charged out of the office.
“…Well that was unexpected.”
The entire day, she had chills running up and down her spine.
A constant sense of foreboding hung over her head during school.
It took all of her mental strength not to attack the closest person next to her whenever the foreboding feeling reached an apex.
Her instincts as a Nekoshou and as a reincarnated devil constantly screamed at her that something bad was going to happen.
It had even gotten to a point where she had even reached out to her fellow peerage members to see if they felt the same.
She made sure to avoid Rias and Akeno as she was still rather upset with them because of their actions.
A shiver traveled up the young girl’s spine once again, breaking her focus and almost making her stumble.
That had been the strongest one she had felt so far today.
She could literally feel the hair on the back of her neck raising as she continued her journey.
“What is going on?” Koneko thought to herself as she continued to make her way towards her boyfriend’s shop.
The walk only took a short five minutes but during those five minutes, she was bombarded with shivers and a sense of foreboding that grew stronger with each step.
After what seemed like an eternity, she got to the entrance of Naruto’s shop and was rather shocked to see that the place was completely empty.
She saw that the sign said “Open” so she shrugged her shoulders and went in.
Immediately, the chills running through her body stopped and the foreboding feeling faded away.
A small smile popped up on her face as she walked to the back room.
She hopped over the counter separating the back of the shop from the front of the shop and walked to the back room.
“Naru-kun, are you back here?” The girl asked as she opened the door to the room.
She immediately noticed that the room was dimly lit with only a single bulb in the corner providing the room with only the tiniest amount of light.
The second thing she noticed was her boyfriend.
The boy was sitting directly in the center of the room on a stool. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
His face was overshadowed by his blond locks as he slowly and methodically cleaned a small, glass cup.
“Naruto?” Koneko called out the boy’s name due to his lack of notice to her presence.
The boy’s head slowly raised up, revealing his bright, clear blue eyes to the girl.
A soft smile adorned his face as he continued to run his rag over the small glass.
“Hey Ko-chan.
Why don’t you sit next to me?” Koneko’s eyes immediately locked on to the stool directly next to the teen.
How she didn’t notice it when she first entered the room, she didn’t know.
But she had no reason to refuse him as she slowly walked over and plopped her butt on the stool.
“Why aren’t there any customers in the store?” Koneko said as she stared out into the empty store.
Naruto remained silent next to her for several seconds before letting out a small sigh.
Koneko’s head turned and she watched as the blonde-haired boy slowly set the glass down and turn to her.
The girl almost recoiled by the steely look the boy’s eyes had suddenly taken on.
She had never seen this look in his eyes before.
“Koneko-chan, I know we haven’t been together for long but I want to ask you something.” Koneko’s heart completely skipped a beat when she heard this.
Millions of possibilities immediately began to flash through her head as her boyfriend continued to stare at her.
Was he going to ask her to take their relationship to another level?
Was he going to ask her to marry him?
Was he going to ask her about Rias and Akeno?
“Koneko … Are you a human?” At this, Koneko froze.
Her body, mind and heart just seemed to stop moving.
Of the millions of possibilities that crossed her mind only seconds ago, this had not been one of them.