Chapter 48: Kuroka who pretended to be cat

Chapter 48: Kuroka who pretended to be cat

In a moonlit park.

The same color as the woman's hair―.

That's what he thought as he looked at his bloodied hands.

Red― Crimson hair that was more brilliant than strawberry blonde.

Yes, the woman's long and beautiful red hair was the same color as his hand.

Issei felt himself transported back to the time when he first died, but was revived by a woman with crimson hair.

He knew that woman. Knew her very well.

"So you're the one who called me."

The feminine voice even sounded familiar.

"My name is Rias Gremory. I am a devil. And I am your Master. Nice to meet you, Hyoudou Issei-kun. May I call you Ise?"

Ah...

This scene...

Issei's eyes radiated a strong sense of nostalgia.

He was excited and was about to say how much he loved the woman in front of him.

"Rias! You really are Rias! Hahaha Rias! That's right. All this time it turns out I was just having a nightmare and I'm just now waking up."

"Um? I'm glad you called me by my first name. But Ise, what are you talking about?"

Rias looked confused, her outstretched hand was retracted.

Issei was slightly disappointed to see the crimson-haired girl retract her hand before he touched her. But it was okay, there was no need to rush. Because...he finally woke up from his nightmare!

Now he was back and that bastard named Eiji Seiya could not be here. No, actually that bastard probably never existed in the first place. The things experienced before where there was an Eiji Seiya was probably just a very long nightmare!

Issei picked himself up from his initial position lying on the ground and stood up. He saw that the center of his clothes was bleeding and had a tear like a hole.

The hole must have been made by Raynare who pierced his stomach using her spear. The bitch managed to kill him again for the second time which pissed him off - but that was okay. Because if it wasn't for that bitch, he might not have been saved by Rias like now and become a devil serving the crimson-haired girl again like in his previous life.

Issei was very happy and didn't even bother looking for revenge. Right now, he just wanted everything to be the same as in his previous life and he would be better off by not being a herbivore!

Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Sona, Tsubaki and other women. He can't wait to make them all his women.

He will be the true Harem King in this life!

However...

Time somehow seemed to pass so quickly.

Issei didn't even realize it. He had already become a devil and was diligently working on his duties to distribute summoning leaflets to the humans living in Kuoh city.

He was even diligently hunting stray devils hiding in Kuoh city with Rias and the others. Everything was going well, but he always felt something was wrong.

For example, unlike in his previous life where he was allowed to touch Rias' breasts. This time, the crimson-haired girl didn't even let him touch them and would reprimand him every time he acted perverted.

Not only Rias, even Akeno who was usually the most lewd girl in this group. The black-haired girl was very polite to him and kept her distance from him. Although she and even everyone else always smiled kindly at him.

Issei felt something was wrong and this did not match his expectations. As a Boosted Gear user who possessed the power of the Red Dragon Emperor. He had even activated the dragon aura in his body to make it easier for him to charm people, especially the opposite sex so that they would have a very good impression of him and easily like him.

It might sound manipulative, but this was what he did in his previous life and all those girls certainly didn't love him immediately because of this. He also took matters into his own hands to win their hearts of course and he did.

For example not long ago he managed to help Rias by freeing her from a political marriage. He had defeated the blond-haired bastard surnamed Phenex in a duel that was witnessed by many people.

Many people cheered and looked at him with admiration as well. Rias was even very grateful to him, but...

"What happened?"

Issei asked himself this because up until this point he had not touched Rias at all! He didn't even receive a kiss or a hug after saving that crimson-haired girl from her family's arranged political marriage!

Akeno, that woman didn't give him a perverted massage like in his previous life where she even licked his fingers back then.

Koneko, the girl never even wanted to sit on his lap and always kept a meter or two away from him.

Only Yuuto seemed to be the same as in his previous life. The blond boy was always friendly to him... But he was not happy about this at all.

What he wanted was attention from girls like Rias, Akeno, Koneko and other girls!

Just what was going on? He had obviously done the same thing in his previous life, even done it better.

But the girls' reactions didn't go as he thought!

"Kiba. Where are Buchou, Akeno-senpai, and Koneko-chan?"

"At this time of day I always can't find them."

It was around half past five in the afternoon that Issei often returned to the Occult Research Club after he finished his daily duties as one of the devils in the Rias peerage.

As usual, when he returned to the club. There was only Yuuto sitting there reading a book - it seemed that he did not go straight home because he always wanted to wait for him.

"Issei-kun, are you done? If you're looking for girls in our club. Koneko always went home first after finishing her work. As for Buchou and Akeno-senpai? At this hour, both of them usually drop by the student council."

Yuuto closed his book and with a gentle smile told him what he knew.

Issei raised his eyebrows. Putting aside Koneko who went home first he had nothing to worry about. But the other two women he loved...

"Buchou and Akeno-senpai are at the student council office right now? They're visiting Sona and her peerage?"

"Maybe? I don't know for sure either. Issei-kun, sorry."

"No, you don't need to apologize. Kiba, I just..."

Damn it. Why was he even having a conversation like this with a man? Issei shuddered slightly, especially when looking at Yuuto who always smiled gently at him.

"Okay, forget it. I'll go to the student council office to see Buchou and Akeno-senpai."

"Eh. You're going there, Issei-kun?"

For some reason Yuuto suddenly looked at him with worry. There was also pity in his eyes.

Issei was confused when he saw this and said, "Yes, I will. Is there a problem?"

Somehow he felt familiar with this situation. And he also had a familiar bad feeling.

Strangely he couldn't remember clearly, yet he felt deja vu as if he had experienced it in the past.

"Um... Issei-kun, why don't we just go straight home? You can still see Buchou and Akeno-senpai again tomorrow."

"No. Kiba, you can go home first. I have to see Buchou and Akeno now."

Without waiting for Yuuto's reply. Issei immediately carried his own bag and hurried to the student council office on the 4th floor.

While walking through the 4th floor corridor leading to the student council office. Looking at the rather dark hallway in front of him.

Issei gulped. It wasn't that he was afraid of the dark, but he felt that there was something frightening to see at the end of the hallway - precisely in the gap of the open student council office door.

"This... Should I just go back and see Rias and Akeno tomorrow?"

For some reason he felt scared. His body was even trembling like a person with PTSD. Although his memories were a little vague, his body seemed to remember something, especially his heart which suddenly felt sore.

Not knowing since when his feet kept walking forward and now he was standing right in front of the student council office door. Issei clearly felt that something was wrong as his legs were walking on their own and he couldn't even move other than moving his eyes to look at the scene in front of him!

From the crack of the door, his pupils shrank and his expression froze.

Inside the student council office, he saw a familiar scene where a white-haired boy was sitting naked on the sofa with his 7-inch-long penis ahead of him. Just looking at its size alone, Issei already felt inferior.

But that was nothing compared to the boy's face. He remembered. Wasn't that Eiji Seiya!? Why? Why is he here!? And why did the situation he experienced in the nightmare happen to him again in this life!?

"No, Rias, Akeno. No... Sona, Tsubaki, Momo, and the rest of Sona's peerage."

"Shit, stop! What are you guys doing with that bastard? Stop!"

"Then last night when he showed his naked body in the bathroom and even hugged my cat form while sleeping...."

"This guy is shameless Nyaa."

With her personality, Kuroka certainly did not feel embarrassed by what happened last night. She just felt a little awkward letting a man hug her while sleeping, even though she was in her cat form.

As for seeing Eiji's naked body in the bathroom? Well actually that boy had a very nice figure and had great goods. As a woman who only worships the strongest; because of what she saw last night, she felt tempted to worship Eiji's manly body.

But she quickly got rid of that idea because she came to that boy for her younger sister. Exactly she just wanted to know if Eiji could help her? From the boy's inner voice yesterday. He seemed to have communicated with Koneko.

"Meow, meow, meow."

Actually from another person's point of view. When Kuroka speaks, she just sounds meowy and the girls just find it more cute.

Only Eiji rolled his eyes. Although he didn't understand cat language. He could somewhat guess what Kuroka was actually saying in her cat form.

She was basically surprised, yet he didn't know that she was calling him shameless.

If he knew, he should probably try bathing Kuroka in her cat form and see if the woman would give up pretending and reveal her true form?

"So Eiji-san. What are you going to name this cat?"

"I know! I know! How about this cat is named Meow-Meow Black-Kun!"

Lala suggested the name which made everyone stare at her.

"Um, Lala-san. I think that name is a bit..." It wasn't that Asia wanted to reject the name Lala suggested. She just wondered if the girl could choose another name that was simpler?

"Meow, meow? (Girl, what kind of weird name are you giving me?)" Kuroka was actually just going with the flow and actually if Eiji wasn't planning on kicking her out of his house; even though he already knew her identity. She was fine pretending to be a cute pet as long as she could monitor that white-haired boy for a longer time.

Eiji smiled and patted Lala's shoulder before saying, "Lala, I don't think you need to give a name that's too long like the names you usually give to your inventions."

"Also, this cat is a girl. Instead of naming her Meow-Meow Black-Kun. Why not call her Kuro-chan?"

Asia's eyes lit up, she nodded several times. "Kuro-chan is a good name!"

Lala was a little reluctant, but she nodded. "Isn't it possible to add Meow-Meow?"

I think you also agreed because you nodded, but you still haven't given up on the name you suggested?

Not only Asia and Eiji, even Kuroka was silent and could only resign herself to letting people give her strange names.

In the end, it was decided that Kuroka's name when pretending to be a pet at Eiji's house was Meow-Meow Kuro-Chan with the nickname Kuro-chan!

Of course, it was decided because Eiji was too soft on his women. Especially Lala, he couldn't resist too much.

Isn't it just a name after all? Kuroka was the one who accepted the name. So it wasn't him who suffered.

"....."

Actually, Kuroka was beginning to be unable to stand pretending to be a cat like this. Should she show her true form so that she wouldn't have to be called by such a strange name?

...

Unlike the morning atmosphere at Eiji's house.

In a certain house where the protagonist Rito lives.

The atmosphere there is a little gloomy with Rito locking himself in his bedroom while his younger sister tries to get him out of his bedroom.

"Rito! How long are you going to keep staying inside your bedroom? If you want to ask permission not to go to school today that's fine, but you should at least come out of your bedroom now for breakfast!"

A pretty girl with brown hair braided back in a junior high school uniform, a pink apron and a spatula in one hand stood outside her older brother's bedroom door with an annoyed expression.

Mikan Yuuki was only 15 years old this year. She was a 3rd year junior high school student, had no special hobbies, and mostly spent her time doing household chores like a single mother except when she went to school to study. She is used to doing her daily routine such as washing, sweeping, mopping, cooking and etc. that a single mother usually does to take care of her children.

Despite the fact that she was the second child and the only daughter in the Yuuki Family. After the mother who gave birth to her and her older brother died after giving birth to her. Since Mikan was 6 years old, she had learned to do household chores on her own. She wasn't forced of course, it was just that she took the initiative when she saw her father and older brother struggling to do household chores.

So whenever her father was busy working at his manga studio, and her older brother was doing his duties as a high school student as usual. Aside from going to school, Mikan would do household chores as usual to take care of her father and older brother.

For example, like today. Before leaving for school, as usual, she had prepared breakfast for her older brother who she knew had been having problems at school lately.

"Mikan? Ugh... Sorry, I'll eat the breakfast you made later. You can leave for school first."

From the sound of it, her older brother was clearly not okay. To be precise, after school yesterday. Rito was already like this, he looked like someone who was heartbroken and depressed.

And Mikan knew why her brother looked like that, even though she had never asked him about his problem.

The brown-haired girl opened her mouth to say something, but strangely her voice could not come out. She was surprised, but soon had a complicated expression and sighed.

"If you say that. Alright, I'll leave for school first. But remember to eat your breakfast, Rito!"

"Yes, yes, I will..."

Rito replied weakly. Mikan no longer bothered her older brother, she quickly got ready and left the house to go to her school.

On the way to the school that was not too far from her house.

"Rito is like that because of what Eiji Seiya did yesterday...."

"Huh? As expected. I can say that if not in front of Rito."

Under the sunlight and the cherry blossoms flying from the trees by the roadside.

Mikan blinked her eyes, she just realized this. Since hearing the inner voice of her older brother and two other men in her head, one of whom was named Eiji Seiya, a time traveler who often fought with her older brother who had the label of regressor protagonist.

The fact that her older brother was a person who returned from the future. Of course she knew and actually she didn't fully believe about this. But so far, it seemed like everything said in the inner voice was true.

About her brother who was actually the protagonist of the harem franchise and the heroines that her brother pursued. But the way her brother was chasing after the heroines, even she could only sigh.

No wonder Rito was often slapped by Eiji Seiya. Even yesterday, when Rito had a manipulative plan to save a heroine named Yui to get her heart. Unfortunately Rito didn't know his inner voice could be heard by her and also a man named Eiji Seiya. Eiji Seiya who has never let any protagonist succeed so far, and he certainly again thwarted Rito's plan and even counterattacked Rito with a "mental attack".

Even long before, she knew Rito had been beaten up by that man. Although she knew Rito had provoked him first because of his jealousy. Seeing her older brother return home with several bruises on his body back then.

Mikan certainly did not have a good impression of Eiji Seiya. Or rather she disliked him for hurting her older brother.

Even so, what could be done? Eiji Seiya was so strong, even her older brother who became a regressor protagonist with superpowers was still unable to defeat him.

Moreover, she who was just an ordinary junior high school girl with housewife skills. She couldn't do anything to Eiji Seiya and actually she also didn't know what she should do to that man? Actually if she could she just wanted Eiji Seiya not to bother her older brother anymore.

But Mikan knew that was impossible, especially when her older brother couldn't give up on the girl named Lala who was now Eiji Seiya's fiancée. Although in the previous life her older brother was said to be engaged to a girl named Lala. In this life, everything was different because of Eiji Seiya's appearance.

Rito who can't give up on building his harem in this life will of course always look for problems with Eiji Seiya as long as he can do it. Or have the opportunity.

Thinking this far... Mikan was of course smart, she was a top student in her school and every year from elementary school to junior high she was at least in the top three of her class.

However, because she was busy thinking while walking.

She almost didn't realize that she was about to hit someone who was about to cross the street in front of her.

"Ouch! Sorry, I wasn't paying attention to the road before. I'm really sorry!"

Mikan hurriedly bowed her head many times while apologizing frantically to the person she hit. It was a good thing that the other party wasn't pushed by her into the middle of the road, if that had happened there might have been an accident that made her a murderer or something.

The thought of her accidentally killing person. Her face paled slightly and she panicked even more.

But at this moment, a hand was placed on her head and patted her head gently. Instantly, she felt very calm and peaceful as if all her problems, even her brother's problems no longer gave her a headache.

It seemed like the person she hit did it. And she didn't even feel angry that the other party suddenly patted her head.

She raised her head just to see the other party's face and...

"Girl, don't worry. I understand you accidentally bumped into me. I'm not angry, it's just that you should be more careful when walking, okay?"

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