Chapter 33 - Flames arrive

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"Le Fay, do you really need to follow me all the way to Kuoh town?"

Kuroka asks me, looking back with an annoyed expression, I answer with a shrug

"These were Vali's instructions, he doesn't want you or any of us wandering around on our own, we are still wanted terrorists after all"

She throws her arms behind her head

"Nya~ He worries too much, besides..."

Kuroka looks back at me with an impish smile

"I know that you are tagging along because you might get the chance to see the Seikiryuutei-kun, right?"

"O-of course not! Me being a fan of the Chichiryuutei has nothing to do with it"

It would be nice if I could finally meet the Oppai dragon in person too, b-but that has nothing to do with it!

"Uhm? Is that so?" - The smile on Kuroka's face turns from impish to an outright smug expression

"S-shut up!"

I say to her trying to dismiss the subject and she starts laughing

"Nyahahaha~, you're so obvious! It's not like anything would happen if you didn't came anyway, we are in the redhead's territory, nothing bad is going to happen to us here"

My nekomata friend says in a very carefree manner, but before I can scold her for being careless, a glimpse of red catches my attention, making me turn my head to the side, towards the exit of a train station.

"Red..."

I say looking to the colour that caught my attention

"Yeah, Rias Gremory, the redhead Switch-hime, have you forg-"

Kuroka cuts herself midsentence as she notices my attention is focused somewhere else

"Not Rias, that redhead"

I point to the girl with short red hair and tanned skin who is carrying bags like a tourist, she's wearing a blue jacket and looked around as if she was lost or looking for something

"Nya~? What is up with her?"

Kuroka asks curiously and I shake my head. It was only by chance that I had noticed her, the girl gave off no offensive aura or a feeling of any kind, if it was not by her hair colour, I probably wouldn't have noticed her.

"Nothing, her hair just caught my-"

Interrupting my response, what happened next caught me and Kuroka completely off guard.

The girl who was looking around trying to find herself also turned her head as if she was imitating the movement I had made a while ago

And she... looked at us

Not at our direction, at us

A moment after my eyes meet hers, the girl's cute appearance drastically changed

First her eyes went wide in surprise and then, just as fast, they turned sharp, a threatning look of someone who was about to attack us emerging on her face

For a brief instant, I could feel the girl's killing intent oozing from her body, I quickly grasped my staff and Kuroka jumped back

The air around got hotter, as if a gust of wind from hell was blown against us

"Guh!"

"N-nyah! What is is this?!"

We had our instances ready, waiting for an incoming attack

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