A week had passed since Koneko and Kuroka moved into the villa.
Koneko adjusted perfectly. Aside from acting unusually affectionate whenever she was alone with Yasuhiro, she maintained her usual deanor in front of the others.
The main problem was Kuroka.
While she didn't plunge the household into chaos, her restless nature caused so minor disturbance every day.
The root of the issue was her remarkably lazy and personality.
She spent her day lying around the sofa doing nothing.
Despite this extre laziness, she maintained her mischievous instincts and frequently left the villa in ssy state.
She constantly raided the snack stashes of the girls especially targeting Tsubasa and Tomoe.
Whenever they found their snacks missing, they would chase Kuroka in a furious attempt to beat her up.
Kuroka didn't even spare her Koneko.
The sweets Koneko carefully hid in various corners of the villa vanished one by one, leaving the girl glaring at her sibling.
However, when Kuroka ate a batch of pudding that Sona had specially prepared for everyone.
The resulting collective outrage was damn insane.
Yasuhiro had to discipline Kuroka before she agreed to cause less trouble.
He pondered, if he had been too impulsive in bringing this neko ho.
After all she was good for nothing besides eating and sleeping.
Despite Kuroka's antics, the unease Ruruko and the others felt toward living with a stray devil faded.
They realized that Kuroka lacked the brutality and irrational behaviour of typical strays.
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Later, inside Yasuhiro's room.
Having just finished showering, Sona sat on the edge of the bed.
She wore white pajamas that carried the faint scent of flowers.
Yasuhiro sat right next to her also fresh from the shower.
He dressed lightly in a simple pair of shorts.
"Sona, I know Kuroka's behavior has been troubling you these past few days." Yasuhiro gently wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
Sona preferred peace and quiet which made her the primary victim of Kuroka's antics.
"Her personality is certainly a bit too wild, but she isn't bad for a stray," Sona comnted thoughtfully.
After observing Kuroka closely, Sona realized that the yokai's true nature starkly contrasted her fearso reputation.
She showed no signs of being a dangerous stray.
"Rias told that Kuroka beca a stray because she lost control of her demonic power and murdered her master," Sona continued.
"But after seeing her in person, my intuition tells the truth isn't that simple."
"That story is completely made up, it is nothing more than a political trick by the higher ups in the underworld," Yasuhiro added lightly.
"Are you familiar with the Naberius clan?" he asked.
Sona nodded. "The Naberius clan ranked twenty fourth among the seventy two pillars. They were completely wiped out a few years ago for violating a major rule."
"The execution order was issued directly by the four great maous. Consequently, their clan was entirely removed from the underworld. It caused a massive uproar at the ti."
"Kuroka belonged to a branch under the Naberius clan. The timing of her becoming a stray aligns with the exact period the Naberius clan was annihilated."
"Doesn't that strike you as far too coincidental?"
Sona's eyes widened in realization. "The Naberius clan was destroyed because they rejected the new maou faction and secretly supported the old maou faction."
"Kuroka beca a stray devil and imdiately after, Koneko was taken in by Rias."
"It seems all of these events are linked."
She frowned deeply.
"Have you ever heard the word transcendent, Sona?"
"Transcendent ?"
Sona thought on the unfamiliar term.
It sounded vaguely familiar as if she had heard it in before. Suddenly, a mory clicked into place.
She had heard Serafall ntion it once.
She didn't actually understand what it ant back then.
Looking back, she recalled Serafall's unusually expression during that conversation.
"For soone to be compared to a maou is generally considered the very pinnacle of power in the world," Yasuhiro explained.
Sona nodded in agreent. That was exactly what she and everyone else had always believed.
"In reality, there is a tier far above the maou class. It's a state where an individual surpasses the limitations of their race and evolves into a much higher being, they are transcendents."
Sona's eyes widened.
This was the first ti she had ever been told that beings stronger than a maou existed.
"A faction or pantheon that lacks a transcendent being will always remain second or third rate. They can never truly be considered a mainstream pantheon." Yasuhiro added.
Sona listened with curiosity.
She recognized that he was revealing deep secrets, the kind of classified knowledge never shared with anyone below the highest tiers of authority.
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