"Mmmm! Oh my God! So good! Mmmmm! It's so nice and soft! It tastes sooooo good!"
I felt myself blushing. Mittelt…despite her loli-like stature, she was so hot…
The way she was licking it… wow…
"Man! I didn't think this small town had an ice cream shop that sold such delicious ice cream!"
Mittelt sat in the seat across from me in our booth at the local ice cream parlor. She got an incredibly large ice cream made up of several different flavors and toppings. She ate it with a single spoon and seemed to take the smallest bites possible to savor the flavor. That was not what was hot though.
Every bite she took, she tended to sexually lick her tongue up and down the sides of her spoon after each bite, as if to make sure she didn't miss a single bit of the sweetness. Whenever she got whip cream or some of the ice cream on her face, she'd wipe it off with her finger and then sucked it all the way down to her hand, pulling away with a sliver of saliva connecting her mouth and her hand. Her flushed face and rather inappropriate-sounding comments didn't exactly help. This girl really liked her sweets. The only reason we hadn't been kicked out yet is probably cos Mittelt used some of that hypnosis stuff that people on the supernatural side of the world can do.
Rather than eat my own significantly smaller ice cream in front of me, I found myself fixated on the sexually-gluttonous little girl in front of me.
Yes, I know it's kind of perverted of me to be like this, but…wow.
I ended up like this until Mittelt finally finished her ice cream about thirty minutes later.
She heaved a satisfied sigh, having fully savored her ice cream…I savored it too in my own way…wow…
With such a peaceful atmosphere, Mittelt actually cute. Really cute.
Mittelt then seemed to realize that I was staring at her. She glared harshly at me.
"OK, you got me here. Now what? Interrogation? Well I'll never talk!"
I raised an eyebrow. "Erm…no. I just brought you here—"
"Well you'll never get me to talk about Raynare's true identity or our secret mission from Azazel-sama! Never!"
I…I wasn't quite sure how to respond to that. I just stared blankly at Mittelt with half-lidded eyes.
Her eyes widened as she realized her blunder. She smacked herself in the face with both hands.
"Fuck! Why'd I have to go and blab that out loud!? Now everyone's going to think I'm even MORE of a failure! It was bad enough when I showed up back at the base smelling like spoiled milk, rotten fruit, and something I'd rather not describe! If they find out I blabbed about all of this—"
"Whoa! Whoa!" I called out quickly. "Jeez, girl, calm the hell down." I held up my hand. "I swear the only reason I came here was because I couldn't stand to see a cute girl crying. I honestly don't give a shit about what you were talking about… well… now I kind of do. No idea what you're talking about, but I'm interested."
Mittelt paled. "I-I-I-"
I waved it off. "Relax. I have no intentions of interrogating you or anything…"
Mittelt released a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness…"
"But maybe you could clear up one or two things…"
Mittelt seemed to tense again.
"Calm down. You're free not to answer if you don't want to." I assured her. "But in exchange for the ice cream, maybe you could clarify some things that are confusing me. Please? If it's too classified or too personal, just pretend I said nothing."
Mittelt seemed hesitant, but apparently my peaceful demeanor and pleasant expression disarmed her by this point.
"Alright… I'll answer your questions…"
I smiled brightly. "Thank you, Mittelt-san."
For a brief second, I could've sworn she was turning a slight pink color. But she returned to normal the next second.
"OK. First question: What is the real name of the one who killed Issei and me?"
Mittelt hesitated, biting the tip of her thumb, but she eventually sighed. "Raynare. She's the leader of our small group stationed here."
OK. That's good. She's willing to give out names, so that means I have a certain amount of haggling room here.
"Second question: Why are you in Gremory territory?" From what I've heard from Sitri-senpai, this town is under the protection and control of the Gremory clan. The presence of other factions was neither normal nor accepted. They had to have some kind of goal or else they wouldn't risk coming to the same town as a Pure-Blood Devil and the heiress of the Gremory clan.
"...Orders."
I raised an eyebrow. "Whose?"
Mittelt shifted uncomfortably in her seat. "U-Umm…" Her face turned a slight pink color. "D-Don't stare at me like that, you pervert!"
I was taken aback by the sudden tongue-lashing, but took it in stride and ignored it.
Mittelt rubbed her arm nervously. "It was… Azazel-sama."
Azazel…I feel like I heard that name before…
I was racking my brains, but I couldn't remember much. Like I said, I never learned much about religion…
My best guess was that Azazel was their supreme commander or something.
"OK, looks like we're making progress… Did he order this directly?"
Mittelt nodded. "Yes. He ordered me, Raynare, and two others to watch over both the ones known as Namikaze Haruto and Hyoudou Issei."
I frowned. "Watch? Then why did Issei and I get executed?"
"W-Well, A-Azazel-sama changed the order!" Mittelt admitted nervously. Something…something about this doesn't seem right.
"Did he tell you to do this PERSONALLY?"
The cute blonde shook her head. "No. Our change in orders was relayed to us through Kokabiel-sama."
Kokabiel… another name I felt was familiar somehow, but I still didn't remember it.
"I see…" Something about this was definitely off. To suddenly change an order from "observe" to "execute" seemed a bit sudden and rash. It didn't make any sense. When you really looked at it, Mittelt didn't seem like a bad person deep down. A little sadistic, but honestly kind of cute when she's all shy and blushing. To say all Fallen Angels were bad people wouldn't really be true…
But there were so many other alternatives. Why kill me and Issei? Even if I possessed the Divine Dividing, there were other options. This "Azazel" guy could've even convinced me to join his side if his argument was convincing enough.
It was when I turned my head to look out through the window next to us that I realized it was already dark outside.
Shit! I had to go and meet up with Sitri-senpai!
I pulled some money from my wallet and placed it on the table. "Well, I'm sorry to cut this short, but I have to go. We should do this again sometime. Bye!"
I stood up from my seat and made my way outside the ice cream parlor.
"Wait a minute!"
A few seconds after I walked out the door, my blonde Fallen Angel associate came bursting out the door after me.
She had a disbelieving and suspicion-filled look.
I smirked from amusement. "You know, with how often you end up chasing after me, one might think you're obsessed with me."
Mittelt did a dry spit-take, blushing like crazy. "I-Idiot! I-It's nothing like that!"
My smirk changed to a grin as I suppressed laughter at her adorable expression. "Just kidding."
Then Mittelt grabbed me by the collar. "So that's it!? You're not gonna attack me or kill me with your power or whatever?! No punishment for attempting to kill you TWICE now at all?!"
"Essentially." I confirmed.
Now the Fallen Angel seemed at a loss for words. Her suspicions were fair. An hour or two ago, we both had been trying to slash the others' throat.
I shrugged. "Well, after everything that happened and getting so guilty over you crying—"
"I w-was NOT cr-crying!" Mittelt protested. "I-I just had something i-in my eye, i-idiot!"
I stared. O. M. G. Is she a tsundere?!... That's soooo cute!
"Whatever. Anyway, it seems like a shame to try to hurt such a cute girl after we had such a peaceful atmosphere, so I'm gonna have to pass on the fighting."
"C-Cute…?" It was amazing how easily she could be embarrassed. "W-Whatever, I didn't wanna try to kill you again anyway…"
"Now that that's wrapped up, later." I waved goodbye and was about to leave when—
"Wait!" Mittelt called out. Her expression had become much more shy by this point. "W-What…what about your jacket?" Ah yes. I had completely forgotten I had given her my jacket for warmth.
I waved it off. "Keep it. It's no trouble."
Mittelt squeaked out of surprised, but didn't object, tightening her grasp on the edges of the jacket she wore, wrapping it tighter around herself like some kind of blanket.
"O-OK." She bit her lower lip, staring at the ground while still wearing her shy expression "W-Well… for what it's worth… um… I… I hope… IhopeIdon'thavetotrytokillyounexttime! Bye!"
Then Mittelt quickly spread her black, feathery wings and took off into the night sky.
I smiled to myself as the adorable Fallen Angel vanished from sight.
Today has been fairly pleasant. I ended up finally being able to use my Sacred Gear's power, I met someone nice, and I made a friend(?) of a Fallen Angel. As long as neither Ruruko or Sitri-senpai find out about any of this, it's all good.
I turned on my heels, reading to go meet up with Sitri-senpai, when I found myself face to face with a familiar, cute, brown-haired girl who glaring at me.
"Hi, Ruruko." I greeted nonchalantly, my situation having yet to set in.
…
Shit.